Health and Sanity category archive
Unmasking the Maskless 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bree McEwan explores why some Americans are so dead (ahem!) set against wearing masks, despite that doing so is easy and painless, in these viral times.
Her article defies excerpt or summary and is worth the four minutes it will take you to read it.
Path to Pariah 0
Seth takes stock of where we are in these viral times.
School Daze 0
David looks at the political motives behind Donald Trump’s push to turn classrooms into incubators of infection reopen schools in the fall.
Karen Karenlike 0
If the show fits . . . .
America’s Epidemic Flailure 0
A Florida lawyer prepares to argue his case in these viral times.
The Epidemiologist’s Epic Exercise in Ineffectuality 0
In the midst of a long, detailed article tracking the course of COVID-19 in the United States, Jonathan Lemire and Calvin Woodward succinctly summarize why Donald Trump has failed to halt, nay, to slow the spread of the pandemic.
His conventional weapons failed him. The virus doesn’t have a Twitter account.
Picturing the Path to Pariah 0
Meanwhile, the White House plans to throw in the towel on the coronavirus (via Atrios).
“He Can’t Handle the Truth” 0
Laurie Roberts takes a look at one Arizona’s congresscritter’s call to shoot the messenger.
Unmasking (and) the Common Good 0
At AL.com, Kyle Whitmire considers Alabama’s reluctance to order/request/ask persons to wear masks in the face of the current pandemic. In doing so, he explains the concept of the common good in simple terms:
Follow the link for the rest of his piece, in which he tries to figure out why many no longer seem to care about the common good in these viral times.
Maskless Marauders . . . 0
. . . infest the House.
Afterthought:
I had a routine dental appointment yesterday.
I was asked to wait in my vehicle until the staff could take my temperature and double-check my medical history, then wear a mask in the office. When the tech went to work on me, natch, I took off my mask, but he wore a mask and a face shield (the face shield was new).
Which only goes to prove that my dentist and his staff are smarter than your average Republican Congressperson.
As too is my dresser drawer.