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  2021-12-07T13

  Covid-19 Archive Project Second Interview

  After learning about four major pandemics, we discussed how our views of the COVID-19 pandemic have changed over the course of the semester, and how our perceptions of pandemics as a whole have changed.
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  2021-01-25

  An atmospheric river could dump 10 feet of snow in California’s Sierra Nevada

  This article from the Washington Post discusses the possibility of snowstorms in the Sierra Nevadas at the end of January 2021. The article specifically mentions that the Sierra Nevada could see up to ten feet of snow. The article also forecasts the possibility of 80-mile-per-hour winds in California's eastern mountains. These storms turned out to be real and damaged Camp Wolfeboro's infrastructure.
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  2021-04-17

  hermit HERALD, ISSUE 110

  VACCINE FEARS, THE TROLLEY PROBLEM
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  2021-03-27

  hermit HERALD, ISSUE 106

  Biden $3 trillion Build Back Better plan
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  2020-08-26

  Unintended Consequences

  Devi Sridhar from the London School of Economics covers some things we don't think about when we think about consequences of the pandemic. She compares outbreaks to black holes, as society focuses attention to the pandemic, other priorities are put to the side. Juliet Bedford talks about the vulnerabilities of poorer communities. This interview covers lots of unintended consequences and outcomes of the pandemic.
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  2020-05-27

  Nova Scotia Infrastructure Development

  This release from the government of Nova Scotia is an example of the type of infrastructure projects provinces introduced in the context of Covid-19.
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  2020-11-28

  Airlines set sights on digital passports for COVID-19 vaccine

  The tourism and travel industries are working to revive their failing industry and have proposed a digital health passport. These passports would be used to verify a traveler's vaccine and COVID-19 test status when traveling, especially internationally.
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  2020-10-12

  Let the countdown recommence: Dubai prepares for Expo 2020

  The World Expo 2020 Dubai, originally set to begin in October 2020, has been rescheduled to start October 1, 2021.
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  2020-07-14

  "Why We Can't Reopen Schools Without Addressing School Infrastructure"

  From the video description: "As the conversation about reopening America’s schools grows, safety must be a primary concern and it will cost about $200 billion to bring all schools into a state of good repair. Share this video if you think Congress should include dedicated and significant funding for school infrastructure in the next Coronavirus bill"
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  05/05/2020

  Academic Analysis of Federalism and Coronavirus

  Federalism in the Times of Coronavirus Today's smallest and most basic tenets of federalism as well as the different forms that it may take have the largest and most impactful implications for a system of government under stress. Moreover, due to the extenuating circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 Pandemic, the costs of unstable federalist infrastructures are alarmingly high.
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  05/14/2020

  Undergraduate Essay on Federalism in the Time of COVID-19

  #unlv #PSC401D #mlphelps
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  2020-05-10

  Coronavirus and Other Health Risks Among Inuit

  "As the world community initiates response to increasing number of coronavirus outbreaks, ICC expresses concern about how our rural, remote communities are potentially at much higher risk and exposure to such epidemics due to the chronic lack of basic infrastructure, including lack of sewer and running water in many of our communities."
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  2020-05-06

  Greenville, SC Chicken processing plant demonstrates failures of US infrastructure

  Two screenshots telling a story about the House of Raeford chicken processing plant less than a mile from my home and a larger story about the failure of the US infrastructure at this time. About 2 weeks ago we began to hear rumors that the meat supply was likely to be affected by the pandemic, workers were becoming sick in huge numbers and the processing plants were closing down. At the same time many of them were currently overloaded with products that they could not sell to restaurants and schools. 10 days ago the processing plant down the road held a huge sale on their overstock meat. Several thousand people lined up in their cars for miles down the road. They hung out in the parking lots of other businesses and moved in and out of them while waiting in the line. Very few people were masked ; none of the plant employees were masked. A few days after the sale President Trump declared meat packing plants essential for the economy and required them to stay open tho he provided no funds for PPE for workers nor any real guidelines on how to keep them safe. 7 days after the huge sale at the House of Raeford plant they reported positive cases amongst their workers. They refuse to say how many people are infected out of privacy concerns. At every step of the way the people involved should have been able to trust the government to keep us safe and we have not been able to. We should have been able to trust in our food supply or at least in the information we received about it so we didn't feel the need to panic buy food. The workers should have been protected from the start and definitely after they were ordered to work. We should be able to know what information to trust to make informed decisions regarding our lives and the lives of our fellow citizens. The US government is spectacularly failing to provide the least feeling of stability at this time.