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By: Lev Facher – statnews.com – April 2, 2020 The White House is expected to announce a new policy, based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that would urge Americans to wear cloth masks in an effort to prevent coronavirus spread, according to a federal official familiar with the policy. In a draft document obtained by STAT,…

By: David Ignatius  – washingtonpost.com – March 31, 2020 When America has recovered from the coronavirus crisis and people are back to work, Rep. Adam B. Schiff thinks Congress should consider a 9/11-style independent commission to examine why the nation was so unprepared for the pandemic. Schiff, a California Democrat, told me in an interview Monday that his staff has already started…

By: Emily Zanotti – dailywire.com – April 2, 2020 New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has reassured panicked progressives that he will be monitoring Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical Christian organization constructing a field hospital to help treat coronavirus victims in Manhattan, for signs of “discrimination” after leftists on social media noticed that the Franklin Graham-led organization opposes gay marriage. Samaritan’s…

By: John McCormack – nationalreview.com – March 31, 2020 Tom Cotton was both the first and the loudest voice in Congress to sound the alarm about the looming pandemic. While others slept, Tom Cotton was warning anyone who would listen that the coronavirus was coming for America. On January 22, one day before the Chinese government began a quarantine of Wuhan to…

By: Ben Shapiro – townhall.com – April 1, 2020 “There are no libertarians in a global pandemic.” So goes the smug punchline of large-government advocates who point to the necessity of collective action in the face of an unprecedented global crisis. Without government, they say, we’d all be dead. Few libertarians would disagree. The hardcore libertarians at Reason magazine aren’t…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 1, 2020 Tests that show immunity are crucial to beating Covid-19. One of the great uncertainties in the coronavirus pandemic is how many people have been infected without knowing it or showing symptoms. Fortunately, there are now tests for that, and broadly deploying them will be critical to saving lives and getting…

By: Mike Stobbe –  apnews.com – March 31, 2020 Scientists offered more evidence Wednesday that the coronavirus is spread by seemingly healthy people who show no clear symptoms, and the federal government issued new guidance warning that anyone exposed to the disease can be considered a carrier. A study by researchers in Singapore became the latest to estimate that somewhere…

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – April 1, 2020 It’s beyond obvious that they’ve been lying, and it looks like the facade is starting to crumble internally, too.  Let’s start with a reminder of how preposterous the ‘official’ stats have been.  This chart depicts how Hong Kong — an island of openness that moved aggressively against Coronavirus in its early…

By: Walter Olson – wsj.com – March 30, 2020 President Trump no longer hopes to see lockdown restrictions relaxed and many businesses reopened by Easter—April 30 now looks like the target date—but it isn’t his call. Public-health merits aside, the president can’t legally order the nation back to work. The lockdown and closure orders were issued by state governments, and the president…

By: Andrew Stuttaford – nationalreview.com – March 31, 2020 There should be no illusions that some default instinct towards freedom will stop Americans from succumbing to the intellectual temptations that the response to COVID-19 may send their way. Whether Britain’s COVID-19 lockdown will be worth what it will cost — a bill involving far more than just money — was and…

By: Research Staff – pewsocialtrends.org – March 30, 2020 As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise and schools, workplaces and public gathering spaces across the United States remain closed, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that the coronavirus outbreak is having profound impacts on the personal lives of Americans in a variety of ways. Nearly nine-in-ten…