Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember: FIRST: Eric Boehlert: ’What happens when you don’t have a truly delusional, right-wing party and media in your country: The Delta waves in the US and Canada, a striking contrast…
William Buckley may have been a toxic figure in US politics, but trying to tar him with an event that happened when he was just 11 is ridiculous. That is an age when one is not held responsible for one's actions and his motivations were likely far from the implied ones by Cotlar. What next, capturing a baby's laughter while in the background a cross is burning or a lynching happening?
When Re is greater than one, the difference between much greater than one and a little greater than one is how long you have to kiss your ass goodbye.
A mix of more (possibly) more effective vaccination (long waits, mixing vaccines), slightly higher vaccination rates, and a little more normalization of caution have had beneficial consequences, but until Re is reliably and continuously less than one this is not anything in the vicinity of success.
I think it's going to take another pile of corpses and another grim winter before the political consensus manages to shift into a recognition that resumption of the status quo ante pestis is not an available option.
William Buckley may have been a toxic figure in US politics, but trying to tar him with an event that happened when he was just 11 is ridiculous. That is an age when one is not held responsible for one's actions and his motivations were likely far from the implied ones by Cotlar. What next, capturing a baby's laughter while in the background a cross is burning or a lynching happening?
When Re is greater than one, the difference between much greater than one and a little greater than one is how long you have to kiss your ass goodbye.
A mix of more (possibly) more effective vaccination (long waits, mixing vaccines), slightly higher vaccination rates, and a little more normalization of caution have had beneficial consequences, but until Re is reliably and continuously less than one this is not anything in the vicinity of success.
I think it's going to take another pile of corpses and another grim winter before the political consensus manages to shift into a recognition that resumption of the status quo ante pestis is not an available option.