New Zealand‘s latest lockdown is set to cost the economy $440million a week but that figure could grow if the outbreak worsens, economists have warned.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the drastic move to force New Zealand back into lockdown on Wednesday after four new COVID-19 cases emerged.
NZ has virus concentration camps ( Quarantine camps they call it )
New Zealand now has "Quarantine Camps" pic.twitter.com/7DRbByBoFr
— reddpill (@_reddpill) August 13, 2020
(CNSNews.com) – New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, announced on CNN Friday morning that his state is moving to universal mail-in voting for the upcoming November election.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott extended the state’s disaster declaration due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it will be in place for at least another month — and will probably be extended again in September.
The disaster declaration allows the state to use whatever resources available to combat the virus that “poses an imminent threat of disaster for all counties in the State of Texas.”
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Friday, Mayor Steve Adler extended the mandatory mask order for the city through Dec. 15.
The order, set to go into effect Sunday, included new guidelines by Austin Public Health for schools.
This comes as Travis County also renewed its mask order the same day.
According to the order, masks covering the nose and mouth are still required when you are outside of your home. This includes inside businesses and commercial entities.
So much for the bring your business to TEXAS phrase.
New coronavirus cases, deaths, and hospitalizations reported over the last seven days are trending downward compared to the previous week, reflecting “improving” conditions on the ground, the COVID Tracking Project conceded on Thursday, echoing data maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
Masks, social distancing and hand washing are futile in efforts to stop an airborne disease. They may satisfy the psychological need to “do something,” but ultimately have no effect.
“I’m not concerned about what he says,” Fauci replied. “It’s a little bit — I think you could say that when he does that, it triggers some of the crazies in society to start threatening me, actually threatening, which actually happens.”
None of these people will die if they contract chinavirus. And the young people are 300 times less likely to become sick from chinavirus than the standard seasonal flu.
Guys, just to let you know I had the Russian Covid19 vaccination yesterday and can tell you there are absolutely no negative sideffski efectovski secundariosvki Кто может это прочитать Обожаю Владимира Путина!
— Rep. Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) August 14, 2020
SAN ANTONIO – The number of criminal felony cases backlogged in Bexar County has swelled to 8,975 this week, according to Local Administrative Judge Ron Rangel.
When a moratorium on jury service was ordered on March 13, jury trials in all 10 Bexar County criminal district courts were halted. At that time, there was a backlog of 5,519 felony cases.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week there is “no reason” Americans can’t vote in person for the 2020 presidential election, so long as voters follow proper social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think if carefully done, according to the guidelines, there’s no reason that I can see why that not be the case,” Fauci told ABC News this week. “If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing, and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why shouldn’t be able to do that.”
“The iconic Lower Manhattan 9/11 memorial display that features twin beams of light to honor victims of the terror attacks will not shine this year over coronavirus concerns,” reports the New York Post.
The British authorities are going to crack down even further on Britons who oppose wearing masks, with those refusing to do so facing a fine of more than £3,000.
In the coming weeks, existing fines of £100 for not wearing a mask in public places like supermarkets and on public transport will double up to a maximum of £3,200 — representing a total of only six infractions — under new rules announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday.
‘On the Brink’ of Economic Collapse: COVID-19 Response Is Killing the Restaurant Industry
The toll is falling heaviest on young adults, caregivers, essential workers and minorities. While 10.7 percent of respondents overall reported considering suicide in the previous 30 days, 25.5 percent of those between 18 to 24 reported doing so. Almost 31 percent of self-reported unpaid caregivers and 22 percent of essential workers also said they harbored such thoughts. Hispanic and Black respondents similarly were well above the average.
Roughly 30.9 percent of respondents said they had symptoms of anxiety or depression. Roughly 26.3 respondents reported trauma and stress-related disorder because of the pandemic.
Another 13.3 percent of respondents said they have turned to substance use, including alcohol and prescription or illicit drugs, to cope with stress from the pandemic.
During an interview with actor Matthew McConaughey Thursday night, top White House epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Fauci said that “everybody should have to use” a mask — a contradiction with President Trump who Thursday evening criticized presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for calling for such a mandate.
