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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Border Patrol agents make the largest meth bust ever at the Mexico-Arizona border, seizing 690 pounds of the deadly drug hidden among peppers and tomatoes in a tractor trailer
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 00:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Narcos


-Short Attention Span Theater-
My Corona !
Comment: Mick Jagger
1 week ago (edited)
Ooh, my little deadly one, my deadly one, symptoms don’t show up for some time, CORONA! Ooh, you make my motor run, I know you wan-na kill me even though I’m in my prime, CORONA! Never gonna stop, give it up, when I feel the chills, I always get it up, for the touch, of something that kills, my, my, my, aye-aye, whoo! M-m-m-my CORONA... Come a little closer huh, a-will ya, huh? But don’t get any in my mouth or eyes, CORONA! Keeping it a mystery, until week three, and so the CDC thinks that we’ll die, CORONA! Never gonna stop, give it up, when I feel the chills, I always get it up, for the touch, of something that kills, my, my, my, aye-aye, whoo! M-m-m-my CORONA M-m-m-my CORONA When you gonna give to me, that sweet fatigue, body aches and loss of appetite, CORONA! Is it v-v-vommiting, or d-diharrea, maybe I should eat some bats in CHI-NARONA! Never gonna stop, give it up, when I feel the chills, I always get it up, for the touch, of something that kills, my, my, my, aye-aye, whoo! My, my, my, aye-aye, whoo! M-m-m-my CORONA M-m-m-my CORONA M-m-m-my CORONA
Posted by: 3dc || 03/24/2020 11:46 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wuhan it be now?

Posted by: Warthog || 03/24/2020 12:03 Comments || Top||

#2  THAT is morbidly darkly .......entertaining. !?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2020 12:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Everybody was Kung Flu fighting!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/24/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Islands in Yangtze
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 18:07 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2020 19:03 Comments || Top||


Ford using F-150 parts to design respirators for coronavirus fight
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 11:44 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It’s the Commodore Frank F-150 solutionTM.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#2  AWD 5 speed, crew cab, ventilator....sounds like a plan.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/24/2020 12:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Just roll down the windows.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4  "You mean the air which usually goes through the welds?"
/Chevy owners
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Vroom Vroom
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||


No, the Arizona Man Did Not Take the Coronavirus Drug Trump Spoke About
[LegalInsurrection] As if we needed more proof of TDS in the mainstream media. NBC News decided to take a story about an elderly couple drinking fish tank cleaner and frame it to prove President Donald Trump is dangerous.

During a press conference, Trump spoke about studies that showed chloroquine (generic name hydroxychloroquine) treated coronavirus.

So this elderly couple in Arizona thought the additive chloroquine phosphate in fish tank cleaner was the same thing.

They proceeded to drink the fish tank cleaner.

The man died. The woman is in ICU.

Instead of using the story as a warning not to drink fish tank cleaner NBC News used it as a way to fault Trump.


Heidi Przybyla

@HeidiNBC
· 15h
Replying to @HeidiNBC
it feels like, like my heart is broken and it’ll never mend. It’s just broke--dead. Like my husband."

"I’m 61. My husband is 68. We’re healthy. No, no, underlying--no diabetes or lung issues. Nothing."

Heidi Przybyla

@HeidiNBC
"Oh my God. Don't take anything. Don't believe anything.

Don’t believe anything that the President says and his people because they don't know what they're talking about. And don't take anything--be so careful and call your doctor. This is a heart ache I'll never get over."
Posted by: Beavis || 03/24/2020 11:32 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What he thought was H2O was really H2S04.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/24/2020 12:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Yee-double-ouch, #1 Beavis. ;-)

Sorry the guy's dead, and I'm sure it's not nice, BUT I'm guessing anybody that dumb is a DemoncRat. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 03/24/2020 17:52 Comments || Top||

#3  So you are saying I should not put sodium thiopental in my salt shaker?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 18:33 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Start small, try lithium chloride first.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 18:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Chloroquine phosphate info from the CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/resources/pdf/fsp/drugs/Chloroquine.pdf
Posted by: John Frum || 03/24/2020 20:14 Comments || Top||

#6  So you are saying I should not put sodium thiopental in my salt shaker?

Try it with just the sodium first. If that goes well, you can add the thiopental later.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2020 21:02 Comments || Top||


Florida politician apologizes after claiming that blowing a hair dryer up your nose kills the coronavirus because it 'can't survive temperatures of 136 degrees'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 00:52 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Commissioner Culpepper (R) is the owner and President of Air-A-Medics. WTH?

Listed on his facebook page under favorite quotes, "The human tongue is the most danger weapon of mass Destruction."
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I wanna know what happened when Florida Man tested this theory.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/24/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Just don't use the high heat setting and you'll be fine.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  the typical dry sauna is set for about 150F

the typical steam room is set for about 110F

undoubtedly they help by temporarily relieving some of the symptoms of various conditions, e.g., sinus congestion

Posted by: lord garth || 03/24/2020 15:01 Comments || Top||

#5  So does wasabi :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2020 15:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Sniff Sriracha
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 15:24 Comments || Top||

#7  'can't survive temperatures of 136 degrees'

Obviously, you have to heat your entire nose to 136 degrees or it won't work.

