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  • No, Chris Hayes, Trump Isn’t Responsible For COVID-19 ‘Slaughter’

    11/13/2020 7:47:05 AM PST · by Kaslin · 36 replies
    The Federalist ^ | November 13, 2020 | Georgi Boorman
    Democrats are bitterly clinging to a myth that if only someone else had been president, the pandemic would have passed over the United States as if by some divine mark of virtue. On Sunday, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes accused the president of perpetuating an “extended mass slaughter” of the American people in his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming that 2020 has been “the deadliest year in American history.” Republican staffers “all worked together on a project that just let our people be led to the slaughter for months and months. Dying alone with no one around. Day after day,” he...
  • Small Business Owners Grow Worried About Lockdowns as Virus Surges

    11/10/2020 6:00:08 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/10/2020 | John Carney
    Owners of small businesses reported good business conditions in the face of rising covid-19 infections in October even while they became increasingly wary that governments could once again issue lockdown orders, according to data released Tuesday. The National Federation of Independent Businesses said its optimism index remained at 104 in October, even with the September score and a historically high reading. That was in line with expectations.
  • Former Clinton Adviser: If I'd Know Biden Was Open to 'Lockdowns,' I Would've Never Voted for Him

    11/09/2020 3:01:12 PM PST · by george76 · 33 replies
    Townhall ^ | Nov 09, 2020 | Matt Vespa
    Are we having buyer’s remorse about Joe Biden? For one former Clinton adviser, that appears to be the case. Dr. Naomi Wolf, who helped the Clinton-Gore ticket improve their outreach to female voters in the 1990s, isn’t really happy about the whole lockdown stuff regarding COVID. Today, Joe Biden announced his coronavirus advisory board. And uh, let’s just say the intention of this panel included the possibility of a lockdown... The U.S. can expect increased Covid-19 testing, a national mask policy and the possibility of nationwide lockdowns ... “If I’d known Biden was open to ‘lockdowns’ as he now states,...
  • With election rigging via mail-in ballots, the real purpose of the COVID bioweapon now becomes clear

    11/08/2020 5:04:33 PM PST · by george76 · 32 replies
    Distributed News ^ | 2020-11-08 | HEALTHRANGER
    abundantly clear that the real purpose of the engineered COVID-19 bioweapon was to allow Democrats to steal the election via mail-in ballot fraud. By deploying the coronavirus weapon in China and allowing it to spread globally (thanks to the WHO and left-wing media calling Trump a "racist" for trying to close flights from China), the globalists were able to engineer long-duration lockdowns across America in defiance of medical or scientific justification. ... Attorney Sidney Powell .. about the rigged votes ... a massive and coordinated effort to steal this election from We The People of the United States of America...
  • Global data: COVID-19 recovery rate approaching 99.9%

    11/06/2020 11:33:45 AM PST · by Beave Meister · 11 replies
    Substack.com ^ | 11/5/2020 | Jordan Schachtel
    The recovery rate from COVID-19 — the disease that originated in Wuhan, China and was once advertised as the plague of the century — will soon reach 99.9%, and is currently within a range of 99.75%-99.875%, according to the best estimates based on WHO and CDC statistics. Parallel to the electoral chaos currently enveloping the United States, world governments and legacy media institutions have continued to showcase the rise in reported COVID-19 cases this Fall to bring global COVID panic to even greater heights, despite the death rate from the novel coronavirus continuing its consistent decline to new lows every...
  • US shatters daily COVID-19 case record again; some patients smell phantom scents — 6 updates

    11/06/2020 8:33:45 AM PST · by buckalfa · 58 replies
    Becker's Hospital Review ^ | November 6, 2020 | Gabrielle Masson and Makenzie Bean
    The U.S. hit its second consecutive daily COVID-19 case record Nov. 5, reporting more than 115,000 cases, according to The Washington Post. Twenty states also set new daily COVID-19 case records Nov. 5, reports the Post. Five other updates: 1. Some COVID-19 patients report parosmia, an often temporary and unpleasant odor distortion, reports The Washington Post. "It's more debilitating in some ways than loss of smell," said Richard Doty, PhD, director of Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania's Smell and Taste Center. Thousands of accounts of parosmia and phantosmia, or smelling scents that aren't there, have flooded social media platforms in the...
  • Swathes of Italy Locked Down Again After Being Deemed Coronavirus ‘Red Zones’

