Posts on Sunday, April 19, 2020
The director of a lab studying the coronavirus in Wuhan—the Chinese city where the global outbreak is believed to have originated—denied that the bug accidentally spread from his facility. “There’s no way this virus came from us,” Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, told state media on Saturday. Yuan’s denial came days after a fresh round of reports suggesting the novel coronavirus escaped from the Wuhan Institute or another similar laboratory miles away in the Chinese city. President Trump was asked about the possibility at a White House press briefing last Wednesday and said the US was investigating the origins.
Senator Lindsey Graham ripped into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her criticism of Donald Trump's decision to halt funding to the World Health Organization, claiming her contempt for the president is harming the country. 'Her issue is she hates Trump to the point of hurting our own nation,' the South Carolina senator said on Fox News’ Justice with Judge Jeanine on Saturday night.She is condemning President Trump for cutting funds off of the WHO because they've been in China’s pocket, as she one time mentioned the fact the virus came out of China, that the Chinese Communist Party lied to the American people and the world at large,' he added.
President Trump played a clip of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo praising his administration during a briefing from the White House coronavirus task force on Sunday.In the 2-minute clip from Cuomo’s own briefing on the virus earlier Sunday, the governor said that the federal government had “stepped up and was a great partner” to the Empire state.“These were just extraordinary efforts and acts of mobilization,” Cuomo said, referring to the Navy-built hospital at the Javits Center and the USNS Comfort.After the footage played, Trump said the clip had left out “the good part” — apparently more compliments from Cuomo.
Joe Biden rambled and struggled for words during a CNN interview on Thursday about the coronavirus response, seemingly suggesting the White House should use WWII policies to deal with the pandemic. Speaking to Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Biden stumbled his way through the evening interview, after being asked his thoughts about President Trump's three-phase plan to reopen the country.After a long-winded reply about a lack of testing, Biden said: 'You know, there's a uh, during World War II, uh, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing uh, that uh, you know, was totally different than a, than the, the, it's called, he called it the,
Students are weary of online
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classes, but colleges can't say
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College students threatened to revolt if universities put another semester of classes online to avoid spreading the coronavirus – but that's increasingly what campus leaders are considering doing. For Ryan Sessoms, a marketing student at the University of North Florida, the transition to online classes has been rocky. The thought of paying the same amount of tuition for another semester of lackluster classes is a nonstarter. It’s harder to find the motivation to complete his assignments, he said, when not surrounded by his peers. “Fall is my last semester as well,” said Sessoms, 24. “All my hard work I have
Aaron Eaton learned how to shoot in the Army back in 2006 but holstered a pistol for the last time when he left in 2009 and took a job as a technician for a sewer company. That all changed on March 26 when the father of four walked out of an Alabama gun store with a Beretta 92FS, the same gun he handled as a military policeman at the height of the Iraq war."Simply put: I wanted peace of mind when it comes to the safety of my family," Eaton said. Eaton's pistol was one of 2.3 million firearms to fly off the shelves in March,
During the rebel Sixties, one could easily identify the ranks of the hardcore left by their constant predictions of a coming fascism and the evident glee with which they welcomed the prospect. Whether this was the product of a serious attempt to read the political winds, or merely a radical wish was irrelevant. They defended it as a strategy of “the worse the better.” In the 1968 presidential election, it was better to elect a fascist like Nixon than a moderate like Hubert Humphrey – that is, if you were serious about revolution.Of all my memories of the Sixties the revelations provoked
RCMP are shown near a gas station in Enfield, N.S., shortly after the gunman's police chase came to an end around 11:40 a.m. local time. (Eric Woolliscroft/CBC)
More than 10 people were killed during a gunman's bloody 12-hour rampage through several Nova Scotia communities, and police warn there may be more victims.
In an update on Sunday evening, Nova Scotia RCMP confirmed there were at least 10 people killed in several locations across the province, including a veteran RCMP officer.
