[BREITBART] An 18-year-old man accused of fatally pushing a Marine veteran in front of a train in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... is now facing first-degree murder charges.
Police arrested Ryan Munn Friday night and charged him with first-degree murder for allegedly pushing Mamadou Balde, 29, in front of a CTA Red Line train on Tuesday, WGN reported.
Munn was identified by witnesses as he "punched and pushed" Balde into the passing train, according to the police report.
The arrest is Munn’s first, and he is scheduled to appear before a judge for his first bond hearing on Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reported.
"It would be very, very good if this happened quickly because it’s just too much,’’ Mamadou Balde’s father, Al Balde, said early on Saturday afternoon on learning of the arrest. "Someone threw someone alive into a train. This is crazy."
Balde was waiting for a train Tuesday evening at the Jackson Red Line Stop when three people began arguing with him, police said.
Surveillance video reportedly showed Balde walking away from the squabble when one of the three men ran up to him and pushed him off the platform into a moving train, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool.
Balde, who served for two tours in Afghanistan, was found dead by the time the police arrived at the CTA Red Line station.
The Cook County Medical Examiner said Balde died from multiple injuries.
The attack was one of eight homicides recorded in Chicago on Tuesday, marking the deadliest day of violence the city has seen in one day for nearly two years.
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No death penalty. But Chicago does have a lot of gang members who love to shoot people based on weekend body counts, just sayin.
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[NYPOST] A Florida man is accused of killing his estranged wife and trying to cover up her disappearance by claiming she was on her deathbed from coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , according to reports.
Friends only suspected Gretchen Anthony, 51, could be in trouble after getting baffling text messages in late March claiming she was being held with an "acute" case of COVID-19, WPEC reported, citing police reports.
Jupiter, Florida, cops soon proved she had not been treated locally — or made any insurance claims for treatment.
Officers soon focused on her 48-year-old husband, David Anthony, who had separated from her in February — and whose vocabulary seemed to match the coronavirus messages that were sent, the report says.
A neighbor at the couple’s home told officers she had heard a "blood-curdling scream" — and then a woman pleading "No! No it hurts," the affidavit said, according to CBS12.
"As the investigation progressed and further evidence collected, it is believed David E. Anthony is responsible for her disappearance and related homicide," Jupiter police said in a statement posted to Facebook.
The husband was eventually found in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on March 31 — 10 days after he allegedly killed his wife, police said.
He was charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping and is being held awaiting extradition to Palm Beach County, cops said.
Gretchen’s body has yet to be found. Cuz CoVid hides the body. Duh!
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[NYPOST] An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching "unless I’m in jail or the hospital." Divine intervention, artfully applied.
In his last known in-person service on March 22, Bishop Gerald O. Glenn got his congregation at Richmond’s New Deliverance Evangelistic Church to stand to prove how many were there despite warnings against gatherings of more than 10 people.
"I firmly believe that God is larger than this dreaded virus. You can quote me on that," he said, repeating it a second time to claps, saying that "people are healed" in his church.
Happily announcing he was being "controversial" by being "in violation" of safety protocols — with "way more than 10 people" at the church — he vowed to keep his church open "unless I’m in jail or the hospital."
"I am essential," he said of remaining open, adding, "I’m a preacher — I talk to God!"
On Sunday, his church announced "with an exceedingly sorrowful and heavy heart" that the pastor had died a week after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
His wife, Marcietia Glenn, is also sick with the bug, with church members offering their prayers.
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[NBC] ABC News' "Good Morning America" anchor George Stephanopoulos said Monday on the show that he has tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Stephanopoulos' wife, author and comedian Ali Wentworth, tested positive for the virus about two weeks ago. Stephanopoulos said he is asymptomatic.
"I actually feel great," he said. "I've never had a fever, never had cough, never had shortness of breath, never had chills, any of the classic symptoms you've been reading about." "shortness of height? Yes, why do you ask?"
The virus hit Wentworth differently. In the beginning of the month, she said she had "never been sicker," suffering from high fever, "horrific" body aches and a heavy chest. "This is pure misery," she wrote on Instagram at the time.
Stephanopoulos, said it was "no surprise" that he tested positive for the virus. While Wentworth self-isolated in a separate room of their home, Stephanopoulos has been her caregiver. The couple has two teenage daughters.
