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America's Superb, Unappreciated President replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 11:51:32 PM Post Reply
It has been a very long time since Americans last saw such a clear distinction between the considerable leadership qualities of their president, and the shameless political maneuverings of an opposition party constantly lusting for power. Let us review exactly what has happened in this country over the past two months, vis-a-vis the coronavirus pandemic. On January 29, President Donald Trump created a White House Coronavirus Task Force to coordinate the federal government's response to the virus outbreak and to keep the American people as informed about it as possible. At that time, you might recall, congressional Democrats were giving precisely ZERO attention to the coronavirus threat.
NYC judge frees alleged murderer out
of concern he’ll catch coronavirus
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Posted by Ribicon 3/27/2020 11:33:54 PM Post Reply
A Manhattan judge on Thursday ordered the release of a career criminal charged with stabbing his girlfriend to death out of concern he could contract coronavirus at Rikers, the Post has learned. State Supreme Court Justice Mark Dwyer freed Pedro Vinent-Barcia, 63, and 15 other inmates after the Legal Aid Society filed a petition arguing that their detention exposed them to serious medical harm in the midst of a pandemic sweeping through city jails. Prosecutors objected, citing the brutality of the crime and the defendant’s criminal record.(Snip) After cops nabbed him, he allegedly asked, “Is she dead? I hope so.”
Fox News Cuts Away
from White House
Coronavirus Task Force Briefing
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Posted by sagman 3/27/2020 11:13:29 PM Post Reply
Fox News Channel made the decision Friday to cut away from the daily White House coronavirus task force briefing in order to have a panel discussion during The Story, which is hosted by Martha MacCallum. Critical information that Fox News viewers missed after the cutaway included statements from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, certain doctors, and company CEOs who discussed their plans to get lunches to homes for children.
California once had mobile hospitals
and a ventilator stockpile.
But it dismantled them
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Posted by poster 3/27/2020 9:51:38 PM Post Reply
They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to the injured and sick within 72 hours. Each hospital would be the size of a football field, with a surgery ward, intensive care unit and X-ray equipment. Medical response teams would also have access to a massive stockpile of emergency supplies: 50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 portable ventilators and kits to set up 21,000 additional patient beds wherever they were needed. In 2006, citing the threat of avian flu, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state would invest
Fixing the Roof While It's Raining replies
Posted by Hazymac 3/27/2020 8:58:47 PM Post Reply
President Trump this afternoon signed a $2 trillion spending bill to respond to the health emergency, while the Federal Reserve spent the better part of a trillion dollars this week buying bonds of every description and lending money to foreign central banks. That avoided a financial crisis and stabilized the stock market. When I proposed a massive fiscal stimulus on February 27, I looked like a wild-eyed alarmist, and many readers on this site accused me of playing into a Democratic plot to panic the country and wrong-foot President Trump. Market intervention is like buying a present for the birthday of your spouse;
How Extreme Are You to Think The
U.S. Press Is Far Too Nice to Trump?
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 8:57:21 PM Post Reply
If you think the American media is too neutral toward Donald Trump? You might be playing tetherball around the pole of the leftist extreme. Take, for example, Mehdi Hasan, a columnist for The Intercept website and a "presenter" for al-Jazeera English. He was celebrated on Friday by the socialist British newspaper The Guardian for lamenting the alleged pro-Trump press. Nesrine Malik began this puff piece with the pure stuff: We all know that the president is a pathological liar,” Mehdi Hasan says from his office in Washington DC.
Donald Trump Message to Kids: ‘You
Are a Citizen of the Greatest Country
in the World’
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 8:50:14 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump sent a message to kids at home regarding the coronavirus on Friday, during a press conference at the White House.“I would say that you are a citizen of the greatest country anywhere in the world, and we were attacked,” Trump said.The president was asked by a reporter for a message to kids who were stuck at home from school. “I would say that they have a duty to sit back, watch, behave, wash their hands, stay in the apartment with mom and dad … and just learn from it,” Trump said.Trump admitted that some of the students were probably happy to be at home.
Curly Neal: master ballhander,
entertainer and Globetrotter
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Posted by konocti95 3/27/2020 8:33:20 PM Post Reply
For a generation of sports fans, when there were three major television networks and the NBA had yet to grow into the cultural force it would become, there were Saturday afternoons with Curly Neal and the Harlem Globetrotters. If it seemed as if ABC’s Wide World of Sports featured the Globetrotters as regularly as Saturday morning cartoons, which became another measure of the Globetrotters’ and Neal’s popularity, it was because they had become such essential viewing.
Will the Sussexes settle in Malibu?
