Dr. Mother Love & Mr. Kennedy on Bernie's run, Covid 19, What is essential?

Bernie Sanders is suspending his 2020 presidential campaign, ceding the Democratic nomination to Joe Biden after a string of losses last month crippled his campaign. He announced his decision during an all-staff conference call Wednesday morning. The Vermont senator told his aides that this was not just a presidential campaign, but a movement, and to be proud of what they’ve accomplished. During a live stream announcing that he is dropping out, Sanders finally acknowledged that “the path toward victory is virtually impossible.” POLITICO

Chris Cuomo’s insistence on working while sick—and, as energetic as he seems on the air, he’s definitely sick—ties into two American mythologies. The first is a fabled American industriousness: the idea that devotion to the job, measured in hours clocked and personal sacrifices made, is a workplace’s highest value. The second myth Cuomo embodies is the notion that the best of us are fighters.

Walmart, Target, and Costco were ordered on Tuesday to halt the sale of “non-essential” products in their brick-and-mortar locations to reduce the potential spread of the coronavirus, according to a state government agency in Vermont. Items like clothes and beauty items are now deemed non-essential? What about the massive shipping backlogs we are having now?