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I was a big fan of Candidate Gabbard. She serves. She surfs. She is a good looking woman. (Do FReeepers find this offensive?) She stood up strong against unnecessary war like my political heroes Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan not to mention Ike, Reagan and Potus 45. She did not vote to impeach. She was a great guest on Tucker Carlson. What's not to like? (Her loyalty to Sanders must be admired as human loyalty but to his economics. I cant defend that.)

The nation’s second-largest municipal health system has told its staff that it is essentially abandoning hope of containing the coronavirus outbreak and instructed doctors not to bother testing symptomatic patients if a positive result won’t change how they would be treated. The guidance, sent by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services to its doctors on Thursday, was prompted by a crush of patients and shortage of tests, and could make it difficult to ever know precisely how many people in L.A. County contracted the virus. The department “is shifting from a strategy of case containment to slowing disease...

People in Gulf country consumed moonshine after rumors it eliminates coronavirus The death toll from consumption of toxic alcohol in Iran rose by 65 on Thursday, bringing the total to 180 in nearly two weeks, local media reported. The development comes amid rising coronavirus cases and deaths in the Gulf country. So far more than 17,000 people have been infected by the virus that emerged in China last year, according to latest figures by John Hopkins University's Coronavirus Research Center. It has killed some 1,135 people in Iran alone. Of these, at least 147 died in the last 24 hours,...

You knew it was coming. The only question was how frivolous and besides-the-point it would be. Vice has answered with an article on how the Wuhan virus is inconveniencing “transgender and gender non-conforming people.” Specifically, Vice related that “trans communities on Reddit and Twitter are being flooded with reports of postponed and canceled surgeries in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Thailand, and elsewhere, leading to enormous stress and disappointment on top of a global health crisis.” Um, huh? Nearly all international travel has ceased, entire cities are on lockdown, wealth and jobs are evaporating at a staggering rate, and in Italy...

While gargling saline solution is effective against sore throats- a symptom of SARS-Cov2- it does not cure the infection! A Facebook post suggests that drinking lots of water and gargling with warm water and salt or vinegar eliminates the coronavirus. The claim has not been corroborated by any health institution. The WHO says there is currently no specific treatment, drug or vaccine for the Covid-19, although some home remedies may provide comfort and alleviate symptoms. A viral Facebook post proffers yet another remedy for the new coronavirus, COVID-19. How? Simply drink lots of and gargle with warm water and salt...

Society is on lock-down and on the brink of being under martial law, and citizens are beginning to panic over scarcity as grocery store shelves remain empty. Meanwhile, the sheriff in town is releasing criminals and reducing arrests, all while telling citizens not to do anything to protect themselves. If this sounds like the plot of a “Joker” reboot, you’ll be shocked to learn that it’s literally the strategy of Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

On Wednesday, the Louisiana Department of Health issued guidelines directing that all elective surgeries be postponed for a period of 30 days, unless the physician believes the delay would endanger the safety of the patient. U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has also strongly encouraged physicians to consider cancelling outpatient elective surgeries. However, all three Louisiana outpatient abortion facilities have been open this week. The following is their status as of today (Friday, March 20): – The Shreveport abortion facility, June Medical Services (doing business as Hope Medical Group for Women) is open with a crowded parking lot. Officials have stated...

Americans are starting to lose their jobs in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and economists expect it's only going to get worse from here. And quickly, too. Early Thursday, a government report showed 281,000 Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits last week. It was a sudden 33% jump over the week before and the biggest percentage increase since 1992. But next week's report is likely to be far worse, according to Goldman Sachs economists. They predict the report will show 2.25 million Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits this week — eight times the...

Abortions continue in Ohio despite orders requiring that all non-essential and elective surgeries be stopped to address the coronavirus. According to Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati, abortion facilities are ignoring Ohio Health Director Amy Acton’s mandate, which went into effect Wednesday. People called each abortion facility Thursday and confirmed that they still are aborting unborn babies, according to the organization. “Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio is breaking the law by continuing to schedule and perform abortions, thereby risking the health and lives of countless individuals. This is the real crisis, and they must be shut down immediately,” said Meg...

