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Compare and contrast. Current worldwide Wuhan Flu numbers. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ CDC seasonal flu data (US only). https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm The economic effects of this War of the Worlds is already ruinous. Hourly workers are told to stay home, furloughed, or laid off. Dem governors are shutting down bars and restaurants (Happy St Patty’s). What are those workers supposed to do? How many small businesses will not be able to reopen? The *party of the working man, my arse*. At some point, personal responsibility enters the equation. Certainly, if you’re in a high risk population, you belong at home. But, this is like trying...

NEW YORK - As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden’s moderate approach to governing often fails to excite his party’s most passionate voters. But on the debate stage, as the nation wrestled with the consequences of a frightening pandemic, Biden’s pragmatism broke through in ways that affirmed why he has become the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. The former vice president and senator, who has spent the last four decades as a Washington insider, faced off Sunday night against Sen. Bernie Sanders and his burn-it-down progressive politics in the first one-on-one debate of the Democratic Party’s 2020 primary season. It...

A man walked into the Lingerie Department of Macy's in New York City: He tells the saleslady, "I would like a Jewish bra for my wife, size 34 B." With a quizzical look the saleslady asked, "What kind of bra?" He repeated "A Jewish bra. She said to tell you that she wanted a Jewish bra, and that you would know what she wanted…." "Ah, now I remember," said the saleslady. "We don't get as many requests for them as we used to. Mostly our customers lately want the Catholic bra, or the Salvation Army bra, or the Presbyterian bra."...

Germany has become the latest country to close borders as European nations try to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Its borders with France, Austria and Switzerland were shut on Monday morning, except for commercial traffic. France is considering more stringent lockdowns, with its health chief saying the situation is "deteriorating fast". Leaders of the G7 nations are to hold a video conference on Monday to discuss a joint response to the coronavirus pandemic. The aim is to stem the spread of the virus but also to curtail cross-border panic-buying, German media reported. Only the borders with the Netherlands and...

More than 10,000 British soldiers, sailors and airmen could be put on standby in the coming weeks as the coronavirus crisis worsens. Officials have been drawing up plans for weeks and are now ready to submit proposals to the prime minister. The plans, codenamed Operation Broadshare according to army sources, were originally due a few weeks ago but have been delayed so they can be altered to reflect the rapid spread of the virus. Although Britain's armed forces are used to helping in times of national emergency, such as flooding or fuel strikes, never have they had to consider so...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday called on members of Congress to practice “social distancing” in response to the coronavirus outbreak. “As you know, at the direction of the Sergeant at Arms, the House and Senate have canceled Capitol tours for now. As the House continues our work to confront this public health emergency, we must ensure that we can continue to serve our constituents effectively,” Pelosi said in a Dear Colleague letter. “The health and safety of our staff is essential to this mission. In bipartisan consultation with the Attending Physician and the Sergeant at Arms, and out...

Hawaii Congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard issued another rebuke of the political elite and the corporate media on Sunday morning, claiming they were "trying to erase" her candidacy by preventing her from appearing in the upcoming debates. Gabbard--who is the only remaining candidate besides former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont to not suspend her campaign--has repeatedly criticized the Democratic establishment and the media throughout her presidential bid. After the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced the latest rules to qualify for the new debate, she argued that the criteria was intended to keep her...

I’m reposting this. I’ve watched the movie probably six times now. Better each time, You pick something up new with each viewing. There’s supposedly a directors cut version out. Has anybody seen it? Anybody else out there as nuts about this flick as me? Second time thru I noticed that there are long scenes with no cuts, like the one one with De Caprio AKA Rick Dalton and the little girl and Bruce Lee fight scene. Third time all the vintage cars. Hundreds of them. The music. Pacino is great. Brad Pitt plays the coolest cat of alll time, Cliff...

Just flipping through several fake news sources in West Palm, Miami media. Snide remarks and comments about the President and his team.v Sick of it.

