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The mask is essentially useless: The mask is not an adequate defense against the COVID-19 virus... The virus checks in at somewhere between 0.06 and 0.14 microns, meaning it’s too small for any commercially available mask to effectively filter it out. The pores on an N95 mask, which are the best masks you’re reasonably going to find, and the vast, vast majority of you are not going to have N95 masks but rather cloth masks, which perform far less well, are 0.3 microns ... Staten Island a mob of “karens” forced a woman from a store for not wearing a...

Only two hecklers, out of an audience of 5,000, heckled PM Sharon's speech, succeeding in astounding and silencing him for several minutes before guards forcibly ejected them from the audience. Security was very tight at the AIPAC event in Washington. The speakers warranted it; Hilary Clinton, who preceded Sharon, and Sharon himself are both controversial figures. A group of would-be protestors was kept out of the audience because one of them was wearing an orange shirt, the color of the struggle for Gush Katif and northern Shomron. Sharon was in the midst of being warmly received by the audience, when...

Arab Knesset members’ surprise opposition to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Gaza Withdrawal plan reduces support in the Knesset for his disengagement. Arab Knesset members’ surprise opposition to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan reduces his support to 67 MKs, only seven more than a majority of the parliament’s 120 members. The three Arab-Israeli parties have eight seats in the Knesset. The three-member Hadash-Ta’Al party, headed by Ahmed Tibi, said it is opposed to the plan because it would ”deepen Israeli occupation in the West Bank” and does not include a total withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from the Gaza Strip....

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - New opinion polls put Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's right-wing Likud party firmly on course Monday to win next week's general election and showed that its chief rivals are failing to close the gap. The outcome of the ballot pitting the hawkish Sharon against dovish Labor Party challenger Amram Mitzna is expected to be decisive in determining Israel's future approach to a 27-month-old Palestinian uprising for an independent state. Israel's election fever contrasted sharply with the state of affairs inside the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian leadership Monday marked the cancellation of what had...

Palestinians reject Sharon's plan for new state in unoccupied areas By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem 06 December 2002 Ariel Sharon gave details for the first time yesterday of the sort of Palestinian state he is prepared to agree to under a US peace plan – and the Palestinian leadership immediately rejected the proposals. The Israeli Prime Minister described a Palestinian state existing only in areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip that were put under real or nominal Palestinian control as part of the Oslo peace process – that is, only in Palestinian population centres. The Palestinians want to...