Monthly Archives: April 2020

by SARA GENTZLER (4-16-20) Intercity Transit has provided more detail regarding its decision to temporarily move to reservation-only service for essential trips during the coronavirus outbreak in a note posted to the agency’s website. Other attempts at limiting ridership to … Continue reading →

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. (3-28-20) – A woman has been arrested and charged after police say she coughed on $35,000 worth of produce at a grocery store in Pennsylvania. Margaret Cirko has been charged with felony counts of terrorist threats, threats to use … Continue reading →

“As ye have treated the least of these…” Turn your back on the homeless, the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on…and the virus may just bite you (and yours) in the ass for it. A pandemic of Biblical proportions calls … Continue reading →

by Bill McKibben (4-16-20) The coronavirus pandemic has revealed one particularly shocking thing about our societies and economies: they have been operating on a very thin margin. The edifice seems so shiny and substantial, a world of silver jets stitching together cities … Continue reading →

By Nick Paumgarten. (April 13, 2020) The investor who calls himself the Australian headed out for a walk on his farm in the Alps of New South Wales, three hundred miles south of Sydney. This was a morning in late March. … Continue reading →

by James Drew (4-15-20) In a sign of the sweeping power he’s wielding during the new coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed an emergency proclamation that suspends statutes of limitations for all crimes. The proclamation also waives the one-year limit … Continue reading →

by Dennis Romero (4-14-20) Reopening the economy is preferable to preventing a new wave of coronavirus deaths, a member of Congress from Indiana said Tuesday. “It is policymakers’ decision to put on our big boy and big girl pants and say … Continue reading →

by Renu Mahtani One of the well explored effects of vitamin D is the regulation of the immune system. Vitamin D deficiency is now a global pandemic. It’s deficiency could heighten the risk of getting infected with coronavirus. Know the … Continue reading →

Emergency Declared In Japanese Prefecture Hit By 2nd Wave Of Coronavirus Infections Passersby wearing protective masks walk on a snow-covered street in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, in late February during the first wave of the novel coronavirus. Now, officials have declared … Continue reading →

‘We can only say what we know, and we can only act on what we know’, WHO chief says in call for slow return to life as normal. by Vincent Wood The Covid-19 coronavirus has proven ten times deadlier than the swine … Continue reading →