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  1. Dec 2019
    1. when more than 28,000 people were infected and over 11,000 died

      It's surprising that 15,000 people had Ebola and are fine... they were probably well treated, but now since the vaccine is going to be approved we will be seeing a whole lot less deaths.

    2. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said prequalification of the vaccine will now take place quickly.

      This is huge news, I remember hearing about Ebola back in 6th grade. I remember it being one of the worst diseases you can possibly get, and now that there's a vaccine, this is huge and amazing news.

    1. Authorities said on Wednesday that they are looking for four suspects and added that they have received more than 200 tips.

      Well with 200 tips, they should come quite close to whoever robbed the museum. Now, if they were wearing masks, and dumped the car afterward, then they're moat likely never going to find who did it.

    2. 100 items were stolen when two people smashed a window to gain entry to the museum

      That's crazy that two men robbed a museum for 100 things without being caught! It makes me laugh that the museum didn't have any security guards to protect the valuable things.

  2. Nov 2019
    1. military working dogs are now treated with a great deal more respect than they used to receive.

      Well good, they should have never been treated poorly in the first place, but its good to hear that they are being treated as good doggies.

  3. Oct 2019
    1. The chaotic scenes in Culiacan, long a stronghold for the Guzmans' Sinaloa cartel, will increase pressure on President Lopez Obrador, who took office in December promising to pacify a country weary after more than a decade of drug-war fighting.

      Lopez Obrador knows that he made a promise to his people to stop drug-war fighting and it will be hard to keep that promise because you can't control everyone in Mexico. And maybe not even the cartel.

    2. Videos published on social media showed a scene resembling a war zone, with gunmen — some wearing black ski masks over their faces — riding in the back of trucks and firing mounted machine guns as vehicles burned.

      This just proves that you CANNOT mess with the cartel. It surprises me on how scary the cartel can be, and if I were the one of the guards in that gunfight I'd be so scared.

    1. that rather than critiquing the societal failings that have given rise to America’s mass-shooter crisis, the film legitimizes such atrocities and could provoke more of them.”

      Yeah, people could get the idea to shoot someone by this movie. But it's not like this is the only movie that's ever had someone die by a gun, there's millions of gun movies out there. Of course this movie is pretty realistic in that matter, but the main point of the movie was about his life, not about him killing everyone. Well kinda

    2. In creating the new film “Joker,” Warner Bros. set out to make a boundary-pushing production

      I don't believe it pushed the boundary at all, in fact I've seen way worse movies. I could like 20 right now and I haven't seen the public attack any one of them. But since "Joker" covers a sensitive topic, the whole media is going crazy over it.

    1. Poor diet is the leading cause of mortality in the United States, causing more than half a million deaths per year. Just 10 dietary factors are estimated to cause nearly 1,000 deaths every day from heart disease, stroke and diabetes alone.

      Obesity is far worse than cigarettes, the estimated smoking death rate is 400,000 while strokes and diabetes lead to 500,000 a year!

    2. More than 100 million adults — almost half the entire adult population — have pre-diabetes or diabetes.

      This seems way too high of a number without me even knowing about it. I hear about mesothelioma, but never cardiovascular disease, why is that?

    1. People who confine dogs for 24 hours must also allow them to move freely for the next two hours or face prosecution.

      Dogs are awesome, but it's as if Australia loves them way too much. I hate when people abandon their dogs but it's not on purpose. So because of being busy, you can be fined.

    2. "Modern animal welfare is about considering how an animal is coping both mentally and physically with the conditions in which it lives,"

      This is a great law, but how can it be enforced? Also, the fine shouldn't be so great because if you aren't home until late at night, you may have to pay the fine which is ridiculous.

  4. Sep 2019
    1. More than two million people had committed

      Two million people, if not more, agreed to raiding Area 51, but only a couple hundred showed up. That's less than .00001% of people saying they would go.

    2. ” Austin Nelson, 21, recounted on Friday. Mr. Nelson and his friends had driven 18 hours from Alberta, Canada, to attend.

      People from all over the country and even Canada were disappointed that no one really showed up. I'd be pretty mad if I drove 18 hours to Area 51 and back for nothing.

    1. Deaths on the street rose 76% in LA and 75% in Sacramento over the last five years. Murders and rapes involving the homeless increased by 13% and 61% between 2017 and 2018.

      Homeless people have much to fear and probably don't know the dangers half the time such as murder and rape. But not only is the homeless suffering from this, the public has to experience this epidemic.

    2. Homeless encampments overflow with dirty needles, feces, and rats, making them breeding grounds for diseases including typhus, tuberculosis, and hepatitis A. 

      Being homeless in today's day and age is very scary because the homeless encampment, its filled with dirty diseases and just gross living conditions. Why live with other homeless people? Also, with the high prices down here in Southern California, living can be costly and being fired could really be an issue along with drug use.

    1. “It’s a very, very difficult group of people that needs a lot of help, and they don’t get enough,” she said.

      Couldn't agree more. its one thing that you need to get the illegal immigrants back to Mexico but it can wait until the birthing process is finished in a local hospital, and then sent back.

    2. There are at least six cases of pregnant women border-wide who have been sent back to Mexico, according to U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who recently sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general demanding an investigation into the issue

      If pregnant women are about to go in labor weather they're from the US, they should get help first, and that should be a policy.