Donald Trump just issued a press release how he just got off the phone with the Saudi Prince and the the prince had talked to Putin and the Russians and the Saudis will cut the oil production by 10 million barrels of oil.

Trump bragged about how great this is for the oil industry as now the price will go up and the oil industry makes more profits. But one thing, we have over three weeks over 10 million unemployed and now gas prices will go up. Trump thinks this is great for the oil industry that can now raise prices on gas also received a 19% tax cut from Trump and $58 billion in subsidies and most are at a zero tax base because of Trumps loopholes and he has already said he will through his $500 billion deficit financed stimulus slush fund bail out the oil industry.

(WHEN DOES THIS COUNTRY WAKE UP TO WHAT OCCUPIES THAT OVAL OFFICE. THIS COUNTRY HAD TO LISTEN TO TRUMP AT HIS NEWS CONFERENCE YESTERDAY BRAG ABOUT HIS POPULARITY ON FACEBOOK AT A NATIONAL P******C NEWS CONFERENCE.)

This country listened to him brag all week long what a fantastic job he was doing, nobody could handle a p******c better than Trump. As he criticizes all the reporters that ask questions about his past statements. All while over 6 million additional people lost there jobs.

This man in the oval offices needs to be stopped.

Arkansas, Iowa, South Carolina! What are you thinking? Shut down now! You do not see a single Democrat acting this Recklessly.

I’ve got some words for the governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri and the eight other states that have yet to adopt statewide stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of the c****av***s p******c. And they’re not nice words.

What the #@*& are you waiting for?

As I was writing this, the confirmed cases of C****-** across the globe topped 1 million. Nearly a quarter of them in the United States. Every state has cases. Every. State.

So far, 39 U.S. states have followed the recommendations of public health experts and told all their residents to stay at home and shut down nonessential businesses to make it harder for the v***s to spread. A few states have localized shutdowns and way too many have no restrictions at all. That's dangerous for their residents and for all of us. V***ses don't respect borders. All states need to take the same measures to create an effective barrier against community spread.

And do so immediately.

In this p******c, time matters. There's mounting evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 v***s can be spread by people without symptoms, which makes early intervention important. Waiting until hospitals are overrun is costly and deadly.

Those states that took steps early will probably fare better than those that waited until just the last few days to take action. California and Washington were among the first wave, and there are signs that their social distancing measures are working.

States that moved slowly, such as Florida and Georgia, might not be so fortunate. It wasn't until his state had about 8,000 confirmed cases that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday finally relented to pressure to issue a statewide order. He had resisted doing so, he said, because President Trump hadn't told him to. Way to show leadership, governor! Who knows how many people have been or will be hurt by this foot-d**gging.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wasn't just boneheadly stubborn, his staff went to far as to chastise local governments for issuing their own stay-at-home orders to quell surges in C****-** cases. On Wednesday he, too, gave in and ordered statewide social distancing measures.

Why had it taken him so long to reach this sensible conclusion? Kemp explained that he didn't realize until then that people without symptoms could spread the v***s. Despite the fact that health officials have been making that very point practically since the day the outbreak reached the United States in January.

Well, now he knows. And so do the holdout governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming.

Stop stalling. Do the right thing. Protect your people and tell them to stay at home.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-arkansas-kansas-south-carolina-221529187.html

C****av***ses Similar to The C****-** One Have Just Been Found in Pangolins
MIKE MCRAE
27 MARCH 2020

A search for the 'missing link' in the chain of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has uncovered two close cousins of the new c****av***s in shipments of pangolins being smuggled into China.

It's important to note that the discovery by researchers from across Hong Kong and China falls well short of identifying these precious mammals as the source of the current p******c. However, the similarity of the strains does suggest the nation's pangolin market is a time bomb that needs to be defused.

Ever since the nexus for the outbreak of C****-** was traced back to a wet market in Hubei province, the search has been on to determine the v***s's heritage. Initial studies of SARS-CoV-2's genome suggest it's highly possible that the v***s emerged in a colony of horseshoe bats in Yunnan, a province that borders the south-east Asian country of Myanmar.

But if that is the case, it's hard to imagine how a bat became a source of infection in a densely populated city more than 1,000 kilometres to the north of its colony.

Granted, stalls in these Chinese wet markets sell a wide variety of live animals for food and traditional medicine, many of them sourced from Asia's tropics. Whether bats of any kind might have been present isn't clear, since the market was cleared long before the first indications of an outbreak were known.

Unlike horseshoe bats, though, the pangolin is almost guaranteed to have been on sale there.

The illicit sale of the endangered mammal - prized as a delicacy and a health tonic - is an 'open secret' throughout much of the nation, and a good place to start hunting for an intermediate host of the zoonotic v***s currently wreaking havoc across the globe.

Frozen tissues from 18 Malayan pangolins (Manis javanica) were obtained from anti-smuggling operations carried out by Guangxi Customs during 2017 and early 2018.

C****av***s RNA was found in six of the 43 organ samples, linking the v***s with five individual animals. Techniques for reading and filling in missing sequences soon provided the team with half a dozen detailed genomes of the pangolin's strains of the v***s.

None were dead ringers for SARS-CoV-2, but there were a number of overlapping sequences that suggest these v***ses were fairly closely related.

A second hunt through another batch of pangolin tissues taken from an operation later in 2018 followed, based on the newly acquired genomes. This analysis revealed a further three positive results out of 12 animals.

In addition to these specimens from the Guangxi operation, the team analysed pangolin scales, skin swabs, and unspecified tissues from a separate customs centre in Guangzhou, picked up in early 2019.

Taken together, the mix of newly sequenced c****av***s genomes are all 85.5 to 92.4 percent similar to SARS-CoV-2, and represent two lines of related v***s. One of those lines even has a 'haircut' that resembles that of the C****-** v***s, with remarkably similar receptor-binding spikes jutting from their surfaces.

The results might not be the smoking gun we're hoping for, as the search for the connection between the c****av***s's reservoir and the first humans to be infected continues.

Still, it's a wake-up call we desperately need. All those animals seized by customs were destined for live animal markets somewhere in China.

As impossible as it is to predict whether those particular lines of c****av***s could have made a leap into the human population, the current p******c emerged from just such a branch of that family tree.

The sale of pangolins in China is already far from legal, but without the political will to provide the resources necessary to enforce the law, their sale will almost certainly continue to flourish, in spite of recent widespread bans of the sale and distribution of wild meats.

A global p******c is a tragic incentive to act. But with mounting evidence that pangolins play a strong role in the ecology of such a potential threat, perhaps it's the push China needs to finally get a handle on its illegal animal trade.

This research was published in Nature.

The Chinese have allowed this ENDANGERED SPECIES to be openly sold in street markets even though there is a worldwide ban on k*****g this rare animal. Perhaps if they had enforced the rules, this world wide epidemic would not have happened.