Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

In today's NYT opinion section:

Opinion | College Campuses Must Reopen in the Fall. Here’s How We Do It.

"The reopening of college and university campuses in the fall should be a national priority. Institutions should develop public health plans now that build on three basic elements of controlling the spread of infection: test, trace and separate."

 

This piece assumed a lot of capacity on the part of colleges and universities that doesn't exist anywhere in the US as of now. Not to say it couldn't be developed, but it's a blue sky proposition today.

 

Bobble-throated slapdick from the state of Arkansas.

h/t CPP

 

Agreed but isn’t that what the Federal Government is supposed to do? Establish federal standards? YES.

 

Maybe if someone had started planning a response three months ago we'd have a better handle on things.

 

This is exactly what needs to be done. That approach is Public Health 101. It's a no brainer, proven policy.

And the "Freedom" crowd will sprain themselves to fight it.

 

I don't disagree with the premise, though I think June 1 might be too long. Take Virginia, for instance. We've had less than 500 deaths statewide, and at least 20 percent of them came in one nursing home. I think you're going to have a hard time convincing people in this state--if the numbers and rates stay where they are or are falling--to lock it all down for another full month. Even if our stay-at-home order is in place until June 10, non-essential businesses are only required to be closed until May 8. (That's another discrepancy that our governor doesn't seem to have an answer for, but anyway...)

I'm not ready for it to be open today, but I think May 8 is reasonable. I've said it before, people are going to have to assume some level of risk at some point. You already do when you trudge through a still-too-crowded Kroger or Publix.

 

Russia really needs to do something about its defective windows.

 

Fell out a ground floor window after committing suicide by shooting herself in the back thirteen times.

 

That's despicable.

How dare they inconvenience her by sending sick people to her hospital.

"We only take healthy people. Keeps our malpractice premiums reasonable."