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Matt Wild

@ByMattWild

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Co-founder/editor @milwaukeerecord , above-average bowler

Milwaukee, WI
Joined January 2011
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@ByMattWild
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Honestly the only truly funny thing I've seen today
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16 days
BREAKING: Dude who lives near the Bronze Fonz tells me “hardly anybody” has been visiting the iconic MKE landmark. Truly the last straw, #RNC .
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1 year
Just walked down into the Landmark and thought, “Phew, finally some fresh air.” Wild times.
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3 years
Holy crap remember the time ESPN called Milwaukee a terrible city and then the entire city melted down and then a few weeks later the Bucks won the NBA Championship and then a month later our mayor was named the new U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg?
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2 months
Perfect. Congrats again to all the local politicians, business owners, and tourism groups who bent over backwards for this.
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Jake Sherman
2 months
🚨TRUMP TO HOUSE REPUBLICANS: "Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city."
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2 years
I love living in Wisconsin and forever waking up to headlines like "Top candidate for governor vows to make voting illegal for Democrats, says he's 'unsure' if sex outside of marriage will be punishable by fine or death"
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1 year
Big piece of dogshit loser Daniel Kelly is currently talking shit about the woman who kicked his ass lol. Fuck this guy.
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2 years
Welcome to Wisconsin. Here’s your church can koozie
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2 years
Press release: Milwaukee Bucks and Fiserv Forum President Peter Feigin will announce a new development in Deer District at a press conference on the Plaza on Monday, May 23 at 10 a.m.
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8 months
Ain't that the way it goes
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1 year
Top Wisconsin issues
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4 years
ALERT: UECKER IS ON THE RADIO AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT GRILLING A USINGER'S BRAT IN THE CIGARETTE LIGHTER OF HIS CAR
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
2 years
Marvel: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history Me: #TheLastDriveIn @kinky_horror @therealjoebob @Svengoolie
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
3 years
Downtown Milwaukee’s funniest abstract art installation
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Matt Wild
3 years
I can’t overstate how much I love the Milwaukee Public Museum, and what a loss it will be when it moves/shrinks/modernizes
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@ByMattWild
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1 year
Bucks win, Brewers win, Janet Protasiewicz wins. Good.
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1 year
Me: Here's info on a downtown Milwaukee event that drew 8 gazillion people last year and is expected to draw 8 gazillion people again this year. Some weirdo dipshit: Maybe fix the crime and people will go downtown again!
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1 month
Bob Uecker, calling a grand slam, at 90. Love you, Milwaukee.
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2 years
Respect
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@ByMattWild
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3 years
Tomorrow: Milwaukee’s mask mandate ends, Milwaukee’s electric scooter season begins. OH GOD
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
2 years
Rendering of new Mega Media Xchange for corner of Brady and Farwell
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1 month
At this point it's safe to assume that the RNC will bring less action to downtown than, say, Anime Milwaukee
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Dan Shafer
1 month
NEW SPECIAL REPORT: RNC event bookings have been "underwhelming" and a "failure," says Gary Witt ( @Iamablur ). The Pabst and Riverside will sit empty during the convention. Downtown restaurants also worry about the lack of activity. Let's recombobulate:
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@ByMattWild
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11 months
It’s true: Milwaukee Record is buying the Downer and all we’re showing is UHF
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@ByMattWild
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7 months
Milwaukee Snow Day ™
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3 years
Summerfest has really alienated the "high school friend you blocked on Facebook" demo
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2 months
Paste Media's apparent attempt to rehab The A.V. Club is kind of wild. Hoping for the best.
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2 years
I'd like to announce that I'm planning a 36-story luxury apartment tower and hotel complete with a highly immersive exhibit celebrating Milwaukee's storied past for the empty parking lot behind Boswell Books. Construction begins tomorrow
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
11 months
BREAKING: We're gonna need $200 million from the city and county to fix the stall in our office bathroom and hang some new posters on the walls or we're moving Milwaukee Record to Beaver Dam
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Matt Wild
2 years
It’s Saturday and the weather is perfect and the buses, the streetcar, and Summerfest are all packed and everyone looks great and this is Milwaukee at its absolute best
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4 years
Woke up to three (3) death threats because of this. Go Pack!
