News Dump Friday

Now that Trump has suggested we shoot up Lysol, can cable news stop airing these lie-infested mentally ill campaign rallies?

Injecting a disinfectant into your body will kill you. All Republicans and their supporters are terrorists.

Republicans want as many Americans as possible to die from covid19: U.S. says will not take part in WHO global drugs, vaccine initiative launch
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-usa/u-s-says-will-not-take-part-in-who-global-drugs-vaccine-initiative-launch-idUSKCN2261WJ

Trump says he will block coronavirus aid for U.S. Postal Service. Withholding Congressionally approved money is ILLEGAL and is literally what he was impeached for. Go figure he's gone right back to doing it after the Senate protected him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/04/24/trump-postal-service-loan-treasury/

The Makers Of Dettol and Lysol Have Warned People Not To Inject Themselves With Disinfectant As Suggested By Donald Trump
https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyashton/coronavirus-donald-trump-disinfectant-warning

Trump reportedly comes into work as late as noon after a morning of 'rage viewing' TV
https://theweek.com/speedreads/910668/trump-reportedly-comes-into-work-late-noon-after-morning-rage-viewing-tv
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-is-watching-7-hours-of-tv-and-getting-to-the-oval-office-at-noon-report-2020-4

I want to feel bad for the guy but I just can't. People like this are spreading the virus, killing others, and making the quarantine last longer: A 60-year-old Ohio father John W. McDaniel described the coronavirus outbreak as a “political ploy” and called the governor “paranoid.” Then he caught the virus and died. He and his family have faced such harsh criticism that his wife canceled a livestream of his funeral. | “Many, like John, made statements early on not fully aware of the severity of COVID-19,” she wrote. “Many have retracted their statements knowing now the effects of this pandemic. We know if John was still here with us he would acknowledge the national crisis we are in, abide by the stay-at-home order, and encourage family and friends to do the same.”  | In fact, she said her husband, who was the president of an industrial manufacturing provider called O & M Company, told his employees to work from home on March 16 because of the virus. As soon as he learned he had been in contact with someone who tested positive, she said, he isolated himself so that he wouldn’t infect anyone else. “As each day passes, we all are learning more about this ‘invisible enemy,’ ” Lisa McDaniel wrote. “We have all learned that the early actions taken by our National and State government were indeed the right action to take. Quarantine and social distancing have been effective in flattening the curve.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/23/ohio-funeral-canceled-coronavirus/

The first three months of 2020 are already nearing temperature records | The first three months of 2020 are now the second-hottest on record going back to 1880, according to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. That lines up with the last decade of warming. This March marks the 423rd consecutive month that temperatures have exceeded the 20th-century global average. Last year was the second hottest on record, according to NOAA, following 2016. All five of the warmest years have been recorded since 2015. The early heat makes it virtually certain that 2020 will place in the ranks of the hottest years. Global land and ocean surface temperatures were 2.09°F (1.16°C) above average. Records were set across the globe, particularly in eastern Europe and Asia, where temperatures were 5.4°F (3.0°C) above average.
https://qz.com/1843247/2020-is-almost-the-hottest-on-record-already/
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202003
https://www.noaa.gov/news/2019-was-2nd-hottest-year-on-record-for-earth-say-noaa-nasa
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0215.1

One million respirators acquired from China unfit for coronavirus fight; Canada's public health authority says around one million KN95 respirators acquired from China have failed to meet federal Covid-19 standards for use by frontline health professionals
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/23/canada-china-respirators-coronavirus-205461

Scientists Found a Fossilized South American Frog in Antarctica: It's the first modern amphibian ever found on the continent and sheds light on the temperate forest ecosystem that once existed on Antarctica.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akwxnk/scientists-found-a-fossilized-south-american-frog-in-antarctica

