King of Thailand goes into self quarantine — with harem of 20 women…

I have trouble handling 1 woman in quarantine!

LIZ PEEK:

“…First, the forum allows Trump to speak directly to Americans, unfiltered by the left-wing media. Just as the president has relied on social media over the past few years to circumvent the mainstream press and reach out to voters directly, he can now do that via the crisis updates.

That’s not to say that his appearances are flawless; far from it. They contain far too many instances of Trump tooting his own horn, and also show him sometimes waffling on important issues, such as whether or not to quarantine New York City.

But for all the flaws, the public sees a man unquestionably engaged and energized, relentless in his push for solutions…

…The second problem for Democrats it that the briefings are pumping up Trump’s approval ratings. The boost is coming, reports the New York Times, from a “surprising” source – namely, independents and even some Democrats, many of whom did not formerly support the president. The briefings are apparently a revelation to those voters…

…Third, the briefings on the coronavirus have relegated Democrats’ favorite agenda items to the back page. Clearly, this pandemic is the story of the day, whether or not the president addresses the nation each afternoon. But having a daily one or two-hour session about therapies and equipment deliveries soaks up a lot of the evening news cycle.

That leaves little time to celebrate Greta Thunberg’s latest conquests or the struggles of transgender people, topics that tend to dominate liberal talk shows and newspapers…

…The former vice president’s disappearing act is the fourth reason that Democrats want networks to stop airing the daily briefings. Not only does President Trump occupy center stage, they highlight that Biden occupies no stage at all. Moreover, it is impossible to imagine Biden forcefully commanding the instruments of government; he can barely manage his basement teleprompter.

Finally, liberals want to shut down the president’s TV exposure because the information given out during those briefings is important, like how low-income Americans can access expanded SNAP benefits or how small business owners can apply for a loan to tide them over these tough times…”

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Brooke Singman:

“…The Trump campaign has been donating meals to hospitals across the country to feed doctors, nurses and first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus battle, Fox News has learned.

Since last Thursday, President Trump’s reelection campaign has been calling up local restaurants and ordering large amounts of food to be delivered to more than a dozen hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Washington state and Michigan. The campaign has been placing these orders anonymously, but Fox News learned about the effort — and sources confirmed it.

One source told Fox News that the campaign was looking to not only express gratitude for first responders treating patients with COVID-19, but to support local restaurants.

“They’re doing it as a donor who cares,” one source told Fox News. “So nothing politically is tied to it. … We’re just trying to, you know, show a thank you.”

“They’re trying to send things that are like, local restaurants that may need support [and] cool restaurant icons of the area that may need the business,” one source said.

The source told Fox News that the campaign has already spent tens of thousands of dollars on the effort, which they plan to expand in the coming days and weeks.

Fox News confirmed that as part of the donations, an anonymous individual placed a large order at Giovanni’s Italian Deli in Secaucus, N.J., to be delivered to Hudson Regional Hospital.

“They only told us their first name,” an employee of Giovanni’s told Fox News on Thursday. “They called us, and they had us donate meals for the nurses and doctors — an assortment of things, 40 platters of pasta, salads, sandwiches.”

The employee added: “We’re happy to do it. Trust me.”…”

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Valerie Richardson:

“…An international poll of more than 6,000 doctors released Thursday found that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly rated treatment for the novel coronavirus.

The survey conducted by Sermo, a global health care polling company, of 6,227 physicians in 30 countries found that 37% of those treating COVID-19 patients rated hydroxychloroquine as the “most effective therapy” from a list of 15 options.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave chloroquine and its next-generation derivative, hydroxychloroquine, emergency-use authorization Monday for treating the novel coronavirus, although the drug was already being used off-label by some doctors and hospitals for COVID-19 patients…”

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Much of our media and intelligentsia are a disgusting joke

David Harsanyi:

“…This morning, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough claimed that, unlike the Trump administration, “Everybody saw this coming in early January.”

If Scarborough knew that a deadly, once-in-a-century pandemic was about to descend on the nation in early January — I assume he considers himself part of “everyone” — why on God’s earth didn’t he warn his susceptible viewers that they should begin social distancing? Why didn’t his producers book a single expert who could beseech his viewers to start wearing masks, to shutter their non-essential businesses, and to avoid church and sporting events? Why didn’t he mention coronavirus at all? Even in late January, nearly a full month after “everyone knew,” Scarborough’s show was dominated by the Donald Trump impeachment trial…”

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UPMC unveils potential COVID-19 vaccine

Cross your fingers

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds

‘It’s Sort of Like Being in Prison,’ Says Woman Eating Yogurt in Bed Who Also Has Voting Rights: https://t.co/S1iXgMEuaq pic.twitter.com/TMteqVffDJ

— Reductress (@Reductress) April 1, 2020

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Bill de Blasio to ‘Monitor’ Samaritan’s Purse Coronavirus Emergency Hospital for ‘Discrimination’

What a colossal jerk. He is not only a Democrat, he is a New York Democrat. I was going to say that is the worst kind, but California Democrats are worse.

Related:

Michigan Governor Reverses Ban on Chloroquine, Requests Medication From National Stockpile

Nevada governor does 180*, now allows HCQ treatment…

Looks like Michigan and Nevada Democrats are vying for worst nationwide, too.

Biden’s Offer to Call Trump to Give Coronavirus Response Advice Is the Best April Fool’s Joke Ever

Biden needs publicity, any publicity, before people forget who he is.

Meanwhile in Stockton…Did we mention San Joaquin County has more cases of COVID-19 than the entire Central Valley and Foothills COMBINED? 👀 pic.twitter.com/S9zvzdYK0Z

— 209 Times (@209TimesCA) March 30, 2020

Related:

China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says

Part of China’s geo-strategic operations to shift blame for the Coronavirus to the U.S. and demonstrate China is not the country responsible for the outbreak?

