How COVID-19 is affecting society

[Aribeth Zelin]

"Our leaders"

They've fucking had it, but can't mention Trump by name even once. Yeah...

To be fair, I don't use his name all that often at all, either. And well, it might be they prefer using the names I use, but don't want to come off as unprofessional, so....

ETA Also, for all he's the central agent of this mess, there are more that I find more culpable than Twitler... Moscow Mitch for one.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Fly steals the show at vice-presidential debate

The most talked about guest to take to the stage was a highly unlikely candidate.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Essence Lumin]

It's Pence's only black friend. Black Flies Matter.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Target HQ employees won't return to downtown offices until at least June 2021

The company is working on a long-term model that will combine telecommuting with remote work, executives said.

www.startribune.com

Target has told its Twin Cities corporate employees that the majority of them can expect to continue working virtually through at least June because of the continued threat of the coronavirus.

Target is the largest employer in downtown Minneapolis, with more than 8,500 workers in its corporate headquarters plus other offices.

“Wow. That’s a big knock on what I was hoping for in April,” said Antonio Gambino, owner of three Andrea Pizza stores in downtown Minneapolis, who estimates that as much as half of his business comes from Target workers.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Sunak plans 80% furlough wage extension in local lockdown areas

New support comes after Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said he would take government to court

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

When are all those free meds with amazing cure rates from Trump showing up?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

And in the UK

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Conditions in women's prisons in Texas during the pandemic

I left my friends in prison in a pandemic. Here's what it's like for them

I receive phone calls from distraught friends inside, complaining of unbearable heat, uncontrollable outbreaks and paltry diets

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Unprecedented numbers of cruise ships are going prematurely to the breakers' yards because of the pandemic.

End of the liner — cruise dreams lie rusting at the shipbreakers

Kamil Onal stood on the edge of a car park overlooking the Aliaga shipyards on Turkey’s Aegean coast and gestured expansively at the destruction below. Cramme

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pareto

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pareto

www.smbc-comics.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

First world problem.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Unprecedented numbers of cruise ships are going prematurely to the breakers' yards because of the pandemic.

Jobs... resources... so much better than sinking them. Let's hope that the materials find a better use than the flagrant wasteful extravagance of 'cruise ships'. The images of them being dismantled is weirdly kind of beautiful.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘There was nothing to help me’: how the pandemic has worsened opioid addiction

US treatment centers have shut down or turned away patients amid as they struggle to adhere to Covid-19 safety protocols

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

This seems nuts.

Grounded airline planes turned into pop-up restaurants sell out in 30 minutes

As revenues plunge during the pandemic.

www.theverge.com

Amidst plunging revenues due to the pandemic, Singapore Airlines is turning two of its Airbus A380 planes parked at Changi Airport into impromptu restaurants on October 24th and 25th, and it’s proved surprisingly popular. Bloomberg reports that all seats at the restaurants sold out within 30 minutes of bookings opening, as people rushed to recapture the excitement of balancing a tiny meal on an even tinier fold-down airline table.

I admit I normally quite like airplane food, but that’s probably because it’s something to focus my attention on beyond an endless series of films I was never interested enough in to see in the cinema. Singapore Airlines is selling four different tiers of meals according to Bloomberg, ranging from a meal in a suite for around $474, right down to an economy experience for the equivalent of $39. Around half the planes’ seats will be available for dining to allow for social distancing.

 

[Sovereignty]

Two Black university leaders urged their campuses to join a Covid-19 vaccine trial. The backlash was swift


Maybe both a lack of effort and a lack of acceptance has hampered minority enrollment in Moderna vaccine trial?

 

[Beebo Brink]

Maybe both a lack of effort and a lack of acceptance has hampered minority enrollment in Moderna vaccine trial?

Or maybe a shameful, criminal history of medically abusing minorities has led to an overwhelming lack of trust. The fact that you didn't consider that, or possibly even KNOW that history, speaks volumes about our society. The medical community should know better by now.

 

[Soen Eber]

To be fair, I don't use his name all that often at all, either. And well, it might be they prefer using the names I use, but don't want to come off as unprofessional, so....

ETA Also, for all he's the central agent of this mess, there are more that I find more culpable than Twitler... Moscow Mitch for one.

I don't use whaziznames name either, for roughly the same reasons I don't use that Austrian signpainters' name who was big in the 30's and early 40's.

 

[Soen Eber]

Jobs... resources... so much better than sinking them. Let's hope that the materials find a better use than the flagrant wasteful extravagance of 'cruise ships'. The images of them being dismantled is weirdly kind of beautiful.

There are plenty of videos about the ship breaking process. It is so very far from beautiful

 

[Sovereignty]

Or maybe a shameful, criminal history of medically abusing minorities has led to an overwhelming lack of trust. The fact that you didn't consider that, or possibly even KNOW that history, speaks volumes about our society. The medical community should know better by now.

I demand an apology. The reasons for the mistrust are mentioned [in] the STAT article.

I presented [i.e., linked to] the news reports. If you don't like them, take it up with the editors of STAT (or Reuters).