Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

If you need a break from the Coronavirus Diary for some comic absurdity, then you probably want to hear about this dream I had last night. It featured Irfan Khawaja. In the dream, Irfan lived in a small but comfortable one bedroom apartment somewhere in urban New Jersey. I happened to be in the neighborhood,…

From CBS News: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/16/coronavirus-update-uv-light-ppe-doctors-nurses/ LikeLike

New York to send New Jersey 100 ventilators: https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/nj-getting-100-additional-ventilators-from-ny-to-battle-coronavirus.html LikeLike

Volunteer ambulance squad professionalized: https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/volunteer-nj-ambulance-squad-stops-taking-calls-over-coronavirus-concerns.html The tragic face of triage at point of entry into the medical system: https://www.nj.com/co…

An email comment from a reader, Chris Paglinco: Having actually been an attendant, I can see at least two sides of this argument. On the one hand, people are stupid and will light their cars on fire. And given the parks being closed and all of the o…

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Same response to both Roderick and Michael: Spread by surface is much easier to control than spread through airborne particles. Here is the difference. If I’m a station attendant, I am exposed–without proper PP…

In reply to mlyoung57. And the buttons on the credit card reader, of course. But I don’t know how to compare the transmission dangers posed by customers interacting with station attendants from their cars vs. customers all handling the same pump …

One thing to consider though: the handles on the pumps are prime sources for surface-contact spread of disease. This at least is easier to control via full-service. LikeLike