From the Pages of Orlando Weekly: Why Are Home COVID-19 Tests So Expensive and Scarce?
• As the holidays approach, we’re missing one thing that would make gatherings feel more secure: Home COVID tests are nowhere to be found.
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• As the holidays approach, we’re missing one thing that would make gatherings feel more secure: Home COVID tests are nowhere to be found.
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• The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office reported that they removed over 80 animals from the dog-breeding business Strawberry Farms.
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• In the early months of the pandemic, a local Instagram feed riveted the art community’s attention: the @CenterForPostCapitalistHistory. In nightly updates, Florida’s ever-rising COVID numbers were read aloud, interlaced with deadpan observations on positive thinking and Florida’s “open for business” mentality. This was the project of Orlando artist Leah Sandler.
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• Meeting the requirements of a new voting law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis will cost Florida elections offices thousands of dollars in additional funding.
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• When the Coalition got Amendment 4 on the ballot and it overwhelmingly passed in 2018, restoring the voting rights of ex-prisoners after they complete their sentences, it might have seemed that the struggle was over. But a recent photo essay in the New York Times illustrates the many barriers still in the way.
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• Orlando is home to genius. Maybe you already knew that. Maybe you don’t think it requires external validation. But it’s always good to hear it acknowledged in the wider world.
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• Florida Congresswoman Val Demings was one of six U.S representatives who signed a letter to the Food and Drug Administration in June asking the FDA to reconsider its longtime policy of banning LGBTQ people — specifically, men who sleep with men — from donating blood.
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