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By Paul Joseph Watson – 4/6/2020
Trusting the chinese was a mistake, Never trust china should be the # one rules for the rest of the world
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By Mark Dice – Apr 4, 2020
Itâs funny how every one of these people get a pass! Yet trump is getting bashed as usual
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4/4/2020
Yet another reminder this country’s worst enemies aren’t overseas…
WHOA! Dr. Fauci in 2017: President Trump Will Be Challenged By a “Surprise Global Disease Outbreak” (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft – April 4, 2020
Come again?
Back in 2017 at forum on pandemic preparedness at Georgetown University Dr. Fauci made an interesting statement. Fauci told the audience the Trump administration will not only be challenged by ongoing global health threats such as influenza and HIV, but also a surprise disease outbreak.
That was quite a prediction considering it was back in 2017!
Via Ned Nikolav, Ph.D. and Healio.
This is the same guy who told Americans not to worry about the coronavirus back in January.
He completely missed it.
Here is the videoâ
Google Unveils Orwellian Location Tracking Data for Wuhan Virus Lockdown
By Jose Nino – Apr 4, 2020
According to a report from CBS News, Google will be using its massive compilation of data to track the movements of people around the world.
From there, it will provide this data to policymakers and researchers in order to combat the Wuhan Virus.
The Big Tech titan published the so-called Community Mobility Reports for 131 countries. These reports feature localized data on how to travel to places like stores and parks and has been changed during the last month. In the United Statesâ case, Googleâs data is divided on a county by county basis, which shows a massive reduction in peopleâs movement in urban and suburban communities âin some cases there are drops of 80 percent â with modest declines in rural areas in comparison.
Take for example, New York. According to Googleâs mobility tracking data for New York witnessed a 62% decline for retail and recreation venues, 68% decline for public transit hubs like subways, buses, and train stations, 46% decline for workplaces, and 32% decline for grocery stores and pharmacies as of March 29.
In New York County, the reduction is even more dramatic. Movement dropped 86% for retail and recreation, 78% for transit, 57% for workplaces, and 51% for groceries and pharmacies.
The reports âaim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19,â the company stated on the website where the reports are published. âThe reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.â
The company plans on updating its figures regularly. It claims that the data is designed in a manner that protects peopleâs anonymity.
Damian Collins, a British Parliament member who has spearheaded efforts to investigate Googleâs data practices, revealed in an email to CBS News that the reports indicate social distancingâs potential to limit the Wuhan Virusâ impact. However, he advised that people be cautious about in letting Google have the power to track peopleâs daily lives.
âThis certainly shows the impact that the social restrictions are having on daily life, and helps policy makers determine the effectiveness of these strategies,â stated Collins. âIt also illustrates the level of background surveillance that has become commonplace, without people really being aware of it.â
Jason Kint, the CEO of Digital Content Next, a trade group that represents digital publishers, agreed with Collins and is skeptical of Googleâs underlying motives.
âWhile itâs a noble effort and the anonymous presentation is interesting, itâs asking a lot to trust a company whoâs entire business model is about surveillance and monetization of as much personal data across our lives as they can collect,â Kint stated.
Collins believes that Googleâs tracking data may be useful for policymakers, there are still questions about potential privacy violations and future mass surveillance abuses.
âIn a crisis people may consent to this, but there has never really been a public debate about whether we agree to it in principle. The aftermath of this crisis may start such a debate,â Collins remarked.
Big Techâs influence has been the source of public discussion since Trump got elected.
It has been instrumental in suppressing dissident voices and will now likely be greatly empowered by this new crisis.Conservatives would be wise to be skeptical of both corporations and government.
Coronavirus patients ordered to wear GPS ankle monitors…Louisville is forcing unwilling coronavirus patients to self-isolate. Is it right?
By Kala Kachmar and Darcy Costello – 4/3/2020
Two Louisville coronavirus patients and a family member have been ordered by circuit judges to isolate and wear tracking devices after health officials learned they’d been in public against medical advice.
Issuing health-related civil orders is new territory for the courts, according to Judge Charles Cunningham, who issued two Friday. The third was issued earlier this month when a South End resident who tested positive for coronavirus refused to self-isolate.
But the orders are essential for keeping the community safe when infected patients refuse to self-quarantine, officials said during Mayor Greg Fischer’s Facebook Live briefing Tuesday.
