From Harper’s Weekly Review:<\/p>\n
In Milwaukee, where 4 in 10 residents are black and the death toll from COVID-19 jumped 44 percent the weekend before the vote, the planned 180 polling places were consolidated into just five.<\/em><\/p>\n The Secret Service cited an \u201cemergency order\u201d and signed a $45,000 contract to rent a fleet of golf carts in Sterling, Virginia, home to one of President Trump\u2019s golf clubs, where, despite a statewide lockdown, golfing is still allowed as long as golfers stay six feet apart.<\/em><\/p>\n Saudi Arabia bought an 8 percent stake in the American cruise company Carnival.<\/em><\/p>\n [<\/em>T]he director of emergency management for Sonoma County posted pictures on Facebook of his family\u2019s trip to the beach after he had helped close it to the public: \u201cRoad tripping up the coast. Beautiful drive and nice views. Family beach time together,\u201d he wrote. \u201cGrateful for fresh air and the ocean.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Swedish hospitals stopped treating coronavirus patients with chloroquine after it was discovered that the drug causes blindness.<\/em><\/p>\n [<\/em>T]he government of Malaysia instructed women not to be sarcastic with their husbands during the lockdown.<\/em><\/p>\n Hundreds of people signed an online petition to name Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the sexiest man alive.<\/em><\/p>\n Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte told the police and military to strictly enforce a lockdown and \u201cshoot them dead\u201d if citizens defied it.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Harper’s Weekly Review: In Milwaukee, where 4 in 10 residents are black and the death toll from COVID-19 jumped 44 percent the weekend before the vote, the planned 180 polling places were consolidated into just five. The Secret Service … Continue reading