California’s $116.5 million vaccine lottery: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/vaccinated-win-cash-california-offers-210146611.html . There’s $16.5 million in cash at stake, and 2 million $50 gift cards. Meanwhile, Ohio announces its first winners: https://apnews.com/article/ohio-vaccine-lottery-4c7a3728b79700faea66a6d5b57966fe . This hoopla cannot mask the fact that our educational system has failed. There are very few people who have any rational reason not to be vaccinated.
WSJ: Russia’s animal COVID vaccine: https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-rolls-out-covid-19-vaccine-for-animals-11622128581 .
WSJ: Mask your children: https://www.wsj.com/articles/face-mask-doctor-recommendations-11622115405 . Come on. They are not vaccinated and susceptible to the variants. How hard is this to figure out? Would your risk you child’s death over not wearing a mask?
Nearly 3 in 4 with moderate to severe COVID have at least one long-term symptom: https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/27/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html . This really is a terrifying finding.
WSJ: DOJ subpoenas Eli Lilly over quality control failures: https://www.wsj.com/articles/eli-lilly-gets-doj-subpoena-related-to-n-j-plant-11622144731 .
WSJ: Time is running out for a second phase of the COVID origins study: https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-is-running-out-in-covid-19-origins-inquiry-say-who-led-team-members-11622125841 .
WSJ: The COVID toll in pregnant women and babies in Brazil: https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-is-killing-hundreds-of-pregnant-women-and-babies-in-brazil-11622113201 .
WSJ: India’s grief: https://www.wsj.com/articles/indias-covid-19-crisis-leaves-nation-in-grief-11622135992 .
An Olympics COVID variant?: https://news.trust.org/item/20210527101623-pqq2e/ . This is a clever way to promote opposition to holding the Games now. And there is some truth to this possibility, although it is limited by the ban on foreign spectators.
WSJ: Boeing to pay FAA $17 million in penalties: https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-to-pay-faa-penalties-related-to-737-jet-production-problems-11622113200 .
WSJ: The Texas grid mess: https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-electrical-grid-bigger-disaster-february-freeze-black-starts-11622124896 .
Jobless claims continue to fall: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weekly-jobless-claims-week-ended-may-22-2021-183122973.html . WSJ: More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/weekly-jobless-claims-coronavirus-05-27-2021-11622068894 . As identified here recently, some part of the seeming inconsistencies relates to employers offering very low wages. You would think the solution would be to raise wages. Instead, Republican governors have moved to cut off unemployment benefits.
WSJ: Senate nears passage of technology competitiveness legislation: https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-nears-approval-of-bill-to-keep-u-s-lead-in-technology-11622150187 .
WSJ: Climate change coloring energy bond yields: https://www.wsj.com/articles/shell-exxon-decisions-highlight-rethink-in-energy-investment-11622109522 .
Biden won’t shame Republicans who tout his rescue plan while voting against it, … : https://news.yahoo.com/biden-calls-out-republicans-who-have-taken-credit-for-rescue-plan-but-voted-against-it-200659190.html … but the press has no problem doing it for him. Lovely society we’re building here.
Meanwhile, Republicans can’t handle the truth: https://news.yahoo.com/poll-73-percent-of-republicans-blame-left-wing-protesters-for-jan-6-attack-just-23-percent-blame-trump-191520343.html . What the hell is wrong with these people? Speaking of which: https://news.yahoo.com/rep-matt-gaetz-eyes-presidential-run-in-2024-173710244.html . I don’t think there are enough psychiatrists in the country to fix this. However, there should be enough prosecutors.
WSJ: The future of the Bond franchise under Amazon: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-siblings-who-control-james-bondeven-after-amazon-buys-mgm-11622127212 .
Here is the most bizarre baseball play you will ever see: https://sports.yahoo.com/javy-baez-fools-pirates-into-the-dumbest-baseball-play-of-the-season-174849767.html . How did the first baseman get suckered into this?