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FLASHBACK: CNN’s Anderson Cooper Told Viewers To ‘Be More Concerned About The Flu’ Than Coronavirus
Baton Rouge business sign ordinance suspended for 120 days during coronavirus outbreak
Live Emergency Saturday COVID-19 Briefing
UN Security Council Pushes To Suspend In-Person Voting, Russia Says 'No'
With New York City now clearly the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States — as of Friday reporting 5,683 cases and 43 deaths — United Nations diplomats from various countries are pushing to suspend in-person voting and sessions.
Most United Nations Security Council members are already pushing to vote in teleconferencing only and to rely on virtual meetings, however, Russia is reportedly blocking the initiative. Reuters reports:
Russia believes the 15-member body “shouldn’t be afraid” to meet in person in the council chamber in New York.
The council has so far merely experimented with video conference meetings and is seeking to implement it during this public health emergency as a "last report" measure.
"Russia has prevented the Security Council from approving a U.S.-drafted procedural note, seen by Reuters, for meetings held by videoconference, said diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity. Such notes must be agreed by consensus," the report continues.
The Russian position as articulated by its Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, is that the UNSC Chamber is “one of the safest venues” in New York City and “the risk of getting the virus there is much lower than when we go to a shop for basic needs.”
“We shouldn’t be afraid to gather from time to time in UNSC Chamber,” Nebenzia said.
The US procedural note being held up by Russia calls for “an initial period of two weeks and may be further extended for additional two-week periods, preferably by consensus,” writes Reuters.
But given that staff in other 'high secure' locations and government buildings have caught the coronavirus, most notably a member of Vice President's Mike Pence's staff, the Russian UN delegation and others could now be questioning their logic that the UN chamber is still among the "safest venues".
Amid coronavirus pandemic, reporter focuses on 'Kung Flu'
President Donald J. Trump answers media questions regarding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 (Video screenshot)
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, with thousands of people dead and tens of thousands more sick worldwide, a reporter's focus at a news conference with the president Wednesday was on whether a White House employee called the disease "Kung Flu."
Reporter Yamiche Alcindor asked President Trump whether he would condemn the term, then rephrased her question from one breath to the next, asking if it's proper to label it the "Chinese virus."
Real Clear Politics reported the exchange .
"At least one White House official use the term Kung Flu, referring to the fact that this virus started in China," Alcindor said. "Is that acceptable? Is it wrong? Are you worried that having this virus be talked about as a Chinese virus might – "
President Trump: "Do you know who said that?"
Alcindor: "I'm not sure of the person's name. But would you condemn that--?"
Trump: "Say the term again."
Alcindor: "A person at the White House used the term 'Kung Flu.'"
Trump: "Kung Flu?"
Alcindor: "Kung Flu."
She then rephrased the question: "Do you think using the term 'Chinese Virus' puts Asian Americans at risk? That people might target them?"
"Not at all, I think they probably would agree with it 100%. It comes from China," the president said.
Another reporter demanded to know why the president called it the "Chinese virus."
He said it's because it comes from China.
See the exchange:
It was Chinese officials who first described it as the Wuhan virus, after the Chinese city were it orginated. Now they're claiming it may have have been delivered to Wuhan by U.S. soldiers.
CBS reporter Weijia Jiang claimed in a tweet that an unnamed White House official had called the deadly virus the "Kung Flu" to her face, Fox News reported.
"This morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus as the 'Kung-Flu' to my face. Makes me wonder what they're calling it behind my back," she tweeted.
Earlier Wednesday, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said the phrase 'Kung Flu' was wrong but refused to engage in a "hypothetical," demanding to know who in the White House had the exchange with Jiang.
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Louisiana makes changes to unemployment to aid workers impacted by coronavirus
The Louisiana Workforce Commission has made changes to unemployment to help workers across the state whose jobs were impacted by the coronavirus.
