Posts on Saturday, March 14, 2020
The city of San Francisco preemptively rolled out 30 recreational vehicles on Tuesday (March 19) it said would be used to house individuals who do not have their own home and have tested positive for COVID-19, the highly contagious and sometimes fatal respiratory illness caused by coronavirus.
The 30 vehicles, which cost just above $440,000, were rented through June and were paid for by funds gained through Mayor London Breed’s emergency declaration, will be available to individuals identified through the Department of Public Health or through health care providers, Francis Zamora, director of external affairs for the city’s emergency management department, told reporters on Tuesday.
Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes accused the “media and the left” of “putting the country into a panic” over the coronavirus pandemic. Appearing on Saturday night’s “Watters World,” Nunes drew from his own experience coming down with H1N1 to urge Americans to “remain calm.” WATCH: (Video) “A lot of people are panicking,” Nunes told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “One guy sneezed. Someone has a runny nose.” The California congressman noted that most of this will be because of the oncoming Spring and the fact that people “have a lot of allergies.”
Just a few months before the Covid-19 outbreak, an exercise was held by world elites called Event 201, where they simulated a global pandemic of a coronavirus that transmitted from bats to humans. Taking place in October, the event was hosted by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Bloomberg School Of Public Health, World Economic Forum, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The simulation analyzed the health impacts, as well as the economic, lifestyle, and trade fallout from the virus. The Event 201 scenario Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Saturday called for the construction of “emergency housing” as a means to address the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.“We need to construct emergency housing to make sure that the homeless, survivors of domestic violence, and college students quarantined off campus are able to receive the shelter, health care, and nutrition they need,” Sanders said on Saturday: (Tweet) Sanders’ call follows President Trump’s decision to make an emergency declaration as local officials, organizations, and businesses across the United States take drastic steps –shutting down their operations, banning large gatherings, postponing elections, and suspending their events
Three people have made a full recovery after testing positive for the Chinese coronavirus in Montgomery County, Maryland, recently.Friday, Montgomery County’s Chief Health Officer Dr. Travis Gayles said the first three individuals in the state who tested positive for the virus have been able to resume their everyday lives, according to Fox 5.The patients, a married couple in their 70s and another woman in her 50s, contracted the disease while traveling on an Egyptian Nile River cruise.“I’m happy to report that the first three cases that were reported last Thursday have all cleared and have been cleared to return back to their normal daily life schedules,”
Canada completes the North American cycle with their ratification of the USMCA to replace NAFTA. Mexico and the U.S. ratified the new trade agreement last year and January respectively. The Canadian parliament did so yesterday.CANADA – Canada on Friday formally approved the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), taking the last legislative step to implementation of the deal to replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The trade deal, ratified by the Mexican legislature last June and by Congress in January, was formally ratified by the Canadian Senate Friday, and shortly thereafter received royal assent, the Canadian governor general’s approval.
President Donald Trump has tested negative for the coronavirus, the White House announced on Saturday evening.
“Last night after an in-depth discussion with the President regarding COVID-19 testing, he elected to proceed. This evening I received confirmation that the test is negative,” White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said in a statement released via White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. “One week after having dinner with the Brazilian delegation in Mar-a-Lago, the President remains symptom-free. I have been in daily contact with the CDC and White House Coronavirus Task Force, and we are encouraging implementation of all their best practices for exposure reduction and transmission mitigation.”
Union Worker Who Tussled With Joe Biden
Has A Message For Him — And Anyone
Coming For The AR-14s replies
Has A Message For Him — And Anyone
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Jerry Wayne teamed up with the National Rifle Association (NRA) to challenge former Vice President Joe Biden after a video of their meeting in Michigan went viral. Wayne, a union auto worker, asked Biden last Tuesday about his gun control plan — and Biden responded by telling Wayne that he was “full of s**t,” claimed that he only meant to take “machine guns” like the “AR-14s” and threatened to “take him outside.” On Friday, the NRA released a new video featuring Wayne firing a custom “AR-14” with Biden’s profile and the words
The White House was taking the temperatures of reporters entering the press briefing today by President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
That’s probably a smart idea to limit any possible exposure to them.