[This story is being provided for free to our readers during the coronavirus outbreak. Consider supporting local journalism by subscribing to The Courier Journal at courier-journal.com/subscribe. ]
As of Tuesday, seven people have died of the virus in Jefferson County and 18 across Kentucky.
“The home incarceration program is well-suited for this,” said Amy Hess, the city’s chief of public services, which includes oversight of Metro Corrections and Emergency Services. “It provides us with the proper amount of distancing. We can monitor activity after (the monitoring device) gets affixed to them ⌠to make sure they’re not further affecting the community.
“We would prefer not to have to do it at all,” she said.
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Cunningham told The Courier Journal on Tuesday the two individuals he ordered isolated were living together, but only one had tested positive for coronavirus.
The city’s health department submitted a request for the order, which indicated one of the individuals was “walking around” and the other, based on a phone call, was thought to be out of the house, Cunningham said.
Not enough Louisvillians are taking pandemic guidelines seriously, Fischer stressed again Tuesday. In addition to closing libraries, community centers, the zoo and even some parks over the past few weeks, he’s instructed police to cut back on the types of calls for service officers respond to.
And, in response to a lack of respect for his orders, he even had basketball rims taken off backboards in parks.
Both Hess and Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad said the biggest fear is the spread of the virus among first responders such as police officers, firefighters and ambulance workers, especially when “the surge” of coronavirus patients that’s expected starts to overwhelm local hospitals.
So far, one police officer and two firefighters have tested positive for COVID-19, city officials have said. At least eight additional firefighters went into self-quarantine in connection to Louisville Fire’s two positive cases.
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A Metro Corrections officer who was sent to attach ankle monitors following Friday’s isolation order has a 101-degree fever and is being tested for COVID-19, said Tracy Dotson, spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 77, which represents the workers.
Dotson said corrections officers haven’t received the same protective equipment as LMPD officers or Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies also sent to confirmed coronavirus patients’ homes.
“If we’re going to be doing this, fine. That’s what we signed up for,” Dotson said. “But we’d like to be adequately protected, as our sister agencies are. We don’t think that’s too big of an ask. If nothing else, just for peace of mind for those officers.
“It would make me nervous if I showed up in a paper mask and some safety goggles and I saw the two guys there to work with me from different agencies in full respirators,” he added.
Steve Durham, spokesman for Metro Corrections, declined to confirm whether an officer is being tested. He also said first responders wear personal protective equipment recommended by medical professionals, which includes a gown, goggles, gloves and a mask.
‘Feeling our way through’
The first judge to issue an order requiring self-isolation was in Nelson County March 15, when a 53-year-old checked himself out of the University of Louisville Hospital against medical advice after testing positive.
Cunningham said the state’s Administrative Office of Courts put out a 200-page document over a decade ago that gives emergency guidance to circuit judges on topics like public health.
“It’s something we’re all feeling our way through,” he said. “We’re trying to figure out how this should be done.”
Jefferson Circuit Chief Judge Angela McCormick Bisig’s March 21 order required the first Jefferson County individual stay in his home for 14 days. Any violations, it said, may result in his arrest and criminal charges.
It said the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department would serve the order and Metro Corrections would fit him with a global-positioning device. The order said he’d be constantly monitored to ensure he stays home.
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Dotson, spokesman for the union that represents Metro Corrections workers, questioned the ethics of using tracking devices on Louisville residents who have not been charged with a crime.
It is a judge’s order, he acknowledged, but “our mandate is once people are charged with a crime, we’re to do whatever it is we do with them.”
“These people aren’t charged with a crime,” he said.
“For my people on the ground, that’s a concern for them.”
Kentucky law gives county health departments the clear power to isolate infected patients who refuse to stay home. Isolation separates sick people with a communicable disease, while quarantine separates and restricts the movement of people potentially exposed.
Nelson County Judge-Executive Dean Watts said the involuntary isolation of the county resident was permitted after he declared a county emergency.
In most states, breaking a quarantine order is a misdemeanor, according to the Centers for Disease Control, although Kentucky law does not provide a penalty.
Courier Journal reporter Andrew Wolfson contributed to this report.
TRUMP SLAMS 3M OVER ANTI-AMERICAN PRACTICES AMID CRISIS
President acts swiftly after Tucker Carlson exposes companyâs wrongdoing
4/3/2020
On 2 April, the US President slammed the 3M Company after invoking the Defense Production Act to require the company to produce face masks.
