[Red State] - Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) joined Fox News’ Judge Jeanine on Saturday night to discuss opening up the economy.
We’ve got to balance fighting the pandemic alongside of fighting our economic downturn and it’s going to be hard, We’ve got to balance fighting the pandemic alongside of fighting our economic downturn and it’s going to be hard, but I’ll tell you what. Houston has been through very hard times. Let’s not forget Hurricane Harvey with our entire city flooded and you know our hospitals are uniquely suited to disasters. Our hospitals are doing well. They’re not even close to being overwhelmed at all.
Our case rates are not growing exponentially. They are growing, of course, but we aren’t like New York...
And then we’ve got to be looking ahead...at how we open up the economy and take a more targeted approach to fighting the pandemic. I think too many people talk about a binary choice between letting the disease run free and closing down society for — for indefinitely. But it’s not a binary choice. We can do both and we have to think very carefully about how to do that.
..."Those decisions have to be localized and decided at each state. You know we can problem-solve. Disaster preparedness is managed by states and localities. It’s always been like that and we have to remember how our system works and how federalism works.
...Crenshaw emphasizes this is not an all or nothing choice. Nor is President Trump necessarily in charge of making one blanket decision for America.
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Geographic variation in numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, cumulative incidence, and changes in cumulative incidence likely reflects differences in epidemiologic and population factors as well as clinical and public health practices.
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It seems likely to me that there are multiple strains of different morbidity, which when combined with population density and underlying conditions will lead to 'emerging hotspots.'
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Judge Justin Walker on Saturday granted a temporary restraining order against Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer’s drive-in church ban on behalf of On Fire Christian Church.
Mayor Fischer doesn’t want churches to host drive-in Easter services because somehow people parked in their cars with their windows rolled up risk spreading the Coronavirus. These little crisis fascists need to be stripped from power
The First Amendment is under siege right now and Christians across the US are being heavily persecuted by crazed government officials.
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Mayor Fischer doesn’t want churches to host drive-in Easter services because somehow people parked in their cars with their windows rolled up risk spreading the Coronavirus.
Haven't been in drive-in (movie) in decades - but, don't you have to roll your windows down to hear what's said?
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Low power FCC rules. Basically you are talking about a duel. Could be fun. Also, if you can sit on a hill and see the screen, you can take a transistor radio and get the soundtrack too.
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[American Thinker] Senators Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) have introduced a "Global Health Security Act" creating "a new directorate" ostensibly "empowered to press the preventative levers that can protect the nation." More accurately, the bill (not yet assigned a senate number at this writing) requires the U.S. to adopt and implement the World Health Organization's "Global Health Security Agenda" (GHSA) across the government. The GHSA includes a detailed set of "International Health Regulations" (IHR) meant to ensure prompt and effective responses to international health incidents. The Murphy-Romney legislation will embed the IHR into U.S. health policy and ultimately into our lives and homes.
Unfortunately, those International Health Regulations have already failed in the case of COVID-19 (and to be clear, not through any fault or omission of the United States). The IHR procedures unequivocally and explicitly required China to report immediately the existence of the outbreak and to cooperate fully and transparently in its international investigation
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Once I saw Mitt Romney's name mentioned, I stopped reading and went for the bicarbonate of soda.
[Mercury News] BAKERSFIELD — A shooting broke out at a party in central California, sending six people to the hospital on Saturday and launching a search for four suspects, authorities said.
The party, happening amid statewide stay-at-home orders intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus, may have gone unnoticed until frantic witnesses called 911 shortly after midnight from an apartment complex in Bakersfield, Kern County Sheriff’s Lt. Cesa Ollague said.
"Unfortunately it came to a bad end," he said.
Deputies who responded to the scene said the party was large, Ollague said, but he didn’t know exactly how many people were in attendance.
The victims, including one juvenile and five adults, suffered gunshot wounds but they were expected to survive, he said.
Investigators found 94 shell cases and three live rounds at the scene. The partygoers reported seeing four men driving away in a white car, the lieutenant said.
Life in the Chinese capital has ground to a halt, as authorities wage a desperate battle to contain the coronavirus epidemic.
Sebastien Le Belzic, a journalist based in Beijing for 13 years, has found himself largely confined to his apartment, giving him a front-row seat to the government's attempts to control the virus.
Turning the camera on his own daily routine with his wife and son, Sebastien provides a rare inside glimpse into life under quarantine.
The picture that emerges is one of a city where subways usually crammed with commuters are eerily empty, where multilane highways notorious for traffic gridlock are devoid of vehicles, a city where not just people, but even dogs, wear masks.
Venturing out, Sebastien and his wife don the required face masks and prepare to go through the numerous checkpoints and roadblocks around the city.
"The entire apparatus of the Communist Party, its neighbourhood committees, which usually monitors residents' political and social behaviour, have now been turned into specialised virus watchdogs," he says.
"Temperature monitoring, mandatory quarantine after leaving the city, mandatory masks, Beijingers have slowly disappeared from view in their city, forced to stay home by both the government and fear."
Sebastien also reveals how Chinese authorities are tracking people's whereabouts - there are now apps that allow residents to geolocate people who have been diagnosed.
With most of the world's media cut off from the capital, 101 East follows one journalist's "chronicle of confinement".
[GatestoneInstitute] In addition to the ethical questions raised by the rationing of healthcare according to age, the denial of medical attention to the elderly, many of whom have paid into the social welfare system all their lives, also casts a spotlight on the shortcomings of socialized medicine in Southern Europe, where austerity measures imposed by the European Central Bank have resulted in massive budget cuts for public healthcare.
In documents leaked to several Spanish media, the Catalan Emergency Medical Service (Servicio de Emergencias Médicas) instructed doctors, nurses and ambulance personnel to inform the families of older patients suffering from coronavirus that "death at home is the best option." ... The protocol also advised medical personnel to avoid referring to the lack of hospital beds in Catalonia.
"My father started working at the age of 14 until he was 65. He never asked for anything. On March 18, he needed a respirator to avoid dying and was denied.... This is the Spain we have. My father's generation built this country, its reservoirs, roads, agriculture, working 14 hours a day, coming out of a postwar period. And they are being left to die." ‐ Óscar Haro, YouTube video, March 20, 2020.
In November 2019, two months before the coronavirus first appeared in Spain, the Spanish government revealed that nearly 700,000 patients were on a waiting list for surgeries. Nationwide, patients had to wait on average 115 days to receive surgery; in Catalonia, patients had to wait nearly six months; in Madrid patients had to wait for six weeks. The severity of the coronavirus crisis in Italy and Spain, where elderly patients are being allowed to die for the benefit of the young, is due in large measure to the austerity measures associated with their membership in the eurozone. The large numbers of dead, especially among the elderly, appears to be the price that Italians and Spaniards are paying to be part of a monetary union which they never should have joined.
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This what the socialized medicine death panels everyone mocked look like. This is exactly what Democrats here are proposing that once the workers have been tax farmed for a lifetime they are due a modest golden age and then discarded.
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Remember, a lifetime of productive, non criminal existence does nothing for your social credit score...
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All those years that Italy, Greece, and Spain were spending considerably more than they were taking in, what were they spending the money on? Did the citizenry benefit from that spending in ways that did not end up paying for hospitals and medical staff, as opposed to it all being skimmed off by politicians and senior bureaucrats? Because if so, those now being triaged are the ones who chose this result all along the way.
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Yeah, yuk it up. Their political police who keep the others in check are Cubans with a lot of experience. They also provide the party's palace guard to keep the army in place as well.
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And, wow, what a success it's been. It sure brought that regime to its knees, didn't it?
For most of this period Cuba was propped up by the Soviet Union and trade with their brotherly Communist countries around the world, which kept them from feeling our embargo, but at least we did not do anything to help them torment their own people and work to undermine innocent bystanders around the world.
Newspaper headline, front page, above the fold - Cases could come in waves
[Dallas News] On April 30, social distancing guidelines are set to expire in Dallas County, the state of Texas and at the federal level.
As that day nears, politicians and health officials are presenting graphs, each with a single ominous peak in COVID-19 caseloads, followed by a steep decline. Once the downward slope hits zero cases, Americans can ‐ it might seem ‐ start returning to life as it was. Zero cases to start returning to life as is was? And the editor let that slip by?
But the concept of just one wave of infection is almost certainly wrong. If restrictions are lifted too early, there could be a resurgence. I couldn't read any further. Perhaps the writer will propose a permanent lockdown?