Australian Mining giant Adani has won its bid to stop two Indigenous traditional owners from returning to the Carmichael mine site- the men had set up camp and a ceremonial site after Government extinguished native title over the 1,385 hectares of Wangan and Jagalingou land in Queensland.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/indigenous-activists-permanently-barred-from-queensland-s-adani-mine-site

Some good news to start your Friday: Ambulance calls are returning to normal levels in New York City. The FDNY says it's now getting about 4,000 calls per day. That's roughly the same amount it was getting prior to March 1.
https://twitter.com/RebeccaJarvis/status/1253648763442343936

“This is really one of the dumb ideas of all time,” New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) said during a briefing in Albany in which he warned that bankruptcy declarations by multiple states would lead to “a collapse of this national economy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-takes-flak-after-suggesting-bankruptcy-for-states-rather-than-bailouts/2020/04/23/f70311fe-8560-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html

Speaker Pelosi criticizes GOP Rep Kevin Brady for saying the Coronavirus relief bill was held up because Democrats were trying to add “extracurricular stuff” which Pelosi points out was money for hospitals and testing and more for small businesses

All of us want the same thing — a road map to the way out. The scientific consensus is clear and not that complicated: We need a significant upgrade of testing, contact tracing to track the infected, nuanced and dutiful social isolation, all to buy time until a vaccine is developed. But the political way out reveals a stark divide, and some true madness. For Republicans, that pro-life slogan of theirs is just another term for nothing left to lose. They are now the party of death. When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas doubled down this week on prior remarks elevating commerce above life — There are “more important things than living,” he said on Fox News — he was speaking for a significant slice of his party. People are disposable. So is income. But one is more important. | But the lies spread by the crackpot media wing of the G.O.P., led by Trump’s favorite radio host, Rush Limbaugh, can be lethal. Covid-19 has killed more Americans in a month than the flu kills in a year. Yet Limbaugh has compared it to a common cold or seasonal flu. Those who believe him are likely to sneeze freely or crowd together in a grocery store. There’s a direct line of responsibility from the Republicans in Wisconsin who forced voters to risk their lives in order to participate in an election to those citizens of the Badger State who have since tested positive after voting — and may die. For the majority of state leaders, who favor listening to medical authorities rather than political hacks, Attorney General William Barr has threatened legal action if they err too cautiously on the side of public health. His Justice Department may have to intervene, he said, to help businesses that “need more freedom.” All of this follows Trump’s obsession with money over human life, with markets over medicine. On Wednesday, just as the United States reported its largest daily death toll yet, Trump tweeted: “States are safely coming back. Our Country is starting to OPEN FOR BUSINESS again.” So much for the departed. He said this after the number of coronavirus deaths in the nation doubled in little more than a week, giving the United States the horrid distinction of posting the highest body count of any nation on earth by far. We will soon lose more people to the novel coronavirus than all the Americans killed in the Vietnam War. | As he has said, he wants all the authority and none of the responsibility. If we lose a quarter-million Americans, it’s the fault of governors running their respective shows. If the number is far less, it’s because he took charge. He’s against vote-by mail, the least life-threatening way to allow Americans to exercise their most basic constitutional right, because “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” He’s encouraged life-threatening demonstrations. What’s particularly galling is using children as props in those protests, endangering their health. I was initially encouraged by the studies out of California which, though flawed, showed through antibody tests that the number of people who may have contracted the coronavirus was far greater than the official tally of confirmed cases. This would indicate that the actual mortality rate is much lower than the body count. The problem is that even if the higher number were true, more than 95 percent of the population is still vulnerable. The number of people who would die in order to get to herd immunity would be unfathomable.
When I think about how many doctors and nurses, how many cops, firefighters and other first responders, how many grocery store clerks and delivery people, how many parents and grandparents would lose their lives to get to that immunity threshold, I realize there’s only one choice. That is: to err on the side of life. Lucky for us, most Americans already feel that way. Most Americans expect no quick fix. Most Americans are willing to be patient. And if this holds, most Americans will reject the party of death in November.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/opinion/republicans-coronavirus.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-reopening-economy-more-important-things-n1188911
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-kills-more-americans-in-one-month-than-the-flu-kills-in-one-year/
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/rush-limbaugh-coronavirus-common-cold-and-all-panic-just-not-warranted
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/politics/wisconsin-election-coronavirus-cases.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-21/barr-says-doj-may-act-against-governors-with-strict-virus-limits
https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-launch-opening-our-country-task-force-global-deaths-pass-n1181796
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america
https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War
https://www.newsweek.com/over-70-percent-voters-support-making-2020-presidential-election-entirely-vote-mail-new-poll-1498798
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/health/coronavirus-antibodies-california.html

