Sunday, March 01, 2020
The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic | Zero Hedge
The Countries Best And Worst Prepared For An Epidemic | Zero Hedge
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention has stated that another case of the coronavirus has been detected in the United States, pushing the total number of confirmed cases over 60 with 22 outside of the evacuees (and Washington State has announced the first US death from Covid-19)
According to tracking by Johns Hopkins University, over 85,000 people have been infected, the vast majority of them in China.
The coronavirus has also slowly spread to many other countries with cases reported across the globe.
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention has stated that another case of the coronavirus has been detected in the United States, pushing the total number of confirmed cases over 60 with 22 outside of the evacuees (and Washington State has announced the first US death from Covid-19)
According to tracking by Johns Hopkins University, over 85,000 people have been infected, the vast majority of them in China.
The coronavirus has also slowly spread to many other countries with cases reported across the globe.
...As Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, that raises the question: which countries are the most and least prepared to contain large outbreaks of disease?...
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Oh, the humanity!-----Trump team yanking green cards from immigrants who abuse U.S. welfare system - Washington Times
Trump team yanking green cards from immigrants who abuse U.S. welfare system - Washington Times"Conservatives have been trying for decades to create an immigration system that rewards immigrants who won’t be a burden on society and discourages those who will.
The Trump administration this week began enforcing the “public charge” rule, giving U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services the authority to refuse green cards — the key step on the path to citizenship — to people who have used a wide range of nonemergency welfare programs.
“The main reason this got done is because we have a president who is determined enough to make self-sufficiency matter again in a meaningful way,”...
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Biden picks fight with Nikki Haley, gets his clock cleaned - WND
Biden picks fight with Nikki Haley, gets his clock cleaned - WND:
Former Vice President Joe Biden is trying to salvage his 2020 presidential campaign in the South Carolina Democratic primary after disappointing finishes in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
However, if he's trying to convince people of his good judgment, he didn't help himself by taking on the Palmetto State's former governor, Nikki Haley.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is trying to salvage his 2020 presidential campaign in the South Carolina Democratic primary after disappointing finishes in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
However, if he's trying to convince people of his good judgment, he didn't help himself by taking on the Palmetto State's former governor, Nikki Haley.
What Will the Left Do When a Billion-Jillion Americans Don't Die of Coronavirus? | VodkaPundit
What Will the Left Do When a Billion-Jillion Americans Don't Die of Coronavirus? | VodkaPundit
"Have you been watching the TV news about the coronavirus not-quite-yet-a-pandemic?
...If you've had better luck at avoiding the TV news than I have in recent days, let me sum up their coronavirus coverage for you.
"Have you been watching the TV news about the coronavirus not-quite-yet-a-pandemic?
...If you've had better luck at avoiding the TV news than I have in recent days, let me sum up their coronavirus coverage for you.
OH MY GOD TRUMP IS GOING TO KILL US ALL
The media doesn't think you're gullible enough to believe that Donald Trump is America's Patient Zero and that he will personally sneeze on you just out of spite.
Rather, the media line is that Trump's hamfisted incompetence (always on display; never actually seen) will prevent an effective response to the crisis.
...Yet still, they persist in this narrative that Trump's a bumbler.
...The meme takes its form this time with headlines like this gem from CNN, breathlessly repeating whatever Nancy Pelosi needs them to: Nancy Pelosi spoke with Mike Pence and expressed concern over his track record on public health.
Trump made Pence his coronavirus point man, about which Pelosi had this to say for the cameras:
Trump made Pence his coronavirus point man, about which Pelosi had this to say for the cameras:
I spoke with the Vice President this morning, made some of these concerns known to him. We have always had a very candid relationship and I expressed to him a concern that I had of his being in this position and while I look forward to working with him about when he was governor of Indiana slashing the public health budget and having some clinics, especially a Planned Parenthood clinic closed, which was the only place in that (inaudible) county where you could get tested for HIV and AIDS.
Pence doesn't like publicly-funded abortions, so Orange Man Bad will KILL US ALL WITH CHINA FLU!...
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California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis - The New York Times
California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis - The New York Times"California lawmakers approved a statewide rent cap on Wednesday covering millions of tenants, the biggest step yet in a surge of initiatives to address an affordable-housing crunch nationwide.
...Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who has made tenant protection a priority in his first year in office, led negotiations to strengthen the legislation.
...Moves to expand rent control through ballot initiatives or legislation have arisen since 2017 in about a dozen states, including Washington, Colorado and Nevada, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council, an apartment-industry trade group..."
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Democratic House Majority Blocks Bill Protecting Babies Born Alive In Botched Abortions | The Daily Caller
The Democratic House majority blocked a bill Friday that would have protected babies born alive in botched abortions.
Democrats voted against the Republican “Motion to Recommit” on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act with a vote of 187-220.
The bill was offered by Republican Oregon Rep. Greg Walden and Republican Missouri Rep. Ann Wagner. Zero GOP representatives voted against the motion to recommit to the Born Alive Act.
Must read all!-----BIRTH OF A VIRUS … – Regie's Blog
BIRTH OF A VIRUS … – Regie's Blog
"As I watched my neighbor put her dog’s poop in a single-use plastic baggy, I thought about split pants in China.
