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Friday, April 10, 2020

Doc Recovers From Coronavirus

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Lies By The WHO

Isn't This A Violation Of The First Amendment?

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Cops Raid Church Service, Ticket Elderly Worshipers. Defiant Pastor Says 'Get Some More Tickets Ready'

By Jared Harris
Published April 9, 2020 at 4:07pm

A shocking daylight raid of a church service attended by many elderly congregants was turned on its head by a defiant pastor who refuses to be bullied by the government.

The Todd Starnes Radio Show reported that the police intervention didn’t happen in New York or California, but right in the middle of the Bible Belt — Greenville, Mississippi.

Despite participating in a drive-in service where worshipers were isolated in their own cars and listened to the sermon on the radio, congregants were found to be in violation of a City of Greenville order.

Cops raiding the Temple Baptist Church on Wednesday didn’t just inform churchgoers of the order, but reportedly also issued a whopping $500 fine to every person who refused to leave — many of them elderly.

Pastor Arthur Scott, who preaches to the church and its many elderly congregants, was not happy with the government punishing his flock for safely trying to hear the Gospel.

“One of the police officers said the mayor wanted to make an example of our church,” Scott told Starnes.

“I told them to get some more tickets ready because we will be preaching Sunday morning and Sunday night.”

According to Scott, the government’s recommendation that church services be held over Zoom, Facebook Live or other digital platforms would make his sermons inaccessible to many of the elderly worshipers who don’t have smartphones.

Worshiper Chris Owens recorded his interaction with a police officer, posting it on Facebook for the world to see.

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Owens noted that an officer without gloves handed him a pen.

Assuming the officer had handed that same pen to other congregants he ticketed, it’s conceivable that the police intervention caused the worshipers to be exposed to more physical contact than if they had simply been left alone.

“I tried to talk to the mayor,” Scott told Starnes.

“I’ve been here 45 years and I’ve never been to the city council. I’ve never complained. I’ve never stirred up a stink. But I told him I’m going to fight them on this.”

It’s unclear why the government of Greenville thinks congregants in separate cars would risk transmitting the coronavirus to each other.

And Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons wasn’t offering much by way of specific reasoning when asked about the incident, except for claiming that church meetings could be epicenters for the spread of the disease.

“It’s all about trying to save lives,” Simmons told the Delta Democrat-Times. “If people continue to gather, it’s going to spread.”

“The police were respectful and just doing their job,” congregant Lee Gordon added. “They asked us to leave first and those who stayed got a ticket.”

With Easter quickly approaching, Scott’s shocking encounter with law enforcement is becoming the new normal in some places in America.

A preacher in Florida, for instance, was arrested for hosting a church service. In California, one county even issued an order that makes going to church a crime.

All of these attacks on our most cherished rights are due to fear of COVID-19 and the virus that causes it.

As can be seen in Florida, California and now Mississippi, the shameless trampling of our First Amendment rights happened not because of a threat to the government or a mass rebellion, but rather due to hysteria over a virus.

Its Time For WHO To Fire Tedros

It Is Time for the WHO's Pro-China Chief to Resign

by Con Coughlin
April 10, 2020 at 5:00 am

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Rather than criticising Beijing for its initial attempts to cover up the outbreak, Dr Tedros instead praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for his "very rare leadership", and China for showing "transparency" in its response to the virus.
"The W.H.O. really blew it... Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?" — US President Donald J. Trump, Twitter, April 7, 2020.
Why indeed?

The blatant pro-China bias shown by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its response to the coronavirus pandemic has raised a number of serious questions about its handling of the crisis. Pictured: WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pays a visit to Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on January 28, 2020. (Photo by Naohiko Hatta/AFP via Getty Images)

As the body responsible for maintaining global health standards, the UN-sponsored World Health Organization (WHO) is supposed to adopt an even-handed approach when dealing with all member states, irrespective of how powerful they might be.
It is for this reason that the blatant pro-China bias the organisation has shown in its response to the coronavirus pandemic has raised a number of serious questions about the WHO's handling of the crisis.
Under the terms of the WHO's constitution, which sets out the agency's governing structure and principles, the Geneva-based organisation is charged with ensuring "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health."
The accusation made by the Trump Administration, that the global body has become "China centric" and has been "biased" in its dealings with Beijing over the pandemic, therefore suggest the organisation has failed in its duty to treat all member states equally.
This has prompted US President Donald J. Trump to threaten to cut WHO funding, a move that could prove disastrous for the organisation, as the U.S. is its main financial backer.
President Trump's low opinion of the WHO was reflected in a hard-hitting Twitter post this week, in which he wrote:

"The W.H.O. really blew it. For some reason, funded largely by the United States, yet very China centric. We will be giving that a good look. Fortunately I rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to China early on. Why did they give us such a faulty recommendation?"

