|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2020 16:41:12 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/04/02/far-left-media-group-asks-fcc-to-censor-trump-press-conferences/Far-Left Media Group Asks FCC To Censor Trump Press Conferences The spectacularly misnamed "Free Press" group seeks government control over conservative speech and conservative media. APRIL 2, 2020 By Mollie Hemingway An influential far-left media group has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to develop a wide-ranging censorship plan of President Donald Trump’s press conferences. “Free Press,” the group calling for the censorship of broadcasts of the press conferences, says in its petition that it’s a “life and death” issue. They are asking the FCC to limit the public’s right to hear directly from the president about the federal government’s handling of the global pandemic, that any broadcasts of his press conferences come with a pronounced disclaimer, and that media figures with different political views than the progressive organization be further censored. “This is a sweeping and dangerous attempt by the far left to weaponize the FCC against conservative media outlets and elected officials. They want to turn the FCC into a roving speech police empowered to go after the left’s political opponents,” says FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. While the requests are extreme, Free Press has previously taken far-left views about government control of the media and turned them into orthodox Democratic Party positions. The group successfully lobbied the FCC under President Obama to regulate the internet via Title II “net neutrality” rules, later repealed by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who has described Free Press as “a spectacularly misnamed Beltway lobbying group.” FCC rules regulating the broadcast of intentional hoaxes could be used to limit media coverage of President Trump, Free Press argues. The Commission’s previous ruling that the government has a “compelling interest in preventing substantial public harm,” could be interpreted to prevent unregulated media coverage of the president, Free Press argues. The group posits no limit to its theory, setting up a system where the FCC could shut down any group pushing ideas it doesn’t like. To make their case, they cite President Trump’s discussion of an anti-malarial treatment that some doctors had been using to treat COVID-19. He specifically said that even if it didn’t work as treatment, it had been used for so long in humans, that the risk was low. “It’s been around for a long time, so we know if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody,” he said. Free Press argued that a man without COVID-19 who died after ingesting fish tank cleaner at home, outside the direction of any medical professional, was a victim of Trump’s remarks and that therefore its censorship plan should be adopted. Citing anti-Trump activists who blamed Trump for this death, Free Press called Trump’s support for the treatment “deadly disinformation.” The group also claimed that Trump had engaged in a “mischaracterization of the efficacy” of hydroxychloroquine. In recent days, the FDA approved the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients. And the New York Times conceded that the drug “helped to speed the recovery” of a group of patients who were stricken by the Wuhan Coronavirus. Free Press cofounder and longtime board member Robert W. McChesney is an avowed socialist. He has made his views clear, saying “In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.” He also said of his work, “[w]e need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it.” He has also praised Venezuela’s control of the media. Free Press’s censorship plan echoes one suggested last year by Democrat FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel. Her plan was to censor e-cigarette ads on television in the name of “public interest.” The plan has statutory and constitutional obstacles, notes Jacob Sullum. Particularly since the election of Trump in 2016, progressive groups have been making a concerted effort to use the government to limit the expression of conservative speech. These prominent groups and representatives are openly signaling that they would use the power of the FCC to censor conservative speech if they were to gain control of the commission under a Democratic president
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2020 20:18:06 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2020 20:19:15 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2020 20:25:41 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/02/reporters-frustrated-oann-chanel-rion-attends-briefing-coronavirus/Media pundits expressed their disapproval after a One America News Network reporter appeared at Thursday’s White House press briefing despite being kicked out of the rotation for violating social distancing guidelines. The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has limited the number of people allowed to attend Trump’s briefings because of the novel coronavirus. Reporters are on a rotating list, which allows for the briefings to adhere to social distancing rules. OANN’s Chanel Rion violated the WHCA’s rotating list twice by attending briefings even though she wasn’t on the list for those days. The WHCA kicked her out of the rotation Wednesday, citing a “matter of public safety.” But, Rion came back again on Thursday, saying she was invited by the White House. “I see that reporter from OANN saw fit once against to defy WHCA guidelines on social distancing in the WH briefing,” the Washington Blade’s White House reporter Chris Johnson tweeted. Reporters became even angrier after President Donald Trump called on Rion for a question, despite her having been kicked out by the WHCA. (RELATED: Behaving ‘Like The Political Opposition’: White House Reporter Jonathan Karl Blasts CNN’s Jim Acosta In New Book) “Here we go, OANN’s Chanel Rion is up,” Washington Examiner’s Rob Crilly tweeted. “Trump makes sure to take a question from OAN staffer Chanel Rion even though she was banished from the White House Correspondents’ Association for attending briefings she wasn’t supposed to be at,” Vox reporter Aaron Rupar tweeted. “And a question from OANN reporter standing in the back of the room in violation of WHCA guidelines (the cable TV channel lost its position in the rotational pool by repeatedly violating this),” VOA News’s Stever Herman noted. CNN’s Oliver Darcy tweeted that neither White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham nor Deputy Assistant to the President Hogan Gidley would “comment on record about why they are allowing OAN to break WHCA’s social distancing rules and continue to attend these briefings.” “OAN is a tiny right-wing cable channel, and its correspondent has a history promoting conspiracy theories,” according to Darcy.
