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A cruise ship with 42 sick people on board is hoping to dock in Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on March 30. The Holland America Line Zaandam ship, owned by Carnival Corporation, originally left Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 7 with 1,243 passengers and 586 crew on board. The cruise was scheduled to end in Chile on March 21, but Chile did not allow anyone on board to disembark. The ship left Chile on March 21, and is trying to secure transit through the Panama Canal to be able to arrive in Fort Lauderdale on March 30, the company said...

BERLIN - German customs officials are trying to track down about 6 million face masks, ordered to protect health workers from the coronavirus, that they say went missing at an airport in Kenya. “The authorities are trying to find out what happened,” a German defence ministry spokeswoman said, confirming a report first published by Spiegel Online. A Kenyan Airports Authority (KAA) spokeswoman said investigations had found nothing so far. The FFP2 masks, which filter out more than 90% of particles, were ordered by German customs authorities. They and the armed forces procurement office have been helping the health ministry to...

Congress is preparing to pass a $1 trillion-plus package proposed by the Treasury Department to provide relief from the Covid-19 shutdown. Economist Tyler Cowen of the Mercatus Center has developed his own list of possible policies to mitigate the economic damage. How effective are these proposals likely to be, and what should be done?Much of what is proposed is injection of credit and monetary stimulus, the sort of remedy often used, for better or worse, to solve a liquidity crisis or boost aggregate demand. It’s what macroeconomic policy makers know how to do. But it’s doubtful that these stimulus...

In World War Two America and the other allies saved the world from tyranny. This took a great deal of sacrifice and courage from a lot of people. Nowadays people seek to be made safe by others, not to earn safety. Men are demonised to justify billion dollar industries to protect women from the men who love them. Minorities cry for more and more protections and freedom disappears. Lt Gov Dan Patrick of Texas has displayed a better way of thinking and acting from a better time. God Bless Freedom. God Bless Such Men.

People tend to come together in moments of crisis, most people anyway. There’s always that selfish jerk in a zombie movie interested in grabbing the wads of cash or something else they’d always wanted but couldn’t get before everything went to hell, and it usually costs them. Democrats are that selfish guy. And while it varies what the cost is in the movies – either his life or the life of someone else – in the case of coronavirus, let it be the political lives of every Democrat, because they truly are bad people. [snip] The words necessary to accurately...

WASHINGTON — As the United States entered Week 2 of trying to contain the spread of the coronavirus by shuttering large swaths of the economy, President Trump, Wall Street executives and many conservative economists began questioning whether the government had gone too far and should instead lift restrictions that are already inflicting deep pain on workers and businesses. Consensus continues to grow among government leaders and health officials that the best way to defeat the virus is to order nonessential businesses to close and residents to confine themselves at home. Britain, after initially resisting such measures, essentially locked down its...

"We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself," tweeted the president on Sunday night, adding that, after the current 15-day shutdown, "we will make a decision as to which way we want to go." President Trump is said to be privately expressing a deepening concern at the damage the coronavirus shutdown is doing to the U.S. economy and debating whether it can be safely reopened. Though castigated for his remark, Trump has a point. The U.S. is rightly using extreme measures to meet the threat and control the virus that threatens the lives of millions of Americans,...

The numbing refrain that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is unilaterally pushing world financial markets to near collapse is growing as tiresome as it is misdirected. A basic forensic analysis would likely shed telling light on the real reasons for the epic stock market swings of late. Namely, that the real culprits may very well be the world’s money changers and the processes and systems that they have helped create and perpetuate. The world’s stock markets make up only a part of the global financial system that sports a regular cast of players including commercial banks, investment houses, insurers, central banks,...

Folks, this was done to tank the markets. This was done to resist President Trump. This was done to screw over the American worker. The Senate has a $1.6 trillion Wuhan coronavirus bailout package that Democrats co-wrote. They filibustered it on Sunday night. We all know why they’re doing this. This isn’t a secret. The Dow Jones is down some 600 points as we speak and now, they’re trying to logroll stuff that is unrelated to this pandemic. Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said this move is to shift the economic agenda more to the progressive Left’s vision. Guy wrote up...

Eyam (AFP) - In the 17th century, residents in the remote English village of Eyam quarantined themselves to prevent the spread of bubonic plague. Most paid with their lives. Now their descendants and locals are outraged that a steady stream of visitors have ignored government warnings to stay at home to tackle the coronavirus outbreak. In 1665, the bubonic plague arrived in the Derbyshire village of Eyam from London, nearly 150 miles (250 kilometres) further south, carried by fleas in fabrics ordered by a tailor. As dozens died, the rector of Eyam church, William Mompesson, with the help of his...

We hear it all the time these days: “Almost all the people who are dying from the coronavirus are old.” But what is this supposed to mean? Does it mean that younger people don’t need to worry about contracting it? Or does it mean something worse, as in, “Old people really don’t matter”? As for the first attitude, namely, that younger people need not be concerned about the virus, that is hardly true. As USA Today reported on March 19, “It's not just adults 65 and older. Americans of all ages have faced serious health complications amid the new coronavirus...

On March 9 a team of researchers in China published results showing hydroxychloroquine was effective against the 2019 coronavirus in a test tube. The authors suggested a five-day, 12-pill treatment for Covid-19: two 200-milligram tablets twice a day on the first day followed by one tablet twice a day for four more days. A more recent French study used the drug in combination with azithromycin. Most Americans know azithromycin as the brand name Zithromax Z-Pak, prescribed for upper respiratory infections. The Z-Pak alone doesn’t appear to help fight Covid-19, and the findings of combination treatment are preliminary. But researchers in...

Last week we reported that Joe Biden was planning to hold regular shadow-briefings on the coronavirus pandemic--a campaign gimmick to undermine public faith in the federal government's response to the pandemic, while promoting himself as a leader in charge who can handle the situation better than Trump.If today's inaugural shadow-briefing is any indication, it's not going to go well for Biden. "We can put politics aside and meet the moment like governors all across this nation are doing," Biden said, before listing off the names of governors he says are meeting the challenge. When he got to the governor...

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...