Why indeed?
Mr Trump then repeated the accusations at a White House news briefing on Tuesday. "They called it wrong. They really -- they missed the call," the president said. "And we're going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO. We're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see."
The deepening row between Washington and the WHO comes at a time when the U.S. is having to deal with a worsening death toll while the Chinese are celebrating as citizens in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus is said to have originated, begin to return to normal life after experiencing a total lockdown imposed by China's authoritarian regime that has lasted for more than two months.
By contrast, the U.S. is being particularly badly hit by the pandemic, with New York State on Tuesday reporting its highest single day increase with 731 fatalities.
The Trump Administration is increasingly of the view that the US would not be suffering so badly had the WHO been more rigorous in its dealings with Beijing when the outbreak was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019.
Much of the blame, moreover, for the WHO's dire performance during the outbreak is being blamed on Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director-general. A former Ethiopian health minister, he first came to prominence in his home country when he served on the politburo of the Marxist-Leninist Tigray People's Liberation Front.
Dr Tedros was previously a great admirer of former Rhodesian dictator Robert Mugabe, even appointing him as a goodwill ambassador for the WHO, a decision he was forced to revoke following an international outcry.
Like Mr Mugabe, Dr Tedros has enjoyed a good relationship with China's ruling communist party, and he won election to his current position after receiving backing from China in the May 2017 election.
His long-standing relationship with Beijing might help to explain why the WHO has been so accommodating to China even though the coronavirus pandemic originated in Wuhan. Rather than criticising Beijing for its initial attempts to cover up the outbreak, Dr Tedros instead praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for his "very rare leadership", and China for showing "transparency" in its response to the virus.
Many nations, including the U.S. and Britain, believe that Dr Tedros's reluctance to confront China over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak is the reason it has now become a pandemic, with most Western countries being forced to introduce lockdown measures in a belated attempt to limit the spread of the virus.
Not surprisingly, Dr Tedros is facing widespread calls to resign, not least in the U.S., where American politicians say he placed too much trust in Beijing's reporting about the extent of the spread of the disease.
Certainly, if investigations into the outbreak conclude the devastating global consequences could have been avoided if Dr Tedros had acted differently, then the WHO boss will have no choice but to tender his resignation.

Con Coughlin is the Telegraph's Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Gatestone Institute.

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Media Lies Again?

Pentagon: ABC's 'Bombshell' Report that Trump Admin Knew About Coronavirus in November 'Not Correct'

Pentagon Crushes 'Bombshell' Anti-Trump Report

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By Jack Davis
Published April 9, 2020 at 9:12am

A media bombshell that relied heavily on unnamed sources has been denounced as a dud by a Pentagon official who is not afraid to put his name to his words.

ABC reported Wednesday that a November report from the National Center for Medical Intelligence predicted the coronavirus that started in the Chinese city of Wuhan would become a “cataclysmic” event. ABC’s report, which said briefings on the subject took place throughout late 2019, was based on sources who, unsurprisingly, weren’t identified.

“The timeline of the intel side of this may be further back than we’re discussing,” ABC reported that a source said, concerning early reports from China. “But this was definitely being briefed beginning at the end of November as something the military needed to take a posture on.”

But the ABC report referenced a report that does not exist, Col. R. Shane Day, the director of the NCMI, said in a statement to Fox News.

“As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters,” the statement said.

“However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists,” he said.

The declaration that the report was untrue was pounced upon by those on Twitter.

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U.S. intelligence warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November, ABC News reports https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273 …

Ruben Santillan II@fithoustondad

Odd that ABC is reporting this as fact when the official response is that no such NCMI product exist. They got caught making stuff up and still want to act like it’s factual.

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Fox News reported that it was told by an official whom it did not name that after the ABC report was aired, the DIA and NCMI have been seeking to find any report that could approximate what ABC described. The NCMI is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Fox News reported that the search came up empty.

ABC’s report, however, indicated there would have been multiple administration officials involved in dealing with the kind of threat an “out-of-control disease” in Asia would pose to U.S. forces in the region.

“From that warning in November, the sources described repeated briefings through December for policy-makers and decision-makers across the federal government as well as the National Security Council at the White House,” ABC reported. “All of that culminated with a detailed explanation of the problem that appeared in the President’s Daily Brief of intelligence matters in early January, the sources said. For something to have appeared in the PDB, it would have had to go through weeks of vetting and analysis, according to people who have worked on presidential briefings in both Republican and Democratic administrations.”

ABC’s report said such a warning would have triggered ripples throughout America’s military.

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“It would be a significant alarm that would have been set off by this,” ABC quoted former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Mick Mulroy, now an ABC contributor, as saying. “And it would have been something that would be followed up by literally every intelligence-collection agency.”

“Medical intelligence takes into account all source information — imagery intelligence, human intelligence, signals intelligence,” Mulroy said. “Then there’s analysis by people who know those specific areas. So for something like this to have come out, it has been reviewed by experts in the field. They’re taking together what those pieces of information mean and then looking at the potential for an international health crisis.”

Defense Secretary Mark Esper has said that he recalls no such November warning.

The first public awareness of the coronavirus came in December, although some media accounts have suggested China was aware of the virus in November. The first action on the part of the U.S. to deal with the virus came in mid-January, when it started screening travelers entering the U.S. from China.

President Donald Trump banned travelers from China to the United States on Jan. 31.

A Democratic Party talking point in its criticism of Trump has been that the administration was slow to react to the threat posed by the virus.

Trump, on the other hand, has said that the actions his administration took in January were justified by the level of concern health experts gave the virus at the time.