Star Wars actor Andrew Jack dies of COVID-19

Star Wars actor Andrew Jack has died aged 76 in the UK as a result of coronavirus, his agent says.

The actor, who also worked as a dialect coach, was unable to "see or talk to" his wife, who he was "madly in love with", at the end of his life as she was quarantined in Australia, Jack's agent Jill McCullough said.

She added that he had died in hospital in Surrey on Tuesday "of COVID-19".

"Andrew lived on one of the oldest working houseboats on the Thames, he was fiercely independent but madly in love with his wife, also a dialect coach, Gabrielle Rogers.

"Tragically she is stuck in quarantine in Australia, having just flown in from New Zealand last week.

"She was unable to see or talk to him at the end of his life and there is a chance a funeral may not be held."

Jack was "full of life", "funny, charming and a joy to be around", she added.

"He was still working full-pelt, currently coaching on the new Batman."

https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/star-wars-actor-andrew-jack-dies-coronavirus/489fc656-84cd-468b-8862-e732537f1a9a

Foul Play Not Ruled Out in Deaths of Two US Soldiers in South Korea

Foul play has not yet been ruled out as investigations continue into the recent deaths of two American soldiers stationed at Camp Humphreys in Seoul, South Korea.

The US Army announced last week that Private First Class Marissa Jo Gloria, 25, and Specialist Clay Welch, 20, were both found unresponsive in their barracks earlier this month.

Welch, a combat medic specialist with the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, was found dead on March 22, while Gloria, a combat engineer assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division sustainment brigade, was found dead on March 21.

COVID-19 was ruled out as a potential cause behind their deaths, since neither soldier had shown any symptoms of the respiratory disease.

According to an update provided by the Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) to Stars & Stripes, foul play - although not suspected - has not yet been discounted as a cause in either case.

“Initial investigation reveals these two deaths are not connected to each other and are not related to the COVID-19 virus. At this point in both of the investigations, foul play is not suspected, but we have not completely ruled it out while we conduct thorough investigations,” CID spokesperson Chris Grey said in an email to Stars & Stripes.

“I can also tell you there is no danger to the public or the Camp Humphreys community in regard to these deaths. No further information will be released at this time to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigations,” he added.

According to Gloria’s obituary, she entered active duty in January 2019.

“She loved the outdoors and camping, and was always in the mood for a good country song. Her laughter and smile was contagious, and her presence caring and sweet,” the obituary added.

Welch’s battalion commander, Lt. Col. James Armstrong, commented, “Clay’s death affects every member in our formation. We are all deeply saddened by the loss,” Stars & Stripes reported.

https://sputniknews.com/military/202003311078781435-foul-play-not-ruled-out-in-deaths-of-two-us-soldiers-in-south-korea/

>>8638604

Where Corona kills

Death from everything else goes down

Death from Corona Virus goes up

Pre-existing conditions…..

Chinese Government Finally Acknowledges Underreporting Coronavirus Cases

A top Chinese health official said Wednesday that the government will begin counting coronavirus patients without symptoms in its official tally of cases of the virus, in what is a tacit acknowledgement that Beijing has underreported data on the pandemic.

China’s National Health Commission disclosed that the government is monitoring 1,541 people who have tested positive for coronavirus but have no symptoms.

Chang Jile, the head of the health agency, said at a press conference in Wuhan that the government will start reporting asymptomatic patient numbers Wednesday.

“From April 1, we will publish reports, outcomes and management of asymptomatic people in daily epidemic notifications, and respond to social concerns in a timely manner,” Jile said, according to CCTV.

Jile’s statement is the first time that the government has officially acknowledged that it has undercounted patients.

China’s official tally has hovered just above 80,000 cases for several weeks, while countries around the globe have seen their case numbers explode. The United States had reported more than 160,000 positive cases as of Tuesday.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/31/chinese-government-underreporting-coronavirus/

Barack Obama Suggests Donald Trump ‘Denied’ Coronavirus Warnings

Former President Barack Obama suggested on Twitter on Tuesday that President Donald Trump “denied” warnings of the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,” Obama wrote.

The former president shared an article on Twitter about Trump rolling back fuel economy standards, and also accused the president of “climate denial.”

