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Many people have sought to compare coronavirus to seasonal flu, but without the hard stats. In fact, the statistics are a moving target. For one, people can get flu year round, but peak flu season is over, according to CDC. Coronavirus has not yet peaked in the U.S., says CDC. Since coronavirus is an unknown entity, its numbers could theoretically overtake those of flu. Also, coronavirus is likely far more prevalent than implied by official case counts based on positive tests, since many people are not getting tested for coronavirus. Scientists say there are many similarities between flu and coronavirus...

A Carlisle man is facing charges after police say he deliberately coughed near a senior citizen who was wearing a medical face mask in a Cumberland County grocery store on Friday. According to the North Middleton Township Police Department, Daniel Tabussi, 57, is now facing charges of terroristic threats, simple assault by physical menace, disorderly conduct and harassment. Police say the incident occurred Friday at the Karns grocery store on the 1700 block of Spring Road. An elderly man, recovering from pneumonia and wearing gloves and a face mask due to the increased coronavirus risk to older people, was shopping...

The city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China was, as I’m sure everyone knows by now, ground zero for the coronavirus pandemic. It was the site of the now-infamous “wet markets” where bats and other exotic animals were sold as fancy food products and was very likely the spot where the virus initially made the jump from animals to humans. It was also where the original, massive cluster of original deaths from the COVID-19 took place.But now, with there having allegedly been no new deaths in the past week (assuming you can believe anything that the...

Yuanyuan Zhu was walking to her gym in San Francisco on March 9, thinking the workout could be her last for a while, when she noticed that a man was shouting at her. He was yelling an expletive about China. Then a bus passed, she recalled, and he screamed after it, “Run them over.” She tried to keep her distance, but when the light changed, she was stuck waiting with him at the crosswalk. She could feel him staring at her. And then, suddenly, she felt it: his saliva hitting her face and her favorite sweater. In shock, Ms. Zhu,...

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Allahpundit talked about Pelosi’s real motivations for shooting down the relief package and having Democrats come up with one of their own last night. If you hadn’t already come to the same conclusion yourself, it will seem immediately obvious when you read it. This is the old rule about never letting a perfectly good crisis go to waste. And when you know that virtually the entire mainstream media will provide cover for you, what have you got to lose?But at least the Speaker is attempting to be a little bit low key about it. Others have been blunter. The...

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that he wishes the media would "stop pitting" his advisements about the coronavirus against those of President Trump, encouraging people to "look ahead at the challenge we have together." During an interview with Fauci — a leader on the White House Coronavirus Task Force — the host of the Morning on The Mall Podcast, Vince Coglianese, asked if the doctor thinks the media is attempting to emphasize differences of opinions between himself and President Trump. "That is really unfortunate — I would wish that would stop because...

If these reports turn out to be accurate, they do not bode well for a strategy of getting back to normal in the near term. According to multiple media reports, Singapore and Hong Kong have had to reimpose lockdown policies due to a second spike in coronavirus cases. Both have had an influx of returning residents that might have re-seeded the COVID-19 virus back into the populations, but until the mechanism for these second waves are known, social distancing and closed borders are apparently back in effect.Sky News broke the story on Singapore earlier, and the semi-official China state...

Italian virologist says open borders & fears over “racism” crippled Italy’s response to coronavirus. Professor of Virology and Microbiology at the University of Padova Dr. Giorgio Pal told CNN that measures imposing travel restrictions and border controls were taken too late due to fears over political correctness. “There was a proposal to isolate people coming from the epicenter, coming from China,” Pal told CNN. “Then it became seen as racist, but they were people coming from the outbreak.” Italy is now the hardest-hit country in the world in terms of coronavirus deaths, with 63,927 confirmed cases and 6,077 people losing...

"By March 23 many of our largest cities & hospitals are on course to be overrun with cases."

