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Tucker Carlson wanted to make clear on his show Friday night he respects Dr. Anthony Fauci, considers him an “impressive person,” and said he’s clearly an important expert to have in combatting coronavirus — but he criticized Fauci anyway for comments he has publicly made about the public health response. Fauci’s role on the coronavirus task force has received bipartisan praise, and Fauci himself recently appeared on Carlson’s show to talk about the positive impact of mitigation thus far. “We’ve interviewed Dr. Fauci respectfully on this program, and we’d gladly do that again if he came back, and he will...

Disney executives are pushing back on the company's decision to temporarily cut their six-figure salaries just a day after 'non-essential' workers were told that they were being placed on furlough from April 19. The grumblings about their five to 20 percent pay cuts have been branded 'selfish and sad' as many lesser-paid employees face weeks and even months furloughed as the Disney parks remain closed until further notice amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, Walt Disney Co. Executive Chairman Bob Iger announced he will forgo his entire multi-million dollar salary and other top executives will take pay cuts after parks...

Germany accuses the US of 'modern day piracy' for seizing a shipment of medical equipment - as French officials claim they were forced to fight with American buyers for millions of masks on a Chinese tarmac The United States allegedly 'confiscated' 200,000 3M masks that Germany had ordered for their medical workers Berlin officials blasted the US, with one claiming President Trump is showing 'a lack of solidarity' with other countries caught up in the coronavirus pandemic It comes after two French officials alleged that they were outbid by Americans on millions of medical masks in China; the US has...

WASHINGTON – In a virtual fundraiser with donors Friday night, former Vice President Joe Biden said that he has formally alerted Sen. Bernie Sanders that he will move forward with a vice presidential vetting process even though neither has become the Democratic nominee. He also disclosed to donors participating in the billed “fireside chat” that he has had casual conversations with emerging leaders in the Democratic Party about possibly serving in his administration if he’s elected President of the United States. Biden, who leads Sanders in the delegate count by 313, according to NBC News' tally, said that he wanted...

Jane Fonda claims she received preferential treatment when she was arrested during a climate change protest because she is white and famous. The 82-year-old actress was detained four times last year during weekly demonstrations in Washington. She revealed that on one occasion she spent a night in jail and used her £700 red wool coat to bed down. […] “I’m white and I’m famous and I think orders came down from the attorney general to handle me with kid gloves,” Miss Fonda told Elle USA. […] “There was a woman who was very cold and I loaned her my coat....

A key Senate committee is vowing to press forward with its investigation targeting former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, despite logistical challenges posed by the global coronavirus pandemic. The probe, which Democrats vigorously oppose, has fueled tension among the Senate’s ranks, even breaking out into a rare and previously unreported verbal altercation between senators during a classified briefing. **SNIP** Democrats have said the investigation targeting Hunter Biden threatens the integrity of the 2020 election and undermines U.S. national security, saying it could aid Russian intelligence. The briefing also featured several back-and-forth interactions between senators, which is highly unusual for...

For now, social distancing is the best America can do to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. But if the U.S. truly mobilizes, it can soon deploy better weapons—advanced tests—that will allow the country to shift gradually to a protocol less disruptive and more effective than a lockdown. Instead of ricocheting between an unsustainable shutdown and a dangerous, uncertain return to normalcy, the U.S. could mount a sustainable strategy with better tests and maintain a stable course for as long as it takes to develop a vaccine or cure. The country will once more be able to plan for the future, get...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Healthcare, Government, Family, Military, Business, Farmers, Sanctity of Life, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.EVERLASTING GOD - William Murphy

I'm completely astounded at the lack of outrage at China. Instead of being righteously indignant that our coolecrive health is threatened and our that economy is sinking we're worried about being labeled racist for accurately pointing out the origin of "Covid-19". It's the China virus or Wuhan virus. Either will do. We don't ever call epidemics by a scientific name but place if origin. We have been cowed into changing the rightful name of the virus to further insulate who is at fault for this seemingly unending threat and that is the Chinese Communist Party. Yes, it's the Communist Chinese...

the Gary Sinise Foundation has gifted a grant for decontamination units to an east Texas fire and EMS agency. The grant exemplifies the foundation’s mission to look out for the safety of first responders. According to EMS World, Lumberton Fire & EMS in Hardin County, Texas, was on the receiving end of the generous donation and plans to install environmental decontamination units in both the fire station and in the department’s ambulances. Supporting Lumberton Fire & EMS is by no means the first charitable giving that the Gary Sinise Foundation has undertaken since the global outbreak of the virus. On...

