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Here’s a big thank you to Sweden for volunteering to be a pandemic guinea pig. The small (10 million) Scandinavian nation decided to plot its own route, declining to join its neighbors, and most of the West, in quarantine, by not locking down its citizenry and halting its economy.
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Something that will make Dr. Anthony Fauci (and others) happy, the handshake seems destined for the dustbin of history. “I don’t think we should ever shake hands again,” said Fauci. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the 2,900-year-old custom was already fading, being overtaken, at least in America, by
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“Let’s use this situation, this crisis, this time to actually learn the lessons, value from the reflection, and let’s reimagine what we want society to be.” — N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo The man who sometimes calls himself “the Love Gov,” because others have, sometimes sounds like a headmaster
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“Stop falsifying the statistics,” read a sign at the Monday protest in Harrisburg. I have seen similar disbelief in some quarters to any stat I have posted, such as a roundup of infections by country last week. How about the count of the infected and dead from the world renown
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What do you do if you have a product to sell, but can’t be sold during the lockdown caused by the pandemic? You can button down and wait for it to end, or you can keep your name before the public. Looking and listening to commercials, it seems most
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Let’s take a walk on the sunny side of the street today. Should I mention “sunny” when this is one of the darkest periods of American history? But I say “one of,” not “the” darkest period of American history. What was darker? There are several candidates. Start at the
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All work and no play makes Jack, or Stu, a dull boy. So today, just for fun, a bunch of jokes about COVID-19 and the lockdown. These were sent to me by a friend and they come off the internet. *Half of us are going to come out of this
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President Donald J. Trump's plan to unlock the country, announced this evening, was a little different than what he had floated a day before. The plan, aimed at state governors, is basically suggestions, rather than demands originally hinted at, because he has no authority to make demands. Since
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Let’s dust off the crystal ball and ponder the unknowable: What permanent changes to us and how we live will result from our coronavirus adventure? Very soon I foresee Supermen and lepers, but let’s start with business. We will have more people working at home than ever before.
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These people are just brutal. Which people? The bike cult. In the midst of World War III, as we as a nation hunker down to fight the great threat to the welfare of our nation, as we worry about our wrecked economy, the thousands of dead neighbors, the interruption of
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It seems like even the virus has joined our lightning-fast news cycle, with some flattening reported at scattered sites around the country. This is the good news, reported simultaneously with the bad news of the death toll rising, rising, rising. More than 23,000 yesterday afternoon. As a journalist, I
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Talking to a Center City neighbor — from a safe distance of course — about the threat of death that envelops us, I tell her I can’t recall a time of similar peril. “I can,” says Bella Lewensohn Schafer. “Really?” I say. “When was that?” “When I was in the underground