Cotton: Mainstream Media Often Apologists for China's Communist Party

Cotton: Mainstream Media Often Apologists for China's Communist Party:

American “mainstream media” often act as apologists for China’s Communist Party, noted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), offering his remarks on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Alex Marlow while discussing the coronavirus outbreak.
Marlow invited Cotton’s assessment of America’s news media “parroting Beijing propaganda” to their audiences “as if it’s true.

Wealthy Hypocrites Are The Real Climate Deniers | Climate Dispatch

Wealthy Hypocrites Are The Real Climate Deniers | Climate Dispatch
"A recent study by the University of Leeds in the U.K. says rich people are most to blame for human-induced climate change.
As reported by the BBC, the wealthiest 10% of people in the 86 countries surveyed consume 20 times more fossil fuel energy than the poorest 10%.
The largest disparity is in the transportation sector, where the top 10% consume 187 times more fossil fuel energy than the bottom 10%.

TO SAY WE’RE THE BEST PREPARED ISN’T TO SAY WE WERE WELL PREPARED, OF COURSE: U.S. rated No. 1…

Instapundit Blog Archive TO SAY WE’RE THE BEST PREPARED ISN’T TO SAY WE WERE WELL PREPARED, OF COURSE:
"U.S. rated No. 1 in the world for disaster readiness by Global Health Security Index: Johns Hopkins University source rates 195 nations. 
“The U.S. has a Global Health Security Index score that was 83.5 out of a possible 100 — the highest ranking in the analysis. 
Britain placed second with a score of 77.9, Netherlands third at 75.6., Australia fourth at 75.5 and Canada fifth at 75.3.”

"I think it’s also worth pointing out that we’re not very good at preparing for things that happen every hundred years. 
The last comparable event was in 1918. 
So we pay people to prepare, but it’s like an army that hasn’t fought a war in a while — they go through the motions, but then have to learn on the job when something actually happens. 
I’ve been very critical of the CDC and the FDA for getting in the way, but nobody has a fire brigade ready to go for something that happens less than once in a lifetime.--Posted by Glenn Reynolds

Lunch video-----Wuhan Coronavirus: The Mainstream Media's Inconsistencies

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Israeli Firm Donates to U.S. Ten Million Pills Touted by Trump for Coronavirus Treatment

Israeli Firm Donates to U.S. Ten Million Pills Touted by Trump for Coronavirus Treatment:

More than six million tablets of hydroxychloroquine sulfate donated by the Israeli drug company Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. have arrived in the U.S. and are currently being shipped to national wholesalers to be distributed to American hospitals, a spokesperson for Teva confirmed to Breitbart News.
Ten million tablets in total are slated to arrive in the U.S. within a month as part of Teva’s donation.

Hmm... SEIU Union in California Suddenly Finds Mysterious Stash of 39 Million Face Masks -- 3 Days After AG Bill Barr Announces They're Going After Hoarders

Hmm... SEIU Union in California Suddenly Finds Mysterious Stash of 39 Million Face Masks -- 3 Days After AG Bill Barr Announces They're Going After Hoarders
"...Attorney General Bill Barr put hoarders on notice and said they will get a knock on the door if they are sitting on a large amount of supplies.
...“If you have a big supply of toilet paper in your house, this is not something you have to worry about. 

But if you are sitting on a warehouse with masks, surgical masks, you will be hearing a knock on your door,” Barr said.

Then today this happened…

Then on Thursday the SEIU Healthcare Workers West announced they had located a mysterious stash of 39 million N95 face masks..."

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Everyone is equal. Some are more equal than others.

Cognitive dissonance!

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"...listen to the deadly advice that New York City’s leadership was giving to it residents..."---Fans of Best of the Web Today

Fans of Best of the Web Today--Michael Costello shared a post.
"Today, New York is suffering the nation’s worst outbreak of coronavirus and is pointing the finger of blame at the federal government. 

But listen to the deadly advice that New York City’s leadership was giving to it residents even as the plague exploded."

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As this deadly virus emerged from Eastern China and began to spread inexorably across the globe, clearly headed here, leaders in New York not only failed to shield their citizens from it. They took affirmative and aggressive steps to increase the risk to the population. Why would they do that? Because they were far more worried about being called racist than protecting human lives. That’s not an overstatement.

Who can argue against this common sense?

SEIU Healthcare Union Suddenly Finds 39 Million N95 Masks

SEIU Healthcare Union Suddenly Finds 39 Million N95 Masks:

The Service Employees International Union said it has located 39 million N95 masks and will be facilitating the sale of them to healthcare providers.

What they WILL DO if they can!-----After clash with county counsel, LA County sheriff halts enforcement to close gun stores during coronavirus lockdown – Daily News

After clash with county counsel, LA County sheriff halts enforcement to close gun stores during coronavirus lockdown – Daily News
"Los Angeles County’s sheriff on Tuesday had initially urged all gun stores on Tuesday to close this week and threatened enforcement, calling such businesses “non-essential” amid the coronavirus outbreak.
But by the evening, after the top lawyer for the county expressed an opposing view, arguing those shops should be open, Sheriff Alex Villanueva reversed his stance, deciding to suspend enforcement efforts to close gun stores.
...But Villanueva’s calls for gun shop closures contradicted with a statement issued by the top lawyer for the county..."
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History for March 28

History for March 28 - On-This-Day.com
August Busch 1899, Ken Howard 1944 - Actor, Dianne Wiest 1948 - Actress ("Law and Order")


Reba McEntire 1955 - Actress, country singer, Vince Vaughn 1969 - Actor, 
Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) 1986 - Musician


1898 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.


