There are other catastrophes pending than COVID-19. It can't really compete with the repression of schooling or church service or bars or thrift stores or, or,

There are other catastrophes pending than COVID-19. It can't really compete with the repression of schooling or church service or bars or thrift stores or, or, or... Krugman's first piece post 9/11 was about how getting to rebuild a skyscraper was somehow going to be a tremendous economic stimulus, as if the loss of so many knowledgeable and wise people being murdered all at once didn't occur to him... AT ALL! In college I read the NYT everyday, thought it was the best paper in the world. Then one morning I opened my copy to see a full color photo of my rapist attached to a hagiography of how she had been elected to public office. Now the NYT CEO is still Mark Thompson, who got the job because as Director-General at the BBC he covered up Jimmy Saville's... I don't have a word for it yet. Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for using the NYT to cover up Stalin's genocide of Polish people so that American media didn't seriously cover it until the 1980s. Don't get me started on how many people with Gilead financial ties are acting as if financial incentives might somehow statistically significantly effect their behavior because it seems to just give me sleep deprivation.