Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, July 6th, 2020.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, July 6th, 2020 was:
ALICIA JOHNSON
Freeport, TX
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners & Drawing Entries 6/29/20 thru 7/05/20 are as follows:
6/29/20
Angela Janisse
Kimberly Snyder
Eleazar Ruiz
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Alicia Johnson
Edward John
Rosanne Clark
Dawn Waddington
Carol Jean
Maria Bouchard
Kim Avery
Jenai Merri
Katrina Worford
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Cathy Ahner
Leigh Reader
Josephine Casey
Rhonda Grisham
Christy Hawkes
Steve Ahner
Shannon Rush
Crystal Dougherty Merrill
Paula Johnson
Madeline Lonergan
7/1/20
Alana Dimambro
Melissa White
Haley Babineau
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
Jenai Merri
Kimberly Snyder
Be Schwerin
Carol Jean
Tammy Lee Stookey
Stacy Nelson
Kim Minton
Gail Yarbrough
Jan Peoples
Jennifer Ramlet
Edward John
Kate Williams
Shannon Rush
Andrea Somers
Jessica Steiner
Samantha Rentschler
7/2/20
Misty Shallcross
Be Schwerin
April Ashcraft
Jessica Steiner
Becky VanGinkel
April Ashcraft
Sean Stover
Katrina Worford
Carrie Vucinaj
Leigh Reader
Josephine Casey
Jennifer Lang
Jenifer Garza
Jill Nauyokas
Debbie Bloxom
Kendra Lewis Mcbride
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Eleazar Ruiz
Brittney Dorsey
Tiffy Tisdale
7/3/20
Amber Chandler
Sherry Lilly
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Linda Godin
Paula Gillespie
Stacy Nelson
Kimberly Snyder
Rhonda Grisham
Erica Hansen
Wayne Gallas
Amy Conyers
Eleazar Ruiz
Brittney Dorsey
Susan Clarke Jette
Kendra Lewis Mcbride
Brooke Scott
Becky Belle
Jennifer Ramlet
Fannie McQuirter Dorsey
Alicia Johnson
7/4/20
Brittany Light
Mary M
Eleazar Ruiz
Karen Ann Hinkle
Haley Babineau
Brittney Dorsey
Darlene Whyte
Kristina Harris
Christy Hawkes
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
Becky Belle
Kimberly Snyder
Rhonda Grisham
LaNique Dees
Angela Janisse
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Melissa White
Pamela Gonzalez
Sherry Lilly
Amy Conyers
7/5/20
Misty Shallcross
Sheila Carvell
Donna Porter
Jennifer Ramlet
Carrie Vucinaj
Lisa A Mazola
Alicia Johnson
Darlene Whyte
Debbie Bloxom
Dale Fish
Madeline Lonergan
Tonya Velazquez
Nelle Moore
Tera Lee Culverwell
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Adaria Johnson
Jane Peterson
Alana Dimambro
Charlotte Dennis
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Gina Guarente Fieger
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, June 28th, 2020.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, June 28th, 2020 was:
JENNIFER LANG
No. Miami Beach, FL
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners & Drawing Entries 6/22/20 thru 6/28/20 are as follows:
6/22/20
Missy Nicole Adams
Trish Marks
Andrea Somers
Jennifer Lang
Stevie Rosson
Becky Belle
Kim Avery
Melissa Shaulis Mazzur
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Becky VanGinkel
Carrie Vucinaj
Maria Bouchard
Melissa Barnes Walker
Tabitha Sinks
Sherri Kidwell
Dawn Waddington
MarcyLynn Coull
Josephine Casey
Stephanie McCoy
Alana Dimambro
6/23/20
Lucyna Dorota
Kim Minton
Kristina Harris
Alicia Johnson
Gail Yarbrough
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Cathy Ahner
Alana Dimambro
Kimberly Snyder
Mike Wallace
Jay Robert
Stephen Earl
Cathie Ahner
Steve Ahner
Tom Cavalli
Andrea Somers
Trish Marks
