[Babylon Bee]WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trump excitedly unveiled his latest improvements to the White House Press Briefing Room at Monday night's press conference: ejection seats.
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[The Federalist] The New York City/New Jersey metro area is the epicenter of the United States' Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. For the last month, all eyes have been on the Big Apple as they have dealt with the pandemic. Thankfully, the curve is starting to flatten and it looks like the NYC area is finally getting a handle on the virus.
Despite that, progressive darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) believes her residents are afraid of going to the hospital because of "Trump's xenophobic COVID response."
She went on to explain why she believed the president's response is "xenophobic."
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Yes of course. They hate and fear the Orange Man so much they shun medical attention, preferring to stay home and expire. Principled bunch they are indeed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Social restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus could have saved lives if they’d been started earlier, and when they’re eased new cases are certain to arise, said the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, seeming to draw the ire of President Donald Trump.
Trump, who has been chafing at criticism that he didn’t do enough early on to fight the virus, reposted a tweet that referenced Fauci’s comments and that said "Time to #FireFauci." The Republican president again pointed to his decision in late January to restrict travel from China, writing, "Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up."
Fauci said Sunday that the economy in parts of the country could have a "rolling reentry" as early as next month, provided health authorities can quickly identify and isolate people who will inevitably be infected. Fauci also said he "can’t guarantee" that it will be safe for Americans to vote in person on Election Day, Nov. 3.
At some point OrangeMan needs to channel his inner Lincoln - not the better angels of our nature, 2nd Inaugural Lincoln but the wartime one. These people have become a public menace and a major security risk to the nation.
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"Fauci also said he "can’t guarantee" that it will be safe for Americans to vote in person on Election Day, Nov. 3." Petty, small minded, butt covering bureaucratic ass that this fool is, of course he would say this. We "can't guarantee" the universe will still exist in the next second. Dump him (or neuter him painfully) please.
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Fauci has been around long before Trump (hmmmm, whatchya up to, Tony? Like it there? Pay well?)
[The Hill] Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Sunday called the disproportionate coronavirus deaths among African Americans in his state "very disturbing."
The governor told ABC’s "This Week" that he requested a study to track the number of cases and deaths by race because it wasn’t being monitored by anyone, including the federal government.
The study found that black Marylanders make up 52 percent of the deaths from the coronavirus despite making up only 31 percent of the state’s population.
"This disparity among African Americans is very disturbing," Hogan said. "It’s why I called for the study. You know nobody was really tracking these things."
He said the state has backtracked and has data on race for 80 percent of cases and plans to release it by ZIP code Sunday or Monday.
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You know, you can build a nice conspiracy theory on this.
(1) Assume novel coronavirus is a biological weapon in development that escaped the lab prematurely.
Then you have to ask.
(2) Why did Chinese build such a feeble bioweapon?
(3) It's only feeble in industrialized world. In Africa (which it reaches right now) it will be devastating.
(4) Is it to China's advantage if Africa depopulated?
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/\ Putting on Conspiracy Hat: it "could" have been a research into militarizing the virus into a Tactical Bioweapon aimed at Arabs, Persians, other Central Asian ethnicities, and of course Indians. Something that would render an entire area to sick to fight an invading Chinese army -- the only problem is researching a strain that hurts ethnic Chinese the least.
...or they were researching viral strains as part of a long term health initiative and somebody made a terrible mistake. ...or it is just one of those tragedies that Nature visits us with.
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The disparity of diabetes among the Navajo people is disturbing. Leading to early death and disability. Maybe there is some sort of social behavior factor involved? Nah. We don't want to change our behavior lets blame someone/something else.
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study found that black Marylanders make up 52 percent of the deaths from the coronavirus despite making up only 31 percent of the state’s population.
Adjust for population density (probably a second or third power function) and much of that disparity will vanish. Adjust again for lifestyle choices and more will go away. The rest - if there even is any - would probably be tied to co-morbidity factors. Data from Africa (with its huge China connection...) does not support a positive race factor, and even suggests a negative one.
