Tag: Pandemic

• All Opinions Are NOT Created Equal

  Everyone has an opinion. In America, we believe everyone has that right – to hold an opinion that’s uniquely theirs (no matter how goofy). It’s a wonderful thing! But just having an opinion doesn’t make that opinion correct. It’s entirely possible to hold an opinion completely formed by feelings with not an iota of fact…

  A L Katz

  June 27, 2022

  American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Freedom, Magical Thinking, Religion

  abortion, American News Media, Conservatism, Corruption, Election 2022, Jesus Take The Wheel, journalism, Pandemic, Power Grab, Public Opinion, Strategic thinking

• Not All Polling Disapproval Numbers Are Created Equal

  One can make poll numbers say anything depending on how you frame them. Donald Trump’s poll numbers were especially terrible; h is average approval rating across his entire term was 41.1%, the lowest ever measured by Gallup. When you break that down even further, Trump’s approvals were 4% among Democrats, 30% among independents and 82%…

  A L Katz

  January 20, 2022

  American News Media, Branding, Coronavirus, Corruption, Election 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Republicanism, Trump

  American News Media, Anti-vaxxers, Authoritarianism, Biden Approval, COVID, Pandemic, Pollinig, Steve Kornacki, Trump Disapproval, Trump Racism

• What Impact Will COVID Have On Our Future? If The Black Plague Is Any Guide, The Impact Will Be HUGE

  Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we still have no fixed idea of how to deal with this damned pathogen. That’s less a reflection on the science than it is on the nature of pathogens. And people. It’s hard enough fighting an actual pandemic. Having to battle misinformation, deliberate propaganda and genuine, honest confusion at…

  A L Katz

  January 7, 2022

  Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, SCOTUS, Trump

  14th Century, A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman, Buboes, Bubonic Plague, COVID-19, DNA, Long Term COVID, Pandemic, Pathogens, Pneumonic Plague, RNA

• History Teaches: Deadly Pandemics Can Topple Whole Economic Systems — Like This Pandemic Is Toppling Ours

  The right wing and our punditry are beside themselves that Americans are refusing to go back to work. Um, no — they’re not refusing “to go back to work”, they’re refusing to return to work 1) that doesn’t suit them or their skill sets, 2) doesn’t pay what the work should be paid and 3)…

  A L Katz

  October 15, 2021

  Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, Healthcare, Slavery

  A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman, Black Death, Bubonic Plague, Capitalism, Feudalism, Guilds, Hundred Years War, Labor Unions, Pandemic, Papal Schism

• “TRUMPOCALYPSE: THE MOVIE” — Let’s All Play Casting Director!

  Take this to the bank: a movie or two WILL be made about the Trump presidency.  A few will nibble at the periphery of the experience, capturing the graft and the grift.  Some will try to capture its essence economically but that won’t satisfy.  One really had to experience the overwhelming “everyday” of it —…

  A L Katz

  February 21, 2021

  American News Media, Barack Obama, Bill Barr, Coronavirus, Election 2016, Election 2020, Mitch McConnell, Republicanism, Showbiz Stories, Treason, Trump

  Binge and Purge, Casting, Casting Call, Coronavirus, Pandemic, Trump-Russia, Trumpian Corruption, Trumpism, Trumpocalypse

• Alcohol + A Pandemic = Terrible Decision-Making

  I stopped drinking alcohol just over four years ago. I didn’t “have to” per se, but the mood stabilizer I started taking gives all alcohol a grapefruit skin-like aftertaste making it completely unpalatable. Given a choice between drinking and not being depressed, I’ll take the latter, thanks. And anyway — it’s not like consuming alcohol…

  A L Katz

  January 3, 2021

  Cannabis, Coronavirus, Election 2020, Freedom

  Alcohol Abuse, Depression, Drinking And Depression, Drinking Culture, Drinking Responsibily, Legal Cannabis, Mood Stabilizers, Pandemic, THC, Wake And Bake

• Republicans Don’t See America As A “Work Horse”, They See Us As A “Work HOUSE”

  

  Imagine thinking that — after almost a year of being economically slammed by a pandemic made exponentially worse by their own political cravenness — Americans would be mollified by a check for $600. Wow. That’s some cynical thinking from a bunch of pirates who’ve ripped off OUR TAX DOLLARS to fatten the bank accounts of…

  A L Katz

  December 29, 2020

  American Exceptionalism, Election 2020, Freedom, Republicanism, Trump, Universal Basic Income (UBI)

  $2000, $600 Checks, American Exceptionalism, Cyncism, Oliver, Oliver Twist, Pandemic, Republican Treason, Stimulus Checks, We The People, Workhouses