From The Washington Post via MSN: The calls came from police or child protective services, sometimes 10 to 15 a week, most of them about sexual abuse. The children would sit across from her...
By the Washington Post via the San Francisco Gate: “Time to free us for the sake of progress,” wrote investor Adam Draper, managing director of the firm Boost VC, in a post retweeted by...
From medRxiv: These prevalence point estimates imply that 54,000 (95CI 25,000 to 91,000 using weighted prevalence; 23,000 with 95CI 14,000-35,000 using unweighted prevalence) people were infected in Santa Clara County by early April, many...
From NBC New York: Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed the preliminary results of FDNY/EMS and NYPD members who were screened for coronavirus antibodies and tested positive. The preliminary antibody study showed that 17.1 percent of...
From The Seattle Times: In private, Trump and aides have discussed stripping China of its “sovereign immunity,” aiming to enable the U.S. government or victims to sue China for damages. George Sorial, who served...
Sean Davis in The Federalist: New documents filed under seal last week by the Department of Justice provide the clearest evidence yet that the investigation and subsequent prosecution of former White House National Security...
From The Washington Inquirer: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley reacted to unsealed documents related to the investigation of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, calling it “shameful.” “There is so much to...
I’m really sad, and I’m really tired. I normally share thoughts, but tonight it’s emotion. pic.twitter.com/mhtaoW6dTd — rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) April 29, 2020
CNN via MSN: The White House is telling Americans to brace for a period of Great Depression-level unemployment this summer. Kevin Hassett, a senior economic adviser to President Donald Trump, warned Tuesday that the jobless rate in the...
DC May Not Reopen for Another 3 Months, Officials Say
Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in...
From Bloomberg News: The Trump administration is organizing a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine, with a goal of making enough doses for most Americans by...
By Joe Nocera in Bloomberg: New York is the densest city in the country, and density is a crucial factor in spreading the virus. Yet cities and states that are far less dense have...
$TSLA CEO @elonmusk blasts shelter in place orders: “To say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do, this is fascist. This is not democratic, this is not...
From Variety: Mac Brandt was one of the lucky ones. For the past six years, he’s made a living purely from acting, appearing in television shows like “Kingdom” and “Arrested Development,” and scrounging up...
The Washington Post via MSN: Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the second wave of infections is “inevitable” in the United States, which has recorded more...
Is this one of the reasons Biden wants a woman on his ticket? From Politico: The job description for Joe Biden’s running mate has suddenly become more complicated: the Democratic vice presidential nominee must now...
Stacy Abrams from The Hill: Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) on Tuesday night defended presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden when asked about sexual assault allegations from Tara Reade, a former Biden aide who has alleged that the then-senator sexually assaulted...
From RealClearPolitics: If you want a preview of Democrats’ agenda should they gain more political power this fall, look no further than coronavirus legislation that Nancy Pelosi released last month. That bill includes an...
I’m glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available. The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential...
From FOX NEWS: “UFOs are real and my partners at @TTSAcademy (that hail from CIA, DOD and Lockheed Martin SkunkWorks) stood with me for three years to let you know this (and more) was...
Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, in Spiked: Climate scientists are frustrated by people who do not believe in climate change. In epidemiology, our frustration is with anti-vaxxers. Most...
Capitalism cannot plan for or prepare for a black swan event like a pandemic — as U.S. hospital management software specifically used up personal protective stockpiles and did not replace them for financial reasons,...
Things have really gone off the rails when I am agreeing with Friedman, here, and quoted below: Mother Nature does not reward the strongest or the smartest. She rewards the species that are the...
Read about Governor DeSantis’s Wuhan Virus strategy, from FOX NEWS: There’s one state in America that has a larger elderly population than New York, which is more ethnically diverse than New York, and that...
From USA Today: Sweden, unlike its Nordic neighbors Denmark and Norway – and virtually every other country in the western world – has resisted extensive lockdown restrictions to stem the coronavirus outbreak. Instead, it’s largely kept society, including...
The infographics below are from The New Atlantis, a Journal of Technology and Society. Their main point clearly and graphically illustrated below is that the Wuhan virus death toll is unlike all other leading...