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
viewed $20million mansion in A-list
neighborhood known for its privacy,
opulent beach-side villas and natural
beauty before quitting Canada
for LA
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Posted by earlybird 3/27/2020 6:52:45 PM Post Reply
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have reportedly left Canada for good to set up a permanent home in Los Angeles - and it's likely affluent Malibu is top of their list. Last night a royal insider claimed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex decided to leave Vancouver Island - where they have been staying since announcing they were stepping down as senior royals in January - amid fears the US-Canada border could close due to coronavirus. The Sussexes want to be close to 'their new team of Hollywood agents and PRs' as well as Meghan's friends and mother Doria, the source told The Sun. They are now believed to be in lockdown
CNN Analyst Joe Lockhart Rips Dr. Birx
For Shredding Alarmist Theories: She’s A
‘Stepford Doc’
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 6:27:25 PM Post Reply
Dr. Deborah Birx is about to learn what happens to people when they go against the media’s narrative. On Thursday, Dr. Birx instilled hope in the American people when she shredded some of the alarmist models being cited in the media, particularly, the Imperial College London Model that dramatically decreased its predicted number of COVID-19 cases from 500,000 to 20,000. “I am sure many ever you saw the recent report out of the U.K. about them adjusting completely their needs,” she said. “This is really quite important
Biden Says Phillies Ball Cap the ‘Way
to Be Able to Sleep with My
Wife’ in Kimmel Appearance
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 6:19:55 PM Post Reply
During a wide-ranging interview with ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel that aired on Thursday that touched everything from President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response to his eventual running mate selection, former Vice President Joe Biden revealed that his allegiance to Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies had to do with his wife’s preferences. Biden’s wife Jill Biden, a native of Willow Grove, PA, which is just outside of Philadelphia, the home of the Phillies franchise. Exchange as follows: KIMMEL: Hello, Joe Biden. BIDEN: What’s that hat you have on? KIMMEL: Uh, New York Mets
Breaking: Trish Regan Out At Fox Business replies
Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 6:13:36 PM Post Reply
Former Fox Business anchor Trish Regan is out at the network, according to statements from Fox Business and Regan. Regan hosted “Trish Regan Primetime,” which was put on hiatus amid the novel coronavirus crisis. The show was put on pause two weeks ago because of the demands of coronavirus coverage, according to the network. “Trish Regan Primetime” was paused after Regan made controversial comments about the novel coronavirus on March 9. Fox Business did not say this was what caused her hiatus, and announced Friday that the network had “parted way” with Regan.
Meghan and Harry forget all about their
vow to never live in America so long as
Trump is president, moving to Hollywood
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Posted by PageTurner 3/27/2020 5:50:46 PM Post Reply
Meghan Markle and hubby Prince Harry weren't as sour about sharing a country with President Trump as we last heard from Meghan. According to Page Six at the New York Post: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have fled coronavirus in Canada to set up a permanent home in California, taking a private jet to Los Angeles, a source confirmed to Page Six. The couple, with their 10-month-old baby, Archie, took a secret flight to the LA area, leaving their recent bolthole on Vancouver Island after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the country's borders were closing last week.
Dreamers to Supreme Court: Coronavirus
is reason to preserve DACA
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Posted by Ribicon 3/27/2020 5:48:43 PM Post Reply
Illegal immigrant “Dreamers” told the Supreme Court on Friday they are a key resource to combat the coronavirus crisis and that it’s another reason the high court should reject President Trump’s attempt to end the DACA program. In a letter to the justices, lawyers for Dreamers said there are 27,000 DACA recipients working in health care as nurses, home health aides, pharmacists and the like. “The pandemic sheds new light on the reliance interests of healthcare providers and the public health consequences of ignoring those interests,” the lawyers wrote.(Snip) The court heard oral argument on the case earlier this term and a decision
President Trump signs into law
$2 trillion coronavirus bailout
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 5:34:29 PM Post Reply
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday signed into law a historic $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package, the largest stimulus deal in United States history, as the pandemic devastates the nation’s economy and sickens thousands.“This will deliver urgently needed relief to our nation’s families, workers and businesses and that’s what this is all about,” Trump said in the Oval Office flanked by GOP lawmakers and administration officials.“I want to thank Republicans and Democrats for coming together, setting aside their differences and putting America first,” he added
China Supplied Faulty Coronavirus Test Kits to Spain, Czech Republic replies
Posted by FlyRight 3/27/2020 4:43:12 PM Post Reply
Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty, according to local Czech news site Expats.cz. The tests can produce a result in 10 or 15 minutes but are usually less accurate than other tests. Because of the high error rate, the country will continue to rely on conventional laboratory tests, of which they perform about 900 a day.
USA Ryder Cup star Davis Love III escapes
as home burns down in terrifying blaze
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/27/2020 4:15:31 PM Post Reply
PGA Tour golfer Davis Love III and his wife escaped unharmed from a huge fire which burnt their house to the ground. The former USA Ryder Cup team captain - who led the US to victory in 2016 - was inside the property in Sea Island, Georgia, with spouse Robin when it caught ablaze in the middle of the night. Glynn County Firefighters were called to tackle the fire at 5:18am, but the house was already destroyed when the first truck arrived at 5:23am. Chief of the precinct R.K. Jordan said: "The house was gone upon our arrival." In total
Four dead on Carnival-owned cruise ship
amid new coronavirus outbreak aboard
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/27/2020 4:04:57 PM Post Reply
Four passengers died aboard Holland America’s “Zaandam” cruise ship and two people on board tested positive for the coronavirus, the company announced Friday. The company, which is owned by parent Carnival Corp., did not say how many passengers and crew were tested but said 53 passengers and 85 crew members are exhibiting symptoms consistent with the coronavirus. There are more than 1,800 people aboard the ship, the company said, adding that four doctors and four nurses are also on board. The Zaandam is now at least the third Carnival-owned ship to become the site of a coronavirus outbreak. The company
Trump ORDERS GM to open their shuttered
Ohio plant and 'start making ventilators NOW'
as he threatens to invoke special defense
powers claiming company tried to price gouge
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Posted by Harlowe 3/27/2020 3:13:41 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump is demanding General Motors start manufacturing desperately needed ventilators 'NOW' – after a stunning report his administration stalled a potential deal over the cost.(Snip) General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!!' Trump wrote. Trump also teed off on the company in an additional tweet, blaming the firm for the breakdown in the deal--amid signals that the Big Three manufacturer's hometown of Detroit is in for some difficult days of shortages due to the coronavirus.
