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Daily Bread for 1.31.22: COVID-19 the leading cause of death in the line of duty for Wisconsin police officers and firefighters

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…

Daily Bread for 12.13.21: ‘Most’

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.…

Daily Bread for 10.12.21: Parent of sick student sues after Waukesha School District ends many pandemic mitigation efforts

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…

Daily Bread for 8.30.21: Ivermectin

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…

Daily Bread for 8.28.21: Vaccine Testing Falsely Equated with Thalidomide Development

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…

Daily Bread for 8.25.21: Thompson Dares Nass in Front of 5.8 Million People

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…

A Private Insurance Response to Vaccine Refusal (Updated)

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…

No Shirt, No Shoes? No Service

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…

Wise Words for Whitewater from Steak-umm

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…

The Problems of COVID-19 Aren’t Uniformly Acknowledged (and Likely Never Will Be)

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…