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2020 20:27:00 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/02/media-attacked-donald-trump-hydroxychloroquine-reporting-studies-coronavirus/They Attacked Trump For Touting ‘Unproven Drugs,’ Now The NYT Is Reporting It Can Help With Coronavirus Despite coming on the heels of promising research, President Donald Trump’s hope that hydroxychloroquine would prove effective against coronavirus was met with jeers from national media. But now, the New York Times itself is walking back that criticism. Trump said during a press briefing that the drug, which is used to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, is showing “tremendous promise” in helping treat the novel coronavirus. The press attacked. Vox called Trump’s comments “reckless promotion.” The New York Times blared about Trump’s “embrace” of “unproven” drugs. “How many desperately needed hospital beds will we have to set aside for people who unknowingly chose to develop life-threatening heart Arrhythmias? All because they followed the moronic advice of Dr. Don Trump to take hydroxycloroquine with a qt [sic] prolonging agent, Azithromycin,” NYT best-selling author Kurt Eichenwald tweeted. Aliza Nadi, an investigative reporter and producer at NBC News, called Trump’s comments an “unfounded claim.” Calls to two dozen pharmacies (CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid) from NYC to Albuquerque, LA to SF about their hydroxycloroquine stock yielded the same response- it’s “backordered” — Aliza Nadi (@alizanadi) March 23, 2020 Studies, however, show that there may be truth behind Trump’s comments. Less than two weeks after attacking Trump for his “embrace of unproven drugs,” the NYT published an article April 1 about a small study that indicated hydroxychloroquine may help virus patients improve. (RELATED: CNN Bashed Trump For Saying The Same Thing About Coronavirus Death Percentage That They’re Now Reporting) “The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine helped to speed the recovery of a small number of patients who were mildly ill from the coronavirus, doctors in China reported this week,” the NYT article on the drug reported. “Previous reports from China and France that the drug seemed to help patients, along with enthusiastic comments from President Trump, have created a buzz around hydroxychloroquine and the closely related chloroquine, which are decades-old drugs used to treat malaria and autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.” The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also approved emergency authorization of using the drug for coronavirus patients. The Washington Post reported these “unapproved” drugs after the FDA’s announcement and noted that the administration said the “benefit outweighs risks.” “There is little evidence chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are effective, but the president continues to tout them,” Forbes claimed just days before the NYT report indicating that the drug may be effective. Others who have railed against Trump’s comments include Democratic Nevada Gov. Stephen Sisolak, who banned anti-malaria drugs for outpatient coronavirus treatment after the president’s comments. Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also cracked down on the drugs Trump touted after his comments. Days later, Witmer reversed course and requested hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine from the federal government. “Based on the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorization to allow the use of hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate products donated to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) for certain patients with COVID-19, we are pursuing a request for hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine from SNS,” Lynn Sutphin, a Michigan HHS spokesperson, said according to the Washington Times. Twitter demanded that Fox News’ Laura Ingraham take down a tweet about hydroxychloroquine after the social media company said that it violated their misinformation policy. Twitter later backtracked and said that Ingraham was not forced to take down the tweet, according to Politico. Ingraham’s March 20 tweet read that the drug was being used in “many hospitals” and that it had shown “very promising results,” Politico reported. It was later determined that a doctor being cited in Ingraham’s tweet and on her show did not work at the New York facility she said was using the drug. It is not clear which part of the tweet violated Twitter’s policy, as studies now show that the drug could, in fact, help with the novel coronavirus. BREAKING: FDA executes emergency authorization of Hydroxycloroquine for use in Covid-19 patients. (@ingrahamangle was championing this before anyone discussed it on TV.) t.co/GFoFH3Muju— Raymond Arroyo (@raymondarroyo) March 30, 2020
