Via Reuters: The USNS Comfort, a 1,000-bed U.S. Navy hospital ship, arrives in New York Harbor and docks on Manhattan’s west side after departing Norfolk, Virginia. The Comfort will treat non-coronavirus patients, including those who require surgery and critical care, the Navy said. Hospitals in New York City have been overrun with patients suffering from…
Coronavirus
Coronavirus, Economics, Public Health
‘Come Meet the Biggest Fool in America’
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Conservative Jonathan V. Last, writing at The Bulwark, invites readers to Come Meet the Biggest Fool in America. In part of an email newsletter sent to subscribers today, Last rightly excoriates economist Richard Epstein for minimizing the risks from the coronavirus pandemic. Last writes (yes, a pun) that I mention all of this as a…
Animals, Coronavirus, Humor, Sports
Sports Broadcaster Records a Play-By-Play of His Dogs Eating
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Coronavirus, Public Health, Television
Frontline: Covering Coronavirus in Cremona, Italy
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A reporter’s emotional journey back to her homeland in Italy, now the global epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. “I never thought that I would be making a film like this in Italy,” says FRONTLINE correspondent Sasha Achilli. “I feel immensely proud of the way that the Italian doctors are doing everything they can.” Italy’s doctors, she says,…
Coronavirus, Ethics, Public Health
A Right – and Duty – of Protection
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One does not have to be a member of the Southern Baptist tradition (as I am not) to agree with Dr. Russell Moore’s description of the obligation to care for the elderly. Moore, the president of that denomination’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, writes that God Doesn’t Want Us to Sacrifice the Old to Coronavirus:…
Coronavirus, Public Health, Trump
No, the Country Will Not “Open” on Easter
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Conservative Jonathan V. Last, writing at the Bulwark, states what should be obvious – The Country Will Not “Open” on Easter: We talked yesterday about the benchmarks that need to be met in order to begin re-opening the economy: A clear understanding of the infected population and rate of transmission; the healthcare system at a…
Coronavirus, Public Health, State Government, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Department of Health Services: Emergency Order 12 (‘Safer at Home Order’)
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Coronavirus, Mendacity, Public Health, Television
They Protected Themselves. They Lied to You.
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Embed from Getty Images In the first 10 days of March, some of the commentators on Fox News and Fox Business played down the threat of what would soon be recognized as a pandemic. Many of the networks’ elderly, pro-Trump viewers responded to the coverage and the president’s public statements by taking the virus less seriously than…
Coronavirus, Mendacity, Public Health, Television
Fox & Fiends
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Coronavirus, Public Health
What’s Worse Than Today? Yesterday’s Complacency.
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Babbittry, Boosterism, Coronavirus, Corporate Welfare, Disinformation, Economy, Mendacity, Newspapers, Opioids, Public Health
A Newspaper’s Boosterism During a Pandemic
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A worthy person – a man or woman committed to reason, honesty, and seriousness of purpose – would have little respect for the Janesville Gazette. This critical view is not a new one, truly: the paper’s work has been inferior during the Great Recession, during an opioid crisis, during cheerleading for countless state and local…