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Patrick Rooney of Old School™ comments following the White House Coronavirus news briefing Sunday evening, March 29, 2019. The President extended "social distancing" guidelines until April 30th based on recommendations from his medical advisers Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx. At the briefing, Dr. Fauci repeated this concern that 100-200,000 Americans could die from Coronavirus (COVID-19) if steps are not taken to prevent this. The President stated that the anti-malaria drug Hydrochloroquine is being tested in New York state, and that 1,100 are in a study. Governor Andrew Cuomo has given a directive that people outside the study group...

Judicial Watch: Strzok’s ‘Weiner Timeline’ Shows Gap between Clinton Email Discovery and Search Warrant (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 180 pages of records of communications between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page that include Strzok’s “weiner timeline,” which shows a time gap of almost a month between the discovery of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails on the laptop of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner and the obtaining of a search warrant.On November 3, 2016, Strzok sends an email to Page with a “weiner timeline.” The document shows that on...

America is stocking up on food, thermometers — and hair dye. The latest sales data from Nielsen shows how our lives have been affected by widespread social distancing and, in some areas, mandatory lockdowns, as the world tries to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Just as in recent weeks, sales of medical supplies, cleaning products, paper goods and shelf-stable food have been remarkably high. But last week, customers also flocked to beauty products — salons are closed, after all. Yeast saw a big spike as we launched new baking projects. And in the meat department, hefty spiral hams have...

Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as five minutes, and is so small and portable it can be used in almost any healthcare setting. The medical-device maker plans to supply 50,000 tests a day starting Wednesday, said John Frels, vice president of research and development at Abbott Diagnostics. The molecular test looks for fragments of the coronavirus genome, which can quickly be detected when present at high levels. A thorough search to definitively rule out an infection can take up to 13 minutes, he said. Abbott has received emergency...

Orange juice is suddenly hot. In the commodity markets, frozen concentrate orange juice futures have soared 25% — just in the past month. (Yes, you're thinking of the comedy Trading Places.) "People understand that orange juice is a great source of vitamin C and clearly vitamin C boosts your immune system," said Andrew Meadows, director of communications at Florida Citrus Mutual, a growers' trade group. "We're now in a time where people want to have a strong immune system. I think that's what's happening." That's even though there's no evidence that vitamin C is effective against the coronavirus. But industry...

President Donald Trump stops a CNN reporter in his tracks and calls him out for taking his quote out of context. Trump waits while the reporter reads Trump's full quote, which places it back in full context, making the...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned the Jewish community, again, not to hold services in the synagogues. Failing cooperation, he said, permanent closure would be the next step. Although many shuls have closed in deference to the city’s COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions, some have not and instead continued to hold minyanim despite the city’s orders to close in order to prevent the spread of the virus. “We’ve had extraordinary, across the board rabbinical support from all the different elements of the Jewish community and the same is true of other faiths as well, de Blasio said at his daily...

People still struggle to find food at grocery stores during this pandemic, but Jameson Altott is not as worried. He grows more than half the food for his family from his large garden at home, outside Pittsburgh. "We are lucky to have preserved a lot of food and we still have canned fruits and vegetables and jams and berries in the freezer and meat in the freezer," Altott says. There has been a surge of people interested in growing their own food. Oregon State University's Master Gardener program noticed this, and made their online vegetable gardening course free through the...

Looks as if even the bad guys are practising social distancing. In one of the rare upsides to the coronavirus pandemic, Toronto Police reported Sunday that some crime statistics have fallen since stringent social distancing rules were put in place. Although there has been no decrease in the volume of non-emergency phone calls, there has been a drop in certain types of criminal behaviour, such as property crime, personal assaults and car theft.

Prelates fail to answer if coronavirus is a divine punishmentMADRID (ChurchMilitant.com) - Reflecting on the global pandemic, a Spanish priest has charged that some bishops in the United States and Europe have ceased to address whether divine punishment exists, while they instead accommodate any sin, however severe. Fr. José Antonio Fortea Cucurull, a famed exorcist and an expert on the subject of the occult and demonic possession, said that many people have asked him whether the spread of the deadly virus is a divine punishment, a question he sought to answer in an online video. "You already know that I...

