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Musings from the Meta-Verse: Tip of the Iceberg Cosmologies

Before you begin: please take a moment, settle in, enjoy the image above—of me holding my baby daughter as a first-time dad, tune into the frequency of restful wonder. Now allow your mind to wander outward from the edges of that image: to the room, to the street outside, to the vast sky beyond the vast sky. Further—past the solar system, past the galaxy’s edge, past everything known—to the edge of the cosmos. And then…

Essential Information About Coronavirus

I’ve been culling all my bookmarks of coronavirus information for ones that give the big picture view, that makes sense of patterns, rather than day-to-day news reports which can be contradictory and not very explanatory.


Symptoms, Spread, Treatment:

Allergy Symptoms vs COVID-19 Symptoms | Family Allergy & Asthma
Coronavirus symptoms: How to weigh loss of taste and smell vs. fever and cough - Vox
How to sew a face mask from common household materials - Baltimore Sun
Coronavirus, Social Distancing and Self-Quarantine | Johns Hopkins Medicine
You could be spreading the coronavirus without realising you’ve got it | New Scientist
Johns Hopkins gets FDA approval to test blood plasma therapy to treat COVID-19 patients

Data and Tracking:

Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count - The New York Times
How Fast the Coronavirus Outbreak Is Growing in Hundreds of U.S. Communities - The New York Times
The COVID Tracking Project - Homepage
Coronavirus Update (Live): Cases and Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer
Coronavirus Incubation Period (COVID-19) - Worldometer
Covid Act Now

Other:

Coronavirus anxiety: Tara Brach on how to use mindfulness in a pandemic - Vox
Coronavirus: 11 questions about the stimulus, economy, and unemployment, answered - Vox
The toilet paper shortage is more complicated than you think - Vox

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