Read the “Red Dawn” Emails.
Here are 80 pages of emails in which public health experts discuss the beginning of the pandemic and the failure of the Trump administration to respond to it.
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Lipton, “The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus,” New York Times, April 11, 2020.
“Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.”
The 9/11 Order Is Over
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/its-not-september-12-anymore/609502/ The former deputy national security advisor to Barack Obama explores United States’ war on terror and contrasts it with the new world reality in 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic. He suggests that ‘us versus them’ U.S foreign policy that emerged (perhaps remerged with consideration to the cold war) is no longer … Read more
Louisiana Senator Addresses Racial Disparities
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/07/828827346/louisiana-sen-cassidy-addresses-racial-disparities-in-coronavirus-deaths The senator does not take into account how poverty and systematic oppression affects health. Instead, he blames genetics for racial disparities and high rates of infection and deaths amongst black communities.
COVID-19 Meme Demonstrating Media and Government Corruption
Social Media has become a source of News to many generations, young and old, and can be utilized to express, converse, and make sense of our modern epidemic. Doctor Brooke Magnanti, a former research scientist and now blogger/writer, shared a Meme based off the popular comedy TV show Rick and Morty. This meme demonstrates what … Read more
The US Bans Exportation of N95 Masks
On April 3rd, President Donald Trump tweeted the following “We hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their Masks. ‘P Act’ all the way. Big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing – will have a big price to pay!” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 3, 2020 3M … Read more
Andrew Yang: We Asian Americans are not the virus, but we can be part of the cure
This is an article written by Andrew Yang, a presidential candidate for 2020, on the Washington Post, reflecting on the ongoing discrimination against Asians in America. His article caused some debate because people criticize his idea of “working harder to show that Asian Americans are Americans first”. “The truth is that people are wired to … Read more
How we Communicate Regarding COVID-19 Matters
Wesleyan Professor, Erika Franklin Fowler, has been interested how effective communication can effect the way we engage with the coronavirus. In speaking with government leaders in Connecticut, she shares some advise on how to effectively communicate how to best protect the public health, such as making messages short and simple as well as taking politics … Read more
Biden and Trump Have Phone Call About Pandemic
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/828341826/biden-and-trump-discuss-coronavirus-response-by-phone Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for the 2020 election and President Trump had a fifteen-minute conversation over the phone about the coronavirus issue. According to both Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, and the President himself, the conversation was warm. The conversation happened in the wake of criticisms of Biden from the Trump … Read more