Communist China

The UK government’s new testing chief has admitted that none of the 3.5 million antibody tests ordered from China are fit for widespread use

Some U.S. media continue to carry water for the Chinese. They do it to try to discredit the Trump Administration. China is an authoritarian government and a direct competitor (enemy?) of the U.S.

Liberal media in a bind

Liberal media can’t stand the Coronavirus press briefings because President Trump is in command and does not suffer fools gladly. The president uses the technical experts to respond to technical questions. The President calls out individual reporters for poor and biased questions. Reporters in the room give the impression of pettiness. Reporters always portray the situation in a negative way and always ask questions designed to “get Trump”. Media credibility has fallen. Presidential credibility has risen. The President has some of the highest poll numbers of his presidency.

Liberal media has few options. They can’t pull away from the briefings, except for short periods when the President is talking, and then they have to come back. They can’t interpret and spin the President’s comments, because his comments are viewed by the public in real time and recorded. Liberal media are called out and ridiculed when their attempts to spin are too obvious. Liberal media have lost control of the narrative. Media frustration is highlighted in the following story:

Liberal Media Scream: Trump virus briefings ‘worse than’ Vietnam War lies

I have no sympathy for the media. They are bad at their jobs. They are obviously biased against the current administration. They obviously hate President Trump. They do everything they can to pull down Trump’s presidency. The liberal media are a pack of howling hyenas. The current professional class of journalists and media personalities are the worst in the history of our great country, in my opinion, even surpassing in poor performance the Civil War era press.

Great post from Charles Glasser

So good!

OH BOY, IS AUNTIE MAXINE GONNA BE PISSED: A Democratic state representative from Detroit — who is also a woman of color — is crediting hydroxychloroquine and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with COVID.

“Whitsett said she was familiar with “the wonders” of hydroxychloroquine from an earlier bout with Lyme disease, but does not believe she would have thought to ask for it, or her doctor would have prescribed it, had Trump not been touting it as a possible treatment for COVID-19 […] “It has a lot to do with the president … bringing it up,” Whitsett said. “He is the only person who has the power to make it a priority.”

I can just imagine Maxine Waters saying she should have died like a “true sister” rather than acknowledge being helped by Bad Orange Cracker.

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Jussie Smollett in Scrubs: CBS Story of Crying Nurse Who Claimed No COVID-19 Protection Just Crumbled

The media continues to disgrace itself in the same manner over and over.

Government models used to predict the extent of the coronavirus pandemic are off by huge margins

The government models used to predict the extent of the coronavirus pandemic are off by huge margins in the latest coronavirus tracking numbers. The government predictions reported by the IMHE Covid Tracking (https://covidtracking.com/data/ ) for Apr 5th were as follows:

– All beds needed: 179,267
– ICU beds needed: 33,176
– Invasive ventilators: 26,544

The actual numbers as recorded at The Covid Tracking Project:

– Actual hospitalizations: 22,158
– In ICU: 5,207
– On ventilator: 656

Via Dr. Ned Nikolov.

– Overestimation of hospitalizations: 8 times
– Overestimation of of ICU beds needed: 6.4 times
– Overestimation of ventilators needed: 40.5 times

Overnight the IMHE — the official group Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx have been promoting cut their numbers by more than half!
Here is what the IMHE NOW HAS for April 5th:

– All beds needed: Was 179,267 … Now is 90,353
– ICU beds needed: Was 33,176 … Now is 17,589
– Invasive ventilators: Was 26,544 … Now is 14,951

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Social distancing appears to be working

R0 or reproduction number is shown on the Y axis. R0 below 1 indicates the virus is expiring for this wave of infection.

Igor Mandel, Ph.D.:

Estimation of the reproductive numbers in time, USA and East Coast (data presented from the day when the states had more than 20 cases; data source, John Hopkins University; three states include New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut; six states — these three plus Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Delaware).  

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Biden Falsely Claims: 45 Nations Blocked Chinese Nationals From Entering U.S. Before Trump Did

“…Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a series of confusing and contradictory remarks on Sunday during an interview on ABC News about the coronavirus outbreak.

Appearing on ABC News’ “This Week,” Biden attacked President Trump after Biden reversed course last week and said that he agreed with Trump’s travel restrictions on China after initially appearing to suggest that Trump was xenophobic for banning travel from China.

“He indicated that I complimented him on – on dealing with China,” Biden said. “Well, you know, 45 nations had already moved to keep – block China’s personnel from being able to come to the United States before the president moved.”

Biden’s statement is completely false. 45 other nations did not “block China’s personnel from being able to come to the United States before the president moved.”…”

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Doctor on Coronavirus, worth watching

Leading Democrat candidate for president

“We cannot let this, we’ve never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around, 16, we have never, never let our democracy sakes second fiddle, way they, we can both have a democracy and … correct the public health.”

Common Anti-Parasite Drug May Kill Coronavirus in Under 48 Hours, Say Researchers

Fingers crossed

BOB PRICE:

“…Researchers in Australia report that Ivermectin, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat parasites, appears to be effective in treating the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19). The drug is widely available and can be “repurposed” for this application, doctors said…”

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