Above Photo: Students wearing masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic attend the opening ceremony for the school year in Havana, Cuba, Nov. 15, 2021. (Ramon Espinosa / AP) Most Cubans Seem More Concerned With Getting Their Economy Fired Up Than Toppling Their Leaders. Even If They Blame Their Government For Mismanagement, Corruption And A System That Stifles Private Enterprise, Few Fail To Recognize The Enormous Impact Of U.S. Sanctions. Havana – “If you build it, they will come,” said Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams. In Cuba, they didn’t come. Dissidents on the island, with their U.S. backers, had been working feverishly […]
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Teachers Union Urges Parents To Boycott School Reopening By Jaisal Noor, The Real News. October 20, 2020 Teachers Union Urges Parents To Boycott School Reopening2020-10-202020-10-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/scool-e1603238224250.jpg200px200px Above photo: A student receives a temperature check before leaving the car to enter STAR Eco Station Tutoring & Enrichment Center on September 2, 2020 in Culver City, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images. School officials and teachers have very different views on whether it’s safe for students hurt by missing in-person classes to safely return to the classroom. When Baltimore City Schools announced last week that 25 schools will reopen next month to increase in-person instruction for high need […]
Daily Beast: The White House put the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under immense pressure to produce more evidence that suited the Trump administration’s agenda to send kids and teachers back to school in person before the election despite the raging coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times reports. 📺 NEW VIDEO MeidasTouch and @BetteMidler and proud to present our very special version of ‘You’re Moving Out Today.’ Hasta la vista Chump! #MoveTrumpOut pic.twitter.com/sXV7xC5AtG — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 28, 2020 Retweet if you think Trump writes off Lindsey Graham #ByeLindsey pic.twitter.com/twFVpwJWO0 — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) September 29, 2020 One member of Vice President […]
President Donald Trump announced Monday that his administration would hand out 100 million coronavirus tests to states across the country, free of charge, for community distribution but stressed state leaders should use the additional resources to reopen schools. The administration plans to ship the Abbott BinaxNOW point of care tests in batches and will distribute them on a per capita basis, according to officials working with the White House coronavirus task force. It’s unclear which states will receive the tests first In a private call on Monday morning, Vice President Mike Pence pleaded with governors directly, saying that while they are […]
Just two weeks after going remote because of a COVID-19 spike, the University of Wisconsin Madison is resuming in-person activities, despite what Gov. Tony Evers described as a “near-exponential” increase in coronavirus cases in the state. UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Wednesday that the 45,000-student school would return to classroom instruction and reopen some dining, recreation and library functions. The next day, Wisconsin reported the highest number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state since the pandemic began. There were 528 hospitalizations and 2,392 new positive tests in Wisconsin Thursday, the state’s second-highest one-day case count ever. According to a […]
Amidst a national debate on how to safely reopen schools during the coronavirus pandemic, several colleges and universities took the plunge, inviting students back to dorms and classrooms with strict health and social distancing guidelines. More than a third of the nation’s 5,000 higher education campuses have reopened, with students from out of state ordered to quarantine, mask mandated and routine self-checks for symptoms instituted across the board. To comply with social distancing guidelines, parties or large gatherings are forbidden. But, just a few weeks into the fall semester, the experiment is faltering. Colleges and universities across the country are struggling […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Delhi Metro – the city’s metropolitan transport services – will be opened to passengers on 7 September after over five months of suspension during the national lockdown. New Delhi has decided to relax the lockdown guidelines for the fourth time from 1 September. As the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was preparing to re-open its passenger services after a gap of over five months, a four-foot-long venomous cobra emerged from a station in south Delhi. The metro authorities immediately alerted Wildlife SOS, a voluntary organisation engaged in wildlife conservation, which rescued the snake and released it into its […]
Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’ By Northwestern University Graduate Workers, Daily Northwestern. August 28, 2020 Graduate Workers: ‘Reopening Endangers Students, Highlights Racial Inequalities’2020-08-282020-08-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/nwu-e1598636962223.jpg200px200px Above photo:Graduate students lead a march for equal rights on campus in the spring of 2019. Colin Boyle. It is less than a month before Fall Quarter begins, and despite daily warnings against doing so, Northwestern insists on proceeding with the harmful and dangerous plan of reopening campus. The current fall reopening plan expects students to return to campus while holding most courses remotely. Despite Northwestern’s assurances that they are following best practices, the current […]