San Francisco used to be a beautiful place to visit or even live. Democrats have run the state into a shit hole status! Fentanyl and Heroin abuse, the numbers are frightening, but let’s worry about illegal immigrants. While our mainstream media is focused on how President Trump is handling the “China” virus, Pelosi’s San Francisco is going down. The streets of San Francisco look like a scene from a zombie movie. People around the city are looting the stores amid the Coronavirus threat. Video below: https://twitter.com/Pismo_B/status/1240779254998028288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1240779254998028288&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fanarchy-in-pelosis-san-francisco-people-are-looting-the-stores-all-over-the-city%2F In San Francisco, this isn’t anything new but with all this hysteria around the...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The ABC7 News I-Team has confirmed that a majority of passengers from the Grand Princess who are quarantined at Travis Air Force base are refusing to be tested for coronavirus. Their release is just days away. After 21 passengers and crew aboard the Grand Princess tested positive for coronavirus, the rest of the passengers were quarantined off the coast of San Francisco for five days, then went into quarantine at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield for 14-day; it ends next week. But, the Grand Princess passengers are ready to go home and that's one big reason...

A Louisiana pastor refused to close his church this week in the midst of the coronavirus scare because Planned Parenthood is still allowed to be open to kill unborn babies. All across the country, schools, businesses, nonprofits and non-essential medical facilities are closing and canceling appointments to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, conserve medical resources and save lives. Notably, abortion facilities have been allowed to remain open even though their life-destroying “service” is completely elective and they make money killing unborn babies. It does not make sense to Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church, near Baton Rouge. The...

A non-peer reviewed study, funded by grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and published this week, found that China could have prevented 95 percent of coronavirus infections if its measures to contain the outbreak had begun sooner. The research from the University of Southampton suggests that Chinese officials should have listened to the coronavirus whistleblower, Dr. Li Wenliang, when he tried to sound the alarm on December 30.

Nigerian authorities Saturday shut down a Chinese restaurant in Lagos over its alleged discriminatory policy against Nigerian citizens. The restaurant, identified as Haufei, is located at 33 Aboyade Cole, Victoria Island. The facility also houses a supermarket also owned and operated by the Chinese nationals. The restaurant owners, it is alleged, do not sell food and drinks to Nigerians. Nigerians are said not to have been allowed to buy from the supermarket as well. The operatives of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) shut down the restaurant and the supermarket after secretly collating evidence of their alleged discriminatory...

All non-essential businesses and travel have been shut down in California by Gov. Gavin Newsom to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Yet, Planned Parenthood is making it widely known that its facilities remain open throughout the state to continue killing unborn babies in elective abortions. According to National Review, Planned Parenthood operates seven affiliates in California and about 100 facilities total, and all appear to be open at this time, despite the governor’s order. Planned Parenthood Los Angeles is “continuing to serve patients’ reproductive health care needs at this difficult time,” the abortion chain wrote on Twitter this week....

Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses in Pennsylvania are still open and still doing abortions – despite new regulations prohibiting elective procedures. On Thursday, March 19, the Governor ordered all ambulatory surgical facilities to prohibit any elective procedures as part of his new executive government mandate on closures due to the COVID-19 mitigation plan. “I called Planned Parenthood today and was told that they are still performing elective abortions – both chemical and surgical – despite the COVID-19 crisis,” said Emily Kreps with the PA Family Institute. “It’s business as usual for the largest abortion provider in the state despite...

Things got bumpy aboard an American Airlines flight this week as two female passengers exchanged blows after one of the women used a racial slur to refer to a Black flight crew member. It’s unclear what sparked the altercation, but the video begins just as a Black woman passenger excoriates her white seatmate for using the N-word. A clip of the incident was posted Sunday by Facebook user Dre Justice and has since racked up more than 10,000 views online. “You’re gonna sit here and call him a ‘(expletive) (slur)’ while you’re sitting beside an African-American woman?” the passenger asks...

The co-director of Stanford University’s Meta-Research Innovation Center, John P.A. Ioannidis, wrote in an opinion piece this week a warning to Americans that participating in voluntary shutdowns and allowing the government to set curfews and manipulate the free market before dependable data collected could be a mistake. The professor of medicine, population health, statistics, biomedical data science, and epidemiology described the the current collection of data as “utterly unreliable” due to the inability to test everyone who had potentially been infected. Ioannidis said that coronavirus may be a “once-in-a-century evidence fiasco”.

New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal issued a “guidance” on Thursday telling employers that they may be guilty of illegal discrimination if they allow workers to call the COVID-19 coronavirus “the Chinese virus.”

In a bid to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the Government has made a call to everyone to observe social distancing. For many Singaporeans, that means complying with new measures which include queuing an arm's length away from each other, sitting further apart while dining or watching a movie. Even ministers sat a metre apart at press conferences to set an example. Perhaps the most interesting measure of all was the one spotted by Redditor twanniewan yesterday (March 19). A curious sign was placed in one of Maybank Tower's lifts, informing its occupants to face away from one another while...