WSJ–Covid-19 Builds Teams That Are Ford Tough
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-builds-teams-that-are-ford-tough-11589479465 Businesses everywhere are sorting out tough problems. But behind the people directly responsible for decisions, there are armies of unlikely characters self-organizing to make things happen. It’s a marvel to witness. Business leaders should pay attention in their own organizations and notice who runs toward the fire. It might not be who you expect….
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Sees 1/7 of NY’s Nursing Home Deaths After Banning Coronavirus Patients’ Entry
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/13/florida-gov-ron-desantis-sees-1-7-of-nys-nursing-home-deaths-after-banning-coronavirus-patients-entry/ At around the time New York’s state health department under Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a directive prohibiting nursing homes from testing recovering coronavirus patients prior to admission, Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis issued its own executive order strictly regulating incoming patients to protect those facilities from the epidemic. About a month and a half…
Meet the Florida Firefighter Who Refused to Close His Gun Store
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/meet-the-florida-firefighter-who-refused-to-close-his-gun-store/
Learning from Epidemics Past
After the closing of the Broad Street well did the public health community abandon the concept of miasma? Did they wholeheartedly embrace the idea that cholera and many diseases could be transmitted through water? They did not. Even though they supported closing the well based on Snow’s evidence, in their final report they still attributed…
The burden of proof lies with economic lockdown proponents
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/496586-the-burden-of-proof-lies-with-economic-lockdown-proponents The public health establishment, the mainstream media and most Democratic politicians assume that the burden of proof lies with the lockdown opponents. Advocates of reopening must show that any change to the current status quo will be “safe.” If the reopeners fail to make that showing, the lockdowns remain in place. With the burden…
The ‘Freesistance’ can Prevent Dems from Prolonging the Shutdown
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/the_freesistance_can_prevent_dems_from_prolonging_the_shutdown.html Keeping America closed for business, however, will not only hurt Trump’s election prospects, it will take down the rest of the world’s economies as well. America is 16% of the world economy and China is 9%. With the American economy closed, China loses its biggest customer. The result will be a worldwide depression that…