www.youtube.com Florida Schools Reopening in Limbo UPDATE: The state has filed a notice of intent to appeal, automatically freezing the effect of the ruling. “Judge strikes down Florida’s schools reopening order as unconstitutional; state appeals” https://t.co/ryBzz2HBL7 via @TDOnline — Jim Rosica (@JimRosicaFL) August 25, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Reopening schools will create a vast opportunity for coronavirus spread. Colleges, most grade school classes, and middle and high school age students will be able to be taught by virtual means. The issue for virtual learning for all students to have computer and Internet access which falls to each school district to provide. […]
New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at New Bridges Elementary School in Brooklyn on Aug. 19. Carranza has said that without an infusion of cash, thousands of city education jobs could be lost. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza speaks at New Bridges Elementary School in Brooklyn on Aug. 19. Carranza has said that without an infusion of cash, thousands of city education jobs could be lost. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images On the morning of Sunday, March 15, I started getting texts from […]
New York Teachers Union To Strike Against School Reopening August 21, 2020 New York Teachers Union To Strike Against School Reopening2020-08-212020-08-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/teachers-protest-re-opening-from-izod-news-e1597242732951.jpg200px200px Above photo: Teachers protest re-opening from Izod News. Despite Donald Trump’s administration pressure for schools reopening, several states and institutions postponed the resume of learning activities or issued not-in-person strategies due to new spikes of COVID-19 cases. The U.S New York United Federation of Teachers (UFT) on Wednesday said the organization would strike or sue district authorities if they do not enforce an accurate precautionary plan before schools reopening. “The minute we feel that the mayor is trying to force people […]
At least 41 schools in Berlin say that hundreds of their students and teachers are in quarantine, less than two weeks after schools reopened their doors in the German capital. Elementary schools, high schools and trade schools are all affected, the daily Berliner Zeitung wrote on Friday, and city education authorities confirmed these figures to AP. The reopening of schools and the possible risks of virus clusters are hotly debated in Germany. There are 825 schools in Berlin. Some states in the country are still on summer vacation, while others have been back to school for about two weeks. Also on […]
School Cancelled In Arizona Area After ‘Sick Out’ Over Reopening August 17, 2020 School Cancelled In Arizona Area After ‘Sick Out’ Over Reopening2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/school-protest-return-when-safe-e1597676056696.jpg200px200px An Arizona school district that ignored state safety guidelines and voted to begin in-person learning on Aug. 17 has had to cancel classes after staff said it was unsafe to return and called in sick. Greater Phoenix’s J.O. Combs Unified School District canceled all instruction for Monday due to “insufficient staffing,” days after its board disregarded state benchmarks on when students can safely return to classes during the pandemic. The “sick out” underlined the difficulties in returning to […]
Reopening Schools: We Don’t Have To Descend Into COVID Hell By Steve Miller, Rosemary Lee and E.B. Shaw, HamptonThink.org. August 16, 2020 Reopening Schools: We Don’t Have To Descend Into COVID Hell2020-08-162020-08-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/school-e1597621537164.jpg200px200px Above photo: Gov. Lamont speaks with hospital staff. Mark Lennihan/AP. With Corona virus cases spiking across the country, America is on the verge of forcing millions of people into extreme danger. Suddenly, everyone from CEOs, the President, state governors, and the corporate media are calling for schools to open “to save the economy”. No country has tried to open schools with the virus spreading like here in the US. We […]
An employee tested positive for the disease just days after the club was allowed to reopen, despite tight social distancing restrictions and a mandatory mask-wearing policy for customers and staff members. You MUST leave your mask on. A strip club in downtown Toronto may have exposed as many as 550 people to COVID-19, city health officials warn. Toronto Public Health issued the warning after an employee at Brass Rail Tavern tested positive for the disease. The employee worked several night shifts from 4 August to 9 August. Authorities advised anyone who attended the club during those dates and times to monitor […]
School Bus Drivers: ‘No Reopening Without Safety First!’ By USWA Local 8751, Workers.org. August 11, 2020 School Bus Drivers: ‘No Reopening Without Safety First!’2020-08-112020-08-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/bus-e1597167325962.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Left to right, USW Local 8751 Chief Steward Frantz Cadet, Trustee Fred Floreal, and President Andre François at May 14 action in conjunction with Haitian Flag Day. The union protested recent unjust firings of their members and demanded enforcement of Local 8751’s COVID-19 Emergency Standard Operating Procedures. usw8751.org. On July 29, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union, United Steelworkers Local 8751 issued the statement below, which President Andre François read on the August 6 Workers World […]
