A flight attendant waits for the departure of a one-passenger flight between Washington and New Orleans in Washington, April 3, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Daily Mail: The terrifying reports that tell the truth about how lockdown ends - there will be NO return to normal: America’s top experts explain how the nation faces mass digital surveillance, testing on an unimaginable scale or recurring social distancing
* Three reports from think tanks and academics lay out how lockdown ends
* All agree that until a vaccine is available, US life will not be fully normal
* Calls for national lockdown range from 14 days to as long as three months
* Once lockdown ends, social distancing measures would relax but not disappear
* Gatherings of a certain size would still be banned, and remote work encouraged
* Two plans call for the construction of a vast digital surveillance system
* Would track movements of all Americans to trace potential virus exposure
* Plans call for daily testing capacity ranging from massive to impossible
When will it end?
For everyone under lockdown orders in the coronavirus pandemic, that is the key question. How long until American life can return to normal, without risking the disease reigniting out of control and overwhelming hospitals?
Examining the question are three new reports, from the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for American Progress, and Harvard's Safra Center for Ethics.
While they differ in their conclusions, all are three are bleak. Life in the U.S. will not fully return to normal until a vaccine is distributed widely, and drastic interventions will be needed until then once restrictions are relaxed, all three conclude.
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WNU Editor: There are many opinions out there on when will this pandemic end, so this is what I am preparing myself for. This pandemic is going to be with us on-and-off until next year. As to what am I doing. Besides maintaining contacts with people to a minimum, I am also making sure that all bills are paid months in advance, and that I have enough to survive off the grid for a long time. My priority is my health and the health of those around me. As to work and business, I run a consultancy business with a few select clients who pay me to know what I see in the future, and I am telling them the same thing. Every crisis brings opportunities to make a lot of money, and this crisis is the "mother" of all crisis. The economic order that has existed since the end of the Cold War is now over, and something new is going to arise. What that new order will be is still too early to predict, but off-hand I would say that the countries who can best weather the massive debt loads that they have imposed on their economies will be the ones who will be crawling out of this crisis first. Bottom line. The geopolitical events that will happen in the next few years will determine the type of world that we will be living in for the next few decades. I will be posting more on this subject later.
As to my own personal business and investments. It has been years since I invested in the stock market, but I am looking at it now. My focus is on the pharmaceutical companies. Governments are now opening their check-books to big pharma and biotech companies, and there is going to be no limit on what will be given to them. I am also open to investing in big oil, but a few months from now. I can easily see the price of oil hitting $15/barrel, and share prices are going to be at levels that have not been since in 15 years or more. But this will be temporary. Worldwide demand is there, and it will return in a few years. You just have to be patient.
This pandemic is eventually going to end. The economic crisis that it has spawned is unfortunately going to take a longtime to recover, but with time everything will recover. The priority for everyone right now is to stay healthy and safe.
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Hey WNU editor,
What would be your overall opinion with the US rendering Chinas current accumulation of US bonds null and void because of their responsibility in handling the COVID19 outbreak as a way to force them to pay reparations ? I would be interested to hear your assessment on this. Thanks!
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A doctor wears a protective mask as he walks outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on April 1. (Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters)
A doctor wears a protective mask as he walks outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on April 1. (Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters)
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Dana Milbank
Columnist
April 10, 2020 at 6:43 p.m. EDT
I had been expecting this for 21 years.
“It’s not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,’” the legendary epidemiologist D.A. Henderson told me in 1999 when we discussed the likelihood of a biological event causing mass destruction.
In 2001, I wrote about experts urging a “medical Manhattan Project” for new vaccines, antibiotics and antivirals.
Reporting on a congressional briefing in 2005, I quoted public health experts predicting a pandemic that would overwhelm hospitals and exhaust respirator supplies. “I want to emphasize the certainty that a pandemic will occur,” the Mayo Clinic’s Gregory Poland said.
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In 2009, during the swine flu scare, I relayed warnings about “the nation’s patchwork of a public health system” and the need for better “vaccine and public-health infrastructure before a more severe pandemic comes along.”
