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Trump Admin Names Gun Makers,
Retailers Essential Businesses Nationwide
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Posted by earlybird 3/28/2020 11:42:53 PM Post Reply
President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security released updated guidelines naming gun manufacturers and retailers as essential on Saturday, which means they are to stay open and operational nationwide during a Chinese coronavirus shutdown. The DHS guidelines list as essential: *Workers supporting the manufacturing of safety equipment and uniforms for law enforcement, public safety personnel, and first responders. *Workers supporting the operation of firearm or ammunition product manufacturers, retailers, importers, distributors, and shooting ranges.
Roswell Park VP fired over anti-Trump
Facebook posts
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Posted by happywarrior 3/28/2020 11:00:09 PM Post Reply
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has terminated a top executive for Facebook posts that bashed President Trump's response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Laura Krolczyk, Roswell Park's vice president for external affairs, was initially placed on administrative leave from her position but was fired following the conclusion of an investigation into her remarks, spokeswoman Annie Deck-Miller confirmed Saturday. Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute has placed Lisa LaTrovato, its director of development, on leave for her comments in the Facebook exchange with Krolczyk, the institute told The Buffalo News.
Medical schools considering early graduation
for students
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Posted by momoftwinteens 3/28/2020 10:45:46 PM Post Reply

 The coronavirus outbreak has been putting immense pressure on medical staff around the United States. To meet the demand for health care providers, medical schools across the country are considering early graduation for their senior medical students. New York University started offering this option on Tuesday, becoming the first medical school to do so. And now other medical schools are considering doing the same.

Kennedy Center Tells Musicians It Will
Stop Paying Them Hours After
$25 Million Bailout Is Signed
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Posted by ScarletPimpernel 3/28/2020 10:10:09 PM Post Reply
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts informed members of the National Symphony Orchestra that they would no longer be paid just hours after President Trump signed a $25 million taxpayer bailout for the cultural center, according to an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Nearly 100 musicians will no longer receive paychecks after April 3, according to an email from the orchestra's Covid-19 Advisory Committee. "The Covid-19 Advisory Committee was broadsided today during our conversation with [Kennedy Center President] Deborah Rutter," the email says. "Ms. Rutter abruptly informed us today that the last paycheck for all musicians and librarians will be April 3
Governor Cuomo Threatens Rhode Island
With Lawsuit Over NY Quarantine Policy
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/28/2020 9:04:46 PM Post Reply
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) threatened Governor Gina Raimondo (D-RI) with a lawsuit over a new state quarantine policy, which would involve using the police and National Guard to track down people fleeing to Rhode Island from New York and forcing them to self-quarantine. (Snip) “Starting today at noon, state police are monitoring our highways, they’re at the base of the Newport Bridge, they are on the side roads in Westerly, and they will be pulling you over if they see that you have New York plates, and asking you for your contact information, and ordering you into quarantine if you
Dutch Hospital Staff Show ‘Insidious
Nature’ of Coronavirus
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Posted by kreeger 3/28/2020 8:45:31 PM Post Reply
When a handful of Dutch health workers fell ill days after the Netherlands’ first Covid-19 case, it prompted mass screening at two hospitals. What scientists found surprised them.Some 1,353 hospital staff in Breda and Tilburg, who recently suffered typical winter coughs and sniffles, were tested for the coronavirus. Of those, 86 -- or 6.4% -- were positive. Barely half had a fever, and the majority reported working while they were mildly ill.
Donald Trump Sends Off USNS Comfort as
‘Message of Solidarity and Hope’ to NYC
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 8:02:25 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump on Saturday sent off the medical ship USNS Comfort from Norfolk, VA, to New York City to assist in the battle with the coronavirus.The president said that the medical ship would help New York City with hospital overflow, treating non-infected patients.The president described the ship as a “70,000-ton message of hope and solidarity” to the people of New York that was “stocked to the brim” with medical equipment. “We’re here for you, we’re fighting for you, and we are with you all the way, and always will be,” Trump said.