“We can’t afford any more consequences of climate denial,” he wrote. “All of us, especially young people, have to demand better of our government at every level and vote this fall.”

Obama continues speaking up to criticize or challenge Trump’s response to the coronavirus, despite the president’s best efforts to fight and contain it.

Last week, the former president shared an article of “likely scenarios” of how to manage the virus.

“So much depends on our ability to make good decisions going forward along with our ability to remain resilient,” he wrote on Twitter after Trump said he was hopeful that he could loosen restrictions by Easter Sunday.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/31/barack-obama-suggests-donald-trump-denied-coronavirus-warnings/

Remember the Young Woman Who Died While Waiting for a Coronavirus Test in New Orleans? …Yeah, Well Now the Truth Is Out

Last week the liberal media ran screaming headlines after 39-year-old Natasha Ott was found dead on her kitchen floor while awaiting her coronavirus test results.

Rest in peace, Natasha.

Of course, the left ran with the story as a way to whip up panic and attack the Trump administration.

But it was not true.

A second coronvirus test came back negative on Natasha Ott.

The media reported incorrectly that she died of COVID-9 while waiting for her test results.

Furthermore, it was not revealed that she was in fact suffering for the last TWO years from an undiagnosed intestinal condition but her boyfriend lied and said she was perfectly healthy.

She was a “Peace Corps Alumni.”

The Sun Herald reported:

The exact reason the woman, Natasha Ott, died remains under investigation by the Coroner’s Office, spokesman Jason Melancon said. Such investigations can take several weeks to complete.

Ott’s death drew public notice when her boyfriend, Josh Anderson, wrote in a widely shared social media post that he had found her dead March 20 in her kitchen. Anderson recounted that an ailing Ott, after testing negative for the flu, had been tested for COVID-19 — the potentially deadly respiratory disease caused by the virus — but died before getting the results back.

So will any of the liberal news outlets correct their lies?

It’s doubtful.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/remember-the-young-woman-who-died-while-waiting-for-a-coronavirus-test-in-new-orleans-yeah-that-was-a-media-lie-too/

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Kitted out for what exactly kek

>>8638851

And my wife has a bigger dick than me

Who’s going to pay for Hollywood’s coronavirus shutdown?

Expect studio battles with insurance companies and stakeholders' lawyers regardless of when production and exhibition resume.

https://www.dailynews.com/2020/03/31/whos-going-to-pay-for-hollywoods-coronavirus-shutdown/

DS busted???

US Accused of Using Food Aid to Smuggle Weapons to Militants in Syria's Rukban Refugee Camp

While the COVID-19 pandemic has taken center stage in the media, little attention is being paid to a tragedy playing out in southeastern Syria. Far away from the western media coverage of the “Islamic State of Idlib”, the scene is set in a desolate area on the border between Syria and Iraq, adjacent to the illegal U.S. military base of Al Tanf. The Rukban Camp holds 13,500 displaced Syrian civilians and 6,000 armed militant terrorists of Maghawir Al-Thawra and their families.

On March 28, the Russian-Syrian Coordination Committee released a statement in Damascus, in which they exposed U.S. support for the terrorists who control the camp. Under the guise of humanitarian aid, the U.S. has coerced the UN into complicity. UN aid trucks, according to the statement, are being used to deliver not only food and supplies to the suffering civilians but also arms and ammunition to Maghawir Al-Thawra who administer the camp. The U.S. uses the residents of the camp as a pretext to continue its illegal occupation of the area, claiming the U.S. troops are protecting the displaced civilians living at the camp.

The situation in the camp is dire, as the terrorists are in complete control, even deciding who eats, and who starves. According to the joint statement, many civilians have been evacuated from the camp and relocated to government-controlled areas that are safe and have free medical care facilities under the Syrian Ministry of Health, who work in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO). However, the U.S.-backed terrorists have prevented some civilians from leaving by threatening them with dire consequences based on misinformation. Maghawir Al-Thawra is benefitting from the suffering civilians trapped in the camp as hostages.

