Health and Sanity category archive
Vaccine Nation, Dropping the Ball Dept. 0
Field seems concerned that our media and, for that matter, our polity don’t have their eyes on the right ball.
Poor Planning 0
Here’s a bit of the artist’s commentary:
Vaccine Nation, Triage Dept. 0
Idaho’s hospitals are filling up with COVID patients, so much so that the state is implementing a plan that involves rationing care. Here’s a bit of the story (emphasis added); details at the link.
Meanwhile, Mistermix looks for the common denominator among the states with the worst COVID numbers.
Vaccine Nation 0
Writing at The Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin argues the anti-vaxs, anti-mask crowd has a strange and dangerous notion of “liberty.” A snippet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for his reasoning.
(Broken link fixed.)
Hazards 0
Robin Alcarian is also fed up with the governors of what blogger Ted McLaughlin has dubbed “The Petri Dish States.” A nugget:
In response to legal threats by Republican governors like Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Biden was blithe: “If those governors won’t help us beat the pandemic,” he said last week, “I will use my power as president to get them out of the way.”
The refusal of otherwise healthy people to vaccinate is, in fact, a trampling of common sense, decency and the very idea that any of us owes a measure of respect to those around us.
Vaccine Nation 0
David dissects the duplicity, which does, indeed, defy description. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Vaccine Nation, Republicans No Longer Believe in the Common Good Dept. 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts has a question for persons who insist that vaccine requirements somehow violate their “rights”:
Follow the link for the rest.
Self-Selected 0
Gwynne Dyer notes a disturbing–and ironic–trend.
The only country in the developed world where vaccine refuseniks are more numerous is Russia, where they at least have the excuse that the state lies to them about everything all the time. Typically, however, American vaccine refusal is twice as high as in other OECD countries — and so, of course, is the COVID-19 death rate.
Follow the link for her discussion of some of its manifestations and implications.
The Propagators of Pandemic 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, a doctor speaks. A nugget; follow the link for the rest.
Instead, our rage is directed at the disinformation profiteers — those bad actors with the big platforms who are behind each and every one of these deaths. Some of them run state governments, some have M.D. next to their names, others are millionaires who smugly sit on their Fox News perches and some spew bile from their radio pulpit. They are the ones who have helped drive us back into the throes of this pandemic.
And while we’re on the subject . . . .
Vaccine Nation 0
Elie Mystal minces no words. An excerpt:
The government can require people to be healthy. It cannot require people to get sick.
Via C&L, which has commentary.