Dollar General cuts store hours, dedicates hour to senior shoppers during coronavirus pandemic
Dollar General stores will close an hour earlier and will dedicate the first hour each day to senior shoppers to help them avoid crowded stores.
Mardi Gras may have been the perfect breeding ground for coronavirus, experts say
The Mardi Gras season checks many of the boxes that scientists say act as an incubator for this fast moving virus to spread.
Video doesn't show JPSO deputy planting evidence, sheriff says
A video of what appears to be part of the arrest has been making waves on social media, because some say it is proof that a deputy planted evidence.
Louisiana officials seek waivers from some key education provisions for 2019-20 school year
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards sent a letter to lawmakers Tuesday, asking the Department of Education to waive many testing and attendance requirements for students for the remainder of the school year due to classes being canceled amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Closing schools in an effort to flatten the curve and stop the spread of COVID-19 has created the need to suspend certain laws. This week, Senator Cleo Fields, chair of the Senate Education Committee, Representative Ray Garofalo, chair of the House of Education Committee, Sandy Halloway, president of BESE, and Beth Scioneaux, interim superintendent, requested executive action to ensure that the necessary laws were suspended,” Gov. Edwards wrote in the letter.
The governor says he plans to issue a proclamation in the coming days to address these issues, some of which will only go into effect if the United States Department of Education grants a waiver.
In the letter, Edwards addresses issues such as attendance requirements, LEAP testing, school accountability, teacher evaluations and credentialing, teacher work days, and charter school applications and enrollment.
Click here to read exactly what Gov. Edwards is proposing.
KLFY contacted the Governor’s press office and spoke to Shauna Sanford who gave the following response.
“While at this time it’s planned for K-12 students to return to school on April 13, because the long-term impacts of the coronavirus are unknown, Gov. Edwards, BESE, DOE, the legislature and teacher unions are working collaboratively to address the potential impacts for students and teachers when it comes to testing, accountability, school attendance and other important areas.”
The state plans to submit the waiver request in the coming days.
"There Is No Light At The End Of This Tunnel": NYC's Largest Chinese Restaurant Forced To Close Its Doors
Jing Fong is the largest Chinese food restaurant in New York City. And now, due to fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, it has been forced to close its doors for the first time in 48 years. The restaurant was founded in 1972 by the grandfather of Truman Lam, who is the restaurant's current owner.
The coronavirus slowdown has forced the popular Dim Sum restaurant to close, temporarily for now, according to the New York Post.
The decision was reportedly made final last Thursday after New York governor Andrew Cuomo made an announcement that gatherings of more than 500 people would be banned. Jing Fong has over 800 seats.
A sister restaurant that seats fewer people and is located on the Upper West Side, remains open.
Claudia Leo, the restaurant’s marketing director, said: “Business there is down 30% to 40% but that is acceptable for now until further notice. But Chinatown has closed. We were going back and forth on what to do all day.”
“It is all happening very fast. We were trying to take it all in. It is the best decision for everyone’s sake,” she continued.
The restaurant still has enough food to feed 3,000 people, she said. "We'll have to toss it out," she said.
The plan for now, however, is only to stay closed temporarily.
Leo concluded: “We will re-open when everything passes. Honestly we have no idea when. Maybe when there is a vaccine and a cure but there is no light at the end of this tunnel right now.”
Coronavirus leads to glut of crawfish
East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office closes to public over coronavirus, but deputies continue to patrol
Louisiana state parks closed to public, used as staging areas for coronavirus patients
Lake Bistineau, Chicot and Bayou Segnette state parks are being used as additional regional staging areas for coronavirus patients.
Letters: Louisiana must protect teachers, public servants in face of virus
Another Biden lie: A 'drunk' killed my wife and daughter
The fact that former Vice President Joe Biden, now on his third try for the presidency, remains the last "moderate" standing says more about his now-vanquished rivals than about Biden. The same media that post running tabs on President Donald Trump's "lies" ignore, downplay or otherwise dismiss Biden's gaffes, memory lapses and frequent incoherence.
