Traditional print media was already on the ropes long before the crisis, in competition with exploding alternative forms of digital news and independent platforms, but the coronavirus pandemic and accompanying shutdown of the economy could prove the final death blow. Bloomberg reports at a moment newspaper staff in cities and towns across the US are being furloughed in huge numbers and increasingly being issued pay cuts that […]
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Chelsea Bieker’s mother left when she was 9 years old. “Growing up, I was hungry for narratives that were tackling some of the things that I was experiencing and feeling,” she recalls. Whenever she found those stories, she says it felt healing, cathartic — a release. “It didn’t feel like I was so isolated — it made my experience feel more universal,” she says. In Bieker’s […]
As the US death toll from coronavirus tops 10,000 – the third highest in the world, an inspector general report from the Department of Health and Human Services has found that the country is experiencing serious shortages of tests and personal protective equipment (PPE). The Monday report described the test kit shortages as “severe” and shortfalls in PPE as “widespread” – compounding an already dangerous situation. […]
All US military personnel must cover their faces in situations where they are unable to adhere to social-distancing guidelines, the Pentagon has announced. However, a shortage of masks means troops will have to get creative. The new anti-coronavirus protocol – which applies to military and civilian personnel, along with family members, contractors and guests on military bases – calls for wearing “cloth face coverings” when individuals […]
Authored by Blair Nelson via CampusReform.org, A new disturbing trend has emerged among Zoom conference calls called “zoombombing.” Due to the coronavirus, colleges and businesses have had to relocate their classes and meetings onto online video conferencing platforms, such as Zoom. According to the FBI, many Zoom video conference calls have been subjected to some form of hijack. “The FBI has received multiple reports of conferences […]
(Natural News) More bad news has come out of communist China as a factory worker making sanitary face masks for people in other countries to protect against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was recently caught intentionally contaminating them while laughing about it on camera. Footage of the disturbing incident that’s quickly going viral depicts the Chinese man wearing a face mask of his own while rubbing his […]
At Friday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, President Donald Trump shared the new CDC recommendation that Americans should wear non-medical face coverings to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. “The CDC is advising the use of non-medical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure,” Trump said. “So it’s voluntary. You don’t have to do it. They suggest for it a period […]
The US bought out a planeload of Chinese-made face masks right on the tarmac just as the haul of the much needed protective gear was about to set off for France, the head of a French region told RT. Facing shortages of protective equipment amid the coronavirus outbreak, France has turned to China to procure the much-needed face masks. After French legislature adopted a law on […]