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Christmas Cancelled?!? Los Angeles County public health officials are asking residents to avoid attending religious services despite recent court rulings that reversed such bans on indoor worship. The request comes as California topped 2 million COVID-19 cases, according to government figures. Religious services became a point of contention as county officials issued lockdown orders and some places of worship have opened in defiance. Prez Trump Sends Word To Troops And Front Line "While our gatherings might look different than in years past, this Christmas, like every Christmas, is an opportu...

Goldberg: The pandemic's inhuman demands Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times © Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard Fitness coordinator Janet Hollander, center, leads a session of "Balcony Boogie" from outside Willamette Oaks in Eugene for residents sheltering in their apartments during the COVID-19 shutdown. The staff of the senior housing center modified some of the regular routines for residents, staging activities like morning stretches and aerobic opportunities while still observing social distancing protocols to keep the residents active and safe. Journalist Anne Helen ...

Few can endure the loneliness that is a moral requirement of this moment. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Masks are a common sight in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. The Utah Department of Health on Friday reported a seven-day average of 2,702 new positive test results per day — below last week’s rate of nearly 3,000. By Michelle Goldberg | The New York Times   | Dec. 22, 2020, 11:00 p.m. Journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of ...

Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world’s greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released. David Howard was sitting in an IMAX theater waiting for his movie to start when he saw a trailer for an outer space project that was narrated by a voice he knew but couldn’t place. Soon, he figured out who it was: Spock. “The voiceover for this trailer was Leonard Nimoy… Then it just struck me, ‘Aw, that poor guy,’” the screenwriter ...

>> Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times Published: 22 Dec 2020 11:22 AM BdST Updated: 22 Dec 2020 11:22 AM BdST A medical worker stretches outside Maimonides Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 14. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs   Journalist Anne Helen Petersen recently asked, on Twitter, for articles about the “long-term psychological effects” of the pandemic. She soon noticed that many of the replies were about the damage it was doing to children. "); } Seeing this crystallised something I’d been dimly aware of. The strange politics of the coronavirus have created a ...