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...James Bullard, CEO of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve, was recently on CBS’s Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan to talk about the state of the economy and what could be done to stem the outbreak of the virus. Toward the end of the interview, Bullard says, “You know, I have good news for you, MARGARET, because we have a- there is a solution using available technology today to fix the economic part of this problem. The solution is universal testing. What you want is every single person to get tested every day. And then they would...

Police arrested David Benham and his son Saturday and said he violated coronavirus distancing orders while offering sidewalk counseling outside a North Carolina abortion clinic — an incident he said was targeted. Benham, who started the pro-life sidewalk counseling service Cities4Life in 2010, told the Daily Caller News Foundation he received a call from some of the sidewalk counselors Saturday morning saying there were police outside Preferred Women’s Health Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Benham is a Christian entrepreneur and former professional baseball player who gained media attention after he and his brother Jason Benham’s reality HGTV show was canceled...

Focused prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases may reduce the burden of multimorbidity in people living with HIV (PLWHIV) who have mood disorders and multimorbidity, particularly metabolic syndrome, according to a study recently published in Clinical Science. In the general population, underlying psychiatric disease has been associated with increased rates of noncommunicable disease, including renal disease, liver disease, cerebrovascular disease, and cardiovascular disease. One potential mechanism of this association is that adults with mood disorders may have higher levels of markers of systemic inflammation and alterations in adaptive immunology. In PLWHIV, the pathogenesis of noncommunicable disease is complex and involves...

The last 5 days of U.S. new death numbers show no statistically significant rise (the slope is smaller than its standard error). A logistic fit to daily cumulative deaths since March 12 puts the peak rate at yesterday (with an eventual final total of 19,000 deaths).

COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) – South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued a mandatory “Home or Work Order” Monday requiring residents to stay home unless they are working, visiting family, recreation, or obtaining necessary goods and services. The governor also limited the total number of customers allowed in businesses to no more than five per 1,000 square feet or 20 percent of capacity, whichever is lower. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is reporting 183 new coronavirus cases in the state bringing the total to 2,232. DHEC is also reporting four additional coronavirus-related deaths in the state bringing the...

As our readers know, I have written quite a bit about a certain Pastor/Evangelist named Rodney Howard Browne. I have articles < a HREF="https://billrandles.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/corona-rodney-howard-browne-and-jeremiah/">Here, and here and as well I wrote a Book called “Weighed And Found Wanting;putting the Toronto Blessing in Context” which discusses Howard Browne’s Theology. I regard him as a mystic, a gnostic and a dangerous heretic. Howard Browne induces thousands of people into states of “Spiritual Drunkenness”, trances, and other mystical states to varying degree. He calls himself “God’s Bartender”, and boasts of hosting Revivals at “Joel’s Place”, which is a pun off of the Book...

Chinese state media has been flooding Facebook and Instagram with undisclosed political ads blaming President Donald Trump for the Wuhan coronavirus. Facebook said in a statement that it was an “error” that the ads were not classified as political and is correcting them. The Telegraph reports that Chinese state media has been posting undisclosed political ads to Facebook and Instagram in an attempt to downplay China’s role in the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic and blaming President Donald Trump. Three Chinese state media outlets, Xinhua, China Central Television, and the Global Times, have targeted ads towards users across the world in English,...

Wild conspiracy theories linking 5G networks to the coronavirus pandemic are being blamed for a spate of attacks on UK cellphone towers — and are even being spread by celebrities such as Woody Harrelson. Fires at towers in Birmingham, Liverpool and Belfast have all been blamed on the conspiracy theories, UK officials said. The theories have ranged from 5G signals causing the virus, to the contagion being started as a cover-up for health maladies related to the networks. UK Cabinet Minister Michael Gove damned the tales as “dangerous nonsense” while noting that the damaged phone lines are crucial for emergency...

Monday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus said instead of impeaching President Donald Trump. Congress should have been investigating the coronavirus pandemic in China in January. Marcus said, “I think that look this president has been hit with something that no president has ever had to deal with. I just resent the people that are going after him now. They are already talking about another impeachment. I hate to tell you that, that Adam Schiff is already investigating this.” Bartiromo said, “You are hitting on something that is really important because, for three years,...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A federal appeals court in Cincinnati, for now, has declined to get involved with a lawsuit over how abortion providers in Ohio can continue to provide their services amid a public-health order restricting non-essential surgeries during the coronavirus pandemic. A three-judge panel from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday issued an order dismissing Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s appeal of a ruling from Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett issued last week. The ruling temporarily blocked Ohio officials from using Health Director Dr. Amy Acton’s health order to completely bar women from access to...

