Senator Bill Cassidy (a gastroenterologist from Louisiana) and Christopher Mores, professor of global health at George Washington University, discuss testing, herd immunity, and a national registry of the non-infectious:
Continue reading “WSJ: We Need to Know Who’s Developed Immunity to Coronavirus”Giving Up Essential Liberty
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. — Benjamin Franklin.
Israel Shamir, in Unz Review today, writes:
Continue reading “Giving Up Essential Liberty”NPR: President Trump’s Letter to Governors on Coronavirus
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=6819627-letter1
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And now for something completely different
If you can’t get to it due to paywall restrictions, I apologize. For those who can, just a little distraction from the daily pounding we are doing to each other. (Intended)
And if you are offended by the article, I apologize for that as well. Just looking for something to lighten the day’s events.
YouTube: We’re Living in 12 Monkeys
No matter which flavor of conspiracy theory you like best — Trump equals Hitler, or the Deep State is running amok — the video is an assumption challenger. Here’s a link to the MIT Technology Review article it is based on:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/
Noriega, Part Deux
https://thehill.com/latino/489643-doj-charges-venezuelas-maduro-with-drug-trafficking
Not that this is a bad thing, but one has to wonder if this is a similar precursor to 1989. “He [Barr] compared Maduro’s indictment to the 1988 indictment of former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, which eventually led to the 1989 U.S. invasion of that country.”
Just thought I’d change the subject away from the Coronavirus issue for a minute.
Possibly a first.
This is the first time I have ever seen Carter’s “malaise speech” described as anything but political suicide.
But as pointed out by the opinion writer, 41 years later, some of the words have renewed meaning. And should give us ALL a little pause.
PJM: No, Democrats, Corporations Couldn’t Have Been Better Prepared for the Pandemic
The idea that “strong companies” don’t need help to survive an economic storm is a persistent one. The writer mentions a few aspects of the fallacy of thinking so.
Read moreIt is this sort of BS that is undermining our position in the world. Shameful nonsense.
Things that make you go “hmmmm”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/489608-white-house-deviated-from-pandemic-plan-report
“The White House has reportedly deviated from guidelines set out in a 2016 National Security Council (NSC) memo detailing the U.S. response to a global disease outbreak.”
“An official with the National Security Council told Politico in a statement that the report had been replaced by newer policies taking into account lessons from the spread of Ebola in Africa.
Continue reading “Things that make you go “hmmmm””
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