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Meadows: Trump doesn’t know much about QAnon

House passes bill to put $25 billion into USPS and even see changes amid uproar

Goldman Sachs: Almost a quarter of temporary lay-offs could become permanent

Portland: Rioters bring own guillotine

American envoy joins Taiwan president at military memorial

Trump’s sister says president has ‘no principles’ in secret recordings

Trump raises the possibility of ‘decoupling’ U.S. economy from China

*BBC* fact-checks Biden for Charlottesville ‘very fine people’ hoax

‘Not just a low-wage recession’: White-collar workers feel coronavirus squeeze

Daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. fall below 50,000 for seven straight days after summer surge

Thanks to de Blasio: New York City is being abandoned

Portland rioters threaten people n homes: ‘Come out into streets’

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Photo appears to show Jerry Falwell Jr. with zipper down and his arm around a woman

Congress, White House struggle to break coronavirus stalemate as economic pain spreads

NYC health commissioner quits, citing de Blasio’s failures

U.S. factory orders rise, signaling manufacturing recovery

French police use cameras with speakers that shout at people who break coronavirus rules

Massive explosion in Beirut port rocks Lebanese capital

VP Pence reminds Gov. Cuomo 1-in-5 Covid-19 deaths are in his state

Border wall construction crew caught smuggling from Mexico

Trump doubles down on well-wishes for alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell

Research shows $60 unemployment boost didn’t discourage returning to work

White House mulls ‘unilateral’ action on coronavirus relief

Shakedown: BLM demands protection fees from Louisville restaurant

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Karen Bass renounces her praise of Fidel Castro

Retail rents plummet across New York City, as glitzy shopping districts turn into ghost towns

Trump demands death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber

Portland protesters burn Bibles, American flags in the streets

Pelosi accuses Trump, Birx of spreading misinformation about coronavirus

COVID-19 test delays create a nightmare as schools try to reopen

Twitter endangers Americans by suppressing medical debate

Farage: Government burying ‘their heads in the sand’ on migration

German leaders warn of coronavirus resurgence, condemn protests

Eastman Kodak’s top executive reportedly got Trump deal windfall on an ‘understanding’

There have more shootings in NYC this year than in all of 2019

Report: 21 shot, 6 dead, Friday-Saturday afternoon in Chicago


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Supreme Court rejects Nevada church plea to allow larger congregations

Here comes one of the newsiest and most critical weeks of the summer for markets

NYC homeless encampments grows after de Blasio’s suppressed crackdown

Cuccinelli: Fed agents could sue Pelosi for libel

Cuomo, then Schumer accuse DHS officials of possible criminal activity

U.S. coronavirus deaths top 1,000 for four straight days

Rep. Swalwell: FBI spied on Trump — and they were right to do so

Pro-life Democrats urge party to drop embrace of abortion

House passes massive spending bill in bid to thwart election year shutdown

Hurricane Hanna heads for Texas coast as state struggles with coronavirus outbreak

CDC says schools should reopen in fall

Big supermarkets refuse to enforce mandatory mask law

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Vaccine makers’ ‘no profit’ pledge stirs doubts in Congress

U.S. carries out 1st execution in 17 years after Supreme Court clears the way

California governor orders widespread closures of indoor activities

Poll: 35% of Americans ‘comfortable’ returning to normal

Biden signals openness to eliminating Senate filibuster

Schools have low coronavirus infection rate, German study finds

NYC sees 17 shootings Monday — ‘astronomical’ for a weekday

Cuomo: Trump ‘COVID scandal’ makes ‘Watergate look innocent’

Iran executes Defense Ministry staffer as alleged CIA spy

Coronavirus updates: Pandemic roils corporate earnings, 3M developing rapid antigen test

Britain bans China’s Huawei from 5G network

Fauci downplays lower coronavirus death rate as ‘false narrative’

Trumped-up Tower

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and his sophomoric finger painting in front of the Trump Tower ... (and he even spelled it correctly)

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‘It’s something we’re looking at’: Pompeo floats ban on TIKTOK

Cuts to basic services loom as coronavirus sends states into fiscal crisis

North Carolina Dem. took $1-2 million from PPP program after publically criticizing it

Virus: Daily deaths plummet despite record cases

Huntsman loses GOP primary in Utah

Coronavirus live updates: Brazil’s Bolsonaro tested after feeling unwell, Novavax gets U.S. funds for vaccine

Georgia governor authorizes National Guard

Chinese media: America ‘helpless underdeveloped country’

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tests positive for COVID-19

Herd immunity strategies called into question after coronavirus antibody studies in Spain

Journos waste entire briefing asking McEnany about Confederate flag

Report: Nearly all NYC June shooting victims were minorities

Surge

8-year-old shot and killed in Atlanta

Just a short note: Liberal media this morning opened their programming with  the weekend  ”surge” in coronavirus cases in Texas and Florida  ... whereas conservative media led with the “surge” in drive-by shootings in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta.

