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90078debc1432744f50d36af669d0bb0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-01/los-angeles-consolidated-election-worked | Editorial: More Angelenos are turning out to vote. We can thank L.A.'s new election schedule | Editorial: More Angelenos are turning out to vote. We can thank L.A.'s new election schedule
Five years ago, Los Angeles voters decided overwhelmingly to move city elections from odd-numbered to even-numbered years to coincide with presidential and gubernatorial elections. The hope was that, by aligning local elections... |
bc6a1bbecf909f1617d3e48f48b1728a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-01/man-stranded-at-lax-for-three-months | Letters to the Editor: The infuriating ordeal of a man stranded at LAX for three months | Letters to the Editor: The infuriating ordeal of a man stranded at LAX for three months
To the editor: Your article about Seth Tom Davis being stuck at LAX since Christmas Eve and his incredible journey deeply touched me. It is unbelievable that neither the airport, the police nor the Social Security Administration cou... |
c910de0e5de67138da1f16bb3618c355 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-01/states-compete-for-coronavirus-medical-supplies | Letters to the Editor: It’s un-American for states to compete for coronavirus medical supplies | Letters to the Editor: It’s un-American for states to compete for coronavirus medical supplies
To the editor: We call ourselves the United States, but we are losing the ability act like it. Many wars are fought over resources, and that is what seems to be happening in our war against the coronavirus. (“Despite widespre... |
92080967f8637833290553899920dd74 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus-department-of-justice-terrorism | Column: The DOJ just made it too easy to link coronavirus to terrorism | Column: The DOJ just made it too easy to link coronavirus to terrorism
The Department of Justice sent out a memo last week with this arresting detail: Prosecutors around the country should consider coronavirus as a “biological agent,” and therefore charge certain acts related to COVID-19 as federal crimes of terrorism.... |
afcc59e7fe822c3f678c902aff91d818 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus-pandemics-animals-habitat-ecology | Op-Ed: COVID-19 shows that what we’re doing to animals is killing us, too | Op-Ed: COVID-19 shows that what we’re doing to animals is killing us, too
About two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases in humans — including COVID-19, SARS, MERS, Ebola, HIV, Zika, H1N1, cholera and almost all recent epidemics — came from animals. And 70% of those originated in wildlife.
Pathogens have leaped from ... |
27739abc7a6785915dbab7da5c394f5f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-02/op-ed-coronavirus-makes-clear-how-the-u-s-government-has-focused-on-the-wrong-threats | Op-Ed: Coronavirus makes clear how the U.S. government has focused on the wrong threats | Op-Ed: Coronavirus makes clear how the U.S. government has focused on the wrong threats
For the last two decades, Washington has focused on preventing 9/11-style attacks, considering that to be our most urgent national security concern. But the latest threat to American life has come not from a terrorist with a dirty b... |
d5c5ac59b03282f920cb5390a8fbdc9e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-02/opinion-arkansas-kansas-south-carolina-shut-down-now | Opinion: Arkansas, Iowa, South Carolina! What are you thinking? Shut down now! | Opinion: Arkansas, Iowa, South Carolina! What are you thinking? Shut down now!
I’ve got some words for the governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri and the eight other states that have yet to adopt statewide stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. And they’re not nice words.
What the #@*& ar... |
a092c7d1497aa01ed9b78e93bc3c954e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-02/school-shutdowns-threaten-to-worsen-the-achievement-gap | Editorial: School shutdowns threaten to worsen the achievement gap | Editorial: School shutdowns threaten to worsen the achievement gap
The COVID-19 crisis threatens to undo years of educational efforts to help disadvantaged students catch up to their more affluent classmates. The same old problems — lack of internet access or computers for doing homework, parents who have limited finan... |
c04a95d4a59e18c57de73c3d683c9195 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-02/shame-on-healthcare-profiteers-ventilators | Letters to the Editor: Shame on companies that profiteer off live-saving medical devices | Letters to the Editor: Shame on companies that profiteer off live-saving medical devices
To the editor: Every day we are hearing the governors of our states complaining that the cost of critical supplies like masks and ventilators have been skyrocketing from one day to the next. (“Amid coronavirus, Army vets fought to ... |
4275b13012743f8b691c74e13a38610f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-03/beaches-california-closures-coronavirus?utm_campaign=Hot%20News&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=85704446&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9H1Im2EC-zhTNus9IVVPYgysrkPvLTSuYp1I238JXq5aNDP2txALciMb8lWZE6A0zjm1CGyP-ZcTuSqkMaRZr71I8otg&_hsmi=85704446 | Op-Ed: California’s beaches closures offer a glimpse of the likely future. That should frighten us | Op-Ed: California’s beaches closures offer a glimpse of the likely future. That should frighten us
There’s nothing like a global pandemic to remind us of what we truly value. As mortality rates and economic upheaval fill the headlines, we in coastal California are also grappling with another significant change: the clo... |
13c971734a02f9352110cf7ec0b0a802 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-03/coronavirus-coup-can-happen-here-guard-our-liberties | Letters to the Editor: A ‘coronavirus coup’ can happen here. We need to guard our liberties | Letters to the Editor: A ‘coronavirus coup’ can happen here. We need to guard our liberties
To the editor: An alarming report in the Los Angeles Times points out how authoritarian leaders in the Philippines, Brazil and Hungary are using the fear and chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to claim emergency powers and we... |
62f67af2d61c5c6df4dc2d5c69215d62 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-03/inexcusable-medical-supply-shortages | Letters to the Editor: Why are we still reading about inexcusable medical supply shortages? | Letters to the Editor: Why are we still reading about inexcusable medical supply shortages?
