Coronavirus
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Civil Liberties Groups, Activists Express Concern Over COVID-19 Data Being Shared With Law Enforcement
There is a lot to worry about given the entire state of, well, everything. Your personal information being given to the cops shouldn’t be one of them. Unfortunately, that seems to be the case in many states across the country. According to ABC News, there have been growing concerns about people’s personal data being shared…
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Post-COVID, Is Indoor Pickup Basketball…Done?
“The era of “drop-in” workouts may be over,” writes VICE’s Maggie Puniewska in a sobering piece about what gyms will likely look like in a post-COVID America. The brim and bustle of a peak-hour LA Fitness won’t be returning any time soon, as even those willing to chance visiting a gym once they reopen will…
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Florida Scientist Fired for Refusing to Manipulate COVID-19 Data to Justify Reopening State
Trump wants America to reopen because he’s more concerned about the economy’s lifeline than he is about the people he governs. That’s a fact. The president of the United States is also a liar and as such those around him, or those who want to stay in his good graces, also have to lie; think…
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Brooklyn Doctor Who Put Off Retirement to Fight Coronavirus Dies From COVID-19
For nearly 40 years, Dr. James Mahoney saw his patients through the most challenging events New York City faced. He worked on the frontlines of University Hospital in Brooklyn, helping patients weather the AIDS and crack epidemics. As the New York Times reports, he was at the “chronically underfunded” state-run hospital through the Sept. 11…
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Georgia Keeps Releasing Misleading Data About Its COVID-19 Cases
Georgia’s Department of Public Health is being called out by epidemiology experts, elected officials and residents for releasing misleading information about COVID-19 numbers in the state, which was one of the first in the country to reopen in the midst of the pandemic. The DPH published a graph to its website last week that appeared…
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Republican State Lawmaker in Alaska Compares COVID-19 Precautions to the Holocaust, Says Hitler Was No White Supremacist
Of all the strange hills people choose to die on, the “coronavirus protections are like Nazi Germany” hill has to be among the most absurd. One Alaska lawmaker sent an email to dozens of his colleagues expressing that ridiculous comparison and then doubled down on his rhetoric with an equally preposterous claim that Adolph Hitler…
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NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Says Police Will No Longer Enforce Mask-Wearing Order
Surely there is a reasonable medium between brutalizing black people for not properly adhering to COVID-19 related measures and courteously handing out masks to white people who are decidedly not observing social distancing rules? The NYPD hasn’t seemed to find that medium yet, but New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is now suggesting that…
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Sanctuary for the Devil: The Church Service That Birthed a COVID-19 Outbreak and the Black Women Who Fought It
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist. — Keyser Soze text Pastor Rahsaan Armand knows the devil exists. But as he sped through the rural roads near West Virginia’s Marion County-Monongalia County line, he had no idea he was headed in the devil’s direction. Armand didn’t even know…
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Trump Doesn’t Care for Dr. Fauci or Coronavirus Science Unless They Agree With Him
Dr. Anthony Fauci is a doctor. He’s also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He’s noted several times that as a doctor and a public health official, he’s a man of science and as such, he doesn’t care if the facts lead him to conclusions that are Democrat or Republican;…
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Los Angeles Stay-At-Home Order To Be Extended to July
Despite there being no significant downturn in COVID-19 cases and there being significant warnings about the dangers of re-opening too soon, many states across the country have steadily started to re-open. However, if you happen to live in Los Angeles, don’t count on being a part of the effort to re-open the country any time…