The ‘Russian Centre for Syrian Reconciliation’ said in September 2019 that the Rukban Camp is controlled by an illegally armed militia, and they had refused to let UN buses inside to evacuate those who needed to be evacuated, instead insisting on using the civilians as human shields. Maghawir Al-Thawra had seized a large cargo delivered by the UN and the Syrian Red Crescent and the confiscated goods were warehoused by the terrorists.

“Sometimes, we received aid from the Red Crescent, but we only saw a small portion of it, most often sold to us, not given for free. The militants take the free aid and resell it to the refugees — that’s their business. To get money, we had to work at the camp. They set up a brick factory and we had to work like dogs there,” said Ahmad Mohammed, a former resident at Rukban Camp, who has been evacuated to Palmyra, and is now living safely there. He said that Maghawir Al-Thawra was selling humanitarian aid given freely, “Medical aid depended on the militants, too: if you co-operate, you have access to doctors. If you don’t, there will be no aid,” Mr. Mohammed said.

The U.S. military uses the assets on hand, in this case Maghawir Al-Thawra, to keep the very small numbers of American troops safe, and firmly in control of the area. The Pentagon knows it would be very hard to get approval for 6,000 Americans troops to hold Al Tanf, but the terrorists are on hand and are vicious fighters who will carry out crimes without batting an eye.

U.S. troops illegally occupied the area at Al Tanf in 2015, defying international law and the UN charter. President Trump famously ordered the troops to withdraw from Syria, only to back-track later and order the U.S. military to occupy and confiscate the oil wells in the Deir-Ez-Zor area illegally. However, the U.S. military presence at Al Tanf has never been under the withdrawal order, and the U.S. military base there is only manned by a few hundred troops. They partner with the Maghawir Al-Thawra, who are on the U.S. payroll and are tasked with the security and administration of Rukban.

“We believe that the American side’s reluctance to exert influence on their militants to ensure the unhindered departure of people from the Camp and the safe work of humanitarian representatives in the At-Tanf zone they occupied is clear evidence of their intention,” the March 28 statement asserted.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/76646/us-accused-of-using-food-aid-to-smuggle-weapons-to-militants-in-syrias-rukban-refugee.html

Commander Asks Pentagon to Pull Whole Crew Off Virus-Hit Aircraft Carrier

The captain of a U.S. aircraft carrier stricken by a COVID-19 outbreak has asked Pentagon leaders to pull most of the 5,000 crew off the ship, saying that adopting proper isolation measures aboard is impossible.

At least 36 sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt had tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, before the Navy stopped providing official breakdowns of numbers per ship. According to the Wall Street Journal, that number has now risen to over 70.

Commander Captain Brett Crozier wrote in a memo yesterday that the ship was on track to end up much worse than the cruise ship Diamond Princess where, despite interventions, seven people died from the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/commander-asks-pentagon-to-pull-whole-crew-off-virus-hit-aircraft-carrier_3292758.html

New Oxford Study Hidden By Mainstream Media: Millions Already Infected, Recovered, & Immune?

A new Oxford study said that millions of people in the United Kingdom (and, therefore, in other countries) have likely already gotten the coronavirus, recovered from it, and are immune. But the mainstream media doesn’t want this information to get out, and some went to work quickly telling people “not to believe it.”

A newer model, which predicts the progression of the novel coronavirus, set off governments’ reactions around the globe and has systematically ruined lives across the Western world (not because of the virus, but the reaction to it). Pandemic produced by researchers at Imperial College London set off alarms across the world and was a major factor in several governments to lock things down. But a new model from Oxford University is challenging its accuracy, the Financial Times reports.

The head of the study, professor Sunetra Gupta, an Oxford theoretical epidemiologist, said she still supports the U.K.’s decision to shut down the country to suppress the virus even if her research winds up being proven correct. But she also doesn’t appear to be a big fan of the work done by the Imperial College team. “I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model,” she said.

The acceptance of the original model was to ensure people would be quickly living a life in fear and one without a source of income to combat the totalitarian measures that have already been implemented and are still coming our way. Some media outlets say this newer model relies on assumptions so we should disregard it; yet, the original model that has forced lockdowns and an economic crash is relying on the same thing by assuming no one has had the infection, and forcing everyone into a frenzied panic to prevent it.