COVID-19: Lakewood Police
Crash Another Wedding
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Posted by Ribicon 3/27/2020 2:23:03 PM Post Reply
Lakewood police cited yet another Jersey Shore wedding host for holding a large gathering during the coronavirus outbreak, authorities said. Officers responding to another call Thursday saw 40 or so people gathered on Wayne Street, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said Friday. They issued a summons to local resident William Katzenstein, 39, for "violating any rule or regulation adopted by the governor," the prosecutor said. Then everyone dispersed, he said. Lakewood police last week broke up 17 over-sized gatherings that violated state coronavirus prevention orders. They didn't arrest anyone, contrary to multiple media reports. Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order
Coronavirus in New York: Letitia James
leads fight to stop Texas abortion ban
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Posted by Ribicon 3/27/2020 2:11:23 PM Post Reply
New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a coalition to stop Texas from blocking abortions during the coronavirus pandemic, her office announced Friday. Earlier this week, Texas issued a directive banning all non-emergency surgeries and procedures, including abortions, to free up resources. “Texas and other states are using the coronavirus as an excuse to deny women their constitutional right to an abortion,” James said in a statement. “This is a full-on assault on women’s reproductive rights not only in Texas, but across the country, and I will not allow any state to usurp the rights of women enshrined in the Constitution.”
Lawsuit accuses ICE, Sherburne
County of jailing and trying to deport
US citizen
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Posted by voxpopuli 3/27/2020 2:10:15 PM Post Reply
A Coon Rapids man is accusing a Minnesota county jail and the federal government of unlawfully detaining him for nearly a year, even after an immigration judge ruled he was a United States citizen and should not be deported. The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (ACLU-MN) filed the lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota on behalf of Ali Abdalla, 34. (snip) They’re also asking the courts to award Abdalla compensatory damages.
What is a ventilator? The 'critical resource'
is in short supply
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Posted by earlybird 3/27/2020 2:05:02 PM Post Reply
The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, and one piece of lifesaving medical equipment is in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. (Snip)Ventilators are hospital bedside machines that assist with two critical functions: getting enough oxygen into the bloodstream and clearing out carbon dioxide, which can build up when the patient is too weak or sick to move air in and out of the lungs. A ventilator helps patients who cannot properly breathe on their own by pumping air into their lungs through a tube that has been inserted into their windpipes. Because COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, affects the respiratory system, the number of hospitalized patients in
Coronavirus likely to kill 81K in
US over next four months,
study warns
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Posted by AltaD 3/27/2020 1:58:36 PM Post Reply
The coronavirus is likely to kill more than 81,000 people in the US over the next four months — but the death toll could be twice that if precautions like social distancing are relaxed too soon, according to an alarming new study. Deaths from the contagion are largely expected to peak in the second week of April — later in states where the spread (Snip) an analysis by the University of Washington School of Medicine forecasts.The final death toll is unlikely to be less than 38,000 nationally and could be as high as 162,000 — with the team predicting the most likely number to be 81,114 deaths.
Opinion: Gov. Whitmer, request
funds from FEMA
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Posted by JackBurton 3/27/2020 1:48:39 PM Post Reply

Four weeks after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined Sen. Gary Peters in sending a press statement welcoming federal funds to Michigan for the coronavirus crisis response, it was confirmed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that Whitmer has yet to formally request federal emergency funds for our state. Whitmer has spent the past couple weeks making national TV appearances(Snip) Nearly every time, Whitmer has blamed the federal government  

‘Times up Biden’ trends as Dems fret over 2020
chances: ‘Trump’s going to eat him alive!’
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 1:28:43 PM Post Reply
For a host of reasons, not the least of which being newly reported details of an alleged sexual assault, a social media campaign has emerged to remind Joe Biden that his time is up. The hashtag #TimesUpBiden began trending online after a former staffer accused then-Sen. Biden of forcibly penetrating her against her will with his fingers in 1993. As BizPac Review reported, Tara Reade accused Biden of inappropriate touching last spring, and she just admitted to Rolling Stone magazine that the 2020 Democratic front-runner’s behavior extended way beyond just mere touching. “I was wearing a blouse, and he just had me up against the wall, and the wall was cold,” Reade said.
Justice Department sues Anthem for
alleged diagnosis fraud scheme totaling
millions of dollars
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Posted by earlybird 3/27/2020 1:21:51 PM Post Reply
The Justice Department sued Anthem, one of the nation’s largest health insurance providers, over an alleged fraudulent scheme to inflate diagnosis numbers to scam Medicare out of millions of dollars a year. It is among the largest Medicare fraud lawsuits yet. Investigators said that they filed this civil lawsuit because Anthem “falsely certified the accuracy of the diagnosis data it submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for risk-adjustment purposes under Medicare Part C and knowingly failed to delete inaccurate diagnosis codes” between 2014 and 2018.
Thomas Massie's forced coronavirus vote
is irresponsible
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Posted by earlybird 3/27/2020 1:03:43 PM Post Reply
The House was expected to pass a $2 trillion relief package Friday morning to ease the economic burden that has resulted from the coronavirus pandemic. But Republican Rep. Thomas Massie may have just delayed that relief from reaching businesses and families. Massie announced Friday morning that he would defy GOP leadership and request a roll call vote on the relief package, which means that if 216 lawmakers are not physically present in the House to vote on the measure, the relief package will remain at a standstill until quorum is reached. While Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also considered blocking the bill, it seemed set to pass quickly on Friday, until Massie
Donald Trump: Throw Thomas Massie
out of Republican Party
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 12:56:27 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump berated Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Friday, demanding the Republicans throw him out of the party for obstructing the massive coronavirus rescue package.“Win Back House, but throw Massie out of Republican Party!” Trump wrote on Twitter. (Tweets) The president described the famous Republican libertarian as a “third rate Grandstander” who was obstructing the bill. “He just wants the publicity. He can’t stop it, only delay, which is both dangerous and costly,” Trump wrote.
