Wednesday, August 5, 2020

And another day of deaths, no access, suffering, testing, removals, coercion, fragility, approvals, reverberations, risks, and inclusiveness comes to a close:

“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.” -- Arthur Schopenhauer

Deaths

US: 161,601 (+1311)

World: 711,196 (+6831)

Cases

US: 4,973,568 (+55,148)

World: 18,974,434 (+272,762)

Countdown: 90 days.

Global coronavirus deaths exceed 700,000, one person dies every 15 seconds on average.

Why health experts can’t figure out coronavirus surge: ‘No access to data’. “Still, epidemiologists point out that every other developed country battling the virus has been able to publish the kind of data average people and scientists need to track the course of the disease each day and pivot their individual behavior and public response accordingly.”

Georgia second grader tests positive for coronavirus after first day of school, forcing class to quarantine. Two suburban Atlanta school districts that began in-person classes Monday with mask-optional policies face more questions about COVID-19 safety protocols after on-campus pictures showed students packed shoulder-to-shoulder. The day after school resumed, one school announced a second grader tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing the child's teacher and classmates to be sent home to quarantine for two weeks, CBS affiliate WGCL-TV reports.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says the US has suffered "as much or worse than anyone" from the coronavirus pandemic, marking a sharp contrast with President Trump's tone as the crisis drags on.

Virus testing in the US is dropping, even as deaths mount.

Facebook removes video of Trump falsely claiming children are "almost immune" to the coronavirus. — Trump is literally trying to kill you. 

Colorado State is investigating its football department, the university announced in a press release, following reports that coaches in the program had attempted to coerce players out of reporting possible symptoms of the coronavirus and warned the team against submitting themselves to self quarantine.

CDC expects 2020 outbreak of rare, life-threatening condition affecting children.

The Federal Clampdown On Portland Shows Just How Fragile Our Democracy Is. Simonis’s story is not how most Americans expect law enforcement to work. But over the last few weeks, it’s become part of a familiar pattern.

Trump said he may deliver convention speech from White House. Ethics experts say Trump entertaining the notion of accepting the nomination from White House property highlights his willingness to trample on norms. A federal law, known as the Hatch Act, generally forbids the use of government property and employees for political activities with some exceptions. The President and vice president are exempted, but some previous officeholders have sought to limit political activity in the White House, for instance, by holding political events elsewhere or in the residential spaces of the presidential mansion.

Former Vice President Joe Biden and the rest of the planned convention speakers will not travel to Wisconsin for the quadrennial Democratic National Convention.

Trump campaign sues Nevada over plan to mail ballots to all registered voters.

Missouri voters approve Medicaid expansion, making it 38th state to do so.

People are dying after drinking hand sanitizer, CDC says.

517 inmates test positive for COVID-19 in Arizona prison, nearly half of its population.

WNBA players wear shirts supporting Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler's opponent in Senate race. — Beautiful.

At least 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes by Tuesday's devastating explosion, Beirut's governor Marwan Abboud says.

Atomic bomb dropped on Japan's Hiroshima 75 years ago still reverberates. “It’s too late to stand up after everyone dies,” said Masaaki Takano, 82, who walked home from school amid the black rain of a nuclear bomb.

Public Servants Are Risking Everything to Expose Government Corruption. The president’s war on whistleblowers is worse than you realize.

In an effort to keep illegal firearms off the street, the City of Flint, Michigan, has announced it will start destroying guns seized by police rather than selling them at auction.

Blackstone snaps up Ancestry.com in $4.7bn deal. The private equity group will receive a close to 75 per cent stake in the company.

‘You are more than a body’: the lingerie brand that picks models without seeing them. The Underargument chooses its models based purely on the stories about themselves that they submit. And it’s not the only sign of a shift to more inclusive casting in fashion

Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.

Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.