In the process, they picked up one person who they didn’t recognize who had a fever. The man was tested three times over a period of fifteen minutes and was over 100 each time. [Tweets]
Coronavirusmania has overtaken America. Although there are no reported cases anywhere near some school districts, their doors have been closed thus forcing children to go to school until August. Others are considering remote learning assuming every student has a computer at home.
Every night, the lead story on the news is about coronavirus, the latest statistics, the latest cancellation. I take it as a small blessing that Pearl Jam cancelled the spring leg of their tour saving me a trip to Baltimore (like Pearl Jam, hate Baltimore). But that blessing was blown up in smoke when my beloved NHL suspended the season
Yikes.
It’s moments like this that have more and more people understandably concerned about the mental well-being of the Democrat front-runner for president.
And note too how his handlers quickly replace the image of confused Joe Biden shuffling out of frame with a campaign logo image during what was a live video stream meant to show Mr. Biden discussing concerns with voters.
Trying to keep these Biden gaffes somewhat contained/hidden has become a 24/7 operation for the Biden campaign.
In a bizarre, meandering livestream put on by Joe Biden's campaign today, he forgets what year it is and when, if he doesn't lose, he would be in office.
Remember that autoworker who Joe Biden threatened for daring to point out that Biden wanted to take our guns? (Tweet/Video) That was Jerry Wayne. It showed how out of control Biden can get when he’s confronted (and proven wrong about an issue) and how ignorant he was about guns. Biden threatened to slap Wayne in the face and even offered to take him outside. Biden referred to an “AR-14”
After the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington on Thursday announced the cancellation of upcoming Masses because of the coronavirus pandemic, many Catholics are scrambling for other options.
Archbishop Wilton Gregory issued a dispensation from the Sunday obligation and recommended that people watch livestreamed Masses instead. But for many Catholics, simply watching Mass, on Sunday as well on St. Joseph’s and St. Patrick’s Day, the two major feasts next week, is an unsatisfying prospect.
"I was shocked, but what are you going to do?” said Jacquelyn Basso, who lives part-time in D.C. “I’m so sad they’re not going to have Mass."
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio advocated for nationalizing certain industries to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
While appearing on MSNBC's AM Joy, host Joy Reid asked de Blasio how someone in New York City should go about getting tested during the growing COVID-19 pandemic.
"People can get tested according to a priority structure, and it's not enough testing. It's just as simple as that," de Blasio said, later claiming that the city has been "pleading" with the federal government for additional testing. "Here's the reality. This is a war-like situation. We're in a wartime scenario with a 'Mar-a-Lago attitude' being used by the federal government, right?"
'Nothing wrong with godly principles': Ben
Carson lauds Trump for National Day of
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Carson lauds Trump for National Day of
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson praised President Trump's call for a National Day of Prayer as the coronavirus outbreak grips the nation.As Vice President Mike Pence and officials of the White House Coronavirus Task Force provided updates to the public on the growing COVID-19 pandemic, Carson spoke on the upcoming National Day of Prayer tailored to boosting morale among the public."I hope that we as a nation can use this as an opportunity to pull together for good. You know, President Trump is going to be recommending a National Day of Prayer. And you know, we've gotten away from prayer and faith
Friday, Prime Minister Trudeau announced Canada would be restricting inbound flights, recommending everyone stay in the country, and is considering closing borders to mitigate spread of COVID-19. Trudeau’s wife Sophie recently tested positive for the Wuhan Coronavirus.
From CBC:
The federal government is warning against all international travel and is limiting inbound flights in order to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau detailed the new measures during a news conference Friday. Trudeau is in self-isolation due to the confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis for his wife, Sophie.
Trudeau said that, aside from the sweeping travel advisory, the government is also taking steps to prevent infections.
Donald Trump has extended the United States' coronavirus travel ban to people from the UK and Ireland. The flight freeze will kick in at midnight tomorrow, scuppering work and holiday plans for Britons preparing to make trans-Atlantic trips. The President had initially excluded the UK and Ireland from the European ban of 26 countries, but added it to the blacklist this afternoon as infection rates soared overnight. Under the restrictions, American citizens and green card holders are still allowed to return home,
Members of the media ripped Surgeon General Jerome Adams after he reprimanded journalists for their coverage of the White House response to the coronavirus.Many journalists suggested Adams was imposing a double standard with his criticism of “partisanship” in the media’s reports of the coronavirus because he did not mention remarks from President Trump that have blamed Democrats for their alleged role in the pandemic’s spread.“Quite a prescription from the surgeon general. Reporters are reporting after a series of mess ups by the government in their response to the coronavirus,” said New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman.
