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A Closer Look …

with Anthony Newcombe  published with permission from writeplus.biz 🦃Date: November 5, 2021 🍂 👀This month’s topic:  👀 Did the American Worker Burnout (on America)?  We’ve always pride ourselves on our “American work ethic.” The number of hours we labor, the few paid vacation days we take advantage of – always the highest and lowest in the world […]

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A Closer Look

with Anthony Newcombe  Published with permission from writeplus.biz Title: W-T-F happened?  Topic: Wasn’t Covid in our rear window…#GuessNOT   Why is everyone testing positive NOW!?  We thought were heading outta this “thing?” I thought the stands were going to be filled with something OTHER than “flat-Stanleys?”  Weren’t we heading to the ball parks and arenas and concert venues again?  Didn’t […]

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A Closer Look … Pandemic-Covid-Vaccinations-Eligibility-Costs-a Shot in the Arm-

with Anthony Newcombe  (published with permission from https://writeplus.biz) Topic:  How and who will pay for COVID-19 vaccinations?     Issue:  Pandemic, vaccination costs, and the risks of ongoing collateral damage in the U.S.    Terminology:    Pandemic was recently dubbed the “word of the year” by Merriam-Webster (click link either left or below).  Congrats, pandemic, you’ve officially arrived!  However, now the discussion has shifted […]

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College Students

A Closer Look … with Anthony Newcombe  (published with permission from writeplus.biz) Let’s take a closer look … @ college students! Area:  Education and college students   Issue:  What can be expected from the “college fallout” due dramatic loss of revenue from the Covid-19 pandemic.  In other words, how do parents of soon to be college students even know […]

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MONOPOLIES!

A Closer Look … with Anthony Newcombe published with permission from writeplus.biz Area(s): business, politics (and the strange ways they seem to intersect these days) Topic: Business “Monopoly sweepstakes” during this pandemic  Issue: Are “favored” companies taking unfair advantage of “unfavored” ones – as well as the rest of us – during this pandemic?  I don’t […]

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PLAY BALL !!

A Closer Look … with Anthony Newcombe (published with permission from writeplus.biz) Topic: PLAY BALL!! (just don’t spit or argue…and get Covid tested often!!) Issue: Can baseball players really refrain from spitting?! Or, arguing? Or … I guess it’s a valiant effort to think we can “field” a troupe of MLB players and count on them to refrain from […]

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Skills? (A Closer Look)

A Closer Look … with Anthony Newcombe  published with permission from writeplus.biz Let’s take a closer look … @ NEW SKILLS DURING COVID LOCKDOWN?? Topic: What skill did you learn/ are you learning during the extended “home-based” Covid-19 period?   Personal note: Like you, I noticed plenty of people getting in on the new “mask production craze.”   […]

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A Closer Look

with Anthony Newcombe Published with permission from writeplus.biz Topic: Reopening vs. Testing (Covid-19)   Issue: Is it better to risk an economic collapse using a more deliberate approach in reopening America (with a broader national testing program), or, try to get us ‘back to normal’ as quickly as possible and risk another spike in infections and deaths?  […]

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A Closer Look

with Anthony Newcombe (published with permission from WritePlus.biz) Arena: Healthcare and Politics (and why they don’t mix)  Topic: How do we manage to blame the ‘other party’ during a global pandemic?   I understand all too well that America in 2020 is in the midst of a political tug o’ war over, well, almost everything.  We have demonstrated that we can brawl about […]

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A Closer Look

A Closer Look … at Health & Pandemics! posted with permission from WritePlus with Anthony Newcombe (Vol. II) Issue: What “good” has already resulted from shutting down entire city, state, and nation populations due to the Covid-19 pandemic? Let’s take ‘a closer look’ … If you haven’t yet noticed, we are in an international health […]

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