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Brooklyn woman, 86, dies after she’s knocked
to the ground by stranger for violating
coronavirus social distancing: police sources
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/29/2020 11:59:59 PM Post Reply
The NYPD is investigating what might be the city’s first coronavirus-related homicide — after a woman hit an elderly Brooklyn hospital patient in the head for violating social distancing, sources said Sunday. Victim Janie Marshall, 86, died less than four hours after the tense confrontation with 32-year-old Cassandra Lundy in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Woodhull Hospital, cops said. (Snip) Lundy, who was at the hospital for seizures, lashed out, complaining Marshall wasn’t following coronavirus social distancing guidelines, and allegedly slugged her in the head, knocking her to the ground, according to police sources. Some of the confrontation was caught on video, though no
Huge tornado rips through Jonesboro in
Arkansas, leveling homes and businesses
as thousands remain in lockdown during
coronavirus crisis
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 11:58:17 PM Post Reply
Businesses and homes suffered damage and a citywide curfew was announced in northeastern Arkansas after a tornado ripped through the area on Saturday afternoon, injuring at least three people. The twister caused considerable damage in Jonesboro, where the Mayor announced a curfew for 7pm. Dramatic video posted to social media shows how the tornado's fierce winds sent debris flying. [Tweets / videos] Arkansas officials told KAIT-TV that first responders were trying to rescue possible victims trapped under the debris of a mall. The force of the tornado was so great that it sent debris some four miles high, according to experts who analyzed the data.
Bellingham physician who decried lack of
coronavirus protections is removed,
sparking protest
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Posted by Ron_lfp 3/29/2020 10:08:40 PM Post Reply
The intersection of a global pandemic and the for-profit U.S. medical sector came to a head this weekend when a national physicians group called on Washington regulators to investigate the termination of a doctor who’d publicly criticized a Bellingham hospital for inadequate coronavirus protections. Dr. Ming Lin worked at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center for 17 years until he was removed on Friday by TeamHealth (snip) Lin became a national avatar for frustrated health care professionals during the COVID-19 outbreak by speaking up in the press and on social media with pleas for more medical supplies and stronger standards to protect health care workers combating the virus.
Locals in Wuhan believe 42,000 people may
have died in the coronavirus outbreak there
not the 3,200 claimed by Chinese authorities
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Posted by Harlowe 3/29/2020 9:59:35 PM Post Reply
Wuhan locals claim coronavirus has killed 42,000 people in the city alone, more than ten times the national figure claimed by Chinese authorities. The killer bug, which originated in Wuhan in China's Hubei Province has claimed the lives of 3,300 people and infected more than 81,000. Of those, 3,182 deaths were reported in Hubei Province. But residents in Wuhan claim 500 urns have been handed out to grieving families every day from seven separate funeral homes all serving the city. This means the ashes of 3,500 people are distributed every 24 hours.
Interactive: This Map Shows How Many
Have Died From COVID-19 In Each State
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 9:41:43 PM Post Reply
There have been 85,381 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 1,271 deaths in the United States as of Friday, March 27, at 8:04 a.m., according to The New York Times’s roundup of state and local health agencies, hospitals and CDC data.(Map/Chart) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that people across the U.S. take steps such as social distancing and frequent hand washing in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus, which was formally named COVID-19.
“The Most Shameful, Disgusting Statement by Any
Politician in Modern History!” – Lindsey Graham
Goes Off after Pelosi Blames Trump for
People Dying (Video)
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 9:29:58 PM Post Reply
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning.(Photo) aria asked Senator Graham about Nancy Pelosi’s disgusting Sunday morning comments blaming President Trump for people dying from coronavirus.Senator Graham went off. Senator Graham: What she said, she’s blaming the president for people dying because of the way he’s led the country. That’s the most shameful disgusting statement by any politician in modern history. Let me tell you we’ve seen the best
Just In: President Trump Extends Coronavirus 'Social
Distancing' Guidelines and Economic Lockdown
to April 30th (Video)
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 9:15:11 PM Post Reply
President Trump gave another Coronavirus press briefing on Sunday.The President extending his Coronavirus ‘social distancing’ guidelines to April 30th to slow the spread of the Coronavirus. Trump previously hoped to have the country back to work by Easter. New York is the US epicenter for the Coronavirus with over 59,000 cases and 965 deaths.
