Reflecting my what I say and what I do

By itself, this list won't mean much to any reader. 

If, instead, you got here from David Brin's "Contrary Brin" blog, it will.

In one comment I made there, I mentioned reflecting in where my head has been and how much of it got expressed in actual words there. Turns out there IS a difference.

Anyway... this material is the review of my own comments that I mentioned. I post it here to avoid clutter over there. 

Wanna know more? Check out Contrary Brin. It is an interesting community.

Jan 22-25

Thinking in terms of influenza. Hadn't quite realized it was a corona virus

Jan 25-29

Pedantic thinking about trading transmission rate with lethality rate, but barely interacting

Jan 29 - Feb 15

personal anecdote while thinking about measles, then a gap to deal with death in the family

Feb 15-19

Thinking politics mostly. CA primary.

Feb 19-21

Thinking politics, beginning to mention equity market issues, but mostly silent on details.

Feb 21-25

Still thinking politics… specifically about predictions.

Feb 25 - Mar 11

Feb 25 first mention of dark thoughts involving equity markets and the economy, but still thinking politics. 

Then back to money in politics.

Mar 11-14

Mild optimism about virus. Gloomy about impact on economy. Angry about incompetent leadership. 

First prediction | political impact (due to economic one) will be worse than medical impact. 

[People were already working at mitigation efforts in a crowdsourced way and I could see them.]

{Started working from home. Stressing about sister.}

Mar 14-18

Looking at markets for forward looking evidence of administration intent independent of what they say in press briefings.

Personal anecdote involving co-morbidities. Another about how great civilization is at keeping most of us alive.

Wasted time refuting locumranch.

{Whole family now working from home.}

Mar 18-21

Nothing useful to offer about pothole idea. 

Kibitzed about relative rankings for States while others argued about which one sucked more than the others.

Mar 21-25

Thinking a bit about unemployment, but mostly from a political angle.

Staying out of medical projections game.

{Didn't stay out of it on Twitter.}

Mar 25-28

Wasted more time refuting locumranch's lazy thinking about lethality rates. 

Realized Matthew is right about locumranch.

[Larry was right too.]

Mar 28 - Apr 01

Minor economics quibbles about the role CA plays in the world. 

Avoiding defining 'essential'. Why? Can't seen to avoid wasting time refuting locumranch.

Apr 01-04

Viral defense through behavior change, then back to politics.

Then back to offering alternatives to biological conspiracy theories.

Apr 04-08

Began seriously to look at Libertarian positions being taken regarding quarantines and getting perturbed about them.

Quarantine distractions.

Stepped into 'essential workers' argument finally.

Apr 08-11

Comments on Libertarian positions and perspectives.

Apr 11-15

Nothing useful to offer. 

{Spending my time talking to local libertarians. Arguing sorta.}

Apr 15-present

Nothing useful to offer. 

{Spending my time with local libertarians. Arguing a bit more by taking unpopular position.}