Coronavirus Thread 2


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Public companies received $1 billion in stimulus funds meant for small businesses
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/p...t-for-small-businesses/ar-BB13tdSl?li=BBnb7Kz
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Publicly traded companies have received more than $1 billion in funds meant for small businesses from the federal government’s economic stimulus package, according to data from securities filings compiled by The Washington Post

Nearly 300 public companies have reported receiving money from the fund, called the Paycheck Protection Program, according to the data compiled by The Post. Recipients include 43 companies with more than 500 workers, the maximum typically allowed by the program. Several other recipients were prosperous enough to pay executives $2 million or more.

After the first pool of $349 billion ran dry, leaving more than 80 percent of applicants without funding, outrage over the millions of dollars that went to larger firms prompted some companies to return the money. As of Thursday, public companies had reported returning more than $125 million, according to a Post analysis of filings.

Other companies have said they plan to keep the funds, saying the loans had been awarded according to the program’s rules and that they would use most of it to pay workers, as required, in order for the loans to be forgiven.
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This is why Trump will win

Because the Dems signed off on this without looking out for average Americans and the most recent plan adding money to the original bill only gave scraps to small businesses with nothing again for average Americans

Even with the GOP publicly acknowledging that they won't extend the $600/week unemployment add on or a $2000/mo for everyone (like a couple of Dems have put out there), their base is willing to die for them (literally with the Open States protest) while the Dems just roll over and take it. They are both owned
 

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...er-for-encouraging-michiganders-to-go-to-work

Conservative pundit Candace Owens was suspended on Twitter after she encouraged Michigan residents to defy the governor's stay-at-home orders.

"Apparently [Whitmer] believes she is a duly elected dictator of a socialist country," Owens tweeted. "The people of Michigan need to stand up to her. Open your businesses. Go to work. The police think she’s crazy too. They are not going to arrest 10,000,000 people for going to work.”
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People of color - dont follow the masses into this mess. BE SAFE!
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The US just reported its deadliest day for coronavirus patients as states reopen, according to WHO

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/02/who-us-just-reported-deadliest-day-for-coronavirus.html

The U.S. saw 2,909 people die of Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to the data, which was collected as of 4 a.m. ET on Friday.
That’s the highest daily death toll in the U.S. yet based on a CNBC analysis of the WHO’s daily Covid-19 situation reports.
The country’s deadliest day comes as state officials weigh reopening parts of the economy and easing stay-at-home orders.

The United States just had its deadliest day on record due to the coronavirus as states across the country begin to ease restrictions meant to curb the spread of the virus, according to data published by the World Health Organization.

The U.S. saw 2,909 people die of Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to the data, which was collected as of 4 a.m. ET on Friday. That’s the highest daily Covid-19 death toll in the U.S. yet, based on a CNBC analysis of the WHO’s daily Covid-19 situation reports.

Before May 1, the next highest U.S. daily death toll was 2,471 reported on April 23, according to the WHO. State officials have previously warned that data on Covid-19 deaths are difficult to analyze because they often represent patients who became ill and were hospitalized weeks ago.
 
A bioethicist on why reopening states will kill more black people
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https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/5/1/21242911/black-americans-coronavirus-opening-states

As of April 28, the United States surpassed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. But this hasn’t stopped more than half of US states from partially reopening or making plans to reopen soon. Prematurely restarting businesses means new virus cases will arise, health officials say, especially in the face of insufficient testing. This puts the country’s most vulnerable populations — black, Latinx, poor, elderly, disabled — at greater risk of infection and death.

For the black community, the decision to reopen — despite the alarming data that shows they are disproportionately suffering from the disease (black people make up 30 percent of coronavirus cases, according to the CDC, even though they represent just 13 percent of the US population) — fuels the community’s distrust of government and health leadership. It harks back to cruel historical practices that used black bodies as scientific Silly Putty.

The event most cited to explain the historical distrust is the US Public Health Service’s (PHS) syphilis study at the Tuskegee Institute, which began in 1932 and continued for 40 years, until it was exposed as ethically unjustified. The study tracked 399 black men in rural Macon County, Alabama, who had syphilis and another 201 who were supposedly in a control group. PHS never informed the participants that they had the disease and simply told the men they would be treated for “bad blood,” a catchall phrase for various illnesses. Ultimately, the federal government would surveil the men to determine syphilis’s impact on the body’s organ systems when left untreated.
 
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Agent orangers, please listen to him closely! Ignore doctors for you medical advice!
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https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ohio-masks-likeness-of-god-nino-vitale-034550144.html

A Republican state lawmaker in Ohio says he won’t wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic because it covers the face, which is the “likeness of God.”

Nino Vitale, who serves in the state’s House of Representatives, says he’s not planning to follow guidance from Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who first tried to order that masks be worn as the state reopens, but later softened that to a recommendation.

DeWine said he reversed himself because too many people found an order requiring masks to be “offensive.”
 