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[France24] Pope Francis called on Sunday for global solidarity in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, urging the relaxation of international sanctions, debt relief for poor nations and ceasefires in all conflicts.
"May Christ our peace enlighten all who have responsibility in conflicts, that they may have the courage to support the appeal for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world," the pope said in a livestreamed Easter message.
He condemned arms manufacturing and said the pandemic should spur leaders to finally end long-running wars such as that in Syria. He also appealed for help for migrants and others suffering from existing humanitarian conflicts.
The pope also warned the European Union that it risked collapse if it did not agree on how to help the region recover.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the U.S. says African-Americans have been targeted too.
Some Africans in the commercial hub have reported being evicted or discriminated against amid coronavirus fears. And a U.S. Embassy security alert on Saturday said that "police ordered bars and restaurants not to serve clients who appear to be of African origin," and local officials have launched mandatory testing and self-quarantine for "anyone with ’African contacts.’"
That’s in response to a rise in virus infections in Guangzhou, the U.S. said, adding that "African-Americans have also reported that some businesses and hotels refuse to do business with them." The U.S. statement is titled "Discrimination against African-Americans in Guangzhou."
A recent increase in virus cases in China has been largely attributed to people arriving from overseas.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with health problems, it can cause severe symptoms like pneumonia.
The police and public health bureau in Guangzhou on Tuesday told reporters that officials had responded to rumors that "300,000 black people in Guangzhou were setting off a second epidemic," which "caused panic." Officials said the rumor was untrue.
African diplomats in Beijing have met with Chinese foreign ministry officials and "stated in very strong terms their concern and condemnation of the disturbing and humiliating experiences our citizens have been subjected to," Sierra Leone’s embassy in Beijing said in a statement Friday, adding that 14 citizens had been put into compulsory 14-day quarantine.
The diplomats reminded officials of their support of China during the pandemic, especially in the early days. Some African nations that had scores or even hundreds of students stranded during China’s earlier lockdown had sided with Chinese officials against calls for evacuations, and many African nations publicly praised Beijing for its virus response.
Separately, in an unusually open critique of Beijing, the speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives tweeted a video of himself pressing the Chinese ambassador on the issue.
"It’s almost undiplomatic the way I’m talking, but it’s because I’m upset about what’s going on," Femi Gbajabiamila says.
While many African students and other migrants were keen to leave China at the start of the outbreak, many others decided to stay and take their chances on the Chinese health authorities being best placed to cope with the outbreak than the underfunded health systems in their countries.
But this week, five Nigerians reportedly tested positive for Covid-19 in the southern city of Guangzhou. According to state media, the men broke quarantine and frequented a restaurant where they infected its owner, who then passed the virus on to her eight-year-old daughter.
These reports seem to be what has sparked the current wave of suspicion and anti-foreigner sentiment in the city. “I’ve been sleeping under the bridge for four days with no food to eat… I cannot buy food anywhere, no shops or restaurants will serve me,” a 24-year-old student from Uganda told the AFP news agency.”
So many of them are illegally in a country with over a thousand years of history of discriminating against non-Han Chinese, never mind actual foreigners, and then some of them broke quarantine and infected a local family. The shock is that they were not immediatelyall rounded up and jailed until they got either died or got well on their own. The greater shock is that the various Chinese ambassadors haven’t bluntly reminded their African hosts who exactly has loaned whom money and built roads and belts for them.
[FrontPageMag] Amid lockdowns and “shelter-in-place” orders and social distancing from strangers and even friends, the coronavirus pandemic has been a time, for many of us, of reaffirming the centrality of family in our lives. For utopians of the radical left, though, the pandemic is an opportunity to deconstruct flawed, traditional familial bonds and remake the world along the lines of new-and-improved, collectivist possibilities. As author Sophie Lewis (pictured above) puts it bluntly in a recent opinion piece at Open Democracy: “We deserve better than the family. And the time of corona is an excellent time to practice abolishing it.”
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On the other hand, we can see who are the would-be authoritarians and would-be dictators over us, and neutralize their influence after ths blows over.
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What an absurd creature masquerading as an intellectual. Word salad of every PC trendy bulls•it phrase and concept. One can only imagine the family background this pathetic clown came from.
“focuses on eugenic, bioconservative and imperial feminism, queer and trans social reproduction, Black feminist family abolitionism, hydrofeminism, postgenomics, and Marxist-feminist accounts of care,”
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Ah, Tiger King. Is that the guy someone asked Trump to pardon?
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Since emerging as a Democratic political juggernaut, Ocasio-Cortez has faced scrutiny for living a lavish lifestyle while posturing as a champion of the working class.
Recall that AOC said shortly after getting elected: Congressman's Lament: $174,000 Isn't Enough To Make Ends Meet.
I guess she has figured out the Dem Washington corruption game?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Blood tests for the coronavirus could play a key role in deciding whether millions of Americans can safely return to work and school. But public health officials warn that the current "Wild West" of unregulated tests is creating confusion that could ultimately slow the path to recovery.
More than 70 companies have signed up to sell so-called antibody tests in recent weeks, according to U.S. regulators. Governments around the world hope that the rapid tests, which typically use a finger-prick of blood on a test strip, could soon ease public restrictions by identifying people who have previously had the virus and have developed some immunity to it.
But key questions remain: How accurate are the tests, how much protection is needed and how long will that protection last.
The blood tests are different from the nasal swab-based tests currently used to diagnose active COVID-19 infections. Instead, the tests look for blood proteins called antibodies, which the body produces days or weeks after fighting an infection. The same approach is used for HIV, hepatitis, Lyme disease, lupus and many other diseases.
Because of the relative simplicity of the technology, the Food and Drug Administration decided to waive initial review of the tests as part of its emergency response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Right now, the tests are most useful for researchers studying how the virus has spread through the U.S. population. The government said Friday it has started testing 10,000 volunteers. The White House has not outlined a broader plan for testing and how the results might be used.
With almost no FDA oversight of the tests, "It really has created a mess that’s going to take a while to clean up," said Eric Blank of the Association for Public Health Laboratories. "In the meantime, you’ve got a lot of companies marketing a lot of stuff and nobody has any idea of how good it is."
Members of Blank’s group, which represent state and local lab officials, have urged the FDA to revisit its lax approach toward the tests. That approach essentially allows companies to launch as long as they notify the agency and include disclaimers. Companies are supposed to state that their tests have not been FDA-approved and cannot rule out whether someone is currently infected.
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Major U.S. airlines were urging Treasury officials and the federal government’s outside advisers on Saturday to scrap or revise a proposal that would make part of the $25 billion earmarked by Congress to help keep workers on the payroll repayable in the form of low-cost loans.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told the airlines on Friday the government would require them to repay 30% of the grants in low-cost loans over 10 years — with the first five years at 1% interest — before the interest rate would rise. The government is also seeking warrants equal to 10% of the loan amount.
U.S. airlines have idled more than 2,200 airplanes, a third of the fleet, canceled hundreds of thousands of flights and sought to shore up their balance sheets as travel demand has fallen by about 95% because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Well, maybe, but let's negotiate some concessions in exchange:
1- No airline industry executive can have a chair more than 17" wide, or with more than 28" of leg room.
2- Any airline industry executive bringing a briefcase to work will be charged $25 per day for the privilege.
3- At random intervals a $17/hr employee will load all executive briefcases onto a cart and dump them in an open field a mile down the road.
4- Internet access for airline industry executives will be $5.95 per day.
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I'm so fooking tired of this airline industry (generally) making "demands". Let them fail/go under. If they are inefficient or make poor business decisions, that's on them, not the American taxpayer or the US Treasury.
I'll never forget years ago being on a United flight dealing with two of the most bitter flight attendants who had to take pay-cuts while the C-Suite pukes got bonuses. The cheek and the gall.
[HotAir] As you may recall, Baltimore’s corrupt former mayor, Catherine Pugh, was sentenced to three years in the slammer for her "Healthy Holly" self-dealing fiasco in February. In addition, she is to follow that up with three years of supervised probation and some hefty fines to partially repay the citizens for the money she siphoned out of the system and the taxes she dodged. But her journey to a medium-security penitentiary in Aliceville, Alabama has now been put on hold for at least two months. The reason? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count. (CBS Baltimore)
Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was granted a 60-day extension for the date that she must report to prison in Alabama.
Pugh, who pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud in the Healthy Holly children’s book scandal, asked for the delay so that she can "resolve" her state perjury charge as the coronavirus pandemic has led to the closure of courts...
