Happy Memorial Day -- May 29, 2023

Locator:1001MEM2023.

I want to break free! Link here.

Remembrance: for my maternal grandfather who spent much of the war -- WWI -- in a French hospital recovering from the Spanish flu. No pathogen was ever identified and no vaccine was ever developed. In four months:

Interruption of spread:

• Spanish flu: absolutely no ability to interrupt the spread;
• Covid-19: we'll never know how important interrupting the spread of Covid-19 was to preventing a Spanish flu redux

Covid-19 response: I flip-flop on this all the time, but at the end of the day, as Covid-19 recedes into the background, every day I become more positively impressed with how policy makers handled this epidemic, now a pandemic. The numbers remain incomprehensible (these are just the confirmed cases):

Three stories from The WSJ this morning. These are all behind a paywall, of course. I'll expand on them later, particularly the first two -- investing and chips.

• investing;
• chips; and,
• Orlando. AOC and RDS have a lot in common. Ideology trumps jobs.

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Portland, Oregon CityFair

Rose Festival / CityFair. Link here.

Price per carnival ride: about $6 / person / ride.

Total daily cost:

A family of four visiting CityFair for a day could spend, on the lower end, about $135 to $170 or more. The lower end of the price estimate does not include any spending on souvenirs and only accounts for about one carnival ride per person.

Disneyland California:

Both are LGBQT-friendly, Portland, maybe, more so.