1917 - During World War I the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was founded.

Dr. Deborah Birx dismantles the media for spreading fake news on coronavirus - TheBlaze

Dr. Deborah Birx dismantles the media for spreading fake news on coronavirus - TheBlaze:

Coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx calmly but expertly dismantled the media for spreading fake news to panic the public during the latest media briefing.
Birx made the comments after President Donald Trump spoke about coronavirus on Thursday.

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More lib-lies. Never believe their "Reports"-----Barr Smacks Down Report That DOJ Sought Ability to Detain Defendants Indefinitely

Barr Smacks Down Report That DOJ Sought Ability to Detain Defendants Indefinitely
"...Some reports said the Justice Department was asking for the power to detain defendants indefinitely.
However, Attorney General William Barr told Fox News on Thursday that those reporters are false, “It’s cockamamie nonsense.”
“It’s a gross mischaracterization,” he added.
Instead, Barr said that the Justice Department had asked Congress for ideas on how to help judges grappling with deadlines as courts across the country are closing due to fears about the spread of the coronavirus.
“The whole legal system is rife with deadlines,”
Barr said, adding, “You have so many days to appeal a decision and so on.”
Additionally, Barr said the department was looking for a way to “come up with a consistent approach” for judges across the country.
The reports sparked bipartisan outrage
...Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted the reported request as “abhorrent,” as IJR has previously reported.
“It does not matter how urgent times are. We have to make sure that we retain our civil rights. And there’s no reason for us to be waiving folks’ civil rights in an emergency,” she said during an interview on CNN."
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Clarice Feldman - The Great Iggy weighs in: Seems to me there's a...

Clarice Feldman - The Great Iggy weighs in: Seems to me there's a...
"The Great Iggy weighs in: Seems to me there's a lot of confirmation bias going on for just about everybody.
First, that Imperial College Ferguson guy didn't "correct" his earlier claims. 

His original numbers [which I didn't even see until today] were his estimate of what would happen in the UK and US if nothing was done. 

I believe he had a range but the only numbers quoted by the press of course were his maximums of 2.2 million deaths in the US and half a mill in the UK.
His new numbers [ie 20,000 or likely many fewer than that in the UK] are not due to him looking back and saying 'OMG, I got everything wrong' the first time. 

Those are the numbers based on the steps that have been taken in the UK to prevent the spread of it. He did say the R0 number may be closer to 3 than 2.5 but that doesn't change his estimate from 500,000 dead to 20,000. 

And we've known since January in China that it mostly kills old people with comorbidities, so his pointing out probably half the victims would have died in the next year anyway was not some new admission or data point either.
And the Oxford study which supposedly contradicts his is based on an iffy assumption or two as detailed in this Reason article exploring its conclusions; Half of United Kingdom Already Infected With Coronavirus, Says Oxford Model.
This article notes a similar issue; Iceland is Doing Science — ~50% of People with COVID-19 Not Showing Symptoms, ~50% Have Very Moderate Cold Symptoms [UPDATED]
The update is that if, as reported, there is an 80% false positive rate on a bunch of these tests then there in fact are not scores of millions of asymptomatic carriers walking around.
The guys contradicting the other guys seem to rely on even iffier assumptions than the dudes they're "correcting".
Everybody, except our congressional and nevertrump psychos, would like this to be much less harmful than it seemed at first look. 

Hopefully not so much so that we believe things that have not much basis in fact."

Study: Reshoring Pharmaceutical Production to U.S. Creates 800K Jobs

Study: Reshoring Pharmaceutical Production to U.S. Creates 800K Jobs:

Bringing pharmaceutical production back to the United States would create more than 800,000 American jobs, economists say.
A study by the Coalition for a Prosperous America’s Steven Byers and Jeff Ferry reveals that the U.S. could add hundreds of thousands of good-paying manufacturing jobs for American citizens and reduce its dependence on foreign countries like China if it reshored all pharmaceutical production.

COVID-19 Deaths So Far: Where Is the Crisis? | Power Line

COVID-19 Deaths So Far: Where Is the Crisis? | Power Line
COVID-19 DEATHS SO FAR: WHERE IS THE CRISIS?

I have updated this chart a number of times, based on data from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control, and will continue to do so. It shows, for one thing, how far COVID-19 has to go before it equals the average seasonal flu mortality, worldwide. If I had to predict, I would guess that it will eventually reach the average level. Will it get to 2x the average number of flu deaths, worldwide? Looking at current trends, I don’t see how that will happen. But time will tell.

Likewise in the U.S. You still can’t see the bar for COVID-19, but it is there: 994 deaths so far, per the CDC, compared with 61,000 caused by the flu virus just two years ago. The Wuhan virus might equal or even exceed that total, but it is hard to forecast that at this point. And anyway, the 2017-18 flu deaths barely merited a news story, let alone a radical, economy-destroying shutdown. What has changed?

Even if the U.S. death total eventually amounts to, say, three times the toll of the flu just two seasons ago–around 180,000 dead–what is the justification for the extraordinary measures our governments have taken, which are in the process of crushing our economy?

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Media Rated Worst At Handling Coronavirus Response In Gallup Poll | The Daily Caller

Media Rated Worst At Handling Coronavirus Response In Gallup Poll | The Daily Caller:

Media received the worst reviews regarding its handling of the novel coronavirus response in a Wednesday Gallup poll.
The media was the only group to get more negative reviews than positive, according to the poll. Forty-four percent of Americans approve of how the media has handled the novel coronavirus response and 55% disapproved.