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[Catholic Caucus] Baltimore Archbishop’s Tough Love Claims bishops keep faithful away from sacraments out of love A pro-gay bishop is saying locking the faithful out of churches and away from the sacraments is a sign of love. Baltimore Abp. William Lori — in an interview with Crux yesterday — said he and other bishops are "doing something important for the sake of our people, for the love for our people, recognizing how painful it is to have churches closed and not to be able to receive the sacraments." He also says that statewide lockdowns and blocking the faithful from receiving...

What if the White House, EPA, Congress, UN, EU and IPCC acknowledged that climate models are only as good and as accurate as the assumptions built into them? What if – as the months and years went by and we got more real-world temperature, sea level and extreme weather data – we used that information to honestly refine the models? Would the assumptions and therefore the forecasts change dramatically? What if we use real science to help us understand Earth’s changing climate and weather? And base energy and other policies on real science that honestly examines manmade and natural influences...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Kentucky’s Gov. Andy Beshear to “take a step back” on Friday after the governor warned residents that they would be forced to self-quarantine for 14 days if they attended an in-person Easter church service — due to the risk of the spread of the coronavirus. “Taking license plates at church? Quarantining someone for being Christian on Easter Sunday? Someone needs to take a step back here,” he tweeted. Beshear, a Democrat, announced this week that people seen taking part in mass gatherings — including in-person church services — would have license plate numbers taken, which...

ATLANTA, April 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sixty-five percent physicians across the United States said they would prescribe the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to treat or prevent COVID-19 in a family member, according to a new survey released today by Jackson & Coker, one of the country's largest physician staffing firms. Only 11 percent said they would not use the drug at all. Meanwhile, 30 percent of the surveyed doctors said they would prescribe the medications to a family member prior to the onset of symptoms if they had been exposed to COVID-19, a highly contagious virus that causes a...

How about some brainstorming on how to reduce risk for office workers to return to work if not able to telecommute. How about splitting group of employees into high risk and low risk categories and bring back low risk employees that are younger and have no preexisting conditions. Then split the returning group in shifts so that some workers work one day while others work another day. This would reduce the transmission rate by half. Also use testing to determine who is immune and let them come back full time.

Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Stephen Smith shared some very exciting news Wednesday night on The Ingraham Angle. Dr. Smith has been treating coronavirus patients at the Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health in East Orange, New Jersey. Dr. Smith revealed that in his treatment of coronavirus patients he has not seen a single patient severely affected under the age of 70 who was not diabetic, pre-diabetic or obese. Dr. Stephen Smith: The more we see this disease, the more we understand that severe rapid COVID disease especially is in diabetics or prediabetics. We have 19 or 20 patients...

Did you know that Joe Biden is locked in a basement? He is, he said so himself, a couple of days ago, which may be why the New York Post ran this front-page headline Thursday: “SOMEONE WAKE JOE! Tell him he’s the nominee.” With President Trump on live television for a couple of hours every day now, in the interest of fair play and those ancient FCC equal-time rules, it’s imperative to check in occasionally with the 77-year-old nominee of the Democrat party to see what he’s up to in his dotage. In the tradition of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes,...

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. 1 Peter 2:24 KJV If you read First and Second Kings in the Bible you will see whenever Israel would follow and trust in God things would go well and when they turned away from him it would go horribly. They would keep going to worshiping the Ashura trees and Moloch who they would put their babies on red hot metal to burn. They would turn to paganism which surrounded...

Louisville police plan to record license plate numbers of anyone attending church in person on Easter Sunday, the Louisville Courier Journal reported. Cops have asked residents to stay home and avoid even drive-in services, according to the Courier Journal. They plan to give the license plate information to the city’s health department.