Trump approved of Georgia Gov. Kemp's plan to reopen early before the president bashed it
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-approved-georgia-gov-kemp-s-plan-reopen-early-president-n1191621

FDA issues warnings on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine after ‘serious poisoning and death’ reported
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/24/fda-issues-warnings-on-chloroquine-and-hydroxychloroquine-after-serious-poisoning-and-death-reported.html

Republicans want control over U.S. Postal Service in return for emergency loan. The USPS was created in 1775. Benjamin Franklin was the first Post Master. And it may be destroyed by a talk show host traitor and his wannabe fascist political backers.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/910666/trump-administration-reportedly-wants-control-over-postal-service-return-emergency-loan

New $484B Relief Bill Lacks Funds for Food Aid, Rent Relief, US Postal Service, Election Protection
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/24/480_billion_coronavirus_relief_package

Bailout money bypasses hard-hit New York, California for North Dakota, Nebraska
https://www.revealnews.org/article/bailout-money-bypasses-hard-hit-new-york-california-for-north-dakota-nebraska/

Billionaire Trump owes millions to state-owned bank in China. In any other administration this fact alone would end the presidency. That we're at the point in American history where this isn't even going to register, and I'm confident it isn't, is maddening.
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/newly-revealed-financial-records-show-trump-owes-millions-to-state-owned-bank-in-china-report/

Largest-ever hole in the ozone layer above Arctic finally closes
https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/24/largest-ever-hole-in-the-ozone-layer-above-arctic-finally-closes

World's loneliest dolphin dies after two years living in abandoned Japanese aquarium
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/honey-dolphin-project-dies-marine-park-aquarium-tokyo-japan-a4419591.html

Poachers kill more animals as coronavirus crushes tourism to Africa
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/24/coronavirus-poachers-kill-more-animals-as-tourism-to-africa-plummets.html

Cuomo to sign executive order sending absentee ballot applications to all registered NY voters
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/494512-cuomo-says-he-will-sign-an-executive-order-sending-absentee-ballot

Second US Navy warship hit by major coronavirus outbreak
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/24/politics/uss-kidd-coronavirus-outbreak/index.html

House creates new coronavirus oversight panel over Republican objections
https://theweek.com/speedreads/910661/house-creates-new-coronavirus-oversight-panel-over-gop-objections

"Limited Government And Ban Federal Handouts" Tea Party nonprofits apply for handout from the US taxpayer
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/coronavirus-bailouts-conservative-liberal.html

Many supposedly grass-roots reopen sites are tied to one pro-gun lobbyist
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/many-supposedly-grass-roots-reopen-sites-are-tied-to-one-pro-gun-lobbyist/

Navy Leaders Recommend Reinstating Roosevelt Captain Fired Over Virus Warning
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/coronavirus-navy-roosevelt-brett-crozier.html

California is beating coronavirus odds. Newsom must ignore protests, follow science
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article242240366.html#storylink=bignews_related

All of the Republicans that talk shit about either Russia and/or China have massive financial ties to Russia/China.

