"If we see continued noncompliance, they'll wind up facing misdemeanor charge, and [the Department of Water and Power] will step in and shut off their water and power," Garcetti remarked. "You know who you are, you need to stop it. This is your chance to step up and shut it down — because if you don't, we will shut you down."
Calling such businesses that don't voluntarily shut their doors "irresponsible and selfish," Garcetti unveiled the city's "business ambassadors program," which is designed to convince nonessential businesses to close, the station said.
This observation coupled with her refusal to acknowledge promising treatments such as Chloroquine (studies have shone 100% cure rate) during the delivery of her "Stay-at-home" order defies her assertion that she is taking a data-driven approach.
Rather,she seems intent upon fanning the flames of fear and anxiety that many of us are experiencing.
Why would she do this?
The most logical conclusion is that her agenda is biased towards political considerations not a thoughtful consideration of the facts during this critical time.
After all, Michigan is a very important state in the 2020 Presidential election and the state of our economy will be a key consideration for voters.
If this conclusion is accurate, and I truly hope it is not, she should be removed from office immediately.
The priorities of the people of Michigan need to supersede her national political aspirations."
"Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been
cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been
instrumental in governmental policy decision-making,
offered a massively downgraded projection of the potential deathtoll on Wednesday.
Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve.
The model predicted far fewer deaths if lockdown measures — measures such as those taken by the British and American governments — were undertaken.
After just one day of ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates,
crediting lockdown measures, but also revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured... Read all! Must read the comments in article!
Former Vice President Joe Biden has repeatedly pushed misinformation about the COVID-19 coronavirus in political attacks against President Donald Trump and his administration.
Biden, the Democratic frontrunner for president, has sought to politically capitalize on the coronavirus pandemic. But on at least five different occasions, Biden and his campaign have spread misinformation about the response to the virus.
A former staffer says he sexually assaulted her in 1993.
"When it comes to #MeToo sexual misconduct issues, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, has made it no secret where he stands: automatically believe women.
"For a woman to come forward in the glaring lights of focus, nationally, you've got to start off with the presumption that at least the essence of what she's talking about is real," said Biden during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who faced accusations that as a teenager he had assaulted a woman at a party.
...now the former vice president is facing a much more serious accusation of sexual assault, from an alleged former staffer named Tara Reade.
Truckers are saying “fuck the log rules, I’m hauling” and they’re getting supplies to the stores.
People are stocking the shelves all night and letting old people shop first.
Folks are buying meals for truckers, who (obviously) can’t go through the drive-ups. Asking ’em what they want, then buying it for them.
Carnival Cruise Line has told Trump “We can match those big Navy Hospital ships with some fully staffed cruise ships”.
GM and Ford have said “hold our cars and watch this — we can make ventilators where we were just making car parts, starting next week” — by re-engineering seat ventilators which their engineers hacked together for a new purpose. In under a week...
History for March 27 - On-This-Day.com Nathaniel Currier 1813, William Conrad Rontgen 1845, Sir Henry Royce 1863 David Janssen 1931, Quentin Tarantino 1963 - Movie director, Mariah Carey 1970 - Singer 1794 - The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of the U.S. Navy. 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev became the chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers in addition to First Secretary of the Communist Party.
U.S. equity markets surged on Thursday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average exiting bear market territory as optimism grows that the economy will regain its footing despite the coronavirus crisis.
The Dow gained 1,351 points or over 6.4 percent. The S&P 500 also rose 6.3 percent and the Nasdaq Composite over 5.6 percent.
San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore for now will not force gun stores in county jurisdiction to close, he said Tuesday.
Calling their service valuable, Gore asked stores to follow social distancing rules and find alternative ways to sell guns and ammunition, such as online or by appointment. The key, he said, is to restrict clusters of customers at storefronts.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered up a bald-faced lie on Tuesday when a CNN host asked the California Democrat about House Democrats' coronavirus relief bill.
"Everything we're suggesting just relates to COVID-19," Pelosi claimed. "It's not changing policy except as it applies here."
Under ‘price gouging’ bans, after the lucky first few, ‘everyone else gets nothing’
"An economist at a national economic think tank is using an actual 'price gouging' complaint filed with the Michigan Attorney General to illustrate why government-imposed price controls cause store shelves to empty more quickly than they would otherwise during an emergency. The alleged price-gouging incident occurred on March 8 at noon in Dearborn, according to the Michigan Department of Attorney General.
The complaint read: “Everyone is afraid of the covid 19 coronavirus. There are no more hand sanitizer in large retailers and small stores. All stores were out of stock. However, the Dearborn fresh supermarket was selling an 8 oz hand sanitizer for a price of 10 dollars. This is clear price gouging during this panic. $1 hand sanitizer is now $10. They are causing consumers to panic. This is illegal and against the law. Please look into this matter as soon as possible. Truly inhumane and no regard for the people.”
