The @WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern that some countries were not taking the threat of #coronavirus seriously enough https://t.co/lnSajG2hA7 pic.twitter.com/Qv2GBHPeLR— Reuters (@Reuters) March 6, 2020
#UPDATE Almost 300 million students worldwide face weeks at home with Italy and India the latest to shut schools over the deadly #coronavirus outbreak, as the IMF urged an all-out global offensive against the epidemic https://t.co/UdgylJARHU pic.twitter.com/kgAS9YZwE1— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 5, 2020
The world's top oil producers agreed to deeper production cuts in a desperate effort to offset a slump in demand caused by the #coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/39r9LpB1Xo pic.twitter.com/71hHjJvyoa— Reuters (@Reuters) March 6, 2020
Guyana election: Two main parties declare victory as tensions rise https://t.co/DMIGFySTd8— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 5, 2020
Soldiers & sailors from Nigeria 🇳🇬, Morocco 🇲🇦, & Cameroon 🇨🇲 train w/ the U.K. during #Flintlock20 - a U.S. hosted event. The integrated military & law enforcement exercise has been an annual event since 2005 & is @USAfricaCommand's largest special operations exercise. pic.twitter.com/q0dtB4k4q1— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) March 6, 2020
Truck driver smashes into an iconic Easter island statue causing 'incalculable' damage https://t.co/ALA7IuZpVw— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) March 6, 2020
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"Almost 300 million students worldwide face weeks at home with Italy and India the latest to shut schools over the deadly #coronavirus outbreak"
So much for long afternoons without the welps...
Just think of all the lost days with out liberal brainwashing.
It seems that Anon's brain has been so washed it no longer exists.
Bob, you're projecting again.
From the Math is hard department.
Math Is Hard: MSNBC Geniuses Claim Bloomberg Spent Enough to Give Every American $1 Million
MSNBC's Brian Williams
NYT's Mara Gay
These drooling libtard geniuses could not move around a couple of zeroes correctly.
"But, because this is Los Angeles", a deep blue shithole ... "and because Gascón is a well-financed darling of the left, I have every confidence that by the time all the ballots are counted, a sufficient number of Gascón or Rossi ballots will have been mysteriously “found” in a closet, in a trash can, or in the trunk of some precinct worker’s car to force a runoff. When elections are close, somehow it is always the leftist candidate who benefits. Odd."
A White-Black person
https://twitter.com/docmellymel/status/723247108157927424?lang=en
www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/melina-abdullah/
She looks whiter than the White-Hispanic George Zimmerman. But she has the gig, so she is golden.
Typical Liberal University professor rhetoric
“We know where your ass lives too. And we’ve got cars.”
- Melina Abdullah
If she were just 1 tad whiter, she would have straw blonde hair and blue eyes.
www.calstatela.edu/academic/pas/Abdullah.php
Beyond Trump’s permeable coronavirus wall, the nature of American democracy ensures he would struggle to implement some of the draconian internal options available to China’s rulers. China’s walling off of Wuhan and Hubei province would be essentially impossible to impose on, say, Washington state, which has reported the most coronavirus cases within the U.S.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday that China had “taken social distancing to its farthest extreme” — to an extent that couldn’t be replicated in the U.S.
“Places that have controlled this … have a mix of authoritarianism and competence,” said David Fisman, an epidemiology professor at the University of Toronto. “Control may be difficult where there is competence but resistance to state-imposed restrictions.”
That kind of action, said bioethicist Kelly Hills, is akin to “closing the barn door after the horse is three fields away, looking at you like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’”
It’s hard to imagine Trump successfully calling on Facebook and Amazon to help enforce restrictions of movement — as China has done with WeChat and AliPay — or ordering large parts of the economy to shut down in an election year. Trump also doesn’t have a single national health service to instruct as many European countries have.
In addition to public outcry around a major movement restriction, “The courts would strike it down because it would be disproportionate and it would affect many, many people who are not infected or exposed to a pathogen,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown Law and director of the World Health Organization’s Center on Global Health Law.