'You will see darkness': Shouting Democrat
ruled out of order in House floor speech on
coronavirus bill
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 12:52:14 PM Post Reply
In a heated debate regarding a proposed economic relief bill to provide financial protection for American businesses and workers during the coronavirus pandemic, one Michigan Democrat demanded to be heard after her allotted speaking time on the House floor had expired.Donning pink latex gloves, Rep. Haley Stevens shouted at colleagues on Thursday even as she was ruled out of order. Steven's voice grew louder despite House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer's attempts to give her more time to finish speaking.“Sharing in the profession with those who have not come before you!” Stevens said.
HHS inspector general reportedly planning
multiple probes into Trump admin COVID-19
response
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 12:41:28 PM Post Reply
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reportedly plans to launch multiple investigations into the Trump administration’s coronavirus response, in part because of another whistleblower complaint. “A spokesperson for the HHS inspector general [said] that investigators will carry out at least five reviews ‘related to HHS’s planning and response of the COVID-19 outbreak,'” the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday. “The inquiries will scrutinize issues such as nationwide hospital responses, quarantine procedures, the training and protective gear provided to front-line health workers, nursing home standards amid a disease with an exponentially more deadly effect on the elderly and the already ill,
Inside Joe Biden’s bizarre
coronavirus bunker
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Posted by Garnet 3/27/2020 12:13:14 PM Post Reply
The Biden campaign has been studying the ’18 midterms. No, not the ones two years ago when Democrats took over the House by aggressively recruiting moderates and sweeping swing districts across the country, a precursor to Biden’s own centrist strategy in the Democratic presidential primaries this year.They’ve been studying the midterms of 1918, the year of the Spanish flu pandemic when large gatherings were banned in many places and candidates were forced to invent new ways to communicate with voters and run their campaigns. Turnout plummeted that year to 40%, from 50% in the 1914 midterms. “We went back and looked at voting in 1918,” said Anita Dunn,
Hundreds dead in Iran after
consuming methanol thinking
it was coronavirus protection
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Posted by DVC 3/27/2020 12:05:20 PM Post Reply
More than 300 people have died and a further 1,000 have fallen ill in Iran after consuming methanol in the belief that it will protect them against the coronavirus, according to local media. Fake remedies have spread across Iranian social media, with methanol simply the latest supposed cure. As an Islamic nation, the consumption of alcohol is banned, but bootleggers have distributed industrial alcohol. “Other countries have only one problem, which is the new coronavirus pandemic,” said Dr. Hossein Hassanian, an adviser to Iran’s Health Ministry who claimed that the problem could be more severe than reported. “We have to both cure the people with the alcohol poisoning
Trump understands what his
critics don’t: The current
lockdown is unsustainable
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Posted by Garnet 3/27/2020 11:51:51 AM Post Reply
President Trump enjoys 60 percent approval for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but that has not stopped his critics from trying to stoke public outrage at his expense.After the president expressed hope that the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was showing signs of success as a treatment for the coronavirus, news organizations tried to blame him for the death of an Arizona man who self-medicated with fish tank solvent that contained a different form of the substance. “Man dies after taking drug touted as coronavirus treatment by Trump,” CBS News declared. No, he didn’t. Trump never suggested anyone self-medicate with aquarium cleaner.
‘Dr. Win-the-War’ vs. the Mouse replies
Posted by earlybird 3/27/2020 11:50:19 AM Post Reply
President Trump has met and passed his supreme test. This has left his Democratic opponents desperately espousing gloom and demanding that the economic shut-down continue (Snip) for up to seven months. Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers took to the Washington Post to preach epidemiological defeatism. While the choristers of fear and despair are clinging to a prolonged economic melt-down like drowning men clutching a raft, their presumptive presidential candidate is disintegrating in the midst of friendly interviews and struggling to get a little attention while the man he wishes to unseat takes one to two hours of prime-time television every day announcing the success of his plan of action to
Cuomo Deserves No Plaudits
for His Handling of Crisis
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Posted by Garnet 3/27/2020 11:47:31 AM Post Reply
It was a stunning confession. During a press briefing on Tuesday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted that closing schools and colleges in his state was a spur-of-the-moment decision based on a health crisis for which he was not prepared. “What we said at a moment of crisis is ‘isolate everyone,’” Cuomo told reporters while seated in front of boxes of medical supplies. “Close the schools, close the colleges, send everyone home, isolate everyone in their home. [It] wasn’t even smart, frankly, to isolate younger people with older people.”Cuomo conceded that the reason he ordered public schools and colleges shut down was that
Coronavirus In RI: Anyone Coming
From NY Ordered to Quarantine
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Posted by envirodude 3/27/2020 11:30:08 AM Post Reply
PROVIDENCE, RI — The number of cases of the new coronavirus spiked by 33 cases on Thursday, Governor Gina Raimondo announced. Starting immediately, anyone coming into the state from New York state will be mandated to self-quarantine for 14 days, the governor said. Nearly half of the nation's cases of COVID-19 are from New York, particularly the New York City metro area, Raimondo said, and the number of cases is rising every day. Because of its geographical proximity to Rhode Island, this measure is necessary to keep the infection rate down, she said.
Michigan Democrat Governor Threatens
Licenses of Doctors and Pharmacists
Who Prescribe Hydroxychloroquine to
Treat Coronavirus…
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Posted by earlybird 3/27/2020 11:25:31 AM Post Reply
Governor Gretchen Whitmer from the Michigan Directorate has threatened to turn the eye of the state upon any doctor or pharmacist who would attempt to prescribe chloroquine to treat their patients suffering from coronavirus. Medical licenses may need to be revoked. The agency’s March 24 letter warns physicians and pharmacists of professional consequences for the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine (and chloroquine). Beyond the rational recommendation against hoarding, the letter includes threats of “administrative action” against the licenses of doctors that prescribe hydroxychloroquine.