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Ocasio-Cortez raises AIPAC ire over effort to tie the Israeli aid to annexation

Americans will be barred from European travel as the EU gradually reopens its borders

SCOTUS hands major victory to school choice movement

Democrats delete tweet targeting Mount Rushmore over ‘white supremacy’

EU says it’s mulling a coordinated response over Hong Kong

Coronavirus live updates: About 25% of NYC is likely infected, Gottlieb says hot spots spread through the Sun Belt

DOD: No evidence to corroborate NYTimes story claiming Russia put bounties on U.S. soldiers

l.A. County sheriff refuses to enforce beach closure order for July 4th

Republicans have been skipping House intelligence committee meetings for months

Dr.Anthony Fauci says new virus in China has traits of 2009 H1N1 and 1918 pandemic flu

Existing home sales prices rise 4.7% in April (compared to April, 2019)

LAPD morale at ‘record low’: ‘It’s simply not worth it any longer’

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Members of Congress took small business loans — and the full extent is unknown

Scientists hail dexamethasone as ‘major breakthrough’ in treating coronavirus

North Korea reportedly blows up inter-Korea border office after threatening to sever all communications with South Korea

NYC coronavirus tracers won’t ask about protest attendance

EU opens antitrust probes into Apple

IMF to cut forecasts and warns of a crisis ‘unlike anything the world has ever seen’

New outbreak at China market ... Beijing expands lockdowns ...

CHAZ demands retrials for all non-white violent convicts

Trump predicts a court battle over John Bolton’s book

Home building sentiment posts biggest monthly surge ever

Dollar crash ‘virtually inevitable’ over massive debt ...

Hypocrisy: NBC highlights dangers of Trump’s rallies

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Trump says he’ll leave office peacefully if he loses in November

Coronavirus updates: Cuomo urges caution in reopening; small town businesses face uncertain restarts

White House blames Mex for new [Covid] spike

Joe Biden: George Floyd’s death bigger than MLK assassination

Temperature spike: Earth ties record high heat May reading

$600 unemployment benefits are ‘lifesaving’ for this waiter, ‘I’m right on the edge’

[Trump] Moves rally to June 20 ‘out of respect’ [for black leaders]

Moore: I’m ‘begging’ Dems don’t underestimate Trump supporters’ ‘rage,’ ‘emotion’

Seattle’s mayor and police chief diverge on autonomous zone

Amazon warehouse workers interviewed by New York attorney general in retaliation probe

More than 20% of NYC residents know someone who died ...

Co-worker recants story about Derek Chauvin and George Floyd conflict

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New York City could begin easing coronavirus restrictions in June

Coronavirus live updates: Mnuchin backs Tesla in push to restart production, UK details plans to reopen

Trump accuses states of reopening things too slowly ...

Report: Xi Jinping asked WHO chief Tedros to delay pandemic warning

Ex-Stone prosecutor condemns DOJ interference in Flynn case

WHO warns that coronavirus cases have jumped in countries that eased lockdowns

Outbreak White House ... Race to contain....

Report: Apple plans to move some iPhone production from China to India

Kamala emerges as early Biden VP candidate as sting of debate attack fades

Detroit’s automakers have enough cash on hand to last the year without a bailout after learning the hard way

U.S. deaths: 79,825

Germany’s Das Bild newspaper  says ‘lockdown was a huge mistake’

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Navy secretary nominee slams services’ ‘lack of leadership’

Coronavirus live update: Colleges consider tuition freeze, East Coast sees growing spread of cases

Travel from NYC seeded wave of outbreaks ...

Former U.K. PM blames nationalism for coronavirus pandemic

California faces $54B budget deficit

More people are collecting unemployment than expected

Admin shelves CDC guide to reopening country ...

Pittsburgh coronavirus  researcher murdered

Supreme Court overturns ‘bridgegate’ convictions

Moderna shares surge after FDA approves coronavirus vaccine for phase 2 trial

Georgia shooting stuns nation ... Video shows black man hunted ...

Acting DNI Richard Grenell informs Schiff he can release transcripts

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Schumer to introduce legislation to prevent Trump from signing stimulus checks

Supreme Court declines to rule on its first Second Amendment case in over a decade

Update: 1 in 4 NYC residents test positive for [coronavirus] antibodies ...

Nancy Pelosi endorses Joe Biden: ‘The personification of integrity’

5G arsonists turn up in continental Europe

Coronavirus live updates: Poll finds outsized impact in New Jersey, governor warns of ‘Armageddon’

Carnival Cruise bailout draws fire ...

