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Why isn't ventilation part of the conversation on reopening schools? - STAT
Covid-19 is mainly transmitted through respiratory droplets in the air. Why isn't improving ventilation a key part of the effort to reopen schools?
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"When I mentioned these possibilities to a friend who teaches in the New York City schools, she replied, 'Don’t worry about our HVAC systems. They’re all broken.'"
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Throw the Bums Out
We are in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance. Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it?
Thoughts on Antibody Persistence and the Pandemic
The fundamental challenge of dealing with this pandemic is uncertainty. There are just too many important things that we don't know - and what's more, they aren't easy to find out, either. We've seen that with the waves of optimism and pessimism...
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@interfluidity third-to-last paragraph of this seemed like a clear explanation of the possibilities. (basically we don't know if it's good or bad news yet)
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Abolish These Police Departments
Minneapolis’s police force has forfeited its right to exist. So have other cities’.
The Police Take the Side of White Vigilantes
Over the past week, cops have shown that they share a coherent ideology.
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We don't have "good cops" and "bad cops," we just have "cops," a political force with a clear and coherent mission.
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Andrew Cuomo’s College Credits Don’t Add Up
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received an email from a CUNY Student Senate member about a proposal to raise tuition and fees, which confused me because the governor has claimed to have eliminated tuition, but then remembered that The Atlantic still hasn't corrected this story
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Trump’s Coronavirus Task Farce
Councils, work groups, and advisory boards are planning the future of the country. No one is doing much about the present.
Democrats Aren’t Stuck With Joe Biden
No one has to tie themselves in knots to defend him if they don’t want to.
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If your organization spent weeks drafting a letter urging the Biden campaign to responsibily address Tara Reade's story, only to see it stonewall and refuse, I have good news: There's still time to draft a different letter.
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This is a completely sincere proposal but I obviously don't think it will actually happen. So it is also an invitation to think about why it won't happen.
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Rupert Murdoch, tax cheat
Updated: Remember how outraged everyone on Fox was that GE paid no taxes last year? Funny story...
Democrats Decide, Again, Not to Try Anything New
The party chose a caretaker to look after a burning house.
Joe Biden Is Wasting a Crisis
A generation of Democratic timidity created a candidate unwilling to do politics in an emergency.
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It might seem odd that a person running against Donald Trump refuses to attack him too harshly for his disastrous response to a crisis, but a Democratic ad featuring Reagan helpfully reminds us that Biden is from an entire political generation of losers
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The Republican Plot to Save the Rich
The GOP’s coronavirus response has one goal: to preserve America’s economic hierarchy.
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you have to remember that most people in the Senate majority have never had to do anything besides rubber stamp judges, so their response to a potential pandemic was "do insider trading" and their response to it actually arriving was "TARP again??"
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A Frantic Few Days for Restaurants Is Only the Beginning
However long the closings across the country last, governments need to move fast if the industry is ever going to come back.
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I know it seems less than pressing but yes there won't be restaurants or bars after this unless lawmakers come up with a solution more creative than $75,000 loans
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The Dismantled State Takes on a Pandemic
Conservatives won their war on Big Government. Their prize is a pandemic.
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"I guess I anticipated that the private sector would have engaged" is a fitting epitaph for the American administrative state
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The Democrats’ Cult of Pragmatism
Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other moderates claim they Get Things Done—but not because they actually do get things done.
A Virus Is Not a Messaging Problem
It shouldn’t take a pandemic to clarify what is at stake in politics.
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If you understand politics primarily as narrative, as both the president and some of the people covering him do, you don't get how bad this could get
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The Selling of the Democratic Primary
The South Carolina debate was more like a buyers' showroom than a public service.
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I thought it was insane to totally hand over ownership of your debates to TV but I wasn't thinking of all the angles
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Michael Bloomberg’s Polite Authoritarianism
He never hid his callous indifference to civil liberties; too many people just didn't care.
Psychopath Nation
Why our foreign policymakers can’t quit interventionism
Democrats Embrace the Grift
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What I always come back to with this is that the old corrupt ward-heelers were actually expected to deliver stuff to their constituents. The current class just conspires to give one another jobs and contracts.
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