Coronavirus Insanity: A Hooters Shortage in the Bay Area, a Live Event About the Loss of Live Events, and More
Here’s a fresh round-up of coronavirus insanity . . .
1. Fans of Hooters in the San Francisco Bay Area are upset now that the entire region is down to just one Hooters, after a bunch of them went out of business during the pandemic.
2. A group of event planners and experts in the Los Angeles area are getting criticized for holding a 90-person live event to discuss the loss of live events.
3. For the second time in a week, someone who got a PPP loan was busted for using it to buy a Lamborghini. This time it’s a guy in Texas . . . last week it was a guy in Florida.
4. A couple from New Zealand who got stranded on the Falkland Islands during their honeymoon in March finally made it home . . . after getting a 5,000-nautical mile ride on an Antarctic fishing boat.
5. A man’s obituary in Texas is going viral. He died of coronavirus and the obituary says his family members, quote, “blame his death . . . on Trump, [Texas’s Governor] Abbott, and all the other politicians who did not take this pandemic seriously.”
6. A woman in Florida who intentionally coughed on a cancer patient who asked her to wear a mask in a store has been arrested.
7. An investment banker named Lindsay Rechler re-wrote “Goodnight Moon” as “Good Morning Zoom”, and it’s a parody of modern life. It’s being published in October.
8. Here are the updated stats on CONFIRMED coronavirus cases as of last night.
New daily cases in the U.S.: 54,504, with 1,362 new deaths.
Total cases in the U.S.: More than 4.9 million, with more than 160,000 deaths . . . and more than 2.4 million who’ve now recovered.
Total cases worldwide: 18.7 million . . . with more than 704,000 deaths . . . and more than 11.9 million people who’ve beaten the virus globally.