To the editor: I am weary, and not of sheltering in place or social distancing. These measures can be difficult to maintain, but I am a willing participant because they protect me, my family and my neighbors. (“California hospit... |
998942178e59731040bf054ddda3504c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-03/newsom-eviction-moratorium-flawed | Editorial: Hey, Gov. Newsom, give California renters a real eviction moratorium | Editorial: Hey, Gov. Newsom, give California renters a real eviction moratorium
When Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a statewide moratorium on evictions last week, there was a collective sigh of relief from renters across the state. At a time when unemployment has skyrocketed and incomes have plummeted because of the COVID... |
24d92b508b6402e05c58ab7f2078c8a2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-04/going-to-church-religion-pandemic-social-distancing | Letters to the Editor: Going to church doesn’t make you a good believer, especially during a pandemic | Letters to the Editor: Going to church doesn’t make you a good believer, especially during a pandemic
To the editor: Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within you. So, churches came into being as physical, earthbound organizations to speak about religion in the hope of leading people to a “spiritual state of being,”... |
c98184d6bb7fe2707f8fa186f48eb456 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-04/seniors-letters-coronavirus-ventilators-medical-ethics | Opinion: We’re talking a lot about seniors and coronavirus. Here, they talk for themselves | Opinion: We’re talking a lot about seniors and coronavirus. Here, they talk for themselves
There’s a group often bandied about in this pandemic as if its members are just another variable to be considered in how we respond to the coronavirus: older people. As it happens, our letter writers tend to skew strongly to that... |
9a4e7ea10cfcd0e0bef8068ef792e990 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-05/1918-flu-history-offers-context-and-hope-for-coronavirus-pandemic | Editorial: Social distancing worked against the deadly 1918 flu. It will work against the coronavirus | Editorial: Social distancing worked against the deadly 1918 flu. It will work against the coronavirus
Weeks after a mysterious and uncommonly lethal virus began sweeping through the world, Los Angeles’ mayor declared a state of emergency. Though the pandemic had yet to affect the city in large numbers — only a few conf... |
bc6fa5e2218758d4c881980f1d520957 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-05/meme-directed-by-robert-weide?fbclid=IwAR182eSb_G-4UROGWpVZsiObjzOCw4InO8uk1p7CDxRPdC4HlITEDBDY-FM | Op-Ed: My life as a meme: How ‘Directed by Robert B. Weide’ signals satire | Op-Ed: My life as a meme: How ‘Directed by Robert B. Weide’ signals satire
Humor me for a moment. Sit down at your computer or open your nearest mobile device and Google these words: “Directed by.” What’s the first predictive text that comes up? Martin Scorsese? Quentin Tarantino? Ingmar Bergman? Chances are the first ... |
c1349e8da7df74e0df2920ba31393902 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-05/op-ed-i-spent-my-childhood-preparing-for-calamity-no-wonder-coronavirus-feels-familiar | Op-Ed: I spent my childhood preparing for calamity. No wonder the coronavirus crisis feels familiar | Op-Ed: I spent my childhood preparing for calamity. No wonder the coronavirus crisis feels familiar
I recently began to use a bottle of ointment I purchased more than 30 years ago, during what I call the “shelter episode.” That’s when thousands of members of my mother’s church moved from California to Montana to build ... |
52975733515be3c3ea1ca2a8f202c07a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-06/making-masks-coronavirus-patriotic-duty | Letters to the Editor: Making masks to fight coronavirus is the average citizen’s patriotic duty | Letters to the Editor: Making masks to fight coronavirus is the average citizen’s patriotic duty
To the editor: The recommendation that people wear homemade masks in public is similar to when, during both World War I and World War II, citizens planted “victory gardens” for food.
Growing vegetables that could help feed ... |
0883de2ea7018e05d98dc5f54dfee5a6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-06/rudy-giuliani-covid-19-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine | Opinion: Looks like Rudy Giuliani is now advising Trump on COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine. Yikes | Opinion: Looks like Rudy Giuliani is now advising Trump on COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine. Yikes
With the COVID-19 pandemic intensifying and the economy cratering, can the United States survive another injection of Rudy Giuliani?
It looks like we’re about to find out. The Washington Post reports that the former mayor ... |
5af67eccdbdaa44e69f06f89ca6c113b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-06/supreme-court-traffic-stops | Editorial: The U.S. Supreme Court just made it easier for police to pull you over | Editorial: The U.S. Supreme Court just made it easier for police to pull you over
It has long been too easy for police to stop motorists on the highway — even without sufficient reason to believe that the driver committed a crime. On Monday, the Supreme Court made such stops even easier, ruling 8 to 1 that police may p... |
87845f19e51d0a6c3151d5b5ddeeabe6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-06/trump-coronavirus-america-first-policy | Editorial: Trump’s insistence on ‘America First’ is stunting the global fight against COVID-19 | Editorial: Trump’s insistence on ‘America First’ is stunting the global fight against COVID-19
It was obvious even before Donald Trump became president that he disdained cooperation with other nations, including traditional allies, and that he had little interest in shoring up international institutions that the United... |
f7b48004fcd61c1b964e98e7525ae91b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-06/unemployment-benefits-workers-coronavirus | Op-Ed: Millions need unemployment benefits. Unfortunately, the delivery system is broken | Op-Ed: Millions need unemployment benefits. Unfortunately, the delivery system is broken
More than 10 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance in March as businesses shut their doors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The stay-at-home orders now covering most of the country could, economists project, idle ... |
aeda47cb639fd3d9b256a5adb2917f84 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/column-coronavirus-upsets-republican-politics | Column: Coronavirus has turned Republican politics upside down. Will that last? | Column: Coronavirus has turned Republican politics upside down. Will that last?
I’ve been telecommuting for decades, so for me sheltering in place isn’t remotely the burden it is for a lot of Americans. But it does make the job of following politics more difficult for two reasons.
