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The City of Buffalo took down the Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Park. If they can put it in a museum or Italian meeting place to keep it safe . The native americans have been protesting against Columbus Day for some time. This is getting sad , grew up with many Italian friends. I bet Russ Salvatore has a good place for the statue.

Hong Kong will close all schools from Monday after the territory reported a spike in locally transmitted COVID-19 infections, the city's education minister said. New Hong Kong cases stay high for third day Hong Kong reported 38 new cases, edging down from Thursday's 42 but broadly in line with a sharp increase that the city has registered over the past three days. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/mexico-south-africa-post-record-coronavirus-cases-live-updates-200710000611381.html They do not fool around there and they normally wear masks

Indians arrested for serious crimes in eastern OK have to be tried in federal court not state court if I understood it right. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a huge swath of Oklahoma is Native American land for certain purposes, siding with a Native American man who had challenged his rape conviction by state authorities in the territory. The 5-4 decision, with an opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, endorsed the claim of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to the land, which encompasses 3 million acres in eastern Oklahoma, including most of the city of Tulsa. The decision means that only federal authorities, no longer state prosecutors, can lodge charges against Native Americans who commit serious alleged crimes on that land, which is home to 1.8 million people. Of those people, 15% or fewer are Native Americans. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/09/supreme-court-says-eastern-half-of-oklahoma-is-native-american-land.html

So nothing to hide right ?

President Donald Trump has reneged on a pledge to release his tax returns after an IRS audit, confirming what many have long suspected: that the real obstacle to disclosure is Trump himself. "I'm under a routine audit, and it'll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished it will be released," Trump said at the first presidential debate in September. Hope Hicks, White House director of strategic communication: "Once the audit is over." https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1421/release-his-tax-returns-after-audit-completed/

FDA warns against using two dozen hand sanitizers that could contain toxic wood alcohol (CNN)The Food and Drug Administration has added more hand sanitizers to its growing list of products that contain wood alcohol, which is toxic if absorbed through the skin. More than two dozen various hand sanitizers sold by the Mexico-based company 4E Global -- many carrying the Blumen label -- contain high levels of methanol, or wood alcohol, and have been recommended for recall. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/health/hand-sanitizer-methanol-fda-trnd/index.html

Saw a bumper sticker " Indians are people redskins are potatoes"

With the new standard deductible for federal income tax very few in PR would pay that tax.

Can the AC filter in your home, office or local mall protect you from Covid-19? (CNN)When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced last week that malls in New York could not reopen until they installed high-efficiency particulate air filters capable of trapping the virus that causes Covid-19, Harvard environmental health researcher Joseph Gardner Allen was thrilled. "I've been writing consistently since early February about how healthy buildings should be the first line of defense against the novel coronavirus," said Allen, who directs the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "I'm really grateful that we have a leader in the country -- somewhere -- who was finally talking about healthy buildings, ventilation and filtration," Allen said. "That hasn't happened before. It just hasn't happened." https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/covid-19-air-conditioning-ventilation-wellness-scn/index.html

Someone is trying Fired scientist Rebekah Jones builds new coronavirus dashboard to rival Florida’s Dept. of Health Florida’s former top coronavirus data scientist has launched a website showing far more COVID-19 information than she said the state allowed her to report as an employee, including statistics contradicting Florida’s official coronavirus numbers and the push to reopen the state. Former Health Department geographic data scientist Rebekah Jones has created FloridaCOVIDAction.com, which asserts that the state’s widely read public-facing dashboard under reports how many people have tested positive for the pathogen. Florida also overcounts how many have been tested, Jones said, to the benefit of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ push to reopen the state after two months of quarantine. https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/newswire/2020/06/12/fired-scientist-rebekah-jones-builds-coronavirus-dashboard-to-rival-floridarsquos/3174482001/ https://floridacovidaction.com/

I got Covid-19 two months ago. I'm still discovering new areas of damage -- Richard Quest (CNN)The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back. The virus is like a tornado. When it lands, it swirls through the body, causing chaos, confusion, coughs, wreaking damage to each organ it touches. Some won't survive its visit. For those that do, when it has gone, one surveys the damage to the human landscape and realizes it's much greater than first thought. My symptoms were on the milder side: I never had breathing difficulties, or loss of sense or smell. I was wiped-out tired and I always had "the cough," which has now returned. The Covid cough is not like your usual cough-it-up deep cough (what doctors politely call a "productive cough.") It is very distinctive. It is a dry, raspy, wheezy, cough. In my case, lots of short, expelling gasps of air, followed by a long, deep, chest-wrenching expiration cough, that has standers by wondering if I am going to keel over. I am also discovering new areas of damage: I have now become incredibly clumsy. I was never the most lissome person, no one ever called me graceful, but my clumsiness is off the chart. For those who have not had Covid, or witnessed the mess it leaves behind, again, I urge you, do whatever you can to avoid this tornado. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-wellness-intl/index.html

$141M guaranteed safe deal for KC https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/patrick-mahomes-21751/

As long as they are not like One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Young people have jobs election day , most poll workers are retired so can be there.

The last thing I want to see is less funding for police . More funding for mental health and social workers to go to appropriate calls .

What if the elderly poll workers don't show up because they are high risk and won't take the chance plus the flu season ?

Are you saying it's ok to have mass gatherings and the death rate will drop ? Trump rallies are safe ? Republicans should vote in person ? End the shutdown ??

Do you mean all the black essential workers ?

This is true due to shutdowns and masks protecting high risk especially nursing homes that are necessary but are killing the economy.

Overall, American death rates from COVID-19 data (aggregated across all states with available data and the District of Columbia) have reached new highs for all race groups: 1 in 1,500 Black Americans has died (or 65.8 deaths per 100,000) 1 in 2,300 Indigenous Americans has died (or 43.2 deaths per 100,000) 1 in 3,100 Pacific Islander Americans has died (or 32.7 deaths per 100,000) 1 in 3,200 Latino Americans has died (or 31.1 deaths per 100,000) 1 in 3,600 White Americans has died (or 28.5 deaths per 100,000) 1 in 3,700 Asian Americans has died (or 27.7 deaths per 100,000) Black Americans continue to experience the highest overall mortality rates and the most widespread occurrence of disproportionate deaths. Since we began reporting these data, the Black mortality rate across the U.S. has never fallen below twice that of all other groups (excepting Indigenous Americans), revealing a durable pattern of disproportionality. The latest overall COVID-19 mortality rate for Black Americans is about 2.3 times as high as the rate for Whites and Asians, about twice as high as the Latino and Pacific Islander rate, and 1.5 times as high as the Indigenous rate. https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race

Why are people still going to ICU and dying " Ten months in" if "Precautions are standard now for everywhere." High risk people that include blacks , give them a break to vote by mail

The White House is racist just kidding , Trump's speeches have a strange effect on me

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever , you mail in a ballot during a global pandemic.

Russian democracy is a farce. Putin wants the same fate for America Opinion by Garry Kasparov https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/opinions/russian-democracy-is-a-farce-kasparov/index.html Interesting article

They will find out which site works better for the team . I prefer NEF with the high tech training and rehab facility . Just take over a nearby hotel to house the team for training camp . Buffalo Bills’ training and rehab facilities become “top notch” in latest renovations The 41,000 square-foot facility includes a 26,000 square-foot weight room and cutting-edge recovery equipment. From Cryotherapy to saunas and even a hyperbaric therapy room and far more, the facility is packed with options for players. https://www.buffalorumblings.com/2019/4/16/18388418/buffalo-bills-training-and-rehab-facilities-become-top-notch-in-latest-renovations