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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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