Democrats fret as Joe Biden becomes
‘irrelevant’ in coronavirus crisis
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 3:41:35 PM Post Reply
Just days after his commanding primary victories in Florida, Arizona and Illinois, the coronavirus has turned former Vice President Joe Biden into a virtual prisoner of his Delaware home, where he’s reduced to sniping at President Trump from the family rec room.“He’s making himself irrelevant,” Saikat Chakrabarti, a former chief of staff to Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, told The Post, saying the virtual broadcasts were not helping. “We need action immediately, and Biden can’t do anything real right now.”Biden has been forced to watch from the sidelines
Democrats fear a cure replies
Posted by earlybird 3/28/2020 3:37:56 PM Post Reply
The biggest fear for Democrats today are chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Democrat governors in Michigan and Nevada have banned their use to fight COVID-19, not because the drugs may harm people but because the drugs may work. The party's flying monkeys in the press are casting shade on this possible cure. Politico reported, "President Donald Trump’s all-out push to advance unproven corona virus treatments is deepening a divide between the White House and career health officials, who are being pulled away from other potential projects to address the president’s hunch that decades-old malaria medicines can be corona virus cures.
Only 632 People Watch Sleepy Joe Biden’s
Coronavirus Town Hall on YouTube
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/28/2020 3:35:57 PM Post Reply
2020 Democrat front runner Joe Biden held a Coronavirus town hall with nurses, firefighters and emergency medical technicians. Biden advertised his Coronavirus livestream to his 4.62 million Twitter followers. [Tweet] But only 632 people tuned in to watch Sleepy Joe on YouTube. [Tweets] Let’s take a look at President Trump’s ratings for a little comparison. The Fox News special with President Trump and members of his Coronavirus task force on Tuesday was the highest rated town hall in the history of cable news. The virtual town hall had 4,409,000 viewers between 12:00 and 2:00 p.m.
Manufacturing Security is National
Security – President Trump Appoints
Peter Navarro to Head National Defense
Production Act….
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Posted by earlybird 3/28/2020 3:33:24 PM Post Reply
Oh, this is almost too much winning. Almost… President Trump has appointed White House Manufacturing Advisor Peter Navarro to lead all U.S. coordination of the Defense Production Act. Just like that… presto… Navarro becomes a bazillion times more powerful than CoC President Tom Donohue. Delicious.(Snip)Peter Navarro has been a long-term China hawk warning about the risk of U.S. multinationals doing critical supply-chain manufacturing overseas. Navarro, working closely with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, has been the tip of the spear in the execution of America First policy and jobs. This appointment, and these additional responsibilities, is a recognition for his efforts.
Leftists' Latest Lies Against Trump
and American Capitalism
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Posted by Harlowe 3/28/2020 3:08:20 PM Post Reply
At this Wednesday’s press briefing by President Trump and his Coronavirus Task Force, President Trump was asked one of the most insulting questions that he has ever been asked during his presidency--and that’s saying something. A “reporter” wanted to know, “how many deaths are acceptable?” The president’s response was firm and direct: “How many? None. Okay? How many deaths are acceptable to me? None. Okay? None, if that’s your question.”(Snip)The “existing system” has been turned upside down to save as many lives as possible and the livelihoods of millions of Americans when they are finally able to go back to work
President Trump: Americans Rallying
to ‘Defeat the Unseen Enemy’
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 3:05:21 PM Post Reply
President Trump posted a powerful video from his reelection campaign highlighting the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and heaping praise on the American people, who are “rallying together to defeat the unseen enemy.”“In times of struggle we see the true greatness of the American character Americans from all walks of life are rallying together to defeat the unseen enemy,” Trump states in the video, which cuts away to clips of politicians, health officials, and political pundits praising the administration’s leadership:
NRA Sues California Officials for
Closing Gun Stores Amid Virus
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Posted by poster 3/28/2020 2:35:20 PM Post Reply
The National Rifle Association accused California’s governor and the sheriff of Los Angeles County in a lawsuit of taking away constitutional rights to firearms by shutting gun stores during the coronavirus outbreak. “The circumstances posed by the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak are noteworthy, but do not excuse unlawful government infringements upon freedom,” the NRA said in a complaint it filed Friday in Los Angeles federal court along with two individuals, a retail shop and three other firearms advocacy groups.