Pugh had asked for another delay because she’s been "adversely affected" by the COVID-19 pandemic. Her perjury court date was moved to May 14.
So the reason for her late arrival at the Crowbar Hotel is, of course... the virus. As hard as I try to find interesting stories for our readers that aren’t focused on the damned pandemic, it seems to seep into everything. But in this case, Pugh isn’t getting a reprieve because the court is afraid she’ll become infected. Instead, she claims to need the extra time because the courts are barely functioning due to social distancing rules. She still has yet another trial coming up, this one for perjury, but it’s been pushed back on the calendar.
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I wouldn't bet against it, g(r)om - I was going to say either a vastly reduced sentence or 'home confinement' for some stretch. Still, it's fairly predictable stuff.
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I can't imagine anyone saying "I am so happy to be alive - even if only anecdotally..."
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It’s anecdotal when you and I talk about it. When MDs write up their notes for sharing or publication, they are case studies, a respected tool in the development of medical practice.
h/t Instapundit
[UPI] - Doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are enrolling patients in an international clinical trial to find out if inhaled nitric oxide benefits those with COVID-19 who have severely damaged lungs.
Right now, there are no approved treatments for the illness caused by the new coronavirus. A severe form of lung failure called acute respiratory distress syndrome is the leading cause of death in COVID-19. Whatever happened to "virus binds to hemoglobin" theory - somebody realized that, if it were true, we'd see effects in extremities first?
When lungs are failing, air is received by some parts of them but not others. Nitric oxide is a gas that improves blood flow in areas of the lungs that are getting air, increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood stream.
Nitric oxide also reduces the workload of the right side of the heart, which is under extreme stress during lung failure. In the end we'll have dozens of treatments. Maybe even be ready the next time Chinese bio-wizards are careless - they're malicious all the time.
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Some pompous "world famous doctor" who evidently needs to show his medical degree on camera recently said in a video that COVID-19 leads to pneumonia. Another "not-so-famous" doctor said people don't die from COVID-19, they die from pneumonia.
So, what am I missing here? Or, is ARDS different than pneumonia? Or, the similar just more nefarious?
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Short answer, Clem, from a civil engineer: Pneumonia can lead to ARDS, but other things can cause it, too. COPD, emphysema ...
Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a type of respiratory failure characterized by rapid onset of widespread inflammation in the lungs. Symptoms include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, and bluish skin coloration. For those who survive, a decreased quality of life is common.Wiki
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I had to look it up. Nitric oxide is used together with a breathing machine (ventilator) and other agents to treat newborn (term and near-term) babies with respiratory failure that is caused by pulmonary hypertension. Mayo Clinic
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Thanks, Bobby.
I know of a person with COPD. Needless to say, this is not a good time. Even before COVID-19, each flu bug had to be treated with much care and urgency.
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So are the police monitoring the reduced fire code occupancy levels in your Lowes and Kroger? Cops sitting outside stores that are open to prohibit groups of 2 or more? Customer counters at each entry? Cops patrolling the grocery isles?
Coming your way soon!
Update of this story from Thursday. As strongly suspected, it was Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
[PJMedia] Idris Abdus-Salaam, 33, a truck driver from Durham, North Carolina, on Tuesday pulled into the Pilot Travel Center on Strawberry Plains Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee, got out of his truck, pulled out a knife, and went on a stabbing spree. He stabbed three women to death and injured a fourth. When confronted by police, Abdus-Salaam refused to drop his weapon and was rubbed out. According to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) spokeswoman Leslie Earhart, authorities are still trying to determine his motive. But will they miss an obvious clue that is right in front of their faces?
The three women Abdus-Salaam killed were all employees of the Pilot Travel Center. The fourth victim, who is in the hospital fighting to recover from the wounds Abdus-Salaam gave her, was a customer. If Abdus-Salaam knew any of them personally, the fact has not been reported. It may emerge that he did, but as of this writing, this looks like a random act of violence.
Predictably, Sherlocks are pursuing the possibility that Abdus-Salaam was mentally ill. In this, they are following the lead of numerous authorities in the U.S. and Europe, who have ascribed incidents in which Moslems behaved violently to mental illness, often ignoring their jihad statements in order to do so. According to news reports, Sherlocks found a notebook in his truck containing writings that suggested he was mentally ill, but none of these writings were released.
Abdus-Salaam may indeed have been mentally ill. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... if he was, his mother, Walidah Abdus-Salaam, was unaware of the fact — that is, if she is being honest. "He’s not a violent person," she insisted. "The picture they painted is ugly." She didn’t even believe her Idris was the one who went on the stabbing spree: "That is not my son. I don’t believe it, and I refuse to believe it until they can prove otherwise to me." She said that there was no indication that Idris was suffering from any form of mental illness, "unless it developed recently and I’m not aware of it."
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Walidah Abdus-Salaam said that her son was "a practicing Moslem," although "his loved ones had no reason to believe he had become radicalized by any sort of religious fanaticism."
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Black immogrant muslim murders 3 white women and almost kills a 4th. But according to super educated authorities, no islamic jihad, no racism, no anti-Americanism, no sexual hangups. Only mental illness (by definition, isn't it so obvious?).
[Yahoo] The woman was dying. Workers at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital were about to call her husband and break the news that there was nothing left to try. Then Dr. Hooman Poortook a gamble.
With high-stress, high-stakes decisions, doctors around the world are frantically trying to figure out how COVID-19 is killing their patients so they can attempt new ways to fight back. One growing theory: In the sickest of the sick, little blood clots clog the lungs.
Poor couldn’t prove it. The tests required would further endanger his staff, who were already at risk of exposure to the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. But the lung specialist saw clues that were "screaming blood clots." So Poor pulled out a drug best known for treating strokes, and he held his breath.
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When I had my heart attack the emergency room doctor offered that " blood-clot buster" pill and I signed the consent form. 30 minutes later the chest pain went away.
I ended up with two stints....
Treating tiny lung clots like that might be hit or miss...or just not enough time to clear them before death hits....??
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Gotta wait until the Federal authorities do full evaluations and decide what path is best before doing anything.
Or adopt 'Federalism' and let all manner of subunits try things on local levels and see if anything works.
[AlAhram] 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... pandemic that has crippled big-box retailers and mom and pop shops worldwide may be making a dent in illicit business, too.
In reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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Incidentally. The reason formal trials include placebo is to account for "faith healing" (sick people tend to grasp at straws).
Roughly speaking.
(1) Patients on placebo doing as good as patients on medication. Then the medicine is useless but harmless.
(2) Patients on placebo doing better than patients on medication. Then the medicine is useless and harmful.
(3) Patients on placebo doing worse than patients on medication. Then the medicine is useful.
Now this guy used HCQ on everybody, but some of the patients don't know they are given HCQ (cause nursing home, dementia). Lets denote the two groups by Told and Not told, and 0 none given (another nursing home). Let '>=' be greater or equal, and let '=<' be less or equal
(a) T >= N > 0 : the medicine is useful, some faith healing.
(b) T >= N = 0 : the medicine is useless but harmless.
(c) max{T,N} < 0: the medicine is harmful
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You just have to wonder if Big Pharma (and Fauci) is behind this HCQ smear campaign. No money in a 70-year-old drug and too many positive accounts about its use. It's disgusting, quite frankly.
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Dr. Fauci doesn't cause me much concern. Appears he has his head in the solutions game. The Chinese, they worry me. What happens at Loews, Home Depot, Best Buy, and Target after CV, that really concerns me.
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Things won't be the same. It's a shame it took something like this crisis to "expose" the PRC, but we let it happen in a sense. The tea leaves have shown more emphasis on Asia/Pacific in recent years. No wonder. Recently re-watched VP Pence's speech at Hudson Institute from 1-2 years ago. Russia who?
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From a western professor currently teaching in Vietnam:
"The only thing better than watching the President talk about chloroquine is listening to reporters who think New Jersey is uncharted wilderness wax poetic about anti-malarial drugs available for pocket change at walk up drug kiosks throughout the developing world"
In other news:
I've been talking a little with an old friend who's convinced that some of the observed racial disparity in how the virus affects its victims is because of vitamin D deficiency.
Based on what I've been reading, zinc may also be a factor.
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Re: Zinc. I've heard good things about it, especially if taken in conjunction with HCQ. I've also read that, by itself, zinc is not efficacious.
