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Quarantine Diaries: Day 192

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Unrelated to anything, but here’s a headline you don’t see every day:

A dentist who pulled someone's tooth while riding a hoverboard has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud and 'unlawful dental acts'

Given the stakes for the upcoming election, I’ve been a little surprised by the lack of lawn signs for either Trump or Biden near where I live. There are many signs up for our Congressional race, and even more for the state legislative races we’re having, but signs for the Presidential race have been few and far between. Up until yesterday, I had seen none in the town where I live and few anywhere else. It’s a “purple” town, our precinct went for Clinton in 2016, but just barely. Finally yesterday, I saw two lawn signs for Biden and one for Trump. What took so long?

If the election turns on being a referendum about Trump’s response to the coronapocalypse, he’s toast. So it’s very much in his interest to change the topic. October Surprise?

Pence's former top aide says Trump called the coronavirus 'a good thing' because he didn't like shaking hands with 'disgusting' supporters

More on this story: “It Was All About the Election”: The Ex-White House Aide Olivia Troye on Trump’s Narcissistic Mishandling of COVID-19

In the end, this is what struck me most during my conversation with Troye: she is young, only forty-three years old, with a long career ahead of her, and she was willing to put it all on the line publicly, whereas people like Mattis and Kelly were not… Troye, with much more to lose—and with none of the stature of a former member of Congress or a former Marine general—had much more courage than all of them.

‘Good person,’ ‘Important to team’: Fauci on fmr. Covid advisor who denounced Trump

“That’s Their Problem”: How Jared Kushner Let the Markets Decide America’s COVID-19 Fate

United Kingdom sees spike in coronavirus cases, second lockdown may be looming

Idaho pastor who called himself 'no-masker' in intensive care with Covid-19

Lockdown in parts of Madrid amid virus spike

White House COVID Doc Sics Trump Lawyer On Stanford Medical Faculty

Coronavirus: Football (Soccer) team loses 37-0 in socially distanced match

C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections

Egg price-gouging accusations, a pandemic cheese "roller coaster": Why food costs are still in flux

The impact of banning alcohol during Covid-19

Head of Federal Election Commission calls separation of church and state a ‘fallacy’ and 2020 election a ‘spiritual war’

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