Welcome to day 31 of the Illinois shelter-in-place regime, which also turns out to be day 36 of my own working-from-home regime (or day 43 if you ignore that I had to go into the office on March 16th). So what's new?
Oy:
- Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele says America "has been abused by this president."
- George Packer says "we are living in a failed state."
- Josh Marshall calls Covid-19 "an extinction-level event for news."
- The Trump International Hotel has asked its landlord, the Trump Administration, for a $3m rent abatement. (Who could have foreseen this level of corruption?)
- Illinois governor JB Pritzker believes Covid-19 cases won't peak until mid-May, while Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot says she expects the stay-at-home order to stretch into June.
- Donald McNeil believes getting the world back to normal will take a lot more time and effort than most people believe.
- Blogger Gerald Mertens lays out an exit strategy for orchestras that we could apply to other arts organizations.
- Amy Klobuchar wants to be vice president, and she had a good audtion.
- The City of Chicago has begun a massive donation drive for masks.
- Naomi Fry embraces "the chaotic side of Zoom."
- Scott Hanselman says "quarantine work !== remote work."
Finally, via Bruce Schneier, the Dutch intelligence service had an unintentional back door into several other countries' communications. (Scheier says, "It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor.")
