CORONA VIRUS: DAILY UPDATE

The latest stats show a few interesting things. First of all, China is clearly lying about its death toll. If it wasn't it would be number one. There have been all sorts of stories pointing to this, like this one and this one. 

Apart from that, the USA has taken the top slot due to its massive globalised population and its late start in imposing restrictions. 

Next on the table, Spain could possibly overtake Italy. While Italy got its headstart thanks to Chinese business connections, Spain's coronavirus outbreak was greatly boosted by massed feminist rallies held on International Women's Day (March 8th), as we reported here. 

Both Italy and Spain are taking very heavy-handed measures to stop the death tolls and infection rates rising. They seem to be having some success in slowing the rise. Also interesting is the appearance of Turkey at number 12 in the table, especially as their first reported case rather late, on March 9th.

FED WARS: SPENCER REPORTS RAMZPAUL TO POLICE FOR MAKING ONLINE "BOOGALOO" THREATS

Are these guys really Fed up with each other?

It's getting increasingly hard to know who's Fedding who in the sad remains of the Alt-Right. 

In the latest weird twist, boomer nationalist RamZPaul tweeted that he was ready to go "full boogaloo" if the Gubmint tried to make him to "self isolate" to stop the spread of coronavirus. 

This is a typical move from the Fed playbook, by which agent provocateurs try to flush out potential psychos, spree killers, and terrorists by making incendiary statements like this. 

You can be sure that anyone liking or sharing that tweet has been put on an FBI list for more intense surveillance. 

However, in an additional twist, Richard Spencer, whom many have long suspected of being a Fed and having close ties to the Bush family, actually reported RamZPaul to his local police force, the Oklahoma City PD.

In recent days Spencer and RamZPaul have been following another classic Fed tactic of stoking up pointless divisions in "their" crappy movement by adopting totally unnuanced and polarised viewpoints to trick the dumb fucks who follow them into adopting one or other of two extreme choices. 

While Spencer tweets endlessly about his admiration and devotion to NazBol China and fully supports a full and total clampdown on all movement and business that would completely crater the US economy, his colleague RamZPaul takes the opposite extreme position of having coronavirus "bug-chasing" parties and licking random toilet seats in order to uphold "muh rights" as an American.

Both these positions are obviously insane, and are clearly designed to trick low-IQ people in the Alt-Right into adopting toxic views that will further discredit them and their already despised movement. 

In reality Spencer doesn't want RamZPaul to be gunned down in a hail of lead by the Oklahoma PD. In fact they are best buds, and are secretly laughing at their dumb followers who are so easily duped by stuff like this. 

JAPAN'S TOP COMEDIAN SLAIN BY CORONAVIRUS

This guy was literally Japan's most famous comedian. Now he is dead, slain by the coronavirus. 

As reported by the Kyodo news agency:

Ken Shimura, a veteran slapstick comedian and onetime member of rock ’n’ roll band and comedy group The Drifters, a household name in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, has died of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus, his agency said Monday. He was 70.

Shimura last week became the first Japanese entertainment figure to announce their infection with the virus. His agency on Monday announced his death from the disease known as COVID-19.

Shimura was hospitalized on March 20 after developing a fever and being diagnosed with severe pneumonia. He tested positive for the virus on March 23, becoming the first Japanese entertainment figure to announce an infection.

Here's an example of his brilliant comedy. It is, of course, very "politically incorrect" by crappy Western Leftie standards. Enjoy!

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TRUMP'S "STOPGAP CURE" FOR CORONAVIRUS AUTHORISED BY THE FDA

Trump got a lot of flak for pushing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as cures for coronavirus. The idiot Leftist press even pretended it was the same thing as fish-tank cleaner. But it looks like the President was right all along. 

Now the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has officially authorised the long-established anti-malaria drugs to be used in the fight against coronavirus. 

According to a statement from the HHS (Department of Health and Human Services):

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to BARDA [Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority] to allow hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate products donated to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible.

