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Gov. Brian Kemp appears poised to ease social restrictions that created disruptions for millions of Georgians amid a still-spreading global pandemic. A month-old shelter-at-home order is set to expire just before midnight Thursday. But Kemp kept Georgians in the dark Wednesday about what comes next in the state’s fight against the coronavirus. *** But by easing the restrictions, Kemp would be disregarding dire warnings from public health officials. *** Easing restrictions now would cause the virus to strengthen and spread, said Rebecca Mitchell, an epidemiologist and visiting assistant professor at Emory University. Mitchell is running as a Democrat for a...

SAN ANTONIO — Governor Greg Abbott identified contact-tracing as a critical element in his plan to reopen Texas—and stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has killed nearly 700 across the state. When a person tests positive for the virus, tracers contact the patient and create a timeline of where that patient has been and with whom he/she has been in contact. “Time is of the essence. We need to identify these contacts as early as possible,” said Anita Kurian, assistant director of the Communicable Disease Division with San Antonio Metro Health. Kurian said the first objective is to...

US bishop defies lockdown, attends rally calling on governor to close abortion centers Bishop Joseph Coffey was part of a pro-life group that was warned by police to disperse while protesting Catholic Gov. Larry Hogan's refusal to shut down abortion centers during the pandemic. Pro-lifers call on Maryland Gov. Larry Coffey to shut down abortion centers during the coronavirus pandemic. ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, April 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Standing in the shadow of both the Maryland State House and Governor’s Mansion, more than 50 pro-lifers joined by Bishop Joseph Coffey defied Gov. Larry Hogan’s stay-at-home order and called on him to shut...

Protesters who want Gov. J.B. Pritzker to announce a plan to reopen the Illinois economy have scheduled a Friday rally outside the Thompson Center in the Loop. “Illinois residents have tolerated the government’s plan for over a month — without a plan on how to slowly and safely reopen the state’s economy,” a news release announcing the event states. “We need to discuss the process of cautiously returning back to work.” The Friday demonstration would be the latest in a series of protests around the country against stay-at-home orders designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. **SNIP** Asked about...

Harrison Ford is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration after once again experiencing an aviation mishap. Last week, the Star Wars actor, 77, was piloting a plane in Los Angeles when he crossed a runway at Hawthorne Airport, despite receiving radio instructions to stay back as another aircraft was landing. Ford released a statement obtained by EW on Wednesday, saying the "runway incursion" was due to his misunderstanding of the orders and that luckily, no one was harmed. "Mr. Ford crossed the airport's only runway in his aircraft after he misheard a radio instruction from ATC. He immediately acknowledged...

They participated in an FBI cover-up and should be removed from their positions. They and Bob Mueller and Rod Rosenstein and likely Jeff Sessions knew all along

“The Greg Gutfeld Show" was the most-watched late-night program in all of television in total viewership with 2.9 million total viewers, topping all broadcast and cable comedy programs, including CBS’ Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NBC’s The Tonight Show and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the network said in a statement. With the late-night shows on the big three networks increasingly diving into hardcore, left-wing waters, it is notable that someone who is not following the leftist line has made such headway with viewers. And it is on cable, airing on Saturday night, where there are typically fewer viewers than network...

These researchers looked at 150 consecutive ICU admissions with proven [2] COVID-19 infections. 11.7% of these patients developed clots, most often from clots that formed in the legs and traveled to the lungs, termed pulmonary emboli, further impairing the lungs' ability to absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide. Matched patients with non-COVID acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS had a 4.8% incidence of DIC. The clotting associated with COVID-19 was similar, but not the same, prompting researchers to speculate that the underlying cause of clotting disorders in COVID-19 infections is different. Why? Short answer: no one knows; it is called a...

On this date in 1574, nobleman Joseph Boniface de La Mole was beheaded in Paris for a supposed plot against the king. As the year would imply, La Mole was a casualty of France’s decades-long Wars of Religion. Two years prior, in an attempt to cement an unsteady peace, the king’s sister Marguerite de Valois had been married off to the Protestant Henri of Navarre. As Paris teemed with Huguenots in town to celebrate the nuptials, the Catholic party sprang the infamous St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. As if things weren’t awkward enough with the in-laws, Henri was now made to...

