Category Archives: Coronavirus 2020

News and opinion about the Coronavirus crisis of 2020

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WE ARE BEING BAMBOOZLED

This Shambling and Shameful and Shambolic Shamdemic

So look at where we are. This virus is new enough that we don’t even have a vaccine for it yet. We don’t have a vaccine for this pest, but we already have an hardened orthodoxy concerning it. Apparently orthodoxies are easier to come up with than vaccines. The Truth is apparently well known enough that the establishment experts are already submitting a statement of faith on this virus to the college of cardinals, to which all public expressions must heretofore conform. And that’s how you win an argument with an irreverent heretic.

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Morning Links | 15 Apr 20

Good morning! Your links today include an overturned Kentucky voter ID law veto, Trump defunds WHO, Cuomo disses God, universities consider staying virtual into 2021, and Willow Creek church’s priorities were revealed in a word cloud.

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what do you suppose they’re hiding?

Recovery law allows Fed to rope off public as it spends billions.

“Tucked into the recent recovery bill was a provision granting the Federal Reserve the right to set up a $450 billion bailout plan without following key provisions of the federal open meetings law, including announcing its meetings or keeping most records about them, according to a POLITICO review of the legislation.

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“The provision dispenses with a longstanding accountability rule that the board has to give at least one day’s notice before holding a meeting. Experts say the change could lead to key information about the $450 billion bailout fund, such as which firms might benefit from the program, remaining inaccessible long after the bailout is over.”

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an investigation worth pursuing

GIVEN ENOUGH TIME, WE WILL EVENTUALLY SUSS OUT WHERE AND HOW THIS THING STARTED. All Signs Point to China

“[I]t seems very likely that the virus was amplified in the market, but the market might not have been the site of origin nor the only source of the outbreak. A recent phylo-epidemiological study has suggested that the virus was circulating but unrecognised in November, and was imported to the seafood market from elsewhere, where it subsequently was amplified.”

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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem closes its doors to the public.

This is the moment The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was closed due to Coronavirus.

Last time this happened was in 1349, during The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic.

What’s fascinating about this story is the guy with the keys.

A comment from the thread: “The (sic) Christianity’s holiest shrine is guarded by Muslim Family Joudeh Al Goudia. The Family has been Gatekeepers of the Holy Sepulchre Church since 1187.”

The reason a Sunni Muslim keeps the keys is to prevent conflict among the many Christian sects that have some claim on the site.

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tough week ahead

THE TOUGHEST WEEK IS COMING. DO YOUR PART TO HELP YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS PERSEVERE.

“The next two weeks are extraordinarily important,” said Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator. “This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe and that means everybody doing the six-feet distancing, washing their hands.”