The statement also praised Trump's efforts to get the drug accepted:

“President Trump is taking every possible step to protect Americans from the coronavirus and provide them with hope,” said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. “Scientists in America and around the world have identified multiple potential therapeutics for COVID-19, including chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. The President’s bold leadership and the hard work of FDA and HHS’s Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response have succeeded in securing this large donation of medicine. We’ll continue working around the clock to get American patients access to therapeutics that may help them battle COVID-19, while building the evidence to evaluate which options are effective.”

With an actual vaccine for COVID-19 expected to take up to 18 months to develop and roll out, it is vital that a stopgap solution is found. Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are the best candidates out there, but would still be tied up in useless red-tape if it hadn't been for Trump sticking his neck out.

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SPAIN'S LEFTIE GOVERNMENT SUED FOR SPREADING CORONAVIRUS

"No means no" (unless you're a virus)

There is always a reason why things happen. Spain did not just become one of the World's top coronavirus hotspots at random. 

In fact, the country's Left-wing government played a key role in the massive spread of the disease by green-lighting dozens of mass demonstrations by feminists to go ahead, even though the virus was clearly a major threat at the time. 

The Spanish government was so complicit in this disaster that a class action lawsuit has now been filed against it.

As reported by the Gates Institute:

The Spanish government, comprised of a coalition of Socialists and Communists, is facing legal action for alleged negligence in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The government is accused of putting its narrow ideological interests ahead of the safety and wellbeing of the public, and, in so doing, unnecessarily worsening the humanitarian crisis now gripping Spain, currently the second-worst afflicted country in Europe after Italy.

A class action lawsuit filed on March 19 accuses the Spanish government — highly ideological by any standard, as the Communist coalition partner, Podemos, was founded with seed money from the Venezuelan government — of knowingly endangering public safety by encouraging the public to participate in more than 75 feminist marches, held across Spain on March 8, to mark International Women's Day. The nationwide rallies were aimed at protesting the government's perennial bugbear: the alleged patriarchy of Western civilization.

Hundreds of thousands of people participated in those marches, and several high-profile attendees — including Spain's deputy prime minister, as well as the prime minister's wife and mother, and also the wife of the leader of Podemos — have since tested positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). It is unknown how many people were infected by the coronavirus as a result of the rallies.

The lawsuit, involving more than 5,000 plaintiffs, accuses Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his representatives in Spain's 17 autonomous regions of "prevarication" — a Spanish legal term that means lying and deceiving. 

The first coronavirus fatality in Spain died on the 13th of February, almost a full month before the feminist rallies on the 8th of March. 

On March 2nd, the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention advised all European countries to cancel mass gatherings of people to prevent the transmission of coronavirus. Most complied. In fact, in Spain itself the sporting authorities ordered major sports matches to be held behind closed doors with no spectators. Yet, several days later, the Spanish government gave the green light to meetings featuring tens of thousands of closely bunched feminists. 

Not surprisingly, the very next day the number of coronavirus cases in Madrid doubled. 

Meanwhile the Left-wing government was so worried about the coronavirus outbreak ruining its man-hating feminist festivities that between March 6 and 9, they failed to report any new cases. 

Yes, humans, as far as Commies are concerned, your lives and the lives of your families are just so much trash to be wasted in the pursuit of their insane ideology. Try to keep a memo of that somewhere.

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MOST OF US MAY ALREADY HAVE CORONAVIRUS -- NEW STUDY

According to a new study by researchers at Oxford University most people may already have caught the coronavirus without even realising it. The reason for this is that the symptoms for most people may be so mild as to attract no attention.

As reported by the Financial Times:

The new coronavirus may already have infected far more people in the UK than scientists had previously estimated — perhaps as much as half the population — according to modelling by researchers at the University of Oxford.

If the results are confirmed, they imply that fewer than one in a thousand of those infected with Covid-19 become ill enough to need hospital treatment, said Sunetra Gupta, professor of theoretical epidemiology, who led the study. The vast majority develop very mild symptoms or none at all.

“We need immediately to begin large-scale serological surveys — antibody testing — to assess what stage of the epidemic we are in now,” she said.

The modelling by Oxford’s Evolutionary Ecology of Infectious Disease group indicates that Covid-19 reached the UK by mid-January at the latest. Like many emerging infections, it spread invisibly for more than a month before the first transmissions within the UK were officially recorded at the end of February.

