by David Gumpert | Apr 29, 2020 | What's New |
A couple weeks ago we saw obscene images of dairy farmers discarding milk, and vegetable growers plowing over tomatoes intended for restaurants that have been shuttered, all while thousands of hungry Americans waited in line for handouts at food pantries. Now, a...
by David Gumpert | Apr 27, 2020 | What's New |
This is a time for mourning, for things large and small. You can see it in the increasingly emotional debates about “solving” the Covid-19 pandemic—a growing number of Americans are for opening everything up and relying on herd immunity, while others are for...
by David Gumpert | Apr 18, 2020 | What's New |
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were masters of slapstick comedy as film stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Invariably, they’d wind up in some kind of jam, like locked outside a hospital in a rainstorm, and Hardy would complain to Laurel, “Well, here’s another nice mess...
by David Gumpert | Apr 12, 2020 | What's New |
Repeatedly, the public health establishment warns us that immune-compromised individuals—those with diabetes and auto-immune conditions, for example— are at greatest risk of contracting and dying from Covid-19. Rarely do they encourage us about the opposite: to...
by David Gumpert | Apr 2, 2020 | What's New |
Sitting here in limbo Waiting for the dice to roll, Sitting here in limbo Got some time to search my soul from “Sitting in Limbo,” by Jimmy Cliff Reggae singer Jimmy Cliff’s classic song comes to mind frequently these days. As I watch replays of the Boston Red...
by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2020 | What's New |
At different times on this blog, readers have harkened back to “the good old days”—when people knew their neighbors, local farmers raised much of the nation’s food, doctors made house calls, and crises like wars brought people together. Trying to make sense of...
by David Gumpert | Mar 14, 2020 | What's New |
For several days now, I’ve wanted to write something about the confusion surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. But each time I begin to write, the situation just gets more confusing, and alarming. I’ll just say upfront that I’ve dreaded, from the time the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 27, 2020 | What's New |
The media are full of advice about how to prepare for and avoid the corona virus, such as these articles in the New York Times and Washington Post. They include instructions on thoroughly washing hands, suggestions for what over-the-counter drugs to have on hand, and...
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