Many many people, IMO, are deficient in Vitamin D3. That is an interesting point. Meanwhile, I take D3 supplements everyday; now, they include zinc....just 'cuz.
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My doctor told my wife when she went on D3, "Your kidneys process it differently as you get older." Me, being older with damaged kidneys, had started it several years before.
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Armstrong, who is a prominent GOP activist, called Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. He says Patrick reached out to Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes, also a Republican, who knew someone on the board of the New Jersey-based company Amneal Pharmaceuticals.
That's why it's "disconcerting" to NPR.
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Fauci: One does not simply try drugs, even when people are dying.
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Well, there was an account that there was a different strain of this virus that seemed to affect only Indians (and Pakistanis?) and lent some credence to more hanky-panky by the PRC.
India does produce the bulk of the world's supply of HCQ, for sure, but I can't see them doing anything nefarious. But, who knows?
As health commissioner in a city where nearly 40% of the residents are black, this misinformation was something Dr Jeanette Kowalik dealt with on a daily basis in her work in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
But just as her department was forming strategies to counter the narrative that the virus was something associated with foreign travel, Covid-19 struck her city.
"In the first week, there were maybe 80 cases in the city, and 70% of them were black," Dr Kowalik tells me.
She lays bare what she thinks is the major reason why African Americans are at a disadvantage when it comes to Covid-19.
"African-Americans have more of the underlying health conditions associated with fatality (among those with coronavirus); the heart disease, diabetes, asthma, obesity," says Dr Kowalik.
She also talks of more subtle ways in which the health of African Americans may be compromised, pointing to studies that suggest that prolonged raising of stress hormone levels like cortisol lead to premature aging of the body, and that some of that "weathering" has been tied to encountering racism.
"These are all things that can be tied back to the structural racism, the policies and practices that have been in place in this country for a very long time," she says.
Dr Kowalik says the way African Americans are being impacted by this crisis and the difficulties that remain in getting a coronavirus test in low-income communities has left people feeling they are being neglected yet again.
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"African-Americans have more of the underlying health conditions associated with fatality (among those with coronavirus); the heart disease, diabetes, asthma, obesity," says Dr Kowalik.
Commonly referred to (but not by Dr. Kowalik) as 'pre-existing conditions.' But of course, if pre-existing conditions are discussed, causation must also be discussed, things like education, culture, and the like. Perhaps we really shouldn't go there. Let's just stick to racism instead.
I'll refer to it as the Albany, Georgia paradox. In desperation, or a move of political expedience, the Governor of Georgia dispatched the National Guard to Albany.
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Two funerals likely sparked the spread, but how the disease got to Albany in the first place remains a mystery.
It's a mystery to some people how the light works when you flip the switch on the wall. It's magic to them. Oh, and all those roads and airports magically sprung from the ground.
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A thought - not even a theory. A few days ago there was an article here advancing the idea that CV was not primarily a pulmonary disease but instead was a hematic disease. Given the prevalence of sickle-cell anemia in the African-American population, this could be a contributing factor to the high infection rate.
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That would indeed follow, Mercutio. We should then also look for coronavirus problems among those Mediterranean-descended subpopulations which also have a higher tendency toward sickle cell anemia.
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Black folks are often heavier therefore insulin resistance therefore weakened immune system. I would like to see outcome vs BMI for each race. Maybe that would help.
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What race has the most asthma?
Blacks and American Indian/Alaska Natives have the highest current asthma rates compared to other races and ethnicities. In 2017, Blacks (10.1%) were 25 percent more likely than Whites (8.1%) to still have asthma.Dec 4, 2019
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Strangely, or possibly not so, I've seen little with regard to the racial stats of CV from the media. The old 'what's not being said' theory ?
Japan and South Korea appear to have it under control. As mentioned in numbers 6,7,8 and 9, could there some sort of genetic predisposition ?
I doubt if anyone in the Japanese general population is much concerned about sickle-cell anemia. Harsh social and economic measures implemented to combat such a disease might be a tough sell in those parts.
Genetics? Oh no, we'd better default to Dr Kowalik's WOKE theories.
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I think part of the story is that the BBC and the Guardian have been in a state of heightened sexual arousal ever since the number of US cases and deaths surpassed Italy's. (You couldn't get the smile off George Monbiot's face with a blow torch.) Being able to say that the virus is further evidence of American racism is just the icing on the cake.
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Dr. recommends hydroxychloroquine and reparations twice a day.
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Some sub-populations of Italians, Mercutio, yes. If I recall correctly, the sickle red cell mutation has appeared several times in various populations in response to endemic malaria before the modern mania for drainage and DDT.
The novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) is an infectious acute respiratory infection caused by the novel coronavirus. The virus is a positive-strand RNA virus with high homology to bat coronavirus. In this study, conserved domain analysis, homology modeling, and molecular docking were used to compare the biological roles of certain proteins of the novel coronavirus. The results showed the ORF8 and surface glycoprotein could bind to the porphyrin, respectively. At the same time, orf1ab, ORF10, and ORF3a proteins could coordinate attack the heme on the 1-beta chain of hemoglobin to dissociate the iron to form the porphyrin. The attack will cause less and less hemoglobin that can carry oxygen and carbon dioxide. The lung cells have extremely intense poisoning and inflammatory due to the inability to exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen frequently, which eventually results in ground-glass-like lung images. The mechanism also interfered with the normal heme anabolic pathway of the human body, is expected to result in human disease. According to the validation analysis of these finds, chloroquine could prevent orf1ab, ORF3a, and ORF10 to attack the heme to form the porphyrin, and inhibit the binding of ORF8 and surface glycoproteins to porphyrins to a certain extent, effectively relieve the symptoms of respiratory distress. Since the ability of chloroquine to inhibit structural proteins is not particularly obvious, the therapeutic effect on different people may be different. Favipiravir could inhibit the envelope protein and ORF7a protein bind to porphyrin, prevent the virus from entering host cells, and catching free porphyrins. This paper is only for academic discussion, the correctness needs to be confirmed by other laboratories. Due to the side effects and allergic reactions of drugs such as chloroquine, please consult a qualified doctor for treatment details, and do not take the medicine yourself.
[Red State] Yesterday, more major news broke in regards to not only FISA abuse, but also where the information for the Steele dossier came from. RedState reported on it here, citing Catherine Herridge sharing newly declassified documents requested by Sen. Ron Johnson.
The implications of this are just stunning. Bruce Ohr, a DOJ official, was meeting with a partisan political operative in Glen Simpson who was then sharing information from a Russian intelligence officer. There wasn’t even any ambiguity here. Ohr knew exactly where this information was coming from. These supposed "professionals" who we are told we must trust were feeding Russian disinformation, not even attempting to verify it, into FISA warrants. It’s like something out of a movie.
But while others like James Comey and Andrew McCabe have rightly been fired for the malfeascence that went on, Bruce Ohr continues to garner a government check. In fact, Ohr was given a massive raise and a bonus throughout the Russia investigation scandal. I guess it pays to be a conduit for Hillary Clinton’s Russian disinformation.
Think about how ridiculous this all is. The entire basis of the investigation was based on the notion that Donald Trump was secretly communicating with the Russians. Yet, at the exact same time that allegation was being pursued with everything the FBI had, the DOJ themselves were colluding with a Russian intel officer. That bad information was then used to get an illegal FISA warrant, and Bruce Ohr, the guy at the center of facilitating all this bad information from hostile sources, only got "demoted."
Despite all of this, there are people who still insist the DOJ and FBI did nothing wrong, that this was all just an avalanche of "mistakes." To be frank, one would have to be an absolute idiot to believe that at this point. You don’t meet with and take information from a partisan operative by Glen Simpson by mistake. You don’t then use that unverified information in FISA warrants by mistake. You don’t continue to pursue the investigation after knowing it was Russian disinformation by mistake. All of this was purposeful. They were looking for something to use to take down Donald Trump and if it was garbage from the Russians, they were willing to use it.
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If the Trunks take the House back in November, they'd better put a high priority on reforming the Civil Service system or give up governing altogether.
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I wonder if any of these seditionists will be prosecuted? They tried to take down a candidate and duly elected president. That is as serious as it gets. If nothing is done to bring these cabalists to justice, the "rule of law" will be destroyed in the U.S.A.
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It's already destroyed. Nothing's going to be done. All this Russia-gate and "lock her up" stuff is all penny matinée material not unlike the Kardashians.
But if your name is Roger Stone or Paul Manafort or Julian Assange, then that's different.
