Governor Inslee says the state will reopen on June 30. But that declaration has been met with a lot of questions and anxiety from Washingtonians. Is it really safe to shed our masks, hug our friends and fill our restaurants? Could we see another surge? Supporting the Governor in his decision to reopen is the secretary of the state Department of Health, Dr. Umair Shah. We turn to him for answers to these questions and many more.
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Carnival Corporation on Friday announced it has received U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC) acceptance of its Phase 2A Port Agreements for PortMiami, Port of Galveston, and Port Canaveral.
Cruise travelers who sail from the United States on fully vaccinated ships will no longer be required to wear a mask indoors or maintain social distancing, say new rules issued by the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. The new rules als
Covid cases worldwide:
I think it makes more sense to look at all regions rather than individual countries (even if we know, for example, that WHO’s Southeast Asia is mostly India by sheer weight of numbers, even though many individual countries are having issues). And why is Africa such an enormous outlier? Readers?
Politics
“But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51
“They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Biden Administration
“Biden Administration Defends Huge Alaska Oil Drilling Project” [New York Times]. “The Biden administration is defending a huge Trump-era oil and gas project in the North Slope of Alaska designed to produce more than 100,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years, despite President Biden’s pledge to pivot the countr