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How can you really get COVID-19 and do masks work? Does sunlight kill coronavirus? Or hydroxychloroquine? Does your blood type prevent COVID? When will we have a vaccine and what if the virus mutates in the meantime? And are any of those conspiracies true?

Sources:

MayoClinic, “Concerns about Waning COVID-19 Immunity Are Likely Overblown by Tanya Lewis @ Scientific American

Healthline article by Julia Ries, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the letter to WHO by Dr. Lidia Morawska and Dr. David K Milton.

“What does and does not correlate with COVID-19 death rates” by Christopher R. Knittel and Bora Ozaltun”

“'Anti-maskers' say medical conditions prevent them from wearing masks, but doctors say that's not a legitimate excuse” by Anna Medaris Miller @ Business Insider

“Even Asymptomatic People Can Spread COVID-19 Within a Room” by Nancy Schimelpfening @ Healthline

Using heat to kill SARS-CoV-2, Abraham, JP, Plourde, BD, Cheng, L., Rev in Med Vir

Simulated Sunlight Rapidly Inactivates SARS-CoV-2 on Surfaces, Ratnesar-Shumate, et. al., Journal of Infectious Diseases

George Washington University @ Milken Institute School of Public Health and CDC.

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In Part 2 of presidential elections we discover why we have the electoral college, what they can and can't do, what happens if no candidate gets a majority of electors, and what if a president who loses an election doesn't want to go?

Sources:

https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/cost.php

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/03/04/michael-bloomberg-most-expensive-self-funded-campaign/4952458002/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/05/06/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-joe-bidens-presidential-campaign/#694c66a241d5

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/04/17/here-are-the-billionaires-backing-donald-trumps-campaign/#2a10d2b77989

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/20/858347477/money-tracker-how-much-trump-and-biden-have-raised-in-the-2020-election

https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/presidential-elections/public-funding-presidential-elections/

https://howmuch.net/articles/how-much-us-presidents-spent-campaign

https://www.investopedia.com/insights/cost-of-becoming-president/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#:~:text=10%20External%20links-,Origins%20of%20the%20color%20scheme,on%20the%20United%20States%20flag.&text=Later%2C%20in%20the%201888%20presidential,and%20red%20for%20the%20Democrats.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/

https://theconversation.com/red-state-blue-state-how-colors-took-sides-in-politics-93541

https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/contributors?id=N00023864

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/10-voter-fraud-lies-debunked

https://time.com/4669899/illegal-citizens-voting-trump/

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debunking-voter-fraud-myth

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/false-narrative-vote-mail-fraud

https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/how-does-vote-by-mail-work-and-does-it-increase-election-fraud/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/guardrails-line-journey-life-mail-ballot-n1233032

https://www.dictionary.com/e/absentee-ballot-vs-mail-in-ballot/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-support-voting-by-mail-but-not-all-of-them-want-to-or-can/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/app-politics-section/donald-trump-mail-in-voter-fraud-fact-check/index.html

https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2020/07/wealthy-donors-pour-millions-into-fight-over-mail-in-voting.html

https://qz.com/829710/how-do-networks-call-the-election-before-all-the-votes-are-counted/

https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/13/projection.explainer/

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Electoral-college-used-instead-of-the-popular-vote

https://news.stanford.edu/2012/08/20/rakove-electoral-college-082012/

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/13/a-majority-of-americans-continue-to-favor-replacing-electoral-college-with-a-nationwide-popular-vote/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/five-common-misconceptions-about-electoral-college/602596/

https://www.270towin.com/content/electoral-college-ties/

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/the-electoral-college.aspx

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/electoral-college/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-electoral-college-faithless-electors/2020/07/06/cf88f706-bf8f-11ea-b178-bb7b05b94af1_story.html

https://apnews.com/5c31277ba2cf43ada82048662eb8b31c

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/885168480/supreme-court-rules-state-faithless-elector-laws-constitutional

https://apnews.com/5c31277ba2cf43ada82048662eb8b31c

https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-could-lose-election-still-remain-president-opinion-1513975

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/15/investigative-journalist-greg-palast-heres-how-trump-will-steal-the-2020-election/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/what-if-he-wont-go/606259/

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/trump-election-refusal-leave.html

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/april-may-june-2019/how-trump-could-lose-the-election-and-remain-president/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-leave-office/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/26/politics/cnn-poll-biden-trump-florida-arizona-michigan/index.html

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In Part 1 of Stupid Questions about presidential elections, we tell you why Republicans are red and Democrats blue, the truth about voter fraud, and just what the heck is mail-in voting?