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Michelle Obama and Kerry Washington are imploring the public to avoid buying up all the WIC products in the rush to stockpile groceries during these unprecedented times of social distancing and self-quarantine. WIC products (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) are designed to meet the nutritional and healthcare needs of low-income women, children under the age of five, and breastfeeding women. The 43-year-old “Scandal” and Django Unchained actress took to Twitter to elucidate how important these items are for selected populations: When stocking up for #SocialDistancing…If you see something labeled “WIC” please chose another brand. People who...

During an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week," presidential candidate Joe Biden said that he would follow the CDC's new recommendation to wear a mask when in public and urged President Trump to do the same. "I think it’s important to follow the science. Listen to the experts. Do what they tell you," Biden said. "I don't think I'm going to be doing it," President Trump said Friday. "Wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens; I just don't see it." "He may not like how he looks in a mask, but the truth of...

Chelsea Clinton on Friday appeared to mock White House senior adviser Jared Kushner for not having the sufficient medical expertise needed for a role in President Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force. In a tweet, the former first daughter said she kept thinking how even she ― with her academic experience in public health and health systems ― was not qualified to lead a national effort to combat the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Kushner, however, has reportedly taken on a significant role in the federal response to the pandemic that has sickened more than 277,000 people...

The United States Penitentiary (USP) Lompoc is reporting 17 inmates and 2 staff members infected with coronavirus (COVID-19) as of Saturday. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is currently reporting 120 inmates and 54 staff members have tested positive throughout its 22 penitentiaries throughout the United States. As of Saturday, Lompoc is rated third in the highest number of COVID-19 positive cases in all prisons followed by Danbury, CT and Oakdale, LA. Lompoc's Prison houses 975 inmates as a medium-security U.S. penitentiary with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp.In order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has...

New York was facing a $6 billion budget deficit even before the COVID-19 pandemic swept in to deliver a potential $10 billion blow to the state’s coffers. But Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters on Tuesday he was proud that he and the state’s lawmakers were still able to craft a “robust budget,” despite the circumstances. “This is a particularly difficult budget because there is no money and there is much fear and there is much stress,” Cuomo said. “When we did the state of the state, we had a lot of policy ideas, a lot of reforms for this state...

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President Donald Trump previewed a difficult period ahead of the coronavirus infection peak on Saturday at the White House. “We are really coming up onto a time that’s going to be horrendous,” Trump said. He noted that the United States had not experienced a situation like a coronavirus crisis before. “We’re getting to that point where it’s going to really be … some very bad numbers,” Trump said. Currently, there are over 8,400 deaths from coronavirus. New York has over 3,500 deaths from the virus and New Jersey has 846 deaths. Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted Saturday that New York had...

General Motors will work with Honda to design and develop two electric vehicles using GM’s new EV platform, the automakers announced Thursday. Details on what type of vehicles they are building were not revealed, but Honda will design the bodies and interiors and expects to start selling them in North America by 2024. Honda is already an investor in GM’s Cruise autonomous car division, and they have previously worked together on battery technology. Honda recently said it would discontinue sales of the electric version of its Clarity model, which was the only all-electric car it sold in the U.S. …

The Democratic presidential candidates took part in a debate in Charleston, South Carolina Tuesday night, February 25, 2020. Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, and Mike Bloomberg participated in the debate. ..... This is the last Democratic Debate before the South Carolina Primaries and Super Tuesday.

There are now only nine states in America that are not under stay-at-home orders by their governors. Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arkansas,, and South Carolina are now the only states where residents are not under orders to only leave their homes for “essential” purposes. “The contrast is the starkest in five states — Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota,, and South Dakota — where there are no such orders in place, either in major cities or statewide. Another four had partial restrictions issued locally in certain cities or counties,” the New York Times reports. Is this...

“The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.” Such masterful writing shines like a beacon, cutting through the swirling unintelligent abyss that is Twitter. Thomas Sowell’s words are, as always, both succinct and accurate, and are no more relevant to our lives than today. Not only are many of those who contribute nothing to society often the ones to be allocated the most...

