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I own a grocery store in Northern Michigan. Or I did until today. 80% of my staff just quit because the CARES Act pays them more for sitting at home than to come into work. I pay them on average $600-700 per week. The CARES ACT will give them 80% of that (regular Michigan unemployment 480-560) plus an additional $600 through the cares act. So $1100 to sit at home or $600 to come to work. But if they quit they don't get unemployment right? Wrong the CARES ACT says if the employee is uncomfortable working because of the Covid-virus...

Does anybody remember listening to Chuck Harder on the radio? Chuck was a prophet warning about the dangers of trade with China the WTO, NAFTA. He had a small program that broadcast to small radio stations. He was so concerned about being co-opted by big business that he would not even have advertisers because advertisers would try to censor his programs. His source of income was from listener donations and books sold by his guests. God bless you Chuck wherever you are, whether in this world or the next.

I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors anymore, I want them to turn black I see the girls walk by, dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my head until my darkness goes I see a line of cars and they're all painted black With flowers and my love both never to come back I see people turn their heads and quickly look away Like a newborn baby, it just happens everyday I look inside myself and see my heart is black I see my red door and must have it painted...

Biden may still be the nominee after the Dem convention but what if his medical issues become too much to dismiss after Labor Day? The Trump campaign needs to be prepared to defend state laws. Remember the NJ Senate Election in 2002. https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/torricellilautenberg-perverting-rule-law

Country Tot Cases Cases/1M Pop Tot Deaths Deaths/1M Pop Deaths/Cases Spain 152,446 3,261 15,238 326 10.0% Italy 143,626 2,375 18,279 302 12.7% France 117,749 1,804 12,210 187 10.4% USA 462,391 1,397 16,454 50 3.6% Germany 116,801 1,394 2,451 29 2.1% UK 65,077 959 7,978 118 12.3% Iran 66,220 788 4,110 49 6.2% World 1,593,515 204 95,047 12.2 6.0% S. Korea 10,423 203 204 4 2.0% Data source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Assuming that the explanations coming from the Chinese government have no credibility, the true origins of COVID-19 are not yet known. This has encouraged a great deal of online idle speculation, including conspiracy theories ranging in terms of Chinese deception from low to high: (1) tainted "wet market" bat meat; (2) tainted "wet market" bat meat originating from the Wuhan Institute of Virology; (3) a laboratory accident, (4) an intentionally concealed laboratory accident; (5) a bioterror attack by a rogue individual; and (6) intentional bioterror attack by a belligerent regime.

PING LIST Some of you have asked to be placed on the COVID-19 Update Ping List. Those who ask are placed on the list before the next Update is posted. If a person has expressed an appreciation for the data I'm presenting, I have added that person to the Ping List. Some folks don't like to be on ping lists, and I'd like to remind you that I don't mind if you would rather I remove your name from the list Others, ask away, you're only an easy request away from being on the list COVID-19 Update As of 04/06/2020...

Please FReep Mail me regarding the ping list for these reports. Thanks. COVID-19 Update As of 04/05/2020 23:17 PDST (taken at 23:59) Good morning everyone. Thank you for dropping in to check out this Update. Links to other resources: Near the bottom of this post. Commentary3: Interesting Tid-bits (hopefully) Waking Up Daily to the Same Pandemic There is a certain Groundhog Day (the movie) feel to the situation we are in as this pandemic has it's way in our nation. We experience the bad news one day, go to sleep, and then wake up seemingly starting it all over again,...

Please FReep Mail me regarding the ping list for these reports. Thanks. COVID-19 Update As of 04/04/2020 23:44 PDST (taken at 23:59) Good morning everyone. Thank you for dropping in to check out this Update. Links to other resources: Near the bottom of this post. Commentary3: Interesting Tid-bits (hopefully) Our National COVID-19 Dynamics, Will Mimic Global Ones When COVID-19 first entered our thoughts, it was isolated in China. For weeks that's where it lived and thrived. As the numbers in China slowed, they wound down pretty good. Then came the nations outside China. Just when it seemed like there was...