Pamela Gonzalez
Janice McKay Donahue
Madeline Lonergan
6/24/20
Rosanne Clark
Nelle Bailey
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Geri Rus
Samantha Brown
Jennifer Ramlet
Sherri Kidwell
Wendy Pesce
Mary Pettiford
Sarah Frank
Tabitha Sinks
Priscilla Shimp
Angela Janisse
Amy Conyers
Rhonda Grisham
Samantha Smith
Kate Williams
Josephine Casey
Brandi K Chaney
Kim Avery
Jillian Dollarhide
06/25/20
Leigh Reader
Jo Bhangavatula
Sherry Lilly
Paula Johnson
Tom Cavalli
Haley Babineau
Janice McKay Donahue
Carla Marie
Josephine Casey
Sara Biason
Angela Janisse
Shannon Rush
Be Schwerin
Rhonda Grisham
Holly Jarczynski-mcdowell
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Tom JG
Jenifer Garza
Terri Bowen
6/26/20
Christy Hawkes
Jennifer Vega
Sarah Bellestri Shih
Jo Bhagavatula
Amber Chandler
Jennifer Ramlet
Andrea Somers
Lori Capobianco
Marie Mariani
Nicole LeMond Wituck
Madeline Lonergan
Mary M
Alicia Dansby
Carla Marie
Karyn Koehler
Dawn Waddington
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Rhonda Grisham
Alison Giffune Paige
Alyssa DiFazio
Samantha Rentschler
6/27/20
Bea Patrick
Lori Capobianco
Angela Janisse
Kristina Harris
Tammy Lee Stookey
Melinda Sue Fritz
Susan Clarke Jette
Becky VanGinkel
Nacole Patrick
Josephine Casey
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
Chrissy Kim
Shannon Rush
Yolanda Ortega-Hackett
Linda Godin
Lena Perry
Paula Johnson
Leigh Reader
Carla Marie
Crystal Young
6/28/20
Christy Hawkes
Melinda Sue Fritz
Alicia Johnson
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Tera Lee Culverwell
Tina Auth
Tammy Lee Stookey
Darlene Whyte
Angela Janisse
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Paula Johnson
Melissa White
Josephine Casey
Chantal Bell
Bea Patrick
MarcyLynn Coull
Lori Capobianco
Carole Jacobs
Jo Bhagavatula
Nacole Patrick
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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Protests intensified in Atlanta after a police officer shot 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant. The encounter was caught on surveillance camera and by a witness. Police approached Brooks after he had fallen asleep in his car. The police questioned Brooks, patted him down and gave him a breathalyzer test. Witness videos, surveillance footage, bodycam and dashcam footage show the officers engaged Brooks without incident for 41 minutes before the encounter turned fatal.
Atlanta Police Department officer Devin Brosnan arrived at the Wendy’s restaurant to investigate a report of a man asleep in a car which was blocking the drive-through lane. Brosnan awakened Brooks and told him to move the car to a parking space and take a nap. Brooks fell asleep again without moving the car prompting Brosnan to again wake Brooks and instruct him to park the car. Brosnan checked Brooks’s driver’s license and radioed for assistance from an officer certified to conduct driving under the influence investigations. Officer Garrett Rolfe arrived at 10:56 and, with Brooks’s permission, performed a pat-down search for weapons, a field sobriety test, and a breathalyzer test. Brooks appeared impaired and said he had consumed one to one-and-a-half drinks and denied driving or being too drunk to drive. The Breathalyzer registered a blood alcohol level of 0.108%, above the legal limit of 0.08%. Brooks asked to leave his car in the parking lot overnight and walk to his sister’s house a short distance away.
