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Daily Bread for 8.24.21: Ron Johnson’s Push for Ivermectin

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will see afternoon thundershowers with a high of 91. Sunrise is 6:12 AM and sunset 7:41 PM, for 13h 29m 20s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 95.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM.   On this day in 1909, workers start pouring concrete…

Coronavirus, Covidiocy, Health, Public Health

A Private Insurance Response to Vaccine Refusal (Updated)

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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…

Politics, Public Health, Rhetoric, Trumpism, UW System, Vaccines, WISGOP

Steve Nass: Troll-King in Autumn

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For many years, Steve Nass, as a state representative (now a state senator) was a notable farthest-to-the-right Wisconsin politician. The bête noire of liberals and universities, he was the state’s unmatched troll, criticizing the center-left time and again. Nass was a right-wing populist long before Trump.  He was the great troll-king of Wisconsin, firing florid press releases…

City, Coronavirus, Culture, Education, Public Health, School District, Science/Nature

Wise Words for Whitewater from Steak-umm

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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…

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IF PUBLIC OFFICIALS DON’T WANT TO READ DISCUSSIONS ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, THEN THEY SHOULDN’T RUN FOR PUBLIC OFFICE.

 

Coronavirus, Public Health, Walworth County

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

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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…