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Extra Extra: 22-Year-Old Spring Breaker Apologizes For Not Taking Coronavirus Seriously
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Published Mar 25, 2020
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- The Atlantic writes, "The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out."
- We all should be thanking the NY Times Tech section for giving us a take we can all hate on together: "As much as we love your children and pets, we may not want to see them in video calls. Here’s a guide to proper Zoom etiquette."
- Speaking of pets: NYC animal groups are reporting that shelters they work with are either all out of or almost out of cats and dogs after a surge in applications recently.
- According to a new poll, a plurality of Americans said they strongly support a “national quarantine."
- Prison workers say they aren't actually producing new hand sanitizer—they're just "taking existing hand sanitizer and rebottling it into packaging labeled NYS Clean."
- It's mostly never too late to apologize: the 22-year-old who declared on TV, “If I get corona, I get corona,” has written an apology for his stupid words.
- NYC put up vague "play at your own risk" signs at parks today, that oughta fix it.
- Dick Kovacevich, who ran Wells Fargo & Co. until 2007, wants to see healthy workers return to work late next month if the outbreak is under control: “We’ll gradually bring those people back and see what happens. Some of them will get sick, some may even die, I don’t know."
- Things are getting really bad at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens: "In several hours on Tuesday, Dr. Ashley Bray performed chest compressions at Elmhurst Hospital Center on a woman in her 80s, a man in his 60s and a 38-year-old who reminded the doctor of her fiancé. All had tested positive for the coronavirus and had gone into cardiac arrest. All eventually died."
- The Tony Awards, which were supposed to take place at Radio City Music Hall and air on CBS on June 7th, have been postponed.
- Multiple Trader Joe's stores, including locations in SoHo, Union Square and Chelsea, have been temporarily closed because employees tested positive for COVID-19.
- And finally, look at this beautiful dumb panda!
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