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CHINA’S HUAWEI GAMBIT

Austin Bay:

“…Here’s the high-risk rub: Does anyone not on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party trust Beijing’s dictatorship with the power to pervasively monitor communications (spy locally as well as globally), interrupt, deny or corrupt digital services, and possibly take surreptitious control of digital devices, say, the air traffic control computers at Los Angeles International Airport?

Outrageous scenario? No, given Huawei’s baggage is a legitimate worry exacerbated by the regime’s criminal dishonesty (e.g., lying about COVID-19/Wuhan virus). For all practical purposes, Huawei is a Chinese Communist Party tool. In spy lingo, a cutout company can hide an espionage operation. Abundant evidence suggests Huawei serves as a cutout…”

OAN News loses White House press privileges

Chanel Rion has asked the President questions that other media outlets don’t like. Such as:

“Do you consider the use of the term ‘Chinese food’ racist? Because it’s food that originates in China and has roots in China? And on that note. Major left-wing news media, even in this room, have teamed up with Chinese Communist Party narratives, and they are claiming that you are racist for making these claims about Chinese virus. Is it alarming that major media players, just to oppose you, are consistently siding with foreign state propaganda, Islamic state radicalism, Latin gangs and cartels? And they work right here at the White House with direct access to you and your team.”

It looks like The White House Correspondents Association is getting some payback.

Our media continues to shine in this difficult time.

Related:

LA Times runs hit piece on OAN News…

Paul Bedard:

• • Ford, 3M and GE Healthcare are collaborating to increase the production of ventilators and personal protective equipment. The Ford-GE plan is to produce 50,000 ventilators within 100 days and up to 30,000 a month thereafter. With 3M, it will make more than 100,000 face shields per week.

• • Toyota is using their facilities to produce face shields and collaborating with medical device companies to speed up manufacturing of vital medical devices. It is also helping local organizations and nonprofits with ‘in-kind’ donations, plus utilizing several of the company’s North American facilities to fabricate face shields while collaborating with medical device companies to speed the manufacture of ventilators, respirators and other vital devices for hospitals.

• • General Motors is manufacturing respiratory masks and working with Ventec Life Systems to mass produce ventilators.

• • Fiat Chrysler is manufacturing and donating more than 1 million protective face masks a month.

• • Honeywell has doubled their production of N95 masks and intends to increase its capacity fivefold within the next 90 days. The firm is also starting another plant in Arizona and will hire 500.

• • 3M doubled their global output of N95 respirator masks and plans to make 100 million a month.

• • MyPillow has dedicated 75% of its manufacturing to produce up to 50,000 masks a day.

• • Hanes has agreed to use its manufacturing facilities to help produce medical masks.

• • Jockey International is producing isolation gowns and donating scrubs to medical workers at the Javits Center in New York. They plan to deliver up to 50,000 gowns a week.

• • Ralph Lauren announced that they would work with their manufacturing partners to produce masks and isolation gowns.

• • Brooks Brothers is using its facilities to produce 150,000 masks per day.

• • Bauer said it will repurpose their factories to begin making face shields.

• • Under Armour also said it will make 500,000 masks, 1,000 face shields, and thousands of hospital gowns.

• • HP is utilizing 3D printing to produce equipment.

• • Facebook donated over 700,000 masks and are working to source millions more to donate.

• • Apple donated millions of N-95 masks to healthcare professionals and worked with the administration to develop an app to allow users to screen themselves for coronavirus symptoms.

• • Tesla purchased and donated more than 1,000 ventilators.

• • SpaceX is making hand sanitizer and face shields for local hospitals.

• • Lockheed Martin donated use of their corporate aircraft and vehicle fleet for medical supply delivery, and is donating the use of their facilities for crisis-related activities.

• • Boeing will print 3D face shields for healthcare workers and offer its Dreamlifter aircraft to help coronavirus response efforts.

• • United Technologies donated 90,000 pieces of personal protective equipment to FEMA, and announced that they will begin to manufacture face shields”

• • Pernod Ricard is repurposing its spirits production facilities to help produce hand sanitizer.

• • Anheuser-Busch is working to produce hand sanitizer and has offered its facilities to the American Red Cross to host blood drives as part of a $5 million donation to the group.

• • Bacardi is producing ethanol required to make hand sanitizer.

• • Bayer, Novartis, and Teva Pharmaceuticals donated millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine.·

• • Johnson & Johnson has partnered with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to commit more than $1 billion to co-fund vaccine research, development, and clinical testing.

• • Procter & Gamble is ramping up its production capacity for hand sanitizer, and is working to produce face masks.

• • Medtronic is increasing its production of ventilators, announcing that they are on track to double their capacity to manufacture and supply ventilators.

• • Multiple healthcare distributors and supply chain companies are collaborating with FEMA as part of “Project Airbridge” to airlift critical medical supplies. The project includes Cardinal Health, Atlas Air, and UPS.

• • UPS is also deploying protective equipment and test kits throughout the country.

• • FedEx Express launched a special operation to help the federal government quickly move coronavirus test specimens from over 50 remote drive-thru testing centers across 12 states.

• • McLane Global Logistics is partnering with USDA to deliver food to children.

• • Panera Bread is partnering with USDA to serve meals to children throughout Ohio, with plans to expand the program across the country.

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WATCH: Joe Biden forgets what he's saying and has to look down at notes during softball MSNBC interview taped with Lyin' Brian Williams. pic.twitter.com/KvGEPLZpxy

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 1, 2020

CNN Publishes Real News Story For April Fools’ Day

Democrats and U.S. Media Star in New Chinese Propaganda Video

Hard to tell?

Identity politics has never been more irrelevant