In 2016, many people (liberal ones anyway) asked what would happen if Trump wouldn’t concede the election to Hillary Clinton. In 2019, the same people asked what would happen if Trump doesn’t concede the 2020 election if he loses. Again, a silly question, because the transfer of power isn’t dependent on the concession of the candidate, regardless of whether he or she is an incumbent.
After Louisiana postponed its primary on Friday, the big question of 2020 is whether the coronavirus outbreak might cause the 2020 election to be postponed. In fact, unhinged liberals on social media have been “predicting” this will happen for weeks.
It's been a big week on the coronavirus front. In an Oval Office address on Wednesday, President Trump announced a ban on European continental travel to and from the U.S. Now the president has added more countries to that ban.
Saturday the president added Britain and Ireland to the list — a mere two days after meeting with Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. [Tweets]
During a White House press conference with CEOs of companies helping in the testing for the coronavirus on Friday, President Trump was asked if he'd consider adding Britain to the list of banned countries due to a spike in cases there.
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” the old saying goes.But what do you have to consume to protect yourself from coronavirus? According to one Hindu group in India, the answer is simple – a tall glass of cow urine.Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (All India Hindu Union) will be hosting a cow urine drinking party to test their belief that the golden substance will help protect their bodies against the pandemic known as COVID-19. Because their religion says that cows are sacred, their urine is alleged to have medicinal properties.“We have been drinking cow urine for 21 years, we also take bath in cow dung.
GOP’s ‘anti-AOC’ candidate rattles Dems:
‘They can’t fathom that a young Latina could
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A young Republican candidate billed as the “anti-AOC” called out the mainstream media that “carries water” for House Democrats and “can’t fathom” how she could be a Trump supporter. Catalina Lauf, who launched her campaign for office in Illinois’ 14th District last year, spoke with Fox News’ “Media Angle” about her plan to help modernize the face of the GOP while providing a strong voice against the progressive left. (Photo) The 25-year-old has set her sights on winning the state’s Republican primary on Tuesday and then following up by defeating Rep. Lauren Underwood, who was elected in the 2018 midterms as part of the “blue wave” of Democrats
The director of Ohio's Department of Health, Amy Acton, shocked a lot of people on Thursday when she said in a press conference that she believed 100,000 Ohioans had already contracted Covid-19.
The Hill:
"We know now, just the fact of community spread, says that at least 1 percent, at the very least, 1 percent of our population is carrying this virus in Ohio today," Acton said. "We have 11.7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. So that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly."
The Columbus Dispatch offered effusive praise of Acton for being a "voice of knowledge."
Democrats seem to be repeating the mistake of 2016.
Just as four years ago, they are disenfranchising far left supporters of Bernie Sanders, many of whom are already saying they will never vote for Joe Biden.
Democrats obviously hope these people will eventually come around but if history is any guide, many of them won’t.
Politico reports:
A ‘Never Biden’ movement vows not to vote for Joe
On Tuesday night, Joe Biden’s campaign was celebrating his latest primary night triumph.
By Wednesday morning, #NeverBiden, #WriteinBernie and #DemExit2020 hashtags began trending on Twitter.
There’s no question it’s been a banner two weeks for Biden. But lurking in the background of his sudden ascension to all-but-presumptive nominee is evidence
Surgeon General Jerome Adams ripped into reporters during a White House press conference, telling them they should stop blaming the Trump administration for their response to the coronavirus outbreak."We really need you all to lean into and prioritize the health and safety of the American people," Adams said at the Saturday press conference. "No more bickering. No more partisanship. No more criticism or finger-pointing."The comment comes as the United States remains far behind many other countries in testing response. Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci admitted America was "failing" when it came to coronavirus testing.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is being tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to a GOP spokesperson. She went to a Michigan hospital Friday night because she was experiencing flu-like symptoms and a fever, RNC Communications Director Michael Ahrens said in a statement. Tests for flu and Streptococcus came back negative, he said. McDaniel was then tested for COVID-19. Results have not come back yet, Ahrens said.'
