Rachel Bronwyn wrote:The skin cancer is on my lip so I can't wear a mask for that either.

I'll be fine. If I'm anxious I can cancel the hair appointment.

Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima held a press conference to demonstrate how to make a vegetable smoothie that she said, without providing evidence, would protect against coronavirus

Rocker Ted Nugent is revealing he was in agony after testing positive for the coronavirus — months after he said the virus was “not a real pandemic.”

“I thought I was dying,” Nugent says in a Facebook live video posted Monday. “I literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last few days,” adding: “So I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today.”

In the video shot at his Michigan ranch, the “Cat Scratch Fever” singer repeatedly uses racist slurs to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous stance that he wouldn’t be getting the vaccine because he claims wrongly that “nobody knows what’s in it.”

Nugent, a supporter of ex-President Trump, previously called the pandemic a scam and has railed against public health restrictions. He has repeated a narrative pushed by conservative media and disputed by health experts that suggests the official death count from the coronavirus is inflated.


A poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research in late March found that 36% of Republicans said they will probably or definitely not get vaccinated, compared with 12% of Democrats. The seven-day national average of cases remains more than 60,000 new infections per day.

Sagan wrote:We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Spearthrower wrote:Isn't it interesting how the virus has exposed the greater danger lurking underneath: ignorance.

Sagan wrote:We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Construction of Intel's 7nm-capable fab near the town of Leixlip in County Kildare, Ireland, was recently hit by a COVID-19 outbreak as approximately 70 out of 5,000 workers were infected. Intel and the Ireland's Department of Health are monitoring the situation and for now have no plans to halt the development. The Irish publication RTE first reported the news.

Unlike the majority of other building projects in Ireland, the construction of Intel's leading-edge fab near Leixlip was not stopped because of the pandemic and seasonal outbreaks, as the multi-billion dollar project is hugely important both for Ireland and Intel. Intel said that the situation remains under control and the construction remains operational.

Six hospitals in the Indian capital Delhi have completely run out of oxygen and doctors say other hospitals have just a few hours' worth of supply left.

A number of people have died while waiting for oxygen, and more than 99% of all intensive care beds are full.

A Miami school has discouraged teachers from getting the Covid vaccine, saying any vaccinated employees will be barred from interacting with students.

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The Centner Academy, a fee-paying school, is located in Miami's Design District. Annual tuition begins at $15,160 (£10,898) for pre-school students and goes up to nearly $30,000 for middle school students, who are around 13-15 years old.

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Mrs Centner and her husband David Centner have described themselves as "health freedom advocates"