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“#Amherst College’s insane COVID rules are all about upper-class virtue-signaling” Last week, Amherst College announced that its students will be subject to double-masking and to COVID tests every other week throughout the fall semester. Indoor dining services will be shut down, and the size of gatherings severely restricted. Students, all of whom were already required to…
“#Lockdowns, mandates impede better voluntary safety measures” After a year of start-and-stop public-health measures, more often guided by intuition than by science, studies are confirming what economists long suspected: The COVID-19 lockdowns were an expensive, unnecessary failure — because they failed to account for individual responses to the pandemic. Epidemiologists viewed lockdowns as the logical…
“#Designer’s ‘Spider Dress’ enforces social distancing” Want people to maintain their distance? Worried about someone breathing on you? Don’t worry, Dutch fashion designer and engineer Anouk Wipprecht has created a solution to your problem. Wipprecht has created “The Spider Dress,” which enforces social distancing via the bone-like tentacles with sensors surrounding the body. “It measures…
“#Vaccines alone can’t stop the COVID-19 Delta variant: study” Vaccines are only the first step in stopping new coronavirus strains, a new study warns, adding that face masks and social distancing are also essential. Researchers whose work was published Friday in Nature Scientific Reports have said they agree with updated guidelines from the Centers for…
“#’Delta’ hysteria another blow to already flattened small businesses” We’re in a frenzy — again. And small businesses are poised to suffer for our panic — again. The Delta variant is circulating, cases are up. But with three vaccines on the market, and nearly 60 percent of eligible Americans fully vaccinated, the picture is much…
“#We’re not going back to masks and lockdowns again” Are we really doing this again? Are we really talking about returning to masking? Again? Last weekend, Los Angeles County reinstituted its mask mandate for indoor settings. More than 60 percent of the county is fully vaccinated, but the mandate applies to both vaccinated and unvaccinated…
“#Our bossy society is completely losing sight of the value of risky behavior” When told that Gen. Ulysses Grant drank too much, President Abraham Lincoln is said to have inquired as to Grant’s choice of booze, so he could send some to his other generals. The anecdote captures the central argument of “Drunk,” Edward Slingerland’s…
“#Central Park SummerStage is bringing live music back to NYC” When Gloria Gaynor belts out “I Will Survive” at Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage at the Coney Island Amphitheater on July 17, the 1978 anthem will take on a whole new meaning after the world came to a pause — and live music stopped…
“#COVID proved to be a bonfire of ‘expert’ credibility” A year ago, Professor Tom Nichols of the Naval War College predicted that one of the most lasting consequences of COVID-19 would be a widespread “return to faith in serious experts.” Well, so much for that. Making these kinds of guesses is a mug’s game. Still,…
“#Gov. Cuomo says NY isn’t ready to follow federal advice on going maskless” Pandemic-weary New Yorkers had their hopes deflated Thursday when Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he wasn’t ready to ease the state’s mask mandate — even though the feds gave the green light for vaccinated Americans to finally show their faces and gather indoors…