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....Usually, when someone, on the basis of a select piece of information, harbors fears for their own safety and that of their family members, particularly their children, it’s not uncommon for such a person to welcome efforts made by others to either expose that information as false or lend to it the context that would mitigate his or her fears. For example, suppose that I was terribly frightened, as frightened as your average Corona Walker would have us believe he is of The Virus, over the prospect that either I or my child will die in a car accident. Anyone...

White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci warns that "the chance of creating an effective vaccine for COVID is not great. Respiratory viruses are notoriously difficult to combat. They mutate at a high rate and their transmission through the air cannot be effectively countered. As we have seen from work on flu vaccines, the typical odds of getting the flu after being vaccinated is about 50%. Ironically, the odds of getting the flu without being vaccinated are also about 50%." Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn confirmed Fauci's assessment, saying that "a vaccine with a 50-50 chance of...

Desperate to replace the tax revenues lost due to the City’s oppressive response to the COVID pandemic, Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady has authorized a widespread surveillance of social media posts. “There are 22 states whose residents must report for a mandatory 14-day quarantine if they travel to Chicago,” Arwady said. “Very few are voluntarily submitting to this requirement. This forces us to monitor their social media activity. If we spot selfies or other posts sent from known tourist hot spots we check to see whether other posts from the same account were made from one...

Restaurants -- to eat, to mingle, to do business -- are the lifeblood of Midtown, Steve Cuozzo argues. If they aren't reopened, workers won't return. It’s the restaurants, stupid. Midtown without places to eat is a hollow shell of itself. They’re the socializing glue without which no central business district can function. “The first thing anyone asks anyone who goes back to an office is, ‘Where do you go for lunch?’ ” observed Mary Ann Tighe, the tristate CEO of CBRE, the biggest commercial real-estate leasing and management firm in the US, who knows the Manhattan office scene as well...

There are enough numbers swirling around the COVID-19 pandemic to make an accountant’s head swim. Daily the headlines report record numbers of deaths and/or new cases. Hospital availability fluctuates between acceptable and alarming. In Congress they talk not in terms of billions of dollars but trillions in relief packages. One set of numbers buried in the mountain of them indicates that perhaps we’ve been overwhelmed with all the figures and statistics. It comes from Kekst CNC, an international business consulting firm with a focus on communication strategies....In interviews of 1,000 people in each country surveyed respondents were asked to place...

Front line doctors from across the US held a “White Coat Summit” last week in Washington DC to dispel the misinformation and myths surrounding the coronavirus.The doctors are very concerned with the dangerous disinformation campaign being played out in the far left American media today. From their website: “If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease.” Dr. Simone Gold, a board certified emergency physician, spoke at the White Coat Summit. After over 18 million views of their conference on Monday Google,...

If you live outside of Florida I bet you believe that those of us still crazy enough to live here are on borrowed time. It is a COVID hotspot dontcha know. We are on the cusp a Bubonic Armageddon. Bodies are piling up in morgues. Nurses and physicians are committing mass suicide out of despair brought on by this plague inflicted by Donald Trump. We’re talking wrath of God. Beirut bomb levels of catastrophe. Swarming locusts. Dogs and cats, living together. Mass hysteria. Must be true. I saw it on the TV. Oh wait, that was Ghostbusters.Ready for the truth?...

The official coronavirus death toll in England could be reduced by 10 per cent due to the flawed counting system whereby anyone who has tested positive would have their death attributed to the Chinese virus, even if they died months later of a heart attack. Coronavirus fatalities for other countries in the nation are counted differently than in England. For example, in Scotland and Northern Ireland, a death is only ruled by cause as coronavirus if it occurs within 28 days of a positive diagnosis. The Public Health England (PHE) bureaucracy, however, has no such period of limitations. That means...

There’s nothing unprecedented about COVID-19 itself. The equally novel, equally infectious Asian flu of 1957 had commensurate fatalities in Britain: scaled up for today’s population, the equivalent of 42,000, while the UK’s (statistically flawed) COVID death total now stands at 46,000. Globally, the Asian flu was vastly more lethal, causing between two and four million deaths. The Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 also slew up to four million people worldwide, including 80,000 Britons. Yet in both instances, life went on. What is unprecedented: never has a virus been so oversold. Why, I’d like to sign on with COVID’s agent. What...

