Morning Jolt: We Need to Confront Reality

I will be out next week; you've got to spend time with your loved ones in safe way when you can these days. Wrapping up the week: a look at the frustrating power of denial in the face of great danger, what we can trust about the data and what is likely to be inaccurate, the difficult recognition that an end to the pandemic is still a long way off, and that much-rumored Redskins story arrives with a bang.

Confronting Reality

I hope Chuck Woolery's son, recently diagnosed with COVID-19, makes a full recovery; thankfully he is reportedly asymptomatic. I think if you see this moment as the right one to mock the former game-show host . . . well, Woolery's got bigger and more consequential problems on his mind right now.

A few days ago, when Woolery tweeted, "everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust," — and the President of the United States retweeted him ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY July 17 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY July 17 2020 We Need to Confront Reality I will be out next week; you've got to spend time with your loved ones in safe way when you can these days. Wrapping up the week: a look at the frustrating power of denial in the face of great danger, what we can trust about the data and what is likely to be inaccurate, the difficult recognition that an end to the pandemic is still a long way off, and that much-rumored Redskins story arrives with a bang. Confronting Reality I hope Chuck Woolery's son, recently diagnosed with COVID-19, makes a full recovery; thankfully he is reportedly asymptomatic. I think if you see this moment as the right one to mock the former game-show host . . . well, Woolery's got bigger and more consequential problems on his mind right now. A few days ago, when Woolery tweeted, "everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust," — and the President of the United States retweeted him ...   READ MORE

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