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2020-05-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Central California City of Atwater To Allow Reopenings, Declares Itself A ‘Sanctuary City’ For Business

Protesters carrying guns, getting haircuts and dressed as Santa Claus gather outside the Pennsylvania state capitol to demand Gov. Wolf reopen the state
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Hundreds demanded Democratic Governor Tom Wolf lift statewide lockdown in Pennsylvania on Friday

Demonstrators waved American flags and held pro-Trump banners near Capitol building in Harrisburg

One woman offered protesters free hair cuts while another protester dressed up as Santa Claus

Protesters also demanded resignation of Pennsylvania secretary of health, Dr. Rachel Levine

One demonstrator held a sign which read 'Fire Fauci' while another compared him to a Nazi

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Netherlands data shows what CDC won't: next to zero risk; "Homogenous intervention in the face of heterogenous risk is cruelty passed off as equality"

Media ClownShow: Both GA and CO Governors opened their states-- but only one Guv "has blood on his hands." Guess which?

This is #NYC tonight. Manhattan, not a right wing backwater. People are ready to start reopening and our businesses and workers need it. We need to see some urgency - not blue ribbon commissions, business czars, & bureaucracy - just reasonable guidelines that we can safely follow pic.twitter.com/ZLzuMmafFK
— Joe Borelli (@JoeBorelliNYC) May 16, 2020

UPDATE: #Mexico registers total of 47,144 coronavirus cases, including 5,045 deaths - Health Ministry#SputnikUpdates https://t.co/wuHoQFRjyO
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) May 17, 2020

Afghanistan records 349 new cases of coronavirus in past 24 hours https://t.co/2fSZOexipg pic.twitter.com/JX3K2Qtm7o
— Khaama Press (KP) (@khaama) May 16, 2020

#UK sees 468 new #coronavirus deaths, discusses schools' reopening https://t.co/OENphC6a4C pic.twitter.com/dBbb4K401c
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 16, 2020

#Netherlands reports 189 new virus cases, 27 deaths https://t.co/TK4qr7r4M5 pic.twitter.com/MlennopGRA
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 16, 2020

#BREAKING Total number of coronavirus cases in Turkey rises to 148,067 with 1,610 new cases reported over last 24 hours: Health minister
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 16, 2020

#Italy reports 153 new deaths, as #lockdown is relaxed https://t.co/9hxgChpP35 pic.twitter.com/ZOAYlF1eql
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 16, 2020

#Brazil has more #coronavirus deaths than all region combined https://t.co/PfNIKooxAI pic.twitter.com/tQ5KSdvS11
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 16, 2020

#BREAKING France: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 27,625 as 96 more people die over past 24 hours
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 16, 2020

#Kashmir sees over 100 new virus cases in highest spike https://t.co/kDeIFuEaTZ pic.twitter.com/dPryvjdsNv
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 16, 2020

#Coronavirus cases reach over 4.6 million, deaths at more than 308,000: Worldometers#BaghdadPost #COVID19 #Curfew #Covid_19 pic.twitter.com/l3JYDz2PX9
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) May 16, 2020

#Italy reports 153 new deaths, as #lockdown is relaxed https://t.co/9hxgChpP35 pic.twitter.com/ZOAYlF1eql
— ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) May 16, 2020

#Iran reports 1,757 #coronavirus cases, 35 deaths in past day.#BaghdadPost #Curfew #COVID__19 #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic pic.twitter.com/vkp0HDXvPB
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) May 16, 2020

#Yemen registers new 16 Coronavirus cases and 3 deaths if tye the pandemic during the last 24 hours.#BaghdadPost #Curfew #COVID__19 #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic #EidAtHome pic.twitter.com/BPLB3ocqjP
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) May 16, 2020

#Iraq reports new 67 Coronavirus cases and 4 deaths during the last 24 hours.#BaghdadPost #Curfew #COVID__19 #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic #EidAtHome pic.twitter.com/cWxjQ258Vr
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) May 16, 2020

#Egypt records 491 new coronvirus infections and 20 deaths during the last 24 hours
#BaghdadPost #Curfew #COVID__19 #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic #EidAtHome pic.twitter.com/Nyuq5vRgrK
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) May 16, 2020

#Coronavirus: #UAE reports 796 cases, 4 deaths, urges against Eid gatherings, feasts#BaghdadPost #Curfew #COVID__19 #COVID19 #CoronavirusPandemic #EidAtHome pic.twitter.com/d8Jfh7eGC6
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) May 16, 2020

Posted by Fred 2020-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Netherlands data shows what CDC won't: next to zero risk; "Homogenous intervention in the face of heterogenous risk is cruelty passed off as equality"

Given their corona-stats, they should zip their stinking yaps.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 01:40|| 2020-05-17 01:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Coronavirus may force hog farmers to kill 10M pigs by September

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 10:19|| 2020-05-17 10:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Farmers dubbed the 'Carbon Cowboys' say business is booming during coronavirus

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 10:21|| 2020-05-17 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Aerial footage shows San Francisco's first camp site for the homeless with space for 50 socially-distanced tents as number sleeping on sidewalks rockets amid coronavirus

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 10:43|| 2020-05-17 10:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Plane graveyard: Hundreds of jets are parked in the Arizona desert as coronavirus kills air travel - with many unlikely to ever take to the skies again

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 10:53|| 2020-05-17 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I was about to be happy at the fact that the percentage of wu positive tests in the USA is way down in the past month.

Then I realized that the mix of devices used for testing have changed and the sample of the population being tested has changed. So no reason to be happy on that basis.

The futility of analysis.

Posted by lord garth 2020-05-17 11:05|| 2020-05-17 11:05|| Front Page Top

#7 50 states, 50 Governors
200 sizable cities, 200 (likely inept) Mayors

That's a lot of variation in means and methods, and reporting.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 11:11|| 2020-05-17 11:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Look on deaths garth. Look on deaths.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 11:23|| 2020-05-17 11:23|| Front Page Top

#9 I see, from worldometers, that Russia passes Spain and is now #2.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-17 11:37|| 2020-05-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Climate change dorks getting what they wanted with this coronavirus.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-17 11:49|| 2020-05-17 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 and on the subject of metrics,

today is a Sunday and if you look at the Worldometer stats you see that the previous few Sundays (May 10, May 3, April 26 and April 19 were local low points in the fatality count

likely as not it is due to lag in post death examinations

Posted by lord garth 2020-05-17 12:12|| 2020-05-17 12:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Some might say God was looking over the faithful on Sunday. Doesn't say much for those with Sabbath on Saturday though.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-17 14:12|| 2020-05-17 14:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe death rested on the 7th day.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-17 14:13|| 2020-05-17 14:13|| Front Page Top

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