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I know, I figured that much. But the authorities were telling us all until they were blue in the face that we shouldn't just run out and get tested if we didn't feel bad.
[Washington Examiner] President Trump began a White House press conference by showing a video montage with clips of officials praising his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The video, which was shown at Trump’s Monday press conference, began with the words, "The media minimized the risk from the start." It then showed clips of some in the media and their cable news guests saying that the coronavirus was not likely to reach the scale it has.
The footage then transitioned into a timeline of the coronavirus pandemic and various moves Trump and his administration took to combat the spread, including stopping travel from China and Europe. It also showed various governors praising the White House’s response to the virus.
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And, no joke, as soon as President Trump began the video montage, our local NBC affiliate "broke away" for "local news". Timing couldn't have been more "perfect".
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I heard he was going to give the 170 million dollar tax break he got as part of the corona virus aid package to the widows and orphans in syria!
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It was sickening to listen to the followup questions trying to make it an illegal activity to use public information as a political stunt. Bastards!
The panic and fear among the people who cannot be bothered to read the actual statistics about this pandemic is what should concern most preppers. In fact, this virus has been so overhyped that the Army’s field hospital in Seattle, an "epicenter" of the pandemic has closed after three days without seeing one single COVID-19 patient.
According to a report by Military.com, the hastily built field hospital set up by the Army in Seattle’s pro football stadium is shutting down without ever seeing a patient. This is being done "so the service can shift resources where they’re more urgently needed", Washington state Governor Jay Inslee said.
Medical equipment at the CenturyLink Field Event Center is being returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for use elsewhere, but the governor cautioned against reading too much into the move. Governor Inslee wants people to remain in a panicked state of emergency and dependent on the government’s salvation.
"Don’t let this decision give you the impression that we are out of the woods," Inslee said in a statement intended to push the official narrative of fear on Wednesday. "We have to keep our guard up and continue to stay home unless conducting essential activities to keep everyone healthy." Washington state saw the first coronavirus death in the U.S. on February 29. Stay panicked and remain in fear, Inslee says. "But we haven’t beat this virus yet and, until we do, it has the potential to spread rapidly if we don’t continue the measures we’ve put in place," he said.
The state asked FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers to convert the football stadium "before our physical distancing strategies were fully implemented and we had considerable concerns that our hospitals would be overloaded with COVID-19 cases," Inslee said. Even though the hospitals have the capacity to handle patients getting sick with the virus.
The decision to close the Seattle field hospital comes amid early signs that the number of new cases could be hitting a plateau in New York, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in the U.S., and other states.
At a news conference Friday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said, "Overall, New York is flattening the curve."
We were never dealing with a pandemic in the general sense. We were always dealing with a tyrannical power grab by every governor in this country and at the head of that, was Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci was so wrong about this virus he should be permanently discredited. Yet Americans continue to fall in line and obey his orders to their own personal economic detriment.
The unprecedented government response and mass panic will have lasting negative effects for all Americans. Many more will be destroyed financially and all will lose most of what’s left of our basic human rights.
The good news is that you can find toilet paper on some online retailers again. I’ll continue to do my best to link items that were bought in a panic over the past month to help those who may need them. Toilet paper still seems to be the hottest commodity of 2020.
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That Gov was screaming about how Trump wasnt helping. Sends in a feild hospital, and other things. Turns out not needed. Where's the apology for the false accusation there Gov Chicken Little?
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DON'T YOU PEOPLE EVER SLEEP?
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Do stop fussing, dear Whiskey Mike. I notice that you are also awake, so it can’t be that odd.
Sleep. Haven't slept since first kid. Nah, I wait. Even scheme. Because teleschool is all fun and games until detail is ignored, and there are WWE figurines wrestling in the background...
My apologies, dear Reader — the content disappeared somehow, so I’m working to reconstitute it.
[DailyWire] Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Fox News on Monday that he believes the number of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... cases is "stabilizing" across the country and that the United States is close to the virus’ "peak."
The CDC has been largely on the sidelines during the coronavirus pandemic as the nation’s infections disease experts take the lead in helping President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... manage the crisis. The CDC has been focused on issuing guidelines for "social distancing" and self-protection for Americans looking to prevent or slow the spread of coronavirus in their states and cities.
