by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Sep 4, 2020 | Atul Gawande, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Paul Romer, Population Health Management, Public Health, Reopening the economy, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 election, The de emphasis of public health, The importance of testing in pandemic management
September 4, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Our Biggest Threat Is Our Incompetence This is a week when we get a treat. Atul Gawande has published another insightful article built on a position that he has expressed before. On several occasions Gawande has...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 31, 2020 | Build Back Better, David Brooks, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, How The Mighty Fall, Moneyball, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Reopening the economy, Wicked Problems
July 31, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Who Is Not Dazed, Confused and Disappointed By COVID-19? It’s a “Wicked Problem.” Once upon a time there were sporting events to attend. In that bygone era, the stands at Fenway Park were always alive with people....
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 7, 2020 | Bret Kavanaugh, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Employer Provided Health Insurance, Improving the health of the poor, Inequality in Healthcare, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Reopening the economy
The president taught me something this week. I was not surprised when I heard that his campaign speech at Mount Rushmore was a dark and divisive presentation. I was very surprised, and a bit supercilious, when I heard that his rath came down on “far left”...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 26, 2020 | ACA, Attack on The ACA Through the Courts, Avoiding the Second Wave, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, herd immunity, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Reopening the economy, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, Tom Friedman
June 26, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Frustrated, Frightened, But Hoping I have read hundreds of thousands of words about the COVID-19 epidemic. There are several great writers at The Atlantic who have provided excellent reports and analysis,...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 19, 2020 | A personal history of social change, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Eve Shapiro, Featured Post, General Mark Milley, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, John Bolton's assertions, Juneteenth, Justin Locke, President Trump, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racism in America, Reopening the economy, The 2020 elections, The Triple Aim
June 19, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Is “Living On Tulsa Time” Appropriate For These Times? Donald Ray Williams is gone now, but he is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Williams sang many hit songs, but one in particular, “Tulsa Time,” written...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 9, 2020 | 2020 Presidential Debates, Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic inequality, George Floyd, Inequality in Healthcare, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Reopening the economy, The Great Awakening, The World After COVID-19
The header for this post should look familiar since last Friday’s post featured a very similar picture. The picture on last Friday had been taken on the previous Tuesday evening when about 200 people gathered on the New London Town Green to demonstrate their...
