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Quarantine and social distancing in the Brandenburgseplein neighborhood in Arnhem, the Netherlands:
running battle between “youth”, adults get involved too, then police. Mob turns on police.
https://www.dumpert.nl/item/7893795_4e962d68
https://viraal.video/2020/04/18/politie-rukt-massaal-uit-nadat-een-grote-groep-in-arnhem-met-elkaar-in-bonje-komen/
The only native dutch I could spot were police.
Police robot monitors coronavirus lockdown in Tunisia:
This really is the story of, well, century doesn’t do it justice. Not only the monstrous actions of the CCP, which evidence supports, but the traitorous behavior of Trudeau.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/did-xi-jinping-deliberately-sicken-the-world/
short answer is yes.
Iran Releases Video Showing Off Drone Might as Military Takes Delivery of Three New UAVs (sputniknews, Apr 18, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/military/202004181079010352-iran-releases-video-showing-off-drone-might-as-military-takes-delivery-of-three-new-uavs/
“Iran’s military took delivery of three types of domestically-developed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with the equipment to be used by the Air Force and Air Defence units, Defence Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami announced on Saturday.
“As the drones have been equipped with various types of bombs and missiles, they can be utilized by the forces in combat missions,” Hatami said, his remarks cited by Tasnim.
Additionally, the defence minister noted, the UAVs can be used as decoy targets in air defence, and for deception operations inside an adversary’s air defence network.
“These drones will help ensure a safer Iran and perform air defence operations with more power,” Hatami stressed, adding that they were built by domestic defence industries on the basis of designs created at the nation’s universities and knowledge-based companies.
The drones, said to include the Karrar (‘Striker), Ababil-3 (‘Swallow-3’) and an unnamed ‘multipurpose jet-engine-powered’ drone, have operational ranges of up to 1,000 km, flight ceilings of 40,000-45,000 feet, and a flight duration of between three and eight hours.
Fars News Agency published a mashup video showing off Iran’s drone capabilities…”
Pakistan’s Radical Religious Leaders Have PM Imran Khan in Their Crosshairs (sputniknews, Apr 18, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202004181079008600-pakistans-radical-religious-leaders-have-pm-imran-khan-in-their-crosshairs/
“Pakistan is coming to grips with the COVID-19 outbreak; more than 7,492 have coronavirus and at least 143 have died so far. Due to economic concerns, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has been saying he does not favour a nationwide lockdown but urged people to avoid gathering at mosques, provoking religious leaders.
A standoff between radical religious leaders and the government of Pakistan has led to huge congregations of adherents filling mosques to offer Friday prayers throughout the country, in stark defiance of the government’s requests amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Yesterday, Lal Mosque in the capital Islamabad was pictured packed with Namazis offering Friday prayers despite a lockdown in Sindh province and with no precautionary measures. But what gained the most attention was a man holding an assault rifle to guard the congregation.
The clerics and leaders of the religious party had demanded in a joint statement that mosques should remain open daily for daily prayers.
“Restriction of three or five people at mosques are not proving to be practical; those who are sick and the elderly should not come to mosques,” said Mufti Taqi Usmani, one of the top clerics in Pakistan.
Abdul Aziz, a religious leader at Islamabad’s Lal Mosque was quoted by Al Jazeera as saying: “[Lockdowns are] not the answer to these problems.” Adding, “We believe the people should not be made to fear things right now, they should have faith in God at this time, and place their hope in him … If death is written for you, then it will come.”
The conservative Islamic clerics in Pakistan continue to rein among the religious hardliners and are powerful enough to gather the people in the streets.
Despite the country haiving less than 3,000 intensive care beds, it has gained approval for a $1.3 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ease the economic impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic and ramp up testing.
Imran Khan’s government has advised the mosques in the country to restrict their Friday prayers to break the chain of the deadly infection and allowed a maximum of five people (mostly comprising of staff members residing inside the mosque’s premises).
However, the fear of pandemic spreading faster looms larger during the approaching holy month of Ramadan, which will last from mid-April to mid-May.”
Taliban Militants Kill 5 Police Officers, Capture 7 in Afghan Kunduz Province – Source (sputniknews, Apr 18, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/202004181079008350-taliban-militants-kill-5-police-officers-capture-7-in-afghan-kunduz-province—source/
“Five police officers and servicemen were killed in the Imam Saheb district of the Afghan northeastern Kunduz province in an attack by militants, a source said adding that seven more officers had been captured by the Taliban.
