CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: April 9th

April 09, 2020

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Glenn gives the latest coronavirus numbers, updating YOU on everything needed to know as Americans and officials monitor China's new COVID-19 virus:

Daily Stats as of 5:30 AM CT (from John's Hopkins)

Total Confirmed Cases Worldwide: 1,529,961 (up from 1,447,516 yesterday)
Total Confirmed Deaths Worldwide: 89,426 (up from 83,113 yesterday)
Total Confirmed Recovered Worldwide: 337,164 (up from 308,659 yesterday)
US has 435,160 Confirmed Cases and 14,797 Deaths, up from 400,549 cases and 12,857 deaths yesterday
The nearly 2,000 US deaths makes this the highest death rate day so far in the Pandemic for any country
The US has officially tested 2,226,116 people, Making the US 44th in Rate of Testing Per 1 Million in Population
Less than 1% of the US Population has been tested for COVID-19... Iceland is #1, having tested over 10% of its total population

Virus Spreads Nearly 2-Times Faster Than Previously Estimatedhttps://nypost.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-might-spread-twice-as-quickly-as-health-officials-thought/

Researchers from Los Alimos National Laboratory published a study estimating the total number of other people infected by each SARS-CoV-2 carrier.
The research found that people infected during the initial outbreak in Wuhan probably passed the virus to an average 5.7 others — more than double the 2 to 2.5 other people estimated by health officials and the World Health Organization.
Patients sick with the seasonal flu, by comparison, will on average infect about 1.3 people.
If the numbers are accurate, the coronavirus pandemic could only be stopped by a widespread vaccination or built immunity for 82 percent of the population, according to the researchers, who reviewed Chinese data from the CDC, including mobile phone data that tracked the movement of patients leaving Wuhan.
The WHO has faced significant criticism for downplaying the contagious nature of COVID-19 and China's role in daily to stop the spread early in the localized epidemic phase.
An internal Chinese study originally leaked in February by doctors estimated the rate of spread in Wuhan to be between 4.8 and 5.9 people infected per victim, which would validate the research from Los Alimos. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article?deliveryName=USCDC_333-DM25287

More Western Governments Agree: Virus Likely Came from Chinese Laboratory, NOT From Exoctic Food Markethttps://www.yahoo.com/news/boris-johnsons-government-reportedly-believes-115000701.html

Add Great Britain to the growing list of Governments who are beginning to confirm the SARS-CoV-2 virus likely came from a Chinese Communist Party-backed viral research lab.
The US, UK, Israel, Canada, Australia, Taiwan and Germany have all reached similar conclusions: the virus behind COVID-19 was most likely laboratory grown. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8188159/Did-coronavirus-leak-research-lab-Wuhan-Startling-new-theory-no-longer-discounted.html
The WHO has significantly downplayed this possibility and continues to parrot Chinese Communist Party propaganda that the virus is too "imperfect" to have been developed as a bio-weapon, a claim not being made by any Western governments or intelligence agencies.
Rather, the conclusion is that the virus was discovered in the Chinese research lab and accidentally leaked when a worker was sprayed with blood from a bat, which internal documents from the Lab as well as Chinese Communist Party videos obtained by Western Intelligence & Media outlets appear to confirm.

China Communist Party: Virus Was Spreading in North Carolina in the Summer of 2019https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3079046/chinese-supercomputer-and-american-doctors-clash-over-ai

An AI Supercomputer modeling all public health records finds SARS-CoV-2 was likely present and spreading in North Carolina in the Summer of 2019.
Using millions of medical records (fully anonymized of course), the Chinese computer found a case of 'atypical pneumonia' of 'unknown origin' in The US last year, including CT scans of the victim's lungs indicative of COVID-19.
The Victim was an avid "Vaper" (user of oral vaping CBD Oil device)
China's Tianhe-1 machine says white patches detected on lungs suggest probable COVID-19 and suggested contaminated vaping devices shared among friends the likely culprit.
But North Carolina doctor says five patients with similar symptoms were not evidence of an earlier outbreak.
The patient was one of five people who showed up at the WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, at about the same time, with acute lung injuries, according to information on the website of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Doctors ran tests for influenza and other known pathogens to identify the cause of infection, and the results came back negative.
All patients survived and their cases were added by the US CDC into a pool of hundreds of patients "potentially associated with vaping", or the smoking of electronic cigarettes, that occurred last year.
CDC notes that none of the patients presented with other COVID-19 symptoms which often include Fever, Fatigue, Diarrhea, Headaches, or Dry Cough.
CDC further noted that if this had been SARS-CoV-2, further spread would have likely occurred given the extremely high rate of contagion.
Industry analysts also noted that approximately 95% of global vaping equipment, including flavor cartridges, are manufactured in China.

