The late American satirist P.J. O’Rourke once cracked that “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” The $32 […]
Tag: covid-19 pandemic
Seniors need more COVID protection
by Faye Flam COVID is still killing about 500 Americans every day — picking off the oldest, frailest members of our society. About 9 in 10 COVID […]
Closing schools during the pandemic was bad
Keeping them all open would have been worse by Michael Hiltzik If there’s one aspect of pandemic policy that seems to have elicited agreement across the political […]
Amjad ready to return to clinic: Says there was much too learn from pandemic
CHARLESTON — Dr. Ayne Amjad’s time as the state health officer in West Virginia and commissioner for the Bureau of Public Health was dominated by the COVID-19 […]
Fuzzy language not helping fight COVID
by Faye Flam People no longer know what to do about the COVID pandemic. Part of the problem is the very language we use to talk about […]
Millennial parents are stressed
by Christine Ledbetter In this time of COVID-19, millennials rear their children with precision, rituals and caution. Nothing within their control is left to chance. The safe […]
Not supposed to get near 1M COVID deaths
by Nicholas Goldberg At the start of the pandemic, in late March 2020, President Donald Trump held a White House briefing at which his top advisers presented […]
Gaslighting the COVID hyper-cautious
by Jessica Gelt California recorded a million new cases of COVID-19 last week, hospitals are overtaxed and it feels like everybody has omicron — or knows somebody […]
West Virginia University provides guidance on COVID-19 testing
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University sent a detailed email to its students, faculty and staff Monday to provide additional guidance on COVID-19 testing requirements for the upcoming […]
West Virginia and COVID-19: Where are we now?
Local health officials said while the state of West Virginia is in a better place now regarding the COVID-19 pandemic than it was at the beginning of […]
