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The Untold Story Of America's Biggest Coronavirus Outbreak, Why Michael Jordan Was The Best — Visualized, We Are Probably Only One-Tenth Of The Way Through This Pandemic, and more.

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UPDATE: STILL BAD 'CAN YOU PLEASE LOOK INTO SMITHFIELD?' The Untold Story Of America's Biggest Coronavirus Outbreak bbc.com How did the biggest cluster in the US emerge in a corner of South Dakota? Infections spread like wildfire through a pork factory and questions remain about what the company did to protect staff. IT'S BAD EITHER WAY We're Not Overreacting To The Coronavirus vox.com "It's the paradox of public health: When you do it right, nothing happens." HOLD TIGHT, DON'T LOSE HOPE We Are Probably Only One-Tenth Of The Way Through This Pandemic nymag.com Getting out of the lockdown and out of your shelter-in-place bunker is not the beginning of the end of the pandemic. It is only the end of the beginning. WHAT'S YOUR RISK? The Occupations With The Highest Risk Of Coronavirus Exposure, Visualized digg.com According to this chart from Visual Capitalist, some US workers are more susceptible to putting themselves in harm's way. TOOLS WE DIGG | SPONSORED Ever Sign Up For A 'Free Trial' And Forget To Cancel It? privacy.com Then you're stuck paying a costly fee? Let this be a problem of the past. Create new virtual cards with Privacy and control when to open and close them, blocking hidden charges. Sign up for free today and get $5. PICTURE THIS Spain's Strangest Hotspots, And More Best Photography Of The Week digg.com Living inside Brazil's largest apartment complex amid a pandemic, prophetic images of an empty world and other best photos of the week. SO HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED BULL MARKET Why Michael Jordan Was The Best fivethirtyeight.com The Bulls legend was — and still is — basketball's GOAT. 'IT IS, IN A WORD, QUIET' Hear The Soundscapes Of Cities Transformed atlasobscura.com The sonic landscape has changed. Even in the biggest, most densely populated cities, amid the uncertainty and suffering of the pandemic, people are beginning to hear something entirely new. 'SHE SPOKE TO THE EMPTY SEATS' In High School, I Fell For An Actress 25 Years My Senior. She Changed My Life slate.com A hopeless teenage crush, an older actress and one extremely uninformed college decision. BAD FOR THEM, GOOD FOR US 'Too Hot To Handle' Is Netflix's Most Disconcerting Reality TV Show Yet theringer.com Ten contestants are invited to an island, prohibited from having sex, and encouraged to become "authentically connected." This is not "Love Is Blind." It is something much, much worse. VIDEO OF THE DAY WHAT THE… Gymnast Breaks The Matrix, Pulls Off A True Standing Double Backflip On Grass digg.com Kaleb Cave seems to have pulled off a true standing double backflip on grass. It's wild DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE Life Is Stressful — Let's Help Mom Relax digg.com The world has gotten pretty stressful lately, so let's use Mother's Day as an excuse to give the gift of chill vibes. FROM THE ARCHIVES PROP-AGANDA The WWII-Era Plane Giving The F-35 A Run For Its Money (2015) motherboard.vice.com The war in Afghanistan proved that we can't just rely on new technology, but the Pentagon wouldn't listen — and troops paid the price. PIPE DREAMS The Abandoned Plan That Could Have Saved America From Drought (2015) buzzfeed.com The North American Water and Power Alliance was an audacious proposal to divert water to parched western states that would have cost hundreds of billions of dollars and pissed off Canada. But what if it had worked? 👏 Let's hear it for Saturday! 👏 View the Edition atDigg.com »

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I Tested The Coronavirus Vaccine A Month Ago — Here's What The Last Four Weeks Have Been Like, Few Statistics Tell You Anything About COVID-19 — Here's One That Does, The Subtle Ways Amazon Is Discouraging People From Ordering So Much Stuff, and more.

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Digg Editions Fri, Apr 17

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HERE'S SOMETHING NEW A SENSE OF PROPORTION Few Statistics Tell You Anything About COVID-19. Here's One That Does theatlantic.com The proportion of coronavirus tests with positive results could be a window into just how bad the U.S. outbreak is. ON TRIAL I Tested The Coronavirus Vaccine A Month Ago. Here's What The Last Four Weeks Have Been Like refinery29.com One month ago, Jennifer Haller was the first person to receive one of the first coronavirus vaccines. She talks about the physical and mental toll of the last four weeks. DO LESS The Subtle Ways Amazon Is Discouraging People From Ordering So Much Stuff slate.com Strained by the pandemic, Amazon is now discouraging people from buying so much stuff. SLOW YOUR ROLL The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean For A Vaccine? nytimes.com Developing a defense against the virus will depend on how it behaves. TECH WE DIGG | SPONSORED PayPal Just Paid $4 Billion To Save You Money joinhoney.com PayPal wants to help you save money when shopping online – so it recently bought Honey, the free browser extension that automatically finds coupons at over 30,000 stores. Here's how it works. CULTURAL RE-ALIGNMENT ME AND HOMIES DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD The Week's Best Quarantine Memes, Ranked digg.com All the internet can talk about is coronavirus, which means there are lots of memes about it. Here are some of the funniest. COVID TO E5 The Quarantine Chess Tournament That Could Change The Game Forever theringer.com After the FIDE Candidates tournament was postponed due to the coronavirus, world champion Magnus Carlsen decided to take things into his own hands. His version of chess could speed the game up permanently. RE-LISTEN TO IRON MAIDEN, BABY 'Teenage Dirtbag' 2.0 rollingstone.com Wheatus' anthem of teenage alienation has grown into an enduring cult classic. So why has the band spent the past year re-creating it note-for-note? VIDEO OF THE DAY GREAT BALLS OF METAL A Demonstration Of How Powerful 17th-Century Ship Cannons Were youtube.com The cannons used by navies in the 1600s might not be a match for modern artillery, but they were still powerful as hell. IN THE NEWS Wuhan Raises Coronavirus Death Toll By 50% New York And Other Hot Spots Are Getting Longer Coronavirus Peaks Than Expected, Expert Says In Reversal, Trump Unveils Phase-in Plan To Restart US Economy That Lets Governors Decide What To Do Michigan's Ex-Gov. Rick Snyder Knew About Flint's Toxic Water — And Lied About It DIGG PICKS | AFFILIATE When We Need A Camp Fire, All We Have To Do Is Pull A String huckberry.com Camping is one of the small joys that can help us through this rough time. And with this easy fire starter, we don't have to stress out about getting the campfire up and running. FROM THE ARCHIVES JUST KEEP PADDLING From Nazi Germany To Australia: The Incredible True Story Of History's Longest Kayak Journey (2018) vanityfair.com This is the story of Oscar Speck's voyage, a seven-and-a-half-year adventure nearly lost to history. WHO'S ASKING? 'Have You Ever Thought About Killing Someone?' (2015) medium.com Mike Baker hadn't. But he was 17 back then. And he hadn't thought about a lot of stuff, like disembowelment or escaping from prison or a dozen other freaky things that a guy named Doc was about to show him. The Council To Restart The Weekend has convened. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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