Dogs' day out! Orphaned puppies Odie and
Carmel roam around an empty Georgia
aquarium and get up close and personal
with Sharks after the space closed
because of COVID-19
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 1:35:32 PM Post Reply
t can be a ruff life for orphaned dogs living in shelters - but two Georgia puppies got a taste of freedom when they were given the chance to roam around the state's aquarium, which has been closed as a result of the coronavirus. In a video posted to the Georgia Aquarium's Twitter account, the two pups are seen happily wandering around the Ocean Voyager habitat, gazing at the fish and enjoying the chance to run around such a large, open space. 'No ruff days here, just a couple of cute puppers from @AtlantaHumane exploring our Ocean Voyager habitat,' the video, which racked up more than 67,500 views
Woke stupidity is spreading as fast as the
coronavirus pandemic
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/28/2020 1:00:23 PM Post Reply
After 9/11 there was much talk of the “death of irony,” along with calls for mandatory national service and widespread support for the idea that it was time to put away childish things. Then Rudy Giuliani went on “Saturday Night Live,” Lorne Michaels asked him, “Can we be funny?” And Giuliani said, “Why start now?” The relief-laugh that followed this impeccably delivered punchline set the stage for a return to normalcy. We could be silly again. We all went to see “Zoolander.” The coronavirus has already caused far more disruption than 9/11, and figures to take far more lives, albeit in slo-mo rather than on one fireball-strewn morning.
A Wuhan seafood vendor believed to
be one of the first coronavirus patients
says 'a lot fewer people would have died'
if the Chinese government acted sooner
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/28/2020 12:53:21 PM Post Reply
One of the first coronavirus patients in Wuhan, China, said "a lot fewer people would have died" if the Chinese government took action sooner, she said in a February interview with The Wall Street Journal. Wei Guixian, a 57-year-old seafood vendor in Wuhan's Hua'nan market, was among the first 27 patients to get infected with the coronavirus, which causes a respiratory disease known as COVID-19. She first began exhibiting symptoms on December 10 of last year, and was taken to Wuhan Union Hospital for treatment less than a week later. She recalled her doctors describing the illness as "very serious"
Biden almost gives out his phone number
on live TV during coronavirus rant
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/28/2020 12:45:49 PM Post Reply
Former Vice President Joe Biden almost offered his phone number out on live television Friday. In an emotional coronavirus-related question, Biden urged Americans to call loved ones and people they knew to help get through times of grief. “My message is, God loves you. You know, I’ve lost a couple of children. I’ve lost a wife. And it is incredibly difficult to go through. And it’s harder to go through when you haven’t had an opportunity to be with the person while they’re dying,” Biden said, briefly choking up during a CNN town hall. “Seek help afterward. Seek help. Talk to people who have been through it so they know,
New Yorkers irked to feel unwelcome
in states fearing coronavirus spread
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/28/2020 12:41:02 PM Post Reply
Many New Yorkers say they are miffed at being treated as the poster children of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, unwelcome in some states even if they are symptom-free. This week, Rhode Island, Florida and West Virginia appeared to roll up the welcome mats to residents of the Empire State. Rhode Island went as far as to post state troopers at its border to stop cars with New York license plates, requiring occupants to go into quarantine if they intend to stay. "How is this fair?" said Michelle Chu, 44, a graphics producer who lives Manhattan. "I mean, this thing is
Rhode Island sending cops, National Guard to
find New Yorkers seeking coronavirus refuge
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/28/2020 12:38:33 PM Post Reply
Any New Yorkers in there? Rhode Island plans to send the National Guard out to knock door-to-door in an attempt to hunt down anyone who has arrived in the tiny state from New York City during the coronavirus pandemic. State police, meanwhile, have begun pulling over cars with New York state plates. Gov. Gina Raimondo said anyone traveling there from New York will be ordered to undergo a 14-day quarantine and could face fines or even jail time if they’re found to not comply. “Right now we have a pinpointed risk,” Raimondo said at a news conference Friday. “That risk is called New York City.”
Media Peddle Bogus Wuhan Virus
Stats To Bash America
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 12:35:37 PM Post Reply
When Donald Trump tweeted this week that the United States had performed more coronavirus tests than any other country, the media were upset.Trump being Trump, he’d also said the United States had done more tests in eight days than South Korea had done in eight weeks. PolitiFact calculated the United States had done 17,582 fewer tests than South Korea during that time period. LiveScience said the United States had done 43,790 fewer tests than South Korea during that time period.Their own disparity notwithstanding, other media outlets pointed out merely that South Korea is a much smaller country than the United States. That meant they had done more tests per capita
Biden: “Every Single Day I Speak to All
5 of My Grandkids…”–In Reality He
Has 6 Grandkids (Video)
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 12:26:40 PM Post Reply
Joe Biden, who has 6 grandchildren, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper he only has 5. Biden either forgot about Hunter’s love child with the DC stripper or he doesn’t count him/her as one of his grandkids. “Every single day, I speak to all five of my grandkids.” Biden said.Watch: (Tweet/Video) A DNA test in November of last year proved Hunter Biden was indeed the father of Lunden Roberts’ baby.In fact, Joe Biden found out on his 77th birthday in November that he welcomed his 6th grandchild.
