Early Addition: Are You Becoming A Social Distancing Informant?

Ben Yakas

Published May 5, 2020

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Ben Yakas

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New COVID-19 infections in NYC may be declining, but around the rest of the country, the number of new cases of COVID-19 has continued to increase steadily and is expected to continue that way in the immediate future.
A French doctor says that the first patient treated for coronavirus in that country happened in December.
Three family members in Michigan have been charged in the killing of a security guard who told a customer at a Family Dollar store to wear a state-mandated face mask.
A segment of Americans have turned into coronavirus informants, "calling the police, public health authorities and the employers of people they believe are violating social-distancing decrees or stay-at-home orders."
It seems pretty likely that Broadway productions won't return until 2021.
Grimes and Elon Musk had their baby, and Musk tweeted that the kid is named X Æ A-12 Musk (though that may or may not be a joke).
Eater argues that to-go and delivery cocktails should continue to be legal after the pandemic.
Our new pandemic-related vernacular has permeated everyday speech, "yielding dictionary updates and slangified phrases."
“I’m sorry,” climate reporter Emily Atkin told The Guardian, “but if you still refuse to see parallels between climate change and coronavirus then honestly you’re just stupid.”
Watch the trailer for Space Force, the new Netflix comedy starring Steve Carrell.
The Times has a great ongoing feature focused on profiling individual frontline health care workers during the crisis.
Listen to new singles from: the Dirty Projectors (from the second of five EPs coming out this year), Woods, and Rolling Blackouts CF.
And finally, scrub scrub scrub, look at that cub in a tub:

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