#It’s time to abolish ’emergency’ COVID-19 powers

#It’s time to abolish ’emergency’ COVID-19 powers

“#It’s time to abolish ’emergency’ COVID-19 powers” COVID is over. Oh, not with Anthony Fauci. Not with the media. Not with the sour-faced Karens who have enjoyed the sense of meaning — and power — it’s given them. But with normal people, especially outside the big urban areas, it’s over. The Atlantic scandalized its readers…

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#NYC schools see record number of new COVID cases

#NYC schools see record number of new COVID cases

“#NYC schools see record number of new COVID cases” City schools set a new record for COVID cases Wednesday as the Department of Education knocked down talk of a systemwide shutdown. The DOE logged a total of 546 new positive coronavirus cases — 384 students and 162 teachers. That’s the highest number this year so…

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#Cornell University closes campus as Omicron outbreak spreads

#Cornell University closes campus as Omicron outbreak spreads

“#Cornell University closes campus as Omicron outbreak spreads” Cornell University has closed its main campus amid an outbreak of COVID-19’s Omicron variant. A “substantial number” of students infected with the coronavirus at the Ivy League school’s upstate Ithaca campus have the strain, officials said Tuesday. “Our surveillance testing has continued to identify the rapid spread…

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#Hackers partly to blame for current cream cheese shortage

#Hackers partly to blame for current cream cheese shortage

“#Hackers partly to blame for current cream cheese shortage” An online schmear campaign is partly to blame for this curdling situation.  The cream cheese shortage currently spreading supplies thin — and even halting production at Brooklyn cheesecake institution Junior’s — was apparently bolstered by a cyberattack on one of the biggest cheese manufacturers in America….

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