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Category: <span>Pandemic</span>

Category: Pandemic

Politics and Life Expectancy

Politics and Life Expectancy

By Chris Ladd April 10, 2022 April 10, 2022

Republican politics isn’t just killing people, it’s killing its own voters.

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Sick People: How ‘Personal Choice’ Destroys Freedom

Sick People: How ‘Personal Choice’ Destroys Freedom

By Chris Ladd September 16, 2021 September 16, 2021

Our commitment to a hyper-individual vision of liberty is leaving us with fewer, lousier choices than people elsewhere enjoy.

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Why Are Republicans Eating Horse Paste?

Why Are Republicans Eating Horse Paste?

By Chris Ladd August 29, 2021 August 30, 2021

Beneath the inevitable outrage lies a curiosity. Why?

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Hookworm, Pellagra and COVID: Diseases of Dysfunction

Hookworm, Pellagra and COVID: Diseases of Dysfunction

By Chris Ladd July 27, 2021 May 7, 2022

For many influential Southerners, the spread of COVID is less worrying than the spread of democracy.

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Our Population Has Shrunk Since the Election

Our Population Has Shrunk Since the Election

By Chris Ladd January 14, 2021 January 15, 2021

By any reasonable estimate we will be a smaller country on Inauguration Day 2021 than we were on Election Day 2020.

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COVID-19 Was a Political Gift Trump Wasted

COVID-19 Was a Political Gift Trump Wasted

By Chris Ladd December 1, 2020 December 1, 2020

Why didn’t Trump capitalize on the Reichstag fire moment offered by the pandemic to enact his nativist agenda?

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Update: Where the Vaccine Race Stands

By Chris Ladd November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020

This is an update to an October 13 post on the status of vaccine production.

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Where the Vaccine Race Stands

Where the Vaccine Race Stands

By Chris Ladd October 13, 2020 October 13, 2020

Across 2021, we will only make significant progress against the pandemic by also doing the things we needed to do in 2020.

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Trump Decided to Kill a Bunch of Gold Star Mothers

Trump Decided to Kill a Bunch of Gold Star Mothers

By Chris Ladd October 7, 2020 October 7, 2020

How many of these families, who already paid the ultimate price for their patriotism, will pay with yet another loss?

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School Reopening Is Everything You Need to Know About America

School Reopening Is Everything You Need to Know About America

By Chris Ladd August 9, 2020 August 9, 2020

Until we have a competent federal response to this pandemic, our efforts to get kids back in school are just pissing in the wind.

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