Boris Johnson unveils plan to return England ‘to normality’ by Christmas

Boris, like others, does not have clue that there is no going back to what was normal – everything has changed – health and environment (climate).

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PM sets out workplace guidelines and gives local authorities powers to close premises and cancel events

Boris Johnson has unveiled his plan for a “more significant return to normality” by Christmas, as he revealed steps to encourage people back to work in England and sweeping measures that will allow ministers to issue stay-at-home orders to tackle coronavirus outbreaks.

Acknowledging that the targeted restrictions could be “hard going” for people, the prime minister detailed a roadmap for England over the next few months that signals a shift in the government’s response to localised action to stem Covid-19.

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Texas schools can stay closed this fall for longer than previously ordered | The Texas Tribune

 

Facing backlash from educators, parents and public health officials, the Texas Education Agency is giving schools more time before they must resume teaching students in person, and allowing districts hard hit by the coronavirus to seek waivers.Source: Texas schools can stay closed this fall for longer than previously ordered | The Texas Tribune

Google to ban ads on coronavirus conspiracy stories

Google next month will ban publishers from using its ad platform to show advertisements next to content that promotes conspiracy theories about Covid-19. It will also ban ads that promote those theories. In cases where a particular site publishes a certain threshold of material that violates these policies, it will ban the entire site from using its ad platforms.

Source: Google to ban ads on coronavirus conspiracy stories

Open Thread | More About the Lingering After-Effects of COVID-19 — 3CHICSPOLITICO

People need to learn about what happens AFTER you are deemed ‘over’ COVID-19. New @JAMA_current publication looking at recovered #COVID19 patients in Italy. The outcomes are concerning: a thread. /1 — Dr. Tara C. Smith (@aetiology) July 10, 2020 Second, the time point examined was ~60 days after onset of symptoms, and patients […]

Open Thread | More About the Lingering After-Effects of COVID-19 — 3CHICSPOLITICO

Spain orders the culling of around 100,000 mink. — What Now News 24

Image Credit: Getty Images/Y. Tutov The Spanish government ordered the culling of 92,700 mink found to be infected with the coronavirus located in the Aragorn province .The farm employee’s wife seem to have contracted the virus in May. Her husband was eventually positive for the virus, along with six other employees. The company that runs […]

Spain orders the culling of around 100,000 mink. — What Now News 24

Anti-Mask Shopper Literally Cries Over Spilled Milk After Getting Pepper-Sprayed By Grocery Worker: WATCH

An employee at a Ralphs grocery store in California pepper-sprayed a shopper who allegedly rammed her with a shopping cart after being told he needed to leave the store if he did not want to wear a mask.

CBSLA reports: Witnesses said a store employee told the man he had to wear a face covering or leave the store as required by Los Angeles County. That’s when he started ramming the woman with a shopping cart, and a worker used pepper spray to incapacitate the man and called the police. … The witness said the man continued screaming at the woman while he pushed his cart into her. She also said she saw another woman try to push the man out of the way. … Cell phone video taken moments after the incident unfolded at the Ralphs in the 200 block of South La Brea Avenue shows the man sitting on the ground, surrounded by milk.

More from Newsweek: Ralphs official mask policy is: “We encourage all our customers to wear a mask when they visit our stores.” However, in the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has issued an order requiring the public to wear face coverings “when they leave their homes and will be near other people.” The incident at Ralphs is the latest in a series of stories of customers refusing to wear masks at grocery stores, with some turning to violence in protest.

Watch CBSLA’s report, which includes cell phone video from the incident, below.

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Barr condemns Disney and Hollywood for ‘kowtowing’ to China

Made announcement while thinking about sitting in Trump’s lap for one more lap dance? Can jump through hoops while in a short leash.

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Attorney general’s speech is part of continuing Trump administration offensive against Beijing

The US attorney general, William Barr, has assailed the Walt Disney Company and Hollywood studios, accusing them of “kowtowing” to the Chinese Communist party.

Barr’s allegations are part of a sustained diplomatic and public relations offensive by the Trump administration against Beijing, which the attorney general accused of engaging in “economic blitzkrieg – an aggressive, orchestrated, whole-of-government (indeed, whole-of-society) campaign to seize the commanding heights of the global economy and to surpass the United States as the world’s pre-eminent superpower”.

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Georgia mayors to defy Kemp ban on mask mandates | TheHill

“You all know I love to quote Audre Lorde, she says ‘I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.’ So I am not afraid of the city being sued,” Bottoms said Thursday. “And I’ll put our policies up against anyone’s any day of the week.”

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson (D) also said that the Georgia city will continue to enforce a local rule to require masks or face coverings in public, despite Kemp’s order Wednesday.

“I am not going to mince words,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. “We believe that Gov. Kemp is overstepping his authority. With that said, our emergency declaration still stands.”

“We will continue to follow the science,” Johnson added. “We will continue to take care of Savannah. We will continue to provide masks, for free, to whoever wants them and needs them. We will continue to wear them. We will continue to mandate them. And we will continue to require them in our city.”

Source: Georgia mayors to defy Kemp ban on mask mandates | TheHill

Keisha Lance Bottoms says Atlanta mask mandate will stand | 11alive.com

In the latest back-and-forth of a growing open dispute between Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Gov. Brian Kemp, the mayor said Thursday mask requirements “are enforceable and they stand” one day after the governor explicitly barred them.

The issue of masks has been perhaps the most contentious one between the two leaders, with Kemp rejecting calls to institute a statewide mask mandate and Bottoms one of the policy’s most vocal proponents.

 

Source: Keisha Lance Bottoms says Atlanta mask mandate will stand | 11alive.com