Grad Students And Faculty ‘Die In’ To Protest Reopening August 8, 2020 Grad Students And Faculty ‘Die In’ To Protest Reopening2020-08-082020-08-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/georgia-e1596892948618.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty images. The University of Georgia staff and graduate students held a silent “die-in” demonstration Friday to protest plans for the campus reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 50 demonstrators lay scattered 6 feet apart wearing face coverings on the lawn outside the school administration’s building, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Some protesters held signs resembling tombstones with phrases like “R.I.P. campus safety,” or “In loving memory.” HAPPENING NOW: @universityofga students and staff hold unique “die-in” in protest of school’s […]
Parents Stand With Educators On Safety Before Reopening Schools By Brenda Álvarez, NEA Today. August 5, 2020 Parents Stand With Educators On Safety Before Reopening Schools2020-08-052020-08-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/reopening_protest-e1596645944554.jpeg200px200px Above photo: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer. Many parents nationwide are questioning whether it’s safe to send their kids back to a brick and mortar school this fall. With varied life circumstances, and different districts and schools choosing different options, it’s a daunting decision to make. For Florida’s Raquel Pantoja Lias, a mom of a rising fourth grader in Broward County, it’s a hard “no.” Under an emergency order from the state education commissioner, most schools are scheduled […]
National teacher union supports strikes over reopening plans by Collin Binkely/AP education writer/abcnews One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middle of the global pandemic. The American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million school employees, issued a resolution on Tuesday saying it will support any local chapter that decides to strike over reopening plans. In providing its blessing, the union is also offering local chapters access to its financial and legal resources as they navigate a return to the classroom. Union officials […]
What Scientists Know About How Children Spread COVID-19 By Jim Morrison/Smithsonianmag.com Every year, children are a major driver of transmission for the viruses that cause the flu and the common cold. So this March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, Tina Hartert of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine expected the same to be true for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. But months later, Hartert and other respiratory disease experts are still trying to pin down the elusive virus, which has surrendered only hints about its effects on children and their ability to spread the infection. What has become clear is […]
When Irem Ozturk got the email from Dickinson College in mid-June announcing “we intend to bring all students back to campus,” she was elated. She’s originally from Turkey, but after two years on campus, she’s come to think of Carlisle, Pa., as home. “I was thrilled because I felt like I was returning back home, excited to see friends and faculty,” she says. “I felt happy. I felt like I had something to look forward to.” That happiness lasted a little more than a month. Last week, Dickinson announced a new decision: “we have come to the very difficult decision that […]
Florida’s largest teachers’ union is suing Governor Ron DeSantis and the state education bureaucracy over their emergency order to reopen schools for the fall, insisting the mandate is “reckless” and “unconscionable.” The suit, which also targets Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, calls for the immediate cancellation of the emergency order, arguing reopening schools too soon will “inevitably exacerbate the spread of the virus, jeopardize public health, and ultimately cause longer closures.” Schools that do not reopen their facilities for the fall semester may lose their funding under the governor’s order. The suit cites a New York Times study claiming physical school […]
Health Editor’s Note: Making sure schools reopen in the fall is one of the top items on Trump’s ‘Hate Americans” wish list. Yes, I said that…hate. He has to hate us or he would be listening to all the medical input he can get to try to halt this COVID-19 run away wildfire. Trump thinks sending kids back to school, creating a sense of normalization, will help his poll numbers. Re-opening schools is first about the safety of children and teachers, and then about our nation. Yes, we would want children to return to school, because well, some children do not […]
Research suggests that kids tend to get infected with the coronavirus less often, and have milder symptoms than adults. There’s less consensus on how much kids can spread the illness among themselves and to adults — important questions as schools consider reopening. Dan Kenyon/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dan Kenyon/Getty Images Research suggests that kids tend to get infected with the coronavirus less often, and have milder symptoms than adults. There’s less consensus on how much kids can spread the illness among themselves and to adults — important questions as schools consider reopening. Dan Kenyon/Getty Images As scientists study the […]
