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Astoria Lounge Suspended From Coronavirus Open Restaurants Program After Crowds Party In The Street – Gothamist – {People just don’t get that there is no going back – a new normal has to be embraced and evolved!}

“It’s just a small step back to remind people we’re still in a pandemic,” a bouncer, who declined to give his name, told us Saturday night after the order was issued. “We’re all eager to get back to the way things were before and sometimes we get a little bit ahead of ourselves, and that’s all it was.”

Patrons were required to leave after the street seating was shut down at the location Saturday night.

Outside of the bar, Mike, who held a to-go cocktail in a plastic container, said, “It’s a business, they gotta run their shit. I think it’s kinda unfair.”

“We just wanted to have a nice dinner, a girl’s night out,” said Tatiana Soriano, 19, of Forest Hills. “We Uber’d here and were expecting that.”

Soriano added: “I just feel like our lives can’t stop because of this, so it’s nice that they’re slowly reopening.”

 

Source: Astoria Lounge Suspended From Coronavirus Open Restaurants Program After Crowds Party In The Street – Gothamist

Govenor: Ohio heading in the wrong direction, ‘could become Florida’

Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said Sunday that while his administration has stopped short of issuing a statewide mask ordinance, he says he’s not ruling out implementing that step as coronavirus cases continue to surge in the state.

Source: Govenor: Ohio heading in the wrong direction, ‘could become Florida’

For this Latina artist in New York, goodbye to all that Goya — Repeating Islands

A report by Gabrielle Berbey for PRI’s The World. Our thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention. Artist Ysabel Turner says she realized years ago that she needed to divorce her Puerto Rican identity from the Goya brand. She used her photographic series to do just that. At first glance, Puerto Rican […]

For this Latina artist in New York, goodbye to all that Goya — Repeating Islands

Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work

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In 2010, California hired the consulting firm Deloitte to overhaul the state website people use to apply for unemployment benefits. Things didn’t go well: Later that year, technical errors led to the halting of payments for some 300,000 people, according to the Los Angeles Times. And, the paper reported that, at $110 million, the final cost of the system was almost double the initial estimate. A decade later, the taxed, aging system built by Deloitte in California is struggling again, this time under the strain of new applicants put out of work by the pandemic. But Deloitte still won a…

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India’s Police Found Complicit in Anti-Muslim Mob Violence | Human Rights Watch

An independent investigation into attacks on Muslims by Hindu mobs in Delhi in February 2020 found that police were complicit in and even abetted the violence. The attacks came after weeks of peaceful protests against the Indian government’s discriminatory citizenship policies. Witnesses say that when they asked police for help during the violence, they refused, saying “they had no orders to act.”

The report, by the Delhi Minorities Commission, said that the violence was “planned and targeted.” It also found that the police were filing cases against Muslim victims for the violence, but not taking action against the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders who incited it.

 

Source: India’s Police Found Complicit in Anti-Muslim Mob Violence | Human Rights Watch

Require masks in restaurants, bars to stop coronavirus, Toronto mayor says – Toronto | Globalnews.ca

“I know Premier Ford is just as concerned as I am about a second wave and the disastrous impact that a return to a more stringent lockdown would have on the health of our residents and the restart of the Ontario economy,” Tory says in the letter sent Saturday.

“We have seen in other jurisdictions that further reopening can lead to increased outbreaks of COVID-19 and growing case count numbers. We do not want to go in that direction.”

 

Source: Require masks in restaurants, bars to stop coronavirus, Toronto mayor says – Toronto | Globalnews.ca