New Research Reveals Between 12 Million and 33 Million Americans Were Infected by Coronavirus – Mortality Rate Similar to Seasonal Flu

Two new studies were released this week that show millions of Americans were infected with the coronavirus between March and April 21.

The studies also revel the mortality rate is much less that was reported and similar to seasonal flu.

A study by Dr. Justin Silverman estimates that there were 8.7 million coronavirus infections between March 8 and March 28.

And as of April 17, 2020, 10% of the US population has been infected or around 33 million Americans.

Via Andrew Bostom.

Dr. Silverman says 10% of the US population is already infected with the virus.

https://youtu.be/v9VzaDzqo-M

A second study by Fivetran estimates that from March 1 and April 4th 12 million Americans were infected with the coronavirus.

A third study finds that 25% of residents at homeless shelters tested positive for the virus.

And 66% of those residents tested at San Francisco homeless facilities tested positive for the coronavirus!

If 33 million Americans are already infected with the coronavirus that means the US mortality rated (45,000/44,000,000) is 0.14%.

This is the same number you would expect from a seasonal flu.

It makes no sense to destroy an entire economy based on these numbers.

Fire Fauci.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/new-research-reveals-12-million-33-million-americans-infected-coronavirus-mortality-rate-similar-seasonal-flu/

Stocks Dump, Gilead Crashes After FT Reports Gilead's Remdesivir "Flops" In First Clinical Trial

Just as we suspected, the sketchy Statnews report authored by the increasingly sketchy Adam Feuerstein, and claiming that Gilead's remdesivir had achieved miraculous results on patients in a small preliminary University of Chicago study has been exposed as complete BS.

In response to the fake STATNews report which managed to boost the entire stock market one week ago - despite our loud warning that the article came from a person who tends to do the bidding of well-paying hedge fund clients - the FT just reported that Gilead's "miracle drug" remdesivir has flopped in during its first clinical trial.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stocks-slide-report-gilead-miracle-drug-remdesivir-flopped-during-first-clinical-trial

Pompeo hints US may NEVER restore WHO funding…as China ponies up an extra $30mn amid still-raging Covid-19 pandemic

The US may never resume funding the World Health Organization, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned, after President Donald Trump pulled his support. China has stepped into the breach with an extra $30 million.

“I think we’ve got to take a real hard look at the WHO and what we do coming out of this,” Pompeo told Fox News, calling for a “structural fix” for the organization as a precondition to resuming funding.

Asked if he was serious about hanging the global health body out to dry, he confirmed, “it may be the case that the United States can never return to underwriting - having US taxpayer dollars go to the WHO.”

At the same time the Trump administration was doubling down on its decision to yank funding from the group despite the global coronavirus pandemic, Beijing announced it would donate an additional $30 million to the WHO on Thursday, citing the need to beef up health systems in developing countries as the coronavirus pandemic continues to menace the world’s population. The bonus comes in addition to the $20 million China gave the UN body last month.

“At this crucial moment, supporting WHO is supporting multilateralism and global solidarity,” foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Twitter.

Trump’s decision to pull US funding from the organization earlier this month has triggered international outcry. While the move has not yet been finalized - the administration is reviewing the contributions, a process that will take 60 to 90 days - Trump has not minced words, accusing the WHO of “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus” and promoting “Chinese disinformation.” Along with Pompeo, the president has encouraged rumors that the coronavirus epidemic began in a lab in Wuhan - allegations Beijing has flatly denied and which are not supported by evidence.

China in turn slammed the US threat to defund the health body as “classic blackmailing,” suggesting the US was using its status as the organization’s number-one funder to exert its will in “typical hegemonic mentality.” The WHO, too, condemned the move, pointing out it jeopardized not only the safety of the rest of the world but of the US itself.

The US is the top funder of the WHO, whose 2020-2021 budget is nearly $4.85 billion. Should Washington actually pull out, the health policy group will effectively be led by Bill Gates, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the next-largest contributor. As the third-largest funder, the UK would presumably assume the mantle of steering the WHO should the US abdicate its role. Germany, Japan and Kuwait are the next-largest public-sector donors.

https://www.rt.com/news/486686-pompeo-china-who-donations-control/

Treasury Posts Guidance To Stop PPP Loans From Going To Large Companies After Small Business Owners Shafted

Three weeks and hundreds of billions in misappropriated loans later, the Treasury Department has issued guidance intended to stop banks from issuing Paycheck Protection Program loans to large companies.

