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The huge pictures on the front page of Sports on July 16, two on the front, one on page 3, showing Celtics and their barber without masks, represent a dereliction of the Globe’s duty to support community efforts to suppress Covid 19.

These things matter. Mask wearing is the single best way to suppress the virus and allow our lives and businesses to return to some semblance of normal, and we’re still far from that. Though we’ve entered phase 3, …

Today’s Globe headline reads, “Same company, same city, two coronavirus outbreaks at separate Medford nursing homes.” In an article published several days earlier, I found the following quote from the facilities’ owner: “I can assure you that we are working around the clock to keep our patients and residents healthy and as safe as possible. We are doing everything in our power — and everything medical experts know as of this time — to protect our patients, residents, and employees.”…

President Trump called determining when to relax social distancing guidelines “the biggest decision I’ll ever make,” but that statement simply shows how clueless he is. While the President dithered and whined, it was left to governors and mayors to impose shelter-in-place lock-downs to protect us from the worst of the pandemic, and we should have every expectation that they will be the ones to decide when to move on from them. What Trump ‘decides’ may influence a few of the …

In his editorial, “’Moderate’ Joe Biden has moved way to the left,” Jeff Jacoby omits important context. In addition to one bald misrepresentation, claiming that Obama opposed a public option in the ACA rather than negotiating it away in a futile attempt to woo Republican moderates, he leaves out the history of conservatives dragging their party and our country far right for the past four decades. Their policies since Reagan, and regrettably including Bill Clinton, prescribed the unbridled capitalism that …

It’s apparent that the near-universal wearing of masks on trains and buses will be key to continuing to suppress the virus so people can return to work and children to school. Wouldn’t it be great if the wealthy owners of our local sports teams would step up to the plate? What if team-branded face masks, now widely available on team websites but apparently seen by those owners as a revenue stream, were handed out for free on buses and in …

It’s fair for Scot Lehigh (Elizabeth Warren’s health care pipe dream) and Joan Vennochi (The sad truth in SNL’s Warren skit) to question the candidate’s tactics in sticking with her single payer plan, but some of their criticism is dishonest, disingenuous and destructive. Lehigh describes it as “government run healthcare” and “hugely expensive” when in fact it is neither. It would simply unite payment under a government-run system (in that way, like Medicare), which will make it the only proposal …

Michael Cohen, in Greenland—to buy or not to buy, points out that our Developer-in-Chief’s offer was rebuffed by a surprised Danish Prime Minister, but as everyone knows, real estate deals take time. I have a suggestion for reviving the deal: make her an offer she can’t refuse.

A trade—for New England. The US would get Greenland, with all its cool (literally) natural resources, complete with potential golf courses, and would rid itself of all those pesky eggheads and snobs …