“The security forces fought until morning, but when they [were short of] ammunition and no one supplied, the post collapsed after six hours of fighting, five soldiers of the local army and local police were killed and seven others were captured by the Taliban,” an eyewitness said.
The clashes took place on Friday night when the militants attacked a district post, the source added.
According to the source, the post was controlled by the local army and the police.
The Taliban have not commented on the incident so far.”
Game Theory and Anti-Feminism strategies.
Pre-review:
I have just started reading: “Free Speech Isn’t Free: How 90 Men Stood Up Against The Globalist Establishment — And Won.” by Roosh V.
An autobiographical account of a world speech-tour.
Chapter 2. Berlin.
“On our way to the car we ran into three Russian girls. I approached them and held their attention, partially thanks to my Russian language ability. Joe took one of the girls off my hands. His game was smooth enough that I became distracted from the girl I was talking to so that I could observe him and see what I could steal for implementation into my own game.”
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“I came out ten minutes later and the girls were nowhere to be seen. “What happened?” I asked. “I went to go take a piss,” Joe replied, “and when I came back they were gone. You were right.” Such is the nature of game. We went to a nightlife zone closer to the suburbs but it wasn’t so good, and another bar in the city’s center was mostly dead. The Dane set me up with a pretty German girl who seemed to like me, but she was leaving town in less than four hours and didn’t seem to be in the mood for a fun romp.”
A Messiah sent for the bucks, cuck and sucks.
Screwing strangers. Competing with feeders from the same pool. Upon the very young, innocent, naïve, vulnerable and mentally-ill. Such foundations have only the memes and diseases that return until they kill them.
A final review later…
“Unlike her, men can compartmentalize something about you they don’t like. Many times I’ve heard, “Hey Roosh, I agree with you on some things, but not this because of X, Y, and Z.” A woman is not able to do that. Even if in the past you saved her life from a burning building or resuscitated her dying dog, if she’s angry at you she hates you more than anything else in the world at that moment and will call the police on you or try to ruin your life in some other way, just to alleviate her transient feelings.”
Why would a person ever game a person’s body with a head on it like this? The the princess – ilsamist or feminist, femaled or female – that you would ever want to lie down with let alone snatch her purse. She who must be obeyed until one foot wrong, and her Allah and her Safe Words come tumbling down upon you.
Sorry… only to the end.
Game: to give the Modern Woman (who doesn’t want to settle down but have as much fun as she wants) and teach men to be the bucks, cucks and sucks to mastubate over her. The three femen, that service her needs – soul, body and mind – to fill and lord over these respective thrones. Violence towards women from muslims, Socialists and Sexuals, from imprisoning her in their three religions which she cannot leave.
The idea that if you eat enough sex you become a connoisseur of womanhood. (And then find your heavenly manhood).
Ezra Levant interviews Roosh V. on the events that his book expands: https://youtu.be/9DTxwZggnbM
Now, I’ll leave it alone. Rationalizing why you do what you do ‘coz it’s the System Man,’ has been the deflection every mug has used to not to create wealth and reminisce on missing out on a future with the one nice girl you enticed.
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Women are women’s worst enemies. A lot of backstabbing. Do not trust.
Lucky for me, Women are Men’s BEST enemies.
How many minutes, hours, days should I spend trying to figure your comment out, is it so deep I may never or is it so frivolous, I should not bother. Two glasses of wine diminish my thoughts.
Life can be complicated.
Why can’t it be both?
Wine seems a good idea. Scotch is closer to the desk though.
Socrates: “By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
Asleep, or awake?
Is 3. A Seinfeld an acceptable reply?
check out the cartoon
https://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
Researching the background I entered the company of young disenfrachised men who watched “Chateau Heartiste, Andrew Anglin, Roosh V, Jim Goad and Stephan Molyneux” where the nuclear family seems to be their golden goal, but every fear of castration, gynophobia, xenophobia, and homophobia ravages these fatherless doofoos that prevents ever cleaving with a woman, and therefore seeking out a Brotherhood. And whatever this identitarian color-coded premiership is, they are exactly the same socialists au nationales everywhere. Their god does not center within them – but they only identify with God’s merciful pain to want be His bride. The third man remains in all their relationships Fodder for islam. Peace, where the hate of rejection looms large for each man. You are no longer alone.
