I don’t know very much about the science behind vaccines, so I also don’t know if the amazing progress that led to the rapid development of multiple extremely effective COVID-19 vaccines i
Again, there’s a puritanical strain in American liberalism that is coming out in the pandemic to negative effects. The lesson, even as this slowly winds down, is that people need to be careful i
COVID-19 is not a creation of globalization, but it’s rapid spread around the globe is. And it is just one of many, many diseases that globalization has whipped around the world, many of which d
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.
Disasters, however “natural,” are a wonderful (well, horrible really) entry point into exposing to the public to deep fissures on inequality in a society. That’s true whether they ar
With all the intensive fear-mongering coverage of Ebola in the weeks before the 2014 midterm elections, you’d think that the World Health Organization declaring Sierra Leone Ebola-free would be
First Chris Christie, then the Only Progressive Choice in 2016, and now Rep. Sean Duffy: Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) became the latest Republican on Tuesday to speak out against vaccine mandates, saying: &
Because Barack Obama is pro-vaccination, I guess Chris Christie feels the need to say vaccinations should be parents’ choice and used his expertise in public health to say “not every vaccine i