by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 10, 2020 | Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, David Brooks, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, Pandemic Management, Paul Krugman, The 2020 elections
July 10, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, It’s Seems Impossible To Look Away and See Beyond the Moment The last six months have been a blur. I can vaguely remember the impeachment hearings in January, and the faint hope that a couple of Republican...
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 | Jul 3, 2020 | a personal testimony, Covid-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Global Warming, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Ta-Nehisi Coates
July 3, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, A Different Kind of Fourth One of my most cherished possessions is about fifty feet of 8mm film shot by my father between 1948 and 1950. I found several canisters of developed and undeveloped movie film in a...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jun 30, 2020 | "Humankind:A Hopeful History", Featured Post, Honoring Caregivers in the Fight Against COVID-19, Inequality in Healthcare, Martin Luther King Jr, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Rutgar Bregman, the difficulties of change, The World After COVID-19, Winston Churchill
It feels like we have had a lifetime’s measure of challenging events in the last four months, but it seems much too early to know how things will be different when the “new normal” really arrives. The descriptors of this moment are volatility,...
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,...
