Minnesota’s back-to-work plan is a lot better than Georgia’s, Mike Davis says—it requires employers to provide PPE and bans face-to-face activity—i.e., the restaurants, shopping malls, and tattoo parlors that Georgia and South Carolina have opened will remain closed in Minnesota. Mike’s book The Monster at Our Door examined the avian flu.

Also: John Powers, critic-at-large for Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR, recommends The Good Fight and The Bureau for virus-time TV watching.

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