Roger Kimball
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Teachers Urge Government To Reopen Schools Before Students Learn To Think For Themselves
U.S.—Teachers at government schools have raised their concerns that the recent closure of their institutions will have a damaging effect on students. In particular, the nation's educators are worried that the longer the schools are closed, the more...
Roger Kimball
Sobering words from our new paper of record: "Teachers Urge Government To Reopen Schools Before Students Learn To Think For Themselves"
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The Wuhan Virus and the Imperative of Hard Decoupling
It won't be easy or painless, but the role China has played in exacerbating the fallout from the coronavirus crisis ought to force Americans to fundamentally reconsider the relationship.
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A public service announcement from @andrewmichta. The time for a hard decoupling from China is now.
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Social Distancing During the Black Death
One of the comforts of studying history is that, no matter how bad things get, you can always find a moment in the past when things were much, much worse. Some commentators on our current crisis have been throwing around comparisons to earlier...
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Terrific column by James Hankins on "social distancing" during the Black Death 1347-1350
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Cuomo Is No Hero [Updated]
New York Governor Andy Cuomo, like President Trump, is delivering daily coronavirus briefings. Unlike President Trump, he is being swooned over by liberal reporters. At American Greatness, Julie Kelly collects some examples. Here is just one: “If...
It's Not a Choice Between Lives or the Economy
here seem to be shortages of everything these days, not least a shortage of commentary on the COVID-19 virus, also known as the Chinese virus, the Wuhan flu, known to some as the Chinese Communist Party virus, or the CCP virus for short. Since there...
Roger Kimball
The media will not tell you this, but in fighting the new coronavirus, the choice we face is not between saving the economy and saving lives.
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U.S. COVID-19 Death Rate Remains Low
Brian Sullivan has updated his chart that shows per capita Wuhan virus death rates for various countries. He writes: The total number of Wuhan virus cases in the US surpassed the total in any other country yesterday. It is no surprise the media and...
WHO thinks alcohol is an ‘unhelpful coping strategy’ for coronavirus cabin fever
A World Health Organization official is urging people to lay off the booze — calling it an “unhelpful coping strategy” for cabin fever during the COVID-19 lockdown, according to a new r…
Roger Kimball
Let anyone who doubts the malign obtuseness of the World Health Organization (WHO)—and I say nothing here about its subjection to the dictates of China—ponder this silly bulletin.
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Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-advised Lockdowns
How a handful of Democratic activists created alarming, but inaccurate data to scare local and state officials into making rash, economy-killing mandates.
Over 80,000 Americans Died of Flu Last Winter, Highest Toll in Years
Among the dead were 180 babies, children and teenagers, more than in any year since the C.D.C. began tracking pediatric deaths.
Nevada Governor Bans Use of Promising Drug Chloroquine to Fight Coronavirus
Several days after President Trump touted the drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as promising treatments for COVID-19, the governor of Nevada has signed an emergency order barring the use of the drugs to fight the disease. Democrat Gov. Steve...
Sidney Powell | Author, Attorney, Legal Commentator, Speaker
Sidney Powell is a former federal prosecutor. A veteran of 500 federal appeals, she published “LICENSED TO LIE: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice.” She serves as senior adviser to America First Policies and senior fellow for the...
Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?
Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude.
Roger Kimball
Some sanity on the Chinese flu from the @WSJ. Fatality rate will be much lower than WHO estimates, and probably significantly lower than the fatality rate of the flu.
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Abolish the World Health Organization
Adhanom’s goal seems to be turning the World Health Organization into another UN: a body that delivers impotent lectures and avoids big decisions
Harvard, Boasting $40 Billion Endowment, Lays Off Dining Hall Workers Due to Coronavirus
Harvard University, which has the largest endowment of any school in the country, is cutting its subcontracted dining hall workers without pay.
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Harvard has a $40 billion endowment, battalions of Title IX coordinators, deans of diversity, and profs of "gender studies" & other malignant fantasy subjects. But when it shutters because of the Wuhan flu, the people it fires are the dining hall workers.
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How Low Can the Democrats Sink?
Steve has already commented on this, but I want to amplify the point. Yesterday Senate Democrats filibustered the Trump administration's economic bailout bill. The key vote was 47-47, with every Democrat voting for the filibuster. You've got to hand...
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"How low can the Democrats sink," asks @jhinderaker. Do we have instruments robust enough to register that nadir?
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The Democrats just made a huge mistake
The Democrats have denied Americans the help they need now in order to include such things as greater collective bargaining power for labor unions
Roger Kimball
The country is in the grip of a panic. What do the Democrats do? They try to shove their nauseating agenda of dependence and identity politics down our throats. My take at @SpectatorUSA
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How Does COVID-19 Compare With Regular Flu?
I prepared the chart below to put the current hysteria over the Wuhan virus in perspective. It presents simple data in a simple fashion. The first column shows average global influenza deaths per season, according to the Centers for Disease Control....
Harvard, Yale students demand ‘universal passing’ for online courses because of ‘equity’
Some at Harvard want only ‘A’s’ or ‘A-minuses’ be given.
COVID-19 - Evidence Over Hysteria
When 13% of Americans believe they are currently infected with COVID-19 (mathematically impossible), full-on panic is blocking our ability to think clearly and determine how to deploy our resources to stop this virus.
Roger Kimball
Congratulations to the great Zero Hedge for picking up Aaron Ginn's magnificent piece "Evidence Over Hysteria" after @Medium took it down for "Investigation."
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