Friday, April 10, 2020

In the news, Friday, April 3, 2020


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from The Federalist
RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, online magazine

What the media and policymakers are not telling us is that the longer we delay the development of herd immunity, the more elderly or high-risk people will become infected and die.

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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS,  MIXED  American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

America's Post-Coronavirus China Syndrome
Even before COVID-19 cases spiked in the U.S., members of Congress were drafting legislation to punish China. Don't expect Washington to ease the pressure on Beijing. That will continue so long as the regime persists in its destabilizing global activities and its relentless attempts to undermine American interests. There are still very real concerns that China is lying about its response, including the current numbers and source of infections.

Coronavirus Crisis Creates Opportunity—And Reveals This About Ourselves and Others
Shocks like the pandemic now shaking society remind us of an unalterable truth: life is, indeed, hard. What makes life most worth living is using one’s time, talent, and treasure in active service of worthy purpose. Because great challenge sparks energy, courage and perseverance, it summons faith and solidarity. And in so doing, it reveals the best of humanity.

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from McClean's
LEFT-CENTER BIAS,  HIGH,  News Magazine in Toronto, Canada

The coronavirus pandemic is the breakthrough Xi Jinping has been waiting for
Terry Glavin: The Chinese state is committing vast resources to a hybrid strategy of intensified propaganda and information control in lockstep with an aggressive Russian-style disinformation effort. The plague that broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December has now spread to the four corners of the earth, and its coming ravages can only be glimpsed in the limited forecasting capacities of epidemiology. It’s a science that relies on predictive analytics and models that can be skewed by any number of confounding variables, so there’s little certainty about what’s in store for us all. As the geopolitical upheavals set off by the pandemic shudder with a force without precedent since the Second World War, some things, however, are clear and plain. China’s most draconian lockdowns have been lifted. Beijing is claiming victory over the plague. And the Chinese Communist Party is seizing what its senior officials are calling the “opportunity” of the pandemic to realize the party’s long-game objective of fully eclipsing North America and Europe in the global order.

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from National Review  RIGHT BIAS

Conservative Pundits Weren’t the Only Ones to Get the Pandemic Wrong
Media figures on both sides of the aisle failed to appreciate the extent of the threat until it was too late. Liberals shouldn’t pretend otherwise. The coronavirus pandemic has changed virtually everything about American life, with one prominent exception: While business, the arts, and sports are all on hold, the hyper-partisan political warfare that afflicts our public square has continued at the same pace and intensity as before. As the present crisis has developed over the past few weeks, the chattering classes have kept busy interpreting everything that happens through pro-Trump and anti-Trump prisms. Many in the mainstream liberal media are intent on settling scores with Trump’s cheerleaders in the conservative media, whom they have accused of fueling skepticism about the danger posed by the coronavirus. Yet in doing so, they are ignoring the fact that many on the left were just as confused about the pandemic at its start and just as eager to play politics with it as their favorite villains on the right.

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from The Oregonian - oregonlive.com
Newspaper in Portland, OR

6 feet of social distancing not nearly enough: CDC’s recommendation driving some experts ‘nuts’
Some experts in an increasingly loud chorus are criticizing federal recommendations that Americans stay 6 feet apart from each other to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. Richard Corsi, a Portland State University dean, has studied the spread of COVID-19 through both large and tiny droplets in the air and recommends people stay 20 feet away from each other when they’re outdoors. Indoors, where ventilation is much worse, Corsi recommends extreme caution and carrying out essential tasks like grocery shopping when truly necessary.

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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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