https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/27/the-covid-19-tragedy-at-the-nations-nursing-homes
Nearly 70 Dead in ‘Horrific’ Outbreak at Veterans Home
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/04/29/nearly-70-dead-horrific-outbreak-veterans-home.html?
Time to Wake Up
This brutal erasure of death is inseparable from the erasure of religion: Have you noticed that, on the long list of authorized reasons for leaving one’s domicile, the “needs of pets” were not forgotten, but there was no provision for those who might wish to go to a place of worship? This merits reflection. Those…
The paranoid style in COVID-19 America
https://spectator.us/paranoid-style-covid-19-central-park-safetyism/ To be sure, a revolt is brewing against the idea that perfect safety is the precondition for social and economic life. Even residents of blue states are chafing under their mandates, provoking sniffy rebukes from their public health masters. But enough people have embraced fear to destroy the necessary demand side of an economic recovery. The…
Coronavirus Tracker–RealClear Politics
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/country/united-states/
We R0 New York City
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-r0-new-york-city-caoimh%25C3%25ADn-p-connell/?
‘The Pretense of Knowledge’ has Cost America Dearly
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/the_pretense_of_knowledge_has_cost_america_dearly.html Sweden’s approach was a mixture of epidemiology and principle. Erixon noted that the concept of a national lockdown is “deeply illiberal — and, until now, untested.” He allowed that Sweden may change if facts warrant. “But,” he wrote, “the vast majority, for now, want Sweden to keep its cool. We don’t want to remember…
Blue states failed the most vulnerable among us
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/blue_states_failed_the_most_vulnerable_among_us_.html Meanwhile, most if not all of the governors of the states listed above forced hospitalized patients with the virus (or whose status with respect to the virus was not confirmed) to be discharged to nursing homes, creating a perfect storm for the infection to rage out of control in these facilities. These same governors…
The Thin Façade of Authority
https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/12/the-thin-facade-of-authority/ Sometime in the late 19th century, the wide-scale growth of graduate education, professional schooling, and the formal granting of a M.D., Ph.D., or J.D. were necessary antidotes to quackery and the dangers of autodidactic expertise masquerading as the product of the scientific method. But in the last two centuries, that notion of argument from…