Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
5-10-20
Los Angeles Times
Desert mystery: Why have pronghorn antelope returned to Death Valley?
by Louis Sahagun
More than a century after railroads, ranchers and hunters vanquished their ancestors, pronghorn antelope are returning to this unforgiving expanse of desert along the California-Nevada border.
Everyone from the local district attorney to the state attorney general in Georgia having managed to wiggle out of prosecuting the two white men who murdered 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, the case has been referred to the US Department of Justice, where the murderers will probably be exonerated and will appear with the Trump on his autumnal campaign rally in Atlanta before a cast of hundreds of thousands of white supremacists who don't believe in the Germ Theory. -- blj
5-10-20
Agence France Presse
MERCED (BLJ) – Merced Public Health Department on May 9 reported 163 cases (17 new) and three dead. The double digit increase in cases in a couple of days is undoubtedly due to more testing. But the testing is still very inadequate and if the city and county politicians have their way, it will continue to be inadequate.
California reported 64,532 cases (834 new) and 2,630 deaths (351 new since May 6).
The United States reported 1,338,988 cases (25,190 new) and 79,522 deaths (1,597 new).
MERCED (BLJ) – Merced County Public Health Department on reported 146 cases (six new) and three deaths.
California reported 58,790 cases (2,484 new) and 2,379 deaths (85 new).
The United States reported 1,243,456 (22,556 new) and 72,800 deaths (7.235 new).
The global report is 3,682,968 cases (64,643 new) and 257,906 deaths (4.525 new).
MERCED (BLJ) – The Merced County Public Health Department reported 146 cases of COVID-19 on May 4 (six new) and three deaths.
California reported 55,657 cases (1,987 new) and 2,254 deaths (62 new).
The United States reported 1,208,674 cases (25,011 new) and 69,680 deaths (1,404 new).
The global figure is 3,584,274 cases (76,909 new) and 251,580 deaths (4,089 new).
The front page in the Sunday, May 3 edition of our local chain newspaper (ownership to be decided pending the bankruptcy) presented some confusing information to its dissatisfied readership.
MERCED (BLJ) –
Merced County Public Health Department on the morning of May 2 reported 140 cases (six new) and three deaths. However, the Merced Sun-Star reported that county Public Health Department “officials have recently said that the number of total coronavirus cases since the pandemic began is more likely 450 cases in Merced County, but insufficient testing capacity has led to an incomplete tally.
Stanislaus County reported 380 cases of COVID-19 (6 new) and 13 deaths.
Madera County reports 46 cases and 2 deaths.
MERCED (BLJ) – Merced County Public Health Department on May 1 reported 134 cases (three new) and three deaths.
California reported 50,659 cases (809 new) and 2,073 deaths (59 new).
The United States reported 1,130,075 cases (34,630 new) and 65,603 deaths ( 1,870 new).
The global report for May 1 is 3,344,274 cases (87,428 new) and 238,775 deaths (5,387 new).
Three characteristics of the Very Visible Enemy:
Malignant narcissism;
Managerial incompetence;
Anti-government ideology.
‘A Snake on the Outskirts’ and Other Adventures in the Daily Life of the San Joaquin Raptor/Wildlife Rescue Center
MERCED (BLJ) – This morning the Merced County Public Health Department on April 30 reported 125 cases of COVID-19 (nine new) and still only three deaths. As of 4 p.m. there are 131 according to the County, an increase of six since 10 a.m.. There are still only three reported deaths in the county. An increase of six cases in as many hours is alarming.
California reported 46,828 cases (2,346 new) and 1,954 deaths (81 new).
The United States reported 1,077,473 cases (27,014 new) and 62,444 deaths (1,970 new).