According to the Act, the President is allowed to demand national companies produce goods that are deemed necessary to âpromote the national defenceâ.
âWe hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their Masks. âP Actâ all the way.â Big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing â will have a big price to pay!â Trump said on Twitter.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump said at a daily briefing on the COVID-19 situation in the country that he hopes that the company will do their job.
âHopefully theyâll be able to do what they are supposed to do,â Trump said.
The President added that the US government âanticipates issuing more orders under the Defence Production Act in the very near futureâ.
In a White House memorandum regarding the order, the president requires the company to deliver the appropriate number of N-95 respirators.
âThe Secretary, through the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Administrator), shall use any and all authority available under the Act to acquire, from any appropriate subsidiary or affiliate of 3M Company, the number of N-95 respirators that the Administrator determines to be appropriate,â the memo reads.
Earlier in the day, Donald Trump invoked the Defence Production Act to order six US companies, namely General Electric, Hill-Rom, Medtronic, ResMed, Royal Philips, and Vyaire Medical, to repurpose their factories for building ventilators, another White House memo stated.
âAs of 2 April, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States has surpassed 213,144, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 4,500 people have died from the pandemic. The John Hopkins University data shows that over 244,000 people in the country have been infected with the disease, with the death toll exceeding 5,800.
Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against Anti-Trump Michigan Governor Over Coronavirus Shutdown Orders
âThat Woman From Michiganâ is being challenged in court.
By Shane Trejo – Apr 3, 2020
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has emerged as one of the most partisan and classless leaders in the country during the coronavirus pandemic, is being challenged with a civil rights lawsuit over executive orders that have caused pro-life activists to be deprived of their 1st Amendment rights.
The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed the lawsuit on Wednesday night to dispute the constitutionality of Whitmerâs âShelter in Placeâ order. The group contends that Whitmerâs executive orders unlawfully punish the free speech of pro-life protesters Andrew Belanger, Justin Phillips, and Cal Zastrow, who are listed as the plaintiffs on the lawsuit. Whitmer and the City of Detroit are listed as the defendants.
Whitmer issued the executive orders on Mar. 24, which effectively shut down most businesses throughout the state. However, abortion clinics were kept open so women could continue slaughtering their babies in the womb during the coronavirus pandemic. These clinics are also hogging medical supplies during a time in which they are desperately needed to combat the spread of coronavirus.
The AFLC believes that the rights of these pro-life activists were violated when the individuals attempted to engage in pro-life activism last weekend. According to the lawsuit, Belanger was mobbed by eight police vehicles and 15 police officers while protesting at the Scotsdale Womenâs Center in Detroit on March 31. His fellow activists, Phillips and Zastrow, arrived after the cops showed up on the scene.
âWeâre here for a violation of a stay at home order by the Governor,â one of the officers allegedly said to the pro-life activists who were not permitted to engage in 1st Amendment activism due to Whitmerâs decree.
Belanger received a âState of Michigan Uniform Law Citation,â which would be a misdemeanor violation if he is ultimately convicted of the offense, for his pro-life activism. This occurred despite Belangerâs insistence that social distancing guidelines were being followed during the protest. The officers apparently told the pro-life activists that the baby murder going on in the clinic was considered âessentialâ while their Christian protest was considered not âessential.â
âThe scope of our lawsuit and request for a restraining order are narrow. We do not advance a general challenge to the constitutionality of the Governorâs Executive Order, nor do we seek to halt its enforcement outside of the very limited and narrow scope of our challenge,â AFLC co-founder and senior counsel Robert Muise explained about his organizationâs lawsuit.
âWe understand the critical need to stop the spread of the corona virus, as do our clients, who are adhering to the social distancing guidelines. Through this litigation, we only seek to prohibit the use of the Executive Order to criminalize our clientsâ peaceful, free speech activity on the public sidewalks outside of abortion centers throughout Michigan,â he added.
Muise believes that Whitmerâs executive orders are capricious and unlawful because they carve out exceptions for Michigan residents to use public sidewalks â[t]o engage in outdoor activity, including walking, hiking, running, cycling, or any other recreational activity consistent with remaining at least six feet from people.â However, there are no provisions in the executive orders to protect the 1st Amendment rights of protesters such as these pro-life activists.
âIndeed, under the current enforcement of this Order, our clientsâ First Amendment activity is a crime. Yet, an individual could use the very same sidewalk to walk, hike, run, cycle or engage in other similar recreational activity without receiving a criminal citation for doing so. This our Constitution does not permit,â Muise said.
