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18 page scribd link: Guideline for Opening Up America Again

“Hello, old chap, you got stuck with the big decision, didn't you?" ”Donald wheeled suddenly and said:“Why, it’s you, Andrew! I warn’t noticing.” “Say—I’m swimming in glowing press, I am. Don’t you wish you were? But of course you’d druther work on reopening the economy — wouldn’t you? Even if people gonna criticize you if it ain't picture perfect afterwards.” Donald contemplated the Governor a bit, and said: “What do you call work?” “Why, ain’t that work? ”Donald resumed his hard work, and answered carelessly: “Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain’t. All I know, is, it suits Donald Trump.” “Oh come, now,...

None of it happened. Dennehy had served in the US Marine Corps between 1958 and 1963 but did not set foot in Vietnam. The closest he came to combat was playing inter-service American football in Okinawa. Dennehy publicly apologised for his deception in 1999. But there are reports that he continued telling embellished stories of courage under fire to anyone silly enough to listen. Once an actor …

Just one day after the Trump administration announced it wanted to bring live sports back, the city of Los Angeles, which has at least one team in each of the country's four major sports leagues, is reportedly planning on not having any live sports until next year. A report from the Los Angeles Times reveals that an internal Los Angeles Fire Department email has the city holding off on mass gatherings until 2021

My parents have passed, but if they were in an infected nursing home/retirement community I would want to get him out.

Hang in there folks. Yes, it is new. Understand some things are more powerful than the markets of the World. It can be a welcome relief....... (yes, I lost half my net worth)

April 17 2020 Friday in the Octave of Easter Reading 1 Acts 4:1-12 After the crippled man had been cured, while Peter and John were still speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple guard, and the Sadducees confronted them, disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. They laid hands on Peter and John and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening. But many of those who heard the word came to believe and the number of men grew to about...

The service of Matins for Great and Holy Friday (served on the night of Great Thursday) including the reading of the Twelve Gospels of the Passion. (English appx 3 hrs)

Key Points * China’s COVID-19 figures are not arithmetically sensible. The Communist Party has deliberately made estimation difficult, but, outside of Wuhan city and Hubei province, cases are low by a factor of 100 or more. * In late January, Chinese media provided information about migrant outflow from Wuhan before quarantine. Using a lower number than theirs, then conservative figures for migrants’ infection rate and time in circulation before national lockdown, generates an estimate of 2.9 million cases. * This is partly due to China’s huge population. That population can also hide COVID-19 among tens of millions of respiratory illnesses....

Harbin city in northern China is facing a second wave of the CCP virus outbreak. Locals have reported long queues in front of hospitals, while traffic police have blocked vehicles from entering local highways, and hospitals announced new rules to prevent the CCP virus from spreading. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, first broke out in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province, in December 2019. From January, the virus quickly spread to other Chinese cities. Harbin is the capital of northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province. The city enacted partial lockdown measures last week. And...

A Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was visited by representatives from its Chinese Communist Party-tied parent company one month before the first COVID-19 case was confirmed at the facility, according to three employees. After the first illness was confirmed at the plant on March 26, the facility quickly became the epicenter of the state’s outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem wrote in an April 11 letter that 238 plant employees had contracted the virus, accounting for 38 percent of the state’s confirmed...

The EU Has Failed Europe over Coronavirus by Con Coughlin April 16, 2020 at 5:00 am All the evidence suggests that the majority of European governments are ignoring the EU's advice, and acting unilaterally to tackle the impact of the pandemic on their citizens. The divergence in approach among various member states indicates that European leaders are -- as they have been from the outset -- acting selfishly in their own national interest rather than for the good of the EU as a whole. It also means they are in breach of some of the EU's fundamental principles, such as...

BREAKING: Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic began, revises death toll to 3,869, an increase of 50%

Well, it looks like NBC News is at it again. With no vaccine against the Wuhan coronavirus, there have been reports that the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has been effective in combating the symptoms of the virus. It is not a cure and it has yet to get the seal of approval from the task force as something which is recommended as a treatment for those infected with COVID-19. It’s a stopgap until we get a vaccine, giving us some breathing room regarding preventing future deaths. It’s a hopeful story that the anti-Trump opposition press is trying to squash. They can’t...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the company will hold no real-life meetups for more than a year, and has encouraged his staff to continue working from home during the pandemic. Zuckerberg posted today that all planned Facebook physical events with 50 or more attendees were canceled until June 2021, but that some virtual events would be possible. “As we start to think about what it will look like to re-open society, I wanted to provide an update on how we’re planning for our teams at Facebook,” Zuckerberg wrote. “The summary is: we’re slowing our plans to return to...

A just-reported Chinese study compares the clinical outcomes of COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine with those of patients receiving standard of care. The results, alas, are disappointing.I summarized that study in my roundup yesterday of COVID-19 therapeutic research, pointing out that this randomized controlled trial of 150 patients "found no difference in the rate of viral load reduction or symptom alleviation between the group treated with hydroxychloroquine and the one that had not been." Now the University of Vermont pulmonologist Josh Farkas has published his own analysis of the results, delving more deeply into the data.The patients in both arms...

5.2 million more file for unemployment BY NIV ELIS - 04/16/20 08:33 AM EDT 5.2 million more file for unemployment Another 5.2 million people filed initial unemployment claims for the week ending April 11, according to the Department of Labor, adding to the sharpest and most severe rise in joblessness in the nation's history. Thursday's report is the fourth in a row showing more than a million initial claims, a level that had not been reached previously. Overall, more than 22 million people have filed for initial benefits in the span of just four weeks, accounting for about one of...

Today a Chateauroux Airport taxiway gave in due to the weight of a British Airways Airbus A380. Around 10:30 local time a BA A380, with registration G-XLED, landed in Chateauroux Airport, France for long-term storage. After this, the aircraft was parked on the taxiway along with other BA A380’s that had already arrived days before. In the images provided by @airline_kitty, it is possible to see that meanwhile taxiing to its parking stand on a taxiway the BA A380 sank into the pavement resulting in damage.

The election was watched around the world as one of the first nationwide votes since the pandemic began. Authorities took stringent safety measures, disinfecting all 14,000 polling stations and requiring voters to wear masks, have their temperatures checked, use hand sanitizer and plastic gloves and maintain a safe distance from others. Driven by record high participation in early voting over the weekend, turnout was 66.2 percent, higher than any parliamentary elections held in the last 28 years since 1992, according to the National Election Commission. Voters wearing face masks wait in line to cast their ballots at a polling station...