The Offline Report

Still in use today, a yellow naval flag indicates a ship cleared infection. A ship with infected passengers, waiting out a 40-day quarantine (quarantine derives from Italian word for forty) hoists a checked "yellow jack" flag. (Both solid and checked flags are called "yellow jack".) Its use traces back to at least the bubonic plagues in 1300s and 1600s in Europe, if not earlier. The yellow jack was also hoisted above squares to signal infections were still burning through the premises. The red 'X' of "one foot high" on a home doorfront indicates a "locked house" or infected house in 1665 London. A man smokes tobacco which was believed at the time to drive away plague miasmas. Elders demanded children smoke too. When the inhabitants either died or cleared infection, a white 'X' painted atop the red 'X' served the purpose of immunity passports. (Source: Shiver documentary .) No symbol is known to indicate a lifelo

Problem: public service announcements are contradicting other public service announcements: ->point-> Public Service Announcement: "answer your phone, and give your home address, email address, and birthdate to the person on the other end. It could be a contact tracer!" <-counterpoint<- Public Service Announcement: "don't give away personal identification information, such as a social security number or birth date, to random callers. It could be coronavirus fraud!" Solution: allow people being traced (the trace-EES) to call back a well-publicized, or state-approved, or both, public health phone number. How it works: Person A gets tested for coronavirus. Test lab routes positive test result to contact tracing worker (the trace-ER.) Trace-ER calls trace-EE and leaves a voicemail notifies trace-EE of test result and requests callback at [state approved number] with routing number sequence. "Please call me back at the tracing hotline, 1-8

Twitter is collecting footage from protests all over the world today June 2, 2020. Here is Washington, D.C.: This is the current scene in DC. Nothing about this should invite military or police crackdown, even if it happens after dark. Police brutality in response to outrage over police brutality will only grow the numbers of peaceful protesters in days ahead. pic.twitter.com/Iok4UsejZO — Ian Sams (@IanSams) June 2, 2020 New York City (Manhattan): Incredibly powerful: tens of thousands peacefully marching through the Upper East Side. Protesters directing traffic, passing hand sanitizer and masks. pic.twitter.com/0JdMWAtre0 — Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) June 2, 2020 Marin City, California: Thousands of demonstrators march from the Marin City Ross parking lot through the intersection of Donahue Street and Drake Avenue in Marin City to protest the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. pic.twitter.com/vMjWSfKCdM — San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) June 2, 2020