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It is one of those things that it worse then the headline sounds. If you read the entire thing you will see that people who worked for 14 days in New York State have to pay tax on their income made out of state. Cuomo is being stupid. It can’t make any real difference to the state budget to make these people pay and they were asked to come. Do you want them to come next time? Health workers that volunteered to come to NY during pandemic have to pay state income tax

He is a liar. This nursing home disaster is on you, Gov. Cuomo: Goodwin

Speaking of the Man…. Cuomo says it’s ‘shocking’ most new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who had been staying home

What he said…“I find it outrageous and out of touch that during this national pandemic, a judge, in a county that actually released hardened criminals for fear of contracting COVID-19, would jail a mother for operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family’s table,” said Attorney General Paxton.

A lot of people that I know support the lockdown are being hypocritical so this does not surprise me. Despite Polling, Cell Phone Data Shows Americans Are Going Out Again

One of flaws in the lockdown idea is that you have to be perfect all the time for it to work. Singapore Was A Shining Star In COVID-19 Control — Until It Wasn’t

Social Media Platforms Are Censoring Legitimate Scientific Dissent About COVID-19 and related from a liberal voice Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It’s Got Nothing To Do With Icke)

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Cool Graphic but it take too long to run. I had to move the slider by hand because I could not wait as that long. Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus – Global subsampling

France Discovers Coronavirus From China Hit Their Country Much Sooner Than Realized

A Tale of Two Countries

Anti-lockdown demonstrator falsely accused of holding white supremacist sign

Exclusive: Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover

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You read a lot of sources telling you how many people at meat packing plants have Covid. What most sources don’t tell you is how many had symptoms. Whopping 373 workers at meatpacking plant test positive for COVID-19 — and they were all asymptomatic

And the Atlantic Monthly thinks they had the right idea. Inside the Early Days of China’s Coronavirus Coverup

So for all the people who think this is wrong but that the lock down is right, were do you draw the line in the US?China is installing surveillance cameras outside people’s front doors … and sometimes inside their homes

Nobel Prize-winning scientist shares COVID-19 data showing strict lockdowns were an overreaction

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Given how people have been acting, I expect one day for them to mandate that you wear a tracker in public spaces to fix the problems laid out in this article. Contact-tracing apps are not a solution to the COVID-19 crisis

I wish the Babylon Bee would stop giving people ideas. Governor Unveils Innovative 37-Step Plan To Reopen State Over The Next 10 Years Real Quote From A Real News Story: De Blasio said last month that he’s “confident” the city’s 1.1 million-student school district will reopen come September, but Cuomo remained cautious. “There is no decision on the fall, because the fall is a long time away,” Cuomo said Friday.

Asia’s ‘murder hornet’ found in US for first time

Two More California Counties To Re-Open In Defiance Of Governor’s Order

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On the other hand, some nursing homes might be hiding the fact that they got Covid. This is why the only statistic that really matters is excess deaths. But who is reporting that number? Funeral Directors Blow the Whistle on Deaths Falsely Attributed to Coronavirus

A reminder for the young. Paranoid, Yes. But Are We Paranoid Enough?

Same old story but nobody is paying attention. The Tennessee Department of Correction confirmed the positive cases on Friday. Out of the 2,450 total tests, more than 1,300 staff and inmates tested positive.According to the state, analysis of the test results confirmed that 98% of those who tested positive are asymptomatic.

Sadly seems to be true. The Memo: The surprising popularity of the Great Lockdown

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And now the bill comes due. Italy Enters Chapter Two of the Corona Crisis

Something you will not see in the normal news. Explosive Revelations in the Flynn Case

At least in this country all they do is take down the post if it is wrong think. We still have a ways to go. Chinese internet users who uploaded coronavirus memories to GitHub have been arrested

They are using that magic word and they have letters after there name and they are publishing in paper read by a lot of voters in NY. We can hope it will start to change things Science says: It’s time to start easing the lockdowns

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I think the part about Cuomo’s star falling is wishful thinking. Andrew Cuomo’s Star Falling: Questions arise about NY forcing nursing homes to admit infected patients

For what it is worth. California Docs Say Lockdown vs. Non-Lockdown ‘Did Not Produce a Statistically Different Number of Deaths’

I am not saying this is bad in the abstract. But lets face it, when it doubt, code it COVID is going to be the order of the day.Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators

There is a chart going around from FT showing accesses deaths over the average from COVID. But that chart is misleading because the death rate is always going up and down. Look at this one for a better idea. Map of z-scores by country

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Most U.S. Hospitals Are Empty. Soon They Might Be Closed for Good

Only rich people can afford to buy stuff so I would guess most of the people doing this are in the know. Panic-buying grips North Korea amid rumors of Kim Jong Un’s demise

The Atlantic praises censorship. Worth reading in a sick way. In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong. Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”

Singapore was the country that was held to have done everything right. That is the problem with trying to avoid the virus, it is always waiting for you to make a mistake. Singapore races to build beds for COVID-19 patients as cases surge