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to pummel the United States, Las Vegas seems to be operating business as usual. Casinos have been open since June 4—undeterred by the 123 visitors who have tested positive for the highly contagious virus and the 51-year-old Caesars employee who died in late June. But it’s not business as usual for doctors and nurses in Las Vegas’ besieged health-care system, who say they are “overwhelmed and terrified” about the massive influx of new cases in a state officially deemed a “red zone” by the White House. “I would say in the last month we’ve been completely […]
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was lambasted online after relaying the president’s support for reopening schools this fall, but a quote singled out by critics was deceptively stripped of all context. The row was sparked during a White House presser on Thursday, after a reporter asked McEnany about how parents might approach the upcoming academic year, as a growing number of school districts around the country move to full-time virtual learning amid the coronavirus pandemic. “The president has said unmistakably that he wants schools to open,” McEnany replied. “I was just in the Oval talking to him about that, and […]
Schools closed by the pandemic in the US may not open in the fall. Student and teacher safety is the latest issue to become politicized in the presidential election campaign, as both parties insist science is on their side. “We have to open our schools,” said President Donald Trump, who on Tuesday called the decision of the biggest school district in California not to reopen for in-person classes a “mistake.” “You should find yourself a new person whoever is in charge of that decision because it’s a terrible decision,” Trump told CBS News. Vice President Mike Pence echoed the sentiment during […]
Gateway Pundit readers may recall the story of Lindsey Graham (no, not that one), the salon owner in Salem, Oregon, who opened her shop in defiance of Governor Kate Brown’s shut down orders. She was threatened with $70,000 in fines, targeted by the rioters, her building lease was jeopardized, and the state threatened to take her children away. She was eventually hit with $14,000 in fines from OSHA. She’s now firing back, and has filed a lawsuit against the state. Oregon Live reports: The embattled owner of Glamour Salon, who reopened her downtown Salem salon on May 5 in violation of […]
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Sunday morning couldn’t promise teachers, students and parents that they wouldn’t get sick from coronavirus if schools fully reopen this fall, as the Trump administration has been aggressively pushing for in recent days. DeVos and President Donald Trump launched a pressure campaign this past week to force and threaten state and local school districts to fully reopen schools for full-time, in-person learning. DeVos herself has said she wants all schools to commit to being open five days a week and steer clear of remote learning, even as the pandemic rages to record levels in the country. […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107878/97/1078789773_0:221:2100:1403_1200x675_80_0_0_cec87b3f070cdd0c4e6db53da6237433.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202007111079853812-us-government-allocates-84-million-in-drone-space-tech-shipbuilding-contracts/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US government has approved $84 million in contracts to protect unmanned aerial vehicles, space technology and shipbuilding during the COVID-19 crisis, the Department of Defence said in a press release. “As part of the national response to COVID-19, and to support the domestic small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) industrial base, the Department of Defence awarded contracts totaling $13.4M to five companies to sustain the capabilities of this critical domestic industrial base”, the release said on Friday. The funding also included a $15 million agreement with LeoLabs to ensure the continued […]
On a call with the nation’s governors Tuesday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos chastised local officials for doing “next to nothing” to provide academic services to students and demanded they reopen schools in the fall regardless of the state of the COVID pandemic. The issue, DeVos stressed at one point, was merely a matter of calculated risk, nothing all that different from those taken by an astronaut heading into space. “Education leaders really do need to examine real data and weigh risk,” DeVos said. “They already deal with risk on a daily basis. We know that risk is embedded in everything […]
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, seen here during a White House briefing in March, will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday on how to reopen America’s schools safely. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, seen here during a White House briefing in March, will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday on how to reopen America’s schools safely. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration kicked off a day of programming Tuesday aimed at pushing for the reopening of schools this fall despite a spike in COVID-19 cases around large […]
Mexico, the world’s 6th most popular tourist destination, is open for tourism business despite its cases of COVID-19 being on the rise. The pressure to reopen comes from economic need, as tourism accounts for about 10 percent of Mexico’s economy, directly. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in a country where the informal economy dominates at about 60 percent of the workforce. Reluctant to close before its big bang Easter tourism season, Mexico eventually did so. Still, the flights kept coming, from the U.S. and Europe. The cruise ships kept docking. And many people (including its president, the populist […]
