When this is over, Americans will have themselves to thank for the mitigation of the coronavirus.Yes, thank goodness for Doctors Fauci and Birx and, to a greater or lesser extent, Vice President Pence, and to all those conscientious governors, Democrats and Republicans. They have served us ...
Andrew Cuomo might have become governor of New York on his own. He was already state attorney general after serving in Bill Clinton鈥檚 cabinet as secretary of Commerce. And his father, Mario Cuomo, had been a two-term governor and liberal torch carrier.But as it happened, Andrew got a big push ...
During these sad pandemic days, Americans are reading and watching more news, though their long-standing opinion of newspapers and TV news has not changed. According to the latest Gallup poll, 36 percent are favorably disposed toward the media while 48 percent are not.What continues to drive ...
Though she was a homemaker, the late, great Rose Brady of Connellsville was no homebody. 鈥淪ocial distancing鈥� was not her thing.Not when the mother of seven joined the nurse volunteer program at what in those days was Connellsville State Hospital. Not when she became a leader in Red Cross ...
In my 20s, I received a preliminary diagnosis of diabetes. The doctor said it would take several days for test results to show for sure or not. I should go home, he said. Take it easy, he said. Don鈥檛 worry, he said.Instead of taking the doctor鈥檚 advise, I fretted. Boy, did I fret. Diabetes ...
Those of you old enough may remember how the American war in Vietnam was summed up in the statement, 鈥淲e had to destroy the town in order to save it.鈥滻n the case of coronavirus, the effort to limit its impact may be summarized this way: 鈥淲e must isolate the individual in order to spare ...