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I repeat these things not to pretend I was prescient but to show that the nation’s top scientists and public health experts were shouting these warnings from the rooftops — deafeningly, unanimously and consistently. In the years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the Bush and Obama administrations seemed to be listening.
The service and hospitality sectors of the economy are feeling the coronavirus outbreak hard, and it's often Hispanic workers who are bearing the brunt. (Adriana Usero, Luis Velarde/The Washington Post)
But then came the tea party, the anti-government conservatism that infected the Republican Party in 2010 and triumphed with President Trump’s election. Perhaps the best articulation of its ideology came from the anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, who once said: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
They got their wish. What you see today is your government, drowning — a government that couldn’t produce a rudimentary test for coronavirus, that couldn’t contain the pandemic as other countries have done, that couldn’t produce enough ventilators for the sick or even enough face masks and gowns for health-care workers.
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From what I understand, China has liquidated most of its US holdings. But even if they did not, I do not see the U.S. doing such a seizure. It would set a horrible precedent.
Pathetic liar!
And at 1:13 a truly sick, blowhard liberal gave us these great insights
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"I had been expecting this for 21 years.
“It’s not a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,’” the legendary epidemiologist D.A. Henderson told me in 1999"
- Dana Milbank
"Doomsday Preppers was an American reality television series that aired on the National Geographic Channel from 2011 to 2014"
Maybe Dana was, but by and large liberals were not.
They were looking to round up preppers.
http://natgeotv.com/ca/doomsday-preppers/videos/pandemic-prepping
Liberals, if they saw the pandemic episode, laughed themselves silly.
"FBI & Homeland Security Caught Spying on Prepper Sites" - March 20, 2012
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Trump’s Wasted Briefings
The sessions have become a boring show of President vs. the press.
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The Editorial Board
April 8, 2020 7:37 pm ET

President Donald Trump speaks during his coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on April 8.PHOTO: CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES
A friend of ours who voted for President Trump sent us a note recently saying that she had stopped watching the daily White House briefings of the coronavirus task force. Why? Because they have become less about defeating the virus and more about the many feuds of Donald J. Trump.
The briefings began as a good idea to educate the public about the dangers of the virus, how Americans should change their behavior, and what the government is doing to combat it. They showed seriousness of purpose, action to mobilize public and private resources, and a sense of optimism. Mr. Trump benefitted in the polls not because he was the center of attention but because he showed he had put together a team of experts working to overcome a national health crisis.
But sometime in the last three weeks Mr. Trump seems to have concluded that the briefings could be a showcase for him. Perhaps they substitute in his mind for the campaign rallies he can no longer hold because of the risks. Perhaps he resented the media adulation that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been receiving for his daily show. Whatever the reason, the briefings are now all about the President.
They last for 90 minutes or more, and Mr. Trump dominates the stage. His first-rate health experts have become supporting actors, and sometimes barely that, ushered on stage to answer a technical question or two. Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the task force, doesn’t get on stage until the last 15 minutes or so. That becomes the most informative part of the session, since Mr. Pence understandably knows details the President doesn’t.
Mr. Trump opens each briefing by running through a blizzard of facts and numbers showing what the government is doing—this many tests, that many masks, so many ventilators going from here to there, and what a great job he’s doing. Then Mr. Trump opens the door for questions, and the session deteriorates into a dispiriting brawl between the President and his antagonists in the White House press corps.
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One of the ironies of this Presidency is that Mr. Trump claims to despise the press yet so eagerly plays its game. Every reporter knows the way to get a TV moment, and get a pat on the back from newsroom pals, is to bait Mr. Trump with a question about his previous statements or about criticism that someone has leveled against him. Mr. Trump always takes the bait.
On Tuesday Mr. Trump was asked, in a typically tendentious question, why he had compared the coronavirus to the flu. Instead of saying he had been hoping for the best but was wrong when he'd said that, he got into a fight over the severity of the flu. This sort of exchange usually devolves into a useless squabble that helps Mr. Trump’s critics and contributes little to public understanding.