US Government Needs Mike Lindell After All: Federal Stockpile of PPEs 90% Depletedhttps://apnews.com/a464316e25560d393bd07a021b7e81ba

More than 90% of the US Stockpile of Masks, Gowns, Gloves and Faceshields have already been distributed to states.
As reported by The Blaze and confirmed as "True" by Factcheckers at USA Today, the US Federal Emergency Stockpile had been depleted by over 70% between 2012 and 2016 during the Obama Administration, but the Administration had not refilled the stockpile before Trump took office in 2017. https://www.glennbeck.com/blog/coronavirus-update-april-6th
The Department of Health and Human Services told the Associated Press Wednesday that the federal stockpile was in the process of deploying all remaining personal protective equipment in its inventory.
The HHS statement confirms federal documents released Wednesday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee showing that about 90% of the personal protective equipment in the stockpile has been distributed to state and local governments.
HHS spokeswoman Katie McKeogh said the remaining 10% will be kept in reserve to support federal response efforts, noting that the US Federal Government is expecting new PPE to arrive from US and Western manufacturers within days to help ensure ongoing supplies to US hotspots.

New Yorkers Carry European Strains of SARS-CoV-2, Study Demonstrateshttps://dnyuz.com/2020/04/08/most-new-york-coronavirus-cases-came-from-europe-genomes-show/

There are currently 115 known 'mutations' of SARS-CoV-2, most extremely minor protein anomalies that don't impact how the virus functions in the human body.
NYC victims mostly carry and transmit the European strains of the virus, the same as those having caused such high infection and serious complication rates in Italy and Spain.
That seems to be true up and down the East Coast and in Louisianna, whereas Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles mostly seem to carry strains that came directly through China without first transmitting through European hosts.
Understanding the specific genome of which strain of the virus is carried can help doctors determine which treatments may be most effective for a given patient, and may alter vaccine development.
SARS-CoV-2 itself is a mutation of the original SARS-1 Coronavirus, scientists indicated.
Some previous studies have speculated that some strains of the virus may be more virulent and fatal in some patients than others, although the CDC has yet to reach this conclusion, the study notes.

100 Ships and 90,000 Crew Members In Limbo - Stuck At Sea Awaiting Permission to Disembarkhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/over-90-000-cruise-ship-crew-members-stuck-at-sea-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/ar-BB12lXc2

Dozens of ships do not have passengers, either because cruises were canceled or returning ships already disembarked all passengers - still crew members, even those who have tested negative for COVID-19, are stuck on board.
The Coral Princess, the latest cruise ship in the U.S. with reported cases of COVID-19, already disembarked all passengers but crew members are all still on board. Tthe U.S. Coast Guard said over 100 cruise ships and 90,000 crew members are still stuck at sea in or near U.S. ports and waters.
"The entire DHS team is working together to ensure no seafarer will be left untreated during this emergency to the best of our collective ability," Rear Adm. Eric Jones, Commander of the 7th District headquartered in Miami, said.
However, "cruise lines need to take additional measures" to be "reasonably self-sufficient" through better medical care and protocols.
Some crew members have accused the government of slowplaying disembarkation orders as a means to 'punish' the Cruise industry for choosing to continue operations into March, resulting in thousands of passengers becoming infected and requiring rescue efforts at Government expense.

In Mexico, Death's by COVID-19 Flat, but Deaths by "Atypical Pneumonia" Surgehttps://www.theyucatantimes.com/2020/04/in-mexico-atypical-pneumonia-is-killing-more-people-than-covid-19-imss-denies-it/

In a copycat scenario echoing China's early cover-up, Government Officials in Mexico seem to be masking COVID-19 deaths by fudging Cause of Death numbers.
Officially, Mexico has only 174 Deaths by COVID-19 so far, despite local reports of "many Dozens" of dead in just one hospital in Mexico City.
However, a recent media report shows that while official COVID-19 deaths appear to be low, death via 'Atypical Pneumonia', 'Respiratory Failure' or 'Heart Seizure' have surged by hundreds of cases in the past 4 weeks.
In one hospital just this past week, only 15 patients were diagnosed with COVID-19, but another 48 patients were admitted with "Atypical Pneumonia" listed on official medical reports leaked to the press.
Doctors there said they aren't testing all patients due to lack of testing supplies and laboratory capacity.
Mexico only began instituting social distancing orders and lockdowns last week, prompting a scramble by Government officials as obvious outbreaks appeared in hospitals all over the country.
Mexico recently requested international help, asking for 200,000 doctors and 300,000 nurses to help deal with the expected wave of infections. https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/coronavirus/mexico-is-short-200000-doctors-300000-nurses-health-minister/

Police Confront Nude Sunbathers About Having Naked Faceshttps://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/nudist-sunbathers-face-masks-coronavirus

Face masks are apparently more important than pants when it comes to health and safety.
In classic "You Do You" style, a group of naked sunbathers in the Czech Republic were recently ordered by police to cover up with facemasks to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
While they were completely free to remain nude, local ordinances required that they keep their mouths covered due to the global coronavirus outbreak.
"I guess Nude doesn't really mean Nude anymore," one local sunbather complained.

