First of all, stay home if you can. For the next few weeks, we need to find out how widespread COVID-19 is in our community. And since we don’t know, the safest thing for everyone is to limit our contact with others. Mayor Regina Romero has asked you to; Gov. Doug Ducey has asked you to; health experts have asked you to. I get into the reasons on Page 4, but here’s the reason in the proverbial nutshell: This bug is going to overwhelm our healthcare system if we don’t slow it down.
But that order to stay home creates serious problems for many in the community. Our children’s schools have closed. Our concert venues have gone dark. Our bars have been shuttered and our restaurants are limited to take-out service. Many of our small businesses are being pushed to the absolute limit.
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In the book this week, we bring you news on this developing crisis: Tucson Salvage columnist Brian Smith spends an afternoon at a Circle K, where the homeless regulars don’t appear concerned about any virus; columnist Tom Danehy reflects on life in a pandemic while in line to buy toilet paper; associate editor Jeff Gardner explains why predicting how long the pandemic will last is so challenging; staff reporter Austin Counts memorializes Pima County Supervisor Richard Elias, who died suddenly last weekend of an apparent heart attack; Cannabis 520 colunist Nick Meyers looks at how the outbreak is affecting dispensaries; and calendar editor Emily Dieckman turns City Week into a listing of resources during these times of trouble. Plus, we let you know about what films you can stream to support the Loft Cinema and the new outbreak-inspired music Jacob Acosta is creating. And we still have Dan Savage’s sex column, Rob Brezsny’s astrology column, our crossword puzzle and all our fine comics.
See you on Zoom!
— Jim Nintzel Executive Editor
This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2020.
How long have you been a puppet of the bolshevik jew?
report 12 likes, 103 dislikes like dislike
Posted by Shlomo on 03/12/2020 at 3:24 PM
This commentary on a March 12 column by Danehy has remained online despite numerous requests to Editor Jim Nintzel to remove it. Readers considering a donation to The Weekly in order to help it to continue to publish, might want to hold off until this offensive post is taken offline.
“And we still have Dan Savage’s sex column, …”
Come on, you ought to at least put a pointer to this in your weekly newsletter!
The complaint in comment 1 (now that I’ve gone back and looked at the column and the comment section) is understandable; but the Weekly appears to consider the principles of free expression of opinion[1] to be more important than response to insult[2] and I tend in general to agree with that priority.
[1] I don’t say “free speech” as in Amendment 1, because the Weekly is not the government and owns the means of communication; therefore it has the right to allow or disallow such comments at its own discretion.
[2] Insults are different from criminal usages (such as incitement to riot, for example); but this speech being complained about is not criminal.
No but it violates the supposed guidelines which we all have seen, are not enforced. Their is a mindset that overshadows this publication. And that is “if you don’t agree with me, you’re an idiot, butt kisser Trump supporter and on and on.
Please enforce your guidelines on comments or I will pull my ads. This is not enjoyable or healthy for this great community.
If you won’t police it, at least give the option of reporting the abusive insulting posters for removal. Or even banning of them.
The weekly is a bunch of racist radical leftist Hillary butt kissers
Trump 2020.the best “for the people” President ever….hands down.
Hispanics for trump. Gays for trump. Blacks for trump. Asians for trump. GOD loving Americans for trump. Native Americans for trump. Working class for trump. Law enforcement for trump and on and on….
Make loser hillary butt-kissing radical leftist liberals cry again. Maga kag etc.
Let freedom reign.
You forgot people such as yourself: Asshole trolls for tRump. Your king is fried. It’s because of all that Clorox he’s drinking to fight the “China flu”. You would know that if you weren’t such a weakly radical racist POS tRump ass kisser. Get a clue and realize that your king is as good as dead. You are tRump Chump 2020 magakag dumbass. Let the lack of freedom that you and your orange dreamsicle want to see die a Putin loving death. Good riddance to both of you asshats.
Drink that Clorox dummy. Chug it! The orange brainiac demands you to. And we all know that your head is so far up tRump’s ass that you can’t help but to blindly believe everything it says. You are a beyond pathetic tRump coddling sheep.