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Foss: It’s cold, but you can still go outside | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 But it hasn’t really changed how I spend my weekends.  On Saturday morning, I took my son to a playground. In the afternoon, I brought him down to Empire State Plaza to walk around and look at the Christmas tree.  On Sunday morning, I went jogging while my son played in the backyard under my husband’s supervision. In the afternoon, we drove out to my son’s music teacher’s house for a small winter party, held outdoors in her big woodsy yard. 

. If anything is spreading as virally as the pandemic, it’s pandemic shaming: the idea that we can or should chide friends, relatives, acquaintances or even strangers into complying with mask wearing, social distancing and other actions to stem the pandemic. Photos of crowded airports or coronavirus testing lines over the Thanksgiving holiday even generated a trending hashtag: #covidiots.  But as our current political tilt-a-whirl should illustrate, shame is not the powerful tool it once was. Today, getting tarred and feathered in the town square would probably do little more than get you ...

Rice University Mel Xiao, a Rice University senior who helps investigate and adjudicate COVID-19 rule violations by other students, doesn’t mind if she’s viewed by her peers as “big brother” on campus. Xiao is one of 11 students at Rice who served as a judge on the COVID Community Court, or CCC, a student-led judiciary that looks into reports of students neglecting to wear masks or socially distance, or who are hosting visitors in their dorm rooms, which are violations of the university’s Culture of Care Agreement for the 2020-21 academic year. A three-judge panel hears and investig...

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Vaccines coming soon but COVID relief bill still stalled The first vaccine to protect against COVID-19 could be approved in the U.S. within days, but legislation to help fund its distribution remains mired in Congress. And President-elect Joe Biden has tapped California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as his secretary of Health and Human Services. The choice of Becerra, who served 12 terms in the House of Representatives, is being criticized by Republicans for his support of single-payer health care. This week's panelists are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News,...

Convinced that President Donald Trump lost his bid for reelection, the media suddenly became less hysterical. Just like that, the media, at least to some