Author: Paul Murphy

Government In Action? Uh, no. Government Inaction!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-the-us-government-turned-down-an-offer-to-manufacture-millions-of-n95-masks-in-america/2020/05/09/f76a821e-908a-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

Gist of the story – A Texas businessman with FOUR idle N95 production lines in his AMERICAN plant could not get our government to take any interest in opening them up even after the virus started spreading and the shortage of PPEs in the stockpile was obvious. Maybe this is China’s fault?

Sweden Sacrificed Lives for its economy. It was a mistake.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/7/1943379/-Sweden-never-shut-down-now-their-death-rate-AND-economy-is-worse-than-their-neighbors?detail=emaildkre

Sweden has famously tried to achieve herd immunity and to avoid economic damage by staying open for business. Not only is their death’s per million people significantly higher than other neighboring countries (and growing), their economy seems to have received no benefit from the extra cost in deaths.

GOP on how to deal with those pesky scientists. Put fingers in ears and say Nah, Nah, Na Nah Nah.

https://www.abc15.com/news/coronavirus/arizona-state-health-department-tells-modeling-team-to-stop-work

Scientists from various Arizona Universities have been instructed to stop their efforts on COVID-19 and denied access to the data they have been using to predict the spread. Brilliant!

By the way, if data from New York City is omitted (because it has begun to decline there), the Covid-19 outbreak has not peaked. It is climbing steadily. In places like Arizona. Pretty clear the decision has been made to kill a lot of people to preserve Republican power. Too bad for them, it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

Freedom of religion versus Attempted Murder.

https://www.dailypress.com/government/virginia/dp-nw-coronavirus-doj-chincoteague-church-20200505-qky34epxlvg37bqbridggdftwm-story.html

One is tempted to say that whomsoever wants to risk their lives by gathering in the name of God should be allowed (dare I say, encouraged) to do so. But it is not that simple. Any one of the congregates could be a carrier. The larger the gathering it becomes more likely that the virus will be joining the worshipers. So, when it is over, all or some of the people attending could be infected as well. They then go home and about their business and before you can say Bob’s your uncle. more people get sick and more people die. Needless to say the current Theocratic DOJ has joined the defense of this dangerous, anti-social and unchristian behavior.

The defense says just look at all the people in Walmart. I think that misses the mark. Our bodies can only be fed with real food. Our spirits can be served alone or we can be connected to others by technology until the danger is past.

Of course, there are Freedom of Religion questions to address. One of them would be is not protecting religious gatherings a violation of the establishment clause? And what about the right to life of the people who IN PRACTICE not theory will be harmed if people can ignore the science and put others at serious risk?