On Monday, New York City moved into Phase II, allowing New Yorkers their closest sense of normalcy in months. But even though the transition to the second phase of reopening symbolizes New York City’s progress in containing the coronavirus, it doesn’t necessarily provide a reprieve from the restrictions and worries for New Yorkers. “The reopening has not really changed how I feel,” Dior Vargas, a 33-year-old resident of Upper Manhattan, told The Daily Beast. “My assumption is to just hunker down, stay in, and see what happens next. I’m very wary of making any sudden movements.” COVID-19 hit Vargas and her […]
Mark and Janet Shaver assist Betty Shaver, 96, back to the door at the Mapleshire Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Morgantown, W. Va. Raymond Thompson Jr for NPR hide caption toggle caption Raymond Thompson Jr for NPR Mark and Janet Shaver assist Betty Shaver, 96, back to the door at the Mapleshire Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Morgantown, W. Va. Raymond Thompson Jr for NPR Mark Shaver hadn’t seen his 96-year-old mother Betty in months when he hit a breaking point and decided he had to see her. Shaver lived in South Carolina and Betty was in a nursing home in […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump says schools in the US should reopen this fall as children have stronger immune systems and are not as vulnerable to the coronavirus. “Kids are much stronger than us,” Trump told his supporters at the Saturday campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, adding “Let’s open the schools, please. We gotta get them open, in the fall we gotta get them open.” According to Trump, 25 million people have been tested for COVID-19 in the US, which is why the total number of confirmed cases in the country is high. “So I said to my people […]
What did we just watch? Advertisement – story continues below 77-year-old Joe Biden emerged from his basement on Wednesday and delivered remarks on the country’s plans to reopen businesses following the COVID-19 lockdowns. The former Vice President gave a speech in Darby, Pennsylvania on “making sure the country’s reopening is effective, safe, and gets Americans back to work,” according to his campaign. The end of Sleepy Joe Biden’s speech was super awkward. TRENDING: Fulton County DA Announces 11 Charges, Including Felony Murder on the Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting of Rayshard Brooks – Says Brooks Never Informed He Was Under Arrest? […]
A server wears a protective face mask while attending to customers amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bethesda, Md., on June 12. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images A server wears a protective face mask while attending to customers amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bethesda, Md., on June 12. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Across the country, states are loosening the restrictions that had been put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 — with varying results. New cases are decreasing in some states, including New York, Michigan and Colorado, while case numbers and hospitalizations have swelled recently in […]
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had harsh words for parents and neighborhood groups “taking the law into their own hands” by cutting locks on city playgrounds, but has continued to defend the protesters who crowd city streets. The mayor scolded New Yorkers for busting open padlocked playgrounds, during a press conference on Tuesday at which he reminded reporters that the sites are set to remain closed until “Phase 2” of post-coronavirus reopening. “We’re not going to allow people to take the law into their own hands.”@BilldeBlasio says playgrounds will stay closed until Stage 2 of reopening. Despite his participation in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107961/44/1079614474_0:238:3072:1966_1200x675_80_0_0_32c9a5e391e6b983681ff1f152857f6f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006151079614323-thousands-of-new-yorkers-protest-in-brooklyn-as-cuomo-slams-reopening-violations—videos/ Rallies in support of the black community have been non-stop in the United States since the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd following his arrest in late May. Thousands of protesters took to the courtyard of the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday in support of the black transgender community, despite Сuomo’s tweeting the same day about numerous violations of coronavirus-induced rules. We have received 25,000 complaints of reopening violations. Bars or restaurants that violate the law can lose their liquor license. People with open containers in the street can be fined. Police & protesters not wearing […]
The resurgence of new COVID-19 cases in states in the US Deep South and Midwest isn’t part of a second wave. Rather, it is just the comeback of the first wave, Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, an infectious disease physician and vice chair of the Infectious Disease Society of America’s Global Health Committee, told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Friday. Several states, including Texas, North and South Carolina, California, Oregon, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah and Arizona, have seen surges in COVID-19 cases following Memorial Day weekend. Texas, for instance, has seen a 36% increase in new cases since May 25, while Arizona has experienced […]