The authors of the model have questioned the British government's wholesale acceptance of the much more pessimistic findings by researchers at Imperial College London.

The research presents a very different view of the epidemic to the modelling at Imperial College London, which has strongly influenced government policy. “I am surprised that there has been such unqualified acceptance of the Imperial model,” said Prof Gupta...

But the Oxford results would mean the country had already acquired substantial herd immunity through the unrecognised spread of Covid-19 over more than two months. 

If the findings are confirmed by testing, the coronavirus crisis could soon run out of steam, meaning that most of the measures taken by governments around the world may have been superfluous.

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FEARS GROW FOR WORLD'S THOTS AFTER COVID-19 ISOLATION PUSHES TEEN TO SUICIDE

Fears are growing for the World's THOT population after a young lady was pushed into suicide by social isolation measures caused by the coronavirus epidemic. 

As reported by the Daily Mirror: 

A "beautiful" teenager who feared being isolated with coronavirus tragically died after attempting to take her life.

Tributes were today paid to “funny and charming” Emily Owen, 19, who died in hospital after a suicide attempt.

The young waitress was said to have been unable to cope “with her world closing in, plans being cancelled and being stuck inside”.

Her devastated family tonight demanded more awarenesares and support for people struggling with mental health issues during the deadly virus pandemic.

No doubt some people are laughing at this terrible tragedy, saying that it is absurd to kill oneself for such trivial reasons. In that case, shame on them.

The fact is that attractive THOTs like Emily exist surrounded by a gallery of thirsty admirers, beta-orbiters, and even a few interested alpha males like me. 

This supplies them with an enormous amount of reassuring masculine attention, making them feel special, important, and even "Princess-like," regardless of how vacuous their brains and personalities may be. 

When this warm glow of constant attention and affirmation is suddenly withdrawn -- as it is by Britain's draconian "social distancing" and "self-isolation" measures -- then the psychological damage can be sudden, brutal, and severe. 

Indeed, many THOTs are no more capable of living outside a bubble of constant male attention than a fish is capable of living outside water. 

What makes this story more tragic is that youngsters like Owens would probably just shrug off coronavirus even if they caught it. 

Society now has some serious questions to answer, like: 

Is it really worth sacrificing thousands and possibly even millions of attention-starved young THOTs like Emily just to save a lot of old people and boomers who are routinely ignored by the rest of society? 

Really, people, we need to step up and do better than this.

Maybe what we need is a different kind of "THOT patrol," one that can check up on these poor creatures and prevent them from self-harming until we can restore the high levels of simping and lascivious attention that they clearly need to survive.

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PRINCE CHARLES CATCHES CORONA VIRUS AFTER WEARING WRONG KIND OF MASK

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne and a fully-paid up member of the global illuminati, has become the biggest celebrity to catch the corona virus. 

As reported by the BBC:

Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms "but otherwise remains in good health", a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess of Cornwall, 72, has been tested but does not have the virus.

Unfortunately the Prince has now carried the disease, which it is thought will kill millions of elderly people across the World, to Balmoral in the Scottish Highlands. This is a remote part of the UK that was largely unaffected by the outbreak until now:

A Clarence House statement read: "In accordance with government and medical advice, the prince and the duchess are now self-isolating at home in Scotland.

"The tests were carried out by the NHS in Aberdeenshire, where they met the criteria required for testing.

"It is not possible to ascertain from whom the prince caught the virus owing to the high number of engagements he carried out in his public role during recent weeks."

The Prince appears to have caught the disease by wearing the wrong kind of mask. The appropriate mask to wear is one of these:

This is an N95 respirator. It is a tight-fitting, customised face mask, designed for the individual wearer. In addition to splashes, sprays, and large droplets of spittle, this mask filters out 95 percent of very small particles, including the deadly coronavirus.

Instead it is thought that the Prince may have been wearing one of these masks, possibly as he engaged in some weird elite ritual with his illuminati and masonic friends: 

Similar masks were worn by members of the global elite in the Stanley Kubrick documentary "Eyes Wide Shut."

