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That isn’t going to be any time soon. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci says that the United States will not come out of lockdown until there are no “new cases” of coronavirus, prompting some to question precisely how long that will be. During yesterday’s White House briefing, Fauci, who has become the face of America’s response to the coronavirus, was asked by a reporter whether social distancing measures will be imposed until there is a drug or vaccine to treat COVID-19. “I think if we get to the part of the curve that Dr. Birx showed yesterday when it goes down...

With millions of Americans concerned about coronavirus, radio host Rush Limbaugh is providing some perspective on the actual number of fatalities from COVID-19 compared to those from other causes. Coronavirus: 21,000 deaths. Seasonal flu: 113,000. Malaria: 228,000. Suicide: 249,000. Traffic fatalities, 314,000 deaths. Alcohol related deaths, 581,000. Smoking-related deaths, 1,162,000. Cancer deaths, 1,909,000 deaths. Deaths attributed to starvation, 2,382,000 deaths. And death by abortion, 9,900,000."

In early March, Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown ramped up COVID-19 precautions. Each day it seemed a like a new order was put into place in Washington or Oregon. On March 12, Inslee closed schools in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties. The same day, even with significantly fewer confirmed cases, Brown closed schools across Oregon — only hours after saying she would keep them open. The next day Inslee closed schools statewide. On March 15, Inslee announced restrictions on eating at restaurants. The following day Brown announced a similar order. Then on March 23, Inslee took the...

A police officer shot dead a man suspected of shooting his way into a 7-Eleven convenience store early Thursday morning in Irving, police say. The store was closed for business when a 69-year-old man opened fire on the front windows of the building at about 1:15 a.m., police spokesman Robert Reeves said. A clerk inside the store at the time hid behind the counter and called police to report the shooting, Reeves said. A police officer confronted the man as he was leaving the building and opened fire, striking him. Officer Kills Suspected Robber at Irving 7-Eleven: PD Police in...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There’s no way to know right now how much of Ohio’s population has coronavirus, because of limited testing. The “tip of the iceberg” is how Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton refers to the 2,547 confirmed cases of COVID-19. A potential solution to know just how widespread the coronavirus is -- and how many people have had it without developing symptoms -- could be antibody testing. The idea is to check for antibodies the body has produced to fight off the coronavirus, basically to see if someone has developed immunity. The method uses blood testing...

Watching a couple hours of local news on the Miami market. Observations: Miami media has COMPLETELY IGNORED the words of President Trump yesterday. Seriously. Not a single mention. Miami "news" IS reporting on the Republican governor's shutdown order. The way they're doing it? Slamming him for taking "what Democrats say" is too long. Now a LOT of time and attention and PLENTY of sound bites are given to Democrat Andrew Cuomo...a liberal who is 1,400 miles away. Andrew, it seems, is a genius. He is in firm control of the situation and is a national champion.

New York City resident Sabri Ben-Achour, 39, began to feel ill on March 12 and experienced roughly 36 hours of intense symptoms: fever, aches, fatigue, cough and headache. But by March 14, Ben-Achour felt back to normal, except for one thing: Both his sense of smell and taste were gone. "I couldn't smell anything," he said. "I could literally not smell s---." He ordered from an Indian restaurant: "I asked them to make it extra salty and extra spicy, and it tasted like water." By March 16, he was fairly certain he had contracted and recuperated from COVID-19, the disease...

The plague brought about the rise of the middle class - and pubsThe Black Death is the world’s most infamous plague, killing an estimated 75m people and profoundly changing the way survivors lived their lives.In Europe, the disease killed half the population, and completely wiped out some towns when it struck in Britain in 1348-49. But the Black Death returned regularly, first in 1361 and continuing - increasingly as an urban disease - until the Great Plague of 1665 in London. Here is how it changed the world.Social effects We know now that deaths caused by the plague’s first outbreak...

Politico is channeling a big fear of liberals concerning the coronavirus outbreak. Is this a fear that the deadly virus could spread exponentially? Perhaps. However, what really disturbs them is the possibility that President Donald Trump will get credit for keeping the number of cases relatively low which would make his reelection more likely. Political correspondent David Siders somehow assumes that recently the Democrats had an effective plan to "take down Trump." The headline is "How coronavirus blew up the plan to take down Trump." The subtitle reveals the anxiety: "Donald Trump’s reelection is likely to rise or fall on...