Trump boasts White House briefing ratings
in attack of ‘Lamestream Media’
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 9:09:22 PM Post Reply
President Trump touted the sky-high ratings of his White House coronavirus briefings — claiming they are driving the media “crazy” — as he reminded his millions of Twitter followers that another one is coming up Sunday afternoon. “Because the ‘Ratings’ of my News Conferences etc. are so high, ‘Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers’ according to the@nytimes, the Lamestream Media is going CRAZY. Trump is reaching too many people, we must stop him.’ said one lunatic,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “See you at 5:00 P.M.!”“The Lamestream Media wants us to fail. That will NEVER happen!,”
The Intercept: Pence Must Invoke The 25th
+Amendment Now
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 8:48:23 PM Post Reply
It’s never happened in the history of the United States but a British political journalist thinks now would be a swell time for Vice-President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. As a matter of fact, he is demanding that Pence act right now because President Trump isn’t mentally capable of leading us through the coronavirus pandemic crisis. In an open letter to Vice-President Pence, Mehdi Hasan writes in The Intercept that the 25th Amendment must be invoked and points to the relevant wording: “Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide,
'Don’t be threatening': Trump butts heads
with PBS reporter over coronavirus questions
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 7:20:12 PM Post Reply
President Trump condemned PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor for asking him a question about a claim he made during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. During a press conference on Sunday, Alcindor asked, "Mr. President, I have two questions. The first is, you said repeatedly that you think some of the equipment that governors are requesting, they don’t actually need. You said —" Trump cut her off, saying, "I didn’t say it. ... Why don’t you act in a little more positive? It's always trying to get me. Getcha, getcha. And you know what? That’s why nobody trusts the media anymore."
Dad bans son from house after
he went on spring break trip
amidst coronavirus pandemic
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Posted by DVC 3/29/2020 6:47:08 PM Post Reply
Looks like the party’s definitely over. A father in New York reportedly banned his son from the family home after the college student went on a spring break trip amidst the coronavirus pandemic. According to the father, it’s just too risky. Peter Levine, from Nanuet, N.Y., advised his 21-year-old son Matt against going to South Padre Island in Texas for Spring Break, the New York Post reports. While on the trip, Matt reportedly sent his father pictures showing him in situations that could have exposed him to the virus. “I spoke with him every day and told him that maybe they should come home,” Peter told the New York
Pennsylvania coughing 'prank'
suspect arrested, charged after
$35G in groceries tossed
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Posted by DVC 3/29/2020 6:37:04 PM Post Reply
Authorities in Pennsylvania have identified the suspect accused of coughing on an estimated $35,000 worth of grocery store products in what they say was a "twisted prank" amid the coronavirus pandemic. Margaret Cirko, 35, was arrested and charged with terrorist threats Thursday, one day after she allegedly entered Gerrity's Supermarket in Hanover Township, made verbal threats that she was sick, and intentionally coughed and spat on fresh produce and other items, according to the Hanover Township Police Department. Cirko, known for past problems in the community, continued the behavior in several aisles, police said, adding that she tried to steal a 12 pack of beer before being ordered to leave the store.
Prince Harry was 'devastated' at having
to give up his post as Captain General
of The Royal Marines and said the
'decision was forced on him’ after
stepping back from royal duties
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Posted by earlybird 3/29/2020 6:13:32 PM Post Reply
Prince Harry 'regretted' having to stand down from his role in the military, and felt 'forced into it' after stepping down from royal duties, a source has claimed. The Duke of Sussex, 35, who decided to step back from the limelight with Meghan Markle, 38, and 10-month-old Archie after being subjected to intense scrutiny which brought back painful memories of Princess Diana's death, is said to have been apologetic about giving up his post as Captain General of The Royal Marines. Harry, who served for 10 years in the British army, entered into negotiations with the royal family after announcing his withdrawal as a senior royal in January, and as a result
Queen snaps up American PR hotshot
Sarah Latham who was cut loose by
Harry and Meghan when they moved
to Canada
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Posted by earlybird 3/29/2020 6:02:00 PM Post Reply
One of Harry and Meghan's top advisers has been headhunted to work for Buckingham Palace. Sara Latham, the couple's head of communications, was among 15 loyal members of staff being made redundant as a result of their decision to step down as working royals and move to North America. But now she has been snapped up by the Queen's private office to advise it on special projects. US-born Miss Latham, will be reporting to the monarch's right-hand man, Private Secretary Edward Young, it is understood.
Governors should focus on tackling coronavirus rather than shift blame replies
Posted by Moritz55 3/29/2020 5:36:04 PM Post Reply
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on the federal government to take control of the medical supply market. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker demanded that President Trump take charge and said “precious months” were wasted waiting for federal action. Some critics are even more direct in demanding a federal takeover, including a national quarantine. It is the legal version of panic shopping. Many seem to long for federal takeovers, if not martial law. Yet like all panic shopping, they are buying into far more than they need while not doing as much as they could with what they have.
The US will NOT pay for Harry and
Meghan's security in LA, says Donald
Trump as he insists he's a fan of The
Queen… but the royal couple 'must pay!'