Almost 10 percent of the crew of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, while hundreds of test results remain to be reported, the Navy said Friday morning. Of the 92 percent of the crew that has been tested, 447 have tested positive for COVID-19. The Navy is awaiting results for 775 sailors and 339 have yet to be tested, according to a Navy official with knowledge of the tests. The San Diego-based carrier has a total crew of roughly 4,845 service members, including its embarked air wing and command staff. The Roosevelt pulled into...

From an anonymous UPS delivery driver... 5 types of customers since the “rona”: 1) Steve: He has been waiting for this moment his whole life. He has been drinking boilermakers since 10:00 am in his recliner and his AR is within arms reach. He has 6 months provisions in the basement and a bug out bag due west buried in the woods. Steve demands a handshake as I give him his package. He’s sizing me up as I deliver his ammo. Steve will survive this, and he will kill you if he needs to. 2) Brad: He is standing at...

Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson · 1/ Okay, 11 am. Breaking news: it is almost certain more people over 100 have died of #COVID worldwide than under 30 - and more over 90 than under 50. Try to wrap your head around that. We have shut the world for a virus that has killed more CENTENARIANS than people under 30... 2/ How do I know? Well, in general, countries don’t track much data by age on the deaths of people over 85. But some states have reported actual ages; in Florida, 2 of 419 COVID deaths are in people over 100. Here’s...

A former staffer for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has reportedly filed a formal criminal complaint against her former boss with the Washington, D.C. police. Tara Reade, who last month accused the former vice president and longtime senator of sexually assaulting her in 1993 while employed as one of his Senate staffers, told police that Biden “assaulted her in a Senate corridor, shoving his hand under her skirt and penetrating her with his fingers,” Business Insider reported Saturday while also noting that the “statute of limitations for the alleged assault has passed.” “We were alone, and it was the strangest...

Four simple words, but to a nation in lockdown they offer comfort and hope. When the Queen assured us in a public address this week, 'We will meet again', she was quoting from Dame Vera Lynn's most iconic wartime song. In doing so, Her Majesty gave us reason to soldier on in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, with the promise of brighter days and reunions with our loved ones to come. At her home in East Sussex, Dame Vera, who turned 103 last month, listened attentively to Her Majesty's TV broadcast. The two women have a warm affiliation stretching...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZxRPdlozIA The commentator illustrates international stories that show 70% of COVID deaths are men but the reaction by leftists is still about how hard this is on women.

This is the sight that greeted a group of billionaires after they attempted to land in the south of France and travel to their £50,000 a night luxury villa during the coronavirus lockdown. The party of ten, three businessmen, three young women and various staff, were planning to fly by helicopter to a stunning £60m villa called Alang Alang where they would stay during the Covid-19 pandemic. But customs and police officers barred them from stepping off the jet and ordered them to return to the UK following a three-hour standoff on the tarmac. Video obtained by Mail Online -...

“The right to travel is part of the ‘liberty’ of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. If that ‘liberty’ is to be regulated, it must be pursuant to the law-making functions of the Congress...Freedom of movement across frontiers in either direction, and inside frontiers as well, was part of our heritage. Travel abroad, like travel within the country,...may be as close to the heart of the individual as the choice of what he eats, or wears, or reads. Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values”. - U.S. Supreme...

National and local leaders have been and will continue to be scrutinized, and justly so. But global institutions deserve the same scrutiny, because COVID-19 isn't a national issue; it's a global one. As the virus began to leave China, the world looked to the World Health Organization for guidance. The WHO made some relevant health recommendations, but its inability to see the advantage of closing borders proved essential. Fears of promoting xenophobia may have prevented the WHO from doing the right thing.

With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet...

Like her neighbor to the west – which, quips Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, has been "socially distancing the entire 130 years that we have been a state" – Republican Gov. Kristi Noem says she won't shut down South Dakota in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Noem argues South Dakota isn't New York City, and her job is to protect the right of the people to take responsibility and care for themselves and their neighbors. Barrasso, a Republican, said Monday that Wyoming isn't ordering residents to stay home because social distancing already is occurring. Wyoming has just five people per square...