Deafness, Disasters and Difference: The Lavender Tube on Deaf U., Cobra, and 'First Day'

We have never needed a break from political TV more than right now, with Election Day and the expected aftermath looming. The President of the United States didn't die from his bout with the coronavirus after getting unique experimental treatment unavailable to anyone else in a world-class hospital, so now he thinks COVID-19 is not so bad. But more than 8 million Americans have been infected and more than 220,000 have died.

So while France has instituted mandatory curfews from 9pm to 6am to help control the rise in COVID-19 cases incurred largely from nighttime pub-crawling, and the U.K. makes bubbling mandatory, with no one allowed to share their living space with anyone not in their ecosystem, Trump is going with herd immunity and attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Fauci was featured on 60 Minutes on Oct. 18 (watch on CBS.com), where he discussed the assault on himself and his family that has necessitated his hiring security for himself, his wife and his daughters. It's a disturbing and disheartening segment about the breadth of the anti-science movement in America and how interconnected it is with domestic terrorism. We've seen this miniseries and it doesn't end well.

Deaf U
Nyle DiMarco, the gay Deaf model and actor who won both America's Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, is executive producer for Netflix's new unscripted series, Deaf U. According to DiMarco, the goal of the series is "to show deaf people as humans, from all walks of life."