Forbes Magazine: Israel the safest country from coronavirus

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/278720

A study published in Forbes Magazine presents a comprehensive analysis examining the steps taken in various countries around the world as part of the fight against the spread of the Corona virus.

In the study, 60 countries are ranked according to different factors, including safety, risk level, treatment efficacy, and government support for people affected by the economic impact of the virus.

According to Forbes, Israel is the safest country in the world against the virus. In second place are Germany, South Korea and Australia. China is in fifth place.

In the risk index, Italy was ranked as the most dangerous, followed by the US, UK, Spain and France.

Pelosi vows to challenge Trump's 'dangerous, illegal' move to freeze WHO funding

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-vows-to-challenge-trumps-dangerous-illegal-move-to-freeze-who-funding

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted President Trump’s decision to freeze funding for the World Health Organization, vowing Wednesday to “swiftly” challenge the action amid the coronavirus crisis.

 

Trump’s move to freeze aid to the W.H.O., supported by conservatives, draws criticism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/us/coronavirus-cases-update-live.html

 

President Trump’s public campaign against the World Health Organization — and his order to freeze all money to the group in the middle of a pandemic — is the culmination of mounting anger among his White House advisers, Republican lawmakers and conservative media about the organization’s lavish praise of China’s response to the coronavirus.

Mr. Trump’s decision to attack the W.H.O., a unit of the United Nations, comes as he is under intense fire at home for his administration’s failure to respond aggressively to the virus, which as of Wednesday had claimed more than 25,000 lives in the United States and infected at least 600,000 people in all 50 states.

And the organization was praised by a leading American health official. Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, praised the organization on Wednesday morning, in tones at odds with the president’s harsh criticisms. He told “CBS This Morning” that questions about its pandemic response should be left until “after we get through this.”

Trump retreats from absolute authority claim as he deflects blame for coronavirus crisis to WHO

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/trump-coronavirus-crisis/index.html

Deep into his remarks, Trump edged away from his position on Monday that a president could order states to do what he wanted. In face-saving language that lacked constitutional grounding, he said he was "authorizing each individual governor of each individual state to implement a reopening and a very powerful reopening plan of their state." 

 

Trump has spent several days preparing the ground for his attack on the WHO with which he led his news conference. He tapped into legitimate criticism of the WHO's response to the outbreak and complaints that it was too deferential to China and did not act quickly enough to raise the alarm about the novel coronavirus and its pandemic potential.

 

President Trump Halts U.S. Payments to the World Health Organization During the Coronavirus Pandemic

https://time.com/5821007/trump-halts-payments-world-health-organization-coronavirus/

 President Donald Trump said he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the organization of failing to do enough to stop the virus from spreading when it first surfaced in China.

Trump, who had telegraphed his intentions last week, claimed the outbreak could have been contained at its source and that lives could have been saved had the U.N. health agency done a better job investigating the early reports coming out of China.

“The WHO failed in its basic duty and must be held accountable,” Trump said at a Tuesday briefing. He said the U.S. would be reviewing the WHO’s actions to stop the virus before making any decision on resuming aid.

 

המשטרה פרצה עם סולמות לתפילה המוזיקלית של 'כיכר'

https://www.kikar.co.il/355799.html

 there are a number of people who think loudspeakers at any volume are totally permissible without concern for the neighbors totally biased article! chillul hashem!

שוטרים פרצו הבוקר אל בית פרטי בבני ברק - עם סולמות מהגג, במהלך תפילת הלל מוזיקלית שערכו האחים הזמרים יואלי ורולי דיקמן והועברה בשידור חי באתר 'כיכר השבת' • צפו ברגעי הפריצה

Police break into Bnei Brak apartment to stop the music

 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/278695

 

They set up an amplification system in their home with a loudspeaker on the porch, and began to sing the Hallel prayer of thanksgiving with musical accompaniment - until police arrived.

 

 

 

 

רב מ'הפלג' חלה בקורונה; יצא לתפילות וחטף קנס

https://www.kikar.co.il/355817.html

רב באחת הישיבות המזוהות עם "הפלג הירושלמי" נדבק בנגיף ה'קורונה', אך למרות זאת יצא לתפילות. בהוראת רבנים, הועבר דיווח למשטרה והבוקר הוא קיבל קנס כבד

Virginia pastor who defiantly held church service dies of coronavirus

https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/virginia-pastor-who-held-packed-church-service-dies-of-coronavirus/

An evangelical pastor died of COVID-19 just weeks after proudly showing off how packed his Virginia church was — and vowing to keep preaching “unless I’m in jail or the hospital.”

 

Cuomo Responds To Trump Claim That States ‘Can’t Do Anything Without His Approval’ | All In | MSNBC

Reporter grills Trump: What did you do for entire month?

Trump falsely claims he has 'total' authority

Fox News calls out Trump ON AIR for lying about having power re-open country

Trump rages at criticism while governors craft their own plans to reopen the economy

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-governors-economy/index.html

With 23,000 Americans dead and millions without a paycheck, President Donald Trump dimmed the lights in the White House briefing room, fired up a misleading propaganda video and boiled over.

In one of the most unchained presidential tantrums ever captured on television, Trump's Monday display flouted every notion of calm leadership by the commander in chief in a crisis.

He claimed powers never envisioned by the Constitution and insisted his "authority is total" to order states and cities to get moving again to break out of the frozen economy. His warning came as two blocs of Eastern and Western hot-spot states banded together in an implied challenge to his vow to get people back to work soon, setting off a brewing confrontation over the power of the federal government.

During the news conference, Trump moaned that the press was not giving him credit because "everything we did was right" in the coronavirus pandemic.

How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief

On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend to hammer out an emergency aid package addressing the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, he recessed the Senate for a long weekend, and returned home to Louisville, Kentucky. McConnell, a seventy-eight-year-old Republican who is about to complete his sixth term as a senator, planned to attend a celebration for a protégé, Justin Walker, a federal judge who was once his Senate intern. McConnell has helped install nearly two hundred conservatives as judges; stocking the judiciary has been his legacy project.