Quarantine Diaries: Day 319

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What could possibly go wrong?

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Sri Lanka Minister who promoted 'Covid syrup' tests positive

Sri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus…
She had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus…
The health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.

Um, yeah, good luck finding them in stock on a regular basis: The face mask that could end the pandemic

United Airlines CEO says he wants to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for all of its 60,000 employees and is urging other companies to follow suit as the law says employers CAN force workers to get shots

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Early CryptoPunk Digital Collectible Sells for $762K in Ether

Some rudimentary pixel art just sold for 605 ETH, or $761,889 at purchase.
FlamingoDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in digital collectibles, is behind Saturday’s eye-popping CryptoPunk sale. Only nine such “Aliens” exist in the CryptoPunk universe, which pioneered non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in 2017 and are the “Holy Grail” for an emerging class of Ethereum-based art collectors.

Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?

Biden signs executive orders on stimulus checks, food stamps and minimum wage

Politics:

Justice Department, FBI debate not charging some of the Capitol rioters

Supporters’ words may haunt Trump at impeachment trial

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer: Capitol Rioter Gave Himself Away By Repeatedly Yelling ‘Trump 2020’ On Plane

‘Another Kind Of Insurrection’: Trump Castigated For Scheme With DOJ Lawyer To Oust Acting AG

Boring is Better

Joe Biden has a real shot at being a boring president. It will require constant work. Many forces of commerce and human nature are arrayed against him, and countless obstacles stand in his path. But if the country is lucky, entire days will pass without the president’s activities agitating the public mind.

Texas Supreme Court Silently Denies Alex Jones All Forms of Relief: Sandy Hook Families and Others Can Now Sue Conspiracy Theorist and InfoWars into the Ground

Germany Expected To Put Right-Wing AfD Under Surveillance For Violating Constitution

Serendipity:

Sacha Baron Cohen Reveals How the ‘Borat 2’ Rudy Giuliani Scene Happened

^{Badge thanks to @arcange}