Show and Tell: Coronavirus Edition 8/7/20

"‘We're here today because to open up America, we've got to open up America's schools and Thales Academy is literally in the forefront,’ Pence said last week."

Now: teachers and students from Thales Academy under quarantine...https://t.co/73AnUa3rMm

— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 6, 2020

me contemplating a full year of remote school for the kids pic.twitter.com/I7PLS47SMw

— Christopher Mims (@mims) August 6, 2020

I talked to YouTubers, TikTok stars, and Gen Z celebs about the L.A. influencer social scene why they won’t stop partying https://t.co/HA5IFGrs5e

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) August 6, 2020

if there’s anything that coronavirus has taught me it’s that some schools start in early august

— James (@CaucasianJames) August 6, 2020

Them: "If you all stay inside for a couple of months, it'll give us time to figure this out."
Us: "Ok!"

5 months later:

Us: "We did our part. How's it going?"
Them: "Great! We've made "anti-masker" a political identity, opened the schools & hobbled the post office."
Us: "..."

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) August 6, 2020

"When it comes to the virus, the United States has come to resemble not the wealthy and powerful countries to which it is often compared but instead to far poorer countries, like Brazil, Peru and South Africa." https://t.co/SLrH5ImSQf

— The Upshot (@UpshotNYT) August 6, 2020

This is going to be every day now. https://t.co/5jFzwfANLw

— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 6, 2020

New: Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch announced in a memo to employees today that the company expects that non-production staffers who have been working remotely "will continue to do so for the remainder of the calendar year."

— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 6, 2020