5 Ways Orwell’s ‘1984’ Describes, and other links

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• 5 Ways Orwell’s ‘1984’ Perfectly Describes The American Left’s Quest For Power -- “The term “fake news” is so overused (and often misused) that it has lost all meaning. Unfortunately, this has allowed the dishonesty of the mainstream media to hide in plain sight.”
• CDC Is Warning People Not to Wear This Common Mask -- “...the organization recently updated their guidelines to caution people against wearing masks with vents or valves.”
• ‘Dead’ woman found to be breathing at Detroit funeral home -- “Our staff confirmed she was breathing and called a emergency medical crew, the funeral home said.”
• Gundlach, who called Trump's 2016 election, predicts he'll win again -- “...two-thirds of conservatives or moderate conservatives say that they have lied about their support for Donald Trump either directly or by omission.”
• Is Classical Education On The Right Side Of History? -- “Most of the people who talk about being on “the right side of history” simply don’t know much about history. If they did, they would know how often history changes its mind and that any claim to have objectively arrived on “the right side” of history is naïve and short-sighted.”
• Kamala Harris Lies Repeatedly in First Speech as Biden’s Running Mate -- “Wrong. Several advanced nations have suffered more fatalities per million population than the U.S.: Belgium, the U.K., Spain, Italy, Sweden.”
• Neck gaiters may actually increase COVID-19 transmission, study finds -- “Of the 14 masks, the two that proved least effective were a bandanna and what the researchers refer to as a neck fleece, also known as a neck gaiter.”
• Peaceful Protests -- “If you intend civil disobedience,...you accept the consequences of your actions if they are illegal.”
• People are loving this button hack to stop glasses steaming up while wearing a face mask -- “One woman has now revealed her simple, yet clever, technique for helping to stop her glasses getting foggy while she’s wearing her mask.”
• Police chief’s decision to quit may have just saved Seattle from itself -- “Having the city’s first Black police chief get driven out, supposedly in the name of furthering Black equality, was an embarrassment for our city.”
• Selective and cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes in unexposed humans -- “Based on these data, it is plausible to hypothesize that pre-existing cross-reactive HCoV CD4+ T cell memory in some donors could be a contributing factor to variations in COVID-19 patient disease outcomes, but this is at present highly speculative.”
• Some Questions for Kamala Harris About Eligibility -- “Interestingly, this recitation of the original meaning of the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause might also call into question Harris’ eligibility for her current position as a United States senator.”
• The missing link? Children and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 -- “Due to global interest, there has unsurprisingly followed a lot of hype, and some misleading claims. This post aims to outline all the evidence available so far on the potential role of children in transmission of COVID-19.”
• The Roots of Our Partisan Divide -- “...the imputation of moral non-personhood has been aimed at a growing number of people who have committed no sin more grievous than believing the same things they did two years ago, and therefore standing in the way of the progressive juggernaut.”
• The Uighurs, China, and the lucrative hypocrisy of LeBron James and the NBA -- “Wesley Snipes said, “Always bet on black” but the NBA proves the most powerful color is green.”
• UK says 50 million face masks it bought might not be safe -- “The British government says it won’t be using 50 million face masks it bought during a scramble to secure protective equipment for medics during the coronavirus outbreak because of concerns they might not be safe.”