— OTHER top epidemiologists ( FROM-AROUND-THE-WORLD ) will say the complete OPPOSITE.
State Farm doesn’t have to pay losses to S.A. businesses: A federal judge Thursday tossed a case brought by six San Antonio barbershops against State Farm Lloyds for losses sustained after they were forced to shut down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra said State Farm cannot be held liable to pay business interruption insurance on the COVID-19 virus claims. The lawsuit was brought by Shayne Brown, owner of Diesel Barbershop, Henley’s Gentlemen’s Grooming and Outlaws & Gents Grooming. State Farm has said its policy doesn’t cover losses due to pandemics.
In the CDC’s weekly provisional death counts for COVID-19, the agency attributes just over 145,378 total deaths to the virus in the U.S. through Aug. 8. Of those, 4,401 — about 3% — are listed as involving “intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events.”
European nations went first with mask mandates and lockdowns and they then had the worst fatal rates, and are now having re occurring infections while still mandating masking and lockdowns.
National and international results prove it over and over.
Texas / California / New York and over half the nation continue to wreck the economy.
“Nearly half of Black small businesses had been wiped out by the end of April,” Forbes reports off a report issued by the New York Fed
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>My latest on the pandemic. Our object should be to minimize total harm over the life of the pandemic. Balance of harm now is against reimposing lockdowns. <a href=”https://t.co/jdIumal9zm”>https://t.co/jdIumal9zm</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#COVID19</a></p>— Jim Talent (@JimTalent) <a href=”https://twitter.com/JimTalent/status/1293339318807928834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>August 12, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/200806
A review of the scientific literature on COVID-19 reveals that, simply put, “masks and respirators do not work. There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.”
DEFYING GOV. WOLF: Some restaurant owners are fighting against Gov. Tom Wolf's coronavirus order in what they call a "revolution." The group is calling on restaurants and taverns to open at full capacity on Friday. https://t.co/ZSpWf1UAjN
— KDKA (@KDKA) August 13, 2020
Dr. Scott Atlas (@SWAtlasHoover) on Wisc. telling officials to wear masks at home during Zoom calls: “Fear, bordering on hysteria” pic.twitter.com/g8nGStABR2
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 12, 2020
The facts seem to support that COVID-19 is not a novel virus. It is 79% similar to SARS and has proteins in common with the coronaviruses that cause the common cold. A healthy immune system that has been exposed to these less virulent coronaviruses seems to be able to neutralize COVID-19 when it detects it.
“But,” charged the Sentinel, “the chart was consciously manipulated to produce that appearance by comparing the same data (cases per day) on different axes.”
“Cases for mandate counties are based on the left axis, with a range of 15 to 25, while those without mandates are based on a secondary axis on the right, with a scale of 4 to 14.”
The Sentinel replotted the data using the same vertical axis, yielding “results [that] look dramatically different.” Specifically, the blue line (non-masking counties) is consistently below the orange line (masking counties). In other words, the no-mask counties already have fewer cases than the mask counties, even after more than a month of masking.
ChinaVirus= 6489
ALL OTHER FATALITIES= 113,806
STOP WRECKING THE ECONOMY ABBOTT !
Except China didn’t shut-down!
Members of the National Institutes of Health’s COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel have financial ties to a company behind clinical trials of a drug to treat coronavirus, as well as to another large pharmaceutical company involved with developing a COVID-19 vaccine.
There is a risk associated with everything that we do in life; more South Dakotans have died from accidental injuries than from #COVID19 in the past 5 months. We mitigate risks by taking proper precautions. (1/2)
— Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) August 10, 2020
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told NBC’s Today that the company has already added 100 travelers to its “no fly list” over refusal to wear masks.
In August, Sweden has registered just one death (!) with/from the coronavirus. Yes, you read that correctly. One death so far.
As if the debate over face mask-wearing amid COVID-19 isn’t contentious enough in some quarters, a dental practice is warning that keeping your mouth covered all or most of the time could allegedly lead to harmful hygiene issues such as gum recession (i.e., periodontal disease) and bad breath.