    11/06/2020 8:25:05 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 4 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/06/2020 | Breitbart London
    (AFP) — Swathes of Italy return to coronavirus lockdown Friday as the resurgent pandemic continued its march through Europe and reached record levels in the United States. Five coronavirus “red zones” in Italy’s north — plus Calabria in the country’s “toe” — will shutter non-essential businesses, affecting 16 million people.
  • Death by Lockdown ( shocking number of excess deaths not from Covid )

    11/05/2020 9:24:48 PM PST · by george76 · 7 replies
    American Institute for Economic Research ^ | November 2, 2020 | Jeffrey A. Tucker
    March 28 – very early in the pandemic – an article that I felt at the time received far too little attention. “Drugs, Suicide, and Crime: Empirical Estimates of the Human Toll of the Shutdown” by economists Audrey and Thomas Duncan cited empirical literature on the human toll of economic devastation. This article forecasted more than 100,000 excess deaths due to drug overdoses, suicide, alcoholism, homicide, and untreated depression – all a result not of the virus but of policies of mandatory human separation, economic downturn, business and school closures, closed medical services, and general depression that comes with a...
  • Judge limits California governor’s powers during pandemic

    11/03/2020 7:07:49 AM PST · by george76 · 10 replies
    ap ^ | November 3, 2020 | Don Thompson
    <p>Decision will become final in 10 days unless Newsom’s attorneys can raise new challenge..</p> <p>A judge on Monday preliminarily ordered California Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop issuing directives related to the coronavirus that might interfere with state law.</p> <p>Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman tentatively ruled that one of the dozens of executive orders Newsom has issued overstepped his authority and was “an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power.”</p>
  • Dr. Fauci’s restaurant-owning cousin wishes he would ease up on lockdowns

    10/31/2020 10:49:28 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | October 31, 2020 | 8:52am | Jon Levine
    While Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to urge caution in opening up bars and restaurants in his role as national coronavirus czar, another Anthony Fauci — his Staten Island cousin — slings sauce in his popular Italian restaurant and laments what his relative has done to the dining industry. “They shouldn’t do the lockdowns. Especially now. If you don’t abide by the rules … shut that area down, but don’t shut down the whole industry,” said the 84-year-old founder of La Fontana, Anthony Fauci. His son, Joe Fauci, 57, who runs the now-iconic eatery in Oakwood, echoed his dad’s concerns, while...
  • Merkel warns Germans of a ‘difficult winter’ as virus surges

    10/29/2020 3:07:41 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 12 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | October 29, 2020
    BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel told Germans to expect a “difficult winter” as the number of newly reported coronavirus cases in the country hit a new high. Merkel spoke Thursday in Parliament a day after she and the governors of Germany’s 16 states agreed upon far-reaching restrictions to curb the spread of the virus, including the closure of bars and restaurants, limits on social contacts and bans on concerts and other public events. Merkel told lawmakers that Germany is in a “dramatic situation” as it goes into winter, which she said would be “four long, difficult months. But it will...
  • Germany and France announce new lockdowns as coronavirus cases spike in Europe

    10/28/2020 7:51:40 PM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 47 replies
    nbcnews.com ^ | Oct. 28, 2020 | The Associated Press
    Both Germany and France announced new nationwide lockdowns on Wednesday as Europe enters a deadly new phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Chancellor Angela Merkel says German officials have agreed to a four-week shutdown of restaurants, bars, cinemas, theaters and other leisure facilities in a bid to curb a sharp rise in coronavirus infections. Merkel and the country's 16 state governors, who are responsible for imposing and easing restrictions, agreed on the partial lockdown in a videoconference Wednesday. It is set to take effect Monday and last until the end of November. Merkel said, "We must act, and now, to avoid...
  • Predictions of more suicides, overdoses and domestic abuse during COVID are coming true

    10/28/2020 7:58:33 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 19 replies
    ABC "News" / Disney ^ | October 28, 2020 | By Dr. Yalda Safai
    Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the stay-at-home measures and disruptions to daily life that aimed to slow the spread of the virus and save lives led many public health specialists to worry that the nation also could see an uptick in suicides, drug overdoses and domestic violence. Nine months later, those grim predictions look like they're coming true. "There is a mental health wave to this pandemic," Dr. Ken Duckworth, chief medical officer of the National Alliance for Mental Illness, told ABC News. "We as a species don't do well with uncertainty." The pandemic, for many Americans, has exacerbated already-stressful...
  • My cousin the nurse gave me her opinion on covid tonight.

