Health and Sanity category archive
Suffer the Children 0
It’s still Republican policy, even in these viral times.
Mask Derangement Sydrome 0
At the Greensboro News & Record, allen Johnson explores strategies to combat the hold-outs who would endanger themselves and others by refusing to wear masks. Here’s one of his thoughts; follow the link for the others.
Would reverse psychology do the trick? As in “Hillary Clinton says don’t you dare wear a mask”?
Mask Misinformers 0
David Kyle Johnson debunks several articles purporting to prove that wearing masks will not help stem the spread of sickness in these viral times. A snippet:
But the more important question is “why?” If I published a paper that cited even one study that didn’t say what I said it did, I’d be paying for it academically for years. If I did it 42 times in one paper, I’d be drummed out of my profession. So why does she think she can get away with this?
Follow the link for his answer to that question.
Context 0
John Archibald unmasks a list of no-nos.
(Lack-)Wits Gathering Wool(ery) (Updated) 0
We are a society of stupid, and the stupid, it burns. It burns all of us.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Afterthought:
I was in a shop recently and said to the clerk, after a bit of banter, “I never thought I’d live to see the end of the American dream.”
But I have, and America did it to itself.
I am not sanguine.
Addendum:
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.
