Friday, March 13, 2020

Latest on coronavirus


Here's the latest on Coronavirus

Could there be worldwide drug shortages due to the virus? One example is the popular antidepressant, Prozac, which has some ingredients that come from China that are supplied to other countries to manufacture this medication. They are called active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and China is the lead supplier of these around the world. With the coronavirus outbreak just beginning to slow down there, it is not yet known if there will be shortages...READ MORE...

The White House is in chaos over coronavirus and the staff blames Mike Pence. It seems that Trump's number two cannot "get a handle" on priorities in order to get the process rolling. The reason for that is that he hasn't clue to what he's doing, as was evidenced by his incompetent response to an HIV outbreak in Indian when he was governor. It's like a three-ring circus since there is no one in the Trump administration capable of making competent decisions...
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And if you can believe this, Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller wrote Trump’s coronavirus speech given last Wednesday evening that been deemed a complete wrecking ball to the U.S. response to the disease. To begin with, it "tanked" markets that were already in a nosedive and second, he portrayed the virus as a "foreign" attack, rather than rightfully taking the blame himself. The administration's credibility now looks damaged beyond control...READ MORE...

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Old crazy Lamar Alexander
"Unconscionable" is what Moscow Mitch's Senate is being called for allowing Tennessee's Lamar Alexander to block the vote on an emergency paid sick leave bill because "the bill would be an “expensive” and burdensome mandate for employers." The Republican Congress continues to stoop to equal depths as the White House manic that is supposed to be running the show. And this plan even falls "far short of sick leave policies in many other industrialized nations."... READ MORE...

"Computer scientists predict that America will be in lockdown in less than two weeks as the country scrambles to contain COVID-19." The prediction is partially based on the lockdown in Italy last Tuesday, and should prompt the question of whether or not some of the computer's computation might have had something to do with the incompetence of the Trump administration in handling the U.S. coronavirus outbreak. This from Mark Handley, Professor of Networked Systems at UCL in London...READ MORE...

Donald Trump Says He Will Be Indicted On Tuesday

  THAT'S TODAY... Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has brought the case to this point, now looking at a possible indictment. Trum...