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The worst of many awful consequences attending this shitshow is the stranglehold it has placed around Trump's policy toward Russia. We have wasted almost four years in which OrangeMan could have reached an understanding over Ukraine, sanctions, NATO and Syria.
Had we achieved that, we would today be in a position to peel Russia away from China, and completely surround and contain China with hostile states aligned to us.
Those bastards at FBI State CIA and Fusion didn't just conspire to subvert the election results; they have greatly undermined our national security.
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It is treason Lex, and the weakness in this is Kelli since she leads to Brennan. I wonder ow about the obscure reference at the beginning of th unraveling of this about her late in life license in shortwave radio. The one communication medium not fully monitored and recorded you our NSA. Old school tradecraft might be the dead end for investigators if she keeps her mouth shut?
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The one communication medium not fully monitored and recorded you our NSA.
Or so they say. It's absurdly low bandwidth and mostly bad quality audio. Maybe hard to analyze, but not a big task to capture. Especially with a Trumpet, perhaps?
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Maybe he's cooperating to allow minor hand slap for him and Nellie then a quiet retirement.
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and completely surround and contain China with hostile states aligned to us.
Lex, Moscow was until recently the capitol of an empire that controlled over half the world and influenced the rest as an equal of and competitor to the U.S. They will never align with us, any more than France has really done (though the French empire ended almost a century ago after the second world war), though like France they will work with us on some projects of mutual benefit.
Yes, we could have reached understandings about Ukraine, etc, but the only understandings that would be acceptable to Moscow would involve us backing off completely and letting them do as they please over there, while conceding nothing on our side of the world.
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I see your point, TW, and agree the Russians and the Americans are too different culturally politically and socially to ever be more than allies of convenience.
But the time requires such an alliance. China is a mortal threat to this country. We need Russia on our side.
[The Hill] Americans who qualified for the $1200 cash payment, a cornerstone of Congress's $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, are starting to receive their money through direct deposit.
Late last month, President Trump signed the CARES Act into law, a coronavirus relief package that promises to provide one-time checks to some, set aside money for small business loans and provides funding for corporations hit hard by the virus, among other provisions.
"#IRS deposited the first Economic Impact Payments into taxpayers’ bank accounts today," The Internal Revenue Service tweeted Saturday evening.
"We know many people are anxious to get their payments; we’ll continue issuing them as fast as we can."
[Free Beacon] The Trump administration on Thursday sought to "revoke and terminate" licenses that permit a Chinese company to provide telecommunication services to and from the United States.
The Department of Justice said in a release that it "identified substantial and unacceptable national security and law enforcement risks" associated with China Telecom, the U.S. subsidiary of China's state-owned telecommunications company. It recommended the Federal Communications Commission revoke licenses allowing the company to operate in the United States.
China's communications networks have received increased scrutiny under the Trump administration, which has been pressuring allies to cancel their partnerships with companies tied to the communist regime, including Huawei. The Trump administration said China uses the telecommunication corporations and other state-controlled entities to conduct spy operations aimed at infiltrating U.S. networks.
"Today, more than ever, the life of the nation and its people runs on our telecommunications networks," John C. Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement. "The security of our government and professional communications, as well as of our most private data, depends on our use of trusted partners from nations that share our values and our aspirations for humanity. Today's action is but our next step in ensuring the integrity of America's telecommunications systems."
The effort to revoke authorities originally granted by the Federal Communications Commission comes in the wake of repeated efforts by China to conduct hacking operations in the United States.
[ToloNews] The Afghan government is preparing to release another group of 100 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... prisoners, the National Security Council front man Jawed Faisal said on Saturday, but he did not provide details on when this would happen.
The government started the process on Wednesday by releasing 100 prisoners, followed by another 100 inmates released on Thursday.
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[ToloNews] Two prison guards were killed and two others were maimed after a number of prisoners at Gardez prison tried to revolt and escape from the facility, said the Ministry of Interior.
Two prisoners were also maimed in the incident, which is now under control, said the ministry.
Abdullah Hasrat, a front man for the Paktia governor, confirmed reports of fighting at the Gardez prison in Paktia, and said the shooting started after the Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners at the facility took one police officer hostage and then started firing the weapon they had seized from the police officer.
Hasrat said that security forces arrived on the scene and the situation is under control.
Taj Mohammad Mangal, a member of Paktia provincial council, said that some high profile members of the Taliban apparently escaped as a result of the incident, but this has not been confirmed.
[BigLeaguePolitics] Is this a conspiracy theory or insider information?
Briahna Joy Gray, who was the press chief for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign before he bowed out after several disappointing primary appearances, believes that former Vice President Joe Biden will not last until November’s general election.
"Bernie was too kind to go after Biden, but it’s coming," she wrote in a tweet responding to a clip of Fox News host Tucker Carlson questioning Biden’s mental fitness.
"Either Dem leadership cares more about maintaining a corporate status quo than getting rid of Trump, or they’re planning to replace Joe — adopting a pretty fast and loose relationship with representative Democracy. Lose lose," she added.
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Gray is echoing a theory that has been floated by Carlson himself. He does not think that Biden will last until November, and he is merely a placeholder to keep Sanders from taking the nomination.
"I sincerely and totally believe that Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee on election day," Carlson said last month on his eponymous prime-time program.
"He shouldn’t be working still. I’m not being mean. I know him. I’ve always liked him. But that’s true. And so, those are two trains traveling toward each other at high speed. Two competing imperatives. We’ve got to win, but we’ve got a guy who can’t win. Therefore, they’re gonna replace him. If I had to bet I would think Andrew Cuomo would be the most likely to replace Biden," he added.
Big League Politics has reported extensively on Biden’s flubs, which have ranged from comedic to depressing:
Former Vice President Joe Biden has emerged as the front-runner for the Democrat presidential nomination, despite the fact that his mental faculties are rapidly waning at a frightening pace.
Biden has been largely silent during the coronavirus pandemic, but he finally came out of the shadows this week for a media junket as he attempts to criticize President Donald Trump for his response to the crisis. The results were not pretty, as Biden struggled to put basic thoughts together under light questioning.
On Sunday, Biden released a prepared statement in which he made mistakes while attempting to read words from a teleprompter.
Biden appeared on ABC’s "The View" on Monday where he said things about the coronavirus pandemic that made no sense.
"We have to take care of the cure. That will make the problem worse no matter what. No matter what. We know what has to be done," Biden said, struggling to maintain coherency...
He was even less lucid during an appearance on MSNBC as host Nicole Wallace attempted to act like nothing was wrong with Biden completely losing his train of thought.
"I tell you what. I’m so darn proud of those poor people who, of, lost, anyway," Biden said while moaning in an exacerbated manner.
Gray could be onto something. The Democrats may be preparing to discard Biden in a display of callous and grotesque elder abuse.
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The more contrived it looks, the more it will turn off left leaning independents and probably a lot of voters who actually - please don't laugh - like Biden.
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Biden will "fall out" eventually. When the MSM hit pieces on him start ramping up, that'll be the sign that he is out.
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I'm wondering if the verifiable sexual assault accuser was let loose at the perfect time. Force 'ol dazed plugs out of the race and let someone else in.
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The sexual assault charges are a DNC trick, not a GUP trick. They are doing it to themselves and I agree with Ms Gray. But the question is Who? Who will stand up? We know the dems could care less about truth, integrity, and their constituatants. We will wait and see who they name as VP and how it goes before Biden falls out.
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If Trump can be tarnished with a post Wuhan Flu blame montage the Wookie May emerge. If not, they wait and some loser like Harris or the Tank gets loaded on the dem titanic.
[National Review] Still, there’s an interesting assumption common to both sides of the debate: that the government is responsible for all of this. Both defenders and the critics start from the premise that government diktats are the only variable here.
Lyman Stone, an economist based in Hong Kong, makes the case that the essential variable in "flattening the curve" isn’t central planning but behavior change. Many businesses closed down well before they were ordered to. Millions of people practiced social distancing and refused to get on planes not because they were commanded to, but because they were convinced this was a wise course of action for themselves and their loved ones.
People change their behavior when they are given clear information about risks. Various countries have flattened the curve of COVID-19 cases in different ways, Stone explained on my podcast, The Remnant. Some relied heavily on contact tracing, others on quarantining the sick, others through lockdowns ‐ or all of the above. "But what we’ve seen in every country is that what really does it is information," Stone said.