The morning after Tesla CEO Elon Musk called stay-at-home orders “fascist” and tweeted “FREE AMERICA NOW” in April, a professor of occupational health at the University of California San Francisco inserted himself into the dispute over reopening the electric car company’s Fremont plant. Dr. John Balmes sent an email to Dr. Erica Pan, Alameda County’s interim head of public health, that morning introducing her to Tesla’s corporate medical director, Dr. James Craner. The two men work together at UCSF, where Craner is also on the clinical staff. Balmes stopped short of an endorsement for reopening the plant amid the coronavirus pandemic. […]
After weeks of being closed for a mandatory coronavirus shutdown, bars in New Orleans have begun to reopen with limited capacity. On this episode of the award-winning podcast Life Behind Bars, co-hosts David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum are joined by Neal Bodenheimer, owner of James Beard Award-winning Nola bar Cure, to talk about his recent experiences reopening and the challenges that he’s had to overcome. So fix yourself a Sazerac and listen to this episode of Life Behind Bars. Cheers! Life Behind Bars features Half Full’s editor Noah Rothbaum and its Senior Drinks Columnist David Wondrich as they discuss the greatest […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107958/04/1079580413_0:216:3072:1944_1200x675_80_0_0_63e1e7f5a10796911080ecefefba74ad.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006111079580384-us-stock-futures-fall-as-states-continue-with-reopening/ While investors are evaluating the results of the US opening up, concerns have arisen about a possible second wave of new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. A spike in infections has already been registered in Texas and some counties of California. US stock futures dropped in overnight trading on Wednesday, according to CNBC News. Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost about 120 points, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 futures slid 0.4 and 0.2 percent, respectively. Futures dipped following consistent losses on the stock market. The Dow fell about 280 points, and […]
On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon & Lee Stranahan spoke with guests about America’s support of violence in Ukraine and how we’re seeing the echoes of that violence in communities and police at home. Guests: Jareth Corpus – Author of ‘Ukraine: Forever A Pawn’ | The Ukrainian Diaspora & The Lingering Effects of the Maidan Carmine Sabia – Writer & Editor at Large at SabiaReport.com | George Floyd Protests Niko House – Political Activist and Broadcast Journalist, Founder and CEO of the ‘MCSC Network’ | Obama Responds To Protests – But Is Justice Coming For George Floyd? In our first hour, we were joined by Jareth […]
We were meeting to talk about his recent lay-off, but as my client Jim* fought back tears, I knew we needed to talk about his dad. His dad had always been a tough cookie, dedicated to his family but not necessarily understanding of his dreamer son. Now that Jim (not his real name) had lost his job, it wasn’t just hard to look at the numbers because of what they said about how long he could pay his rent. The numbers were also saying, almost in his father’s voice, that it had been a mistake to pursue such an uncertain career […]
The View’s conservative co-host Meghan McCain railed against the wild party scenes from this past Memorial Day weekend, saying on Tuesday she was confused why she’d been pushing for a slow reopening of the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic if Americans were going to immediately treat it like Girls Gone Wild. With videos of packed bars, pools and beaches going viral over the weekend, host Whoopi Goldberg kicked off Tuesday’s broadcast of the ABC talk show by wondering aloud if the big crowds of partygoers will put the country in a “bad place” by July 4th, especially as the nation passes […]
www.youtube Health Editor’s Note: In this article you will find a map with designation of how “open” a state is. There is a description of level of openness and a graph to show levels of cases. Someone went to a lot of work on this. I suspect that we will be sorry as we experience an increase in cases, as we did after Easter and Mother’s Day weekends when people ignored “stay in place” suggestions. In Michigan we definitely saw an increase in numbers of COVID-19 cases in rural areas after the big protest in Lansing. Yep, meeting up in the […]
Italy urged fellow EU countries to work together to reanimate the tourism industry after the coronavirus pandemic, speaking against any bilateral deals between member states – after Rome reportedly considered doing just that. All European countries should open their borders at once after passing the Covid-19 peak, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said in a speech broadcast on Facebook on Monday. “We need to restart the country and ensure the safety of Italians. This is why Italy has the opportunity to welcome tourists from other EU countries in summer. We are already working on a safe and concrete tourist plan,” […]