Harvard Professor Wants A ‘Presumptive
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Ban‘ On Homeschooling, Claims
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In a shocking essay for Harvard Magazine, a professor of law and director of Harvard Law School’s child advocacy legal clinic, claims homeschooling is a threat to children’s rights, a method of promoting white supremacy, and a drain on democratic society — and even goes so far as to suggest a national “presumptive ban” on the practice.Harvard is playing host to a “homeschooling summit,” slated to take place (at least digitally) June 18-19, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation. But Harvard’s concern isn’t so much whether homeschooling is a viable, cost-effective, and comfortable method of education for many Americans, but rather whether homeschooling is (and homeschooled children are)
WOODLAND PARK, N.J. – It was the best news Steve Mastropietro could have hoped to receive. His 91-year-old father had made a near-miraculous rebound on Saturday morning after being diagnosed two days before with COVID-19. A nurse at the New Jersey Veterans Home in Paramus said Tom Mastropietro no longer had a fever. The Korean War veteran had not only eaten breakfast, but even walked to the bathroom unaided.
Neiman Marcus Group, one of the largest retailers in the United States, is reportedly ready to file bankruptcy amid the COVD-19 pandemic after defaulting millions in bond payments last week and furloughing 14,000 employees.
Neiman Marcus would become the first major US department store to crumble amidst the economic set backs from the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters reported the company had few options after the coronavirus spurred lockdowns that shuttered non-essential businesses, including all 43 of their stores.
This includes Last Call stores and its two New York City Bergdorf Goodman department stores.Neiman Marcus has struggled to stay afloat with brick-and-mortar stores as consumer shopping increasingly shifts online.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear tried to veto a proposed bill requiring voters to present photo ID at their polling location. Democrat opponents to the bill pointed to the absence of voter impersonation cases in Kentucky. They felt the requirement for voter ID would reduce turnout among the poor, minorities, the elderly and disabled. Sound familiar?
Governor Beshear earlier stated he vetoed the bill since it created an obstacle to voting rights and was “undermining our democracy.” This has been a Democrat talking point in many blue states attempting to derail the requirement for voter ID.
The Governor didn’t count on the supermajority of Republicans to react so strongly.
The former mayor of a Northern Californian city who stepped down after he harshly criticized President Donald Trump and his supporters, died Saturday in a plane crash, the Sacramento Bee reported. Dr. Bill Kirby, who was the mayor of Auburn, died in the crash Saturday morning near the Auburn Municipal Airport, (Snip)Kirby gained notoriety last week after social media posts criticizing Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and comparing the president’s supporters to KKK members. Kirby’s posts and statements created an outcry and calls for his recall.
He told the Auburn Journal a week ago that his Facebook posts were made on a personal page
(Map)For the second Sunday in a row, the South is bracing for an outbreak of severe weather, including widespread damaging winds, tornadoes (some strong), hail and torrential rainfall.
Multiple waves of severe thunderstorms are occurring Sunday and Sunday night from Texas and Louisiana to the Atlantic coast of the Carolinas as a strong storm system rolls across the area. Accompanying the potentially vigorous storms is the expectation for flash flooding in some areas.
On Sunday, a tornado watch was in effect until 10 p.m. local time from southeastern Texas, including Houston and Galveston, eastward into much of Louisiana, southwest Mississippi and southeast Texas through 10 p.m. local time.
South Carolina’s public beaches and retail stores will reportedly reopen for business this week, Gov. Henry McMaster (R) is expected to announce Monday.
“The impending restriction rollbacks follow McMaster’s announcement that access to public boat ramps and landings was reinstated on Friday,” according to the Hill.
The state’s coronavirus infection rates have dropped enough to make easing restrictions feasible, the governor’s Chief of Staff Trey Walker said.
However, social distancing will still be enforced on beaches, the report noted.
Walker said businesses such as furniture, jewelry, and clothing stores will open their doors on Tuesday.
Saturday on Twitter, McMaster said his state was ready to safely get back to work. [Tweet]
Christopher DeMuth of the Hudson Institute argues in the Wall Street Journal this weekend that President Donald Trump has made history by decentralizing power during a crisis, unlike his predecessors, who used crisis to build a bigger government.
