Israel’s latest coronavirus peak: 5,523 patients in a single day

Israel screened more than 57,000 people on Tuesday; almost one in 10 tested positive. 463533
Israel screened more than 57,000 people on Tuesday; almost one in 10 tested positive.

Coronavirus: Trump denies downplaying severity of virus – BBC News (down is up, in is out, lie is truth?)

US President Donald Trump has denied downplaying the seriousness of Covid-19, despite admitting in a recorded interview to having done that.

At a televised event with voters, Mr Trump said he had “up-played” it.

The claim contradicts comments Mr Trump made to journalist Bob Woodward earlier this year, when he said he minimised the virus’s severity to avoid panic.

Mr Trump also repeated on Tuesday that a vaccine could be ready “within weeks” despite scepticism from health experts.

No vaccine has yet completed clinical trials, leading some scientists to fear politics rather than health and safety is driving the push for a vaccine before the 3 November presidential elections.

Source: Coronavirus: Trump denies downplaying severity of virus – BBC News

‘I up-played it’: Donald Trump disputes own admission he downplayed Covid pandemic

down is up, love is hate, flailing the truth is ok as long as it pleases your supporters. A desperate man is supporting herd mentality?

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The president insists during rambling town hall that he ‘up-played’ the crisis and believes the virus will go away because of ‘herd mentality’

Donald Trump falsely claimed he did not downplay the coronavirus pandemic at a town hall Tuesday night, saying, “Actually, in many ways, I up-played it, in terms of action.”

His remarks came in response to an uncommitted voter at the ABC News event, who asked Trump why he would “downplay a pandemic that is known to disproportionately harm low-income families and minority communities”. The president said he did not minimize the threat of the virus: “My action was very strong. I’m not looking to be dishonest. I don’t want people to panic.”

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Nearly two-thirds of US adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust – study

The results of dumbing down education is shameful and hurtful…

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According to survey of adults 18-39, 23% said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, had been exaggerated or they weren’t sure

Almost two-thirds of young American adults do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and more than one in 10 believe Jews caused the Holocaust, a new survey has found, revealing shocking levels of ignorance about the greatest crime of the 20th century.

According to the study of millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 18 and 39, almost half (48%) could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto established during the second world war.

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Ursula von der Leyen says Poland’s ‘LGBT-free zones’ have no place in EU

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In her first ‘state of union’ speech, European commission president delivers criticism of Polish ruling party

The head of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has said Poland’s “LGBT free zones” are “humanity-free zones” that have no place in the European Union in her strongest criticism yet of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party.

In a wide-ranging 77-minute speech spanning from coronavirus to the climate emergency, Von der Leyen pledged to build “a union of equality” and criticised European member states that watered down EU foreign policy messages on human rights.

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