A Panola County COVID-19 death has been recorded, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services and Panola County Judge LeeAnn Jones. Jones said the Panola County resident who died was a patient at a Shreveport hospital, and that is where they contracted the virus. The patient died March 30.

As the novel coronavirus spread across the globe and health officials implored the public to use more hand sanitizer to mitigate the potentially deadly pathogen, grocery stores and online retailers saw the product evaporate from their shelves. Desperate first responders and others on the frontlines of the battle against the pandemic grew alarmed, but in walked an unlikely savior: the booze industry, which shifted gears to churn out sanitizer using alcohol it had on hand and following a recipe approved by the World Health Organization. But U.S. federal regulators -- trying to balance safety concerns with a rising demand for...

Using a big data analysis method, a research team from the University of Southampton studied the travel patterns of nearly 5,000,000 people traveling abroad from Wuhan 'before' it was locked down. Italy’s first two confirmed cases of infection were from a Chinese couple. There was also a lady from Wuhan, who was infected with the virus. She disguised her fever by taking medicine and made the trip to France. She boasted online about it while taking a photo of herself at a Michelin-star restaurant. The first confirmed case in Japan was from a Chinese man in his 30s, who had...

Walmart announced it will limit the number of people inside its stores at the same time during the COVID-19 pandemic.....“Starting Saturday, we will limit the number of customers who can be in a store at once. Stores will now allow no more than five customers for each 1,000 square feet at a given time, roughly 20 percent of a store’s capacity,” according to a release. Store employees will start a line at a single-entry door and will tell customers to go there to queue. They will then be allowed in the store one-by-one, according to the company. “Associates and signage...

A wrongful death case against a surgeon can proceed on behalf of an aborted fetus, a state appeals panel ruled on Tuesday. The mother of the fetus, Monique Thomas, underwent elective surgery in March 2016 after telling her doctors she was “potentially pregnant.” After the surgery, the pregnancy was confirmed, but the surgical drugs resulted in a nonviable fetus. Thomas and the fetus’s father, Christopher Mitchell, opted to abort the pregnancy. Then they brought a wrongful death lawsuit against the doctors, Edgard Khoury and Robert Kagan. Cook County Circuit Judge John H. Ehrlich denied the defendants motion to dismiss, but...

An executive order signed by Gov. Eric Holcomb calls for abortion clinics to cancel or postpone elective and non-invasive procedures that is mostly being praised by anti-abortion groups and legislators and viewed with some caution by pro-choice advocates. The executive order, signed March 30, relates to managing Indiana’s health care response during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an effort to conserve personal protective equipment, the order calls for health care facilities, including abortion clinics, to cancel or postpone elective and non-urgent procedures beginning April 1, according to the order. In the order, Holcomb defines an elective and non-urgent procedure as including...

After more than four years of relentless attacks as part of a carefully managed fraud, I believe that 2020 is the year that a number of corrupt former and present government officials begin to get their comeuppance. It also will be the year that their victims begin to receive their public vindication, thanks to Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham. Durham has been investigating for some time now exactly how the Russiagate hoax was begun and kept in operation for so long, even months after President Donald Trump entered the White House. As I said in my...

Steve Bannon’s new film “Claws of the Red Dragon” will be screened at 9 p.m. ET on Sunday, April 5, on China in Focus, a Youtube channel from NTD that provides compelling, first-hand news from China. The 54-minute film seeks to shed light on the connection between Huawei Technologies—the world’s largest maker of telecommunications gear—and China’s ruling Communist Party.....Huawei’s equipment is used by 45 of the 50 biggest global phone carriers, according to an Associated Press Bannon said the film is for helping average citizens to understand how the Chinese regime uses 'Huawei' and the 'Belt and Road Initiative' to...

This is a lengthy article that should be read FROM THE SOURCE, so right-click the link and select "open link in new tab" to keep both sites available. The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs By JIM GERAGHTY, April 3, 2020 1:20 PM There’s no proof the coronavirus accidentally escaped from a laboratory, but we can’t take the Chinese government’s denials at face value. It is understandable that many would be wary of the notion that the origin of the coronavirus could be discovered by some documentary filmmaker who used to live in China. Matthew Tye, who creates YouTube...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) — It has been four weeks since the first positive case of the coronavirus hit Kansas. Now, as more test kits become available, the state is looking to test more people. On Friday, Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Lee Norman said that the state would be receiving hundreds of new test kits that take just 45 minutes to get results. With the new kits the state hopes to not only continue testing individuals with obvious symptoms, but also people who are seemingly healthy. Secretary Norman says that young people are the most common ones spreading...