I'm trying to test this with a sous-vide machine, but I keep having to come up for air.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2020 15:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe we could get Nancy to stick her head in the oven to find out if it works.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 16:20 Comments || Top||

#9  This jack@ss should apologize for stealing our oxygen. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 03/24/2020 17:58 Comments || Top||

#10  For crying out loud, I told him to use this..!:

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/24/2020 21:05 Comments || Top||

#11  Just stick your nose in the Dyson and suck it all out
Posted by: KBK || 03/24/2020 22:02 Comments || Top||


James Woods Tweets And yet life goes on (need to laugh)
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  James Woods is on fire. He makes my day multiple times ...a day.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 03/24/2020 3:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Spring breakers?
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 4:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Must be Bill Clinton's dog.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 7:47 Comments || Top||


Man dies, wife in ICU after ingesting fish tank cleaner, Dem MD blames Trump




That tweet is causing an uproar among the Resistance, but we’ve already been informed that taking 2 grams of the medication could cause an overdose; it’s prescribed typically in tablets of 200 mg.
Dr. Dena Grayson

Also, if you click through to the hospital's website and read the rest of the story, the couple wasn't even self-prescribing chloroquine tablets; they were ingesting an ingredient in aquarium cleaner:

A man has died and his wife is under critical care after the couple, both in their 60s, ingested chloroquine phosphate, an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks. Within thirty minutes of ingestion, the couple experienced immediate effects requiring admittance to a nearby Banner Health hospital.

Well, yeah, fish tank cleaner will do that.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I understand it works like a charm - if you're an Englishman or a mad dog.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like the medical board needs to check the efficiency of the doctor's practice. Definitely a lack of competent diagnosis.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2020 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Absolutely. Her comment, "same ingredient" sold me on that notion.

After blowing through her resume it appears to me at least that Grayson's career ladder was greased with political appointments.

Definitely a liar, fool to be avoided.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Same degree as "Dr." Jill Biden?
Posted by: Lex || 03/24/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Married to Horrible Human former Rep. Alan Grayson
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Grayson has a Medical Degree (M.D.). In the early 2000s, she shifted her focus to medical research as a way of treating multiple patients by finding cures.

As I've said, I've been taking 400 mg of hydroxycloquine for 13 years with no side effects. That I remember, anyway.

IIRC, 600 mg was consider therapeutic in the early study. Not sure what the dose in fish tank cleaner is.

But the Dr. is a Trump-hating sensationalist, to be sure.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/24/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#7  IIRC they took 2 grams!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#8  He is no longer at risk of being killed by Kung Flu
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/24/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Cures paranoia as well.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#10  As I see it, the couple was effectively cured of covid-19 (whether they had it or not) along with anything else that ailed them. Also, a cleansing of the gene fish tank/pool/whatever.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/24/2020 10:38 Comments || Top||

#11  They got the reading down but the math was lacking. Math be hard.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Maybe not so much reading as matching letters.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 11:20 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
PG&E pleads guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and sparking deadly Camp Fire that ravaged California - and will pay $13.5billion to victims
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 12:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing about those who've obstructed the line clearings forever?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2020 13:27 Comments || Top||

#2  PG&E didn't fight for that much though, P2k.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/24/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Make the greedy utility pay!

Rate hike coming soon to pay for it. Where do they think the money comes from?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/24/2020 13:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Careful what you ask for.
When a public utility prepares to go bankrupt...
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||

#5  And my P, G & E record album has too many skips to play ... goes on the next trash fire...
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/24/2020 16:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Ah'm waiting for a Newsom bailout so California owns it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 17:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Hey! My identical twin brother went missing in the fire, and he had a suitcase full of 50's and 20's.
I want's to be filin' me a claim!
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/24/2020 19:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Rate hike coming soon to pay for it. Where do they think the money comes from?

Oh Bobby, let's not bring math into it. We're stickin' it to The Man here.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2020 19:44 Comments || Top||


Spain's coronavirus death toll rises 514 in one day – 23.6 PER CENT – to 2,696 as dead and dying elderly are found ABANDONED in multiple care homes
[DailyMail]
  • The 514 new deaths mark the largest one-day increase recorded so far in Spain

  • Total infections also rose sharply, jumping by 6,584 to reach an overall 39,673

  • Spanish soldiers found bodies when they were called in to disinfect care homes

  • Some care home staff had been sent home after virus was detected at property

  • Health workers have been instructed to leave bodies in place in suspected Covid-19 deaths until the arrival of a doctor

  • 20 per cent of Madrid elderly care homes have coronavirus cases
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 12:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's that I was saying. Spain has exactly the same profile as Italy - without being a suburb of Wuhan.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Spain has a National Health Care System. It is close to a medicare for all but does not cover everything, it has co-pays and is administered by the various provinces.