A Manhattan dentist calls this potential side effect “mask mouth” as a play on “meth mouth” that colloquially refers to the decay of teeth and gums among drug addicts.
The United Kingdom may scrap its official daily coronavirus death toll counter after a review by Oxford University experts of how the deaths were counted reportedly found that results were being “over-exaggerated.”
Sweden ripped the metaphorical band-aid off quickly and got the epidemic over and done with in a short amount of time, while the rest of the world has chosen to try to peel the band-aid off slowly.
Essentially, Sweden looked at its choices: Shut down the whole country and hope for a vaccination that may never come or may not be effective. Meanwhile, the economy will collapse and people’s lives will be destroyed. Alternatively, recognize that the Wuhan virus is not the Black Death and get on with life.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/sweden_shows_how_to_flatten_the_wuhan_virus_curve.html
“The use of executive actions also drew criticism from Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska.
“The pen-and-phone theory of executive lawmaking is unconstitutional slop,” said Sasse, a member of the Senate’s Judiciary and Finance panels. He added that Trump “does not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the payroll tax law. Under the Constitution, that power belongs to the American people acting through their members of Congress.”
..this fool is too stupid to comprehend that the first 5 week lockdown had no affect on fatalities or infections. Confirmed by thousands of medical professionals without political agendas.
Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, called for a nationwide economic shutdown for up to six weeks to get the coronavirus pandemic under control on Friday, warning that the rest of 2020 could be much worse than what America has experienced so far
Bottom line … we’re told cops will absolutely cite a homeowner for throwing an out-of-control party, but cutting someone’s power is not a burden they want to bear.
https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/09/lapd-eric-garcetti-shutting-off-water-power/
“If we don’t open up the schools, you’re going to hurt the economy significantly because lots of people can’t go to work,” Schumer said. “Executive orders leave out schools altogether.”
Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, said Wednesday that at least 20 Senate Republicans will not vote for a fresh coronavirus stimulus deal.
8 months into 15 day shutdown.
Daily case counts for new COVID-19 infections across the country seem to be settling into a high plateau of 50,000, as the nation marches toward the 5 million-case milestone, expected to be reached by early next week.
Mnuchin rejects $2T coronavirus stimulus offer from Democrats: ‘That’s a non-starter’
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tested negative for COVID-19 on Thursday hours after testing positive before he was set to greet President Trump at the Cleveland airport, according to a statement by the governor’s office.
Two lessons here: One, “Ken and Karen,” you’re not the mask police. Two, that couple deserves each other.
After new cases spiked once again to nearly 60,000 on Tuesday, the figure declined to 52,800 on Wednesday, the updated data showed. Cases on Sunday and Monday were below 50,000 on both days.
Wednesday on her new podcast, former first lady Michelle Obama called coronavirus an opportunity to think about “how wealth is distributed” to lower-income essential workers
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus before President Donald Trump landed at the Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, the governor’s office announced on Thursday.
She, like so many other witnesses, don’t believe the Cuomo administration when they say they don’t know the actual number of nursing home deaths.
Fauci says coronavirus vaccine doses could arrive in early 2021; claims no WH speed-up pressure
Los Angeles homeowners who violate the city’s coronavirus-related safety measures may find themselves on the receiving end of some unwelcome consequences.
During a press conference Wednesday night, Mayor Eric Garcetti authorized the city to shut off power and water to properties, including houses and businesses, that are in violation of gathering regulations as a means to “shut these places down permanently.”
“By turning off that power, shutting off that water we feel we can close these places down, which usually are not one-time offenders but multiple-offenders,” Garcetti said.
Hydroxychloroquine has been safely prescribed hundreds of millions of times since the FDA approved it 65 years ago.
— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) August 5, 2020
CDC says it can be "safely taken by pregnant women and children".
WHO calls it an essential medicine.
