Pandemic
Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf has set a target end date for the lockdown: May 8.[1] Is such a date consistent with his previously declared criteria?[2] Of course not. We don’t have the testing, let alone a cure or a vaccine. I can’t blame him, but this is a political decision, not one based on medical science. It is what he does because people are blowing off the order anyway and he knows his grip is slipping. On paper, it’s a very limited reopening,[3] but I’m guessing this’ll be a time when the slippery slope is not a fallacy and the capitalist god will get its human sacrifices.[4] Let’s hope I’m wrong.
Andy Sheehan, “Coronavirus In Pennsylvania: Gov. Tom Wolf Says State Will Start Gradually Reopening On May 8,” KDKA, April 20, 2020, https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/04/20/gov-tom-wolf-reopens-pennsylvania-may-8/
Israel
Marcy Oster, “Netanyahu and Gantz sign agreement for ‘national emergency government’ that keeps Netanyahu as prime minister for now,” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, April 20, 2020, https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/netanyahu-and-gantz-sign-agreement-for-national-emergency-government-that-keeps-netanyahu-as-prime-minister-for-now
Times of Israel, “After more than yearlong impasse, Netanyahu and Gantz agree to form a government,” April 20, 2020, https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-gantz-reach-agreement-to-form-national-emergency-government/
- [1]Andy Sheehan, “Coronavirus In Pennsylvania: Gov. Tom Wolf Says State Will Start Gradually Reopening On May 8,” KDKA, April 20, 2020, https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/04/20/gov-tom-wolf-reopens-pennsylvania-may-8/↩
- [2]Natasha Lindstrom, “Gov. Wolf: No specific date for ending covid-19 shutdown, getting ‘back to life as we once knew it,’” TribLive, April 16, 2020, https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/gov-wolf-no-specific-date-for-ending-covid-19-shutdown-getting-back-to-life-as-we-once-knew-it/↩
- [3]Andy Sheehan, “Coronavirus In Pennsylvania: Gov. Tom Wolf Says State Will Start Gradually Reopening On May 8,” KDKA, April 20, 2020, https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/04/20/gov-tom-wolf-reopens-pennsylvania-may-8/↩
- [4]David Benfell, “An impatient capitalist god demands human sacrifice. Now,” Not Housebroken, April 17, 2020, https://disunitedstates.org/2020/04/15/an-impatient-capitalist-god-demands-human-sacrifice-now/↩