Talk about irony.
Mexico is mulling measures it may take with its northern border over fears that coronavirus will spread from the U.S., health officials said on Friday.
The country has has confirmed 16 cases of coronavirus with no deaths, while there are more than 1,800 cases in the United States, where 41 people have died.
Mexico’s deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said contagion from the United States is a threat, Reuters reported.
“Mexico wouldn’t bring the virus to the United States, rather the United States would bring it here,” he said at a news conference “The possible flow of coronavirus would come from the north to the south.”
Closing schools for eight weeks or more may have a greater impact on mitigating the spread of the novel coronavirus than two- to four-week closures, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said. Shorter-term closures will likely make little difference in the spread of the disease, new CDC guidance states, even as K-12 school districts across the country began announcing school closures within the shorter time frame. Further, short-term closures may actually have detrimental effects, negatively impacting older caregivers at home, the CDC said.
Andrew Gillum's carefully cultivated image as a rising political star and God-fearing family man came crashing down after he was found in a Miami Beach hotel room with two men and baggies of suspected meth. The former Tallahassee, Fla., mayor was in Tallahassee on Monday to energize college voters at Florida State and Florida A&M University, where his political ambitions were born. But four days later, his well-publicized effort to register a million voters ahead of Election Day was in major doubt, along with his once-promising political career. After the news broke, the normally visible Gillum shrunk from public view
A family of five men were found guilty for spending the last decade running an international sex trafficking ring where girls were smuggled into the U.S. and forced to work in prostitution, authorities said Saturday. A Brooklyn federal jury convicted brothers Jose Osvaldo Melendez-Rojas, 43, Rosalio Melendez-Rojas, 38, Jose Miguel Melendez-Rojas, 43, and two relatives of sex trafficking, money laundering, sex trafficking conspiracy and interstate prostitution charges Friday night.(Snip) At least six victims from ages 14 to early 20s were trafficked by the brothers and ferried to clients in apartments in Flushing and Corona, with the help of the siblings’ nephew Francisco
President Donald Trump’s physician on Friday issued a letter explaining why it was not necessary for the president to get tested for the Chinese coronavirus. “[G]iven the president himself remains without symptoms, testing for COVID-19 is not currently indicated,” Sean Conley, Navy physician to the president, wrote late Friday night in a letter released by the White House press office. Conley noted that Trump’s exposure to two different people from the Brazilian delegation visiting his club at Mar-a-Lago, who later were found to have been infected by the virus, was “extremely limited.”
In October 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel published an essay in the Atlantic called “Why I Hope to Die at 75.” Because Emanuel is a medical doctor and chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s department of medical ethics and health policy, as well as a chief architect of Obamacare, the article stirred enormous controversy.Emanuel vowed to refuse not only heroic medical interventions once he turned 75, but also antibiotics and vaccinations. His argument: older Americans live too long in a diminished state, raising the question of, as he put it, “whether our consumption is worth our contribution.”
(Snip)If you look at really smart people, there aren’t that many writing brand-new books
Living right next to New Rochelle, I was certainly struck when I heard it was the epicenter of Wuhan-virus infection in the United States. More than 100 of our nation’s at least 1,663 cases are in the small city of almost 80,000 people, the result of a congregant inadvertently infecting others at the Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue earlier this month. That man, a lawyer who works near Grand Central Station in Manhattan, is currently hospitalized.
Beth Cameron, an expert in global health security and biodefense, complained in the Washington Post, "I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it."
Given President Donald John Trump's swift action to restrict travel to Red China and other infested places, the CDC's swift action to develop tests, and the reaction at the state and local level, what exactly would an Office of Pandemics do?
I mean besides get in the way. Created in 2015, the office never handled a pandemic.
