“A Wyoming teenager who believes that mask mandates violate her constitutional rights was arrested for trespassing after she refused to leave school grounds” last week, the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Monday, October 11, 2021 (read story here). Grace Smith, 16, a junior at [...]
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October 11th, 2021 - 12:56 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
WSU coach’s odds of getting vax exemption don’t look good
WSU football coach Nick Rolovich could lose his job if he doesn’t comply with the vaccine mandate applicable to all state employees. Rolovich, a Catholic, has applied for a religious exemption, presumably on the grounds that fetal tissue was used in vaccine testing (although not in the vaccine[...]
October 9th, 2021 - 12:18 pm § in Health
Covid-19 decimates third-world countries
See map below for third-world countries (pictured in red) decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic. What you actually see is the pandemic has hit the western hemisphere hard, except — strangely — for Central America. And, of course, Canada where people are more sensible than Americans. Return [...]
Anti-maskers harass kids walking to school (video)
Anti-maskers are widely viewed as a rogue element in American society. Objecting to being required to wear a mask is somewhat understandable; people don’t like being told what to do, even for their own good. (The problem is that going unmasked not only puts them at risk, but also endangers oth[...]
NIH director decides to retire
Dr. Francis Collins, who has led the National Institutes of Health since 2009, announced his retirement on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 (read story here). Collins, 71, is a respected expert in the field of genetics, and a renowned “gene hunter” (bio here). He was appointed to head the NIH [...]
Video: Violent anti-vaxxers
Anti-vaxxers chanting “Let us be!” tear down a testing site (story here). Why didn’t they let it be? Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Teachers are fleeing mask bans
Breathing through a mask isn’t comfortable. For me, a few minutes is enough, but I comply when shopping. I get that parents don’t want to subject their kids to the discomfort, all day, every day, for an entire school year. But they have to. Republican politicians portray masks as an assa[...]
Research behind Covid-19 vaccines doesn’t win Nobel Prize
It read like a script for a made-for-TV movie: Fighting peer rejection, job losses, and self-doubt, Katalin Karikó “spent decades researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA” because she was convinced it “could be used for something truly groundbreaking.” And it was: The Pfizer and Mo[...]
October 2nd, 2021 - 8:25 pm § in Health
They don’t deserve hospital care
No one should say, “Let them die.” And no one, in a civilized society, wants to turn away desperately ill patients — although some states are having to ration hospital beds. But this shouldn’t be happening, either: “Front-line workers at a Missouri hospital are being pr[...]
September 23rd, 2021 - 3:43 pm § in Health
Covid-19 topics and links for September 2021
* * * Putting People At Risk WORKING FOR AN AIRLINE IS RISKY AND EXHAUSTING Read story here VIRUS HAS KILLED 1 OF EVERY 500 AMERICANS Read story here UNVACCINATED PEOPLE PUT OTHERS AT RISK Read story here * * * No Room in the Hospital HOSPITAL BED SHORTAGES ARE COSTING LIVES THAT C[...]