Drive-in theaters make a comeback amid
coronavirus
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/28/2020 12:23:43 PM Post Reply
As businesses nationwide struggle to survive amid the growing coronavirus pandemic, drive-in theaters in Florida are thriving. At the Ocala Drive-In, owner John Watzke said moviegoers are packing the lots in front of his two 90-foot screens as if every weeknight has become a Friday or Saturday evening. “For this time of year, business is over double what it normally is,” Watzke told The Post Friday. “Right now, almost every night is the equivalent of a weekend here. We’ve had a very large increase in attendance because it’s such a safe place to go.” Cars at the drive-in are now placed up to 12 feet apart to assuage any coronavirus concerns —
Boston train pulled from service after rider
licks car amid coronavirus outbreak
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/28/2020 12:16:57 PM Post Reply
An entire train in greater Boston’s public transit system was pulled from service because a rider licked a car amid the coronavirus pandemic, transit officials said. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority took a southbound Orange Line train out of service early Friday in an “abundance of caution” after a passenger spotted someone allegedly licking a train at Tufts Medical Center Station in Boston, spokeswoman Lisa Battiston said. “Transit Police were notified of the alleged incident,” Battiston wrote in an email. The disturbing report comes after Tufts Medical Center revealed that as of Thursday afternoon, 52 employees had tested positive for COVID-19, according to CNN.
Hundreds of People Surround
Medical Center to Pray
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 12:14:37 PM Post Reply
On Thursday night hundreds of people in cars surrounded Cartersville Medical Center in Georgia to pray for the sick patients who are suffering from the Corona virus, and for all the medical personnel who fight for their lives. Camden McGill organized the event, called the Circle of Prayer.Staff members watched from the rooftop and the lawn, and those patients who were able could see the cars from their windows.The Fox 5 article says Cartersville was one of the first hospitals to treat a Corona patient, and the Georgia town has been particularly hard hit.
Trump Activates Armed Forces Reserves To
Battle Coronavirus Pandemic — Up
To 1,000,000 Individual Reservists
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 12:03:33 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump announced at Friday’s coronavirus task force briefing that he has granted the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security the “authority to activate the ready reserve components of the Armed Forces” to help battle the pandemic.(Photo) “This will allow us to mobilize medical, disaster, and emergency response personnel to help wage our battle against the virus by activating thousands of experienced service members including retirees,” Trump told the reporters gathered in the White House Brady Briefing Room. “We have a lot of people, retirees, — great, great people — who have come back in
Amazon deliveryman caught spitting on
package in vile video
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/28/2020 11:57:52 AM Post Reply
Revolting video captured by a doorbell camera has caught an Amazon deliveryman apparently spitting on a package on the customer’s front porch and using his hand to smear his saliva. “I received the box and saw a big wet spot and then checked the camera!” the horrified resident, Marcus Martinez, wrote on Twitter. The disgusting incident amid the coronavirus pandemic occurred Thursday evening in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to TMZ. The footage shows the man, who is wearing a vest with the Amazon logo on the back, leaning over to spit on the package and then wiping it with his hand
FOX Business answers backlash after Trish
Regan is ousted from network for good
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 11:50:38 AM Post Reply
On March 13, Fox Business Network effectively put “Trish Regan Primetime” on quarantine (hiatus) after she delivered candid remarks about the left’s unambiguous politicization of the global coronavirus pandemic.Two weeks later on Friday, March 28, the network ousted Regan from the network altogether, citing the need to direct resources to “continuous breaking news coverage on the Coronavirus crisis.”“We thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors,” the network said in a statement.