DeMuth points out that Trump has empowered state and local governments, while enlisting the help of the private sector and cutting red tape. He has asserted federal prerogatives, but mostly as a way of keeping people in line — not abusing his power.
Contrary to claims that the federal government mismanaged the early stages of the crisis — in testing,
Constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley found fault with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after she criticized protesters of local social distancing guidelines in the same interview she advocated for an end to discrimination. "Nancy Pelosi just said to Chris Wallace on Fox that she does not understand people publicly protesting civil liberties on lock down orders," Turley tweeted Sunday. "However, this followed her defense of her calling people to join her in Chinatown in late February as a protest against discrimination ..." (Tweet)
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said it was his idea to include President Trump’s name on the IRS stimulus checks being mailed to Americans who don’t have direct deposit to help ease the financial burdens caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Mnuchin was asked during an interview on CNN whether putting the president’s name on the checks was Trump’s suggestion.“That was my idea. He is the president and I think it’s a terrific symbol to the American public,” he said on “State of the Union.”The stimulus payments of $1,200 for eligible individuals
Rob Reiner Says Trump ‘Will Lose in a Landslide
Because Americans Will be Voting for Their
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Because Americans Will be Voting for Their
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Left-wing Hollywood director and actor Rob Reiner is predicting that President Donald Trump will lose his reelection this November because “Americans will literally be voting for their lives.”
While Reiner’s remarks are an apparent reaction to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the director did not clarify how exactly he arrived at his prediction.
“Trump will lose in a landslide because Americans will literally be voting for their lives,” tweeted the Misery director on Saturday. [Tweet]
Saturday’s tweet is not Reiner’s only prediction about the president.
In January, The Jerk actor suggested that National Security Advisor John Bolton could be of major value for Democrats during the president’s impeachment trial
Republican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw stood his ground as comedian Bill Maher claimed that President Donald Trump had slow-rolled the nation’s response to coronavirus. Crenshaw appeared Friday on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and addressed everything from the federal response timeline to what House Democrats — led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — had been doing at the time.
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Democrat lawmakers are SILENT as Pelosi REFUSES to pass funding for small businesses in crisis! Nancy Pelosi showed off her basket of fancy chocolates this week at home in her mansion. This is while tens of thousands of businesses are waiting for her to approve more funding to small businesses. Pelosi is stalling. Meanwhile a poll of restaurant and bar owners found that 80% of owners are not sure they will ever reopen after the government enforced shutdown of their businesses.
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has denied official recognition for the Turning Point USA club on campus. The school has not provided any reasoning for its decision.
According to the students who have been trying to get their TPUSA club off the ground for months, Baylor has provided little communication and hasn’t explained its decision to deny recognition for the club.
TPUSA at Baylor chapter president Oliver Mintz told Breitbart News that the school’s Student Activities department said that it would provide the conservative students with a list of reasons as to why the group was denied approval, but that the students have not received a response to date.
‘Let us work’ protests spread all across the
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US this weekend; demonstrators labeled
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As protests against coronavirus-based lockdowns continue spreading across the country (and globe), authorities are growing increasingly despotic and arguably fascist in their enforcement of “stay-at-home” orders, with police in one community arresting a woman for simply planning a protest.That woman, Kim Pagan of New Jersey, reportedly faces charges for “organizing a prohibited event” that involved protesters gathering in order “to demonstrate against” Gov. Phil Murphy‘s potentially unconstitutional coronavirus restrictions. “Pagan has to answer to the charge in Muncipal Court. Violations of emergency orders constitute
Osama E. El Hannouny makes no secret of his hatred for Christians and Christianity. Last November, he was charged with 14 misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property and possession of cannabis after slashing the tires of cars parked at a Baptist church in Palos Hills, a suburb of Chicago where he lives. At the time, he told police that he did it because he doesn’t like Christians. Month later, a grand jury indicted him on 14 additional counts of felony hate crimes, taking into consideration his openly expressed animus toward Christianity.
