Daniel Schultz

Matt Colvin got thoroughly roasted on the internet this past weekend. Twitter was strewn with quote-tweets denouncing the high immorality of a man stockpiling 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer, intending to sell it at a big markup on ebay and Amazon.

It's particularly important for churches that continue to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic to follow the guidelines laid out by health experts given that worship services are among the largest regular gatherings in modern society, among the most physically intimate, and likely include the greatest number of vulnerable people. Even single members of large congregations can have a dramatic effect on how coronavirus spreads or doesn't, as South Korea found out the hard way.

I want to say that reading this Politico piece on the Trump administration's predictably botched response to the emerging coronavirus pandemic puts me in mind of a cult organization. I want to, but that's probably a slight against cults, many of which have more sophisticated emotional dynamics, organizational skills, and fashion sense than the Dollar General-meets-Versailles gang currently occupying the White House.

It's been noted that Bernie Sanders' youth revolution failed him on Super Tuesday. It's not so much that young voters stayed home, contrary to the headline on at least one article. In real numbers, more young voters turned out this year than in 2016 in most states. (The two exceptions were Alabama and, embarrassingly, Vermont.) But because so many older voters surged to the polls, the youth vote dropped as a percentage; in other words, its rate of growth didn't keep up that of older voters. Appropriately enough, Teen Vogue put it best:

I would urge anyone reading this headline to take it with a large grain of salt: "Most Americans Don't See Democratic Candidates As Very Religious." Like many such stories, it's true enough: 56% of Americans polled by the Pew Research Center think that Joe Biden is very or somewhat religious. It goes downhill from there: 36% for Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders 34%, Pete Buttigieg 32%.