Ex-Sen. Tom Coburn, who pressed Republicans
to keep budget-cutting promises, dies at 72
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 11:15:51 AM Post Reply
Former Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a doctor-turned-lawmaker who annoyed Republican leadership in both chambers of Congress with his adherence to fiscal conservatism and opposition to politicians' pet spending projects, has died at 72.Coburn's death was announced on Twitter by former Republican Rep. Zach Wamp of Tennessee, a House colleague in the class of 1994, whose rise to power on promises to slash federal spending and enact socially conservative policies ended Democrats' 40-year majority in the chamber. Coburn died Friday due to complications with cancer, according to the Oklahoman Coburn stood out in the House during his 1995-2001 tenure
Sit Down: Obama Bro Dan Pfeiffer
Mansplains to Dr. Deborah Birx on How
to Do Her Job, It Does Not Go Well
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Posted by Garnet 3/28/2020 11:00:54 AM Post Reply
Key White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Deborah Birx has been like the calm within the storm during the daily press briefings the White House holds on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Where Dr. Fauci is all about the science, and President Trump is focused on giving an overall view of what’s being done, Birx uses her platform to ease the panic that has set in for some thanks in large part to the media’s deliberately sensationalistic reporting. Such was the case on Wednesday and Thursday, when Birx cut through some of the hysteria
Miami records its first coronavirus death
amid fears it could become the nation's
new hotspot: Boyfriend pays tribute to
his partner, age 40, who fell ill after
attending a dance party on the beach
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Posted by Ribicon 3/28/2020 10:49:19 AM Post Reply
Miami has reported its first COVID-19 related death, amid fears it could become the next coronavirus epicenter in the United States. Israel Carreras, 40, died in hospital Friday due to complications from the highly contagious virus he is believed to have caught at a dance party held on Miami Beach earlier this month. Carreras' heartbroken partner, Franco Conquista, has paid tribute to his boyfriend in an interview with NBC, stating: 'Everybody loved him. His personality just shined ... [there was] just an aura around him'. Carreras attended the Winter Party Festival between March 4 and 10, before coming down with a horrible cough.
Panera is teaming up with the USDA to
provide cheap meals to needy children
who are unable to get free school meals
because of the coronavirus shutdowns
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Posted by Ribicon 3/28/2020 10:39:58 AM Post Reply
Panera is looking to feed hungry kids in Ohio who may not have healthy meals to eat because the coronavirus pandemic closed down their schools. During a White House press briefing, Panera CEO Niren Chaudhary announced the partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Children's Hunger Alliance to provide meals to needy children in the Buckeye state. The announcement is a part of an effort from the federal government to create public-private connections to help feed needy children who can't eat free meals at school due to coronavirus shutdowns. Starting April 6, the restaurant chain will work deliver 'ready-to-eat'
Trump signs order authorizing Pentagon to call
up former troops to help with coronavirus fight
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Posted by LittleHoodedMonk 3/28/2020 10:37:02 AM Post Reply
President Trump on Friday signed an executive order authorizing the Pentagon to bring back former troops, including members of the National Guard and Ready Reserve eserve members, to active duty as part of the ongoing response to the coronavirus crisis. "Today the President signed an Executive Order authorizing Secretary Esper to order units and individual members in the National Guard and Reserves and certain Individual Ready Reserve members, to active duty to augment forces for the effective response to the coronavirus outbreak," (Snip) The order allows them to be called up for up to two years and up to a million can be called up.
Coronavirus Causing a Right Turn replies
Posted by Magnante 3/28/2020 9:06:58 AM Post Reply
My brother who lives in Baltimore is a fellow black Christian conservative Republican. He phoned to warn me not to mention Trump to a senior relative. Fake news media's corona-madness has driven her hatred to the extreme. Now, she wants him dead! (snip) However, whenever Trump speaks directly to the American people, they believe him, gravitate to him, and love his America first agenda. This is why Democrats/fake news media continuously seek to block Trump from communicating directly to We the People. Absurdly, they claim his tweeting is an impeachable crime.