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2020 20:28:34 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/02/rep-jim-banks-saw-coronavirus-threat-coming-as-democrats-pushed-impeachment/Rep. Jim Banks Saw Coronavirus Threat Coming as Democrats Pushed Impeachment As his House Democrat colleagues were arguing to the Senate why President Trump should be impeached, Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) was watching with alarm tweets coming in from overseas about the coronavirus. On January 31, in the midst of the impeachment trial, Banks compared the spread of the coronavirus to the Spanish flu. Banks tweeted: “#Coronavirus is spreading as quickly as Spanish flu, which infected ~500 Million. And the #CCP is likely under-reporting cases. W/out reliable info, a pro-active response is needed. Quarantine is a good 1st step, @hhsgov.” But most of his colleagues in the House and Senate were focused on impeachment. It was not even until ten days later — February 10 — that House impeachment manager and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) convened the committee’s first briefing on the coronavirus. Banks said he had an idea that something was really wrong beginning in late December. He was already tuned into threats from China as a member of the House Armed Services Committee and co-chair of its Future of Defense Task Force. He has also spent the last several years focused on the threat from Chinese telecommunications company Huawei and Chinese espionage on college campuses via their Confucius Institutes. But he said he also follows a lot of anti-Chinese Communist Party figures on Twitter from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. “So it was really in late December, early January, I started seeing a lot of Twitter activity by some of the sources that we follow about doctors being jailed for speaking out about the coronavirus threat, about journalists in China also being jailed, punished or disappearing altogether,” he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “Then following that activity led us in those early days to determine that this is a serious threat that America should take more seriously than what we were at the moment,” he said. Schiff announced on Wednesday he would launch an investigation into “what went wrong” with the U.S. response. Banks believes one problem was that Congress was focused entirely on impeachment as the coronavirus spread to the U.S. The day House Democrats voted to pass articles of impeachment against Trump was the same day the first person to be diagnosed with coronavirus in the U.S. arrived in the country — February 15, according to the Centers for Disease Control. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) celebrated the vote with commemorative pens and urged Americans to tune in to a live feed of House impeachment managers bringing over the articles of impeachment to the Senate. Banks told Breitbart: When I initially tweeted about what we call the coronavirus or COVID-19, Congress was entirely focused on impeachment and the day that I tweeted, I think it was January 31st, likening this to the Spanish flu, that was the day that the Senate was voting on whether or not to have witnesses in the impeachment hearings. A week or two later, when the president was in the heat of the Senate and the heat of the impeachment trial — that was the focus of almost everyone on Capitol Hill, which now in hindsight, we recognize that what we should have been focused on was this. He said Congress was focused on impeachment “for the better part of six months” leading up to the president’s acquittal. “That took the focus away from everything else that mattered, from our nation’s fiscal health, our nation’s economic health, to our national security interest, and in this case, it prevented us from addressing what will go down in history as one of the largest pandemics and national crises that we’ve ever had in the United States of America,” he added. Banks lamented that China has now become a partisan issue simply because Trump has blamed China for trying to hide the discovery of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, and allowing it to spread to the rest of the world. He said Democrats are not interested in holding China accountable, as it would put them on the same side as the president. Banks experienced this personally when he introduced a bill condemning China’s early mishandling of the coronavirus and Democrat colleague Rep. Seth Moulton (MA) was forced by fellow Democrats to withdraw his support for the bill. Democrats claimed the bill could incite racism towards Asian-Americans. “What’s become painfully clear to me is that once again House Democrat leadership is far more interested in attacking President Trump than they are in addressing the real threat at hand,” Banks said. “I’m old enough to remember when Nancy Pelosi was a China hawk, but today she’s no longer that,” he said. “Today…she’s far more interested in attacking President Donald Trump and playing footsie with China than holding China accountable for what they’re putting our country through at this moment.” Banks’ bill also condemns China for its human rights abuses and treatment of the Uyghur Muslims who have been placed in internment camps. He said it now has close to 50 cosponsors — none of them Democrats. Meanwhile, 131 Democrats have backed a bill by Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) that condemns “all forms of anti-Asian sentiment as related to COVID–19.” “Democrats are far more interested in throwing around dangerous rhetoric about it being racist to tackle the China threat and far more interested in attacking the president than they are confronting China,” Banks said. “I don’t know how any member of the House Armed Services Committee sits through an open or classified hearing and could ever walk away and not recognize that China is the greatest existential threat that America faces today and for the generation to come,” he