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who warned five years ago that the world’s greatest threat was a pandemic, believes that the current coronavirus crisis is “a nightmare scenario,” but said social distancing and a strong national response can keep casualties lower than the numbers projected by President Trump. Trump predicted that the U.S. could see between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from COVID-19 before the outbreak is under control.

Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Michael Brown. In the midst of the global Coronavirus pandemic, as we all pray and guard our behaviors in order to ensure the health and safety of ourselves and of our neighbors to prevent its spreading, noted anti-Semitic “Christian pastor” and “broadcaster” Rick Wiles has proven that while there will be a cure for Coronavirus, there is no cure for the older and no less deadly virus of Jew-hatred. Most recently, Wiles said that the Coronavirus is spreading via synagogues and is a punishment from God. “Stay out of those things, there’s a...

"The US surgeon general on Sunday warned Americans that the coming week will be the “hardest and the saddest” in most people’s lives due to the coronavirus pandemic — comparing it to Pearl Harbor and 9/11." I wish the Surgeon General would just can the hyperbole. He's making a broad brush statement without any regard to what he knows about people's lives. I'm pretty sure that a family that has lost a young child or the sudden death of a parent is the "hardest and the saddest" for many people. If he meant something different then he expressed it inartfully....

WASHINGTON - More than two months into what President Donald Trump calls a "war" against COVID-19, his administration's efforts to combat the deadly disease, along with its disastrous effects on the U.S. economy, are often creating more problems than they solve. Bidding wars for life-saving equipment, a power struggle between Trump's son-in-law and the vice president, political gamesmanship, the centralization of authority and decentralization of accountability, and the creation of new government programs while standing bureaucracies are ignored, have all contributed to chaos within the political, economic and health care systems. Banks haven't been able to process loan applications for...

The George H.W. Bush Foundation has helped donate two million masks to China despite American healthcare workers approaching dire shortages of the vital equipment, and the American public now being advised to wear masks. In partnership with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the U.S.-China Business Council, the foundation “sourced” the sizable donation. American companies Chubb and Walmart also contributed, and FedEx comped shipping fees.A LinkedIn post described the eveMeanwhile, China’s reaction to the onset of the pandemic was to poach vast quantities of medical supplies from other countries.A company insider at the Chinese Communist Party affiliated developer Greenland Group...

In defending his strategy against the deadly coronavirus, President Donald Trump repeatedly has said he slowed its spread into the United States by acting decisively to bar travelers from China on Jan. 31. “I was criticized by the Democrats when I closed the Country down to China many weeks ahead of what almost everyone recommended. Saved many lives,” he tweeted, for instance, on March 2. But Reuters has found that the administration took a month from the time it learned of the outbreak in late December to impose the initial travel restrictions amid furious infighting. During that time, the National...

Ignore the hype about Coronavirus. Go to Chinatown. Enjoy the Lunar New Year.. I recall reading about New York City's director of health, or some such, making the above statement. His statement seemed to reflect the cavalier attitude of New Yorkers, but I can't find the thread/reference. Can some Freeper post the link? Thanks.

Elon Musk’s prediction of multiple failures of SpaceX’s Starship program came true again on Thursday with a different kind of utter destruction. The SN3 prototype of the silo-like vehicle that is purported to be the future of interplanetary space travel this time appeared to implode before collapsing in a heap of twisted stainless steel. The massive cylinder was undergoing a critical pressure test of the fuel tanks using supercooled nitrogen. It appears a leak occurred and that caused the stubby structure to collapse before a major breach ended its role as a prototype. “We will see what data review says...

The Netherlands has tried to adopt an "intelligent lockdown", but the infection is spreading rapidly and it has one of the world's highest mortality rates from the pandemic. The Dutch have also been accused of failing to show solidarity with countries in southern Europe hit hardest by coronavirus. So what are the Dutch trying to achieve and how has stricken Italy reacted? The Dutch are among the few openly embracing the contentious idea of group or herd immunity. It's an approach characterised by one Dutch global health expert as cold and calculated. Having shunned the stricter measures of neighbouring states...