Medical professionals warn that masks of this sort are largely ineffective against the coronavirus, as are other royal masks like this one:

And this one:

In fact these masks probably accelerate the infection, due to poor ventilation, bad hygiene, and the bodily fluids of underage prostitutes.

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WHY IS ALLAH REFUSING TO SAVE BRITISH MUSLIMS FROM CORONAVIRUS?

British Muslims, who are overwhelmingly of South Asian origin, have more than their fair share of health problems. The many problems caused by cousin marriage have been well-documented, not to mention ailments caused by lack of sunshine that they have simply not been evolved for. 

Now the latest medical crisis to hit British Muslims is coronavirus! 

One unconfirmed figure I heard is that 25% of all British coronavirus deaths are British Muslims, even though they only make up around 5 to 7% of the population and are usually younger then the native British population. But whatever the exact numbers, which will probably be covered up, it is clear that British Muslims are being hit by the global pandemic at a much higher rate than native Brits. 

Shadim Hussain, a prominent Muslim writing in the Left-wing newspaper The Independent admitted as much:

Britain’s Muslims are amongst the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic – senior NHS officials [say] that Muslims are particularly vulnerable to coronavirus.

To those inside Muslim communities like me, this is shocking but not surprising. This needs to be recognised more broadly before it is too late. If Muslims feel let down, excluded or forgotten by the government response, there will be repercussions that last longer than the outbreak.

Interesting sentence:

"...there will be repercussions that last longer than the outbreak."

I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means.

Fingers crossed!

So, why is this nasty, racist virus picking on Muslims? After his veiled threats of terrorism, Hussain continues:

Many Muslims live in extended families, often, like my household, with three generations under one roof. This means there are a higher number of carriers who can (and often will) infect an elderly relative. An older person cannot effectively self-isolate when they are living in close quarters with their children, grand-children and perhaps even extended family.

We are all social creatures, but maybe Muslims are more social than most. We eat together – often from one plate, sharing utensils and side dishes. For many Muslims, social intimacy like handshakes and hugs are so hardwired into their behaviour that the week-old invention of “social distancing” is both alien and absurd to them.

This is particularly the case in Britain’s 1600 Mosques (there are 130 just in my home town of Bradford). Islam is a collective religion, and although prominent British Muslim organisations like the Muslim Council of Britain have – in line with Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt – instructed Muslims to pray at home, many of the UK’s mosques are likely to remain open. Thankfully most mosques have heeded the advice, but the prayer spaces that are still open may have even more people packed into them than usual, increasing the risk.

During Friday prayers (attendance at which is, under normal circumstances, an obligation for most Muslims), the close proximity of worshippers makes the spread of coronavirus a near certainty. We know this from events in the Muslim world: Malaysia’s spread of Covid-19 has been traced back to a single religious gathering at a Mosque, which allowed the virus to spread not only across that country, but to six others.

All this makes coronavirus particularly troubling in Muslim communities, some of which are, like Bradford, in the most deprived areas of the country, with poor health outcomes to match.

I would guess there are several other factors that may affect infection rates. For example, while Islam encourages hygiene to some degree, many South Asian cultures are not as "on board" with basic hygiene practices as normal English people, at least traditionally.

But the coronavirus also has a metaphysical and theological dimension.

If higher numbers of Muslims are dying from the coronavirus despite being the special "Chosen People of Allah," the simple lesson to take from this is that either (a) Allah does not exist or (b) He does not care about British Muslims. In fact, it looks like he prefers infidels!!! 

Wow, mind blown!

The only way for true Muslims to square the circle here would be to believe that Allah exists and loves them, but just doesn't approve of them living in the lands of the infidels. 

Some serious thoughts to ponder there for all serious British Muslims -- inshallah!

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CORONA VIRUS DAILY UPDATE

The latest figures for the virus show a LOT of discrepancies between different countries. According to Sean Last, the virus has a death rate of about 0.1%. 

As death stats are more accurate than case stats -- for obvious reasons -- the way to get an idea of infection stats in any one country is to multiply the death stat by a thousand. In the case of Italy, that gives a 4 million people who either have or had the virus. Only about 1% of those cases have been picked up.