From the BBC: A top diplomat in the UK, Chen Wen told the BBC the demands were politically motivated and would divert China’s attention from fighting the pandemic. Information about the origin of Covid-19...
From Just the News: A few days ago the World Health Organization’s European regional director garnered global headlines by providing a grim statistic that pinpoints the ground zero in this coronavirus pandemic. More than...
From The Guardian: “We’re doing very serious investigations … We are not happy with China,” the president said. “We believe it could have been stopped at the source. It could have been stopped quickly and...
From Politico: “We probably will do another bill. What I’m saying is it won’t just be about money,” McConnell said. “The next pandemic coming will be the lawsuit pandemic in the wake of this...
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From CBS 2, in New York City: Regionally, the results suggest: 24.7% positive in New York City 15.1% positive in Westchester/Rockland 14.4% positive on Long Island 3.2% positive in the rest of the state...
Dr. Atlas in The New York Post: First, we know the risk of dying from COVID-19 is far lower than initially thought, and not significant for the overwhelming majority of those infected. Multiple recent...
From First Things: Data are coming in, and their import is clear. The coronavirus pandemic is not and never was a threat to society. COVID-19 poses a danger to the elderly and the medically...
The “No PR Act” will give President Trump negotiating leverage.
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Three-quarters of the U.S. House of Representative’s Republican Members of Congress belong to the Republican Study Committee, which is not to be confused with the Freedom Caucus, which has about 30 members and was...
Father Raymond J. de Souza in the National Post: Is the coronavirus pandemic China’s “Chernobyl moment”? A cruel and callous cover-up that will mean the beginning of the end for the Communist Party of...
From CNN, the Face of the American Woman says Started the Pandemic: Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at...
From Real Clear Economics: Let’s All get Back to Work.
THREAD: This week, Social Security’s trustees projected that reserves in the retirement trust fund will deplete in 2034 & the disability fund in 2065. But the report didn’t look at how a significant COVID-19...
Read all about it in The Wall Street Journal.
From the New York Post: The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out 40% of the U.S. economy, quadruple the federal deficit to $3.7 trillion and push the national debt to nearly $27 trillion, the Congressional Budget...
From CNN: Since last week, Gomez has driven to more than 50 homes and apartments in Los Angeles for Postmates, the on-demand food delivery startup. He was nervous at first about interacting with many...
Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal: The coronavirus lockdown model is about to collapse beneath its own weight, undermined by politics, confusion about the virus itself, and the basics of human nature. ….As...
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. in the Wall Street Journal: Columbia University once found that only 20% of flu sufferers and 5% of cold sufferers bothered to see a doctor. This is why the Wuhan...
Posted by Mike Ahmadi this morning: Darwinism. It’s tough to deny it and even tougher to fight it. I’m not talking about the whole man evolving from apes thing that gets the collective panties...
From The Dallas Morning News: Then they turned to a treatment from the history books. Convalescent plasma, antibody-rich blood donated by survivors of infectious disease, was developed in the late 1800s to fight diphtheria....
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Hinderaker in PowerLine: One can think about it in this simple way: the virus doesn’t disproportionately strike nursing homes relative to other institutions. It’s just that when it reaches a nursing home, it has...
From an excellent interview by CNN’s Peter Bergen who interviews Michael Osterholm. OSTERHOLM: I’m from rural Iowa where a lot of very commonsense, smart people live. I think to myself: if I were at...
From American Greatness: The focus on saving “just one life” from the coronavirus, as Cuomo put it in March, to the exclusion of all other considerations likely will prove a catastrophic failure of policymaking....
From the Huffington Post: “Both days, I added 1/2 cup of Clorox to my bathwater to combat the radiation and metals in my system and oxygenate it,” she wrote of her routine. If you’re...
From the New York Post: De Blasio wants you to report people violating the lockdown orders (even if cops are reluctant to get tough in many cases), so he set up an account where...
From ABC NEWS: Results from two new South Korean studies shed light on whether antibodies will be a reliable form of protection against COVID-19 for those who have recovered from the disease. In one ongoing study,...
For the ‘Slow the Spread’ aficionados — the two California studies findings that there are about 50 times more unknown infecteds for every known infected or yesterday’s study announced by Gov. Cuomo that one...
