Politics and Coronavirus related links 122523

The Far-Right Bounty Hunter Behind the Explosive Popularity of “Died Suddenly”.  How Stew Peters parlayed conspiracy theories into viral documentaries and a massive following.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/stew-peters-the-far-right-bounty-hunter-behind-the-explosive-success-of-died-suddenly/

 

The CDC sees signs of a late summer COVID wave

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/28/1190443473/the-cdc-sees-signs-of-a-late-summer-covid-wave

 

Biden tests negative again for COVID after the first lady tests positive

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/04/1197566021/first-lady-jill-biden-has-tested-positive-for-covid-19-again

 

Book Review: Seeing Double.  Naomi Klein’s invaluable message: It is by learning to see double that we can see straight.

https://progressive.org/magazine/seeing-double-lueders-20230831/

 

Welcome to the “You Do You” Pandemic.  The new Covid policy: Let them eat cake.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-surge-response-ignored/

 

Misinformation on COVID Abounds

https://populist.com/29.17.Uretsky.html

 

How America Bungled the Pandemic.  Why did the world’s richest nation, with some of the most advanced health care, respond so poorly to COVID-19?

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/23/how-america-bungled-the-pandemic/