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Demovictory9's JournalHis Test Came Back Positive. He Boarded the Plane Anyway ... had flown to US to be vaxxed
His Test Came Back Positive. He Boarded the Plane AnywayMiami passenger gave airline agents certificate stating he was cleared to fly
A 29-year-old Argentinian man got on an American Airlines flight from Miami to Buenos Aires Saturday after presenting a medical certificate that stated he was fit to fly. He didn't tell airline agents that he had tested positive for COVID-19 three hours earlier.
Santiago Solans Portillo was arrested and taken to a quarantine hotel after he arrived in Buenos Aires with a high fever, which was detected by thermal scanners at the airport, the Washington Post reports.
Authorities have seized his cellphone and are looking into when and how he got the medical certificate, which came from a different Florida clinic than the one that tested him for the coronavirus.
A lawyer for the clinic that cleared Portillo to fly says the certificate wasn't counterfeit, though the man's only contact with them was through a telehealth appointment. Authorities in Argentina say Portillo, a business owner who flew to the US to be vaccinated, has "a complicated legal situation that will be drastically aggravated," with a potential sentence of up to 15 years in prison, if any of the other 257 passengers on the flight develop COVID symptoms, reports La Vanguardia. Sources tell the paper that the certificate Portillo gave American Airlines agents stated that he had "been examined" Saturday and did not show any symptoms. Argentinian authorities say they will fine American Airlines for allowing an infected passenger to board the flight.
https://www.newser.com/story/305790/his-test-came-back-positive-he-boarded-the-plane-anyway.html
Piedmont schools apologize for offering support circle for white students after Chauvin verdict
Piedmont schools apologize for offering support circle for white students after Chauvin verdict
https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/2021-05-Piedmont-schools-white-support-Chauvin-Flo-16153613.php
An email from Cheryl Wozniak, the assistant superintendent of educational services at Piedmont Unified School District, was sent on April 21 to students and staff at Millennium and Piedmont high schools in light of the verdict against Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd last year.
“We are offering a restorative community circle,” an email from Wozniak obtained by SFGATE reads, “to support White students who would like to discuss how the trial, verdict, and experiences related to the George Floyd murder are impacting you.”
Two counselors, she said, will be “holding a space for our White students to process [and] share … to one another.”
According to demographic information shared by the district, the student population across Piedmont Unified schools is 74% white, 20% Asian, 3% Hispanic and 3% African-American. Among the nearly 900 students in the district’s two high schools, Piedmont and Millennium Alternative — 62% are white, 16% are two or more races, 12% are Asian, 8% are Hispanic and 2% are Black.
“Support circles” were also held for BIPOC — a catch-all term for Black and Indigenous people, and other people of color — and African-American and Black students, according to emails obtained by SFGATE.
Arkansas, Tennessee Move To Limit Education About Racism, Sexism
AP: Arkansas Governor OKs Limits On Agencies' Race, Sex Training
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday effectively approved a law that places new limits on how race and sex are addressed in state employee training. The Republican governor allowed legislation to become law without his signature to prohibit state agencies from teaching employees, contractors or others to believe “divisive concepts.” The concepts include anything that says the U.S. is fundamentally racist or sexist. The measure, which takes effect next year, does not apply to public schools, colleges and universities, law enforcement training or local governments. (5/4)
USA Today: Tennessee Republicans Take On Critical Race Theory Lessons
In the final days of the legislative session, Republicans in the Tennessee House reopened an education committee to rein in what public schools will be allowed to teach on the topics of racism and inequality. Members of the House education administration committee — which had previously closed for the year — returned Monday morning and advanced legislation intended to prohibit schools from teaching lessons about systemic racism, among other topics touching on race and sex. (Allison, 5/3)
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/arkansas-tennessee-move-to-limit-education-about-racism-sexism/
It's the best time ever to sell a used car -- as long as you don't need to buy one
Clarissa Iliff logged about 78,000 miles on her trusty 2015 Ford Focus before a looming new-car purchase rendered it expendable earlier this year.
Trying to unload it, the Orange resident took the Ford to a local car dealership, which offered her $4,850 for the sedan in late March. But that was about $1,000 less than the low-end valuation from automotive research company Kelley Blue Book, so she passed.
It was the right decision. On Monday, Iliff sold the vehicle to CarMax in Costa Mesa for $6,400.
“I didn’t expect to get that much,” said Iliff, 31, director of business operations at BOTEC Analysis, a public policy research and consulting firm. “I am absolutely pleased with the financials.”
Iliff benefited from a red-hot used-car market, which has been roiled by a once-in-a-generation set of circumstances brought on by the pandemic. Last year’s collapse of the rental car market, ongoing production issues in the new-automobile business and droves of buyers flush with stimulus checks have turned the used-car market upside down, leading to a shortage of inventory that has sent asking prices soaring to historic levels in the Los Angeles area and nationally
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A snapshot of the Los Angeles market in April gives a sense of the turbulence. There were about 101,000 used cars for sale in the L.A. region during the week that ended April 4, down 12% from the same week in 2020, and off 18% from 2019, according to data provided by Cox, a car services company. Meanwhile, the average list price was $22,963, up 12% from a year earlier and 14% from 2019.
https://www.latimes.com/business/autos/story/2021-05-04/la-used-car-boom
power mad judge threatens man with jail for wearing work clothes during virtual hearing
That was the message from a Detroit judge, who scolded a construction worker who wore a T-shirt while at his job site, WJBK reported.
https://twitter.com/He2real__/status/1389389838223347714
“I don’t do sweats and I don’t do T-shirts in my courtroom,” Judge Ronald Giles of the 36th District Court said, the television station reported.
It was unclear what charge the defendant was facing.
When the man told the judge he was at work, Giles reiterated his stance.
“If you come to court, you dress for court because in my court, if you don’t dress for court, I’m gonna dress you,” Giles told the defendant, WJBK reported. “Which means I send you to Wayne County Jail and let them dress you.”
William McConico, the chief judge for the 36th District, said Giles’ did not break any rules to require a dress code for court. However, he added that the judge could have been more flexible.
“My take is that it’s not a good look for the court. That’s not normally how court cases are conducted,” McConico told WJBK. “I would say that a lot of judges would have made an exception because his work attire is construction. ‘This is my work attire, you’re in yours.’ We are all in different professions.”
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/i-dont-do-t-shirts-detroit-judge-scolds-construction-worker-during-virtual-hearing/TEJEBWHQKFBWHCF22RCRDWPGYI/
Airlines are battling a scourge of passengers traveling with falsified Covid-19 health certificates,
https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1383827835987521547Airlines are battling a scourge of passengers traveling with falsified Covid-19 health certificates, with test results easy to manipulate. Because of that, vaccine cards may be coming.
The documents are often the Covid-19 test results required by many countries on arrival. The International Air Transport Association industry body says it has tracked fake certificates in multiple countries, from France to Brazil, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Border control authorities and police forces have also reported arrests of people selling documents in the U.K., Spain, Indonesia and Zimbabwe, among others.
The problem is hitting international flights more than domestic ones, which typically don’t require certification at the moment. Airlines that are more dependent on cross-border travel, particularly those operating in Europe, are growing increasingly alarmed as they look to the summer, when they still hope demand will start to return.
The proliferation of fake health certificates is exposing a logistical blind spot, as airlines rush to navigate post-pandemic travel standards and retool their systems to ease compliance—and spur demand. Airlines say their staff aren’t equipped to handle and police all the new health certifications needed and worry the problem will be exacerbated when some countries also start to ask for vaccination certificates.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-covid-19-certificates-hit-airlines-which-now-have-to-police-them-11618330621?mod=e2tw
is online ordering turning us into monsters? Starbucks order w 13 modifications enrages the internet
This weekend, a completely atrocious Starbucks order took Twitter by storm. So atrocious, in fact, that it set off a chain reaction of baristas sharing their own worst nightmare orders from customers.
"On todays episode of why i wanna quit my job," read the caption to the drink, a Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino altered heinously beyond recognition.
With a whopping 13 modifications, ranging from disgustingly sweet ("7 pumps dark caramel sauce"
to plain inexplicable ("5 banana"???), the abomination was addressed to someone named Edward, who I can only assume is either a 5-year-old kid who stole his mom's phone, or a serial killer. This guy better have at least tipped handsomely (he almost certainly did not).
https://twitter.com/ProjectJosiee/status/1388672650277384193
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/2021-05-Starbucks-online-order-viral-frappuccino-16148524.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
Affluent Americans Rush to Retire in New 'Life-Is-Short' Mindset
Affluent Americans Rush to Retire in New ‘Life-Is-Short’ MindsetThe unprecedented surge in shares and home values during an economic crisis is easing the retirement path for those who have savings and investments.
Craig DiLorenzo in Chicago, on April 23. The former 3M Co. executive retired in March at 58. Photographer: Sebastian Hidalgo/Bloomberg
After a year of early-morning Zoom calls, the specter of a deadly virus and soaring stock and real estate values, working American baby boomers who can afford it plan to get out while the getting’s good.
About 2.7 million Americans age 55 or older are contemplating retirement years earlier than they’d imagined because of the pandemic, government data show. They’re more likely to be White, a group that typically has a larger amount of accumulated wealth, and many cite robust retirement accounts and Covid-19 fatigue for their early exit, according to interviews with wealth managers and federal surveys.
Much like the U.S. economy’s so-called K-shaped recovery, the pandemic is treating the affluent differently, empowering them to leave corporate life early. Others who lost jobs had to delay retirement, or grew discouraged and retired before they were ready.
Early retirements, whether desired or forced, will deprive the labor market of some of its most productive workers and have an impact on the economic recovery that is still too early to evaluate. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell this week cited a “significant number" of people saying they've retired as one reason companies are reporting labor shortages, although it's unclear if they'll eventually rejoin the job market.
In the Minneapolis area, Craig DiLorenzo, 58, is among those who chose to bow out, after a career at industrial giant 3M Co. Frustrated over 6 a.m. teleconferences, his thoughts turned to spending more time pursuing his outside passions, including volunteering with the Salvation Army. A scare with cancer five years ago made him reconsider his commitment to climbing the corporate ladder, and the last year stuck at home only reinforced those feelings, he said.
“It makes you think, ‘Does all this matter as much as you think it does?’” said DiLorenzo, who retired at the end of March.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-30/more-americans-are-considering-retirement-because-of-covid
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