According to CNBC, the Treasury says it's unlikely that any public company with substantial market value and access to capital markets will be able to credibly prove in good faith that they have a legitimate need for a PPP loan.

In addition to reviewing applicable affiliation rules to determine eligibility, all borrowers must assess their economic need for a PPP loan under the standard established by the CARES Act and the PPP regulations at the time of the loan application. Although the CARES Act suspends the ordinary requirement that borrowers must be unable to obtain credit elsewhere (as defined in section 3(h) of the Small Business Act), borrowers still must certify in good faith that their PPP loan request is necessary. Specifically, before submitting a PPP application, all borrowers should review carefully the required certification that ”[c]urrent economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations of the Applicant.” Borrowers must make this certification in good faith, taking into account their current business activity and their ability to access other sources of liquidity sufficient to support their ongoing operations in a manner that is not significantly detrimental to the business. -CNBC

The guidance comes after national outrage over banks such as JPMorgan prioritizing loans to large, public companies over small businesses struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, which the funds were intended for in the first place. After they got caught, JPMorgan announced that they were working with the Treasury department to adjust the distribution qualifications for the next round of funding. That's nice, but it doesn't help small business owners who continue to struggle amid the pandemic - which resulted in a lawsuit filed last week in a Los Angeles federal court over the debacle.

In a Thursday Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) writes:

With the rapid deployment of support through the Paycheck Protection Program, it has become clear that access to the forgivable loans hasn’t been limited to those who truly need them. The PPP was intended to support small employers that otherwise would have had to lay off employees because of coronavirus-related revenue loss. Keeping employees connected to employers provides wage and benefit continuity, and we hope it will help ensure a faster recovery.

But the minimal requirements for loan qualification, designed to speed relief, have allowed employers to obtain PPP loans even if they aren’t in financial distress and have no need or intention to lay workers off. Loan applications granted on a first-come, first-serve basis quickly depleted the $349 billion fund, and many deserving small businesses were crowded out, unable to obtain financial relief. On Tuesday the Senate passed a bill that provides another $310 billion for PPP. It places no further limitations on loan forgiveness, and the self-certification of economic harm required by applicants remains a nebulous statement that “current economic uncertainty makes [the] loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations” of the business.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/treasury-posts-guidance-stop-ppp-loans-going-large-companies-after-small-business-owners

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Former NSC Chief Of Staff: John Brennan Buried Evidence That Putin Actually Favored Hillary In 2016

Former CIA officer and National Security Council Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz said Wednesday that former CIA Director John Brennan ignored intelligence that Russian President Vladimir Putin actually wanted Hillary Clinton to win the the 2016 presidential election.

Fleitz called Brennan “the most politicized intelligence chief in American history” in a Fox News op ed that addressed a report released Tuesday from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. That document supports the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election to promote the victory of then-candidate Donald Trump.

The committee released the document in a highly edited form that does not include any reference to recently declassified files that point to a possible Russian disinformation campaign that attempted to malign Trump.

Fleitz notes that the Senate report directly contradicts the March 2018 findings of the House Intelligence Committee, which accused the intelligence community assessment of being tainted by anti-Trump forces.

While recognizing that “the political establishment and anti-Trump journalists gloated about the new Senate Intelligence Committee report as bolstering their biases,” Fleitz contends the committee did not follow proper procedures in their investigation and based their conclusions on too few intelligence sources — and too much on the potentially tainted observations of the CIA.

“The Senate Intelligence Committee report falsely claims that ‘all analytical lines are supported with all-source intelligence’ and that analysts who wrote the intelligence community assessment consistently said they ‘were under no politically motivated pressure to reach specific conclusions.’”

