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A complete and total collapse of oil prices today to below zero levels...... Syrian media report an Israeli air strike on the central city of Palmyra tonight.... After an additional buildup of Turkish military forces in northwestern Syria over the weekend the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdgoan accusing the Syrian government of violating the cease-fire in the Greater Idlib region. He said the Syrian government would face 'heavy losses' if the violations continued. The "Al Masdar" news website reporting Syrian government shelling of jihadist positions in Idlib.... The Iranian Foreign Minister visited Damascus today.... An attack on a US military...

Joe Biden said Thursday he advised his family to stay off airplanes and subways because of the new swine flu, a remark that forced the vice president's office to backtrack and prompted one airline official to complain about "fear-mongering." (April 30)

President Trump, don’t let Red China off the hook here. It is important to put an end to this pandemic. But it is just important to punish Red China for allowing this to happen in the first place. Let loose the lawyers! Rally the West. Every Coronavirus death - anywhere - is due to the Red Chinese. Seize their assets. Place tariffs on all Chinese goods. Make them pay.

Americans are losing their jobs since the virus rocked the economy. Nancy Pelosi blocks funding for people to keep getting paychecks. But she’s got a $24K fridge full of ice cream, so she’s cool.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un is reportedly in grave danger after undergoing surgery on April 20, CNN’s chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, reports. Selter said that CNN journalist Jim Sciutto was on the phone with another CNN anchor, Chris Cuomo, when “The banner, citing a U.S. source: “NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG UN IN ‘GRAVE DANGER’ AFTER SURGERY” appeared on the screen. Heavy has reached out to the U.S. State Department for further information. The United States is currently monitoring the North Korean leader’s health, according to CNN’s source, an official with direct knowledge. Getting accurate updates from the...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks to the media after the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola in Congo, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. The World Health Organization says it is “deeply concerned” by the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo but the situation does not yet warrant being declared a global emergency. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)President Donald Trump has been trying to hold the World Health Organization to account for their failures and water-carrying for the Chinese in response to the Wuhan coronavirus. He put their funding on hold pending...

I feel about this the way I feel about Sweden’s no-lockdowns experiment. Glad that someone’s doing it, so we can see how much better or worse it is than the standard model, annnnnnd glad that I’m not personally participating in it.Not sure I follow his logic on which businesses can open and which can’t, though. Restaurants are okay (if proper social distancing protocols are followed) but not bars? Some Georgia businesses including gyms, hair and nail salons and bowling alleys will be allowed to open Friday as the state moves toward reopening its economy. Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said...

Protesters took their cars around the streets of the Capital and the Governor’s Mansion. Those who attended the Connecticut Liberty Rally feel their rights are being infringed upon and call the pandemic shutdown unconstitutional. This rally, like others seen around the nation, called for Governor Ned Lamont to reopen the state immediately. "They totally shut down the country," said Rich Mills. "They destroyed the economy. It’s just ridiculous." The shouts and honks from passing protesters were clear, "open the state". ... The Libertarian Party of Connecticut says the Governor’s actions are an overreach of authority and hurting small businesses. They...

The politics of this question, “How many asymptomatic carriers are out there?”, are tricky. On the one hand, evidence that there’s a large number of infected people walking around bolsters the argument that maaaaaybe the epidemic won’t be as bad as we think. Maybe the Oxford model is right and there are actually a gigantic number of people in the population who’ve had the virus but didn’t know it. We’re closer to herd immunity than we think!On the other hand, having a huge asymptomatic population would undercut the argument that we should reopen for business soon because official case...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is fully exposed in a really bad optics nightmare as her ice cream and expensive refrigerator videos are blended in with footage from around the country that show people suffering. This is probably the most brutal takedown of the Democratic House Speaker, but she did this to herself by holding up relief for small businesses and taking home videos in front of refrigerators that normal people don't even get to look at in person.

Nearly 100 employees at a Tyson chicken plant in Tennessee have tested positive for the coronavirus. Workers will be required to take their temperatures at the start of their shifts and wear face coverings

“Rules for thee, but not for me” may as well be the Cuomo family motto.CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who announced on March 31 that he has the coronavirus, broke quarantine on Easter Sunday to visit an undeveloped property in East Hampton, New York, a full 30-minute drive from his home in Southampton, New York. Note that his case of the disease was fully confirmed at that point. He was not just taking a risk in the event that he might catch or spread the coronavirus. He knowingly carried the virus to another town — an act that is not just selfish...

George Stephanopoulos had already irked Hamptons residents by going out in public after his wife contracted Covid-19 – but now the “GMA” anchor is battling the virus himself and is ignoring mandates to wear a mask in public. The pale-looking ABC Newsman was spotted by The Post on Monday afternoon taking a stroll in East Hampton, engrossed in a long conversation on his mobile phone with his mask hanging around his neck. One outraged witness said Stephanopoulos – who announced he tested positive for the virus last week after his wife Ali Wentworth contracted it – was seen leaving his...

In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States! 7:06 PM · Apr 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

Although there is a decrease in the number of deaths, the study indicates that there could be hundreds of thousands of people who could be infected without knowing it. Preliminary results from an antibody testing program indicates the number of COVID-19 infections in Los Angeles County far exceeds the number of confirmed cases, with potentially more than 400,000 residents having been infected at some point, USC researchers and county health officials announced Monday. The good news from the antibody study, researchers said, is that the mortality rate from the illness is much lower than currently estimated. The bad news is...

The Fortune is a 1975 American comedy film starring Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, and directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Adrien Joyce focuses on two bumbling con men who plot to steal the fortune of a wealthy young heiress, played by Stockard Channing in her first film starring role. The song 'I Must Be Dreaming' (1927) was written by Al Sherman, Pat Flaherty and Al Dubin.

Carmelo Saia says he has a whole new outlook on life just weeks after COVID-19 nearly took his life while battling the deadly virus in the Intensive Care Unit. Saia is still recovering from his bout with coronavirus, but he’s back in his Grasmere home and now believes he’s living proof that it’s not an automatic death sentence when you contract the disease. Acknowledging that approximately only 20 percent of people who go on ventilators, as he did, survive, he believes his life was saved after giving a doctor the thumbs up to use the experimental drug hydroxychoroquine after it...

Health officials in Sweden say the country's relatively relaxed COVID-19 prevention and mitigation strategies may be working to flatten the cure of new COVID-19 infections. "We're on a sort of plateau," Anders Tegnell, Sweden's top state epidemiologist who designed the nation's COVID-19 strategy, told Swedish news outlet TT, Bloomberg News reported Sunday. Karin Tegmark Wisell, head of the microbiology department at Sweden's Public Health Authority, on Friday also said the number of COVID-19 cases in the country appears to be "stabilizing," according to the report. "The trend we have seen in recent days, with a more flat curve — where...

Video at link. Dr. Martenson completely destroys both the Santa Clara, CA and Chelsea, MA studies. He's in favor of seriologic tests but says these two tests are both fatally flawed. My Notes below: Chart on the performance of Sweden compared to it's neighbors. Talks about Masks. He identifies the specific tests that the studies used. Neither had a high specificity. He explains the importance of that. It can have a high false positives. The Stanford Santa Clara test used was in a comparison done by Denmark and was ranked the worst out of 9 antibody tests. They advertised the...