Meat inspectors travel to multiple plants to inspect but what if they are carriers of the virus? From Food Dive "A U.S. Agriculture Department spokesperson told Food Dive that 197 field employees in the Food Safety and Inspection Service are absent from work after...
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5/8/20 Arielle Zionts on the Death of Andrea Circle Bear
Scott interviews reporter Arielle Zionts about her recent story about a pregnant South Dakota woman who died of COVID-19 in federal prison. Andrea Circle Bear, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, was charged under an obscure law in connection with a drug sale...
News Roundup 5/8/20
US News 33.5 million Americans have filed for unemployment since the coronavirus lockdowns started. [Link] The Senate failed to override Trump’s veto of the Iran War Powers resolution. [Link] The Justice Department is dropping the case against Mike Flynn. [Link] Rep....
What Did Society Benefit By Social Distancing?
"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue...
News Roundup 5/7/20
US News The TSA ignored federal guidelines that required turning over N-95 masks to hospitals. The TSA has hoarded 1.3 million N-95s. [Link] Trump vetoed a war powers bill that would have constrained his ability to start a war with Iran. [Link] The US is looking to...
The Secretive Israeli Company Developing A Vaccine For Coronavirus
Shortly after a message to Israelis on May 4 by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that the Israel Institute For Biological Research (IIBR) had identified a monoclonal antibody that neutralizes the coronavirus. This would be an...
Foreign Aid Can’t Fix Bad Economics
Some myths in politics die hard. We are constantly reminded by the managerial classes that foreign aid is crucial to lifting the developing world out of poverty. With the magic wand of public spending, money is sent to the developing world in hopes of pushing these...
Bubble-Wrapped Americans: How the U.S. Became Obsessed with Physical and Emotional Safety
How America became obsessed with physical and emotional safety – and how damaging it’s been to our culture.
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