All posts tagged "Pandemic"

MAGA's pandemic obsession with harassing Dr. Anthony Fauci has revealed its dark core, an analyst argued on Monday.

Salon's Amanda Marcotte discussed how, as MAGA fractures, Republicans have been looking for a scapegoat. Trump's approval rating is sinking as the economy and the Iran war fuel frustration among the coalition's loyal followers.

"For normal people, yearning for a time when we were socially isolated and afraid of dying from a highly contagious virus is downright bizarre," Marcotte wrote. "MAGA, though, has a reason to feel nostalgia for a pandemic that killed millions. It was an era when the GOP got to do what they love more than anything: play the victim as loudly as possible before huge audiences that were especially vulnerable to disinformation."...

The following article is based on an interview that was replayed on MSNBC after its initial airing.

Legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward opened up further about the "Trump Tapes" on MSNBC Friday with anchor Ari Melber, specifically documenting how he discovered Trump was lying to the public about the hazards posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We've spoken about this. Now we're sharing it with viewers," said Melber. "What do you think this all shows?"...

Los Angeles (AFP) - Businesses have reopened in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States, with "We're hiring" signs everywhere. But if life has a pre-Covid feel, a new challenge has arisen for restaurants: workers are not willing to return at any cost. "We are dealing with a staffing shortage that I have not experienced in my career," said Skyler Gamble, a manager at Acme Hospitality, which oversees several restaurants in Santa Barbara around two hours' drive north of Los Angeles. "Our experience in the last six to nine months as business levels have rebounded, is that fewer and fewer ca......

New York (AFP) - After a year that saw concert venues go dark and stages moved online, an empty storefront in New York has offered a glimmer of hope to artists and audiences ravenous for live music. Musicians across the genres are performing pop-up concerts on Manhattan's Upper West Side for lucky passersby: on a recent morning it was Beethoven and Debussy that harmonized with a city soundscape normally dominated by car horns, construction work and pigeon coos. It marked the first time Michael Katz, a cellist, was able to play with piano accompaniment in a year; Spencer Myer performed on a whi......