He's Uncle Joe, the regular guy from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who understands the common man. So what if he says, without proof, that he worked to "desegregate restaurants and movie houses of Wilmington, Delaware"? So what if he says since 2007, "150 million people" – almost half of the U.S. population – "have been killed" due to gun violence?
So what if he boasts about his "arrest" in South Africa for supposedly attempting to visit Nelson Mandela, an effort Mandela allegedly later thanked Biden for attempting? Never mind that none of it is true – not the arrest, not the attempted visit and not the thank-you from Mandela. According to the Daily Beast, "Biden finally admitted that the story was much different than he'd initially described, saying he told police while on a congressional delegation to South Africa that he was 'not going to go in that door that says white only' and separate from his black colleagues." And so what if Biden, who voted for the Iraq War resolution and publicly accused Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of possessing weapons of mass destruction, now claims he "didn't believe (Saddam Hussein) had those weapons of mass destruction"?
More disturbingly, Biden lied on at least two occasions about a man named Curtis C. Dunn. Dunn was the tractor-trailer driver who, in 1972, tragically struck and killed Biden's wife and his infant daughter. Along with many other news outlets, the Huffington Post, in 2008, described the accident this way: "Delaware's Senator-elect would face a more difficult challenge soon after his election, when a drunk driver struck the car carrying his family, killing his wife Neilia and daughter Naomi and severely wounding sons Hunter and Beau."
Based on Joe Biden's account, the Huffington Post got it right. Dunn was driving drunk. After all, in a 2001 speech at the University of Delaware, Biden said, "An errant driver who stopped to drink instead of drive and hit – a tractor-trailer – hit my children and my wife and killed them." But the then-Delaware prosecutor, now a judge, who investigated the accident says, "The rumor about alcohol being involved by either party, especially the truck driver (Dunn), is incorrect." Furthermore, the tractor-trailer driver had the right of way, and Dunn immediately got out of his truck and tried to render assistance. He was no drunk driver.
Disturbed by Biden's drunk-driver version of the accident, Pamela Hamill, Dunn's daughter, wrote to Biden. The Newark Post wrote:
"In 2001, (Hamill) wrote a heartfelt letter to Biden expressing her father's profound grief after hearing Biden make a post-Sept. 11 speech in which he told the audience that, given his history, he could empathize with victims.
"'Growing up, my dad never talked about it. He always got very solemn around Christmastime because the anniversary was Dec. 18, and he never wanted to celebrate the holidays,' Hamill said. 'When newspapers had anniversary articles (about the crash), we hid them from dad.'
"Biden responded in a handwritten note, which, in part, reads, 'All that I can say is I am sorry for all of us and please know that neither I or my sons feel any animosity whatsoever.'"
Biden, it appears, got the message. Both families suffered a terrible tragedy. Why add to the pain by falsely portraying the remorseful Curtis Dunn as a drunk driver?
But a few years later, Biden did it again.
In a 2007 speech at the University of Iowa, Biden said: "Let me tell you a little story. I got elected when I was 29, and I got elected November the 7th. And on December 18 of that year, my wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree. A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly – and I never pursued it – drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly, and killed my daughter instantly, and hospitalized my two sons, with what were thought to be at the time permanent, fundamental injuries."
In 2008, Hamill demanded that Biden make a public apology. Hearing nothing from Biden, she sent him a registered letter. The next year, after an accurate CBS television report on the accident, Hamill said she received a phone call from Biden. Hamill told Politico: "He apologized for hurting my family in any way. So we accepted that – and kind of end of story from there."
Joe's calling card is decency, an affable man without a malicious bone in his body. Yet he allowed Dunn, who died in 1999, to go to his grave having been falsely shamed by Biden as a drunk driver responsible for the death of Biden's wife and newborn daughter. What "decent" man does that?
