Domestic Affairs Archive
11 Feb 2021
COVID19 Wins the Race for the Bomb
TLDRUpFront: A new variant SARS-COV-2 undermines current vaccines and is better able to reinfect people previously infected. It’s probably too late to stop the global spread of this strain. We still need swift, substantial action to slow the spread while we develop vaccines that work against the new strain.
11 Feb 2021
Moving Goalposts: COVID19 Variants & Herd Immunity from Vaccines
TLDRInTheFront: Currently-known variants of SARS-COV-2 move the goalposts on public health responses and raise the bar for reaching herd immunity through vaccination. Evolution, too, is a complicated "frenemy" in this fight and understanding the forces involved help us make sense of how to better manage the pandemic going forward.
11 Feb 2021
Playing Darts: Explaining Mutation, Isolate, Strain & Variant for COVID19
TLDRUpFront: Science Decoded decodes COVID19 technical terms related to strategic risk: mutation, isolate, strain, and variant.
10 Feb 2021
Impeachment’s Indictment is Insurrection’s Incitement: Part II
TLDRUpFront: A mega-mullet focusing on the standards of judgment, relevant laws, and analysis of the evidence on the key charges facing President Trump in the Senate Trial. Part two of two.
09 Feb 2021
Impeachment’s Indictment is Insurrection’s Incitement: Part I
TLDRUpFront: A mega-mullet of the key issues: charges, evidence, procedures, and Constitutionality arising during President Trump’s Senate Trial. But if you want to skip to the end, just watch for the Senate vote on a Secret Ballot. That alone will probably determine his fate. Part I of II.
07 Jan 2021
Failed Insurrection fitting end to Shit-Hole Administration
TLDRUpFront: Tallying the aftermath of the Capitol Hill insurrection, we also look to the way ahead. The Capitol Hill riots clearly qualified the President, and many of his supporters, for charges of both sedition and insurrection, and meet both the legal criteria and past cases of the same. A rapid move to Impeach, followed by
21 Dec 2020
Dreaming of a White-Architecture Christmas
TLDRUPFront: If 2020 couldn't get any weirder. President Trump issued a massive Executive Order mandating "classical architecture style" on Federal buildings and appointing a Presidential Council to oversee it. Nope. Not kidding. Following the money however reveals that this is likely a pay-to-play money grab for Trump on his way out the door. Federal construction
25 Nov 2020
InfoMullet: Something Minks in the state of Denmark
TLDRUpFront: The Danish government has killed several million mink in order to control the spread and mitigate the danger of COVID-19. Several mutations have already been observed in the minks, and one that might constitute the beginnings of a new "strain" of COVID-19. That threatens the efficacy of a vaccine, and so it is very
25 Nov 2020
InfoMullet: Bamlanivimab da bang, da bang, diggy, diggy, said up jump the boogie
TLDRupfront: Bamlanivimab is not the game-changer drug hoped for. Complexities and ethical questions in administration, distribution, and prescription remain. Still struggling with a drug that works is better than having no drugs that work at all.
21 Nov 2020
InfoMullet: Moderna Joins Pfizer in the ‘Pfight Club’ of COVID19 Vaccines
TLDRUpFront: There is a lot of promise in Pfizer's announcement, but we should be cautious about investing too much hope in it too soon. It bodes well for the pandemic long term, and I hope that we get similar announcements from AstraZeneca and Moderna soon, but there are major challenges ahead in both approval and