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Trump’s Favourite Covid Adviser: We’re Really Not Doing Enough to Collaborate With the Virus
The Trump administration’s pseudoscience advocate on the White House coronavirus task force, Dr. Scott Atlas, is urging the population of Michigan to, uh, stage some sort of rebellion in solidarity with the novel coronavirus.
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What Groundhog Day (and My Time in a Monastery) Taught Me About Lockdown
Stage 4 lockdown is upon Melbourne for the next six weeks. How do we cope with the new normal of staying in our houses for 23 hours a day? One popular solution is to immerse ourselves in stories. Topical films, such as Contagion (2011), have found a new life in the pandemic. But a more…
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Helena Bonham Carter and Sam Neill Star in a Short Film About a Sentient Phone
One thing that global isolation has been good for (other than not getting sick) is the wave of lo-fi homemade short films from big expensive movies instead of making silly movies for Twitter.
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Elon Musk Tweets ‘FREE AMERICA NOW’ As His Coronavirus Predictions Prove Very Wrong
Billionaire Elon Musk, the U.S.’s dumbest smart guy, spent the night tweeting about how the U.S. needs to “reopen” its economy, despite Musk’s failed predictions about the trajectory of the coronavirus crisis. A month ago, Musk insisted that new coronavirus cases in the U.S. would be “close to zero” by the end of April. Well,…