Four Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon

Epidemiologist Ellie Murray runs through the math to see how various interventions will fare in the US w/r/t to the delta variant of Covid-19. The much higher R0 for delta is the driving force here. [twitter.com]

"The very role and meaning of libraries relies on their right to own books, because books that can expire are books that can disappear permanently — books that can be taken away." [thenation.com]

Wow, Lionel Messi is leaving FC Barcelona (confirmed by the club). [fcbarcelona.com]

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate. "Any gameplay loop that tells a story of linear settlement growth is incongruent with how a medieval economy worked." [leidenmedievalistsblog.nl]

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