The agency has been tracking coronavirus numbers, Redfield told Fox & Friends Monday, and he and other CDC experts believe the pandemic has "stabilized," especially in "hot zones" like New York City.
"I think we’ve really stabilized across the country," Redfield said. "We’re still seeing a small rate of increase in the range of 5 to 6 percent, as opposed to where we were before when it was 20 percent, 30 percent per day; but we are close."
Redfield added that once the day-over-day numbers begin coming down, authorities can begin discussing how to reopen the country and ease coronavirus-related lockdowns. That moment could come as early as this week.
"We’re stabilized and I anticipate that we will begin to see a decline in the days ahead, but we have got to just continue to take it day by day and look at the data," he continued. "We’re going to need to reopen gradually in a thoughtful, prudent way, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, based on the data about what’s the state of transmission of this virus in those areas."
COVID-19 is 10 times deadlier than swine flu, WHO says
[IsraelTimes] The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, also called H1N1, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization says.
“We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and we know that it is deadly, 10 times more deadly than the 2009 flu pandemic,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells a virtual briefing from Geneva.
He also calls for control measures to be lifted “slowly.”
States Move to Coordinate on Reopening Plans
[WSJ] Trump says federal government—not governors—will make the final call on sending Americans back to work and reopening closed businesses.
Two groups of governors said they would coordinate efforts to gradually reopen businesses and ease social-distancing guidelines, even as President Trump said he had the ultimate authority over when to restart the economy. The announcements by the governors on the East and West Coasts come after a decline in daily U.S. infection rates in recent days has prompted some officials to express cautious optimism that infections may be hitting a plateau as mitigation efforts take hold.
Belgium's Coronavirus Death Rate Surpasses Italy's
[Reason] [UPDATE, Apr. 13, 2020, 7:45 pm: The Italy count has gone up to 338 during the day because of newly reported data, so Belgium is still barely behind Italy, but given Belgium's and Italy's pace (Belgium has recently been having more than half as many daily coronavirus deaths as Italy, with 1/5 of the population of Italy), it seems certain that tomorrow Belgium will surpass Italy for good.]
I don't know why this is happening (different initial infection patterns? different containment policies? different treatment policies? different healthcare quality? different reporting practices?), but I thought I'd note it. Spain is at 374 deaths per million, Belgium at 337, Italy at 329, France at 221, UK at 167, Netherlands at 165 (Worldometer data). By way of comparison, US is at 67.
Spain virus deaths continue to fall
[IsraelTimes] The coronavirus death toll in Spain continues to fall, with 517 fatalities registered Monday, down from 619 deaths on Sunday and way down from the peak of 950 deaths recorded on April 2.
The total death toll in the country now stands at 17,489, with 169,496 confirmed cases and 64,727 recovered from COVID-19.
The death toll does not include unconfirmed cases at senior-living facilities and people who have died at home and the real number of fatalities from the disease is believed to be much higher.
Spain cautiously begins sending some back to work
[IsraelTimes] Spanish authorities are letting some workers begin to return to their jobs, but Health Minister Salvador Illa says the government will move carefully on allowing others to end their self-isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Spanish government, looking to get the economy moving again, has allowed workers to return to some factory and construction jobs. But retail stores and services must remain closed and office workers have to keep working from home.
Britain records 717 new deaths, bringing total to 11,329
[IsraelTimes] Britain says 717 people have died of the novel coronavirus in the past day, continuing a downward trend as the country’s leaders are set to mull easing some lockdown restrictions. The new toll brings the country’s total to 11,329. Friday and Saturday both saw death tolls over over 900, while Sunday’s toll dropped to 737.
Italy virus deaths surpass 20,000
[IsraelTimes] Italy’s civil protection service reports 566 new deaths, taking Italy’s fatalities total to 20,465 — officially second in the world behind the United States.
But a drop in patients in intensive care from a peak of 4,068 on April 3 to 3,260 on Monday confirms a general improvement in Italy’s COVID-19 trends. The rise in new infections dropped to a new low of just two percent.
Coronavirus: Russia surpasses 20,000 cases
[Jpost] Russia on Tuesday reported 2,774 new cases of the coronavirus, a record daily rise, bringing its overall nationwide tally to 21,102, the country's coronavirus response centre said. It said 170 people in Russia diagnosed with the virus have now died, an overnight rise of 22.
