Remember that brief period in 2020 when we knew enough germ theory to realize that Covid was airborne and we needed face coverings, but not enough to realize that germs were extremely small so we needed surgical-level face coverings? This Reddit thread compiles some of the improvised masks that people used for grocery shopping in those days.

’Occupation: Organizer’: How Anti-Politics Becomes Anti-Democracy, by Emma Tai in Convergence. A warning against ACORN-like political structures that don’t allow democracy to flourish within the organizaiton.

Lowell’s Forgotten House Mothers, by Sarah Buchmeier – A review of what we know about the boarding house keepers who were vital to the functioning of the Massachusetts company towns in the 1800s. We don’t know much!