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It’s just the flu, bro. Three days in a row of fewer than 800 deaths in USA. R is less than 1 as daily new cases are dropping. This is really two diseases - the mostly benign version for people 65 and under and the potentially deadly version you see at nursing homes. A friend at a nursing home said that he had one asymptomatic staff member spread it to 22 out of 24 patients. 8 died there. They hired family members to help manage the patients. Tying this back to conservative principles - no abortion means more kids which...

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - The U.S. Attorney of Middle Tennessee called it a “bloodbath” of a plan. The Sheriff of Davidson County simply called it evil. The latest development in the case against 50-year-old Alex Friedmann includes details of what federal prosecutors said was a well-orchestrated plan to help inmates escape the Davidson County Jail. The plan included weapons and handcuff keys hidden behind concrete walls and a 37-mm launcher to fire flares and gas stashed among an arsenal of weapons, according to the complaint. Friedmann also faces state charges of attempted burglary and vandalism after being accused of dressing...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) late Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit from House Republicans seeking to block the chamber from holding proxy voting, in which members vote for colleagues remotely on the House floor. Pelosi issued a statement calling the lawsuit a "sad stunt" aimed at distracting from new efforts for an additional relief bill amid the coronavirus pandemic. "The House made its will clear two weeks ago when it voted to implement remote voting by proxy and other necessary measures to ensure that Congress can continue to protect lives and livelihoods," Pelosi said in a statement. "The House's position that remote...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Bars and restaurants could expand outdoor seating - once Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s order prohibiting in-person dining is lifted - under a new program created by the city of Grand Rapids to help businesses recover from the coronavirus pandemic. So-called “social zones” can be established on public property, such as streets, sidewalks and parking lots, throughout the city through a special permit. The zones are designed to give restaurants space to serve more customers, since their inside dining rooms will likely be required to operate at reduced capacity to ensure social distancing once they’re allowed to reopen....

It was the call heard 'round the world. A May 2 virtual meeting meant for Trenton officials to discuss fighting the devastating coronavirus in the Capital City devolved into a mudslinging free-for-all of homophobic slurs and insults. **SNIP** But things escalated to new heights on May 2, when West Ward Councilwoman Robin Vaughn unloaded on East Ward Councilman Joe Harrison and Gusciora during a conference call for the local leaders to discuss the city’s response to the coronavirus. In her rant, Vaughn called Gusciora a "pedophile,” a “woman” and a “bitch a**,” among a flood of expletives. When Harrison tried...

Rush Limbaugh took to his golden EIB microphone on Tuesday and divulged that he’s in the third wave of cancer treatment but it’s “kicking my ass.”

After releasing the golden master to developers earlier this week, Apple is releasing iOS 13.5 to the general public today. The update brings quite a few changes and new features prompted by COVID-19, including the Exposure Notification API, Face ID enhancements, and much more. Apple and Google have been developing the Exposure Notification API with close guidance from public health officials. When a user enables the feature and has an app from a public health authority installed, the device will regularly send out a beacon via Bluetooth that includes a random Bluetooth identifier. From there, the Exposure Notification API will...

Cherry Hill, NJ – A woman choked on her own vomit during a surgical abortion at the Cherry Hill Women’s Center in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and required emergency transport to the Cooper Medical Center for suspected aspiration pneumonia. This occurred on May 2, 2020, during a serious COVID-19 outbreak when elective abortions were banned due to a strain on medical resources. Abortions in New Jersey were exempted from the ban. After the vomiting episode during the abortion, the 35-year old woman suffered a drop in her oxygen levels. Once the abortion was completed, she was placed in a recovery...

America's rats are being hit hard by the coronavirus. As millions of Americans shelter indoors to combat the deadly virus, which has claimed over 21,000 U.S. lives, many businesses — including restaurants and grocery stores — have closed or limited operations, cutting off many rodents' main sources for food. On deserted streets across the country, rats are in dire survival mode, experts say. "If you take rats that have been established in the area or somebody's property and they're doing well, the reason they're doing well is because they're eating well," Bobby Corrigan, an urban rodentologist, told NBC News. "Ever...

I am asking for prayers, please, for myself. Tomorrow, I am undergoing hernioplasty for a ventral incisional hernia.

