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Doomstead Diner Daily 3/19
« Reply #675 on: March 19, 2020, 08:32:13 am »

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Big Tech Firms are Using Automation to Censor News About the Coronavirus

mintpressnews.com - Big tech is again attempting to define the range of acceptable political discussion on its platforms; this week YouTube announced a number of changes in the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, chie…

Wuhan offers hope on virus front; Italy nears stark warning

apnews.com - Thursday was a day of contrasts on the front lines of the battle against the new coronavirus. In a sign of hope, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported no new homegrown infections, but in a stark warning…

Live updates: Policymakers pledge coronavirus relief for households, markets; countries shut their borders

washingtonpost.com - A person walks along the Las Vegas Strip devoid of the usual crowds after casinos were ordered to shut down due to the coronavirus on Wednesday. (John Locher/AP) By Siobhán O'Grady, close Siobhán O'G…

Trump’s $1 trillion stimulus is a gamble for reelection — and a sea change for Republicans once opposed to bailouts

washingtonpost.com - President Trump, reflected in a television camera, speaks at Wednesday’s coronavirus news conference in the White House press briefing room. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Robert Costa and c…

What If Trump Tried to Cancel the November Election?

nymag.com - Ohio governor Mike DeWine has been getting a lot of well-deserved attaboys for his aggressive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, taking many steps that other state and local officials were slow to em…

Coronavirus reminds Americans that pursuit of happiness is tied to the collective good

theconversation.com - At its core, the United States Declaration of Independence argues that all human beings have “unalienable rights.” These include right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These rights ap…

Can the Coronavirus and the Stock Market Meltdown Break America’s Addiction to Fantasy?

theintercept.com - So let’s focus on the real world. In the real world, we have to wash our hands. We need to pay anyone who’s sick to stay home. We have to figure out ASAP whether we should cross our fingers and hope …

Covid-19: ibuprofen should not be used for managing symptoms, say doctors and scientists

bmj.com - Scientists and senior doctors have backed claims by France’s health minister that people showing symptoms of covid-19 should use paracetamol (acetaminophen) rather than ibuprofen, a drug they said mi…

Inside the Pro-Trump Facebook Group Where First Responders Call Coronavirus a Hoax — ProPublica

propublica.org - ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In a 27,000-member private Facebook group for first responde…

Wealthy flock to private jets as pandemic spreads and airlines tank

news.yahoo.com - With commercial airlines engulfed by the maelstrom of the coronavirus pandemic one sector of the industry favoured by the wealthy is thriving: private jets. Fears of massive bankruptcies and calls fo…

Exclusive: Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse

theatlantic.com - Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Queens, New York, received a text Wednesday evening that they long feared might come: “We’re writing to let you know that a positive case of the coronavirus (COVID-1…

Global virus infections top 200,000 as nations tighten clampdowns

news.yahoo.com - Paris (AFP) - The number of global coronavirus infections shot past 200,000 on Wednesday, as governments across Europe, North America and Asia rolled out tough measures to put the brakes on the feroc…

How Victims of the US' "Maximum Pressure" Campaign Are Coping with Coronavirus

mintpressnews.com - As Western nations descend into a panic over the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are getting a taste of what it’s like for the millions who have been living under U.S. sanctions and warfare. Iran has…

Trump calls himself 'wartime president' as he battles virus

apnews.com - WASHINGTON (AP) — Describing himself as a “wartime president” fighting an invisible enemy, President Donald Trump invoked rarely used emergency powers to marshal critical medical supplies against the…

GOP Senator Upbeat Coronavirus May Kill ‘No More Than 3.4% of Our Population’

nymag.com - “Right now, all people are hearing about are the deaths,” Republican Senator Ron Johnson told the New York Times last week. “I’m sure the deaths are horrific, but the flip side of this is the vast ma…

Coronavirus Resource Center - Harvard Health

health.harvard.edu - The rapid spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 has sparked alarm worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared this rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and many count…

Right Wing Can’t Decide If Virus Is No Big Deal, or Big Deal and China’s Fault

thedailybeast.com - Team Trump has finally found itself in a crisis it cannot propagandize its way out of. Unfortunately, this has not led Team Trump (the administration and its various Fox News-based media arms) to piv…

The vaccine hunters racing to save the world from the coronavirus pandemic

telegraph.co.uk - In a laboratory in the depths of Imperial College London, all eyes are on a group of mice scurrying about their daily business. The rodents were injected a few weeks ago with a prototype vaccine whic…

The First U.S. Company Has Announced an Upcoming Home COVID-19 Test

time.com - Everlywell, a home testing company that offers dozens of lab tests to consumers, is adding a COVID-19 test beginning on March 23. Given the slow roll out of testing for COVID-19 in the U.S., and conc…

Analysis | The official White House defense of labeling it ‘Chinese’ coronavirus

washingtonpost.com - President Trump listens during a news briefing Tuesday with the coronavirus task force at the White House. (Evan Vucci/AP) By Eugene Scott close Eugene Scott Reporter covering identity politics for T…

‘The US Has Played With Puerto Rico’s Economy for the Last 122 Years’

fair.org - Janine Jackson interviewed the Center for Popular Democracy’s Julio López Varona about Puerto Rican debt for the March 13, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Ja…

In Gaza, Scanning the Sky for Stars, Not Drones

undark.org - On a Wednesday evening in December, four young men, students and researchers at al-Aqsa University, carefully hoisted telescopes on their backs and made their way toward a five-story university build…

New Air Force Planes Go Directly to 'Boneyard'

military.com - New cargo planes on order for the U.S. Air Force are being delivered straight into storage in the Arizona desert because the military has no use for them, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. A d…


 

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