France’s insistence on requiring masks while banning burqas mirrors the fetishization of bare faces among the anti-lockdown crowd.
Ultimately, one of the biggest issues in COVID-19 so far has been workplace safety. Meatpacking, groceries, warehouses, Walmart–all of these workforces have been declared “essential”
I found the comments to my post this morning about social survival in the pandemic interesting, particularly within the framework of social shaming, which isn’t going to work. I think that peopl
Life in the pandemic is not easy for anyone. What is the proper behavior? What is out of bounds? We know that assholes going out to lunch at a crowded Colorado restaurant to own the libs is very bad.
I’ve been talking to quite a few reporters about organizing in the Depression, a story that has gotten a lot more interest as we enter into our own version of that very bad time. My answers are
I am not a historian of medicine. But as an environmental historian, I’m familiar enough with this cousin of my field to know the stories they tell well enough. And this interview with various h
Due to the utter indifference to the fate of meatpacking workers and prisoners, we may find out more about herd immunity issues through semi-intentional herd immunity experiments on unwitting and unwi
I want to take a minute, step back a bit, and talk about comparative responses to the last two major flu (or flu-like) epidemics in the United States. This came up in comments to Paul’s post tod