January 1, Top ER Doc Treating COVID-19 Dies by Suicide

This Day in History | 1967

Boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army and is immediately stripped of his heavyweight title. Ali, a Muslim, cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service.

Good morning Middle Americans, 

The American death toll from COVID-19 has now topped 50,000 and everyone of those loses has a tragic story behind it and plenty of friends and family mourning the dead. But this story, for some reason really hits close to home. A top ER Doctor, treating patients on the frontlines died by suicide. “Make sure she’s praised as a hero, because she was, Dr. Lorna Breen’s father told the NY Times. “She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.”

Also today, in the most predictable bull crap ever, we are learning that dead people are receiving $1200 stimulus checks. 

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has released a new batch of videos that appear to show what’s being called “unidentified aerial phenomena”.

Read all about it 

-Fraser Dixon

Top ER Doctor Treating Covid Patients in NY Hospital Dies by Suicide

(NY Times) – A top emergency room doctor at a Manhattan hospital that treated many coronavirus patients died by suicide on Sunday, her father and the police said.

Dr. Lorna M. Breen, the medical director of the emergency department at NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, died in Charlottesville, Va., where she was staying with family, her father said in an interview.

Tyler Hawn, a spokesman for the Charlottesville Police Department, said in an email that officers on Sunday responded to a call seeking medical assistance.

“The victim was taken to U.V.A. Hospital for treatment, but later succumbed to self-inflicted injuries,” Mr. Hawn said.

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Dead People are Receiving $1,200 Stimulus Checks from the IRS

(NBC Houston) – The IRS sent $1,200 checks to millions of Americans as part of a stimulus relief package to help people impacted by the coronavirus pandemic but while some people are still waiting on their money, it appears some dead people are getting paid.

People have reported seeing stimulus payments in the bank accounts of their deceased loved ones, according to reports from several news outlets.

“Payments have gone out to surviving spouses and to bank accounts that relatives kept open to settle a dead loved one’s estate,” the Washington Post reported.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) shared a screenshot to Twitter of a conversation between himself and a friend who said his father received a $1,200 stimulus check even though he died in 2018.

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Pentagon Releases 3 Videos Showing “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”

(CBS News) – The Pentagon on Monday formally released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with “unidentified aerial phenomena.”

One of the videos shows an incident from 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015, according to Sue Gough, a Defense Department spokeswoman. The videos became public after unauthorized leaks in 2007 and 2017, and the Navy previously verified their authenticity.

“After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,” Gough said. 

See the video here