Very soon after the coronavirus hit America, reports emerged that chloroquine, an older malaria drug, and its analogue, hydroxychloroquine, were helpful against the virus, especially when used in conjunction with azithromycin, an antibiotic.  Trump expressed a strong hope that these drugs would effectively treat those with serious coronavirus cases. The media reflexively struck back.  They first accused Trump of lying about the drugs' potential value.  Now that it's become clear that Trump was accurate, the media have a new tactic, which is to present chloroquine as a deadly drug that will kill more than it cures.  For the media, it's never about the actual...

Almost everyone acknowledges that the homeless population is at great risk of coronavirus, but so far as I have been able to determine, nobody is telling us the percentage of the hospitalized cases and the deaths are accounted for by that same population — nationally or in specific locales.  California's Governor Gavin Newsom authorized funding for housing homeless in trailers and hotel rooms, but so far, few of them have taken advantage of the offer. I know we are supposed to have nothing but compassion for the homeless, and my heart breaks for those of them who are not drug-addicted and irresponsible.  But the evidence...

Walls have been the norm for settlements since the earliest Neolithic days. Farmers have things, such as food and valuable implements. Other people want those things and are sometimes inclined to take them. Walls provide security so that people can live with some degree of peace. Throughout history, everywhere towns and cities, and even nations, have built walls to keep out the riff-raff. Why? Well, walls work! Walls come in many sizes and materials: stone, steel, bricks and wood. They come in many sizes, from protecting a small settlement to protecting an entire territory. Hadrian’s Wall, Offa’s Dyke and the...

U.S. equity markets surged Tuesday morning amid investor optimism that members of Congress will overcome their differences to reach a deal on a $1.6 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,079 points, or 5.8 percent, in the opening minutes of trading, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite gained 5.3 percent and 5.1 percent, respectively. The early gains came after the major averages plunged Monday despite the Federal Reserve announcing it would buy unlimited amounts of assets to support the economy. Monday’s 3 percent drop left the Dow at a three-year low and on track for...

The Washington Post's "fact-checker" column awarded four Pinocchios to a video tweeted out by 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden that claimed that a top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official had been "silenced" amid the coronavirus crisis. Tuesday's fact-check, which concluded the claim was "simply wrong" and created a "false narrative," came after the former vice president tweeted an informational coronavirus video that included Ron Klain, a former Biden aide who served as President Obama’s Ebola czar in 2014 Ebola. In the video, Klain alleges there was "immediate blowback" after Dr. Nancy Messonnier, "a career official at the...

How about a little old fashioned foot stomping knee slapping musicality to greet this Taco Tuesday? It’s a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll – served up with a grand splash of super funk. If you’ve been looking for an official Wuhan Coronavirus theme song this is it: music for the Great Undoing. If you haven’t had your coffee yet this studio version will suffice in its stead. If you have already had your covfefe and prefer to get up on your feet and dance with abandon to the Great Quietus, here is the live [she said...

DENVER – Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed the bill to repeal the state’s death penalty and commuted the sentences of the three men on the state’s death row to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Polis had been expected to sign SB20-100 since the House passed it in late February and sent the measure over to his desk this month. Colorado is the 22nd state to abolish the death penalty. The three men on the state’s death row – Robert Ray, Sir Mario Owens and Nathan Dunlap – will now serve life in prison without parole...

Who is John Galt? In 1957 Ayn Rand published her final novel, Atlas Shrugged. This magnum opus describing her philosophy of “objectivism” sought to call attention to the danger of socialism and communism and demonstrate the virtues of freedom and capitalism. Rand came to America from Russia following the 1917 communist revolution led by Lenin, which destroyed the social norms. Who is John Galt? He is the leader of the resistance to the statists of a dystopian United States. Galt has created the intellectual and emotional genesis for unravelling the suffocating government. He has secretly organized leaders of the private...

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Many other media outlets aren’t reporting that the Arizona man didn’t die after ingesting the anti-malaria drug chloroquine. He died after self-medicating himself with a product used to clean fish tanks: