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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been sounding the alarm about the need for a massive number of ventilators to stave off a humanitarian catastrophe. He wants 30,000 of the machines now.Trump dashed some cold water on his face. Politico: Speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Thursday night, Trump again minimized the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic, casting doubt on the need for tens of thousands of ventilators for hospitals responding to the crisis. “I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re...

As health care workers around the country labor under shortages of personal protective equipment, all eyes are on the Strategic National Stockpile - the country's largest repository of drugs and medical equipment for use in a public health crisis. But the U.S. strategic stockpile isn't intended to be the solution to a crisis. It's designed to be used as a stopgap during emergencies. The stockpile has limited resources, government officials and public health experts say, which weren't at full capacity even before the coronavirus was on the horizon. "The Strategic National Stockpile is not designed to be the sole solution...

I read it on Newsmax. A real bummer.

Guess what, Kids? As long as there is one democrat (communist), or one liberal (communist) news outlet: this will go on forever. As long as you have a Biden (who, like Superman, can simply inhale and eradicate all viruses.) Or a DeBlasio (who will “welcome” all illegals.) Or, an Andrew Cuomo who will “organize” everything until it rings like crystal (in an “off the cuff,” well-planned death-knell.) Or—as long as you have one more dirty little bastard media goon, like a Lemon, Behar, Whoopi, or Whoever else…. …then, this crazed panic will go onward. It will continue. And Americans will...

What can we learn from the Democrats and their media adjunct in the time of the Wuhan virus? They pose serious hazards to life and liberty. Take the remarkable case of the witless Gretchen Whitmer, governor of the great state of Michigan. Kathy Hoekstra writes in the Detroit News: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs literally threatened all doctors and pharmacists in the state who prescribe or dispense hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. The agency’s March 24 letter warns physicians and pharmacists of professional consequences for the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine (and chloroquine). Beyond the rational recommendation against hoarding...

If you thought our Democrat legislators wouldn’t try to push through more pork in the Covid-19 congressional barrel, you have been living in a fool’s paradise. The House has just completed its response to the bipartisan Senate bill, the Cares Act. With its $2.2T price tag, what this act is “helping” entails a lot more than a coronavirus response. Of course, much of the money is targeted at necessary things that will directly mitigate Covid-19’s impact on our nation. But as Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel points out, “A rough calculation suggests the single biggest recipient of taxpayer dollars in...

When President Trump said this week that the United States had done more testing than South Korea, USA Today was quick to fact-check his claim by pointing out, "The United States population is more than six times the size of South Korea’s. On a per-capita basis, South Korea is testing far more of its citizens than the U.S." In this case, the media attempted to use a per capita comparison against Trump. CNN and MSNBC each made similar fact-checks.On Thursday, the New York Times made a big fuss over the fact that more than 81,321 Americans have been infected...

div class="article_body top mrf-hidden"> One can feel the existential anguish oozing off every page and pixel at The New York Times.  That's not because the coronavirus is approaching apocalyptic proportions, with mass die-offs comparable to the year 1348, when the Black Death was at its apex.  Instead, the Times is confronting a different problem: President Donald Trump's poll numbers are doing very well.  His recent town hall was the most watched town hall in cable history.  His daily press conferences enthrall so many people that the media are desperate to stop televising them. Clearly, the Times had to bring out the big guns to ensure that Americans understand that not only is...

While President Trump closed the US border against entry from China at the end of January, his overall instinct was right. The CCP virus was nasty, but no worse than a supercharged flu. Health professionals overwhelmed Trump and his inner circle with doomsday scenarios, bullied by panic obsessed virologists and epidemiologists -- begging for attention and copying the alarmist playbook from the climate/global warming extremists, allied with the MSM Trump-haters. And now the government has completely suffocated economic demand, creating a depression, an unnecessary calamity that is destroying lives, livelihoods, families, and fortunes for a generation. It is becoming apparent...

