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NC Reports 1st Death of a Child from COVID-19; People Getting Arrested for Not Socially Distancing and Matrix 4 Revealed to Have An ‘Absolutely Crazy’ Action Scene.
A second-grader in North Carolina has died after a weeklong fight with COVID-19. According to NBC affiliate WRAL, this marks the first child fatality in the state.
Aurea Soto Morales was a student at Creekside Elementary School in Durham. She died on Monday after being hospitalized for coronavirus complications at UNC Medical Center. Morales started feeling sick on Thursday, May 28.
Her parents are hoping that their daughter’s story will help other parents take the pandemic more seriously.
“It just went down so quickly and I didn’t even get to say goodbye to her,” said Jennifer Jano Morales, her sister.
“As soon as we left the clinic my sister had a seizure in the back of the van,” she said. “I never knew it would be that quick. I never knew it would happen so fast.”
A GoFundMe page has been created to help raise money for the family.
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Enforcement of social distancing has typically involved police officers working to disperse gatherings. However, there have been over 40 arrests of people who refuse to comply with the temporary orders in New York.
Some people are comparing such actions with the “stop and frisk” policies of the Bloomberg administration.
Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke out on the practices, saying that the two approaches had nothing in common.
“What happened with stop and frisk was a systematic, oppressive, unconstitutional strategy that created a new problem much bigger than anything it purported to solve,” he said.
“This is the farthest thing from that, this is addressing a pandemic. This is addressing the fact that lives are in danger all the time. By definition, our police department needs to be a part of that because safety is what they do.”
On Twitter, Mr. de Blasio added, “The disparity in the numbers does NOT reflect our values. We HAVE TO do better and we WILL.”
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After almost 20 years, Keanu Reeves will be reprising his role as Neo when The Matrix returns to the big screen next year. It promises to bring an “absolutely crazy” action scene along with it.
Keanu’s stunt double, Chad Stahelsky, was questioned about what Lana Wachowski, the director and co-writer, expected him to do during the crazy scenes.
“She’s got some really great ideas… She wants to collaborate and see how high you can take it in collaboration. So, to answer your question, she comes with this idea. She comes with this set piece. She comes with, ‘This is the character, this is what’s happening. This is where I need him to be emotionally or psychologically or whatever plot-wise at the end of this sequence. What do you got in your bag of tricks to make it absolutely crazy?'”
Here’s hoping Stahelsky won’t need any back pain treatment after this!
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