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SouthernCal_Dem's JournalYankee, Go Home: Canada Has Turned Away Thousands of Americans During Pandemic
By Sarah Rumpf
Canada has turned away over 10,000 Americans from crossing the border since the coronavirus pandemic began in March, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), and almost half that number intended to go shopping, sightseeing, or other forms of recreation.
As the pandemic began in mid-March, Canada closed its borders to foreigners, and had originally exempted U.S. residents from the restrictions. That only lasted a few days, and the country closed its borders to all non-essential travel, with exemptions for trade and commerce, vital health care workers like nurses, and other essential foreign workers who live and work on opposite sides of the border. An additional exemption exists for Americans wishing to travel through Canada in order to reach Alaska, but authorities have been cracking down on those caught lingering in Canada too long as they make their way north.
Tourism and social visits remain invalid reasons for entry.
Nevertheless, out of the 10,329 American citizens who were turned away at the border between March 22 and July 12, 2,840 said they wanted to visit Canada for tourism or sightseeing, 1,333 gave other recreational reasons, and 583 said they wanted to go shopping, CTVNews.ca reported.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/yankee-go-home-canada-has-turned-away-thousands-of-americans-during-pandemic/
Air conditioning appears to facilitate the spread of COVID-19
Though some public health experts expected coronavirus transmission to wane in the summer as temperatures rise and the air becomes more humid, cases have actually skyrocketed in some of the hottest and stickiest parts of the country.
Engineers and ventilation experts said this may be in part because residents escape the heat by retreating indoors where heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems could exacerbate airborne transmission with unplanned air currents.
The main way (air conditioning) can contribute to spreading coronavirus is by creating strong air currents that can move the droplets
and contribute to increase risk, said William Bahnfleth, chair of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Epidemic Task Force (ASHRAE) and professor at Penn State University.
Even in bars and restaurants where social distancing is observed, air ventilation can carry respiratory droplets or aerosols that contain virus, said Len Horovitz, pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/07/15/covid-air-conditioning-could-facilitate-coronavirus-airborne-spread/5429919002/
Anderson Cooper calls Trump an "artificially tan man"
CNNs Anderson Cooper opened his show Tuesday night tearing into President Donald Trumps meandering screed in the Rose Garden.
Cooper said it was full of applause lines but that this wasnt some stadium packed full after supporters that come to cheer and bask in the glow of this artificially tan man.
His meandering screed was not closed to anything one would normally expect or accept of a president, but that shouldnt surprise us. That he chose to do it in the Rose Garden steps from the Oval Office thats how numb we are.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/anderson-cooper-goes-off-on-trumps-meandering-screed-taking-a-victory-lap-on-covid-while-the-graves-are-still-fresh/
Woman who became infamous for racist rants gets hit by a fire truck...now in critical condition
What a shame....
ASHEVILLE - A woman whose racist video rants and attack on a Black teenager and woman in a hijab made international news has been struck by a vehicle.
Rachel Dawn Ruit of Terry's Gap Road in Henderson County suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by an Asheville Fire Department pickup truck July 13 in West Asheville, according to police and a witness.
Officers with the Asheville Police Department are investigating the accident APD spokeswoman Christina Hallingse said.
"This afternoon at approximately 1:30 p.m. the Asheville Police Department responded to the 800 block of Patton Avenue after reports of a pedestrian being struck in the roadway," Hallingse said.
"Upon arrival officers located a female, known to officers as Rachel Dawn Ruit, suffering from life threatening injuries. She is currently at Mission in critical condition."
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/07/13/asheville-racist-video-rachel-dawn-ruit-fire-truck-threatening-injuries/5431418002/
Holy Shit! Check out these insane fundraising emails and texts Trump is sending to his supporters...
President Donald Trumps 2020 reelection campaign is coming under fire over campaign fundraising emails which some supporters are calling gross and scary.
Most of the emails which typically claimed to be from the president himself or one of his children attempted to shame Trump supporters for not donating enough money, and used manipulative language to guilt recipients into giving more, prompting social media users to make comparisons to mob collections and slumlord eviction notices.
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Read more:
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-supporters-protest-gross-campaign-fundraising-emails-like-mob-collections/
Top Trump Official Blasts 'Cowardly' Dr. Fauci, Shares Cartoon of Him Drowning US Economy
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino publicly blasted White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci Sunday on Facebook.
Scavino posted a cartoon by conservative illustrator Ben Garrison which showed Fauci as a faucet flushing the economy down a sink, with labels including Indefinite lockdown! and Shut up and obey!
Sorry, Dr. Faucet! At least you know if Im going to disagree with a colleague, such as yourself, its done publicly and not cowardly, behind journalists with leaks, Scavino commented. See you tomorrow!
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/top-trump-official-blasts-cowardly-dr-fauci-shares-cartoon-of-him-drowning-us-economy/
Trump Tweets Claim That CDC, Media, Democrats and Doctors Are All 'Lying' About Coronavirus
By Ken Meyer
President Donald Trump retweeted a former game show host who claimed Everyone is lying about the coronavirus in order to hurt Trumps reelection chances and stifle the U.S. economy.
Here are the tweets Trump picked up from former Love Connection host turned online Trump-supporter Chuck Woolery.
The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19, he wrote. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most ,that we are told to trust. I think its all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-promotes-tweet-claiming-cdc-media-democrats-and-doctors-are-all-lying-about-covid-19/
37-year-old Trump supporter dies from coronavirus after claiming it was just hype
Richard Rose, a 37-year-old man from Port Clinton, Ohio, recently died from coronavirus after slamming "hype" about the pandemic on Facebook.
Rose's family told Cleveland CBS affiliate 19 News the US Army veteran died at home on July 3, just three days after testing positive for COVID-19.
Rose's death has attracted attention online due to his public Facebook posts, in which he voiced support for President Donald Trump, criticized Black Lives Matter protesters, made jokes about rape, and accused Democrats of spreading false information about the pandemic in order to "rig the elections in their favor."
A tweet compiling a slideshow of Rose's posts, asking people to "watch how this unfolds," has garnered nearly 150,000 likes.
Read more: https://www.insider.com/ohio-man-veteran-died-coronavirus-mask-facebook-posts-2020-7
Here's the slideshow someone created:
https://twitter.com/ToddThaGod/status/1281623716435316736
White House seeks to discredit Fauci as coronavirus surges
Source: NBC News
The White House is seeking to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's leading infectious disease expert, as President Donald Trump works to marginalize him and his dire warnings about the shortcomings of the U.S. coronavirus response.
In a remarkable broadside by the Trump administration against one of its own, a White House official said Sunday that "several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things." The official gave NBC News a list of nearly a dozen past comments by Fauci that the official said had ultimately proven erroneous.
Among them: Fauci's comments in January that the coronavirus was "not a major threat" and his guidance in March that "people should not be walking around with masks."
It was a move more characteristic of a political campaign furtively disseminating opposition research about an opponent than of a White House struggling to contain a pandemic that has killed more than 135,000 people, according to an NBC News tally.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-seeks-discredit-fauci-amid-coronavirus-surge-n1233612
Trump puts on a mask and the media cheers him like a child who wiped his own ass for the first time
Jesus Fucking Christ.
It's insane how low the bar is for Trump.
If he debates Biden without taking a shit on stage, the media will declare him the winner.
Never forget, the media is one of the main reasons why America is stuck with a failed steak salesman and TV gameshow host as president. They chose to spend their time covering Hillary's emails and his empty podiums.
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