Ongoing coronavirus happenings

If I remember my Ferris Bueller’s Day Off correctly, I think the first one is in Chicago.

ETA: @anon59592690 got there first!

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Hopefully later:

  • Sixth, everyone reclines to the left to show support for reality’s left-leaning bias.
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Things are looking better in PA than predicted.

Dr. Rachel Levine (Secretary of Health and a member of the Governor’s Cabinet) has been instrumental in keeping our families safe.

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Sunday in the Park is indeed there too. It’s a bigass painting! Hard to forget.

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That’s particularly good, since that Seurat painting is in Chicago!

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You beat me to it. The pallet of Coke is yours!

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Apologies if this has already been posted, but this site is a great source of statistics, updated daily or more often, world wide and by country. Comparing countries raises some questions about transparency.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

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Bring back government cheese! They did it in the 80s…

(obligatory ellipses because boomer memory… :joy:)

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Yup, “American Gothic”, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” are both at the Art Institute of Chicago, as is Gustave Caillebotte’s “Paris Street: Rainy Day” (also a huge painting).

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The best Where’s Lightfoot, however, is one that was sent to me by a former BBSer, and I haven’t seen it yet here – and today is the single best day to post it – so here goes:

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Ha!

“Paris Street: Rainy Day”

Social distancing par excellence!

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Co-morbid with the mortality, I would imagine.

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Yeah, but that was ‘cheese’ spelled with a K.

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For anyone, like me, wondering what is Mayor Lightfoot doing in American Gothic


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“Keese”?

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