News of the World

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Hank Steinbrenner, Yankees co-owner, dies at 63
https://apnews.com/38cd153b2a5b7f66af3a642a7f5f236d
They say he had long standing issues that he could not overcome.

Pro wrestling ‘essential’ under Florida governor’s order
https://apnews.com/43708c73899f2558e0f02df943fc0468
Besides fans like Lani I'd never expect anybody else call wrestling essential ever...

UN chief: world faces misinformation epidemic about virus
https://apnews.com/7682565123bc9092ec51e9ee957d0f62
Well, if you ask Wulfo, he'd say they started it all via WHO thanks to Dr. Tedros...

Guterres urged social media organizations to do more to counter the misinformation and to “root out hate and harmful assertions about COVID-19.”

Err, that depends on what they call misinformation. Trump once said hydroxicloroquine could help attack and Facebook or Twitter just deleted his post or tweet...

Liberty University sued for not refunding student fees
https://apnews.com/95ffa2c0704773816ecafc3cdae4641e
They claim the university should refund student fees but they're providing online classes so what's the problem there?
Are those filing the sue part of Sanders's team of organized protestors?

States confront practical dilemmas on reopening economies
https://apnews.com/d64e660f74d3162b88b298b56d797dd9
If they're just following Italy and Spain by slowing returning to normal conditions, why is it such a huge problem? I know it feels like crap to go work under pressure but everybody needs money to buy food, pay the rent or the mortgage...  

Curiously they briefly mentioned how the super doomsday scenarios they were predicting aren't as catastrophic as they could have been. I know places like New York are a whole different story, still, there are no reports of hundred thousands or millions of deceases there as they originally claimed.

They need to test people via antibody tests? Good, go buy them and keep testing people!

Editorial!?

Death is terrible most of the time. Even so the economy will recover and it should do it. This isn't a matter of how many people get exposed to the virus, it's about all of those that no longer earn a single penny or the few bucks they now get on the streets don't let you take care of anything some cheap food. We're not talking about a few hundred people, they're a few millions in the US and many more in Latin America. There's gotta be a way to get to work and earn money to buy food, pay the rent, the services, the car, the mortgage, etc.

Do you think I'm overreacting? My own family is one of the coronavirus victims even if there are no relatives infected! Our neighbors are in the same situation, a few of them are unemployed right now.

It might sound harsh to admit this, but right now flattening the curve looks more like a killer myth to us than a benefit in the long run. It seems journalists all over the world suddenly forget about us during this crisis. They keep telling us to stay at home. Easy to say, hard to accomplish when stuff gets ugly.

Guess what? I need to got out tomorrow because I can't complete a form if I don't get a new ID that they made who knows when. So far I tried avoiding all long trips but I can't delay this errand for more than a couple of days. Even so the Costa Rican government cultivated a terror to that makes people avoid public transportation. Buses are pretty much empty, if they ever show up. Yeah, there are taxis, but others like Uber are forbidden for they lack any papers allowing them to serve as public transportation means. Taxi drivers have been denounced for demanding overpayments, others just refuse to take you to certain places. Uber couldn't help us because they are afraid of letting passengers take a seat in the back of the car, they'd get fined in no time. I don't think they'd love the idea of paying a US$7,000 fine nowadays.

Sadly, due to lack of hundred thousands tests for Covid-19, the Costa Rican Health Ministry does NOT wanna push health workers to test everybody, not even if they live in communities or cantons with over 20 confirmed cases like I do... Even the capital city and its surroundings report 77 cases so far... Yeah, I need to travel to San José tomorrow morning...