Posted by: lord garth || 03/24/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Spain has a National Health Care System

So does England but England doesn't have this level of infection & death.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 16:19 Comments || Top||

#4  #MoreRoomForMuslims

Too soon?
Posted by: Albemarle Bourbon4037 || 03/24/2020 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Hardly an endorsement of socialized medicine.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/24/2020 16:25 Comments || Top||

#6  No. I'm actually curious.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Spain is a winter resort destination.
Spain is a gateway from Africa for drugs and trafficing, perhaps of asians.
Lots of foreign visitors.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||

#8  I can't tell from the article whether the toll is from controlled, observed environments, or includes the abandoned old folks home where they may of died from Wuhan Flu or of neglect.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Spain, the UK, Italy and the USA all have problems caused by medical personnel who contracted the virus.

I think I read that this was especially bad in Italy. Maybe it was in Spain also.
Posted by: lord garth || 03/24/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||

#10  ^Latin Machismo kills?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 18:12 Comments || Top||


'The Stay Inn': Britons are drinking almost double the amount of alcohol at home as they join friends for a pint online amid coronavirus lockdown
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 09:06 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Awesome
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/24/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder if this is reflected in water pressure readings?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2020 10:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I watched a marble race the other day which was absolutely fantastic. Great production, good play by play commentary, no commercials, good fun.

What I really enjoyed was the track layout, just brilliant, had an elevator/escalator to 'reset' the marbles each lap. Of course they came in at different times so the pacing kept right. I'll try to find it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Here it is. Grab a cold one, place your bets, and get it on!.

suggest full screen, may have to double click the invisible button at bottom-right

Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 16:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Snowball's a-listin' to port
Posted by: Lex || 03/24/2020 16:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Great race! Bubble gum sticking to the rail, rubber band in the stretch, and toilet paper wiping up the rear.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2020 18:05 Comments || Top||


Florida man who was on the verge of death says Hydroxychloroquine saved his life!
[Right Scoop] Rio Giardinieri, a 52-year-old Florida man who was infected with the coronavirus and had already said goodbye to his wife and kids, says the drug Trump has been recommending, hydroxychloroquine, saved his life and he’s now due to leave the hospital soon:
NY POST – Doctors at the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida diagnosed him with the coronavirus and pneumonia and put him on oxygen in the ICU, he told the outlet.

After more than a week, doctors told him there was nothing more they could do and, on Friday evening, Giardinieri said goodbye to his wife and three children.

“I was at the point where I was barely able to speak and breathing was very challenging,” Giardinieri said. “I really thought my end was there.”

His situation was dire and there was no hope until someone sent him an article about hydroxychloroquine:
Then a friend sent him a recent article about hydroxychloroquine, a prescription drug that’s been used to treat malaria for decades and auto-immune diseases like lupus.

Giardinieri said he contacted an infectious disease doctor about the drug.

“He gave me all the reasons why I would probably not want to try it because there are no trials, there’s no testing, it was not something that was approved,” said Giardinieri.

“And I said, ‘Look, I don’t know if I’m going to make it until the morning,’ because at that point I really thought I was coming to the end because I couldn’t breathe anymore,” Giardinieri continued.

Giardinieri’s doctor agreed to give him the drug and his situation changed dramatically overnight:
“He agreed and authorized the use of it and 30 minutes later the nurse gave it to me.”

After about an hour on an IV with the medicine, Giardinieri said, it felt like his heart was beating out of his chest and, about two hours later, he had another episode where he couldn’t breathe.

He says he was given Benadryl and some other drugs and that when he woke up around 4:45 a.m., it was “like nothing ever happened.”

He’s since had no fever or pain and can breathe again. Giardinieri said doctors believe the episodes he experienced were not a reaction to the medicine but his body fighting off the virus.

Giardinieri, the vice president of a company that manufactures cooking equipment for high-end restaurants in Los Angeles, said he had three doses of the medicine Saturday and is hoping to be discharged from the hospital in five days.

“To me, there was no doubt in mind that I wouldn’t make it until morning,” said Giardinieri. “So to me, the drug saved my life.”
What an amazing story and a dramatic turn-around after on night on the drug. Just as Trump said, this man had nothing to lose because he was going to die anyway and now he lives again.

I’d like to think the article he was sent was the one we posted via the New York doctor last Friday, as it went viral on Friday and over the weekend. But regardless, I’m very happy this man has his life back thanks to hydroxychloroquine.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2020 07:56 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The insanely corrupt FDA dragging its feet makes me wonder. How many pill companies are hoping to push higher priced meds.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  They are forestalling pill release pending the relief package, so they know how high to set the pricing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Trying to get Patent title for this "new use"...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/24/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  A pyramid for erb.

Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 14:10 Comments || Top||


2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed
[Japan Times] The International Olympic Committee has decided to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Games because of the coronavirus pandemic, IOC member Dick Pound said on Monday, as a window slowly began to open that would allow the showcase to be staged next year.

Major sporting nations Australia and Canada had already withdrawn on Monday as organizers came under global pressure to postpone the event for the first time in its 124-year modern history.

“On the basis of the information the IOC has, postponement has been decided,” Pound said in newspaper USA Today. “The parameters going forward have not been determined, but the Games are not going to start on July 24, that much I know.”

Pound told Reuters that a one-year postponement looked like the best solution. This would mean the Games, which had been scheduled for July 24 to Aug. 9, are likely to be held in the summer of 2021.

