When, oh, when are political leaders going to accept that the latest pandemic is over, and what we are all dealing with today is a new and sometimes deadly endemic disease different […]
Endemic
The COVID divide
Eight months into the global disaster of a lifetime, maybe it is time Americans stop hating on each other and accept that no one has the perfect answer for how to deal […]
COVID and obesity
New studies are emerging to further define the link between COVID-19 and obesity, and at least one of them offers some hope for the over-weight who catch the disease caused by the […]
Journocide
Far too much time and energy is wasted in this country arguing about whether lefty-righty bias has driven the faith in traditional media to an all-time low. Yes, it would be nice […]
Marginal gains
We have to do better. Yes, yes, we do. Whatever it is, we have to do better. COVID-19, race relations, socioeconomic inequities, the war on drugs, climate change, media accuracy, our […]
Mask the pets
Warning: Man’s best friend might now be man’s (and woman’s) newest worry. The evidence is growing that it’s not just mink that can spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes potentially deadly […]
Fat’s danger
The way Chinese scientists are portraying obesity in these times of COVID-19, one could almost come to view it as a new chronic disease. “Obesity,” they wrote in a peer-reviewed paper […]
Protect yourself
Evermore the evidence builds that the way to protect yourself from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus stalking the planet is to stay as far away as possible from other people, any […]
Off the cliff
The invisible, pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has gone after the three-legged stool of Alaska’s private sector economy like a big, angry beaver, according to the Alaska Department of Labor. Jobs in the oil […]
