Health and Sanity category archive
Maskless Marauders 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich discuss a recent study regarding wearing masks in these viral times. A snippet:
Maskless Marauders, the “Tell” Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Christian Miller reports on research that suggests how persons wear masks in these viral times sheds light on their character. A bit; follow the link for details.
That, at least, is what the economist Yossef Tobol at the Jerusalem College of Technology and his colleagues found in a recent study published in the journal Economic Letters.
Maskless Marauders, Rand Gestures Dept. 0
Rand Paul delivers a stream of gobbledy-goop and demonstrably false assertions to justify just having his own way.
The stupid. It burns.
Video via C&L.
Vaccine Nation 0
Harry Shearer interviews Matt Stoller about how America’s monopolistic health care industry (and it’s an industry, not a system) gives you the business, with a focus on the roll-out (stagger-out might be a more appropriate term) of the coronavirus vaccines.
This is a must listen.
Unity, Republican Style 0
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing which would replace the American dream with an American nightmare.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
As Farron mentioned, documented cases of voter fraud seem invariably to fall at the feet of Republicans.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
David Lazarus investigated a hospital bill. A snippet:
Summers received his insurer’s explanation of benefits recently.
There are any number of things we could nitpick about. But what really jumped out at me was a charge of almost $77,000 for “medical services,” a mysterious fee above and beyond the roughly $5,000 billed separately by Summers’ surgeon and anesthesiologist.
Follow the link for the story of his quest to find out what “medical services” warranted charges at the rate of $25,666.66 an hour for a three-hour outpatient procedure.
Vaccine Nation 0
In a thoughtful article at The Seattle Times, Danny Westneat compares the different approaches to delivering COVID-19 vaccines in the neighboring states of Washington and Oregon and the larger implications thereof.
Here’s a bit:
At its core is an uncomfortable question that nobody wants to fall on the wrong side of: Who really is essential in a society?
So who’s up next?
Here in these parts we are seeing similar arguments being played out on a much smaller scale as neighboring cities struggle with questions of, for example, reopening schools and restarting high school sports. Westneat offers a reasonable and reasoned assessment of the situation.
Chronicling Covidiocy 0
Gene Collier tells the “The Curious Case of the Skunk in the Moonlight.”