Japan and the IOC have said calling off the games entirely is not an option. But finding a new date could be complicated as the summer 2021 calendar is already crowded, while 2022 will see the soccer World Cup and the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/24/2020 06:11 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No money to be made with no audience.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Not to mention the problem with Olympic village gathering.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually, I was looking forward to watching the trannies whoop up on the gals.

Rapanoe: I won't stand for the national anthem.
God: Granted.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||


Corona Plague update

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]








Courtesy of M.Murcek, Real Clear Politic’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) Global Deaths

Horrifying images show coronavirus patients lying on the floor of a packed Madrid hospital
[DailyMail] ...as city is overrun with cases and country's death toll tops 2,000 with 462 victims in past 24 hours.

McDonald’s closes its Israel restaurants, will supply hospitals, cops with free food
[IsraelTimes] The fast food chain has also closed many of its restaurants elsewhere, include all its branches in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Increase in new virus cases drops in Italy for second straight day
[IsraelTimes] Italy’s day-to-day increases of new cases of COVID-19 drop considerably compared to figures from a day earlier. Health authorities have said it will need a few more days to see if a positive trend holds, including in northern Lombardy region, which is the nation’s worst stricken region.

According to data released today by Italy’s Civil Protection agency, new cases rose from a day earlier by 4,789 cases. That’s nearly 700 fewer new cases that were reported in the day’s previous day-to-day increases. Italy has been anxious to see daily new case loads drop as it health system struggles to keep up with the world’s largest outbreak after China.

Day-to-day increase in deaths also were fewer than the day before: 602 compared to 651 reported by authorities yesterday.

The latest numbers come nearly two weeks into a national lock-down in a desperate bid to contain Europe’s largest outbreak.

More Than 195,000 People Have Been Tested for Coronavirus in the U.S.
Video at the link. From a few days ago.
[WSJ] Vice President Mike Pence says about 19,300 people in the U.S. have tested positive for the novel coronavirus out of more than 195,000 people who have been tested so far.

A Twitter thread from Wuhan
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Israel now has two deaths from the virus.

In 1600+ cases.

Iceland and the Czech Republic also have lots of cases with almost no deaths.
Posted by: lord garth || 03/24/2020 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  But Israel is about to run out of ICU, garth.

The good news 2-month-old baby's respiratory problems found to be caused by complications from premature birth, not coronavirus.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  To die in Madrid.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#5  speaking of Spain

cases up about 4800 to about 39.7k

deaths up about 450 to about 2.8k

both increases were by a smaller percentage than yesterday's
Posted by: lord garth || 03/24/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian infectious diseases expert faces jail after returning from Spain with coronavirus and continuing to work at her university
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 09:09 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Dow Surges +2112, Biggest Point Gain in All History
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/24/2020 17:24 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Demoncrats hardest hit.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/24/2020 17:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The market swings both ways.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 17:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Market hits a new record and I didn't see my name in the obits. What more can one ask ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2020 17:41 Comments || Top||

#4  This thing is going to weeble wobble for a while, I'd guess.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Crash again Wed-Thurs, bounce up and down for a while, and then a choppy recovery beginning maybe in mid- to late April-early May as we see the hysteria fade and new unemployment filings edge down again
Posted by: Lex || 03/24/2020 18:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Demoncrats hardest hit.

Not so sure. Would t be surprised if they were frontrunning the bulls / manipulating the timing of their ridiculous negotiations posturing BS
Posted by: Lex || 03/24/2020 18:22 Comments || Top||


'Great American Resurrection': Trump Wants America Open and 'Rarin' to Go' by Easter
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 16:28 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My wife and (adult) daughter just told me they both believe Trump is restricting testing so as to minimize the crisis so he can get re-elected.

I asked them if they'd ever heard of Dick Morris, who says the pandemic is good for Trump? I explained why.

Sour faces.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/24/2020 17:09 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ He works 12-18 hours per day and thrives on challenges. What do they not understand ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2020 17:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Were they trashing him the other day for that bogus buy Germany out of tests story?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 17:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess the hydroxychloroquine tests went well.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 18:33 Comments || Top||

#5  G(r)om - I moved your Israeli pilots/Covid to tomorrow
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2020 20:25 Comments || Top||


Bigelow Aerospace lays off all employees.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/24/2020 06:20 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Those sources said that the company, based in North Las Vegas, Nevada, was halting operations because of what one person described as a “perfect storm of problems” that included the coronavirus pandemic. On March 20, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed an emergency directive ordering all “nonessential” businesses to close.

A company spokesperson confirmed March 23 that the company laid off all its employees because of the governor’s order, and that it faced “fines, penalties and threats of having our business license revoked” if it remained open.

Multiply this by a million.
Then apply the CDC's own data for su!c!de, including a base number of about 45,000 (CDC, 2018), and apply the CDC's findings that, during an extraordinary economic calamity such as the Great Depression, the su!c!de rate spikes - 22.8% from 1928 to 1932, per the CDC.

45,000 * 1.228 = ca. 10,000 additional death from su!c!de each year - an entirely predictable, highly likely outcome that's based on our own experience, empirical data and the CDC's own studies.

And then there are the thousands of other, entirely predictable deaths: from heart attacks, and slow su!c!de via addiction.