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Posted by Ribicon 3/29/2020 5:28:48 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump has said Prince Harry and Meghan will have to pay for their own security costs once they settle to live in Los Angeles. In a tweet on Sunday, Trump said: 'I am a great friend and admirer of the Queen & the United Kingdom. It was reported that Harry and Meghan, who left the Kingdom, would reside permanently in Canada. Now they have left Canada for the U.S. however, the U.S. will not pay for their security protection. They must pay!'(Snip) Trump has the final say over whether the couple can have US-funded diplomatic protection in the US,
Joe Diffie, ’90s Country Music
Star, Dies of Coronavirus at 61
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/29/2020 4:42:07 PM Post Reply
Joe Diffie, an icon to many country fans for his string of No. 1 hits in the 1990s, has died from complications related to the coronavirus, a spokesperson revealed Sunday afternoon. He was 61. “Grammy-winning country music legend Joe Diffie passed away today, Sunday, March 29, from complications of coronavirus (COVID-19),” the statement read simply. “His family respects their privacy at this time.” On Friday, Diffie become the first country star to go public with a coronavirus diagnosis. “I am under the care of medical professionals and currently receiving treatment,” a statement attributed to him read. “My family and I
Billionaire David Geffen sparks fury with
his 'tone-deaf' Instagram coronavirus
post assuring the public that he is safe
and self-isolating in the Caribbean
on his $590 million superyacht
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Posted by Ribicon 3/29/2020 4:00:31 PM Post Reply
As millions of Americans self-quarantine inside cramped apartments, or risk their own health to provide vital services, billionaire David Geffen wants the public to know that he's also doing his part in the coronavirus pandemic. 'Sunset last night…' Geffen wrote in an Instagram post on Saturday morning, accompanied by a picture of his $590 million superyacht floating in the waters of the Caribbean. 'Isolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus. I hope everybody is staying safe,' added the music mogul, who is worth an estimated $7.7 billion. The post, which has since been hidden from public view, drew furious backlash as a 'tone-deaf' response
Biden: Trump Needs to ‘Stop Thinking
Out Loud,’ Start Thinking Deeply
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 3:28:10 PM Post Reply
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” 2020 hopeful, former Vice President Biden said President Donald Trump needs to stop thinking out loud and start thinking more deeply on the coronavirus pandemic. Biden said, “The coronavirus is not the president’s fault but the slow response, the failure to get going right away, the inability to do the things that needed to be done quickly. They are things that can’t continue. We are going to go through another phase of this. We have to be ahead of the curve, not behind like we were last time.” Host Chuck Todd asked,
'A lot of people were scared': Survivor of
1940s polio outbreak finds much familiar
about COVID-19
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 3:07:41 PM Post Reply
SAND SPRINGS—Just hours before the paralysis struck, Carol Hammans had been running and playing with her usual abandon.“That’s what baffled my family,” she said. “That evening I’d been playing with my cousin in my front yard. And there was no sign that anything was wrong.”But the next morning, when Hammans woke up and suddenly couldn’t walk, the reality sank in:The 3-year-old girl was seriously ill.To this day, more than 75 years later, Hammans still doesn’t know how she contracted the virus that resulted in her being hospitalized for six years of her childhood.
NBC's Chuck Todd under fire for asking
Biden if Trump has 'blood on his hands'
for delayed coronavirus response
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Posted by StormCnter 3/29/2020 2:11:00 PM Post Reply
NBC News anchor Chuck Todd raised eyebrows Sunday morning when he asked if President Trump had "blood on his hands" for his delayed response to the coronavirus outbreak. During an interview with former Vice President Joe Biden, Todd pointed to the Democrat's campaign messaging on the pandemic, which says a failure to take aggressive action "could cost lives." "Do you think there is blood on the president's hands considering the slow response?" Todd asked. "Or is that too harsh of a criticism?"
Why is it so hard not
to touch your face?
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Posted by StormCnter 3/29/2020 2:07:03 PM Post Reply
As the new coronavirus spreads across the globe, people are staying 6 feet (1.8 meters) apart, washing their hands and avoiding touching their faces. Or at least they're trying to. Ignoring an itchy nose or hair in your eyes is easier said than done. Even professionals who should know better get caught by the impulse. Medical school students being trained in infectious disease prevention, for example, touched their faces 23 times an hour during a lecture, according to a 2015 study in the American Journal of Infection Control. So why is it so difficult to stop touching your face?