China 'back to normal' --
riots break out in Wuhan
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Posted by Magnante 3/28/2020 9:01:15 AM Post Reply
China claims coronavirus cases are a thing of the past, there are no new cases, and as Reuters touted the other day, has now begun its "return to normal." Here's normal: A huge protest march swept out of China’s Hubei province on Friday, with thousands of angry residents pouring across a bridge into neighboring Jiangxi province and clashing with police. The capital city of Hubei province is Wuhan, ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic. That's part of a comprehensive report from Breitbart describing the explosive state of unrest in China's big central province, based on Chinese citizen journalist reports
We’ve been had and Trump knows it replies
Posted by Magnante 3/28/2020 8:55:19 AM Post Reply
While President Trump closed the US border against entry from China at the end of January, his overall instinct was right. The CCP virus was nasty, but no worse than a supercharged flu. Health professionals overwhelmed Trump and his inner circle with doomsday scenarios, bullied by panic obsessed virologists and epidemiologists -- begging for attention and copying the alarmist playbook from the climate/global warming extremists, allied with the MSM Trump-haters. And now the government has completely suffocated economic demand, creating a depression
All-St. Louis World Series Brought
Out the Best in Cardinals, Browns
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Posted by StormCnter 3/28/2020 8:36:44 AM Post Reply
With a war raging overseas and uncertainty overwhelming the nation, a unique World Series was taking place pitting two teams who shared the same home ballpark. The 1944 World Series, considered a David versus Goliath matchup at the time, was an all-St. Louis affair featuring the prodigious Cardinals, a franchise having just won its third consecutive National League pennant, and the plucky Browns, the winners of its first American League pennant in its 43rd year of existence. The Cinderella story Browns, who had only one winning campaign in the previous 14 seasons, finishing with an 82-69 record in 1942. In the end, Goliath won the ’44 World Series in six games.
Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan
a casualty of the coronavirus war?
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Posted by Magnante 3/28/2020 8:20:35 AM Post Reply
Following two weeks off the air and in limbo after commenting on her Fox Business Network show on March 9 that the coronavirus pandemic was “another attempt to impeach the president,” FBN prime time host Trish Regan has left the cable network. A terse news release from her employer on Friday, first reported by Variety, announced “Fox Business has parted ways with Trish Regan" (snip) Interestingly, March 9 was also the evening that Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity made a comment similar to Regan’s during his prime-time program.
Coronavirus spreading in The Villages replies
Posted by momoftwinteens 3/28/2020 8:19:38 AM Post Reply
TALLAHASSEE — At least five residents from The Villages have contracted the coronavirus through community spread or close contact with someone else who had the virus, according to the Florida Department of Health in Sumter County. The Villages is a rapidly growing retirement community of more than 50,000 residents that spans three north central Florida counties.
MI Gov. Bans Hydroxychloroquine;
Constituent Who Credits the Drug for
Saving His Life Wants to Talk
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Posted by JackBurton 3/28/2020 8:16:11 AM Post Reply
The Detroit News’ Kathy Hoekstra reports that Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) has sent a letter to all physicians and pharmacists in the state warning of “professional consequences” if they prescribe or dispense hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine to treat coronavirus patients. Hoekstra writes that “beyond the rational recommendation against hoarding as production of this medication needs to be ramped up, the letter deviates into open threats (snip)
Oxford and Imperial replies
Posted by Hazymac 3/28/2020 7:55:29 AM Post Reply
My dear old statistics teacher used to say that relying on any model however good but founded on past data was like driving by looking at the rearview mirror; fine as long as the future looked like the past. As governments struggle with their response to the Covid-19 pandemic the $64 trillion question is 'which past does the future look like?' Science Mag writes how models have become supremely important: "Entire cities and countries have been locked down based on hastily done forecasts that often haven't been peer reviewed. ... The Netherlands ... Prime Minister Mark Rutte rejected 'working endlessly to contain the virus'
Dr. Fauci and me replies
Posted by Magnante 3/28/2020 7:43:54 AM Post Reply
Last Saturday, I wrote a blog that focused on Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s leading medical expert, and his long background, especially as he shepherded the government’s four decade long war on HIV-AIDS. The article touched a deep nerve, helping to inspire a Washington Post article that ran yesterday: "As Trump signals readiness to break with experts, his online base assails Fauci. A cadre of right-wing outlets is laying the groundwork for Trump to disregard experts on his own coronavirus task force." For a time on Friday, the article was the second-most read at the Post's website
Coronavirus: Illegal Aliens Demand
$1.2K Each in Taxpayer-Funded Checks
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Posted by PageTurner 3/28/2020 7:28:42 AM Post Reply
Illegal aliens are demanding they too receive $1,200 in federal checks from the government as part of a Chinese coronavirus crisis relief package. Open borders organizations like the George Soros-funded United We Dream, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the National Immigration Law Center — all of which represent the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States — are pleading with the federal government to cut federal checks to illegal aliens who have Individual Tax Identification Number (ITINs).