What a burden it must be to be Bill Gates, a virtual expert on anything and everything, on a mission to remake the world in his own image. He has cast himself as the savior of the world as a viral pandemic is raging, but the sad truth is that Bill Gates is not even able to prevent viruses on his own Windows operating system. But please, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Remember back in 2005 when Al Gore and his ‘Inconvenient Truth’ slideshow was all the rage? Remember how his ‘predictions’ and ‘calculations’ showed that...

Are you having, or have you had, COVID? I am highly curious about actual symptoms and duration.

Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. That’s less than one-third of the number of Danes who die from pneumonia or influenza in a given year. Despite this success, Danish leaders recently found themselves on the defensive. The reason is that Danes aren’t wearing face masks, and local authorities for the most part aren’t even recommending them. This prompted Berlingske, the country’s oldest newspaper, to complain that Danes had positioned themselves “to the right of Trump.” “The...

I believe Douglas MacArthur got it right when he described the nature of freedom in the place of his birth The Wild West of America: “……. nowhere else has there been the savage turbulence, the striking vitality and the raucous glamour of the struggle for law and order in the American West.” Only a few decades later the nation swung the opposite way with the bold experiment of Prohibition. Why did that policy fail? What was good about it? For all my life abstaining from alcohol has been my personal choice. But now, at the age of 63, an old...

Public policy is about choices. It’s about recognizing the differences between different policy decisions, and forecasting the difference in potential results from those decisions. For example: What's the difference between getting diagnosed with heart disease in March or April and getting a stent or a bypass done and living another 25 years... ...or not going in, because everyone's scared to go to the hospital because of COVID-19, and having a fatal heart attack in June or July? What's the difference between getting diagnosed with a stage 1 or 2 cancer in March and being able to cure it by surgery...

*Wear a mask 24/7 *Wear a face shield *Stay at least two meters and better yet 20 meters from anyone *Self isolate at home *Do not go out for any reason The government pays hospitals if you die with the Corona Virus for those who lack insurance. Therefore, if you are shot or born 15 weeks premature, or are in an automobile accident or drink yourself to death or have a stroke or heart attack or suicide you have just died of the Corona Virus. It’s like magic. If you really insist on taking a test for the Corona Virus,...

A new report was released by Sky News on Turkey’s COVID-19 Coronavirus early hydroxychloroquine treatment strategy and the results are clear. The early treatment program in Turkey relies on hydroxychloroquine as the first step in the therapeutic process...“As soon as a patient has symptoms, they are treated with hydroxychloroquine tablets and/or favipiravir at home. Follow-up calls quickly spot if the symptoms worsen, and then they will be admitted to hospital.”

A Monday report from the New York Times is finally saying what we have been saying at TheBlaze since the very beginning of the coronavirus pandemic: The lockdown measures we have instituted to save lives are inevitably going to end up costing a lot of lives. Perhaps many more than they saved.....The report notes, "About 80 percent of tuberculosis, H.I.V. and malaria programs worldwide have reported disruptions in services, and one in four people living with H.I.V. have reported problems with gaining access to medications, according to U.N. AIDS. Interruptions or delays in treatment may lead to drug resistance, already...

Wednesday, on her new podcast former first lady Michelle ... Obama said, “I’m waking up in the middle of the night, cause I’m worrying about something, or there’s a heaviness. I try to make sure I get a workout in, although there have been periods throughout this quarantine, where I just have felt too low. You know, I’ve gone through those emotional highs and lows that I think everybody feels, where you just don’t feel yourself, and sometimes there’s been a week or so where I had to surrender to that, and not be so hard on myself. And say,...

An interesting development since the Covid lockdowns in the City on the Bay has been the clandestine placement of homeless people in luxury hotels, such as the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins on Nob Hill. As it turns out, the government is using unlikely public employees who otherwise would have been furloughed to serve as vice couriers for them. One such city staffer, for example, was a curator with the San Francisco city museums before the shut down, said an informed city source who requested anonymity. “Being the museums were closed, [this person] would stay on the payroll as a ‘runner,’ delivering...

VIDEO WOW! Talk about complete unprofessionalism! American COVID-19 numbers skeptic Deanna Lorraine had her feed cut off while appearing on Austrailia's Channel 9 Today Show followed by one of the co-hosts gloating over it because "I don't like her." Fortunately, Sky News Australia had her on the air days later to explain the reasons for her skepticism of the reported COVID-19 numbers.