@milwaukeerecord
Milwaukee Record
4 years
. @ScottWalker supports local business with cropped pizza photo from 2019
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Matt Wild
2 years
Lots of howlers in the lawsuit filed by neighbors to prevent a 55-unit apartment building from being built near Downer Ave. My favorite: IT'LL BE HARDER TO GET GOOD SEATS AT CAFE HOLLANDER AND THE ANNUAL BIKE RACE
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
3 years
5-day Milwaukee weekend officially begins in 30 minutes
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10 days
3rd St. Market Hall is approximately 5x busier right now than it was any afternoon last week
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
4 years
Tavern League fucks over entire state yet again, woman tweets naughty word
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Journal Sentinel
4 years
Favorite to win Assembly seat in Madison uses c-word to describe tavern lobbyists
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
3 years
Looking for someone to explain NFTs so I can sell this 7-year-old photo of Milverine parting the crowd at Summerfest for $50,000 or whatever
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@ByMattWild
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2 years
Absolutely disgusting that Milwaukee still wants to (and now likely WILL) host this traitorous “political party.” All to appease a tourism group and a restaurant owner. “It’s just business” apparently trumps election lies, bodily autonomy, LGBTQ+ rights, and 100 other things
@MBJretail
MBJ retail & tourism
2 years
Breaking news and a big boost to @cityofmilwaukee 's bid to host @GOP #RNC2024 . Find out the details: Nashville Metro Council withdraws possible agreement for hosting RNC @visitmilwaukee @MayorOfMKE @PaulFarrowWi @Reince
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
4 years
Oh wow remember when Wisconsin Republicans were ready to kill the state's mask mandate and then the night before they read a Journal Sentinel story that said we'd lose $49 million in food aid and then they were like um give us a few days to figure this out
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
3 months
Going to a family function with family members I see once every 5 years at best and I’m gonna take a shot every time someone asks me if I still live in MKE and then says something incredibly shitty about MKE wish me luck it was nice knowing you all
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@ByMattWild
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3 years
FREEWAY #BUCKS
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1 year
I posted this photo with a “Milwaukee Skyline (2023)” caption but now I’m being told by multiple folks that there are in fact much better views of our skyline? News to me! I’ll check into it!
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2 years
Mornings on the East Side
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3 years
Another busy day! @ScottWalker
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Matt Wild
11 months
Me: Lives in a state with a Democratic governor, in a city with a Democratic mayor Every single headline, every single day:
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@ByMattWild
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3 years
Milwaukee's mask mandate is back. Passes Common Council 12-1-1. There you go.
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3 years
BREAKING: Summerfest will require a COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours for entry. Kids under 12 must wear a mask.
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
2 years
check out new, wild renderings of new milwaukee public museum
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
3 years
After all these years, I’m excited to be going back to where it all started…back to the Meatrixx
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2 years
97% of all posts on the Milwaukee subreddit are variations on "What's the worst MKE restaurant lol it's BelAir"
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
4 years
Drove out to Serb Hall to document the pro-Trump “Defend Your Vote” rally, and you know what? Fuck ‘em. Fuck these delusional liars and racist traitors. Fuck ‘em. There are a LOT of them here right now, but fuck ‘em all. I’m turning around and taking a walk and enjoying the sun.
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2 years
Gonna leave Twitter with a scorching Milwaukee hot take: BelAir is good
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
5 months
10 years ago Bar Rescue changed the Y-Not III into a ‘70s-themed bar called Nick’s House and then less than 2 years later it closed and then 2 months later it was demolished and it’s been an empty lot ever since
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@ByMattWild
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7 months
God bless the local news for interviewing area weightlifters about proper snow shoveling techniques
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3 years
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1 year
Yeah, the “Why do people hate Milwaukee?” question is a real head-scratcher. Guess “both sides” need to learn to work together!
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4 years
It's gonna be a good day
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Matt Wild
2 years
Best player trivia ever. #Brewers
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18 days
Milwaukee. Red Arrow Park. #RNC Day 1
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4 years
Milwaukee
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1 year
NOT MY WISCONSIN
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2 years
Shout-out to all the Milwaukee politicians, business owners, and tourism groups that are devastated by recent events...but not devastated enough to tell the 2024 Republican National Convention to go fuck itself
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1 year
Good morning I formatted the Summerfest lineup into something that can be read by humans
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6 months
God bless my neighborhood duck wall
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Matt Wild
16 days
"I've read a lot of things where they've said there's gonna be 50,000 people here, but this looks like a weak Admiral's game," Brashier says. "There's just not a lot of people down here."
@WUWMradio
WUWM 89.7 FM
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'A complete dud': Restaurants and businesses around Fiserv Forum are struggling
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Matt Wild
2 years
I also love that these headlines share equal footing with headlines like "Mandela Barnes seen in 2017 video wearing Public Enemy shirt" or some shit
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Matt Wild
2 years
There are so many amazing things about the Oak Leaf Trail especially the fact that it lets out at the Shorewood Culver's
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Matt Wild
1 year
Just a perfect "Dontcha hate it when Nazis protest the same things you do?" tweet from this upstanding local publication please give them a few more awards @MKEPressClub
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Matt Wild
7 months
REOPEN THE LONG-CLOSED NORTHPOINT BURGER SHACK IN THE AIRPORT
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Matt Wild
4 years
And the award for Best Comment I've Ever Received In My Life goes to... "Save your covid comments bitching and moaning about republicans for a different topic. Fucking wanted to read about cheese curds and you drop that bull shit."
