WHO warns of 'new and dangerous phase' as coronavirus accelerates; Americas now hardest hit

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The World Health Organization warned Friday that “the world is in a new and dangerous phase” as the global pandemic accelerates. The world recorded about 150,000 new cases on Thursday, the largest rise yet in a single day, according to the WHO. Nearly half of these infections were in the Americas, as new cases continue to surge in the United States, Brazil and across Latin America.

More than 8.5 million coronavirus cases and at least 454,000 deaths have been reported worldwide.

As confirmed cases and hospitalizations climb in the U.S., new mask requirements are prompting faceoffs between officials who seek to require face coverings and those, particularly conservatives, who oppose such measures. Several studies this month support wearing masks to curb coronavirus transmission, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend their use as a protective measure.

Here are some significant developments:
Case numbers hit record highs Friday in Florida and Arizona as they continue to surge in the South and West. Tulsa County in Oklahoma — where President Trump plans to hold a campaign rally Saturday — also hit a record high Friday.

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1. What happened to the virus disappearing, as if by magic?

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2. The virus has an anti-magic bias

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3. Trump is proving in almost every respect a Russian asset.

If we've forgotten that we're at war, or many of us never understood that in the first place, Russia of course has not.

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5. Trump is a valuable weapon for Putin.

Whatever Putin is paying to Trump is a bargain.

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6. Helping elect him was the payoff. Since then it's all

been developing and exploiting him in place.

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4. One thing seems certain:

XiUnTrumputin considers his deplorables to be completely expendable and that must be a big laugh for him since he knows they are just too dense and gullible to get that, even if it is very obvious to others.

That's not a loyalty test, it is a fealty test. He's leading the dense to a virus slaughter and they fall for this stuff every single time. I almost wonder what other Dunning-Kruger challenges he will call them to. They are his personal fools.

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7. Well, the open-er-up cult has just proven once again that science and reason has a...

liberal bias.

They will rejoice with a haircut, trip to the bar, and a High Dow.

Meanwhile... Innocent people are sick and dying. Just the way they like it.

Very sad and tragic.