Europe 21:46 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The French interior minister warned EU nations on Saturday against setting their own schedules for reopening borders as Europe prepares for the summer tourist season. “We need to be able to have a joint discussion on the European level, especially on the Schengen zone level. It is not what we see today”, Christophe Castaner said. He said Spain’s and Italy’s unilateral decisions to throw open borders to EU tourists were not taken in the spirit of solidarity. France is yet to announce the reopening date. Earlier in the day, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned that his state’s reopening may be long and arduous, saying “nobody has been here before.” But other states have been there before, and Cuomo can look South to Georgia for proof. Cuomo extended the Empire State’s “NY Pause” order on Thursday, dragging out the economic shutdown until the end of May in certain regions of the state. Concurrently, he extended his stay-at-home order until June 13, effectively granting himself the power to further extend the individual components of the former order at will. To confused New Yorkers, some of whom worried about facing down […]
Trump’s ‘Reopening’ Is A Red Herring By Sarah Lazare, In These Times. May 15, 2020 Trump’s ‘Reopening’ Is A Red Herring2020-05-152020-05-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/trump_reopening_850_570-e1589549153334.jpg200px200px Above photo: A waitress wearing a mask and gloves disinfects a table in a Restaurant on May 5, 2020 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images. We should not concede the language of “reopening” to right-wing liars who are sending poor people to their death. When President Trump, Republican leaders, right-wing think tanks and billionaire CEOs aggressively push to send people back to work before the coronavirus is contained, this is not a “reopening.” It’s the opposite: an unraveling of […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Major central and northern areas of New York State will begin the gradual process of reopening from their novel coronavirus lockdown on Friday, but strict precautions will remain in place in the five boroughs of New York City and nearby regions, Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters. “Phase 1 reopening [in] some regions are manufacturing, construction, following reopening guidelines [involving] social distancing, curbside pickup and personal protective equipment for employees”, Cuomo said during a daily press briefing on Thursday. Cuomo pointed out that the openings would start to take place on Friday in the regions of central New York […]
Nightmares. Tantrums. Regressions. Grief. Violent outbursts. Exaggerated fear of strangers. Even suicidal thoughts. In response to a call on social media, parents across the country shared with NPR that the mental health of their young children appears to be suffering as the weeks of lockdown drag on. Most U.S. states have canceled in-person classes for the rest of the academic year. This week in Senate testimony, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, sounded a cautionary note on the prospect of reopening school buildings nationwide, even in the fall. He pointed to the emergence […]
US President Donald Trump has pushed for reopening schools, against the advice of his chief epidemiologist. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus may become endemic and never really disappear. After meeting with governors of Colorado and North Dakota in the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he won’t consider any state fully open until the schools are back up and running. “I think you should absolutely open the schools. Our country has got to get back and it’s got to get back as soon as possible, and I don’t consider our country coming back if the schools […]
Dr. Fauci reportedly to testify reopening too early risks ‘needless suffering and death’ from coronavirus by Christina Wilkie/CNBC WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease specialist and a key member of President Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus task force, reportedly plans to publicly warn states Tuesday that prematurely reopening their economies will cause “needless suffering and death.” On Monday night, The New York Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported that Fauci had sent her an email ahead of his public testimony the following day at a hearing of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “The major message that I […]
A member of the Secret Service wears a surgical mask as President Trump arrives for a news conference Monday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images A member of the Secret Service wears a surgical mask as President Trump arrives for a news conference Monday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Updated at 7:47 a.m. ET A key hearing on the coronavirus will take place on Capitol Hill on Tuesday beginning at 10 a.m. ET, and Dr. Anthony Fauci says his main message to lawmakers will be “the danger of trying to open the country […]
Elon Musk escalated his confrontation with California, reopening the Tesla car factory in Fremont in defiance of local officials and saying he is ready to be arrested for it, after critics called him callous and even racist. Having complained over the weekend about being the only carmaker in the US still shuttered by the Covid-19 lockdown, Musk announced on Monday that Tesla is restarting production “against Alameda County rules.” I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me. The state has approved the factory to reopen, he explained, but an […]
