Vol. 148 No. 2900, May 2020
Index
- NIH Mobilizes National Innovation Initiative for COVID-19 Diagnostics.
- RELIGIOUS LIBERTY HURT BY GOV'T LOCKDOWN.
- WILL COLLEGES RECRUIT OTHER SCHOOLS' STUDENTS?
- HIGH-INCOME PEOPLE SAY: LET'S REOPEN BUSINESS.
- PRECAUTIONS FOR REOPENING BUSINESSES.
- SOCIAL DISTANCE SHOPPING SHOWS UPTICK.
- COVID MAY IMPOVERISH AGING AMERICANS.
- EMPLOYEES SATISFIED WITH COVID RESPONSE.
- FEDS SHOULD HELP STATES BASED ON FISCAL CAPACITY.
- Getting Ready for Hurricane Season.
- CITIES SLAMMED HARD BY UNEMPLOYMENT.
- Helping Women Better Appreciate Their Bodies.
- WILL REAL GDP DIP BY DOUBLE DIGITS?
- WHAT NOW? 'Bringing back our economy will not happen via some magical legislative sleight-of-hand. Recoveries that restore economic health take time, and this recovery, after an unprecedented shutdown, will take considerable patience and calm'.
- What Will COVID 19 Cast Us? 'A U.S. government strong enough to mobilize all of society's resources against all threats would compel us to depart from our founding traditions, and ultimately would threaten Americans' freedom and prosperity'.
- Thread by Thread.
- Politicians Do Not Understand That The Price Is Right': '...Politicians suddenly find themselves not just experts in what market prices are, but what they should be'.
- Colleges Face Double Jeopardy: '...For a large number of colleges, the timing for the coronavirus could not be worse, because many schools--before we even knew what COVID-19 was--already were teetering on the brink as they tried to recover from an earlier financial crisis'.
- COMPUTING THE NEW COLLEGE EXPERIENCE: 'Just as students and faculty have developed strategies to learn and teach in traditional in-person settings, they will be able to adapt those strategies to online courses through trial, error, and open communication'.
- A Right to Be MADD.
- LEARNING ANEW: How what we know about summer learning loss can guide educators, districts, and parents during current school closures.
- Taking Care of Business.
- CREEPING DOUBTS ABOUT GOVERNMENT: ' ... It is quite disturbing to witness the eagerness among some governors to outdo one another by announcing shutdowns that extend beyond where anyone claims to know that shutdowns will be necessary.'.
- Testing by the Bay.
- Erecting Barriers to Coronavirus: 'You wouldn't board an airplane that didn't have regular maintenance, but many buildings don't get an annual checkup.'.
- PUTTING CORONAVIRUS TO THE TEST: 'We have to get to an order-of-magnitude understanding of how many people have actually been infected. We really don't know if we've been 10 times off or 100 times off in terms of the cases.'.
- WHY WE WEREN'T READY FOR COVID-19: "Voters find policies with up-front prevention costs to be less attractive than more-expensive policies that pay large amounts after the fact.".
- NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL: 'For this recovery to be efficient... businesses that have been shuttered temporarily must survive and be ready to reopen once the immediate health threat has passed.'.
- EMERGING INTACT: 'We cannot control everything that is happening around us, but we can control what we do in the face of it.'.
- COVID-19 Response Initiative.
- Dont Stand So Close to Me: '... Not all jobs involve regular interaction with others, and some jobs might be more secure during a pandemic.'.
- Medications for Treating Opioid-Use Disorder Remain Difficult to Access: ' ... In the midst of the current opioid epidemic, many specialists believe the benefits of expanding lifesaving treatments, like methadone and buprenor-phine, outweigh the diversion risks of these medications and suggest that they be deregulated.'.
- ROVERWHELMED BY COVID-19 ...AND WAR: The failure to plan and prepare for mass casualties risks people being buried in mass graves, with few records and little understanding of who died and where the bodies were taken,' warns the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- Conflict and COVID-19 Continue in Ukraine.
- THE CASE AGAINST MEDICARE FOR ALL: In applying the insights of C.S. Lewis, the government's power of the purse under Medicare for All provides justification for a bureaucracy of 'omnipotent moral busybodies...who torment us for our own good... without end....To be 'cured' against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of...domestic animals.'.
- War-Torn Libya Gets Gut-Punched Again.
- Deep Doubts.
- GOVERNORS NEED TO BACK OFF.
- THIS IS LUNACY: 'We all want to do our part to attenuate the number of serious COVID-19 infections in our communities, but we cannot hand our lives over to the government, particularly when the virus has become an opportunity for Congress to pass pork-filled legislation, showboating governors to out-quarantine each other, and politically connected tech companies to share cell phone tracking data with the government.'.
- 'OKAY BOOMER,' WHAT DO YOU THINK? 'Ve get so soon old und so late schmart.'.
- Free, Illaek. and 21.
- Every Vote Counts... and Is Counted? 'Unless the U.S. radically changes the way we send, receive, and count mail-in ballots, a massive switch to postal voting...could lead to the true will of the electorate being nullified.'.
- The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord and the coming crisis of the 2020s will lead to...remarkably...the triumph beyond.
- Flying No Longer Fabulous.
- TRAVEL TRAVESTY: "The bottom line is this is not a time to look at the bottom line; it is a time to focus on establishing trust and highlighting benefits, as well as keeping current customers engaged and recruiting new ones.".
- Monitoring Road Safety.
- NEVER REACHING THE OTHER SIDE: Land use plays a huge role in pedestrian freeway fatalities.
- Adjusting to the Pivot Point: "People usually are not big on slow changes, even those that accompany miracles. Take baby steps, friends advise one another sympathetically during difficult life passages, but no one enjoys those halting, faltering, falling-down baby steps. Wobbling and stumbling are less cute when you are not a toddler.".
- Olivia lakes Charge.
- What a Sight.
- "Jezebel" Tackles a Pandemic: "[The 1938 movie] was fairly accurate for its day, although, in the end, paints a somewhat varnished perspective [of the yellow fever outbreak].".
- PANDEMIC PURIFICATION? "NASA has released satellite imagery of reduced nitrogen dioxide--a major air pollutant linked to respiratory infections--in the atmosphere after stay-at-home measures were enacted.... Worldwide, carbon dioxide emissions, a leading contributor to climate change, are estimated to fall five percent or more this year....".
- The Great Outdoors Never Looked So Great: "Fire and water are all the rage right now for outdoor spaces. These elements not only take a space to the next level, they connect the space to its natural surroundings. Even in an urban setting, these elements add a sense of tranquility that can make you feel like you're a million miles away.".
- #STAYHOME WITH HELM WIRELESS HEADPHONES.
- Everyone (Including Dinosaurs) Into the Fool.
- FROM A CELLAR IN FRANCE TO YOUR GLASS.
- LUCINDA ONLY GETS BETTER WITH AGE.
- SWITCH UP THOSE MEMORY CARDS.
- BAA, BAA 'COMFY' SHEEP HAVE YOU ANY WOOL?
- CHOOSE THOSE WEAPONS CAREFULLY.
- DO NOT SUPPRESS YOUR SUPER IMPULSE.
- Let's play the Games and play Them "Wright".
- NO MASKING THE TRUTH ABOUT PANDEMIC.
- Papers of Presidents Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, and William McKinley Now Online at Library of Congress: Three Presidencies that Began or Ended with the Trauma of Assassination.
- PLASTIC BOTTLES BECOME FUZZY RESOFTABLES.
- Crowing About Fear.