Health Officials Recommended Canceling Events with 10-50… — ProPublica

As COVID-19 fears grew, public officials and sports execs contemplated health risks — and debated a PR message — but let 33,000 fans into a Seattle…

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Despite concerns about the new coronavirus, more than 33,000 fans attended the Seattle Sounders soccer match on March 7, 2020, at CenturyLink Field. (Lindsey Wasson/Sounders FC Communications)

In Italy, a Feb. 19 soccer match, later dubbed “Game Zero” and described by a respiratory specialist as a “biological bomb,” has been cited as a possible reason that one province became an epicenter of the pandemic.

But that match was played before the country’s first confirmed case of locally transmitted COVID-19. In Washington, community spread had been recognized at least a week before the Sounders match. The governor declared a state of emergency on Feb. 29, the King County executive on March 1.

On the evening of March 7, a Saturday, hundreds gathered in Occidental Park for their traditional March to the Match. They stood shoulder to shoulder and marched three blocks down Occidental Avenue to CenturyLink Field.

Wuhan Virology Lab Deputy Director Again Slams Coronavirus Conspiracies

Wuhan Virology Lab Deputy Director Again Slams Coronavirus Conspiracies – Shi Zhengli disputes unsubstantiated claims of a link between the high-security research facility at the Wuhan Virology Institute and the deadly virus

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Have You Noticed?

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My Saturday begins with rain showers…..and much warmer temps…..now that I have that news update out of the way…..

There are a few things that I have noticed about the people that are anti-isolation……

Have you noticed the biggest MORONS have to carry their guns?  Like those in Michigan recently…..

Hundreds of people protesting strict lockdown measures in Michigan ignored state directives on social distancing—and instructions from protest organizers—and gathered in front of the Capitol building in Lansing Wednesday. They were among thousands of people who came from across the state to clog Lansing streets in what organizers called “Operation Gridlock,” the Guardian reports. The protest against Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home order was organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition. NPR reports that at least 200 people, some of them carrying rifles, got out of their vehicles to congregate around the building’s steps. The protesters, who were not wearing masks…

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Coronavirus Advice From Abroad: 7 Lessons America’s… — ProPublica

To help you and your aides think about this decision over the next few weeks, we’ve interviewed experts and frontline officials from Italy, Germany, Spain, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. While they differ on the details, their views formed a startlingly united consensus of what’s needed: Massive, ongoing testing to detect where the disease is spreading, a real-time ability to trace contacts of those infected and isolate them, a willingness of people to wear masks in crowded public spaces, reserves of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other equipment for hospital workers to handle any surge in cases, and reliable, easily administered blood tests to find out the number of people who have been infected. If they work well, such tests could eventually be used to identify people with immunity who could work at higher-risk jobs.

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‘They seem very responsible to me’: Trump defends anti-lockdown protesters – video

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The US president urged supporters to ‘liberate’ three states led by Democratic governors on Friday, apparently encouraging protests against stay-at-home restrictions. ‘These are people expressing their views,’ Trump said during his daily White House coronavirus briefing.

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Operation reopen America: are we about to witness a second historic failure of leadership from Trump?

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Without mass testing, contact tracing, and protective equipment for health workers – all in critically short supply – the president’s plan could be disastrous

On Thursday evening, Donald Trump took to the dais in the White House press briefing room and declared that he was leading America in a “historic battle against the invisible enemy” that amounted to the “greatest national mobilisation since world war two”.

Warming to his theme, the US president said the country was now ready to move to the next phase in the war against coronavirus. It was time, he said, “to open up. America wants to be open, and Americans want to be open”.

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Thousands of Americans backed by rightwing donors gear up for protests | US news | The Guardian – willing to kill and kill more – sedition.

The two groups behind the “operation gridlock” rally in Michigan on Wednesday have ties to the Republican party and the Trump administration. The Michigan Freedom Fund, which said it was a co-host of the rally, has received more than $500,000 from the DeVos family, regular donors to rightwing groups. The other host, the Michigan Conservative Coalition, was founded by Matt Maddock, now a Republican member of the state house of representatives. The MCC also operates under the name Michigan Trump Republicans, and in January held an event featuring several members of the Trump campaign.

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