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A renowned global economist has told 60 Minutes that total society lockdown is not a sustainable long term solution to stopping the spread of coronavirus. Danish political scientist Dr Bjorn Lomborg describes a delicate and difficult balance that needs to be achieved in order to stop the spread of the virus without causing total economic meltdown. But can we stop the spread of coronavirus without destroying global economies?

A recent study conducted in an early "hot spot" of COVID-19 in the Gangelt district of Heinsberg concluded that the actual death rate was 0.37%--one-fifth of Germany's officially reported numbers. In Minnesota, Dr. Scott Jensen says he received a 7-page Center for Disease Control document coaching him to fill out death certificates in a way that overstates the number of COVID-19 deaths. He also suggested that the payment rules giving a hospital a "bonus" for attributing a death to this virus might also skew the official data. White House adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci brushed aside the above reports, calling them...

Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's order closing public school buildings also bans homeschooling, which is unconstitutional, contends a legal non-profit in the state. "The Great Lakes Justice Center calls upon Gov. Whitmer to correct this unconstitutional action and assure parents in Michigan that they may continue to safely home school their own children while the EO is in effect," the organization said in a statement Thursday. The April 2 order states "in-person instruction for pupils in kindergarten through grade 12 … is suspended for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year." It applies to all "non-public ... schools in the...

Virginia-based Smithfield Foods announced Sunday that it is closing its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls until further notice after hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus — a step the head of the company warned could hurt the nation’s meat supply. The announcement came a day after South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken wrote to Smithfield and urged the company to suspend operations for 14 days so that its workers could self-isolate and the plant could be disinfected. The plant, which employs about 3,700 people in the state’s largest city, has become a...

A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Friday, the U.S. and Taiwan militaries said, the same day that Chinese fighter jets drilled in waters close to the democratically-ruled island.

The 39 million N95 masks the Service Employees International Union announced it had discovered turned out to be an elaborate scheme, according to the FBI. In late March, the union rushed out a press release: The union launched an exhaustive search for masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) five days ago in response to pleas from frontline healthcare workers that they need more protection and feel unsafe on the job as they treat the growing number of COVID-19 patients. SEIU-UHW has 97,000 members who work in hospitals across California. Within 48 hours of painstakingly calling leads and potential suppliers,...

QUEENS, New York — On Sunday night, March 15, I started feeling achy. By Monday night, I was achy all over. However, on Tuesday, I felt better, as I did all day Wednesday. On Thursday night, March 19, the aches returned. On Friday, I was sick: I had a fever, ached all over, was extremely lethargic, and lost my appetite. That weekend, as I collapsed on my couch, President Donald J. Trump told journalists that he thought an anti-malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine might be a promising treatment against COVID-19. “I’m not saying it will, but I think that people may...

Bookings for cruises are already on the rise of 2021, according to multiple indicators, despite multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 on cruise ships in 2020. In the past 45 days as multiple cruise ships had serious COVID-19 outbreaks onboard and, in many cases, were stranded for days before finding a place willing to let them dock and offload passengers, CruiseCompete.com saw a 40% increase in its 2021 cruise bookings compared to 2019, the company told the Los Angeles Times.snip And because the vast majority of the cruise lines are not incorporated or based in the US in order to avoid corporate...

Apologies for vanity beforehand - yes I pinged HG for the expected flagellation. Now, as for the main question: Which of these fundamental tenets of progressive socialism is an accepted position on FR? That is, which one of the following 7 bullet points is unlike the others? “Poverty blocks parents performing their duties with full attention. Economic deprivation leads to depression, stress and family dysfunction which directly affects children. Universal basic (guaranteed) income will abolish poverty.” “Gun violence is a human rights issue. Gun violence disproportionately impacts communities of color, women and other marginalized groups in society. Gun control protects...

New York City schools won’t be re-opened until it’s safe to do so — but that doesn’t mean they’ll remain closed until the fall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. Amid a feud with Mayor Bill de Blasio over public access to schools during the coronavirus crisis, Cuomo said they would stay shuttered for the time being. “We’re not going to open any school till it is safe from a public-health point of view,” he said during a news conference in Albany. “Whatever plan we come up with will be driven by data and science.” But Cuomo pointedly rejected de Blasio’s...

