2 Choir Members Are Dead & Dozens Have COVID-19 After Rehearsal
60 members of the Skagit Valley Chorale recently met up for rehearsal – now dozens of them have COVID-19 and two are dead. “It seemed like a normal rehearsal, except that choirs are huggy places,” Adam Burdick, the choir’s conductor, recalled. “We were making music and trying to keep a certain distance between each other.”…
Saudi Arabia floods the oil market; America tries to prop up prices
Editor’s note (March 30th 2020): This article has been updated since it was first published.EARLY IN MARCH the oil market’s central banker seemed to go berserk. Saudi Arabia, the most powerful member of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has long adjusted its supply to help stabilise the price of crude. Russia had…
South Korea keeps covid-19 at bay without a total lockdown
But the long-term outlook is still uncertainA GROUP OF young people sit around a table in a bar, immersed in animated conversation. A man and a woman sit in the window of a coffee shop and share bites of a large slice of cream cake. A handful of people in face masks and office attire…
Instagram Followers: Buy or Not to Buy?
Instagram has millions of users. Some Instagram accounts have acquired followers organically after many years, while others have bought followers. But, in the virtual world, it’s tough to differentiate real followers from those that have been bought. That’s why many people are opting to buy Instagram followers (e.g. at https://howsociable.com/buy-instagram-followers/) to enhance the popularity of…