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from Bipartisan Report
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE EXTREME LEFT, MIXED, Propaganda
News & Media Website in Washington, D.C.
Trump Tweets Emergency COVID-19 Message To Americans
Donald Trump sure does have a way of making people panic, which is part of the reason that it was believed in the very beginning that someone should tell him he wasn’t allowed to tweet. Trump follows the fans, though, and he continued to tweet, leading to some pretty ridiculous moments that will be remembered with humor in history. Some of his tweets will also likely play part in some upcoming court battles staring the president, and he will probably have wished that he had stayed quiet.
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THE TIME OF THE VIRUS
Ephraim Radner: In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we should all follow the directives of public health officials and heed the advice of medical experts. Christians are no different from others in this respect. We share the health challenges and personal anxieties of all our neighbors, and we bear the same responsibilities during this crisis. All of a sudden, we see before us something we have perhaps talked about before, but never really faced: the way, as societies, we have allowed our personal lives to become enfolded in and seemingly dependent upon intricate and vast networks of collective construction that have diminished our humanity. Suddenly we must “go home,” stay with our families, turn to ourselves. And we are, surprisingly, afraid! Yet “going home” is, in fact, an enormous gift. For two weeks, a month, two months—we shall see—we have been granted a “fallow time,” in which we can return to our roots as human beings.
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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
ON EPIDEMICS AND THE CHURCH: A LETTER FROM EUROPE
The church is not without some experience of epidemics in Europe, of course. Richard Palmer, in his 1978 University of Kent doctoral dissertation, “The Control of Plague in Venice and Northern Italy, 1348–1600,” has shown that, while often contending for power, state and church had largely harmonious approaches to the onset of plague in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy—not least because the leaders of civil society still saw the welfare of the polis as dependent on God’s favor. But the church’s role in the midst of that public health crisis extended in two other directions. One was to explain God’s purposes in setting loose in the world the mysterious forces that caused the miseries of the illness, death, and precarity of the plague. ... The second direction was to extend compassionate care to those affected by the disease —whether the dying or the bereaved. Church and state together worked to establish and sustain institutions that served the most vulnerable.
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from Medium
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, online social journalism publishing platform
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, online social journalism publishing platform
This is a long post addressing two underlying issues with the current response to the pandemic that leave me concerned. It’s the longest post I’ve ever written. For those of you not taking action, or believing the pandemic to be “over hyped” I can tell you this is not hype. It’s math. And you need to understand it.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS NOW TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
Thanks to relentless intervention by governments and central banks, the financial system now looks to government policy as the solution to every problem.
Could the Coronavirus Be Fatal for the EU?
As the nation-states take the brunt of their economic collapses on the chin, they will begin to realise that the EU superstate is little more than an obstructive and costly irrelevance.
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from The New American Magazine
RIGHT BIAS: John Birch Society
On February 12 there were, according to the Johns Hopkins website dashboard, 15,200 new cases of the virus reported. Less than a month later, March 6, there were 103 new cases reported. In a few months, the coronavirus will be a distant memory, says Gordon Wysong. Writing in the American Thinker, he said, “The coronavirus’s effects will become so small that they will be lost in the noise in the day.” But the implications and changes in the culture will far outlast the virus
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from The New Yorker
LEFT BIAS, HIGH, magazine in New York
The coronavirus poses a unique threat to an age group that, whether they admit it or not, includes them.
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Coronavirus and the fear of death
Jeremy Marshall writes: I know absolutely nothing about infectious diseases or how to stop Coronavirus. I have no scientific or medical training. But I do know quite a bit about the fear of dying. Seven years ago I felt fear when I was told I had cancer. Four and a half years ago I felt intense, sickening, dizzying, overwhelming fear when I was told I had incurable cancer and probably had 18 months to live. I have lived with that awful fear of dying and death since. Yes friends, I am afraid of dying. Aren’t we all?
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Mapping the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and worldwide
The number of reported cases of covid-19 continues to rise in the United States, where testing was slow to begin. The disease, caused by a new coronavirus, has been confirmed in nearly every state. The World Health Organization declared covid-19 a pandemic on March 11. Worldwide, well over 150,000 cases of the disease, which can cause pneumonia-like symptoms, have been recorded since the outbreak started in late 2019, and several thousand people have died. Coronaviruses range from the common cold virus to more serious diseases that can infect humans and animals, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
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from UPI News Agency (United Press International)
Media/News Company
U.S. Space Force gets first offensive weapon, a satellite jammer
The U.S. Space Force announced its first offensive weapon, a ground-based communications jammer to block satellite transmissions. The Space Force announced Friday that Counter Communication System Block 10.2 achieved Initial Operating Capability earlier this month. It was transferred from the Los Angeles AFB to Peterson AFB, Colo., after being declared operational by the Air Force Space and Missile Center's special programs directorate.
U.S. Space Force gets first offensive weapon, a satellite jammer
The U.S. Space Force announced its first offensive weapon, a ground-based communications jammer to block satellite transmissions. The Space Force announced Friday that Counter Communication System Block 10.2 achieved Initial Operating Capability earlier this month. It was transferred from the Los Angeles AFB to Peterson AFB, Colo., after being declared operational by the Air Force Space and Missile Center's special programs directorate.
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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Mapping the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and worldwide
The number of reported cases of covid-19 continues to rise in the United States, where testing was slow to begin. The disease, caused by a new coronavirus, has been confirmed in nearly every state. The World Health Organization declared covid-19 a pandemic on March 11. Worldwide, well over 150,000 cases of the disease, which can cause pneumonia-like symptoms, have been recorded since the outbreak started in late 2019, and several thousand people have died. Coronaviruses range from the common cold virus to more serious diseases that can infect humans and animals, including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
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