A pity that so few of our leaders are capable of considering the entire picture -- the President and Gov. Cuomo being two notable exceptions.

Per Dr. David Katz, founder and director of Yale's Prevention Research Center, this lockdown is a crude, hacksaw response that is backfiring and causing an even greater public health calamity. Dr. Katz recommends instead "a surgical approach" involving "a pivot right now from trying to protect all people to focusing on the most vulnerable remains entirely plausible. ... The path we are on may well lead to uncontained viral contagion and monumental collateral damage to our society and economy."
Posted by: Lex || 03/24/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Subsidized by Budget Suites of America.
Which I am assuming is also going down the tubes.
As a result, the aliens will have no place to stay.

Inside Robert Bigelow's Decades-Long Obsession With UFOs

They may have altered their travel plans because of the virus.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 8:15 Comments || Top||


Velina Tchakarova's virus review
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 03/24/2020 05:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Tito's Handmade Vodka set to begin production on hand sanitizer
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 03:50 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How about using some of the ethanol that's added to gas now that gasoline is plentiful and getting cheaper.

The corn lobby should love that.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 03/24/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Brilliant. That should be getting done.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  We've got isoHEET isopropanyl and aloe vera gel in reserve. Ratio 2 parts to 1 part.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2020 14:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Thinking of going to Kamchatka Vodka route in case we run out of hand-san, or need to kill gophers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||

#5  AP - I saw 3:1 a few days ago, with 91% isopropyl alcohol, so you have at least 60% for the bug. Not sure how potent isoHEET is.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/24/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Wow. 99.98%.

MDS
Posted by: Bobby || 03/24/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm not sure I want xylene in my hand sanitizer, though.
Posted by: James || 03/24/2020 16:36 Comments || Top||

#8  I have not mixed it yet, but I think you would be better off with Everclear, or if you can get high test isopropyl alcohol, but stores are sold out.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2020 18:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, around here (Israel) stores were out of hand sanitizer for a few day. Today it appeared in neighborhood grocery stores - somewhat expensive though. On the other hand no store (including supermarket) had eggs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 18:22 Comments || Top||

#10  I have not mixed it yet, but I think you would be better off with Everclear, or if you can get high test isopropyl alcohol, but stores are sold out.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2020 19:18 Comments || Top||

#11  And you can repurpose some of the ingredients when this is over.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 20:39 Comments || Top||

#12  Got my 1.5 L Everclear 151. Got some in a spray bottle, spray up the the nose is an eye opener. As the kid said, “Stuff’s got some kick.”

LOL works for things I don’t want to spray bleach on, like my phone and my steering wheel.
Posted by: KBK || 03/24/2020 22:00 Comments || Top||


Europe
Number of Italian coronavirus cases is probably TEN TIMES higher than official tally of 64,000, officials admit
[Daily Mail]
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 09:11 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably over 100 times higher.

According to symptoms i've almost certainly had it.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/24/2020 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ this
Posted by: Lex || 03/24/2020 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  You can't trust other people's data. GIGO
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4  I've probably had it. I'd be willing to bet that most of us on the 'burg have probably had it.
Posted by: Lex || 03/24/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Same. How many “never” get the flu people got a strange one this season? You could ask a crowded room for a show of hands, but we are too hysterical to have those these days.
Posted by: Classic_Liberal || 03/24/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#6  I just posted this item as an article for tomorrow's Rantburg for those who wonder why Italy got hit so hard:

China's bungled coronavirus response threatens 'Belt and Road' foreign influence initiative
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/24/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#7  ^What about Spain?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Saw a deal pointing fingers at the Italian textile industry hiring cheap Chinese labor for the Made In Italy tag. Don't know enough about it to recommend that as a contributor.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 11:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Dunno about Spain, grom. But, according to the article:

Italy and Iran reached crisis levels of coronavirus-stricken patients before any other country outside of China. Both countries had joined the "Belt and Road" initiative, which reinforced strong preexisting economic ties.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/24/2020 12:43 Comments || Top||

#10  ^
Spain 39,676/44660000 = 0.0009

Italy 63,927/60,550,075 = 0.001
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Italy's numbers today

new cases over 5000 bringing total to 69000

new deaths 743 bringing total to 6820

in both cases and deaths, the new numbers were higher than the day before

there are now about 300,000 who have been tested in Italy

Posted by: lord garth || 03/24/2020 14:43 Comments || Top||

#12  Some said the other day that more men probably died because men don't go to the doctor unless they are in bad shape. So that means the ones that weren't in that bad shape remain uncounted. Ten times seems low.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/24/2020 15:43 Comments || Top||

#13  men don't go to the doctor unless they are in bad shape.

Yeah, anything short of actual death, we just walk it off. Stop being a baby!
This does hint at yet another reason the numbers are so unreliable.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2020 16:02 Comments || Top||

#14  "It's severe respiratory disease!"
"Rub some dirt on it, Johnny"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2020 16:32 Comments || Top||


Catholic Priest with coronavirus made the ultimate sacrifice for someone else with coronavirus…
[Right Scoop] on Giuseppe Berardelli, Archpriest of Casnigo in northern Italy, died on March 15 or 16 in a hospital in Lovere from the coronavirus after giving up his respirator to someone else who needed it, via Araberara.it.

