Kudos to the @WTA: "Simon said the Tour, which has a deal to host 11 tournaments in China, would weigh the possibility of no longer doing business in the communist nation if there were not “appropriate results.”
"I’m not sitting here and thinking that I’m going to solve the world’s problems by any means. But what I am here to do is that we have an athlete that’s part of the WTA family that’s come out with serious allegations. We’re going to be 100% supportive of that..."
"...and we want to see a full investigation on this. If that isn’t the case and if they are not cooperative, we’ll have to make some decisions, and we’re prepared to do so, and that’s the best we can do. But we’re not going to back off this position. It’s the right place to be."
I've seen more courage from the head of @WTA than I've seen from national leaders or American entertainers/sports stars.
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Maybe Biden rebounds because he had good policy, or gets good news, or whatever.
But you'd have to be insane to think they can't go lower. They can...if they remain incompetent.
Frankly, I think if he spends his capital on BBB passage, he is going to be in big trouble.
This is really the problem. And a lot of Americans may not understand economics all that well, but they do understand this: if you spend more, inflation goes up.
So anyone want to explain the economic theory of injecting a few trillion dollars into an economy during a period of high inflation and low interest rates?
Influenza is not the same, but we can take lessons from it. It kills tens of thousands every year.
Do we completely stop portions of the economy for it? And if not, why not? In 2017-18 over 50k died of the flu. So I guess the argument is that 400k dying is too much, 50k is ok?
Here is the reality: we have vaccines, the best defense.
We have therapeutics, and will be getting more.
Our other interventions don't really work that great (masks, etc).