by Jim Heath | Jun 29, 2020 | Conventions, coronavirus, GOP, Headlines, Health
Residents and visitors in Jacksonville, Fla., will be required to wear masks indoors and in public spaces to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, the city announced today, potentially complicating President Trump’s desire to hold the Republican National...
by Jim Heath | Jun 28, 2020 | Analysis, coronavirus, Fox News, Health
It’s another one of those Trump Era realities best described as unsurprising but nevertheless shocking. Three serious research efforts have put numerical weight — yes, data-driven evidence — behind what many suspected all along: Americans who relied on Fox News, or...
by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Who’s that snowflake? Former Vice President Dick Cheney — a staunch conservative Republican — isn’t politicizing the wearing of face masks. “Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK” wrote his daughter Liz Cheney, accompanying a photo of her 79-year-old dad looking the part of an...
by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Trump
Texas cities have begun issuing curfews and stay-at-home orders again after bars in the state were forced to close on Friday for a second time amid a surge in coronavirus cases, as the number of new infections in the US hits an all-time high. The US recorded 45,242...
by Jim Heath | Jun 25, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
President Trump keeps spinning a tale about COVID-19 that is at odds with his own administration’s disease experts and data compiled by his own coronavirus task force. In Trump’s telling, the deadly pandemic isn’t really a serious threat to the...
by Jim Heath | Jun 25, 2020 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
More than $22,000 has been raised for a Starbucks employee after a customer posted on Facebook that the barista refused to serve her at a San Diego location because she wasn’t wearing a mask. A GoFundMe set up for the barista, identified as Lenin Gutierrez, raised...
