Uncle Sam: Trump has COVID-19, and that’s not good
Early in the morning of Oct. 2, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and the first lady both tested positive for COVID-19. Since then, we’ve learned he’s experiencing mild symptoms.
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Early in the morning of Oct. 2, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and the first lady both tested positive for COVID-19. Since then, we’ve learned he’s experiencing mild symptoms.
The ambition of most intellectual movements is to deconstruct some unjust, antiquated system. Today, the Defund the Police Movement demands the deconstruction of the police state. While deconstruction of unjust systems is a common denominator across many movements, the reconstruction of sustainable alternatives should be equally as common. When movements fail to suggest adequate alternatives, opponents (in this case, Blue Lives Matter) are more empowered to make ill-founded arguments to distract from the necessity of achieving a goal.
On Tuesday, Sept. 8, President Nellis informed the Ohio University community that over 7,200 students would be invited back to the Athens campus during Phase 2 of the university’s return to on-campus learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The 7,200 students invited back represent 31% of the undergraduate student body and 100% of OU graduate enrollment. The decision comes frightfully soon after Athens County shifted from a Level 1 “yellow” county to a Level 2 “orange” county just last week as cases have climbed since Phase 1 of the return began in August.
The COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a crash in commodity prices, causing Ohio University’s endowment fund to have a 0 percent commodity value in its investment portfolio, according to a report from The Post earlier this year. In economics, commodities refer to bulk goods and raw materials used to produce consumer products. One primary (and sinister) classification of commodities is fossil fuels – such regular villains as oil, natural gas, and coal, whose mining and burning is a great contributor to climate change.
To refuse to wear a mask or suggest that mask mandates do not work is to renounce science. It is to be confronted with facts and ignorantly retort with, “No, I think I’ll make my own rules.”
Joe Biden has selected California Sen. Kamala Harris to join his presidential ticket as vice president. The nomination is historic; not only would Sen. Harris be the first woman ever to hold the role of vice president, but she would also be the first Black woman and first person of Asian descent ever to do so.
If you were born in or after 1996, America has been at war for at least 75% of your life. If you were born in or after 2000, it has been at war for 100% of your life. Even if the thought is relegated to the backs of our minds as we go about our days, the reality of war — or at least conflict — is essentially a ubiquity in the modern American experience. Maybe that is why some of us see immense benefit in framing the COVID-19 pandemic as a war.
COVID-19 has demanded that humanity come to a halt. Where humans have stalled, it seems as though nature has picked up the slack. Indeed, fewer cars on the road, jets in the sky, and factories in operation have meant that nature has gotten a well-deserved break from humanity’s pollutive tendencies. As such, canals in Venice have clear water, satellite images show reduced pollution and pictures of animals roaming empty city streets abound.
Stopping the spread of COVID-19 has demanded millions across the United States isolate themselves and entirely change their lifestyles.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy is crashing.
“War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” Edwin Starr’s 1970 hit “War (What Is It Good for?)” tells us all we need to know about war: that it isn’t good for anything. War’s detrimental effects on humanity are widely discussed. From injuries to psychological damage to the taking of lives, war is humanity’s absolute most self-destructive tendency.
Perhaps more than anything in American history, fighting the spread of COVID-19 requires national cooperation. We have been asked by governments, universities, hospitals and businesses alike to reduce public exposure, cancel important events, limit consumption and take numerous other important health measures.
Following the appearance of COVID-19 in Ohio, Ohio University President Duane Nellis announced OU will cancel in-person classes through March 30. That was the right decision.
Money, food, clothes, shelter, healthcare — all examples of things we increasingly expect charities to give to those in need.
Bernie Sanders is now the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. With his success in the primaries, his significant lead in the polls and his historic donor support, Sanders is perhaps the best situated of the remaining Democratic candidates to beat Donald Trump.
Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Gabrielle Giffords – these are just a few big names in the Democratic Party that used to be Republicans. Switching parties in the U.S. is rather common, and it happens on both sides of the aisle because of both systematic changes in a party’s platform and because of evolving personal values. Most of the political figures referenced in the previous paragraph fall into the latter category.
Senator Mitt Romney, of Utah, was the only Republican to cast a guilty vote against the president when the Senate voted on the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
Humans like vilifying cities. Many claim that they harm our mental health, make us stupid and even that they disproportionately hurt the environment. Cities are often painted as the antithesis to nature. In other words, we see cities as fundamentally unnatural. Such opinions have been the cause of white flight to the suburbs, resulting in urban sprawl as well as de facto racial and economic segregation in our cities.
On January 21, comedy lost one of its legends. Terry Jones was a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python, perhaps best known for its film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The group also created classics such as Life of Brian, its show Flying Circus and The Meaning of Life. More than an accomplished actor, Jones distinguished himself as a writer, producer and director. He died following a battle with a rare type of dementia.