In this episode we learn the science of the virus, a Melbourne woman reaches the limits of her endurance, and we hear reasons to doubt the ability of public servants to stay informed. Plus there’s a lot about COVID-19, Donald Trump, and conspiracy theories.
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CNN’s Jim Acosta pulled no punches in a segment with Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night, directly calling out the culture of yes men and sycophants surrounding President Donald Trump in the wake of his nearly hour-long political diatribe in the White House Rose Garden earlier in the day.
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Officials with Intermountain said a driver and caretaker from a nursing facility brought the patient to the testing site, but by the time they arrived to the front of the line found that the patient was dead.
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President Trump joins Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel for an exclusive interview discussing his own mental acuity while taking swipes at Joe Biden
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John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil-rights leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020 from pancreatic cancer. Lewis was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and he fulfilled many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States. In 1965, Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In an incident which became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police then attacked the marchers, including Lewis.
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In this episode of “Axios on HBO”, President Trump discusses his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the upcoming election and much more with National Political Correspondent Jonathan Swan.
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Bush fire season starts in 6 Local Government Areas across NSW today due to local conditions. Armidale Regional, Walcha, Uralla, Glen Innes Severn, Inverell, Tenterfield. Don't be the fire risk to your community. Check if Fire Permits are required: https://t.co/HK6egy5IGX #NSWRFS
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REASONS TO NOT WEAR A FACE MASK.
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QAnon conspiracy theorist DeAnna Lorraine says that requiring masks "is a form of physical torture" imposed because "they don't want us to be happy" ... then complains that her family doesn't want to see her.
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Trump campaign email subject line: "Patriots Wear Face Masks."
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We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance. There is nobody more Patriotic than me, your favorite President!
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Look at this chick. Hears the keyword and consults her tabulated lie response folder and then without skipping a beat regurgitates the most egregious lies about Trump’s (non) mask wearing. Everyone on the globe knows it’s patently untrue. How does she do it?
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Pres. Trump just contradicted Kayleigh McEnany's comments from earlier today that he takes multiple COVID-19 tests a day
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reuters photographer jonathan ernst got this shot today of press secy. kayleigh mcenany's briefing materials which include [all the] topic headings
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The virality of the video underscores the difficulty in moderating coronavirus misinformation as treatments and public health responses have become more political. (29 July 2020.)
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The Marine Corps said that the service member, who is asymptomatic, was tested on July 21 and that the results came back on July 23. The Marine Corps said it is coordinating with the White House medical staff to perform contact tracing.
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Overall, an estimated 1% of people in the San Francisco Bay Area have had Covid-19, while 6.9% of people in New York City have, according to the paper’s authors, who included researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments. In seven of the 10 sites, the estimated number of cases was 10 times the number of reported cases.
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A 70-year-old man in Seattle survived the coronavirus, got applauded by staff when he left the hospital after 62 days -- and then got a $1.1 million, 181-page hospital bill.
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The Watsons Bay Hotel in the city’s east was hit with the $5,000 fine after safety infringements were noticed on Friday night. Patrons were standing and drinking and gaming machines were not spaced out, according to Liquor and Gaming NSW.
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What's the point of the new restrictions that are closing businesses across Melbourne?
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go and boil your head [with screenshots of Adam Creighton's tweets]
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Presumably Timbo [Tim Wilson MP] wants the opposite of curfew, which is, of course, furcew. So, I’m happy to oblige - furcew, Timbo; furcew and the horse you rode in on
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Those helpful pragmatists. My ?@smh? cartoon.
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“I have antibodies” seems to have become, for some, a sort of playful way of saying, “I am looking for sex, and probably don’t want anything serious.”
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While the controversial and expensive COVIDsafe app has been criticised as a contact tracing failure, New South Wales health authorities says it has helped them identify two cases linked to a venue in Sydney's south-west. https://7news.link/30mo32J #7NEWS
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Brendan Murphy tells the Covid hearing the Victorian government stopped using the Covidsafe app "for a period of time" "because they were so pressured" and they hadn't found value in it during the first wave. But they are using it again now for contact tracing #COVID19Vic
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Australia's COVIDSafe app is unreliable, and so far has proved to be of little practical benefit, but it doesn't have to be an ongoing political sideshow.
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Stilgherrian returns to tell us what's stuck in his craw [which is the COVDSafe app].
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New local lockdown rules from the government: You can drink cider with a goth in a graveyard but only on Cher's birthday. Space hoppers will now be the only transport. Wotsits are illegal. You can dress a Badger up as a Viking on Tuesdays. You MUST play the piano with your feet.
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It seems that “Karen from Brighton” might be right after all — you can really do all the streets in the up-market Melbourne suburb.
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The year is 2025. Everyone in Victoria is a cop. The economy consists entirely of the surviving three residents fining each other increasingly absurd amounts of money between press conferences. No one can remember why.
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5. With roughly 4 out of 10 households nationwide yet to be counted and already delayed by the pandemic, the bureau now has less than 2 months left to try to reach historically undercounted groups who are not likely to fill out a #2020Census form on their own.
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Gold is a truly wondrous metal. Along with many traditional uses of gold – making jewellery, storing wealth and in dentistry – many new applications have emerged such as mobile phones and other electronics, aerospace and medicine.
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His flamboyant posts left a digital trail of evidence that investigators used to link him to the crimes, the affidavit shows.
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Department of Social Services secretary Kathryn Campbell: "I do not know what robodebt is."
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Anti-vax lawyers go viral Yesterday we told you about G&B Lawyers, the Sydney firm urging Melburnians not to wear masks. The firm has since deleted its bit of free advice, claiming it was partner Nathan Buckley’s political belief. But that didn’t stop a message worded just like Buckley’s being shared approvingly by one-time celebrity chef-turned-conspiracy theorist Pete Evans.
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Tassie naturopath Christina Mathewson discusses germ theory with flat-earther sovereign citizen James Bartolo. They did ask that this not be shared outside their Facebook group but I didn't consent to that contract.
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These are what James Bartolo lists as some of his beliefs in the description of the Facebook group where these people are meeting up.
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The woman was intercepted on Princes St as police wanted to speak to her following an incident at a vehicle checkpoint in Bunyip on 23 July. Upon being intercepted, she was asked to provide her name and address which she refused to do.
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A woman known as 'Eve Black' was arrested yesterday in Melbourne after being stopped by police on Princes Street in Carlton. She made headlines last week after a video went viral, in which she appeared to refuse to comply with a police officer at a COVID-19 checkpoint.
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Easy to classify these folks as idiots or lunatics, but let’s talk about the people who are peddling this fantasy online and profiting from the clicks it generates. Anyone who has been sucked into this sovcit/freeman gobbledygook to their detriment is a victim.
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Vic police say there's a been a trend over the last week of small groups of people classifying themselves as "sovreign citizens" and police having to smash car windows open 3 or 4 times because people wouldn't provide their name or address.
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TikTok neo-Nazi Sherman Burgess explains that microchipping your dog and council amalgamations were just the beginning.
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#OnThisDay 1979: BBC News explained the mysterious markings that had started appearing on supermarket products. [26 July]
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Gen. Flynn's top man in Australia has some news for you about the Queen and the importance of being on top of your vibrational frequencies.
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More than 140 teams of researchers are racing to develop a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine
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The ABC's COVID-19 data page, updated with new statistics as they appear.
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