added. Banks said his constituents — Americans from the Rust Belt who understand the China threat economically — are demanding that he do everything he can to hold China accountable. He said there is plenty of work ahead. For example, the U.S. should disentangle its supply chain — especially its medical supply chain — from China. Congress could also restrict the Department of Veterans Affairs, the largest health care network in the world, from purchasing its medical equipment from China. He said the president should find ways to repatriate the cost of coronavirus by forcing China to forgive large amounts of U.S. national debt or by instituting tariffs. “China should shoulder the blame both morally and fiscally for the fiscal cost of the coronavirus in the United States of America,” he said. “We could use funding from tariffs to create some kind of a coronavirus victim relief fund.” However, he said, so far Pelosi had refused to allow such legislation to be considered. “They don’t want to address this issue because it confirms that President Trump has been right all along. President Trump is the toughest president in my lifetime on China, who [has] refused to take the failed path of all the presidents before him in seeking to appease China,” he said. “It’s sad that this is becoming a partisan issue. Addressing the China threat shouldn’t be a partisan issue,” he said.
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2020 20:30:55 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/health/2020/04/02/patrick-courrielche-media-helped-democrats-ignore-coronavirus-by-hyping-impeachment/Patrick Courrielche: Media Helped Democrats Ignore Coronavirus by Hyping Impeachment Despite accusing President Donald Trump of slowly responding to the coronavirus outbreak, Democrats and their news media allies largely ignored the viral threat while hyping impeachment, observed Patrick Courrielche, host of Red Pilled America, offering his remarks on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. Courrielche recalled, “[At the] beginning of March, guys like Chris Hayes at MSNBC and other kind of left-wing media started to question the response time to the coronavirus in China, and I kind of saw this as a building narrative.” “We basically looked at this entire time frame to see what was happening,” said Courrielche of his review of Democrat and new media responses to the coronavirus spread in January and February, “and it is unmistakable that the media and Washington, DC, [were] completely consumed with impeachment.” Democrat focus on impeaching the president came at the expense of political energy that could have been directed towards the coronavirus, noted Courrielche. “Impeachment was affecting the United States response to this coronavirus,” held Courrielche. “The media is just as culpable. If the [Democrats] weren’t getting this kind of backing from the media in moving forward with this ‘historic event’ — [as] they kept saying in the media, how this is only the third time that a president has has been put on impeachment trial — and hyped it up and made it this huge thing, I don’t think the [Democrats] would have had the legs to move forward with this.” Courrielche continued, “But they kept marching forward with [impeachment] as this news was coming out of China, and I think it’s something that’s going to become more and more of an issue moving through this 2020 election campaign.” LISTEN: Democrat and news media focus on impeachment “cost lives,” assessed Marlow, as the political push “slowed down our reaction time” to the viral outbreak. He played a montage of Democrats downplaying the coronavirus threat, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Courrielche remarked, “You’re going to see this history, this revisionist history moving forward. I was stunned this weekend when I saw Chuck Todd basically asking Biden if Trump had blood on his hands for not reacting quickly enough to this. You had Jake Tapper talking to Nancy Pelosi, where she placed blame on him for not reacting quickly to this, and in that montage … you had Pelosi basically telling everybody to come down to Chinatown in San Francisco.” “[Democrats] knew that they could not in actually remove Trump from office through this impeachment trial,” Courrielche added. “They knew it was an impossibility. They were not going to get the numbers to vote him out. So that meant that they knew that they were occupying Washington, DC, with a fruitless, pointless event — a pointless trial — and all of the important things that were going on in this nation were going to get sidetracked and get put on the shelf basically. Courrielche urged listeners to remind others of news media and Democrat negligence and mendacity regarding the coronavirus, predicting “The mainstream media were just as big of cheerleaders as the Washington, DC, Democrats in pushing for this thing to happen,” stated Courrielche. “How are they going to hide that? It’s something that cannot be hidden, because it consumed the news at the time.” News media conduct during the coronavirus outbreak will further reveal widespread left-wing and partisan Democrat biases to Americans, predicted Courrielche, saying, “I think it’s going to show the bias of the media, because and the media is … just as culpable as Washington, DC.” Red Pilled America‘s latest episode is titled, “A RACE AGAINST TIME: Could Washington D.C. have acted sooner to stop the coronavirus?”