First, to a certain degree, politics a... |
69aa8ccb7223a074d41396be682b6462 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/coronavirus-pandemic-restaurants-hospitals | Op-Ed: Feed and comfort ER workers and save your favorite restaurant at the same time | Op-Ed: Feed and comfort ER workers and save your favorite restaurant at the same time
As we shelter in place, hunkered down, washing our hands, it’s easy to feel helpless, and worse, to feel useless. We endlessly refresh our browsers and inboxes for news about the progress of this pandemic. Overwhelmed hospitals and he... |
7d507ec20e5eb42d460366176df732ea | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-07/trump-queen-elizabeth-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: Trump isn’t king, so it’s pointless to compare him to Queen Elizabeth II | Letters to the Editor: Trump isn’t king, so it’s pointless to compare him to Queen Elizabeth II
To the editor: Queen Elizabeth II gave a beautiful and motherly speech to the British people about the COVID-19 pandemic. (“Why Can’t President Orange Julius Be More Like Queen Elizabeth?” April 5)
She spoke to her country’s... |
c318a09ffeb3019a97526402ac1126fa | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/240-000-covid-19-deaths-putting-trumps-death-projections-in-perspective | Column: What will a possible 240,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths mean to you? Trump’s projections in perspective | Column: What will a possible 240,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths mean to you? Trump’s projections in perspective
Last week, President Trump hosted a somber briefing at the White House where his advisers presented their official COVID-19 death projections. There would likely be between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans dead when t... |
7f7b79643a2c82ead604710c9eda32cc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/bernie-sanders-withdraws-biden-trump | Editorial: Bernie Sanders changed the Democratic Party for the better. Now it’s his job to help defeat Trump | Editorial: Bernie Sanders changed the Democratic Party for the better. Now it’s his job to help defeat Trump
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ decision to end his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination was probably inevitable, given the string of victories former Vice President Joe Biden racked up after many of the oth... |
b27e9a7d0a9b7411bf3e3eb039c51128 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/coronavirus-racial-disparity | Editorial: COVID-19 is disproportionately killing minorities. That’s not a coincidence | Editorial: COVID-19 is disproportionately killing minorities. That’s not a coincidence
As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, Americans can see the grim daily tallies of the cases and deaths, broken down by geography, age and sex. Only a few jurisdictions, however, are breaking down the numbers by racial and eth... |
6222eb22e637c0861f6872e39e88043b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/passover-seder-coronavirus-zoom | Op-Ed: Our job this Passover is to connect, no matter our separation | Op-Ed: Our job this Passover is to connect, no matter our separation
In October we dropped our daughter off for a two-week meditation retreat in the mountains near San Diego. As we walked from the parking lot to the women’s quarters, we noticed something bizarre: utter silence. The Buddhist nuns who ran the center move... |
8b2e3b8716f23c5e092c1057fae3a398 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/sanders-medicare-for-all-coronavirus | Opinion: Coronavirus proved Bernie Sanders right. But only partly | Opinion: Coronavirus proved Bernie Sanders right. But only partly
One piece of conventional wisdom circulating in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ withdrawal from the Democratic presidential primary is that the COVID-19 pandemic proves he was right about healthcare.
In truth, it proves him half right.
The pandemic is causin... |
66d131132dbaf9f548edf4a1c4039ff2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/south-l-a-social-distancing-coronavirus-businesses | Letters to the Editor: In South L.A., social distancing doesn’t mean stop caring for your neighbor | Letters to the Editor: In South L.A., social distancing doesn’t mean stop caring for your neighbor
To the editor: I appreciate the spotlight on the small businesses in South Los Angeles enduring economic hardship because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I am inspired daily by the resilience and dedication of these businesses ... |
16ac70d995e4a44ae8261afcc8f8cb98 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-08/what-every-homeless-person-needs-in-this-pandemic-a-room-of-their-own | Editorial: What every homeless person needs in this pandemic: a room of their own | Editorial: What every homeless person needs in this pandemic: a room of their own
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, you can’t follow the order to stay at home if you have no home. Few communities are more imperiled by the coronavirus than the estimated 59,000 homeless individuals who bed down on sidewalks, in tents... |
537af720c4db2a8982395cde86c60cdc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-09/california-coronavirus-mask-ventilator-procurement | Editorial: States are on their own to fend off this pandemic. That may be a good thing | Editorial: States are on their own to fend off this pandemic. That may be a good thing
For months, the White House has been sending an implicit but unmistakable message to state governors: When it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic, you’re pretty much on your own. “We’re not a shipping clerk,” President Trump g... |
d9ebf912250810db355a3f0732360c80 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-09/captain-crozier-hero-coronavirus-navy | Letters to the Editor: Capt. Crozier is a hero. The administration that fired and insulted him, not so much | Letters to the Editor: Capt. Crozier is a hero. The administration that fired and insulted him, not so much
To the editor: Like many, I agonized over the plight of the 4,000 sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier. My eyes welled with tears listening to the sailors cheer for Capt. Brett Crozier as he... |
4c3f45477c627dcf008d0f7ae14e318b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-09/coronavirus-china-statistics-response | Op-Ed: China’s coronavirus statistics aren’t the real problem | Op-Ed: China’s coronavirus statistics aren’t the real problem
As the coronavirus spreads around the world, U.S. officials who downplayed the risk have repeatedly blamed China’s fake data and deceptive practices for the outbreak. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo said in March that poor information from China has “pu... |
35b1db2b9c6500edc4ba5420b0580b0f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-09/paying-rent-right-now-coronavirus-monopoly | Letters to the Editor: How paying rent right now is like being stuck in a rigged game of Monopoly | Letters to the Editor: How paying rent right now is like being stuck in a rigged game of Monopoly
To the editor: Imagine playing Monopoly and being told you’re not allowed to take a turn while being stuck on the other player’s property. Meanwhile, the other player is allowed to keep playing and demand rent for every tu... |
d5943859f82bfe8ee31ec9873a55c900 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-09/without-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all | Letters to the Editor: Bernie Sanders is out, but his ideas will loom large in the election | Letters to the Editor: Bernie Sanders is out, but his ideas will loom large in the election
To the editor: With several news articles plus an editorial, the Los Angeles Times’ coverage of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ departure from the 2020 Democratic presidential race rivaled that of a fallen commander-in-chief.