A woman wearing a mask walks past closed store fronts in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens on April 15 in New York City. States are beginning to implement phased reopening plans, in part to help businesses hit hard by the coronavirus. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images A woman wearing a mask walks past closed store fronts in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens on April 15 in New York City. States are beginning to implement phased reopening plans, in part to help businesses hit hard by the coronavirus. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images […]
South Korea is looking into cases of potential reinfection after the country largely managed to curb the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. If short-term reinfection is a truly common thing it may affect reopening strategies and have scary implications, health experts warn, emphasising the need for effective vaccines. In late April, South Korea’s health authorities were stunned as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests indicated that some patients who recovered from COVID-19 had apparently failed to acquire immunity and seemingly contracted the highly contagious disease again. However, after weeks of research, the nation’s medical professionals put forward the assumption that these […]
Weeks after a Texas women and dozens of other salon owners and barbers across the nation were arrested or fined for defying lockdown orders, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he will begin the reopening of salons and barbershops in the Sunshine State on Monday. Florida salons and barbershops can reopen Monday Luther, who bravely defied tyrannical lockdown orders in an attempt to help her employees to provide for their families, has become a folk hero of sorts and a Go Fund Me page in her honor has raised over $500k, which she has announced will be spread out to […]
Daily Beast: As President Trump becomes impatient to reopen the nation during a still-raging pandemic, you’d think it would be a good idea to issue some advice on how to do that as safely as possible. Experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepared a set of detailed documents designed to do exactly that—but its publication has reportedly been blocked by the White House. The Associated Press reported the nation’s top infectious-disease investigators wrote a 17-page report to help faith leaders, business owners, educators, and state and local officials as they gradually reopen. It was slated to be published […]
Texas salon owner Shelley Luther has been ordered released from jail after the governor and attorney general protested her imprisonment over violating the state’s lockdown and modified the shutdown orders to exclude imprisonment. Luther, who became a symbol of the movement to end Texas’ lockdown when she was arrested for refusing to shutter her Dallas salon despite a district judge’s restraining order, was ordered released from jail on Thursday by the Texas Supreme Court after serving two days of a seven-day sentence. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick personally paid the $7,000 fine the judge had imposed on Luther in addition to her […]
Reopening The Economy Will Send Us To Hell By Mike Davis, LA Progressive. May 6, 2020 Reopening The Economy Will Send Us To Hell2020-05-062020-05-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/minn.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters in Minnesota April 17 demanded that “the economy” be reopened. Lorie Shaull, CC BY-SA 2.0, screen capture, cropped. As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak, millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell. As unemployment (officially reported) soars toward 30 percent or more, an estimated 20 million more people will fall helplessly below the poverty line. In a recent Pew poll, 60 percent of Latinos reported […]
One of the studies that the Trump administration is relying on as it moves ahead with plans to reopen the U.S. economy, warns that even if states take the necessary steps to ease social distancing restrictions, counties across the country—both big and small—will see a significant spread of coronavirus. The study, which was put together by PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is in the hands of top coronavirus task force officials and those working with the team, sources confirmed to The Daily Beast. It projects that if officials move too quickly and too aggressively to reopen in mid May, individual […]
As states rush to get back to work and President Donald Trump orders the nation’s coronavirus task force to switch its focus to reopening the economy, health experts are pressing more than ever the need for contact tracing. It’s a tool that proved effective in past epidemics like SARS and Ebola, and it’s regarded as essential to safely reopening the country with the looming threat of higher surges in cases. But it’s also complex and time-consuming. Before the coronavirus pandemic, there were only about 2,200 contact tracers, or disease detectives, in the U.S., according to the Association of State and Territorial […]
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been widely praised for slowing the spread of coronavirus through a series of aggressive measures that closed down the state before many of his Republican counterparts around the country. But Keith Threewits, the executive committee chairman of the Darke County Republican Party, is not impressed. “Basically he superseded the constitution of Ohio and the constitution of the United States and violated the principles of the Declaration of Independence when the founders said that governments were instituted among men to preserve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” Threewits said when asked about DeWine by The Daily […]