Here is a taste of David Frum’s piece “Vaccinated Americas Has Had Enough“: In the United States, this pandemic could’ve been over by now, and certainly would’ve been by Labor Day. If the pace of vaccination through the summer had...
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“There’s nothing like a near-death experience to serve as a wake-up call.” Unless you’re Donald Trump.
Damian Paletta and Yasmeen Abutaleb are the authors of the forthcoming Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History. In an excerpt published at The Washington Post, we learn that Trump’s case of COVID-19 was...
The Biden administration is framing health as a matter of personal choice. Why this is a bad idea.
I drove through four states yesterday. I didn’t get out of the car much, but when I did make stops I didn’t see many masks. When I got to my hotel I read Ed Yong’s piece at The Atlantic. Here...
The Christians & the Vaccine project
Curtis Chang, a theologian at Duke Divinity School and Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary, and Kris Carter, a Christian entrepreneur, are trying to get evangelicals to take the COVID-19 vaccine. They have started the “Christians and the Vaccine Project.”...
Some evangelical pastors want their congregations to avoid the “scam-demic” COVID-19 vaccine
We have been keeping eye on the resistance to the COVID-19 vaccine in some conservative evangelical quarters. Here is the lastest: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — At River West Palm Beach Church, Pastor Corey Erman stood in front of the congregation...
More on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine
Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and the director of the National Institute of Health. In a recent appearance on CBS News he called the COVID-19 vaccine “”an answer to prayer.” Watch: Franklin Graham also tried to get his followers...
The anti-vaxxer movement does not take its marching orders from Donald Trump
Over at The Week, Ryan Cooper thinks that Trump’s followers will get the COVID-19 vaccine if the former president will just encourage them to do so. Here is a taste of his piece: Dear Mr. Trump, I know it’s been...
Trying to get a vaccine appointment? Just google “places where Trump won in a landslide”
It worked for Jennifer Salzano of Columbus, Ohio. Here is Larrison Campbell’s piece from The Daily Beast: As soon as Ohio opened up its coronavirus vaccine eligibility to residents over 70, Jennifer Salzano threw herself into finding an appointment for her mom,...
Kenneth Copeland one year ago today: “The United States is healed and well again”
After Copeland declared the U.S. was “healed” and “well again” over half a million people died of COVID-19. We will never know how many of those people died because they believed what Copeland said here. (HT: Right Wing Watch)...
Biden holds a press conference and no one asks him about the pandemic
Watch: Here is Elahe Izadi and Paul Farhi at The Washington Post: Biden’s first formal news conference took placeon a day when hundreds of Americans died of covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, as they have on every day...
Out of the Zoo: National History Day, During a Pandemic
Annie Thorn is senior history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. As part of her internship she is writing a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.” It focuses on life as a...
Why are some Catholics concerned about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine?
Steven Millies of the Catholic Theological Union clears this up for us in a piece at The Conversation. Millies address the belief, popular among many pro-life groups, that the vaccines use fetal tissue from aborted babies: To be clear, none...
There have been 3,795 hate incidents targeting Asian Americans since March 19, 2020
And now six Asian woman are dead in Atlanta. What is going on? Here is Kurt Bardella at the Los Angeles Times: Last September, 164 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against a resolution authored by Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) to...
Historian: Now is not the time to abandon masks
John Barry‘s 2005 book The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, got new life after the COVID-19 pandemic broke last year. Over at The Washington Post, the historian of the 1918 pandemic shows us why abandoning...
What did Joe Biden learn from FDR?
He learned that in a time of crisis Americans need direct relief from their national government. Here is historian Suzanne Kahn at The Washington Post: The United States has surpassed an ignominious milestone: 500,000 deaths from covid-19. President Biden has...
GOP Congressmen skipped votes in Congress today, citing the “public health emergency.” And then they flew to Orlando for CPAC
What do Paul Gosar of Arizona, Jim Banks of Indiana, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, Ted Budd of North Carolina, Mark Green of Tennessee, Darrell Issa of California, Ronny Jackson of Texas, Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, Ralph Norman of South...
John MacArthur’s reach extends to Canada
Some of you may be following the controversy surrounding GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta. Last Sunday, Alberta health officials arrived at the church and found that its leadership was ignoring public health restrictions related to Covid-19. The church was filled...
Fauci: “When it became clear that in order to maintain my integrity and to get the right message I had to publicly disagree with [Trump], he did things—or allowed things to happen—that were terrible.”
Here is James Ross at The Daily Beast: Dr. Anthony Fauci’s sense of relief that he no longer has to deal with Donald Trump is very clear in his latest interview. Speaking to British newspaper The Telegraph in an interview published Friday,...
What is going on in South Dakota?
As videographers Sanya Dosani and Adam Westbrook note, “South Dakota’s public health isn’t a matter of [Gov. Kristi Noem’s] ‘personal responsibility,’ It’s her job.” Watch...
The evangelical lost cause is alive and well in Chino Hills, California
Evangelical pro-Trumpers were roundly defeated in November. They hitched their hope–both politically and ethically–to one of the most corrupt and immoral presidents in American history. Most of Trump’s diehard evangelical supporters believe that evil forces stole the election. preventing four...