Monday, April 13, 2020
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Bull Session: Ted Cruz Says the Press Is “Giddy With Glee” Over Pandemic
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/ted-cruz-says-press-giddy-with-glee-over-coronavirus-pandemic-bull-session/
Callooh, callay! It’s another glorious day in the mainstream media
where, as Texas senator Ted Cruz recently noted, we’re all simply “giddy with glee”
over this global pandemic. The sun is shining on all of God’s green
earth that the governor recently closed, the birds are chirping in
between the distant wail of ambulance sirens, and we members of the
press are feeling particularly lighthearted, a sensation we keep
checking against all the known symptoms of COVID-19. You could tell from
the huge smiles on our faces, if only you could see them beneath these
homemade masks.
Boy, am I ever! Personally, nothing gives me greater pleasure than
waking from yet another anxiety dream about going to the grocery store,
then opening my phone to find that another thousand people died
overnight, a friend lost their dad, and everything remains closed
indefinitely. Humming a tune by a favorite artist who was killed
prematurely by a preventable public health crisis, I leap from my
flop-sweat-soaked bed, eager to begin another day of cheerleading for
our nation’s incipient collapse—right after my wife and I figure out how
we’re going to juggle the demands of our jobs with another day of
watching the two small, restless children trapped inside with us. Then,
during the few allotted hours I’m able to work for an industry that is,
like so many other businesses, faltering under mass layoffs, it’s party time, baby. That’s when I get to write about all this death and malfeasance for an audience that openly resents me for it! Yippee!
Anti-Semitism on the rise, Jews blamed for coronavirus
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/B1xuHBePU
In a document prepared by the ministry, malicious conspiracy theories, some contradictory, are being spread blaming Israel and Jews for the spread of the virus in order to thin out the world population and profit from a vaccination.
These posts are most common in the U.S., France, and Germany where anti-Semitism has been on the rise, but are seen in the Arab and Muslim world as well.
Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods to be locked down starting Sunday
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-ultra-orthodox-neighborhoods-to-be-locked-down-starting-sunday/
The government approved locking down four of the capital’s seven
zones delineated ahead of Passover: Zone 1, which covers northeast
Jerusalem Zone 2, which covers northwest Jerusalem, Zone 3, which covers
southwest Jerusalem, and Zone 5, which covers much of the city center.
Among the included neighborhoods: Har
Nof, Mea Shearim, Geula, the Bukharim Quarter, Romema, Sanhedria, Neveh
Yaakov, Ramat Shlomo and Makor Baruch.
Trump says he'll use 'facts and instincts' to guide decision on when country safe to reopen
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/11/trump-facts-and-instincts-decision-on-when-country-safe-to-reopen-180000
President Donald Trump on Saturday
said he would use “facts and instincts” to make a decision on whether to
recommend opening up areas of the country for working life to resume
amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In a phone interview on “Justice with
Judge Jeanine” on Fox News, the president said: “I think it's going to
be the toughest decision I ever made and hopefully the most difficult I
will ever have to make. I hope I'm going to make the right decision. I
will be basing it on a lot of very smart people, a lot of professionals,
doctors and business leaders. There are a lot of things that go into a
decision like that. And it's going to be based on a lot of facts and
instincts."
Trump administration requires insurers to provide free antibody tests
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/11/trump-administration-requires-insurers-to-provide-free-antibody-tests-180009
The Trump administration said late
Saturday it will require health insurers to provide free antibody tests
that could provide better insight into the scale of the U.S. coronavirus
outbreak.
Health experts agree that widespread
antibody testing, which can detect who has developed immunity against
the virus, is essential for being able to ease social distancing
measures and allow healthy people to return to work.
How Coronavirus Fears Have Amplified a Baseless But Dangerous 5G Conspiracy Theory
https://time.com/5818574/5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-inaccurate/
The unfounded conspiracy theories reportedly
began when a Belgian doctor speculated to a national newspaper about 5G
masts in Wuhan, China, where the new coronavirus originated. Despite
the article being removed after a few hours because the comments were
baseless, the narrative was picked up by conspiratorial Internet
personalities and has spread across the Internet as the coronavirus fans
anxieties around the world. (Contrary to the conspiracy theories, which
say 5G’s high-frequency waves are harmful, the scientific community
agrees they are beneath the wavelength that can damage human cells.)
Governors Plead for Help as Further Coronavirus Aid Faces a Partisan Split in Congress
https://time.com/5819576/coronavirus-aid-talks-congress/
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland and Democratic Gov. Andrew
Cuomo of New York said without federal intervention, states will be
forced to confront “serious reductions in service … hampering public
health, the economic recovery, and — in turn — our collective effort to
get people back to work.”
Ex-Ambassador, Washington Gov. Says Trump Campaign 'Fanning Hatred' With New Ad
https://time.com/5819459/trump-campaign-biden-china-racist/
Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke is denouncing President
Donald Trump for a new campaign ad that seems to falsely imply Locke was
a Chinese official.
Trump’s Republican reelection campaign released an ad
Thursday that accused former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee, of being too cozy with China. It
featured an image of Biden and Locke on a stage with U.S. and Chinese
flags in the background.
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