https://blairnaso.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/reflections-on-the-minor-prophets-of-the-bible/
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Germany: Tunisian sets fire to homeless shelter and to locomotive
On last Thursday morning, an initially unknown person set fire to the attic of a homeless shelter on Rosa Luxemburg Street in Glauchau. Firefighters extinguished the fire. Fortunately, nobody was injured. However, the flames partially destroyed the wooden roof construction, making the house uninhabitable after the fire. Shortly afterwards, the suspect lit paper in the driver’s cab of a diesel locomotive at the nearby station, causing damage to the locomotive to an unknown extent. The 37-year-old locomotive driver extinguished the fire and was subsequently treated in hospital as an outpatient on suspicion of smoke intoxication. The man then set fire to paper again on an empty wagon. However, the fire extinguished by itself, so that no material damage was caused here. Shortly afterwards, police officers were able to find the suspect on the station premises and arrest him provisionally. On Thursday afternoon, the 34-year-old Tunisian was brought before a judge who issued an arrest warrant. The suspect was then taken to a prison.
https://medforth.blog/2020/04/18/germany-tunisian-sets-fire-to-homeless-shelter-and-to-locomotive/
Sweeping arrests of pro-democracy leaders in Hong Kong (telegraph, Apr 18, 2020)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/18/sweeping-arrests-pro-democracy-leaders-hong-kong/
“Police in Hong Kong carried out a sweeping operation against high-profile democracy campaigners on Saturday, arresting 15 activists the authorities accuse of being behind last year’s huge protests.
Among those arrested was Jimmy Lai, 72, the media tycoon and founder of anti-establishment newspaper Apple Daily, who was arrested at his home.
The group also included former lawmakers Martin Lee, Margaret Ng, Albert Ho, Leung Kwok-hung, Au Nok-hin as well as current lawmaker Leung Yiu-chung.
They are accused of organising and taking part in unlawful assemblies in August and October, according to the police.
Five were arrested under suspicion of publicising unauthorised public meetings in September and October….”
Denmark Sets Up New Migrant Return Office to Increase Deportations (breitbart, Apr 18, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/18/denmark-sets-up-new-migrant-return-office-increase-deportations/
“The Danish government has set up a new return office within the Ministry of Immigration and Integration aimed at increasing the number of deportations of migrants without residency permits.
The office, named the Home Travel Agency, is scheduled to begin work on August 1st. Its establishment is the result of a decision made in September 2019 and combines tasks currently under the responsibility of several other agencies.
The Home Travel Agency will cover the estimated 1,100 rejected asylum seekers believed to be residing in Denmark currently, according to a government press release. It will not be associated with forced deportation measures.
“It is important for the government that foreigners without legal residence travel home. We have had the Danish Immigration Service for many years. They provide, among other things, residence permits for refugees and family reunions,” Foreign Affairs and Integration Minister Mattias Tesfaye said.
“Now, we set up the Home Travel Agency to ensure that people also return home when they no longer have the right to be in Denmark. An authority that only works with home travel. I think that makes good sense,” he added…”
Police Shoot Dead Afghan Migrant Armed with Knife in Paris No-Go Zone (breitbart, Apr 18, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/18/afghan-migrant-armed-knife-shot-dead-police-no-go-paris-suburbs/
“Police shot dead an Afghan asylum seeker in the no-go Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis after he attacked mounted police while armed with a knife.
It began when one of the equestrian officers approached 25-year-old Miakhil Zar Mohammad, who was walking around a park in the commune of La Courneuve on Wednesday afternoon by himself with a 12-inch knife.
A source close to the investigation told Le Parisien that the man had tried to attack the horse of one of the police officers.
The mounted police alerted another branch of the local police which patrols on bicycles about the migrant. The officers told Mr Mohammad, who did not speak French, to leave the park as it was closed due to the coronavirus lockdown. But he refused to leave and became aggressive.
Officers tried to force his removal with tear gas. Initially, the young migrant walked away, but then returned and charged with his weapon.
The other team of officers threw their bicycles to fend off the attack, but the Afghan continued to advance until three peacekeepers drew their weapons and shot him a total of five times in the head, shoulder, and abdomen. Mohammad died at the scene…”
Malaysia urged to allow Rohingya refugee boats to land (abcnews, Apr 18, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/malaysia-urged-rohingya-refugee-boats-land-70221890
“Human Rights Watch said Saturday that the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t justify Malaysia’s turning away of overloaded boats carrying Muslim Rohingya and risking the refugees’ lives.
