Op-Ed

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy!  In my previous two Op-Ed’s, I agreed with the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics that kids should be back in live classes. This is a non-controversial position in Europe, where leaders across the political spectrum agree that even in a pandemic, children are better […]

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy!  As I previously wrote (Schools Need to Remain Open), the probability of a child dying from the coronavirus is infinitesimally small. According to the CDC, a child has a better chance of being struck by lightning than dying of coronavirus. It is essential for the health, education,

My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! Life is about evaluating tradeoff risks. Do I drive to California or fly to California? Many choose to drive for fear of flying even though you are 86 times more likely to die in a car crash than in a plane crash. With those odds, why

My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! The University of Idaho’s enrollment has been steadily declining since 2010. The Daily News reported in 2017 that 17% of UI’s enrollment were actually high schoolers. The University was in fact cushioning their numbers with high schoolers to mask the steady decline of enrollment numbers. Further exacerbating UI’s enrollment woes, the

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! On Saturday 16 May, many Idaho businesses were allowed to reopen with restrictions. My family patronized Moscow’s Tapped for dinner that first day. Per Idaho Gov. Little’s Stage 2 guidance, Moscow restaurants were to submit their reopening plans for pre-approval to the Idaho North Central Public

U.S.—Americans in some states are finally starting to feel normal again, now that stay-at-home orders are being lifted. Children are at the park again, adults are back at the bar, and the elderly continue to play bingo at 4 p.m. sharp on a daily basis. https://babylonbee.com/news/back-to-normal-conservatives-go-to-work-while-liberals-stay-home/

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Idaho State Journal. Enjoy!  I appreciate the Idaho State Journal allowing me to respond to Professor Gier’s May 8th editorial regarding Sweden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic (Coronavirus deaths may be undercounted by 60 percent). To the layman, the data emerging from Sweden can be complex and nuanced, but properly

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! I remain highly critical of the US’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. We were sold on a binary solution: complete lockdown or doing nothing at all. But why a nationwide shutdown in response to a virus with negligible risk to most of the population, those 4-50

My Op-Ed ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As I mentioned in my last two Op-Eds (here and here): rather than isolating the infected, quarantining the exposed and the vulnerable, and social distancing everyone else, America treats everyone as infected. Swedish professor Johan Giesecke is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, and as

My OpEd ran in today’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Enjoy! As I mentioned in my last Op-Ed (Singapore made the right moves regarding COVID-19), I am highly critical of the United States’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic. To protect Americans from this deadly virus, the government decided to shut down the entire country except for “essential”