Quartz Media’s entertainment editor ranks a number of coronavirus-related public service announcements for their value, turning up some that are occasionally informative and even … well, entertaining. Quartz says “Bored celebrities are making Covid-19 public service announcements. Some of them are not bad, but some are practically unwatchable.”
Category: health
Kim Visits The Pharmacy
Just routine business, but distancing via the drive-up window. More from the Coronavirus Series.
More on Masks
Here’s a Wired piece on the subject (following this earlier post): https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-face-facts-america-masks-work/
And Joann (the women in my life know her stores) has a collection of mask how-to’s.
Plus this step-by-step from the NYT …
On the Matter of Face Masks
We often hear that face masks, particularly the N95 variety, may not be absolutely necessary except for health care workers and others directly in contact with COVID-19 patients.
However, we take a different approach, and wear face masks in public.
Why?
- To signal to others that we take this thing seriously and that we should pose little danger to them.
- Wearing a face mask — even a cotton bandana — when away from home (where you can’t readily wash hands before/after) is very helpful in preventing that behavior health professionals strenuously warn against — touching one’s own face.
Here’s just one formula for making your own.
I wouldn’t be surprised to start seeing a wave of artistic expression in the form of face maskery. Velouria?
BTW, some recommend carrying hand sanitizer whenever you venture out. We try to do this, or carry home-made alcohol wipes for those rare times it might seem warranted.
Be safe, be well.
Cheerio.
The Role of Books in a Pandemic
The matter is debated in this Quartz piece by Ephrat Livni.
Sunday Morning
PSA
And see this.
Google Sez — Wash Your Hands
How-To Geek and Adriene
How-To Geek was one of our favorite go-to tech sites for several of my colleagues and me during the many years I worked for an ISP (Internet Service Provider). Going beyond the usual bounds of tech, today the site posts “How to Make the Most of Free Time at Home” for those of us who are not first responders/health care workers/essential industry workers/etc. and are self-isolating and social-distancing.
And, as it turns out, among How-To Geek‘s suggestions is Adriene (see our previous misspelled post, “Adrienne Comes Through“), with which I heartily concur!
In the Time of Coronavirus: Nessun Dorma
Italian opera tenor Maurizio Marchini serenades his quarantined neighbors in Florence:
For more of and about Marchini’s balcony performances, see here and here.
SIDEBAR: A post on Luciano Pavarotti, for whom Nessun Dorma was one of his signature pieces, and how I became really interested in opera (and how you may want to do so, too) -- here.