It’s not often that one of the world’s leading medical journals delivers a damning indictment of an American president, but that is what The Lancet has done in an editorial. COVID-19 in the USA: a question of time: With more than 600,000 confirmed cases and close to 27,000 deaths, the USA has become the current … Read more
By Michelle Shaw It’s Earth Day, and we are in the midst of a global pandemic. Nothing will make you contemplate the Earth’s health as quickly as watching her spring back to life as 180,000 of your global citizens have lost their battle to simply breathe and fall victim to the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s almost … Read more
Update to Trump and his associates stand to profit from an unproven treatment he promotes for COVID-19. So it turns out that “Dr. Trump’s miracle cure” really is snake oil that is toxic to patients, and likely killed some patients before the Covid-19 did. The Associated Press reports, More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug … Read more
Democrats, Independents, sane Republicans better start pushing for legislation to aid the states and rebuild the American Economy and infrastructure NOW because Political Prince of Darkness-Enemy of the People-Obstructionist in Chief-Legislative Grim Reaper-Moscow Mitch McConnell and his anti Government allies are already laying the sound-bite groundwork for putting the brakes on government. In a phone … Read more
Peter Kafka in an interview with journalism critic Jay Rosen recently wrote at Vox, Trump’s denial of his coronavirus failings will be “one of the biggest propaganda battles in American history”: Americans don’t trust the government, and they don’t trust the media. That trend has been evident for years, but the Trump era has accelerated it. Now … Read more