Bernie and the Democrats replies
Posted by StormCnter 3/29/2020 2:00:19 PM Post Reply
After Super Tuesday, Bernie Sanders was no longer the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. Within four days of Sanders’s Nevada victory, the Democratic establishment roused itself in a move publicly initiated by South Carolina congressman James Clyburn, privately managed by still unknown hidden actors, and culminating in the decisions by Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar to drop out. Then, even more remarkably, the Democratic primary electorates in most of 14 states did their part eagerly and obediently: voting, in sum, to put Joe Biden in the lead. In the primaries since that point, Biden has moved further ahead. So far, the Democrats have produced a feat of coordination
NOLA Mayor: Who Knew Mardi Gras Should
Have Been Canceled?
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 1:50:27 PM Post Reply
Louisiana is developing into a hot spot for the coronavirus pandemic, in particular, the city of New Orleans. As the Crescent City’s numbers grow and panic sets in, Mayor LaToya Cantrell finds herself under fire. Friday she was pushing back on accusations that she should have acted to cancel Mardi Gras. John wrote about the mayor’s response to criticism and pointed out that at the time Mardi Gras kicked off, most cancellations of big events across the country had not begun. We didn’t know what we didn’t know, and that includes elected officials in charge of cities across America. I’m not going to beat up on Mayor Cantrell.
Thank the Second Amendment: Armed hero
stops possible Florida mass shooting
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 12:21:34 PM Post Reply
How can you tell whether or not the liberal media will pick up an incident of gun violence and turn it into a national story? It’s simple: If the shooting is successful, they will give it wall-to-wall coverage for a week. If it is stopped by an armed citizen, however, the liberal media will almost always pretend it never happened or glance over the story with only brief mention or coverage.This oversight is perhaps a bit more understandable at the moment, given the national coronavirus crisis consuming the country and dominating media coverage. But it’s still absolutely worth highlighting the heroic story of a Florida man who on Friday
Trump's approval rating is up most
among those who don't vote
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 11:46:41 AM Post Reply
Poll of the week: A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that President Donald Trump's approval rating among all adults in 48%, while his disapproval rating is 46%. Trump scores a very similar 49% approval rating and 47% disapproval rating with registered voters. What's the point: There's no doubt now that Trump is experiencing a bump in his popularity following his response to the coronavirus pandemic. The ABC News/Washington Post poll is quite similar to the Monmouth University poll that came out earlier this week, for instance. But what is interesting to me is that Trump's jump is coming disproportionality from non-voters. Normally Trump does considerably better among voters than among adults.
Joe Biden takes massive 25-point lead against
Donald Trump in battleground counties
as a new poll shows the former VP
ahead of the president in areas hotly
contested in 2016
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 11:33:55 AM Post Reply
Joe Biden has taken a commanding 25-point lead in close counties where in 2016 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were within 10 points of each other, a poll released Saturday revealed.The Fox News poll shows Biden ahead with 57 per cent support to Trump’s 32 per cent in close counties – defined by the poll as counties where Hillary Clinton and Trump were within 10 percentage points of each other in 2016.The former vice president also has a 49-40 per cent lead over Trump in the national head-to-head matchup, according to the first Fox poll taken after Biden became the assumed Democratic candidate.
There’s powerful evidence this Great
Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and
our economy crippled
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Posted by Garnet 3/29/2020 11:26:20 AM Post Reply
As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would. I also felt terribly alone. You could not have known, from anything broadcast that night or printed the following day, that anyone was unhappy with these events. But they were. So, above all things this week, I would like to thank all the kind, perplexed people who have got in touch with me by so many means, to say they share my doubts about the Government’s handling of Covid-19.
It’s Not a Choice Between
Lives or the Economy
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Posted by Garnet 3/29/2020 11:23:06 AM Post Reply
There seem to be shortages of everything these days, not least a shortage of commentary on the COVID-19 virus, also known as the Chinese virus, the Wuhan flu, known to some as the Chinese Communist Party virus, or the CCP virus for short. Since there has been so little discussion of this disease in the news or in the blogosphere, I thought I would weigh in with a word or two.Regular readers will know that I have already, these past few weeks, had occasion to say something about this disease, and the reaction to the disease, here and at other venues.
What if Obama were president now? replies
Posted by Big Bopper 3/29/2020 11:22:41 AM Post Reply
It’s a fair question, given the criticism directed at Trump in this viral election year. The short answer is, we’d have more American coronavirus deaths. Here’s why. The infection rate in America is much lower than in most developed countries. In America, it’s currently about 400 cases per million population. In Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and France, it’s 1,500, 1,600, 1600, 700 and 600, respectively.
Prince Harry could be forced to give up
Duke of Sussex title after moving to
California
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Posted by zephyrgirl 3/29/2020 11:01:41 AM Post Reply
The Duke and Duchess will step down as senior members of the Royal Family at the end of this month and have now set up a permanent home in Los Angeles. The pair flew to California by private jet just before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shut the border. But Meghan and Harry now face the prospect of being forced to give up their nobility if they are to be settled in the US full-time. The Oath of Allegiance act must be taken by any new US citizen under the Naturalisation Law.