When he first... |
9ae00c86152b065778a25f5f7be7ff85 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-10/coronavirus-war-on-microbes-human-response | Column: Surprise! Humans can overcome tribalism to save the species | Column: Surprise! Humans can overcome tribalism to save the species
We humans are conditioned to regard ourselves as social animals, moral animals, economic animals. It’s along these lines that we create both conflicts and civilization.
We are less accustomed to seeing ourselves simply as animals. And yet during this p... |
032c2d09839a0c0db14447d7f088c62a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-10/easter-jesus-coronavirus-suffering | Op-Ed: Good Friday challenges us to confront our epidemic of misery and misplaced priorities | Op-Ed: Good Friday challenges us to confront our epidemic of misery and misplaced priorities
The grounds of St. Francis Cathedral Basilica in Santa Fe, N.M., include a garden with bronzes depicting the 14 Stations of the Cross, from Jesus’ death sentence in Pilate’s courtroom to the entombment of his lifeless body in a... |
f6144153d74824726079c85824d8d69b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-10/letters-to-the-editor-why-is-federal-government-seizing-medical-supplies | Letters to the Editor: Why is the federal government seizing medical supply orders? | Letters to the Editor: Why is the federal government seizing medical supply orders?
To the editor: Confusion continues to reign as we get deeper into the COVID-19 pandemic. Now we are learning that the federal government is seizing, without warning or explanation, orders of desperately needed medical supplies placed by... |
3f15679fc8d9a98fe930e63bf02fffd8 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-10/nimbys-ayres-hotel-homeless-coronavirus | Editorial: NIMBYs stop a hotel from housing sick homeless people in Orange County | Editorial: NIMBYs stop a hotel from housing sick homeless people in Orange County
When the sprawling Laguna Woods Village retirement community in south Orange County got word that the county Board of Supervisors had leased the nearby Ayres Hotel to house homeless people who tested positive for COVID-19, residents there... |
52038b13537bac55ae9c9c97f5d7bb1c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-10/non-covid-patients-skipping-er-visits | Letters to the Editor: Non-COVID patients are skipping ER visits. That can be dangerous | Letters to the Editor: Non-COVID patients are skipping ER visits. That can be dangerous
To the editor: Fear of COVID-19 infection is keeping people from seeking appropriate care for urgent and emergency conditions. (“Inside California hospitals as they wait for coronavirus surge,” April 4)
We at Hoag, along with staff ... |
0a6293647be613d581669cdb6b3721ae | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-10/trump-reelection-covid-19-pandemic-biden-unemployment-sanders | Opinion: Trump’s main hurdle to reelection isn’t the pandemic, it’s him | Opinion: Trump’s main hurdle to reelection isn’t the pandemic, it’s him
It’s too early to have anything close to a clear vision of the effect the COVID-19 pandemic will have on the 2020 presidential election, but rest assured, it will make a difference. But to whose advantage?
The pandemic has effectively muscled forme... |
2965df0d7c56bb09e3014b9141ff566d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-11/coronavirus-pandemic-los-angeles-neighborhoods | Letters to the Editor: It’s taking a pandemic for Angelenos to learn how to live locally | Letters to the Editor: It’s taking a pandemic for Angelenos to learn how to live locally
To the editor: In the days after California’s stay-at-home order went into effect March 19, we started taking walks around the neighborhood to get a reprieve from the house and the headlines. At first the neighborhood seemed no dif... |
73ad6345dcf7f6a3ab6caa10cda0b0b2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-11/dispatches-coronavirus-chimpanzee-goodall-son | Op-Ed: A chimpanzee’s journey helps my son cope with the coronavirus lockdown in Paris | Op-Ed: A chimpanzee’s journey helps my son cope with the coronavirus lockdown in Paris
It’s been three weeks of lockdown in Paris. The street outside my window seems smaller and emptier every day, as if people are more and more afraid to venture out. The French government recently announced even stricter measures: only... |
d4549ae7d38f8ed5a65e3f48d7db72e2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-11/gavin-newsom-california-nation-state | Letters to the Editor: Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to stop calling California a ‘nation-state’ | Letters to the Editor: Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to stop calling California a ‘nation-state’
To the editor: Your April 9 editorial noted the Trump administration’s failure to take a leadership role during the coronavirus pandemic. Given this failure, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California would take the initiative a... |
461b7c0b72e75df18a160131d6950bf7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-11/knitting-stress-relief-pandemic | Op-Ed: Knitting is my therapy during this pandemic | Op-Ed: Knitting is my therapy during this pandemic
Weeks before I started sheltering at home, I started to knit a sweater. I’m a dish rag, scarf, hat kind of knitter. As much as I love knitting, the time and patience, not to mention the skill, it takes to knit a sweater elude me. But something about the pullover patter... |
7195f4ca3e21f77310533a3ee39f17b4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-11/op-ed-alcoholic-virtual-recovery-meetings-coronavirus | Op-Ed: For an alcoholic, virtual recovery meetings are not only possible; they have some advantages | Op-Ed: For an alcoholic, virtual recovery meetings are not only possible; they have some advantages
Like everyone else, members of the recovery community in Los Angeles migrated quickly from traditional meetings in church halls and community centers to virtual “meetings” when coronavirus hit. But unlike for other group... |
ec3d93f3ea1119889c39557214ccf8a0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-11/op-ed-the-covid-19-patient | Op-Ed: I’ve been an ER doctor for 20 years. I’ll never forget this COVID-19 patient | Op-Ed: I’ve been an ER doctor for 20 years. I’ll never forget this COVID-19 patient
I have been an emergency medicine physician for almost 20 years, which means I’ve worked through numerous disasters. I’m used to the daily grind of heart attacks, gunshots, strokes, flu, traumas and more.
