It’s Day 33 of Stilgherrian’s coronavirus isolation. He’s settling into a routine, but others are starting to get restless and are demanding release. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is going insane.
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Can this Limerick man please do all the governments social distancing announcements from now on?
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The man in the video is Sering Thiapathioly, a YouTuber based in Seattle, Washington
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Family from Newcastle had planned trip to Europe before Covid-19 hit, so decided to imitate the journey – complete with security checks and airline meals.
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BREAKING - AUSTRALIA RECORDS SHARPEST DAILY INCREASE IN MEDICAL OPINIONS FROM PEOPLE WITHOUT “DR” IN FRONT OF THEIR NAME
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is ramping up the pressure for Australians to use a COVID-19 contact tracing that that hasn’t even been written yet — and more importantly hasn’t even been shown to be something that’d be useful in the first place.
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A well-intentioned but unproven app could reinforce biases and create confusion and stress, something developers must take more time to consider.
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What makes the current situation in Australia even more worrisome is that TraceTogether has been fast-tracked through the review process at a time when Parliament and its various oversight committees have been shut down.
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Did previous civilizations deal with whiners like this?
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Though they may seem paradigm-shifting, crises rarely upturn societies. Instead, they speed up existing trends – especially political ones.
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It's almost like the United States has no President - we are a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster. Good luck everyone!
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I challenge you to try and make sense of this Trump rant
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Huntington Beach this morning...
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Americans are literally begging to die for capitalism
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Protesters take to the corner of Main and Walnut in #huntingtonbeach to protest #Coved_19 closures. #coronavirus @ocregister #SocialDistancing
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Fox News host attacks Michigan governor for calling out swastikas at yesterday's protest against social distancing, saying that they were being displayed ironically
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Steve Mnuchin thinks Americans can live on $1,200 for 10 weeks.
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The Navy’s testing of the entire 4,800-member crew of the aircraft carrier - which is about 94% complete - was an extraordinary move in a headline-grabbing case that has already led to the firing of the carrier’s captain and the resignation of the Navy’s top civilian official. Roughly 60 percent of the over 600 sailors who tested positive so far have not shown symptoms of COVID-19.
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Conversations with more than a dozen Roosevelt sailors and family members, and photographs, text messages, social media posts and videos they provided, offer an intimate glimpse of how a now notorious outbreak of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, aboard the nuclear-powered ship has played out over the past two weeks.
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Kellyanne Conway: "This is COVID-19, not COVID-1 folks, and so you would think the people in charge of the World Health Organization, facts and figures, would be on top of that."
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Josh Epstein, professor of epidemiology at NYU’s School of Global Public Health and director of the NYU Agent-Based Modeling Lab, is a veteran at navigating the thorny realm of infectious disease modeling.
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In what he called a sudden brainwave, the Ballarat man decided to set up a Facebook page asking Australians to stand at the end of their driveways at 6am on Anzac Day holding a candle for a minute’s silence.
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We work for Senator Jacqui Lambie, from Tasmania. She wanted a way to give people a chance to remember those who’ve served our country, even though the current coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has forced the RSL to shut down all public events.
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Dr Norman Swan has a strong opinion on fighting the scourge of corona-farting, and asks Australians to make yet another sacrifice.
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having a normal one in the byron shire echo
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Dear Bill Gates, I WILL REFUSE THE #VACCINE. Wake up people. This #COVID19 stuff is way out of hand.
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Peter Dutton has demanded China come clean over claims the COVID-19 virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, arguing the families of 63 dead Australians deserve the truth.
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In March 2018, the US dispatched science diplomats to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who issued two “sensitive” diplomatic cables about inadequate safety measures at the lab, the Washington Post reported, citing intelligence sources.
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For those pinning their hopes on a COVID-19 vaccine to return life to normal, an Australian expert in vaccine development has a reality check — it probably won't happen soon.
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This is a chance to reinvent the way we collect and share personal data while protecting individual privacy.
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Traffic accidents and crash-related injuries and deaths were reduced by half during the first three weeks of California’s shelter-in-place order, which began March 20. The reductions save the state an estimated $40 million per day — about $1 billion over the time period — according to an updated special report released this week from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis.
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