At 5 PM Saturday, March 21, Governor J.B. Pritzker's COVID-19 Executive Order No. 8, aka the Stay at Home order, took effect. Here's a daily-ish journal of how Reader staff, our friends, family—and our pets—are spending our time.
Day 40: April 29
What we’re reading:
- “Why some people get sicker than others” by James Hamblin
- “We still don’t know how the coronavirus is killing us” by David Wallace-Wells
- “The Epicenter: A week inside New York’s public hospitals” by Philip Montgomery and Jonathan Mahler
- “Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?” by Molly Young
What we’re listening to:
- “Somebody” podcast from the Intercept and the Invisible Institute
- Steamin’with the Miles Davis Quintet
What we’re watching:
- Mrs. America on Hulu
What we're cooking:
- Basque-style salmon stew
- Gabrielle Hamilton’s gravlax
- Gimmie Some Oven’s mushroom stroganoff
- Sam Sifton’s butter chicken
- Melissa Clark’s butternut squash oat muffins with candied ginger (subbing candied ginger with semi-candied orange peel, and adding cranberries and walnuts)
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