A pandemic is an emergency situation that falls on the shoulders of one man: the president. Obama appointed Biden to head in reaction in the H1N1 pandemic in 2009.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, the biggest newspaper in Ohio, is in the process of axing 22 journalists from its already ravaged newsroom—the latest dramatic downsizing of a major metro paper. The paper is part of Advance Publications, the media empire owned by the billionaire Newhouse family that also owns Condé Nast. The Plain Dealer News Guild blasted the move as “union busting,” claiming it will be down to only 14 unionized editorial employees at the daily paper. In the mid-1990s, it said there were still more than 340 people on the editorial side of the paper. “Today it is with a heavy heart
The debate over the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is remarkably devoid of hard data comparisons. With President Trump’s decision on Wednesday to expand travel restrictions to the European Union, it is time to evaluate the very different approaches to travel restrictions that the U.S. and the E.U. have taken.
The end of January seems long ago. Until January 30th, the World Health Organization (WHO) explicitly declined to classify the coronavirus (COVID-19) as a global emergency. It urged countries not to restrict travel or trade.
The WHO announcement on travel was partially in response to the U.S. government’s January 27th recommendation that Americans “avoid all non-essential travel to China.”
The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu viruses — and spread the viruses throughout the store. Researchers have been warning for years about the risks of these bags spreading deadly viral and bacterial diseases, but public officials have ignored their concerns, determined to eliminate single-use bags and other plastic products despite their obvious advantages in reducing the spread of pathogens. In New York state, a new law took effect this month banning single-use plastic bags in most retail businesses,
Bill Maher mocks gun-owners after sales
spike during outbreak: ‘So American.. .
I’ll shoot the virus!’ replies
spike during outbreak: ‘So American.. .
I’ll shoot the virus!’ replies
Celebrated liberal comedian Bill Maher appears to be unable to comprehend why Americans wary of potential coronavirus-related supply chain disruptions, grocery shortages, travel quarantines and harassment/violence have reportedly been purchasing firearms in droves.“You know what’s up? All the businesses are closed in America, except gun sales,” he bemoaned during Friday’s edition of HBO’s “Real Time.” “So American.”“I’ll shoot the virus!” he added as he switched to a white country accent. “Get off my porch, you f—ing virus, or I’ll blow your … what do you got in there? I’ll blow it out!”
Joe Biden has solidified his position as the Democratic front-runner after recent primary wins -- but still has some personal issues to work on, "Real Time" host Bill Maher said Friday night. During the show's panel discussion, Maher began by praising Biden for his remarks on the coronavirus outbreak following President Trump's much-criticized Oval Office address. (Snip) The HBO star pointed to the altercation Biden had with the Detroit autoworker over his stance on guns and when Biden threatened to "slap" the worker. "His big go-to is, 'You wanna fight?' Who's 78 and every time there's an argument, it's like, 'You
Some New Jersey residents recently attempted to lighten the tension surrounding the coronavirus crisis by having a party. The group of neighbors recently gathered for the coronavirus-themed fête, complete with face masks, “Quarantini” cocktails, Corona beers and the board game Pandemic. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a woman named Alexandra and her husband threw the themed bash for eight neighbors in Jersey City on Sunday. The hostess said she organized the get-together as a "lighthearted" way to help cope with the stresses caused by the outbreak as the virus continues to spread, South West News Service (SWNS) reports. “We love
Earlier this week Iranian backed militia killed two US soldiers and a female UK soldier at Taji military base in Iraq. Last night the US responded killing at least 18 militia members in Iraq including Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander General Siamand Mashhadani.(Tweets/Videos) The US launched strikes in Iraq against Iranian-backed militias after the militia’s attack earlier in the week killed two US and one UK soldier in Iraq.
The Defense Department late Friday halted all domestic travel for US-based service members, civilian employees and their families in response to the coronavirus.
It’s the strictest travel restrictions yet for the department.
On Wednesday, the DoD set a 30-day restriction on travel from the US to China, Italy, Iran and South Korea, again for service members, civilian employees and their families.
The domestic restrictions apply to all personnel assigned to DoD installations, facilities and surrounding areas in the US and its territories, according to a department memorandum.
Service members will be allowed local leave only, the memorandum states.
United States Merchant Mariners suffered the highest rate of casualities of any service in World War II. According to one estimate, one of every 26 mariners died and as many as 8,000 perished in total — while more than 600 became prisoners of war without the protection of prisoner-of-war status.
In long overdue recognition, President Trump has now signed into law a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to those United States Merchant Mariners who served as the fourth arm of our national defense during World War II.
