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President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris are committed to making sure communities of color, our rural neighbors, those living with disabilities, and seniors are not left behind in our vaccination plans

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration took swift action — grounded in science — to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control.

Yesterday, President Biden reversed the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization. And this morning, Dr. Fauci joined his first meeting as the head of our delegation. Here’s what he said:

An Arizona woman caused a scandal in a supermarket because of protective masks

Melissa Raine Lively, a 35-year-old PR manager from Scotland, Arizona, became famous after a video with her participation hit the Internet on July 4, 2020.

The videos were made at the Target supermarket, where Lively went to buy water, and where she had a nervous breakdown, and published by her in Instagram stories.

The indignant woman shouted and scattered protective masks from the stand, shouting insults and flaunting that she could buy everything she was scattering. She herself described the condition as a "steroid panic attack."

Anthony Chickillo, former Steeler, agrees to contract with New Orleans Saints

Linebacker Anthony Chickillo has played the last five seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers but now agrees to contract with the New Orleans Saints, and Mickey Loomis, the Sales general manager, announced this deal on Saturday. Chickillo is 6 foot tall and weighs 3,225 pounds, changing teams for the first time. He played 11 games as a part of the Steelers the previous season and finished with 11 tackles and half a sack.

The Steelers discharged him on March 16 alongside linebacker Mark Barron.

In October, Chickillo was blamed for ambushing his girlfriend while they were at the casino at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort but eventually, the charges were dropped.

22-year-old woman missing while driving from Virginia to Texas

A 22-year-old lady, Rachel McGregor was travelling from Newport News to San Antonio, Texas and stopped at New Orleans. As per reports, she went to an electronics store in the 900 block, Poydas Street, to get her cellphone repaired and the NOPD officers told that McGregor used the store’s landline to call a person who filed the missing report of McGregor when she did not contact again by 11:30 pm. Since Friday morning McGregor is missing, vehicle was not available, and her whereabouts are also not known.

The New Orleans City Council approves affordable and climate-resistant housing options

The New Orleans City Council today affirmed an understanding between the City of New Orleans, Louisiana Housing Corporation (LHC) and Finance Authority of New Orleans (FANO), that enables FANO to offer monetary incentives to builders of reasonable and atmosphere resistant lodging.

As per the agreement, FANO can combine its multifamily income bonds with LHC's non-competitive 4% charge credits.

These credits give tax incentives that expect to build the accessibility of reasonable rental lodging.

As per Mayor LaToya Cantrell, this organization between the City, the Finance Authority of New Orleans and the Louisiana Housing Corporation, will permit them to achieve their mutual objectives. They can accomplish their objectives by making a progressively inventive and community-oriented element that can all the more likely make reasonable lodging alternatives.

The Director of the Office of Housing Policy and Community Development for the City of New Orleans, Marjorianna Willman, told that the establishment of their reasonable lodging biological system is the accessibility of an assortment of compelling apparatuses to fathom a variety of difficulties. Opening this significant apparatus for FANO will give them more prominent nearby control to take care of their neighbourhood issues while keeping up basic associations with state authorities.

According to Damon Burns, President and CEO of FANO, participation among government offices is expected to address the considerable measure of interest for moderate and atmosphere flexible lodging. This understanding is a case of the sort of coordinated effort required to convey more an incentive to the network.

Ruminations on current events driving the world.

Recent suggestions that the US national elections be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic seem to be lacking education on the US Constitution. The Congress has the only authority to do this and with a polarized Congress this will not happen. Secondly the Constitution did provide for the scenario of a delayed election, but specifically stipulates that the current administration's term ends on January 20 and cannot be extended due to a delayed election. In the event of a delayed election the Speaker of the House of Representatives assumes the Presidency in a temporary role until such time as a proper election is held. Either the legal advisors to the Administration are woefully lacking on their education of the Constitution or they do not think that any of the citizenry are sufficiently well versed in the Constitution to call out their veiled attempt at totalitarian rule. Either way they fail badly.

The current Administration would do better to develop a plan to deal with the deteriorating economy of the US due to the pandemic. They lack the understanding that the economy is driven by the pandemic and cannot be restored without controlling the pandemic. The recent loss in GDP of 33% is egregious not just for its magnitude as a pandemic and subsequent business stoppage can easily cause such a downturn. but it is comparison to the other impacted countries in the community of industrialized nations that is most unsetling. The US has lost 33%GDP, the EU has lost 1% GDP and China is still gaining GDP as are other Asian nations. They are replacing the US in the Global Economy. What does this mean for the US? It means that it is no longer dominant on the global stage. It now has to compete for influence and commerce on the world stage from a position lagging behind much of the rest of the industrialized world. The thing that global pandemics do is they change world. The leaders become followers or do not survive and the followers become leaders demonstrating a new way to live.

