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Demovictory9's JournalTrump says his enthusiasm for antimalarial drug is based largely on instinct...
https://twitter.com/essenviews/status/1241455985291493377Trump says his enthusiasm for antimalarial drug is based largely on instinct...
Reporters asked Fauci if hydroxychloroquine could treat coronavirus, he said: “The answer is no.”
Then Trump stepped to the microphone and said: “We ought to give it a try.”
The coronavirus pandemic seems to be stopping the US housing market in its tracks.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-housing-market-sudden-lack-of-consumer-interest-coronavirusThe US housing market got off to a strong start in 2020, but it's plummeting as the coronavirus pandemic grips the country
The coronavirus pandemic seems to be stopping the US housing market in its tracks.
Google Trend data shows that real-estate related searches dropped 23% from March 6 to March 13.
And Redfin data shows the growth in nationwide home-buying demand down from about 27% in both January and February to 1% as of March 18.
Heading into March, the US housing market was showing the kind of green shoots appropriate for the start of spring. In fact, in the last quarter of 2019, million-dollar sales were up 11% and housing prices overall were up, too. On an annual basis, 2019 saw the most first-time homebuyers since 1993, according to Genworth Mortgage Insurance.
Then, in January, new home sales and pending homes sales both shot up and inventory was at its lowest level since 2012. The next month, existing-home sales hit their highest point in 13 years. In early March, mortgage rates hit historic lows, boding well for home-buying in 2020.
But America gradually woke up to the spread of the novel coronavirus, which the World Health Organization only declared a global pandemic on March 11. And data from March shows a sharp contraction.
Google Trend data showed that searches with the term "real estate" dropped 23% from March 6 to March 13, according to a report by the real estate online marketplace, Point2Homes. The data also showed drops in the searches for "houses for sale," "condos for sale," and "apartments for rent." And on the Point2Homes platform, US traffic on the site dropped by 35% from March 9 to March 16.
With Nation Distracted by C19 Crises, Trump Moves to Allow GMO Crops in Wildlife refuges
With Nation Distracted by Public Health and Economic Crises, Trump Moves to Allow GMO Crops in Wildlife Refuges
"Only the Trump administration would aggressively promote the use of crops genetically engineered for pesticide tolerance on wildlife refuges."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/20/nation-distracted-public-health-and-economic-crises-trump-moves-allow-gmo-crops
As the U.S. faces an unemployment crisis, economic meltdown, and a public health emergency with the coronavirus, the Trump administration moved quietly on Friday to further threaten dozens of endangered species in the southeastern United States by proposing the planting of genetically engineered crops on wild public lands.
The administration proposal this week aims to allow the planting of GE seeds in the 44,000 acres of farmland within the Southeastern Region of the national wildlife refuge system—a reversal of existing policy.
The move would increase the use of glyphosate and other pesticides that have been linked to harmful effects on bees, butterflies, and other pollinators necessary to humans' food supply, as well as other species that live in the wildlife refuges.
"It's a no-brainer that this kind of pesticide-intensive agriculture shouldn't be allowed on public lands that are critical to wildlife conservation and preservation of the unique ecosystems of the southeastern U.S," said Hannah Connor, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement.
Rep. Susan Davis, a California Democrat, sold shares in Alaska Air and Royal Caribbean cruise lines
House members, Senate aides traded stocks in early days of coronavirus
Rep. Susan Davis, a California Democrat, sold shares in Alaska Air and Royal Caribbean cruise lines on Feb. 11.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/coronavirus-trading-house-senate-140260
While Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) sought on Friday to explain sales of stock made at a time when they were reassuring the public about the coronavirus threat, they weren’t the only elected officials to buy and sell stocks at key moments in the unfolding crisis.
A POLITICO review of stock sales and purchases reported by members of Congress and senior aides found that while none had engaged in sales of the magnitude of Burr and Loeffler, several had traded shares at times or in industries that bore a relationship to the coronavirus threat.
Previously unreported lawmakers who sold assets in the weeks leading up to the market crash include Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.), who unloaded thousands of dollars of stock in Alaska Air and Royal Caribbean cruises. A senior aide to Sen. Mitch McConnell made a mid-January purchase of Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company that had four days earlier announced it would begin developing a coronavirus vaccine. And an aide to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sold off stock in companies including Delta Airlines in late January and later bought stock in Clorox, Inc., which makes bleach and sanitary wipes.
The trades show that -- as much of the public was blindsided by both the pandemic and the economic meltdown over the last two weeks -- a number of lawmakers, aides and their brokers helping manage their portfolios adjusted their investments. Lawmakers in both chambers were being briefed via both classified and non-classified meetings about the coronavirus in late January and February, giving people on Capitol Hill a closer look at how the coming pandemic might shape their lives and finances that much of the country was lacking.
“The reality is that if you work on the Hill, or you work in government, you have access to information that the public doesn't have or, if they have it, they can’t always see the signal through the noise,” said Meredith McGehee, executive director of the watchdog group Issue One. “If you’re on the HELP Committee, you’re going to grasp threats much faster than the general public. You see things much more clearly.”
split screen of the Trump - Alexander exchange
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1241059048780423168Kenny Rogers RIP
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8 years of Obama and Kenny Rogers never died. Donald Trump sucks.
https://twitter.com/Felonious_munk/status/1241249975906025474
"the president said several things that are factually wrong" highlighted on news program
start at 5:40 on the video. reporter shows and counters incorrect info coming out of Orange Monster
Canadian doctor turns one ventilator into nine with some 'evil genius' DIY mechanics
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8136299/Doctors-turns-one-ventilator-nine-genius-DIY-mechanics.htmlDr Alain Gauthier, an anesthetist at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital in Ontario, Canada rigged one of the ventilators
He learned how to do it by watching YouTube videos created by two Detroit doctors in 2006
Gauthier's colleague shared photos of the rigged ventilator on Twitter, jokingly calling him an 'evil genius'
Dow approaching the 18000s
don't do it DOW!! don't go that low. 
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