'This is really quite important': Deborah
Birx says administration looking
into plummeting UK death toll
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Posted by Judy W. 3/28/2020 6:55:55 AM Post Reply
White House coronavirus task force member Deborah Birx said the Trump administration is looking with “great detail” into a report from the United Kingdom that reduces the expected death toll from 500,000 people to 20,000 or less. A widely regarded U.K. study that inspired strict coronavirus crackdowns in the United States was revised to show that it is now expected to be at about 20,000, it was reported Thursday. “I am sure many of you saw the recent report out of the U.K. about them adjusting completely their needs,” Birx said Thursday evening during a press conference updating the nation on the coronavirus. “This is really quite important.”
5 Major Paradigm Shifts
The Wuhan Flu Crisis Has
Revealed Americans Need
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Posted by Judy W. 3/28/2020 6:39:58 AM Post Reply
Crises have a way of revealing critical, unspoken truths. If we can recognize these truths, we can emerge from such crises significantly stronger. (Snip) 1. Communist China Is a Global Menace When the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic arose and began spreading, for weeks the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sought to cover it up, with deadly consequences for the world. When communist China was blamed, it not only refused to take responsibility, but slandered America for pointing the finger, to the point of calling the United States culpable as part of a disinformation campaign. The CCP even threatened, via a state-backed publication, to cut off essential medical supplies should Americans continue speaking openly
Israel: Maybe the Dog Will Talk replies
Posted by Pluperfect 3/28/2020 5:22:40 AM Post Reply
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s astonishing emergence with an agreement to remain the prime minister in a national unity government of Israel reminds us of the yarn about the rabbi, the cossack, and the cossack’s dog. It seems the rabbi is out for a walk when he encounters a cossack officer and his dog. The cossack draws his weapon, points it at the rabbi, and pulls back the hammer. “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot,” the rabbi cries, throwing up his arms. “Why not?” demands the cossack. “Because,” the rabbi exclaims, “if you give me a year, I will teach your dog to talk.”
Pandemic Brings Out the Best
and the Worst in the Media
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/28/2020 5:13:59 AM Post Reply
The coronavirus crisis is a make-or-break moment for the American media. According to Wednesday’s Gallup poll on the coronavirus response, “Hospitals Rated Best, News Media Worst.” The survey shows that 44% of the public says the media has been doing “a good job.” This is high considering how the press fares in normal times, but let’s be honest: It can’t be comforting to a press corps that has been persistently adversarial to Donald Trump that it ranks 16 points lower than the approval of the president’s own handling of the crisis. Predictably, some of the media’s worst tendencies, such as myopic concerns about political correctness and electoral politics, have often
Goodbye, Green New Deal replies
Posted by MissMolly 3/28/2020 5:02:24 AM Post Reply
What will happen next with the coronavirus epidemic is unknown, but it seems certain to claim one very high-profile victim: the so-called Green New Deal. Good riddance. The current crisis in the U.S. economy is, in miniature but concentrated form, precisely what the Left has in mind in response to climate change: shutting down large sectors of the domestic and global economies through official writ, social pressure, and indirect means, in response to a crisis with potentially devastating and wide-ranging consequences for human life and human flourishing. What is under way right now in response to the epidemic is in substance much like the Green New Deal
Cuomo Is No Hero replies
Posted by Pluperfect 3/28/2020 4:58:20 AM Post Reply
New York Governor Andy Cuomo, like President Trump, is delivering daily coronavirus briefings. Unlike President Trump, he is being swooned over by liberal reporters. At American Greatness, Julie Kelly collects some examples. Here is just one: “If social media is a reflection of how people are feeling, Cuomo’s image during the coronavirus outbreak is one of authority, yet hope—a role people value enough to begin visualizing his presidency,” one smitten CBS News reporter cooed. This is odd, if only because New York is the epicenter of COVID-19 infection in the U.S. The disease is more widespread there, and more problematic, than anywhere else.
Abbott Launches 5-Minute Covid-19
Test for Use Almost Anywhere
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/28/2020 4:50:12 AM Post Reply
Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as 5 minutes, and is so small and portable it can be used in almost any health-care setting. The medical-device maker plans to supply 50,000 tests a day starting April 1, said John Frels, vice president of research and development at Abbott Diagnostics. The molecular test looks for fragments of the coronavirus genome, which can be detected in as little as five minutes when it’s present at high levels. A thorough search to definitively rule out an infection can take up to 13 minutes, he said.
