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from Breitbart
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, American conservative news and opinion website
Nancy Pelosi Coronavirus Bill Creates Multibillion Slush Fund for Elite Liberal Causes
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a bill on Monday to combat the economic fallout from coronavirus, and it’s loaded with money destined for federal agencies and the favorite causes of liberal elites.
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‘The silence is quite absolute. No sounds of traffic. No voices. No footsteps. Not even a dog barking’
Anglican chaplains in Italy, the country with the most deaths from the coronavirus, have described the eeriness of life under a lockdown, and have offered advice to clergy in the UK who are beginning to consider how to minister under similar conditions. Since 10 March, restrictions have been extended to all of Italy, and all churches, schools, universities, museums, cinemas, and swimming pools have been closed. On 7 March, the Italian Catholic Bishops’ Conference announced that all public masses and liturgical celebrations, including funerals, would be suspended until 3 April. Last week, outdoor activities were banned and factories were closed, barring essential production. The number who have died — 6077 as of Monday — is now higher than that recorded in any other country. On Saturday, 624 people died in 24 hours.
A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus
As often happens during emergencies, governors and mayors across the country have used executive power to waive laws and bypass regulations. This allows goods to get to the public quicker at lower cost, more service providers to enter struggling industries, and the market to respond to the crisis in countless other ways. Lifting these regulations does not put public health or safety in jeopardy; if that were the case, they wouldn’t be lifted with such ease. But this should lead the public to question why the regulatory burdens exist at all.
What If the Coronavirus Had Hit Us 25 Years Ago?
I promise that this isn’t one of those schmaltzy “Look on the bright side”/”There is a silver lining to all this” articles. Coronavirus has no bright side, and there is no silver lining. But over the past couple of days, I have become a bit more grateful for the technologies and technology-based services that are making the current situation a lot more bearable. These are, in the main, technologies that we have become so used to, it now feels as if they had been around since forever. It is easy to forget just how recent a lot of them are. Imagine, for a moment, that the Coronavirus had hit us, say, 25 years earlier. I’m not talking about the Middle Ages, or the Victorian era. Just 25 years – a time that is well within living memory (or at least, I remember it quite well). What would “Corona ‘95” look like?
Could the summer bring an end to COVID-19?
Like some other respiratory viruses such as the flu, is there a chance that the new coronavirus will spread less as temperatures increase? A new study has found that the new coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, didn't spread as efficiently in warmer and more humid regions of the world as it did in colder areas. Though the early analysis, published in the journal Social Science Research Network, is still under review, it provides a glimpse into what we might expect in the warmer months to come.
from Mises InstituteNancy Pelosi Coronavirus Bill Creates Multibillion Slush Fund for Elite Liberal Causes
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a bill on Monday to combat the economic fallout from coronavirus, and it’s loaded with money destined for federal agencies and the favorite causes of liberal elites.
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from CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
Media/News Company in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
How one Italian town managed to stop the coronavirus in its tracks
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the small Italian city of Vò had the dubious honour of being the site of the county's first COVID-19 death. Since then, Italy has seen more fatalities than any other country, with latest figures showing that 6,820 people have died from the infection in barely a month. The total number of confirmed cases hit 69,176 on Tuesday. But Vò has become a beacon of hope. Doctors there have been able to stop the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and their work has become a model for other communities struggling to contain it.
How one Italian town managed to stop the coronavirus in its tracks
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the small Italian city of Vò had the dubious honour of being the site of the county's first COVID-19 death. Since then, Italy has seen more fatalities than any other country, with latest figures showing that 6,820 people have died from the infection in barely a month. The total number of confirmed cases hit 69,176 on Tuesday. But Vò has become a beacon of hope. Doctors there have been able to stop the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and their work has become a model for other communities struggling to contain it.
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from Church Times
Newspaper in London, United Kingdom
Anglican chaplains in Italy, the country with the most deaths from the coronavirus, have described the eeriness of life under a lockdown, and have offered advice to clergy in the UK who are beginning to consider how to minister under similar conditions. Since 10 March, restrictions have been extended to all of Italy, and all churches, schools, universities, museums, cinemas, and swimming pools have been closed. On 7 March, the Italian Catholic Bishops’ Conference announced that all public masses and liturgical celebrations, including funerals, would be suspended until 3 April. Last week, outdoor activities were banned and factories were closed, barring essential production. The number who have died — 6077 as of Monday — is now higher than that recorded in any other country. On Saturday, 624 people died in 24 hours.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
As often happens during emergencies, governors and mayors across the country have used executive power to waive laws and bypass regulations. This allows goods to get to the public quicker at lower cost, more service providers to enter struggling industries, and the market to respond to the crisis in countless other ways. Lifting these regulations does not put public health or safety in jeopardy; if that were the case, they wouldn’t be lifted with such ease. But this should lead the public to question why the regulatory burdens exist at all.
