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On Thursday, a federal judge in Texas declared the eviction moratorium imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unconstitutional. “Although the Covid-19 pandemic persists, so does the Constitution,” the judge wrote in his ruling. The Department of Justice has announced that it will appeal. Diane Yentel, president and chief executive of the National…
How to Think Philosophically about the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic and the responses to it from both business and government have dominated the headlines and overwhelmed our lives for months. In dealing with the wide-ranging effects of both the disease and the steps being taken to fight it, there’s a need to take a step back and survey the situation with a…
Adalja Offers Advice to Biden
Dr. Amesh Adalja, Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, offers President-elect Biden advice for dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 has demonstrated, new deadly viruses can spread quickly and easily around the globe, causing significant loss of life and economic ruin. With nearly 200 epidemics occurring each year, the…
A Positive in the COVID Saga
I have written a great deal about the government’s response to the COVID pandemic and little, if any, has been positive. This post is about a positive experience relating to COVID. On Saturday, March 6, I received my first COVID vaccine shot. That isn’t particularly remarkable, other than it provides me a little relief to…
The Chickens are Coming Home
Throughout the pandemic, government officials have made policy decisions founded on short-term thinking. They have made decisions to solve an immediate problem while failing to consider the full context. It was inevitable that eventually the chickens would come home to roost. For example, when government forced businesses to close, tens of millions lost their jobs…