Brady | United Against Gun Violence ✔ @bradybuzz First, the Trump administration declared gun stores "essential." Now, the ATF is promoting them to operate “drive-through” windows. Let's be clear, gun stores are NOT McDonalds. You shouldn't be able to buy an AR-15 like you do a burger and fries. https://www.bradyunited.org/press-releases/brady-condemns-atf-guidance-gun-stores-unsafe-indulgent … March For Our Lives ✔ @AMarch4OurLives The ATF is recommending gun stores operate using drive through windows. Support local restaurants, go to their drive throughs instead. We couldn’t have said it better ourselves @bradybuzz, “You shouldn’t be able to buy an AR-15 like you do a burger and fries.”

Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said he would investigate what warnings from the intelligence community and health organizations that President Donald Trump ignored in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. On “real-time oversight,” Schiff said, “We are right now going through our intelligence holdings. What did the intelligence community make us aware of at the end of last year or earlier this year? Other committees are doing like analyses.” He continued, “It is very important, I think, in reviewing the intelligence component to this to realize the intelligence piece is just...

Why aren't the hospitals being over run.? Why are the news organization spouting Craptastic Claims about deaths and attributing them to CCP-19? What are the economic and health ramificiations of continuing down this path? Fauxci thinks we should wait 18 months until a vaccine can be created and distributed? Really? There isn't a cure for this Quinine and Zinc may have some ability to alleviate symptoms

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban believes that despite the negative impact the coronavirus outbreak has had on the U.S., it will result in ‘world-changing’ innovation – and possibly his own run at the presidency. [cut] “People aren’t going to just venture outside. They're not going to go to large gatherings. They're not going to feel confident right off the bat. There’s going to be a lot of trepidation. And that concern is going to lead to people holding back on spending money.” [cut] “When the scientists say it’s safe for my employees to come back to work, that’s when I’ll...

For the win- Covid Game Theory for herd immunity.

The lessons of history strongly suggest that presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden faces almost-guaranteed defeat in the 2020 race come November. “Once you’ve been on the national scene for more than a decade, your odds of winning the presidency are really low,” Sean Trende, a “premier political number cruncher” known for his expertise in analyzing American elections, said in recent remarks to the Washington Free Beacon. It doesn’t help that Biden is a 40-year political veteran who’s already failed twice at capturing a coveted seat at America’s helm. “The second- or third-time runner is part of a broader trend...

VATICAN CITY – On Easter Sunday, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis has called for the consideration of a Universal Basic Wage in a letter to popular movements and community organizations on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic response. “This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out. It would ensure and concretely achieve the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of no worker without rights.”

About 16.4 million mail-in ballots went missing in the 2016 and 2018 elections, data provided to Breitbart News reveals. The data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and the Election Administration and Voting Surveys for 2016 and 2018, provided by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), shows that between the 2016 and 2018 elections, roughly 16.4 million ballots mailed to registered voters went missing. In the 2018 election, about 42.4 million ballots were mailed to registered voters. Of those mailed, more than one million were undeliverable, more than 430,000 were rejected, and nearly 10.5 million went missing. The 2016 election...

John Legend criticized pastors who are choosing to hold in-person services on Easter Sunday in a series of tweets on April 4, saying “don’t let these pastors kill your auntie or grandparent.” The Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter’s Twitter rant began with a tweet that included a story from the Los Angeles Times about a church choir in Washington state that held a rehearsal in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Sixty of the 121 choir members showed up for practice. Three weeks later, 45 had been diagnosed with COVID-19, at least three had been hospitalized and two people were dead.

I'm like most Freepers, I work, still have a job for now, and I save money to a 401k, IRA. My money is still right where it is when this current crash started, but a lot less of it. The US debt is out of control and with these corona virus mega spending bills there is no way that the US will ever come out of debt. One day, the US economy will in fact crash from this mounting debt, it's inevitable given we are not deviating from our path. And when it all comes down it will make the...