Dan Lipka Web Log

COVID is very contagious . COVID is still in our communities . Natural Immunity will wear off . Vaccine Immunity will wear off . Using generally accepted logic and reason, COVID will be back, just the same as it has after other past lulls. The arguments against this usually involves wishes and knocking on wood.  Both reported cases and deaths between May 2021 and May 2022 are extraordinarily similar (cases are higher this year, but deaths are down). It is important to note that people are masking and going out significantly more now than a year ago, so it isn't apples v apples.  However, there is hope that our treatments are getting better, hospitals are more prepared, and not as many people are dying and in the past (of course many of the most at risk people may have already died). That being said, 500 people are still dying everyday. That is 5X more than die from the flu, and current deaths are at a seasonal low. So unless there is a better vaccine (unlikely because it's not

Of course the conservative Supreme Court Justices are going to overturn Roe v Wade. This was one of their most important issues and there is literally nothing in the law that says they can't do this. There are plenty of precedents for overturning precedents. And if a Justice thinks abortion is murder than how could they not overturn. It's not like the original decision was unanimous, it was a one vote decision either way. Likewise, if the Justices have been telling their closest friends and inner circle that they would oppose Roe v Wade, how (or why) would they not do act on that. They would be outcasts if they didn't (that shouldn't matter, but it does). I've been saying for years that this is inevitable and that the Democrats should make a deal before it is too late. The deal is that abortions laws are left to the states (without any interstate restrictions), and in exchange they cannot be any nationwide federal law that outlaws abortions. The Congress and the Pre