Free Republic

Apprised of incidents in which children have been playing inside the homes of friends in their neighborhood, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has issued an immediate cease and desist decree. “Stay-at-home means stay at your home,” she explained. “A neighbor’s home is not your home. Neither you nor your children may enter any home other than your own. Violators are subject to fine or imprisonment. For those who imply that I’ve gone too far, let me remind them that Dr. Michael Ryan, epidemiologist and executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program has recommended forcibly removing family members...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The staff at WorkForce West Virginia continues to try and stay afloat amid a sea of unexpected unemployment claims. The office has been working desperately to keep up with the case load which since the pandemic response started has topped 90,000 new claims in March and another 41,000 in April as of Friday. “We’re doing everything possible to make sure we get the money from unemployment to people who need it most,” said WorkForce West Virginia Acting Commissioner Scott Adkins on Metronews Talkline Saturday. Adkins’ staff has been overwhelmed, but they have adapted and continued making progress....

There has been speculation for weeks around the possibility that the COVID-19 virus hit the United States, and possibly Wyoming, weeks before previously thought, and many more people already have had it and don’t realize it, and those people are now immune. Right now this is just conjecture, but it is worth having the discussion. Buckrail. posted an article on April 9th about a Jackson doctor who shares this belief and has been fairly outspoken about it. Every community seems to have their own local name for it, and in Jackson they call it "that awful JH crud" that was...

By Breitbart. Vice President Joe Biden was documented as being present in the Oval Office for a conversation about the controversial Russia probe between President Obama, disgraced ex-FBI chief James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and other senior officials including Obama’s national security advisor Susan Rice. In an action characterized as “odd” last year by then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Rice memorialized the confab in an email to herself describing Obama as starting “the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo emphatically ruled out speculation that he could replace Joe Biden on the Democratic presidential ticket — or join the ticket as a vice presidential candidate. “That is on one hand flattering," Cuomo said. "On the other hand, it is irrelevant.” He brushed off rumors that some Democratic insiders believe he could be a stronger candidate than Biden to oust President Trump in November. “I’m not running for president. I’m not running for vice president,” he said. “I am staying here.”

A leading German epidemiologist who predicted the coronavirus crisis in Europe is now calling for governments to end the lockdown. But he now believes the lockdown is in danger of going on too long and causing more damage than the virus, and has drawn up a plan for how it can be safely lifted. “It’s impossible to wait for a vaccine,” Prof Kekulé told The Telegraph. “The quickest we could have a vaccine ready is in six months. Based on experience, I’d say the reality is closer to a year. We can’t stay under lockdown for six months to a...

Former Rep. Ron Paul on Thursday called for the firing of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease specialist leading President Trump’s medical response to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Paul, a retired doctor who ran three times for president during his decades in politics, also called Dr. Fauci a “fraud” and encouraged Americans to “quit listening to him.” The former Republican congressman from Texas made the remarks during an internet program he co-hosts, the Ron Paul Liberty Report, after Dr. Fauci slashed the number of Americans projected to die from COVID-19, the infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The...

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" (Matt. 5:6). Your appetite for righteousness should equal your appetite for food and water. David was a man after God's own heart. In Psalm 63:1 he writes, "O God, Thou art my God; I shall seek Thee earnestly; my soul thirsts for Thee, my flesh yearns for Thee, in a dry and weary land where there is no water." He communed with God and knew the blessings of His sufficiency: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. . . . He leads me beside...

The Chinese official who had accused the U.S. military of bringing the novel coronavirus to Wuhan walked back his statement on Tuesday, saying he was only trying to get back at American politicians stigmatizing China. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian held a news conference for the first time in roughly a month, after tweeting on March 12 that it "might be U.S. Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan." His tweet was reported widely by Western media, and his long absence triggered speculation that he had been demoted over the comment. Zhao stressed on Tuesday that "the virus was a...

A Bronx man released from prison by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month amid the spread of the coronavirus has been charged with beating and robbing a 62-year-old man — who was so scared of getting the ailment he refused to take the money back when cops made an arrest. Daniel Vargas, 29, was being held on $50,000 bail on robbery, grand larceny and assault charges after allegedly approaching the elderly victim on Valentine Avenue in the Bronx shortly after 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to a criminal complaint. Vargas allegedly demanded $80 that the man, who was leaving a local bodega...

... “Our choice is not whether we intervene or whether we go back to the normal economy,” says Emil Verner, an economist at MIT’s Sloan School who has recently looked at the flu pandemic of 1918 for insights into today’s outbreak. “Our choice is whether we intervene—and the economy will be really bad now and will be better in the future—versus doing nothing and the pandemic goes out of control and really destroys the economy.” Overall, Verner and his coauthors found that the 1918 pandemic reduced national manufacturing output in the US by 18%; but cities that implemented restrictions earlier...

Biden may still be the nominee after the Dem convention but what if his medical issues become too much to dismiss after Labor Day? The Trump campaign needs to be prepared to defend state laws. Remember the NJ Senate Election in 2002. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/torricellilautenberg-perverting-rule-law

Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied Saturday that New York City schools will be closed for the rest of the year because of the coronavirus, hours after Mayor Bill de Blasio said they would. “There’s been no decision on schools,” Cuomo said in Albany at his daily coronavirus briefing. Cuomo said of de Blasio: “He didn’t close them and he can’t open them.”

SPRING HILL, Fla. - Authorities in Hernando County are investigating after the bodies of an adult and two children were found inside a home. Deputies responded Friday morning to Dunkirk Road. Names have not been released Sheriff Al Nienhuis said his deputies responded to Dunkirk Road at about 10:10 a.m. after receiving a report of a house on fire. One of the deceased children was a pre-teen and the other a teenager, the sheriff said. "Taking the lives of young children is never an option, and so this is a very heart wrenching scene that we're dealing with right now," Nienhuis...

April 11 2020 Holy Saturday Reading I Gn 1:1—2:2 In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw how good the light was. God then separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." Thus evening came, and morning followed—the first day. Then God said, "Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to...

Governor Newsom: California’s COVID-19 peak may be lower than the state expected

Turkey has made significant progress in treating coronavirus patients in the early stages of the disease with the controversial malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, Turkish officials have said. “Turkey had stockpiled one million units of them before the first case appeared in the country,” Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Tuesday evening in a live broadcast, without specifying the name of the drug. A senior Turkish official with knowledge of the stockpile told Middle East Eye that the drug was hydroxychloroquine and that it was being sold under the brand name Plaquenil. “Many countries prescribe this drug to intubated patients,” Koca...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson "continues to make very good progress" in his recovery from coronavirus, a Downing Street spokesman said Saturday. Meanwhile, UK health officials said the death toll from coronavirus has reached 9,875...

Hi Freepers, I just got hold of this message circulating in China's WeChat Messaging System. It is now circulating around Viber, WhatsApp and other messaging system like the Coronavirus itself. This is what the Chicoms have been propagating to people around the world to being condemnation to America and shift the blame from themselves. See below: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ AMERICA's BIOCHEMICAL SOLDIERS The United States must surrender 5 special soldiers who were picked up by the special plane after the Wuhan Military Games! Global Exposure Network Today In the United States, you have to surrender 5 special soldiers who were returned by...

The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years’ tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don’t usually file a tax return. The question is, will those non-filers have a chance to claim their payments before fraudsters do? . . . . In this case, fraudsters would simply need...