Why or how is health care a right the same way life and liberty are human rights? Ask any progressive and here’s what you’ll likely hear. It is a right because it is important. It is a right because it is unfair for some people to get better treatment than others merely because they have […]
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Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XIII
“De-densify.” That’s the word Harvard is using to describe its efforts to move people out of dorms and send them home. CNN’s Carma Hassan and Brian Ries report: Harvard University is moving to virtual classes because of the novel coronavirus outbreak and the university is asking students to move out of their dorms in five […]
The Shocking Politics of a Pandemic
Jeez Louise, is even the coronavirus partisan? Of course it is, Jason L. Riley notes in the WSJ. “Making political hay of health scares is a commonplace activity that’s also unfailingly bipartisan.” Democrats complained that President George W. Bush was too slow in responding to the West Nile virus and SARS outbreaks that occurred in […]
Answering Coronavirus Travel Questions
Provided by Sara Clemence and Barbara Peterson Abridged from the WSJ: Cancel Your Trip because of Coronavirus? It depends, reports primarily on where you’re planning to travel, but on other factors, too. The virus has spread to dozens of countries and every continent except for Antarctica. But government agencies are warning against travel to only a handful […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: XII
If you’re a client of Richard C. Young & Co., then you know how much we love Baby’s Coffee—Southernmost Coffee Roasters in America. Clients of mine sent this pic yesterday telling me how much they enjoyed a recent trip to Key West. They look happy, don’t they? You know what’s worth noting is we didn’t […]
A More Balanced View on Coronavirus
From The Guardian Reassuring Highlights “We can test for it.” “Catching it is not that easy (if we are careful) and we can kill it quite easily (provided we try).” “In most cases, symptoms are mild, and young people are at very low risk. According to a study of 45,000 confirmed infections in China, 81% of cases caused only […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XI
One of the challenges of having high school kids in different schools is scheduling—they’re not on the same one—which is how Owen and I ended up skiing Friday at Attitash, NH, while Izzy was in school. My parents spend much of their winter in New Hampshire skiing (it’s early Saturday morning as I’m writing to […]
In the Age of Coronavirus: a Homemade Throat Sanitizer
From a WSJ Reader: 1/4 cup Tito’s 1 cup tomato juice 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1/2 teaspoon horseradish 4 drops Tabasco sauce pinch of salt pinch of pepper Place all ingredients (any order) in your hand-blown Simon Pearce goblet. Stir with a long stick of fresh celery. Serve. Repeat when necessary. […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part X
When I was a junior in high school I spent a week as a crewmember on a schooner. One of my duties was taking a shift each night on watch. On calm nights it was pretty peaceful. But less so when the wind was up and the white caps lashed against the hull. On nights […]
Pelosi Fights Extending Liability Protection to Mask Manufacturers
In the age of coronavirus, some of our elected officials are throwing common-sense measures overboard in favor of partisan politics. Officials estimate that the U.S. has only 1% of the masks needed for health workers in a full pandemic, reports Politico. The Trump administration and manufacturers of masks wanted a provision added to the emergency […]