Why black Americans are
moving to Africa
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Posted by Ribicon 3/29/2020 10:55:55 AM Post Reply
Monique John wasn’t sure what to expect when she stepped off the plane in her new home: the West African nation of Liberia. “It was very rundown looking,” the Brooklyn-born 28-year-old recalled of her first glimpse of the capital, Monrovia, nearly three years ago. “But my feeling as I was walking along the city’s main streets was a sense of excitement… it felt almost like an out-of-body experience to finally be in Africa.”(Snip) “There is a comfort that comes with being around people who look like you, and seeing [people like you] on billboards and in government positions,” Reid, 36, said.
N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy defends
keeping armed guards while closing
gun shops: 'It is what it is'
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Posted by Ribicon 3/29/2020 10:48:18 AM Post Reply
The National Rifle Association has dubbed New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy “freedom-hating” after he defended keeping his armed guards despite closing gun stores as “nonessential” businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic. The NRA highlighted a moment from Mr. Murphy’s press conference Wednesday when he was confronted by a man who pointed out that the Democratic governor still enjoys Second Amendment protection while many New Jersey residents no longer can.(Snip) The man told the governor, “The poorest minorities living in the most dangerous cities with the highest crime rates now have absolutely no way of buying a firearm. I lived in Newark
Chinese Company that Makes Forehead
Thermometers ‘Jokes’ About Making Faulty
Product for Sale in US in Order
to Spread Disease
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 10:42:28 AM Post Reply
The owner of a Chinese factory in an online group chat suggested intentionally calibrating forehead thermometers shipped to the United States a few degrees cooler than what the actual temperature is. That way Americans who are sick will not register as having a fever and will then spread the coronavirus. Writer Jennifer Zeng posted this thread on Twitter. Zhang Xuandong, owner of Haofeng Electronic Technology Co. in Dongguan, #Guangdong Province in #China, says in a chat group of orehead thermometer producers which has 178 members, “Produce some fake products and sell them to the US.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Expands Quarantine to Louisiana Travelers, Installing Checkpoints on Roads replies
Posted by hershey 3/29/2020 10:42:05 AM Post Reply
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is requiring travelers from Louisiana to self-isolate for 14 days and said the Florida Highway Patrol will install checkpoints on major roads to screen travelers from that area, he announced on Friday. DeSantis is imposing restrictions on travelers fleeing to Florida from Louisiana — particularly New Orleans, which is emerging as one of the hotspots of the coronavirus outbreak.
Pelosi: As Trump ‘Fiddles People Are Dying’
of Coronavirus- His Denial ‘Was Deadly’
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 10:37:58 AM Post Reply
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) described president Donald Trump of fiddling while people died of coronavirus. Pelosi said, “First let me say how sad it is that even since the president’s signing of the bill, the number of deaths reported has doubled from 1,000 to 2,000 in our country. This is such a very, very sad time for us. We should be taking every precaution. The president, his denial at the beginning, was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment to where it — his continued delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly.
Biden consolidates support, but
trails badly in enthusiasm: Poll
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/29/2020 9:59:00 AM Post Reply
Former Vice President Joe Biden has emerged as Democrats’ top choice for the presidential nomination in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, but with only bare majority support within his party and a massive enthusiasm gap in a November matchup against President Donald Trump. Indeed, strong enthusiasm for Biden among his supporters – at just 24% – is the lowest on record for a Democratic presidential candidate in 20 years of ABC/Post polls. More than twice as many of Trump’s supporters are highly enthusiastic about supporting him, 53%. Trump’s still-strong rating on the economy is another challenge for Biden. So
Counties without coronavirus
are mostly rural, poor
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Posted by NorthernDog 3/29/2020 9:54:14 AM Post Reply
SANTA FE, N.M. — As the coronavirus rages across the United States, mainly in large urban areas, more than a third of U.S. counties have yet to report a single positive test result for COVID-19 infections, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. Data compiled by John Hopkins University shows that 1,297 counties have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 out of 3,142 counties nationwide. Of the counties without positive tests, 85% are in rural areas — from predominantly white communities in Appalachia and the Great Plains to majority Hispanic and Native American stretches of the American Southwest — that generally have less everyday
Chris Packham begins legal case to halt HS2 amid
coronavirus crisis
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Posted by IowaDad 3/29/2020 9:54:08 AM Post Reply

Chris Packham is seeking an urgent injunction to immediately halt HS2’s destruction of ancient woodlands. (Snip) “HS2 are shamelessly using Covid-19 as an opportunity to cut down the ancient woodlands that they know have nesting birds, during nesting season, because they think there will be no witnesses,” said Joe Rukin of the StopHS2 campaign.

