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Asia COVID Resurgence Shatters Travel Bubble Hopes: Countries once considered successes now seeing uptick cases...(has the "second wave" started? Probably the answer is yes)

7/31/2020

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/asia-covid-resurgence-shatters-travel-bubble-hopes

Global COVID-19 total surges past 17 million: Latin America persists as global epicenter

7/31/2020

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/global-covid-19-total-surges-past-17-million

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/could-mumbais-slums-be-headed-herd-immunity

Experts call for US to reset COVID-19 response as economy worsens: A reset would mean measures targeted to hot spots, such as temporary closures of nonessential businesses and toughening mask and distancing steps...(way too late for this to happen)

7/31/2020

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/experts-call-us-reset-covid-19-response-economy-worsens

Germany warns against travel to three virus-hit Spanish regions...(no problem here - I doubt I'll be traveling to either country very soon)

7/31/2020

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-germany-travel/germany-warns-against-travel-to-three-virus-hit-spanish-regions-idUKKCN24W17H

When the Lasers Strike: How the U.S. Military Wants to Protect Its Planes and Bases...A lot of high-tech advances will be needed to clear an airspace or defend fixed locations alike airfields and ports.

7/31/2020

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/when-lasers-strike-how-us-military-wants-protect-its-planes-and-bases-165957

France swelters under heatwave, putting firefighters on alert: Paris forecast to reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in the shade after several cities hit record highs Thursday.

7/31/2020

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-france-swelters-heatwave-firefighters.html

Pandemic Could Complicate Hurricane Season: "There's a double whammy here in terms of the most vulnerable regions to both COVID and hurricanes"... people need to seriously think about the duality of the threat (no kidding)

7/31/2020

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-07-31/pandemic-could-complicate-hurricane-season

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/31/texas-coronavirus-pandemic-hurricane-covid-19

Flooding, Landslides, and Power Outages: Tropical Storm Isaias Is Already Bringing Horror To Puerto Rico

7/31/2020

https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/hurricane-isaias-expected-strengthen-it-moves-towards-nyc

https://theamericanonews.com/2020/07/30/flooding-landslides-and-power-outages-tropical-storm-isaias-is-already-bringing-horror-to-puerto-rico/

https://www.insider.com/storm-isaias-strengthens-hurricane-carribean-florida-warning-2020-7

A Global Flood Is Coming, And This Is What Scientists Expect It to Look Like: The perilous rise of our seas is pushing tides, waves and storms ...scientists predict enormous swathes of land will be regularly inundated by water.

7/31/2020

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-global-flood-is-coming-and-this-is-what-scientists-expect-it-to-look-like

Concerns about Waning COVID-19 Immunity Are Likely Overblown: The decline seen in some studies is normal, experts say... But scientists must wait to see whether infection confers long-term protection

7/31/2020

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/concerns-about-waning-covid-19-immunity-are-likely-overblown/

Building The Long-Term Care System Of The Future: Will The COVID-19 Nursing Home Tragedies Lead To Real Reform?...(don't hold your breath - especially if you live in New York...Governor Cuomo will kill you)

7/31/2020

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200729.267815/full/

Sea level rise: three visions of a future summer holiday at the coast...our views of the coast must change. Humans once saw land and sea as a continuation of one another, rather than two discrete entities.

7/31/2020

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-sea-visions-future-summer-holiday.html

America is now a Covid-19 hot spot: These maps show how your state is doing...cases across the country are rising at alarming rates in recent weeks.

7/31/2020

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/7/31/21340268/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-state-maps-charts-data

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/31/headlines/us_coronavirus_deaths_top_1_000_for_fourth_consecutive_day

High Blood Sugar Levels Cancel Out the Benefits of Exercise: people who have higher blood glucose levels after glucose intake also show a lower capacity for aerobic exercise.

7/31/2020

https://www.gilmorehealth.com/high-blood-sugar-levels-cancel-out-the-benefits-of-exercise/

Grape Seeds Show How A Pandemic And Climate Change Contributed To Past Economic Crisis

7/31/2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2020/07/31/grape-seeds-show-how-a-pandemic-and-climate-change-contributed-to-past-economic-crisis/#7847ef2142b4

China Facing Strategy Of Containment In New Cold War: there is bipartisan support for a Cold War style strategy of containment against China... And that includes something like a new NATO, suggested by the Brits, called the G-10.

7/31/2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/07/31/china-facing-strategy-of-containment-in-new-cold-war/#2fa5b6e531ed

Japan Edges Toward Military Pre-emptive Strike Option: Tokyo debates how to deter missile attacks as threats from North Korea and China rise

7/31/2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-edges-toward-military-pre-emptive-strike-option-11596195100

China Is Now Working On a Deadly Kamikaze Drone Army: Like drones in general, loitering munitions can be hard to detect and shoot down, especially the smaller models.

7/31/2020

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/china-now-working-deadly-kamikaze-drone-army-165952

Portland, Oregon has been given over to the mob: Cowardly politicians let the protests spiral out of control.

7/31/2020

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/31/portland-has-been-given-over-to-the-mob/

Europe’s economies post record crashes in 2nd quarter: Spain sees biggest plunge with GDP shrinking 18.5%, erasing years of economic growth

7/31/2020

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/europe-s-economies-post-record-crashes-in-2nd-quarter/1928364

https://www.voanews.com/europe/eurozone-economy-suffers-record-drop-during-lockdown-months

Europe Has a Looming Debt Problem: the region’s larger banks have more than 500 billion euros’ worth of nonperforming loans just before the pandemic hit...each dollar of equity at about half the level of U.S. banks.

7/31/2020

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/europe-has-a-looming-debt-problem-1.1473706

Will Spain Be the Next Country in Need of a Bailout?Spain benefited from only a few years of economic health after finally recovering from the 2008 crash... Then came the coronavirus.

7/31/2020

https://thebulwark.com/will-spain-be-the-next-country-in-need-of-a-bailout/

Does coronavirus linger in the body? What we know about how viruses in general hang on in the brain and testicles

7/31/2020

https://theconversation.com/does-coronavirus-linger-in-the-body-what-we-know-about-how-viruses-in-general-hang-on-in-the-brain-and-testicles-142878

Europe plunges into a deep recession as COVID-battered economies brace for a second wave: The euro area economy plunged into an unprecedented slump in the second quarter, putting it in a deep hole from which it may take years to fully recover.

7/31/2020

https://fortune.com/2020/07/31/europe-recession-q2-gdp-covid/

Top coronavirus doctor in Spain has a message for tourists: ‘A couple of drinks, you take off your mask, you sing and you dance, that’s a problem’

7/31/2020

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-whats-behind-spains-latest-covid-outbreaks-which-may-not-be-all-bad-news-says-countrys-infectious-disease-expert-2020-07-31?mod=economy-politics

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