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Domino’s Pizza expects to hire about 10,000 workers nationwide in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The company is looking for delivery drivers, pizza makers, customer service representatives, managers and licensed truck drivers for its supply chain centers. The need will vary based on individual stores. “Our corporate and franchise stores want to make sure they’re not only feeding people, but also providing opportunity to those looking for work at this time, especially those in the heavily-impacted restaurant industry,” CEO Ritch Allison said in a statement. Analysts have pointed to Domino’s as one of the best positioned restaurant companies because it...

Novel coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent had China responded to the outbreak just three weeks earlier than it did, a March 13 study by the University of Southampton has found. Researchers at the English university, using mapping technology to compile data on human movement and illness onset, found that China's non-pharmaceutical response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country was three weeks too slow. If the response "could have been conducted one week, two weeks, or three weeks earlier, cases could have been reduced by 66 percent, 86 percent and 95 percent respectively," a university news...

A visitor to a campground in Australia captured video of a different type of toilet paper shortage -- a kangaroo raiding rolls from the restroom. The filmer said they have been traveling the country in a camper with their family for the year, and they were stopped this week at the Wilpena Pound campground in South Australia. The video shows a kangaroo inside the campground's restroom eating toilet paper from a bathroom stall.

If— By Rudyard Kipling (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies) If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can...

In 2009, CNN casually covered the Swine flu pandemic under Obama. In 2020, CNN started lambasting Trump in its coronavirus coverage. In 2009, at the height of the H1N1 pandemic commonly referred to as “swine flu,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) suggested Americans should shut down schools, begin working from home, and quarantine themselves. Americans made minimal changes to their routines. Eleven years later, a new pandemic arose with similar CDC suggestions, but an entirely different reaction.Americans are stockpiling toilet paper and many are taking extreme precautions to self-quarantine in these so-called unprecedented times. In the new...

A “freaked out” Georgia woman with coronavirus has a simple message for anyone considering venturing outside: Just don’t go. Arianne Fielder, 34, started isolating herself inside her Marietta apartment on Wednesday after being exposed to COVID-19 during a visit to her oncologist’s office for cervical cancer treatment last week, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. A nurse later called Fielder and told her that “coronavirus was in the pharmacy” at her doctor’s office at WellStar Kennestone Hospital. Two tests then confirmed the virus had infected Fielder, one of 121 Georgians who have been diagnosed as of Tuesday, according to a Johns Hopkins...

The tragic 20-year-old soccer coach who is one of the youngest known coronavirus victims had been sent home twice while seeking help — told by his doctor that there was “no need to worry,” according to his family. Spanish youth coach Francisco Garcia — who would have turned 21 in October — initially thought he had a common cold when he fell ill on March 6, his stepfather, Juan Fernandez, told the Sun. “He had a sore throat but he didn’t have a temperature,” Fernandez said, with his stepson seeing his doctor in Malaga three days later.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved hydroxychloroquine—a drug used to treat malaria, rheumatic diseases and other conditions—for COVID-19. As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, scientists are scrambling to identify treatments that may be effective against the disease. Hydroxychloroquine—a common derivative of chloroquine—is among those touted as most promising by some experts. "The nice part is, it's been around for a long time, so we know that if things don't go as planned its not going to kill anybody," Trump told reporters at a press conference. "When you go with a...

Cribbage... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttkfRm5pZr4 Acey Duecy(Nautical Backgammon)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMryHQDNvuw

This would be a great time to read (or re-read) Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's masterpiece. Except Henry Rearden is the President, and Pelosi represents the corrupt Deep State slimy politicians.Just finished rereading Atlas Shrugged, and the book is still amazing. Put Biden in as President, and Democrats in control of Congress, and it's a bull's eye. (p) Lucky for us Hank Reardon is our President.

