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Most people know that the flu can kill. Indeed, the so-called Spanish flu killed 50 million people in 1918—more than were killed in the first world war. But what about TCC? Can you really catch your death? TCC is a collection of symptoms—coughing, sneezing, a runny nose, tiredness and perhaps a fever—rather than a defined disease. Although it shares a lot with the initial symptoms with the flu, it's a very different infection. Rhinovirus causes about half of all TCC, but other viruses can cause one or more of the symptoms of a TCC, including adenovirus, influenza virus, respiratory syncytial...

🤦‍♂️ #Hypocrisy

The Left is blaming Trump for supposedly being late in responding to the virus. What were they doing as it started to blow up? They were engaged in impeachment mania 24/7, including on MSNBC, CNN, Wash Post and NYT - and of course in the Democrat House of Reps. Not a word of warning or concern about any public health issues. They're frauds, the lot of them.

The primary season has only just begun, but already, it has reminded us of several truisms that the major parties always forget from year to year: - That young people just don’t vote in the numbers that older people do, so don’t build your hopes upon changing the makeup of the electorate… - That money can’t make up for a lack of charisma, so a rich bore can’t just spend his way to victory… and of course, - That our primary calendar looks like something designed by a practical jokester rather than someone who wants the best for America. But...

Prelims on ESPN, now Main card at 10 eastern on PPV* 2 belts on the line Israel Adesanya (c) vs. Yoel Romero for the Middleweight title Zhang Weili (c) vs. former Champ Joanna Jędrzejczyk for the Women's Strawweight strap UFC 248

Italy is set to lock down at least 16 million people in the region of Lombardy and in 11 other provinces in the north and east of the country. The mandatory quarantine will last until early April. The dramatic escalation in the country's efforts to contain the new deadly coronavirus will close gyms, pools, museums and ski resorts. Italy is Europe's worst-hit country and reported a steep rise in virus infections on Saturday. The new measures, which also apply to financial centre Milan and tourist hotspot Venice, could take effect as early as Sunday and will last until 3 April....

The appointment of Neil Gorsuch to fill the empty Supreme Court spot. It was a master class move and only time will tell how big help it would be in the future! With the 9th circuit constantly trying to remove President Trump executing orders. Well, this is where it’s good to have the Supreme Court on your side! For far too long the 9th Circuit has been dominated by liberal justices appointed by presidents from the Democratic Party. The 9th Circuit has undergone a massive overhaul under the Trump administration. “The 9th Circuit includes 13 district courts, presided over by...

      U-571 U-571 is truly an "on the edge of your seat" film about a US Navy crew trying to sail a Nazi U-Boat to England in 1942 (won't explain how that happens, see the movie). In one scene, the boat is attacked by depth charges from a German destroyer. The crew turns to the young skipper for guidance and asks what they should do to save the boat and their lives. He says he doesn't know. Somehow they survive this attack. The wise, crusty Chief then has a fatherly chat with the skipper in a quiet...

On Super Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) came in third in her home state of Massachusetts and fourth in Oklahoma, the state in which she grew up. The humiliating damage to her 2020 presidential aspirations couldn’t be ignored, and she dropped out two days later. As Mike noted, the media appears to have been hardest hit (after Warren herself). They were behind her all the way and often twisted themselves into disconcerting displays of cognitive dissonance to excuse, downplay, and/or completely ignore her extensive list of negatives. None of which, by the way, had anything to do with her being...

This is getting kicked around by those who want to blame Trump for everything. Since when has the federal government been the buyer and provider for facemasks for all us hospitals? When? Never, that's when. Can you imagine their response if Trump micromanaged their workings, the demtards would go crazy at his interference and demands on private and public hospitals. The money it would cost, the storage area for all this material, the logistics to order this even when there are no shortages. Dems won't even let him do his job securing and fortifying the border. Do you really think...

“You Shall Have No Other gods Before me…” ( Exodus 20:3)In this, the first Commandment, God lays exclusive and absolute claim to our hearts. We are to center ourselves around God himself, and no one else. Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all of thy heart, and with all of thy soul and all of thy mind and all of thy strength.Only the true God is worthy of such totality of the devotion of all of our faculties. This commandment tells us of the possibility of “other gods”, that they exist, and that people often try to center...

