(satire) *&hellp; consumer trends researchers confirmed … that teens are flocking to a new app where they just enter their own personal data into a form.*

Most US states are not testing enough people for Covid-19 to have a chance of holding back the increase of cases. Overall, the US is doing less than half of the rate of tests that would require.

The figure "39%" represents a degree of precision that makes no sense here. We can only estimate the rate of testing required; we don't know enough to state it within a precision of 1 in 100. I think that "40%" would still be excess precision. What we really know is probably only "less than half the necessary rate but more than a quarter."

(satire) *sources confirmed Thursday that 17-year-old Kevin Albright, a local teenager who died of coronavirus, probably had undiagnosed old age.*

A string of fires and explosions in Iran could indicate that Israel is trying to push Iran into a war while the bully is still president.

Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel, says that Netanyahu's corruption is turning Israel into a fascist state, with repression of protest and mass surveillance thrown in.