FALSE: DO NOT SHARE Claim: The US Government is using COVID-19 as cover to close public buildings and install dangerous 5G. Answer: False. 5G is not dangerous, nor is it being clandestinely installed. FURTHER INFORMATION A video on YouTube claims that the COVID-19 lockdown in the US was imposed because the Government wanted to secretly install dangerous 5G infrastructure near public buildings, like schools, banks or restaurants. This is false. As we have previously written, there are no proven links between the roll out of 5G technology and the outbreak of COVID-19. There is no scientific evidence that electrical...

Fox News, and other cable networks, run a COVID death count ticker on the side or bottom of the television screen just as they show the major stock indices during the business day. Why are they so obsessed with deaths from the Chinese virus? Most peoples’ moods are already melancholic over the unending economic shutdown, along with social distancing, masks, and restrictions on movement and assembly not normally seen in free societies. Why don’t news networks show a tally of recovered patients rather than deaths? Aside from the morbid, “If it bleeds, it leads” mantra that guides much news reporting,...

It’s just the flu, bro. Wonderful sight for me yesterday - thousands of people packed like sardines at the beaches in Galveston, Texas. Not a single mask was to be seen anywhere. Thousands of people who live without fear is a great thing to see. I can’t imagine living in a state that keeps people from the sun and the waves in order to “protect” people from Coronavirus. Another restriction that needs to go is the youth sports ban. How many people’s lives have been saved by shutting down youth sports for the past 2-3 months? The answer is a...

Michigan Gov. Whitmer in Memorial Day coronavirus lockdown controversy over husband's reported boat request Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer faced backlash from Republican lawmakers after a reported request from her husband to get the family's boat out on the water before Memorial Day weekend -- far from their home in Lansing. Whitmer, a Democrat, famously has imposed one of the strictest lockdowns in the country, sparking frequent protests. What's more, she's told people not living in Northern Michigan to stay away from vacation spots there during the holiday weekend. In Facebook posts no longer visible to the public, NorthShore Dock LLC...

One of the most durable political assets that Republicans have enjoyed throughout the 21st century is their edge among Americans 65 and older, who tend to turn out at the polls more reliably any other group. But with President Trump’s inept and erratic handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic, he is rapidly losing support among the age group most vulnerable to its ravages - which is a big warning sign to Republicans as they look to the fall. Trump has also been showing slippage in support among the next-oldest cohort, those 55 and older. The shift has been showing up...

WASHINGTON (SBG) - President Donald Trump sat down with Sinclair Broadcast Group's Sharyl Attkisson to discuss several topics, including the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. President Trump discusses the COVID-19 pandemic and China with Sharyl Attkisson.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted Monday that coronavirus projections from experts were all wrong -- and he's getting out of the business of speculating because of it. Cuomo said he can't predict when the hospitalization and death rate numbers will drop to the necessary threshold required for reopening certain regions because as he put it, "we all failed" at predicting. "Now, people can speculate. People can guess. I think next week, I think two weeks, I think a month," Cuomo told reporters on Memorial Day. "I'm out of that business because we all failed at that business. Right? All...

A new model shows reopening states and ignoring the pandemic could result in more than 5 million people contracting coronavirus. According to Yahoo Finance, a Penn Wharton Budget Model shows reopening states could cause positive coronavirus cases in the U.S. to jump to 5.4 million by the end of July. The model, which assumes states reopening May 18, explores various scenarios under which states reopen.The model also includes lockdowns, a partial reopening, and takes into account whether social distancing rules would continue to be adhered to or are relaxed.If states fully reopen with no social distancing rules in place, the...

Germany’s economy ministry on Monday unveiled plans to ramp up support for hard-hit smaller companies, proposing as much as €50,000 in monthly aid to help the nation’s vaunted “Mittelstand” survive the coronavirus crisis. The proposal, seen by AFP, is currently being discussed with the finance ministry and is aimed at helping firms cover their fixed costs from June to December as the pandemic pushes Europe’s top economy into its worst recession in decades. “Time is running out for some companies,” a spokeswoman for Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said. To qualify for the support, applicants must prove that their revenues plunged...

The sheer ease with which the American left has politicized the deaths of thousands of Americans has shocked even me. The United States is approaching 100,000 deaths and the left seems determined to make sure the public blames President Donald Trump for those deaths. As PJM’s Tyler O’Neil noted, the Democratic Coalition is trying to make “Trump Death Toll” a thing. While Tyler effectively demonstrated the absurdity of blaming these deaths on Trump, I’m going to show that despite the headlines that suggest things in the United States are the worst in the world, that is emphatically not the case....