Coronavirus News, Analysis, Opinion, et cetera:

Global Death Toll from COVID-19 Pandemic Reaches 900,000

Israel becomes first nation to announce a second coronavirus lockdown

‘We’re No. 28! And Dropping!’

This should be a wake-up call: New data suggest that the United States is one of just a few countries worldwide that is slipping backward. The newest Social Progress Index, shared with me before its official release Thursday morning, finds that out of 163 countries assessed worldwide, the United States, Brazil and Hungary are the only ones in which people are worse off than when the index began in 2011. And the declines in Brazil and Hungary were smaller than America’s.

This Is How It Ends: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

The most competent will realise the impossibility of keeping it glued together and so they will exit first. The most noble will try to keep it going but they will burn out and drop away, leaving the incompetent to oversee the final collapse.

Authorities misinterpreting COVID-19 trial data with 'disastrous' results, Canadian researchers say

Boris Johnson pinning hopes on £100bn 'moonshot' to avoid second lockdown

PM believes huge rapid testing programme is ‘only hope’ before a vaccine, leaked document says

US deficit officially hits $3 trillion amid pandemic

Trump Admits He Artificially Downplayed COVID To Be A ‘Cheerleader’ For The US. And in a related story, Biden on Trump concealing coronavirus threat: “It’s almost criminal.”

Trump Fans Give CNN’s Jim Acosta Jaw-Dropping Reasons Why They’re Not Wearing Masks at Packed Rally

Pence to attend event hosted by QAnon backers

The New Reconstruction: The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to belatedly fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy.

Chris Martenson’s latest:

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