It is mind-boggling that the commanding officer of USS Theodore Roosevelt, Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, was relieved of duty after sending a frank assessment of how the coronavirus had infected his crew aboard the aircraft carrier.
Whatever happened to the 2020 presidential campaign? Remember that? You know, for the election that's just six months away?
Journalists are generally really bad at math. We're good with words. Not so good with math.
We keep reading and hearing in conservative circles an assertion that President Trump didn't call the coronavirus a hoax.
In the irony of ironies about coronavirus and our collective American lack of preparedness, Republicans who've beaten their chests for years about fiscal accountability and conservatism are suddenly apoplectic about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announced creation of a select committee with subpoena powers to oversee the Trump administration's response to the pandemic and its management of the $2 trillion intended to rescue our people and economy.
Even after coronavirus finishes with us, we'll be left with PTSD - post traumatic stress disorder.
Chattanooga, Hamilton County and Tennessee wisely are ramping up to provide the community with more information and incentive to fight coronavirus.
Move over, China. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Hope is a precious thing. And in America we have it. We're seeing evidence of that hope here in Hamilton County every day.
The leaders of Chattanooga hospitals - especially Erlanger's - and other local medical officials are doing this region a tremendous disservice as this novel coronavirus crisis begins to unfold.
