Clarice Feldman – For the first time in recent memory we will be unable to visit our son and his family in Hawaii for Thanksgiving. The quarantine requirements have been lifted if we take and get a negative result on a COVID test. (Something like 90% of the positive results on such tests are false positives.)
But it’s a very long flight during which we’d have to be masked in flight and at the airports and it’s more than we can endure. (Even if we assumed the masks were efficacious, which I don’t think they are — indeed, I think they are counterproductive — we find them physically uncomfortable.) Continue reading
Alexandra Bruce – Following the debacle that was the 2018 midterm elections, the Trump administration created a new department within the Department of Homeland Security, called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. It sees our critical infrastructure is a matter of national security and part of that infrastructure involves the security of our elections.