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If you're smoking weed to ease your stress during the coronavirus pandemic, experts say it's time to think twice. Smoking marijuana, even occasionally, can increase your risk for more severe complications from Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. "What happens to your airways when you smoke cannabis is that it causes some degree of inflammation, very similar to bronchitis, very similar to the type of inflammation that cigarette smoking can cause," said pulmonologist Dr. Albert Rizzo, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. "Now you have some airway inflammation and you get an infection on top of...

Recently, Rush Limbaugh was off the air for several days to undergo chemotherapy for stage 4 lung cancer. Initially he did well on chemo but then serious side effects kicked in. His legs swelled to where he needed a wheelchair. He developed blood clots, a high fever and other severe reactions. He had to stop the chemo But Rush points out the irony, the chemo was working, killing the cancer. Yet his body couldn’t tolerate the treatment. That’s because Chemotherapy works by destroying malignant cells faster than healthy cells. Yet it does kill normal cells, healthy cells which can ravage...

President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday held a surprise meeting with the Marseille-based French medical professor who has caused controversy within the country’s scientific community for insisting the anti-malaria drug chloroquine can beat the coronavirus. Professor Didier Raoult met Macron at his specialised infectious diseases hospital in Marseille, in a visit that was not announced in advance, the French presidency said. The meeting lasted three and a half hours and, unusually, media were allowed no access. The findings of Raoult, a prominent figure in France, have divided opinion, with some hailing him as a savior but others deriding his work as...

Activist and former actress Alyssa Milano took to Twitter to issue her version of a public service announcement on Thursday. She used her platform to give her audience advice on how to stay safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. Her advice was simple: practice social distancing, wash your hands, and donÂ’t buy guns. ThatÂ’s right, dear reader. Milano, reacting to the news about the sudden surge in gun purchases, advised the American public to refrain from buying weapons during the crisis. She created a brand new hashtag to support her causeÂ…because of course she did. The brand spanking new hashtag, #StopTheCoronavirusGunSurge...

The French government could provide up to €20 billion in fresh capital to help companies hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday. “We have decided to put €20 billion into a special (state) fund in order to be able to support all those companies which might need it,” Le Maire said on Europe 1 radio. The funds will be included in a new budget plan due to be submitted to ministers next week. […] “As regards Air France, we are ready, when the time comes… to intervene,” Le Maire said. Separately, the head...

Many local sports fans are still trying to come to terms with the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies haven’t played a single game, thanks to the coronavirus. But the coronavirus couldn’t possibly affect the Eagles season, right? After all, it’s only April. And the Eagles don’t start playing real football for several months. But a leading doctor at the University of Pennsylvania says that if you’re planning on sitting inside the Linc and cheering the Eagles on (or, well, perhaps booing them off the field) in the fall, you better make other plans. Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel is not just another...

The Greifswald higher court said the regional government's travel ban was "disproportionate" in curbing people's local freedom. Germans from other regions remain banned from the coast. The Mecklenburg-West Pomerania government has accepted the decision. But the government urged locals to stay 2m (6.6ft) apart to avoid contagion. Temperatures on Germany's Baltic coast are set to climb above 20C on Sunday and forecasters say it will be a sunny Easter weekend. Lockdowns are in force across Germany, but the restrictions vary from state to state. The toughest measures have been imposed in Bavaria and the Saarland.

Underground Bishop Unbowed Chinese prelate blesses Communist persecutors, holds fast to Faith MINDONG, China (ChurchMilitant.com) - Faithful clergy are being picked off one by one as the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) reign of terror continues, ratcheting up since the China-Vatican agreement of 2018.    Bishop Vincenzo Guo Xijin, former head of the diocese of Mindong, was literally kicked to the curb in recent months, sleeping outside the clergy house in Luojiang for remaining faithful to the Faith.  Out of fear of bad publicity, CCP authorities are now allowing Bp. Guo to continue to live in the house — without water, electricity or gas. In spite...

Attorney General William Barr has revealed that U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation, into the origins of claims of Russian collusion against President Donald Trump, has uncovered evidence "far more troubling" than what could be explained away as "mistakes or sloppiness."AG Barr shed new light on Durham’s review of the Russia investigation during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday night.

"U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Friday that most places in the United States would not be able to open up by May 1 amid the novel coronavirus outbreak."

