Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When you’re an American, coronavirus doesn’t mean you stop. Instead, you make more and better memes every day because that’s what we do! Actually, the image at the top of this post isn’t a joke. Instead, it’s a useful observation about how wearing masks may affect coronavirus outcomes. Keep in
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I spend a large amount of time reading about coronavirus and the reactions to it. On the available data, so much doesn’t make sense, but I have theories. The question I’m hearing more often from neighbors, Facebook friends, email messages, etc., is why we’re going more crazy about coronavirus than
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Thankfully, if there’s one thing Americans haven’t lost during the great Coronavirus Hunkering Down of 2020, it’s their sense of humor. These are all good.
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I. The Wuhan Flu / Chinese Coronavirus / Kung Flu / Lung Pao Sicken One would think that after two months of wall to wall Kung Flu, we would know a great deal about it. But if you’re like me, I still have more questions than answers. Whatever name one calls
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Trump is right: We can’t let our response to coronavirus echo the Age of Heroic Medicine when doctors routinely killed patients on the way to curing them. During his Fox News town hall, Trump was explicit: He’s set Easter as his target date for taking America off of its coronavirus
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These are a few great books that will remind us that we are not living through the end of the world. Thankfully, we’re living in the good times. I’ve read all of these books and can highly recommend them as perfect reading material to help bring perspective to current events:
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Yesterday, I did a post looking at all the good things that may come from the coronavirus. Today’s post is good news from the “fight the coronavirus” front. In yesterday’s post, I did a laundry list of all the things I could think of that may be better in our
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Don’t get dragged down by all the coronavirus drama. Things in America aren’t, and won’t be, that bad, and things in the world may end up much better. Dear Ms. Bookworm: My husband is going around saying that “we’re all going to die.” It’s very depressing being in the house
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A friend of mine routinely gives thanks for the fact that he became a VA patient during the Trump administration because it’s doing a very good job for him. A friend of mine, a veteran, had some health problems a long time ago and then, proving that denial ain’t just
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With coronavirus dominating the news, I’ve had time to come up with a few thoughts. The bottom line: Trump’s doing the right things and I’m not panicking. I’ve been quiet about coronavirus. It’s unnerving and I can’t do anything to stop its spread, so there really hasn’t been much for
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After 30 years without having to think about health insurance, I’m having to think about it again — and I could use some crowd-sourced help. I’m a Kaiser patient which is fantastic. I adore Kaiser. I wish all Americans had access to Kaiser. Sadly, Kaiser is not in all 50
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With a connection between exotic meats and infectious diseases such as China’s Coronavirus, our habit of eating boring farm animals is a good thing. Zoonosis is a category of infectious diseases that start with animal-to-animal transmission, morph to animal-to-human transmission, and then leap into human-to-human transmission. They’re almost always scary
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Bernie’s “Medicare for All” plan ignores facts: we can’t afford it, the European system floated on American money, and socialized medicine has bad outcomes. This is a somewhat updated version of a post I wrote in February 2016, before the Hillary mafia got Bernie to retire from the fray. When
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The American Academy of Pediatricians’ official policy relies on faith, not science, to prescribe hormones and surgery for so-called transgender children. [UPDATED 2024.08.26: The AAP Policy Statement that is at the heart of this post is still current, and the list of published articles (at the bottom of the post,
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As I did, Stephen Colbert analogizes socialized medicine to public school, but he misses that this analogy reveals how bad socialized medicine will be. A little background: On Friday, Scott Adams did a podcast in which he inquired whether there had been any critiques of the hybrid healthcare plan some
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