---SNIP--- First, Biden, unlike Trump, understands that a president must model good behavior. In his ABC interview, he said he would be willing to wear a mask in public, something Trump announced he would not do, undercutting the recommendation of experts. “I think it’s important to follow the science, listen to the experts, do what they tell you,” Biden said. “He may not like how he looks in a mask, but the truth of the matter is that — follow the science. That’s what they’re telling us.” A president, you see, puts vanity aside, supports his own scientists and understands...

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday rejected a petition by a far left group that calls itself the “Free Press” demanding an investigation of broadcasters carrying talk radio and airing live President Trump’s daily COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus task force briefings with the goal of censoring Trump and conservative talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh. The petition accused Trump of pushing a hoax by promoting the possible treatment of the coronavirus by a commonly used drug and accused Limbaugh and other talk radio hosts of downplaying threat of the virus. FCC Chief of Staff Matthew Berry succinctly summarized the response to the...

Specifically because President Trump has noted the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 the media are therefore against it. It doesn’t matter that it works; it doesn’t matter that it saves lives; the mere fact that President Trump supports it means the entire resistance operation must be against it. That’s the current scale of TDS. However, non-political medical professionals, and some democrat governors who don’t want the run the political risk of killing their constituents simply to keep their resistance bona-fides, are admitting the treatment does work. Today New York Governor Andrew Cuomo admitted to asking the federal...

The official coronavirus numbers from Iran show more than 60,000 people infected and nearly 4,000 deaths. As I’ve written previously, there’s good reasons to suspect those numbers may not be accurate. Yesterday a spokesman for Iran’s health ministry suggested that China’s coronavirus data was a “bitter joke.” His comments created a minor international squabble which played out on Twitter...

As Americans are urged and even ordered to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic, pro-life activists have been facing numerous attacks on their right to be outside in front of abortion businesses while following social distancing requirements. To date, six different incidents have unfolded involving pro-lifers and police in the last two weeks. Charlotte, North Carolina On Saturday, April 4, in Charlotte, North Carolina, pro-life activists were arrested for allegedly breaking the state’s Stay-at-Home order prohibiting mass gatherings in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The activists were outside of A Preferred Women’s Health Center on Latrobe Drive to act...

This article justifies use of HCQ in mgt of hidradenitis suppurtiva. Pharmacies in NYS can, thus, dispense HCQ to patients with diagnosed HS. HS is a /forme fruste/ of SLE. HS is aka Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease, Latent Lupus, or Incomplete Lupus

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today (April 6) establishing U.S. policy on the exploitation of off-Earth resources. That policy stresses that the current regulatory regime — notably, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty — allows the use of such resources. This view has long held sway in U.S. government circles. For example, the United States, like the other major spacefaring nations, has not signed the 1979 Moon Treaty, which stipulates that non-scientific use of space resources be governed by an international regulatory framework. And in 2015, Congress passed a law explicitly allowing American companies and citizens to use moon...

Pastor Russell Schwarz of the Fellowship Bible Church in San Antonio, TX is calling for a day of fasting and prayer to combat the coronavirus and ask for the Lord's intervention in this world crisis. Here is his email: ============================== IT IS TIME TO FAST AND PRAY!! "'Even now,' declares the Lord, 'return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.' Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity." - Joel 2:12-13 I am calling on all to join...

Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania (PPSP) has suspended all of its “in person family planning visits” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic — except for abortion. A sign taped to the facility door, photographed by pro-lifer Dr. Monique Ruberu, announced Planned Parenthood’s decision to forgo its actual health care services in favor of abortion during the pandemic. “[S]o much for ‘abortions aren’t all we do’,” Ruberu wrote on Facebook. “… it’s ALL they do now.” The sign states that all of PPSP’s facilities would be closed effective March 25th — about a week after Gov. Tom Wolf called for all...