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Donald Trump Signs Coronavirus Relief Bill with Over $100 Billion in Aid
De Blasio calls on Trump to deploy military to set up hospitals in New York
Steve Scalise Self-Quarantines After Contact With A Coronavirus-Positive Politician
Louisiana Congressman to self-quarantine after ‘extended meeting’ with Congressman who tested positive for COVID-19
Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA.) has released a statement regarding the news that a Republican Member of Congress tested positive for COVID-19.
“I have just been informed that my colleague Mario Diaz-Balart tested positive for COVID-19. Since I had an extended meeting with him late last week, out of an abundance of caution, I have decided it would be best to self-quarantine based on the guidance of the Attending Physician of the United States Congress.”
“Fortunately I am not experiencing any symptoms, and will continue working remotely on Congress’ Coronavirus response, and will remain in close contact with the Trump administration’s Coronavirus task force, my colleagues in Congress, as well as local officials and health professionals in Louisiana to ensure that swift action to address this crises continues.”
Bernie Sanders: ‘Beyond Disgusting’ to See Nazi Flag at Rally
Austin’s SXSW Canceled Due to Coronavirus
Twenty-one people test positive for coronavirus aboard cruise ship off San Francisco
"MILFs In Quarantine" - Coronavirus Porn Sweeps America
The next big trend in porn is Coronavirus-themed videos. Porn sites across the internet have seen an influx of uploads with amateurs banging in bio hazmat suits and or just simply in masks.
Over the last month, Pornhub has seen 115 Coronavirus-themed videos uploaded by wannabe porn stars, otherwise known as amateurs.
There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for the surge of Coronavirus-themed porn videos, that is, because these amateurs depend on ad revenue to make money, and the only way to survive and generate clicks is to stay super relevant with current events, such as making porn videos about a pandemic that could wipe out the human race.
One of the oddest videos Vice ran across is titled "Bodycam Footage (CDC Agent) Investigates Deserted Wuhan," features a first-person point of view of a hospital worker stumbling around in the dark, uncovers a creepy hospital patient, and that's the moment where we will stop describing what happens next…
Here's a PG-rated version of the creepy Coronavirus-themed porn video:
xHamster spokesperson Alex Hawkin told Vice that Coronavirus-themed porn videos have been surging after it provided free premium accounts to regions affected by the virus.
Another video Vice viewed is titled "COVID-19 Coronavirus: Horny Slut Has to Use Protection During Outbreak!" where amateur pornstar "Chase Poundher" emerges from the hallway wearing a face mask and tells a female performer entering the house, "Wait, don't you move a foot closer. Haven't you heard of COVID-19?" Mr. Poundher then lectures her for one minute about the virus, the outbreak in China, and mask safety.
"I think people are attracted to COVID-19 themed porn the same way people who are scared of their shadow are attached to horror movies: We are all searching for things that make us come alive," Mr. Poundher, told Vice. "COVID-19 is something that brings fear and mystery to pretty much everyone in the world right now... You need to be able to feel something, and what better way to make you feel something than the global crisis we are all in right now."
Other COVID-19 themed porn videos have surfaced on the internet in the last week, including "MILFs in quarantine," "Face Sitting Corona Virus - No Mask," and "TSA Agent Detains Woman Suspected of Coronavirus."
"We knew that the corona event was 'good viral material,' but we also knew it was affecting people in tragic ways," Mr. Poundher said. "We didn't want to insult them by making it too real. We personally know people actually stuck in Wuhan and made it with them in mind." They asked themselves: Would they be offended by this? Or would this take their minds off their situation? "We want the latter."
The search term "Coronavirus porn" is in a breakout pattern across the US.
Americans are increasingly embracing pandemic doom porn as confirmed cases and deaths surge across the country. Seriously, WTF.
Neuroscientists watch brains replay memories in real time
In a new study, scientists successfully observed the neural signatures of recalled memories in real time.