Fox News announced Wednesday it will host a virtual town hall with President Trump on Sunday night focusing on COVID-19 and the reopening of the U.S. economy. The program, "America Together: Returning to Work," will be co-moderated by "Special Report" anchor Bret Baier and "The Story" anchor Martha MacCallum. It will be broadcast live from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The network said the president will answer viewer-submitted questions for 90 minutes of the two-hour event, which will begin at 7 p.m. ET. "The town hall will be presented in front of a virtual audience, where participants will raise...

TUCSON - Gov. Doug Ducey announced Wednesday during a press conference that he decided to extend its Stay-At-Home order to May 15....On April 22, Ducey held a press conference announcing that the state will lift the COVID-19 restrictions on elective surgeries on May 1.... In an afternoon press conference held Wednesday, the governor shared that the Stay-At-Home order with modifications will be extended through May 15. Ducey said one of the modifications will be a "phase-in" approach toward reopening the economy.... Governor Ducey says retail stores could start to softly open with social distancing starting May 4th and then expanded...

The Washington Post editorial board published an article on Wednesday calling for former Vice President Joe Biden to publicly address a sexual assault allegation made against him by Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer. Driving the news: Business Insider this week published accounts from two on-the-record sources corroborating parts of allegations by Reade, who alleges Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993. Biden's campaign has told Axios that the alleged assault "absolutely did not happen." Top Democrats like Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Stacey Abrams have stood behind Biden, while others have remained silent. Biden himself has not publicly spoken about the...

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Big technology companies are using the COVID-19 tragedy to increase their power over the American population. (Click link for video)

Zero Deaths Due to Covid-19Given the excellent management of the coronavirus emergency and the limited spread of the disease, the Catholic community in Vietnam has been able to resume celebrating the Eucharist. As Agenzia Fides learned, on April 24, the Bishop of Vinh, Mgr. Alphonse Nguyên Huu Long, allowed the priests to resume celebrating mass “to meet the spiritual needs of Catholics and the strong desire for the Eucharist”. So far the services were only online, but since April 25, explained the Prelate, three dioceses in Vietnam (Vinh, Ha Tinh, and My Tho) were able to return to a sort...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday at the White House that he wanted to return to big campaign rallies prior to the election....“I hope that we’re going to be able to do some good old fashioned 25,000-person rallies where everyone’s going wild because they love our country,” he said. The president said he would likely travel to Arizona next week and Ohio fairly soon for smaller events and even predicted the return of his legendary campaign rallies. "We’re going to start to move around and hopefully in the not too distant future, we’re going to have some massive rallies and people...

CLEVELAND - The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is “greening.” So are the dioceses of Stockton, California; Joliet, Illinois; and others across the United States. Participants in diocesan environmental ministries credit Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home,” for raising awareness and motivating Catholics and others to act in countless ways to protect creation. “The pope’s encyclical lays out the scene very well and is something we can have an impact with,” said John Mundell, an environmental consultant and a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis, who is a leader...

Urgent Care doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Masshi uploaded a nearly hour-long video discussing new information about the virus. The message essentially amounted to saying that the virus is not nearly the deadly pandemic that we originally thought it was and that opening the country back up is likely a very wise thing to do. “The death rate of the coronavirus is similar in prevalence to the flu,” said Erickson. “If you study the numbers in 2017 and 2018, we had 50 to 60 million with the flu, and we had a similar death rate in the deaths the United...

Moscow, April 27, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has ordered the clergy to strictly abide by Covid-19 prevention requirements, adding that otherwise clerics will have to be held accountable for negative consequences. "Unfortunately, not everyone took this threat seriously at the initial stages of the spread of the infection, ignoring warnings from doctors and church authorities. This led to a large number of cases in individual monasteries and some churches. By his special order, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia stated that clerics should be held to account for failure to abide by...

There’s an old saying in the law: When you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. When you have the law, pound the law. When you have neither, pound the table. What could better explain Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’ comically exaggerated response to the Legislature’s lawsuit challenging his authority to extend his “Safer at Home” order effectively shutting down the state? “This isn’t a game,” he tweeted immediately after the suit was filed. “This isn’t funny. People die every day because of this virus—oftentimes painful and lonely deaths—and the more we delay or play political games the more...