Democratic voter turnout in 19 Pivot Counties holding presidential primaries on Super Tuesday was lower than the rest of that state’s Democratic turnout as compared to 2016. Those counties span seven states. Voters in 46 Pivot Counties in nine states cast ballots in presidential primaries on Super Tuesday. Ballotpedia identified 206 Pivot Counties that President Donald Trump (R) won in the 2016 presidential election and President Barack Obama (D) won in 2008 and 2012.

An outsized and upgraded cannon spat shells a distance of 40 miles over the Arizona desert Friday, reaching almost three times as far as its previous incarnation. The army is scrambling to boost the range of its missiles and artillery as the number one modernization priority.That program includes an upgrade to a tank-like howitzer, the Extended Range Cannon Artillery, with three times the range and an autoloader, able to launch one round every 6-10 seconds.On March 6, the prototype, with its unwieldy-looking gun, successfully fired two different types of artillery 40 miles during a demonstration at the Yuma testing range...

A Georgia Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make child transgender surgeries and drugs illegal. On February 27, Georgia State Rep. Ginny Ehrhart (R) introduced the Vulnerable Child Protection Act (HB 1060) in the Georgia House of Representatives. The legislation would ban health care professionals from performing transgender surgeries on a minor child – such as mastectomy, vaginoplasty, castration, penectomy, etc. – “for the purpose of attempting to affirm the minor’s perception of such minor’s sex, if that perception is inconsistent with such minor’s sex.” In addition, the bill would make illegal the administering of medications, such as...

A California man who died of the novel coronavirus brought it on board the Grand Princess cruise ship, officials said Saturday, suggesting the virus has been in the state much longer than originally believed. Dr. Grant Tarling, the cruise’s medical officer, said the man — who later died in Placer County after leaving the cruise — sought medical care on the ship Feb. 20 and had been sick for several days. Tarling said two waiters who served the man multiple times were subsequently infected.

US hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths from the outbreak, leaked documents have revealed. The spread of the deadly disease could be far worse than officials claim, with 480,000 Americans expected to die from the virus and 4.8 million hospitalized, according to a presentation hosted by The American Hospital Association (AHA) in February. This puts the crisis on a level more than 10 times greater than that seen in a severe flu season. The shock figures fly in the face of claims made by President Trump who has maintained on many occasions...

SNIPThe WHO is responsible for the World Health Report, the worldwide World Health Survey, and World Health Day. The current Director-General of the WHO is Tedros Adhanom, who started his five-year term on 1 July 2017 but as we have noticed there are many negative articles about him as well. And not only Tedros in spooky deals but also two of his friends Bill Gates and George Soros.Bill Gates and George Soros are pulling on the strings of WHOThe WHO (World Health Organization) deals with the health of the world. A noble goal, but the organization has been struggling for...

Democrat voters must determine if Joe Biden is “mentally fit” to serve as President of the United States given the former vice president’s frequently slurred speech and regular misstatements, assessed Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak in a Wednesday interview on 55KRC with host Brian Thomas. Biden’s Super Tuesday performance — winning 566 delegates relative to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 501 delegates — is not the result of a strengthening campaign but of a division among Democrat primary voter support between Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), determined Pollak.Pollak then highlighted questions of Biden’s cognition given the former vice president’s...

There is one obvious difference between Warren and Gabbard: Warren’s candidacy was welcomed and favored by the Democratic establishment, while Gabbard’s was continually subverted. Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — the last remaining woman in the Democrats’ presidential race — has been shut out of the party’s next debate with a rule change that makes it mathematically impossible for her to claim a podium. Under the party’s most recent set of debate rules, any candidate who had won at least one delegate in the party’s first 25 nomination contests had the right to take the stage. Gabbard, who gained two delegates...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held a massive rally in Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday, drawing thousands of supporters and telling them that President Trump is “moving this country into an autocracy.” ... Sanders told that crowd that, in order to defeat President Trump in November, Democrats will need the largest voter turnout in the history of America. “That turnout looks like Grand Park today,” he said. Sanders described the president, as he has in past stump speeches, as a “pathological liar” and accused him of “moving this country into an autocracy.” While Sanders told supporters that he and his opponent, Joe...