Morning Reads for National Hammock Day (July 22)
Good morning! It’s going to be another hot one today, but it is July in Georgia, after all, so we should expect no less. However, there’s no chance for rain in my corner of the state, so what better day to spend some time in a shady spot (aside from midday!) and hang out outside than National Hammock Day? Perhaps your celebration could include reading the Morning Reads on an iPad in your hammock…
Let’s get on to the news, shall we?
Pat Conroy
- Civil rights leader C.T. Vivian will lie in state today at the state capitol. (Alternate link.)
- Yesterday, Georgia reported 78 deaths due to COVID-19 since the previous day, the largest daily increase in over two months.
- Since the National Guard has been activated to assist with the COVID-19 response in the state, 323 Georgia guardsmen have tested positive for the disease, mirroring a national trend. (Alternate link.)
- Grady Hospital is at full capacity and canceling some elective surgeries.
Alice Walker
- The actual number of COVID-19 cases in the United States is somewhere between six and 24 times higher than the confirmed number of cases, according to a CDC study.
- Here’s a look at what might be in the next stimulus plan. (Alternate link.)
- Unable to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, President Trump is now ordering Census workers not to count undocumented immigrants.
- The U.S. has ordered China to close its Houston consulate within the next 72 hours. (Alternate link.)
- Twitter cracked down on QAnon conspiracy accounts yesterday.
- Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and three others were arrested yesterday for taking $60 million in bribes over the state’s nuclear plant bailouts.
- The Bahamas has barred U.S. tourists due to COVID-19 concerns.
Flannery O’Connor
- A UGA student was allowed to retake an online exam after a falling meatball logged her out of the first attempt prematurely.
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Holly Croft
Holly is an archivist at one of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. In a past life, she was a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. She cares a lot about records management, open records laws, and privacy laws. Political persuasion? It's complicated. What's not complicated is that she's proudly equal parts Bulldog and Tar Heel.
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So, I also DESPISE clickbait-driven headlines, especially ones which mislead. This practice, I’ve noticed, happens to magnified terribly on Facebook (and other platforms, perhaps, idk) because the articles and their original headlines (as published) can be re-packaged with a new made-up and much more misleading if not outright false headline. This is one of the ways that bad actors and bots use to divide us as Americans. Because the truth of the story- often right in the article- goes unnoticed and unread.
That said, re: this Bahamas article, I don’t see much error. The Prime Minister’s Order you attached and article are pretty broad, and don’t actually get into the details, which are here:
https://bs.usembassy.gov/health-alert-grand-bahama-july-21/
But the only error in the article or headline is that it says “tourists” aren’t allowed entry, when in fact, it’s tourists using U.S.- originating international commercial flights or vessels. That means that the islands (except Grand Bahama, which is completely closed) is only open to flights or vessel originating outside the U.S., as well as open to charter or private flights or vessels (provided conditions of Covid testing and such are met.)
So, the headline or it’s restatement here don’t appear so alarmist to me, but it’s at least broadly correct, but of course it doesn’t capture all the nuance. It’s fully accurate unless you have a charter boat or plane, or divert your travel path to outside the U.S. I do agree, though, that I’d prefer more nuance in the headline. I also understand no one wants panic or loss of business, but imo, the Order makes the residents and businesses there safer, so ppl should be sighing relief even if it means a loss of middle-class tourism dollars for a while.
I have never trusted USA Today since it was conceived as a news-lite national paper for business men to read on their way to work. It has degraded over the years and I equate it to the NY Post.
I appreciate hammocks and try to use a camping hammock whenever I go to the woods for a few days. They are great as long as trees are available.
Do you prefer long-wise or crosswise in your hammock?
I prefer the fabric crosswise hammocks to the corded hammocks.