AFLC co-founder and senior counsel David Yerushalmi notes that the coronavirus pandemic, while an urgent public health emergency, will never kill a fraction of the amount that are murdered annually due to abortion.
âIf the stated purpose of the Executive Order is trueâthat it was issued âto sustain or protect lifeââthen Governor Whitmer should order the immediate closure of all abortion centers throughout the State. Indeed, there is little doubt that abortion will be responsible for killing more human lives this year in the United States alone than COVID-19 will kill in the entire world during the course of this current pandemic,â he said
The AFLC has also filed a motion that would stop the enforcement of Whitmerâs executive orders while the case is active. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan on Apr. 1 and will be heard by Judge Janet T. Neff, who was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush.
Ocasio-Cortez: People Are Dying Unnecessarily Because Trump Ignored Scientists
By Hannah Bleau
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said during a live Q&A on Wednesday that President Trump is displaying an âepic level of negligence and incompetence that is costing human livesâ during the coronavirus pandemic and suggested that people are dying because the president ignored scientists.
Ocasio-Cortez took questions from social media users on Wednesday and used the opportunity to criticize the Trump administrationâs response to the pandemic. The outbreak in the United States, she seems to believe, would not be as severe if Trump and Republicans took it seriously and listened to scientists.
âSomeone said, âDo you think if we took precautions earlier than we did our numbers would be lower than it is now?â Yes,â Ocasio-Cortez answered.
She explained:
I think that if Trump took this seriously, if Republicans took it seriously, I think that if if we decided to listen to scientists early more than we listen to, you know, people who care more about profit than human lives, we would have taken precautions much earlier and we would have saved lives. We either would have gone into lockdown earlier in some circumstances or we would have started producing these damn ventilators way earlier than we are now. We would have invoked the Defense Production Act, but because Trump didnât do that early enough, now weâre scrambling. And everything that is happening is happening late. And every decision that we make late means that people are dying unnecessarily.
The New York lawmakerâs assertion falls in line with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who also suggested that the crisis is worse due to inaction from the president.
âWhat the president â his denial at the beginning was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment to where â it continues â his delay in getting equipment to where itâs needed is deadly,â the speaker, who remained laser-focused on impeachment as the first known person with the virus arrived in the United States in January, told CNNâs Jake Tapper on Sunday.
Notably, Trump took decisive action that very month, announcing a ban on travel to the U.S. from China â a move many of his left-wing critics characterized as âracist.â
Just weeks ago, Ocasio-Cortez suggested that people who were no longer patroning Chinese restaurants during the crisis are âracistâ:
âHonestly, it sounds almost so silly to say, but thereâs a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism,â she said during an Instagram Live weeks ago.
âPeople are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants. Theyâre not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus,â she added at the time.
However, Ocasio-Cortez continues to believe that Trump and the GOP bear the brunt of responsibility for coronavirus-related deaths:
So understand, understand that people are not just dying of coronavirus. They are dying due to incompetence. They are dying due to poor decision making. They are dying due to a lack of listening to scientists and doctors, and theyâre dying due to a crisis and a pandemic of a lack of leadership â not just because of the disease. And so the people who made those decisions who decided to prioritize profit over human life need to answer for those decisions.
The socialist lawmaker also vented about journalists who are âout there just assessing the presidentâs tone of his voice instead of what heâs actually sayingâ and declared that Trump is âconveying an epic level of negligence and incompetence that is costing human livesâ:
âAnd itâs not just Trump,â she continued, bringing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) into the mix. âIt is not just Trump. Look at DeSantis in Florida whoâs just calling for lockdowns today and Florida beaches have been packed.â
âAnd these arenât people that are just in Florida. These are people who are traveling to Florida spreading disease and traveling back to wherever they came from, and these people arenât taking it seriously,â she added.
While DeSantis formally issued a stay at home order on Wednesday, he had already taken aggressive action against travelers from coronavirus hotspots. Those actions include screenings at major Florida airports, checkpoints on roads along the Florida-Georgia border and Florida-Alabama border, and a mandated 14-day quarantine for individuals from the New York Tri-State area and Louisiana.
Ocasio-Cortez recently said that there âshould be shame for what was fought forâ in the recently passed and signed bipartisan emergency relief bill. Last week, she specifically expressed outrage that the cash payment portion of the measure did not extend to non-citizens.
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