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 2, 2020 21:39:40 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-leaked-wuhan-institute-virology-richard-ebright-shi-zhengli/EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Expert Says Virus Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab Richard H. Ebright, a molecular biologist who has been quoted as a coronavirus expert by The Washington Post and MSNBC, said Thursday that it’s possible that COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab. Shi Zhengli, China’s leading virologist on bat-borne viruses, said in March that she lost sleep worrying that the virus could have leaked from her lab in Wuhan after she first learned of the virus in December. Shi now tells those who share the concerns she once had to “shut their stinking mouths.”A molecular biologist who has been quoted as a coronavirus expert by The Washington Post and MSNBC said Thursday in no uncertain terms that the novel coronavirus could have been unleashed due to a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. China’s top virologist on bat-borne viruses, Shi Zhengli, has sworn on her life that the virus did not leak from her Wuhan lab, saying that its spread was “nature punishing the human race for keeping uncivilized living habits.” But Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday that there is a real possibility that the virus entered the human population due to a laboratory accident. When asked specifically if he believes the virus could have leaked from Shi’s lab in Wuhan, Ebright said: “Yes.” “A denial is not a refutation,” Ebright said. “Especially not a denial based on ‘nature punishing the human race for keeping uncivilized living habits.'” And while Shi now tells those who question whether her lab could be connected to the release of the coronavirus to “shut their stinking mouths,” she previously said she lost sleep worrying about the possibility that her lab in Wuhan could have been responsible for the virus’s release. Shi, known by her colleagues as the “bat woman” because of the 16 years she has spent hunting for viruses in bat caves, told Scientific American in March that she frantically searched for any evidence that her laboratory’s records were mishandled upon learning of the virus’s outbreak in Wuhan in late December. “Could they have come from our lab?” Shi recalled thinking. “I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China,” she noted, saying that her studies had shown that southern China posed the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping from animals to humans. Shi said she breathed a sigh of relief when results came back showing that the sequences of the coronavirus did not match the viruses she and her team had sampled from bat caves. “That really took a load off my mind,” Shi said. “I had not slept a wink for days.” Shi and her colleagues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology reported in early 2017 that after five years of surveying they had discovered 11 new strains of SARS-related viruses in horseshoe bats from China’s Yunnan Province. The virologist said at the time that the 11 strains contained all the genes to make a SARS coronavirus similar to that of the 2003 outbreak. Shi contributed to a study published in February reporting that the novel coronavirus is 96.2% identical to a viral strain that was detected in horseshoe bats from the Yunnan Province. However, two Chinese researchers noted in a separate paper in February that the horseshoe bats that are known to carry the nearly-identical viral strain live 600 miles away from Wuhan. The researchers also cited testimonies from nearly 60 people who lived in or visited Wuhan saying that the bat “was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market.” “The killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan,” the two Chinese researchers noted in their paper, which was uploaded to Research Gate on Feb. 6. The paper was removed from Research Gate on Feb. 14 or 15, according to internet archives. The paper’s lead researcher, Botao Xiao, didn’t return the DCNF’s emails on Thursday seeking comment. Research Gate also did not respond when asked about the paper’s removal from their site. Ebright, the Rutgers University molecular biologist, told Beijing-based news outlet Caixin Global in February that while there is “no basis to suspect the virus was engineered,” the available data indicates that the virus’s introduction into human populations could be attributed to either natural causes or to a laboratory mishap. The Washington Post and MSNBC have quoted Ebright saying that theories about the virus being a bioweapon should be “firmly excluded,” but neither outlet included his belief that the possibility that the virus entered the human population through a lab accident “cannot–and should not–be dismissed.” A person wearing a protective suit rides a bicycle on a street in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on April 1, 2020, where the COVID-19 coronavirus first emerged last year but is partly reopening after more than two months of near total isolation. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) A person wearing a protective suit rides a bike on a Wuhan street. (HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) Shi has furiously denied that the novel coronavirus could have leaked from her lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “The novel 2019 coronavirus is nature punishing the human race for keeping uncivilized living habits. I, Shi Zhengli, swear on my life that it has nothing to do with our laboratory,” she wrote on a Chinese social messaging app in early February, according to Caixin Global. “I advise those who believe and spread rumors from harmful media sources … to shut their stinking mouths.” Deadly viruses have a history of escaping from Chinese laboratories. The SARS virus escaped twice from the Chinese Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, one year after the virus was initially contained. The Chinese government has been widely criticized for misleading the world