Friday assorted links

1. PBA cards, and implicit trades with police.

2. Australia: “Lawyers and civil liberty groups have expressed concerns about the way a pregnant woman was arrested at her home in Ballarat for allegedly encouraging people to take part in an anti-lockdown rally.”  I guess she didn’t have a good enough PBA card.

3. The football culture that is Fargo.  10,000 at an indoors game?  And is a two-puffin photo twice as good as a one-puffin photo?

4. Should a consortium of 45 hospitals defy the FDA’s directive on convalescent plasma and run an RCT instead?

5. New data on the Russian vaccine.

6. Obituary for David Graeber.

7. MIE: The Japanese companies that help people vanish.