March 19, 2020 – 8:12 am
It’s a rather taboo question, isn’t it? But, it’s not quite what you think Some Ask a Taboo Question: Is America Overreacting to Coronavirus? As an America desperate to stem the coronavirus outbreak put in place sweeping restrictions last week on every facet of public life, the University of Wyoming economist Linda Thunstrom asked what […]
March 18, 2020 – 3:06 pm
There once was a time when the people in charge of media outlets would sit back and say “is this really a good idea?” Sure, they weren’t always perfect, but, in these days, reading the Credentialed Media is more like reading the Democratic Underground, Daily Kos, or Media Matters. Here we have Unhinged Frank Bruni […]
March 18, 2020 – 8:05 am
Why, yes, this is the way it is supposed to work. Different areas require different responses. Heck, different parts of different states require different responses. What’s needed for small parts of New York, such as NYC, Long Island, Buffalo, Albany, are quite different than the rest of mildly suburban/rural NY. Across U.S., a vast disparity […]
March 16, 2020 – 6:56 am
I was wondering where this rumor came from. A bunch of fellow employees were yapping about it, scaremongering that Los Federales were about to invoke a two week mandatory quarantine of all citizens. Which would be statutory and Constitutionally problematic, if not downright illegal and un-Constitutional. Like quite a few of the ones invoked by […]
March 15, 2020 – 8:41 am
They should be grateful they aren’t being quarantined for a week or two, and that the tests don’t require testing in, let’s say, the back nether-regions US citizens returning from overseas say they are waiting hours for coronavirus screening at airports As Americans are being urged to keep their distance from one another, travelers returning […]
March 13, 2020 – 6:55 am
Never let a good crisis go to waste, right? Republicans oppose Pelosi’s coronavirus legislation, flagging ‘major’ problems The White House and congressional Republicans have poured cold water on the House Democrats’ coronavirus legislation to provide economic relief to Americans, signaling there won’t be immediate broad bipartisan support for the pending bill unless it undergoes changes. […]
March 7, 2020 – 7:14 am
Down here in the South, and, let’s face it, many other places, if a winter storm is predicted people run to the store and buy milk, bread, water, and eggs. Same thing for a potential tropical storm. One time I saw the cookie aisle wiped out. Oh, and don’t forget to get the beer. The […]
March 5, 2020 – 8:03 am
It really doesn’t take many, does it, to spread it around? Jazz Shaw notes how some people were jerks during the Ebola crisis in 2016, even though they knew they were in contact with people with Ebola, because they worked in Africa. And this wonderful person New Hampshire’s first coronavirus patient, a hospital employee, went […]
March 2, 2020 – 7:02 am
One of the president’s jobs is to attempt to keep Americans, and, really, the world, from freaking out. Freaking out won’t help the situation. No one slammed Obama for attempting to calm fears when Ebola broke out (they did slam him for failing to have strong enough quarantines). Democrats, and the media, on the other […]
March 1, 2020 – 8:54 am
We’ve finally hit the point where one of the biggest news outlets in the world has their editorial board making the link Here Comes the Coronavirus Pandemic Back in 2002, when the SARS virus made its fateful leap from bats to civet cats to humans, global health experts warned that the ensuing outbreak was a harbinger of […]