The President’s outbursts against his political critics are also notably off key at this moment. This isn’t impeachment, and Covid-19 isn’t shifty Schiff. It’s a once-a-century threat to American life and livelihood.
The public doesn’t care who among the governors likes Mr. Trump, or whether the Obama Administration filled the national pandemic stockpile. There will be time for recriminations. What the public wants to know now is what Mr. Trump and his government is doing to prevent the deaths of their loved ones or help the family breadwinner stay employed.
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If Mr. Trump thinks these daily sessions will help him defeat Joe Biden, he’s wrong. This election is now about one issue: how well the public thinks the President has done in defeating the virus and restarting the economy.
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Trump's coronavirus briefings are too dangerous for news media to show them live
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Grizzled journalists have a saying: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”
While that expression dates back decades, we sadly could alter it for these trying times: “If the president says something, check it out.”
That hit home Sunday evening when President Donald Trump led the daily coronavirus Task Force briefing by advocating for hydroxychloroquine, which most of us now know is a drug commonly used to treat malaria but has shown signs of possible efficacy in combating COVID-19. It’s in a trial stage needed to prove whether it works.
The president’s advice to the nation, in recommending that people with the disease or even fearful of contracting it seek out hydroxychloroquine: “What do you have to lose?”
Perhaps, plenty. The drug, now available as a generic, has been in use for decades and in the wrong circumstances, can have deadly side effects. That’s why the president’s own medical experts are cautious.
Hydroxychloroquine pitch a watershed
There’s danger when the president brushes aside experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci in his salesman-like pitch about the potential of the drug.
Is that danger great enough that the networks — both over-the-air and cable news outlets — have an obligation to reconsider broadcasting the president’s coronavirus briefings live?
Until last Sunday evening, I said no.
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That opinion was formed over more than 40 years as a journalist, including 30 years at USA TODAY. I worked through two disasters — as a reporter during the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979 and as an editor in the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001 — and have viewed the tumult of those events and the fearful, cautionary and hopeful words of leaders from mayors to governors to presidents.
Through those decades, I believed there were certain basics, and one of those is that if the president spoke at a news conference, a briefing or anywhere else about a topic of national urgency, the media have a responsibility to go live with sound and video. Let the president speak and let his countrymen hear him.
President Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus briefing on April 9,2020.
I maintained that opinion in the current climate, even when President Trump would flare up and berate reporters and their questions. Even when he would contradict statements he just made. Even when he would run the briefings as episodic TV and delay getting to the point and relevance of any new information.
It’s the president. He should have an open mic. If you don’t like it, turn the channel or the dial.
Doctor answers key question:What do you have to lose taking hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus? Potentially your life.
But then came Sunday. Watching him live, talking about how Americans should embrace hydroxychloroquine in a way that offered so much hope and no mention of potential downside, I changed my mind.
If not by direct appeal, then certainly by inference, he was putting the presidential stamp on a medication that has not been fully vetted for the intended purpose of the president’s pitch. And broadcasters were dutifully putting that message out as his pitch continued.
A danger too big to air live
For sure, we hope the president is spot-on correct. It could be a lifesaver. And it is commendable that the administration has rounded up 29 million doses of the medication in case its effectiveness is proved and the risks documented.
The problem is we don’t know if it works at all, let alone well enough to justify the risks. Any TV commercial we’ve seen for a medication devotes some time to potential adverse side effects. Think about your own medications or those of family and friends and some of the side effects they might have faced.
In 1910, when a contagious pneumonic plague was ravaging northeastern China, a physician there concluded that the disease traveled through the air. So he adapted something he had seen in England. He began instructing doctors, nurses, patients and members of the public to wear gauze masks.
That pioneering of masks by Dr. Wu Lien-teh, a Cambridge-educated modernizer of Chinese medicine, is credited with saving the lives of those around him. A French physician working with Wu, however, rejected putting on a mask. He perished within days.
