Idaho health department isn’t allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore — experts say it’s a first
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Idaho health department isn’t allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore — experts say it’s a first

ByNews Polite

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board. Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccinations are an essential function of a…

DNC attendees test positive for COVID-19, despite mask-wearing
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DNC attendees test positive for COVID-19, despite mask-wearing

ByNews Polite

Maybe there was a surprise guest at the Democratic National Convention after all. Multiple attendees at the convention in Chicago last week subsequently tested positive for the COVID-19 respiratory illness, as health officials worry about infections spiking across the country. “When you spend five days in Chicago for the DNC…

Bill Maher says Howard Stern won’t ‘ever leave the house’ due to germaphobia
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Bill Maher says Howard Stern won’t ‘ever leave the house’ due to germaphobia

ByNews Polite

“Real Time” host Bill Maher questioned whether he would ever get a chance to hang out with Howard Stern in the post-pandemic era during a frank discussion about the legendary shock jock’s germaphobia. Maher discussed his mercurial relationship with Stern – and their differing approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic –…

Biden admin pushed to ban Twitter users for COVID ‘disinformation’
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Biden admin pushed to ban Twitter users for COVID ‘disinformation’

ByNews Polite

The Biden White House pressured Twitter to both “elevate” and “suppress” purported COVID-19 “misinformation” — but ended up “censoring info that was true but inconvenient” to policy makers, according to the latest edition of the “Twitter files” revealed Monday. The coercion campaign during the pandemic began with the Trump administration,…

Chinese artist Siyuan Zhuji turns COVID-19 tests into art to represent pandemic in China
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Chinese artist Siyuan Zhuji turns COVID-19 tests into art to represent pandemic in China

ByNews Polite

For most of China’s 1.4 billion people, regular COVID-19 tests have become a way of life. Siyuan Zhuji is trying to turn them into a work of art. Since March, the 33-year-old multi-disciplinary artist from Jiangsu province has been filming his own nucleic acid tests with a small camera in his…

Biden screws the frugal, America’s real polarization and other commentary
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Biden screws the frugal, America’s real polarization and other commentary

ByNews Polite

Libertarian: Biden Screws the Frugal The problem with President Biden’s student-loan forgiveness “runs far beyond finances,” fumes Fiona Harrigan at Reason: Consider the “many college graduates who made strategic choices to avoid taking on debt in the first place.” Her parents “convinced me that starting my adult life that far…