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If the governor of Kentucky had any guts he'd appoint McConnell's replacement and dare the Gang Of Pedos to send McConnell in his place.

Clean indoor air is helpful against disease all the time, not just episodicly "in a pandemic". We treat drinking water *all the time*, not just during cholera outbreaks. Until we get over this medical/reactive mindset, airborne pandemics will continue. Put engineers in charge of public health!

Since there are no corporations in free markets, it is entire consistent for the state--whose statutory intervention in the free market by way of the Companies Act or similar is what allows corporations to exist--to regulate corporate behaviour for the public good.

This is a good use of "AI": brute force known plain-text attack on a legacy data format. Having grappled with similar problems, having an automated side-kick able to do the grunt would would definitely be helpful.

An even worse idea is that corporations can exist in free markets. They can't. A corporation is a license from the state that gives its holder statutory protections from free market mechanisms, particularly the courts. Companies don't exist in free markets, so the state should regulate its creation.

And if your first thought was "Yes, but..." rather than sympathy for the victims, I've got some bad news for you.

Effective air filtration will stop aerosol spread disease. Everyone knows all respiratory infections are primarily spread by aerosols, despite ongoing denial by non-scientist cranks. But adequate filtration with low noise requires well-designed systems, like this one.

Why do a study without critical metrics? Because the people doing the study are not engineers or scientists. They are MDs and public health professionals, who have no training in science or engineering.

This is why engineering interventions should not be tested by MDs and public health PhDs with zero knowledge of fluid mechanics or HVAC: they will test the wrong thing and incorrectly conclude that engineering interventions they failed to test don't work. They are a public health hazard.

Watching this, I'm reminded that in fact if not in law New York is a city-state. I'm reminded of that because Mamdani is a statesman: willing to speak clearly and powerfully about both moral realities and real, practical, legal constraints on his administration's power.

THIS. I've been self-employed or run my own company in Canada for decades. It's been possible because I never had to worry about my kids health care, or my own. If I'd been in the US, I could not have done that and I'd be poorer and unhappier today. Social democracy is capitalism at its best.