Civilian vacancies at Trump’s Pentagon hit new high
By Andrew Desiderio
6-8 minutes
Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Wednesday upbraided Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley about the imbalance.
“These vacancies continue to challenge the department's ability to effectively respond to national security challenges and undermine civilian input into the decision-making process with political appointees largely absent a large amount of work,” Reed said.
Part of the challenge of filling senior positions is that the White House personnel office, which is led by a 29-year-old Trump loyalist, is now trying to exert more control over the Pentagon’s nominating process. The two offices have not yet settled on a choice to replace John Rood, who served as the Pentagon’s top policy official until he was forced out in February, four defense and administration officials tell POLITICO.
The coronavirus poses another global challenge to Trump: entangling him more closely with the international institutions he loathes.
Trump has at times questioned the mission of global organizations like the United Nations and the NATO military alliance. And since the coronavirus outbreak began, Trump has limited extra U.S. investment globally to $37 million for the World Health Organization.
While the U.S. already funds 22 percent of the WHO budget, the agency is asking donors for $675 million to help fight the virus, warning that it is struggling to support countries to test and isolate potential victims. Yet so far, it has received less than half of its goal, even after getting a $125 million injection from the European Union.
When the WHO is unable to act as the first responder to a global health crisis, the buck has typically been passed to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But given Trump’s wariness of international aid, and early missteps by the CDC, that role could now fall to European authorities.
RATES NEAR ZERO
LIQUIDITY CONCERNS
TAX CUTS TO EASE PAIN?
VIRUS FEAR HITS WHITE HOUSE!
MAG: LESS THAN 2,000 AMERICANS TESTED
A federal judge excoriated Attorney General Bill Barr on Thursday for distorting the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller during his investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In a stinging 23-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton said Barr’s efforts to spin the report before its public release last year raised serious doubts about whether the Justice Department faithfully applied the law when deleting certain information from the publicly disclosed version.
“The Court cannot reconcile certain public representations made by Attorney General Barr with the findings in the Mueller Report,” wrote Walton, an appointee of President George W. Bush.
“The inconsistencies between Attorney General Barr’s statements, made at a time when the public did not have access to the redacted version of the Mueller Report to assess the veracity of his statements, and portions of the redacted version of the Mueller Report that conflict with those statements cause the Court to seriously question whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary,” the judge added.
And the parrot was triggered.
The nutty old bird is cutting and pasting a storm, which is actually a good thing. At list the old bird is not ogling.
anon 1:19 tiresome tirade that says the same thing over and over
try a new line, CHUDster
The drug industry is showing that even in a crisis, it can use its influence in Washington to fight off efforts to cut into its profits.
Industry lobbyists successfully blocked attempts this week to include language in the $8.3 billion emergency coronavirus spending bill that would have threatened intellectual property rights for any vaccines and treatments the government decides are priced unfairly.
Drug companies’ power to dictate terms as Congress struggles to address the growing U.S. outbreak is another sign of the uphill battle that likely awaits any broader bipartisan drug-pricing legislation. Both Democrats and Republicans have tried and failed in recent months to advance bills that would crack down on costs.
The pharmaceutical industry not only killed the intellectual property provision in the coronavirus package, but it got language added into the bill that prevents the government from delaying a medicine’s development over concerns about its affordability.
“The idea that drug companies should have free reign to set prices during an international pandemic is immoral and dangerous,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), who led an unsuccessful push to ensure that coronavirus treatments developed with federal emergency funding would be priced fairly and available widely, in a statement to POLITICO.
The provision to bar the government from intervening when affordability concerns arise “blows up” existing legal measures to ensure fair drug pricing, said Jamie Love, executive director at Knowledge Ecology International, which has been lobbying for new drug development and pricing approaches to lower the costs of medicines.
What crisis? The media manufactured one?
The government could go with a cost plus model. The gov pays the costs of research/development plus a fixed rate profit.
But I think that would be a bridge too far for socialist.
Chudding parrot can do nothing, but tiresome tirades
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