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Tag: Coronavirus

  • Rip that face mask off for our own good!

    Gesundheit! Has any disease been as politicized as Covid-19? Aaron Rodgers, a candidate for the NFL’s MIP (Most Immunized Player), made the enemies list at The Nation. (“A voice not for the voiceless but for right-wing Twitter trolls.”Blaska: If they’re voiceless, why do they make so much noise?!) Wearing a face mask behind the wheel…

  • No risk, however small, is acceptable

    They’re watching too much CNN “A surprising number of people — almost all of them liberals— are hesitant to take off their masks,” Dan O’Donnell observes at MacIver. And why wouldn’t they? From the very beginning of the pandemic they have been told that mask-wearing was virtuous, selfless, and compassionate — in other words, everything every…

  • WI to Joe Biden on mask mandates: Pound sand!

    The fat lady is singing — without her mask  Brian Hagedorn has staved off recall for another day. He wrote the deciding opinion in today’s 4-3 ruling that overturned Gov. Tony Evers’ mask mandate. A WI governor has only 60 days worth of special powers after declaring a public health emergency and his expire April…

  • Thank you, all-powerful teachers union!

    Now get your shine box! My journalism alma mater, The Capital Times, flatters itself that it speaks truth to power, that hoary old cliché. We’ll believe it when they stop kowtowing (beautiful word) to  the all-powerful teachers union, Madison Teachers Inc. The Emerald City’s public schools remain shuttered for classroom learning late this February 2021…

  • Promoting the partisan pan-DEM-ic

    CNN & NY Times promoted Russian collusion hoax; now they pin hopes on the pandemic. Very clever, the gnomes at the New York Times. Page One of my Sunday paper is almost all agate typeface text naming almost 100,000 individuals who died of COVID-19. An impressive job of compiling this data. Worker bees scoured obituaries…

  • Boot lickers of the world, unite!

    You have nothing to lose but your livelihoods To Paul Fanlund, editor and publisher The Capital Times “Dane County’s Progressive Voice” Regarding your latest editorial column: “Why many rich people keep a Faustian bargain with the GOP.”  You lost me when you labeled “conservative-leaning people among the educated professional class” as “boot-licking GOP toadies.” (Does…