From ex-Labor Secretary Robert Reich, writing about the meme here:
A teenager has died from coronavirus after being denied treatment. The teen sought help at an urgent care facility, but was turned away because he didn’t have health insurance. (more…)
A reader sent me this piece on the Hobby Lobby, and added, “Christians for Satan.” Now that’s funny.
What isn’t funny, of course, is how decidedly unChristian these people are. (more…)
Here’s evidence that there are places on our planet in which the uber-rich don’t go out of their way to inflict punishment on everyone else.
From the Associated Press:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday abruptly waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public health and environmental protections, saying industries could have trouble complying with them during the coronavirus pandemic. (more…)
Rachel Maddow speaks at Harvard’s JFK Forum
Making a decision to protect their listeners from dangerous levels of baldfaced lies emanating from the White House, the NPR affiliate in Seattle, Washington has elected to stop airing Trump’s coronavirus briefings live. Perhaps they’ll take up Rachel Maddow’s suggestion, which I paraphrase, “Tape them and fact-check them. If he happens to say something truthful, you can always air whatever truth he told at that point.” (more…)
Today’s the birthday of Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor. After quite a few fatalistic posts here at 2GreenEnergy recently, I though I’d offer the quote for which he’s best remembered: (more…)
From today’s Daily Stoic:
There is an immutable, inescapable law of human existence that comes to us from the Stoics through Heraclitus (one of Marcus Aurelius’ favorites): Character is fate. (more…)
If these times were the plot line of a movie and not a global catastrophe, the entire audience would be on the edge of their seats, desperate to learn not only how it ends, but “who did it.” Take the implosion of the United States, where the most powerful country in Earth has become a bunch of greedy, cruel, racist, science-denying, criminal thugs. The decline of moral standards has been so precipitous that it’s hard to believe that it didn’t have a cause. (more…)
I used to help my daughter with her math, and so when the coronavirus hit the news, it gave me the opportunity to apply some of this stuff. I asked her, “What is the doubling time of the virus, given that the number of cases in the U.S. went from about 49,500 yesterday to about 60,600 today?” We worked it through as follows: (more…)
A reader, “Maria,” and I are having a conversation that may be of interest.
Maria: The US fatality rate for Covid-19 is less than 1% — it’s 0.7 – 0.8%. Precautions? Yes, by all means! Beyond that we have to get real about this, my friends. The best place to start is by shutting off the TVs, then sign this petition to lift State Executive Orders for “shelter-in” and “restaurant restrictions,” on the basis that they violate the First Amendment right to free assembly, and not excluding religious events violate our right to exercise our religions.
Craig: I need to think about this. We can ignore the direction that our scientists are begging us to take, and act according to ideas of some uninformed people who signed a petition. I’m just not sure that’s a strong idea. (more…)