Following up on yesterday’s news that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was closed for at least one week as part of state measures closing all places of worship, the Jerusalem Patriarchate and the other churches that serve in the Holy Sepulchre have clarified that services will continue. However, the time and number of visitations will be severely limited. In a statement published on the Church’s website,, the Jerusalem Patriarchate, together with the Custody of the Holy Land of the Franciscans and the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem, “inform that the celebrations of the Communities … will continue regularly, even though...

Another video from South Korea's most famous Scottish Fold cat family and their 'staff', the "Butlers." Suri, the matriarch of the cat family, has been putting on weight and now is plumper than her "big bear" of a son, Iz. She's been ordered on a diet for her health, but isn't too happy about it and is raiding the other food of her children and cat-husband, Noel. Video: 6 minutes, 47 seconds

There is a shortage of the drug after Donald Trump said over the weekend that it could be used to treat COVID-19. Kaiser Permanente will temporarily stop filling prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine for some patients in order to preserve the drug for “severely sick patients,” including those who have contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Hydroxychloroquine, which is sold under the brand name Plaquenil, is an anti-malaria drug that is also used to treat lupus. Over the weekend, it was touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19 by Donald Trump. “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one...

we can do this. But we are on our own. USA 20,000 new cases. Italy case fatality rate >10% Germany is underreporting coronavirus deaths. Abiltiy to test is not keeping up with cases will give the impression of a slow down in cases. Masks are helpful to keep asymptomatic spread down. New studies on infectiousness of the virus. Capable of putting someone of any age into ICU. China study, asymptomic cases were the source of most cases. Source of 79% of cases. WHO wrongly still says not airborne. New study by MIT says 2 meter distance may needs to...

"But what might authorities learn if people were tested randomly instead? Some early clues may be found in the tiny country of Iceland. So far, the country has tested 11,727 people—about 3.2% of its population of 364,000.... By screening healthy as well as sick people, say scientists, Iceland and deCODE have assembled a far more accurate picture of COVID-19. And the results are sobering. “The virus had a much, much wider spread in the community than we would have assumed, based on the screening of high-risk people,” deCODE’s founder and CEO Kári Stefánsson told Fortune by phone from his office...

You can run around preaching that the sky is falling, or you can look at the numbers we already have and make intelligent forecasts.Joining their colleague John Ioannidis in throwing cold water on coronavirus conventional wisdom, professors at the Stanford University School of Medicine warn that the apocalyptic figures thrown around for COVID-19 in America “could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high.”Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya write in The Wall Street Journal that we are focused on the wrong statistic: deaths from identified cases. Because of “selection bias in testing” and limited data on the extent of that bias,...

Lonnie Franklin, the convicted serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for more than two decades, has died in prison. He was 67. California corrections officials said Franklin was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison on Saturday evening. An autopsy will determine the cause of death; however, there were no signs of trauma, corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said in a statement. Franklin had been on death row since August 2016 for the deaths of nine women and a teenage girl. Franklin was linked at trial to 14...

ÎLE DE NOIRMOUTIER, France — On their peaceful island off France’s Atlantic Coast, some of the locals watched, with growing dread and rage, the images from Paris. As rumors began circulating about an imminent nationwide lockdown to stem the coronavirus outbreak, hordes of Parisians jammed into trains, an odd surfboard sometimes sticking out of the crowd.There was no doubt about their destination.“Irresponsible and selfish,” thought Dr. Cyrille Vartanian, one of the six physicians on Noirmoutier. With some time to spare — Paris was roughly five hours away — a local mayor, Noël Faucher, moved to block the only bridge to...

Dr. Eran Bendavid and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professors of medicine at Stanford University, published an article in the March 24 edition of The Wall Street Journal, stating the following: “Fear of Covid-19 is based on an estimated mortality rate of 2% to 4% … We believe this estimate is deeply flawed.” Drs. Bendavid and Bhattacharya continue: “The true fatality rate is the portion of those infected who die, not the deaths from identified positive cases. The latter rate is misleading because of selection bias in testing. The degree of bias is uncertain because available data are limited … If the...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has come under criticism for a statewide order cracking down on prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by President Trump to treat the novel coronavirus. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs issued an order Wednesday warning physicians against writing prescriptions “without a legitimate medical purpose” and instructing pharmacists to evaluate the “legitimacy” of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine prescriptions. The department cited concerns about stockpiling amid “multiple allegations” of doctors writing prescriptions for family and friends, adding that reports of such conduct “may be further investigated for administrative action” and that other health professionals are required...