Jeremy Lin rips Trump for ‘empowering’ racism with talk of ‘Chinese Virus’ President Trump said Wednesday that his use of the term “Chinese Virus” was “not racist at all.” Among those who might strongly take issue with that assertion would be Jeremy Lin, given his criticism of the president on Tuesday. Lin, a California native of Taiwanese descent who last year became the first Asian American player to help a team win an NBA title as a member of the Toronto Raptors, posted several tweets accusing Trump of “empowering” racism by using the term and saying the president was contributing...

Nearly every day for three weeks, Dr. Deborah Birx has stood next to next to Vice President Mike Pence as part of the White House's efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 100 Americans. Though her name may have been largely unknown to most Americans before the COVID-19 outbreak, she's been working to fight the spread of communicable diseases on behalf of the U.S. government for well over three decades. Birx, 63, a Pennsylvania native, brings a long military career and medical background in immunology to her new role. In addition to being the White House...

Img src=https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Ron-Burgundy-998x716.png> the mainstream media’s ranks are populated by biased hacks who don’t care half as much about reporting accurately on the Wuhan coronavirus as they care about making Trump seem like a racist. Yesterday, amid the ongoing economic and social disruptions caused by the coronavirus, rising numbers of infections and deaths globally, and widespread closures of schools and other extreme measures imposed across the country, the mainstream media decided we should have a national debate about whether it’s racist for President Trump to call it the “Chinese virus.”In what can only be described as a moment of unconscious self-parody,...

Breaking: Italy on Thursday hit a grim milestone, surpassing China for the largest number of coronavirus-related deaths, at 3,405. The novel coronavirus continued to spread globally, with Italy announcing a record number of deaths Wednesday and Spain reporting a similarly alarming death-toll spike Thursday. New numbers out of Iran are also grim. But news from China on Thursday may offer a glimmer of hope: The country reported no new locally transmitted cases the previous day for the first time since the outbreak began late last year. Here are some significant developments: India barred incoming commercial flights for a week, and...

New York (CNN Business)A dozen years after the infamous Wall Street bailout, Uncle Sam is once again preparing to rescue large chunks of Corporate America from the coronavirus. Everyone from Boeing (BA) and General Electric (GE) to the battered airline industry could receive federal assistance designed to limit the economic fallout from the pandemic. There's even talk of bailing out the oil industry. But as many bankers learned firsthand in 2008, bailouts from Washington typically come with strings attached. In exchange for their support, politicians demand restrictions that make the rescues more politically palatable. And Senator Elizabeth Warren already has...

Dozens of military vehicles have been pictured carrying coronavirus victims across Italy – with morgues too full to hold corpses. The trucks were pictured driving through the city of Bergamo in the country’s Lombardy region, one of the worst-hit by the virus. Jean Pierre Ramponi, the medical director of the Chiari hospital in Brescia – also in Lombardy – said: “We prepared ourselves psychologically by seeing the images of China, but it was unthinkable to imagine such devastation. "Now out of 450 beds, 220 are occupied by people who contracted COVID-19. “The situation with us, on the outskirts of Brescia,...

Many people in modern America have been taught to look down their noses at Christian conservatives. I don't go to church, but some of the finest people I've ever known do, including the one described below. Once a year, my health care insurer sends a nurse to check on its Medicare-age customers. I signed up for the "NurseCalls" program four years ago and was so impressed with the 38-year-old nurse who came to see me that I request her every year. During her visit for 2019, I informed her that I had to stop driving because of my vision. She...

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Students at Princeton University are calling on their college to implement a universal Pass/D/Fail grading system for all spring 2020 classes. This comes after widespread student support for a mandate to “reevaluate the weight of Princeton U midterms.” The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board is leading the charge. On Saturday, the board published an editorial calling on the university to consider the P/D/F grading mandate.

Usually, media reports and releases point to pneumonia and flu-like symptoms as the first signs of being infected with the coronavirus. However, a new study reports that, for some people, the initial symptom of the virus might be digestive symptoms such as diarrhea. ... Published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, the new study suggests that while respiratory symptoms are the ones most observed as the primary signs of the coronavirus, other people might experience digestive issuesI, such as diarrhea. The study reportedly looked at data from 204 patients with COVID-19 in China’s Hubei province, where they were able to...