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Mar 25 2020
Analysis
Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised Lockdowns
As U.S. state and local officials halt the economy and quarantine their communities over the Wuhan virus crisis, one would hope our leaders were making such major decisions based on well-sourced data and statistical analysis. That is not the case.
A scan of statements made by media, state governors, local leaders, county judges, and more show many relying on the same source, an online
The FederalistAug 17 2020
News
Dueling polls split on size of Biden’s lead ahead of Dem convention
A new pair of nationwide polls paint divergent pictures of the 2020 White House race — with former Vice President Joe Biden ahead by double digits in one survey and President Donald Trump significantly narrowing the presumptive Democratic nominee’s lead in the other.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday morning reports that more than half of registered voters, 53 percent,
PoliticoMay 18 2020
News
US lockdown protests may have spread virus widely, cellphone data suggests
Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests – some of which have been connected with Covid-19 cases – are often traveling hundreds of miles to events, returning to all parts of their states, and even crossing into neighboring ones.
The data, provided to the Guardian by the progressive campaign group the Committee to Protect Medicare, raises the prospect
The GuardianJan 27 2021
Analysis
6 Democrat Cities That Ended Lockdowns After Biden’s Inauguration
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the United States in early 2020, multiple states and cities run by Democrats imposed what they claimed to be preventative and protective measures to combat the virus. Businesses, including restaurants, were forced to close in a shuttered fashion, going from outdoor-only to takeout-only to – in some cases – closed completely.
Residents were
The Daily WireFeb 12 2021
Analysis
Biden Is President...So Now Cuomo Aides Confess They Cooked the Books on NY’s COVID Deaths
We know that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an order that caused the deaths of thousands of senior citizens in the Empire State. It’s not hard. You don’t need to be a medical expert. Forcing nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients was a death sentence. These are facilities where the most vulnerable and infirmed reside. Of course, if you flood these buildings with people infected
TownhallAug 27 2021
Analysis
Real Accountability for Those Responsible for Jan. 6 Is Actually Starting to Pile Up
You may have missed it, but Wednesday was a very good day for Truth. Whatever ordinarily stirs the miasma of the MyPillow lies and the other assorted crazy, at least on occasion, the generally broken systems we rely upon to separate the liars from the public they seek to dupe really do function. In that sense there’s been a whole lot of good news. Early Wednesday, an email obtained by the
SlateApr 24 2020
Opinion
The unemployment crisis should not be a state issue
Doing unemployment well is oxymoronic. Joblessness, as Pope Francis put it some years ago in an address to workers in Sardinia, "wears you out to the depths of your soul." There are no good circumstances under which millions of Americans might find themselves deprived not only of their wages but even of their ability to pursue employment.
This does not excuse the horrifying reality of
The Week - OpinionApr 22 2020
News
Behind coronavirus lockdown protests, questions of whom to trust
Should states put more faith in their citizens to do the right thing, even amid a pandemic? It’s a question with enormous consequences. But many Americans say “yes.”
As the owner of Ken’s Greenhouses in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Mark Smit has a roomful of plants he worries will go unsold.
His anxiety isn’t really about the national all-hands-on-deck response to the coronavirus. It’s
Christian Science MonitorDec 26 2019
News
“OK boomer” and the rise of the social media linguistic ecosystem
Social media has created an entirely new linguistic ecosystem, with new words, phrases, and features for expressing ourselves cropping up all the time.
Last year, internet language expert Gretchen McCulloch—whose best-selling book “Because Internet” is its own noteworthy language event of 2019—identified multiple terms that have become popular among Gen Z users in recent years. They
QuartzAug 17 2020
News
Politics slows flow of US virus funds to local public health
As the novel coronavirus began to spread through Minneapolis this spring, Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant tore up her budget to find funds to combat the crisis. Money for test kits. Money to administer tests. Money to hire contact tracers. And yet even more money for a service that helps tracers communicate with residents in dozens of languages.
While Musicant diverted workers
Associated Press