Four months of job searching. Some jobs are coming back around, some different possibilities are showing up. Plus a bunch of thought about our current Fourth Turning.

A list of companies that have gone bankrupt due to COVID-19. Doesn't mean they'll never come back, but in recessions it often does mean that.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktucker/2020/05/03/coronavirus-bankruptcy-tracker-these-major-companies-are-failing-amid-the-shutdown/

Didn't even touch on restaurants and similar sources of food, for which a few weeks of closure has become permanent, and which also will have wide ranging effects.  Here's an article on Stan's Donuts, as a single example.

https://la.eater.com/2020/4/10/21216543/stans-donuts-closed-los-angeles-classic

Jurassic Park droplet scene...which doesn't really do that good a job of describing the issue. What should have happened at the end was Ian Malcolm saying (to the empty jeep) something like "See, I could've predicted that he would jump out of here at some point, but wouldn't have known it was here. Or that anything here was important." [standard Jeff Goldblum pause/stutter] "For example."

https://youtu.be/n-mpifTiPV4

 

Covid-19 testing in Los Angeles County

https://covid19.lacounty.gov/testing/