AN OPEN LETTER TO VIRGINIA GOVERNOR RALPH NORTHAM ================================================= Dear Governor Northam, So, now it's official: Your earlier "suggestion" is today an "order". In other words, there really never was a choice in the matter. It was either your way or the highway. Well, I have some news for you. Virginians have never taken kindly to those who believe they ought, and have a right, to substitute their judgment for the judgment of free citizens. Virginians have a dislike of dictatorial mindsets, however well-meaning or apparently benevolent. Your notions are appropriate for other lands, where the peoples there are wards...

You might want to practice VERY CAREFUL self-quarantine if you've got diarrhea, if I'm right in the way I'm connecting news stories. (You might say that's a "big if," but from predicting the 2010 landslide to the election of Pope Francis to the peaking of China's and then South Korea's coronavirus, I think my track record on FR is pretty good. On the other hand, if some sizeable portion of the coronavirus tests being used are serological, I'm prepared to say "oooooops.") See, a study from the American Journal of Gastroenterology found that of 200 studied patients in Hubei, 50%...

Since the last day to complete the Census is tomorrow, I was curious if there was a census tracking website and I came across this one. With one day left, the responses seem very low. Keep in mind this is an on-line census so there should be no delays because the completed forms are 'in the mail'. It looks to me this on-line census didn't produce the higher responses than mail-in forms. There are going to be a lot of follow-up visits required but do they have the staff even without the current coronavirus crisis. Trouble ahead for congressional redistricting...

Total vanity, but we will get thru this.

Recently my niece wrote and asked about my observations relating to the Wuhan Virus pandemic. After much thought I wrote this reply. You may find agreement, disagreement, or simply smack your forehead for any number of reasons. Crusher ****************************************************** Dear H Thank you for your note and update on y'all's situation and we join you in prayer. We are just hunkered down in the hinterlands where "social isolation" has been the status for any day ending in "Y" just about forever. It is early gardening season for your aunt and I have a never ending menu of projects in the...

I'm sure this is not such a terribly unique idea, but it seems to me we don't really need a randomized double-blind clinical trial on the drug when we know about 2 million people are prescribed hydroxychloroquine. How hard would it be for the government to ask rheumatologists to contact their patients prescribed hydroxychloroquine to find out how many of them have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus? While the total number of people that have acquired this disease related to the population of the United States is probably somewhat insignificant, the absence of cases among hydroxychloroquine users in areas...

Trump should either: 1) Pull a Pelosi and say "Try Again" by flat out vetoing current $2,100,000,000,000 pork filled bill. .. . or . . 2) use Line item veto of the $1,000,000,000,000 in pork. The way I see it 7 new Judges on SCOTUS might see it different than this decision 22 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v._City_of_New_York

Like many Americans, I am astonished and outraged at what the Democrat Party has attempted to do with the Coronavirus Relief Bill. I am not a fan of bailouts, but this situation is unprecedented, and I am inclined to go along with a bill to help people and businesses affected by this. And there are many. When I heard the list of things that had been inserted in this bill by Nancy Pelosi and her ilk, it made my blood boil. Then, when I began looking closer, the range of things seemed bizarrely disconnected, as if they had taken their...

During the gulf war, reporters were broadcasting from undisclosed locations from somewhere in the Mediterranean. Tonight this will be a brief update, and I am also on the front line tonight I will apply the preamble from the previous three threads, you are welcome to read it to understand my methodology and where I am generating my sources. Today has been an interesting day from the data. Yesterday, there were multiple bad reports from Europe, however that has reversed today. One has to wonder if there was a weekend backlog because of the rise in numbers. However what is very...

I cannot believe our government is considering keeping everything shut down beyond next Monday! That is ridiculous. This is NOT a good decision in my very humble opinion. We've already seen huge damage done for companies by this period we're already in!!

Just posted on the WMAL website, linked above. Dr. Fauci was on this morning at 6:35 AM. Interviewed by Vince Coglinese and Mary Walter. https://www.wmal.com/