The New York-based rights group noted that Malaysia had recently pushed back to sea at least two boatloads of Rohingya refugees. Despite Malaysia’s partial coronavirus lockdown that prevents foreigners from entering the country, Human Rights Watch said the pandemic should not be an excuse for a blanket policy of turning away boats in distress.
“Malaysia’s claims to support the rights of the Rohingya mean shockingly little when they push desperate refugees back to sea,” said Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch’s Asia director. “The COVID-19 pandemic does not create a justification for risking the lives of refugees on overcrowded boats.”
Predominantly Muslim Malaysia has previously protested the persecution of the Rohingya and sought justice for them. But its navy on Thursday intercepted a boat with some 200 Rohingya refugees off its northern coast and prevented it from entering Malaysian waters. The fate of that boat is unknown.
On Wednesday, Bangladesh coast guard officials rescued a boatload of 382 starving Rohingya refugees. Survivors said the boat had been turned away from Malaysian waters weeks earlier and that at least 30 people on board had died before the rescue.
Malaysia’s National Security Council on Saturday defended the decision by enforcement agencies to turn away the boat amid concerns that the refugees might be exposed to the coronavirus. Malaysia, which has recorded 5,251 coronavirus cases with 86 deaths, has tightened border patrols to prevent illegal immigrants from sneaking in, the National Security Council said.
Siti Sabrina Imji Rahim, a senior official on the council’s COVID-19 task force, said that sending the refugees to detention camps could increase the risk of spreading the virus. She said in an email reply to a query from The Associated Press that the refugees were given food and fresh water before being turned away.
Human Rights Watch, however, said Malaysia’s pushback policy violates international obligations to provide access to asylum seekers, and noted that the refugees could have been isolated or quarantined. It said the COVID-19 outbreak has only intensified the misery of an estimated 600,000 Rohingya who remain in Myanmar and nearly a million living in refugee camps in Bangladesh after fleeing persecution by Myanmar’s military.
“The Malaysian government can both protect against the spread of the virus and ensure that those risking their lives at sea are rescued and given a chance to seek asylum,” Robertson said.”
47 children from Greek refugee camps arrive in Germany (abcnews, Apr 18, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/47-children-greek-refugee-camps-arrive-germany-70221889
“A group of 47 unaccompanied children evacuated from refugee camps in Greece landed in Germany on Saturday, German officials said.
The Interior Ministry said the minors landed in Hanover on a flight from Athens. They were all tested for the coronavirus before departure and will remain in two-week quarantine before moving on to other German states
Germany’s interior minister, Horst Seehofer, said the evacuation was “the result of months of preparation and intense talks with our European partners” and expressed hope that other countries would also begin taking in refugee children soon.
The children come from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea. Four are girls and there are several siblings among the group.
Some of them have families waiting for them in Germany.
They were previously housed in refugee camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Samos and Chios that have been criticized as unsuitable for children by human rights activists.
“The Greek government has been trying to sensitize other EU countries to (the plight) of the young children, who have fled war and persecution, to find new families and start a new life. I’m glad this program is finally being implemented,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotsakis told reporters at the Athens airport, where he met the departing children, alongside the German ambassador to Greece, Ernst Reichel.
Mitsotakis added that he hoped over 1,500 minors would be relocated over the next months.
Germany pledged last month to take in at least 350 children living in Greek refugee camps as part of a joint European effort, but the plan has stalled in some countries due to the pandemic.
“Greece will continue to treat all … that arrive in our country with great sensitivity. But, at the same time, it has the obligation to guard and protect its borders. We have proven, as a country, that we can do both,” Mitsotakis said.
This was the second flight taking unaccompanied minor refugees to another European country. On Wednesday, 12 children traveled to Luxembourg.
According to the United Nations Secretary-General’s spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, there were over 5,200 unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors in Greece in early April “in urgent need of durable solutions, including expedited registration, family reunification and relocation.””
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BBC- Coronavirus: hope of vaccine by the autumn say Oxford scientists
Scientists in Oxford are hoping to have created a million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by September. They are one of a group of research teams who are to receive funding from a new government task force leading the search for a vaccine.
