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RACIST extremist groups, including neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, are encouraging members who contract novel coronavirus disease to spread the contagion to cops and Jews, according to intelligence gathered by the FBI. In an alert obtained by ABC News, the FBI’s New York office reports that "members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through bodily fluids and personal interactions." --- ABC News  

FROM Anthony Migchels: Meanwhile, they’re just shutting down the real economy. Just destroying the livelihoods of millions of people all over the West, locking down entire sectors, offering 1000 bucks (1500 Euro’s in Holland) to make ends meet in the months ahead in exchange. Aren’t they great? Is Big Brother not reaching out? Is it any wonder that the multitude are very grateful? Getting saved from The Bug, and next getting a hand out too? Sadly, reality landing won’t take long. A few thousand Fed bucks are not going to replace weeks and months of real production. The US Economy is projected to implode with 14% next quarter. Talk about torching the place. It is not going to seriously console millions of newly unemployed. Bankrupt small business. The main target, as always, is the West. America in particular.

PENNSYLVANIA Governor Tom Wolfe had no authority to shut businesses down. His mandate was a mandate despite his double talk. The same is true of other governors who have taken unlawful and authoritarian measures against the coronavirus. Marc Scaringi at The Western Journal comments.  

  IN THIS AGE of Counterfeit Catholicism, praying the ancient and unchangeable liturgy of the Catholic Church at home is what a small but growing number of Catholics do every Sunday. Now that your church is likely closed, consider joining them by praying the true Mass at home. It is not ideal, but Catholics have done it for many centuries when they did not have access to the sacraments. I highly recommend Gerry Matatics's CD lecture, "What Do Recusant Catholics Do on Sunday?;" his other talks are outstanding too. Matatics's personal story is fascinating. He was raised in an atheistic home and became obsessively interested in the Bible as a teenager. He became a full Presbyterian minister but then converted to Catholicism. The Bible, he said, converted him. For Protestant readers, and actually anyone, I highly recommend his great and entertaining lecture, "How the Bible Converted Me to Catholicism: One Protestant Minister's Surprising Journey of Faith." With everything closed by government fiat, this is a good time to learn more. This is a good time, the best of times, to pray. Come to Mass! Come, children, come to Mass, and bring your merry hearts with you. Come, you that are young and happy, and rejoice before the Lord. Come, you that are old and weary, and tell your loneliness to God. Come, you that are sorely tempted, and ask the help of heaven. Come, you that have sinned, and weep between…

FROM Heather Mac Donald: To ask about the costs and benefits of the spreading economic shutdowns guarantees an accusation of heartlessness. But the issue is not human compassion versus alleged greed. The issue is balancing one target of compassion against another. The millions of people whose lives depend on a functioning economy also deserve compassion. Many of the businesses that are now being shuttered by decree will never come back. They do not have the reserves to survive weeks or months without customers. In New York City, many streets were already blighted by rows of empty storefronts. The virus shutdown could knock out the remaining enterprises, as customers acclimate themselves further to ordering on-line. Lay-offs are piling up in restaurants, hotels, and malls; on Tuesday, unemployment claims in California were 40 times above the daily average, an increase greater than any coronavirus surge. It is low-wage employees who are most being hurt. The knowledge class can shelter in place and work from their home computers. Their employers are not shutting down. Not so people who physically provide goods and services. The employees who have been let off now may not be able to find work again if the economy continues to collapse. While governors and mayors declare some businesses essential and some not, to their employees, they are all essential. A prolonged depression will stunt lives as surely as any viral epidemic, and its toll will not be confined to the…

FROM The Common Nature of Epidemics and Their Relation to Climate and Civilization (Lippincott, 1866) by Thomas Southwood Smith, M.D.:

If indeed the emanations thrown off from the living body formed permanent and powerful poisons, like miasms connected with the products of decomposition, and if they were, like such products, capable of being conveyed unchanged to great distances, we should be able to live only in solitude; we could never meet in society, for we should poison each other; the first symptom of illness would be the signal for the abandonment of the sick, and we should be compelled by a due regard to self-preservation to withhold from persons afflicted with disease every kind and degree of assistance that required personal attendance.

Happily, we are not so constituted, and the evidence that has been adduced of the narrowness of the sphere even of the most virulent contagion, shows the groundlessness of the alarm sometimes entertained respecting this dreaded agent, while it points to the certain means of destroying it. The London Fever Hospital is separated from the Small-Pox Hospital only by the space of between thirty and forty feet, and the windows of the wards of both establishments are immediately opposite each other: yet there is no instance of the communication of small-pox to the typhus patients, nor of typhus to the small-pox patients; nor of either disease to the convalescent, or to the official inmates of the adjoining establishment. There does not appear to be a single instance on record, in any country, of the extension of infection beyond the walls of an hospital, or even of a lazar-house, so as to injure in any manner the nearest inhabitants. (more…)

"CDC estimates that influenza was associated with more than 35.5 million illnesses, more than 16.5 million medical visits, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths during the 2018–2019 influenza season. This burden was similar to estimated burden during the 2012–2013 influenza season1." --- Centers for Disease Control  

  Source: Centers for Disease Control  

THE social media giant has restricted access to Ron Paul's recent column on the coronavirus. (Paul was wrong in labeling the illness itself a "hoax" because he certainly was not denying the existence of an infectious strain of coronavirus. I don't know why he titled this column, and the video counterpart, so misleadingly.) At issue is Dr. Paul's statement that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci's claim that the coronavirus is "ten times more deadly" than the seasonal influenza virus is “without any scientific basis." Fauci made the claim recently in testimony before the US Congress in a move that significantly ramped up the fear factor in the US over the virus. --- Read more here Also, Youtube is using the virus panic to justify more general censorship.