In the case of Germany which has 70 deaths, the actual probably number of infections is 70,000, which means the German's have identified around 30% of the actual cases. 

A study that showed there is already an effective cure for corona virus is now starting to gain increasing attention:

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SERIOUS MEDICAL NEWS: "DREADED" CORONA VIRUS CAN BE EASILY CURED

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Good news for people with elderly Italian relatives and people who like to chow down on bat soup, bad news for Alt-Right doomsdayers and Boogaloo blackpillers -- it seems that the "dreaded" corona virus can be easily cured by a combination of two already existing medicines.

As reported by Tech Startups:

A study commissioned by the French government, now confirms the story we reported on Wednesday, that a combination of anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and Azithromycin are effective in treating COVID-19 patients. According to the study published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, the combination therapy shows significant and promising results in treatment of coronavirus on 36 COVID-19 patients.

The study, which was conducted and led by Philippe Gautreta, et. al in Marseille, France, showed that 100% of patients that received a combination of HCQ and Azithromycin tested negative and were virologically cured within 6 days of treatment. “Among hydroxychloroquine-treated patients six patients received azithromycin (500mg on day1 followed by 250mg per day, the next four days) to prevent bacterial super-infection under daily electrocardiogram control,” the team said.

The study treated 20 coronavirus patients with 600 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine daily between early and mid-March. Depending on their symptoms, the patients received a combination of HCQ and Azithromycin, an antibiotic that fights bacteria and is used to treat many different types of infections caused by bacteria. Another 16 coronovirus patients were not given the drugs as a control. Instead they had a Lemsip and a wet wipe from a pretty nurse:

Not effective against Coronavirus, apparently.

Strangely, this control group didn't do so well as this graph demonstrates:

Ok, that's that panic over and done with. I hope you managed to put some money into the stock market like I did when everybody was losing their shit.

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MONEY MACHINE GO "BURR" AS SENATOR DUMPED STOCKS AND TIPPED OFF HIS "SPECIAL FRIENDS"

Ever wonder what those special fundraising meals, where rich people pay thousands of dollars to dine with politicians, were all about? 

Well, apparently it's a two-way transaction, as the "donors" also get something pretty valuable in return -- namely bankable info from the inside track of government. 

This has become clear after totally innocent US Senator Richard Burr (Rep) was blamed for dumping up to $1.7 million of his own stock after receiving daily briefings on the seriousness of the coronavirus threat from government experts. Really, what's wrong with using a little of what you know to make some money?

As reported by Propublica: 

Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions.

As the head of the intelligence committee, Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government’s most highly classified information about threats to America’s security. His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time, according to a Reuters story.

A week after Burr’s sales, the stock market began a sharp decline and has lost about 30% since.

Anyway, not only did the Senator, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, continue making reassuring noises to the general public about the likely effects of the virus, but he also used his insider knowledge to tip off his "special" fat cat friends, who had paid through the nose to lunch with him.

According to the NPR report, Burr told attendees of the luncheon held at the Capitol Hill Club: “There’s one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history ... It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic.”

He warned that companies might have to curtail their employees’ travel, that schools could close and that the military might be mobilized to compensate for overwhelmed hospitals.

The luncheon was organized by the Tar Heel Circle, a club for businesses and organizations in North Carolina that are charged up to $10,000 for membership and are promised “interaction with top leaders and staff from Congress, the administration, and the private sector.”

Burr’s public comments had been considerably less dire. In a Feb. 7 op-ed that he co-authored with another senator, he assured the public that “the United States today is better prepared than ever before to face emerging public health threats, like the coronavirus.” He wrote, “No matter the outbreak or threat, Congress and the federal government have been vigilant in identifying gaps in its readiness efforts and improving its response capabilities.”

Yes, U.S. politics is strictly pay-to-play -- and at every single level. The more you pay in the more you get out. You weren't naive enough to think it worked any other way, did you?

Certainly adds a new twist on the "money printer go BURR" meme.

The question now is which other Senators and Congresspeople took full advantage of coronavirus "special briefings" to short the market.