Fleitz says House Intelligence Committee staff members discovered exactly the opposite and told him that there is ample evidence that Russia may have interfered in the 2016 election, but not necessarily on behalf of Trump.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/23/fred-fleitz-john-brennan-buried-evidence-putin-favored-hillary/

Twitter Bans Coronavirus Claims That Cause ‘Harmful Activity’

Twitter has once again broadened its rapidly-growing set of rules specific to the Chinese virus, this time banning statements that cause “harmful activity,” with a specific focus on posts about 5G network infrastructure.

In an update to its list of coronavirus-specific rules made yesterday, Twitter said it would ban any “unverified” claims that “incite people to action.”

“Unverified claims that incite people to action, could lead to the destruction or damage of critical infrastructure, or could lead to widespread panic, social unrest, or large-scale disorder, such as ‘The National Guard just announced that no more shipments of food will be arriving for two months — run to the grocery store ASAP and buy everything’ or ‘5G causes coronavirus — go destroy the cell towers in your neighborhood!'”

Twitter did not explain what separates a verified from an unverified claim.

In a tweet from its official account, Twitter also emphasized the danger of damage to “critical 5G infrastructure.” Concern over the alleged effects of 5G cellphone towers has led to some towers being attacked and disabled.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/23/twitter-bans-coronavirus-claims-that-cause-harmful-activity/

Twitter Removes Another Biden Meme on Trump’s Account for Copyright Violation

Twitter took down a meme posted by President Donald Trump making fun of Joe Biden after a copyright complaint was lodged with the platform.

The meme was an edited video depicting former President Obama watching a mocked-up Biden commercial showing one of the former VP’s many bizarre gaffes. The video can still be watched on YouTube, below.

The meme shows Biden’s now-infamous gaffe, in which he says “I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun, and the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again. They’d look at it… So I learned about roaches, I learned about kids jumping on my lap.”

In the meme, Obama responds with faux nonchalance. The meme is based on an edited Allstate commercial featuring Dennis Haysbert and John Marshall Jones.

Twitter has said in the past that it will not remove tweets from world leaders, even if they violate the Twitter rules. In a blog post last year, the company said:

“If a Tweet from a world leader does violate the Twitter Rules but there is a clear public interest value to keeping the Tweet on the service, we may place it behind a notice that provides context about the violation and allows people to click through should they wish to see the content.”

This is the second time in less than thirty days that Twitter has taken down a post from a populist world leader. At the end of March, it took down videos from Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro showing him at public events discussing the Chinese coronavirus.

It is the second time Twitter has removed one of Trump’s memes over copyright claims. The first time was in October of 2019, when Trump posted a clip of the band Nickelback, also mocking Biden. The band experienced a 500% increase in music streams based on the Trump meme.

A Twitter spokesperson replied to Breitbart News’ request to comment, stating: “Per our copyright policy, we respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a rights holder or their authorized representatives.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/23/twitter-removes-another-biden-meme-on-trumps-account-for-copyright-violation/

Spanish Leftist Mayor Resigns After Biting Police Officer

Spanish socialist politician Alex Pastor has resigned as mayor of Badalona after biting a police officer who caught him violating Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures and driving drunk.

Pastor’s resignation was announced on Wednesday after the former mayor had been arrested the evening before in Barcelona’s Eixample district. Miquel Iceta, the head of the Socialist Workers’ Party, claimed that Pastor’s actions were “incompatible with socialism”.

The Socialist Workers’ Party had previously asked Pastor to resign from the party, Austrian tabloid Kronen Zeitung reports.

According to the news website El Español, Pastor has had a history of controversial behaviour and personal problems that largely began in 2018 when he became mayor.

“His problems with the dependencies are well known in some environments in Badalona,” Xavier García Albiol, a member of the People’s Party of Catalonia and former mayor of Badalona, said.

According to El Español, Pastor also acted aggressively during his arrest, telling officers they did not know who they were dealing with. He then struggled during the arrest, punched one officer and kicked another, then bit the officer’s arm while on the ground.

Since mid-March, Spain has enacted tough measures to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, including limiting the number of outdoor activities members of the public are allowed to engage in.

Spain, along with Italy, is one of the countries worst affected by coronavirus, reporting a total of over 213,000 confirmed cases and over 22,000 fatalities as of Thursday.

