By Lambert Strether of Corrente.
Bird Song of the Day
Sedge Warbler, ‘your’ Denmark. “Habitat: Swamp.” Virtuousic!
Patient readers, I’ve had a major editorial argument, so I have to sacrifice the Water Cooler to finish work on an important California Ninth Circuit court decision regarding vaccine mandates.
Meanwhile, I’m surprised Taylor Swift, the superspreader, hasn’t come up with her own version of this (or maybe she did):
Instead of spaces taking much needed measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we are being asked to sign a waiver saying we will not be sued if we get COVID-19. pic.twitter.com/3eGJIW5CVK
– Myra Batchelder (@myrabatchelder) June 10, 2024
Students, I respect New York Public Library, so this example of last-world neoliberalism fills me with incredible disgust. Do we have any New York students and/or librarians who can find out who did this atrocity and bring them to justice? Why don’t they fix their ventilation system, make the C02 concentration detectable, and have N95s available? Have fun! (Also, it should be “agents,” plural, and there is an Oxford comma missing.)
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