Tom Fitton: Remember–The President HAS NOT Ordered a Nationwide Shutdown over the #Coronavirus
When it comes to pandemics, we have to get our response right, and NOT destroy the economy in the process. Join Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton for a quick discussion of why and how we can get back to work.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/tom-fitton-remember-the-president-has-not-ordered-a-nationwide-shutdown-over-the-coronavirus/
THQ Nordic CEO officially apologises for 8chan AMA, does not shout out Mark
Last week, THQ Nordic hosted an ‘ask me anything’ on the 8chan imageboard. The reasons why this was a bad idea are too numerous to list – perhaps the most egregious is that the site was delisted from Google for discussion of child abuse and links to child porn. Now, the CEO of THQ Nordic’s parent company has issued a formal apology for the incident.
THQ Nordic AB owns THQ Nordic GmbH – the latter is the company you’ll most often hear about as THQ Nordic – alongside other divisions like Koch Media, which owns publisher Deep Silver. That’s caused plenty of confusion around other PR situations, like when THQ Nordic (GmbH) suggested it wasn’t signing off on Metro Exodus ditching Steam – a comment THQ Nordic (AB) then had to distance itself from.
But after the 8chan incident, THQ Nordic AB CEO Lars Wingefors offers an apology in no uncertain terms. “This letter is to offer my sincerest apologies and regret for THQ Nordic GmbH Vienna’s interaction with the controversial website 8chan last Tuesday, February 26,” Wingefors writes in a statement received by GamesIndustry.biz. “I condemn all unethical content this website stands for. Even if no one within the THQ Nordic Group would ever endorse such content, I realize simply appearing there gave an implicit impression that we did.”
Wingefors adds “As co-founder and group CEO of THQ Nordic AB, I take full responsibility for all of THQ Nordic GmbH’s actions and communications. I have spent the past several days conducting an internal investigation into this matter. I assure you that every member of the organization has learned from this past week’s events.”
https://www.pcgamesn.com/thq-nordic-8chan-ama
Democrat Georgia State Rep. Breaks From Party, Slams Biden and Endorses President Trump’s Reelection
Democrat Georgia State Rep. Vernon Jones has defied his party and endorsed President Donald Trump’s reelection.
Jones also slammed Biden, saying that his policies devastated a generation of African American families.
Jones endorsed Trump on Tuesday, praising the president for the economy, criminal justice reform, and his support for historically black colleges.
Speaking to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jones said that he has no plan to switch parties he just thinks Trump is doing a good job on certain issues.
“It’s very simple to me. President Trump’s handling of the economy, his support for historically black colleges and his criminal justice initiatives drew me to endorse his campaign,” Jones said.
“This is not about switching parties. There are a lot of African Americans who clearly see and appreciate he’s doing something that’s never been done before,” Jones added. “When you look at the unemployment rates among black Americans before the pandemic, they were at historic lows. That’s just a fact.”
Jones was especially pleased with the First Step Act and President Trump granting clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, after being lobbied to release her by Kim Kardashian.
“A generation of African American families have been devastated by draconian policies that Joe Biden supported and voted for when he served in the U.S. Senate,” Jones said in a statement to CBS 46. “A change was needed and President Trump took action.”
The chairwoman of Georgia’s Democratic Party, Nikema Williams, is outraged about the endorsement and called Jones an “embarrassment.”
“Never has that been clearer than this moment, when he chose to stand with the racist president who has made an all-out assault on Black Americans, who has tried to rip away American health care, and who has failed our country in its greatest time of need during the most important election in our lifetimes,” Williams said in a statement. “Vernon Jones doesn’t speak for Georgians, and neither does Donald Trump — which is why Georgians will send him home in November 2020.”
Jones described himself in 2008 as an “independent thinker and a conservative Democrat who supports faith-based initiatives, tough immigration laws and fiscal responsibility.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/democrat-georgia-state-rep-vernon-jones-breaks-party-endorses-president-trumps-reelection-bid-slams-biden/
Adm. Brett Giroir Details Public Health Infrastructure to Reopen America: ‘Surveillance, Testing, Contact Tracing’
Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health (ASH), told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday that the federal government is developing a broad-based effort consisting of wide-scale testing, surveillance, and contact tracing to be able to control the spread of coronavirus once the president makes the decision to reopen America.
