Er, Can I Ask a Few Questions About Abortion? You know who really reduced abortion numbers in the U.S.? President Obama, with the Affordable Care Act. .......... Jesus talks a great deal about helping the poor and healing the sick, so I could understand a religiously driven passion for public health or for universal health coverage, but he never evinced an interest in the unborn. ............. One particularly effective way to reduce abortions is to reduce unintended pregnancies through free access to long-acting reliable contraceptives. Partly because Obamacare covers contraception, the number of abortions in the United States has plunged to its lowest level since Roe v. Wade ............ the abortion extremism of the last few decades. ........ Wouldn’t we all be better off if “pro-life” became not just a zealous slogan but a compassionate way of life?
How Are Americans Catching the Virus? Increasingly, ‘They Have No Idea’ New outbreaks used to be traced back to crowded factories and rowdy bars. But now, the virus is so widespread not even health officials are able to keep up. ........... As the coronavirus soars across the country, charting a single-day record of 99,155 new cases on Friday and surpassing nine million cases nationwide, tracing the path of the pandemic in the United States is no longer simply challenging. It has become nearly impossible. ........... many people are coming to a frightening conclusion: They have no idea where the virus is spreading. ........... “It’s just kind of everywhere,” said Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who estimated that tracing coronavirus cases becomes difficult once the virus spreads to more than 10 cases per 100,000 people. ............... In some of the hardest-hit spots in the United States, the virus is spreading at 10 to 20 times that rate, and even health officials have all but given up trying to figure out who is giving the virus to whom. ............. This time, the diffuse, chaotic spread is happening in many places at once. Infections are rising in 41 states, the country is recording an average of more than 79,000 new cases each day, and more Americans say they feel left to do their own lonely detective work. ............. once an area spins out of control, trying to trace back each chain of transmission can feel like scooping cupfuls of water from a flood. ........... Most people, they said, are catching the virus through family and friends. .............. the process of tracking cases and notifying people who may have been exposed is a gold standard of disease prevention but impractical after a certain level of infection. ......... “People are realizing that you can get it anywhere” ........... Did she pick up an infected apple at the grocery store and somehow touch her eye? Should she have been wearing a face shield, in addition to her mask? The possibilities feel endless. “It’s just out there,” she said.
2016 Nonvoters, a Key Prize for Biden and Trump, Turn Out in Droves In Pennsylvania and other battlegrounds, both parties are succeeding in coaxing infrequent voters off the sidelines. The all-important question is who does it better.
Student Voting Surges Despite Efforts to Suppress It The coronavirus pandemic and new requirements in Republican-led states created voting obstacles for college students this year. Yet youth participation appears to be on the rise.
U.S. Says Virus Can’t Be Controlled. China Aims to Prove It Wrong. China’s approach to keep Covid-19 at bay has helped restore confidence and allowed businesses to reopen. But it is a strategy steeped in authoritarianism......... China has effectively sealed off its borders from the outside world and doubled down on efforts to eradicate the virus. When a crop of cases emerge, the government swiftly shuts down vast areas and quickly tests millions of people, to help keep local transmissions near zero. ............... the way to open the economy is to first safeguard public health. ......... people had largely grown accustomed to wearing masks on subways and buses, even though Hangzhou has not had a coronavirus case in months. .......... China now represents the extreme, Communist version of a highly managed, scientifically backed approach that has worked in South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan and other democracies. ............. many people in China say they are relieved that the pandemic seems to be under control, especially as the United States and countries in Europe confront a crush of new cases. ........ “In China, a word from a superior can be heard immediately and implemented quickly,” Ms. Gao said. “It’s the difference between individualism and collectivism.” .............. The Chinese foreign ministry has said the pandemic has “torn the emperor’s new clothes” off American democracy. ............... When a single asymptomatic case of the coronavirus was detected last week in Kashgar, in the western region of Xinjiang, the authorities rushed to lock down the city. Officials demanded that more than four million people undergo tests for the virus, eventually finding nearly 200 cases, largely asymptomatic.
As the West Stumbles, ‘Helmsman’ Xi Pushes an Ambitious Plan for China China’s leader emerged from a key Communist Party meeting newly emboldened, outlining a road map for the country for years to come. Some have warned of overreach. ............ the committee’s 200 or so voting members praised the country’s “major strategic achievement” in largely stifling the outbreak. .......... Party propaganda has asserted that China’s success in extinguishing Covid-19 infections shows its overall “institutional superiority,” and Beijing has promised to share a potential vaccine for the coronavirus. .......... Chinese military moves have rattled neighbors. ....... “I cannot think of any serious country — with a big economy or even some with small economies — that does not have some concerns about China and Chinese behavior.” .......... his highly personalized rule could last another decade or more. ......... “The dominant tone is that China has major opportunities for growth, for managing the process of decoupling in its own favor, and for setting the terms for the next stage of globalization” ............... as infections multiplied, Mr. Xi faced a sharp surge of public anger. ........ In the coming years, China should “make major breakthroughs in crucial, core technologies,” the Central Committee said, “entering the front ranks of innovative countries.”
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