RT

Could the unintended consequences of the coronavirus kill the movie theater industry? If Hollywood decides to shift its release strategy from theaters to streaming, it could spell the end for major theater chains.

Lots of industries have been affected by the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus outbreak, but none as high profile as the entertainment industry. Whether it be celebrities like Tom Hanks or Idris Elba testing positive for the virus, or major studio productions getting shut down “indefinitely” due to worries of exposure, it has become clear that Hollywood is going to be deeply affected by this outbreak. Continue reading “Coronavirus could be the best thing to happen to Hollywood”

Ben Kallos

Yesterday, the city saw more than 4,500 new cases for a total of 8,115 testing positive for coronavirus in New York City and 11,600 in New York State.

Starting TONIGHT, Sunday, March 22nd at 8 p.m. all non-essential businesses must close their front doors. This does not include groceries, healthcare, non-profits delivering vital human services, and a list of other essential business listed below. Continue reading “COVID-19 Update #4: Cuomo Orders PAUSE Effective 8pm”

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Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for the coronavirus in prison — and most likely contracted the disease at Rikers Island, an official briefed on the matter told The Post on Sunday.

Weinstein, 68, is being held in isolation at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, where he tested positive on Saturday, the official said. Continue reading “Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus”

Pocket

Brain training is big business, with companies like BrainHQ, Lumosity, and Cogmed. But does what they offer actually benefit your brain?

Researchers don’t believe so. In fact, the University of Illinois determined that there’s little or no evidence that these games improve anything more than the specific tasks being trained. Lumosity’s maker was even fined $2 million in 2016 for false claims. Continue reading “The Benefits of Playing Music Help Your Brain More Than Any Other Activity”

AOL

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he would activate the federal National Guard to assist Washington, California and New York, three of the states hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.

He added that those three states have either been approved or will soon be approved for major disaster declarations to allow the federal government to more seamlessly provide supplies. Continue reading “Trump says he’s activated National Guard in New York, California and Washington state”

The Hill – by Alexandra Kelley

Medical supplies and sanitary equipment have been scarce since the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, and now health care workers also face shortages of life-saving ventilator machines for ill patients.

The New York Times reports that hospitals are having trouble procuring enough ventilators to match the influx of new patients. Medical ventilators are machines that facilitate breathing for critically ill patients and, as the Times explains, “can be the difference between life and death for those facing the most dire respiratory effects of the coronavirus.” Continue reading “Ventilators in short supply, will be increased by Defense Production Act”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As a result of the coronavirus outbreak, and the ensuing lockdown, the commercial property market has essentially frozen.

Buildings that were used for all types of purposes: offices, diners, restaurants, hotels – they’ve all been shut down. And industries like the travel industry are forgoing $1.4 billion per week in revenue, according to Bloomberg.  Continue reading ““Widespread Panic” Hits Commercial Property Markets: Deals Implode, Renters Disappear, Businesses Shut Down”

New York Post – by Mark Moore

Sen. Rand Paul has tested positive for the coronavirus and is in quarantine, he said Sunday.

“Senator Rand Paul has tested positive for COVID-19. He is feeling fine and is in quarantine. He is asymptomatic and was tested out of an abundance of caution due to his extensive travel and events,” read a message on the Kentucky Republican’s Twitter handle. Continue reading “Rand Paul becomes first senator to contract coronavirus, is in quarantine”

New York Post – by Lee Brown

A healthy 39-year-old social worker died days after initially turning down a coronavirus test because she was told she was “low risk,” her boyfriend said in a heartbreaking Facebook post.

