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China's "wet markets" have reopened - selling bats, pangolins and dogs for human consumption. The move is dangerous as scientists believe that the Covid-19 causing coronavirus first lurked in a bat in China and hopped to another animal, before getting passed on to humans. Various reports suggest that a 55-year-old man from China's Hubei province could have been the first person to have contracted Covid-19 through one such "wet market". "The markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus," Washington Examiner quoted a correspondent of "A Mail on Sunday" as saying. However,...

The Official Theme Song of Coronavirus Lockdown!!

NFL icons Tom Brady and Peyton Manning will join superstars Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in a golf match organized by AT&T’s WarnerMedia and the PGA Tour, a person familiar with the negotiations confirmed to CNBC. The match pitting Mickelson-Brady against Woods-Manning would be a rare sporting event in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which has spurred game cancellations and suspensions across professional sports.

Confederate General Thomas Rosser invited Generals George Pickett and Fitzhugh Lee to join him for a shad bake lunch at his camp. It was a quiet and relaxing afternoon for all. Meanwhile, about 2 miles South, at a road junction called Five Forks.

Unless Beijing addresses internal issues immediately and decisively, it will destroy any hope of restoring its credibility and economy. The worldwide spread of the coronavirus, which originated from communist China, has brought serious detriment to Beijing’s credibility and image as a global leader. Through a series of public relations campaigns, Beijing had hoped not only to repair its credibility, but also to come out of this pandemic even stronger by casting itself as the only reliable global leader. However, Beijing’s absurd blame game and a number of faulty exported products may destroy this hope.As more than 1 billion people worldwide...

On 25 March, 2020, Governor Little signed HB 516, the Idaho bill which improved Constitutional Carry in the state. It passed the Senate 27 to 5, on 18 March, with three absent and excused. The five Senators who voted against it were: Buckner-Webb, Burgoyne, Nelson, Nye, and Ward-Engelking.The bill passed the House 56 to 14 on the 27th of February. The 14 representatives who voted against it were:  Anderson, Berch, Chew, Davis, Ellis, Gannon, Green, Mason, McCrostie, Necochea, Rubel, Smith, Toone, and Wintrow.Idaho was one of three states which had a peculiar twist to their Constitutional Carry law: It only...

A Hempfield man who spent nearly two years in jail awaiting trial for obstructing traffic on his bicycle has been arrested again, this time for allegedly throwing a traffic cone into a flooded creek in Greensburg. City police said security footage showed David Smith, 60, riding his bike at Lynch Field last Saturday evening. Police were monitoring the cameras because heavy rainfall was causing the field to flood. An officer watched as Smith rode his bike on the track surrounding the field, picked up a traffic cone, rode with it to a nearby pedestrian bridge, and threw it into Jack’s...

Denmark’s government told private companies struggling with drastic measures to curb the spread of coronavirus that it would cover 75% of employees’ salaries, if they promised not to cut staff. Under the three-month aid period that will last until June 9, the state offers to pay 75% of employees’ salaries at a maximum of 23,000 Danish crowns ($3,418) per month, while the companies pay the remaining 25%. “If there’s a big drop in activity, and production is halted, we understand the need to send home employees. But we ask you: Don’t fire them,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said told a...

China’s errors, dating back to the very first patients, were compounded by political leaders who dragged their feet to inform the public of the risks and to take decisive control measures CCP was always there to make a cover-up even if that meant that people gonna die. The doctor who exposed the CCP cover-up and informed the world about the deadly virus that was spreading in Wuhan is now missing. Weeks after the Chinese government knew of the highly contagious disease spreading within their borders, the Communist Party’s leadership covered up and withheld information from their own citizens, the World...

Malaysia has the largest number of COVID-19 cases in Southeast Asia, with more than 2,900 and counting. This week Malaysia's government also had a serious public relations issue after an ill-conceived plan went online. Malaysia's Ministry for Women, Family and Community Development issued a series of online posters on Facebook and Instagram with the hashtag #WomenPreventCOVID19. It advised the nation's women to help with the country's partial lock down by not nagging their husbands. The ministry also advised women to refrain from being "sarcastic" if they asked for help with household chores. And it urged women working from home to...