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It would be smart for Trump to coordinate a restart with the various State Gov coalitions.
From a policy standpoint the State Govs have jurisdiction authority and knowledge about how the State works, e.g., re opening provisions that are legal and those that are not.
From an economic standpoint it increases the chances that the reopening will be orderly with minimal reshutting.
From a political standpoint it helps also.
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I think Trump was trying to get the governors to do something before he did. Using TDS for the common good! It seems to have worked, too.
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South Dakota Implements Statewide Hydroxychloroquine Clinical Trial
Gotta hurry.
A million tourist bikers, and their $1000s, are due to show up Aug 8.
Having a successful Hydro trial and OTC 'samples' will be a crowd pleaser.
Well the Chenobyl fire is looking a little bit concerning now. In red shows the current extent of the fire (approximate), and the sarcophogus and nuclear waste storage areas are lablelled. The fire looks to be within 600m of the centre of the reactor. pic.twitter.com/Hn4tZyGdNq
[FOX] A Chinese laboratory at the center of new theories about how the coronavirus pandemic started was the subject of multiple urgent warnings inside the U.S. State Department two years ago, according to a new report.
U.S. Embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Those cables have renewed speculation inside the U.S. government about whether Wuhan-based labs were the source of the novel coronavirus, although no firm connection has been established. The theory, however, has gained traction in recent days.
The United Kingdom has said that the idea that the virus, which has turned into a full-blown global pandemic, was leaked from a Wuhan lab is "no longer being discounted."
A member of the U.K. government's emergency committee of senior officials claimed Sunday: "There is a credible alternative view (to the zoonotic theory) based on the nature of the virus. Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is a laboratory in Wuhan."
Foreign affairs expert Gordon Chang said in a recent opinion piece on Fox News that "many Chinese believe the virus either was deliberately released or accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a P4-level bio-safety facility."
He added: "This lab, known for studying coronaviruses, is not far from the market that had been initially identified as the source of the outbreak."
In a series of diplomatic cables labeled "Sensitive But Unclassified," U.S. Embassy officials warned that the lab had massive management weaknesses, posed severe health risks and warned Washington to get involved.
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Wuhan-based labs were the source of the novel coronavirus, although no firm connection has been established. The theory, however, has gained traction in recent days.
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China has a shit-ton of bad loans out there. It was the only way to keep the economy growing at the rate the CCP wanted. One day, they would come home to roost and the less money China has to paper it over, the sooner it happens.
[Epoch Times] Amidst Beijing’s increasingly aggressive actions, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen called on like-minded countries around the world to start pushing back against China and other “anti-democratic forces” across economic, political, and military fronts.
“Historical trends do not always favor the forward march of democracy. But in Taiwan, moving backward is not an option,” Tsai said on June 25.
“In the 21st century, democracy is in retreat,” she said, citing a report by Freedom House that found global freedom has been in decline for 12 consecutive years.
“Anti-democratic forces” are threatening Taiwan, Australia, United States, and others around the world today, she said. Tsai was not afraid to point the finger at China, which claims Taiwan as one of its provinces.
"The Chinese elite see water as something for their use, not as a shared commodity." As China hold back the Mekong, Southeast Asia suffers. https://t.co/IIAsfVgZHO
[Twitter] Fire Breaks Out On China's Massive New Type 075 Amphibious Assault Ship. The blaze struck while the ship was tied up to the pier at Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai.
See link for video
It is unclear how much damage has been done to the amphibious assault ship at this time, although it appears the fire emanated from, or at least involved, its well deck. A well deck is a floodable garage-like space that is used on amphibious assault ships for launching and recovering ship-to-shore transport boats and hovercraft, as well as amphibious fighting vehicles.
Recent satellite images from Hudong;Zhonghua Shipyard, #Shanghai, #China show the second PLAN type 075 amphibious assault vessel in docks awaiting a coat of paint on its deck as speculations for its launch date begin emerging pic.twitter.com/NLGUBTHE8T
[Yahoo] North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has carried out a major reshuffle of his State Affairs Commission, official media reported Monday, replacing more than a third of its members.
"This is a rather large scale of SAC membership shuffle," said former US government North Korea analyst Rachel Lee.
