Headlines like this one are really depressing:

The bleak Covid winter? America still not on course to beat back the virus

As the US enters its first coronavirus winter, economists and epidemiologists see a pivotal moment – a hinge whose swing will determine the direction of the economy and the course of the disease into 2021 and for years – potentially generations – to come.

So many people have been drawing down on their bank of mental resiliency. Millions have lost their livelihoods and, for many of those, their jobs are not coming back regardless of what happens with the virus. How many people have not been allowed to visit hospitals and nursing homes during their loved one’s last days? What kind of toll does that have on people?

Coronavirus News, Analysis, Opinion, et cetera:

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11 freshmen at Northeastern were dismissed for violating COVID-19 rules. Their $35,000 tuition won't be reimbursed.

The Social Fabric of the U.S. Is Fraying Severely, if Not Unravelling

Perhaps the most illustrative study was one released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month, based on an extensive mental health survey of Americans in late June. One question posed by researchers was whether someone has “seriously considered suicide in the past 30 days”— not fleetingly considered it as a momentary fantasy nor thought about it ever in their lifetime, but seriously considered suicide at least once in the past 30 days. The results are staggering.

Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger Urges ‘Vote Him Out’ in Blistering Anti-Trump Tweetstorm: ‘President Has Repeatedly Shown Utter and Vulgar Contempt’ for Military

The Metastasizing Cancer Of Trump

Every hoary stereotype leveled against the right for decades has been given credence by the GOP’s support for this monster of a human being. If moderates have any chance of defanging the snake of wokeness, and its attempt to deconstruct our Enlightenment inheritance, we must begin with removing the cancer of Trump from the body politic. It is not an ordinary cancer. It is metastasizing across the republic and spreading to the lifeblood of our democracy itself. Removing it will not be enough. But not removing it is democratic death. 

Completely unrelated to COVID-19, but some pretty cool pics: New high-resolution images of the sun show how terrifying its structure looks up close.

^{Badge thanks to @arcange}