If Gupta’s work is accurate, that would likely mean a large swath of the population has already built up immunity to the virus and locking them down is pointless. Theoretically, then, social restrictions could ease sooner than anticipated. What needs to be done now, Gupta said according to the Financial Times, is a whole lot of antibody testing to figure out who may have contracted the virus. Her research team is working with groups from the University of Cambridge and the University of Kent to start those tests for the general population as quickly as possible.

The worst part about this model is not the study itself, but the desperate attempts to hide it, or render it invalid to ensure the public remains in a state of fear.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/03/new-oxford-study-hidden-by-mainstream-media-millions-already-infected-recovered-immune.html

Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease

People continuously exposed to air pollution are at increased risk of dementia, especially if they also suffer from cardiovascular diseases, according to a study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal JAMA Neurology. Therefore, patients with cardiovascular diseases who live in polluted environments may require additional support from care providers to prevent dementia, according to the researchers.

The number of people living with dementia is projected to triple in the next 30 years. No curative treatment has been identified and the search for modifiable risk and protective factors remains a public health priority. Recent studies have linked both cardiovascular disease and air pollution to the development of dementia, but findings on the air pollution-link have been scarce and inconsistent.

In this study, the researchers examined the link between long-term exposure to air pollution and dementia and what role cardiovascular diseases play in that association. Almost 3,000 adults with an average age of 74 and living in the Kungsholmen district in central Stockholm were followed for up to 11 years. Of those, 364 people developed dementia. The annual average level of particulate matter 2.5 microns or less in width (PM2.5) are considered low compared to international standards.

“Interestingly, we were able to establish harmful effects on human health at levels below current air pollution standards,” says first author Giulia Grande, researcher at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institutet. “Our findings suggest air pollution does play a role in the development of dementia, and mainly through the intermediate step of cardiovascular disease and especially stroke.”

For the last five years of exposure, the risk of dementia increased by more than 50 percent per interquartile range (IQR) difference in mean PM2.5 levels and by 14 percent per IQR in nitrogen oxide. Earlier exposures seemed less important. Heart failure and ischemic heart disease both enhanced the dementia risk and stroke explained almost 50 percent of air pollution-related dementia cases, according to the researchers.

“Air pollution is an established risk factor for cardiovascular health and because CVD accelerates cognitive decline, we believe exposure to air pollution might negatively affect cognition indirectly,” says Giulia Grande. “In our study, virtually all of the association of air pollution with dementia seemed to be through the presence or the development of CVD, adding more reason to reduce emissions and optimize treatment of concurrent CVD and related risk factors, particularly for people living in the most polluted areas of our cities.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2020/03/air-pollution-linked-to-dementia-and-cardiovascular-disease.html

>>8639003

lot of DS in the navy/airforce

Iran-Turkey gas pipeline stops functioning after 'terrorist' attack – gas company official

A senior official with Iran's state gas company has alleged that terrorists were behind an explosion and massive fire on the pipeline transporting natural gas from the Islamic Republic to Turkey.

"This morning, terrorists attacked a natural gas pipeline inside Turkey near Iran's Bazargan border with Turkey," National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Dispatching Director Mehdi Jamshidi Dana said on Tuesday, as cited by Reuters.

The official told IRNA that fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a guerilla group active in eastern Turkey, have attacked the pipeline in the past. NIGC spokesperson Mohammad Asgari, meanwhile, described the blast as an "incident" without linking it to terrorism. According to the NIGC, at least one person was killed.

The explosion rocked the pipeline near the Gurbulak border gate with Iran in Turkey's eastern Agri Province around 6am local time. Turkish media reported that the loud blast sparked a massive fire that could be seen by residents in local villages, with flames rising up to 40 meters (131 feet).

The flow of gas in the pipeline has been cut off as Turkish officials are determining the cause of the explosion. Turkish media did not report any fatalities on the ground.

The NIGC said that gas exports to Turkey will resume several days after the pipeline is repaired.

In early March, the PKK fired a rocket near the Gurbulak border gate, killing one person.

https://www.rt.com/news/484560-iran-turkey-pipeline-blast/

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