India 2021 Mirrors New York 2020 (COVID-19)
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This seems eerily familiar.
Deaths have been steadily rising in India as a deadly second wave of Covid infections devastates the country, with 380 recorded in Delhi alone on Monday.
Medical oxygen, intensive care unit (ICU) beds and life-saving medicines are in short supply.
India has recorded more than a million Covid-19 cases in just a few days.
The number of reported cases declined slightly on Tuesday, to 323,144 from the peak of 352,991 the day before, bringing the total number of Indian cases so far to nearly 17 million with 192,000 deaths.
BBC
If you replace the location with “New York,” you get a virtual replay of what happened here in the US early last year.
India had been doing relatively well with COVID. Now, not so much.
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It's happening every week…
Attorneys representing the family of Andrew Brown Jr. said Monday that North Carolina sheriff's deputies shot the 42-year-old Black man in the back of the head as they were serving a warrant last week. Brown's son, who was allowed to view what the family's attorneys said was 20 seconds of police body camera video, called the shooting in Elizabeth City an execution.
“My dad got executed just by trying to save his own life,” Khalil Ferebee told reporters during an afternoon press conference.
Family attorney Harry Daniels said Brown was shot in the back of the head, and he called for the officers involved in the shooting to be arrested “right now.”
CBS News
When will it end? When the feds lay down the law. It's coming. But don't hold your breath.
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This is one (good) way to boost the population…
We got a preview of the results of the US Census yesterday. A few states have a declining population, some have a rising population, and overall, the United States grew the slowest since 1930. (I wonder why.)
Today, we got news that the US House of Representatives has introduced a plan to make the $300 per child credit permanent.
House Democrats unveiled a bill on Monday to keep the one-year child tax credit expansion, an anti-poverty initiative which formed a major part of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan approved a month ago.
The plan was introduced by a trio of Democrats including Rep. Rosa DeLauro, chair of the House Appropriations Committee; Rep. Suzan DelBene, head of the centrist New Democrat coalition; and Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York.
It would maintain the strengthened child tax credit, increased to $3,600 per child under age 6 and $3,000 for kids between 6 and 17. The amount previously stood at $2,000, and families with little or no tax obligations could not tap into the program.
Source: Business Insider
This will certainly give a boost to population growth! (But not if you've ever had kids – they are EXPENSIVE.)
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Brawl erupts at Miami International Airport
Because, why not?
A group of four wanted standby seats. The ticket agent told them there were only three standby seats and then offered those seats to the next group in line.
Both groups then began to fight each other.
Like that was going to help. I bet NOBODY from either group got on that plane. LOL
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Is Tesla even a car company?
Tesla reported first-quarter results on Monday, including a record quarterly net profit of $438 million on a GAAP basis.
As usual, those profits were buoyed by sales of environmental regulatory credits. But in a new wrinkle this quarter, the company’s sales of bitcoin during the quarter also contributed $101 million toward the bottom line.
In February, Tesla made waves when it announced a $1.5 billion purchase of bitcoin and said it may continue investing in cryptocurrency more broadly.
On Monday, Tesla’s shareholder update revealed that sales of bitcoin made a $101 million “positive impact” to the company’s profitability during the period ending March 31, 2021.
CNBC
I think Musk should just keep buying Bitcoin. It a) drives the price up when he does and b) it keeps Tesla profitable. Everybody thinks Tesla is a tech company. It is, except that it's like the iPhone – a couple generations behind on critical components and functionality.
Just this man's take. Don't be a hater.
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Houston, we have a problem…
Rascally beavers took down internet service for about 900 customers in a remote Canadian community this weekend after gnawing through crucial fiber cables, the Candian Broadcasting Corporation reported Sunday. The outage, which has since been resolved, also affected 60 cable TV customers and disrupted local cell phone service, according to a statement from the area’s provider, Telus.
Tumbler Ridge, a tiny municipality in northeastern British Columbia with a population of about 2,000 people, lost service for roughly 36 hours in what Telus described as a “uniquely Canadian disruption!”
“Beavers have chewed through our fibre cable at multiple points, causing extensive damage,” said Telus spokesperson Liz Sauvé in an email to Gizmodo. “Our team located a nearby dam, and it appears the beavers dug underground alongside the creek to reach our cable, which is buried about three feet underground and protected by a 4.5-inch thick conduit. The beavers first chewed through the conduit before chewing through the cable in multiple locations.”
Gizmodo
Leave it to those cagey canucks!
The article was originally published here!
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