Health and Sanity category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kevin McDermott marvels at the stupid. A snippet:
Maskless Marauders, a Snitch in Time Kills Nine Dept. 0
The stupid. It burns.
“Social” Media Isn’t, Reprise 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Kevin Frazier argues forcefully that the proliferation of “smart” devices and social media is–er–not beneficial to school children. A snippet:
Students survived without a tether to their iPhone for most of human existence. Let’s get back to that era. Let’s figure out how to deal with the logistical problems we understand — like how to coordinate rides home in the absence of phones — rather than continue to test if social media is as bad as “many researchers” think it is.
Vaccine Nation 0
Anti-vax college student gets his day in court and collides with the concept of the common good.
We are a society of stupid.
Vaccine Nation 0
Natural Selection 0
Methinks Darwin was onto something.
Vaccine Nation 0
The Bangor Daily News investigates the exodus of health care workers in the second year of the pandemic. According to the story, most of the persons leaving the field worked for hospitals and nursing homes, facilities hit hardest by COVID-19. The work force at those facilities is down by about 10% in Maine, about half the national average. Some have left heath care completely; others are moving to less stressful areas within the profession.
Follow the link for details; here’s a bit that I think is particularly significant (emphasis added):
“It’s always felt a little frustrating to treat someone for something that’s preventable,” Oberson said. “People claiming it’s not real or that it’s not serious when you are seeing it first-hand.”
And, in more news of Vaccine Nation . . . .
Vaccine Nation, Have Cake, Eat It Too Dept. 0
Jonathan Weisman highlights the hypocrisy of Republicans’ blocking the road to a cure, than complaining that the cure can’t get through. A nugget:
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates hit back hard: “If COVID-19 and inflation had lobbyists to help them kill more American jobs, Kevin McCarthy would be their favorite member of Congress,” he said. “He is actively undermining the fight against COVID, which is driving inflation.”
Vaccine Nation 0
As one who remembers images of infants in iron lungs because of polio and how vaccines made polio go away, all I can say is this:
The stupid. It burns.
