In a pandemic world with zoom meetings.. we have a new disease… On this episode of OFF AIR with Matt & Ramona, Ramona has a case of FACIAL EXPRESSION MANAGEMENT DISORDER: (when you can’t control your face in a zoom meeting)! Matt tries to coach her to fix her face. PLUS! We’re talking the BILLION […]

Pandemic work life still isn’t back to what we remember as normal. Some of us haven’t been to an in person meeting in over 18 months. When we do we’re often met with creepily vacant hallways. Socializing with coworkers isn’t what it used to be. Will there even be a holiday party this year? Here […]

An ‘alarming’ study from the CDC found that childhood obesity rates in the U.S. got worse during the pandemic. The study found that obsese children gained between 12-14 pounds during the pandemic year, nearly double the typical rate. Children at a healthy weight also tended to gain an extra two pounds on average during the […]

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits had a slight jump last week, going up to 332 thousand. This increase is up by 20 thousand from the week prior, which was a pandemic low. In Louisiana, claims were up by 4 thousand, most likely due to the effects of Hurricane Ida. It is believed […]

Health

Are you an indoor human? Have you become more of an outdoor human thanks to the pandemic? If so, you are not alone. Three out of Five “Indoor” Americans have changed their ways and become outdoor people.

Dr. Fauci says the pandemic “isn’t over yet.” Things seem to be slowly getting back to normal as summer approaches – but Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that the COVID-19 pandemic “isn’t over yet.” Speaking to MSNBC, Fauci said the country is “clearly going in the right direction,” but warns, “We don’t want people to look […]

Since several states have dropped the statewide mask mandate a lot of major stores are as well. A number of major retailers including Walmart, Target, and Starbucks will no longer require customers or employees to wear facemasks inside the store. The move comes after the CDC released new guidelines last week that fully vaccinated people […]

According to the CDC, fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask nor social distance. CDC director Dr. Rochelle Wallensky said, “Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines, and our understanding of how the virus spreads,” she continued to state, “that moment has […]

National

A total of 45,085 new cases were reported yesterday across the nation. A seven-month low before a rise at the end of last year that left thousands of Americans dead. Despite an overwhelming surge of cases in countries like India and Brazil, the U.S. still leads the world with over 579,000 deaths since last March. 

When Rebecca Danigelis got fired from her job of over 50 years the only thing she knew to do was to call her son. Sian-Pierre Regis got the call from his mother saying she had lost her job and only had $600 in her bank account. That’s when the young filmmaker turned his camera on […]