Kathy Griffin sticks to COVID-19 angle
despite being sent home from hospital
with abdominal infection
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 11:25:04 AM Post Reply
Comedian Kathy Griffin continued to dramatize her stint at a hospital coronavirus isolation ward despite being sent home with an abdominal infection. Griffin bashed the Trump administration when she revealed she was in a hospital Wednesday but could not get tested for COVID-19 “because of CDC (Pence task force) restrictions.” Though the 59-year-old entertainer showed none of the coronavirus symptoms and was sent home with a different diagnosis, she took to Twitter to claim she “still has no idea” whether she tested positive or negative for the virus. In a series of tweets Thursday, Griffin quoted from a Los Angeles Times article on her experience,
Nashville woman, 21, regrets
coronavirus video after falling
ill herself: report
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Posted by DVC 3/27/2020 11:23:52 AM Post Reply
Coronavirus was something that happened to other people, a 21-year-old Nashville, Tenn., woman said recently in a video to her followers online. Two days later, Ireland Tate learned she was wrong — she tested positive for the virus, also known as COVID-19. Now she’s quarantined inside her parents’ home with painful symptoms and is urging other young adults to take the virus threat seriously. “While it may not be affecting you, you could be affecting someone’s grandma or grandpa or aunt or uncle or sister,” Tate said, according to FOX 17 of Nashville. Previously, Tate had scoffed online about the idea of social distancing
Delaware Governor Changes Shutdown
Order: Gun Stores Can Remain Open
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Posted by mc squared 3/27/2020 11:02:09 AM Post Reply
Delaware Governor John Carney (D) changed his statewide shutdown order Thursday, recognizing gun stores as “essential” and allowing them to remain open. WBOC reports that Carney’s original order, released Sunday, had gun stores listed as “non-essential,” and therefore under instruction to remain closed until May 15. Some gun stores throughout the state defied Carney, remaining open Monday thru Thursday of this week. As a result, three gun stores in New Castle alone had been served with “cease and desist letters and closed down.” Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association’s Jeff Hague reacted to the determination of gun store owners, saying, “If people believe that you have the right to keep and bear arms,
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests
Positive for Chinese Coronavirus
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 10:29:28 AM Post Reply
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced via a Twitter video Friday morning that he has tested positive for the COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus. (Photo) Johnson is the first major world leader to test positive for the virus. “Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus.I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus. Together we will beat this. #StayHomeSaveLives”
Explosion of leftist hate aimed at Dr Birx
after she demolishes media’s panic narrative
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 10:07:35 AM Post Reply
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the response coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, has proven to be a voice of reason in a time of crisis — much to the angst of the hostile, anti-Trump media.The hair-on-fire media is pushing a panic-inducing worst-case narrative in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak, focusing on predictions of alarming increases in those who contract the Chinese virus while reporting on dwindling hospital supplies and do-not-resuscitate orders allegedly being discussed to free up more beds.(Reports out of New York claim hospitals are being overrun with patients.)Yet, Birx stands calmly before the American people at the nightly press briefings
Royal resemblances! Fans go wild over Princess
Charlotte's uncanny resemblance to the Queen,
mini-Kate' Prince Louis and Prince George's
likeness to a young Prince William
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 9:59:35 AM Post Reply
Royal enthusiasts have gone wild over a new clip of the Cambridge children - pointing out how similar they look to their parents, Prince William and Kate Middleton, and their great grandmother the Queen. Prince George, six, Princess Charlotte, five, and Prince Louis, one, led millions of people across the UK in showing appreciation for NHS staff who are on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus. The youngsters were filmed laughing and clapping together in a garden - with the clip being shared yesterday on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's Instagram account alongside the #ClapForOurCarers.
$349B stimulus comes too late
to save many newspapers
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Posted by Ribicon 3/27/2020 9:48:20 AM Post Reply
The reeling US newspaper industry will be eligible to tap a portion of the $2 trillion stimulus package that contains $349 billion earmarked for small businesses. But the potential rescue package comes too late to help dozens of newsrooms that have been slashing jobs as shuttered local businesses stop advertising. News advertising has plummeted between 20 and 30 percent in the past two weeks compared to a year ago, according to the International News Media Association. The Washingtonian stopped using freelancers, laid off all its fellows and instituted a 10 percent pay cut for surviving staffers. The Austin Chronicle is moving from a weekly
Huge Ratings: Millions of Americans Watching
Donald Trump’s Daily White House Briefings
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 9:42:53 AM Post Reply
President Donald Trump’s return to daily White House press briefings during the coronavirus crisis has generated massive ratings. The New York Times reports nearly 12.2 million people watched Trump’s briefing on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, according to Nielsen — plus millions more on streaming sites, and local news networks. That puts him in the same ratings territory as Monday Night Football, typically the most popular program for a Monday. Millions of Americans have made the president’s daily briefings must-watch television since the coronavirus hit, especially since many of them are in quarantine.
