Coronavirus News (276)

Kamala Harris Knows How to Win Elections Make a sharp shift to the center.  The campaign has largely shrunk down from grand ideological issues to two practical problems: How to get rid of Donald Trump. How to beat Covid-19. ..................  First, Democratic primary voters decided that beating Trump was more important than the revolution. Second, the pandemic hit. ............ Third, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris decided to run a professional campaign. Instead of trying to please those of us who consume large amounts of media, they have ruthlessly and effectively focused their campaign on the Exhausted Majority — people who are disgusted by and semidetached from politics in working-class homes in the Midwest, in retirement communities in Florida, in suburban cul-de-sacs everywhere. ..............   Her first answer on Covid-19 was the most ingenious of the evening, in that it hit Trump from the right. ........... She said that in January, Trump denied self-reliant families the information they needed to keep themselves safe. ............  turned questions about the Supreme Court fight into a conversation about protecting Obamacare. .......... The three supporters she name-checked were Colin Powell, Cindy McCain and John Kasich. ............  When she was asked directly about the Green New Deal, she immediately reminded voters that Joe Biden wouldn’t ban fracking ..............  once in office it is nearly impossible to rally support for issues and plans you didn’t take to the American people during the fall 

Rest Better With Light Exercises Stretching and meditative movement like yoga before bed can improve the quality of your sleep and the amount you sleep. Here is a short and calming routine of 11 stretches and exercises. ........  a 37 percent increase in the rates of clinical insomnia among adults in China from before the peak of the pandemic. .......... Exercise can reduce the amount of time it takes to fall asleep and the amount of time spent awake at night     

A $52,112 Air Ambulance Ride: Coronavirus Patients Battle Surprise Bills Congress was close to a solution before getting hit with millions of dollars of ads from private-equity firms. Then the pandemic struck.

Coronavirus: WHO backflips on virus stance by condemning lockdowns  stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method” of the coronavirus. ...........  “Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer” ........ “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganise, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.” ............   “Look what’s happened to smallholder farmers all over the world. … Look what’s happening to poverty levels. It seems that we may well have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition.” ...........  Melbourne’s lockdown has been hailed as one of the strictest and longest in the world. In Spain’s lockdown in March, people weren’t allowed to leave the house unless it was to walk their pet. In China, authorities welded doors shut to stop people from leaving their homes. The WHO thinks these steps were largely unnecessary. ........... lockdowns were doing “irreparable damage.” .......... and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection