So, unemployment claims peaked in '09 at 665,000? In March, we saw a 10-fold increase since then. More than 10-fold. Yikes!​

A comment on "Get Ready for a Historic Jobs Day" (J. Tierney)

Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find dozens of her writings and commentaries, including the one on J. Tierney's "Get Ready for a Historic Jobs Day," at landturn.com/blog.

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The U.S. Postal Service has leverage to negotiate higher delivery rates for Amazon. Amazon is its largest customer, but that's because Amazon must rely on it for deliveries to low-margin and rural addresses.

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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can finding her commentary and perspectives, including one on "The postal service is subsidizing Jeff Bezos' quest to turn Amazon into a machine that competes with UPS and FedEx -- but USPS can't break up with Bezos," at landturn.com/blog.

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Speaking of tech interventions, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder made a similar point in "Higher Education in the Age of Coronavirus." He noted the mass migration to online instruction lacks the interpersonal feedback of classroom instruction. Conversely, I'll add that the Census Bureau mobilizes Census takers to homes and communities for the most aggregate of data. But assessing for social determinants of health during a pandemic? Well, there's the mantra "we're all in this together" and -- so the authors say -- apps for contact tracing.

A comment on "The New Politics of Care" (G. Gonsalves and A. Kapczynski)

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Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find her commentary and perspectives, including "Census takers do more for COVID well-being than 'Stay Home' messages, at landturn.com/blog.

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Please join the #CheyneyChallenge, a monthly donation campaign for America's first HBCU. I made my most recent donation of $18.37 today.

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Excellent video! Here are ideas for my own dopamine detox (including some **previous norms). I omitted practices adopted in the last six months.

-- Eat hot food warm.
** Eat hot meals bland.
** No personal finances X days a week
** Black tea over black coffee (if any caffeine)
-- 15 percent less internet each day
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Please share your ideas for a dopamine detox. I'd like to know.

A post about "How I Tricked My Brain To Like Doing Hard Things (dopamine detox)" (Better Than Yesterday)

Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find dozens of her commentaries and perspective, including "Work boredom led me to seek a Dopamine Detox with these steps, at landturn.com/blog.

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