Guy Berger

Let me flip this, it's actually *relatively* good news - places that have managed to significantly reduce cases can now catch and end outbreaks early. More prone to both, I believe. Glad you are ok. Generally I am an optimist on the vaccine as in we will develop an effective one and the public will be able to get it sometime next year. (It will take a long time to manufacture doses.) Maybe in the interim we'll also get some useful therapeutics. Unfortunately, there will be a lot more deaths in the meantime.

Your troll was more successful than I would have anticipated

RIP. Hard to imagine today’s music sounding the same without his enormous influence.

Devastating.

If you do the math and assume that deaths average "just" 1K per day for the rest of 2020 (much below the current run rate), you end up with a really sobering number of deaths by year end. And given reopening happening in a really hasty and premature way, that seems like an optimistic estimate.

Bought both of these on BandCamp yesterday, have not listened to either yet. one is a series of duets with Nasheet awaits titled The Koanda Effect. On Relative Pitch records the other is an album of solo saxophone titled Sacred Vowels, Berne’s first one, on Berne’s new digital label 9Donkeys.

Because of BandCamp’s one day waiving of pay sharing, I went on a Pi binge. I bought 2 Liberty Ellmans, 2 Fieldworks, and 3 Steve Lehmans.

This is a great session. Really glad I picked it up way back when, especially since Spotify doesn’t have it.

I like Higgins but I don’t think his grooves were less funky than those of many of his peers

I‘m not sure that is a compliment to the BN boogaloo sound...

Charles Lloyd’s ACOUSTIC MASTERS is really great and makes me wish he’d record more with more conservative rhythm sections.

Looks like we’re headed for some US meat shortages due to the meat packing plants experiencing COVID outbreaks. I wish we protected our essential workers.

RIP Henry. Thanks for your amazing contributions.

I really love Lee’s music, especially the post-1965 music. I was enjoying the Birdland recording on ECM last night - with a killer rhythm section of Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. I saw Lee only one - at the Blue Note in NYC, with Bill Frisell, Gary Peacock, and Joey Baron. Great gig. Btw JSngry once said about the cover picture on a LK Btw JSngry once said about the cover picture on a LK album: ”If I didn't know who they were and saw that photo, I'd still think it was a bunch of crazyass old men. And I do mean that as a compliment.”

My 2 1/4yr old was dancing to “Good Times” from YOU KNOW THE NUMBER and is calling him Henry Thread

I think it depends on how effectively you can practice/enforce social distancing in these events. You could probably seat at some people in any location (and clean thoroughly afterward), but at 6 feet apart it would be a fraction of normal capacity

Grim evidence that the official COVID death count is a significant undercount https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-death-count.html

Re reinfection, this is worth reading.

ZeroHedge is a notorious conspiracy theory site. I recommend avoiding it. SCMP is actually a high quality newspaper, but this specific story seems somewhat sensationalist... the research underlying the article is much more cautious and doesn't draw such a strong conclusion. The reinfection stories are somewhat worrisome and worth investigating, but it's still not clear how many of these are "true" reinfections vs false positives/negatives in COVID tests. One thing that seems likely is immunity to COVID is unlikely to last a lifetime - if other coronaviruses are any indication, it will wear off after a few years. So any vaccination would probably need to be like the flu vaccine (taken regularly and tweaked for strain). I think this is indicative of how much we are "learning on the fly" about this illness, and one reason why slowing the spread of the illness is important - buying time for us to learn how to treat this illness better.

I would differentiate between the two. Nashville Skyline is a classic, full of outstanding music. Self Portrait is “just” enjoyable.

I finally got around to listening to SELF PORTRAIT - it’s quite enjoyable, despite the bad rap.

It certainly suggests they need better precautions... workplaces are a prime place for transmission.

I think this stat is an overestimate for two reasons: 1) Testing is limited to more severe cases. 2) For a severe case, recovery might take longer than death

Yes. The actual health boost to a "civilian" wearing a mask isn't zero, but it's not that high. However, the gains to other people could be quite large - especially since a lot of cases are asymptomatic. I think this is a case where excessive irrational paranoia ("gotta protect myself with a mask!") is actually good for society as a whole. FWIW, a lot of these health benefits can be accrued by less sophisticated masks. Even a scarf over your mouth offers some benefits to others. Please leave the medical-grade masks to doctors and other health care providers who are in serious danger.

Thanks for calling this out, it's very likely incorrect. This is a much more dangerous illness than the typical seasonal flu.