More than a century later, now that the new coronavirus has spread across the United States and claimed more than 16,000 lives, some scholars and health system experts are shaking their heads that lessons from other countries were not learned in time to help Americans reduce the toll of the pandemic within their borders.
“No matter how long I live, I don’t think I will ever get over how the U.S., with all its wealth and technological capability and academic prowess, sleepwalked into the disaster that is unfolding,” says Kai Kupferschmidt, a German science writer.
His comment came as the United States was surging past 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, facing a critical lack of ventilators, masks and testing. Now it is more than 400,000. The Trump administration says its approach has been proactive and, thus far, effective, and has blamed others for any missteps.
You just can't help yourself, can you?
Ah, squirrel it works and you know it. If people die it doesn't bother you does it?
It is Lapides. Of course, he cannot help himself.
Heh, maybe I'll layoff for awhile.
I know you are but what am I?
Libertarians debate: How to respond to coronavirus pandemic?
I kbnow you are but what am I?
Loser.
Industry scrambles to stop fatal bird flu in South Carolina
Health Apr 10, 2020 5:10 PM EDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An infectious and fatal strain of bird flu has been confirmed in a commercial turkey flock in South Carolina, the first case of the more serious strain of the disease in the United States since 2017 and a worrisome development for an industry that was devastated by previous outbreaks.
The high pathogenic case was found at an operation in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, marking the first case of the more dangerous strain since one found in a Tennessee chicken flock in 2017. In 2015, an estimated 50 million poultry had to be killed at operations mainly in the Upper Midwest after infections spread throughout the region.
“Yes, it’s concerning when we see cases, but we are prepared to respond very quickly and that was done in this case,” said Lyndsay Cole, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
The USDA has been working in recent months with scientists and farmers in North Carolina and South Carolina, where a low pathogenic — or less severe — strain of bird flu had been detected.
Low pathogenic bird flu causes few clinical signs in infected birds. However, two strains of low pathogenic bird flu — the H5 and H7 strains — can mutate into highly pathogenic forms, which are frequently fatal to birds and easily transmissible between susceptible species.
Low pathogenic cases were already in an area near the South Carolina and North Carolina state line and USDA was closely monitoring and testing. The case in Chesterfield County, South Carolina was expected to be another low pathogenic case, but it came back from the laboratory high pathogenic which means the less severe virus mutated into the more severe version, Cole said.
“Our scientists at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory had looked at the virus characteristics of the low path virus and they had previously indicated that this was one that was probably likely to mutate so they were watching it very closely,” Cole said.
A laboratory in Ames, Iowa, confirmed the virus with that had been killing turkeys was a high pathogenic H7N3 strain of avian influenza.
Trump 'IGNORED' National Security Council's coronavirus warning and calls for social distancing in January, called health secretary Alex Azar 'alarmist' and 'WAS told about Navarro's memo'
The National Security Council office responsible for tracking pandemics received intelligence reports in early January about coronavirus
The report predicted the devastation the virus would cause to the US once it hit
Within weeks of receiving the report, NSC officials raised options Trump that would prevent the spread of the virus, including shutting down cities
Donald Trump ignored the warnings, and instead waited until March to implement such measures, the report reveals
This comes as the death rate from coronavirus in the Untied States rises to 20,087 fatalities - overtaking Italy's death toll after 2,000 Americans died in one day
Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID
Trump 'IGNORED' National Security Council's coronavirus warning and calls for social distancing in January, called health secretary Alex Azar 'alarmist' and 'WAS told about Navarro's memo'
The National Security Council office responsible for tracking pandemics received intelligence reports in early January about coronavirus
The report predicted the devastation the virus would cause to the US once it hit
Within weeks of receiving the report, NSC officials raised options Trump that would prevent the spread of the virus, including shutting down cities
Donald Trump ignored the warnings, and instead waited until March to implement such measures, the report reveals
This comes as the death rate from coronavirus in the Untied States rises to 20,087 fatalities - overtaking Italy's death toll after 2,000 Americans died in one day
Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID
Trump 'IGNORED' National Security Council's coronavirus warning and calls for social distancing in January, called health secretary Alex Azar 'alarmist' and 'WAS told about Navarro's memo'
The National Security Council office responsible for tracking pandemics received intelligence reports in early January about coronavirus
The report predicted the devastation the virus would cause to the US once it hit
Within weeks of receiving the report, NSC officials raised options Trump that would prevent the spread of the virus, including shutting down cities
Donald Trump ignored the warnings, and instead waited until March to implement such measures, the report reveals
This comes as the death rate from coronavirus in the Untied States rises to 20,087 fatalities - overtaking Italy's death toll after 2,000 Americans died in one day
Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID
This is just one of a dozen reports that reveal the US had ample warning ahead of the devastation the coronavirus could cause, but ignored intelligence reports.
