ExxonMobil, Koch and Mercer family are past funders of critics of stay-at-home orders as fossil fuel industry struggles amid lockdowns The Guardian, by Emily Holden, 21 May 2020 Dozens of individuals and groups urging states to reopen amid the Covid-19 pandemic have historical financial ties to coal and oil and gas companies and conservative billionaires who … Continue reading US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding→
Benicia Herald, by Galen Kusic, Editor, May 24, 2020 (No link, only available in the print edition.) At the Sept. 3, 2019 Council meeting the City Council agreed to discuss a request from Mayor Elizabeth Patterson considering the adoption of a Climate Emergency Resolution. The request was discussed again on Feb. 4 at a Special … Continue reading Benicia City Council unanimously adopts Climate Emergency Resolution→
America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to predict, control, or understand. The Atlantic, by Ed Yong, May 20, 2020 There was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 … Continue reading “Patchwork Pandemic” – confusing layers of information, spread and regulation→
Even small differences in timing would have prevented the worst exponential growth New York Times, by James Glanz & Campbell Robertson, May 20, 2020 If the United States had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did in March, about 36,000 fewer people would have died in the coronavirus outbreak, according to new … Continue reading NYTimes: Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives→