European journalist David Carretta posted a grim video Saturday morning that's getting a lot of attention on Twitter. It shows the stark comparison between obituary pages in an Italian newspaper on Feb. 9 versus March 13. As Carretta's contrast depicts, the daily paper L'Eco di Bergamo had a page and a half of obituaries on Feb. 9, 2020. On March 13, the obituary section took up 10 pages.

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While starting a debate focused on the coronavirus by coughing wasn’t the best move by former Vice President Joe Biden, he employed the right strategy in his first one-on-one matchup against Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday night, making it about solutions versus a revolution. Biden addressed the coronavirus crisis and every topic discussed with real answers to the existing challenges we face today. In contrast, Sanders missed the mark by relying on his stump speech about a revolution to change health care and other important aspects of American society. With a very strong performance, Biden was the clear winner of...

A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for a stabbing rampage in 2016 which resulted in the death of 19 disabled people at a care home. Satoshi Uematsu said people with disabilities who were unable to communicate well had no human rights, said broadcaster Kyodo. The 30-year old had once worked in the care facility, located near Tokyo. The case is one of Japan's worst mass killings and has shocked people in a country where violent crime is rare. In an earlier interview with Japan's Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, Uematsu had said there was "no point in living" for people...

“The situation in Italy and Spain is catastrophic, and other countries, including the US, are on the way to finding themselves in a similar crisis. At this stage there is no more room for hesitation. Control of the situation must be urgently transferred to the Defense Ministry and people should be ordered to stay at home, in order to curb the spread of the virus.

Pricewatch: There are several reasons for the apparent rip-off but the main one is tax about 8 hours ago A man called John contacted us to see if we could “challenge the consumer rip-off at the pumps”. Clearly annoyed, he pointed out that crude oil wholesale prices had declined dramatically in recent days as a result of the spread of coronavirus and a dispute between Saudi Arabia and Russia. The price of a barrel of oil had fallen over 30 per cent from $68 to $45 while the euro had strengthened versus the US dollar. “Yet the price of...

hai villagers scouring a dark cave for bat guano, sought after by farmers as a nutrient-rich crop fertilizer, are undaunted by scientists’ suggestion that it could be behind a coronavirus that has infected more than 150,000 people worldwide.

An American Airlines passenger delayed a flight to Nashville for over eight hours by joking about having the coronavirus, according to a report. The flight was set to depart 6:30 p.m. Saturday from Dallas, but takeoff was hampered by a man, who first refused to lift his tray table then claimed he had the deadly virus, news station WKRN reported. “People were freaked out because nobody knew what was going on,” another passenger Brandon Kenney told WKRN. “People didn’t know if he was actually sick or if he really didn’t have coronavirus or not.”

Plumpy-Nut is an emergency peanut butter confection that quickly reverses starvation, in a Meals Ready to Eat format. What do you as a family member or other medical layperson, need to stabilize an elder or immune compromised home care patient, when medical care systems become paralyzed? Is there a recipe for an indigestible equivalent of IV saline solution? We'd wish to ask Dr. Robert Cade, the inventor of Gatorade, but he died in 2007.

On March 15, Mayor Garcetti put in place temporary restrictions to stop large numbers of people from gathering and staying in close proximity. These new restrictions will be effective through March 31, 2020, unless they are extended. These include the temporary closure to the public, within the City of Los Angeles, of the following: All bars and nightclubs that do not serve food; All movie theaters, live performance venues, bowling alleys, and arcades; All gyms and fitness centers; All private social clubs; In addition, all restaurants and retail food facilities will be prohibited from serving food to dine-in customers. There...

When plotted on a logarithmic graph, the graph of the number of cases of an epidemic usually reaches a certain angle, and then eventually begins to flatten out. That brings a HUGE sigh of relief to those in charge of managing an outbreak, and begins when the PERCENT increase in the number of cases declines. You'll very likely continue to have more and more new cases for a while, and you'll certainly have more and more total cases. So, the $100 trillion question is: Is the curve flattening? Through March 8, the number of coronavirus cases in the United States...