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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I remember having my mind blown back in 2020 when reading about a bubonic plague outbreak in the early 1900s in California and learning that wealthy businesses owners and investors tried to pull a lot of the same stuff that they were again pulling in 2020 to keep businesses open. It was the same political game, the same use of media to undermine the attempt at a public health response.

    I guess it always was a bit of a fantasy that we would all respond according to our own self interest.



  • Some number of years ago, I was an intern within a department of state government. I was tasked with helping to enrich their databases. So they sent over an Excel file. I did my thing and added new columns, then I had to send it back over to someone within each division so they could do the data entry. To my horror, when I went to visit one of the division heads, I saw their admin sitting at a computer with a printout of my changes sitting on a document holder next to the screen…manually typing geographic coordinates into a data entry form.