Nonetheless, he was released from custody without paying any bail, on a so-called “I Bond,”
On Saturday, the AP published an article describing Democrat worries about the Trump campaign team’s black outreach efforts. Democrats see that Trump is a Republican like no other, including his challenge to the Democrats’ decades’ long hold on black voters.
Democrats like to hide the fact that it was once Republican party that had the lock on black voters. The Republicans had earned that relationship. The Republican party was formed in 1854 as an abolitionist party, and it was the Republican party, under Abraham Lincoln’s leadership, that spearheaded a vast civil war to end that immoral practice.
What finally pried blacks away from the Republican party was government money.
President Trump on Saturday claimed that states have been unfairly targeting Christians by not allowing religious gatherings due to the coronavirus pandemic while suggesting that they won’t enforce the same rules with Muslims during Ramadan. ‘You know I just spoke with leaders and people that love mosques,’ the president said on Saturday. ‘They love mosques! And I’m all in favor of that. ‘But I would say that there could be a difference. And we’ll have to see what will happen. ‘Because I have seen a great disparity in this country. I’ve seen a great disparity.’ Trump on Saturday retweeted a post by a conservative author,
The fearsome knock on the door came after nightfall. Outside were two men in hazmat suits who told businessman Fang Bin they had come to take him into medical quarantine. But the textile trader, a gangly man in his early 40s, wasn’t ill and the men outside his Wuhan apartment weren’t doctors. They were police officers confronting a menace the Chinese Communist Party had been grappling with as ferociously as the coronavirus itself–ordinary people who bravely expose the truth about the outbreak and refuse to keep quiet. Mr Fang’s ‘crime’ was to post a video he had filmed of people dying of the virus
Throughout the state’s history (save the last 20 years or so), Californians have been adventurous, individualistic, and bristle at the thought of being told what to do or at being expected to conform with rules set by “the man.” Starting with the Gold Rush, people who didn’t fit in in their hometowns went west to find fortune, fame, wide open spaces, or to be able to invent their own identity. That California spirit has produced the entertainment industry, Silicon Valley, Walt Disney, and much more, and has also led people in other states to jokingly label the state as “the land of fruits and nuts.”
Well, That Unraveled Quickly
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Thinking back to February 28, 2020, and the New England Journal of Medicine. It published an article called “Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted” signed by Anthony S. Fauci (THE Fauci), Clifford Lane, and Robert R. Redfield. It reported an existing COVID-19 case fatality rate of 2% but further pointed out that infections show “a wide spectrum of disease severity.” (Snip) [I]t made the U.S Constitution and human rights generally null and void for a full thirty days. And we had no choice but to comply. It was a grotesque experiment in totalitarianism. (Snip) Now we know. Never again.
Stir crazy
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Democrat governors and mayors are going nuts with power. The pandemic panic has them turning into King George IIIs. He had an excuse. He was mentally ill.
For some reason, parks and beaches are closed across the nation but subways aren't. I fail to see how being 60 feet away from on the shore is a public health threart, but being jammed in a rapid transit car is perfectly OK.
In San Clemente, California, skateboarding is now a crime. (Snip) After skaters ignored the no trespassing signs on a popular skatepark in San Clemente, extreme measures were taken to prevent people from going to the spot.
Last fall, as the House impeachment wave was building, I asked a gathering of 10 friends what they thought of President Trump’s prospects. Only six were Trump voters in 2016, but the group was unanimous on two points: The president would not be convicted by the Senate and would be re-elected in 2020.
Because the world has been turned upside down since then, I wanted an update from the same group. All successful New Yorkers, they are active in business, philanthropy and politically astute.
The past two weeks have been a rollercoaster as my husband and I celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary, learned we were both COVID-positive, spent multiple nights we thought could be our last ones together, and finally received a surreal email from the Kent County Health Department declaring us free and clear of any COVID-related quarantine. We are now allowed to take part in normal life again with “no restrictions” (whatever that means under total lockdown).
Something stinks in New Jersey.
Gov. Phil Murphy is doing his best to style himself as the Gretchen Whitmer of New Jersey by initiating a series of capricious, absurd, lockdown diktats in the name of combating the coronavirus. In reality, they help no one.
He's a stupid guy all right, given that his fiats are killing his state's economy, for one. And he was last seen trying to tell Fox News's Tucker Carlson that the Bill of Rights was "above his pay grade."
The Pharisaical Spirit
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Here is what Jesus says about the ruling class of his day. He said this after he entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, shortly after he overturned the tables of the money-changers: “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.” There can be a spirit of ugliness that inhabits a ruling class, let’s call it pharisaical hardness. When that spirit of ugliness rears its head, it deserves confrontation -- Jesus made that quite clear.
Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders and severing supply chains in China that traffickers rely on for the chemicals to make such profitable drugs as methamphetamine and fentanyl.
One of the main suppliers that shut down is in Wuhan, the epicenter of the global outbreak. Associated Press interviews with nearly two dozen law enforcement officials and trafficking experts found Mexican and Colombian cartels are still plying their trade as evidenced by recent drug seizures but the lockdowns that have turned cities into ghost towns are disrupting everything from production to transport to sales.
Breitbart reports, “Facebook is relying on a ‘fact checker’ that uses ‘expert opinion’ from a researcher who conducted projects with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the biolab next to the wet market in Wuhan where the Chinese virus originated.”
An article from Danielle E. Anderson, assistant professor at Duke-NUS medical school, was used by Facebook to “fact-check” and censor a video from the Epoch Times.
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You cannot make it up.
The "fact checker" Facebook is using to censor a documentary discussing possibility that corinavirus came from Wuhan lab... is scientist who worked at Wuhan lab with Chinese communists.
Honestly, folks.
The Columbia Journalism Review is asking more than 400 media outlets to join in on a project that seeks to prioritize coverage of alleged “global warming” instead of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as reported by the Daily Caller.
The project is referred to as “Covering Climate Now,” and among its extensive network of outlets are Reuters, Bloomberg, and the Daily Beast. Although originally founded in 2019, one of the project’s founders, Mark Hertsgard, recently released a statement declaring that the project and “global warming” should receive more coverage than the pandemic that has killed over 100,000 people worldwide, and brought the global economy and international travel to a complete standstill.
As a nation the Wuhan Virus has framed a re-evaluation of priority: faith, family, community and freedom. Seeing totalitarian Blue state governors so easy dispatch liberty and individual rights reminds us to rekindle the flickering flame of freedom. Modern journalists, no more essential to life than scripted narrative engineers dancing as puppets on strings in boxes, are inconsequential. The true American story is not built upon celebrity; but rather grit, callouses and dirty fingernails. Farmers, truck drivers, stock clerks and supermarket cashiers are essential; …dancing puppets, not so much. Facing this reality a generation of pathetically soft and feeble sorts;
The coronavirus is spreading from America’s biggest cities to its suburbs, and has begun encroaching on the nation’s rural regions. The virus is believed to have infected millions of citizens and has killed more than 34,000. Yet President Trump this week proposed guidelines for reopening the economy and suggested that a swath of the United States would soon resume something resembling normalcy. For weeks now, the administration’s view of the crisis and our future has been rosier than that of its own medical advisers, and of scientists generally. In truth, it is not clear to anyone where this crisis is leading us. More than 20 experts in public health, medicine, epidemiology and history shared their thoughts on the future
Will the Covid-19 PsyOp succeed?
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From the outset of this story of the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, I have been cautious about coming to conclusions about what’s really going on. (snip) There’s been what I’ve called a flu d’état – a takeover of our supposedly democratic political process by unelected and unaccountable administrative state medical bureaucrats who are deeply and permanently embedded in the system of modern medicine – a collection of businesses that now consumes about twenty percent of the Gross National Product.
Trump: What’s up, Doc?
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A Facebook friend likened the President to Bugs Bunny, chomping on his carrot and making fun of his enemies. And this week it certainly seems that way as the page flips from "everybody’s–an-epidemiology expert" to "we are now all constitutional scholars." (Snip) I know it won’t surprise you to know that people like New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo who pegged the earlier statement as dictatorial now accuse Trump of passing the buck. Actually, it’s a bit late for civics lessons, but we still live in a federal republic
Sen. Richard Burr's sale of up to $1.7 million in stocks shortly before the recent market crash was one of the lawmaker's only market-beating trades since record keeping began eight years ago, according to a new study.
The new analysis, presented by researchers at Dartmouth College, shows just how unusual the North Carolina senator's transactions were. On a single day, Feb. 13 of this year, Burr unloaded a significant portion of his net worth — a departure from his typically low-volume trading history.
Growing discontent with stringent state-level restrictions imposed to mitigate the coronavirus is pouring out into the streets near state capitols in ways reminiscent of the last decade’s conservative activism.
“They have a very tea party feel,” said Tea Party Express co-founder Sal Russo of the demonstrations.
“The current protests are because of government overreaching and infringing on our rights,” said Tea Party Patriots founder Jenny Beth Martin. “The protests are an extension of what the Tea Party movement has stood for the last 11 years — constitutionally limited government, personal and economic freedom.
The Biden campaign has committed one of the biggest blunders since Michael Dukakis rode in that tank. No, I don’t mean running with dementia in the first place: rather it is the “Team Joe” avatar where you can upload your own photo and slogan for the campaign. People are having lots of fun with this. We’re only including a few here. I am sure someone—maybe even Joe in his few lucid moments—is wondering whose dumb idea this was. Either that or it is genius, as it provides an alternative to the coronavirus for diverting amusement under martial law. And there was also this: Obama endorsed
"Let us silence the cries of death!”
So urged a passionate Pope Francis in his Easter Vigil homily to an eerily empty St. Peter’s Basilica, stirred by the lethal global COVID-19 pandemic: “No more wars! May we stop the production and trade of weapons! Let abortion and the killing of innocent lives end!”
The pope was not afraid to remind those concerned about death from the scourge of COVID-19 that they should also be concerned about death from the scourge of abortion.
One who ought to listen is a self-described “former altar boy” with “Roman Catholic values” — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Few Americans are battling daily
As the president of the United States shelters in place with the White House press corps, and Joe Biden gibbers senselessly into the GoPro camera in his Delaware basement, this fall’s national election has been thrown into a cocked tricorn by the coronavirus. Many of Donald Trump’s retail-politicking strengths — the huge rallies, his command of crowds — have been neutralized, and while he still has control of the narrative from his bully pulpit in the West Wing, the national media remains dead set against him, and puts the worst possible spin on every word he speaks.
Now that Bernie Sanders has bowed out of the race, we can turn our attention to the general election — quaratine-style, of course. Joe Biden’s locked in his basement, and Donald Trump is tethered to the White House, which means it might be a while before we see much deflection from the current status quo. What exactly is that status quo, especially in the states that will make the difference? Pew Research’s latest survey puts Biden slightly ahead of Trump overall, 47/45, but Trump reverses that in Pew’s battleground states:
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES - Dwindling supplies of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants is sparking concern about shortages of beer, soda and seltzer water - essentials for many quarantined Americans.
Brewers and soft-drink makers use carbon dioxide, or CO2, for carbonation, which gives beer and soda fizz. Ethanol producers are a key provider of CO2 to the food industry, as they capture that gas as a byproduct of ethanol production and sell it in large quantities. But ethanol, which is blended into the nation’s gasoline supply, has seen production drop sharply due to the drop in gasoline demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gasoline demand
Crowds returned to beaches in Jacksonville Friday after Florida’s governor gave the green light for some to reopen if done safely – as a new model significantly dropped the number of forecasted fatalities in the Sunshine State.
Cheers could be heard at 5 p.m. when barriers to Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach and Neptune Beach came down. Hundreds of people were subsequently pictured enjoying their newfound freedom. The beaches are reopening with restricted hours and can only be used for walking, biking, hiking, fishing, running, swimming, taking care of pets and surfing, according to Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry. They will be open from 6 to 11 a.m. and 5 to 8 p.m.