It seems that a general education on the basic biology of viruses is in order because the US obviously has about 40% of its population that did not pay attention in high school biology. Viruses require a host to multiply and proliferate. The host can be most any living organism and in the case of Covid-19 the primary host is the human species. This means that the protein spikes on the virus are most well adapted to latch on to human cells. This virus is of microscopic scale and requires an imaging electron microscope in order to see it. Billions of virus can occupy the size of the head of a pin. The virus proliferation is very important because the more the virus multiplies and generates more total virus is in the country and the world and the greater the difficulty in quelling virus blooms like we are now seeing. This also brings us closer to the virus becoming endemic. When the virus becomes endemic it is here to stay indefinitely. This means that around the world we would be destined to endure cyclical blooms like we are currently encountering in the US for the indefinite future. This will require a shut down of almost all public activity each time, for two to three months, to gain control of the virus spread. As long as there is Covid-19 virus somewhere in the world this is a likely scenario. As for a vaccine, modern medicine has never been successful at building a vaccine for a corona virus. The common cold is a corona virus. How many of us have had a common cold? Many people get them multiple times per year. If the antigen reaction is similar then a vaccine is likely to only be effective for a very short time. Also consider that even if an effective vaccine is generated, modern medicine has only been able to eradicate one virus and that is Small Pox. In all of it efforts and with very effective vaccines humanity has not been able to eradicate any other virus. So this leave us with the need to adapt and change our behavior to live with Covid-19 among us. We know from example that this can be done as most of Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim and may African countries have done so. It will require a collective effort to wear respiratory coverings (masks), physical distance, (keep more than 6 feet between people), limit interactivity to only necessity, change the work environment to accommodate physical distancing and air handling sanitation and convert to remote and teleworking as much as possible. This needs to be a lifestyle change and not seen as a temporary action. This will have to be endured for years to deal with this virus. If we do this we can adapt to recover an economic platform that will benefit the populace and allow for a good standard of living. It will not be the same as we had become accustomed to but will be a survivable scheme for all. If we do not change the behavior of the populace then we are destined to continue this cycle of opening activity and then having to shut down weeks later because of a raging virus bloom and each time because we continue to pile up the amount of virus generated which grows with each bloom then the cycle becomes more wide spread with greater severity. This will continue to occur until the other 96% of the world which is being affected by the behavior of the US populace, since the virus anywhere is the virus everywhere, reaches the end of its patience with the childish actions of the US populace. I do not see this taking very long. We already see the early actions being taken where US occupants are only allowed to travel to 12 countries currently, none of which are major trading partners. US goods are already becoming circumspect in Europe, Asia and the Pacific rim. Even though current data does not indicate that virus transmission from surfaces is great, simply the perception that goods could be tainted is causing purchase hesitation by trading partners. Also trading partners are very hesitant to allow vessels and aircraft carrying freight to access their ports and airports. The US is already the pariah of the world. If the behavior does not change now the world's attitude towards the US will become pervasive and reversing this will take a generation or more.

A MALE DIED IN SHOOTING IN MEMPHIS

"We have seen individuals screaming and yelling and all going to come out." Folks as well as cops across Maury Road were after a man shot to death at 9:45 p.m. outside a townhouse tower. Monday, in the Maury Street 800 section.

Neighbors in the Vollintine Evergreen Historic District informed a local new channel as they were there as they saw rescuer taking man who was not breathing well.

"We started trying to resuscitate him throughout the emergency care, but he was fired in such proximity that he expired in the moment he received help."

Most of the community thought narcotics linked to the attack. Police has said that the victim wasn't living around and arguing with either a person as someone walked by and began firing.

"The participants have dispersed that they have taken off running and this is typically a peaceful area. Anything between once in a while but late nights it was really sad. "Neighbours reported police took multiple men here into arrest in a suspected car a couple weeks ago.

Authorities had no records of any previous shootings, and they have not said that what the incident was all about.

There's an active investigation.

Memphis Alert Corona-virus positive people count hit 6,423 as of Sunday evening

Cumulative count of positive Corona patients in Shelby County Tennessee hit 2332 as of Sun evening, as per the District Medical Office.

According to the Tennessee Ministry of Medical and Health care; positive cases in the whole state of Corona hit 6,423 Sun evening 123 deaths and 681 people are in hospitals.

Memphis code enforcement officers say they lack training, resources for corona-virus pandemic

The rundown of trivial organizations that must close could keep on developing, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said for the current week, however a few officials who are bridging the city and closing the organizations down said they are frightened for their lives.

Code requirement officials said they haven't been prepared for the worldwide corona-virus pandemic or given enough assets to remain safe.

They're trusting the City of Memphis will make changes to give more secure conditions.

"They're not setting us up appropriately, and they're fundamentally sending us to our demises," one code implementation official told WREG.

A gathering of code Memphis Code Enforcement officials claims they're working in dread of contracting COVID-19.

Code requirement officials who talked with WREG said laborers got a one-hour instructional class for these phenomenal occasions, and various solicitations for additional covers have been denied.

"Presently their reason is they can't think that its, despite the fact that we informed them concerning along these lines before provisions went short," one official said.

The City of Memphis denied WREG's solicitation to talk with Public Works Director Robert Knecht, rather giving an explanation that said "The city is following all prescribed rules for staff PPE necessities," and "supplies are being renewed at the earliest opportunity."

The Shelby County Health Department demanded they are helping out code requirement as typical.

"We have verifiable cooperated to address issues this way," Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter said. "So we'll keep on cooperating and decide for every infraction who's ideal to mediate, regardless of whether it's codes or well being."

Laborers reacted to that by saying these occasions call for new rules.

"It's hard to draw in with somebody from six feet away," one official said. "More often than not, on the off chance that they're extremely furious, they're going to get somewhat nearer than six feet."

Regardless of whether code requirement gets all the more preparing and gear or another office helps share the remaining task at hand, officials seeking after a change.

"There should be greater gear," an official said. "There most likely should be a superior perspective to deal with this—to protect us."

WREG will refresh this story on the off chance that we are permitted a meeting with the City of Memphis or gain proficiency with any new data.