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Animals looting and burning, it is not protesting.

I'm so over it.  I, of course was siding with the black community over the killing, but they've lost me.  It's all about the looters and Antifa now.  This is gonna set back race relations and trust to a point even worse than before.

Justin never read that , I bet.

He was fired for leaking, not investigating.

Which one would that be? The Transportation IG who was investigating Mitch McConnell's wife for diverting funds into helping her husband's re-election, or the State Department IG who was investigating the use of taxpayer dollars to entertain Republican donors?

You forgot the Defence department IG who was removed for the crime of overseeing coronavirus relief funds. I think shady was referring to yet another---the whistleblower who behaved ethically and within the law and leaked nothing. 

Criminality is as contagious among Republicans as Covid-19.

There are laws and standards that corporations have to adhere to.  Corporations, and all businesses.  They also have to respect intellectual property.  Nobody in China does.  No, it definitely IS a China thing.  We don't have the same issues with any other country.  Stop making excuses for their regime.  The one that covered up a deadly virus and then sent it out to the world.

Plus it's China flooding the world with fake N95 masks. Not the US, not Taiwan, not Vietnam or India or Thailand or Pakistan. China. It's always China.

Yes, and faulty tests as well.

Is that what you tell yourself in the mirror each morning?

He inspired me to help you out in this difficult time in your life. Don't despair. You have value!

Ruling class elites have decided to put that all aside.  Consequences be damned.  Virtue signalling is much more important to them.  So is new indebted voters.

Dallas Morning News debunks yesterday’s labradoodle fake news story.  It’s just fake news after fake news after fake news.

Yes, the family of the HHS chief of staff sold fancy puppies, but that’s not how he got the job, and in any case he wasn’t in charge of the coronavirus task force, no matter what you’ve read online.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/04/23/no-trump-did-not-put-a-labradoodle-breeder-in-charge-of-covid-19-response/?utm_content=buffer1b4d3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Its sad that people fall for this just because it reinforces some stereotype they have of Trump.

Well, that seems like a desperate attempt to change the subject from the verifiable stupidity you are trying to portray as false in a manner that is pathetic even by gaslighting Trumper standards.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/trump-name-checks-coronavirus/index.html

Checks have already gone out.  This sounds like previous fake news stories.  Like Trump is profiting from hydroxychloroquine, or that the pentagon briefed Trump on corona virus in November.  They’re always based on unnamed sources, and then turn out to be wrong.  I know that’s it’s easy to believe because it reinforces everything you think of Trump.  But most of these stories turn out to be false.

How do you imagine this could be faked? The checks either will or will not have his name on them. There's no way to fake that.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/coming-to-your-1200-relief-check-donald-j-trumps-name/2020/04/14/071016c2-7e82-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html

"moistly" funny 

Whatever you people are smoking,

pass it on

You didn't hear Trudeau talking about not speaking 'mostly'

Their a propaganda arm of the Chinese government.  Even issuing statements to the world based on what China tells them, even without being able to validate the claims.  Trump is right, funding to the WHO needs to be seriously questioned.

Yes they do, not just immigrants but planeloads of people from China who are not checked or tested, that's the worst part.  They are asked some questions, given a brochure then on their way.   Trudeau's lack of border controls and refusal to lock down travel/border has jeopardized all of us.

Evidence of community transmission Jan 29

https://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/emerging-diseases/news/online/{686f7316-c3e1-454d-971e-b131b74c388a}/evidence-shows-human-transmission-of-coronavirus-since-mid-december

Evidence of community transmission Feb 19

https://www.jwatch.org/fw116361/2020/02/19/covid-19-human-human-transmission-outside-china-guidance

Evidence of community transmission Feb 29

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/three-states-report-new-community-spread-covid-19

You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts.

When I say "community", I mean the community of New York. I don't believe we have had community transmission in Manitoba yet. 

When you don't understand the basic terms of what you're talking about, shut up.

I understand Ford’s frustration.  But if the situation was reversed, and doctors and nurses in Toronto couldn’t get the protective equipment they need, at the same time Canada was shipping that equipment to other countries, some questions would be raised and action demanded.

Regardless, this isn’t protectionism.  Protectionism is practices protecting certain industries from outside competition.  

I don't believe this is true. It's only on that one site, one I've never heard of before. Just last week they announced they were hiring 10,000 more workers, and just yesterday they announced bonuses for their workers in light of the pandemic danger. Walmart's web site has a 'covid-19 update' page and it says nothing about closing down.

A lot of stores are doing curbside pickup, so that's possible.  By closing, I took that to mean closing to all business.

I think if that was the case it would be on their web site and it's not. And I think it would have been covered more widely.

Trump has allready said he won't pay for their security.   poor Harry, what a life he gave up...he's been Markled.  

I wonder how long it will take him, sitting at home supervising the nanny changing nappies while his wife is out being a 'movie star' before he wonders where his life went.

Maybe they got the biggest federal handout in number of testing kits. Some indications that up to 30% more people are infected than are being counted right now. It just depends on how good we are at testing.

I could be wrong about the testing kits, but the point is when it gets down to this ridiculous level of scrutiny of an infection, which is unprecedented never seen/ been done before and in this wonderful age of information today, you will see confusion over numbers like this. I hear that China was not counting those who didn't have any symptoms but tested positive. You can see how different places might count differently, sometimes purposely to their political benefit.

Here is another highly interesting statistical observation. The virus apparently takes about 10 days to run through your system. Therefore everyone who tests positive is quarantined for at least two weeks, and then released after negative test results.

As a consequence, any country that initiates mass testing will find that the virus is out there, and will be a big number at first. All these initial discoveries go into quarantine regardless of severity, but those who are more ill stay in hospital. They measure the blood O2 level and if it is low, you stay in with oxygen support. Even if a case is mild, it is done as a precaution. So hence hospitals will be overloaded for a while with these cases until they are discharged.

The data curve will show rapid increase in the number of cases especially when new testing is initiated in a region. Canada's data showed a big spike one day in March, it was on a Monday.

The spikes persists for at least two weeks, with no one listed as recovered until after that.Then there would be a drop in the number of active cases. The graph showing totals will just keep going up however.

My point is, you will see the recovery rate numbers increase from a spike the end of two week quarantine. The recovery rate then naturally "flattens" the totals curve, all on its own.