Why is the media all of a sudden claiming it’s dangerous? pic.twitter.com/1XSZvFaoxI
“Actual n95s” not allowed. But cotton is ? You Morons, cotton masks dont protect anyone from any viruses! Lawsuit in 3…2….1
“Respirators with exhalation valves protect the wearer from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but may not prevent the virus spreading from the wearer to others,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently states in a PPE FAQ that was last updated on July 22.
Folks need to tell them to go to hell and SHUT_up.
“Beginning this week, we’ll be doing targeted enforcement for face coverings in business districts and parks in Santa Monica. Save $100 and save your health by masking up,” the post reads.
In mid-July CA GOV-D Newsom ordered churches in 30 counties, including Los Angeles County, to stop holding indoor services, but MacAuthor refused to comply, as Breitbart News reported, saying that Jesus Christ, not the state government, is the head of the church:
When any government official issues orders regulating worship (such as bans on singing, caps on attendance, or prohibitions against gatherings and services), he steps outside the legitimate bounds of his God-ordained authority as a civic official and arrogates to himself authority that God expressly grants only to the Lord Jesus Christ as sovereign over His Kingdom, which is the church. His rule is mediated to local churches through those pastors and elders who teach His Word (Matthew 16:18–19; 2 Timothy 3:16–4:2).
Therefore, in response to the recent state order requiring churches in California to limit or suspend all meetings indefinitely, we, the pastors and elders of Grace Community Church, respectfully inform our civic leaders that they have exceeded their legitimate jurisdiction, and faithfulness to Christ prohibits us from observing the restrictions they want to impose on our corporate worship services.
Don’t comply NM!
The New Mexico Supreme Court affirmed the right of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) to issue fines to businesses that fail to comply with state public health guidelines.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Tuesday announced the addition of a two-week mask mandate, requiring face coverings in both indoor and outdoor settings when social distancing is not feasible.
Masking will not prevent virus infections. If it makes you FEEL BETTER, do it. But nobody should be threatened with arrest or fined.
“As a matter of the law doctors are able to prescribe an FDA-approved medication as they see fit based on patient presentation. As long as it is the FDA approved dose, there is no restriction on off-label use and it happens all of the time. That governors, pharmacy boards and medical boards are interfering with this for the first time in history is big concern.”
Normal Americans, no-lockdown.com and many others have been screaming at the top of our chinavirus free lungs for half a damn year.
The New York Times notes specifically that the combined effects of the coronavirus lockdowns and the diversion of medical resources to battle the pandemic will likely have deleterious effects on worldwide efforts to battle diseases that are bigger killers every year than the coronavirus has been this year, including tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV.
FL and NY have an identical number of per capita coronavirus infections but FL has 5X less per capita deaths. Will Dr. Fauci be praising @GovRonDeSantis’ response to the pandemic? Will he point out that @NYGovCuomo’s response allowed a fivefold greater per capita death rate?
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) August 3, 2020
Yale epidemiology professor Dr. Harvey Risch and CNN host John Berman bickered over hydroxychloroquine on Monday during a heated discussion about the polarizing drug, which the president has hailed as a possible treatment for COVID-19.
Risch recently wrote an op-ed in support of hydroxychloroquine, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx and other experts have dismissed the anti-malarial drug being used to combat coronavirus. Risch cited various studies that backed up his pro-hydroxychloroquine stance, but the host of CNN’s “New Day” disagreed.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/risch-cnn-anchor-berman-hydroxychloroquine
“We should have been developing this ourselves, Chris. And you talked about this early on, there was a strategic, I think, method to minimizing this by not testing,” Gupta claimed. “Sad to say, but I think that’s the truth now, you sort of suggested that early on and I thought, maybe we’re just behind. But I think it was deliberate now at this point to not test, because it would make things look bad, we should have had significant breakthroughs in antigen testing by now.”
Masking cant stop any virus period. Most gloves are not medical BIO barrier rated and as soon as you touch something they should be tossed.
Here’s a NOVEL idea, Government can shut the hell up and mind its own business.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/wearing-gloves-coronavirus-cleveland-clinic
The United States reported nearly 49,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, marking the lowest single-day number of infections in four weeks, after seeing record levels in July.