Health and Sanity category archive
Freedom’s Just Another Word for–Just What Exactly? 0
Paul Krugman considers Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s response (or lack thereof) to the growing public health COVID crisis in Florida. He wonders why DeSantis persists in pandering to (and on) the pandemic in the face of rising infection and death rates and why he actively fights common sense public health measures such as masks* and immunization records.
A nugget (emphasis added):
So let’s talk about what the right means when it talks about “freedom.” Since the pandemic began, many conservatives have insisted that actions to limit the death toll — social distancing, wearing a mask and now getting vaccinated — should be matters of personal choice. Does that position make any sense?
(snip)
My answer is that when people on the right talk about “freedom,” what they actually mean is closer to “defense of privilege” — specifically the right of certain people (generally white male Christians) to do whatever they want.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
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*If masks are so debilitating, how is it that surgeons and nurses have managed for years to successfully complete complex surgeries while wearing them?
Heck, I’ve gotten so used to wearing one that I almost feel nekkid when I’m in a store without on–oh, never mind.
Maskless Marauders 0
A caller explains why he quit his job.
Maskless Marauders 0
In a related vein, Hal Crowther wonders whether we are (becoming) a failed state.
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.