The effort to create a vaccine is a huge global undertaking and there are warnings that there is no guarantee of success.
The pressure to carry out more tests on frontline staff for coronavirus infection is continuing. The UK government says testing will be extended to the police, fire and prison services.
Ministers are also reviewing whether people should wear face masks in public spaces to stop the spread of the virus. A growing number of European countries recommend wearing them.
Meanwhile demand for help from food banks has soared as many people have lost their incomes.
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DAILY MAIL – Is this proof ‘life-saving’ ventilators are actually deathtraps? Their success rate is appalling and medics are increasingly worried they may do more harm than good, disturbing report reveals
Serious doubts have been raised about the effectiveness of ventilators
Ventilators are a standard treatment for the deadly lung infection pneumonia
In New York, 80 per cent of ventilated patients failed to recover
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8230775/Is-proof-live-saving-ventilators-actually-deathtraps.html
Germany: Several arrested at unregistered Berlin rally against coronavirus restrictions
Berlin police arrested several protesters as hundreds of activists took part in an unregistered demonstration against coronavirus restrictions on Saturday.
Dozens of officers were deployed to Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz where the demonstrators gathered outside Volksbuehne (People’s Theatre).
Earlier this week, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled that citizens can hold political protests if they follow social distancing rules.
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UK doctor records excruciating experience of drive-through coronavirus test
British doctor has recorded the excruciating experience of a drive-through coronavirus test.
The video, filmed yesterday (April 15th) in Oxford, shows Dr Rufus Cartwright wincing with pain and retching as his nose and throat are swabbed in his first test for the virus, despite working on the front line of an NHS hospital.
The procedure causes him to wince and cough repeatedly on the tester showing how crucial PPE is to carrying out his work safely.
“I’m a doctor but I was really surprised how painful this was,” Cartwright said.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=se6Qg_1587038405
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yahoo news – Sunlight destroys virus quickly, new govt. tests find, but experts say pandemic could last through summer
Preliminary results from government lab experiments show that the coronavirus does not survive long in high temperatures and high humidity, and is quickly destroyed by sunlight, providing evidence from controlled tests of what scientists believed — but had not yet proved — to be true.
A briefing on the preliminary results, marked for official use only and obtained by Yahoo News, offers hope that summertime may offer conditions less hospitable for the virus, though experts caution it will by no means eliminate, or even necessarily decrease, new cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The results, however, do add an important piece of knowledge that the White House’s science advisers have been seeking as they scramble to respond to the spreading pandemic.
The study found that the risk of “transmission from surfaces outdoors is lower during daylight” and under higher temperature and humidity conditions. “Sunlight destroys the virus quickly,” reads the briefing.
While that may provide some good news about the outlook for outdoor activities, the Department of Homeland Security briefing on the results cautions that enclosed areas with low humidity, such as airplane cabins, “may require additional care to minimize risk of transmission.”
In a statement to Yahoo News, the DHS declined to answer questions about the findings and strongly cautioned against drawing any conclusions based on unpublished data.
“The department is dedicated to the fight against COVID-19, and the health and safety of the American people is its top priority. As policy, the department does not comment on allegedly leaked documents,” the DHS said in a statement. “It would be irresponsible to speculate, draw conclusions, or to inadvertently try to influence the public based upon a document that has not yet been peer-reviewed or subjected to the rigorous scientific validation approach.”
The results are contained in a briefing by the DHS science and technology directorate, which describes experiments conducted by the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, a lab created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to address biological threats.
While the DHS describes the results as preliminary, they may eventually make their way into specific recommendations. “Outdoor daytime environments are lower risk for transmission,” the briefing states.
Simulated sunlight “rapidly killed the virus in aerosols,” the briefing says, while without that treatment, “no significant loss of virus was detected in 60 minutes.”
The tests were performed on viral particles suspended in saliva. They were done indoors in environments meant to mimic various weather conditions.
While the results of these tests have not been previously made public, Harvey Fineberg, head of the National Academies Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats, broadly described plans to conduct the experiments in an April 7 letter to the White House.
In that letter, addressed to President Trump’s top science adviser Kelvin Droegemeier, Fineberg wrote that the DHS lab “is well suited for the kinds of studies they have planned, and the scope and relevance are noteworthy. In particular, they plan to create simulated infected body fluids, including saliva and lower respiratory secretions.”
