Steve Kelman on politics, culture and life.
9/24/2021
Is Trump disappearing from our consciousness?
The news about trump's absurd lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump reminds me that he actually right now is a very low profile and even forgotten figure. Obviously this can change, But the optimist in me thinks he may not be able to come back.
“Natural immunity” and Covid
I have been hearing more and more from Fox News and Republicans about "natural immunity" as an alternative to vaccination.. At first couldn't figure out what this was about, Were they suggesting that some people have natural resistance to getting covid? On investigation, it turns out only that this is the certainly plausible suggestion that if you have already had covid, you are less likely to get it again, at least over a short period of time.. But what's the point? Surely the Republicans aren't suggesting that everyone get covid as a way of avoiding vaccination? Or are they?
How do people compete in China?
The journalist John Pomfret writes in his book I'm being a student in China in the early 1980s that ""in the United States, competition generally inspired people to achieve, but in China it drove them to wreck each other's lives." Comments on this from Facebook friends who know Chinese culture?