What the Media Isn't Telling
You About the United States'
Coronavirus Case Numbers
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/28/2020 4:41:02 AM Post Reply
When President Trump said this week that the United States had done more testing than South Korea, USA Today was quick to fact-check his claim by pointing out, "The United States population is more than six times the size of South Korea’s. On a per-capita basis, South Korea is testing far more of its citizens than the U.S." In this case, the media attempted to use a per capita comparison against Trump. CNN and MSNBC each made similar fact-checks. On Thursday, the New York Times made a big fuss over the fact that more than 81,321 Americans have been infected with the coronavirus,
Trump’s Kiplingesque Coronavirus Leadership replies
Posted by Pluperfect 3/28/2020 4:35:59 AM Post Reply
Both Plato and Aristotle feared mass democracy because its smooth-talking agitators could easily whip up popular passions and lead an unsophisticated mob into fury and blind obedience to the tyrant they were promoting to save them. For the past three years, progressive intellectuals and media have depicted President Donald Trump as that tyrant even with little evidence after multiple investigations by his opponents and by the government itself. Yet, when the coronavirus struck, these same critics derided him for the opposite — for not exercising absolute control over the country’s private institutions and local governments. They demanded a single national solution to regulate everyone.
Why Dems are so bent on
passing wind amid corona crisis
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Posted by MissMolly 3/28/2020 4:31:33 AM Post Reply
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Renewable energy is getting so cheap that it doesn’t need subsidies anymore. Yes, well. Renewables live or die by subsidies, in fact. That was proved yet again this week, when Democrats tried (unsuccessfully) to stuff a panoply of Green New Deal measures into the corona-crisis relief bill — including extensions of the tax credits that have been driving the growth of solar and wind energy. That Congressional Democrats would push so hard for solar and wind subsidies at such a critical time for the US economy is particularly galling for two reasons. First, the wind industry already stands to collect some $33.75 billion in subsidies
Hillary Clinton under fire
for joke about US leading
in virus cases: Trump 'did
promise America First'
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Posted by MissMolly 3/28/2020 4:22:49 AM Post Reply
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was blasted on social media Friday for her swipe against President Trump amid the growing coronavirus outbreak within the U.S. Since the availability of testing kits has broadened in recent days, the number of confirmed cases in the U.S. has skyrocketed. On Thursday, the U.S. has reportedly outpaced both China and Italy with more than 97,000 reported cases. Clinton took the latest developments as an opportunity to knock her former 2016 rival on Twitter. "He did promise 'America First,'" Clinton wrote, referring to one of the president's oft-repeated campaign slogans.
Pope Francis, in desolate St. Peter's Square,
prays for end to coronavirus
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Posted by MissMolly 3/28/2020 4:19:27 AM Post Reply
Pope Francis prayed for an end to the coronavirus pandemic on Friday in front of an empty St. Peter's Square, as Italy continues to remain one of the most impacted regions in the world. Speaking through the rain, Francis read from the Gospel during the hour-long ceremony and urged the world to view the crisis as a reminder of basic values. "My God’s blessing come down upon you as a consoling embrace,” Francis said from the steps of St. Peter's Basilica, where he normally draws tens of thousands of worshippers. “Lord, bless the world. Give health to our bodies and comfort our hearts.”
Media meltdown over Trump’s suicide warning
shows the press can’t let its hatred go
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 2:43:47 AM Post Reply
Even a pandemic can’t shock the media out of its blinding hostility to President Trump — witness this week’s absurd press eruption after he warned of a likely rise in suicides. “People get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies,” Trump noted at a briefing, adding that he believes the isolation many Americans face thanks to social distancing will also lead to more mental-health issues.There’s nothing incorrect — or even controversial — in those remarks.
Huge! Second French Study by Dr. Raoult
finds Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin
Helped Every Patient in Study Group
of 80 Minus One (Video)
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Posted by Imright 3/28/2020 2:25:24 AM Post Reply
On Friday night Laura Ingraham reported on the latest study by the French research team led by the renowned epidemiologist Dr. Didier Raoult was able to repeat his findings from a previous study.This time Dr. Raoult administered hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to 80 patients and observed improvement in Every Case except for a very sick 86-year-old with an advanced form of coronavirus infection.
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