COVID: The Risks -- Know Them -- Avoid Them

Even though I’m trying hard to maintain my newsfast, a few things break through.

I’m relieved that one of them was marthawells’ post summarizing an informative, detailed, and reassuring essay by Erin Bromage, called "The Risks — Know Them — Avoid Them"

https://www.erinbromage.com/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them

The author is a UMass associate professor of biology. His speciality is veterinary infection and immunology. His footnoted essay examines what’s known about COVID transmission, and how to minimize harm.

(Comments off because I just can't talk about it and maintain my health.)

Eight things I loved about “The Half of It”

... this is a non-exhaustive list. I adored this movie, and I'm grateful there are high school students who will see it and understand that it's possible to play a starring role in one's own life. I identified so hard with Ellie Chu!

1. Best opening titles ever. They play with the communication & language themes while also being beautiful. Video is embedded below.
2. All the acting.
3. It captured the ridiculousness of high school drama and interactions
4. Ellie Chu is a stone superstar! Writes all the papers! Guitar AND piano AND writer AND reader AND so kind
5. Paul Munsky getting faster and faster to catch up with Ellie, in both body and soul
6. Mrs. Geselschap, the English teacher who looks like an actual teacher, and doesn’t turn Ellie in because she prefers to read her work than the original dreck the buyers would have submitted.
7. Floating in a hot springs! (I miss my pool so hard)
8. That Ellie kept her shirt on in the floating scene and Aster put a shirt back on.
9. It captured the tentative exploration of sexuality, where "and then they fuck" is not the answer

It’s on US Netflix now, with subtitles & audio description https://www.netflix.com/title/81005150

( Opening Sequence & Analysis )