America, pop. 330 million, has 98,000+ Covid-19 deaths; six Asian nations with a combined population of 328 million have ~1,200 Covid-19 deaths. (The six nations are Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Vietnam.) Our death rate is 80 times theirs. On Saturday, May 23, 2020, “Ameri[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Coronavirus’
May 19th, 2020 - 1:29 pm § in Misc.
“It’s just the flu.”
Some people want to minimize the seriousness of Covid-19 for ulterior reasons. They argue, “It’s just the flu. People die of flu every year.” Except Covid-19 deaths are in addition to flu deaths. And the Covid-19 deaths have exceeded the typical number of flu deaths by multiples — currently [...]
May 15th, 2020 - 2:09 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Trump chooses livelihoods over lives
President Trump has decided the economy is more important than saving lives: “(CNN) President Donald Trump unveiled a crash effort on Friday aimed at developing a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year but said the country would return to normal with or without one. ‘I just want to m[...]
May 10th, 2020 - 5:50 pm § in Misc.
No, this isn’t a sandwich shop in Chechnya.
It’s in North Carolina. (Read story here.) [...]
May 9th, 2020 - 4:49 pm § in Misc.
How to fill a baseball stadium with fans in the age of coronavirus
The South Koreans nailed it. Read story here. [...]
May 6th, 2020 - 6:13 pm § in America
Is this what we’ve come to?
Is this what America is now? I thought we were smarter than this. Read story here. [...]
May 5th, 2020 - 3:49 pm § in America
Bad behavior
Stress brings out the worst in some people. And maybe some people simply have been cooped up in their homes too long. In California, a grocery store customer wore a KKK hood. (Read story here.) In Michigan, a Dollar Tree customer who was told to wear a mask by an employee wiped his face on […[...]
“W” calls for unity, end of partisanship
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, former president George W. Bush “called on Americans … to put aside partisan differences, heed the guidance of medical professionals and show empathy for those stricken by the coronavirus and the resulting economic devastati[...]
“I have constitutional rights!”
But no brains. Just because you have a right to do something (or think you do*), doesn’t mean you should. (* Courts, not individual citizens, decide what’s constitutional. There’s a well-established body of case law upholding public health regulations.) Look, I understand many peop[...]
April 28th, 2020 - 4:33 pm § in America
Covid-19 death toll surpasses Vietnam War
Covid-19 toll (April 28, 2020): 58,313 U.S. Vietnam War deaths: 58,209 Meanwhile, as some impatient GOP governors begin to reopen their states, “Georgia is projected to see its number of daily Covid-19 deaths nearly double by early August,” according to a researcher cited by the CDC. The[...]