According to reports, Berardelli, who was 72 years old, didn’t know the person to whom he gave his respirator. They were reportedly younger than him.

A google translation of the a healthcare worker in Italy is quoted as saying "And I am deeply moved by the fact that the archpriest of Casnigo, Don Giuseppe Berardelli ‐ to whom the parish community had bought a respirator ‐ renounced his will to assign it to someone younger than him."

What a beautiful picture of exactly what Christ calls each us to do, caring for our neighbor, even unto death. It doesn’t get much more self less and loving than that.
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15-13
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2020 07:47 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rest in peace Father Beradelli.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  There are always those who set an example. An uncomfortable, inconvenient example. You can admire it while hoping your turn doesn't come to emulate them. Because then you have to.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 03/24/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Greater love...
RIP Giuseppe Berardelli
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 03/24/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

#4  No greater love.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#5  John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 03/24/2020 14:55 Comments || Top||

#6  To me, this is the equivalent of jumping on a grenade.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/24/2020 16:38 Comments || Top||

#7  And it's not a quick death.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 20:36 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Algerian passengers who protested cancellation of their flights to Algeria beaten by Turkish Police
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


India-Pakistan
Coronavirus sends India into lockdown as trains halted, Modi says 'please save yourself'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 11:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
UN, WHO, Iraq health officials commit mask faux pas at press briefing
[RUDAW.NET]
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Top. Men.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||


Iranian nationals seen today entering Karbala city, despite the Iraqi government’s announcement to close borders
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]



Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq

#1  They can tell because of the funny hats.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 9:01 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
8 Hadassah hospital workers infected with coronavirus
[Arutz 7] - Hadassah Medical Center announced Tuesday that eight employees had tested positive for the coronavirus. These are staff members who did not know they were ill and are considers asymptomatic.

Six of the staffers work at the Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital where there are no coronavirus patients. All employees who tested positive were placed in immediate isolation. Any people found to have been in contact with them will also be required to self-isolate.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 13:06 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
“Anomaly” at Pacific Spaceport Complex launch rehearsal
[ KMXT ] “Anomaly” at Pacific Spaceport Complex launch rehearsal, no injuries as a result

The Pacific Spaceport Complex reported an “anomaly” on a launch pad during a rocket launch dress rehearsal on Monday. The anomaly did not result in any injuries, according to Alaska Aerospace CEO Mark Lester.

Reached shortly after the incident, Lester said “I can confirm we had an anomaly on the launch pad. We are executing our emergency checklist. We request everyone stay clear of the area to allow our crew to address the situation.”

No details have been released yet as far as what caused the anomaly or how it may affect the upcoming launch.

At 5 p.m. Lester said the emergency response had concluded. “The area is still hazardous and should be avoided. There will be personnel on site overnight to monitor,” he said.

California-based rocket startup Astra had scheduled its rocket “One of Three” to launch from the Narrow Cape spaceport as early as Tuesday of this week. Astra has not yet responded to a request for comment.

This is a developing story. KMXT will have more details as they become available.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/24/2020 05:42 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe the Tic Tacs showed up.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  "But the capsule log says it was gone for 48 days."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Hypergolic propellant is nasty
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/24/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Gordon Freeman is calling for help!
Posted by: Kofi Sproing8341 || 03/24/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Floods and torrential rain have killed 11 people during the past 24 hours in Iran
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Iran announces new 127 people died during the past 24 hours of COVID19 raising the death toll to 1,812.
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  March 24 official numbers from Iran

24811 cases, 1934 deaths

which, if the official numbers were true, would indicate a plateau (near zero 2nd derivative)
Posted by: lord garth || 03/24/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#2  near zero 2nd derivative

No longer accelerating but velocity of incidents remains.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||


#4  Zero second derivative doesn't mean plateau e.g. x/(1 + x)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 03/24/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||


First official case of #COVID19 in #Syria
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria

#1  One'd assume that denizens of a country where they clear residues on nerve agent attack with scarves tied to their faces, coronavirus wouldn't be much of a treat.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 3:48 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Threat
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 3:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Funnier the first time, Grom.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 8:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Breaking: First official use of #COVID-19 test kit #Syria
....
Breaking: First official case of #COVIDー19 in #Syria
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 03/24/2020 10:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Greta Says She Has Coronavirus
Be nice, guys. She's just a kid.
In a social media post, the Swedish environmental activist said that although she was unable to get tested and had basically recovered, her mild symptoms highlight why it's essential that young people, who don't belong to an at-risk group, stay at home and isolate as "our actions can be the difference between life and death for many others".
She's not a kid. She's a puppet Saint
Posted by: Matt || 03/24/2020 14:51 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Perchance she transmitted it to some of her many bootlickers?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/24/2020 14:57 Comments || Top||

#2  I call bull. It's the classic "Look at me! Look at me!".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||

#3  #meflu
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 15:12 Comments || Top||

#4  She wasn't tested and her symptoms were mild, but she feels she had it and that's what matters.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/24/2020 15:18 Comments || Top||

#5  She can see CO2 -- why couldn't she see the much larger virus particles?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/24/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Probably the schlaren from the global warming.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Did you mean: schlieren?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 16:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Why not? The notion that only old people get it has been thoroughly debunked.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/24/2020 16:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Because we're dealing here with attention whore who's been the toast of the progressive world before Chinese Cold.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#10  I ask you guys to be nice, but nooooh
Posted by: Matt || 03/24/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Prolly stayed home & transmitted it to mom, and dad, and grandma and grandpa and Aunt Ingrid and Uncle Lars and...
Posted by: Lex || 03/24/2020 16:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Attention whore: Look at ME my poor daughter!

