https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763590 The editors of JAMA recognize the challenges, concerns, and frustration about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that is affecting the care of patients and safety … [Read more...]
The Front Line Waits Helplessly for Decimation
Just now, March 23, 2020, a retired captain in the US military on C-SPAN suggested that healthcare workers should REFUSE TO TREAT PATIENTS. Is it going to take something like this for people to wake up and demand that the 'president' in … [Read more...]
The lesson from Churchill we are ignoring
In response to a recent post. Winston Churchill prefaced each of the five volumes of his account of the Second World War with what he called the "Theme of the Volume." The theme of the first volume, The Gathering Storm, is as … [Read more...]
Lessons from Churchill
Reading a timely book on Churchill’s leadership during the Blitz. Some qualities of leadership he demonstrated included honesty, thinking ahead, and asking for help. His speeches were always based on facts. When they were losing the war, he … [Read more...]
Earning and displaying a “Verdant C” — Antibody testing for COVID-19
A wave of new antibody tests for COVID-19 are expected to follow from research like "New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic", published today in Science. This is exceedingly good news. From the piece … [Read more...]
One of the last urban DINO’s goes down
Dan Lipinski lost the IL-3rd congressional primary to business consultant and non-profit executive Marie Newman. Despite gaining the support of the DCCC, which unjustly froze out experienced consultants from helping Newman, Newman won with … [Read more...]
Undocumented Workers, COVID-19, and Public Health
Not once have I heard single journalist or policy pundit asked the question: what about undocumented workers? What are they supposed to do now for continuing income? What kind of public health policy is it that that doesn't deal with … [Read more...]
Mapping Super Tuesday in Massachusetts
The voting patterns in the 2020 Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary are fascinating. I pulled a download of the precinct-by-precinct data from the Secretary of the Commonwealth's website. There are filters on each candidate's … [Read more...]
If We Can Adapt to the Coronavirus We Can Adapt to Climate Change Too
There’s an instructive NY Times article on the amount of potential emissions reductions we may see in the weeks and months ahead of this global slowdown. Obviously, nobody wanted this virus which is easily communicable and deadly for … [Read more...]
Tribe’s Grave Warning
To cap off yet another ominous and terrible day, no one can possibly bring us more in touch with reality than Harvard Law Professor and top scholar on the U.S. Constitution Laurence … [Read more...]