His supporters are desperate. 35% of this country will probably never see another Trump in their lifetime. Someone so miserable, so craven, a con artist. This is it, peak desperation. They want to turn this ship back around to 1950. Gas to be 0.50 cents/gal again, and 50 cents for a loaf of bread or gallon of milk or movie ticket, and abortion banned, and no gun regulations, and no environmentalists, and doctors who say smoking and alcohol and meat/dairy are healthy, and work at their factory job, and pay for tuition out of pocket which means almost nobody goes to college, and still comfortably afford a brand new car. If that means minorities blocked from entry to this country, children separated from their mothers and locked in cages, rampant corruption in the government, everybody dying of heat and pollution as well than so be it. A price to be pay to get what they want. A fantasy that they will never see.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but please don’t drink bleach.
https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1253751812194070529

It’s even worse they want to be David Lee Roth or Charlie Sheen. They have Southern Rock star fever dreams. They don’t want strong unions and good wages. They want women to worship their pathetic incel weakness. They are the ones who run from the grenade instead of saving their squad. They are the ones who eat you out when you were in it together. They are truly the most dangerous thing to ever happen to America and the world.

Jail all Trump appointees, aides, etc. Mandatory civics classes for anyone who voted for Trump. Strip them of their voting rights for life. Abolish the Republican Party. Then maybe the country will still exist in some recognizable fashion after this.

Literally everything they complain about is something they are guilty of doing.

Trump Chloroquine Push Came After Talk With Donor: Source | The Official Said He Was Instructed to Implement a Program Aimed at Expanding Access to the Drug After Trump's Conversation With a Billionaire Supporter
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/coronavirus/trump-chloroquine-push-came-after-talk-with-donor-source/2373578/

The Onion called it a month ago on the "disinfectant cure."
https://local.theonion.com/man-just-buying-one-of-every-cleaning-product-in-case-t-1842493766

Cuomo is crushing it about responding to disease outbreak on C-Span, what we did wrong this time, what we need to do next time. Tough act to follow if any of Trumps crowd is catching the pre-show made possible by Trump's insistence on starting late.

The European Union was prepared to say that "China has continued to run a global disinformation campaign to deflect blame for the outbreak of the pandemic" Then Beijing got wind of it & that line was taken out of a report and other language toned down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/world/europe/disinformation-china-eu-coronavirus.html

Seating in the James Brady Briefing Room is controlled by @whca not @WhiteHouse staff. This appears to be an unprecedented intervention.
https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1253796181928542208

White House staff just came into the briefing room and informed the print pooler that they want them to swap seats w CNN. That would move CNN to the back row from the front. @whca made these seat assignments not staff
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1253794854355832833

Pooler @chrisjohnson82 said he would not move unless he heard from the @whca. WH staffer threatened to have Secret Service enforce the swap. WHCA board members ran back into the press office to discuss
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1253795457320484865

In our lawsuit for records related to Trump's interference in a multibillion-dollar project, a federal judge found that our request for records was “more straightforward than the searches that OMB ultimately conducted.”
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1253795348918738946
https://www.americanoversight.org/the-administrations-attempts-to-stonewall-investigations-of-trump-fbi-headquarters-interference-stumble-in-court

One of the interesting things we pieced together is complaints that FEMA is seizing PPE from cities, states and hospitals aren’t quite right. DOJ’s anti-hoarding task force seizes, while Pence’s FEMA-based supply-chain task force redirects before delivery.
https://twitter.com/jonallendc/status/1253794937403060224
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/political-influence-skews-trump-s-coronavirus-response-n1191236

Our analysis of federal inspection reports found that nine nursing homes put residents in “immediate jeopardy” re: COVID, including a case where a nursing assistant fed a resident after changing soiled briefs without washing hands.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nursing-homes-violated-basic-health-standards-allowing-the-coronavirus-to-explode

The RNC last month was catching up on their payments to law firms involved with defending the president during the impeachment inquiry. They paid Marc Kasowitz's firm $20,000, the first payment they've made to them, in relation to impeachment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/24/rnc-paid-trump-ally-kasowitz-law-firm-20000-for-impeachment-defense.html

