Category: Dear Covid 19
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Maryland doctors warn of contagious new COVID variant
A new COVID variant is rampantly spreading across the nation, creating a new wave of cases, according to CBS News. “It is outcompeting Omicron and other variants,” Sinai Hospital Chief Medical Officer Esti Schabelman said. The variant is called XBB 1.5 and it derives from the Omicron strain. But this variant is more contagious. Schabelman said…
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Is Covid killing memories? Virtual Graduations and Award Ceremonies are disappointing!
Covid-19 has pretty much taken over two years of our lives. Taking away our freedom to breathe, stand next to each other, and even attend award ceremonies! Never realizing this would have an impact on our American people, I was wrong when my sixteen-year-old told me otherwise. Teens are upset that they cannot experience normal…
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#CorporateDiversity Makes White Employees Cringe, Isn’t That The Point?
In America it’s about who you know and that’s a big part of the problem. Bad actors manipulate a broken system most immigrants never gain access too. Why aren’t more Black Americans fighting for their reparations? Maybe because there’s enough laws on the books to pretend we have achieved equity. In reality, we have barely…
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Why Right Wing Hosts are Suddenly Urging People to Get Vaccinated
Since the covid-19 vaccine had been founded, Right wing commentators such as Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have been urging viewers to avoid taking the vaccine, despite the fact that the death rate has been practically inexistent. However, this past Monday, Hannity was quoted saying “We believe the science of vaccines so take this virus…
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Stash Invests Creates LGBTQ+ Content On Its App, Are We Too Take All These New Found Advocates Seriously
We caught a glipse of a story about how the pandemic had affected LGBTQ+ respondents more than those who are just straight. The article then goes on the restate the same issue, poor and at risk communities have suffered more than rich white suburbans communities. Isn’t that why the majority voted for a new Commander…
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Vyvyd – Review
Four years after their epic post-punk/psychedelic record Bleeding Magenta was released, the Venetian band the New Candys are back. Their new album, Vyvyd (released in June 2021), is an excellent culmination of creativity that has resulted from the isolation of the cataclysmic Coronavirus pandemic. According to the album’s Bandcamp page, “This record has its own…
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Pandemic Hobbies
Since March 2020, people have found ways to cope with the stress and the boredom. This pandemic has certainly been more devastating than constructive but, we’ve explored new hobbies and trends while stuck at home that we might’ve not have tried if lock down hadn’t taken place. During the first few months, optimism was in…
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Americans Should Vaccinate Themselves – What’s The Alternative?
A global pandemic with real World concerns are creating a new problem for Americans. Now that there’s a vaccine against Covid-19 – people are still nervous. We are following the same guideline curators who advised us when there was yet no preventative vaccine to wash our hands, social distance, and wear a mask. Why are…
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Dolly Parton Help Fund Vaccines In America – An American Hero
In April, the country legend announced her $1 million donation to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to help fund research to fight the coronavirus. In November, news broke that her generosity was used, in part, to fund Moderna’s vaccine, which trials have shown to be more than 94% effective against the virus.
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COVID-19 and Homelessness
What a time to be alive. Almost every person has used some sort of bingo joke or underlined the fact this is such a bizarre point in time. The words “pandemic,” “quarantine,” and “Coronavirus,” were one of the most top searched words according to Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2020. Almost every person in some…
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How The Cori Bush vs Marjorie Greene Political Drama Exposes A Long History Of White Women and Their Privilege
Bush sat for an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Ann Reid to discuss the current impeachment hearing and Covid-19 safety since the insurrection on January 6th. Meanwhile the GOP rep Marjorie Taylor Greene was promoting some sort of “meeting” back in late December about how she won’t sit idly while the left steals an election. How…
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The Closing of Family Video #SaveTheVideoStore
We’ve already seen Hollywood Video and the titan that was Blockbuster close their franchises down a decade ago, taking countless nights of nostalgia with them. And now Family Video has become a victim of circumstance and are closing the remaining 300 stores in the U.S. Last fall, the chain did a round of cuts and…
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To Anyone Having A Hard Time Coping Right Now
I cried for the first time since being in quarantine today. It took me less than two months to finally break down and let all of my innermost thoughts and emotions out. And you know what? It felt really great. It felt so good to let myself be vulnerable. To allow myself to feel something…
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“Cry Me a River, Karens”-Retail
“I can help who’s next!” I call out, wiping the last of the PIN pad down with a brown paper towel covered in disinfectant spray. I look up to see a Karen approach the counter; white and oh-so privileged, walking with her nose up high and a stick up her ass, staring at me like…
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Dear Covid
Dear Covid, How have you been? I know that it has been a few months and we got to know each other. I got to know your strengths. You are very easy to catch, many lives have been taken by you, and you cause so many symptoms of a cold or flu. The list keeps…
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A Year Ago, Cattle Decapitation Brought Back The Plague
Deathgrind Cattle Decapitation strategically dropped their album Death Atlas on November 29, 2019 AKA Black Friday 2019. As the album hits its first birthday, it feels more relevant than ever now because, well, a LOT has happened since the end of 2019 and the nihilism and criticism that Cattle Decapitation offers fits like a glove. …
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Changing Security Conceptualizations: From War to Terrorism to Climate Change.
Old conceptualizations of security included worrying about traditional warfare and violence on battlefronts. Today conceptualizations of security can include things like Climate Change and Pandemics. This is because of the process of Globalization that has increased speed of information and compressed us together through technology such as the internet and airplanes. We can get things,…
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Whitechapel Writing Follow-Up To The Valley
Deathcore pioneers Whitechapel released their seventh studio album The Valley in 2019 to positive reviews from critics and fans alike. Their upcoming album is expected to be released sometime in late 2021.
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Trapped in Our Own Web
It’s getting too hard to try and keep up with everything going on with the election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. It’s stressful in every way shape and form. We have, on one hand, a group of people who are so dedicated to the “original” system and ways of the founding of the United…
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Not in Control
Do you find yourself, or have you ever found yourself, feeling incredibly disconnected and out of control with what’s going on around you that you think, “What am I even doing here?” 2020 has been many things, but forgiving isn’t one of them. With every new month/week/day/hour, something happens to shake up our sense of…