Thousands of Romanian seasonal workers on Friday waited to board chartered planes to Germany after the government decided to allow the flights despite the new coronavirus pandemic. Around 300,000 seasonal workers travel to Germany each year, mainly from Poland and Romania, to help with fruit and vegetable harvests, according (to the) German Farmers’ Association. On Thursday, images of some 1,800 seasonal workers waiting shoulder to shoulder in a packed parking lot at the airport in Cluj-Napoca in central Romania were shared widely on television and on social media. Authorities are investigating whether the crowd breached strict social distancing and other...

The first results from a study by a German virologist show a significantly lower death rate from COVID-19 than the one that is widely reported, and may be a step toward easing restrictions on individuals and businesses going forward. What's the study? The COVID-19 case cluster study was led by Dr. Hendrik Streeck of the Bonn University Institute of Virology. It was done in the Gangelt district of Heinsberg, one of the earliest places to experience the spread of the coronavirus in Germany. About 1,000 people participated in the study by way of questionnaires, throat swabs, and blood tests to...

The first documentary movie on the origin of #CCPVirus, Tracking Down the Origin of the #WuhanCoronavirus. The CCP virus, which originated from #China, has rampaged through the world and caused more than 80,000 deaths, infecting at least 1.4 million. The true number of deaths and infections is unknown due to the underreporting of cases from mainland China. In the new documentary presented by The Epoch Times and NTD, Epoch Times investigative reporter Joshua Philipp takes an in-depth look at the progression of the pandemic from January to April and leads us on a journey of discovery to bring the truth...

Families cannot travel for Easter. And now the Democrat governor is calling on Home Depot and Lowes to shut down to close certain sections like flooring, garden centers and plant nurseries. Longer article....we now live in a dictatorship... https://www.crainsdetroit.com/coronavirus/whitmer-extends-covid-19-stay-home-order-april-30-puts-limits-customer-counts-stores

These days everybody seems to be talking about the Netflix documentary series ‘Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness’ and the eccentric character known as ‘Joe Exotic’. The series focuses on the little-known but deeply interconnected society of big cat conservationists and collectors in America, exploring the private zoos and sanctuaries they’ve set up for these unusual and deadly pets. Long before anyone ever heard of Mr. Exotic though, there was a real life Tiger Lady raising 450 pound Bengal tigers and terrifying local resident in the suburbs of Jackson, NJ During a New Jersey winter, wildlife sightings are not uncommon....

Major League Baseball is considering a plan that would eliminate the traditional National League and American League alignments for the 2020 regular season if and when it takes place, a high-ranking official told Bob Nightengale of USA TODAY Sports. Under this scenario, all 30 teams would return to their spring training facilities in Florida and Arizona. The teams would only play games in their respective states and with no fans in attendance. The divisions would be realigned based on the proximity of spring ballparks for ease of travel during the COVID-19 outbreak.

One of the longest chapters in the New Testament is 1st Corinthians 15 where the apostle Paul sets forth a series of arguments to teach his wayward church in Corinth about the reality of the resurrection of the dead. Written from Ephesus (16:8) in roughly 56 A.D., 1st Corinthians is one of the few letters that have not been questioned with regard to its authenticity. Even the primary guru of German radical historical higher criticism, F. C. Bauer (1792-1860), who superimposed Hegel’s (1770-1831) philosophy of history as an interpretive grid over the top of the New Testament documents to rearrange...

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In early March, before medical and infectious disease experts were fully aware of the havoc the novel coronavirus was already wreaking in New York City — what would soon become the nation’s epicenter of COVID-19 — Dr. Jake Deutsch was ailed by a low-grade fever, body aches, and general malaise. Already treating dozens of patients with “flu-like” symptoms at Cure Urgent Care, a walk-in clinic that he founded, Deutsch was suspicious he may have been exposed to the novel virus that was making headlines in the U.S. and beyond, as his patients were testing negative for the flu. At the...

A video showing African children chanting racist slogans in Chinese sparked a wave of anger on social media when it was posted in mid-February. The FRANCE 24 Observers team investigated this video as well as the wider Chinese market for videos of African children. On 16 February, the Ghanaian YouTuber Wode Maya posted a video that one of his followers had sent him. The first few seconds of the video show a group of 18 children wearing red outfits decorated with what appear to be white dragons. In the middle of the group, there is a blackboard with a phrase...