Michigan’s governor is fighting
a losing battle with President Trump
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Posted by Magnante 3/29/2020 9:13:13 AM Post Reply
Before President Trump’s State of the Union address in February, most Americans outside of Michigan had never heard of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. When she gave the Democrat response to Trump’s tour de force, she impinged ever so slightly on the popular consciousness before lapsing back into obscurity. Now, perhaps because she’s hoping to be the token woman Groping Joe Biden names as his Vice President, Whitmer is back in the media. It’s doubtful, though, that Americans will be impressed with a woman who has such a vendetta against the President that she’s willing to withhold life-saving medicine and to lie.
Globalism gone bust:
Italians burn EU flag,
vow to leave EU over
EU's lousy coronavirus response
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Posted by Magnante 3/29/2020 9:09:58 AM Post Reply
Now that Italy has recorded its 10,000th coronavirus death, a third of the global total, and nearly a thousand just yesterday, Italians are questioning the value of globalism, and more specifically asking what good its European Union membership does it. Sentiment is soaring for getting out and going it alone. Britain did it, why not Italy? Locals are now burning European Union flags, and Italian politicians are ramping up the talk about getting the heck out of the European Union altogether. I suspected this was going to happen during the Italian balcony singing event, noting that most of the songs sung were classical Italian songs, not global pop hits.
Once again, Trump was right
and the media were wrong
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Posted by Magnante 3/29/2020 8:22:41 AM Post Reply
In February, China reported that chloroquine could fight coronavirus, which led to a burst of media optimism. However, when President Trump said he hoped that chloroquine might cure coronavirus, the media instantly turned on the drug. Unsurprisingly, the media were wrong. The lead doctor of the latest study on the drug says chloroquine is so helpful it would be unethical to deny it to control groups. (snip) The media reported on Dr. Fauci’s more cautious view as if he had said Trump was lying, instead of merely saying that there were still studies to be done. One Arizona outlet even called Trump’s optimism “bizarre, even delusional.”
Will the EU survive coronavirus? replies
Posted by Pluperfect 3/29/2020 5:32:29 AM Post Reply
Will the European Union be one of the casualties of COVID-19? The worldwide pandemic has dealt a dramatic and obvious blow to the liberal ideas of free trade and freedom of movement that inspired and were inspired by the EU. The openness that made it possible to travel and do business seamlessly across a continent has provided the virus with a cornucopia of vectors for transmission. If the refugee crisis of the mid-2010s put strengthened borders back on the continent's political agenda, the pandemic has made the case for hunkering down nationally as well as individually hard to dispute.
CA Dismantled Its Mobile Hospital System,
Ventilator, Respirator Stockpiles in 2011
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 5:23:14 AM Post Reply
As Jeff Charles reported, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti predicts that the City of Angels is less than a week away from reaching New York City levels of Wuhan coronavirus cases. Such a major increase (nearly doubling every two days) would overwhelm the city’s healthcare capacity. Garcetti said: “We will be where they are,” he told reporters on Friday. “We will have doctors making excruciating decisions. We will be trying to figure out what we do with that surge, how to get ventilators, where to find beds.” If Garcetti had access to three mobile 200-bed hospitals with ICU units and surgical suites, “50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 portable ventilators,
Numerators and Denominators in
the Coronavirus Saga
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Posted by Judy W. 3/29/2020 5:20:07 AM Post Reply
To ascertain how fatal a virus is, we need an accurate picture of how many people have it (the denominator) and how many have died as a result (the numerator), we have neither, but the data is improving and with it some substantial shifts away from the original model, which predicted far more deaths as a result of the Wuhan virus than we are seeing. (Rather like the Zika scare where the claim that virus resulted in natal microcephaly was proven upon examination to be anecdotal and not scientific -- but only after the WHO declared it a pandemic
Every Grocery Store Should Be Handling
the Pandemic Like This Texas Chain
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Posted by StormCnter 3/29/2020 5:17:30 AM Post Reply
Every person who grew up or even just briefly lived in Texas knows two things, by heart: the pledge of allegiance to the state flag, and that “no store does more than my HEB.” The beloved grocery store is universally known (among Texans, and anyone who knows a Texan) for fresh tortillas, smiley employees, and generally being the best place to buy food in the state. But for the past three months, doing more has also included perhaps the smoothest and swiftest response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the entire country. HEB’s list of coronavirus safety measures is long and thorough, and more stores—
A Tiny Island Tries to
Shut Out the Virus
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/29/2020 5:12:05 AM Post Reply
NORTH HAVEN, Maine—The ferry to the island of North Haven, Maine, has space for a dozen or so vehicles and 220 passengers. This past Saturday afternoon, there were just three passengers: a cable operator on his way to check the island’s Internet service, and a lobsterman and his sternman returning from a supply run. They made the 12-mile crossing inside their trucks, opting not to venture into the ferry’s empty passenger compartments. About 75 minutes later, they docked at the town landing where a single car waited to depart. Normally, this time of year, the 12:30 p.m. ferry runs about half full.
