By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Bird song of the day
Sedge Warbler, “your” Denmark. “Habitat: marsh. » Virtuous!
Patient readers, I’ve had a huge scheduling debacle and so I have to sacrifice Water Cooler to finish an article about an important court decision from California’s Ninth Circuit on vaccination mandates.
Meanwhile, I’m surprised Taylor Swift, a super-spreader, never came up with her own version of this (or maybe she did):
Instead of spaces taking the necessary steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we are being asked to sign liability waivers stating that we will not sue when we contract COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/3eGJIW5CVK
– Myra Batchelder (@myrabatchelder) June 10, 2024
Readers, I reverence the New York Public Library, and so this example of end-state neoliberalism fills me with appalled disgust. Do we have readers and/or New York librarians capable of finding out who committed this atrocity and pillorying them? Why the hell don’t they repair their ventilation system, make C02 concentrations visible and make N95s available? Have fun! (Also, should be “agents”, plural, and missing an Oxford comma.)
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I believe they are Black-eyed Susans – I remember fields in the Midwest – but don’t Black-eyed Susans have yellow petals?
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