Local Coronavirus:
A local person who is suspected to have coronavirus has released a timeline of where they were in previous days:
- Thursday, March 5, lunch in the upstairs area of Bruno’s Italian Restaurant, then shopping at Branson Landing
- Thursday, March 12, dinner meeting in a private room at Ocean Zen.
- Friday, March 13, breakfast at Hemingway’s, lunch at Big Biscuit on South Campbell and shopping at Bass Pro.
Health department warns residents of possible exposures from travelers, COVID-19 patient (Springfield News-Leader)
Curfews:
Many cities across the nation have announced curfews. Is this counter-productive?
Is it Racist:
President Trump defended himself from the allegations of racism and xenophobia that were leveled in response to his calling the Wuhan coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” telling reporters that “it comes from China” and that “it’s not racist at all” to use the label.
On Tuesday, 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. He called her out on it.
- Trump doubles down on ‘China virus,’ demands to know who in White House used phrase ‘Kung Flu” (Fox News)
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum grilled Biden adviser Symone Sanders for falsely claiming that referring to the coronavirus by a name that signifies that it came from China is a “racial slur.”
- WATCH: Martha MacCallum Nails Biden Adviser Symone Sanders For Politicizing Coronavirus (Daily Wire)
Prevention:
Its now known that China could have prevented 95% of coronavirus infections if its measures to contain the outbreak had begun three weeks earlier, research from the University of Southampton suggests.
- China may have prevented 95% of virus cases if it enacted measures after silenced whistleblower’s warning (Hong Kong Free Press)
- China could have stopped 95 per cent of its coronavirus infections if social distancing and quarantine started just THREE WEEKS earlier (Daily Mail)
The World Health Organization is now haunted by a tweet it sent earlier this year when it cited Chinese health officials who claimed there had been no human transmissions of the coronavirus within the country yet.
Fake News:
Axios issued an apology Wednesday after incorrectly reporting that Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign.
Gas Prices:
The price of a gallon of gasoline has hit 99 cents at a station in Kentucky… And it sold out.
