Today, Lincoln’s Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird announced that as of May 11, the city’s directed health measures will be in line with the state’s. That means restaurants will be allowed to re-open their dining rooms (at half capacity), and other services involving close, extended physical contact (ideal conditions for viral spread) will be allowed to […]
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Ep9 – Nebraska Primary 2020 Chatter
Episode 9 – Join SeeingRed as we chat about Nebraska’s 2020 primary on May 12th. We cannot stress this enough, if you received a mail in ballot, you must MAIL IT BACK! And if you plan to vote in person, double check your polling location as many have moved due to Covid-19. April is reading: […]
Have you ever wondered why someone who hates “big government” decides they would like to run it? They have absolutely no incentive to make government work for the average person, and in fact, they purposely defund and create red tape in order to create inefficiencies and burdens so that they can prove to their constituents […]
Episode 8 – Join SeeingRed as we laugh about the twitter drama of Nebraska Crossing and welcome back Dr Trish Wonch Hill, medical sociologist, to the pod. Most recently she wrote The Nebraska Coronavirus Fairy Tale on the seeingrednebraska blog which was shared over 2000 times. In this episode she talks about the science of […]
You have probably heard about Test Nebraska, a new web site collecting personal health information in response to the coronavirus epidemic. A lot of disconcerting information is coming out about this web site and the companies behind it. Here are some facts you need to know. The Ricketts administration signed a $27 million no-bid contract […]
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Medical Data For Profit
April and Melody have dusted off their mics to come back and talk about Nebraska politics. In this episode Amanda Gailey comes to talk about the new for-profit company that has set up shop in Utah, Iowa, and now Nebraska to collect the medical data of everyone in the state. Check out our book shoutouts […]
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We are meat.
This week about 50 workers at the Smithfield pork plant in Crete left their places on the lines and walked out in protest after it was announced that the plant, which had previously announced it would close to protect the health of its workers, would stay open after all, with no real concessions made to […]
As the corona virus is spreading exponentially through Nebraska, one hot spot popping up after another, the rest of America is wondering why our governor is lifting our light social distancing restrictions instead of strengthening them. The answer is that he does not want his loyal corporate class to feel any pain when he can […]
We, here at Seeing Red are committed to continuing to watch Ricketts’ daily racially coded press conference so that you don’t have to. You’re welcome. It is absolutely detrimental to every viewer’s mental health, but we will gladly shoulder that burden so you don’t have to. Today he made it 32 full minutes before turning […]
Since Nebraska started seeing spikes in COVID-19 cases in rural communities, the governor has been shamelessly scapegoating our immigrant population, from blaming the outbreaks on a Quinceañera that occurred the same night as his friend Julie Slama’s state basketball party, to his latest suggestion at his press conferences that those who do not have English […]