Yet nothing has made me feel ab... |
95821ceebd2acf5538a7ce81a16743f4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-11/pro-trump-letters-are-unupopular-among-readers | Opinion: Pro-Trump letters are unpopular among readers, just like Trump | Opinion: Pro-Trump letters are unpopular among readers, just like Trump
We at the Los Angeles Times are frequently called out by Donald Trump’s supporters for publishing more letters that criticize the president than speak approvingly of his job performance. My simple response to that is what it’s always been: We can o... |
504b2009c6060beb1b89447caced923e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-11/stengel-coronavirus-government-disinformation | Op-Ed: As coronavirus cases multiply, so does government disinformation | Op-Ed: As coronavirus cases multiply, so does government disinformation
In July 1983, an anonymous letter appeared in an obscure newspaper in New Delhi claiming that the AIDS virus had been invented at Fort Detrick, in Maryland. The author identified himself as an American scientist and said that the virus was intende... |
8cc0f71228470117a946f700fb08d27e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-12/coronavirus-easter-good-friday-suffering-sacrifice | Letters to the Editor: The coronavirus is America’s chance to become a mature nation | Letters to the Editor: The coronavirus is America’s chance to become a mature nation
To the editor: Randall Balmer points out the suffering that many people are experiencing these days. As a nation, we Americans project an image of youthful happiness, opportunity and abundance. We don’t really like to face suffering, l... |
c33acf5cf2bc2cfd07be0f8f5bcb9c48 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-12/coronavirus-screening-we-need-blood-antibody-testing | Letters to the Editor: Finally, the coronavirus screening we need — blood antibody testing | Letters to the Editor: Finally, the coronavirus screening we need — blood antibody testing
To the editor: Thank you for a front-page article on the screening we most need — serologic testing of a well chosen sample of a population exposed to the coronavirus. This is the kind of testing that can actually help inform pla... |
b39d27f17b49ed93ec52a49064d4f882 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-12/hotel-industry-is-stepping-up-in-the-covid-19 | Letters to the Editor: How L.A.'s hotel industry is stepping up in the COVID-19 crisis | Letters to the Editor: How L.A.'s hotel industry is stepping up in the COVID-19 crisis
To the editor: Contrary to the picture painted in the April 8 editorial, hotels in Los Angeles have worked tirelessly with the county and the city to identify and immediately make available thousands of beds for use as shelters. Any ... |
2cf6999d5103446ab5494c80c1c74c14 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-12/memorable-passover-at-temple-beth-zoom | Letters to the Editor: A memorable Passover celebration at ‘Temple Beth Zoom’ | Letters to the Editor: A memorable Passover celebration at ‘Temple Beth Zoom’
To the editor: Our Passover celebration was festive, emotional and a little chaotic. (“Our job this Passover is to connect, no matter our separation,” Opinion, April 8)
“Temple Beth Zoom” connected our five families, 12 devices and a dog jump... |
deb5df077ab7dc8b1a2806c9936f2890 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-13/bedlam-mental-health-breakdown | Editorial: ‘Bedlam’ shows us what we’ve done to our mental health system | Editorial: ‘Bedlam’ shows us what we’ve done to our mental health system
Two motion pictures played a role in the descent into disrepute and the final demise of state mental hospitals. The first was “Titicut Follies,” a 1967 documentary about inmates in the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massac... |
fd8a28875931fdbcbeabb94ab0d20e8b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-13/coronavirus-pandemic-donald-trump-comfort | Op-Ed: What role should Trump play in the coronavirus crisis? Good presidents are comforters-in-chief | Op-Ed: What role should Trump play in the coronavirus crisis? Good presidents are comforters-in-chief
Harry S. Truman woke up on his first morning as president 75 years ago today to a country in mourning.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only man many Americans had ever known as president, was dead. World War II was won ... |
8d48b512e813f30543c89c9a73dd1cef | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-13/immigrants-trump-coronavirus | Opinion: Our lives depend on immigrants to get us through the coronavirus crisis | Opinion: Our lives depend on immigrants to get us through the coronavirus crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to roar across the country, it’s worth noting that at least one in six (some estimates put it as high as one in four) of our healthcare professionals were born in other countries, then moved to the U.S. t... |
8d2e0c19d42a94595d250dde9f3793f9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-13/opinion-i-will-vote-for-joe-biden-in-november-and-it-will-kill-me | Opinion: I will vote for Joe Biden in November. And it will kill me | Opinion: I will vote for Joe Biden in November. And it will kill me
The idea of the president as pater familias — the moral head of the nation — has always been just an idea. The job functionally involves killing people, directly or indirectly; that’s not what we’d have our good fathers do. Still, it’s a potent fiction... |
f2bfdfe41b377ad33321b373999f017c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-13/psychology-coronavirus-pandemic-helping-neighbors | Op-Ed: How to help others during a pandemic when they’re too embarrassed to ask | Op-Ed: How to help others during a pandemic when they’re too embarrassed to ask
As the coronavirus tightens its grip on this country, your retired neighbor, an exhausted healthcare worker, or a friend recently laid off from work probably needs help now more than ever. Yet people who need help, often desperately, don’t ... |
c6bb55d2ecd5a607f5e6c68472070e0d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-13/trump-cant-restart-economy | Editorial: No, Mr. Trump, you don’t get to decide when the economy restarts | Editorial: No, Mr. Trump, you don’t get to decide when the economy restarts
Columnist Holman Jenkins offered an analogy in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend that captures the conundrum created by the U.S. response to COVID-19.
