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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

You Can’t Vote Red If You’re Dead

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As negotiations over the next coronavirus relief bill drag on, our elected officials appear to primarily be sparring over a difference of $200 or so: According to the Washington Post, Democrats remain steadfast in their insistence that the next bill should reinstate the extra $600-a-week unemployment benefit, while…

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Biden says he supports additional funding for the police | TheHill – (for community policing, social workers, psychologists…)

“I want to get police more money in order to deal with the things they badly need, from making sure they have access to community policing, that they have also in the department’s social workers, psychologists, people who in fact can handle those god awful problems that a cop has to have four degrees to handle.”

Source: Biden says he supports additional funding for the police | TheHill

Trump administration wants to see ‘untrusted’ Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat removed from U.S. app stores, Pompeo says

Still in lap-dog attack mode, it appears. Lots more fun than actually making the nation safe by addressing Covid-19 with a rational plan.

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Pompeo’s comments come less than a week after President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he will act soon to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States.

Why was there a COVID-19 outbreak in Colac’s abattoir, but not one in Warrnambool? – ABC News – (when in doubt, do the right thing!)

When general manager Dean McKenna found out that a meat inspector who had visited the site had tested positive, the company immediately shut the plant down — before it had heard from the health department.

The company organised testing for nearly 1,000 workers via the local health service, but before the results were known DHHS advised that the meatworks could reopen.

Mr McKenna said he ignored that advice and opted to keep the abattoir shut.

“We still wouldn’t go back to work until we had a feel for where the testing was going,” he said.

 

Source: Why was there a COVID-19 outbreak in Colac’s abattoir, but not one in Warrnambool? – ABC News

Coronavirus: Norwegian cruise line cancels operations after dozens test positive | Euronews

Norwegian cruise line Hurtigruten announced on Monday it is suspending all of its planned trips after 36 staff members and five guests onboard one of their ships tested positive for COVID-19.

Four crew members of the MS Roald Amundsen tested positive on Friday and an additional 32 were found to have contracted the disease on Saturday — the remaining 122 staff members all tested negative.

 

Source: Coronavirus: Norwegian cruise line cancels operations after dozens test positive | Euronews

Students at school system Pence called ‘forefront’ of reopening now in quarantine | TheHill

Fourth graders at a school that is part of a system that Vice President Pence visited and lauded for returning to in-person teaching have been asked to quarantine after a student tested positive for COVID-19.

Thales Academy in Wake Forest, N.C., became aware of the positive test on Monday, ABC News reported.

The fourth grader, who was last at the school Friday, was reportedly infected at home by a family member, but was asymptomatic. All of the teachers and students who were exposed must now quarantine for 14 days.

 

Source: Students at school system Pence called ‘forefront’ of reopening now in quarantine | TheHill

Ireland delays full reopening of bars again after COVID-19 rate doubles – Reuters

Ireland has reported an average of 46 cases per day over the past seven days, up from an average of 19 the previous week.

But it still has the 11th lowest rate of new infections of 32 European countries monitored by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, with nine infections per 100,000 people reported over the past 14 days.

“We’re in a precarious situation in our battle with the virus,” Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar told a news conference. “We have lost some ground but it is possible to reclaim it.”

 

Source: Ireland delays full reopening of bars again after COVID-19 rate doubles – Reuters

‘Armageddon’ at Beirut hospitals after blast hurt medics, patients alike – France 24

Medics carried patients from nine separate floors one by one on stretchers, as the blast had knocked out the elevators.

Without electricity or water, nurses took great risks to provide whatever life-saving support they could.

“The hospital lights are usually on 24 hours a day — it was completely dark,” said clinical nurse specialist Lara Daher.

“We stitched up patients by the light of our cellphones last night. I don’t know how we did it. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

 

Source: ‘Armageddon’ at Beirut hospitals after blast hurt medics, patients alike – France 24