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China is colonizing Africa, Middle East. Reducing/weakening those populations is a step toward those goals. And what a fortuitous oil/gas find in the lands of the Uighur. Surely coincidental to the local suppression. (puts foil hat back on)
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[Breitbart] Hollywood director Spike Lee suggested that Earth was "angry" at mankind for going "too far" and unleashed the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as a form of revenge.
"Before Corona, after Corona. This is changing everything," the BlacKkKlansman director said during an interview on SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show.
"But you know why, the reason, I read an article about it. How pollution is clearing up. Skies are clear. Animals are coming out. I mean you know, the Earth was angry at us," Lee explained. "People may think I’m crazy that I believe it in my heart and soul. That we had gone too far and Earth said, ’Hold up, we gotta change this.’"
From April 1. Long, with lots of graphs and discussion of their content. A key point:
[Medium] Republican-controlled states have had a huge advantage: They have seen what has happened to their Democratic-controlled brethren, but because they are on average more rural, the coronavirus took time to reach them. But it will reach them. Some rural states, like Alaska or Idaho, have taken advantage of this delay. Others, like Oklahoma, Mississippi or Missouri, are not taking enough measures to contain the virus: It will continue spreading invisibly, infecting the people of these states.
The older you are, the more likely you are to both vote Republican and die from the coronavirus. Voters aged 80+ are 80 times more likely to die from the coronavirus than those under 40 (16% fatality rate vs. ~0.2%).
This effect is strong enough that people who voted for Trump in the 2016 election are around 30% more likely to die from the coronavirus than Democrats. In some swing states from the 2016 election, such as Pennsylvania, if the coronavirus were to run wild, this effect alone could have wiped out up to 30% of the gap between Republicans and Democrats in the 2016 election.
[Real Clear Investigations] The last time the United States faced a worldwide pandemic — the "Spanish flu" of 1918 and 1919 -- cities rolled up the sidewalks, closed theaters, and shuttered saloons. Firemen, policemen, nurses and panicked citizens covered their faces with gauze masks.
The virulent influenza emerged in the last year of World War I, incubated in American army camps and spread overseas on troop ships. By the time the influenza finally burned itself out, over 45,000 Americans in uniform and some 600,000 American civilians were dead of the disease. It’s estimated that the Spanish flu killed 50 million worldwide.
When the crisis hit, the country was led by a president viewed by many as among the most capable of American leaders, Woodrow Wilson. A favorite of progressives, Wilson has been hailed for expanding the federal government and celebrated for his commitment to international institutions. He has regularly been in historians’ polls of the top 10 presidents, an assessment that has only slipped in recent years as Wilson's unreconstructed racism has been publicized. Still, one would expect a skilled advocate of federal authority to have used every power of his office to confront a scourge that was killing Americans by the hundreds of thousands. Surely his response would be a model of presidential leadership.
Not quite.
"Frankly, I don’t think Wilson gave much attention to the flu," John M. Cooper, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells RealClearInvestigations. "From going through his papers, there just isn’t much there," says Cooper, the dean of Wilson scholars.
"President Woodrow Wilson had been extraordinarily close-mouthed about the epidemic from the first," writes Sandra Opdycke in "The Flu Epidemic of 1918: America’s Experience in the Global Health Crisis." Historians "have been unable to find a single occasion on which he mentioned it in public."
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[DailyMail] Shocking footage shows Chinese police beating back residents trying to flee epicentre of coronavirus outbreak.
China has been accused of covering up a horrific coronavirus death toll of tens of thousands of people and unleashing a potential wave of new infections by taking the city at the epicentre of the outbreak out of quarantine to help jump-start its national economy.
Communist Party officials are suspected of manipulating statistics to hide a cataclysmic body count in Wuhan in Hubei province in a cynical ploy to allow it to sprint ahead of other major economies by getting back to business as vast swathes of the world remain paralysed by the pandemic.
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CIA officials told the White House in a leaked report that China is vastly understating both Covid-19 deaths and cases in the same way financiers worldwide accept it has for decades routinely manipulated its GDP data to maintain a consistently positive narrative.
Nevertheless, there are over 1.428 billion of them and they love air travel.