The folks at the conservative website Grassfire put together their estimate for the costs of the shutdowns related to the coronavirus and the amount is staggering: . Loss of Stock Market ValuationAt the end of February, reports indicated the stock market lost $6 trillion in valuation based on a drop of the Dow Jones Average from a high of 29,551 to 25,429 in the first wave of coronavirus crisis slides. Until we find a site that states the total loss due to the coronavirus crisis, based on the $6 trillion slide, we are estimating the total loss as of 3/31 (with the Dow at...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalms Psalm 143 A psalm of David. 1 Lord, hear my prayer,     listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness     come to my relief. 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,     for no one living is righteous before you. 3 The enemy pursues me,     he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness     like those long dead. 4 So my spirit grows faint within me;     my heart within me is dismayed. 5 I remember the days of long ago;     I meditate on all your works     and...

Liberal media outlets were quick to shill for former President Barack Obama’s recent swipes at President Donald Trump. CNN, USA Today and The Washington Post all pushed liberal spin stories elevating Obama’s tweet, which took two veiled shots at the Trump administration. One alleged the administration’s denial "of warnings of a pandemic." Obama’s other shot bleated about the consequences of “climate denial” over Trump's decision to roll back his auto emission standards

Chloroquine, now a popular drug for the treatment of COVID-19 has a dangerous side effect, a doctor has warned. Dr. Michael Ackerman, a genetic cardiologist said the 65 year-old drug and the companion, hydroxychloroquine can trigger a sudden cardiac arrest. Ackerman said the drugs come with a risk of sudden cardiac arrest for those with prolonged QTc, a lengthier-than-normal interval between heartbeats as shown on an electrocardiogram [ECG]. “The patient’s QTc value reflects the health of the heart’s electrical recharging system,” he said in a report by Washington Times. Dr. Michael J. Ackerman,: warns about chloroquine’s side effect “If the...

Initial jobless claims surged to more 6.6 million last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. That brings the two-week total to about 10 million due to the coronavirus-induced economic shutdown. The torrent of Americans filing for unemployment insurance skyrocketed last week as more than 6.6 million new claims were filed, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That brings to 10 million the total Americans who filed over the past two weeks. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected 3.1 million for last week, one week after 3.3 million filings in the first wave of what has been a record-shattering swelling of...

Conspiracy theories and inshallah-fatalism brought to you by the Religion of Peace. Many examples of conspiracy theories, inshallah-fatalism, and sheer craziness have been on display in the Muslim Middle East, as it tries to make sense of the coronavirus. A recent roundup of voices from Turkey at Memri.org offers views often contradicting one another. Here is Memri’s summary of what the Turkish press and public have been saying: Members of the Turkish press and public have reacted to the global spread of COVID-19, colloquially known as the Coronavirus, blaming it on Jews and other unspecified political actors and saying that the...

Dallas County Health and Human Services reports another 100 positive cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, including the county's 14th and 15th deaths. The latest victims of the virus include a man in his 50s who was a resident of Mesquite and a woman in her 80s who was a resident of Garland. They were both critically ill in area hospitals before they passed, but it's not clear if they had any ongoing, chronic health conditions prior to being infected with COVID-19. The latest number of confirmed cases bring the county's total number of infected people to 731. "We’re beginning to see...

Very informative thread. Explains why NY's Covid 19 fatality numbers are inflated. They don't distinguish between those who die with the disease and those who die from it.

The numbers: The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week soared by a record 6.6 million, bringing the increase in new jobless claims in the last two weeks of March to 10 million as the all-out effort to slow the coronavirus slammed the economy. Countless businesses across the country have been forced to close or scale back hours, throwing masses of people out of work and triggering an unprecedented back-to-back surge in initial jobless claims. New claims are likely keep climbing in the next few weeks as the damage unfolds.

The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has announced that it is expelling One America News network (OAN) from the briefing room following a report that its correspondent Chanel Rion gained access by circumventing the process and attending as a “guest” of White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. In a statement, the WHCA explained that it has limited access to the room in order to comply with social distancing guidelines, and that the available seats are rotated between various outlets. But the WHCA says OAN’s correspondent twice showed up despite it not being their turn. “We did this because a reporter...

Tens of thousands of years ago, two gigantic ice sheets smothered the northernmost parts of what has since been named North America. They towered more than two kilometers high and contained 1.5 times as much water as Antarctica does today. They were daunting, impassable barriers to the early humans who had started moving east from Asia, walking across a land bridge that once connected the regions now known as Russia and Alaska. But once the ice started to melt, these peoples—the ancestors of the Americas’ Indigenous groups—spread southward into new lands. What happened next? Genetic studies, based on ancient remains,...