These valiant civilian mariners provided the unbroken pipelines that got America’s domestic production to its fighting forces and allies overseas,
What Is a Mainstream Democrat?
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What is the definition of a mainstream Democrat? How does the average Democrat voter look and act? What distinguishes the modern "mainstream" Democrat from an independent or a Republican? These are not rhetorical questions. I honestly have no idea.Former Democratic Michigan governor James Blanchard said this: "The Reagan Democrats before that were really Wallace Democrats, to be blunt about it. The national press has never quite explained that, but the county has changed a lot. It's not as conservative Democratic as it used to be. It's much more open now to mainstream Democrats now, but you have to work for it."
Andrew Gillum, the former Mayor of Tallahassee, was the Democrat candidate for governor in 2016. Ultimately Ron DeSantis won by almost 34,000 votes.
Florida may have dodged a bullet. On Friday, Candace Owens published on Twitter photos of a police report in which Gillum figured prominently with a sordid tale of drugs and, possibly, a gay sex orgy.
According to the police report, in the early hours of February 13, Miami Beach police responded to a possible overdose in a hotel room. When they arrived, they discovered three men: Travis Dyson, the man who overdosed; Aldo Mejias, who made the 911 call; and Andrew Gillum.
When he introduced a coronavirus plan that is merely a pale simulacrum of President Trump’s robust plans, Joe Biden announced that he would “lead by science.” That was obviously a jab at President Trump, one that ignored that Trump and Vice President Pence have surrounded themselves with America’s top medical and scientific researchers. When it comes to Biden's advisors, though, something disturbing is going on: At least one of the scientists advising Biden thinks old people ought to die.
The worrisome advisor is Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel’s brother. He got a lot of attention in 2009 and 2010, because he was “a chief architect of that health care overhaul,
The House easily passed a bipartisan coronavirus aid package early Saturday morning after intense negotiating between Democrats and the Trump administration. The bill passed 363-40, with 40 Republicans voting against it.The “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” would secure free tests for all Americans — even the uninsured — and mandatory two weeks of paid sick leave for those affected by the health crisis.The sweeping package also provides up to three months of paid family and medical leave and strengthened unemployment insurance to brace for workers who could be laid off during the pandemic.
Amateur Hour: Joe Biden ‘Virtual Town
Hall’ Marred by Tech Issues, Dick Durbin’s
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Hall’ Marred by Tech Issues, Dick Durbin’s
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The man who wants to save America from coronavirus struggled mightily Friday evening with cameras, computers, and microphones.
Due to the restrictions on crowds because of coronavirus, Joe Biden scheduled a “virtual town hall” in Illinois on Friday at 4:00 p.m. Central. Then it was moved to 6:00 p.m. Central. When Breitbart News tuned in, Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth was fiddling with her camera phone, at one moment setting it on the table pointed straight up at the ceiling so America could see her light fixture.
First of all, Wuhan is a place and not a race, and to identify the coronavirus by its place of origin, like naming the Ebola Virus for a river in Zaire, is not racist or xenophobic — it's merely accurate. There is no racism or xenophobia in labeling an infection "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" or calling something "Lyme Disease" after a nearby town in Ohio.
What calling this latest virus the Wuhan Virus is is a reminder of the multiple contagions China has spawned and released on an unsuspecting world.
Asia’s richest man announced his intention on Friday to ship 500,000 testing kits and 1 million masks to the U.S. in an effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Jack Ma’s charitable foundation and his China-based company's foundation, the Alibaba Foundation, have also sourced and donated supplies to other countries being hit by the virus, including Japan, Korea, Italy, Iran and Spain.
The donation comes amid testing delays across the U.S. as state officials scramble amid a shortage of lab materials — sparking concerns that health officials are undercounting the number of Americans with the virus.
Washington, D.C.On the fourth floor of the Museum of the Bible, a sweeping permanent exhibit tells the story of how the ancient scripture became the world’s most popular book. A warmly lit sanctum at the exhibit’s heart reveals some of the museum’s most prized possessions: fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient texts that include the oldest known surviving copies of the Hebrew Bible.
But now, the Washington, D.C. museum has confirmed a bitter truth about the fragments’ authenticity. On Friday, independent researchers funded by the Museum of the Bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments are modern forgeries that duped outside collectors,
Greening Our Way to Infection
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The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu viruses—and spread the viruses throughout the store.