Has anyone else seen NO new earthquakes being reported by the USGS on their Latest Earthquakes page? Mine seems frozen in time with the last temblor reported about 01:45 UTC on April 1 or a bit over ten hours ago My other app shows about 25 new quakes Mag 2.5 or greater in that time...The largest being a Mag. 4.4 level one

BERLIN -- Late last year - long before most people had heard of the new coronavirus now sweeping the globe - scientists in Germany sprang into action to develop a test for the virus causing an unusual respiratory disease in central China. They had one by mid-January - and labs around the country were ready to start using it just weeks later, around the same time that Europe’s most populous country registered its first case. “It was clear that if the epidemic swept over here from China, then we had to start testing,” said Hendrik Borucki, a spokesman for Bioscientia...

It’s just the flu, bro. Worldometer’s Coronavirus website is very useful - Italy‘s deaths appears to be on the decline. We aren’t that many days behind them - some experts say somewhere between 1-2 weeks behind. What could we have done differently? State and local jurisdictions take their lead from the CDC. The CDC should have recommended the old and those with weakened immune system isolate themselves and let everyone else live their lives. The vulnerability of the old and already sick to Coronavirus was well known for many weeks. If the healthy live their lives normally then the healthy...

Andrew Cuomo looks like he’s ready for action - at a Jersey Shore night club. The governor set the internet on fire Tuesday with wild speculation that two bizarre protrusions seen poking out from under his shirt were actually nipple rings. Twitter and Reddit users furiously debated just what was going on under Cuomo’s official white polo - but his spokesman threw a big bucket of cold water on the idea that the 62-year-old public servant was into some wild piercing. “Of course not, sorry Internet,” senior aide Rich Azzopardi told The Post. The denial came after users, keeping abreast...

An adorable penguin was caught on camera checking in on its neighbours at an empty aquarium during the coronavirus lockdown. The footage was recorded at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois, which currently remains closed due to the outbreak. The inquisitive rockhopper penguin called Wellington, who is one of the oldest at the attraction, was allowed to roam around the other exhibits before stopping to greet a pod of beluga whales.

I'm not sure whether COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China, in the U.S. qualifies as a true disaster. Putting the disease in perspective, we might look at current influenza illnesses. According to Centers for Disease Control estimates, between Oct. 1, 2019, and March 14, 2020, there have been 390,000 to 710,000 hospitalizations as a result of the flu, 38,000,000 to 54,000,000 flu illnesses and 23,000 to 59,000 flu deaths. That's compared with, as of March 27, a total of 85,356 cases of COVID-19 resulting in the deaths of 1,246 people. But let's agree that COVID-19 is a disaster and ask...

Tensions are rising in small towns where rich New York City residents have fled to escape the coronavirus hotspot as locals complaining of ransacked supermarkets and crowded hospitals attempt to stop the influx of outsiders. As NYC's death toll hit 1,096 on Tuesday night, so-called 'coronavirus refugees' continued to arrive at vacation destinations across the Northeast, including the Hamptons, Hudson Valley and Martha's Vineyard. The 'coronavirus refugees' have been leaving the Big Apple in droves, snapping up rental properties in quiet communities where the threat of contracting the deadly bug is significantly lower.

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 142[a] A maskil[b] of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer. 1 I cry aloud to the Lord;     I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. 2 I pour out before him my complaint;     before him I tell my trouble. 3 When my spirit grows faint within me,     it is you who watch over my way. In the path where I walk     people have hidden a snare for me. 4 Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;     no one is concerned for me....

George Soros's first major effort to reshape America was undertaking the legitimization of illegal drug use, especially marijuana. Soros initially said his overarching goal was to promote informed discussion of drug policy. But debate and discussion are not his style and were not his objects. Instead, he used his resources to fund think-tanks, foundations, and public policy action groups that successfully muddled public opinion enough to change public laws, making illegal drug use legal. In the early 1990s, the notion of legalizing marijuana in the U.S. was unthinkable and unacceptable. The voices to legalize drugs were marginal and not in...

If he had done nothing at all, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, the American death toll from the coronavirus would be geometrically higher than the low six-figure count he now expects. In other words, it could have been worse. Looking like he'd been visited by the ghosts of hometown past and election future, Trump deviated from his typically ebullient, brash and optimistic style to deliver a somber message much more in line with that of his leading scientists. In doing so, a president who played down the threat of the virus for weeks, mocked critics who urged him to take...