'‘we are not done with covid, not even close'

the don and moki cherry stuff continues to give.

horsemouth cropped and sharpened up the photo to focus on the interaction between don cherry (tablas), a young eagle-eye cherry (harmonium) and moki cherry (tanpura). she looks over at her son and husband as they all make music together. another little boy looks on, he's half way to the audience, he could be one of her other kids (horsemouth doesn't think so - his hair is too straight) - there was neneh cherry (moki's daughter with a previous partner), and moki's other children with don cherry - david ornette cherry, christian cherry (they're probably in the audience somewhere).

don and moki cherry gigged and ran music workshops for children across sweden until 1977,  they filmed a series of TV programs and a series of radio programs for children in swedish. (horsemouth has had no luck in finding these online (so far). 

horsemouth has written his 'read, watched and experienced' list for may 2023

immunologist akiko iwasaki remarks;

‘we are not done with covid, not even close... I get that people want to move on from the pandemic, but the virus is still out there, people are getting infected, and there’s the possibility of developing long covid.'

martin wolf (over at the FT) notes the rise of a right-wing populism and must perforce admit that it was stirred up by the neoliberalism he was a proponent of.. 

the 'work from home' changes accelerated by covid decimate the downtown of  san fransisco (once the epicentre of the tech revitalises the city bubble.

and beyond this the climate crisis. 

here it is a grey morning. horsemouth is just off in search of top up for his coffee. honesty would compel him to expand his media diary - news briefing, the world at one, the six o'clock news are staples of his day, the grauniad website and the FT podcast, then any NLR/ LRB blogs or podcasts. 

today the wait for a phonecall.