When my wife and I got off the plane, 18 years ago, to adopt our first daughter, we were taken aback by the split pants.
Split pants are (or at least were, back then) pants the children wear that are open in the crotch area. That allows them to urinate or defecate unobstructed, onto the street or wherever they may be.
The theory is that eventually they will learn to “aim it at the toilet” or something to that effect.
...Then, my wife and I had to rush our newly adopted, 8-month-old daughter to the public hospital…and suddenly it all started making sense.
As we stepped in more urine, took our number from the print-out machine, walked past the line of children whining and crying from the scalp IVs in their heads, then rushed to clean up blood and mucus (left by the last patient) on the plastic table they were now laying our baby on, then waited on the ONE overworked doctor (attending to no less than three hundred people) try to round up a basic anti-biotic to administer to my daughter (right there on site – no refills) it dawned on me what I was seeing and what I had been seeing this whole time. I wasn’t watching a “backward” culture or a third-world society.
...I was witnessing the kind of maximum, almost brutal efficiency a society must develop when the state is the master and the individual is merely a subject.
Why would a Communist country not have an effective FDA?
Because who are you going to complain to if you get tainted food?
The government?
They don’t answer to you.
The press?
They are owned by the government.
And again, they don’t answer to you..."
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"As I watched my neighbor put her dog’s poop in a single-use plastic baggy, I thought about split pants in China.
Split pants are (or at least were, back then) pants the children wear that are open in the crotch area. That allows them to urinate or defecate unobstructed, onto the street or wherever they may be.
The theory is that eventually they will learn to “aim it at the toilet” or something to that effect.
...Then, my wife and I had to rush our newly adopted, 8-month-old daughter to the public hospital…and suddenly it all started making sense.
As we stepped in more urine, took our number from the print-out machine, walked past the line of children whining and crying from the scalp IVs in their heads, then rushed to clean up blood and mucus (left by the last patient) on the plastic table they were now laying our baby on, then waited on the ONE overworked doctor (attending to no less than three hundred people) try to round up a basic anti-biotic to administer to my daughter (right there on site – no refills) it dawned on me what I was seeing and what I had been seeing this whole time. I wasn’t watching a “backward” culture or a third-world society.
...I was witnessing the kind of maximum, almost brutal efficiency a society must develop when the state is the master and the individual is merely a subject. Why would a Communist country not have an effective FDA?
Because who are you going to complain to if you get tainted food?
The government?
They don’t answer to you.
The press?
They are owned by the government.
And again, they don’t answer to you..."
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How they lie!-----‘You’re proving him correct’! Dana Milbank’s claim that Trump called the coronavirus a ‘hoax’ melts BS detectors (ROLL TAPE) – twitchy.com
‘You’re proving him correct’! Dana Milbank’s claim that Trump called the coronavirus a ‘hoax’ melts BS detectors (ROLL TAPE) – twitchy.com
"President Trump held a rally in South Carolina last night, and as you might expect the coronavirus was a topic of discussion.
Trump slammed some Democrats and the media for attempting to politicize the virus, and this is how Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank passed it along: (click link to see video and more)
"President Trump held a rally in South Carolina last night, and as you might expect the coronavirus was a topic of discussion.
Trump slammed some Democrats and the media for attempting to politicize the virus, and this is how Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank passed it along: (click link to see video and more)
Remember this moment: Trump, in South Carolina, just called the coronavirus a "hoax."
That’s up to almost 16,000 retweets, and BS is being called:
I noticed that you only quoted the word "hoax". I dare you to put quotation marks on Trump's entire quote instead. What are you afraid of...a little context? #FakeNews #coronavirus
A little context goes a long way, but apparently Milbank didn’t have enough room in his tweet to include it.
Here’s the full clip:
Here’s the full clip:
Actually, he said tweets like yours- attempts to politicize the coronavirus- are the new hoax. You're a liar. Here's the video:
He said "politicizing the coronavirus" is the new hoax. Your tweet is literally proving his point. twitter.com/Milbank/status…
DOJ endorses Christian photographer's right NOT to work at gay weddings - WND
Affirming that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the rights of those who oppose same-sex marriage, the Justice Department has endorsed a Kentucky photographer's refusal to work for a same-sex wedding.
The National Debt Is ‘Unsustainable’ and the Pentagon’s Finances Are a Total Mess, Federal Audit Says – Reason.com
The National Debt Is ‘Unsustainable’ and the Pentagon’s Finances Are a Total Mess, Federal Audit Says – Reason.com:
- "Absent policy changes, the federal government continues to face an unsustainable long-term fiscal path," America's top auditor warns. But is anyone listening?
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History for March 1
History for March 1 - On-This-Day.com
Yitzhak Rabin 1922 - Israeli politician, William Gaines 1922 - Publisher ("MAD Magazine"), Deke (Donald) Slayton 1924 - Astronaut
Roger Daltrey 1944 - Musician (The Who), Ron Howard 1954 - Producer, actor ("The Andy Griffith Show", "Happy Days"), Justin Bieber 1994 - Singer
1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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