By Relying On Unsustainable Measures, We Ignored Both History And Reality In The World’s Most Vulnerable Nation People bury the bodies of victims who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, April 16, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui In June, 1918, in a crowded apartmentContinueContinue reading “How The World Failed India”
Category Archives: COVID 19
Nothing About The Public’s Response To The Pandemic Is Surprising
Americans Rarely Dabble In Collectivism. That They Would Do It This Drastically For This Long Was Always A Delusion Crowds pack streets in Tampa, Florida ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, featuring the hometown Buccaneers, the first time a team played in and won a Super Bowl game in their home stadium. (Photo Courtesy YouTube/Tampa BayContinueContinue reading “Nothing About The Public’s Response To The Pandemic Is Surprising”
My Unpopular Opinion: Social Distancing Contributed To The Capitol
COVID Restrictions Nearly Led Me Down A Dark Path, How Many Others Got Caught In That Trap? Trump supporters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 Photo by Blink O’Fanaye/Flickr Back in August, I published my most popular blog entry on here, about how I nearly got sucked into the QAnon wormhole that clearly millions ofContinueContinue reading “My Unpopular Opinion: Social Distancing Contributed To The Capitol”
I Am Worried About And Scared For Los Angeles
The COVID Disaster Out West Triggered My Pandemic PTSD, And I’ve Lost Trust In The Experts I haven’t slept right since Christmas. I’ve been waking up at odd hours of the night, having nightmares and feeling scared and vulnerable. It feels like March and April again, even though the situation in New York City isContinueContinue reading “I Am Worried About And Scared For Los Angeles”
There Are Limits To What ‘Leadership’ Can Do
We All Wish The President Took COVID Seriously, But Ultimately It Matters Who Listens Anyway German Chancellor Angela Merkel is getting the viral treatment on Twitter again. A video of her desperately pleading with the German people to adhere to COVID guidelines has made its rounds this week. In the video, she apologizes to theContinueContinue reading “There Are Limits To What ‘Leadership’ Can Do”
Messaging From Experts Is Hurting Commitment To COVID Mitigation
With No End Game In Sight, And Contradictory Predictions, People Are Naturally Very Hesitant To Surrender Freedoms Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Back in junior high school, our daily lunch consisted of 30 minutes of eating lunch, followed by 30 minutes for recess – where we would play outside in the schoolyard, or in theContinueContinue reading “Messaging From Experts Is Hurting Commitment To COVID Mitigation”
I’m Surprised You’re Surprised Youth Aren’t Taking COVID-19 Seriously
Beaten Down And Brought Up In The Face Of Terrorism, Climate Change And Guns, A Virus Seems Far Less Scary Photo by Vishnu R Nair on Pexels.com I was a sophomore in high school when Dylan Kleboid and Eric Harris murdered 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado. When I came into school onContinueContinue reading “I’m Surprised You’re Surprised Youth Aren’t Taking COVID-19 Seriously”
How Did The 1918 Pandemic End? I’m Not Sure You Want To Know
Short Of A Vaccine Or Drugs, The Pandemic Ends Only After Mass Illness and Death, Or Dumb Luck Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. We hear that tired idiom often, and we heard it again at the start of the pandemic when comparisons were made to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic,ContinueContinue reading “How Did The 1918 Pandemic End? I’m Not Sure You Want To Know”
Isolation: One Big Thing We CAN Do To Stop COVID19, But Aren’t
New York Has Natural Ways To Quarantine The Sick, We’ve Used Them Before, Why Aren’t We Using Them Now? I suggested converting Governor Island in New York Harbor to a centralized quarantine zone in March. It remained closed to the public all Spring only to reopen in the summer New York City has been downContinueContinue reading “Isolation: One Big Thing We CAN Do To Stop COVID19, But Aren’t”
When Weeks Turned To Months Turned To Years, America Tuned Out
We Asked Americans To Sacrifice “For Weeks” And Then Changed The Rules, So They Quit The Game The one thing that I have noticed in the ongoing “we need to keep social distancing and mask wearing” narrative is that everyone involved can separated into two groups: Those who think this is now a permanent wayContinueContinue reading “When Weeks Turned To Months Turned To Years, America Tuned Out”
Nick Rafter Writes 