LEADS

Profile Of A Killer: the complex biology powering the coronavirus pandemic
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01315-7

AMERICA’S FOOD CHAIN: ‘Essential worker just means you’re on the death track’
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2020/05/04/meat-packing-essential-worker-hogs-south-dakota-smithfield-food-chain-covid-19-coronavirus-inside/3064329001/

‘The workers are being sacrificed’: As cases mounted, meatpacker JBS kept people on crowded factory floors
https://thefern.org/2020/05/the-workers-are-being-sacrificed-as-cases-mounted-meatpacker-jbs-kept-people-on-crowded-factory-floors/

Nearly 400 asymptomatic workers test positive for COVID-19 at a single Triumph meat packing plant in Missouri
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8285533/Nearly-400-asymptomatic-workers-test-positive-COVID-19-one-meat-packing-plant-Missouri.html

CDC: Almost 600 meatpacking workers in Nebraska tested positive for coronavirus in April
https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/cdc-nearly-600-meatpacking-workers-in-nebraska-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-in-april/article_1050c4ad-0aaa-59db-8e1c-6892e2d709ab.html

Trump's COVID-19 meatpacking order returns us to 'The Jungle' days just so you can eat bacon
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-covid-19-meatpacking-order-returns-us-jungle-days-ncna1198761

Meat shortage: Costco, Kroger, others limit fresh meat purchases at stores
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/05/04/Meat-shortage-Costco-Kroger-others-limit-fresh-meat-purchases-at-stores/1011588631411/

Wendy’s Burgers Off the Menu in Some Locations Amid Meat Supply Chain Issues
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/coronavirus/wendys-burgers-off-the-menu-in-some-locations-amid-meat-supply-chain-issues/2357230/

The closure of meatpacking plants will lead to the overcrowding of animals. The implications are horrible.
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/4/21243636/meat-packing-plant-supply-chain-animals-killed

Rather than Cull Millions of Livestock, Let’s End Animal Agriculture
https://harvardpolitics.com/united-states/rather-than-cull-millions-of-livestock-lets-end-animal-agriculture/

A Rosa Parks Moment For Animal Welfare
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-rosa-parks-moment-for-animal-welfare/

Coronavirus: Calls to shut down 'dirty fur trade'
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52535075

2 Mink Fur Farms Are Infected With Coronavirus
https://www.livekindly.co/2-mink-fur-farms-are-infected-with-coronavirus/

Thousands of captive tigers in U.S at risk of coronavirus
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thousands-captive-tigers-u-s-risk-coronavirus-n1198586

Rhinos Are Also Coronavirus Victims
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poaching-coronavirus-pandemic-rhinos-africa_n_5eb0e471c5b62b850f90fedd

Experts in Kenya fear poaching, deforestation are surging during COVID-19 lockdown
https://abcnews.go.com/International/experts-kenya-fear-poaching-deforestation-surging-lockdown/story?id=70500218

China is drawing all the flak, but is India controlling its wet markets?
https://theprint.in/opinion/china-is-drawing-all-the-flak-but-is-india-controlling-its-wet-markets/414820/

From wet markets in China to elk habitat in the West, the threat of viruses jumping from animals to humans is growing
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/may/03/from-wet-markets-in-china-to-elk-habitat-in-the-we/

Virus origin likely Wuhan wildlife wet market – Australian PM
https://www.trtworld.com/asia/virus-origin-likely-wuhan-wildlife-wet-market-australian-pm-36034

Dr. Fauci Dismisses Wuhan Lab as Source of Coronavirus, Contradicting Trump and Pompeo
https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-dismisses-wuhan-lab-source-coronavirus-contradicting-trump-pompeo-1501924

The word that explains why the US is pushing a discredited Wuhan lab conspiracy theory
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/the-word-that-explains-why-the-us-is-pushing-discredited-wuhan-lab-conspiracy-theory-20200505-p54psu.html

Fox News and Trump allies keep floating debunked theories about an inflated coronavirus death toll
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/04/fox-news-trump-allies-keep-searching-evidence-an-inflated-coronavirus-death-toll-all-wrong-places/

US Coronavirus Death Toll Nears 70,000; Estimated Deaths Double, From 72,000 To 134,000
https://www.ibtimes.com/us-coronavirus-death-toll-nears-70000-estimated-deaths-double-72000-134000-2970128

US projects 200,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, 3,000 daily deaths by June
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/us-projects-200000-new-covid-19-cases-per-day-3000-daily-deaths-by-june/

White House disavows administration forecast of 3,000 coronavirus deaths a day by June
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house-disavows-administration-forecast-of-3-000-coronavirus-deaths-a-day-by-june

Researcher Behind Model Predicting 3,000 Daily Deaths Claims It Was Not ‘Intended to Be a Forecast’
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/researcher-behind-model-predicting-3000-daily-deaths-claims-it-was-not-intended-to-be-a-forecast/

This physicist-turned-economist is modelling the pandemic’s financial fallout
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01338-0

Fed study ties 1918 flu pandemic to Nazi Party gains
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/05/fed-study-1918-pandemic-nazi-party-gains-236530

Nazi slogan sign displayed at ‘re-open Illinois’ rally ripped by Auschwitz Memorial
https://www.kpq.com/nazi-slogan-sign-displayed-at-re-open-illinois-rally-ripped-by-auschwitz-memorial/

‘Socialist Playbook’: State Rep. From Western Pennsylvania Compares Governor Tom Wolf’s Administration to Nazis
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/05/04/politican-from-pennsylvania-compares-gov-tom-wolf-administration-to-nazis/