Former mayor Pastor is not the only Spaniard to make headlines for breaking the coronavirus lockdown measures in recent weeks. Earlier this month a woman in southern Spain was caught on video jumping on a police car while nude outside of a local police station.

Police arrested the woman and later took her to a local hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. The 41-year-old had previously been accused of streaking during a tribute to health care workers in Torremolinos.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/23/spanish-leftist-mayor-resigns-biting-police-officer/

Deported Child Sex Offender Again Caught Crossing California Border

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported Honduran illegal alien who was convicted in a California court last year for sex with a minor. Immigration officers deported the criminal alien on at least two occasions.

Agents assigned to the Yuma Border Patrol station on April 20, apprehended a man who illegally crossed the Mexican border into California about two miles west of the Andrade Port of Entry, according to information obtained from Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials. The agents arrested the man on immigration violations and transported him to the San Luis Port of Entry in Arizona for processing.

During a biometric background investigation, the agents learned the migrant has both a criminal and immigration history. Computer records show that the 28-year-old Honduran national received a conviction and a two-year prison sentence from a court in San Francisco, California, in 2019 for having sex with a minor, Yuma Sector Border Patrol officials stated.

The agents checked further and discovered that officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations deported the man on at least two separate occasions.

The criminal alien could face federal felony charges of illegal re-entry after removal as a child sex offender. If charged and convicted, he could face up to 20 years in federal prison.

Breitbart Texas reports extensively on previously deported child sex offenders who are arrested after illegally re-entering the United States after being deported.

In late March, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents patrolling near Three Points, Arizona, arrested 39-year-old Darwin Escobar-Lopez. A criminal background check revealed that a California court in Redwood City convicted the man in 2005 for Lewd and Lascivious Acts with a Child under 14. The court sentenced him to one year in jail and three years of probation.

In 2016, a Florida court in Fort Meyers convicted Escobar-Lopez for failing to register as a sex offender. The court sentenced him to 48 months in prison. Immigration records show he had been previously deported by ICE officers.

A few days earlier, Tucson Sector agents apprehended two more previously deported sex offenders. Tucson Sector agents arrested 27-year-old Andres Lopez-Rosales near Amado, Arizona.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/04/23/deported-child-sex-offender-again-caught-crossing-california-border/

Vimeo Bans Documentary Exposing “Big Pharma’s” Influence Within The World Health Organization

The Facts:

A documentary called "trustWHO" explores the influence that the pharmaceutical industry, among others, has on the World Health Organization. It was recently banned by Vimeo.

Reflect On:

Why is sound and solid research presenting credible information being banned and censored on multiple platforms across the internet?

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I recently published a piece about Wikileaks regarding recent posts they made pertaining to documents they released nearly a decade ago . The documents highlight the influence that pharmaceutical companies have on health policy set by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Towards the end of that article, I wrote about a documentary that’s recently been removed by Vimeo, and I wanted to publish another article that specifically shines light on this matter.

Vimeo deleted “trustWHO”, a film directed by Lilian Franck. Vimeo stated that they do not support “Videos that depict or encourage self-harm, falsely claim that mass tragedies are hoaxes, or perpetuate false or misleading claims about vaccine safety.”

According to the filmmakers, the claim from Vimeo is “Both misleading and false. “trustWHO” has been thoroughly researched for 7 years; it has been fact-checked and approved by lawyers, experts in the medical field and even by key executives of the WHO itself. The documentary simply investigated how efficiency and transparency of the WHO are undermined by both corporate influences and a lack of public funding. It is a journalistic investigation based on facts and far from what Vimeo makes it out to be. This is our full statement on the matter, presented by Robert Cibis (Filmmaker, Co-author and producer of “trust WHO”).

In our world today, there is the powerful presence of a digital Orwellian “fact checker” that’s going around the internet and social media deleting any evidence that threatens corporate, political, financial or elitist interests, or information that simply highlights the corruption within agencies that have been tasked to safeguard us. The elimination of content from various platforms, like Vimeo, Youtube, Facebook and more is being done so in an immoral and unethical manner.

https://www.collective-evolution.com/2020/04/20/vimeo-bans-documentary-exposing-big-pharmas-influence-within-the-world-health-organization/

State governors say Facebook is lying, Facebook alone decided to shut down protest groups

It’s slowly becoming clear that US state governors were contacted by the social media giant Facebook over “Reopen America” events, not the other way around.