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3 years
My favorite things in the Milwaukee Public Museum are the old dioramas and my favorite things in the old dioramas are the big empty skies
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2 years
Fun fact: @TylerJamesMaas and I launched @milwaukeerecord 8 years ago today. We've since published more than 8,000 articles, and all of them have been good. Happy anniversary to us!
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15 days
Apples and oranges, and yes, MKE should host every national convention it can, etc., but it's still fun to note that the homegrown Midwest Gaming Classic drew 30,000 folks this past April and downtown was open and busy and fun
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3 years
Hi I’m at an East Side bar that’s being flooded by an East Side restaurant upstairs and all the just-fired-because-they-complained-to-management employees of the East Side restaurant are here and the East Side bar is buying them shots
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@ByMattWild
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8 months
Went to the Domes and they were handing out souvenir holiday stickers and when the older guy ahead of me got one he was like “You call this a souvenir? Gee, thanks” and I wonder how many Facebook comments this winner leaves on local news stories every day
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3 years
Happy New They Might Be Giants Album Day to those who celebrate. @tmbg
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3 years
That's me in the corner / That's me in the New York Times' weekly "Well" newsletter / Joking about cream puffs
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4 months
SHOUT-OUT TO THE LADY WALKING A ROOSTER ON DOWNER AVENUE
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3 years
But is Milwaukee the best city on planet Earth find out when we unveil our 10,000-city bracket later today up first is Madrid v. Wauwatosa
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Matt Wild
2 years
I am once again asking you to visit the big, dark, magical @MKEPublicMuseum while you still can
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Don't want to brag but I got 69, Texas Jays, Cousins, and DIX all in one shot. @MKEPressClub
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8 months
Milwaukee ASMR
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2 years
R.I.P. JUDGE’S
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3 years
A moment of silence for @AaronRodgers12 , who, exactly one week ago, was forever banished from society after the woke mob put the final nail in his cancel culture casket. Condolences to his girlfriend, his podcast host, and the great MLK
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10 months
Milverine taking shots
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3 years
Congrats to Very Good Football Player and Deeply Stupid Person @AaronRodgers12 !
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2 months
Milwaukee went into meltdown mode FOR A FULL YEAR when some ESPN dolts called the city "terrible." But here we are, two years later, kissing the asses of a "political party" that vocally loathes us. Beautiful work, everyone!
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3 years
My 7-year-old, closing her laptop after another day of virtual school: “WHAT TIME DOES THE LANDMARK OPEN?”
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2 years
Area Man Makes Front Page Of Hometown Paper
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World events
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9 months
Not a week (day?) goes by on the Milwaukee subreddit without a new "worst/overrated restaurant?" thing and it's always Lowlands restaurants and BelAir followed by every other restaurant in the city
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If there’s one takeaway from all this, it’s that maybe we shouldn’t complain when Summerfest draws 555,000
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2 years
I know it’s not the case, but I still refuse to believe A.) real people live in the apartments in the old Grand Avenue mall, and B.) this indoor pickleball court has ever been used
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4 years
Oh my god I miss the Prospect Mall, the seedy East Side mini-mall with a seedy two-screen movie theater, a seedy video store (with porn), a seedy used record/book store (with porn), a wood paneled Chocolate Factory, and Thai Joe's
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2 years
Skywalks of Old Milwaukee
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1 year
It's National Frozen Custard Day and I'll always cherish the time I was at Kopp's with my then 3-year-old kid and she said "Daddy, I love ice cream!" and a local food host who was standing nearby loudly and irately said "It's CUSTARD!"
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3 years
Republicans: "We hate you, Milwaukee. We tried to throw out your votes the last time and you better believe we'll do it again. We hate you." Milwaukee: "Check out our great entertainment and dining scenes! Did you know that the first modern typewriter was patented here?"
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Jeramey Jannene
3 years
Milwaukee is one of four finalists for the 2024 Republican National Convention.
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"Welcome to Dorsia! What can I get for you tonight?"
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@ByMattWild
Matt Wild
4 years
Was Steny's one of the places promoting that petition to reopen with or without city approval? Of course it was
@milwaukeerecord
Milwaukee Record
4 years
Steny's closes for deep cleaning: "A positive case of COVID-19 has made its way into our building"
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