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We routinely differentiate between two kinds of military action: the inevitable carnage and collateral damage of diffuse hostilities, and the precision of a “surgical strike,” methodically targeted to the sources of our particular peril. The latter, when executed well, minimizes resources and unintended consequences alike. As we battle the coronavirus pandemic, and heads of state declare that we are “at war” with this contagion, the same dichotomy applies. This can be open war, with all the fallout that portends, or it could be something more surgical. The United States and much of the world so far have gone in for...

Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American and The Deplorables video

The Trump campaign released a timeline of actions on the Chinese coronavirus COVID-19 taken by President Trump and his administration since early January through March 18. The virus originated in late November in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province in China. The communist Chinese government covered-up and lied about the virus, slowing the world’s reaction and unleashing the pandemic. Critics of Trump have accused him of doing nothing or not enough to contain the virus in the early days of January and February. This timeline shows that to not be true, but it does not account for Trump’s overly optimistic...

Why is Urgent Care Hawaii lying to the people of Hawaii about coronavirus testing? This executive did NOT like me asking! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJlWrJ5JQNE  

Ever since the coronavirus became a household word and the American people started to worry about its tremendous impact, President Donald Trump and his task force have held daily media briefings. At these events, the president will usually make an announcement and then introduce members of his team who have important information to share with the American people. It is quite helpful to hear from these tireless public servants who are working day and night to save the lives of countless Americans. What is not helpful is the question and answer session from the media that follows the opening remarks....

THE VILLAGES - Up until a few days ago, residents of The Villages retirement community went about their busy lives filled with spirited happy hours and incessant socializing at what some dub “Disney World for adults.” There were the hundreds of clubs to attend - French lessons, Carolina shag dancing, light-saber fencing - pickleball tournaments to play and Pilates classes to take at this Republican stronghold built on former cow pastures in central Florida. Even as many Americans isolated themselves against the coronavirus threat, residents of one of the largest concentrations of seniors in the U.S. at first blew off...

CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 EPIDEMIC Home COVID-19 Coronavirus Epidemic March 22, 2020 Marseille, March 22, 2020 Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak In the current context of the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic on French territory and worldwide. In accordance with the Hippocratic Oath that we have taken, we obey our duty as a doctor. We provide our patients with the best care for the diagnosis and treatment of a disease. We respect the rules of the art and the most recently acquired data of medical science. We have decided : · For all febrile patients who come to consult us, to carry out...

President Trump announced Sunday his approval for Ford, General Motors and Tesla to produce desperately needed ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic. The president said in a tweet that the auto companies will be permitted to “make ventilators and other metal products, FAST!” “Go for it auto execs, lets see how good you are?” he posted, tagging incoming White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). President Trump signed the Defense Production Act last week which permits the administration to draft the American industry into manufacturing needed medical supplies...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has no intention of dropping out of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, and as the July convention draws closer, his decision to keep his campaign alive may mean chaos for the Democratic party. Five more states have suspended their Democratic primaries amid concerns about coronavirus, and it may soon be impossible for any candidate to win a majority of delegates. The New York Times reports that Indiana, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Maryland have now joined Ohio in postponing their presidential contests, leaving the future of the Democratic presidential nomination uncertain. Ohio, of...

Just thinking out loud, but I believe that it is statistically impossible to just stop this virus in its tracks, as China is claiming as there are no new cases being reported, unless China had the antidote all along. Either China is lying about its cases, or this is beginning to look like biological warfare, as Wuhan being the testing ground. The Spanish flu took almost 2 years to run its course, yet we are to believe that China has conquered this? Thoughts...

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[Editor's note: Lack of FDA approval does not prohibit off-label use of drugs for other threapeutic purposes, but would inhibit widespred use.] You are being lied to about the drugs that heal COVID19. America's FDA, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, are dragging their feet on approving a drug that provides very strong positive effect on COVID19. Fauci, speaking from the White House, said on the matter of approving Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin: "It's it's essentially what I said multiple times from this podium. Is that when you have, first of all, we're trying...

Ohio doctors are obtaining so many prescriptions of a possible coronavirus treatment for themselves, their families, their colleagues and their friends that it’s wiping out the supply for everybody else -- including victims of Lupus who will become more susceptible to the virus without their usual medication. As a result, Ohio’s pharmacy board, in an emergency meeting Sunday morning, barred pharmacists from dispensing chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 unless a person has tested positive for the virus or otherwise approved by the pharmacy board’s executive director. In order to get either of those drugs the patient’s positive test must be...

I’ve been noticing this morning and this weekend, that the News channels are giving Governor Cuomo more coverage than reasonable to his statements about Covid-19 and his actions and opinions about what should be done. They are pushing Cuomo as an alternative to Joe Biden for the Democratic Candidate President in a brokered Convention. Even Fox interrupts other interviewees to go back to Cuomo’s comments. This is ridiculous.

Like all Americans, President Trump can’t wait for the COVID-19 pandemic to be over. And while his administration struggles to get supplies and equipment out to hospitals facing critical shortages, he holds out hope that the disease, for which there is currently no proven treatment, can be eradicated with one stroke, by a medical coup. [SNIP] Trump has been touting the potential of hydroxychloroquine for several days, noting that it has already been approved by the FDA for treating malaria and rheumatoid arthritis. That means it has been tested for safety (although it can have side effects, some of them...

HAVANA - Communist-run Cuba said it dispatched a brigade of doctors and nurses to Italy for the first time this weekend to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus at the request of the worst-affected region Lombardy. The Caribbean island has sent its “armies of white robes” to disaster sites around the world largely in poor countries since its 1959 revolution. Its doctors were in the front lines in the fight against cholera in Haiti and against ebola in West Africa in the 2010s. “We are all afraid but we have a revolutionary duty to fulfill, so we take...

In 2010, the incomparable Charles Krauthammer expertly explained the absurdity behind the extensive security measures introduced at airports across the country, stating that “everyone knows that the entire apparatus of the security line is a national homage to political correctness.” Titled “Don’t Touch My Junk,” his piece described “the point at which a docile public declares that it will tolerate only so much idiocy.” “The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling — when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, uniquely definable...

The 2020 Dubai World Cup card, scheduled for March 28, was canceled on Sunday by Dubai government officials. A release from the government of Dubai media office announced what was translated into English as a postponement until next year, meaning there will be no 2020 World Cup. The United Emirates Racing season begins in the autumn and all but wraps up before the hottest months with the World Cup in late March. Iran sits just north of Dubai across the Strait of Hormuz and has close commercial ties to the United Arab Emirates. Iran became an early hotspot in the...

President Donald Trump touted a two-drug cocktail Saturday to battle the coronavirus. But the medicines together have been linked to cardiac arrhythmia and sudden death. Concerned physicians responded to Trump’s tweet crowing about what could be “one of the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine” with warnings about the serious side effects — and urgent pleas not to try to obtain the drugs without a medical prescription in consultation with a doctor. Hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil, and the antibiotic Azithromycin in combination have shown some early promise against COVID-19. But the drugs together have not been...