“Imagine a problem that can be solved by holding your head underwater,” Jenkins wrote,... |
11817e4551101bcdaedc6f285c8be402 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-14/coronavirus-farm-workers-testing | Op-Ed: California’s farm workers desperately need PPE and coronavirus tests | Op-Ed: California’s farm workers desperately need PPE and coronavirus tests
The COVID-19 epidemic has made clear how much our society depends on essential services we too often take for granted. Among these is agricultural work and the people who plant and harvest our food.
For the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, thi... |
6f67f88e80a8fb4c5f861488431e0418 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-14/opinion-coronavirus-largest-drop-in-carbon-emissions-since-world-war-two-not-enough | Opinion: Coronavirus shutdowns can’t save the planet from climate change. Here’s what could | Opinion: Coronavirus shutdowns can’t save the planet from climate change. Here’s what could
Last week, Reuters published a rather remarkable look at how coronavirus shutdowns are affecting climate emissions. The piece claimed 2020 could see the “biggest fall in carbon emissions since World War Two,” when gas rationing ... |
52ab3cdf38d6c3c2b72b23183207d3c2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-14/supreme-court-wisconsin-decision-end-of-democracy | Letters to the Editor: The Supreme Court’s Wisconsin decision shows how democracy ends | Letters to the Editor: The Supreme Court’s Wisconsin decision shows how democracy ends
To the editor: Most of human history is a record of “the many” ruled by “the few.” There are few examples of “the many” in power, which is what makes our Constitution’s “we the people” resonate so powerfully.
That’s why Harry Litman’... |
6e6fc408ee33e33f39e3e94d0e403ae7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-14/trumps-latest-flip-flop-on-coronavirus-makes-it-clear-he-has-no-beliefs | Column: Another day, another coronavirus flip-flop from Trump — the emperor of inconsistency | Column: Another day, another coronavirus flip-flop from Trump — the emperor of inconsistency
There is no Trumpism, only Trump.
One of the most vexing things for both fans and foes of President Trump is that he has a gift for being neither the hero nor the villain people like to cast him as. In 2016, when Trump refused ... |
b20ecf8022731278285e2881314d28ad | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-15/calls-filing-for-unemployment-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: I had to make many, many calls about my unemployment benefits. This is a crisis | Letters to the Editor: I had to make many, many calls about my unemployment benefits. This is a crisis
To the editor: People should know that despite the enactment of a stimulus bill providing emergency unemployment benefits for people newly out of work because of the COVID-19 pandemic, benefits are actually going out ... |
67e4a7cec48fff1659cf43dbcf6fe6b5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-15/china-tibet-language-schools-persecution | Op-Ed: In Tibet, it’s a crime to even talk about the value of mother-tongue education | Op-Ed: In Tibet, it’s a crime to even talk about the value of mother-tongue education
A year ago February, authorities in the highly restrictive Tibet Autonomous Region of China picked up Tsering Dorje, who lived in a village near Mt. Everest. They held him for a month in what they told him was a “reeducation facility,... |
f3ca19577e61774b6b4c5dd7b97d27ba | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-15/coronavirus-landlord-renter-bailout | Editorial: It’s not just renters. Landlords need help, too | Editorial: It’s not just renters. Landlords need help, too
A growing number of states and cities have enacted eviction moratoriums to protect tenants from losing their homes if they can’t pay the rent during the coronavirus emergency.
This is just common sense. Governments have ordered businesses to close and people to... |
de46d129860e3a549e14f39dd3bd3cad | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-15/joe-biden-should-name-entire-cabinet | Letters to the Editor: Why just a running mate? Joe Biden should name his entire Cabinet | Letters to the Editor: Why just a running mate? Joe Biden should name his entire Cabinet
To the editor: In addition to the importance of choosing the right running mate, the unprecedented significance of the November election requires an unprecedented action by former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrati... |
1e476470d70bf389bc602b593282bc0d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-15/opinion-barr-pandering-covid-19-church-services-probably-right-on-the-law | Opinion: Bill Barr is pandering on COVID-19 church services. But he’s probably right on the law | Opinion: Bill Barr is pandering on COVID-19 church services. But he’s probably right on the law
Anything the Trump administration says or does on religious liberty arouses skepticism because this president has relentlessly pandered to his evangelical Christian base. As part of that campaign, he has exaggerated the lega... |
9b19de9fe44b94cd20f56e599e7af889 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-15/trump-punishes-world-health-organization-for-his-own-mistakes | Letters to the Editor: Trump punishes the World Health Organization for his own mistakes | Letters to the Editor: Trump punishes the World Health Organization for his own mistakes
To the editor: In a fit of pique and misdirection, President Trump has halted all U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, which amounts to 17% of that body’s budget.
In announcing his decision, Trump had the temerity to sta... |
b0846b359dece19b0151033e71330b3b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-16/coronavirus-pandemic-donald-trump-constitution | Column: Trump hasn’t got the chops to acquire the authority he claims. Thank God | Column: Trump hasn’t got the chops to acquire the authority he claims. Thank God
President Trump’s proclamation Monday that he alone has “total authority” over the states during the coronavirus crisis was quickly rejected by a chorus of legal scholars of all political stripes, as well it should be. The president’s off-... |
05b9afa98bd45099c68f807cb17dc9c5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-16/donald-trump-pearl-harbor-moment-franklin-roosevelt | Op-Ed: A ‘Pearl Harbor moment’? Maybe. But Trump is no FDR | Op-Ed: A ‘Pearl Harbor moment’? Maybe. But Trump is no FDR
When U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said recently that the coronavirus crisis would “be our Pearl Harbor moment,” he unwittingly opened a debate on President Trump’s leadership amid the COVID-19 catastrophe. He was alluding to Dec. 7, 1941 — when more than 3... |
43eaa241a18dd000817e074d1e694852 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-16/pandemic-to-force-solutions-on-homelessness | Letters to the Editor: Too bad it’s taking a pandemic for leaders to get creative on homelessness | Letters to the Editor: Too bad it’s taking a pandemic for leaders to get creative on homelessness
To the editor: Housed residents should be begging local officials to follow the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and organize camps with services for homeless people in parks, on golf courses, in parking lots or whereve... |
476385a0e490de8ccb777035872e382b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-16/ppp-funding-lapses-partisan-fight | Opinion: Small businesses need help now. Congress would rather play politics | Opinion: Small businesses need help now. Congress would rather play politics
As hard to believe as it may be, Republicans and Democrats couldn’t agree Thursday to a deal to pump more money into the new Paycheck Protection Program, which doled out $350 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses in less than two wee... |
8e5caa30099b3dcc5e627f0b444f9070 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-16/recession-small-business-recovery-coronavirus | Op-Ed: Millions of small businesses are about to collapse. We can’t afford the mistakes we made in 2008 | Op-Ed: Millions of small businesses are about to collapse. We can’t afford the mistakes we made in 2008
The last time America suffered an economic meltdown in 2008 we came out of it poorly.