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from HumanProgress.org Education Website
I promise that this isn’t one of those schmaltzy “Look on the bright side”/”There is a silver lining to all this” articles. Coronavirus has no bright side, and there is no silver lining. But over the past couple of days, I have become a bit more grateful for the technologies and technology-based services that are making the current situation a lot more bearable. These are, in the main, technologies that we have become so used to, it now feels as if they had been around since forever. It is easy to forget just how recent a lot of them are. Imagine, for a moment, that the Coronavirus had hit us, say, 25 years earlier. I’m not talking about the Middle Ages, or the Victorian era. Just 25 years – a time that is well within living memory (or at least, I remember it quite well). What would “Corona ‘95” look like?
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from LiveScience
Like some other respiratory viruses such as the flu, is there a chance that the new coronavirus will spread less as temperatures increase? A new study has found that the new coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, didn't spread as efficiently in warmer and more humid regions of the world as it did in colder areas. Though the early analysis, published in the journal Social Science Research Network, is still under review, it provides a glimpse into what we might expect in the warmer months to come.
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RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
Diseases Are Bad. Government-Forced Shutdowns Are Often Worse.
However high the death rate of the COVID-19 coronavirus becomes, the governmental response to the threat will be even more dangerous. If the current blockade of economic life continues, more people will die from the countermeasures than from the virus itself. In a short time, the basic supply of everyday goods will be at risk. By interrupting the global transport and supply chains, important medicines will be missing and food supplies will be insufficient. This is how a containment strategy works: operation successful, patient dead. Yes, there is reason to panic, but it's not the virus, it's the coronavirus policy. Organized panic serves as an excellent test for the state of how far it can go in terrorizing citizens and taking away their freedom without encountering resistance. Like sheep, people follow the orders of their leaders. The media is preparing the lambs to go silently and without a scream into the slaughterhouse. Beyond the economic damage that has been already been caused by the political reaction to the epidemic, an even greater tragedy lurks: the loss of fundamental human rights and of our individual freedom. Given the modern methods of surveillance, a new kind of totalitarianism would surpass all the horrors that are known from past dictatorial regimes.
THE FDA CONTINUES TO ACTIVELY UNDERMINE AMERICA’S RESPONSE
For many Americans, the FDA has taken on a sort of mystique as the gold standard of medical guidance—similar to the emotional connection many Britons feel for the National Health Service (NHS). Unfortunately, both of these government bureaucracies actively undermine the healthcare systems of their nation. As the continuing coronavirus places a larger microscope on the agency’s actions, hopefully more are waking up to the costs inherent to their management. From the beginning of this battle, the FDA has slowed American medical companies' ability to respond at full capacity. For example, it was FDA regulations that significantly slowed the creation of testing kits in the early days of the crisis. While the CDC’s government labs were creating fatally flawed COVID-19 tests, private labs were desperately trying to receive waivers to ramp up their own efforts. On Feburary 24, the US Association of Public Health Laboratories made desperate appeals to get into the game. Although the FDA tweaked its rule five days later to allow labs to begin testing kits (though it still barred their active use without approval), it wasn’t until March 16 that the FDA finally removed its grasp on the private sector and allowed labs get approval through state agencies. The impact was immediate:
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from National Library of Israel
The pandemic known as the Spanish flu spread across the world in the early 20th century, reaching the Land of Israel as well; we took a look back at the news reports of the day.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
Nearly half of all coronavirus deaths so far in the United States can be traced to a single nursing home in Kirkland, Wash., just east of Seattle. Life Care Center, a low-slung building in a quiet part of town, is now the epicenter of the pandemic spreading throughout the United States. What is happening behind its four walls — and how a deadly virus escaped them — opens a window on the terrifying inaction of public authorities and the tremendous costs it has had.
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from The New Republic
LEFT BIAS, HIGH, liberal American magazine in New York
The Republican Plot to Save the Rich
The GOP’s coronavirus response has one goal: to preserve America’s economic hierarchy. The first confirmed case of a coronavirus infection in the United States was announced on January 21. Two days later, with the World Health Organization recording 581 confirmed cases worldwide, the Chinese government locked down Wuhan and ordered a travel ban. On January 24, the WHO reported 846 cases and warned that the virus was spreading from human to human outside China. In its daily situation report, it wrote, “WHO assesses the risk of this event to be very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level.” That same day, U.S. senators were invited to a Health Committee briefing on the “novel coronavirus outbreak” from administration officials, including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci. Not long after that briefing, at least a few senators sprang into action.
The GOP’s coronavirus response has one goal: to preserve America’s economic hierarchy. The first confirmed case of a coronavirus infection in the United States was announced on January 21. Two days later, with the World Health Organization recording 581 confirmed cases worldwide, the Chinese government locked down Wuhan and ordered a travel ban. On January 24, the WHO reported 846 cases and warned that the virus was spreading from human to human outside China. In its daily situation report, it wrote, “WHO assesses the risk of this event to be very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level.” That same day, U.S. senators were invited to a Health Committee briefing on the “novel coronavirus outbreak” from administration officials, including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci. Not long after that briefing, at least a few senators sprang into action.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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