A couple of good articles on topics we don't always find in the US new media
"How COVID shook the US: eight charts that capture the last two years"
Death is a topic not well discussed and perhaps even more so when associated with COVID-19. The counting process can be problematic. Everyone needs to be using the same definitions and even in MA, the definition of a COVID death is changing. One thing is clear, the disease is deadly.
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| one of the 8 charts in the article |
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"Sandy Hook review: anatomy of an American tragedy – and the obscenity of social media"
"Even in a country now completely inured to the horrors of mass shootings, the massacre at Sandy Hook remains lodged in the minds of everyone old enough to remember it. Ten years ago, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fired 154 rounds from an AR-15-style rifle in less than five minutes. Twenty extremely young children and six adults were killed.It was the worst elementary school shooting in American history.Elizabeth Williamson’s new book is about that “American Tragedy”, but more importantly it is about “the Battle for Truth” that followed. In excruciating detail, Williamson describes the unimaginable double tragedy every Sandy Hook parent has had to endure: the murder of their child, followed by years and years of an army of online monsters accusing them of inventing this unimaginable horror."
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Note: my wife taught kindergarten for 20+ years here in Franklin so the Sandy Hook tragedy hits close to home.
Note: my wife taught kindergarten for 20+ years here in Franklin so the Sandy Hook tragedy hits close to home.
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