Droegemeier’s office did not respond to a request for comment on whether it has received the latest results from the DHS. The National Academies also did not respond to a request for comment.
While the lab results are new, scientists for many weeks have predicted, based on available data on the disease’s spread, that warmer, wetter climates would be less hospitable to the spread of the coronavirus. An early analysis by scientists observed that the virus was spreading more slowly in countries with warmer climates.
“We are not saying that at higher temperatures, the virus will suddenly go away and everything would be fine and you are going out,” Qasim Bukhari, a computational scientist at MIT and a co-author of the analysis, told Yahoo News in an interview. “No, we are not saying it. We are just seeing that there is a temperature- and humidity-related dependency, but I think many people now have started to realize this.”
Bukhari said that since he and his colleagues published that analysis, the numbers on the coronavirus’s spread continue to support their contention. “They are doing a lot of tests now in India. Also, when you look at the numbers in Pakistan it’s the same. There are more than 5,000 cases in Pakistan right now,” he said. “But the increase is not as rapid as you see in other countries.”
The question of the effects of sunlight and heat on the coronavirus has been particularly fraught, because there has been a tendency to misinterpret the relationship between good weather and disease spread. Early on, some politicians tried to encourage people to go outside, including to beaches, arguing that sunlight would kill the virus. The problem, however, is that without widespread immunity, people can still transmit the coronavirus to others, even in warm weather.
The real question now, Bukhari said, is whether enough people have already been infected that the summer temperatures won’t prevent continued transmission.
“So let’s say 50 percent of the population is already infected, and then those temperatures arrive and then those humidity levels arrive, then what difference can those temperatures and humidity levels be? Probably none. That’s the thing.”
While the new lab results are important, the science behind how sunlight kills the virus is fairly well established, says Arthur Anderson, former director of the Office of Human Use and Ethics at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md.
“[Ultraviolet] light breaks DNA into fragments. If the virus is floating around in the air and there’s bright sunlight, the UV component in sunlight will break the DNA or the RNA into pieces,” he told Yahoo News.
Infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has become the leading face of the White House response, has provided cautious statements about what the summer months might mean for the coronavirus, saying recently, “It’s almost certainly going to go down a bit.” He has stopped far short, however, of saying that good weather alone would have an impact.
Yet the lab results may ultimately provide at least some basis for optimism.
“Does this give a little more hope about the virus potentially decreasing?” said Dr. Kavita Patel, a Yahoo medical contributor and nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Yes. I would say even Dr. Fauci has alluded to that.”
Colds and flus don’t disappear in the summer, even if they are less common, Patel noted. “We do have cases of the flu in the summer,” she said. “That’s why all of us in medicine are being a little more guarded.”
The lab’s work was done in a controlled environment, according to the DHS briefing, and tested how long the coronavirus survives on stainless steel in a droplet of saliva from a cough or sneeze under conditions related to temperature, humidity and sunlight. The lab is now doing additional testing, such as experimenting with low-tech techniques for sterilization of protective equipment, which would include using rice cookers, clothes steamers and electric pressure cookers.
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, which conducted the experiments, has traditionally kept a low profile because of its classified work on biological warfare defense and bioterrorism. Fineberg, in his letter to the White House, did not go into detail on the planned experiments, noting that the lab shares its findings with the interagency task force on the coronavirus.
It is unclear for now whether the center intends to publish in a peer-reviewed journal or choose some other route for making its results known. Patel said she could understand government concerns about releasing preliminary results, but in general she leans toward openness.
“As a clinical doctor, we want to learn as fast as possible anything that works clinically. You want to be able in the first line to say: This is preliminary, with caveats. But why hold back the information?” she said.
It may be that the government wants to control how the message is released, she suggested. “I would say in a global pandemic, that’s less of a priority.”
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https://news.yahoo.com/sunlight-destroys-coronavirus-very-quickly-new-government-tests-find-but-experts-say-pandemic-could-still-last-through-summer-200745675.html
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RT – Crowdless Ceremony |Holy Fire lit in Jerusalem marking Orthodox Easter amid COVID-19
Orthodox Christians are celebrating Easter in a much different atmosphere this year with absence of pilgrims due to the #coronavirus pandemic. In Jerusalem, the Holy Fire was lit almost without crowds due to lockdown.