(you know its her parents doing this right? - I wouldn't put it past them to intentionally infect her to rekindle her waining popularity. Sickos!)

Actually I feel sorry for her. And blame her parents.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/24/2020 16:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Huh. I thought the disease was carried by bats, not odd little ducks.
Posted by: JHH || 03/24/2020 17:07 Comments || Top||

#14  #2 I call bull. It's the classic "Look at me! Look at me!".

^
This.

Be nice, guys. She's just a kid.

Pol Pot had kids working for him.

And if she's just a kid, then she shouldn't be held up as a prophet or exemplar for adults to follow.

No more white knighting for people who want us dead or in chains.
Posted by: charger || 03/24/2020 17:11 Comments || Top||

#15  10-1 it is just a publicity stunt.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/24/2020 17:13 Comments || Top||

#16  She still writes like a college educated adult.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/24/2020 17:23 Comments || Top||

#17  Because, she has ghost writers, remember?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 17:29 Comments || Top||

#18  I think they were being nice, Matt.
Posted by: Barbara || 03/24/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||

#19  She still writes like a college educated adult.

With an Indian accent!

Posted by: Woozle Black1622 || 03/24/2020 17:51 Comments || Top||

#20  "How share flu!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 17:53 Comments || Top||

#21  #18 LOL. Good point Barbara.
Posted by: Matt || 03/24/2020 19:08 Comments || Top||

#22  WB1622 @ 19

Biden/Not Biden is tough.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2020 19:24 Comments || Top||

#23  Huh. I thought the disease was carried by bats, not odd little ducks.

That's a winner!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2020 19:41 Comments || Top||

#24  Grom: Yes, that's them.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 20:34 Comments || Top||

#25 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/24/2020 20:54 Comments || Top||

#26  Dear little Gretha is highly suggestible, and her parents will do or say whatever necessary to keep her from becoming suicidal again, regardless how it impacts the rest of the world.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2020 21:22 Comments || Top||

#27  at some point, you have to leave "damaged child activist" protected from criticism regardless of the damage your activism imposes on the world - to "adult we should be listening to because you know better". Pick your time, because it's now
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2020 21:27 Comments || Top||

#28  meflu lol
Posted by: KBK || 03/24/2020 21:40 Comments || Top||


Government
Marines getting rid of all tanks and completely restructuring to orient towards China
[American Military News] The Marine Corps plan to undergo the most significant changes in the past 20 years to focus on the rising Chinese threat while shifting its focus away from the Middle East.

The plan over the next 10 years is to prepare the Marines for an island-to-island battle in the Western Pacific, General David Berger, the Marine Corps commandant, told the Wall Street Journal. In order to accomplish this, the Marines plan to get rid of all of its tanks and cut back on its aircraft. Berger added that in order to get a higher quality Marine Corps, it must also contract in size, reducing the total number from 189,000 to possibly 170,000.

"China, in terms of military capability, is the pacing threat," Berger said. "If we did nothing, we would be passed."

Berger’s plan establishes naval expeditionary units, teams of 50-100, who disperse to small islands in the South and East China Seas using sleek landing craft, Berger said. The Marines would target Chinese warships with anti-ship missiles. They would move islands every 24-72 hours to avoid counter-attacks, he added.

The effort is a part of a broader effort by the Pentagon to focus on what officials refer to as a great-power conflict between China, Russia, and the United States. Included in this effort is a $105 billion request for the research and development of new technologies to help prepare the U.S. military for a potential battle with either China or Russia. The research and development funding request is the largest in 70 years and is a part of the 2021 $705 billion budget request proposal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2020 08:31 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  who disperse to small islands in the South and East China Seas using sleek landing craft


Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  And then there is typhoon season. I'm sure small craft will have no problem.

An island is a pretty good target for either a ballistic or hypersonic missile barrage. You don't have 24 hours before it shows up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Did it the Post-Korea, Post-Vietnam and now Post-Iraq. The tanks will go into the Marine Corps Reserves as they return to being amphibious...
Posted by: magpie || 03/24/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Read about the last "heavy tank" in the US arsenal, the M103 (heavy tank), that also served in the Marines from 1956 to 1973 though never actually being used in combat.
Posted by: magpie || 03/24/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#5  According to one of those WWII TV documentaries, the most important weapons on islands like Iwo Jima and Okinawa were the flame thrower and the M1.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/24/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Sounds like too much effort. Just send them a virus instead.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 03/24/2020 20:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Game Changer: President Trump Was Right
[Spectator] At Thursday’s White House press briefing, President Trump and FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn announced that the FDA has approved the "compassionate use" of the antimalarial drug chloroquine to treat patients infected with Coronavirus 2019 ("COVID-19"). Under extreme or exigent circumstances, the FDA may permit physicians to medicate patients with experimental drugs. The term "compassionate use" ordinarily refers to dosing a patient with a drug that has not been approved by the FDA for any purpose.