Coronavirus even closed the Waffle House replies
Posted by Pluperfect 3/29/2020 4:59:49 AM Post Reply
CHAMBERSBURG, Pennsylvania — It is early Sunday morning along one of the few congested stretches of the Lincoln Highway when an empty parking lot below the familiar cheery yellow sign for the local Waffle House catches the eye. The 24-hour diner chain, born in Atlanta 65 years ago and now spread across 25 states in nearly 2,000 locations, is primarily known for its ability to serve as a touchstone in every community it serves. It feeds a cult-like following among foodies and road warriors. But it is also known for two other very remarkable distinctions: It closes for no disaster, and the stores have no locks.
Good Guy With a Gun Stops Woman Who
Allegedly Opened Fire on Customers at
Tulsa Shopping Plaza
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 4:47:16 AM Post Reply
A “good guy with a gun” fatally shot a woman who had allegedly began to open fire on customers at a shopping plaza in Oklahoma on Friday evening. The woman had reportedly got into an altercation in the parking lot of the shopping center in Tulsa and returned with a gun a few minutes later. “A man with a concealed carry permit reportedly told arriving officers that he shot the woman after she started shooting at customers outside the shopping center,” Tulsa World reports. “Video reportedly showed the woman was involved in an earlier altercation in the parking lot. The woman left the shopping center and returned about three minutes later,
The Great American Migration of 2020:
On the move to escape the coronavirus
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/29/2020 4:46:18 AM Post Reply

  Back home in Oakland, Calif., Lisa Pezzino and Kit Center built a life that revolved around music and the people who make it — the musicians who recorded on Pezzino’s small label and performed in places where Center rigged the lights and sound equipment. Where they are now, deep in the redwood forest near Big Sur, 140 miles south along the California coast, there is mostly the towering silence of isolation. A tiny cabin, an outdoor kitchen, just one neighbor. This is life in the flight from the virus.

1984 Comes to Britain replies
Posted by MissMolly 3/29/2020 4:41:00 AM Post Reply
In Great Britain, extraordinary measures are being taken to ensure compliance with a nationwide shutdown order. From Breitbart: Humberside Police in northern England has built a website for citizens to inform on their neighbours for violating the government’s rules on daily exercise and social distancing. You can only go for one walk a day. If you go out twice, you can be reported to the police. People’s worst instincts are coming to the fore.
BLM Activists Riot After NY Police
Shoot Armed Man in Self-Defense
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Posted by MissMolly 3/29/2020 4:32:52 AM Post Reply
One police officer in Newburgh, N.Y. was shot when trying to arrest an armed man wanted for questioning in a shooting. Bodycam footage clearly shows the man armed with a silver handgun violently resisting arrest, drawing his gun, and shooting the officer before getting shot to death by the police. Cut and dried case of police defending themselves? Not if you're an activist wanting to stoke the fires of racial hatred. Newburgh residents rioted that evening after a councilman-at-large, Omari Shakur, bitterly complained about police targeting blacks.
How Donald Trump Has Turned
the Pandemic to His Advantage
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/29/2020 4:26:33 AM Post Reply
Covid-19: The Reality Show has taken cable TV by storm. The plot is nominally about a war against an invisible Chinese invader that has already killed over 1,200 Americans. But on another level, it is a family sitcom, a successor to Ozzie and Harriet, Leave It to Beaver, and The Cosby Show. The star is Daddy Donald, a brilliant if erratic father figure, who sometimes rambles on, as fathers are wont to do. He is ably supported by his younger brother, Uncle Mike, who is loyal, steady, competent, and boring. With every strand of his snow-white hair perfectly in place, Uncle Mike always says the right thing.
Democrats need to recruit Obama to
bench Biden, find another candidate
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/29/2020 4:21:22 AM Post Reply
It is a given in politics that an incumbent has the advantage until things go wrong, at which point the challenger gets an edge. Then why, amidst panic, death and economic shutdown, is Joe Biden looking like the sick man of 2020? Biden’s predicament is odd considering a key pillar of Donald Trump’s presidency — record low unemployment — is being vaporized. Thursday’s 3.3 million new unemployment claims wiped out nearly half the jobs created in the last three years, and the worst is yet to come.