Pictures carried by the official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed hundreds of lawmakers sitting in close proximity to each other without wearing protective masks.
A cabinet report reiterated the North's insistence that "not a single case" of the coronavirus pandemic that has swept the world since emerging in neighbouring China has been reported in the country.
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Take these picture already, we're turning blue!
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Chris, I'd say about a third of them. . . 8^)
[Yahoo] North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has carried out a major reshuffle of his State Affairs Commission, official media reported Monday, replacing more than a third of its members.
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Nobody tell Fat Boy that obesity and hypertension are pre-existing conditions for Kung Flu morbidity.
[Free Beacon] As the novel coronavirus has swept the earth, nations have been left scrambling to find, and even hoard, the medical tools needed to fight the deadly disease.
For a period of days last week, India looked set to ban the export of hydroxychloroquine, an unproven but promising treatment for COVID-19. Protective equipment producers 3M and Honeywell have alleged that the Chinese government has prohibited them from exporting their products. Much of Europe has closed its nominally open border to the flow of masks and other vital medical equipment, while the EU's lack of support for Italy has the country's prime minister warning the crisis could mean the union's failure.
Such defensiveness is a common feature of pandemics—during the 1976 swine flu scare, the United States refused to share vaccines, even with its close ally Canada. Nonetheless, this every-nation-for-itself moment has taken many by surprise, including American leaders now struggling to source vital resources. To Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), this surprise is an ideological failure—a belief that free trade and cosmopolitanism had so whittled away the nation-state that individual countries would not pursue their self-interest in a time of crisis.
Everyone who filed taxes last year below a certain income, Thimp Clusort2035. If I understand correctly, the income cut-off is $75,000 for an individual or $150,000 for a married couple filing jointly. But I’m sure Raj among others can tell us precisely.
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So that's like [pauses to check calculator] $96 billion?
In one day? Sheesh!
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I won't be getting any, but I paid a lot. Oh well
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I won’t get paid because I had a big retirement-related taxable event in 2018 and my 2019 tax is not processed yet. 2020 I am paying myself off of liquidated capital.
[AlAhram] Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it plans to hire 75,000 more people for jobs ranging from warehouse staff to delivery drivers as the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... epidemic kept Americans locked in their homes and demand for online orders surged.
With shoppers clearing out shelves in fear of quarantines or product shortages, retailers are racing to keep food and hygienic items in stock and have employees on hand for in-store work or delivery.
The e-commerce giant now expects to spend over $500 million globally to increase wages for the workers during the pandemic, it said, up from a previous estimate of $350 million.
The new hiring are in addition to the 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers it hired recently to deal with the demand surge.
"We know many people have been economically impacted as jobs in areas like hospitality, restaurants and travel are lost or furloughed as part of this crisis and we welcome anyone out of work to join us at Amazon until things return to normal and their past employer is able to bring them back," the company said in a blog post.
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It was just a few months ago, I noticed a full-size semi-trailer with the Amazon Prime logo on the side on I-35 in Texas. A few miles later, I saw a lot full of their trailers, ready to go on the road.
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I just wonder when they will stop "combat pay" right now we get $2 an hour extra and paid 20 minute breaks. Fun fact Amazon considers working there for three years to be the equivalent of a BS degree.
I guess I'm back to prep Thursday when I saw this I thought that this product needs :
ASIN stickering
Set creation
Bubble wrap or bag
[News.USNI.org] The French Navy (Marine Nationale) aircraft carrier and flagship Charles de Gaulle (R91) is heading home early following suspicion of several COVID-19 cases among its crew members. About forty sailors may be infected with COVID-19, according to a French Ministry of the Armed Forces press release issued on Wednesday.
From the inventors of the white flag.
"On board the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle currently deployed in the Atlantic as part of the mission Foch, around forty sailors are today under close medical observation. They are showing symptoms consistent with possible COVID-19 infection. These first symptoms have appeared recently," read the statement.
The aircraft carrier has been deployed on "Mission Foch" since January. The carrier is sailing in the Atlantic Ocean and was already on its way back to the Mediterranean. Charles de Gaulle's home port is Toulon Naval Base in Southern France.
[Give this a thought next time you hear of shortages of PPE.]
