This is an attempt at an information blackout to control the narrative about what’s going on right now in Minneapolis. Any news coming out of police or national guard sources should probably not be trusted if this is how they’re treating folks covering the current events.
If I ubderstand correctly, a crew of black CNN journalists was arrested. White crews and reporters have a different experience.
Specifically arresting a black journalist and camera crew under the grounds of: “they’re black so we arrested them,” Is still an attempt to control a narrative … and still a form of information blackout or whitewashing, if you will.
If they’re arresting people providing a specific perspective and not arresting people who cannot provide the same perspective that’s not better.
How can we trust news sources if cops are targeting certain types of reporters [black] ?
Racially targeting reporters is still a form of information control. Minneapolis police are targeting black voices to silence.
“People in power who see that there is a political advantage to disguising, or concealing, or massaging, or denying numbers, may choose to lie about it.
It’s happened before and it’s almost certainly happening now.
We see the Chinese government recently working to expel Western journalists at precisely this moment where we need credible independent reporting from this kind of region.”
Pathologists were able to trace the origins of the Spanish Influenza to Haskell County, Kansas which was a rural farming community. The winter of 1917 - 1918 was particularly brutal in that area with cold temperatures and lots of snow. Because of the weather conditions, farmers in the region began moving their livestock inside to protect them from the elements. It’s around this time that a novel H1N1 influenza virus jumped from a bird (probably a chicken) into a pig, and then into a human. It then began to spread around the local community.
The influenza outbreak in Haskell County, KS was so severe that January, that the local doctor sent a telegram to Washington D.C. indicating the severity of the flu epidemic. That telegram was only a footnote in history and was ignored as the U.S. prepared to enter into WWI. Upon entering the war, we began recruiting troops from all over the country. Some of those troops came from Haskell County, KS and those troops were stationed in barracks at Fort Riley, KS. It was here that the Spring Wave of the Spanish Influenza began. Within a week, Fort Riley had hundreds of cases of influenza and the milder wave of the disease was moving along with the troops.
When the troops went to Europe to fight, people who had a milder form of the influenza continued to fight in the trenches and didn’t infect many people, while people with a more severe form of the disease were transported to troop hospitals where they had the chance to infect far more people. In this way, the wartime conditions rewarded the virus for making us sicker and killing more people. Over time, the virus mutated into a relentless killer.
The Spanish Flu did, in fact, get its name because Spain was a neutral country in the war and was reporting accurate information. From the general consensus at the time, it seemed like the flu was striking Spain particularly hard, with some speculating that the virus had originated from Spain. That’s why it was named the Spanish Flu. When pathologists and historians were able to track the true origins of the virus decades later, the name had already stuck.
I think it’s funny how our monkey brains make us predisposed to liking free shipping when actually free shipping fucks us over more often than not
If I’m seling something for $15 and it costs me $3 to ship it, I could bundle the costs together into $18 + free shipping. And people will prefer free shipping even though they’re the same price because our brains interpret the first as two losses and the second as one loss + a bonus cool thing. Monkey brain doesn’t care about exact numbers, only gains vs losses
And that’s cool, but what if you buy two or three things from me? Now you’re technically paying $9 in shipping, not that you’re aware of it, but my shipping costs have only gone up to like $4. You just got screwed by $5 and I get to pocket that extra money
“Nobody should have to choose between
taking a day off work due to illness or being able to pay their bills. Just
like nobody should have to choose between staying home with Covid-19 symptoms
or being able to afford rent or groceries,” Trudeau said during a news
conference in Ottawa Monday.
As of Monday, Canada has reported more than
85,000 cases of coronavirus and 6,545 related deaths.
For those infected, sick leave is usually a
provincial jurisdiction, which complicates the national effort.
Trudeau said putting the necessary mechanisms
in place for a national paid sick leave program would be challenging, but his
government and the provinces are determined to try.
“When the Fall comes and flu season
starts up we don’t want people who develop a sniffle to suddenly worry that
while they really shouldn’t go into work but they can’t afford to not go into
work and therefore the risk of contributing to a wave significantly, could be a
real problem,” Trudeau said.
Canada’s top doctor repeated her assertion
Monday that a second wave of the virus could be worse than the first and
encouraged public health officials to build up capacity for testing, hospital
beds and personal protective equipment in order to prepare.
“I think you can never be overly prepared
and we have to just keep going with some of these capacity developments and
that goes for lab testing as well,” said Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief
public health officer during a press conference Monday.
In hopes of managing the spread of the virus
into the country, Trudeau announced last week that the border with the United
States will continue to be closed until at least June 21. Trudeau called the
border, which has been closed since March 21, a clear point of
“vulnerability” for Canada.
The prohibition of international travelers and
quarantine of returning Canadians is the only thing that has allowed Canada to
manage its first wave of coronavirus, Tam said.
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