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Apr. 13, 2020 8:03 am

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Is Trump Following the Herd Immunity Theory?
Money Over People Is NOT the American Way...
African Americans, the Poor & the Elderly are Dying in Grossly Disproportionate Numbers... What's Going On Here?
Anything Goes Friday... Thom Takes Your Calls...

Friday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Is Trump Following the Herd Immunity Theory? / PLUS, Anything Goes Friday...Thom Takes Your Calls...

Article: "Today's coronavirus update: NY cases top countries, New Zealand death toll is 1" by Tamar Lapin.

Article: "Florida Gov. DeSantis mulls reopening schools: Coronavirus 'doesn't seem to threaten' kids" by Marty Johnson.

Article: "Georgia Plans to Purge 300,000 Names From Its Voter Rolls" by Nicholas Casey.

Article: "Brian Kemp" (Georgia Secretary of State) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Surprised To Learn Asymptomatic People Can Spread Coronavirus Though CDC Warned A Month Ago" by uPolitics.com.

Article: "Essential workers exposed to coronavirus can return to work if showing no symptoms, CDC says" by Zeke Miller, Deb Riechmann and Mike Stobbe.

Article: "More Infections and Deaths Coming Soon Due to Trump Administration: CDC Was Considering Relaxing Guidelines For Those Most Likely To Spread COVID-1, and Now It Has" by Mark Sumner.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herd immunity: will the UK's coronavirus strategy work?" by Sarah Boseley.

Quote: "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people." - Andrew Mellon.

Article: "Kansas Gov Sues State Legislature In Fight Over Ban On Church Gatherings" by Kate Riga.

Article: "74 journalism professors accuse Fox News of spreading coronavirus misinformation" by Marty Johnson.

Excerpt: "Boston Tea Party, a chapter from the book Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Belgian-Dutch Study: Why in times of COVID-19 you can not walk/run/bike close to each other." by Jurgen Thoelen.

Book: The Plague by Albert Camus.

Book: La peste by Albert Camus.

Article: "The America We Need" by New York Times editorial board.

Audio: "Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno on Money, Power and a Call for Radical Change".

Article: "Reaching out to left, Biden calls to lower Medicare age, forgive some student loan debt" by Paul Steinhauser.

Article: "Sanders, Jayapal Unveil Emergency Legislation to Provide Health Care for All During Pandemic" by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "'It's very sad': Fauci warns blacks disproportionately affected by coronavirus" by Cassidy Morrison.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Singer Warned Employees on Feb. 1 to Prepare for Quarantine" by Katia Porzecanski.

Article: "Dr Fauci Says Wet Markets Should Be Shut Down 'Right Away'" by Chuck Ross.

Article: "Chinese government reveals draft list of animals which can be farmed for meat" by Ben Westcott.

Article: "China signals end to dog meat consumption by humans" by Michael Standaert.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Waco siege", 1993 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ruby Ridge", 1992 by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Money Over People Is NOT the American Way... / PLUS, Anything Goes Friday...What's On Your Mind?

Article: "Democrats opt for blackmail over small-business money â€” and the media covers for them" by New York Post Editorial Board.

Tweet: ".@RealDonaldTrump has approved National Guard assistance in Colorado in response to #COVID19, following the request of members of the Colorado congressional delegation. The @CONG1860 will now able to be used by the @GovofCO for state COVID-19 response efforts." by Cory Gardner.

Tweet: "Will be immediately sending 100 Ventilators to Colorado at the request of Senator Gardner!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Editorial: Trump is playing a disgusting political game with our lives" by The Denver Post Editorial Board.

Article: "As pandemic deepens, Trump cycles through targets to blame" by Jonathan Lemire.

Article: "'Known liar': Trump's acting intelligence chief blasted for 'attempt to smear CNN for purely political ends'" by David Badash.

Law: "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump family loses bid to move marketing scam lawsuit to arbitration" by Jonathan Stempel.

Article: "Scripps Research finds 'possible Achilles heel' in the coronavirus" by Gary Robbins.

Article: "Gov. DeSantis, Mayor Curry: 'This is a shock like we have never seen before'" by Shelby Danielsen.

Article: "Bill Barr tells Fox News host that coronavirus stay-at-home orders are 'draconian'" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Georgia Guidestones" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Coronavirus News: Former New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky dies from COVID-19" by Eyewitness News.

Article: "Coronavirus Update: Cuomo Is 'Cautiously Optimistic' About Hospitalizations, Says Path Forward Starts With Increased Testing" by CBS New York.

Article: "Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus 'Hit Like a Bomb'" by Ellen Barry.

Article: "Kansas has 3 church-related COVID-19 clusters, state says amid scramble for supplies" by Jonathan Shorman.

Article: "Coronavirus: 'Huge Spike' in Brooklyn Hasidic Community" by Liam Stack and Nate Schweber.

Article: "Kurzarbeit: An Alternative to Lay-Offs" by Jakob Widner.

Hour Three: African Americans, the Poor & the Elderly are Dying in Grossly Disproportionate Numbers...What's Going On Here? / PLUS, Anything Goes Friday...Thom Takes Your Calls

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Video: Lack Of National COVID-19 Testing Leaves Nursing Home Front Line In Shadow | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC.

Article: "Mass graves dug in New York to bury coronavirus victims without family" by Daniel Morrow.

Quote: "Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." - Theodore Parker.

Article: "Read Bernie Sanders's Full Speech on Ending His Campaign" by Isabella Grullón Paz.

Article: "The Democratic Party Must Harness the Legitimate Rage of Americans. Otherwise, the Right Will Use It With Horrifying Results." by Jon Schwarz.

Book: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

Tweet: "As she often does, @SenWarren provides a cogent summary of how federal policymakers should be thinking about the pandemic in the coming months." by Barack Obama https://t.co/zkX0E7ncK5.

Article: ""Most brutal thing I've been through": Alabama millennials talk about surviving coronavirus" by Anna Claire Vollers.

Article: "Trump's White House is finally preparing for something: Beating back oversight of coronavirus relief" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Gravely Ill, Atwater Offers Apology" by AP.

Article: "Vlad the Impaler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue" by Oliver Laughland.

Article: "Trump blows off question on when we will get adequate testing "We have best testing system in world"" by Lefty Coaster.

Article: "Trump: Nationwide Testing When We Reopen Would Be Nice But We Don't Really Need It" by Allahpundit.

Article: "How the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Affecting CO2 Emissions" by Chelsea Harvey.

Article: "Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide" by NOAA.

Article: "Mauna Loa Observatory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Air-Quality Researchers See Opportunity in COVID-19 Shutdowns" by Chase Woodruff.

Article: "UK car sales plunge amid coronavirus lockdown" by Joe Miller.

Article: "Trump doubles down on 'China virus,' demands to know who in White House used phrase 'Kung Flu"" by Barnini Chakraborty.

Article: "New York's coronavirus outbreak originated mainly in travelers from Europe, new studies show" by Lauren Frias.

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