COVID-19 Mandates are Back: Atlanta-Based Morris Brown College Reinstates Masks Mandates, Social Distancing, Quarantine, Contact Tracing Effective Immediately Despite No Reported COVID-19 Cases on Campus

Morris Brown College, a private institution in Atlanta, has announced that it will require students and employees to wear face masks on campus once again.

The decision comes just a week after classes began and will be in effect for two weeks.

The announcement was made on Sunday in a letter to faculty, staff, and students, citing “reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center” as the reason behind the decision, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Morris Brown President Kevin James informed the news outlet via email on Monday that there have been no reports of COVID-19 cases on Morris Brown’s campus itself. He characterized the measures as “precautionary” in nature.

In his message to the college community, Dr. Kevin James stated:

“Effective immediately, Morris Brown College has reinstated its COVID-19 mask mandate due to reports of positive cases among students in the Atlanta University Center. Over the next 14 days, the following protocols will be in place:

Mask Wearing: All students and employees are required to wear face masks (staff may remove in their offices while alone).

Physical Distancing: Students must maintain physical distancing.

Large Gatherings: Institutional guidelines for gathering sizes must be followed. There will be no parties or large student events on campus for the next two weeks.

Isolation and Quarantine: Students must adhere to institutional policies and CDC guidelines for isolation and quarantine.

Contact Tracing: Compliance with college-initiated contact tracing efforts is expected.

Symptom Monitoring: Students and employees are obligated to undergo temperature checks upon campus arrival.

Regular Hand Washing/Sanitization: Frequent hand washing is expected from all students and employees. In case of a positive COVID-19 test, isolate for at least 5 days and inform your instructor for virtual class arrangements.”

“We prioritize your safety and seek your cooperation in preventing another pandemic,” James said in his campus letter.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/covid-19-mandates-are-back-atlanta-based-morris/

Declaring a “climate emergency” means giving one man the power to unilaterally spend mountains of tax dollars and revoke freedoms in the name of an unquantifiable threat.

Realize where we are.

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New memos undercut Biden-Ukraine narrative Democrats sold during 2019 impeachment scandal

Newly disclosed State Department memos conflict with the narrative Democrats crafted since 2019 impeachment.

Just weeks before then-Vice President Joe Biden took the opposite action in late 2015, a task force of State, Treasury and Justice Department officials declared that Ukraine had made adequate progress on anti-corruption reforms and deserved a new $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee, according to government memos that conflict with the narrative Democrats have sustained since the 2019 impeachment scandal.

“Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee,” reads an Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizing the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee (IPC) – a task force created to advise the Obama White House on whether Ukraine was cleaning up its endemic corruption and deserved more Western foreign aid.

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UkraineTaskForceLoanGuaranteeMemo.pdf

The recommendation is one of several U.S. government memos gathered by Just the News over the last 36 months from Freedom of Information Act litigation, congressional inquiries and government agency sources that directly conflict with the long-held narrative that Biden was conducting official U.S. policy when he threatened to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to force Ukraine to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the country’s equivalent of the American attorney general.

At the time the threat was made in December 2015, Shokin’s office was conducting an increasingly aggressive corruption investigation into Burisma Holdings, an energy firm the State Department deemed to have been engaged in bribery and that employed Hunter Biden and paid him millions while his father was vice president.

New details on the impact of that probe have emerged in recent days.

Shokin's pursuit was rattling Burisma, and the firm was putting pressure on Hunter Biden to deal with it, according to recent testimony and interviews with Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner and fellow Burisma board member.

The memos obtained by Just the News show:

Senior State Department officials sent a conflicting message to Shokin before he was fired, inviting his staff to Washington for a January 2016 strategy session and sent him a personal note saying they were “impressed” with his office's work.

U.S. officials faced pressure from Burisma emissaries in the United States to make the corruption allegations go away and feared the energy firm had made two bribery payments in Ukraine as part of an effort to get cases settled.

A top U.S. official in Kyiv blamed Hunter Biden for undercutting U.S. anticorruption policy in Ukraine through his dealings with Burisma.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/hdfeds-urged-biden-give-ukraine-loan-guarantee-he

NT Supreme Court judge says Meta must 'take some responsibility' for sharing of child abuse material

A Northern Territory Supreme Court judge has called for social media companies to "take some responsibility" for the sharing of child abuse material on their platforms after seeing a number of similar cases.

Key points:

Justice Jenny Blokland says several NT cases have involved illegal content being shared on social media

She told the court platforms must "take some responsibility"

The comments were made during the sentencing of a Wadeye man who accessed child abuse material on Facebook

Justice Jenny Blokland made the comments in sentencing a 19-year-old man, John Mullumbuk, last week for accessing and possessing or controlling child abuse material.

"Social media platforms need to take some responsibility for the dissemination of the material," she told the court.

"Otherwise there may be a whole new category of young people, especially from remote areas, going to jail for this type of offending."

Mullumbuk, who is from the remote NT community of Wadeye, pleaded guilty to one charge of using a carriage service to access child abuse material and another of possessing or controlling child abuse abuse material.

Justice Blokland said Crown facts showed he had "accessed all of this material on Facebook".

The court heard Mullumbuk had been found with 37 child abuse material files saved on his phone, including a video depicting the sexual abuse of a five to six-year-old child, which had been posted in a group chat he was a part of.

Justice Blokland said Mullumbuk's case was one of "a number of similar cases before the court recently" and suggested there was a need for better education, especially in remote communities.

"Young people like Mr Mullumbuk have been accessing legal pornography, quite randomly it seems, but within that material, there is child abuse material," she said.

"There needs to be greater awareness of child abuse material being found this way on ordinary social media platforms."

Justice Blokland said the material was "highly exploitative of children".

"Not only in Australia, but [the material] ends up exploiting young people, girls and boys, internationally," she said.

"Every crime of child exploitation is serious."

In July, another man pleaded guilty to a raft of serious child abuse material offences in the NT, after using social media platform Kik to send and receive thousands of images and videos in chat groups.

Mullumbuk's matter an 'exceptional case'

Mullumbuk was sentenced to 15 months in prison, suspended immediately, provided he be subject to a good behaviour bond for 18 months.

Justice Blokland said while imprisonment was "usually warranted" in child abuse material cases, Mullumuk's was an "exceptional case" — in part because he did not "seek out" the child abuse material himself but received it and downloaded it through various chat groups.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-22/nt-supreme-court-social-media-meta-child-abuse-material/102754128