Can we all take a moment to appreciate the irony of our would-be Dictator-in-Chief being urged by Democrats to employ extraordinary powers in tackling coronavirus? Send in the Army? In the U.S., we don’t live in a tyranny where citizens are forced to shut down our sprawling, massive society, notes NRO. Some lament that President […]
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Encouraging News on Coronavirus Testing
Unquestionably good news: virus testing is becoming more available. Medical research companies, reports James Freeman in the WSJ, are finding ways to confront cornonavirus head-on. Denise Roland and Peter Loftus report in the Journal: A new, high-speed coronavirus test has been granted emergency clearance by the Food and Drug Administration, the latest effort to expand capacity to […]
Trump Knocks it Out of the Park with Coronavirus Speech
President Trump gave a speech at 3:30 today, declaring a National State of Emergency to speed the coronavirus response. Trump mobilized the private sector and slashed regulations and antiquated red tape designed for a different time to increase the amount of testing that can be done. There will be a website ready by Sunday that […]
How to Confront Coronavirus
In the age of coronavirus: Fear can hijack our imaginations and prompt us to discard facts. Practicing proper hygiene and bolstering your immune system are the one-two punch in safeguarding your health. You Can Make Yourself Safer Being totally stressed about getting sick can only put you more at risk of getting sick. Dwelling on […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XIV
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CBS News‘ Norah O’Donnell that life may not get back to normal for up to two months. Two months is a long time. Here’s a bit of the back and forth between O’Donnell and Fauci: O’DONNELL: We know the symptoms […]
Does Everybody Have a Right to Fly 1st Class?
Why or how is health care a right the same way life and liberty are human rights? Ask any progressive and here’s what you’ll likely hear. It is a right because it is important. It is a right because it is unfair for some people to get better treatment than others merely because they have […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XIII
“De-densify.” That’s the word Harvard is using to describe its efforts to move people out of dorms and send them home. CNN’s Carma Hassan and Brian Ries report: Harvard University is moving to virtual classes because of the novel coronavirus outbreak and the university is asking students to move out of their dorms in five […]
The Shocking Politics of a Pandemic
Jeez Louise, is even the coronavirus partisan? Of course it is, Jason L. Riley notes in the WSJ. “Making political hay of health scares is a commonplace activity that’s also unfailingly bipartisan.” Democrats complained that President George W. Bush was too slow in responding to the West Nile virus and SARS outbreaks that occurred in […]
Answering Coronavirus Travel Questions
Provided by Sara Clemence and Barbara Peterson Abridged from the WSJ: Cancel Your Trip because of Coronavirus? It depends, reports primarily on where you’re planning to travel, but on other factors, too. The virus has spread to dozens of countries and every continent except for Antarctica. But government agencies are warning against travel to only a handful […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: XII
If you’re a client of Richard C. Young & Co., then you know how much we love Baby’s Coffee—Southernmost Coffee Roasters in America. Clients of mine sent this pic yesterday telling me how much they enjoyed a recent trip to Key West. They look happy, don’t they? You know what’s worth noting is we didn’t […]
