by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Traffic on New Hampshire turnpike system is plummeting, judging from trips at the state’s tollbooths. Data for the past four weeks: WEEK ENDING – TOTAL TRIPSMARCH 1 – 2,109,479MARCH 8 – 2,157,186MARCH 15 – 1,985,029MARCH 22 – 1,351,693 (lowest in past year by about...
by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
America downplayed the Spanish Flu because they didn’t want to harm the war economy, and Concord ended up turning Main Street buildings into emergency hospitals. That’s one lesson I learned when I interviewed a local historian about how New Hampshir...
by David Brooks | Mar 24, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
My dad fought in the Korean War and took photos of the devastated, dirt-poor country. Now we look at South Korea with envy as they have all the testing material to protect their society from COVID-19, and we have to ration our tests because we don’t have enough...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The use of Virtual Private Networks has risen 124% in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, and risen even more in other countries. That’s according to this report from a VPN company (so take it with a grain of salt). VPNs are a good way to protect your...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
A small craft distillery in the tiny town of Windsor, N.H., has switched to making hand sanitizer. “Legally, we kind of weren’t supposed to be doing this, but no one cares right now,” said Erin Bell, Silo’s chief distiller, on Thursday as she was getting ready...
by David Brooks | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
I wrote about (but didn’t visit – such is reporting in the COVID era, sigh) the telemedicine hub at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the Monitor. Telemedicine was going to be the topic of this week’s Science Cafe, so I turned it into a story...