Old Dixie going down (again)

I might like it aesthetically, but the Confederate flag belongs in the dustbin of history, a traitorous symbol of a rightly destroyed rebellion. You know that when even NASCAR has come around to my way of thinking, big changes are afoot.  Likewise, I’m very much in...

Contact tracers and the OHA

How many contact tracers are battling coronavirus in Oregon right now? State can’t say. – oregonlive.com: State officials in April calculated that at least 631 contact tracers would be needed to identify and speak to close contacts of people with...

Luck not science

Protests and Policing Will Worsen the Coronavirus Pandemic from The Atlantic mirrors my sentiments exactly. We are relying now on luck rather than science: But as the pandemic persists, more and more states are pulling back on the measures they’d instituted...

Big protest day

The coronavirus doesn’t care about politics, right wing or left wing. From a strictly medical perspective, getting large groups of people together during a pandemic is one of the worst things one can do. This will be taken by some as an attack on the Black Lives...

An unexpected apology

Since I published Two types of discrimination a few days ago, the Oregon Health Authority has issued an unexpected apology. Not to me. To people who deserve one. It could have been a little better. Patrick Allen, the director of the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), sent...