But Antony Davies, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, said the complaint makes a bad argument for government-imposed price controls. “A price is not a lever that one throws so as to alter reality,” Davies said in an email. “A price is a metric that responds to a reality that already exists. The store does not cause people to panic by raising the price of hand sanitizer. The store raises the price of hand sanitizer in response to the fact that people are panicking.”... Read all!
Panic Peddlers: Media Blames Drug Trump Discussed for Death of Man Who Ate Aquarium Cleaner | News and Politics "In their constant effort to take down Trump and debunk everything he says, the media has been on a mission to prove that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which some doctors and patients are reporting can effectively fight off the Chinese virus ravaging the world, is dangerous. It started with MSN reporting that two grams of the drug President Trump wants to fast-track can kill you.
Donald Trump Jr. had the best response to that claim, since two grams of the drug would be a massive overdose.
You can overdose on anything.
But the worst fear-mongering happened on Monday when Dena Grayson, a television doctor, tweeted out the worst fake news I've ever seen. She claimed that "a man DIED & his wife is in ICU after they ingested #chloroquine, one of the anti-malarials that @realDonaldTrump touted."
Except that's not what happened. The husband and wife, both in their 60s, ingested a chloroquine phosphate formulation that is used to clean fish tanks,Banner Health hospital said in a press release.
They were not prescribed medicine safe for human consumption, they ate a substance approved for aquarium maintenance...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, American ingenuity has stepped up to alleviate shortages and desperate needs, particularly in the medical field. Over at Ford, F-150 truck parts are being used to create much-needed respirators to help hospital workers combat the virus.
FEMA says Michigan has not asked for a disaster declaration
LANSING — Michigan has not yet requested a major disaster declaration for the coronavirus, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday.
The administration of President Donald Trump has already declared major disasters for Iowa, Lousiana, New York, California and Washington, officials confirmed.
But for Michigan, where the number of confirmed cases topped 2,200 Wednesday, with at least 43 deaths, "FEMA has not yet received a request for a major disaster declaration," spokesman Michael Hart said.
Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, said Wednesday morning that state officials were "reviewing and looking into" a request to FEMA.
...Michigan ranks fifth in the nation for total number of coronavirus cases, behind New York, New Jersey, Washington and California..." Read all.
US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found | Fox News
"The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. Read all!
Christine Pelosi, the political activist daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), mocked Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) over his coronavirus diagnosis by endorsing his neighbor's violent attack on the congressman.
How a handful of Democratic activists created alarming, but bogus data sets to scare local and state officials into making rash, economy-killing mandates.
"As U.S. state and local officials halt the economy and quarantine their communities over the Wuhan virus crisis, one would hope our leaders were making such major decisions based on well-sourced data and statistical analysis. That is not the case. A scan of statements made by media, state governors, local leaders, county judges, and more show many relying on the same source, an online mapping tool called COVID Act Now. The website says it is “built to enable political leaders to quickly make decisions in their Coronavirus response informed by best available data and modeling.”... But a closer look at how many of COVID Act Now’s predictions have already fallen short, and how they became a ubiquitous resource across the country overnight, suggests something more sinister...
Moreover, Japan was one of the first countries outside of China to document a case of the disease, officially termed COVID-19, as early as January 16.
...A "Second Wuhan" was feared.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's popularity rating plummeted and critics called on him to resign.
But the wild contagion calamity and the inundation of medical facilities seemingly hasn't happened. Why?
"Japan relied on a strategy of quickly identifying clusters of new cases and then imposing containment measures to prevent a larger outbreak,"...
Read all.
A man holds a shop advertisement saying "We have masks" in Ginza shopping district Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, in Tokyo. At a government task force meeting Wednesday on the virus outbreak, Japan's Prime Minister Abe said he was asking organizers to cancel or postpone major sports or cultural events over the next two weeks. (AP)
This observation coupled with her refusal to acknowledge promising treatments such as Chloroquine (studies have shone 100% cure rate) during the delivery of her "Stay-at-home" order defies her assertion that she is taking a data-driven approach.
"Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been
"When it comes to #MeToo sexual misconduct issues, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, has made it no secret where he stands: automatically believe women.
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The alleged price-gouging incident occurred on March 8 at noon in Dearborn, according to the Michigan Department of Attorney General.
But the worst fear-mongering happened on Monday when Dena Grayson, a television doctor, tweeted out the worst fake news I've ever seen. 
American Ingenuity: Ford Uses F-150 Parts To Design Respirators As Private Sector Combats COVID-19 | The Daily Wire:
