Easter Sunday: As Christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of Christ, we all pray for a quick end to this pandemic.
As families spend more time together than normal, we get to both experience the need and strength of the family…and hold back from going crazy:)
American ingenuity and the American spirit appears to be uniting to get this under control and rationally identify the new normal. We as a country and a people will have hopefully learned some important lessons.
Godspeed.
CoronaVirus: Be smart. Pay attention to the advice health care professionals are giving. Be diligent about your habits. Do your part to help. This is serious and should be taken seriously.
It’s a problem. It was not Trump’s fault. The haters just have to get over it and pitch in to help make this better. Let’s learn from this and be a better country for it.
It isn’t and shouldn’t be political.
It’s a pandemic. The world was NOT ready for this. We need to ALL do our part. Follow the advice, keep your distance, touch less, clean everything and say a little prayer, it can’t hurt!
-Saul Anuzis
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Weekly News Video Summary:
Sanders drops out of presidential race
Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential bid on Wednesday, ending a campaign that once appeared on track to dominate the Democratic nominating contest but that quickly lost momentum.
Jobless claims surged to 6.6 million last week as pandemic shutdowns forced layoffs
The number of workers claiming new unemployment benefits jumped to 6.6 million last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, as the economic shutdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus spurred layoffs on an unprecedented scale.
Coronavirus stimulus checks are on their way: Here’s how it works
The stimulus checks, much like a tax refund, will be handled by the Internal Revenue Service. If you have filed your taxes electronically, the money can be transferred to your bank account via direct deposit.
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‘Don’t know how this is going to look.’ Trump team grapples with an upended campaign
President Donald Trump’s campaign is adapting its messaging and fundraising tools for the era of social distancing. But adjusting the core argument of his reelection bid – that the economy is stronger than it was four years ago – is proving to be a much greater challenge.
A global pandemic that erased all of the economic gains made since Trump took office has kept the candidate confined to the White House and prevented large rallies and high-dollar fundraisers. It has forced his well-oiled campaign operation to radically change course.
Within weeks, the Trump campaign had to reposition from a message of financial market records and the best employment numbers in 50 years to one explaining the president’s response to unemployment levels unseen since the Great Depression.
Squad’ members want to make illegal immigrants eligible for coronavirus aid
Members of “The Squad” have a host of proposals for the next coronavirus relief package — and believe benefits should be extended to illegal immigrants.
On Tuesday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) called for the next package to guarantee relief for individuals who are not in the country legally and even those who are incarcerated.
“We need to continue to make federal investments in our community health centers,” the first-term lawmaker said in an MSNBC appearance. “We need to center the humanity of every individual family and workers and that includes not leaving behind undocumented and uninsured.”
“We have to continue to make investments to support vulnerable populations like those experiencing homelessness, incarcerated men and women. We’re focused right now making sure the CARES Act in its implementation is one that is in urgent need and mitigating the hurt that so many of our families are experiencing — all of our families are experiencing right now,” she continued.
How the CDC and the FDA Wrecked the Economy
Public officials across the United States are flying blind against the COVID-19 epidemic. Because of a government-engineered testing fiasco, they do not know how fast the virus is spreading, how many people have been infected by it, how many will die as a result, or how many have developed immunity to it.
The failure to implement early and wide testing, which was caused by a combination of short-sightedness, ineptitude, and bureaucratic intransigence, left politicians scrambling to avoid a hospital crisis by imposing broad business closure and stay-at-home orders. It foreclosed the possibility of a more proactive and targeted approach, focused on identifying carriers, tracing their contacts, and protecting the public through isolation and quarantines.
The initial outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, was reported at the end of December. The first confirmed case in the United States was reported on January 20, by which time it seems likely that many other Americans were already infected.
At first, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) monopolized COVID-19 tests. When the CDC began shipping test kits to state laboratories in early February, they turned out to be defective.
Kavanaugh nemesis Alyssa Milano goes mum on sexual assault allegation against Biden
Few celebrities speak louder on behalf of the #MeToo movement than Alyssa Milano.
The “Charmed” alum uses her massive Twitter flock, some 3.6 million strong, to slam Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, proclaim “Believe All Women,” and demand better conditions for women in and out of Hollywood.
That made her silence on the sexual abuse allegation lobbed last month against former Vice President Joe Biden both unexpected and, to some, troubling.
The progressive star’s silence suggests partisan politics are as much a factor as the credibility of allegations, according to several right-leaning voices. Even some fellow liberals have denounced Milano’s inability to call out a key member of her own party.
Majority of Americans Support Reparations… From China
Most Americans think the Chinese government should pay reparations for failing to prevent the coronavirus from becoming a pandemic, according to a Harris poll published this week.
A majority of respondents—54 percent—said they agreed that China should be “required to pay other countries for the spread of the virus.” A majority of independent voters expressed support for Chinese reparations, as did 41 percent of Democrats.
The poll’s findings suggest that most Americans, and most Democrats, are not persuaded by the national media’s efforts to downplay China’s role in causing the pandemic, which in some cases has included the promotion of Chinese propaganda.
Cuomo: Economic reboot must account for second wave of coronavirus cases
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday predicted a second wave of coronavirus cases, arguing in a TV interview that he and other U.S. leaders must prepare for a resurgence as they eye lifting restrictions on everyday life.
“If we’re not expecting a second wave or a mutation of this virus, then we have learned nothing,” Cuomo, whose state has seen the most cases in the U.S., said in a morning interview on MSNBC. “I think this is one of the new normals now in public health, like we go through the environment, like we’ve gone through the economy. That is why it is such an important period for government.”
Evidence has emerged in recent days that the caseload in America, even in hotspots like New York City, may not reach the worst-case scenarios envisioned by early modeling projections. Cuomo said that’s attributable to the public’s adherence with social distancing efforts imposed by governments.
Here’s How Pro-Beijing Outlet Phoenix TV Made It Into The White House Coronavirus Press Briefing
A reporter from a Hong Kong outlet aligned with the Communist Party of China is a member of the White House Foreign Press Group and has rotating access to White House press briefings.
That is how the Phoenix TV reporter was able to push pro-Beijing talking points, touting Chinese aid to other countries, during the White House coronavirus task force’s press briefing on Monday. Her question prompted President Donald Trump to question if she was working for China.
Don’t Believe The Hype: It Was Bernie Who Beat Biden
At long last, Joe Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign Wednesday, ending what has turned out to be one of the strangest and most unpredictable presidential primary contests in modern history—one that essentially ground to a halt in mid-March because of the coronavirus.
Still, make no mistake: Sanders might have lost the battle for the Democratic nomination to Biden, but he won the war for the future of the Democratic Party. Since his insurgent challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2016, and especially over the past year of campaigning, Sanders and his allies on the left have transformed the Democratic Party almost beyond recognition from what it was when Biden last served in elected office as Barack Obama’s vice president.
Democrats want to drop Joe Biden for Andrew Cuomo, poll finds
A majority of Democrats want to nominate New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for president instead of Joe Biden, according to poll results shared exclusively with The Post.
The national poll found 56 percent of Democrats prefer Cuomo, with 44 percent wanting to stick with presumptive nominee Biden — a 12-point margin well outside the 4.8 percent margin of error for the Democratic sample.
Hispanic voters, young people, women and self-identified liberals are most likely to favor dumping the former vice president for Cuomo.
The poll, conducted April 3-6, was commissioned by the conservative pro-market Club for Growth, which generally supports Republican candidates.
Trump team wrestles with the risk of a second pandemic wave after ‘reopening’
The White House has begun working through the problem of trying to facilitate a return to normal for parts of the country without seeing the coronavirus pandemic roar back the way it has spread in the past weeks.
President Trump has not yet laid out any plans for “reopening” the economy. But the administration is giving hints about how it’s trying to think through the issue.
One part of the approach is a new coronavirus task force focused on the problem, working independently of the task force now focused on halting the spread of the disease. Some of the names being floated for the group are Ivanka Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett. Insiders told the Washington Examiner that leaders from the private sector, sports, and entertainment worlds will comprise the new task force.
Vice President Mike Pence said in a press briefing Thursday evening that “there’s a number of working groups that are looking at, not only how do we reopen the country, but how do we stay open?”
AG Barr Dunks On MSNBC; Gives Update On Durham Criminal Investigation
Attorney General William Barr took a shot at far-left MSNBC journalists during a Fox News interview that aired on Thursday night over ignorant remarks that the hosts had made about the war on drugs.
Barr made the remarks after Fox News’ Laura Ingraham played a montage of the MSNBC employees complaining about the Department of Justice’s recent actions against drug cartels.
“Well, it might come as a surprise to some of these people that the federal government, the Justice Department specifically, has 115,000 people who are dedicated to protecting the public safety, including preventing narcotics trafficking, and we’re actually able to do more than one thing at a time, and we’re handling different kinds of cases,” Barr said. “Maybe fraud is not on the top of their mind, but we still police fraud. … It’s very interesting because drugs kill 70,000 Americans a year, 70,000 a year. And it’s poison, and we have to make sure that during this period, the cartels are not taking advantage of the United States and pumping this poison up into the United States.”
