on coping with C19 lockdown

[gm]

Best have those gatherings on the down-low in LA...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-05/residents-holding-large-parties-may-have-their-water-and-power-shut-off-garcetti-says

[gh]

Best have those gatherings on the down-low in LA...

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...-garcetti-says

requires registration

[wamego relays champ]

requires registration

Same story was picked up nationally in many places
https://news.yahoo.com/party-houses-...011825035.html

[gm]

requires registration

Isn't that true of all the NYT and Washington Post stuff, as well as most other newspaper sites referenced here? That has been my experience.

[gh]

Isn't that true of all the NYT and Washington Post stuff, as well as most other newspaper sites referenced here? That has been my experience.

in general, yes, but some of the big papers have been pulling C19 stuff out from behind the paywall.

[gh]

meanwhile, in Britain....

Don’t blame the government for ordering 50 million unusable face masks, we all know they’re an engineering nightmare
The next batch may work a little better, although I wouldn’t put it past them if it turned out the straps were all made of asbestos

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-face-mask-ppe-nhs-ear-matt-hancock-a9657631.html

[Conor Dary]

in general, yes, but some of the big papers have been pulling C19 stuff out from behind the paywall.

Times, Post, Atlantic all C19 articles are free to read. Many other sources also.

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile ...

C.D.C. Warns Against Drinking Hand Sanitizer

Four people died and nearly a dozen others were poisoned after swallowing alcohol-based hand sanitizer, federal health officials said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/drinking-hand-sanitizer.html#click=https://t.co/oy03tVGMzK

[bad hammy]

Meanwhile ...

C.D.C. Warns Against Drinking Hand Sanitizer

Good call . . .

[Conor Dary]

A Florida man was arrested after confronting a child wearing a mask at a restaurant and spitting in his face when the boy refused to take it off, police said.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AP/status/1291366183002869762

[Conor Dary]

Two Students Say They Were Suspended From Their Georgia High School For Posting Photos Of Crowded Hallways

The images of students packed together in hallways went viral on Twitter as the school faces scrutiny from staff and students.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/laurenstrapagiel/north-paulding-high-school-suspensions-for-hallway-photos?__twitter_impression=true

[gh]

one of the pandemic's great mysteries solved!

Virus mystery: The case of the missing Fresca

The popular diet soda vanished along with toilet paper. Unlike TP, it hasn’t come back. Why?



https://chicago.suntimes.com/columni...esca-steinberg

[donley2]

I can't find Caffeine Free Coke Zero, or Caffeine Free zero calorie drinks of any kind except diet root beer.

[gh]

Times, Post, Atlantic all C19 articles are free to read. Many other sources also.

"free" comes in two flavors: no obligation of any kind and those where you have to register

[lonewolf]

Cherry Dr Pepper out of stock all over town.