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from The Americano
An Eighth Soldier Has Been Found Dead at Fort Hood
Texas officials identified the body of 24-year-old specialist Francisco Gilberto Hernández-Vargas on Tuesday. The Fort Hood soldier had gone on a boating trip on Saturday and was reported missing that afternoon. On Sunday, officials recovered his body near the Stillhouse Hollow Lake, which is 15 miles from Fort Hood. Just last month, another Fort Hood soldier was found dead at the same lake. Initial police reports indicate that Hernández-Vargas drowned, but the autopsy is underway. The Bell County Sheriff’s Department is also investigating his death. According to independent military news publication Stars & Stripes, a spokesman for the sheriff’s department said that Hernández-Vargas was riding an inflatable tube and being pulled by a boat when he fell off and disappeared from view. Hernández-Vargas is the 8th Fort Hood soldier to die since March, and the second one to be found at Stillhouse Hollow Lake.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
Why the Rule of Law Is Vanishing in the Age of COVID-19
When is a law a law? The question seems simple enough, but things get complicated pretty quickly. We have our Constitution, of course. But we also have federal, state, county, and local laws, and then there are numerous federal, state, and local regulations that various bodies enact to carry out laws. ... When the law becomes incomprehensible and inconsistent, people lose faith in both the law and government institutions that secure it. This may go a long way toward explaining the growing political animosity of the past decades. In ceasing to be a nation of laws, we have become instead a nation of lawmakers. If the law is to be king, it must speak in a clear and consistent voice. And if that can’t happen, it should say as little as possible.
Why the Rule of Law Is Vanishing in the Age of COVID-19
When is a law a law? The question seems simple enough, but things get complicated pretty quickly. We have our Constitution, of course. But we also have federal, state, county, and local laws, and then there are numerous federal, state, and local regulations that various bodies enact to carry out laws. ... When the law becomes incomprehensible and inconsistent, people lose faith in both the law and government institutions that secure it. This may go a long way toward explaining the growing political animosity of the past decades. In ceasing to be a nation of laws, we have become instead a nation of lawmakers. If the law is to be king, it must speak in a clear and consistent voice. And if that can’t happen, it should say as little as possible.
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Here's What We Know About COVID-19 Vaccines
There are more than 200 COVID-19 vaccines in development, all designed to destroy a common enemy: SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen involved with the COVID-19 infection that has killed more than 700,000 people globally. About two dozen vaccine candidates are currently being tested in clinical trials. Although nearly all of the frontrunner candidates have demonstrated some form of immune response in early studies, many trials measured this response with different tests, making it difficult to compare their findings directly. Moreover, the science behind many of these candidates is novel and none have been shown to generate a lasting immune response that protects against the virus in a final-stage trial.
from MedPage Today
There are more than 200 COVID-19 vaccines in development, all designed to destroy a common enemy: SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen involved with the COVID-19 infection that has killed more than 700,000 people globally. About two dozen vaccine candidates are currently being tested in clinical trials. Although nearly all of the frontrunner candidates have demonstrated some form of immune response in early studies, many trials measured this response with different tests, making it difficult to compare their findings directly. Moreover, the science behind many of these candidates is novel and none have been shown to generate a lasting immune response that protects against the virus in a final-stage trial.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Defeat COVID-19 by requiring vaccination for all. It's not un-American, it's patriotic.
Opinion: Make vaccines free, don't allow religious or personal objections, and punish those who won't be vaccinated. They are threatening the lives of others.
Dr. Michael Lederman, Maxwell J. Mehlman, and Dr. Stuart Youngner.
To win the war against the novel coronavirus that has now killed over 158,000 people in this country, the only answer is compulsory vaccination — for all of us. And while the measures that will be necessary to defeat the coronavirus will seem draconian, even anti-American to some, we believe that there is no alternative. Simply put, getting vaccinated is going to be our patriotic duty. The reason: When an effective vaccine is available for COVID-19, it will only defeat the pandemic if it is widely used, creating “herd immunity.” It is important to note that, during an epidemic, there is no threshold above which the protection conferred by “herd immunity” cannot be improved. Thus, the more people who are immunized, the lower the risk for all of us, including those who are not vaccinated.
The Voting Rights Act was signed 55 years ago. Black women led the movement behind it.
In March of 1965, Amelia Boynton Robinson walked with hundreds of other protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Boynton Robinson, who planned the march from Selma to the Alabama capital of Montgomery along with Rev. C.T. Vivian and others, was struck with a baton by Alabama state troopers that day. “They came from the right, the left, the front and started beating people," she told The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, in 2005. “The second time I was hit at the base of my neck. I fell unconscious. I woke up in a hospital.” A photograph of the incident was widely published in newspapers, and the march, which came to be known as Bloody Sunday, was part of the campaign that pushed President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act months later. The marches drew civil rights icons including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and late Georgia congressman John Lewis to Selma, but long before their arrival "women were the engine of the civil rights movement right from the beginning," according to Lynne Olson, author of Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. "Men always got the attention, but the ones who were really organizing it and were really making it work were women," Olson said. "And that was true going back to the time of the time of abolitionists."
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from USA Today
Opinion: Make vaccines free, don't allow religious or personal objections, and punish those who won't be vaccinated. They are threatening the lives of others.
Dr. Michael Lederman, Maxwell J. Mehlman, and Dr. Stuart Youngner.
To win the war against the novel coronavirus that has now killed over 158,000 people in this country, the only answer is compulsory vaccination — for all of us. And while the measures that will be necessary to defeat the coronavirus will seem draconian, even anti-American to some, we believe that there is no alternative. Simply put, getting vaccinated is going to be our patriotic duty. The reason: When an effective vaccine is available for COVID-19, it will only defeat the pandemic if it is widely used, creating “herd immunity.” It is important to note that, during an epidemic, there is no threshold above which the protection conferred by “herd immunity” cannot be improved. Thus, the more people who are immunized, the lower the risk for all of us, including those who are not vaccinated.
In March of 1965, Amelia Boynton Robinson walked with hundreds of other protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Boynton Robinson, who planned the march from Selma to the Alabama capital of Montgomery along with Rev. C.T. Vivian and others, was struck with a baton by Alabama state troopers that day. “They came from the right, the left, the front and started beating people," she told The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, in 2005. “The second time I was hit at the base of my neck. I fell unconscious. I woke up in a hospital.” A photograph of the incident was widely published in newspapers, and the march, which came to be known as Bloody Sunday, was part of the campaign that pushed President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act months later. The marches drew civil rights icons including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and late Georgia congressman John Lewis to Selma, but long before their arrival "women were the engine of the civil rights movement right from the beginning," according to Lynne Olson, author of Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. "Men always got the attention, but the ones who were really organizing it and were really making it work were women," Olson said. "And that was true going back to the time of the time of abolitionists."
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