Holy fire – wikipedia
[…]Orthodox tradition holds that the Holy Fire happens annually on the day preceding Orthodox Pascha (Orthodox Easter).
During this time, blue light is said to emit within Jesus Christ’s tomb, rising from the marble slab covering the stone bed believed to be that upon which Jesus’ body is believed to have been placed for burial.
The marble slab is now in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem.
The light is believed to form a column of fire, from which candles are lit. This fire is then used to light the candles of the clergy and pilgrims in attendance.
The fire is also said to spontaneously light other lamps and candles around the church. Pilgrims and clergy say that the Holy Fire does not burn them
The Holy Fire is taken to Greece by special flight, and similarly to other Orthodox countries or countries with major Orthodox churches, such as Georgia, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Romania, Cyprus, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, being received by church and state leaders.
[…]In 1238, Pope Gregory IX denounced the Holy Fire as a fraud and forbade Franciscans from participating in the ceremony
[…]Edward Gibbon, wrote scathingly about the alleged phenomenon in the concluding volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
This pious fraud, first devised in the ninth century, was devoutly cherished by the Latin crusaders, and is annually repeated by the clergy of the Greek, Armenian, and Coptic sects, who impose on the credulous spectators
[…]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Fire
Thank you Martin. Pagananity is alive and well.
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Over 600 trillion dollars in derivatives hang in the balance
If you believe the flu is worse than coronavirus, read this
By Ben Bowles April 17, 2020
Early on in the coronavirus pandemic, before they began lambasting Donald Trump for not doing enough to combat it, the media played down the severity of the virus. An estimated 20,000 people have died from the flu so far this season, NBC News trumpeted.
As of today, the death toll from coronavirus is 149,884, according to Worldometers. It is certain to get higher before the pandemic ends.
In spite of these realities, many people continue to scoff at the risk. Some have openly defied reports from the health community, engaging in what sadly has come to be known as the “coronavirus challenge.” Those who accept the dare agree to post videos of themselves licking public toilet seats and the like. One “player” has already come down with a COVID-19 infection.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/04/17/if-you-believe-the-flu-is-worse-than-coronavirus-read-this/
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3 Indian soldiers killed, 2 wounded in Kashmir rebel attack (abcnews, Apr 18, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indian-soldiers-killed-wounded-kashmir-rebel-attack-70224069
“Rebels fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir attacked a paramilitary post on Saturday, killing three soldiers and wounding two others, an Indian official said.
At least two militants on a motorbike opened gunfire at the post in the northwestern Sopore area on Saturday evening, said Pankaj Singh, an Indian paramilitary spokesman. He said three soldiers were killed on the spot and two others were wounded in the attack.
The attackers fled after spraying bullets at the post, Singh said.
Counterinsurgency police and soldiers launched search operations in the area to try to nab the attackers.
No rebel group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack…”
Two Rockets Land in Vicinity of Chinese Oil Company Site in Iraq – Military Centre (sputniknews, Apr 18, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202004181079012366-two-rockets-land-in-vicinity-of-chinese-oil-company-site-in-iraq–military-centre/
“Two rockets have fallen in the vicinity of a site belonging to a Chinese oil company in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, Iraq’s military communications centre said on Saturday.
“Two Katyusha rockets landed near the Chinese company’s site in the Nahrawan region of southeast Baghdad on Saturday, there were no casualties”, the centre said in a statement.
The AP cited security officials as saying that the attack caused minor damage. One of the officials said that militia groups launched the rockets as retaliation for a botched business proposition.
China’s ZhenHua, a branch of the weapons firm Norico, has been operating in the nearby East Baghdad area since May 2018 under a contract with the oil ministry but the security officials refused to elaborate whether this was the company that had come under attack.
On 6 April, three rockets struck in the vicinity of a site belonging to the US oil service company Halliburton in the southern Iraqi province of Basra. No injuries or material damage were reported in the incident…”
(Richard: Why do I think that this woman got her job because she is loyal to Obama?)
Lead NIH Vaccine Scientist Kizzy Corbett Is a Crackpot Who Calls COVID-19 “Genocide” on Blacks, Expert in Virology and “Vagina-ology”
Kizzmekia Corbett works for the National Institute of Health (NIH) who is described as the Black scientist leading the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) development of a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine.
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She’s 34-years-old and getting several spots on CNN and other far left outlets.