Historian: Comparing Idaho's Coronavirus Restrictions To Nazi Regime "Extremely Stupid"
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/post/historian-comparing-idahos-coronavirus-restrictions-nazi-regime-extremely-stupid

Ammon Bundy Blames Jews For The Holocaust At Idaho Anti-Lockdown Rally
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ammon-bundy-holocaust-jews-anti-lockdown-rally-idaho_n_5eb0371ac5b684fc457a1389

A Colorado Man Reportedly Planned to Join an Anti-Lockdown Protest. Then the Feds Found Pipe Bombs in His Home.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4aygyn/a-colorado-man-reportedly-planned-to-join-an-anti-lockdown-protest-then-the-feds-found-pipe-bombs-in-his-home

Violent encounter in New York City prompts concerns about unequal policing of social distancing
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/violent-encounter-new-york-city-prompts-concerns-about-unequal-policing-n1199546

Michigan Residents Charged With Killing Dollar Store Security Officer for Not Letting Customers Enter Without Face Mask
https://www.newsweek.com/michigan-residents-charged-killing-dollar-store-security-officer-not-letting-customers-enter-1501918

GOP Lawmaker Rejects Face Masks Since They Hide How God Created Us in His Image
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/04/gop-lawmaker-rejects-face-masks-since-they-hide-how-god-created-us-in-his-image/

Bill Gates Comments on Covid-19 Vaccine Enflame “Mark of the Beast” Worries in Some Christian Circles
https://religiondispatches.org/bill-gates-comments-on-covid-19-vaccine-enflame-mark-of-the-beast-worries-in-some-christian-circles/

People Are Getting Microchipped in Sweden, and It's Pretty Normal
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3madg/people-are-getting-microchipped-in-sweden-and-its-pretty-normal

Coronavirus has us even more hooked on big tech than ever before
https://www.cnet.com/news/coronavirus-has-us-even-more-hooked-on-big-tech-than-ever-before/

Apple, Google will warn you if you've been exposed to COVID-19. Here's how.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/05/04/apple-google-smartphone-android-iphone-covid-19-coronavirus-alert/3082257001/

Here come COVID-19 tracing apps - and privacy trade-offs
https://apnews.com/15c028c48502db395681ebca0099de5a

How to Track COVID-19 Without Mass Surveillance
https://reason.com/video/how-to-track-covid-19-without-mass-surveillance/

POLITICS and FLEAS

Blue-state coronavirus bailouts are unfair to Republicans, Trump says
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/trump-blue-state-coronavirus-bailouts-are-unfair-to-republicans/

Trump says he'll be at 'a big disadvantage' if he can't hold rallies before election
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-says-hell-be-at-a-big-disadvantage-if-he-cant-hold-rallies-before-election

Amid Pandemic, Billionaire Donors Swarm To Biden, As Trump's Support Falters
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/05/05/amid-pandemic-billionaire-donors-swarm-to-biden-as-trumps-support-falters/

Loeffler, Daines and Markey join list of 10 most vulnerable senators
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/05/05/loeffler-daines-and-markey-join-list-of-10-most-vulnerable-senators/

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

Does France really have its own strain of coronavirus?
https://www.thelocal.fr/20200505/does-france-really-have-its-own-strain-of-coronavirus

Coronavirus: France's first known case 'was in December'
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52526554

France’s Covid-19 death toll tops 25,000 following 24-hour spike
https://www.france24.com/en/20200504-france-s-covid-10-death-toll-tops-25-000-following-24-hour-spike

Coronavirus latest: UK overtakes Italy with largest known death toll in Europe
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-latest-uk-overtakes-italy-with-largest-known-death-toll-in-europe/a-53331736

World leaders pledge $8 billion to vaccine race as U.S. skips summit
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-vaccine-summit-billions-united-states-skip/

THE MEDIA SCRUM

A Pulitzer Prize goes to a New York Times author who knowingly published lies
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/a_pulitzer_prize_goes_to_a_new_york_times_author_who_knowingly_published_lies.html

No One Asked These Mediocre White Guys What They Thought Of Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Pulitzer Prize
https://www.wonkette.com/no-one-asked-these-mediocre-white-guys-what-they-thought-of-nikole-hannah-joness-pulitzer-prize

Colson Whitehead: Author wins Pulitzer Prize for a second time
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52539086

Here are the 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoons
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/here-are-the-2020-pulitzer-prize-winning-editorial-cartoons/

This year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers produced their work in the midst of danger
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2020/this-years-pulitzer-prize-winning-photographers-produced-their-work-in-the-midst-of-danger/

ODDS, ENDS

Don Shula, N.F.L. Coach Who Won, and Won, and Won, Dies at 90
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/sports/football/don-shula-dead.html

Shula should be remembered for more than wins
https://apnews.com/ba2f896b7a5652ae5e7871963098fd6b

Babe Ruth’s baseball swing helped spark teaching revolution in golf
https://nypost.com/2020/05/05/babe-ruths-baseball-swing-helped-spark-golf-teaching-revolution/

Taiwan Says ‘Play Ball!’ (With Cardboard Fans and Robot Drummers)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/world/asia/taiwan-baseball-coronavirus.html

Play ball: Korean baseball league begins in empty stadiums
https://apnews.com/1ad669faef2babe09dbd7037f585bb8c

Special report: Baseball in America
https://www.axios.com/baseball-america-traditions-coronavirus-23ceb054-7ddf-45de-8b5b-76b09158a50a.html

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