Jill Biden is the Answer replies
Posted by zephyrgirl 3/27/2020 9:12:03 AM Post Reply
Almost every night, all of America is witness to Joe Biden's seemingly progressive mental decline on full display. The decline expresses itself in surprisingly different forms each night. It all adds up to what us layman are certain is age advanced dementia. Biden can't remember words, places, or people. He recalls he was once in the "Obiden-Bama" administration and is now running for "US Senate"
Chicago Cubs' Anthony Rizzo
on missing Opening Day,
coping with 'strange time'
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Posted by StormCnter 3/27/2020 7:34:24 AM Post Reply
Today, we were supposed to be flying out from spring training, all excited for the start of a new season and on the plane to Milwaukee for Opening Day. As the weeks go on, all of us are going to be missing baseball more and more. I miss playing already. I miss being around the guys. It's why I believe you have to keep your brain moving in some way. Athletes are in such a marathon mode during the season and now we have to turn that mentally off, while still staying physically fit. It's just such a strange time. The more all of us
COVID-19 Is Killing The
Case For Socialized Medicine
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Posted by RockyTCB 3/27/2020 7:32:27 AM Post Reply
It should come as no surprise that the left has tried to use the coronavirus outbreak as evidence that the U.S. should adopt Medicare for All. But the data suggest the opposite. The U.S. is doing much better with the virus than those supposedly more enlightened countries. If you follow the mainstream media/Democratic narrative, the pandemic has laid bare the weaknesses of the U.S. health care system. Sarah Collins of the Commonwealth Fund, a liberal health care organization, claimed that “We are much more vulnerable to the kinds of spread of illness…. because so many people don’t have health insurance
Dictatorship of the
immunocompromised?
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Posted by Magnante 3/27/2020 7:23:07 AM Post Reply
As America teeters on the brink of a planned catastrophic economic collapse, it is time to rethink our response to the deadly coronavirus that is afflicting us. There has to be an exit strategy out of this national suicide attempt that is being accomplished through lockdowns and the imposition of quasi-martial law. Responsible, enlightened governance requires tradeoffs that don’t look like one-size-fits-all collective punishment imposed from above. We got to this place because wildly overstated projections by monomaniacally focused experts stampeded policymakers into ordering draconian crackdowns on the general population, instead of focusing on the most vulnerable
Orleans Parish has highest per-capita
coronavirus death rate of
American counties -- by far
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Posted by tisHimself 3/27/2020 7:00:18 AM Post Reply
Orleans Parish has the highest per-capita death rate for the coronavirus among all American counties to date, a new analysis by The Times-Picayune | The Advocate shows. More disturbingly, perhaps, it’s not even a close call. The county with the No. 2 rate — Richmond County, N.Y., better known as Staten Island — has a rate half that of New Orleans.
China Uses Coronavirus Crisis
to Bulldoze Churches and Temples
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Posted by tisHimself 3/27/2020 6:40:09 AM Post Reply
Religious freedom watchdog groups are accusing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of using the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic as an opportunity to intensify their crackdown on religion, bulldozing some churches and placing others under heavy surveillance. “China is now holding itself up as a model for fighting the coronavirus. But fighting the pandemic hasn’t stopped communist officials from persecuting Christians,” Todd Nettleton, a spokesman for the nonprofit group Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), told Fox News on Tuesday.
Trump taps talk radio icon Michael
Savage for Presidio post
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 6:25:48 AM Post Reply
President Trump has singled out a second conservative talk show icon in the Radio Hall of Fame for special recognition. In a statement, he tapped Michael Savage to serve on the board of the Presidio Trust that teams with the National Park Service to manage the Presidio of San Francisco, the former military fort that is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.The release referred to his birth name, Michael A. Weiner, not Savage’s professional name.For Savage, whose Savage Nation radio show is on 200 stations and is also a giant podcast, the appointment was recognition for his environmental work and support for the military.
How Vietnam is winning its 'war' on coronavirus replies
Posted by Moritz55 3/27/2020 6:22:53 AM Post Reply

A densely populated neighbor of China, Vietnam has a weak health care system and a low budget for combating the coronavirus. So how has it managed to keep its COVID-19 infection rate so low? As the coronavirus pandemic rages in wealthy European countries, more than 10,000 kilometers (6,000 miles) from China where the outbreak began, Vietnam has widely been spared. In Germany alone, the latest numbers from the World Health Organization (WHO) show more than 30,000 people have been infected with COVID-19, resulting in 149 fatalities. 

Donald Trump Jokes with Bloomberg
News Reporter: ‘How’s Michael Doing?’
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 6:13:01 AM Post Reply
President Donald Trump joked with a reporter from Bloomberg News on Thursday about his boss, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.During a White House press conference on Thursday, the president asked a reporter what outlet he was from. When the reporter replied, “Bloomberg,” Trump joked, “How’s Michael doing? Good?” The reporter chuckled slightly before continuing his question.Bloomberg famously failed to win the Democrat nomination
Crocs giving away free shoes to health
care workers fighting the coronavirus crisis
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 6:08:55 AM Post Reply
The Crocs brand, makers of the polarizing lightweight clog often sported by restaurant staffers, hospital workers and rapper Post Malone, announced Thursday that they are providing free footwear to health-care workers helping to combat the coronavirus in the US. The “A Free Pair for Healthcare” campaign invites doctors, nurses and other hospital staffers to choose a free pair of Crocs Classic Clogs and Crocs At Work styles. The offer, available while supplies last, can be redeemed through their website.
Coronavirus Is Not Even Close
to America's Biggest Problem
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Posted by Magnante 3/27/2020 5:35:12 AM Post Reply
The COVID-19 pandemic can be used to illustrate two problems that are both more destructive than the virus. The problems relate to how Americans view the role of government in their lives and to the belief that government money can always fix problems. Let's look at the money issue first. The immediate reaction of our government to the virus threat was to spend massive amounts of money. (snip) Has self-reliance been replaced by acceptance of dependence? Ask Americans these questions: whose responsibility is it to take care of people when they are old?
