All posts in May 2020

The virus spread through Central and North Florida in January under the guise of the flu and the earliest cases included both residents and visitors, the Miami Herald reported. Claude Dharamraj, former leader of the Pinellas County Health Department, told the Palm Beach Post that tracing the disease within the first two months of 2020…

That message came through loud and clear to Arkansas massage therapist Tracy McFetridge, HuffPost reports, when her state’s secretary of commerce said that anyone who could return to work but kept collecting unemployment was “a fraudulent claim for us, and we will be tracking that.” So McFetridge went back to a job that requires her to…

These are the facts: The Mayo Clinic informed Mike Pence that anyone coming to visit their facility needed to wear a mask. Not only was that information previously acknowledge by the Mayo staff (in a now deleted tweet), Pence himself didn’t deny it when the White House was in Excuse Round #1. Everyone with Pence…

Examples of the disparities are widespread. In Louisiana, 70% of residents killed by the coronavirus have been African American even though they only make up 32% of the population. In Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County, 75% of coronavirus deaths are among African Americans, who make up only 26% of the population. On the sprawling Navajo Nation, the largest Native…

As anyone who can read the previous paragraph can tell you, gyms, barber shops, massage parlors, tattoo parlors, and bowling alleys are not places where one can easily socially distance. For one, they tend to be places where the activity being participated in means hands on heads and bodies. That, by definition is the opposite of…