2021 #COVID deaths

2020 #COVID deaths

Some updated cumulative #COVID maps

Reminder: how it started / how it's going

How do you cope knowing the universe is infinite and yet your consciousness can end at any moment?

% of population killed ÷ by % of population getting sick by state by month since March 2020. The national average fluctuates between 1.5% and 5%. Dips to 0.94% last April. Rebounds in May & June. Then stays sub 1% for the last 3 months.

Wait … Mr. Rogers … soldiers being blown up is worse than children being blown up?

Percent population sick with COVID by state by month since March 2020

Eventually I think Imma add some policy tracking to the maps or do some kind of analytical post on the trends.

Percent population killed by COVID by state by month since March 2020

While the beltway press, the pundits, the influencers, the organizers, and the cogs that compose the political machinery at large desperately cling to those norms and precedents with which order has so long been coaxed from chaos, the unprecedented leaves breadcrumbs for the fresh-eyed to trace towards the trailhead, near the clearing within which it has planted itself openly as invitation for observation.

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If anyone knows of a publication worth submitting this essay to, don't be shy. The counselor thinks I should submit it somewhere … but nobody would touch my dragon essay so f$&k if I know who would touch this one.

Purchased #FreeGuy off the trailer. Either I'm giddy or the movie's use of GTA as a context for existential exploration is gonna be brilliant.

Hospitals reporting critical staffing shortage by state

Percent of adult population in the ICU with confirmed or suspected COVID by state

Adult ICU bed COVID utilization by state

Percent of population killed by COVID by state

Adult COVID patient to population ratio by state

Pediatric COVID patient to population ratio by state

Came across an old letter to the editor, written in February 2008 for Greenpeace supporting the now abandoned Cape Wind Project. Since it is some of the earliest creative nonfiction I've unearthed, figured I may as well share it. So, here it comes…

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Art is ammunition
Will is compensation
Love is libation
Grief is gravitas
Humility is wisdom
Humanity is humiliation
Unconditional love is apex

This one is close enough that I may read (rather than skim) it later and offer up some critical analysis (at which point I'll bring pieces of it out from behind that paywall). www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...

Kate Hudson be killin' it. Wish it was a character I could like … 'cause I tend to love me some Kate Hudson.