Information doesn’t just come from governments. The death tolls in Italy and New York probably did more to change behavior on the ground than all of Trump’s press conferences or Dr. Anthony Fauci’s TV appearances.
And this raises another complication for those who think the government can just "re-open" the economy with the flick of a switch. Trump and all of the governors could lift the stay-at-home orders and federal advisories tomorrow. That wouldn’t necessarily fill the restaurants, airplanes, or stadiums. People would still need to be convinced it’s safe. Such persuasion comes via clear, believable information, not orders from on high.
And that’s how it should be in a free society.
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I'm so tired of people - on every side of this issue - sharpening their ideological axes.
Lot of people whose livelihood is based on disseminating information and opinion. Value of which depends upon being infallible, and are wanting to sell as much product as possible.
It is a Texshldm theory of going All In. For those not familiar with the game, it happens for two reasons: knock-out punch or the last act of a desperate player. It makes great drama, but ultimately depends on what is Up the River.
There is also the model, based upon my favorite card game Bullshit!, but it has the same flaw that it is also reactionary. Compared to Pkr, it has the advantage of pining out motives. It still depends upon a dramatic moment when hands are thin, the pile high. This is when the card counters have the advantage even more so than Blkjk.
To keep in Game Theory, the best thinking would go to Axis and Allies, the early additions, especially Axis and Allies: Europe (dating myself, the Red Storm Rising + Red October combo players would say Pikers!) as far as planning, logistics, and random dice occurrences such as a transport sinking a battleship.
Not to highjack, but to parallel this theme, I'm going to recommend:
This Week in Books:
Scouting on Two Continents. Memoir of F.R. Burnham
Probably my favorite line is "A Slave's Mind makes a Slave".
This memoir, I think, highlights the values of observation and curiosity.
To be fair, the work needed a better editor, and there is the leap of faith the storyteller, Burnham, is accurate in description of past events.
Without giving away the bag, all I can say is my favorite story is about the broken compass.
It is an easy to read yet educated dialogue, with, if you pardon my expression, bathroom trip tempo I had a difficult time not finishing in one go.
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To expand, I didn't like the line 'both sides of the debate' which, and I hate the term, triggered the binary choices of All In or Bullshit! as compared to a fluid set of choices in Axis and Allies.
There is, of course, the very real outcome of death - that is, there is a certain death rate percentage, but if it is you infected the rate is 100%, and if a person dies, that mortality rate is 100%. There are also political issues, tribal issues, livelihood issues, cultural issues, all those considerations which are as old as humanity itself.
Further exasperating the situation is that the big media centers, in the US at least, are the most affected - New York City and Los Angeles. The whole My Relevance! tendency of current culture orbits like Charon around the planet Pluto. There, I said it, nine planets. The recent example would be LeBron James stating China Great because my movie and buy my shoes fVck Hong Kong. I might be a bit geocentric here, but the best example would be the Kansas City Royals vs. New York Mets world series, and listening to the NYC centric announcers and how they non-objectively covered the game to the extent I turned the sound off during Mets' offense and turned the volume up during Royals' at-bat. Power out in KC, those hayseeds!, power out in NY, nah it'll be fine.
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This whole mess is political with a rancid glaze of politicized "science" on top. Positing some sort of "all pure, un-corrupted science, all the time" POV is somewhere between naive and childish.
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In that aspect, politics are as olde as organized humanity itself, even going back to the organized family structure. Holy Books deal with that specifically.
In my humble opinion, it was Kipling's Gods of the Copybook Heading which really set it, that humanity seems to have to re-learn its lessons over and over.
There have always been those who seek advantage. There have always been plague outbreaks
Human nature is amazing in it's very craving of information - common language. Every era in the leap of available, or even lack of available, information goes through these pains.
[IOTWReport] This article is from April 4th. Has anyone else come forward since then? Tara Reade, victim of Joe "Badfinger" Biden, filed a criminal police complaint this week
Yahoo!: A total of seven women have come forward with accusations of inappropriate behavior, with three of them speaking out after former Vice President Joe Biden responded to the previous allegations in a video posted to Twitter Wednesday.
Sitting cross-legged in a leather seat, Biden didn’t offer an apology but addressed the "gestures of support and encouragement that I’ve made to women and some men that have made them uncomfortable."
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Paging Anita Hill. Anita Hill to the courtesy phone next to the Coca Cola dispenser...
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Why do all the women look incredibly pleased in the pictures then ? They're the sort of women who will gladly associate with democrat filth, and let these leches grope them; while courting admiration from Leftists by rudely refusing White House invitations and talking trash about Trump. The Left can do what it wants with its women.
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Why do all the women look incredibly pleased in the pictures then ?
More like "I better grin and bear it or my { husband | daughter | mother | father | career } will be ruined by this politically powerful man.".
Remember, at the time Groper Joe exerted a *lot* of power over them.
One wonders what he would do off-camera. Doesn't one of the complains cites him putting his hand down her pants or something? A little more serious than a 'hug'.
[FOXNEWS] Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... , D-Calif., has urged President Trump to reverse a reported plan to block an Iranian request to the IMF for $5 billion in aid to fight 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... crisis -- saying it is in the U.S. national interest to accede to the request.
"I am disappointed to see reports that your administration intends to block Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... from receiving $5 billion in humanitarian aid from the IMF to combat the coronavirus pandemic," Feinstein wrote in a letter dated Thursday to President Trump. "Providing these funds to Iran would help it respond more effectively to the disease and mitigate the risk of further destabilization in the region."
The administration plans to block the request for an emergency loan, amid concerns that the anti-American regime still has billion-dollar accounts available to it, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Senior officials told the Journal that the loan would allow Tehran to divert the money to its economy -- which has been stunted by the sanctions imposed as part of the U.S. maximum pressure campaign -- or to finance hard boy bully boy groups in the Middle East.
Iranian "officials have a long history of diverting funds allocated for humanitarian goods into their own pockets and to their terrorist proxies," one of the administration officials told the outlet.
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"Providing these funds to Iran would help it respond more effectively to the disease and mitigate the risk of further destabilization in the region."
Actually, just the opposite is found to be true. Criminal activity and terrorism appear to be taking a sabbatical.
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I'd really like a look at her numbered Swiss accounts.
As good a place to look as any, not just for Feinstein but all Democrats and some Republicans too, for an explanation for the way they behave. Along with deposits from Iran, I suspect you would find deposits from Mexico and China.
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That might be easier now than ever as the Swiss don't hide bank accounts like they used to.
Surely our politicians meet all FinCEN reporting requirements....
[The last paragraph says it all, IMO.]
[TheCollegeFix] ’Going outdoors is what stops every respiratory disease’
A veteran scholar of epidemiology has warned that the ongoing lockdowns throughout the United States and the rest of the world are almost certainly just prolonging the coronavirus outbreak rather than doing anything to truly mitigate it.
Knut Wittkowski, previously the longtime head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City, said in an interview with the Press and the Public Project that the coronavirus could be "exterminated" if we permitted most people to lead normal lives and sheltered the most vulnerable parts of society until the danger had passed.
"[W]hat people are trying to do is flatten the curve. I don’t really know why. But, what happens is if you flatten the curve, you also prolong, to widen it, and it takes more time. And I don’t see a good reason for a respiratory disease to stay in the population longer than necessary," he said.
Go visit maxed-out hospital intensive care units in New York City and beyond, with the usual ICU patients exiled to other floors, and imagine if we had been hit like Italy, which for weeks sent anyone over the age of 60 with COVID-19 home to die, then triaged the rest to see who got care. But as soon as Italy got homemade respirators and hydroxyxhloroquine/azithromycin, they started catching up with the patient load, even as an originally poorly complied-with quarantine started effecting the infection rate. In other words, flattening the curve effects the left tail and the peak, but the right tail is chopped off, regardless. So prolonging is not nearly the problem it appears in entirely theoretical calculations.
"With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated," he added.
Wittkowski argued that the standard cycle of respiratory diseases is a two-week outbreak, including a peak, after which "it's gone." He pointed out that even in a regime of "social distancing," the virus will still find ways to spread, just more slowly:
You cannot stop the spread of a respiratory disease within a family, and you cannot stop it from spreading with neighbors, with people who are delivering, who are physicians‐anybody. People are social, and even in times of social distancing, they have contacts, and any of those contacts could spread the disease. It will go slowly, and so it will not build up herd immunity, but it will happen. And it will go on forever unless we let it go. Asked about Anthony Fauci, the White House medical expert who for weeks has been predicting significant numbers of COVID-19 deaths in America as well as major ongoing disruptions to daily life possibly for years, Wittkowski replied: "Well, I'm not paid by the government, so I'm entitled to actually do science."
