Tidewater News and Opinion Forum
A place for civil discussion of the events of the day for Tidewater residents without the limitations imposed by media forums.
Matt Margolis provides a useful summary of key events to date in our response to Covid-19.
The factual record doesn’t (and shouldn’t, necessarily) highlight the scale of the CDC/FDA testing fiasco. That SNAFU and subsequent recovery will rank among the largest lessons learned from the epidemic. In that respect the timeline doesn’t really paint a happy face on hard times.
Daniel Greenfield explains, in detail, “America isn’t facing a hand sanitizer shortage because of capitalism, but because of socialism.”
You can make your own hand sanitizer, of course, as the American pioneers or ancient Romans did.
Link to source _behind paywall_.
One of the more remarkable untruths critics of President Trump persist in circulating is the claim that Trump dissolved the pandemic response team President Obama had set up in the White House, making our nation less safe. This untruth has been repeatedly debunked. Tim Morrison, former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council” wrote a new debunking, which the Washington Post published a couple of days ago. Here’s hoping Forum users will stop repeating the false claim.
Continue reading “WAPO: No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there.”I’m optimistic that coronavirus won’t be as bad as we may fear. Still, I hope it inspires us to rethink healthcare economics — especially Virginia’s Certificate of Public Need (COPN) program.
Continue reading “Bacon’s Rebellion: Blame COPN for Looming Bed Shortages”Questions an economist is pondering. I tend to agree with the point that there is too much we don’t know yet.
A question my wife and I discussed today: Should we disinfect the steering wheel of the car before getting in or before getting out?
I argued for before getting in, because then you know for sure it has been done. She argued for before getting out, because I might forget to do it.
This looks like happy news.
It is good to see the DOJ openly defend the religious freedom of a Catholic school, as the story describes. I suppose someone will object that the action violates the doctrine of separation of church and state, but that’s an easy argument to refute. Specifically, it is not a promotion of religion for government to defend the civil rights of a religious organization.
Continue reading “PJM: Religious Liberty: Trump DOJ Defends Catholic School in State Court”Martin brilliantly illustrates a social problem many have seen first hand for themselves. And, of course, many have not.
Did you see the moonwalking Deep State?
Source: Bacon’s Rebellion
My thoughts on library fines are about the same as the writer’s: It doesn’t sound like a good idea to stop charging them, but I’m in favor of experimentation to see what works best.
Continue reading “Now Library Fines are a Social Injustice”A story like this one almost invites chuckles, except for the serious question: Is it really so easy to re-program human behaviors on a large scale that a government organization need only publish a comic book illustrating a few alternatives?
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