"The woman attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community along the South Carolina coast was visiting the homeowner to do her nails and was trying to touch the animal when it grabbed her, authorities said." The world is not a zoo (and you should do this at a zoo either). (Grokked from Eric VanNewkirk)
"But scientists don't know whether people who have been exposed to the coronavirus will be immune for life, as is usually the case for the measles, or if the disease will return again and again, like the common cold." Ta-da! And because we don't know, that makes all the vaccine development in progress just a crap shoot.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls… "One of Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus, CNN reports." The president, VP, and "senior staff" are tested weekly. I haven't been tested once. (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
Did he, or didn't he wear a mask in Arizona.
"As hospitals were overrun by coronavirus patients in other parts of the world, the Army Corps of Engineers mobilized in the U.S., hiring private contractors to build emergency field hospitals around the country… But nearly four months into the pandemic, most of these facilities haven't treated a single patient." If only there had been an actual plan in place. And mostly it's because more people than predicted actually followed advice on social distancing.
"The Trump administration has shelved a document created by the nation’s top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging coronavirus outbreak." Who needs experts when you've got instincts? Here's the thing, if they fuck up this "reopening" the damage they inflict won't take years to heal, it'll take decades.(Grokked from Kathryn Cramer)
"The White House coronavirus task force rejected detailed guidance drafted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how workplaces ranging from schools to bars to churches should resume operations to prevent the spread of the virus because it was viewed as 'overly prescriptive.'" Because, you know, it was an actual plan.
"A for-profit college received millions of dollars from the federal government to help low-income students whose lives have been upended by the coronavirus outbreak, but that same school, Florida Career College (FCC), is also accused of defrauding students."
"The Labor Department delivered a historically bad employment report Friday, showing 20.5 million jobs lost last month as the nation locked down against the coronavirus. The jobless rate soared to 14.7% — the highest level since the Great Depression." Boom.
"It's an ironic twist as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the nation: The very workers tasked with treating those afflicted with the virus are losing work in droves. Emergency room visits are down. Non-urgent surgical procedures have largely been put on hold. Health care spending fell 18% in the first three months of the year. And 1.4 million health care workers lost their jobs in April, a sharp increase from the 42,000 reported in March, according to the Labor Department. Nearly 135,000 of the April losses were in hospitals." Jazz hands.
Capitalism at work. "And yet, each time he arrived at work, Benjamin saw a different reality emerging… during daily calls with his three adult children, he confided that he was afraid of getting sick. On March 25 one of his daughters gave him a face mask to wear at the plant, where he operated boxing and loading equipment near the entrance and was often the first person to greet arriving co-workers… Two days later, Benjamin told his kids a supervisor had ordered him to remove the mask because it was creating unnecessary fears among plant employees." Who needs regulations when you have bosses like that. (Grokked from Kelly Link)
"University of Akron president Gary Miller announced that the university will cut six of its 11 academic colleges, Cleveland.com reported. He did not specify which will remain but said an announcement will be made in the coming days." Ohio University (not Ohio State) has announced similar cuts. Expect to hear this from most universities and colleges in the coming months. (Grokked from John)
"The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Thursday that it has arrested two white men in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed black man who was shot and killed in February while jogging on a residential street in Brunswick, Ga." Well that only took several months and a large outcry. Don't worry, white supremacists, the prosecutor will fuck up the case (the state needs to appoint a special prosecutor here who is competent and whose job depends on a successful conviction).
"Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Elena Kagan said that 'for no reason' other than 'political payback' the aides 'used deception' to cut access lanes from Fort Lee, New Jersey, to the bridge… The move "jeopardized the safety of the town's residents," Kagan wrote, but concluded that 'not every corrupt act by state or local officials is a federal crime.'" Wrong.
"The federal agency that regulates the U.S. television industry slapped the largest civil fine in its history on Sinclair Broadcast Group — a company with links to the Trump administration — as punishment for deceiving the government." That's not even a rounding error.
"Frustrated with the bleak advice they were getting from medical advisers, and with the November election looming, the President's economic team prevailed with a simple message: reopen the country as soon as possible."
"The Justice Department is dropping its case against President Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia's then-ambassador to the United States." A pardon by another name. Justice denied and the DoJ becomes completely political.
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