about the novel coronavirus outbreak from its earliest stages. One of the first doctors in Wuhan to raise the alarm about the spread of a SARS-like virus in the city was detained by police in December and told to “stop making false comments.” That doctor, Li Wenliang, died from coronavirus in February. Another Chinese doctor, Ai Fen, claimed she was silenced by her bosses when she tried to warn about the virus during its early stages. Ai’s whereabouts as of Sunday are currently unknown, according to 60 Minutes Australia, sparking fears that she has been detained. And on Wednesday a top Chinese health official announced that the country will begin counting coronavirus cases from patients that show no symptoms, a tactic acknowledgment that Beijing had underreported its official tally of known coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic. (RELATED: Chinese Government Finally Acknowledges Underreporting Coronavirus Cases) Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas told the DCNF on Wednesday it is wholly appropriate to question whether the coronavirus outbreak originated from labs in Wuhan that were studying coronaviruses. “The reason I have raised these questions from the very beginning is because of China’s statements and their actions,” Cotton told the DCNF. “After concealing the virus for many weeks in December and then minimizing its severity for most of January, they then peddle an origin story about the food market in Wuhan.” “Given their dishonesty and the proximity of these labs, which we know were working with coronaviruses, it is only reasonable and responsible for us to ask the question and demand the answers.”
|
|
|
Post by kcrufnek on Apr 3, 2020 10:06:16 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by kcrufnek on Apr 3, 2020 10:09:12 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by kcrufnek on Apr 3, 2020 10:13:43 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by kcrufnek on Apr 3, 2020 10:14:55 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by kcrufnek on Apr 3, 2020 10:15:58 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by kcrufnek on Apr 3, 2020 10:21:06 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by Dotard 19 on Apr 3, 2020 21:55:57 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by kcrufnek on Apr 3, 2020 22:08:19 GMT -6
Jimmy Fallon was on after the news. Getting C 19 would have been funnier than his monologue. Sucks when you can't do any of your fuck trump stuff and the sheeple aren't there t bleat their approval.
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2020 19:23:05 GMT -6
So, spike the numbers to make it look worse than it actually is then?
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 4, 2020 19:26:52 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/04/lost-credibility-who-mounting-backlash-china-coronavirus/The World Health Organization is facing a mounting backlash over its handling of China’s cover-up of the novel coronavirus. WHO leaders, including Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have run interference for China’s propaganda war meant to absolve the communist nation of responsibility for the global spread of COVID-19. The WHO is now under increasing pressure from experts and Republican senators. “A reevaluation of World Health Organization (WHO) leadership is urgently called for,” Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz wrote on Facebook Friday. “By consistently bending to the Chinese Communist Party, from downplaying the severity of the #coronavirus to systematically excluding Taiwan, it has lost the credibility necessary to be effective,” he continued. (RELATED: World Health Organization Spends Twice As Much On Travel As On Medical Supplies) Republican Arizona Sen. Martha McSally said Thursday that Tedros, who won his WHO post in 2017 with China’s backing, needs to step down. “The WHO needs to stop covering for [China]. I think Dr. Tedros needs to step down. We need to take some action to address this issue,” McSally said on Fox Business. “It’s just irresponsible, it’s unconscionable what they have done here while we have people dying across the globe.” “The World Health Organization is supposed to fight diseases, not coddle tyrants,” Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse told The Washington Free Beacon on Friday. “We’re in the middle of a public health crisis, but after Americans beat this virus we need to have a serious reckoning with the World Health Organization.” (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) Sen. Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida, called on Congress to investigate the WHO and to hold hearings on whether the U.S. should continue funding the organization. The U.S. provides roughly 15% of the organization’s funding. “They need to be held accountable for their role in promoting misinformation and helping Communist China cover up a global pandemic,” Scott said on Tuesday. Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio similarly argued Wednesday that WHO leaders need to be “held to account” for their “subservience to Beijing” throughout the pandemic. “The WHO should have known at the outset that it was dealing with a bad-faith actor in Beijing,” American Enterprise Institute scholars Dan Blumenthal and Nicholas Eberstadt wrote in Friday’s print edition of the New York Post. “Yet instead of immediately insisting upon access, openness and transparency from China, WHO leadership followed the Chinese lead and at times even took the Chinese line,” Blumenthal and Eberstadt continued. “When the full history of this episode is eventually written, the Chinese Communist Party will bear massive responsibility for this plague that has swept the earth,” the scholars added. “So will a World Health Organization that seemed too interested in the health of the Chinese regime at the moment of truth.” The WHO didn’t return the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
|
|
|
Post by kcrufnek on Apr 5, 2020 0:20:38 GMT -6
So, spike the numbers to make it look worse than it actually is then? It's sweeps week.
