San Francisco Chronicle (October 13)
“As coronavirus cases swell across much of the United States and the nation lurches toward a uniquely tumultuous election day, California has held off another pandemic upswing. Public health experts, however, warn the state is still vulnerable.” The nation “topped 50,000 new cases on four of the past seven day, the highest numbers since August.”
Tags: California, Cases, Coronavirus, Election day, Experts, Pandemic, Public health, Swell, Tumultuous, U.S., Upswing, Vulnerable
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (October 13)
“Demonstrating that a new vaccine was safe and effective less than a year would shatter the record for speed,” but, even if successful, a full return to normal is unlikely to be rapid. “Vaccine experts say we should prepare instead for a perplexing, frustrating year. The first vaccines may provide only moderate protection, low enough to make it prudent to keep wearing a mask.”
Tags: Mask
MarketWatch (October 11)
“For those of you expecting the world to return to some sense of normalcy by the time 2021 rolls around, JPMorgan Chase JPM CEO Jamie Dimon has a message: ‘We’re going to have to live with this.’” Dimon does not “expect normality to return until the summer of 2021.”
The Guardian (October 11)
Weekly new Covid cases rose alarmingly in the UK from 116,000 to 224,000 leaving the UK perched “at a ‘tipping point’ in the Covid-19 crisis.” Only swift action will “avoid history ‘repeating itself’” according to deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam” whose “stark warning” emphasized that “the worst is yet to come if we do not ‘all act now’… and that the approach of winter made the situation even more grave.”
Tags: 000, 224, Alarmingly, Cases, COVID-19, Crisis, Grave, History, Swift action, Tipping point, UK, Warning, Weekly, Winter
Wall Street Journal (October 10)
“The past week was bizarre, berserk, almost biblical.” People are thirsty for normal. “There’s a lot of Trump fatigue, and it’s peaking at the wrong time for the president.” Increasingly pundits “are wondering if Nov. 3 won’t be a win for Joe Biden but a blowout, a landslide in a polarized country that doesn’t produce landslides anymore.” If Biden does win big, “part of the reason, maybe a big part, will be simply that he is normal.”
Tags: Berserk, Biblical, Biden, Bizarre, Blowout, Landslide, Normal, Polarized, Pundits, Trump fatigue
LA Times (October 8)
“If Taiwan is to fend off a Chinese invasion, it will need reluctant recruits…to summon the patriotism that inspired older generations but these days doesn’t burn as passionately in the young” who increasingly regard the “mandatory four-month military service as an unnecessary burden, even as complaints persist that such stints are too short to protect the island compared with the two to three years that previous generations served.”
Tags: Burden, Inspired, Invasion, Mandatory, Military service, Passion, Patriotism, Protect, Recruits, Reluctant, Short, Taiwan
The Oregonian (October 8)
“Students in Oregon’s largest school district will not see the inside of a classroom until 2021. Portland Public Schools this week announced its students, with little exception, will be learning remotely via district-issued Chromebooks until Jan. 28, the end of the second academic quarter.”
Tags: 2021, Chromebooks, Classroom, Learning, Oregon, Portland, Remote, School district, Students
New York Times (October 7)
“The debate over Trump himself is over. The verdict is in: He cast himself as Superman, but he turns out to have been Superspreader — not only of a virus but of a whole way of looking at the world in a pandemic that was dangerously wrong for himself and our nation. To re-elect him would be an act of collective madness.”
Tags: Dangerous, Debate, Madness, Pandemic, Re-elect, Superman, Superspreader, Trump, Verdict, Virus, Wrong
Washington Post (October 6)
“Americans of all political stripes wished President Trump well in his battle with covid-19. Now he is repaying our compassion with reckless disregard and callous contempt for the well-being of anybody but himself…. A more selfish man has never occupied his high office.” He has even had “the audacity to tell Americans the virus is no biggie. No doubt the families of the 209,000 dead are greatly reassured.”
Tags: Callous, Compassion, Contempt, COVID-19, Dead, Disregard, Political stripes, Reassured, Reckless, Repaying, Selfish. Audacity, Trump, U.S.
USA Today (October 7)
The “superspreader” event in the Rose Garden will go down in history. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the “maskless Supreme Court nomination ceremony turned into a form of biological attack on the top echelons of U.S. government.” Symbolic of “America’s failing response to the novel coronavirus,” the event was “a sad brew of hubris and misapplied science.” White House officials and guests mistakenly thought “they could frolic in a kind of virus-free bubble, exempted from the preventative measures that have reshaped and constrained the lives of millions of average Americans.”
Tags: Biological attack, Bubble, Ceremony, COVID-19, Failing, Frolic, History, Hubris, Maskless, Nomination, Pandemic, Rose Garden, Superspreader, Supreme Court, U.S.
