CV01. Protection: Meat Packing, Small Fines, Continued Problems, OSHA, CV03. Information: Africa Disinformation, CV05. Economics: Stocks, CV06. Linguistics: Take a Hike, Fauci, CV09. Arts, Creativity: Jerusalema Dance, CV12. Personal, Relationships: Home is Tornado and Toy Store, CV19. Technosphere: UV Sanitizing Robots, CV22. Longue Duree: Previous Ends of the World, CV27. Learning: Schools, Zoom, DeSantis
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CV01. Protection: Apparently safety of meat workers is still not taken seriously. Iowa Fines Beef Plant $957 after Huge Coronavirus Outbreak. | California Chicken Plant Temporarily Closes after 8 Die, Nearly 400 Test Positive for Covid-19. Workers Deserve Protection from Covid-19. The Agency Responsible for That Doesn't Care. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and Loren Sweatt, who oversees OSHA, didn't take basic steps to curb the spread of the virus in workplaces. They must resign. More than 200 Meat Plant Workers in the U.S. Have Died of Covid-19. Federal Regulators Just Issued Two Modest Fines, Colorado Meatpacking Union Protests Ineffectual Federal Fine amid Coronavirus. 200730-CV28.1A.
-A. ADDED USDA Funds $1 Million Research Project Studying Covid-19 in U.S. Beef Supply Chain.
CV03. Information: ¿Corona Free?. How Disinformation Could Be Clouding the True Pandemic Picture in Africa. Of the roughly 28.6 million cases of COVID-19 logged by the World Health Organization, only 1.1 million are in Africa, 4 percent of the global total. The relatively low number of cases, along with a similarly low figure for coronavirus deaths, has researchers stumped. But despite the coronavirus’s relatively light touch so far, the continent faces a problem familiar throughout the world: pandemic misinformation.
-A. ADDED Coronavirus Corruption in Kenya: Officials and Businesspeople Targeted. Africa’s Low Covid-19 Death Rate Has Multiple Causes.
CV05. Economics: 20 Beaten down Stocks Likely to Bounce Back after Covid-19 CV31. Global Stocks Mixed as Markets Eye Higher European Coronavirus Cases.
CV06. Linguistics: Dr. Fauci to a Meddling HHS Official: Take a Hike.
CV09. Arts, Creativity: South Africa Lifts Spirits with Jerusalema Dance amid Virus.
CV12. Personal, Relationships: When a Tornado Hits a Toy Store: Photo Shows Reality of Working from Home with Kids. CV05.
CV19. Technosphere: Robots Target Coronavirus with Ultraviolet Light at London Train Station.
CV22. Longue Duree: It's The End of the World. In 1978, historian Barbara Tuchman published a book called #Book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century [Cover] provided a portrait of Western Europe in the 1300's. Tuchman's premise was that the 14th century in many ways reflected the social upheavals and crises of the 20th Century. Given the calamitous year that has been 2020, Tuchman's comparison is even more relevant today.
CV27. Learning: New Peak in COVID-19 Infections May Be Result of Schools Opening. | I'm Only 1 Person: Teachers Feel Torn Between Their Students and Their Own Kids CV12. DeVos Loses Latest Fight over Rerouting Aid to Private School Students CV05. Texas Teacher Takes Her Students on a Road Trip Through U.S. History – Remotely CV19. Colleges Reopenings in Person Likely Added 3,000 U.S. Covid-19 Cases per Day, DeSantis Wants to Protect College Students from Punishment for Not Following Covid-19 Rules 200903-CV28C, ADDED Florida's Desantis Lets Businesses Fully Reopen a Day after Reporting the Most Coronavirus Deaths in the U.S. [Cartoon].
-A. Some Lessons Zoom Can't Teach. Remote learning is all the boring parts of school without any of the fun little moments that make it worthwhile. There’s no more joking around in the few minutes between sitting down and the teacher demanding they turn to this page or that. The locker room razzing, the lunchroom roundtable discussions are gone. But more is missing than just the fun, a different kind of learning happens amid the countless social interactions that going to school provides. Au contraire. Speaking to local high school teachers about remote learning they all mention the problems of passing notes, social interactions between (and during lessons), kids in rooms in creative ways besides classrooms.
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