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. - More than a fifth of Detroit’s police force is quarantined; two officers have died from coronavirus and at least 39 have tested positive, including the chief of police. For the 2,200-person department, that has meant officers working doubles and swapping between units to fill patrols. And everyone has their temperature checked before they start work. An increasing number of police departments around the country are watching their ranks get sick as the number of coronavirus cases explodes across the U.S. The growing tally raises questions about how laws can and should be enforced during the pandemic,...

VIDEO Many people are unaware that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in addition to serving in Congress, is also an orchestra conductor. Sometimes she combines the two jobs as when she denounced the Stimulus bill while simultaneously conducting the 1812 Overture.

A couple of weeks ago, we saw media outlets report that "experts" predicted that 500,000 would die in Great Britain and two million in the U.S. Now those wild made-up predictions have been lowered to 20,000 or below in Britain and to 80,000 in the U.S. Here's the news item: "Imperial College scientist who predicted 500K coronavirus deaths in UK adjusts to 20K or fewer" So those predictions of less than two weeks ago, used to spread panic and depression and used to justify shutting down much of the economy, were at least 96% off. Why would anyone think the...

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NEW YORK - Republicans who have spent the past decade howling about the danger of ballooning deficits embraced the coronavirus rescue package approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump, shrugging off past concerns about spending in the face of a public health crisis. In many cases, the conservatives who backed the $2 trillion bill - the largest economic relief measure in U.S. history - were the very same who raged against the nearly $800 billion economic stimulus package backed by the Obama administration. But facing the unprecedented threat of a global pandemic - and working under a Republican...

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Up-to-date stats of World COVID-19 metrics, IHU metrics, and then the current patients in Dr. Didier Raoult's group of patients on the Hydroxychloroquine and Azythromycin regimen. Here are the statistics as of 3/28/2020: World: Cases: 565,502 Fatalities: 26,262 IHU Stats: Number of tests performed: 41,080 Number of patients APM / IHU tested: 15,256 Number of APM / IHU patients testing positive: 1,837 Fatalities: 13 Patients on Hydroxychloroquine +- Azythromycin treatment: Cohort Number: 870 Fatalities (for those at least 3 days on treatment): 1

1. Wuhan, China has a bio-weapons lab known to have been working with viruses very similar to COVID-19. 2. China has sweetheart deals receiving business and paying huge cash prizes to very powerful Democrats. 3. Joe Biden is the front-running candidate in the Democrat party. 4. Joe Biden has a reputation of loony, creepy behavior with women and girls, and has recently been accused of sexual assault. 5. Joe Biden couldn't win a president election against an orange traffic cone even its name failed to appear on the ballot. 6. In response to this pandemic the Democrat party has postponed...

Here’s a partial list of people/groups that have proved themselves unworthy as we navigate through the  waters of the Chinese Curse: Media: (too many examples to mention and apparently the American public agrees.)When the Babylon Bee is just as believable as any mainstream outlet you might have a problem.Politicians: (too many examples to mention but here’s a classic from a classless has-been) He did promise "America First." https://t.co/bzks3hqCUE — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 27, 2020 Democrat politicians in particular: (way too many to mention but here are two Freshman Reps doing jazz hands on the Floor to make the most...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump offered a preview of his re-election campaign playbook last year when he visited the building site of a multi-billion-dollar cracking (sic) unit in western Pennsylvania, hailed as one of the largest construction projects in the country. To Trump, it was a pitch-perfect example of a booming economy. Except today, the site sits largely empty, after the coronavirus outbreak forced oil company Royal Dutch Shell to halt construction. The project’s thousands of workers are now unemployed, adding to the nearly 3.6 million Americans who filed for jobless benefits in the last two weeks. The tension between...

The summer break after my first year teaching was a catastrophe. Going in, I had grand plans for sketching out my units, reading books, writing articles, exercising, completing house projects, and the like. Four weeks later, I had regular panic attacks and debilitating levels of anxiety. Speaking with friends and reading the Tweets of strangers during quarantine, it seems that many can relate to my difficulties. With the word ‘pandemic’ atop our newsfeeds, it’s understandable that many people have high levels of anxiety right now. Whereas human contact normally brings comfort, amidst this crisis every individual is a potential invisible...