How COVID-19 is affecting society

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This article analyses the issue in some detail, suggesting it's not simply left-right or lives vs economy issue, and certainly shouldn't be reduced to "restart the economy asap" vs "as long as it takes."


As so often, I think it's helpful to break down the issue into specific problems faced by particular groups of people as a result of the emergency, and to try think of ways of remedying those specific issues for people in that particular position, rather than to look for grand, simple solutions.
I think Rachel Maddow is doing something like that in her shows recently. She is spotlighting nursing homes which is where most people are dying of covid now. As is so often the case what Rachel talks about on her show is what the rest of the world starts talking about the next day.
 

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“I don’t believe coronavirus creates violent men. What we’re seeing is a window into the levels of abuse that women live with all the time. Coronavirus may exacerbate triggers, though I might prefer to call them excuses. Lockdown may restrict some women’s access to support or escape and it may even curtail measures some men take to keep their own violence under control.

“We have to be cautious about how we talk about increases in men killing women. Over the last 10 years, in the UK, a woman has been killed by a man every three days, by a partner or ex-partner, every four days. So if this was averaged out, we might expect to see seven women killed in 21 days. In reality, there are always times when the numbers are higher or lower.

“But we can say that the number of women killed by men over the first three weeks since lockdown is the highest it’s been for at least 11 years and is double that of an average 21 days over the last 10 years.”
 

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If it is any consolation he admitted to a room full of reporters the wh produced that video. Anyone would describe it as a campaign video. Basically, he is on record as breaking the law.
It would be a consolation if he would actually get into trouble for breaking the law. He's broken a bunch of laws and the GOP just shrugs.
 

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Some of the points in this are UK-specific, but most of the practical points, and the arguments for and against them, it raises are more generally applicable, I think

 

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I think Rachel Maddow is doing something like that in her shows recently. She is spotlighting nursing homes which is where most people are dying of covid now. As is so often the case what Rachel talks about on her show is what the rest of the world starts talking about the next day.
Can we broadcast that across the spectrum to nursing homes and retirement communities? While a lot of gen x fears going outside we have to worry that both our kids AND our parents think nothing of it.
 

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What in the name of Total Dumbfuckery is this nonsense?

Looks like a governor defied His Majesty, the Total Authority Who Accepts No Responsibility.

“Lock her up.”
 

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