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HEROIC ANTI-WAR CAMPAIGNER KEEPS STRAIGHT FACE AS SHE ENDORSES "WARMONGER" BIDEN

Tulsi Gabbard, a woman whose whole brand is to stop fighting stupid wars, has finally bowed out of the Presidential primaries and endorsed Joe Biden, i.e. someone who fully supported the completely pointless 2003 invasion of Iraq, as well as a number of other equally moronic military operations.

In a video statement released on Twitter, the part-Hawaiian Congressional Peacenik said:

“Although I may not agree with the vice-president on every issue, I know that he has a good heart, and he’s motivated by his love for our country and the American people. I’m confident that he will lead our country guided by the spirit of aloha, respect and compassion, and thus help heal the divisiveness that has been tearing our country apart.”

Even more surprisingly, she kept a straight face.

This marks a departure from her position in 2016, when she endorsed fellow anti-war candidate Bernie Sanders, someone who opposed the pointless invasion of Iraq. 

Even though Bernie is still in the race, Gabbard has clearly made the calculation that Biden is going to win the nomination, and that sucking up to him is the best way to further her career, so fuck her anti-war principles, etc., etc.

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U.S. CITIES TO LET MOST CRIMINALS OFF "SCOT FREE" DURING CORONA CRISIS (WHAT COULD GO WRONG?)

It looks like the corona panic that is sweeping the nation could spark a tsunami of crime. 

Due to the enormous strain this is expected to place on police and prison services in major cities, police forces have started issuing orders to officers to avoid arresting people for relatively "minor" offences. Instead they will have their details taken and then be released back into the wild.

Due to the coronavirus crisis, Philadelphia police will no longer be making arrests for all narcotics offenses, theft from persons, retail theft, theft from auto, burglary, vandalism, bench warrants, stolen autos, economic crimes such as passing bad checks, fraud, & prostitution. pic.twitter.com/R2OZSPMKHO

— Rob O'Donnell (@odonnell_r) March 17, 2020

As you can see, a lot of these "minor" offences are quite major ones. 

Also, the green light this shows to criminals could cause the kind of chaos that leads to an upsurge in even the most serious crimes, like rape and murder.

Concerns about the "welfare" of criminals is another factor in these policies by Democrat-run cities. 

Because imprisoning criminals might increase their chances of catching the corona virus, New York City is actually thinking of emptying its prisons.

As reported by the New York Post:

The city is considering freeing jailed suspects over the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday — a move backed by the city Board of Correction and Manhattan and Brooklyn DAs.

City officials are “evaluating right now people who might be particularly high-risk in terms of vulnerability to the virus,” de Blasio said at an afternoon press conference.

The inmate group would presumably include the elderly and those suffering from diabetes, asthma, heart disease, lung disease and compromised immune systems — all identified as leaving people vulnerable to the virus.

Suspects deemed at low risk of committing new alleged criminal offenses also could be released, the mayor said.

What a time to be alive for career criminals with mild coughs!

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CORONA VIRUS DAILY UPDATE

It's not looking good, folks. The numbers are bad, but the hysteria and government posturing is off the charts. 

Italy is getting set to overtake China -- now 2,503 deaths to China's 3,226. 

Meanwhile governments all over the world are shutting down most of their economies, closing their borders, and placing cities under lock down.

As more testing gets done, the USA is shooting up the table. How high can it go? My guess is it will eventually overtake China unless they take the same extreme measures the Chinese took, and that's a non-starter with pampered Americans.

There are two things that will stop the virus -- a vaccine or populations building up natural "herd" immunity. The first will reportedly take 18 months, the second involves large numbers of people getting the virus. 

So, basically your choices are mass coronavirus with a long-term shut-down of the economy (blunting the wave) or mass coronavirus with a short-term disruption of the economy (allowing hospitals to be overwhelmed for a comparatively short period). 

Personally I think taking it on the chin in a short, nasty burst, with minimal disruption to the wider economy, is probably the optimum strategy, as I don't think most societies in the World can take the prolonged strain of up to a year of economic shut-down. 

Another factor is whether the virus is curtailed by rising temperatures. I'm not seeing that yet. Italy is seeing warm spring weather (18 degrees Celsius today) but there was a higher than 10% increase in total cases. 

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