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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: “An Epidemiologist’s View on Personal Liberty and Mask-Wearing”
“The tricky part is that we can’t eliminate COVID-19 by focusing only on our individual liberty — we have to exercise a kind of generous, communal commitment to liberty as a principle. We have to believe in protecting the liberty of another as much as protecting the liberty of ourselves, and that belief has to drive us to make some necessary personal sacrifices.” MWEG member Chantel Sloan is an infectious disease epidemiologist who has a front-row seat to COVID-19. Read more of her thoughts on the pandemic, mask-wearing, and freedom in this Deseret News opinion piece. “An Epidemiologist’s View on Personal Liberty and Mask-Wearing” • May 27, 2020 • Deseret…
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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: “America’s New Threat Might Be Middle-Class Hunger”
“In late March, when the Javits Center in New York was converted into a hospital, I became obsessed with protecting my parents from the coronavirus. I didn’t want my 86-year-old mother to die on a cot in a convention center. Then images of farmers ploughing their crops under gave me a new goal: to make sure my mom, who experienced chronic hunger as a child in postwar Europe, doesn’t go to bed hungry in her old age, too.” MWEG member Stefanie Condie is concerned about the tremendous strain COVID-19 is putting on our food system. Read her op-ed to learn more about why rationing may become more and more necessary, despite the…
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MWEG Member Op-Ed :: “Romney’s Reckless China Rhetoric Risks New Cold War”
“Tough talk on China is all the rage in Washington. Senate Republicans are directing GOP candidates to answer questions about America’s disastrous coronavirus response by blaming Beijing for the outbreak, while presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is accusing President Donald Trump of being soft on China.” Click here to read MWEG member Rachel Esplin Odell’s Deseret News op-ed explaining how Senator Romney’s recent writings on China distort truth and exaggerate dangers. Romney’s Reckless China Rhetoric Risks New Cold War • May 4, 2020 • Deseret News