At 11:23, Rolfe told Brooks: “All right, I think you’ve had too much to drink to be driving. Put your hands behind your back for me”; he and Brosnan then moved behind Brooks to handcuff him. Brooks tried to break free and he and the officers scuffled on the ground. During the struggle Brosnan drew his Taser, but Brooks wrested from him and fired it toward Brosnan before attempting to run away. Brosnan says the Taser contacted him and he struck his head on the pavement. Rolfe drew his own Taser and shot Brooks with it. Brooks fled through the parking lot with Brosnan’s Taser still in hand as Rolfe pursued him and fired again with his own Taser. While still running, Brooks turned to fire the second shot of Brosnan’s Taser – capable of two shots before being reloaded – over Rolfe’s head. According to prosecutors, Brooks and Rolfe were 18 feet apart when Rolfe dropped his Taser, drew his handgun and shot Brooks once in the mid-back and once in the buttocks; a third shot struck a nearby vehicle, narrowly missing its three occupants. According to prosecutors Rolfe then declared, “I got him”.
Within 24 hours of the shooting, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said that she did not believe it was justified, leading to Rolfe’s firing, Brosnan being placed on administrative duty and the resignation of the city’s police chief, Erika Shields. The county medical examiner rule Brooks’ death a homicide and Georgia Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation. The Fulton County District Attorney said Brooks did not present himself as a threat and appeared almost jovial during the encounter. He announced 11 charges against Rolfe: felony murder, five counts of aggravated assault, four police oath violations, and damage to property. He said Rolfe should have been aware that the Taser Brooks had taken posed no danger, as after being fired twice it could not fire again. He also said that Rolfe and Brosnan did not provide timely medical aid to Brooks and that before they did, Rolfe kicked him and Brosnan stood on his shoulders. The district attorney said it was a violation of department policy for Rolfe to begin handcuffing Brooks before telling him he was being arrested.
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With mass uprising over police brutality showing no signs of abating, more policy changes are taking shape around the country. San Francisco announced last week that trained, unarmed professionals will respond to noncriminal calls instead of police. Colorado lawmakers passed a bill to introduce sweeping police changes, including banning choke holds and requiring officers to intervene if they see excessive force being used. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said he will reallocate $3 million from the police department’s budget toward public health initiatives. The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed a resolution to replace the police department with a community-led public safety system. Minneapolis Councilmember Alondra Cano said, “We acknowledge that the current system is not reformable, that we would like to end the current policing system as we know it.”
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont imposed a series of reforms on the Connecticut State Police, including a ban on choke holds, a mandate that officers use body cameras and dashboard cameras, and restrictions on a program that funnels military equipment to local law enforcement. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a police reform bill into law, prohibiting the use of a choke hold in an arrest “except when a person cannot be captured any other way or has used or threatened deadly force” and preventing an officer from being hired in Iowa if they have a previous felony conviction, were fired for misconduct, or left before they could be fired for misconduct. The bill also requires annual anti-bias and deescalation training for law enforcement and allows the Iowa Attorney General to prosecute officers for a criminal offense resulting in the death of a human being.
Michigan State Senator Jeff Irwin introduced Senate Bill 945 which would require the addition of “implicit bias, deescalation techniques, and mental health screening” as part of the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards certification process for new law enforcement officers. The bill was drafted before the death of George Floyd in response to the broader problem of police brutality and passed the State Senate unanimously on June 4. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced a series of police reforms, including whistle blower protections, independent review of officer-involved shootings, and use of body cameras by police officers. New Jersey has banned police departments from using choke holds and similar neck and carotid restraints. According to Attorney General Grewal’s order, “Because these tactics create a substantial risk of death or serious bodily harm, officers who cause a subject’s death or injury while performing them face potential criminal liability” except when “deadly force is necessary to address an imminent threat to life”.
Meanwhile, counties and cities across the country, including Cleveland, Denver and Indianapolis, are declaring racism a public health crisis. Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant is calling for a section of downtown known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone to remain permanently in community control. Protesters took over several city blocks last week after the Seattle Police Department abandoned its Capitol Hill precinct and stopped trying to violently disperse marches. The Seattle City Council voted unanimously to ban police use of tear gas and choke holds.
