April 9 Reads

Of course government isn't supposed to be of any help.  The federal government is being incompetent and criminally negligent--on purpose.  Not hard to figure out.
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It's time for finger-pointing by this administration regarding the pandemic.
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Mad magazine cartoonist Mort Drucker, 91, has died.

Mort began drawing comic books in 1947 when Will Eisner, who had seen the young artist's work, recommended him to Bert Whitman who drew the newspaper strip, Debbie Dean. He was an assistant on that strip and several others until he joined the staff of National (now DC) Comics in the early fifties where he was a production artist doing "fixes" and such in the office.

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Both bodies have now been recovered.
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There weren't enough "progressives" for Sanders to win.

Besides, it was all about his ego anyway.
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Apparently there are THREE strains of the coronavirus.

More is here:

The new coronavirus began spreading in New York weeks before the first confirmed case and came to the area via travelers from Europe, not China, new research suggests.

Two separate teams of scientists studying the genetics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the region came to similar conclusions: People were spreading the virus in New York as early as late January, before more widespread testing began, and it came mostly from Europe, not Asia.

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