And another day of risks, courtrooms, running out of room, campus-wide quarantines, suing over mandate, a march on Washington, Ida’s a coming, Lake Tahoe could be in trouble, homemade baby formula, and milk crates come to a close:
"Our country is backsliding to the unconscionable days of Jim Crow." -- Martin Luther King III
“American discourse around sex makes a lot more sense when you realize it's tied with a puritanical values system where the basis of sexual misconduct is not ‘what if someone's boundaries got violated’ but rather ‘what if someone experienced pleasure they're not supposed to.’” -- Aisling Fawn
Deaths
US: 654,381 (+976)
World: 4,507,840 (+8976)
Cases
US: 39,617,417
World: 216,748,018 (+543,752)
What's the risk of indoor dining if you're fully vaccinated? Here's what one expert says. If you're using the elliptical or weight machines, and no one is close to you, then it's pretty safe. If you're attending outdoor gym classes, the risk is also low. But if you're going to, say, a high intensity exercise class where a lot of people are breathing heavily, near one another, and you don't know whether they are vaccinated, the risk is substantially higher.
Mask debate moves from school boards to courtrooms. In at least 14 states, lawsuits have been filed either for or against masks in schools. In some cases, normally rule-enforcing school administrators are finding themselves fighting state leaders in the name of keeping kids safe. — And Death laughs while watching it all unfold.
"There is no room to put these bodies." In Alabama, health officials are using mobile trailers to store bodies because Covid-19 deaths are soaring, according to state health officer Dr. Scott Harris.
Liberty University announces campus-wide quarantine amid COVID-19 surge. -- Wait, I thought they were protected by God.
Contact tracing takes a back seat during latest COVID surge. Health investigators across the U.S. are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new COVID-19 infections and carry out contact tracing efforts that were once seen as a pillar of the nation’s pandemic response. -- Thanks anti-vaxxers.
How much impact could Sturgis rally have on COVID caseload? The epicenter of the rally, Meade County, has become red-hot with new cases, reaching a per capita rate that is similar to the hardest-hit Southern states. The county reported the highest rate of cases in the state over the last two weeks, according to Johns Hopkins researchers.
Washington state employees union sues Gov. Inslee over COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The lawsuit aims to block the mandate from going into effect until the state and the union reach a bargaining agreement.
Two people die in Japan after receiving potentially contaminated vaccines. Two men in Japan died this month days after receiving potentially contaminated doses of the Moderna vaccine, though officials said Saturday that it is too early to draw a definitive conclusion on any connection.
Marchers across US call on Congress to bolster voting rights. “Our country is backsliding to the unconscionable days of Jim Crow. And some of our senators are saying, ‘Well, we can’t overcome the filibuster,’” King told the crowd. “I say to you today: Get rid of the filibuster. That is a monument to white supremacy we must tear down.”
Thousands marched in Washington, D.C., and nationwide in a push to pass federal voting rights legislation. Saturday marked the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech. This year’s rally comes as voting rights take center stage, with GOP-controlled legislatures considering or passing bills that would restrict ballot box access.
"Texas is the worst state to vote in, in the entire nation." -- Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Ida will be one of the strongest hurricanes to hit Louisiana since the 1850s, governor says. The National Hurricane Center said earlier Saturday that Ida was expected to rapidly intensify as it moved across the Gulf. Landfall in Louisiana is expected on Sunday evening — 16 years to the day Hurricane Katrina devastated a large part of the Gulf Coast.
Crews battle to protect Lake Tahoe region from wildfire. The Caldor Fire churned through mountains just southwest of the Tahoe Basin, cloaking much of the area in toxic smoke and sending tourists packing at a time when summer vacations would be in full swing ahead of the Labor Day weekend.
Chadwick Boseman’s death shed light on colon cancer, but rates remain high among Black people. Boseman’s death highlighted that public health organizations recommend colon cancer screening at 45 years old instead of 50. -- Get tested, people.
Babies fed a homemade alkaline diet formula were hospitalized with rickets and brain damage. The formulas, presumably based on the celebrity-endorsed alkaline diet, contained ingredients like sea moss, hemp seeds, dates, coconut water, and alkaline water but had insufficient nutrients like Vitamin D and calcium. — When you think you know more than the experts in their fields. Browsing web pages and social media is *not* doing research.
Big Box Stores’ Other Shoe Drops. Lowe’s is a parasite that is killing its host. In Michigan, Lowe’s pioneered an aggressive tactic of lowering its tax bills. It’s called the “dark store” gambit, and it’s so successful that towns are refunding millions to big box stores. That’s how the Lowe’s in Marquette, MI retroactively slashed the assessed value of the store it built for $10m from $5.2m to $2.4m (in 2010), $2m (in 2011), and $1.5m (in 2012). Based on the new assessment, Marquette was on the hook to refund $755,828 to Lowe’s, a company with $50b in net annual sales. To pay for the refund, Marquette slashed its library, police, and fire-department budgets.
U.S. Government Is Using an Algorithm to Flag American Citizens for Denaturalization: Report. According to newly uncovered documents, U.S. citizens can be kicked out of the country based on the findings of a secret DHS algorithm. The Department of Homeland Security is using an Amazon-hosted system called ATLAS that analyzes millions of records and can be used to automatically flag naturalized Americans for the revocation of their citizenship.
The milk crate challenge is exploding on social media. Some platforms are trying to remove it. The video, first posted to Facebook this month, is believed to be the origin point for the so-called milk crate challenge, a viral trend in which others attempt to conquer their own tower of milk crates, often falling in the same way as the unidentified pink-haired woman in the original video…But concerns from doctors and safety experts have led some social media platforms like TikTok to remove videos of the challenge, in an effort to prevent users from serious injury…Wright warned that a person who attempts the challenge could sustain injuries such as a wrist fracture, a forearm fracture, a broken femur, a torn ACL, or a concussion with a head bleed that could potentially lead to lifelong damage.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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