The New York Police Department announced it is dismantling its plainclothes anti-crime unit and the 600 officers in the unit will be reassigned. In 2018, news outlets reported plainclothes anti-crime officers had been involved in 31% of fatal police shootings in New York since 2000. Meanwhile, Albuquerque, New Mexico, has announced plans to create a new civilian department made up of social workers and others to respond to non-emergency 911 calls. In Georgia, the state Legislature reopened with a call to pass a hate crimes bill. Georgia is one of four states with no hate crime laws.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, June 21st, 2020.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, June 21st, 2020 was:
SHERRY LILLY
Bucyrus, OH
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners & Drawing Entries 6/15/20 thru 6/21/20 are as follows:
6/15/20
Alicia Dansby
Jane Peterson
Donna Porter
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Angela Janisse
Mary Pettiford
Priscilla Shimp
Becky Belle
Sherry Lilly
Maria Bouchard
Madeline Lonergan
Jeremy Mclaughlin
Jill Nauyokas
Edward John
Michelle Rayeske Jeske
Holly Jarczynski-mcdowell
Alyssa DiFazio
Mya Murphy
Jennifer Ramlet
Madeline Lonergan
Alisa Jones
Melissa Shaulis Mazzur
6/16/20
Nicole Blaha
Kristina Harris
Brooke Scott
Thomas Ryan Gan
Marie Mariani
Debbie Bloxom
Karen Goodwin Delaney
Karen Bondenhagen
Holly Jarczynski-mcdowell
Lisa Bourlier
Becky Belle
Lisa Dion
Alicia Dansby
Jennifer Ramlet
Jill Nagel
Jenai Merri
Kate Williams
Karen Brunet Moore
Sheila Carvell
Jan Peoples
6/17/20
Sheila Carvell
Carole Jacobs
Lori Capobianco
Dawn Raasch
Tom JG
Misty Shallcross
Stephanie McCoy
Dale Fish
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Kelsey Brooke Vinson
Nicole Blaha
Jodi Stevens
Phylicia Phillips
Susan Clarke Jette
Becky Belle
Kalynnilene Carter
Shannon Schleif
Jessica Steiner
Christy Hawkes
Karen Brunet Moore
6/18/20
Tiffany Borek
Brittany Doerfler
Edward T Kranick
Cathy Ahner
Jennifer Ramlet
Jesse Cataneda
Jennifer Marie
Steve Ahner
Kendra Lewis Mcbride
Tom Cavalli
Mike Wallace
Mya Murphy
Sheila Carvell
Jessica Steiner
Jay Robert
Kristina Harris
Wayne Gallas
Aaron Landry
MarcyLynn Coull
Pamela Gonzalez
Karen Ann Hinkle
Rhonda Grisham
Stephen Earl
Carla Marie
Vickie Gipson
6/19/20
Cathy Ahner
Joann Hacker
Steve Ahner
Rhonda Grisham
Carrie Vucinaj
Jenifer Garza
Jay Robert
Mike Wallace
Stephen Earl
Sheila Carvell
Dean Bruss
Cathie Ahner
Kristina Harris
Tiffany Greene Elliott
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Amber Chandler
Sean Stover
Carla Marie
Lucyna Dorota
Carla Marie
6/20/20
Margaret Primos
Adaria Johnson
Dawn Waddington
Andrea Somers
Brittany Doerfler
Alexis Maureen
Josephine Casey
Mya Murphy
Wendy Pesce
Wanda McHenry
Tia Ludwick
Melanie Raman
Melissa White
Michelle Webb
Jenifer Garza
Alicia Dansby
Lauren Bradley
Eleazar Ruiz
Janice McKay Donahue
Darlene Whyte
Stevie Rosson
LaNique Dees
06/21/20
Sheila Vives
Christy Hawkes
Kendra Lewis Mcbride
Melanie Raman
Kalynnilene Carter
Jennifer Leffler
Dale Fish
Janice McKay Donahue
Wayne Gallas
Amy Conyers
Theresa Sigourney
Dawna McKnight
Adaria Johnson
Jennifer Marie
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Tom JG
Sue Dudley
Stacy Nelson
Sarah Frank
John McKnight
Michael Ingelido
Sean Stover
Lisa David Carr
Be sure to watch both of our FaceBook pages for your chance to win and enter again next week, with questions posted daily on HealthInsurance4Everyone or at Health & Life Solutions, LLC!!
