Latest Round of Stimulus Debated in Congress
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has unveiled the plan for another $3 trillion in spending to offset the effects of the Coronavirus economic shutdown.
Category: Coronablog
Coronavirus: Now Cometh The Lawsuits
It was inevitable. No, not Thanos, the lawsuits over Coronavirus shutdowns. And the litigators are coming for big name, and high cost, universities first:
Contact Tracing: What If People Don’t Own Smart Phones?
The “mandatory app” approach to contact tracing relies on most (almost all) people having that technolog
South Dakota vs the Sioux Over Coronavirus “Checkpoints”
The Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe vs South Dakota
Two Teachers Talking in a Pandemic
Michele Kerr discusses teaching and the shutdown with Michael Pershan on YouTube.
Torture Numbers and They’ll Confess to Anything
There is something incredibly comforting about looking at some data and thinking “ok, these numbers are illustrating to me the truth of this uncertain and dangerous world in which I live”.
Texas Salon Owner Defiant About Re-Opening, Gets 7 Days For Contempt
Not exactly the Battle of Gonzalez…If you get into a “your selfish, no your selfish” argument with a judge, the judge is going to win.
Coronafather: An Offer They Can’t Refuse
Just when they thought they were out, the Coronavirus has the mafia back in buisness.
Testing Ain’t Easy: LA Edition
No matter what gets said at new conferences, things like “we are going to test X amount of people” involves logistics of actually getting X number of people tested.
New Mexico Governor Reads Gallup the Riot Act
The old saying to misbehaving folks that you are going to “read them the riot act” if they don’t get in line became a reality when NM Gov Grisham invoked the little-used Riot Control Act to lock down the town of Gallup.
Never Let a Crisis or Conspiracy Theories Go to Waste
Polling some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Coronavirus, and the results may surprise you
Antigen Testing Debate As Approval Sought For Faster Coronavirus Testing
The push to “re-open” economies is intensifying the need for more, and faster, testing for Coronavirus.
COVID Clue
Too soon? Insensitive? Maybe. But imagining what COVID Clue might be like has got to better than watching another one of Trump’s insane press conferences from between my fingers.
Contact Tracing: There’s An App for That, But Should There Be?
The debate on information security and data privacy has only intensified with the current need to conduct “contact tracing” of potential Coronavirus patients.
Italy Looks to Ease Lockdown As Others Debate Next Steps
From the BBC, Italy is looking to start easing it’s nation-wide lockdown after that country has suffered the highest death toll of any European nation at 26K+ and counting:
Las Vegas Follies: Goodman, Cooper, and Content Upon Content
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and CNN’s Anderson Cooper spent nearly twenty minutes of quality TV time together. Let us take it in together
Correlations & Covid Misperceptions
Critical thinking ability was a stronger predictor of COVID-19 (mis)perceptions than political ideology.
https://t.co/ySd8CoPEOz pic.twitter.com/UXajQ9nKeX— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) April 21, 2020
Four States Announce “Re-Open” Plans
The governors of Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina are rolling out plans to “re-open” their states from the quarantines and stay-in-place restrictions stemming from the Coronavirus pandemic.
Stimulus Legislation “Loophole” Allows Garnishment of Relief Checks
This is one of them things that can make a bad situation involving people already under pressure exponentially worse