Thousands of Californians flock to beaches despite stay-at-home order

Cuomo eyes construction, manufacturing for regional reopen in New York

Supreme Court suggests it is looking for a way out of Trump financial records case

Tyson: ‘The food supply chain is breaking’ ...

Murder, burglary and theft soar in NYC during coronavirus

Herd Immunity

I have learned not to trust any of the data points surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic ... so, dear reader, understand what you will now read might be hokum ... not as much hokum involved in the Irani and Chinese virus statistics ... but nonetheless somewhat suspect.

So let’s dive in. Stanford University has completed an antibody study of 3,300 volunteers (unfortunately not randomized) in Santa Clara County, California (in the heart of Silicon Valley) and the results are mind blowing. This study found that the number of people that had antibodies to this virus was between 48 and 82 times the number that actually had been reported to have been infected with COVID-19. Wow!

So before we go any further, read the following: Newsweek Article.

This study also reveals that the actual infection rate as a proportion of this particular population currently is between 2.5% and 4.5% ... clearly not high enough to achieve herd immunity there. However, let’s look at New York State where the latest reported case count is about 250,000. If the actual case count is 48 times higher (the lower multiplier in the above-reported rage) then the actual New York number (including asymptomatics) would be 12 million in the state versus an estimated population of 19.44 million ... or 62% ... zeroing in on a herd immunity percentage of between 65% and 80% (quoting Dr. Oz) ... particularly if one focuses in on the greater New York City area.

If the number of new cases in the greater NYC area falls off a cliff in the next week or two, I think we will be able to conclude that this area has achieved a semblance of herd immunity and that there was some validity to the Stanford study.

But why there is such a disparity between the COVID-19 infection rate tn California versus New York will still be a mystery.

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Inside America’s two-decade failure to prepare for coronavirus

Coronavirus updates: Governors call for $500 billion in aid, Italy to set up ‘immunity passports’

Coronavirus found in air samples up to 13 feet from patients ..

Coronavirus vaccine may be developed by autumn, says Oxford prof

Mass burials surge as New York City set to hit 100,000 coronavirus cases

US coronavirus deaths highest in the world even as hospitalizations slow in New York epicenter

Fear of second wave in summer ... Cities begin cancels Fourth of July events ...

Pelosi: ‘We could have a depression’

Small business loan effort might be less generous than advertised

NYC mayor announces schools will remain closed  rest of academic year, but governor pushes back

Newsom approval soars to 83% ...

Federal data: 16.4M mail-in ballots went missing in 216-18 elections

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Health officials bearish on administration effort to open economy by May

Coronavirus live updates: NYC sees negative ICU admissions, HHS begins $30 billion in aid

Debt tops $24 trillion ...

Report: Donald Trump pressing to reopen country by May 1

Fauci: Coronavirus immunity cards for Americans are ‘being discussed’

Mexico throws OPEC’s historic oil production cut in doubt ahead of G-20 meeting

Poop study reveals virus cases undercounted ... Traces found in wastewater at high levels ...

Coronavirus crashes prices for hotels, rental cars and women’s dresses

Barr backs Trump on firing of Intel IG, calls Russian investigation baseless

Trump administration pays out $26 billion in relief funds to hospitals Friday

Antibody test in German town reveals 15% infection rate ...

WHO launches $1.5 billion global funding appeal

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Trump administration tells states to step up as governors plea for aid

Bill Gates calls coronavirus a ‘nightmare scenerio,’ but predicts lower death toll than Trump

USA records 1,497 deaths in 24 hours ...

Larry David says Bernie Sanders should drop out

Surgeon General warns this week ‘Is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment’

Coronavirus live updates: Bullard says economy’s not in ‘free fall,’

NYC subway cars remain packed ...

Trump thinking of second coronavirus task force on reopening country

Biden: ‘I will wear a mask in public’

New Yorkers salute front-line workers

Barr orders release of more federal inmates ...

Indian official: Mosque urged mob to manhandle health workers

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European authorities shifting in face masks adds to confusion on coronavirus crisis

Coronavirus live updates: NYC mayor pleads for medical help as US cases continue to rise

Kissinger: Pandemic alters world order ...

Rasmussen poll: Voters increasingly support universal basic income for U.S. citizens

Biden tells Sanders he’s pushing ahead with VP, cabinet picks

Oil set to ‘crater’ Monday as OPEC meeting delayed, tensions flare between Saudi Arabia and Russia

NYC: Business burglaries rise 75% ...

Unemployment rate jumps to 4.4%, 701,000 jobs lost

Supreme Court postpones more arguments amid coronavirus outbreak

Cuomo says New York could hit peak in 7 days: ‘We’re not yet ready”

Fauci: Not even half-time ...

Pelosi: We want to get more money to voting by mail in next bill

Quotable Quote

Half of our city’s residents will get the coronavirus — NYC’s Jughead Mayor, Bill De Blasio