Researchers have been warning for years about the risks of these bags spreading deadly viral and bacterial diseases, but public officials have ignored their concerns, determined to eliminate single-use bags and other plastic products despite their obvious advantages in reducing the spread of pathogens. In New York State, a new law took effect this month banning single-use plastic bags in most retail businesses, and this week
Never let it be said that Bernie Sanders isn't doing his level best to spread fear and panic across America.
At a doom-and-gloom press conference today, Sanders pleaded with Trump to pay for everyone to be tested for COVID-19, demanded paid leave for all, and generally transplanted his political agenda onto the coronavirus response that the U.S. should make. How convenient.
But most of all, Sanders is telling Americans that they are in grave danger because the president has fallen down on the job. And the ultimate cost of Trump's incompetence will be hundreds of thousands of dead.
Sarah Raps
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For Sarah Palin, it has been a long, strange trip. I have always been a fan of hers. She did a terrific job as a citizen activist in Alaska, and then as governor. I thought she acquitted herself well as a vice presidential candidate; among other things, she thrashed Joe Biden in their vice presidential debate. And that was when Biden was in full possession of his (admittedly meager) faculties.
But then she went show biz. When she resigned, needlessly, as governor, I wrote here that whatever shot she had to be a presidential contender was gone. Commenters blasted me
We Need to Talk about Joe Biden
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Democrats showed us a surprising amount of cohesion and coordination, when, collectively, they took action to turn Joe Biden’s strong finish in South Carolina into a romp through Super Tuesday. But they may regret this decision sooner than they think — and we may come to despise them for it.
Already there is an effort underway to protect Biden from any possible damage that Bernie Sanders could do to him in the remainder of the Democratic primaries. Leading Democrats such as James Clyburn have argued that it would be useless to hold more debates, because the party already has a strong front-runner, a prohibitive favorite if polls hold up.
From the moment that President Trump was elected, we have been battered by the percussion of a steady drumbeat amplifying the repeated mantra that “Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy.” We hear all the lies over and over:
Trump is a dictator.
He has suspended civil liberties.
He has run rough-shod over the courts.
He ignores the law.
He defies the Constitution.
It all is garbage. Pure dirty, disgusting, filthy, lice-riddengarbage. To paraphrase that concierge: “You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a person.
On the day Chuck Schumer was threatening Supreme Court justices in front of a pack of cheering partisans, Rep. Ayanna Pressley told the same crowd: “We have two alleged sexual predators on the bench of the highest court of the land, with the power to determine our reproductive freedoms. I still believe Anita Hill. And I still believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford!”
Now, it is far more accurate to call Hill a “disgraced accuser” than Clarence Thomas an “alleged sexual predator.” Not a single credible accuser — and Thomas had scores of subordinates working for him during his years in government — ever corroborated Hill’s description of Thomas’ actions.
Healthcare providers across the country are asking how they can access strategic stockpiles of critical equipment, bracing for the possibility of a shortage as the influx of patients grows amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Personal protection equipment meant to keep nurses and doctors healthy is already in short supply in some parts of the country, and as warnings from federal health officials suggest the spread of the novel coronavirus will get worse before it gets better, providers are expressing a growing fear that their needs could outrun demand in the coming weeks.
Delta Air Lines is suspending all flights to continental Europe and sidelining 300 of its planes as the coronavirus continues to spread and upend the travel industry.
In an internal memo to the airline's 90,000 employees, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said "demand for travel is declining at an accelerated pace daily, driving an unprecedented revenue impact." He said the move is the largest "capacity reduction" since the 9/11 attacks. As multiple industries continue to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, airline travel has been particularly hit hard. Many governments have enacted tough travel restrictions, including the United States. Beginning midnight Friday, travel
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) attacked President Donald Trump on Friday after the president declared a national state of emergency to fight the spread of the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus.
Schumer said:
I’m pleased the president heeded our calls to invoke the Stafford Act to extend vital financial assistance to help keep communities safe from the coronavirus outbreak. I urge New York and other states to immediately request these newly available funds and for the Trump administration to approve these requests without delay.
Schumer also warned the president not to “overstep his authority” in dealing with the spread of the coronavirus.