Giroir is a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS), the federal uniformed service of the Public Health Service, and as ASH, a top adviser to the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). He is a member of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence’s White House Coronavirus Task Force and has emerged as the so-called “testing czar.” In that role, Giroir is charged with the logistics of scaling up U.S. efforts to test for coronavirus from about 100,000 when he took over the effort just a few weeks ago to now more than 3 million tests completed as he told Breitbart News on Tuesday.
“Over 3 million as of today,” Giroir told Breitbart News, referring to various diagnostic tests that have been completed testing whether an American has an active coronavirus infection. In the hotspots throughout the United States, Giroir added, the U.S. is leading the world in not just the testing total but also testing per capita—far ahead of places like South Korea and elsewhere worldwide that have been lauded on testing.
“In the places where there’s a lot of disease like New York and Washington, we far exceed South Korea—far exceed South Korea—we have the most testing per capita of any place in the world,” Giroir said. “But if you have states where it’s circulating less, we don’t. But I want to be clear, in the states with really high circulation our testing is extraordinarily good.”
The next stages of combating the outbreak, he explained, will be preparing for the reopening of the country with a multi-pronged public health infrastructure approach including surveillance, expanded testing, and contact tracing, but also an expanded hospital capacity as well as wide-scale serological testing.
“Let me put it into context: All of the testing that we’ve done thus far is testing for the virus in your nose or nasopharynx, meaning you’re actively infected with the virus,” Giroir said when asked about the testing scaling up especially on the serological side. “The antibody test will get us an idea of if you have been infected in the past and are presumably—not 100 percent certain but probably by all known medical computation—that you would be immune to getting the virus again at least in the intermediate term. It is an important component, but it is not really the whole foundation of where we’re going. I call it a component because it will tell us who had the virus and give us a good sort of understanding of what happened, but we still expect only a minority of people will have had the virus and have recovered from it. The outer estimates—and again we don’t know—maybe it’s as much as five or ten percent in some places, and that’s going to be very important to know who those five or ten percent of people are both for themselves and others, but it’s not the total solution.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/14/exclusive-adm-brett-giroir-details-public-health-infrastructure-to-reopen-america-surveillance-testing-contact-tracing/
1/2
“The other thing that’s unprecedented is the president is at the podium every single day answering questions,” Giroir said. “I mean, I can’t imagine a time when the president and the vice president have been so transparent bringing everyone together to answer the questions the American people have and to make sure communication is clear. The Task Force meetings aren’t a media prep, they’re real important meetings about the issues we are facing in America done in a very highly professional, scientific, and multi-disciplinary kind of way and that is being explained to the American people completely transparently. I think that’s unprecedented.”
2/2
https://twitter.com/qanoninindia/status/1249998355758845952
Nolte: What Terrible Coronavirus Models Tell Us About Global Warming Models
Let’s face it, the coronavirus models are terrible. Not just off, but way, way, way off in their predictions of a doomsday scenario that never arrived.
Experts, experts, experts, y’all…
What would America do without her precious experts?
That’s not to say that over 20,000 dead Americans is not a heartbreaking reality. That’s not even to say that parts of the country should not have been shut down. But come on…
We shut the entire country down using the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) models, and in doing so put 17 million (and counting) Americans out of work, shattered 17 million (and counting) lives, and… Well, take a look for yourself below.
For the CNNLOL-impaired… That gigantic hump is the IHME’s April 1 prediction of coronavirus hospitalizations. The smaller humps way, way, waaaay below that are the IMHE’s predictions of coronavirus hospitalizations after they were revised just a few days later on April 5, 7, and 9.
The green line is the true number of hospitalizations, starting with the whole U.S., and into the states.
Here’s the source of those figures.
So why does this matter? And why are we looking at hospitalizations?
Well, remember, the whole reason for shutting down the economy was to ensure our healthcare system was not overloaded. And it should be noted that these expert models are based on full mitigation, based on what did indeed happen, which was basically a full shutdown of the economy by way of a lockdown. And these models are still horribly, terribly wrong.
