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The ability to send a recording on Messenger is getting out there now, and people are taking advantage of it to spread questionable audible information. I have received two messages of the same recording by a woman with an Australian accent, who says she has heard from a hospital that
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Let’s look at the new economy, being shaped by World War III, against the coronavirus. If 78% of Americans were living paycheck-to-paycheck before World War III started, where are they now, when so many are receiving no paycheck? If only 39% of Americans could withstand a $1,000 emergency
Coronavirus
There are a lot of things to hate about the freaking coronavirus — the way it is destroying the economy, taking some lives and wrecking others. The sheer randomness of it is maddening. Right now I am preparing to go to Acme. I will not touch the buttons in the garage
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It would be nice if they wore a Scarlet Letter or some other device to show that they had it. The “it” being coronavirus. One of the most insidious aspects of World War III is that the enemy is an invisible virus and when humans first contract it they show
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When we get down to the nitty-gritty, when there are more critical patients than there are beds or respirators, who do we let die? Estimates from various sources say U.S. facilities will fall short, they will be unable to treat everyone. The U.S. Navy’s magnificent hospital ships,
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I can tell you the exact moment people started taking the Coronavirus seriously: It was when they cleaned toilet paper and sanitizers off the shelves — everywhere. Hoarding is a sign of panic and these people wanted to make sure they had plenty for them. Is that human nature? Maybe not
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What did the man say — these are the times that try men’s souls? The man was Thomas Paine, and he was writing about America’s battle for freedom, a battle that was not going well. More of the quote: “These are the times that try men's souls.
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In the preface to tonight’s episode, I assume the identity of “Mighty Mick” Goldmill, Rocky Balboa’s trainer, who trains Vermont Sen. Bernie (Socialist Socker) Sanders during tonight’s debate with former vice president Joe (Pride of Scranton) Biden. “OK, Socker, here’s what you gotta do — the body.
Coronavirus
I meet my friend Chris at the bar of a Center City restaurant and I sit down with one barstool between us. “What are you doing?,” he asks. “Social distance,” I say. He starts to sit down on the safety bar stool. “No,” I say, “keep the distance. You are
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The real Democratic Party has said “nyet” to socialism, at least to the brand being peddled by Bernie Sanders — for now. By the “real Democratic Party,” I mean the one between the coastal elites, the one in flyover country, the one schooled in the factory and maybe the military. The
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When an institution dies, notice must be taken. The Palm closed suddenly Monday, the result of infighting among the clan that owned it, more than three decades after it opened here in 1989. This will be my last word. My first words, published in the Daily News on Nov. 2,
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I feel like a lobster. A lobster in a pot filled with water with the heat being slowly turned up, hardly noticeable at first. The advance of the deadly coronavirus was like a dream, or a nightmare in slow motion. Outbreaks in China, on cruise ships, in Korea, then Italy,