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A national plan will only help if it's a good plan AND it's universally applicable.  Oh, and it must be adjusted as we learn.  We've learned that asymptomatic transmission doesn't occur.  We've learned that full lockdowns don't work, but targeted quarantines might.   We've learned early on that Medicare reimbursement rules required hospitals to send sick, infectious people back into nursing homes UNLESS the state acted to forbid it, as Florida did.  We've got evidence of treatments working or not working, but the national planners (FDA) threaten to pull the licenses of doctors who use the drugs off-label.

No plan survives contact with the enemy, because if the plan survives, the army locked into the plan doesn't.  What's needed is to distill our experience into a policies that are flexible enough to work in a wide variety of circumstances, and comprehensive enough to cover all the territories on the battlefield.  The US Army has a Center for Lessons Learned.  It hasn't always lived up to its name, but it has helped a lot.  We need this for pandemics.

And we need elected officials more concerned with fighting the disease, using the ever-growing body of knowledge, than with enforcing their own authority by threatening religious communities and threatening ever-harder lockdowns for harmless 'violations'.

My approach: Start dialogue, drop into flashback.  Return from flashback, use closing dialogue.  I've got limited practice, but if it's needed for the story it can work.

Not for a while, I'm afraid.  I'm in reactive mode.

To those waiting on reviews: I'm tied up into and maybe through Tuesday.  I'll get back to you then.

Thank you for the kind words.  I hope and expect to put four to six hours into reviews in the next, let's see, 13 hours.  I'm making progress on long, drawn-out circuit project, and also want to do another prototype of a seemingly simple circuit (about the ninth, each with one or two refinements) and most of what's left are physical design problems.  At the moment, I've got no off-website review commitment.

Wow!  Many congratulations, and we've been privileged to see you develop your work here.

I haven't been getting many reviews done, but I've got one started and another on the list.  However, right now, I've been asked to work on something else.  That will have me tied up through mid-week, or maybe all of it.

If the disease hasn't progressed to the point where you're thinking of going to the hospital, find a doctor who'll put you on hydroxychloroquine plus either azothromycin or doxycycline, plus zinc.  It won't work if you're too far along, but (in spite of the bad press) there's good evidence it works in the early stages.

Congratulations!

Classics, of a sort: https://youtu.be/Fg4PdR_ZtEs (Linked long ago off Instapundit.)

I am in the doldrums creatively.

Here's a video on creativity be John Cleese: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you … b5oIIPO62g .  He states that we need a mentally playful mood, and names some things that block it.  Looking at the walls of my apartment, at i complete projects, and at tasks that need to be done is doing it to me.  I'm trying to make progress, even small progress, on the various tasks and projects, but that is only part if the problem.

Some of you know that my social needs are low, but not zero.  Another writer, successful and published, says that she needs to see a few strangers a day, shopping, dining out, etc.  And that is what is denied me.

I'm hoping that we get at-home tests for both antibodies and infection, produced affordably in billion-a-day numbers.  That's what it will take to peel back the restrictions.  It looks like the first ones are about two weeks away, but the quantity and price will make it take longer.