She’s also an anti-white race hustler and describes herself as virology, vaccinology and vagina-ology.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/wow-lead-nih-vaccine-scientist-kizzy-corbett-crackpot-calls-covid-19-genocide-blacks-expert-virology-vagina-ology/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=weekend
Vagina-ology appears to the study of vagina health and removing the stigma of talking about it. A good thing. Though bit racist when it come dilators of color.
https://youtu.be/4oAqz2RTpE4
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Turkish-Backed Militants Kidnap 25 Civilians in Northeastern Syria: Report
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/04/18/2245688/turkish-backed-militants-kidnap-25-civilians-in-northeastern-syria-report
“Turkish-backed militants abducted 25 civilians from an area in the countryside of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, a report said.
According to Syria’s SANA news agency, the civilians were kidnapped on Friday in the village of Ahras in the city of Ras al-Ain and near Syria’s border with Turkey.
The report added the abductions were perpetrated by Turkish-backed militants.
The militants also recently set several homes on fire in the same area.
There has been a surge in kidnapping and extortions of civilians in the past month in the border area.
Also on Friday, the Turkish artillery targeted the villages of Nuwaihat and Bab al-Faraj, north of Abu Rasin town, causing material damage to residential homes and properties.
According to SANA, Turkish army troops and their militant allies have been attacking villages in Hasakah, Raqqah, and Aleppo with artillery shells and various other heavy weapons since their cross-border offensive into Syrian territory in October last year and the subsequent occupation of a long swath of the border with the Arab country.”
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Turkish Opposition Warns Erdogan over Power Manipulation
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2240051/turkish-opposition-warns-erdogan-over-power-manipulation
“The head of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who is the leader of the main opposition in Turkey has accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to tamper with the legislative authority.
Kilicdaroglu warned on Friday that Erdogan’s moves would lead to the collapse of his rule.
He said that Erdogan has suspended the parliament for 45 days, as part of the measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic, after passing bills that he had sponsored.
“The ruling party is speeding up its demise,” said the CHP leader.
“The suspension of parliamentary sessions is the result of Erdogan’s one-man rule,” he said. “Erdogan is mistaken if he thinks he can unilaterally resolve any problem or any crisis.”
Kilicdaroglu reiterated his criticism of a law passed by the parliament earlier this week to allow the release of tens of thousands of prisoners in order to ease overcrowding in jails and protect detainees from the coronavirus.
He slammed the law for excluding journalists and opposition politicians, revealing that his party would file an appeal to Turkey’s constitutional court.
Ali Babacan, the leader of the Democracy and Progress Party, also criticized the decision of the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) to issue FOX Turkey and other media outlets with a broadcast ban as a result of a report critical of the Turkish government’s efforts to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.
“Regulators should not be used as a punishment stick by the political authority,” said Babacan.
The decision violates media rights granted by the constitution, he said.
Last week, Erdogan accused FOX Turkey anchorman Fatih Portakal of “spreading lies and manipulating the public on social media.””
Houthis’ ballistic missile targets Ma’rib city
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/592030/SAUDI-ARABIA/Houthis-ballistic-missile-targets-Marib-city
“The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen said that the Iran-backed Houthi militia has sustained hostilities despite agreeing to a two-week ceasefire with fresh violations.
The latest violation by the Houthi rebels came on Friday when they deliberately launched a ballistic missile to target civilians and civilian areas in Ma’rib city.
A statement by the official spokesman of the Coalition Col Turki Al-Maliki confirmed this on Saturday. The statement read: “At (2252) Friday, 17 April 2020, the terrorist Iran-backed Houthi militia deliberately launched a ballistic missile to target civilians and civilian objects in (Ma’rib) city.
“The Houthi militia’s escalation of hostilities using ballistic missiles to deliberately target civilians and civilian objects underscores the militia’s denial of all efforts and initiatives of ceasefire and de-escalation, the last of which was the initiative by the Joint Forces Command of a ceasefire for two weeks.
“The Joint Forces Command is continuing to exercise utmost restraint in its rules of engagement, while maintaining the legitimate right to respond proportionately in self-defense and undertaking all necessary measures to protect civilians in Yemen from the wrath of this terrorist militia.
“The Coalition will continue its commitment of ceasefire, and support to the efforts and endeavors of the Special Envoy for Yemen to reach a comprehensive political solution.””