We’re about to find out what happens when the Omicron variant gets loose in a country where nobody is vaccinated, there’s no testing, no treatment drugs, and very few critical care hospital beds. Read story here. But North Korea’s famines kill millions, so what’s a few hundre[...]
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May 14th, 2022 - 7:20 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Judge tosses Hanford workers’ anti-vaccine lawsuit
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by several hundred Hanford workers over COVID-19 vaccine requirements, a Seattle TV station reported on Saturday, May 14, 2022 (read story here). It sounds like they were saddled with sloppy lawyering. KOMO 4 News says Judge Thomas Rice found that lawy[...]
May 13th, 2022 - 10:54 am § in Health
Who’s still dying from Covid-19?
“People 65 and older account for about 75 percent of U.S. Covid deaths,” NBC News reported on Friday, May 13, 2022 (story here). “And some risk persists, even for seniors who have completed an initial two-dose series of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine or gotten one dose of the Johnso[...]
May 13th, 2022 - 2:44 am § in Foreign Affairs, Health
North Korea: No vax, no masks, no safe haven
As Covid-19 spread around the world, North Korea tried to seal itself off, but it didn’t work. You couldn’t expect it to, in a country where no one is vaccinated, nobody wears masks, and attending huge military parades is mandatory. Its April 25, 2022, “Founder’s Day” m[...]
Can GOPers really stop abortions?
Making abortion against the law was tried before. It didn’t keep abortions from happening. The pre-Roe abortion bans are viewed in much the same light as Prohibition: If you make abortion illegal, all you’ll accomplish is create a black market for abortions. But much has changed since 19[...]
Racism against Asian-Americans is at a pandemic high
There have been plenty of news stories about hate crimes against Asian-Americans. Stupid whites (and some Hispanics and blacks, too) have blamed them for Covid-19. They have nothing to do with it. And it’s getting worse. “More Americans are now blaming Asian Americans for Covid-19 than a[...]
Covid denier can kiss his Army career goodbye
An Army lieutenant who refused to telework, provide a negative test, or wear a mask was convicted by a special court-martial of violating orders. Mark Bradshaw (photo), an Air Force sergeant who became an Army officer, is a jerk. He was a company commander, and the soldiers under him had no choice a[...]
May 3rd, 2022 - 9:38 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
How to make sure we don’t have enough nurses
Overwork them, underpay them. Deny them lunch and rest breaks, time off, and family leave. Stress them out, burn them out, then throw them in prison if they make a mistake. “Diana Campion, a nurse practitioner who lives in Florida, recently contemplated going back to bedside nursing part-time,[...]
California nurses’ strike bears fruit
A couple weeks ago I wrote here that nurses at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto were threatening to strike over pay and working conditions. They did walk out, and after spending a week on picket lines, they appear to have won. The union president called the [...]
Court rejects Gov. Inslee recall
Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) won’t face a recall election because of his Covid-19 emergency directives. The recall backers were disgruntled by Inslee’s eviction moratorium, restrictions on public gatherings, conducting public agency meetings online, and other pandemic-related executive orders.[...]