Remember that if you try your hand at answering the Trivia Question several days each week, your odds of winning the Sunday weekly drawing are much better.
Also note that a number of the posted answers each day are from contestants who have forgotten to “Like” one of our pages, so their names WILL NOT be entered at the end week drawing for the gift card, giving our fans a better chance!
You may also find that if you “Like” BOTH of the business pages, you will receive faster notifications of the other players as they post their answers to compete with you!
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With more than 2.06 million cases, America has the world’s largest COVID-19 confirmed cases to date. It’s also first when it comes to the total number of deaths, with more than 117,000 people having died of COVID-19 complications. Nearly 7.5 million people have had confirmed infections worldwide and over 420,000 people died. As US states are opening up their economies, Harvard Global Health Institute director Dr. Ashish Jha predicts that the US will cross 200,000 deaths sometime in September. Jha explained his estimates only take into account the next few months, but COVID-19 will obviously not disappear after that.
“The pandemic won’t be over in September so I’m really worried about where we’re going to be in the weeks and months ahead. We’re really the only major country in the world that opened back up without really getting our cases as down low as we really needed to,” Jha noted, adding that the US is the only advanced country in the world not to have a proper contact tracing system setup. People should continue to maintain social distancing and wear masks, Jha advised. They should also “put pressure” on the government to advance testing and contact tracing programs.
“But even if we assume that it’s going to be flat all summer, that nothing is going to get worse, we’re going to stay flat all summer — even if we pick that low number, 800 a day — that’s 25,000 a month,” Jha pointed out. “In three and a half months, we’re going to add another 87- 88,000 people, and we will hit 200,000 sometime in September.” Jha said anyone who still thinks the summer will bring a dramatic decrease in cases is “engaging in wishful thinking.” Coronavirus cases and associated hospitalizations may be falling in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, he said, but cases are surging in Arizona, Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas. The Harvard professor of public health said he is not trying to scare people into staying home by raising concerns about the number of deaths he’s predicting.
In Brazil, the coronavirus death toll has topped 43,000 with the total number of confirmed cases at over 850,000. It now has the second-highest number of COVID-19 deaths and cases in the world behind the United States. According to the health ministry, the COVID-19 mortality rate in Brazil is five% and nearly 388,500 people have recovered from COVID-19 in Brazil.
China reported its highest number of daily infections in months, raising concern over a second wave of the outbreak. In Beijing, authorities have reimposed lockdown measures after a new cluster of cases emerged last week. The cluster, the capital’s first locally transmitted cases in nearly two months, raised mainland China’s total number to 83,132. Almost 4,700 people have died in China, where the pandemic originated in December.
The World Health Organization says the pandemic is accelerating in Africa, with the most affected countries being South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria, Egypt and Sudan. In Yemen, medical authorities warn deaths linked to the pandemic could exceed war-related fatalities in the port city of Aden. The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus. Learn how COVID-19 spreads and practice these actions to help prevent the spread of this illness.
Covid 19 isn’t going anywhere anytime soon so the recommendations to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 as the world’s economy reopens are: Keep 6 feet of social distance between yourself and others; wear a mask or cloth covering when around others-especially when in situations where you can’t maintain the 6 feet of social distancing; clean your hands often, either with soap and water for 20 seconds or a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol; avoid close contact with people who are sick; disinfect frequently touched surfaces regularly and stay home if you are feeling any symptoms.
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Small Business Owners Just Got More Time to Use Their PPP Loans
But they may also have gotten a bit more complicated too — at least for those small business owners who already secured a PPP loan under the old rules and want to take advantage of the new ones.
One of the biggest concerns with the program was that it hamstrung business owners in terms of when and how they could use the money if they wanted their loan to qualify for full forgiveness. Those who have gotten loans already had to spend the money in the first eight weeks and use at least 75% of it for payroll expenses — even though many businesses weren’t even open during that period or were not operating at full capacity.
