Monday Music: The Blue Mask is 40

Hank Kalet Feb 21

The Blue Mask is a brutal album. Dark. Edgy. Nasty. A record that explores domesticity through violence and drugs, that drones atop a dual-guitar assault that sounded like little else when it was released. Reed and fellow guitarist Robert Quine each follow their own singular vision, their squall of sound always threatening to spin off into oblivion, held together only by the nimble, swooping bass of Fernando Saunders and Doane Perry’s drumming.

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The Choice: Vaccine Equity or a Prolonged Pandemic

The Novel Coronavirus Does Not Respect Borders

Hank Kalet Jan 28

Vaccination in Ethiopia. Credit: World Health Organization
The news here is good. Mostly. A surge of infections caused by the Omicron variant appears to be waning, which should provide relief to overburdened emergency rooms and hospitals. Vaccinations proceed apace, despite pockets of anti-vax activism on the fringe.

“Things are looking good,” Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Biden administration’s top adviser on the pandemic, said on Sunday. “We don’t want to get overconfident, but they look like they’re going in the right direction right now.”

Right now. Maybe. Overconfidence is an American trait. The science may point in a different directions. The same Times article that quotes Fauci’s statement of relief, raised questions about whether Covid-19 can be eradicated, or whether it might become an endemic, circulating but less severe virus. Like the flu.

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