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Joyce Sanz recently called Comcast hoping to reduce the $164 each month her family pays for cable television and internet. An after-school program manager at an elementary school in Miami, Sanz wanted to trim expenses in case the economic fallout related to the coronavirus pandemic lasts months. Sanz said she asked the Comcast customer service representative for a discount or deferred payment options. No dice. She asked to be charged the prices offered to new customers. No can do. Finally, she spotted a specific line on her bill. “I am paying a sports fee,” she told the representative, recalling the...

Following reports that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are under evaluation , drug companies are donating doses and planning for ramping up supply. Bayer announced in a March 19, 2020 press release that it will donate 3 million tablets of the drug Resochin (chloroquine phosphate). It is currently not approved for use in the United States. . . Novartis announced in a March 20, 2020 press release that it will donate up to 130 million doses of generic hydroxychloroquine and thatit is exploring scaling of capacity to increase supply. Novartis Sandoz division currently only holds a registration for hydroxychloroquine in the US...

George Lazenby washed his hands and car windows Sunday as the former James Bond star stopped at a gas station in Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 80-year-old Australian actor donned a red sweater over a grey shirt along with dark blue jeans and blue sneakers while making a pit stop in the Brentwood area. George was spotted using a squeegee to clean his windows and drying his hands with a paper towel after cleaning them.

On July 13, 2003 the television show "The Dead Zone" season 2 episode 14, "Plague" aired. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0556179/ In that episode a Chinese stewardess smuggling drugs brings over a viral pneumonia caused by a Cantonese AB6 retro virus starting a epidemic in America which starts killing thousands like it did in China. Johnny Smith, using his ability to see glimpses of the future from things he touches, infects himself with the virus to find out how it is eventually cured. He sees the doctors talking at his own autopsy: Man: Look at how it spread through all the major organs. Not...

Go to the 2 minute and 20 second mark. Go to the 4 minute and 20 second mark to see the fake stream news report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtNH3OBBmL4&feature=emb_title  

The “Donald Trump/Mike Pence Prayer Vigil” and “Pray for our American Heroes" Prayer Thread have Combined to Form the AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL Prayer Thread! Join with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for our PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. 'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14 Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind. Psalm 89:13 Thou hast a Mighty Arm: Strong is Thy Hand, and High is...

The Guardian, UK press, report that Johnson's doctors are concerned about the PM;s breathing. The rumour of ventilator support is not from The Guardian

Michael Atkinson broke his silence Sunday saying he's "disappointed and saddened" at President Trump's late-night decision just a day earlier to fire him from his watchdog post in the intelligence community. "It is hard not to think that the president's loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial inspector general, and from my commitment to continue to do so," Atkinson wrote in a two-page statement. The watchdog had alerted Congress to concerns about a Trump phone call with the president of Ukraine – a matter that led to the...

An editorial in The Detroit News slammed Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, accusing her of playing politics during the coronavirus pandemic. “Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must send an unequivocal message to her constituents that Michigan is her priority in this hour of crisis,” the editorial, which was published on Saturday, said. “Her running feud with President Donald Trump calls into question whether she's acting in the best interests of this state, or on behalf of the Democratic Party.” “Unfortunately she's sending conflicting signals about her priorities and motivations,” the article continued.

April 06 2020 Monday of Holy Week Reading 1 Is 42:1-7 Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, Upon whom I have put my Spirit; he shall bring forth justice to the nations, Not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street. A bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, Until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching.Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spreads out the...

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is pitching a medicine for COVID-19 sufferers that science has not concluded is effective or safe for their use. “Take it,” he said of the drug. For people sick with the coronavirus, he said Sunday, “It can help them but it’s not going to hurt them.” In fact, it may or may not help some people, and it may or may not hurt them. His straight-ahead advocacy of hydroxychloroquine,...

Michael Atkinson, the outgoing intelligence community inspector general fired by President Trump on Friday, says he believes the president dismissed him because of his commitment to his duty as an impartial watchdog. "It is hard not to think that the President's loss of confidence in me derives from my having faithfully discharged my legal obligations as an independent and impartial Inspector General, and from my commitment to continue to do so," Atkinson said in a statement released Sunday night that was obtained by several news outlets and shared on social media. Trump fired Atkinson in a memo on Friday, explaining...

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her husband are cashing in already on $5 million of Amazon stock purchased during the time frame that closed-door coronavirus meetings were being conducted in Congress. As of Tuesday morning, the Pelosi stock purchase had already earned the couple $1.1 million in less than 10 weeks. The Amazon share price climbed close to $2,000 on Tuesday. Paul Pelosi, the speaker’s husband, got in at a price of $1,600 per share and grabbed 3,000 shares on Jan. 17, according to financial disclosure filings. Additionally, Paul Pelosi held 40 additional call options on Amazon stock...

The price of eggs is going up. There's been a run on eggs and other commodities at grocery stores the law of supply and demand in play. Reports of higher egg prices in the last week but if you haven't seen it on the shelf, get ready, it is coming..... Those OPEC+ talks among oil producing nations aren't happening tomorrow as originally thought. That's the word from the oil minister of the Central Asian nation of Azerbaijan..... President Trump meanwhile continuing his efforts to keep the price of oil as high as possible with Russia and Saudi Arabia opening up...

Highlights • Ivermectin is an inhibitor of the COVID-19 causative virus (SARS-CoV-2) in vitro. • A single treatment able to effect ∼5000-fold reduction in virus at 48h in cell culture. • Ivermectin is FDA-approved for parasitic infections, and therefore has a potential for repurposing. • Ivermectin is widely available, due to its inclusion on the WHO model list of essential medicines. Abstract Although several clinical trials are now underway to test possible therapies, the worldwide response to the COVID-19 outbreak has been largely limited to monitoring/containment. We report here that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved anti-parasitic previously shown to have broad-spectrum anti-viral...

Infectious Disease Modeling: What’s the Track Record? The London Times has a fascinating story on the tiny, incestuous world of infectious disease modelers. It begins with the two modeling outfits in Great Britain: Oxford University and Imperial College, London. We have all learned about Imperial as the source of the two wildly conflicting estimates that the British government has relied on. Now an Oxford professor is questioning Imperial’s model: The first public signs of academic tensions over Imperial’s domination of the debate came when Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford University, published a paper suggesting that some of...

Until now, I have generally been reluctant to label Donald Trump the worst president in U.S. history. As a historian, I know how important it is to allow the passage of time to gain a sense of perspective. Some presidents who seemed awful to contemporaries (Harry S. Truman) or simply lackluster (Dwight D. Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush) look much better in retrospect. Others, such as Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson, don’t look as good as they once did. So I have written, as I did on March 12, that Trump is the worst president in modern times — not of...

As we’re well into the crisis now, health experts are warning us to protect ourselves at all costs. But some people have taken the warning a little too literally. It turns out, there’s virtually nothing some of us wouldn’t do (or wear) in order to keep the virus at bay. As a result, DIY-at-home protective gear has now been spotted all around the aisle runways. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the coronapocalyptic look, which is both a fashion statement and a major faux pas. But the people sporting it couldn’t care less. Kitchen sponges, diving masks, and full-length tarpaulin suits—you...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has come under increased pressure to lift his executive order prohibiting pharmacists from dispensing the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine outside a hospital or inpatient setting to treat the novel coronavirus. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he recently witnessed an elderly man with a high fever arrive at Mount Sinai Hospital, “and the first thing they did before they even talked to him was give him hydroxychloroquine.” “Why is the governor banning it?” asked Mr. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “Everything shows that it works.” Touted by Mr....

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Booker T Washington. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Booker T Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half...