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Agreed. "Fine"? Less worse off, maybe. And when did Pres. Trump halt flights from China and later UK? The scoundrels are PRC & WHO, CDC, sure, why not?
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The professor takes a contrarian view from those govmint doctors on TV. That is getting rid of a herd mentality and replacing it with a herd immunity is his recommendation. He says protecting the most vulnerable segments of our population and developing a "herd immunity" will wipe out the virus; kind of like the old concept of having measle and chickpox parties for your kids to develop an immunity. That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger?
We seem to have a built-in or conditioned reluctance to do that. One of the problems I see, is that politics has entered the picture. Another problem is the lack of good information about the disease. Moreover, there is often disinformation that is dished up for us by the media and those with an agenda counter to "what's good for the country."
[DAWN] Authorities in Bangladesh have executed a killer of the country’s independence leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, nearly 45 years after the brutal liquidation, a prison official said.
Abdul Majed, a former military captain, was hanged at the central jail at Keraniganj near the capital, Dhaka, just one minute past Saturday midnight, said Inspector General of Prisons Brig Gen A.K.M. Mustafa Kamal Pasha.
He was arrested in Dhaka on Tuesday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said, adding that the arrest was "the biggest gift" for Bangladesh this year.
Majed had publicly announced his involvement in the liquidation and had reportedly been hiding in India for many years. He recently returned to Bangladesh.
The execution took place after President M Abdul Hamid rejected a clemency filed by Majed, seeking mercy. His wife and other family members visited him for last time on Saturday.
Majed is one of a dozen defendants whose death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... s were upheld by the country’s Supreme Court in 2009. A trial court in 1998 had sentenced them to death for their involvement in the Aug 15, 1975, killing of Rahman and most of his family members by a group of army officials.
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Crime was 45 years ago, conviction 22 years ago, the guy was probably coming home to die anyway. Still, 4 days from cuffs to gallows? Impressive.
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The story is the guy woke up sitting in a rickshaw in the middle of Dhaka, surrounded by Bangladeshi police. Looks like a rendition operation by Indian intelligence agencies.
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Firefight between Syrian government forces and armed group near QamishliFirefight between Syrian government forces and armed group near Qamishli https://t.co/b16GllLqz3
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) April 11, 2020
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said on Friday that terrorist organizations have not stopped trying to transfer trained and highly experienced holy warriors from Syria and Iraq to Russia.He said, "unfortunately, the threat of terrorism still exists," and is the result of the activity of international terrorist organizations and the work of conspiratorial "sleeper cells" in Russia that raise funds for their activities.
He pointed to the effective use of the Internet by holy warriors in recruitment operations as well as in their various activities.
The Secretary of the Russian Security Council said, "just last year, Dabur was cut off from publishing propaganda materials of a terrorist nature on 135,000 Internet pages. This is almost twice more than in 2018."
Patrushev referred to the data of the Prosecutor’s Office, which stated that the country witnessed an increase in the number of crimes related to recruitment, financing and propaganda of terrorism last year, noting that "the largest increase in this crime was recorded in the Federal Urals."
The Secretary of the Security Council said: "Thanks to the strenuous work of intelligence and law enforcement agencies in the territory of this region, 5 terrorist acts were thwarted in 2019, the activities of 6 terrorist cells were stopped, and more than 50 people arrested in connection with terrorism were identified, as 5 were identified Islamic groups from the Salafi trend. "
He revealed that last week, a terrorist attack prepared by local holy warriors members of the international terrorist organization "The Caucasus Emirate" in the Surgut region in the independent Khanty-Mansiysk region was foiled.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in #Turkey rose by 5,138 in the last 24 hours after 95 more people died, taking the nationwide death toll from the pandemic to 1,101, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca says.https://t.co/d600gGpVBC
Almost 1 in 10 Theodore Roosevelt sailors tested positive for COVID-19
Almost 10 percent of the crew of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for the novel 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... , while hundreds of test results remain to be reported, the Navy said Friday morning.Of the 92 percent of the crew that has been tested, 447 have tested positive for COVID-19. The Navy is awaiting results for 775 sailors and 339 have yet to be tested, according to a Navy official with knowledge of the tests.
The San Diego-based carrier has a total crew of roughly 4,845 service members, including its embarked air wing and command staff.
City in Germany [Gangelt] shows case fatality rate could be under 0.5% Even though 2% of population of Gangelt (pop ~ 12k) had Wu per throat swab, blood test showed 15% infected. If this is true generally the lethality of the Wu is only a bit more than the seasonal flu, however the rate of infection is much more.
[Land.NRW] Around 2% of individuals exhibited a current SARS-CoV2 infection identified via PCR method. The infection rate (current or past infection) was approx. 15%. The lethality (case fatality rate) based on the total number of infected individuals in the municipality of Gangelt is, with the preliminary data from this study, approx. 0.37%. The current lethality in Germany calculated by Johns Hopkins University is 1.98%, and is thus five times higher. The mortality based on the total population in Gangelt currently amounts to 0.06.
Three shipments of medical gear, experimental drugs arrive in Israel
[IsraelTimes] Three shipments of medical equipment, protective gear and experimental pharmaceuticals have arrived in Israel from three separate countries, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. The shipments include 2.5 tons of anesthetics from Italy,
...suggesting Italy is doing much better...
2.4 million doses of the experimental antiviral drug chloroquine from India,
...tell that to those who call President Trump anti-science...
and millions of items of protective equipment including masks and suits from China.
...which if previous trends hold will be at least 80% unusable, although they consider Israel a desirable trading partner and source of future business acquisitions, so perhaps they’ll have been more careful in this case.
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suggesting Italy is doing much better
They still have almost 1/1 death to recovery rate.
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From Fix News - U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was released Sunday from a London hospital where he has battled coronavirus for nearly a week, according to officials.
Downing Street said the British prime minister will not immediately return to work and will instead recuperate at Chequers, his official country retreat in Buckinghamshire.
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I've been thinking about the number of "recovered" patients who subsequently test positive. Isn't the PCR test (as opposed to the antibody test) performed using a throat swab? Would be easy to miss if there are viral reservoirs elsewhere in the body.
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50% of orders shipped being returned due to business closures. Not returned to stock but dumped. The delivery drivers are swamped with returns, Fed X,US Mail, UPS drivers. Hours now being cut for businesses now or still open.
A court run by the Iranian-backed #Houthi militia has sentenced four journalists to death in #Yemen for “treason and espionage,” according to a judicial official and the Yemeni information minister.https://t.co/2FChqYyiGX
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"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are." - General William T. Sherman
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah forces announced on Friday that their air defenses shot down an Arab Coalition aircraft along the Saudi border with the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i governorate of Sa’ada.
Citing the Ansarallah forces, the Saba News Agency reported that "the air defenses managed to shoot down a spy plane belonging to the coalition while carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of the Razih district (west of Saada)."
The Ansarallah forces did not provide additional details about the operation.
At the same time, al-Masirah TV reported that the Arab Coalition launched attacks on the Razih District of Yemen, which is a violation of the ceasefire that was recently established.
Since the start of the ceasefire, the warring parties in Yemen have accused each other of violating the ceasefire by launching attacks in different parts of the country.
The ceasefire was established on Thursday after the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... requested a halt to the violence in Yemen, as the country faces the potential spread of 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...
[ZeroHedge] Documentary filmmaker Mike Cernovich looks like he is the latest victim to big tech censorship.
Amazon appears to have banned Cernovich's movie Hoaxed, a film that details the fake news phenomenon and the consequences of media misinformation, from its Prime Video service.
As of Thursday, people who search for the video couldn't find it and others who had already downloaded it had reported that it was missing from their libraries. The video had been available on the Amazon service since March and was steadily climbing the ranks, making it into Amazon's Top 50 documentaries, according to Cernovich on Twitter.
Yes, Hoaxed hit the Top 50 in all of Prime Video.
Now it's banned. https://t.co/X5J8uFArtE
‐ Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 9, 2020
Cernovich had his own theories about what happened on Twitter Friday:
"In fact, what got it "flagged" by Amazon was that it sold so well that Amazon's algorithm began recommending it to everyone."
Cernovich also said on Friday:
Amazon told our distributor, "It's not a technical issue. We don't have to tell you why we removed Hoaxed."