Since the 1940s, however, chloroquine has been FDA-approved and safely used to treat and prevent malaria. It has also been used to treat HIV and autoimmune disease. Its side effects are well known and, generally speaking, nonexistent to mild. As such, chloroquine is not an experimental drug requiring FDA permission before it can be prescribed. Instead, even though the FDA has not given blanket approval for its use in COVID-19 cases, physicians have been and are free to prescribe it for "off-label" (i.e., non-FDA approved) use.

On March 13, 2020, James M. Todaro, M.D., and Gregory J. Rigano, Esq., working in consultation with researchers from the Stanford University Medical School, the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences, presented a report titled "An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus (COVID-19)." Here's the report's explosive opening summary:

"Recent guidelines from South Korea and China report that chloroquine is an effective antiviral therapeutic treatment against Coronavirus Disease 2019. Use of chloroquine (tablets) is showing favorable outcomes in humans infected with Coronavirus including faster time to recovery and shorter hospital stay. US CDC research shows that chloroquine also has strong potential as a prophylactic (preventative) measure against coronavirus in the lab, while we wait for a vaccine to be developed. Chloroquine is an inexpensive, globally available drug that has been in widespread human use since 1945 against malaria, autoimmune and various other conditions. (Emphasis added.)"

The report states that neither the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nor the World Health Organization has published "treatment measures against COVID-19" and that United States medical centers are "starting to have issues with traditional [treatment] protocols." Since China and South Korea have had "significantly more exposure and time to analyze diagnostic, treatment and preventative options," the United States and the rest of the world can "learn from their experience."

The report states that the COVID-19 "treatment guidelines" developed by South Korea and China are "generally consistent, outlining chloroquine as an effective treatment." For example, data from the clinical trials in China show that "patients treated with chloroquine demonstrated a better drop in fever, improvement of lung CT images, and required a shorter time to recover compared to parallel groups" and that chloroquine has "so far shown no obvious serious adverse reactions in more than 100 participants in the trials… Chloroquine was selected after several screening rounds of thousands of existing drugs" and "is undergoing further trials in more than ten hospitals" throughout China.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/24/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I kinda hoped, morning after pill will turn to be a cure for Covid19.😎
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2020 3:07 Comments || Top||

#2  That doctor that was at the briefings (until the last one, anyway) wasn't all that excited about it. Let's see if he shows up again any time soon.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2020 4:39 Comments || Top||

#3  NY is moving this week on numerous tests using various quinine based drugs.

Posted by: lord garth || 03/24/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  That doctor, Dr Fauci, had an interview with science magazine in which he was not all that positive about working with Trump. Mostly it was complaints of style but I imagine Trump didn't like it.

Despite that Trump made a point of saying in yesterdays briefing that the info of that day wasn't Dr Fauci specialty and the doctor will be back when they are discussing stuff he specializes in.

We will see. Glad to see Trump was right in this case because if we have a cocktail that cures people, that's a game changer.
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/24/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#5  I'll go with a corrupt FDA wanting to find more expensive meds to please their bribery masters. Really don't think that's a stretch.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/24/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll take bureaucrat covering his ass (quinine's side effects) for 5 NIS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 03/24/2020 9:22 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ "Alex, I will take 'Bureaucrats Covering Their Ass For 200$', please."
Posted by: magpie || 03/24/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
53[untagged]
6Sublime Porte
4Govt of Iran
3Taliban
3Govt of Iran Proxies
2Arab Spring
2Narcos
1Govt of Qatar (MB)
1Govt of Saudi Arabia
1Govt of Syria
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2020-03-24
  Gutierrez calls for an immediate global ceasefire
Mon 2020-03-23
  27 Taliban militants killed, 19 others wounded in Kunduz
Sun 2020-03-22
  Greeks Find Tunnel Full of Weapons Under Athens,
Arrest Turkish Terrorists
Sat 2020-03-21
  TSA halts all NY airport departures do to infected people showing up at each one.
Fri 2020-03-20
  Militant attack kills about 30 Malian soldiers -army
Thu 2020-03-19
  Migrants at Refugee Camp in Germany Riot,
Display ISIS Flags After They’re Put Under Coronavirus Quarantine
Wed 2020-03-18
  Manchester Arena bombing: Hashem Abedi guilty of 22 murders
Tue 2020-03-17
  China expels ALL American reporters!
Mon 2020-03-16
  Saudi Arabia detains 298 officials in new corruption cases
Sun 2020-03-15
  Hezbollah commander prosecuted in Austria for terror finance
Sat 2020-03-14
  Violence by Taliban Spikes Despite Peace Efforts
Fri 2020-03-13
  Sudan moves against Bashir loyalists after assassination attempt
Thu 2020-03-12
  4 Iranian proxy forces HQ hit in airstrikes along Iraq-Syria border
Wed 2020-03-11
  Rocket attack in Iraq kills two Americans and a British citizen
Tue 2020-03-10
  US begins military pullout from two Afghan bases


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