President Trump tweeted his outrage at the New York Times' findings Saturday afternoon, 'When the Failing @nytimes or Amazon @washingtonpost writes a story saying “unnamed sources said”, or any such phrase where a person’s name is not used, don’t believe them. Most of these unnamed sources don’t exist. They are made up to defame & disparage. They have no “source”, the president wrote.
'Does anyone ever notice how few quotes from an actual person are given nowadays by the Lamestream Media. Very seldom. The unnamed or anonymous sources are almost always FAKE NEWS,' he continued.
Just this week it was revealed Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro issued his first grim warning in a memo dated January 29 - just days after the first COVID-19 cases were reported in the US.
At the time, Trump was publicly downplaying the risk that the novel coronavirus posed to Americans - though weeks later he would assert that no one could have predicted the devastation seen today.
Navarro penned a second memo about a month later on February 23, in which he warned that as many as two million Americans could die from the virus as it tightened its grip on the nation.
The January memo marks the earliest known high-alert to circulate within the West Wing as officials planned their first substantive steps to confront the disease that had already spiraled out of control in China.
It serves as evidence that top officials in the administration had considered the possibility of the outbreak turning into something far more serious than Trump was acknowledging publicly at the time.
'The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil,' Navarro wrote.
More lies Lapides, that's all you know! Lie about current events, lie about your past and present, what do you not lie about?
WASHINGTON — Even as experts in his own government were increasingly alarmed about a pandemic threat this January, President Donald Trump apparently remained unconcerned, with no scheduled intelligence briefings before Jan. 6 and only nine the entire month.
In the first week of the year, when dire warnings about the coronavirus and the threat posed to the United States reportedly began showing up in his daily intelligence packet, Trump had only one scheduled briefing, according to a HuffPost review of his daily schedules.
On Jan. 18, when his Health and Human Services secretary finally managed to reach Trump on a Florida golf weekend to discuss the threat, Trump had no scheduled intelligence briefing. Nor was there one on his schedule for Jan. 22, the day Trump famously told CNBC that the virus posed no danger and was limited to a single person who had come in from China.
During that same month with only nine scheduled intelligence briefings, Trump spent six days on his golf course in Florida and staged five reelection rallies.
“Not only did he disregard a series of warnings from the U.S. intelligence community about the outbreak, but in the lead-up to the virus reaching our shores he rarely even held the intelligence briefings that are critical to anticipating threats to the homeland,” said Andrew Bates, a spokesman for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
Trump himself acknowledged that he did not appreciate the severity of the danger until just before he imposed travel restrictions on foreigners who had recently been in China on Jan. 31. “When I learned about the gravity of it was sometime just prior to closing the country to China,” he said Wednesday, after being asked specifically when he learned of the intelligence regarding the coronavirus. “So, I don’t know exactly, but I’d like to see the information.”
To use a phrase old Lapides dearly loves "Can't stand the heat get out of the Kitchen", lolololololo, liar. To those who wonder, Mr. Lapides is a lot more well known than he realizes or wants to know.
The electronic nanny
"Is TV a safe babysitter for our kids?"
In other years a person would set in front of a TV instead of a computer as a means of babysitting.
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