The new rules certainly can benefit small business owners who have not yet closed on a PPP loan. The good news is that the program still has
close to $130 billion left, per the Small Business Administration’s latest count. But June 30 remains the last day by which a PPP loan application can be approved. So anyone who hasn’t applied yet should do so soon.
But the new rules likely will not benefit small business owners who received their PPP loans early and have spent most — if not all — of their funding in accordance with the old rules.
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As historic protests continue to sweep the country two weeks after the death of George Floyd, the Minneapolis City Council announced it would move to disband the city’s police department. Nine members of the council — a veto-proof majority — made the vow during a community rally. The vow to disband the police came just days after the Minneapolis City Council voted to ban chokeholds and neck restraints. Congress is slated to introduce reforms that include a chokehold ban, a limit on qualified immunity for officers and a restriction on military weapons. While news reporting may be bias, social media videos of police brutality toward peaceful protestors has sparked many local governments to take action as the protests continue. Although many of these reforms will be subjected to a long debate among local officials, some activists say it is a good start.
In Louisville, KY, the City Council unanimously passed “Breonna’s Law” Thursday night that banned the use of “no-knock” warrants. The legislation was named after Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT, who was killed in her home while in bed in March by Louisville police officers while executing a no-knock warrant. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, who suspended the use of no-knock warrants last month, said he will sign the bill. “This is one of many critical steps on police reform that we’ve taken to create a more peaceful, just, compassionate and equitable community.” The officers involved in Taylor’s death are under investigation and have been placed on administrative leave.
New York’s state legislature voted to repeal parts of a provision that shielded police disciplinary records from the public. The repeal of 50-A means that police officers across the state must disclose personnel records used to evaluate performance. Criminal justice advocates have been pushing for the repeal for years. The legislation also bans officers from using chokeholds, prohibits false race-based 911 calls and appoints the state attorney general to be an independent prosecutor in any case where an officer shoots an unarmed person. The state Senate approved the bill and the state Assembly approved it with later in the day. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also announced a sweeping set of reforms that would shift funding from the NYPD to other sectors of the city’s budget. De Blasio said he will work with the city council to hammer out the details over the next three weeks, but told reporters Monday that the amount would be “something substantial.”
Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announced she will sign the emergency legislation passed by the City Council that bans the police from using neck restraints on suspects. The bill also bans the use of tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse protesters. The Council also passed a bill that requires the mayor to release police body camera video from any police-involved death or serious use of force within three days of the incident. The family members of the person involved in the incident will be the first to see the video, according to the bill’s language.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced short- and long-term changes to the city’s police force to address the concerns about police from residents. She said she will review the Seattle Police Department’s budget with a “special focus on listening community voices throughout the process.” Durkan has also called for an independent prosecutor at the state level to investigate and prosecute any police officers as well as updating the department’s procedures for mass protests.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced that the state will ban police departments from using chokeholds, carotid artery neck restraints or similar tactics. Grewal said their use has led to several incidents where a suspect suffered asphyxiation. The order provides an exemption “in the very limited situations when deadly force is necessary to address an imminent threat to life.”
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There are almost 8,000,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus worldwide, with over 420,000 deaths. As many countries open up again, the World Health Organization warned the situation is getting worse globally. Nearly 75% of recent cases came from 10 countries, mostly in the Americas and South Asia, said the WHO. The WHO also said that the spread of COVID-19 by asymptomatic people appears to be rare.
Latin America remains the epicenter of the pandemic now with the highest tolls reported in Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Peru — which together account for over 1 million confirmed cases. The WHO said Central and South America have likely not reached peak transmission yet. Cuba remains announced they are closing in on the tail end of the pandemic, where infections have been on the decline for two months.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases continues to rise in U.S. states that were among the first and most aggressive to reopen, leading some local officials to reconsider reopening plans. In Oregon, Gov. Kate Brown announced a 7-day statewide pause on further reopening as health officials study the data and try to contain budding outbreaks. In Arizona, Gov. Doug Ducey tried to reassure people that the rise in confirmed cases was expected and that the state’s hospitals have the capacity to handle a further surge.
