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Prepare for herd immunity and pray you’re not culled. Here is the warning I issued in “Fighting This Coronavirus Is Setting an Untenable Precedent” on March 31: Politicians and experts alike seem so fixated on fulfilling their own doomsday prophecies, they seem oblivious to the obvious question: What happens next time? … The question is,… Read more.
No doubt reports like the one below inspired the “Earth Day 2020 Report” Dave Granlund depicted in this cartoon for the April 21 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer: India is home to 21 of the world’s 30 most polluted cities, but recently air pollution levels have started to drop dramatically as the second-most populated nation… Read more.
Anti-immigrant crusaders in the United States scapegoat Mexicans. Never mind that Mexicans provide the cheap labor that is to the US economy what rock cocaine is to a crack head. Likewise, anti-drug crusaders scapegoat Latino drug traffickers. Never mind that Latino drug traffickers are only supplying the US demand that fuels the never-ending War on… Read more.
Last night’s premiere of The Last Dance was easily the most interesting and entertaining two hours of sports TV I’ve seen in decades. Granted, my taste might be a little off. After all, it was the first new thing in the wide world of sports since the worldwide lockdown five weeks ago. Therefore, this was… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, stay-at-home orders in this time of corona are only making this shrinkage more acute. Read more.
Much is being made about the disparate impact Covid-19 is having on black communities throughout the United States. No less a person than the surgeon general highlighted this in black and white during a recent White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing. It was notable enough that Surgeon General Jerome Adams was the only black on… Read more.
The metastasizing nature of this virus has some political leaders continually extending stay-at-home orders; whereas it has others taking baby steps towards reopening their national economies. But, at this rate, most countries could be under some version of “The Great Lockdown” for a year – if not longer. Apropos of which, The United States may… Read more.
Silver linings are hard to find in the midst of this coronavirus crisis. But CNN is providing one with its hauntingly inspirational commercial. This, because it features the poetically named slam-poet Kate Tempest performing voiceover excerpts from “People’s Faces” (2019). That poem ends as follows: Even when I’m weak and I’m breaking I stand weeping… Read more.
This corona crisis is replete with ironies. None more so than British Prime Minister Boris Johnson boasting about ignoring his own social-distancing guidelines only to end up in the ICU a few days later – infected with COVID-19. Johnson expressed his gratitude to the staff of the National Health Service for saving his life when… Read more.
The White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings have become must-see TV. Perhaps you’re among the millions who tune in every day to watch. But that can only be for morbid diversion. After all, for over a month now, these daily briefings have been must-see only for the reason a train wreck would be. Specifically, they… Read more.