Joe Biden is Barack Obama
without the fake Greek columns
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Posted by MissMolly 3/27/2020 5:13:56 AM Post Reply
Whatever you think about President Trump and his response to this global pandemic that sparked from a Chinese “wet market” selling wildlife, you cannot exactly be heartened to behold the response offered by Democrats. The party’s presumed nominee, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, finally mounted the barricades this week to personally combat the Wuhan virus by — what else? — setting up a television studio in his Delaware home to offer “counterprogramming” to the president and his crisis team of doctors, public health officials, industry leaders and economic experts. Watching Mr. Biden stumble, mumble and dodder through a simple speech in his living room
COVID-19 Deaths So Far:
Where Is the Crisis? (Updated)
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Posted by MissMolly 3/27/2020 5:11:07 AM Post Reply
I have updated this chart a number of times, based on data from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, and will continue to do so. It shows, for one thing, how far COVID-19 has to go before it equals the average seasonal flu mortality, worldwide. If I had to predict, I would guess that it will eventually reach the average level. Will it get to 2x the average number of flu deaths, worldwide? Looking at current trends, I don’t see how that will happen. But time will tell. Likewise in the U.S. You still can’t see the bar for COVID-19,
Joe Biden’s picks for the first female Veep replies
Posted by MissMolly 3/27/2020 5:06:23 AM Post Reply

Cockburn attended Joe Biden’s virtual press conference on Wednesday afternoon. As he struggled to keep his eyes open, he noticed a small piece of paper by Biden’s elbow — a list of names, written in a shaky hand. So Cockburn screenshotted it, then turned his desktop upside down. Here’s Joe Biden’s shortlist for America’s first female vice president: Eleanor Roosevelt Why sandbag the Senate when you can handbag it? Mrs Roosevelt is a rising star of the Democratic left’s woke wing. She’s never seen in public without her handbag, and it’s crammed with big plans for the post-COVID-19 bounce-back.

Paging George Orwell: Watch LA Mayor
Announce Spy Program to Threaten Open
Businesses During COVID-19 Scare
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/27/2020 4:59:02 AM Post Reply
California is bracing for its turn as the nation's hotspot for the COVID-19 outbreak and the state's leaders are flexing their statist muscles with all manner of edicts, spy programs, and threats of prosecution. The state is currently in shut-down mode, with only "essential businesses" open and people ordered to socially distance from other possible germ carriers. Restaurants can serve only take-out orders, grocery stores require people to line up outside until the crowds thin out inside. In the beach communities, "outsiders" are being told to stay out. Hiking trails, parks and even the beaches – the open-air beaches – are closed. In the City of Laguna Beach,
The Political Media Are Failing America replies
Posted by Pluperfect 3/27/2020 4:54:10 AM Post Reply
Here are some of the public figures and institutions that Americans hold in higher esteem than the media according to Gallup: Hospitals Their child’s school and daycare centers State governments Their employer CDC and NIH Mike Pence Donald Trump Congress. Only one institution that Gallup asked about, the media, had negative approval rating — sitting 19 points behind its archenemy Donald Trump. And there are likely many other people and places that the public has more trust in than journalists.
Baltimore population drops below
600,000, the lowest total in
a century, census estimates show
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/27/2020 4:48:03 AM Post Reply
Baltimore’s population has dipped below 600,000 for the first time in more than a century, according to U.S. Census estimates released Thursday. The city’s estimated population was 593,490 as of July 1, 2019, the new data shows. That suggests Baltimore lost 8,953 people, or 1.5% of its population, from the previous year. While the city’s population has been trending downward for decades, it had some small increases during the administration of former Democratic Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, standing at more than 623,000 in 2014.
The New Favelas replies
Posted by Pluperfect 3/27/2020 4:27:02 AM Post Reply
Progressives routinely denounce economic inequality, yet the nation’s most liberal cities offer the most dramatic illustrations of it, with tech-driven wealth at the top and addiction-driven homelessness at the bottom. In the past five years, some streets in Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and Seattle have started to resemble Latin American favelas, or shantytowns, with thousands sleeping in tents, shacks, and packing crates. One United Nations official recently compared West Coast encampments to the slums of New Delhi. California governor Gavin Newsom has declared homelessness a “state of emergency.” And yet, as the coronavirus pandemic persists, West Coast cities have legalized and provided services to these encampments,
US Navy ship headed to
Los Angeles for coronavirus
relief: Here's a look inside
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/27/2020 4:24:43 AM Post Reply
As a U.S. Navy hospital ship steams toward Los Angeles to help relieve the strain of the coronavirus pandemic, those on board are making final preparations. According to the Pentagon, the USNS Mercy, which was docked in San Diego, will arrive in Los Angeles on Friday to "serve as a referral hospital for non-COVID-19 patients" who are currently hospitalized on land. "They're telling us to expect a wide range of medical and surgical patients being transferred from local hospitals," Navy Capt. John Rotruck said in a phone interview Thursday with "Fox & Friends."
Ahead of coronavirus stimulus vote,
House lawmakers concerned
Rep. Massie may trigger delay
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/27/2020 4:18:51 AM Post Reply
Furious lawmakers voiced serious concerns on Capitol Hill late Thursday that a Republican House member could “go rogue” and possibly scuttle a vote on the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, and potentially endanger other House members in the process, Fox News has learned. Fox News is told there is deep worry on both sides of the aisle that Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., could try to sidetrack House plans to quickly approve the coronavirus bill via a “voice vote” -- a verbal exercise in which those in favor shout yea, and those opposed holler nay. The loudest side would prevail. “It’s the Thomas Massie show,” said one
Coronavirus is killing the Biden campaign —
and making him look like a fool
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 3:38:03 AM Post Reply

After a shocking turnaround in his campaign — he was nearly left for dead after his crushing defeat in New Hampshire, only to become the presumptive nominee after Super Tuesday — Joe Biden was ready to pivot to a general election campaign against President Trump. But then the coronavirus hit the United States, and the ex-veep’s campaign has struggled mightily to deal with the political fallout. Trump has dominated the news cycles over the last three weeks, and his administration has been a whirling dervish of activity. He and his team offer daily reports about N95 masks secured, ventilators procured, production capacities increased,

Stockpile of expired masks likely to be given
to TSA workers
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 2:54:08 AM Post Reply
A stockpile of 1.5 million expired N95 respirator masks belonging to the US Customs and Border Protection agency is expected to be deployed to the Transportation Security Administration to aid its underequipped workforce, a report said. Officials with the Department of Homeland Security decided to deliver the supply of protective masks to the TSA on a Wednesday conference call, sources told The Washington Post. The masks have been sitting inside an Indiana warehouse, the report said. While they are past their expiration date, a White House official told the paper that they still function properly. “The masks are fully capable,” the official said.
