Gimme Some Lovin’ rock star Spencer Davis, lead singer of the Spencer Davis Group, dies aged 81 – ABC News

Spencer Davis, a British guitarist and bandleader whose eponymous rock group had 1960s hits including Gimme Some Lovin’ and I’m a Man dies at age 81.

Source: Gimme Some Lovin’ rock star Spencer Davis, lead singer of the Spencer Davis Group, dies aged 81 – ABC News

Election 2020: Mendham (Borough) GOP falsely says voters can’t vote in person – New Jersey

Republicans in this Morris County town are telling voters they will not be able to vote in person on Nov. 3 unless they are visually impaired, a statement at odds with New Jersey’s policy on in-person voting during the coronavirus outbreak.

A letter sent to voters last week, signed by members of the Mendham Borough Republican Committee, trashes Murphy for “usurping your American rights for his political gain” and barring voters from casting ballots in-person. It acknowledges that voters who go to polling places on Nov. 3 can vote using provisional ballots, but also says, “you will not be able to vote unless you are on the Morris County Board of Elections list for visually impaired voters.”

This is false. When Murphy ordered that the Nov. 3 election will be conducted largely by mail, he did not bar voters from casting ballots in person. His order, later given the approval of the state Legislature, limits the use of voting machines to voters with some disabilities, not only those with visual impairments. Other voters who show up to polling places on Election Day must vote by provisional ballot, a paper ballot similar to the one voters received in the mail.

Source: Election 2020: Mendham GOP falsely says voters can’t vote in person

Nearly Two Weeks After Schools In COVID-19 Hotspots Closed, Uncertainty About When They’ll Reopen – Gothamist

Parents and principals living or working in New York City’s red and orange zones said they’re waiting in suspense over whether their schools can reopen after being forced to close two weeks ago. Governor Andrew Cuomo — who ordered schools in those zones to close — said he’d make an announcement about them on Wednesday.

“We’ve literally gotten nothing,” said Michael Perlberg, principal at M.S. 839 just south of Prospect Park.

“Parents are getting really frustrated,” said Heather Dailey, who sends her son to P.S. 219 in Flushing.

For some principals, reopening would be a return to the new normal during the pandemic, but there are worries the city and state will order school buildings to open their doors with very little time to alert parents. One Brooklyn principal, who declined to be identified because she wasn’t authorized to speak to the press, said she’s “bracing” to be told on Wednesday to reopen her school the next day. She said these last-minute directives mean “constantly reacting instead of forward thinking.”

Source: Nearly Two Weeks After Schools In COVID-19 Hotspots Closed, Uncertainty About When They’ll Reopen – Gothamist

All of the times President Trump said Covid-19 will disappear (We needed a leader not a cheer leader – read this whole thing)

It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear. And from our shores, we — you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.

President Trump
February 27, 2020

We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.

President Trump
March 10, 2020

It’s going to go away, hopefully at the end of the month. And, if not, hopefully it will be soon after that.

President Trump
March 31, 2020

But a lot of movement and a lot of progress has been made in a vaccine. But I think what happens is it’s going to go away. This is going to go away. And whether it comes back in a modified form in the fall, we’ll be able to handle it.

President Trump
April 28, 2020

And I think we are going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that, at some point, that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope.

President Trump
July 1, 2020

Source: All of the times President Trump said Covid-19 will disappear

Woman, 94, travels more than 1,000 km to cast vote in U.S. election after absentee ballot lost | National Post

The voting office assured her the ballot had been mailed but as of Oct. 10, Madison still hadn’t received it. As someone who had been voting for the past 50 years, she was not prepared to miss voting on what she described to CNN as “the most important vote that we’ve ever had.” Two days later, she and her son set off from Zion at 6:30 a.m. on the long journey toward Detroit, arriving at the city hall at around midday. Donning a black mask with the word “vote” on it, Madison rolled her wheelchair into the polling station, with the help of her son, and cast her ballot. “At least I made it,” Madison said. “I made it and voted for the people I wanted to vote for, and I hope they win. But I felt satisfied that I was not going to miss voting.” On the same day, Madison and her son drove back to Illinois.  “I’m glad I (voted),” Madison told CNN, “because I haven’t seen a ballot yet.” Madison, who has a history of political activism, urged others, young and old, to come out and vote. “We must vote,” she said. “You just start at 18 and keep on going to until the very end … They all count.”

Source: Woman, 94, travels more than 1,000 km to cast vote in U.S. election after absentee ballot lost | National Post

Savour Everything

BRAINCHILD

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

Frida Kahlo

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Covid-19 survives sewage treatment, finds new study – Green Prophet

Wastewater must be treated beyond conventional methods used today in Israel in order to eliminate Covid-19, report scientists from Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Beersheba, Israel. The researchers have found that parts of the coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2  survives after sewage purification in treatments plants.

They isolated RNA samples of the virus post-treatment and the finding worries them for a number of reasons. 

Source: Covid-19 survives sewage treatment, finds new study – Green Prophet