News and Views from Sturges Word’s 2020 Blog Posts
Murders are up, the variety of COVID symptoms gets a head scratching, a majority of small businesses are confident of making it for a year, Russian docs are not excited about the vaccine and movie drive-ins come to a Walmart near you.
Beirut’s suffering unfolds as the name and blame game emerges following its huge port explosion, colleges make plans to close as they open, more good news on the vaccine front which you might be reading about on Instagram now and, here’s one thing that won’t kill us. Apparently.
Get a picture of new access to domestic-sourced pharmaceuticals, the anti-remote learning movement, a resizing of the office footprint, good news about a scary disease and then chill with the legacy of Bob Ross (psst, he permed his hair!).
China is behaving badly. Scientists are puzzled yet pushing on to get us promising vaccine results. And we have a new varmint of the week!
There’s heartening news of a small vaccine trial result which we hope props us up as evictions get ready to surge, COVID-19 unemployment assistance ends and small businesses close forever by the tens of thousands. Even honey bees have turned mean.
The world continues to learn about COVID-19 on the fly as cases surge, death counts rise, schools debate how to reopen and we all have less change in our pockets. And in non-pandemic news, environment 2, oil and gas, 0.
A flag is retired while the Boeing 737 Max takes flight again, Russia is said to pay for American soldier deaths, companies boycott Facebook and chronic underfunding of public health departments continues as the pandemic rages.
Coronavirus death toll drops but a surge of cases is still bad news while police reform stalls in Congress, media change the way they refer to Blacks, a gene-editing breakthrough can mean hope for incurable diseases and Paul Blart will have to start walking again.
A busy week, as we learned more about life-saving COVID-19 drugs, the Supreme Court made a landmark civil rights ruling and more.
Protests continue, the coronavirus gives head fakes, police culture is under scrutiny, jobs grew for a month – it was another roller coaster week as some of us get through it with a lot of sugar and twice the caffeine.