German cathedral shines spotlight on little-
known St. Corona
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 2:51:16 AM Post Reply
A German cathedral has dug out from a treasure chamber its collection of remains of St. Corona, the little-known Christian martyr who has been purported to be the patron saint of resisting epidemics. The Aachen Cathedral had already been planning before the coronavirus outbreak to showcase the remains and an elaborate shrine to the saint as part of an exhibit of gold craftsmanship, according to Reuters. But it has now accelerated its plans after the pandemic began sweeping across the globe — though it remains unclear when people will be able to visit the display amid strict restrictions on public gatherings. “We have brought the shrine out a bit earlier than planned
MLB jerseys to be made into masks for
medical workers fighting coronavirus
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 2:41:56 AM Post Reply
MLB team jerseys are being made into a million protective masks to support medical workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. The announcement was made on Thursday by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and Fanatics mogul Michael Rubin, whose apparel company makes jerseys for the league. Rubin’s Fanatics brand is the licensed apparel partner of all major sports leagues. It makes the MLB jerseys in a 360,000-square-foot plant in Easton, Pennsylvania. He posted on Instagram of the idea to create the masks from the same material as the authentic baseball gear:
Prince George and royal siblings clap to thank
workers fighting coronavirus
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/27/2020 1:15:30 AM Post Reply
It’s their royal cutie pies! Prince George, 6, Princess Charlotte, 4, and little Prince Louis, 1, made a public appearance to thank the carers working amid the coronavirus pandemic. The royal siblings are currently in lockdown at their country estate, Anmer Hall, in Norfolk with their parents Prince William and Kate Middleton. Amid a national #clapforourcarers moment across the UK, the kids were seen clapping on Kensington Royal’s Instagram account — getting nearly one million views in 20 minutes. An accompanying caption to the video of George, Charlotte and Louis read — “To all the doctors, nurses, carers, GPs, pharmacists,
Huge Win For Second Amendment: L.A.
Sheriff Reverses Decision To Close
Gun Stores
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 1:15:16 AM Post Reply
This is a HUGE win for the Second Amendment.Far-left Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva has reversed his decision to force gun stores to close. Villanueva initially classified gun stores as “non-essential businesses” and warned they would face legal consequences if they didn’t follow the county’s order to shut down for mandatory coronavirus quarantine.But now after facing intense legal pressure for county lawyers, he has reversed his decision and will allow them to remain open.WATCH:
Wow! Dr. Fauci in New England Journal of
Medicine Concedes the Coronavirus Mortality Rate
May Be Much Closer to a Very Bad Flu
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 12:54:34 AM Post Reply
This is Stunning! (Photo) Last week morning Governor’s Gavin Newsom from California and Andrew Cuomo from New York announced complete lockdown on state residents due to the coronavirus pandemic.There had been 16,067 cases of the coronavirus reported in the US at the time. There had been 219 deaths in the US due to coronavirus at that time.The following morning NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci told reporters during the daily White House press conference, “I strongly agree”
COVID-19 Probably Won't Destroy
Society, but the Government's
Reaction Might
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Posted by Maryland_Patriot 3/27/2020 12:52:47 AM Post Reply
The Washington Post recently touted "an alarming new scientific model" that warns that treating COVID-19 like a somewhat more severe strain of flu won't cut it. The model predicts over a million U.S fatalities unless we shut down all non-essential mingling until a vaccine is developed, "which could take 12 to 18 months at best." Pretty bleak stuff. In fact, that's about the bleakest take on COVID-19 you'll find. Let's run with it. Let's momentarily not raise a fuss about having no reason to trust the model's underlying algorithm or whatever unknown assumptions about the virus generated its scary predictions.
The quarantined candidacy replies
Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 12:47:50 AM Post Reply
The question of “Where is Joe Biden?” undoubtedly echoed through the halls of the Obama White House for eight years. That’s a popular question in politics again — though for entirely different reasons.Sometimes, Barack Obama would deliberately hide Biden in an effort to avoid any embarrassment during high-stakes negotiations, such as the 2013 government shutdown. That year, the executive branch's top diplomat to the Senate was seemingly missing for 16 days.“Maybe we need to get Joe Biden out of the witness protection program,” said Sen. John McCain at the time, as talks between the two parties entered a stalemate.It turns out that Biden’s absence wasn’t just demanded by Obama,
Dr. Deborah Birx Steers Away from
Doomsday Coronavirus Predictions
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Posted by Imright 3/27/2020 12:36:24 AM Post Reply
Dr. Deborah Birx on Thursday provided encouraging coronavirus numbers suggesting that some of the predictive models were incorrect.“There’s no model right now, no reality on the ground, where we can see that 60-70 percent of Americans are going to get infected in the next 10-12 weeks,” she said. Without specifically naming the Imperial College, Brix referred to models that predicted there could be 500,000 coronavirus deaths in the United Kingdom and 2.2 million deaths in the United States. The scientist of the model revised the estimate of deaths in the United Kingdom to be roughly 20,000 people or fewer.
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