Someone needs to teach those sad twats how and why do use an inverted pyramid in news stories: Channelling my inner Bronn

 

You know, the reporting found in this article is appalling. Channeling

As respiratory viruses strain US health care systems, Biden administration tells states how it's ready to help 

The article should start with evidence, such as:

[C]umulative hospitalization rates are about 10 times higher than typical for this point in the season. Less than two months in, the RSV hospitalization rate this season is already nearing the total RSV hospitalization rate from the entire 2018-19 season.

But, that's found paragraph 14 of 17. 

Without that information, even a non-paranoid person might wonder what leads to these conclusions.

Someone needs to teach those sad twats how and why do use an inverted pyramid in news stories.

 

Dunkirk not D-Day, Mid-terms

I have had the tendency of thinking of a comment I want to make, and then never getting to it.

So things are rather stale here.

I thought I'd change that be trying to point something out, the difference between a Dunkirk and a D-Day event.

Note the direction of the troop movements.

The achievements of the Democrats this last election are a Dunkirk movement -- relatively skillful, performed under great pressure, but the principal conquest was time to fight again.

For better of worse, it was a loss.  We are still on the back foot.