115: Virtual Haircuts
Haircuts
My hair is a disaster. As I posted two months ago, I shaved all my hair off but now it’s bad and getting shaggy in all the wrong places.
This is an interesting problem. Nobody I know has cut their own hair and now we’re all stuck without professionals. Apparently, popular haircut scissors are selling out and hair-dye panic-buying has begun.
There’s even a site called YouProbablyNeedaHaircut.com that, for $18, can pair you with a specialist to show you how to cut your own. Regular salons are trying to connect with Zoom and Skype appointments too.
I have a friend here in SF that has his barber come to his house for a cut on his front steps. They both wear masks. That seems the most reasonable.
Lots of people are learning how to cut - even Daniel Day-Lewis. My wife is getting better and I’ll probably keep having her cut my hair. Either way, our haircuts can’t be worse the 80’s cuts we got.
Trumps Tweets
Just want to log Trumps tweets on Monday:
He defended his performance in combatting what he called “new China Virus” cases, then touted the strong stock market.
He tweeted “China has caused great damage to the United States and the rest of the world,” then attacked Black race car driver Bubba Wallace for the discovery of a noose in his garage (it was not Wallace who discovered it) and NASCAR’s decision to ban the Confederate flag.
He defended his handling of the coronavirus, and once again insisted that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment for Covid-19.
He tweeted “SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!” and said that Democrats opposed reopening the schools “for political reasons, not for health reasons! They think it will help them in November. Wrong, the people get it!”
Finally, he boasted that his border wall “is moving fast in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. Great numbers at the Southern Border. Dems want people to just flow in. They want very dangerous open Borders!”
I fear that the Republican view is less prepared for the virus and going to get much sicker. Stats have shown that Republican men take the pandemic the least seriously.
To make matters all worse, 38% of lax mask wearers practiced social distancing, vs 62% of those who always wear masks meaning the least safe are the most social. Doh!
Other Stuff
This is why schools aren’t going to happen in the fall. If this happens with the principals, just imagine when a bunch of kids get together
The QB of the KC Chiefs signed the largest US sports contract ever: $502 million over 12 years. The tweet of the day about it:
Pulisic watch. The goal train continues…
Campgrounds are usually taken up in advance but if you want to just rent out a spot of land, this startup lets people list your land for people to camp on it. They also provide tents and air mattresses.
Cases
USA
In good news, The U.S. government will pay the drugmaker Novavax $1.6 billion to make 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the beginning of next year. Just the fact that we’re preparing is a positive sign.
The US is performing 3x as many tests in June as in April, but we are still having problems proving enough tests as there are a lot of cases now.
In New Orleans, one testing site ran out of tests five minutes after it opened.
Arizona has run out of basic items since new cases began spiking last month.
Idaho officials told long-term care facilities that the state would be able to test them.
New York City was able to boost its tests to 30,000 tests per day only after it created its own testing kits and partnered with private labs. We need to get on it.
In Florida, more than 40 hospitals across the state reported having no more beds available in their adult intensive care units.
In Marin
Cases are up and we had another death yesterday. Here’s the graph of people concurrently in the Marin hospitals:
So, stay safe out there. Go get after it today.