[Mises] Recently here in Vancouver, Canada, medical mask resellers were punished by authorities, with their inventory seized and fines imposed. This is the second time resellers have been punished in recent weeks. This action is the exact opposite of what the government should do if it wants to see an increase in supply of medical masks to people who need them.
A local mayor, Brad West, has called the acts of the resellers to "egregious, so irresponsible, so selfish and so motivated by greed." It is this writer’s contention that unless the resellers stole those masks, it is the actions of local authorities which are egregious and irresponsible. West is presuming that those who buy those masks have no legitimate need for them. The CDC now states that wearing masks helps reduce the risk of COVID-19 exposure. How is it that the voluntary selling, and buying, of medical masks to protect you and your family is considered egregious and irresponsible?
The commercial actions of resellers, if anything, help boost supply of those masks to the consumer market. Retails stores and pharmacies are out of inventor,y because their supplier can’t ostensibly meet retail demand. Now, a reseller, through his own resourcefulness and researching of the wholesale market, has come upon a supplier who is willing to provide inventory to him. The reseller contacts the supplier and arranges for the purchase and shipment of those masks. He allocates time and energy to make this transaction, taking certain risks that the masks might not arrive in a timely manner or might be withheld by customs, or otherwise might not be delivered by a deceitful and unscrupulous wholesaler.
For his time and effort, the reseller is paid a profit (i.e., wages) over the wholesale price. His customers get hold of masks in a time when all store shelves are empty. The more resellers there are, the more orders are given to wholesalers and manufacturers, and the more of the product is made available to the consumer market. As demand gets satiated, prices eventually come down.
What the government has done is effectively shut down productive distribution and reseller channels, which are vital and very necessary in ensuring that retail customers get what they want. They have disincentivized entrepreneurs from going out and sourcing suppliers who can help satisfy demand.
And to make a bad situation even worse, the government has shut down a source of income for entrepreneurs who are now out of work due the lockdown and must now rely on employment insurance and other forms of government welfare, putting an even greater strain on government coffers (i.e., taxpayer money).
When will government ever learn? [They won't. EVER.]
[Fox News] The World Health Organization is under fire after Taiwan released the contents of a December email inquiring about the person-to-person spread of COVID-19, which it says was ignored by the organization and further denied to provide adequate information about how to fight the virus.
Taiwan is accusing the WHO of downplaying the severity and spread of the coronavirus in an attempt to pander to China, even after Taiwan sounded the alarm about at least seven cases of atypical pneumonia that they were aware of in Wuhan, where the virus originated.
The WHO denied that Taiwan ever alerted them to the potential person-to-person spread of the virus, but Taiwan's CDC said that because they specifically mentioned "atypical pneumonia" — reminiscent of SARS, which is transmitted via human contact — "public health professionals could discern from this wording that there was a real possibility of human-to-human transmission of the disease," they said in a press release. Who cares? (Ironic pun intended) WHO doesn't even recognize Taiwan, being part of China, doncha know.
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Sorry, that's [Fox News} with a h/t to The Bongino Report.
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.@Virgin_Orbit completed a captive carry test flight of its LauncherOne system Sunday, the final major milestone before the company performs its first orbital launch attempt. https://t.co/ZvJuBmLY2r
Not if you have discarded the the totally outlandish 'conspiracy theory' of a Chinese bio-engineered asymmetric attack (or beta test) focused on the US Navy, Taiwan, and the Pacific Rim.
Not if you have ignored the duplicity, denial, economic threats, and damage control of the Chinese political leadership and media machine.
Not if you dismissed the Orange Man's recent warning that...."No one try anything" during the CV emergency.
Not if the silence from our Intelligence Community has gone unnoticed.
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[NYPOST] An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching "unless I’m in jail or the hospital."
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[FOX] A Chinese laboratory at the center of new theories about how the coronavirus pandemic started was the subject of multiple urgent warnings inside the U.S. State Department two years ago, according to a new report.
[Free Beacon] As the novel coronavirus has swept the earth, nations have been left scrambling to find, and even hoard, the medical tools needed to fight the deadly disease.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[News.USNI.org] The French Navy (Marine Nationale) aircraft carrier and flagship Charles de Gaulle (R91) is heading home early following suspicion of several COVID-19 cases among its crew members. About forty sailors may be infected with COVID-19, according to a French Ministry of the Armed Forces press release issued on Wednesday.
