Six Quick Links for Monday Noonish

Jesus, Trump's advisors have started presenting him with evidence of "our people" suffering in Republican states so that he takes the pandemic more seriously. [washingtonpost.com]

"Where Is My Name?" is a campaign by women in Afghanistan to be able to freely use their names in public. "Women are generally only referred to as the mother, daughter or sister of the eldest male in their family..." [bbc.com]

Inexpensive paper-strip tests for Covid-19 designed for near-daily use, that give near-instant results, and only detect high levels of virus could be key in controlling the virus. [npr.org]

"You can now boot a Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft and play Doom on it." [theverge.com]

How Police Unions Fight Reform, a long piece in the New Yorker by William Finnegan. "Imagine a nurses' union that hated patients, that went on TV and talked about how much trouble the patients give them." [newyorker.com]

A new poll indicates that "an increasingly broad majority of Americans are wearing masks in public". The numbers are up significantly since June. Common sense and public health are winning out. Thanks for wearing a mask! Keep going! [huffpost.com]

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