Biden's remark last night that Trump may attempt to "kick back the election" amounted to a warning shot - and an effort to frame what may be the ugliest election in recent American history. Chuck Hagel: “It very much is reflecting the fear that a lot of people have about how President Trump is going to respond later in the year to this election, especially if he continues to see his polls drop, and if he continues to flail and lash out.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/joseph-biden-trump-election.html

We're giving away our ventilators. We're not out of the first wave. Trump says he's agreeing to send ventilators to other countries, such as Mexico, Indonesia, France -- and he'll do it for Germany if they need it. They haven't needed it. They've been donating to other European countries and taking in patients from abroad to be ventilated.

If we want life to approach anything like normal anytime soon, we need a comprehensive testing program. It’s not going to be cheap, but it will ultimately pay off many times over in saved lives, saved businesses, and saved jobs.
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1253789288745091077

Bleach Salesman Who Wrote Trump About "Miracle Cure" Investigated by Feds in Miami | The Guardian reports that Mark Grenon, leader of Florida's Genesis II Church of Health & Healing, which appears to be more of a money-making operation than a place of worship, wrote a letter to Trump earlier this week saying that chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleach, is a "wonderful detox" that can kill most pathogens in the body and cure people of COVID-19.     What The Guardian fails to mention, however, is that Grenon is already the subject of a federal probe. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami last week announced an investigation into Grenon and several others affiliated with Genesis II for selling Miracle Mineral Solution, also known as MMS. The group claims the bleach product will cure, treat, or prevent COVID-19 and other conditions, such as Alzheimer's, autism, brain cancer, HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-church-leader-selling-bleach-as-coronavirus-cure-wrote-trump-11628259

I mean he's not wrong. It'll kill most things in the body. The beauty of this treatment is that it's a permanent solution. It'll ensure you never ever have any disease or pain ever again.

Southern Republicans Lifting Coronavirus Lockdowns Are Also Keeping the Working Poor From Health Coverage. The six states banding together to lift coronavirus restrictions have also refused to expand Medicaid, leaving millions without health insurance.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxevky/southern-republicans-lifting-coronavirus-lockdowns-are-also-keeping-the-working-poor-from-health-coverage

Trump team moves to scrap protections for LGBTQ patients
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-team-moves-to-scrap-protections-for-lgbtq-patients-206398

A Navy Ship Trump Ordered to Fight Cartels Exploiting Coronavirus Got Hit So Hard By COVID-19, Another Country Had to Help It
https://www.newsweek.com/navy-ship-trump-ordered-fight-cartels-exploiting-coronavirus-got-hit-so-hard-covid-19-another-1500116

Brazilian Chloroquine Study Halted After High Dose Proved Lethal For Some Patients
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/chloroquine-study-coronavirus-brazil

It's always a joke. It's always sarcasm. It's always a misquote. But better take him seriously because he's the ultimate authority with a good brain and he "tells it like it is!" He spews these asinine 'brilliant' revelations freely because his privileged life's circumstances, dumb luck, and moral bankruptcy have convinced him that he's super smart and universally admired. He very rarely gets directly called out on it because he's either feared, or seen as a useful idiot. You just know this is how he talks all the time in any meeting. He pukes out random idiotic comments that pop into his head, and everyone else has to steer him back to sanity. It's tricky as they don't want to piss him off.  But that means 99% of his stupidity is hidden from the rest of us. With these press briefings, it's on camera so it becomes ridiculously awkward for his people, and an infuriating cringe-fest for the rest of us.

21 USC §§331, 333, 352 & 21 CFR §1040.20(e)(2)(ii) make it a federal crime to sell an ultraviolet lamp without warnings that the instructions should be followed to avoid potential injury.

