#cosomusic

COSO 80s Saturday theme, PM Dawn & Spandau Ballet mashup style

Set Adrift/True

https://youtu.be/qqA9Vd5lw4g

First bloom on this tree, will try to remember to capture tree in full bloom, it's spectacular

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COSO 80s Saturday theme, Soul II Soul style

Keep On Moving

https://youtu.be/pCC0eXSAhYE

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COSO 80s Saturday theme, Maxi Priest style

Close To You

https://youtu.be/3mJ0zCD3tdA

Unfortunately, those flaws are hurting his ability to lead us through this crisis just when we need him the most.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/03/midst-crisis-trump-issues-playground-taunts/

Henry Olsen in WaPo who seeks to defend Conservatism more often than not expressing his disappointment that Trump hasn't even tried to step up to meet this crisis...

I’ve long hoped that a president who so clearly seeks to convey an image of virile masculinity could just grow up and become a real man. Instead, he is what he is: a deeply flawed man who nonetheless often does things that I and many others believe are in the nation’s interest.

okay made a commitment to @janimuze earlier...

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COSO 80s Saturday theme, Pet Shop Boys

What Have I Done To Deserve This

https://youtu.be/Wn9E5i7l-Eg

the ones who are willing to uphold a system that is rigged against us by submissively working within.

We, as Asian Americans, should absolutely be part of the solution to coronavirus. We should certainly “do everything in our power to accelerate the end of this crisis.” But that’s not because our actions will demonstrate that we are American. They won’t. It is because we are obligated to as members of our communities and, most importantly, as human beings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/03/andrew-yang-was-wrong-showing-our-american-ness-is-not-how-asian-americans-stop-racism/

Canwen Xu, a Columbia U senior, taking on Andrew Yang's OpEd...

Instead of calling out the recent hostility toward Asians for what it is — the reincarnation of historical misconceptions that Asians are dirty and uncivilized — he chose to be a people pleaser. Specifically, the white-people pleaser. He further entrenched the decades-old myth of the model minority: that Asian Americans are the obedient people of color, ...

I vote @Airborne_Frog Bobby for COSO Photo Grabber...

(busily referring to COSO tip guide to determine exclusive column for pics)

A Little ditty in the Time on exercising outdoors in this time...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/burst/coronavirus-how-to-run-safely.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

Yet the two most powerful men on earth, President Xi Jinping of China and President Trump, have responded with petty national interest that has cost myriad lives. They have failed the world, a superpower debacle.

https://nyti.ms/2JzcDzg

Roger Cohen in NYT...

The world that emerges from this cannot resemble the old. If this plague that cares not a whit for the class or status of its victims cannot teach solidarity over individualistic excess, nothing will. If this continent-hopping pathogen cannot demonstrate the precarious interconnectedness of the planet, nothing will. Unlike 9/11, the assault is universal.

A peer-to-peer app-based system is the method for carrying it out that is best aligned with our civil liberties and justice standards.

Liberty, justice, health and prosperity for all. Any testing and contact-tracing infrastructure we build must deliver all four for everyone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/03/we-need-tech-government-help-with-contact-tracing-that-doesnt-have-mean-big-brother/

Danielle Allen in WaPo with a 2-phased approach to getting a better handle on spread via contact tracing...

Remember, collective social distancing and mass testing are themselves infringements on civil liberties. In the law and ethics of quarantine, individual quarantine is preferable to collective quarantine. So, too, less testing is preferable to more testing. Maximizing the value of testing and minimizing its footprint requires contact tracing.

Robert Gebelhoff in WaPo with a tribute to Bill Withers...

At the time he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he said, “I’m not a virtuoso, but I was able to write songs that people could identify with. I don’t think I’ve done bad for a guy from Slab Fork, West Virginia."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/03/bill-withers-was-populist-we-needed/?utm_campaign=wp_opinions&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_opinions

In some ways, it feels as if we are now being asked to walk into a burning building. I trust myself to be careful and stay safe, but I am in a position I would have found unimaginable a month ago.

Now, when our lives depend on it, the president is not pulling out all the stops to bring us proper personal protective equipment and ventilators for our patients.

I am not a seamstress, but this week I found myself sewing my own mask.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-a-doctor-i-am-willing-to-do-whatever-it-takes-to-defeat-this-virus-why-isnt-trump/2020/04/03/229ec4aa-75a5-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html

Sophie Greenberg in WaPo, a Doc's perspective...

I am not an ICU physician, but when hospitals are overwhelmed with sick patients during a pandemic, I pull out my stethoscope and stand by when asked to help out in the intensive care unit.

If physicians refused to complete work that is outside of their strict job description, the health-care system would collapse. Physicians know this to be true, and so does the government.