How to stop your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask

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How to stop your glasses from fogging up when you wear a mask | CNN

It's a pesky problem: As soon as you strap on your cloth face mask and head out the door, your glasses fog up. Here's a simple way to stop that from happening.
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(CNN)It's a pesky problem: As soon as you strap on your cloth face mask and head out the door, your glasses fog up.
But there's a simple fix for that, and it'll only take a minute or two. All you need is soap and water.
This advice comes from the medical journal Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, courtesy of two doctors. And if their defogging trick can work in the emergency room, it can certainly work in the grocery store.
 
Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower complaint alleging coronavirus warnings were ignored
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/politics/rick-bright-complaint/index.html

(CNN)Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine, formally filed an extensive whistleblower complaint Tuesday alleging his early warnings about the coronavirus were ignored and that his caution at a treatment favored by President Donald Trump led to his removal.
Bright had led the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority since 2016 when he was reassigned last month to a narrower position at the National Institutes of Health.
In his whistleblower complaint, Bright says he raised concerns about US preparedness for coronavirus starting in January but was met with "indifference which then developed into hostility" by leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services.
HHS did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.

His attorneys argue that Bright's removal from his post amounts to a violation of the Whistleblower Protection Act, claiming that Bright "has engaged in numerous instances of protected activity."
In the complaint, he says he is seeking reinstatement as BARDA's director and asking for a full investigation.
 

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Covid-19 is way, way worse than the flu
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https://www.vox.com/science-and-hea...-flu-comparisons-fatality-rate-contagiousness

It’s more contagious, deadlier, sneakier, and more likely to cause chaos.
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Early on in the coronavirus pandemic, the question on many people’s minds was: “Isn’t this disease like the flu?” Covid-19 is a respiratory disease with some symptoms that resemble those of the seasonal flu, like fever and cough.

New evidence in the form of blood tests conducted in New York show that Covid-19 is at least as deadly as scientists have suspected for some weeks now. This is not like the seasonal flu. It is worse.

This is not to downplay the flu, which is an annual blight we could be even more proactive about fighting (annual flu shots are important!). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that between 12,000 and 61,000 people die of the flu every year. (President Trump has routinely sought to downplay the Covid-19 pandemic — particularly early on — by making comparisons to the flu.)

But also, keep in mind: That’s in a given year. Covid-19 hasn’t been around a year — or even half a year. Before January, this virus was not known to science, at all.

Yet the virus is already responsible for around 69,000 recorded deaths in the US as of May 5; and this is almost certainly an undercount. Around 2,000 people are still dying of Covid-19 every day in the United States alone.
 
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Park ranger was telling a crowd to social distance. Mid-speech, someone pushed him into a lake
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/us/social-distancing-ranger-pushing-lake-covid-19-trnd/index.html

A man accused of shoving an Austin, Texas, park ranger into the water while the ranger was explaining to a crowd the need for social distancing is embarrassed by his actions, his lawyer said.

A video that gained attention after it was posted on social media includes the moment a young man pushes the ranger into a lake at Commons Ford Ranch Metro Park last Thursday afternoon.

Brandon Hicks, 25, faces a charge of attempted assault on a public servant, a state jail felony, said the Travis County Sheriff's Office.
According to an arrest affidavit, ranger Cassidy Stillwell was talking to a crowd of people, described as "unlawfully drinking and smoking," on a dock near Lake Austin. It's unclear from the affidavit whether Hicks was part of that group mentioned in the affidavit.
 
Evil does not die easily.
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One of Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus

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One of Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus

A member of the US Navy who serves as one of President Donald Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus, CNN learned Thursday, raising concerns about the President's possible exposure to the virus.
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A member of the US Navy who serves as one of President Donald Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus, CNN learned Thursday, raising concerns about the President's possible exposure to the virus.
The valets are members of an elite military unit dedicated to the White House and often work very close to the President and first family. Trump was upset when he was informed Wednesday that the valet had tested positive, a source told CNN, and the President was subsequently tested again by the White House physician.
In a statement, the White House confirmed CNN's reporting that one of the President's staffers had tested positive.
"We were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the United States Military, who works on the White House campus, has tested positive for Coronavirus," deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement. "The President and the Vice President have since tested negative for the virus and they remain in great health."
 
https://oklahoman.com/article/5662128/hundreds-line-up-at-casino-opening

The line to get inside Thunderbird Casino stretched nearly 250 people long.


Inside, guests' temperatures were taken at the door, masks were handed out and guests were told they had to wear them while they sat at slot machines at least six feet away from the nearest fellow gambler. The bar was closed, but drinks were available as well as a limited menu from the restaurant.


For Jenny Mitchell of Purcell, Monday and the opening of her favorite casino could not get here soon enough.


"I've been waiting for it to open," Mitchell said. "I've been waiting this whole time and I've been coming here since they opened."
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