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As of tomorrow Raj and I will be joining many of you in mandatory involuntary confinement. Our order wasn’t handed down from on high by our governor as it has been in other states. So far this lockdown  only applies to our county, Summit, which has a population of just 40,000 but is running the highest per capita number of confirmed cases in the state (90 as of yesterday). Nor was the county-wide shutdown ordered by our elected County Manager but rather by our duly unelected county health director who was given all this power by the simple declaration of...

The only thing stopping many from working remotely until now was their bosses’ belief that working in an office is better for the bottom line. That belief is now being put to the test. The coronavirus outbreak is disrupting nearly every facet of American life. Many of these changes are temporary and will be forgotten as soon as the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic subsides — but not all.Changes rippling through daily life right now will present, for the first time, an alternative to the normal way of doing things, and some will be improvements. One bright spot in this medical...

"It's going to open up like a rocket ship," Trump said of the post-shutdown economy. "I think it's going to go very good and very quickly." President Trump on Wednesday touted the unprecedented size of the pending $2.2 trillion federal coronavirus stimulus bill but said if it's not sufficient to lift the economy from a recession, additional stimulus might be required. "If we have to go back, we have to go back," Trump said during the daily White House coronavirus task force briefing. The stimulus bill would offer a check for an average of $3,000 for a family of four...

• If a dude pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him. • Some how It’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America. • Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegal Mexicans voting in our elections are good. • It was cool for Joe Biden to blackmail the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it. • Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote. • Sexualizing children is bad, but 11-year-old drag queens are good. •...

Below is our list of twelve medical experts whose opinions on the Coronavirus outbreak contradict the official narratives of the MSM, and the memes so prevalent on social media. * * * Dr Sucharit Bhakdi is a specialist in microbiology. He was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and one of the most cited research scientists in German history. What he says: We are afraid that 1 million infections with the new virus will lead to 30 deaths per day over the next 100 days. But we...

Out tune today is Unwanted Sign Upon Your Heart by Hank Snow (1952). THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Just in case you were still laboring under the delusion that CNN and MSNBC are actual “news” organizations, know this: When President Donald Trump (I never tire of typing those three glorious words) had to leave his daily Coronavirus Task Force press briefing early yesterday, turning it over to Vice President Mike Pence and doctors Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, the corrupt reporters for CNN and MSNBC also left. What does that tell you? It tells you that CNN and MSNBC view their sole purpose for covering those events as an effort to cause some controversy involving the President in...

Our first priority amid coronavirus must be neutralizing immediate threats to health and safety, but the disruption also provides a chance to engage in national reflection. Crises have a way of revealing critical, unspoken truths. If we can recognize these truths, we can emerge from such crises significantly stronger. While AmericaÂ’s first priority in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus crisis must be neutralizing immediate threats to the health and safety of our people, the disruption of our lives also provides an opportunity to engage in national reflection.If we do so, amid the pandemic hysteria, several critical signals emerge....

It’s just the flu, bro. Some good news - Trump’s rhetoric lately seems to be recognizing that this Coronavirus is overblown, relative to the economic damage of a lockdown. He is discussing suicides, apparently. Noteworthy that suicides per 100000 went up by about 4 or 5 (17 to 21, approximately) when the Great Depression started. If he thinks economy first he might save 10000 lives from suicide relative to a cost of a few thousand extra deaths due to Coronavirus. Also note the next trick - almost all deaths will be attributed to Coronavirus over the next year but the...

"A doctoral student in Italy discovered an ancient 5,000-year-old sword in a Venetian monastery..."

You could call it a slip of the tongue. But it was deeply revealing of the fervor with which Joe Scarborough, and the MSM at large, are determined to condemn President Trump regarding the coronavirus. Scarborough opened today's Morning Joe by reciting a litany of the overly-optimistic statements President Trump has made about the virus. Scarborough then said: "Yesterday, in Donald Trump's hometown [New York], 1,000 Americans died of the coronavirus."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Initial claims were 3,283,000 for the week ending 3/21 (+3,001,000). Insured unemployment was 1,803,000 for the week ending 3/14 (+101,000). https://dol.gov/ui/data.pdf

The debate in the United States over whether to move away from free markets and toward socialism may change dramatically as the latest coronavirus spreads throughout the world. That’s because in the fight against the global pandemic, we’ll likely witness one of the most compelling arguments in our lifetimes emerge in favor of free-market systems – and lives will be saved in the process. The pandemic will demonstrate that nations with the freest markets and freest people tend to have the health care systems with the greatest capacity to handle such a crisis. Free-market incentives have produced health care systems...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 136 1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.His love endures forever. 2 Give thanks to the God of gods.His love endures forever. 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords:His love endures forever. 4 to him who alone does great wonders,His love endures forever. 5 who by his understanding made the heavens,His love endures forever. 6 who spread out the earth upon the waters,His love endures forever. 7 who made the great lights—His love endures forever. 8 the sun to govern the day,His love endures forever. 9 the moon and stars to govern...

Twitter Suspends James Woods For Posting Nude, Drunken Photo Of Prominent Democrat & CNN Contributor Conservative actor James Woods has been suspended from Twitter once again after he posted a photo allegedly showing former Florida gubernatorial candidate and CNN contributor Andrew Gillum unconscious and naked in a South Beach hotel room. The Guardian reported that Gillum was found in the hotel room earlier this month with a male escort who reportedly overdosed on crystal meth. Until that moment, Gillum was a rising Democratic star. As the former mayor of Tallahassee who narrowly lost governor race in 2018, Gillum was reportedly...

It comes as the Royal Navy has been preparing to help the NHS and other government departments deal with the coronavirus outbreak. Nine Royal Navy vessels have shadowed seven Russian warships after detecting "unusually high levels of activity" in the Channel and North Sea. It comes as the Royal Navy has been preparing to help the NHS and other government departments deal with the coronavirus crisis.

Two weeks after the announcement that former Vice President Joe Biden will join Penn as a professor, administrators, professors and politically minded students alike are still confused about the nature of his role at the University. On Feb. 7, Penn President Amy Gutmann announced that Biden will lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. as a "Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor," but nearly a month later the administration seems unclear about what this means. Many students thought Biden would be teaching courses at Penn, ---SNIP--- Although it was first reported that Biden was going...

This is the second in a who-knows-how-long-this-will-take series of thoughts, stories, and comments from the isolation we’re all experiencing. Hopefully, there won’t be many more and we can return to regular programming, but you never know… A lot of choir-preaching going onOne thing you notice while having nothing to do but notice things is just how dramatically different stories are depending on the politics of the outlet. On the same day, the New York Times ran an op-ed about how President Trump is allowing untold scores of New York City residents to die (no mention in the piece about how the...

Why not offer flu tests as part of screening? Cheap, readily available, eliminates doubt. Something hit me the other day like a ton of bricks. Headache, chills, shakes, deep muscle pain, then fever. No cough, no shortness of breath, no chest pain. I met some but not all of the Covid 19 criteria. It struck at work so my office mates were as freaked as was I. It took a long time to get my doc on the phone, a full day, and she said I didn't qualify for the test. Great, I still don't know. I did find that...

Gov. Tom Wolf extended his stay-at-home order to Lehigh and Northampton counties Wednesday as the coronavirus continues to spread through Pennsylvania. In a news release, Wolf said the order would go into effect at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The counties are the ninth and 10th to receive stay-at-home orders, joining Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Erie, Monroe, Montgomery and Philadelphia.