Thursday, March 12, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
No Hug...
Keep your distance. And don't kiss.
Those are two pieces of advice that could be crucial in reducing the spread of the coronavirus.
Public health officials say the spread has been mainly driven through people spending time indoors with others who have the disease.
"Looks like the main driver is not widespread community infection — looks like it's household-level infection," Dr. Bruce Aylward, a senior adviser to the World Health Organization, said.
Indeed, data from China's cases show that most of the spread is happening among family members who live together.
Perhaps the reason that the virus spreads among family members is the way people become infected. "The main mode of transmission is respiratory droplets" that can be produced by speaking and coughing, says Dr. Adam Lauring, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan. "These droplets then can find their way into the mouths, noses of other people nearby."
(Sneezing, another way droplets are spread, is not a common symptom of COVID-19, indicating that it's not usually an upper respiratory infection, Aylward said.)
Threat...
Mr. Schumer was speaking before abortion-rights activists as the Supreme Court considers whether to curtail the ability of abortion providers to sue on behalf of women seeking abortions—a doctrine known as third-party standing.
Mr. Schumer, still addressing Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, added: “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
The “whirlwind”? “What hit you”?
This is an incitement to violence against a federal agent, and surely was a threat of political reprisal against the Justices if they don’t vote the way Mr. Schumer wants.
The remarks drew a rare and pointed public rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts, who said: “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.”
Crossing...
Over the years, villagers who live near Greece's border with Turkey got used to seeing small groups of people enter their country illegally. The Greek residents often offered the just-arrived newcomers a bite to eat and directed them to the nearest police or railway station.
But the warm welcomes wore off. When Turkey started channeling thousands of people to Greece, insisting that its ancient regional rival and NATO ally receive them as refugees, the Greek government sealed the border and rushed police and military reinforcements to help hold back the flood.
Greeks in the border region rallied behind the expanding border force, collecting provisions and offering any possible contribution to what is seen as a national effort to stop a Turkish-spurred incursion.
Greek authorities said that out of a the 252 people arrested for illegal entry over the past week as of Friday, 64% were Afghans, 19% Pakistanis, 5% Turks and 4% Syrians, while the others were from Iraq, Iran, Morocco, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Egypt. They're all illegal migrants and that's why they're trying to get into Europe (this way).”
Rattled...
Markets are in turmoil after the collapse of an alliance between Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the world's top oil producers, triggered the worst one-day crash in oil prices in nearly 30 years — fanning new fears about a global economy already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic.
Saudi Arabia slashed oil prices after Russia refused to go along with OPEC's proposal to impose deeper cuts to production in the face of slumping demand. The standoff sent Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, down as much as 31% to $31.02 per barrel, as traders brace for Saudi Arabia to flood the market with crude.
Saudi Arabia slashed oil prices after Russia refused to go along with OPEC's proposal to impose deeper cuts to production in the face of slumping demand. The standoff sent Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, down as much as 31% to $31.02 per barrel, as traders brace for Saudi Arabia to flood the market with crude.
The shock has also rattled stock and bond markets, which were already freaking out over the global spread of the coronavirus. On Sunday, Italy put much of its prosperous north — including financial capital Milan on semi-lockdown, the most dramatic effort yet to contain the virus outside China.
Less money from the oil, will lead to less support for all the Middle East troubles.
Fake...
When Sen. Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race, having failed to inspire Democrat voters, she blamed “unconscious bias and . . . gendered language.”
Warren's stunning lack of humility doesn’t occur to her, in her self-congratulatory, liberal feminist self-image, that voters, male or female, just don’t want what she is selling.
Warren’s fatal mistake was to embrace identity politics, claiming victim status by being a member of various oppressed groups when in reality, she was a privileged white professor. In the end, the woke parasite devours its own.
She started with baggage from her claim of being partly Native American. DNA test, which proved she had very little Native-American ancestry, and spent the rest of the campaign trying to apologize
She started with baggage from her claim of being partly Native American. DNA test, which proved she had very little Native-American ancestry, and spent the rest of the campaign trying to apologize
Then she tried to earn victim points by claiming she once had been fired for being pregnant.
Finally, she revealed herself as cravenly unserious when she declared she would recruit a “young trans person” to vet her potential Cabinet appointees.
Her deep hate for rich people, while she is one of them, make you think it is all fake.
Just a thought.
Her deep hate for rich people, while she is one of them, make you think it is all fake.
Just a thought.
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