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Pandemic Response Post-mortem

Whenever Michael Lewis has a new book out, I buy it immediately. His last book turned out to be an unintended prequel to his latest book. The Fifth Risk explained, in unsettling detail, how Donald Trump undermined, and even dismantled, the federal government’s various science-related agencies. The Premonition covers the risk made real, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The CDC completely failed to do its job, and the blame is entirely on Trump.

It’s interesting that Lewis refers to the real people he features as being “characters.”

It’s Sunday, Charlie Brown

On Facebook the Charles M. Schulz Museum is featuring the 9th Sunday installment of Peanuts, originally published just a month after Monte was born.

‘Peanuts’ March 2, 1952

In 1952 Schulz was still inking lines with a brush, before switching to a pen. The characters hadn’t yet developed their individual personalities, but Chip Kidd has commented on Patty’s fascination with mud. Note that Kidd gets the year wrong.

From ‘The Art of Charles M. Schulz’ by Chip Kidd, 2001

The third Peanuts collection, “Good grief, more PEANUTS!” was the first with Sunday strips. Published in 1956, it doesn’t include the 3/2/52 strip.