While CNN reporters initially tweeted that the governors were the ones to ask Facebook to ban the event pages of “Reopen America”, it’s now looking more likely that Facebook actively pursued guidance from state governors in a move to shut down groups that were organizing protests themselves.

State governors say they didn’t ask Facebook to censor the groups.

Here’s what CNN’s Oliver Darcy had originally tweeted:

https://reclaimthenet.org/state-governors-facebook-censorship-protest-groups/

CA Govorner signs a $1 billion contract to buy masks for more than $5ea, while any shmuck with an internet connection can buy them for $2ea

via foxnews:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing pushback as state lawmakers have begun demanding details of his nearly $1 billion deal to receive 200 million masks per month from a Chinese manufacturer.

Just two weeks after announcing the deal, Newsom has remained largely mum on the specifics.

Advisers to the California Democrat have declined requests for comment from the Los Angeles Times about the agreement, which was inked with Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD — which stands for Build Your Dreams — earlier this month.

BYD was formed in 1995 as a battery manufacturer. In 2008, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased a 24.8% stake in the company.

The paper reports that a Newsom administration official refused to provide state senators with a copy of the contract during a budget oversight hearing in Sacramento last Thursday, despite the state having already paid half the cost.

The state’s chief deputy director of the Office of Emergency Services told senators via videoconference that providing all specifics of the deal would risk disrupting the supply line of masks to the state.

This stinks of corruption.

https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/ca-govorner-sigs-a-1-billion-contract-to-buy-masks-for-more-than-5ea-while-any-shmuck-with-an-internet-connection-can-buy-them-for-2ea/

Thinking About McDonald’s For Lunch? We’ll Give You 10 Reasons To Think Again

There are days where I just can’t bring myself to cook, which is where fast food can come in handy. But there’s one fast food joint that no one should visit: McDonalds. There are tons of disgusting additives and weird ingredients in that burger you’re about to munch on. Read on:

Ammonium Sulfate

Ammonium sulfate is used to fertilize soil and kill bugs. It’s also in the buns at McDonalds. You’ll be well fertilized and bug free! And also maybe pretty sick. Best to put the Big Mac down.

Silcone Oil

Chicken McNuggets have been shown in labs to contain dimethylpolysiloxane, or silicone oil. Silicone oil is used to produce contact lenses and other medical devices. McDonalds also had to recall a million chicken nuggets recently due to plastic being found in them. How delightful.

Cystein-L

What the hell is this? Cystein-L is an amino acid that is synthesized from duck feathers. It helps to flavor the meat, bread, and pastries apparently. I never knew duck feathers could make fast food taste so much better. Quack!

THBQ

THBQ, or tert-Butylhydroquinone, is a preservative found in 18 McDonalds foods. It can be lethal, but the FDA says in small doses it’s fine. Still though, we stand by our statement that if you can’t pronounce the ingredients, don’t eat it.

Propylene Glycol

This is a chemical found in antifreeze, e-cigarettes, and your McDonalds burgers. Enjoy!

Dimethylpolysiloxane

Say that ten times fast. Almost every fried fast food item at McDonalds contains this chemical, and so does silly putty, caulking, shampoos, heat resistant tiles, and contact lenses. I don’t think that burger will help you see better, wash your hair for you or make you heat resistant. You might try pressing yourself against a newspaper at some point to see if the ink sticks to you though.

Carminic Acid

Have you ever eaten bugs? Hey, I’m not opposed to munching down on some bugs, but the carminic acid in the meat at McDonalds is synthesized from components of the Chochineal beetle. Delish.

Cellulose

Pretty much every fast food item contains this compound derived from wood pulp.

Silicone Dioxide

Also known as industrial sand. This one actually isn’t McDonalds specific. This is found in Wendy’s chili to keep it from clumping.

Bon apetite.

https://healthynnatural.com/a/10-reasons-mcdonalds/index.html