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Flogged, beaten, flailed, nailed to then hung from a cross, speared, buried, tomb sealed with a Roman seal, guarded by Roman guards. On the third day he sat up and then walked out of the tomb. He said all of this would happen before it actually happened.
h/t Instapundit
[LA Times] - A man found dead in his house in early March. A woman who fell sick in mid-February and later died.
These early COVID-19 deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area suggest that the novel coronavirus had established itself in the community long before health officials started looking for it. The lag time has had dire consequences, allowing the virus to spread unchecked before social distancing rules went into effect.
"The virus was freewheeling in our community and probably has been here for quite some time," Dr. Jeff Smith, a physician who is the chief executive of Santa Clara County government, told county leaders in a recent briefing.
How long? A study out of Stanford suggests a dramatic viral surge in February.
But Smith on Friday said data collected by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, local health departments and others suggest it was "a lot longer than we first believed" — most likely since "back in December."
"This wasn’t recognized because we were having a severe flu season," Smith said in an interview. "Symptoms are very much like the flu. If you got a mild case of COVID, you didn’t really notice. You didn’t even go to the doctor. The doctor maybe didn’t even do it because they presumed it was the flu."
Just as New York has strong ties to travelers from Europe, who are believed to have brought the coronavirus there from Italy, the Bay Area is a natural hub for those traveling to and from China. Santa Clara County had its first two cases of COVID-19 almost a week before federal approval of emergency testing for the disease Feb. 4. Both were in travelers returning from Wuhan, China, where the virus was rampant.
...COVID-19 did not reappear in the Bay Area until Feb. 27, when doctors finally decided to test a hospitalized woman who had been ill for weeks. She became the region’s first case of community-spread coronavirus.
The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. In 2020, the first day of the Chinese New Year was on Saturday, 25 January, which initiated the Year of the Rat.
h/t Instapundit
[YahooNews] - I started wearing disposable gloves and a mask in early March. Almost everyone was looking at me as if I was some kind of a freak. Today, I don’t wear a mask when I go out and people are looking at me as if I am an idiot. Very interesting maths & graphs
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Yes, indeed, and very transparent - open source. But it also has assumptions, like a 1% transmission rate, which are central to the analysis.
The probability of catching COVID-19 in New York City today is probably 100 times smaller than the probability of catching it a month ago. Yet, most people are 100 times more concerned about getting infected now than they were a month ago.
I think that is the problem in a nutshell.
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[Federalist] Some mayors and governors seem to think their authority is limitless in the face of the pandemic. They need a remedial lesson in the Constitution.
There’s nothing like a crisis to bring clarity. The response of some mayors and governors to the coronavirus pandemic in recent days has made it clear they think they have unlimited and arbitrary power over their fellow citizens, that they can order them to do or not do just about anything under the guise of protecting public health.
We’ve now witnessed local and state governments issue decrees about what people can and cannot buy in stores, arrest parents playing with their children in public parks, yank people off public buses at random, remove basketball rims along with private property, ticket churchgoers, and in one case try—and fail—to chase down a lone runner on an empty beach. All of this, we’re told, is for our own good.
SOME AUTHORITIES ARE TARGETING CHRISTIANS
The most egregious example of this outpouring of authoritarianism was an attempt by Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor Greg Fischer to ban drive-in church services on Easter. On Holy Thursday, one day before Christians were to begin their most important religious celebrations of the year, Fischer declared that drive-in Easter services would be illegal.
To remove all doubt about his seriousness, he also threatened arrest and criminal penalties for anyone who dared violate his order, and in an Orwellian twist, invited people to snitch on their fellow citizens. Fischer justified this by saying it was "to save lives."
Thankfully, a federal judge made short work of the mayor’s idiotic power-grab, issuing a temporary restraining order against the city of Louisville on Saturday, writing so as to remove all doubt, "The Mayor’s decision is stunning. And it is, ’beyond all reason,’ unconstitutional."
The mayor shouldn’t have needed a federal judge to tell him that. Anyone with a passing familiarity with the U.S. Constitution should know the government can’t single out religious worship for special regulations and prohibitions, which is precisely what the hapless Fischer did here. His order would have barred Christians from driving to their church parking lots and sitting in their vehicles for Easter services—all while maintaining proper social distancing—while imposing no such restrictions on drive-up and drive-through restaurants, liquor stores, grocery stores, or parking lots generally.
