Lockdown Update Day 140

Back at work this week... Re-adjusting is not easy. (Still working from home, but my work hours are the same, so.)

Just two corona related things, because it's late & I'm tired. However they are both excellent.


The Atlantic: How the Pandemic Defeated America
A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.

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A little Torah about illness and quarantine.

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In the book of Numbers (ch 12), there’s this episode where Miriam is stricken with tzaraat, an illness that is often mistakenly translated as “leprosy,” but that doesn’t resemble Hansen’s disease as we know it.

— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) March 27, 2020

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And finally, today's art: 'Setting Rays' by Erin Hanson, contemporary US Impressionism (x)