[list] good reads and links: wk 2020-04-20
April 20, 2020
links
- Sidewalk Widths NYC
- Essentially, social distancing is nearly impossible with NYC sidewalks alone
- This Website Will Self Destruct
- When Can We Test Everyone
online events
reads
- [The New Yorker] How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
- [The Atlantic] The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing
- [New York Times] My Restaurant Was My Life for 20 Years. Does the World Need It Anymore?
music
- [The New Yorker] Brittany Howard’s Transformation
- [Stereogum] The Precarious Comeback Of StageIt, Where Live-Streaming Musicians Actually Get Paid
- [Bandcamp Daily] The Fresh, Inventive Sounds of Contemporary Chinese Post-Punk
- [New York Times] The New Face of Car Seat Headrest
rona-related
via Desus & Mero
- [New York Times] Still Life
- [New York Times] I Took the Antibody Test. And Yet.
- [The New Yorker] The Body Collectors of the Coronavirus Pandemic
- [New York Times] How N.Y.C Struggled to Protect the Workers Who Still Had To Show Up
- [Guardian] How coronavirus spreads through a population and how we can beat it
- [Reuters] Special Report: Former Labradoodle breeder was tapped to lead U.S. pandemic task force
- [The Atlantic] Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen
- [Gothamist] Beloved LES Mainstay Economy Candy Pivots To Care Packages To Survive Pandemic
- One of the best places one Earth
- [Vox] What immunity to Covid-19 might actually mean
- [Buzzfeed News] She Began Every Day By Calling Her Daughters. She Was Cut Off From Family While Dying Alone Of The Coronavirus
- [Vice] People Are Writing Notes to Comfort Elderly Asian New Yorkers