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North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Friday a statewide mandate to prohibit non-essential travel and operations amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolinians will need to 'stay at home,' North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Friday.A statewide North Carolina 'stay at home' proclamation will order residents to suspend all unnecessary travel through April 29."I know this order may lead to more hardship and heartache," Cooper said.Essential services, such as grocery stores and medical services, will reopen open and operational.The governor noted three North Carolinians have died due to COVID-19 and the state has 763 confirmed cases of the...

Count Vlad does an Italian song and dedicates it to Italians in their fight against the corona virus. This is a somewhat jazzed up version. If you like the music please subscribe.

15 minutes in. It's very good. Damn, I should have purchased it.

From coronavirus cases exponentially multiplying across the U.S. to doctors falling sick, the daily headlines are gut-wrenching and overwhelming. But there are some positive signs of progress that can help keep things in perspective. Despite all the dire updates, Americans have come together during this tumultuous time and promising experimental drugs have been identified to help treat some of the symptoms of the novel coronavirus. Researchers are working around the clock to develop the vaccine that will be safe and effective. 1) There is a promising recovery rate For many who contract the virus, approximately 80%, the symptoms may be...

Now you tell us. As the nation begins to debate when to bring back some economic normalcy, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wondered aloud yesterday whether it should have stopped in the first place. Locking the healthy with the exposed carriers may have backfired by accelerating the spread of the coronavirus, at least in hot spots like New York City.“If you re-thought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy,” Cuomo told reporters, “I don’t know that you would say ‘Quarantine everyone.’” So what would Cuomo do the next time around, and what does he plan to...

This presents a different issue than yesterday’s ban by China on entry by foreigners, even those who have resident and long-term visas. That ban might well intend to prevent re-seeding of coronavirus from new hotspots around the world, especially western Europe and the US. Today, Beijing abruptly reversed itself on reopening cinemas that would attract its own citizens, ordering them closed until further notice after granting permission to hundreds to reopen.The Hollywood Reporter hears it won’t be a short break, either: Over 600 movie theaters across China were given the green light to reopen their doors over the past...

For instance, there’s the issue of copper fixtures, such as cups and pipes, which were used by ancients across the world. As Fast Company’s Mark Wilson recently pointed out, copper has distinct anti-microbial properties—the metal does, after all, have that distinct taste to it. As one expert, Bill Keevil, professor of environmental health care at the University of Southampton, told the magazine, copper could and should be used much more: “We’ve seen viruses just blow apart. They land on copper and it just degrades them.” And in fact, in 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of various...

This afternoon I came across this excellent timeline highlighting the ways in which China has used it’s propaganda resources to reframe the story of the coronavirus outbreak. The entire thing is quite long and can’t be easily summarized, but I think a few highlights help to point out the way in which China has been operating: January 9CCP TV calls it ‘Wuhan virus.’ China Central TV reports that a strain of the coronavirus that CCTV calls “Wuhan virus” has broken out in the city of Wuhan.[…]January 16Wuhan officials say health crisis is over, and encourage large public gatherings. Wuhan...

Jimmy "The Toy Cannon" Wynn, a legendary Houston Astros outfielder known for having tremendous power at just 160 pounds, died Thursday. He was 78. The 5-foot-9 slugger hit 20 homers five times and 30 homers twice during his time with the Astros.

It’s official.  FOX Business Network fired Trish Regan for defending President Trump.  Trish Regan accused Democrats and their media of using coronavirus to impeach the president.  Trish Regan: This is just another attempt to impeach the president. And sadly they seem to care very little for any of the destruction they are leaving in their wake. Losses in the stock market, all of this unfortunately just part of the political casualties.” Of course, Trish was right.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXhLdP5KtdE&feature=emb_titleTrish was right.What a huge loss for the channel and for the American public.Mediaite reported: Fox Business Network’s Trish Regan is leaving the network.In a statement provided to Mediaite...

President Trump said Friday that he had directed Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to require General Motors to begin making ventilators under the Defense Production Act to combat the coronavirus pandemic after negotiations with the automaker had stalled. "Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but out fight against the virus is too great to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course," Trump said in a statement, adding: "GM was wasting time." Experts say the U.S. is hundreds of thousands of breathing machines short of...

Gov. Roy Cooper has ordered North Carolina residents statewide to stay at home starting at 5 p.m. Monday. North Carolina’s 10 million residents will join about half of the United States who are or soon will be under stay-at-home orders from their governors in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump invoked the rarely used Defense Production Act on Friday to order the Department of Health and Human Services to compel General Motors to manufacturer ventilators hours after he sharply criticized the company for slow-walking production. "Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course," Trump said in a statement. "GM was wasting time. Today’s action will help ensure the quick production of ventilators that will save American lives." Trump,...

Ohio says religious gatherings are ‘essential business,’ bishops cancel Mass anyway COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 27, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – During the COVID-19 pandemic, churches in the state of Ohio are considered an essential business and allowed to stay open. “Religious facilities, entities and groups and religious gatherings, including weddings and funerals,” are listed by the state as “essential businesses and operations” which may stay open. The order of the Ohio Department of Health was issued on March 22, taking effect on March 24, and scheduled to last until April 6. The bishops within the state of Ohio, organized as the Catholic...

Four passengers have died on board the MS Zaandam, a cruise ship currently off the coast of Panama with dozens of guests suffering from influenza-like symptoms, at least two of whom have coronavirus, the vessel’s operator said on Friday.

Haley Stevens has epic, unhinged meltdown

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complains about the stimulus bill put forward by the American government. She appears to be throwing a tantrum, and that's just putting it lightly.

Students at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts want some of their tuition money back because they say virtual classes aren't what they paid for — but instead of addressing the situation, the school's dean sent them a video of herself dancing to REM's "Losing My Religion." Following several communications between students and the school administration, Dean Allyson Green earlier this week attached her dance video to an email to students in which she explained that she doesn't have the authority to refund tuition and that it's "challenging" for the school to give students their money back...

Trish officially fired for speaking the truth about Democrats weaponizing the the Corona Virus against PDT

..“[A] complete recreational fishing closure in the state of Washington, in my opinion, is completely, completely ridiculous,” Tom Nelson from The Outdoor Line told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson Show.