Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 31. Sunrise is 7:09 AM and sunset 5:07 PM for 9h 58m 21s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1846, after the Milwaukee…
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City, Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Ignorance, Positivity, Public Health, School District, Willful Ignorance, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 12.13.21: ‘Most’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 46. Sunrise is 7:17 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 03m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 73.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 12 PM, and her Planning Commission meets at 6 PM.…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Health, Public Health
Daily Bread for 12.3.21: Wisconsin Sets Daily Record for COVID-19 Cases
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 45. Sunrise is 7:08 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 12m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s annual Christmas parade, traveling along Main Street in the downtown and ending at Whitewater…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Sports, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 11.6.21: Aaron Rodgers’s Rule-Bending
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 58. Sunrise is 7:36 AM and sunset 5:40 PM for 10h 03m 25s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1947, Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, Public Health, School District
Daily Bread for 10.12.21: Parent of sick student sues after Waukesha School District ends many pandemic mitigation efforts
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 69. Sunrise is 7:06 AM and sunset 6:16 PM for 11h 10m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 42.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM, and the city’s Public Works Committee meets at…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 8.30.21: Ivermectin
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 6:18 AM and sunset 7:31 PM, for 13h 12m 50s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 48.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1945, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur, lands at…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Medicine, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 8.28.21: Vaccine Testing Falsely Equated with Thalidomide Development
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 94. Sunrise is 6:16 AM and sunset 7:34 PM, for 13h 18m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 66.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1845, the first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. Beatrice Dupuy reports…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Right-wing Populism, UW System
Daily Bread for 8.25.21: Thompson Dares Nass in Front of 5.8 Million People
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 90. Sunrise is 6:13 AM and sunset 7:39 PM, for 13h 26m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 90.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Committee meets at 5 PM. On this day in 1812, the American frigate, USS United…
Coronavirus, Covidiocy, Health, Public Health
A Private Insurance Response to Vaccine Refusal (Updated)
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Elisabeth Rosenthal and Glenn Kramon write, in Don’t Want a Vaccine? Be Prepared to Pay More for Insurance, about insurance companies rejecting waivers for anti-vax insureds who expect coverage for expensive COVID-19 treatment. Insurance companies should go farther, as Rosenthal and Kramon advocate: Get a Covid-19 shot to protect your wallet. Getting hospitalized with Covid-19…
Business, Coronavirus, Employment, Free Markets, Labor, Private Property, Vaccines
No Shirt, No Shoes? No Service
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
The conservative populists talk endlessly about the dangers of socialism (however poorly they grasp the term), but truthfully they’re happy with government mandates or prohibitions that advance their own preferences. Some private employers want to require masks, and others want to require vaccinations, but these right-wing interventionists now screech that private businesses should not be…
Coronavirus, Public Health, Vaccines
The Great Vaccinated/Unvaccinated Divide
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
City, Coronavirus, Culture, Education, Public Health, School District, Science/Nature
Wise Words for Whitewater from Steak-umm
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There’s a thread on Twitter from Steak-umm (an American brand of thin-sliced frozen steaks) that does a better job (truly) discussing the role of science and skepticism about the pandemic than much of what’s published online. The full thread is available at Twitter, and excerpts are imediately below. It’s spot-on for Whitewater. (Note: the thread…
Coronavirus, Culture, Politics, Public Health, School District, Science/Nature
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Science
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
It seemed reasonable, months ago, to wait until the end of the 2020-2021 school year to assess how well the Whitewater Unified School District managed the pandemic. It doesn’t seem so reasonable now, for reasons of culture as much as public health. Generally – and sensibly – one has reason to be skeptical of lay…
Coronavirus, Public Health, Walworth County
The Problems of COVID-19 Aren’t Uniformly Acknowledged (and Likely Never Will Be)
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
David Leonhardt accurately writes that Heavily Republican areas of the U.S. have a growing Covid problem: Cases have begun to rise more rapidly in communities with lower vaccination rates. Consider this chart, which looks at the number of new cases in counties across the U.S., grouping counties by the share of residents who have been…