Friday, March 5, 2021

And another day of deals, no press briefings, vaccinations, masks make a difference, reopenings, chivalry assignments, NFL hires, slave images, routinely mishandling allegations, and a guaranteed income experiment is successful comes to a close:

“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.” -- Don Marquis

Deaths

US: 535,563 (+1927)

World: 2,592,085 (+10,436)

Cases

US: 29,593,704 (+67,618)

World: 116,670,105 (+453,525)

Senate Dems strike jobless aid deal, relief bill OK in sight.

Nearly halfway into his first 100 days, President Joe Biden has yet to personally hold a press briefing, the longest any president has waited to make himself broadly accessible to the media in decades.

In Palm Beach, Covid-19 vaccines intended for rural Black communities are instead going to wealthy white Floridians.

Washington hits goal of administering 45,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine per day.

Connecticut lifting coronavirus capacity limits. Starting March 19, restaurants, retail, libraries, personal services, indoor recreation, gyms, museums, offices and places of worship will not have additional capacity limits. The exceptions include theaters, which will continue to have capacity limits, and restaurants, which will have to close by 11 p.m. along with only allowing up to eight people at one table.

CDC study finds in-person dining bans, wearing masks make a difference.

New York cinemas reopen, brightening outlook for theaters.

Disney World workers spit on and harassed for enforcing COVID-19 rules.

Texas school scraps chivalry assignment that had girls 'obey any reasonable request of a male'. “Outside the classroom, ladies cannot show intellectual superiority if it would offend the men around them," one prompt in the assignment said.

NFL hires Maia Chaka as first Black female on-field official.

Images of slaves are property of Harvard, not a descendant, judge rules.

Experiment in guaranteed income leads to more work and better health, analysis shows. More than two years after a group of residents from a northern California city first started receiving monthly cash payments with no-strings attached, the results of the public policy experiment are in: guaranteed basic income — designed to create an income floor — works, according to an analysis of results from the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED).

Online learning platform Coursera files for U.S. IPO.

Independent investigation finds that LSU routinely mishandled allegations of sexual misconduct.

Women in their early 20s are still being told to "get pregnant" as a way of treating the debilitating gynaecological condition endometriosis.

NASA says the Perseverance rover took its first short drive of 21.3 feet on the red planet and successfully deployed its 7-foot-long robotic arm.

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

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