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Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Birx Says Majority of Deaths Could Have Been Prevented

I look at it this way. The first time we have an excuse. There were about a hundred thousand deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.

Social media urged to remove ‘disinfo dozen’

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Why a ship stuck in Egypt threatens the economy in the United States

Want To Invest In Farmland? Here’s How.

Do We Really Think A Band-Aid Will Heal A Tumor?

Politics:

Mulvaney Calls Trump’s Comments ’Manifestly False’

To come out and say that everybody was fine and there was no risk is just — that’s manifestly false. People died. Other people were severely injured. To say there was no risk is just wrong.

Pandemic Laid Groundwork for Big Government Push

That Biden has become the vehicle for a second Great Society or modern-day New Deal is testament to a general leftward movement within the Democratic Party over the past half-dozen years, with Sanders acting as a principal catalyst in the rethinking. It is probable as well that the coronavirus pandemic has played a significant role in providing the conditions that have allowed Biden to emerge as the advocate of changes on the scale that he is pushing. Pandemics are disruptive when they happen, and they can effect changes long after they have been tamed. Among those are shifts in economic patterns and needs, as the current pandemic has done.

Prosecutors Are Lining Up Witnesses To Criminally Convict Trump

Many QAnon followers report having mental health diagnoses

Democrats Poised to Raise Taxes on Business and the Rich

Democrats have spent the last several years clamoring to raise taxes on corporations and the rich, seeing that as a necessary antidote to widening economic inequality and a rebuke of President Donald J. Trump’s signature tax cuts. Now, under President Biden, they have a shot at ushering in the largest federal tax increase since 1942. It could help pay for a host of spending programs that liberal economists predict would bolster the economy’s performance and repair a tax code that Democrats say encourages wealthy people to hoard assets and big companies to ship jobs and book profits overseas.

I hope there’s more to this story than presented in the article: Minnesota Supreme Court throws out rape conviction because intoxicated woman willingly consumed alcohol

Serendipity:

Poland’s expensive stillborn coal plant

’I have learned how to survive with a bow and arrow’

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