Recent data shows 21 states have seen an increase in their average daily new Covid 19 cases this week than in the previous week. Alabama, Oregon and South Carolina are among the states with the biggest increases. Alabama saw a 92 percent change in its seven-day average, while Oregon’s seven-day average was up 83.8 percent and South Carolina’s was up 60.3 percent. Hospitalizations have risen as well. For example, Arkansas has seen a 120.7 percent increase in hospitalizations, from 92 cases to 203, since Memorial Day.
Health officials warn that mass gatherings of any type could worsen the spread of the virus, as the 2020 election heats up and nationwide protests against racism and police brutality stretch into their third week across the globe. CDC continues to study the spread and effects of the novel coronavirus across the United States. We now know from recent studies that a significant portion of individuals with coronavirus lack symptoms (“asymptomatic”) and that even those who eventually develop symptoms (“pre-symptomatic”) can transmit the virus to others before showing symptoms. This means that the virus can spread between people interacting in close proximity—for example, speaking, coughing, or sneezing—even if those people are not exhibiting symptoms.
In light of this new evidence, CDC recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies) especially in areas of significant community-based transmission. It is critical to emphasize that maintaining 6-feet social distancing remains important to slowing the spread of the virus. CDC is additionally advising the use of simple cloth face coverings to slow the spread of the virus and help people who may have the virus and do not know it from transmitting it to others. Cloth face coverings fashioned from household items or made at home from common materials at low cost can be used as an additional, voluntary public health measure.
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The New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet has resigned following outrage from staff and readers over the publication of an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton about the protests called “Send in the Troops.” In a statement, The Times said that James Bennet had resigned and that Katie Kingsbury would serve as the acting editorial page editor through the November election. The deputy editorial page editor, Jim Dao, is being reassigned to the newsroom and is stepping off the masthead.
In the opinion piece, Sen. Tom Cotton, advocated for deploying the military for riots. The senator described looting in New York City as “carnivals for the thrill-seeking rich as well as other criminal elements,” and wrote that leftist ntifa movement had infiltrated protest marches despite an earlier Times article that reported Antifa involvement in the protests as misinformation. The column immediately drew backlash, with dozens of Times journalists voicing their opposition, tweeting the headline, caption and a form of the phrase “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger.”
Both Sulzberger and Bennet first defended the decision to run the column but the Times reversed itself and said the column had not met editorial standards. The Times reported that Bennet said in a meeting with staff members that he had not read the essay before it was published. And the paper added an editor’s note to the top of the original column. “We’ve examined the piece and the process leading up to its publication,” said Eileen Murphy, a Times spokeswoman. “This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an op-ed that did not meet our standards. As a result, we’re planning to examine both short-term and long-term changes, to include expanding our fact-checking operation and reducing the number of op-eds we publish.”
Meanwhile, Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, has also resigned days after the paper published a piece titled “Buildings Matter, Too.” The newsroom vet resigned after backlash from staff over that headline on a story that said “there could be a gaping hole in the heart of Philadelphia” amid protests over the killing of George Floyd.
Dozens of journalists signed an open letter to their editors explaining their decision to call out “sick and tired,” CNN reported. “They said they have spent ‘months and years’ trying to gain the public’s trust only to have it “eroded in an instant by careless, unempathetic decisions.” The paper issued an apology the next day. But it wasn’t just the article that played a role in Wischnowski’s resignation. Wischnowski and other editors had scheduled a staffwide Zoom meeting to discuss race at The Inquirer and the pressures in particular faced by journalists of color before the article was published.
The Zoom session started off with Wischnowski telling staffers about the strides made in diversifying its 213-member newsroom but the session turned intense and emotional. Some journalists could be seen in tears in their Zoom frames. Critics, black and white, denounced the pace of change at the paper, sharply criticizing both coverage and the racial and gender mix of the staff. Several journalists pointed out that the newspaper could muster only one male African American reporter to cover the protests and police response convulsing a city that is majority minority. Hours after the wrenching Zoom session, about 50 journalists of color signed an open letter calling for faster changes at the paper. The following day, most of the minority staff took the day off from work in protest.
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