Science and reason be damned. After a whirlwind 72-hours that saw Donald Trump affirming his diagnosis for the coronavirus, to his incredulous release from Walter Reed Medical Center, his base has yet to withdraw its support even as the future…
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COVIDiot-In-Chief: The Absolute PETTIEST Reactions To Trump Catching Coronavirus
After months of ignoring scientists, laughing in the face of common sense and relying on his ‘very big brain,” nincompoop-in-chief Donald Trump and Melania contracted COVID-19 just days after the first Presidential debate and super-spreader campaign fundraiser that continues to…
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‘World Smile Day’ Trends On Twitter As Trump Tests Positive For The Coronavirus
Source: Melissa Sue Gerrits / Getty It is what it is. World Smile Day just happens to have fallen on the same day Donald Trump tweeted that he and his wife tested positive for the coronavirus. The most beautiful smile…
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Trump Has The Coronavirus: What His Pre-Existing Health Conditions Mean In The Long, Or Short, Run
Source: Drew Angerer / Getty The revelation that Donald Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus set off a domino effect of potential consequences, including his possible death from an illness that he once dismissed as a “hoax” and lied…
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Veteran Ethiopian Political Activist Mesfin Woldemariam Has Died
Ethiopian activist Professor Mesfin Woldemariam and founder of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council has passed away. Woldemariam reportedly passed away on Tuesday in the capital city Addis Ababa reportedly from coronavirus-induced complications. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has since expressed his…
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South African Soldier Shoots Man For Not Wearing A Mask
According to TimesLIVE, a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldier shot a 27-year-old man for allegedly not wearing a mask at a mall. The incident is alleged to have taken place at a mall in the province of Limpopo….
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Government Rolls Out Plan on Who Should Get COVID Vaccine First
At a hearing before a Senate subcommittee on Capitol Hill, CDC Direct Robert Redfield said any vaccine is unlikely to be widely available to most Americans before the summer or early fall of 2021, given initial constraints on supplies…
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Rwandan TikToker Drags American Influencer Charly Jordan About COVID Claims
“You can take your white saviour complex and your privilege elsewhere,” says the Rwandan TikToker Zuba Mutesi in her now infamous clapback to the American TikTok star Charly Jordan. Mutesi’s response questions Jordan’s entire premise. Is she really stuck in…
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Kevin Hart reveals he had coronavirus and why he kept quiet about it
Kevin Hart (Photo credit: Bang Media) Kevin Hart had coronavirus “around the same time as Tom Hanks.” The Jumanji: The Next Level star has confirmed he tested positive for the infectious virus earlier this year but didn’t say anything at the…
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COVID 19: To Recover, We Must Rebuild Our Fractured Society
This essay is part of OkayAfrica’s SA Reframed series, featuring personal writing from some of South Africa’s best young writers edited by Verashni Pillay.About five weeks into lockdown, I found myself feeling socially dislocated and emotionally distressed. I did not…
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