    10/27/2020 6:39:45 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 70 replies
    Free republic | 10/27/2020 | Chicagoconservative27
    My cousin who is a head nurse at a local hospital in Chicago suburbs gave me this info on covid. These are the text messages from her. Take her information as you wish. From what I've seen, there are very high false positive And negative rates. Also, if you test positive, then test again 3 days later and are all positive, that counts as 2 positives. What we can't dispute are the number of actual hospitalizations, which are definitely up in my area, but I'm very specious of anyone who has zero symptoms but comes up positive. The good news...
  • LAPD Chief Says Pandemic ‘Fueling’ Violent Crime Surge In South LA

    10/27/2020 6:41:32 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 15 replies
    CBS LA ^ | Oct 2020
    A recent uptick in violent crime in South Los Angeles and in other parts of the city could be related to the pandemic and the increased stress placed on community members, LAPD Chief Michel Moore said Friday. “I have a 14-year-old aspiring football player who was gunned down and lost his life,” said Deputy Chief Regina Scott. “Just this week, I had a 19-year-old kid that had graduated from high school who has done everything we had asked him to do, and he lost his life…I reach out to the community that the Police Department can’t do this alone..." Some...
  • Covid: Protests erupt across Italy over anti-virus measures

    10/27/2020 2:18:36 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 11 replies
    BBC News ^ | October 27, 2020
    Clashes were reported in several major cities - including Turin, where petrol bombs were thrown at officers. In Milan tear gas was used to disperse protesters, while violence was also reported in Naples. The demonstrations began soon after the national government's order to close restaurants, bars, gyms and cinemas came into effect at 18:00 local time. Many regions have also imposed night-time curfews - including Lombardy, where Milan is, and Piedmont, where Turin is. Protests took place in about a dozen other cities, including Rome, Genoa, Palermo and Trieste. While an initial national lockdown earlier this year was complied with...
  • Coronavirus: Top German doctor in hot water over mask comments

    10/23/2020 10:49:20 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 24 replies
    Deutsche Welle ^ | 10.23.2020 | nm/msh (AFP, dpa, Reuters)
    German Medical Association president Klaus Reinhardt has been forced to clarify his position on mask-wearing after his claim that there was no “scientific evidence they are actually helpful” sparked an outcry from politicians and doctors. Reinhardt told a TV talk show on public broadcaster ZDF that he had doubts wearing simple non-medical masks outdoors was effective against the coronavirus. Such face coverings, he said, offered “no protection at all” to those wearing them, and only “very little protection against infecting others.” A sharp rise in coronavirus cases across Germany in recent weeks has led to stricter rules in many cities,...
  • New CDC Numbers Show Lockdown’s Deadly Toll On Young People

    10/23/2020 3:48:30 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 18 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | October 22, 2020 | Amanda Prestigiacomo
    The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed Wednesday that young adults aged 25-44 years saw the largest increase in “excess” deaths from previous years, a stunning 26.5% jump. The notable increase even surpassed the jump in excess deaths of older Americans, who are at much higher risk of COVID-19 fatality. Moreover, according to the CDC, 100,947 excess deaths were not linked to COVID-19 at all. Since such young people are at very low risk for COVID-19 fatality — 20-49-year-olds have a 99.98% chance of surviving the virus, per CDC data — it has been suggested that the shocking...
  • Australia: Four Newborn Babies Die After Being Denied Heart Surgery Due to COVID Travel Rules

    10/21/2020 7:01:02 AM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    Summit News ^ | 21 October, 202 | Paul Joseph Watson
    Interstate transfers to Melbourne blocked due to corona lockdown restrictions. Four newborn babies in Adelaide, Australia have died after being denied life-saving heart surgery due to coronavirus travel restrictions. Adelaide is the only mainland Australian capital that doesn’t provide paediatric cardiac surgery, therefore around 100 babies a year have to be sent interstate to receive treatment. However, due to COVID-19 lockdown restrictions imposed by the Australian government, transfers to Melbourne have stopped and the babies have to make a longer journey to Sydney instead. “Obsetrician Professor John Svigos said four babies who had died in Adelaide in the past month...
  • California Just Declared War On Thanksgiving With Kafka-Level Regulations

    10/20/2020 6:19:12 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 45 replies
    thefederalist ^ | 10/20/2020 | Elie Reynolds
    Gov. Gavin Newsom just gave Californians more regulations for an early Christmas present — and anyone hoping to celebrate the holidays with family better hope there’s a gift receipt. Just in time for the Thanksgiving and Christmas festivities, when most families gather with loved ones, California’s Democrat governor has issued a new set of regulations that bans gatherings of more than three households. Additionally, no indoor gatherings are permitted, so don’t plan on eating around the dining room table unless you lug it out into your backyard.