Health and Sanity category archive
Typhoid Mary Florida Man
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Farron discusses how Florida doctors are starting to speak up against their governor’s failure to deal with (capitulation to?) COVID-19.
Vaccine Nation 0
Big law firm announces to staff, “No vaccination? No entry.”
In related news, karma can come back to haunt you.
Vaccine Nation 0
The New York Times reports on those for whom it’s too late now.
Aside:
Sow the wind. Reap the whirlwind.
(Syntax error fixed.)
Vaccine Nation 0
Michael-in-Norfolk is quite fed up, thank you very much.
For that matter, so too am I. “Science” and “stupid” both start with “S,” but they are not synonyms.
In a rational world, one counteracts the other, but not, it seems, in our society of stupid.
Maskless Marauders 0
We are a society of stupid.
Republican Family Values, Maskless Marauders Dept. 0
I know that I am not the only one to notice the irony in the “Right-to-Life” party’s willingness to court infection and death, for school children no less, during a time of pandemic.
Scott Maxwell has more.
Premature Exhilaration 0
Afterthought:
It’s one thing to relax restrictions.
It’s quite another to assume that the need for discretion is no more.
All the News that Fits, Vaccine Nation Dept. 0
At AL.com, Paul Gattis reports on doctors’ efforts to quell myths about and promote vaccination against COVID-19 in Alabama, the least vaccinated state in the country. It is an uphill battle.
Here’s an excerpt:
“I remember one particular elderly female who was literally trembling,” she said. “She was trembling because she knew COVID was running rampant but she started to cry because she was tuned in to some media stations and she was terrified of getting the vaccine because of all the reasons she felt that the vaccine would also be detrimental to her health. So therefore, an innocent human being was just paralyzed for making a decision for herself.”
Follow the link to learn what said “media stations” may happen to be.
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Thom finds himself explaining the concepts of “public health” and “the common good” as they relate to vaccination to a somewhat skeptical caller.
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At the Idaho State Journal, Helen Delahunt-Avila has a few words on the issue. A snippet:
Also, too.