|
|
|
Post by Dotard 19 on Apr 5, 2020 14:35:09 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by redrex on Apr 5, 2020 14:42:58 GMT -6
Icky----That may be your most stupid post-----And that is a very high bar
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2020 16:01:43 GMT -6
Sunday Thoughts: China was the birthplace for both pandemics of SARS & Wuhan Flu/COVID-19. In both instances, the government covered it up & slow played it until both had spread around the world.
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2020 16:06:06 GMT -6
Ok, NOW it’s officially time to leave the UN: www.dailywire.com/news/china-appointed-to-un-human-rights-panel-to-help-identify-threats-to-free-speechChina Appointed To UN Human Rights Panel To Help Identify Threats To Free Speech Even as questions persist as to how China handled its own coronavirus pandemic — including whether the Chinese government effectively silenced doctors and nurses who spoke out in the early days of the virus’ spread — the United Nations has reportedly appointed China to serve on a UN Human Rights panel designed to help identify threats to the freedom of speech, and governments who are carrying out “enforced disappearances” and “arbitrary detention.” International news reports that China’s appointment came Wednesday, just as countries like the United States began to probe deeper into how the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, was allowed to spread so quickly inside mainland China, and whether China’s reported death count — just over 2,500 — from the virus was, indeed, accurate. It now seems, according to reports cataloging the return of thousands of cremated remaisn to families in and around Wuhan, China, the coronavirus epicenter, that more than 40,000 likely died from the virus in the Wuhan area alone. The UN, always on the cutting edge of global matters will allow China to “have a say in selecting at least 17 UN human rights ‘mandate-holders’ over the next year. China will also assist in screening candidates for UN human rights positions.” “It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide,” the executive director of UN Watch, which first reported China’s appointment to the panel, told media in a statement. “Allowing China’s oppressive and inhumane regime to choose the world investigators on freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief.” The appointment seems particularly egregious in light of China’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic and reports that the Chinese government, already well known for curbing the freedom of speech of its constituents as well as their access to vital information, silenced doctors who raised the alarm on coronavirus. The New York Times reported in early February that “Chinese officials’ initial handling of the coronavirus epidemic allowed it to spread.” “Back in December, weeks before China admitted the outbreak, Dr. Li Wenliang sent a warning about seven people with a ‘mysterious illness’ to an online chat group that included medical students,” per the NYT. “‘Quarantined in the emergency department,’ the doctor wrote to the group. Hours later, officials from the health department summoned the doctor and sanctioned him for sharing information. He was then compelled to sign a statement of secrecy and told his warning constituted ‘illegal behavior.'” “In those weeks, the authorities silenced doctors and others for raising red flags,” the NYT adds. “They played down the dangers to the public, leaving the city’s 11 million residents unaware they should protect themselves.” As for “arbitrary detention,” in the weeks and months before China suffered the first coronavirus outbreak, the Chinese government was being investigated for a series of “concentration camps,” where millions of ethnically-Chinese Muslims, known as Uigurs, were reportedly being kept in cramped, unsafe conditions and forced to work as slaves in Chinese factories.
