In the news

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it has often been said that you could tell how bad the virus was in a particular city based upon whether or not the local Apple Store was open for business.  Often, an Apple Store would close, and then shortly thereafter the local municipality would impose stricter rules because positive cases were starting to increase.  It is sort of like the Waffle House Index, which is actually used by FEMA and others to determine the severity of a storm.  With that in mind, I was pleased to see this report by Michael Steebar:  for the first time since March 2020, all 270 U.S. Apple Stores are now open.  That doesn’t mean that we should be foolhardy and drop mask mandates (do you hear me Texas and Mississippi?), but that is a good sign that things are getting better.  And now, the news of note from the past week:

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  1. I removed the link to that AIER report from your comment because I have a lot of questions about it. AEIR is a very strong free-market advocate and has been against most forms of government regulation, including mask mandates, for a long time. I believe that AIER also recommended that we address COVID-19 through herd immunity, which would result in a large number of unnecessary deaths.
    Moreover, I’ve seen so much science that mask mandates do make a difference. For example: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8
    So we are going to just have to agree to disagree on this.
    -Jeff

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