“Unlike wealthier, more advanced countries like, say, South Korea, Vietnam, or Senegal, the United States just doesn’t have the capability or the leadership to produce the kind of testing and contact-tracing system that would allow us to “re-open” safely.” — Slacktivist delivers what I believe qualifies as a sick burn.
While calling for his state to reopen, Alaska Republican state Rep. Ben Carpenter says a)quarantine is very Nazi, and b)Hitler wasn’t a white supremacist, he was just scared of Jews. Apparently he doesn’t think Republicans advocating for thousands to die for the good of the state is at all Nazi.
Public-health experts on where they will, and won’t go after reopening.
As we reopen, some people are fixated on the real threat: 5G cellular! A look at conspiracy thinking and pandemic.
A reliable vaccine would make reopening easier but the anti-vaxxers are organized to stop people taking it.
Here’s a look at the real issues and challenges for developing a vaccine.
An ice cream parlor reopens … and then closes due to customer behavior.
Governors who’ve already opened are proclaiming victory over the Trump Virus — but they’re fooling themselves.
So why reopen when it’s likely to lead to more deaths and not a recovered economy? No More Mr. Nice Blog suggests it’s not about money but about control: “They just don’t want to be told that they can’t have their wishes immediately gratified.”
Like the Tea Party protests of a decade ago, the reopen protests are a mix of genuine anger and a lot of astroturfing. And some people believe in “plandemic.” More on that here.
A Texas company offered to mass-produce some N95 masks. The government said no.
A New York restaurateur looks at her shuttered restaurant and wonders what the point was.
How COVID-19 starves us of oxygen.
Federal employees’ retirement plans are invested in China. Trump wants to stop that.
Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos is funneling a disproportionate amount of Trump Virus relief for education to private schools.
A farmer uses Facebook to keep their farm going in pandemic times.
Four reasons reopening may be worse than staying closed.