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2020 19:11:29 GMT -6
The current government predictions reported by Covid Tracking (https://covidtracking.com/data/ ) for Apr 5th show: covidtracking.com/data/– All beds needed: 179,267 – ICU beds needed: 33,176 – Invasive ventilators: 26,544 Those were the predictions. The actual numbers as recorded at The Covid Tracking Project: covidtracking.com/data– Actual hospitalizations: 22,158 – In ICU: 5,207 – On ventilator: 656 Via Dr. Ned Nikolov: This is a complete failure of estimates and models. The actual numbers show: – Overestimation of hospitalizations: 8 times – Overestimation of of ICU beds needed: 6.4 times – Overestimation of ventilators needed: 40.5 times This is completely unacceptable. At this time in history and with the technology in place it is absolutely shocking that this could happen! Millions of Americans will lose their jobs due to these panic-driven lockdowns. The first people to be fired should be the ones who drove this panic!
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2020 19:16:48 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2020 19:21:37 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2020 21:55:41 GMT -6
“Mr. Vice President I have a final question for you. I — and I ask this not in a political way, but for you, sir, like so many of us in our nation, are you a person of deep faith. No one doubts that. When you talk to God in your moments alone, do you find yourself worrying at all that people you represent and care deeply about have died and will die who did not need to because of steps the federal government did not take soon enough?”
Instead of letting Pitts’s cheap shot get under his skin, Pence responds by referencing the guidelines they have come up with and continue to modify to lessen the damage caused by the virus. Pence says “Well, thank you for mentioning that we are talking about one American at a time and I promise you, that’s the way President Trump thinks of this, it’s the way I think of it. We wanted the American people to see the numbers so that we understand the challenging days that lie ahead, but I want people to know that our future is in your hands, that if every one of us will do and put into practice the Guidelines for America that we can bring those numbers down. I — I really do believe we’ll get through this and we’ll come out stronger than ever before.”
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2020 22:01:14 GMT -6
Another good reason to abolish the unconstitutional Fed :
James Bullard, CEO of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Reserve, was recently on CBS’s Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan to talk about the state of the economy and what could be done to stem the outbreak of the virus. Toward the end of the interview, Bullard says,
“You know, I have good news for you, MARGARET, because we have a- there is a solution using available technology today to fix the economic part of this problem. The solution is universal testing. What you want is every single person to get tested every day. And then they would wear a badge like they would at a- after they voted or something like that to show that they’ve been tested. This would immediately sort out who’s been infected and who hasn’t been infected. That would help the health care sector. But it would also help the economy because we could interact with each other with a lot of confidence.”
Here he is on video saying it, with Brennan’s question leading in around the 5:30 mark (apparently the video production technicians at CBS couldn’t figure out how to get the volume right, so you’ll have to turn it up a bit):
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 6, 2020 3:04:42 GMT -6
Flashback to January:
|
|
|
Post by soonernvolved on Apr 6, 2020 3:06:39 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/04/who-abortion-essential-coronavirus-covid-19/World Health Organization: Abortion Is ‘Essential’ During Coronavirus Pandemic bortion is considered an essential service during the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said in a statement Saturday. The WHO said in its statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation that “services related to reproductive health are considered to be part of essential services during the COVID-19 outbreak.” “Women’s choices and rights to sexual and reproductive health care should be respected, irrespective of whether or not she has a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection,” WHO said in the statement. (RELATED: Top WHO Official Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Won Election With China’s Help. Now He’s Running Interference For China On Coronavirus) The statement also said that “sexual and reproductive health care is integral to universal health coverage and achieving the right to health.” (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on March 6, 2020, in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) “This includes contraception, quality health care during and after pregnancy and childbirth, and safe abortion to the full extent of the law,” the organization added, noting that the WHO provides both global technology and policy guidance to WHO members “on the use of contraception to prevent unintended pregnancy, safe abortion, and treatment of complications from unsafe abortion.” Governors and health departments across the United States have issued decisions on whether or not abortions are considered essential services. Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana and Iowa as well as the governor of Mississippi declared abortions non-essential and banned these procedures to preserve PPE for fighting coronavirus. (RELATED: WHO Official Defends China, Says Everyone Is ‘Over-Focused’ On Regime’s Coronavirus Numbers) Meanwhile, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana, New Jersey, Illinois, Oregon, Hawaii and Virginia — all states that have banned elective medical procedures — deemed abortions essential during the outbreak. There have been 1,172,692 cases of the coronavirus worldwide as of Saturday afternoon, and 62,823 people have died from the virus.
|
|