There's the small bi-partisan one, which represents a strong band-aid, and the democratic one which seeks to remedy the problem by re-building, re-casting, re-socializing and yes instituting codes and rules and laws to make for social progress once again.

As the newscasters on the channels I watch (PBS, DemocracyNow.org) and MSNBC say nothing like ( Read more... )

Dear friends,

Plus ca change moins ca change (sans accents). Reversing what I suggested yesterday, taking another set of criteria. Yesterday on FB I said how life is changing -- more dissolution of social bonds in daily life is happening apace, and in the US that's very bad since among other things US people just move around the country a lot, ( Read more... )

This is from a friend's FB comment, taken from a medical website:

Welcome to share:

"Chicken pox is a virus. Lots of people have had it, and probably don't think about it much once the initial illness has passed. But it stays in your body and lives there forever, and maybe when you're older, you have debilitatingly painful outbreaks of shingles. You ( Read more... )

Where we are, just now,

UK is patting itself on back having discovered that Dexamethasone can reduce death rate in ventilatored or oxygened Covid patients by 25% - 30%, but no use for less seriously ill. Still, this may cut the death rate by about a quarter, but it does not prevent the disease, or cure it in milder cases. Whether this will be used ( Read more... )

To readers,

When I read the articles I have chosen to link in here, I just shake with terror and worry for the future. This particular ones shows that by design as well as incompetence an attempt to produce adequate PPE by companies and people using the tax money and hitherto organizational power of the US federal gov't was thwarted and then lied ( Read more... )

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This evening after reading a rare political blog by Danielle Ofri, an important woman writer on medicine who rarely writes politically:

When was the last time a President of the United States put so many people in harm's wayAnd then came across this photo of the Republicans rejoicing at their destroying all social programs by defunding or ( Read more... )

I asked myself this morning what can I contribute in good memory of and to honor the tragically assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. Then I read David Remnick's essay in the New Yorker: John Lewis, Trump and the Meaning of Legitimacy


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