Yes, the economy and the stock market recovered. So did the banks, with a big assist from Uncle Sam. But millions of homeowners w... |
f312a16e43062d89127ce8086b4af504 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-16/trump-who-defunding-wrong | Editorial: For all its faults, we need WHO now more than ever | Editorial: For all its faults, we need WHO now more than ever
President Trump is not wrong to question the World Health Organization’s early response to the emerging coronavirus outbreak and its apparent deference to what we now know were false assurances by Chinese officials about the seriousness of the outbreak.
But ... |
8ddfa9212479a069abc51a769fac54bd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-17/anthony-fauci-scientist-pleasing-trump-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: Being a scientist while placating a narcissist — Anthony Fauci’s impossible job | Letters to the Editor: Being a scientist while placating a narcissist — Anthony Fauci’s impossible job
To the editor: Whatever one’s political affiliation (mine is independent), one has to feel for Dr. Anthony Fauci. (“The shaming of Anthony Fauci at Trump’s news conference from hell,” Opinion, April 14)
In his role as... |
33de99fa8e4f0ef80a5151f5e3e89efa | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-17/liberate-michigan-trump-tweets-2nd-amendment-coronavirus-pandemic | Opinion: ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN!’ Trump tweets to armed protesters. What was he thinking? | Opinion: ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN!’ Trump tweets to armed protesters. What was he thinking?
Earlier this week, thousands of people wrangled by a conservative political group drove into the Capitol area of Lansing, Mich., to protest Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Among them... |
c0b68008b4f964f18dab8af253f88304 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-17/restart-the-economy-bad-idea | Letters to the Editor: Restart the economy? We can’t even stock enough toilet paper right now | Letters to the Editor: Restart the economy? We can’t even stock enough toilet paper right now
To the editor: While California deserves a pat on the back for its efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19, I find it absurd to even think about “opening the economy” right now.
The criteria must include ready, widespread avail... |
0e2c8e69139501940beab2c8ab656170 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-17/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-stimulus-check-trump-coronavirus | Editorial: Migrants who pay taxes should get stimulus checks — even if they’re undocumented | Editorial: Migrants who pay taxes should get stimulus checks — even if they’re undocumented
The federal government this week began distributing stimulus checks to most people in the country who have a Social Security number. For many, it will be a welcome if inadequate lifeline at a time when large segments of this con... |
d1088a09ef822beb55c394bf9b92f421 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-18/atheists-were-once-punching-bags-now-readers-revere-them | Opinion: Atheist activists were once punching bags. Now, readers revere them | Opinion: Atheist activists were once punching bags. Now, readers revere them
Years ago, the exchange might have played out differently: A letter critical of a prominent atheist activist is published in the paper, and readers send perhaps a few approving and disapproving responses. After all, ours is a country where a s... |
a2da7ae3bd34b8f7bbe005b70c758899 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-18/churches-dont-have-a-1st-amendment-right-to-ruin-public-health | Letters to the Editor: Churches don’t have a 1st Amendment right to ruin public health | Letters to the Editor: Churches don’t have a 1st Amendment right to ruin public health
To the editor: Some pastors believe stay-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19 violate their 1st Amendment freedom.
It would be very instructive for them to read a separate report in the L.A. Times about the small rural Georgia ... |
3b25999d7cd8dd857ac92b89a64d0555 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-18/yosemite-with-no-people-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: A Yosemite with no people and only animals is a sight to behold | Letters to the Editor: A Yosemite with no people and only animals is a sight to behold
To the editor: The animals that have come out from hiding and are roaming more freely in a Yosemite National Park closed to people because of the COVID-19 pandemic are simply reclaiming what was theirs in the first place — before Joh... |
52676c3c9a1432239815c0b8f1e02471 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-19/lacma-demolition-michael-govan-los-angeles-county | Op-Ed: Last chance to reconsider LACMA’s bad plan for a new museum? | Op-Ed: Last chance to reconsider LACMA’s bad plan for a new museum?
