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Passover begins Wednesday evening and I can’t imagine why this didn’t occur to me earlier. There are a couple of startling points of contact between the Jewish holiday and the current pandemic. Passover, also known as Pesach, reaches back to the time of Moses, when the Israelites were
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Anyone know why the three cable networks are carrying live and complete New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s daily fireside chats? They are part information, part homily, part sanctimony, part family history. Yes, I know New York is the center of the media universe, but that is the City, not
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I am a coronavirus carrier. So are you. I can’t prove that because I haven’t been tested, and I feel fine, but that’s tricky. One insidious thing we know about the virus is that it can take 6 or more days to incubate in your body. During
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President Donald J. Trump had a dream, a beautiful dream, that somehow the World War III we are fighting would end within weeks so that churches would be “packed’ for Easter. “One day it will disappear,” he said of the plague. (And homes could be packed for Passover a few
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For supposedly smart and well-educated people, Americans fall for a wide variety of misinformation about the coronavirus. The bad data can come from friends and relatives, or — especially — social media. Let’s be myth busters today. The facts are drawn from a wide variety of sources, from the World Health
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Some people think some topics are too serious to joke about. I don’t agree. I think any subject can be satirized or mocked, even coronavirus/covid-19/China Virus, whatever you want to call it. However, one thing I learned during my 60-year print career is there are limits. You
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Here’s proof that almost every gray cloud has a silver lining. Philadelphia Police Department statistics show that during the first week of restricted movement in the city, crime was down. In an unrelated development, no NBA games were played. That’s another causal effect. A study of city stats
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More than a week into turning your home into a jail rather than a castle, I am (happily) surprised by the docility of the American people. As far as I can tell, aside from the thin edge of chuckleheads, most Americans are doing what is asked of them, and with
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No one could have seen this coming? Coronavirus, I mean. Hang on to your sorcerer’s hat, Nostradamus (h/t to Julian Fox), but a viral attack that would lay low an unprepared world was presented as a TED Talk in 2015. By Billionaire Bill Gates. The talk is less
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For more than a week, I have been writing daily on different angles of the coronavirus story, or World War III, as I have been calling it. There’s one angle I have not covered, hoping there would always be something more fragrant. It’s a topic I do not
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Most Americans are law-abiding, and caring people, too. A minority are not, and I can’t quantify that, but the U.S. does incarcerate more people than any where else, even China, which has four times our population. (Also a huge secret police network and a judicial system under which
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The ability to send a recording on Messenger is getting out there now, and people are taking advantage of it to spread questionable audible information. I have received two messages of the same recording by a woman with an Australian accent, who says she has heard from a hospital that