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struggle4progress

(118,348 posts) Wed Aug 12, 2020, 03:56 PM Aug 2020

Florida and Georgia set new single-day records

By Antonia Noori Farzan, Rick Noack, Jennifer Hassan, Miriam Berger, Lateshia Beachum,
Derek Hawkins, Brittany Shammas and Hamza Shaban
August 12, 2020 at 3:46 p.m. EDT

... Paulding County School District was shoved onto the national stage over the past week after at least two North Paulding High School students shared pictures and video that went viral of a crowded hallway of mostly maskless students. The students were suspended for posting the images, a decision that was later reversed for at least one of them. The high school shuttered its doors this week for a third day for cleaning after six students and at least three staff members tested positive for the novel coronavirus ...

In all, more than 900 students and staff members in the Cherokee County School District have been ordered to quarantine as of Tuesday morning after 59 tested positive for covid-19, according to school officials. A third of those quarantined are from Etowah High School, which has had 14 confirmed cases ...

The number of new daily coronavirus cases is rising in multiple major European Union countries, including Germany, France and Spain ...

Photos of maskless bikers packing bars at South Dakota’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally prompted New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) to make masks mandatory for gatherings of more than 100 people ahead of Laconia Motorcycle Week ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/12/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most

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Florida and Georgia set new single-day records (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2020 OP

Sununu: yes 95 people crowded in a bar is fine, no masks. Idiots. All of them. CurtEastPoint Aug 2020 #1

I noticed this gem DBoon Aug 2020 #2

Give Duterte Lysol, bleach, and hydroxychloroquine first. magicarpet Aug 2020 #5

Yee-Haw,.... the Covid pandemic is finally over and behind us. magicarpet Aug 2020 #3

A lawyer in the Atlanta suburbs has set up whistleblower Ilsa Aug 2020 #4

CurtEastPoint

(18,664 posts)

1. Sununu: yes 95 people crowded in a bar is fine, no masks. Idiots. All of them.

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Wed Aug 12, 2020, 03:59 PM

Aug 2020

DBoon

(22,397 posts)

2. I noticed this gem

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Wed Aug 12, 2020, 04:01 PM

Aug 2020

Many are skeptical of Russia’s claim to have a working coronavirus vaccine, but Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte is not among them. “I can be the first they can experiment on," he said this week.

Please do so.

magicarpet

(14,175 posts)

5. Give Duterte Lysol, bleach, and hydroxychloroquine first.

Reply to DBoon (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 12, 2020, 04:07 PM

Aug 2020

magicarpet

(14,175 posts)

3. Yee-Haw,.... the Covid pandemic is finally over and behind us.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Aug 12, 2020, 04:04 PM

Aug 2020

Open the restaurants and bars,

Open the schools and colleges,

Open festivals, county fairs,

Open the sports stadiums for baseball and football,

Open the economy so things can get back to normal.

King trDump of Orange is eager for the election to give him his second term.

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)

4. A lawyer in the Atlanta suburbs has set up whistleblower

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Wed Aug 12, 2020, 04:07 PM

Aug 2020

Email and social media accounts for students. After the students at Paulding County were punished for posting their pics, the lawyer decided that students needed a way to bring pressure to bear upon the decision-makers and administrators. The students from any school can email their pics to the lawyer who will post them to help keep parents aware of what's happening in their kids' schools.

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