“Trump is destroying American democracy one day at a time.
THE MORNING AFTER President Donald Trump called for his supporters to “carefully watch” voting sites, his presidential campaign requested that Philadelphia immediately allow them to appoint poll watchers at early-voting centers.
Early voting in Philadelphia began on Tuesday. The city opened six early-voting sites at new satellite election offices and another at City Hall where voters can register, request, fill out, and submit mail-in ballots. Unlike early-voting centers, traditional polling locations are only open on Election Day, and people can vote in person as opposed to delivering their mail ballots.
In the minutes following President Donald Trump’s announcement that he has tested positive for COVID-19, CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins floated the idea that former Vice President Joe Biden should suspend his campaign.
Just, no. That’s it. That’s the column.
Okay, no it isn’t.
In the early morning, barely 65 minutes after Trump’s announcement, Collins — an excellent reporter who has done God’s work in the briefing room — delivered a report to anchor Don Lemon in which she assessed the fallout from the diagnosis
01) Orson Welles – War Of The Worlds – Radio Broadcast 1938 – Complete Broadcast
“Orson Welles – War Of The Worlds – Radio Broadcast 1938 – Complete Broadcast.
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds.
The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated “news bulletins”, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a ‘sustaining show’ (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program’s quality of realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage. The program’s news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode secured Orson Welles’ fame.”
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It appears that the UK government’s department of health in England compiles ‘out of hospital’ deaths by searching the UK’s National Health Service database for whether that person ever tested positive for the COVID 19 virus. It then apparently fails to consider how long ago that person tested positive or their actual cause of death.
Under these terms, a person who tested positive a few months ago but then gets hit by a bus this week, would be recorded as a COVID 19 death. If left unchanged, every single one of the 292,500 people who have tested positive will some day be a COVID 19 death statistic, even if they live for decades and die of completely unrelated causes.”
I’ve heard this is also happening in the U.S…basically, that they’re just presuming deaths to be caused by the pandemic without any concrete proof.
It should be noted, though…covid 19 does introduce an additional factor, which could push people with pre-existing conditions beyond their capacity to survive.
I think it’s more complicated, than whether or not someone died from simply getting covid.
I don’t want to excuse anything on the part of governments here…but it should also be considered that covid is said to attack and damage internal organs, long after the initial infection and sickness…This will really screw someone up. They could ultimately die from it, or suffer such ill effects from it that it makes them more prone to die in an accident.
We don’t currently know what the common long term effects of covid are going to prove themselves to be.
Of course…this does not justify abrupt, reckless diagnosis of death.
“Workers today are amongst the hardest worked individuals in history, while simultaneously being the most efficient.
Sure, they have traded in grueling factory floors and coal mines for airconditioned offices so they probably don’t get quite as much sympathy as their industrial revolution contemporaries but the world today is marred by different challenges.
Hustle culture and the glorification of roles like surgeons, investment bankers, and corporate lawyers have set a precedent of on-call all the time, under the guise of professionalism or being a team player.
Expectations and key performance indicators are increasingly monitored, scrutinized, and increased year on year.
Now the discussion around overworking is not a new one, but it tends to focus on the mental health implications of this reality rather than the economic impacts.
Now we are going to be leaving that aspect of this discussion to the side for this video and instead focus just on the economics of the overworked world.
Partially this is because there are many people far more qualified to talk about mental health and partially because well, sometimes for things to get changed it needs to make economic sense for them to be changed.
So the health implications of 100 hour weeks aside, we really only need to answer one question.
Does people working longer and harder make for a more prosperous economy?”
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