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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - May 5, 2020
May 5, 2020
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Freebie alert: Today --Tuesday, May 5th-- is National Teacher's Day, and Ruby Tuesday is giving teachers a free burger or chicken sandwich. You'll have to show a school ID and it's only at participating locations, while supplies last. Enjoy!
Avast, matey! Coronavirus making you schitzy about taking a cruise? Wait until August first. Carnival Cruise Line just announced a plan to start cruising again with eight ships leaving on that date from Miami, Port Canaveral, Florida and Galveston, Texas.
While we're on the coronavirus subject, the latest thing is lawsuits against nursing and elderly-care facilities. There have been around 25-percent of the deaths from coronavirus which have happened in nursing homes. USA Today reports more than 16-thousand people have died of COVID-19 in nursing homes in the United States because nursing homes present a lethal combination of high-risk patients and an environment in which the virus can thrive and easily be spread. More than 2 million Americans live in such facilities, according to the CDC. More than two million Americans live in such facilities, according to the CDC. But just because your beloved grandma or grandpa contracts the disease and dies, don't think you can sue the facility for not properly caring for them.
But now there's at least 15 states which have enacted laws giving nursing homes and long-term care facilities some protection from those kinds of lawsuits. And the long-term and elderly care industry is also trying to get protection country-wide for things like shortages of protective equipment like masks or other things beyond their control.
Question for your listeners: Is this right? Shouldn't they be held responsible?
Word broke yesterday that Disney and Lucasfilm are putting together a new “Star Wars” feature film with TAIKA WAITITI co-writing and directing. It's a pretty big deal since Waititi is coming off an Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay for “Jojo Rabbit.” He also directed the finale episode of “The Mandalorian” for Disney-Plus, which ran last night.
And while we're on the movie subject, there's a sequel to the SLY STALLONE and WESLEY SNIPES movie, "Demolition Man," coming. In an interview on Instagram, Sly said "We're working on it right now with Warner Bros. The original movie also starred SANDRA BULLOCK, and made $58 million in the US back in 1993.
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