As we enter the month of May, several states are reopening their economies after lockdowns inspired by COVID-19. At a press briefing on April 23, Vice President Mike Pence said 16 states had “formal reopening plans.” A New York Times tracker shows that nine other states are partially reopening their economies, and 22 states remain in lockdown. In the past...

By: Dr. Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – April 29, 2020 The Wall Street Journal broke the story that is now making headlines everywhere: “The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for Covid-19.” They call themselves “Scientists to Stop Covid-19.” Their group includes chemical biologists, an immunobiologist, a neurobiologist, a chronobiologist, an oncologist, a gastroenterologist, an epidemiologist,...

By: Robert Verbruggen –  nationalreview.com  – April 28, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has thrust data-wranglers into a national spotlight they normally enjoy only in the runup to a presidential election. The death projections put forth by the University of Washington’s COVID-19 model have become the New York Times election needle of early to mid 2020: We all hang on their...

By: Kate Brumback & Russ Bynum –  apnews.com – April 27, 2020 With staff wearing masks, checking customers’ temperatures and using disposable paper place mats, some of the nation’s restaurants reopened for dine-in service Monday as states loosened more coronavirus restrictions. But many eateries remained closed amid safety concerns and community backlash. Restaurants in Georgia and Tennessee and Anchorage, Alaska, welcomed...

By: Scott Atlas – nypost.com – April 26, 2020 The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been enormous, and New York has suffered more than anywhere else in the world. Compared as a separate country, the New York area would rank, by far, as No. 1 for deaths per capita. The New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area accounts for approximately 60 percent...

By: Douglas Groothuis, PhD – douglasgroothuis.com – March 20, 2020 With social media, anyone can post anything about anything. You are your own editor, publisher, and promoter. Everyone is an expert or can pose as one. Or perhaps the idea of an expert is dead. Since ethos is essential in persuasion, let me “speak as a fool” (as Apostle Paul put...

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – April 25, 2020 There is never a good time for a pandemic, but an election year in a deeply divided country is an especially bad time. Everything is politicized. I would add that even science is politicized, but that would suggest that this was something new. Sadly, we’re inured to the politicization of science,...

By: Bret Stephens – nytimes.com – april 24, 2020 In 1976, the artist Saul Steinberg drew a cover for The New Yorker — “View of the World from Ninth Avenue” — that became an instant classic. You know the one: Manhattan heavily in the foreground, the Hudson River, a brownish strip called “Jersey,” the rest of the America vaguely in the distance....

By: Admin – americacanwetalk.org – April 23, 2020 President Trump’s criticism of Georgia Governor Brian Kemp for moving too soon to open up certain facilities “ahead of federal Phase One guidelines” is a five-alarm danger signal. It suggests that for all Trump’s street savvy and purported genius at staying ten moves ahead in a 3D chess match—he doesn’t yet see what...

By: Olivia Beavers – thehill.com – April 22, 2020 U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly determined that Chinese operatives helped spread messages that aimed to spark alarm about the coronavirus pandemic starting in mid-March. The New York Times, citing six American officials across different intelligence agencies, reported Wednesday that the messages prompted the intelligence apparatus to examine the new techniques China, Russia and other nations...