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Walmart Corporation recently instituted a policy that will mandate facial masks in all of their stores beginning on Monday, July 20. They weren't clear about exceptions or how they will enforce their mandate. I was at Walmart, Sayre, PA for about an hour on Thursday, July 16. Mask compliance was about 75%. I spoke with a manager, Lisa Barnes, and wished her luck for Monday. I asked how they intended to enforce mask compliance. She said that incidents would be reported to managers and they would respond. She didn't elaborate. Walmart should not require their already underpaid workers to be the enforcers. Stores in the Elmira and Horseheads areas of New York including a Walmart and Sam's Club have mandated masks for months. Customers wear them because it is enforced. There are no exceptions. No mask, no service. Also, breaking with Trump, these Republican governors have mandated masks in their states: Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, Kay Ivey of Alabama, and Jim Justice of W

This  was written by  Joe Morice , a father in Fairfax county, VA on July 10, 2020 in his Facebook account. If you are someone that wants/needs schools to open regardless of the risk and lack of logistical details provided to families and staff, then you need to read this and read it carefully. It has been formatted lightly for ease of reading. Mr. Morice lists various statements he has heard in favor of returning to school and gives his reasons otherwise. To our fellow FCPS families, this is it gang, 5 days until the 2 days in school vs. 100% virtual decision. Let’s talk it out, in my traditional mammoth TL/DR form. From Joe Morice, daughters in 8th & 10th grade in our Centreville Pyramid: To our fellow FCPS families, this is it gang, 5 days until the 2 days in school vs. 100% virtual decision. Let’s talk it out, in my traditional mammoth TL/DR form. Like all of you, I’ve seen my feed become a flood of anxiety and faux expertise. You’ll get no presumption of experti

This was copied from Facebook. The original author is not mentioned. If you know the source, please let me know so that this can be properly credited. 400 years ago White people brought black people over here and enslaved them, sold them and treated them as less than human. For 250 years. While white men built the country (on the backs of slavery and on land stolen from Native Americans) and created its laws and its systems of government (without a thought of people of color). While 10, 15 generations of white families got to grow and flourish and make choices that could make their lives better. 150 years ago White people "freed" black people from slavery. But then angry white people created laws that made it impossible for them to vote. Or to own land. Or to have the same rights as white people. And even erected monuments glorifying people who actively had fought to keep them enslaved. All while another 5, 10 generations of white families got to grow, accumulate, pe

At the beginning of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, the number of cases started rising in mid-March and eventually leveled off in early April at around 30,000 cases of covid-19 per day. It stayed at that level through April and started to decrease to approx. 20,000 cases per day until the middle of June when the daily number of cases started rising again. The early cases were from the northeast section of the country. The latest new cases are coming from different areas, primarily the southeast through to the southwest. Daily cases are currently approaching 60,000 per day. The daily rate of infection is twice that of the previous peak. Trump said it's going to disappear, and Pence says things are fine. It's not going to disappear. Things are not fine.  Wishful thinking is not going to solve this growing emergency. The situation is worse than it was before, and the economic consequences we have already paid were wasted because of Trump's gross incomp