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10 Productive Things People Have Already Accomplished While Working From Home

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By now, most people have been practicing social distancing, working from home, and adjusting to life in solitude. In these difficult times, we can all use a brief reprieve and just take a moment to laugh, smile, and remember why we are taking these measures in the first place.. To do what we can to help our community and those we love, so we can get back to enjoying more moments like these! So here are 10 amazing things people have already accomplished while working from home. 1. Day 10…

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Security News This Week: A Notorious Spyware Vendor Wants to Track Coronavirus Spread

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Everybody's worried about Zoom this week. As the video conferencing software rocketed to 200 million users amid widespread shelter-in-place orders, security and privacy pros have catalogued a litany of issues. It's probably perfectly fine for most people! But especially if you need true end-to-end encrypted meetings, maybe give Zoom a minute to get its act together. Zoom's not the only one benefiting from novel coronavirus quarantines. Online credit card skimmers have stepped up their activity now that everyone's shopping from home, according to data from security company RiskIQ. The most…

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Trump Obsesses Over Flu Deaths, Attacks Cuomo in Softball Fox News Chat

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In a Tuesday virtual town hall with a deferential Fox News panel, President Donald Trump spent much of his time obsessing over the number of flu deaths America experiences annually in order to downplay the threat of the coronavirus pandemic as complained about the lack of ventilators received from the federal government. I watched Governor Cuomo and he was very nice, the president said of the New York governors press conference, which preceded the Fox News town hall, before attacking Cuomo for complaining about receiving only 3,000 ventilators from the…

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Trumps New Plan: Become a Living Everything Is Fine Meme

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passed a $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus plan on a unanimous vote and ended with the news that America now has one where an abject crisis is causing historic economic disruption and human suffering on a global scale, and one constructed by Trump, in whichthrough his ingenuity and stewardshipAmerica is on the precipice of putting this all behind us. As we look forward, the president said on Tuesday, we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The next day, the number of deaths in the U.S. reached…

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Bernie Sanders: Coronavirus Impact Makes Need for Medicare for All Clear

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A somber Sen. Bernie Sanders confronted growing worries over the novel coronavirus Thursday on a stage that gave him another opportunity to champion his prized healthcare expansion policy goal. Speaking from a hotel meeting place in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders (I-VT) spoke for a little over 16 minutes, jumping from concerns about the impact of isolation as more people self-quarantineand the cost of healthcare, to plans for helping the less fortunate overcome the hardships the pandemic could cause. "Nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being or the…

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White House teams up with Google to build coronavirus screening site

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During a press conference at the White House, President Trump today announced that the government is working with Google to build an online screening website for COVID-19. The announcement was short on details, but the idea, it seems, is to give users the ability to enter their symptoms and see if they need additional testing. None of this sounds extremely complicated, but according to Trump, Google has 1,700 engineers working on this. According to Debbie Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, users will have to log into this new…

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35 Quarantine Conference Calls Gone Hilariously Wrong

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It’s a good thing if your issues revolve around things like setting up your workspace and trying to find out where to plug the wires in. You spend some time googling it and take care of it. But if you can’t handle a conference call, I have some bad news for you. Not only will your colleagues make sure you remember it, they will probably tell the Internet all about your fiasco as well. reply Unfollow 10 hours ago That’s hilarious ! It would have been hard to do the…

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West Virginia Hasnt Reported a COVID-19 Case, But It Only Tested 84

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Only one state in the nationWest Virginiahas not reported any COVID-19 cases. But that doesnt mean little testingeven compared to states of a similar size. The West Virginia 188 individuals, and 18 were positive. Vermont, which has scant more than one-third of West Virginias population, has Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. The lack of testing could be deadly. While most cases of coronavirus are mild, Manchin noted a recent study found the state has the highest likelihood51 percentfor adults gettingseriously ill after a COVID-19 infection. Thats due mainly to the large proportion…

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The Mathematics of Predicting the Course of the Coronavirus

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In the past few days, New York City’s hospitals have become unrecognizable. Thousands of patients sick with the novel coronavirus have swarmed into emergency rooms and intensive care units. From 3,000 miles away in Seattle, as Lisa Brandenburg watched the scenes unfold—isolation wards cobbled together in lobbies, nurses caring for Covid-19 patients in makeshift trash bag gowns, refrigerated mobile morgues idling on the street outside—she couldn’t stop herself from thinking: “That could be us.” It could be, if the models are wrong. Until this past week, Seattle had been the…

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This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For

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The shock itself is shocking. Shouldn’t we have been more prepared? Hasn’t culture been drenched in catastrophe porn for decades? The bomb. The breakdown. The fallout. The senseless armies of shambling corpses, all the nightmares of dead generations sliding out of our screens. For more than a decade, young and young-ish people have been living in anticipatory grief for everything we know. But somehow, this is different. The idea of imminent annihilating catastrophe has been part of the collective unconscious for as long as we've had one. From the end…

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The Covid-19 Pandemic Aggravates Disputes Around Gig Work

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The rapidly spreading novel coronavirus is supercharging a debate about the treatment of gig workers. The relief bill signed Friday by President Trump will provide a short-term lifeline. But some workers for companies such as Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart, and Amazon worry the help won’t come soon enough. Today, many gig workers are considered independent contractors, not entitled to workers’ compensation, health care benefits, or sick pay. Because their employers don't pay into unemployment insurance, the workers haven’t been able to obtain those benefits either. Many app-based companies have established…

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How child care startups in the U.S. are helping families cope with the COVID-19 crisis

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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of billions of people around the world. For many parents with young children in the United States, shelter-in-place orders implemented in different areas over the past few weeks mean they now spend each day balancing work with taking care of their families. For child care providers, a vital but often under-appreciated part of the American economy, the crisis means dealing with economic uncertainty, but also adapting to serve new roles, including providing care for essential workers. Child care startups, including home-based daycare networks,…

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14 Apps and Tools to Stave Off Cabin Fever

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As more and more counties and states impose shelter-in-place restrictions while the new coronavirus spreads, everyone's suddenly spending much more time at home. While you might be glad to have escaped the grind of the daily commute for a while, staying indoors for the majority of the day comes with its own set of challenges. Your smartphone can help. With the right choice of apps, you can forget you're in such a confined space, get some exercise, and let your mind roam free. From socializing to exercise to checking up…

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