Two weeks ago, one of the city’s most beloved cultural institutions began to disappear before our eyes. LACMA is coming down. First, the interiors of the east campus buildings were cleared of hazardous materials, but the shells of the buildings still s... |
a42dd85058bc43239b44bb9aeed4f55e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-19/losing-postal-service-would-devastate-america | Letters to the Editor: The Postal Service helps define our nation. Losing it would be devastating | Letters to the Editor: The Postal Service helps define our nation. Losing it would be devastating
To the editor: In my life, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered mail to me with its Rural Free Delivery service and at post office boxes, apartments, businesses and now my house. Aside from nostalgia, it is one of the nec... |
1d6ed455d5918aaade7721d8a3f0a475 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-19/trump-is-lazy-but-dont-underestimate-him | Letters to the Editor: Yeah, Trump is lazy, but underestimating him is dangerous | Letters to the Editor: Yeah, Trump is lazy, but underestimating him is dangerous
To the editor: If y’all remember, underestimating Donald Trump (and more importantly, the people who think for him) was what got us him as president in the first place. He is a limited political tactician, though ruthless and canny, but pe... |
528fb39160e120697141fc97f364566a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-19/unodocumented-workers-pay-taxes-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: Unodocumented workers pay taxes. They deserve more than one-time coronavirus aid | Letters to the Editor: Unodocumented workers pay taxes. They deserve more than one-time coronavirus aid
To the editor: Gov. Gavin Newsom took an important step recently, announcing a one-time, $125-million, public-private partnership to provide disaster relief to undocumented workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. ... |
cbae880045d9f43508a92bc17b749823 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-19/wrestling-golf-essential-businesses | Editorial: Is pro wrestling ‘essential’? It is in Florida. And that’s the way it has to be | Editorial: Is pro wrestling ‘essential’? It is in Florida. And that’s the way it has to be
Professional wrestling is an “essential” business in Florida, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis, meaning the sport supposedly is so important to the life and culture of the state that it should resume operations despite a statewide ... |
c0a365c25f047234f84cd1fe780fe490 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-20/hospitals-beds-home-care-coronavirus | Op-Ed: Instead of building more hospitals, turn bedrooms into hospital rooms | Op-Ed: Instead of building more hospitals, turn bedrooms into hospital rooms
Faced with a severe shortage of hospital beds in the COVID-19 pandemic, governors and mayors have had to convert public spaces, such as convention centers, into infirmaries. Now some people are suggesting that more permanent hospital beds be b... |
8bede148c8192c747d5a935cab50e3b4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-20/supreme-court-unanimous-juries-criminal-trials | Opinion: Thanks to the Supreme Court, ‘10 Angry Men’ can no longer send you to prison | Opinion: Thanks to the Supreme Court, ‘10 Angry Men’ can no longer send you to prison
Most Americans — including those who have seen the film “12 Angry Men” — probably assumed that the U.S. Constitution requires that juries be unanimous in order to convict someone of a major crime. But that wasn’t true until Monday, wh... |
909bb78711bedef444d10b1cb63a47bd | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-20/trump-liberate-protests-dangerous-president | Letters to the Editor: ‘Liberate’ protests show why Trump is such a dangerous president | Letters to the Editor: ‘Liberate’ protests show why Trump is such a dangerous president
To the editor: President Trump is not always so supportive of “very responsible people” who gather to “express their views.” When the Women’s March protested the day after the president’s inauguration in 2017 (and did so without put... |
dece453ab898521d46f4f3caccd49a27 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-21/coronavirus-budget-deficit-los-angeles | Editorial: Coronavirus is wiping out L.A.'s budget. We need federal help — and so do other cities | Editorial: Coronavirus is wiping out L.A.'s budget. We need federal help — and so do other cities
A year ago, when Mayor Eric Garcetti unveiled his budget for the 2019-20 year, Los Angeles was flush with cash from a strong economy and planning to spend big.
The mayor wanted to spend the extra money to fix more sidewalk... |
b567014342a786254701c024ba7b2326 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-21/coronavirus-trump-immigration-political-posturing | Editorial: Trump’s new immigration freeze is just more of his tired political posturing | Editorial: Trump’s new immigration freeze is just more of his tired political posturing
You have to say one thing for President Trump: He has yet to find a crisis he can’t try to exploit for his own political gain. Trump tweeted late Monday that he intends to sign an executive order halting all immigration to the U.S. ... |
b761a0f85d412e5d260d03d15d03492d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-21/hospitals-nurses-protective-n95-masks-doctors-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: Hospitals needs to stop treating nurses like they’re expendable | Letters to the Editor: Hospitals needs to stop treating nurses like they’re expendable
To the editor: Thanks to columnist Michael Hiltzik for calling out Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica for its backward thinking. As a patient of Providence over the last 30 years and as a nursing instructor at that h... |
6b14b32e6c2919cbb8bba2a59980fa1e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-21/stanford-blood-antibody-study-might-not-be-very-useful | Letters to the Editor: Why the Stanford blood antibody study might not be very useful | Letters to the Editor: Why the Stanford blood antibody study might not be very useful
To the editor: It makes for a compelling headline. But the reality is, the Santa Clara County COVID-19 study is so profoundly flawed that its conclusions are meaningless.
Study participants self-selected, primarily by responding to ad... |
52144bfee4424d16cb06a73916dd8f15 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-22/coronavirus-is-making-it-clear-that-car-culture-is-its-own-kind-of-plague | Opinion: Coronavirus shutdowns are making it undeniably clear how toxic our car culture is | Opinion: Coronavirus shutdowns are making it undeniably clear how toxic our car culture is
On April 3, residents of the Indian city of Jalandhar saw something they hadn’t in at least 40 years: the spectacular snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas walling off the far eastern outskirts of their city.
Halfway around the worl... |
65f380c7077385d8370071d89dd12062 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-22/opinion-everything-you-know-about-coronavirus-is-wrong | Opinion: Everything you know about coronavirus is wrong. Or it could be. Maybe. We don’t know | Opinion: Everything you know about coronavirus is wrong. Or it could be. Maybe. We don’t know
We know for sure that COVID-19 is contagious and that it kills people.
But we don’t know how many.
That’s just one of the umpteen things we have yet to understand fully about about SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-1... |
ccf22f6f15ca58e6cdc25cd550a6c744 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-22/rich-pay-more-in-taxes-after-coronavirus-crisis | Letters to the Editor: The rich are going to have to pay more in taxes after the coronavirus pandemic | Letters to the Editor: The rich are going to have to pay more in taxes after the coronavirus pandemic
To the editor: With thousands of municipalities in the United States facing budget problems similar to those in Los Angeles, the federal neglect of funding for our social and infrastructure needs has become as signific... |
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