OHA, stumbling again

Contact tracing takes time, effort, and manpower. China reportedly—who knows if it’s true—had 1,800 teams of five doing contact tracing in Wuhan.  One of Oregon’s biggest coronavirus outbreaks could take weeks to trace and contain – OregonLive.com: A...

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...

So this is why Bill Barr is such a bully

So this is why Bill Barr is such a bully – The Washington Post: Childhood bullies have a predisposition to become adult bullies, research shows, and, sure enough, it seems Attorney General William Barr was a teenage bully more than 50 years ago. Back in 1991,...

Points for trying

It’ll probably get killed in the Senate or vetoed by Trump, but the Justice in Policing Act has a lot of good ideas. House Democrats’ sprawling bill provides a good start toward police reform – The Washington Post: It would impose new restrictions on...

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...