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These are the worst pandemics in history: From the Plague to the Coronavirus

Fears of the coronavirus are affecting the travel plans of over 46 million people worldwide and Chinese officials, where the outbreak started, are worried that the disease is spreading.

China’s President Xi Jinping stressed the urgency of controlling the outbreak, which is confirmed to have infected hundreds just since Friday. The number of infected people, at the time of writing this article, has risen to more than 1,300; the number of confirmed deaths is 41.

The world has been getting better at identifying pandemics and stopping the spread of disease throughout the world. But it hasn’t always been that way. And even in the 20th century, certain outbreaks killed millions of people.

But first…what is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? An epidemic is a disease that can affect many people but is generally confined to one area of the world. A pandemic is an epidemic that goes world-wide.

The following is a list of some of the deadliest pandemics in our history:

https://sofrep.com/news/these-are-the-worst-pandemics-in-history-from-the-plague-to-the-coronavirus/

Hillary Clinton Is Baaaaack…

Posted by Kane on January 28, 2020 2:42 pm

Categories: Breaking

Hillary Clinton says she has “the urge” to defeat Donald Trump in 2020

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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 28, 2020

Hillary Clinton says she has “the urge” to defeat Donald Trump in 2020…

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/hillary-clinton-admits-i-certainly-have-the-urge-to-run-in-2020/

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THE TALK OF MOSCOW

THE TALK OF MOSCOW; CHERNOBYL FALLOUT: APOCALYPTIC TALE AND FEAR

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A prominent Russian writer recently produced a tattered old Bible and with a practiced hand turned to Revelations. Listen, he said, this is incredible: 'And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is called wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.'

The writer, an atheist, was hardly alone in pointing out the apocalyptic reference to the star called chernobyl. With the uncanny speed common to rumor in the Soviet Union, the discovery had spread across the Soviet land, contributing to the swelling body of lore that has shaped the public consciousness of the disaster at the Chernobyl atomic power plant in the Ukraine.

In the three months since an explosion ripped open the fourth reactor at the plant, Chernobyl has become an indelible part of Soviet life, whether as an inevitable topic in kitchen conversation, as a daily subject in the national press, as a source of rumor, sensation and threat, or as a direct influence on daily life.

The dangers of radiation, at first played down in the press, have finally become a topic of open discussion. On July 17 the official youth league newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published a long and detailed article on the various radioactive elements and their characteristics, including the threat of cancers.

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/26/world/the-talk-of-moscow-chernobyl-fallout-apocalyptic-tale-and-fear.html>>7945018

Gun-grabber David Hogg puts out a statement so stupid everyone is now dumber

Billy Madison, in Adam Sandler's eponymous movie, is a rich kid with an utterly empty mind and childlike logic who repeats all 12 grades of primary school over 24 weeks. Because it's a Hollywood movie, Billy excels and eventually is able to take over his father's Fortune 500 hotel chain. In the real world, David Hogg is playing the Billy Madison role, and it's clear that his exposure to Harvard, rather than making him smarter in a Billy Madison–esque way, is actually making him dumber. Much dumber.

How else can one account for the tweet Hogg, a Harvard freshman, shared with the world this weekend?

This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books.

We may not know all your names but thank you.

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) January 27, 2020

A tweet like that inevitably brings to mind the perfect insult the moderator at an academic decathlon hurls at Sandler's Madison character

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/gungrabber_david_hogg_puts_out_a_statement_so_stupid_everyone_is_now_dumber.html