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Just call her Blunder Woman. Gal Gadot’s attempt to cheer up coronavirus isolationists with a celeb-studded cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine” backfired after Twitter users wondered why they couldn’t send money instead. “We’re all in this together,” says the “Wonder Woman” star, 34, at the start of the viral video posted Wednesday to her 38.6-million-fan Instagram page. The 3-minute clip then cuts to a montage of Gadot, Mark Ruffalo, Will Ferrell and other Hollywood elites singing different lyrics to the late Beatle star’s opus, which envisions a world without strife. “Imagine there’s no heaven,” croons Gadot, seemingly wearing little or...

The Chinese Coronavirus is bringing out a particularly ugly side to The Radical Left. They're losing the war of their primary narrative of Orange Man Bad, and don't care what the consequences of their actions are. I could easily go on for a few thousand words of how they're irresponsibly whipping up hysteria among their gullible followers (and I'm not suggesting not taking precautions, just to not panic), how they've become the useful idiots for the Communists that rule the Chinese people, nor the stupidity and hypocrisy of suggesting that referring to the virus by the geographic area from which...

[Transcription] So it seems that President Xi Jinping of China knew about the Wuhan coronavirus weeks before he did anything about it. Maybe he was busy with more important things than human life. Maybe he had a crossword to finish. Who knows? Let's not rush to judgement. As most people know by now the Chinese Communist Party has infected the world with a deadly virus, the Wuhan coronavirus, which has killed thousands of people and caused unprecedented worldwide panic and lockdown that will likely devastate the global economy. It's important to call this the Wuhan virus, or the Chinese virus...

In a White House briefing on COVID-19 in which the president affirmed he is on a "war footing" against an "invisible enemy" and in which the nation received updates on the government's overwhelming response, one question kept coming up from the White House press corps.Was it a question whose answer would unlock a flood of relief from the American public now hunkered down in their homes for the next 15 days? Was it about the promising vaccine being test in Seattle? No. So what was the question?"Why do you keep calling this a Chinese virus?"One of the reporters, ABC...

A former leader of a Santa Cruz-level transnational street gang pleaded guilty to federal murder, extortion and other charges this week. Alexander “Pocar” Martinez-Flores was among a dozen men arrested during February 2017 Homeland Security raids around Santa Cruz County and in nearby Daly City. The arrests began as a Santa Cruz Police Department gang investigation in 2011.

Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland’s School of Medicine..."We have 350 million people in the United States, and you do the math," she said on CNBC’s Squawk Box. If 70 million people are eventually infected with this virus and again if there are multiple waves of this virus, then you can do the math and then you can get there."

A plan developed by the federal government to combat the coronavirus reportedly projects the pandemic will last 18 months or more and could feature multiple "waves," The New York Times reported. "Shortages of products may occur, impacting health care, emergency services, and other elements of critical infrastructure," the plan warns, according to the Times. "This includes potentially critical shortages of diagnostics, medical supplies (including PPE [personal protective equipment] and pharmaceuticals), and staffing in some locations." https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488156-us-plan-warned-coronavirus-pandemic-would-last-18-months-report?amp

Is there anyone out there who didn’t expect cable pundits to turn the coronavirus outbreak into a “Trump ruins everything” story? For the last few weeks, CNN and MSNBC’s talking heads have taken cheap political shots at the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic, with their characterization of the situation ranging from “dangerous” to “the worst” government response, “ever.” As told by TV journalists, the story of the 2020 Wuhan coronavirus epidemic is that of a bumbling administration whose gross (and perhaps criminal) incompetence endangered countless American lives. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell offered a particularly revolting version of this argument during...

We’ve been inundated, and understandably so, with advice and admonitions as our nation and world struggle to understand, and simultaneously combat, the COVID-19 coronavirus. It is a challenge just to keep up with the news, and the real-time analysis of it, as we roll with the gut punches of our temporary new normal. Trying to wisely determine what we should do, or what we shouldn’t do, is a herculean task. Is it as bad as Media Outlet A says it is? Does media Outlet B have valid reason for its hope that the U.S. won’t face a crisis on par...

