Posts Tagged ‘COVID-19’
The Great Travel Industry Takedown
The Coronavirus has clobbered the world economy but for the travel and hospitality industries, it has become an existential crisis. The consequences are lingering far too long with no end in sight. Two good examples to examine are the airlines and airports. The data is really ugly but it is right there on the TSA website for all to see — the daily number of passengers screened by the Transportation Security Administration.
Read MoreThe Voice of God
Popular blogger Glen Reynolds recently said: “If you speak with the Unchallengeable Voice of God, and then you change your mind and speak again with the Unchallengeable Voice of God, people will notice.”
Read MoreLife After Mass Transit – Save Your Life and Drive a Car
The Coronavirus has disrupted just about everything, but few things as much as transportation networks in and around big metropolitan areas. The global pandemic could be a back breaker for these mass transit systems and the authorities that run them.
Read MoreCOVID-19 and Dirty Harry
A man needs to know his limitations. Good advice from Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty” Harry Callahan character who gave it to various over-matched villains he dispatched. It also applies to Government Man who listens to Sky-Is-Falling Man and tries to fix the unfixable. And makes it worse.
Read MoreDeath Counts and Mistrust
Lies today are intended to exaggerate the COVID-19 epidemic and create panic and political opportunities. Some politicians see this as an opportunity to “fundamentally transform America.” Loss of freedom is a near thing.
Read MoreOne World Conspiracy
Some people have asked for thoughts on the recent Covid-19 sermon by the Reverend Danny Jones of the Northlake Baptist Church in Gainesville, GA, that went viral. Here’s my take.
Read MoreOne-Time CARES Act Money for Recurring Expenses
For years, Republican leaders in Mississippi have decried, and rightly so, the use of “one-time money“ to pay recurring expenses in the state budget. Then-candidate Haley Barbour complained about Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and the Democrat-lead Legislature’s use of funds from lawsuit settlements or other single-instance receipts to pay for ongoing expenses of state government, rather than cut the budget to match recurring revenue.
Read MoreIt’s All About the Data
We urge the Governor to make sure that the state is prepared to handle the management challenges that will come with increased testing in the coming months. We would like to see some innovative approaches to getting the job done. We have some ideas.
Read MoreSee How Well It Works
We don’t know how many deaths there would have been without social distancing. Experts said a lot. But now there aren’t enough. So to keep experts from looking bad, death with Covid-19 and other morbidities becomes death from (caused by) Covid-19. See how well government ordered economic suicide works. And how well surrender of fundamental freedoms and rights to worship and assemble works. Who would have thought we would fall for the elephant repellant scam?
Read MoreHerd Immunity vs Herd Mentality
The last couple of months have seen several new phrases enter the popular lexicon: “social distancing,” “flattening the curve” and “shelter in place” to name a few. (Somewhere George Orwell is spinning in his grave.) Another phrase which is not new, but is newly popular, is herd immunity.
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