[BenIndy Editor: The San Francisco Chronicle’s excellent Coronavirus Tracker is jam-packed with good information. The interactive parts of the Tracker don’t work here – some of the links work, but you have to go to the Tracker to see data when you hover over various parts or otherwise interact with the page. – R.S.] Coronavirus … Continue reading Bay Area COVID-19 information source: SF Chronicle’s CORONAVIRUS TRACKER
Washington Post, by Dana Milbank, April 10, 2020 I had been expecting this for 21 years. “It’s not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,’” the legendary epidemiologist D.A. Henderson told me in 1999 when we discussed the likelihood of a biological event causing mass destruction. In 2001, I wrote about experts urging a “medical Manhattan Project” for … Continue reading When you drown the government in the bathtub, people die
Individuals and industries with dubious justifications rush to claim entitlement to special ‘essential’ status The Mercury News, by Daniel Borenstein, April 4, 2020 Essential means essential. We are under orders to stay home. But there are exceptions. These are generally the functions that we need to keep people fed, healthy, housed and informed, and to … Continue reading Here’s who is trying to evade COVID-19 shutdown rules
DeSmogBlog, by Dana Drugmand, April 2, 2020 Thousands of Americans are dying, millions have filed for unemployment, and frontline health care workers are risking their lives as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the U.S. In the midst of this crisis, the fossil fuel industry, particularly the oil and gas sector, has been actively seeking both financial relief and … Continue reading Under Cover of Pandemic, Fossil Fuel Interests Unleash Lobbying Frenzy
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