I know there are other things that we should probably be talking about right now, like the “wall of moms” in Portland or the flood of disinformation headed our way about vote-by-mail, but I feel, for the sake of my sanity, the I need to step back, and write about other stuff for a while. […]
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Mark’s Covid Diary… July 26, 2020
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My old Fourth of July post holds up surprising well…
I was feeling a little nostalgic this morning, thinking about how, this year, there would be no Ypsilanti Fourth of July parade. So I decided to look through the archive and see what I’d said about the parade in the past. Following is one of my posts from a few years ago. I’m curious to […]
We are the shithole nation
In the words of the Atlantic’s Annie Lowrey, “Ending the pandemic would have been the single best thing the federal government could have done to preserve the country’s wealth, health, and economic functioning. The Trump administration, in its hubris, obstinacy, and incompetence, failed to do it.” Donald Trump not only failed to end the pandemic, […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized Also tagged Annie Lowrey, anti-science, caravans, CDC, COVID-19, Donald Trump, European Union, fear mongering, Idiocracy, Ivanka Trump, Liberate Michigan, masks, pandemic, pariah, public health, Qanon, shithole countries, testing, travel ban 113 Comments