They’ve worked assiduously to prepare for catastrophic events, and they’ve achieved effective results on tight budgets.
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Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Gordon Weil: Beware of COVID-19 models
People are fascinated by numbers. Not surprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic has become entangled with statistics. The problem may be that people focus on those numbers, so they lose sight of the real problem. How many cases have there been in China or Italy or the U.S.? Where is the pandemic “epicenter” based on the case […]
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Sen. Vitelli: We must do better to protect health and safety of BIW workers
If the shipyard can’t implement the physical distancing measures needed to ensure workers’ safety, it needs to close.
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Have we all lost our moral compass?
The U.S. has seen almost 10,000 deaths to date from the COVID-19 virus (250,000-plus sick), the virus the president – Donald Trump – called a hoax. A virus that would simply disappear and was perpetrated by the Democratic Party in the first place, per the president. Not to worry! That hoax that has crippled our […]
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
‘The adult in the room’: CDC director is the face of Maine’s coronavirus response
Dr. Nirav Shah has earned widespread praise for his handling of the crisis, even inspiring a Facebook group and a highway sign saying, ‘In Shah we trust.’
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Individual rights should be limited at this time
I agree with the premise presented by John Balentine in his column in the April 3 edition of The Forecaster (“Viral reaction ‘at the point of absurdity’”), that government rarely cedes individual rights back to individuals once assumed by the government. However, a lesson I learned in high school clearly explains why individual rights are, […]
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Commentary: To save lives, social distancing must continue longer than we expect
The course of the 1918 influenza epidemic has lessons for us.
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‘Keep this out of your home’: Falmouth family hit hard by the coronavirus
Ellen Mahoney Simmonds, 81, died Monday of COVID-19. Now, her son has it and her husband says he’s recovered.
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Lying low during pandemic, 92-year-old Bud Grant – who had polio at age 10 – sees history repeating itself
Bud Grant, the former Minnesota Vikings coach who contracted polio as a boy, knows ‘we’ll survive this one’ as he stays close to home during the coronavorus pandemic..
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UFC 249 canceled after ESPN, Disney halt promotion’s plans
UFC President Dana White wanted to hold the event without fans, but pressure from top executives at Disney and ESPN convinced him to agree to cancel.