Spain's Princess Maria Teresa becomes
first royal to die from coronavirus
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/29/2020 4:13:46 AM Post Reply
Spain's Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Parma has become the first royal to die from the novel coronavirus. The 86-year-old was a cousin of Spain’s King Felipe VI. She died after contracting COVID-19, her brother, Prince Sixto Enrique de Borbon, the Duke of Aranjuez, announced on Facebook. “On this afternoon… our sister Maria Teresa de Borbon Parma and Borbon Busset, victim of the coronavirus COVID-19, died in Paris at the age of eighty-six,” the post reads.
A Simple Plan To Win Back The House:
Adopt A District
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 4:11:56 AM Post Reply
Given how Democrats have conducted themselves with control over just one half of one branch of government, the thought that they could retain that control, let alone gain more in November, is horrifying. Imagine the people who insisted on inserting cronyism into a bill designed to save the economy from collapse having the power to implement the entirety of their agenda. There would be no pulling up from that nosedive. That is why it’s important not only to retain the Senate and the White House but to retake the House as well.
WHO accused of 'carrying China's water'
after official refuses to acknowledge
Taiwan during bizarre interview
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Posted by Pluperfect 3/29/2020 4:09:10 AM Post Reply
The World Health Organization (WHO) is being accused of "carrying China's water" after a senior adviser refused to acknowledge Taiwan during a bizarre interview with a Hong Kong news outlet. Canadian physician Dr. Bruce Aylward, an aide to WHO director-general Dr.Tedros Adhanom, sat down for a video interview with RTHK about the coronavirus outbreak where he was asked whether the organization would "consider Taiwan's membership." For several seconds, Aylward sat in silence. "Hello?" the reporter asked.
Coronavirus may kill noxious classroom leftism replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 3:43:44 AM Post Reply
Leftism started creeping into American colleges and universities beginning in the 1930s. In the 1960s, it blossomed into the Free Speech and Anti-War movements. By the 1990s, it had morphed into censorious political correctness. And in the 2000s, America's institutions of higher education had turned into hard-left organizations with huge administrative staffs, most of whom seemingly were dedicated to ensuring that students graduated directly into the arms of the Democrat Party. This post isn't the place for "chapter and verse" evidence of the overall leftism in academia. The old Encyclopedia Britannica probably wouldn't be long enough.
Transgender sports: Trump's Justice
Department weighs in on the side
of science
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 3:26:50 AM Post Reply
Title IX says that, in the education setting, people cannot be discriminated against based on their sex. Congress passed Title IX in 1972, at a time when people had the old-fashioned idea that there were two sexes, one with XX chromosomes and the other with XY chromosomes. Fast-forward almost fifty years, and you have Connecticut government entities insisting that if a boy claims to be a girl (and there's no requirement that he actually believes this false notion), schools must allow him to compete in girls' sports events. That's how these two boys ran away with the Connecticut High School track championships
Doddering Joe Biden Unfit to Lead in Time
of Crisis
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Posted by ladydawgfan 3/29/2020 1:47:14 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 while looking lost and lonely
Inslee welcomes Army doctors to coronavirus
field hospital in Seattle, says Trump
remarks ‘haven’t knocked us off our game’
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Posted by Ron_lfp 3/29/2020 12:45:55 AM Post Reply
President Donald Trump’s negative remarks about Washington Gov. Jay Inslee as the state and nation respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic “haven’t knocked us off our game at all,” (snip) The governor has clashed with Trump in recent days over the federal government’s response to the crisis, trading comments and tweets as Inslee has urged the president to provide states with more aid and equipment. “None of us here are being distracted by the background noise that might come out of the White House,” Inslee said in a news conference (snip) “Our job is too important to save constituents and our neighbors and our families from this deadly virus.”
NY coronavirus death toll jumps as
Cuomo delays presidential primary
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 12:32:05 AM Post Reply
New York’s coronavirus death toll jumped by 209 Saturday, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced the state’s presidential primary election will be moved to June 23 amid the worsening crisis.The state’s death count climbed to 728, up from 519 on Friday, the governor said. And the number of infected jolted to 52,318, an increase from the day before by 7,681, he said. Earlier Saturday, the city said the total for the five boroughs was 29,158, with 517 dead.
Dem Rep. Thompson: I Don’t Think Gun
Stores Are ‘Necessary Businesses’
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Posted by Imright 3/29/2020 12:19:11 AM Post Reply
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) called for Mississippi to do “something similar” to the lockdown that South Korea did for “gun shops and a lot of other places, not the necessary businesses that we need to have open.”Thompson said, “If you look at what South Korea did, they did a wonderful job at getting their hands around it, but what the leadership in that country did was they locked down the country so that people could not move around. And so, what we’re going to have to do here in Mississippi is something similar, but gun shops and a lot of other places,
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