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Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast So the states are basically governing themselves because our president doesn’t know how to president at all?

Six Bay Area counties are expected to announce a “shelter in place” order for all residents on Monday, directing everyone to stay inside their homes and away from others as much as possible for the next three weeks as public health officials desperately try to curb the rapid spread of coronavirus across the region. County authorities were expected to announce the move at 1 p.m. and gave a draft of the order to media outlets to prepare. The Chronicle is reporting the story after a television station published the news early. The directive begins at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday and involves...

Universal Pictures, in a bold move to confront the coronavirus’ threat to the movie industry, is collapsing the theatrical window. In an extraordinary step, the studio on Monday said it will make its movies available in the home on the same day as their global theatrical releases, beginning with DreamWorks Animation’s “Trolls World Tour,” opening April 10 in the U.S. The company will also make movies that are currently in theatrical release available on-demand starting as early as Friday, starting with “The Invisible Man,” “The Hunt” and “Emma.” The movies will be available on a wide variety of on-demand services,...

Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats are fond of pointing fingers at others and accusing them of ignoring science. They resort to this canard whenever they are trying to avoid having to form a rational, fact-based argument around “climate change,” but they like to use it as a crutch against logic on other topics as well. But in Sunday night’s debate, when Biden once again demonized hydraulic fracturing – or “fracking” – and promised his administration would invoke a “no new fracking” policy should he actually stumble into the White House next January, it was Biden and no one else...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Monday called for the United States to take more drastic measures to address the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, including a national “shutdown” that would only exclude “absolutely essential work” and stipends to affected workers to assist them in paying their bills as the pandemic continues to unfold across the globe. “The time has come for extraordinary measures to combat the Chinese coronavirus. What seems extreme today will seem obvious tomorrow,” Cotton, an outspoken skeptic of the House’s relief package, said on Monday.

Leary of the coronavirus, some people are avoiding eating in Chinese restaurants. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has branded people who do this "racists." She, herself, doesn't eat in Chinese restaurants, but insisted "I'm not racist because only whites can be racist." "Actually, it would be cultural inappropriate for me, a person of Puerto Rican descent, to eat Chinese food," she maintained. "I only eat Puerto Rican food, as is appropriate for a person of my racial background." if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at... http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=394999.0

Note: the numbers change quickly. These figures are current as of March 15, 2020. Visit CDC.gov for the latest government information. 63% of U.S. deaths were in Washington State 29 of total 67 U.S. deaths occurred at the same Washington State nursing home Two more coronavirus deaths have been reported Sunday, associated with the same Washington State nursing home. A total of 67 U.S. coronavirus deaths were reported as of Sunday night, March 15. The numbers increase daily, but the profiles below provide a snapshot in time of the victims.

Alcohol-based disinfectants are also effective, but soap is a highly efficient way of killing the virus when it’s on your skin iruses can be active outside the body for hours, even days. Disinfectants, liquids, wipes, gels and creams containing alcohol are all useful at getting rid of them – but they are not quite as good as normal soap. With Italy in lockdown, fear over coronavirus is natural but we must not be alarmist Gaby Hinsliff Gaby Hinsliff Read more When I shared the information above using Twitter, it went viral. I think I have worked out why. Health authorities...

COVID-19 Monday 16th March French health minister, Olivier Véran, (neurologist) “The taking of anti-inflammatories (ibuprofen, cortisone) could be a factor in aggravating the infection. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) Aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, Advil, Motrin, Jean-Louis Montastruc, head of pharmacology at Toulouse hospital, “Anti-inflammatory drugs increase the risk of complications when there is a fever or infection.” Paracetamol, acetaminophen, Tylenol, reduces fever but NOT anti-inflammatory Live is going to change for a few months I don’t think you can catch this twice (1 year to lifetime) I don’t think you can catch this from animals In war you do whatever you...

... President Trump told a group of governors Monday morning that they should not wait for the federal government to fill the growing demand for respirators needed to help people diagnosed with coronavirus. “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times. “We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.” The suggestion surprised some of the governors, who have been scrambling to...

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A few years ago, during an open question and answer session on a college campus, a student accused me of hate speech. She referred to something I described in my lecture, when in 1998 I was in my kitchen confessing to my transgender friend Jill that I was starting to believe that the gospel was true, that Jesus is alive, and that we were all in trouble. This student approached the microphone and blurted: “That’s hate speech! When you described your transgender friend putting her hand over yours as you shared your new faith in your kitchen, you mocked her!...

6,500 deaths worldwide.

Nine hundred million years after the Big Bang, in the epoch of our universe's earliest galaxies, there was already a black hole 1 billion times the size of our sun. That black hole sucked in huge quantities of ionized gas, forming a galactic engine — known as a blazar — that blasted a superhot jet of bright matter into space. On Earth, we can still detect the light from that explosion more than 12 billion years later. Astronomers had previously discovered evidence of primeval supermassive black holes in slightly younger "radio-loud active galactic nuclei," or RL AGNs. RL AGNs are...

Raymie Redington, 75, has three children who have run the Iditarod, which is a pretty great track record. But his dog Bison, 8, definitely has him beat. Bison is one of Alaska’s most popular stud dogs, with litters of pups in at least 12 Iditarod mushers’ kennels, including those of three former champions. Several of his pups are running in this year’s race, Redington said. How did this dashingly handsome athlete — “all heart,” as Redington called him — become mushing’s most eligible bachelor? The answer is a combination of genes, timing, a sportwide trend toward traditionalism and a very...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is floating a plan to “get cash into the hands of affected workers and their families” due to national shutdowns of businesses in nearly every industry from the coronavirus outbreak. In a series of posts online and in a Fox News Channel interview, Cotton said American workers who are being forced to stay home from their jobs due to shutdowns in the midst of the coronavirus crisis need immediate relief in the form of cash payments. The monetary policy, known as Universal Basic Income (UBI), has made its way into the national spotlight over the last...

Chicago saw a homicide total lower than 500 in 2019, the first time under that threshold since 2015. The spike in violent crime that has plagued Chicago since 2016 has even more gravity when viewed in comparison with six decades of homicides in Chicago. Since 1957, the city has had homicide totals of 700, 27 of 63 years, and has been lower than 500 a third of the time, 20 of 62 years. To understand this long-term view, the Tribune asked two experts to give perspective as to what was behind Chicago crime decade by decade, and combed through news...

Democrats are diseased with projection, among other things. They accuse the Trump administration of fear mongering as well as inaction when history has shown their life costing inaction, and selective outrage. On top of these fears, many liberals still think that we need to find another planet because we're supposedly destroying this one.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, is holding up the House-passed coronavirus relief bill and preventing it from being delivered to the Senate for a vote. The House was expected to make technical corrections Monday to the bipartisan measure, passed by the House early Saturday, but Gohmert is insisting on reading them, a Democratic leadership aide confirmed to NBC News on Monday. The technical corrections package has not yet been finalized and the House wants to pass it by unanimous consent because the House is on recess this week. If one member stands in opposition, the House can’t send the...