[originally published in Hard Crackers] John Garvey — May 22, 2022 During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smoke canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He then fired 33 shots from […]
A Matter of Life and Death: Winning the Fight for Vaccines
John Garvey — February 7, 2022 [Originally published in Hard Crackers}. It seems increasingly likely that a real end to the COVID pandemic will require all but universal vaccination.[1] There are three challenges that need to be met: The development of much more effective strategies to work with those individuals who continue to hesitate about getting vaccinated. The […]
War is hell! Peace is better?
If we want to stop the war, we’ll have to end the peace! As probably just about everyone here today knows, everyday life in peacetime is deadly for people all over the world. Many people die but many more survive for living deaths — lives without hopes or dreams. There’s a connection between the deaths […]