One consequence of the briefings being 7-day-a-week, 2 hour shows for six weeks is that it’s hard to come up with new material and drama that packs the same punch. Another is that so many people are focused on it and keeping tabs.

Trump plans to pare back his coronavirus press conferences, according to four sources. As soon as next week, he may stop appearing daily and make shorter appearances when he does.
https://www.axios.com/trump-daily-coronavirus-briefings-809becf3-9913-4b71-9f92-1930ad1d29b0.html

22 minute press briefing over, as it should be. Thanks Trump for keeping it short.

Today's questionless briefing, following the CNN and disinfectant flaps, lasted 22 minutes. It's the shortest White House coronavirus briefing on record, according to cspan data
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1252190370072604672

About $10 trillion in market value has been wiped out of global stocks, 3 percentage points of worldwide GDP have been erased, and 26.5 million jobs have been lost in the U.S. alone.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-24/look-beyond-stocks-for-the-true-extent-of-corporate-devastation

"And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done." As the death toll crosses 50,000, the most damning clip of Trump, that he doesn't want you to see, from Feb 26th. Watch and share:
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1253782695877971968

So when he had that phone call with Xi and suddenly stopped calling it the ‘China virus’ that wasn’t out of the goodness of his heart and because he realized his racism, but maybe because of this 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽? Say it ain’t so Donald, say it ain’t so...
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/trump-biden-china-debt-205475
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899689/000089968920000010/vno-123119xexhibit992x.htm
https://investors.vno.com/press-releases/news-details/2007/Vornado-to-Acquire-70-Controlling-Interest-in-1290-Avenue-of-the-Americas-and-555-California-Street/default.aspx
https://www.propertyshark.com/mason/Property/20535/1290-1296-Avenue-of-the-Americas-New-York-NY-10019/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/us/politics/donald-trump-hong-kong-riverside-south.html
https://www.trump.com/commercial-real-estate-portfolio/1290-avenue-of-the-americas
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323478304578332161219376092
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/24/sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/899689/000089968920000010/vno-123119xexhibit992x.htm

He has a cabinet member (Elaine Chao) whose sister is on Bank of China’s board of directors.
https://www.boc.cn/en/investor/ir6/201504/t20150402_4830133.html
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2018/where-is-elaine-chao/

Every question answered by Trump should be followed with "Are you being sarcastic with that answer?"

"I'll have to see how people react to it before I can be sure about that. Maybe I mean it maybe I don't. I don’t know, am I??

How do some people see him as anything but a living tantrum?

Why not just become an American Hero and jump out during the briefing to exclaim that it's all bullshit, and that Trump isn't fit to manage an Arby's, let alone an entire country? Is it money? I'm sure you could raise a million dollars for a Gofundme to anybody who did something like that.

Cuomo gets asked about a medical thing he's unfamiliar with, he admits he is unfamiliar and forwards the question to a doctor. Trump gets asked, claims to be a natural genius, then proves he doesn't know shit about what he's talking about. Cuomo also regularly displays compassion and concern for his fellow humans. I bet my stimulus check that Trump could not name one of the Covid casualties.

Trump abruptly announced that he would be speaking at West Point. That was news to everyone, including West Point. They are now summoning 1000 cadets scattered across the country to return to campus in New York, a state at the center of the outbreak.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-west-point.html

Customers at a hair salon in Atlanta must first sign a waiver, promising they won't sue the owner if they get sick with COVID-19
https://www.ajc.com/news/lines-start-early-for-haircuts-georgia-begins-open/jWJvWglc5N7RlQt1Z6oDTN/

The Department of Homeland Security official who was thrust into the spotlight by Trump to describe the effects of temperature on COVID-19 has been the subject of misconduct allegations for previous government work. | A Department of Energy Inspector General investigation was still pending Friday based on evidence submitted by a whistle-blower that William Bryan abused his government position with energy consulting work in Ukraine.
https://apnews.com/2e3b6a20fd18cd3ef66db07aa370e719