This, however, is not an argument about whether we should or should not have shut the country down, or only part of the country down. I have plenty of thoughts on that particular subject, but we’ll leave that for another time. What I want to focus is what is not arguable, and what is not arguable is that we shut the country down based on wildly flawed models.
If you want to argue we still should have shut all or part of the country based on what actually happened, that’s fine… And we might even agree more than disagree, but that’s not the point. What is indisputable is that the models we used to shut down our economy are wildly wrong.
Even if you believe the correct decision was made, that does not change how wildly wrong the coronavirus models were, are, and will almost certainly continue to be. That does not change the fact we shut down our entire economy based on incredibly flawed models.
Which brings me to the models for global cooling global warming climate change or whatever the hell these proven frauds are calling it today.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/14/nolte-what-terrible-coronavirus-models-tell-us-about-global-warming-models/
Donald Trump Meets Michigan Democrat Treated with Hydroxychloroquine
President Donald Trump on Tuesday met with recovered coronavirus patients at the White House.
State Representative Karen Whitsett of Michigan, who credited President Trump for her treatment with hydroxychloroquine, met with the president as well as other patients from California, Michigan, and Arkansas.
“I was afraid for my life,” Whitsett said, noting that the hospitals surrounding her were full. “I honestly felt like I was going to die.”
She said she was concerned about her life, as she had chronic Lyme disease when she contracted the virus, but took hydroxychloroquine and felt better.
Trump said that he wanted Whitsett to visit his personal White House physician to get advice for curing her Lyme disease.
Whitsett said she was not urging others to follow her example but wanted to share her story.
“I’m telling my story and my truth,” she said.
Last week, the president cited her case on Twitter as a symbol of hope for coronavirus patients around the United States.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/14/donald-trump-meets-michigan-democrat-coronavirus-patient-cured-by-hydroxychloroquine/
California's Newsom Explains 6 'Conditions' That Must Be Met Before Economy Can Reopen: Live Updates
Newsom laid out 6 essential conditions that must be met before businesses in California can be reopen…and by the sound of it, Cali probably won't be the first state to open…if it ever manages to bring its economy back online.
Considering that Gov. Cuomo just warned that the states are nowhere near being able to implement mass testing and tracking, Newsom's demand that public health authorities posses the ability to test people and track contacts of new cases is condition no. 1. Condition no. 2 is taking more steps to protect the vulnerable and the elderly. No. 3 is bolster state hospital systems and build up supplies of PPE. Condition no. 4 is "engage researchers and universities" to work toward treatments. No. 5 is re-drawing floor plans in businesses, parks etc. to accommodate distancing. And finally, the ability to switch the 'stay at home' order back on if the second wave begins to overwhelm.
There are many things wrong with this list, but the one that jumps out at us is redrawing of floor plans. California's tedious environmental regs have made it the most expensive state to build housing and commercial real estate, while doing little to actually protect the state's natural resources and environment (kind of like the state's land-management policies).
But if Newsom really thinks that restaurants will be able to operate at 50% capacity in his state, he's nuts. Meals would be so expensive, nobody would ever eat out. And that's not just the case for California.
Do people really think social distancing requirements will become the 'new normal' after this? Even once we have a vaccine mass-produced?
We don't really get it.
Newsom seems content with keeping the state's economy shuttered indefinitely: and if you were hoping to make up for everything on the festival circuit this summer, well, Newsom said the state probably won't allow large gatherings before the end of the summer. Or even before the end of next summer: Newsom said a vaccine or 'herd immunity' would be necessary before mass gatherings can be allowed.
Here's Newsom again, in his own words:
1) Ability to monitor and protect our communities through testing, contact tracing, isolating, and supporting those who are positive or exposed
2) Ability to prevent infection in people who are at high risk
3) Ability of hospitals and health systems to handle surges
4) Ability to develop therapeutics to meet the demand
5) Ability for businesses, schools, and child care facilities to support physical distancing
6) Ability to determine when to reinstitute certain measures, such as the stay-at-home orders, if necessary.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-coronavirus-death-toll-nears-25k-slowdown-new-cases-continues-europe-live-updates
CM PROJECT ODIN???????????????????????