Reading time – 97 seconds . . . I received a Trump fundraising letter today – no clue how I got on the Trump/RNC mail list. Perhaps they read these posts. Nah, not likely. This packet is like so many, in that it includes a clumsily skewed questionnaire designed to appeal to the confirmation bias… [read more]
Mom
Reading time – 4:12; Viewing time – 6:53 . . . My mother was a teen during the Great Depression and came of age during WW II. She was from that generation. Tom Brokaw dubbed it The Greatest Generation and the label stuck, this for obvious reasons. This was a generation without a sense of… [read more]
Absolute Power
Reading time – 4:36 . . . It’s plain to see that the President of the United States is, at best, severely dragging feet to deal with our national health emergency. He was warned repeatedly (over a dozen times) in his President’s Daily Briefs as far back as January that this pandemic would happen. The… [read more]
I Know You See It, Too
Reading time – 3:23 . . . The population of the United States makes up approximately 4% of the of the total world population. Yet we have managed to have 32.3% of all coronavirus cases and 26.7% of all coronavirus deaths on the planet. Even if all the illness and deaths in the New York… [read more]
American Death Rates For Your Consideration
Reading time – 2:14 . . . There continue to be comparisons made between the seasonal flu and COVID-19, with the apparent goal of decreasing our perception of the danger of this pandemic. After all, we suffer thousands of deaths every year from the seasonal flu and we don’t shut down the country. To put… [read more]
Potpourri v11.0 – The “How Can We Be This Stupid?” Edition
Reading time – 3:41 . . . Dr. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, has been kicked out of his post. Reports STAT, “Bright’s career has largely centered around vaccine and drug development. His work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on influenza viruses, antiviral drugs… [read more]
Coronavirus For Dummies
Reading time – 3:41; Viewing time – 5:30 . . . Imagine that in your town nobody has smoke detectors. The only way the fire department knows to come out and battle a fire is when they can see flames shooting through a roof. But when another house goes up in flames somewhere else in… [read more]
You Need To Understand This
Reading time – 5:19 . . . Sure, you’re sick of coronavirus 24/7, but it’s killing so many of our family and friends that we need to know the truth. For that, read Sheila Markin’s post and you’ll understand both what’s happened and what needs to happen. The president can’t tell the difference between reality… [read more]
JaxPolitix: Cynical Edition v1.0
Reading time – 2:30; Viewing time – 3:53 . . . The number crunchers tell us that once infected, blacks in this country are at least 6 times more likely to die from coronavirus than whites. It’s worse for Hispanics than whites, too. There has been much hand wringing about this lately and ties to… [read more]
Get Real
Reading time – 2:21 . . . The Gallup Organization published a new poll looking at how we view the performance of various groups responding to coronavirus. The information is, well, a bit nuts. Have a look at the chart below and note that roughly 4 out of 5 of us approve of the job… [read more]