From CNBC: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy’s top officials recommended Friday that the captain relieved of duty after sounding the alarms of a growing coronavirus outbreak aboard an aircraft carrier should be reinstated. The decision to reinstate...
From FOX NEWS: Pompeo Blasts China over Global Deaths and Economic Damage from the Wuhan Virus.
The Federalist: In early March, President Donald Trump was lambasted for saying on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show that he had a hunch the coronavirus fatality rate, which the World Health Organization pegged then...
From Big League Politics: According to a recent Stanford University antibody study, the fatality rate of the infected is likely 0.1 to 0.2 percent. These numbers are far lower than past World Health Organization estimates that were 20...
Once again we can look to Kirk’s actions on the planet Deneva for guidance during this challenging time. Hat tip to my Democratic friend’s husband, for that great line.
From the Washington Examiner: U.S. Attorney John Durham has expanded his team as his review of the Trump-Russia investigators ramps up during the coronavirus pandemic, which has gripped the country and swept the globe....
The lying, super-scumbag, hand-wringing racist Jussie Smollett chalks up the latest of his soon-to-be-long-string of court losses.
Donald Trump, Jr. in the Daily Caller: Joe Biden is an older, less coherent version of Hillary Clinton, and he seems to enjoy proving it. Like the last Democrat presidential candidate, Biden is an...
The American Mind: And the result is also what might have been expected. Nearly 330 million Americans have been sheltering in place, stopping the largest and most powerful economy on earth. Almost thirty million Americans...
From Reason: Evidence that the virus is much less deadly than people feared weakens the case for maintaining lockdowns. When she announced the startling results of a new COVID-19 study on Monday, Los Angeles...
Now, citizens of Pennsylvania can use the Democratic Governor’s Online-Snitch Form — my neighbor is not wearing a mask! You can be part of the new Big Brother, Government report on your neighbors, Obergruppenfurer,...
From DHS’s Master List of Scientific Questions Regarding the Wuhan Virus:
From AFP via Yahoo: The theory is that nicotine could adhere to cell receptors, therefore blocking the virus from entering cells and spreading in the body, according to renowned neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux from France’s...
Thiessen: The blame-Trump-for-everything crowd is accusing Republicans of pointing the finger at China for the coronavirus pandemic to divert attention away from the Trump administration’s response. Rubbish. Case in point: The front-page headline in Sunday’s New...
From CNBC: An estimated 13.9% of the New Yorkers have likely had Covid-19, according to preliminary results of coronavirus antibody testing released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday. The state randomly tested 3,000 people at grocery...
From The New York Times: More than one in five people who were tested for virus antibodies in N.Y.C. had them. More than 21 percent of around 1,300 people in New York City who...
From The Associated Press: NEW YORK (AP) — More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday, offering insight that...
Massive infection levels point to far more widespread Wuhan virus infections among Americans than currently acknowledged by the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and, therefore, a far lower mortality rate. The key question remains,...
From FOX Business: The initial $349 billion set aside for the Paycheck Protection Program ran out on April 16, after being available for less than two weeks. The Senate has approved an additional $310 billion for...
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Senator Cassidy’s idea for reopening from Real Clear Politics: Cassidy, a gastroenterologist with a history of dealing with infectious disease, worked diligently in private practice in Louisiana to expand hepatitis B vaccinations to 36,000...
From The New York Times via DNYUZ: By the time New York City confirmed its first case of the coronavirus on March 1, thousands of infections were already silently spreading through the city, a...
From The Washington Post via MSN: Now five weeks into the crisis, a paper published in the journal JAMA about New York State’s largest health system suggests a reality that like so much else about...
4-21-20 bi-partisan Letter to HHS on immunity testing from US Senators
From The Hill: Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama White House senior adviser, took a hatchet to the recent speculation that the former first lady would consider joining the Democratic ticket with Biden, who served as...
From The Washington Examiner: President Trump said Tuesday that 20 states are making plans to reopen their economies “in the very near future.” “They’re going to be doing it safely. They’re going to be...
From The New York Times via Yahoo News: WASHINGTON — The alarming messages came fast and furious in mid-March, popping up on the cellphone screens and social media feeds of millions of Americans grappling...