No doubt the ban, and the ensuing press that Cernovich has gotten, has likely turned more eyes onto the film, which is now the #1 documentary on iTunes. [Trailer for the flick in the link.]
Unknown gunmen killed Sayed Attaullah, a Presidential Protection Security member on Saturday afternoon in Kabul. Another PPS guard was assassinated last week in Paghma district of Kabul province. pic.twitter.com/xibrJd4lTe
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha’abi) and the Iraqi Army began the second phase of their military operation along the borders of Jordan and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Friday.
"The second phase will focus on four main axes, as the first axis will clear the border between Iraq and Jordan with support from the second axis, which will head towards the Iraqi-Saudi border strip towards potential targets," al-Sumaria TV reported, quoting the Hashd al-Sha’abi commander, Qassem Musleh.
Musleh continued that "the second phase will focus on vital targets and areas that have not entered before, where the third and fourth axis will head towards the Houran Valley and a number of areas that are described as difficult due to their geographical nature that the enemy exploits to hide and camouflage from our forces."
The operation’s commander indicated that "the process continues in coordination with the Iraqi Army and tribal forces.
Despite the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) defeat in late 2017, the group has terrorized the country with their sleeper cells, which have thrived in the desert regions of Iraq and Syria.
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The main settlement in Wadi Hauran (Houran Valley) is Ar-Rutbah, an Iraqi town and seat of Ar-Rutba District. Its name means 'wet land' in Arabic because it can receive 114.3 mm of rain per year. Its total current population is 22,370 inhabitants, all of them Arabs and Sunnis.
The wadi has three dams to collect rainwater for grazing sheep and camels during the summer: the Hussayniyah dam built in the 1990s, the Rutba dam, and the Hauran barrage.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Heavy festivities were reported on Saturday between the Pak and Indian armies at the Line of Control (LoC) that separates the two countries in the disputed Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... region.
According to the official media wing of the Pak military, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Indian military deliberately targeted the border region with mortar and artillery fire.
"Indian troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations during the last 24 hours using artillery and heavy mortars in Sharda, Dhudnial and Shahkot Sectors along the LOC deliberately targeting the civilian population," a statement issued by ISPR reads.
According to the ISPR, Indian forces were engaged in the "indiscriminate fire of heavy weapons, which injured four civilians, including a 15-year-old girl."
"Pakistain Army troops responded effectively with matching calibre, targeted those Indian Army posts which initiated fire," ISPR added.
The Indian Ministry of Defense has yet to issue a statement regarding today’s festivities; however, over the last five days, they have accused the Pak Armed Forces of allowing bandidoshard boyz to attack their army near the LoC.
After Bashaga’s accusations and the #GNA of the armed forces #GNA official Al-Helou: the closure of water and electricity in the western region was due to personal differences and problems within the institutions .#Libya#LNA#Libya
[MSN] The convicted celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti has been granted temporary freedom from a New York City jail by a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, federal judge who said the spread of the novel 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... was a compelling reason to release him.
In an order late on Friday, U.S. District Judge James Selna said Avenatti, who represented adult film actress Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against U.S. President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , may stay at a friend's home during the 90-day release period.
Avenatti, 49, must first be quarantined for 14 days at a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility, to ensure he does not have the coronavirus or symptoms, before moving to the home of Jay Manheimer in Venice, California.
Selna, who has called Avenatti a "danger to the community," said the lawyer would wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, have no internet access, and except for health emergencies be unable to leave Manheimer's home without permission. Bond was set at $1 million.
Kurt.
[Townhall] Remember the heady days of six weeks ago when the earnest wailing of liberal sissies about some imagined thoughtcrime drew respectful attention? Well, it never did from us, because we always knew these people were idiots deserving only of mockery, but some people ‐ nice, friendly people who could not imagine the malignancy in the hearts of these fascists dipwads ‐ took them seriously and actually cared.
And then a disease came along that is impoverishing the people it isn’t killing. It’s time to put away childish things, folks, and America seems to be doing that. Well, at least the people who aren’t liberal blue checks. The rest of us have no time for such frivolous nonsense. And when we beat this pandemic, which we will, maybe we as a culture will put away childish things for good. Do go and read the whole thing!
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And about the time they think they can start whining again, they'll have to weigh that against what they would look like if another wave of virus comes along.
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we always knew these people we[re] idiots deserving only of mockery, but some people – nice, friendly people who could not imagine the malignancy in the hearts of these fascists dipwads – took them seriously and actually cared.
We can hope there will be an awakening to the liberal B.S. that infects our society. There are still too many who are into "virtue signaling" and really believe the liberal dogmatic pap that has been spooned up for them.
[NYPOST] Following weeks of shortages and red tape, thousands of New York City firefighters with 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... symptoms as well as those on medical leave will be tested for the virus over the next week, The Post has learned.
Previously "there was no bonafide way to get it done," a high-ranking FDNY source told The Post, adding that only 50 first responders were being tested on a daily basis.
"What are you going to do with that? By the time you’re on line, they’re out of tests."
Beginning Monday, 2,000 firefighters are scheduled to be tested, the source said, citing an internal FDNY operations bulletin released to the 10,000-member force.
"It falls short of all members being tested," he said, adding that most firefighters also want the CDC-mandated tests which consist of the original test showing a positive result, plus two additional tests to show negative results in a 24-hour period.
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[Reuters] A group backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that works on India’s immunization programs will now be partially funded by the health ministry, a government official said, a move in part prompted by fears foreign donors could influence policy making.
The decision is seen as part of India’s broader clampdown on non-governmental organizations to assert control over decision making in key policy areas. Last year, India ordered the dismissal of dozens of foreign-funded health experts working on public welfare schemes.
The Gates Foundation has for years funded the Immunization Technical Support Unit (ITSU), which provides strategy and monitoring advice for New Delhi’s massive immunization program that covers about 27 million infants each year.
A key unit of ITSU that assisted the country’s apex body on immunization will now be funded by the government as it felt there was a need to completely manage it on its own, senior health ministry official Soumya Swaminathan told Reuters.
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in #Turkey rose by 5,138 in the last 24 hours after 95 more people died, taking the nationwide death toll from the pandemic to 1,101, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca says.https://t.co/d600gGpVBC
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.
[Mercury News] BAKERSFIELD — A shooting broke out at a party in central California, sending six people to the hospital on Saturday and launching a search for four suspects, authorities said.
[Aljazeera] Beijing is a city under lockdown.
[GatestoneInstitute] In addition to the ethical questions raised by the rationing of healthcare according to age, the denial of medical attention to the elderly, many of whom have paid into the social welfare system all their lives, also casts a spotlight on the shortcomings of socialized medicine in Southern Europe,
[France24] 
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — African officials are confronting China publicly and in private over racist mistreatment of Africans in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and the U.S. says African-Americans have been targeted too.
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Major U.S. airlines were urging Treasury officials and the federal government’s outside advisers on Saturday to scrap or revise a proposal that would make part of the $25 billion earmarked by Congress to help keep workers on the payroll repayable in the form of low-cost loans.
[HotAir] As you may recall, Baltimore’s corrupt former mayor, Catherine Pugh, was sentenced to three years in the slammer for her "Healthy Holly" self-dealing fiasco in February. In addition, she is to follow that up with three years of supervised probation and some hefty fines to partially repay the citizens for the money she siphoned out of the system and the taxes she dodged. But her journey to a medium-security penitentiary in Aliceville, Alabama has now been put on hold for at least two months. The reason? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count. (CBS Baltimore)
[Yahoo] The woman was dying. Workers at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital were about to call her husband and break the news that there was nothing left to try. Then Dr. Hooman Poortook a gamble.
...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...
[Red State] Yesterday, more major news broke in regards to not only FISA abuse, but also where the information for the Steele dossier came from. RedState reported on it here, citing Catherine Herridge sharing newly declassified documents requested by Sen. Ron Johnson.
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...Arabic for 
And this raises another complication for those who think the government can just "re-open" the economy with the flick of a switch. Trump and all of the governors could lift the stay-at-home orders and federal advisories tomorrow. That wouldn’t necessarily fill the restaurants, airplanes, or stadiums. People would still need to be convinced it’s safe. Such persuasion comes via clear, believable information, not orders from on high.
...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...
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...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...
[ZeroHedge] Documentary filmmaker Mike Cernovich looks like he is the latest victim to big tech censorship. 
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...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...
