July 2021

Even before the school doors open, the coming academic year already appears to be anything but normal.

Today, the Cuban people have had enough and are spilling out into the streets insisting on better governance.

To understand ‘Havana Syndrome,’ you need to start at the beginning.

In Arkansas, the arrival of the Delta variant, low state vaccination rates, and laxity in masking and social distancing have fanned what were once embers to the point that we now find ourselves in a raging inferno of cases.

This pandemic has revealed many holes in our healthcare infrastructure, but a uniquely American dilemma has to do with the conflict between rigid defenders of individual rights and public health proponents who focus on general welfare.

Emboldened by a stamp of approval from the FDA and patient advocacy organizations, Biogen and its misinformation campaign are in an unprecedented position to cause harm to patients.

We are not yet at the point where Republican leaders are pressuring voters and public health officials to withdraw from all public health efforts, and hopefully, that moment will not arrive.

Why amidst this vaccine hesitancy is president Biden not ordering all 9 million federal employees – including the military – to get vaccinated?

His new platform is all feeling and no substance, reflecting and amplifying the grievances projected onto him – a Rorschach test of polarized America.

Through all the public doubts, the law and the judiciary have always supported immunizations – until now.