Josh Anderson says he found girlfriend Natasha Ott dead in her apartment in New Orleans on Friday as she still awaited news on whether her sickness and fever were actually COVID-19. Continue reading “Healthy 39-year-old woman dies waiting for coronavirus test results”

Gothamist

Governor Andrew Cuomo paid a pre-announced visit to NYC on Saturday and says he was shocked to see New Yorkers gathering in close proximity in the city’s parks, playing basketball, shopping in open-air markets, and generally behaving as if the city was not in the grips of a deadly pandemic. Continue reading “Cuomo Appalled By “Disrespectful” People Congregating In NYC Parks, Orders City To Reduce Density”

Washington Examiner – by Anna Giaritelli

Customs and Border Protection officials are defying the Trump administration’s directive to block all nonessential foreign travel into the United States from Mexico, allowing noncitizens claiming to be on shopping trips to continue entering, according to two officials involved in the implementation of the order.  Continue reading “Claim they’re going shopping: Border officials allow hundreds of Mexican vehicles to cross despite Trump ban”

Healing Sounds – by Jonathan Goldman & Andi Goldman

Humming is among the simplest, yet most profound sounds that we can create.  It has amazing beneficial abilities to affect us on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.  Our book THE HUMMING EFFECT explores the many different aspects of how and why humming works.  Below are 7 reasons why humming can become a practice to enhance health and wellness for everyone.  Continue reading “7 Reasons for Humming”

Stat News – by John P.A. Ioannidis

The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.

At a time when everyone needs better information, from disease modelers and governments to people quarantined or just social distancing, we lack reliable evidence on how many people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or who continue to become infected. Better information is needed to guide decisions and actions of monumental significance and to monitor their impact. Continue reading “A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data”

Washington Examiner – by Andrew Mark Miller

A Pennsylvania state lawmaker has introduced legislation that would require individuals who wish to purchase gun ammunition to first obtain a permit.

GOP State Rep. Thomas Murt introduced HB 2344 and filed it with the memo “Addressing Gun Violence and Enhancing Public Health and Safety,” according to Breitbart News.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania Republican introduces bill requiring permit to purchase ammunition”

Gateway Pundit – by Brock Simmons

In response to the coronavirus hysteria, the city council of Bellingham, Washington, is proposing banning the possession, transfer, and carrying of firearms, as well as banning alcohol sales and closing the city streets to the public. This is on the agenda for their next meeting on Tuesday, March 23rd. Continue reading “City of Bellingham, WA Proposes Banning Alcohol Sales, Gun Possession, Transfer, And Sales Amid Coronavirus Panic”

Here is the pledge I take:

I pledge defiance to the emblem of the Jewnited States Corporation and to the tyranny for which it stands.  One open air prison under ZOG with tyranny and subjugation for all but the jewish ass sucking elite.

Fox 8

BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio (WJW) — Schools across the country have closed as a precaution during the coronavirus pandemic, but that isn’t stopping some students from continuing to say the Pledge of Allegiance.  Continue reading “Local students gather to recite Pledge of Allegiance together just like they would at school”

The Great Recession

The emphasis has to be on HOG as they squeal for corporate welfare and push their snouts into the trough. One hedge hog says the government needs to bail out all businesses by paying all wages so companies that depleted all cash don’t have to pay to retain all workers: Continue reading “The Bailout Bonanza is Back! (Pt 2: Hedge Hogs Demand More!)”

Another Day in the Empire – by Kurt Nimmo

The response by the government to COVID-19 will turn America into a third world country in short order. Destroying the economy, throwing millions of people out of work, creating air money and thus inflation, and draconian measures to head off a virus that kills far less than the ordinary flu will have serious and unprecedented ramifications.   Continue reading “COVID-19: Welcome to the New Dark Ages”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON — White supremacists discussed plans to weaponize coronavirus via “saliva,” a “spray bottle” or “laced items,” according to a weekly intelligence brief distributed by a federal law enforcement division on Feb. 17.

Federal investigators appeared to be monitoring the white nationalists’ communications on Telegram, an encrypted messaging app that has become popular with neo-Nazis. In the conversations, the white supremacists suggested targeting law enforcement agents and “nonwhite” people with attacks designed to infect them with the coronavirus.  Continue reading “Federal law enforcement document reveals white supremacists discussed using coronavirus as a bioweapon”