Morning Jolt: Being Wrong Is Human and Will Happen. But Staying Wrong Is a Choice.

On the menu today: We could all dunk on people who were wrong in their early assessments of this pandemic, but the more pressing question is who is not learning from getting things wrong during this outbreak; one mainstream publication notices that the conventional wisdom on Florida was far from the truth; why the media's reflexive partisan sympathies are leading Americans to not understand the virus and what policies work best to mitigate it; and a funny and brutally honest assessment of what's coming to higher education.

Errors Are a Part of Life, but We Shouldn't Cling to Them

According to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Research Center, as of this writing, the U.S. death toll from the virus is 85,906. Worldometers, which tends to run ahead of JHU count, puts the toll at 86,912.

You noticed that the arguments of "It's just the flu!" or "This is comparable to the flu!" or "The flu kills more people each year!" stopped sometime in ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 15 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 15 2020 Being Wrong Is Human and Will Happen. But Staying Wrong Is a Choice. On the menu today: We could all dunk on people who were wrong in their early assessments of this pandemic, but the more pressing question is who is not learning from getting things wrong during this outbreak; one mainstream publication notices that the conventional wisdom on Florida was far from the truth; why the media's reflexive partisan sympathies are leading Americans to not understand the virus and what policies work best to mitigate it; and a funny and brutally honest assessment of what's coming to higher education. Errors Are a Part of Life, but We Shouldn't Cling to Them According to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Research Center, as of this writing, the U.S. death toll from the virus is 85,906. Worldometers, which tends to run ahead of JHU count, puts the toll at 86,912. You noticed that the arguments of "It's just the flu!" or "This is comparable to the flu!" or "The flu kills more people each year!" stopped sometime in ...   READ MORE

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