Two leading cybercriminal groups have said they will stop targeting healthcare organizations as the coronavirus outbreak spreads, according to Forbes. BleepingComputer founder Lawrence Abrams reached out to various cybercrime groups, asking them if they will continue to target health and medical organizations during the pandemic. One ransomware-focused group DoppelPaymer said that they “always try to avoid hospitals, nursing homes,” reports Forbes. When they conduct attacks on government, they “do not touch 911.” However, at times emergency communications are encrypted due to network misconfigurations. DoppelPaymer said that if a medical or healthcare organization does get encrypted in a cyberattack by mistake...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Clarence Thomas. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Clarence Thomas is currently the most senior associate and the longest serving member of the US Supreme Court. His appointment by George H.W. Bush is probably one of the only choices he made that superceded that of his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, whose two selections (O'Conner and Kennedy) ended up with a tepid or outright anti-constitutionalist agenda. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent...

I’ll start by reminding everyone that I’m not a doctor and have no professional experience in the field of medicine. With that out of the way, I’ll confess that I’ve always been under the impression that diseases caused by a virus can’t be “cured” the way we are able to treat bacterial infections. The most you can generally do is develop a vaccine and try to prevent people from getting sick in the first place.But maybe that isn’t always true. Doctors in Japan have reportedly used a drug developed to treat the flu to eliminate the coronavirus in patients...

For most of us, the amount of change and information we have absorbed in the past few weeks is overwhelming. As humans, when we are overwhelmed, we are scared; when we are scared, we panic; and when we panic, we tend to make bad decisions. Our first goal should be to slow down and just breathe -- even if it's only for a few seconds. Then slow down again and breathe again -- more slowly and deeply, belly breaths. Try this for at least three breaths, the lower in your belly, the better for your body -- the goal is...

Good news? It’s great news — if we can trust the source. The city of Wuhan, ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic, reported late yesterday that they have found no new cases in the city through community spread. That gives some hope that the arc of spread has its limits, and that intervention can make a difference.That is, if one relies on China’s honesty and transparency in the COVID-19 crisis they amplified through deceit and cover-ups: By the way, not all of the news this morning is good. By the time readers see this, Italy’s death toll will pass...

Yesterday, Donald Trump signed the Defense Production Act as a back-up measure, in case of a breakdown in production of critical supplies. “”Hopefully there will be no need,” Trump later tweeted, “but we are all in this TOGETHER!” The measure is in place only for “a worst case scenario in the future.”This morning, Nancy Pelosi and fifty-six other House Democrats said that the worst case scenario is already upon us. In a statement released to the media this morning, Pelosi demanded that Trump take control over domestic production to address shortages in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic:...

Over the last few weeks, the United States has been grappling with the challenges of the global coronavirus pandemic. But the devastating effects have only just begun to surface for the average citizen. While COVID-19 is a very real and dire threat to the health and lives of the elderly and our most vulnerable, its unprecedented impact on the wider economy places us all at risk. The American way of life as we know it could be forever changed unless critical action is taken immediately. Although the U.S. economy has been performing at record highs over the last several...

Much is being made of the fact that Italy – an advanced European nation – has become the hot zone of coronavirus impact. The implication is that if a First World country with the equivalent of “Medicare for All” could succumb to the pandemic, it should be really serious for the USA. Right? Wrong! Despite all of the coverage and hype about Italy and COVID-19, some important information about the epidemiology or cause of the virus’s impact on Italy is being overlooked or ignored by the mainstream media. As the Times of India reported on March 19: If there is...

Tlaib’s retweet drew public outrage, including a letter from the Catholic League urging the House Ethics Committee to reprimand the congresswoman. In response, Rep. Tlaib posted a tweet denying that she had intended to attack prayer: . . . "My retweet was not to be an attack on prayer. It was to bring attention to the need for meaningful action to combat this public health crisis"

Talk about tone deaf. CBS This Morning on Thursday attempted to report the upside to a global pandemic that is killing thousands. Correspondent Vladimir Duthiers, reporting from his home because of the virus, cheered, “Let's talk to you about Italy. Obviously that country, its people have been devastated by the coronavirus. But there is a little bit of a silver lining in some of its historic cities. This is Venice.... You can never see the waters because they're so murky from all the boats.” He continued, “Now you can see the crystal-clear waters of the Venice canals. You can see...

BEIJING—According to sources with the Communist Party of China, party members are deeply humbled and incredibly grateful to the American media for running defense for them without even charging for it. In a speech Wednesday, President Xi Jinpig expressed his bewilderment that the American media will simply repeat his talking points and won't even charge him a dime. "You mean we don't even have to pay for this kind of positive press coverage? Amazing!" said President Xi Jinpig. "Here in China, we threaten the journalists' families, break their kneecaps, throw them into prison, or just pay them off for great...