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ProPublica – Las Vegas Is “Gambling With Lives”

August 19, 2020 by sergneri 1 Comment

In an article at www.propublica.org on August 17, the author, Marshall Allen, shows some alarming data points concerning the spread of the pandemic from Las Vegas. ProPublica used cell phone data from a weekend of people who were in Las Vegas and then traced their travels afterwards. The web of their cross contagion is shown … [Read more…]

Posted in: Pandemic, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: cellphone, contact tracing, coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, epidemic, Las Vegas, pandemic, ProPublica, tourists

The NEWS you may not have read …

May 31, 2020 by sergneri 1 Comment

In the Columbia Journalism Review is an essay The bad news quietly buried during the pandemic by Zoë Beery: With the world’s attention glued to the coronavirus pandemic, news about anything else has been slipping farther and farther down the proverbial front page. But that doesn’t mean nothing’s been going on. Whether by design or … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Airlines, Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Wheeler, Brett Kavanagh, carbon offsets, Coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, department of Defense, EPA, food stamps, fuel efficiency standards, Immigration, Jared Kushner, Justin Walker, Keystone XL, Mitch McConnell, oil sands, pandemic, PATRIOT Act, President Trump, Stephen Miller, watchdog
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