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What to Know About Ivermectin and COVID – VAXOPEDIA

Ivermectin has not been shown to be safe or effective at preventing or treating COVID.

Source: What to Know About Ivermectin and COVID – VAXOPEDIA

Meatpacking & Farm Workers to Receive $600 Grants in $700M Aid Plan | Food Manufacturing

Meatpacking workers and farm workers who were severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic will be eligible to get grants of up to $600 per person as part of a new $700 million aid program the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday. Officials said the grants are meant to defray some of the costs workers bore as many of them bought their own protective equipment or took unpaid leave as the virus tore through their industries even as they were required to keep showing up for work. “While the rest of America could work from home, these brave men and women continued to show up for work every single day to ensure that we all food on our tables that we could eat,” said Marc Perrone, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union. “Meatpacking plants experienced some of the most deadly COVID-19 outbreaks when the pandemic first came around and there were workers that are deserving of our help, and our thanks and our support.”

Source: Meatpacking & Farm Workers to Receive $600 Grants in $700M Aid Plan | Food Manufacturing

13 Miami-area school staffers die of COVID-19 since start of new academic year | TheHill (Me: Direct result of Governor’s actions and inaction on Covid in Florida)

Thirteen staffers from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, all of whom were unvaccinated, have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the new academic year in August. Among the 13 who died from the virus were four teachers, one security monitor, one cafeteria worker and seven school bus drivers, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Source: 13 Miami-area school staffers die of COVID-19 since start of new academic year | TheHill

Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11 | US news | The Guardian

Rightwing apologists like to downplay these lethal events or dismiss them as aberrations, but experts warn this is a form of terrorism that’s not only entrenched but has ballooned to become the biggest domestic security threat in the US.

In the 20 years since 9/11, far-right extremists killed more people in the US than did American-based Islamist fundamentalists – but that’s often hard to discern from the way the federal government has treated domestic terrorism.

Earlier this year an intelligence report warned that racially-motivated extremists posed the most lethal domestic terrorism threat. It said the menace was now more serious than potential attacks from overseas, and the White House published a strategy for countering the problem.

The FBI director, Christopher Wray, told Congress that the 6 January insurrection wasn’t an isolated event and “the problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a number of years”.

Wray added that white supremacists comprise “the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio overall” and “have been responsible for the most lethal attacks over the last decade”.

Source: Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11 | US news | The Guardian