by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Mar 12, 2021 | 1.9 Trillion Dollar COVID Stimulus Bill, 9/11, Children in poverty, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality, rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, significance of March 11, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The Triple Aim
March 12, 2021 Dear Interested Readers, Happy For A Little Relief While Still Looking For An End Of Misery After One Strange Year Most of us remember in vivid detail where we were on 9/11/2001 when we first heard of the planes crashing into the...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Dec 29, 2020 | ACA, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Education and The Pandemic, Featured Post, George Floyd, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Polarization in America, Poverty and healthcare, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The election of Joe Biden, The Triple Aim
Never before have I been happier to see a year finally end. 2020 was a traumatic experience. For many years, the humorist Dave Barry has been writing a column at the end of the year that summarizes the past events of the year lest we forget them. This year’s...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 24, 2020 | American exceptionalism, Authoritarianism, Blunders on the Way to the Pandemic, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Health and Healthcare, ignoring prudence while reopening the economy, Inequality in Healthcare, Jill Lepore, Pandemic Management, Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing, The de emphasis of public health, The World After COVID-19
July 24, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, We Are Not As “Exceptional” As We Thought As a child, I developed a love of American history. My family traveled more extensively east of the Mississippi than to the west, but the east was the home of colonial...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | Jul 17, 2020 | Avoiding the Second Wave, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Hope, Inequality in Healthcare, Nicholas Kristof, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racism in America, Social Distancing, The World After COVID-19
July 17, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, Finding Hope In Strange Times Can things get more bizarre in our deeply troubled and widely divided nation? Facing a pandemic that remains poorly understood and totally unpredictable, but might have stolen...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 22, 2020 | Avoiding the Second Wave, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Inequality in Healthcare, Reopening the economy, Social Determinants of Health, Social Distancing
May 22, 2020 Dear Interested Readers: Chaos Borne Of History, Culture, Choice and COVID-19 When I was in that phase of childhood that Erickson referred to as “Industry vs. Inferiority,” somewhere between 6 and 11, I became a student and was...
by Dr. Gene Lindsey | May 15, 2020 | Atul Gawande, coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump's management of COVID-19, Economic Implications of COVID-19, Featured Post, Groundhog Day/film, Inequality in Healthcare, lessons from the 1918 pandemic, Pandemic Management, Personal responses to the challenges of COVID-19, Racial Inequality, Social Distancing
May 15, 2020 Dear Interested Readers, The Challenge: Restart the Economy Without Inducing a Resurgence of COVID-19, and Other Musings I will begin with the “Other Musings” part of what I want to write to you: Somewhere, from someone, I...