"...due to the pandemic"
Mindlessly citing 'the 'pandemic' as a reason to tell people what to do.
Current Events
News and commentary
US Government COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Businesses (via OSHA)
Employers that violate the rule could be fined up to $14,000 per citation, starting Jan. 4, 2022. The OSHA rule applies to 84 million American workers --forbes.com
Calibrated: the error of masking humanity for the coronavirus
Premise, test, result and interpretation
Is COVID-19 a pandemic?
Many intuit the pandemic, if there ever was one, is over. By request.
ACLU
A nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States" --wikipedia
jailing as a solution to violent crime
"California is releasing 76K inmates early, including violent felons" --ktla.com, Apr 30, 2021
Truthsocial.com
"an announced social media platform to be launched by Trump Media & Technology Group" --wikipedia
Southwest Airlines
was 345 in TvF. In the news for cancelling more than 2,400 flights over the holiday weekend.
California gubernatorial recall election 2021
"The election followed the same pandemic-era format used in the November 2020 general election: in August, county election offices sent an official ballot to the mailing address of every registered voter." --wikipedia
Federal Judiciary's treatment of Jan. 6th detainees
"60 Capitol protesters are now in jail and denied bail. For months, January 6 detainees have suffered under solitary confinement conditions... and have been denied access to lawyers, exercise, personal hygiene, and religious services." (cal. 445) --amgreatness.com
the Aukus alliance
"a new three-way strategic defence alliance between Australia, the UK and US, initially to build a class of nuclear-propelled submarines, but also to work together in the Indo-Pacific region, where the rise of China is seen as an increasing threat, and develop wider technologies." --theguardian.com
Bitcoin as an official currency
Bitcoin became legal tender in El Salvador after 7 September 2021
T/F: the USA is entering a military dictatorship
by request
WhatsApp privacy, security
"WhatsApp states that it shares phone numbers, transaction data, business interactions, mobile device information, IP addresses and other information with Facebook. It says it does not share personal conversations, location data or call logs." --cnbc.com
San Francisco initiative to pay people not to shoot others
"Dream Keeper Fellowship is set to launch in October and pay 10 individuals $300 each month to not be involved in shootings" --newsweek.com