Author: danelabonte

“Deep partisan divisions exist in the news sources Americans trust, distrust and rely on”

“Moreover, evidence suggests that partisan polarization in the use and trust of media sources has widened in the past five years. A comparison to a similar study by the Center of web-using U.S. adults in 2014 finds that Republicans have grown increasingly alienated from most of the more established sources, while Democrats’ confidence in them remains stable, and in some cases, has strengthened.”

(https://www.journalism.org/2020/01/24/u-s-media-polarization-and-the-2020-election-a-nation-divided/)

Total MA population = 6,893,000

Total MA tests = 169,398 (2.5% of population)

Total MA cases tested positive = 39,643 (0.6% of population) (23% of total tests)

Total MA deaths = 1,809 (0.026% of population) (4.6% of total cases)

New deaths in one day = 103 (6% increase of total deaths)

(https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-dashboard-april-20-2020/download)

“For comparison, on the same Sunday last year — April 21, 2019 — the Globe ran seven pages of death notices…”

(https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/19/nation/stark-reality-sundays-boston-globe-runs-16-pages-death-notices/)

“Oil futures plunged below zero on Monday, the latest never-before-seen number to come out of the economic coma caused by the coronavirus pandemic.”

“…the cost to have a barrel of U.S. crude delivered in May plummeted to negative $37.63. It was at roughly $60 at the start of the year.”

“…traders are running out of places to keep it, with storage tanks close to full amid a collapse in demand as factories, automobiles and airplanes sit idled around the world.”

(https://apnews.com/ce1c170194fe7803c498a72389ae5dfa)

Here’s a detailed reddit thread showing that a lot of websites and Facebook groups are created by the same person or entity in Florida.

“Seriously, even without that information – who or whomever is responsible for this astroturfing couldn’t make this more obvious if they tried. It honestly took me longer to type all of this up to present here than it did for me to find this all. Yet people have taken the bait hook-line-and-sinker.”

(https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/comment/fnstpyl)

“…among more than a dozen companies with revenues in the hundreds of millions that are reported to have received money from the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, which set aside $349 billion in the stimulus law called the CARES Act to help small businesses keep their workers on the payroll. Less than two weeks after it started, the program has already run out of money.”

(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shake-shack-returning-10-million-government-loan-meant-small-businesses-n1187541)

“Kentucky’s increase in infected individuals comes after protesters took to the streets throughout the week to call for the state to be reopened.”

(https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-reports-highest-coronavirus-infection-increase-after-week-protests-reopen-state-1498835)

“A local official in Kentucky has ordered the removal of a Confederate flag outside a county courthouse that has drawn criticism for weeks since its recent placement there.”

“County Commissioner Justin Lamb has said members of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans paid for the flag and raised it in front of the building in Benton. The flag aimed to recognize April as Confederate History Month, Lamb said.”

(https://apnews.com/a49e04a8f2c539f6405698acb3db2cee)