There have been many complaints over the years about how Virginia runs the in-state liquor business. I tend to agree with those complaints. The ability to walk in to Costco or Sam’s Club to purchase my adult beverage of choice would be nice. Or even Kroger or Wegman’s.
Continue reading “From one Commonwealth to another”Some info on the VA redistricting amendment.
For policy wonking (spelled with an “o” not an “a”) outside the realm of Coronavirus, Trump and the economy, here are links from the Princeton Gerrymandering Project about Virginia’s amendment. Yes, it is a big deal nationally.
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Some helpful advice for Trump from a friendly source, WSJ.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-wasted-briefings-11586389028
Since the efficacy of the “daily show” by Trump has been a topic, and the interest has been waning for these overly long presentations hogging prime news time, here is the bottom line of this opinion from a friendly News Corp outlet.
Continue reading “Some helpful advice for Trump from a friendly source, WSJ.”
About that November warning
No such report ever existed. ABC simply made it up to harm Trump.
The first mention in an intelligence briefing of a new virus in China was in early January, and that was not a threat warning for spread to the US.
BR: Bacon Bits: COVID, COVID, Cartel
Quarantine requirements have unintended consequences for health care in Virginia. Is it too much to want to see more carefully-designed public policy in the midst of this pandemic?
Back to calling COVID 19 “Spanish…Italian…French (pick one, or more) Flu”?
There is a lot of interesting info regarding sources, mutations etc.
Cafe Heyek: Answer Me This…
Don Bourdreax asks: “how much more effective would the washing of hands be in America if government had never foisted on us those monuments to absurdity, low-flow faucets?”
Time to rethink . . . EVERYTHING.
I am not sure if this editorial is pay-walled, but you get the idea. It is captured in a quote from FDR in 1936 about the meaning of “liberty.”
“Liberty,” Roosevelt said at the Democratic Party’s convention in 1936, “requires opportunity to make a living — a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.”
The pandemic has shown that vast numbers of Americans – probably a majority of younger people – do not have such liberty. In the aftermath this has to be fixed.
Questionable immunity
Not that I am happy about this, but apparently having the virus does not make EVERYONE immune.
Continue reading “Questionable immunity”YouTube: Perspectives on the Pandemic | Professor Knut Wittkowski
As sure as I post this, someone will accuse me of some thought crime or another. Nevertheless, I find the Dr.’s observations both intriguing and consistent with other things we are hearing — the failure of the IHME data model we learned about last weekend, for example.
The main idea in the video is the suggestion that “flattening the curve” also broadens it. This seems like pure common sense to me, although I had never thought about it. More than that — if true — it would mean that our public policy on Covid-19 should be much more nuanced than it is.
In particular, serological testing should be given a much higher priority than it currently enjoys. I’d like to see Dr.s Fauci and Birx report the number of serological tests each day in the daily briefing and explain the results. Without this data, the public can’t know the true status of the disease and, frankly, is suceptible to being mislead by public health officials and media who promote policies that are scientifically questionable.
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