“Five reasons the stock market is soaring as the economy is floundering: from buoyant tech stocks to high earnings hopes to fear of missing out” https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/why-is-the-stock-market-rallying-when-the-economy-is-so-bad-11588974327
” Cunningham, an admirer of the “Country Doctor” photographs that W. Eugene Smith took for Life, in 1948, wanted to document what was going on in the intensive-care units and got permission from the hospital to bring her camera to work. She photographed her friend over two long shifts in mid-April.”
” When asked to explain past events, historians are quick to assert the importance of context. If you want to understand how or why something happened, you must attend to local circumstances. But there is something about epidemics that has elicited an opposite reaction from historians: a desire to identify universal truths about how societies … Read more
” Now that I am visibly pregnant and the world is convulsing in the grip of this pandemic, I imagine my son one day seeing a picture of me in my P.P.E.—gown, gloves, mask, eye protection—with a protruding belly. I want him to know that, while he breathed through me, I was working to help … Read more
Here, Jervis brings attention to the protocols hospitals have put in place to address the emotional and psychological toll COVID has had on their staff. Following the suicide of Dr. Lorna Breen just a few days prior, proper protocol and general awareness of the difficulties medical providers are facing is especially important during this pandemic.
This CBS News article and video highlights the state of the meat industry in America, how Trump’s executive order has protected industries from getting sued if their workers get sick, and how the mandate to keep these meat processing facilities open has caused them to become COVID-19 hotspots.
Samuels follows up on Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s interview with Tucker Carlson. There, Patrick suggested that “he would rather die from the widely spreading coronavirus than see then economy destroyed for future generations by overreaction to the disease.” When he was re-interviewed by Carlson on April 20, Patrick justified his earlier comments and stressed that … Read more
“As nightlife appropriates technologies built for corporate conferencing and gaming, new party experiences are emerging to encourage interactivity and community, making the audience active participants rather than passive consumers. ” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-14/virtual-nightlife-grows-past-dj-livestreams-to-paid-zoom-clubs?sref=ExbtjcSG
This article beautifully uses the work of “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” to articulate the different kinds of grief that we can individually and collectively experience in the midst of Covid-19. Kalaichandran suggests that collective grief will become a culture that will allow us to walk away from Covid-19 with a future that lies ahead, but … Read more
This article highlights an analysis of information, gathered by Earnest Research, on credit and debit card purchases of approximately six million Americans in the US. Not surprisingly, travel and shopping on spending have plummeted, while spending on groceries, food delivery services, and certain kinds of entertainment have skyrocketed. Surprisingly, spending on healthcare has also mostly … Read more
