Outside the Beltway

The plans to replicate the chaos in the Great White North are not coming together.

Most people liked it more than I did.

The rollout could have been smoother.

Some of our citizens are at greater risk under relaxed mask guidelines.

Most of us have suddenly gone from High to Low risk communities.

The reports are conflicting but I’d bet on Yes.

It seems that some Americans are relocating to be with people who share their social and cultural views.

A new way to think about the problem.

Even liberal states like California and Massachusetts are moving on.

The anti-vax-and-other-stuff protest is spreading to Europe.

A protest against vaccine mandates is growing with a little help from our adversaries.

Can the Misery Index be far behind?

Blue and red states alike are ending mask mandates and other restrictions.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

Out of a sense of fairness, I gave a listen.

Media reporting on CDC findings is, once again, unhelpful.

Yet another grim milestone.

A scandal within a scandal.

The downside to online archives of pre-print articles.

Being too cautious and careless are not equal sins.

Being willing to do anything to survive, but not that.

Did the President exceed his mandate? Does it matter?

The court wisely deferred to Congress in setting its own rules.

Are we really being blocked from getting back to normal? And if so, what is the real barrier?

The pandemic seems to have broken the social contract.

The singer and actor, born Marvin Lee Aday, is gone at 74.

Let’s not start celebrating just yet.

Glimmers of hope for those involved in government service delivery

A day late and a dollar short.

The Serbian superstar is sacrificing immortality to avoid vaccination.

Is the administration governing like it’s 2009?

The highest court in the land issued a split decision on President Biden’s COVID policy.

Are Fauci, the CDC, and others getting a bum rap?

Vax v. unvaxxed.

A lone judge has halted the military’s vaccine mandate.

We’ll take what we can get.

The CDC is weighing changing the definition of “fully vaccinated.”

The flurry of news around the new variant is dizzying.

There’s something happening here. But what it is ain’t exactly clear.

Why are we still wearing cloth, which was an emergency measure?

Hesitancy is a complex phenomenon largely immune to facts.

You’re a monster, Dr. Grinch, Your heart’s an empty hole.

That didn’t take long.

Modern and Pfizer are your best bets, but most of the world has had other vaccines.

Opponent of vaccine mandates succumbs to Covid-19.

Some 98 percent of active service members are now vaccinated. The rest will be discharged.

A lot of America is simply over the pandemic, even if it isn’t over us.

Kids are getting caught in the crossfire of the fight over COVID shots.