Health and Sanity category archive
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Sara Gorman and Jack Gorman explore why misinformation and outright falsehoods spread so widely and rapidly. After naming several common factors, they go on to suggests that some persons are willfully gullible:
The entire piece is worth the five minutes it will take for you to read it.
Self-Pity Party 0
“American Exceptionalism” 0
The United States has most recently demonstrated its exceptionalism by its abject failure to contain COVID-19.
I can’t summarize or excerpt his piece and do it justice. Just go read it for yourself.
School Daze, Reprise 0
Georgia school system suspends student for not keeping the proper social distance–from “social” bleeping media.
Words fail me.
School Daze 0
Sam and his caller discuss back to school plans in these viral times.
The GOP Spinning Wheel 0
Job’s Anger.
Pandemic Politics, He Went to Jared Dept. 0
Sam speaks with Heather Digby Parton, of Hullabaloo and Salon, primarily about Donald Trump’s reaction inaction to COVID-19. It’s about half an hour, but well worth your while in these viral times.
Aside:
At about the 25-minute mark, Sam advances an interesting theory as to why Republican office holders are opposing Trump’s trial balloon about staging a coup postponing the election.
Going Viral 0
At AZCentral, E. J. Montini is raising Cain concerning communicating coronavirus in crowds.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
The Denver Post, in an AP article, explores the role of “social” media in promoting anti-social behavior in these viral times.
The Reopening 0
Some Georgia cities are running out of hospital beds in these viral times.
Not that anyone could have predicted . . . .
Shoot the Messenger 0
Experiments fail, even noble ones.