Mayors or governors—or even presidents—can no more single out Christians on Easter than they can single out Muslims during Ramadan or Jews on Yom Kippur. If you’re going to ban parking in parking lots, it has to apply to everyone everywhere.
But this didn’t just happen in Louisville. Two churches in Greenville, Mississippi, that were holding drive-in services for Holy Week said police showed up and ordered churchgoers to leave or face a $500 fine.
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If you ever thought that certain Americans, given a little power, would not turn on their fellow Americans, here is the proof that they will. Imagine them having a little more power than a stay at home request... Our right to peacefully assemble, free speech, gun store closures, freedom of movement, curfews, closed churches, state closures, forced quarantines, etc... have all been infringed. Did I miss anything? All by Governors operating in fear. They pitched our constitution out with the trash, for what? Now we know, very clearly, what our states governments feel is within their rights when it comes to "our" constitutional rights. It is frightening. We stay well armed, not just for the enemy outside our nation, but the ones within...
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Consider the ones inside being supported and perhaps mentored unknowingly by those outside. This is what the 2nd amendment is really about, to give the people the means to deal with domestic despotism as well are foreign enemies.
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The real problem is how many people welcome the removal of civil liberties. At least here in California Ive heard old friends praising the thing in charge of LA.
It's Kurt time
[TownHall] - One of the least appealing aspects of the American character is the residual Puritanism that still compels a certain percentage of our countrymen, women and others, to nag, pester, and generally annoy the rest of us by trying to make us conform to their stick-up-the-Lieu vision of propriety. These people — these obnoxious Karens, for lack of a better FCC-compliant term — are delighted by the Chinese Bat Biter grippe and the opportunity it presents for them to try to impose their arbitrary will upon the rest of us. These mewling Mussolinis need to be slapped back, verbally if not physically, but as long as we are under this lockdown, they will not stop. They live for this, the chance to dictate to and control us, and the problem is some of them have positions of power.
...This is not to say that the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is fake or unserious, nor that we should ignore it and pretend that it’s just another flu. It is to say that there is more going on now than a respiratory ailment. There’s an economic ailment that most of us are painfully aware of, and there is a freedom ailment, where the Karens in everyday life and in the corridors or power are taking advantage of this crisis to let their fascist flag fly.
...In Michigan, Governor Karen O’Karenheimer decided that buying non-essential stuff should be outlawed, and guess who decided what’s non-essential? Well, dope appears essential, but dope smokin’ morons make up a lot of the Democrat base (and the Libertarian base too), so off course hopheads get a pass. But gardening supplies and seeds? Nah. Why? Because, that’s why. You might think it was mind-bendingly stupid if you did not understand her real motivation — it’s the giddy joy of bossing you around. To paraphrase a great line from Heat, which everyone should do as often as possible, the fascism is the juice.
...This is not to say that we should pretend there’s no pandemic. In fact, few people do or want to — that’s not what freedom requires. It’s to say that persuasion must be the default, not intimidation. Like most of you, I mostly stayed at home, wore a mask, and distanced myself, not because some Karen was going to jump my Schiff if I didn’t but because I decided that these were reasonable precautions that I should take for myself and my fellow citizens. That’s how we all started off, and that’s how we should still be doing it, but the Karens gotta Karen, and we’re not going to take it.
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[The Federalist] The New York City/New Jersey metro area is the epicenter of the United States' Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. For the last month, all eyes have been on the Big Apple as they have dealt with the pandemic. Thankfully, the curve is starting to flatten and it looks like the NYC area is finally getting a handle on the virus.
Discrete, individual warnings and selective enforcement. No additional warnings for Jim Acosta however. 
[Medium] Republican-controlled states have had a huge advantage: They have seen what has happened to their Democratic-controlled brethren, but because they are on average more rural, the coronavirus took time to reach them. But it will reach them. Some rural states, like Alaska or Idaho, have taken advantage of this delay. Others, like Oklahoma, Mississippi or Missouri, are not taking enough measures to contain the virus: It will continue spreading invisibly, infecting the people of these states.