How Do You Restart The World's Largest Economy? On a Wing and a Prayer:https://www.wsj.com/articles/government-and-businessesturn-attention-to-eventual-reopeningof-22-trillion-u-s-economy-11586301615

The Trump Administration's Larry Kudlow indicated recently that we're 'weeks, not months' from restarting parts of the US Economy following COVID-19 lockdowns.
Trump has indicated he wants a 'fast, very rapid' jump-start, coupling liquidity injections from the US Federal Reserve with Government Spending via several channels.
The US Government will place orders with Defense contractors, spend heavily on new infrastructure, offer immediate spending grants to US-states, and issue special building and construction permits, along with cutting red-tape and environmental regulations, insiders have indicated.
Spending grants offered to US states would be time-sensitive, inspiring states to rush projects to fruition to take advantage of the funds. "There's a clock on this stuff," Kudlow told reporters.
"This has never been done before, but we know the levers to pull," one source quoted by the Wall Street Journal said. "The US Government is the largest overall spender in the world, but we also control the regulations that would otherwise limit growth from the private sector."
The one-two punch of government spending coupled with lower regulatory burden should enable the US Government to help jump-start the economy.
"Spending by the US Government, along with massive loan-guarantees is what restarted Europe's economy via the Marshall plan after World War II," said one Fed official. "We're not entirely in uncharted territory."
Still, the concern is that by lowering social distancing orders too soon, further viral outbreaks could squash efforts to restart the economy. "Timing is everything," Larry Kudlow told the Wall Street Journal yesterday.

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Could China OWN our National Parks?

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The left’s idea of stewardship involves bulldozing bison and barring access. Lee’s vision puts conservation back in the hands of the people.

The media wants you to believe that Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) is trying to bulldoze Yellowstone and turn national parks into strip malls — that he’s calling for a reckless fire sale of America’s natural beauty to line developers’ pockets. That narrative is dishonest. It’s fearmongering, and, by the way, it’s wrong.

Here’s what’s really happening.

Private stewardship works. It’s local. It’s accountable. It’s incentivized.

The federal government currently owns 640 million acres of land — nearly 28% of all land in the United States. To put that into perspective, that’s more territory than France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom combined.

Most of this land is west of the Mississippi River. That’s not a coincidence. In the American West, federal ownership isn’t just a bureaucratic technicality — it’s a stranglehold. States are suffocated. Locals are treated as tenants. Opportunities are choked off.

Meanwhile, people living east of the Mississippi — in places like Kentucky, Georgia, or Pennsylvania — might not even realize how little land their own states truly control. But the same policies that are plaguing the West could come for them next.

Lee isn’t proposing to auction off Yellowstone or pave over Yosemite. He’s talking about 3 million acres — that’s less than half of 1% of the federal estate. And this land isn’t your family’s favorite hiking trail. It’s remote, hard to access, and often mismanaged.

Failed management

Why was it mismanaged in the first place? Because the federal government is a terrible landlord.

Consider Yellowstone again. It’s home to the last remaining herd of genetically pure American bison — animals that haven’t been crossbred with cattle. Ranchers, myself included, would love the chance to help restore these majestic creatures on private land. But the federal government won’t allow it.

So what do they do when the herd gets too big?

They kill them. Bulldoze them into mass graves. That’s not conservation. That’s bureaucratic malpractice.

And don’t even get me started on bald eagles — majestic symbols of American freedom and a federally protected endangered species, now regularly slaughtered by wind turbines. I have pictures of piles of dead bald eagles. Where’s the outrage?

Biden’s federal land-grab

Some argue that states can’t afford to manage this land themselves. But if the states can’t afford it, how can Washington? We’re $35 trillion in debt. Entitlements are strained, infrastructure is crumbling, and the Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and National Park Service are billions of dollars behind in basic maintenance. Roads, firebreaks, and trails are falling apart.

The Biden administration quietly embraced something called the “30 by 30” initiative, a plan to lock up 30% of all U.S. land and water under federal “conservation” by 2030. The real goal is 50% by 2050.

That entails half of the country being taken away from you, controlled not by the people who live there but by technocrats in D.C.

You think that won’t affect your ability to hunt, fish, graze cattle, or cut timber? Think again. It won’t be conservatives who stop you from building a cabin, raising cattle, or teaching your grandkids how to shoot a rifle. It’ll be the same radical environmentalists who treat land as sacred — unless it’s your truck, your deer stand, or your back yard.

Land as collateral

Moreover, the U.S. Treasury is considering putting federally owned land on the national balance sheet, listing your parks, forests, and hunting grounds as collateral.

What happens if America defaults on its debt?

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Do you think our creditors won’t come calling? Imagine explaining to your kids that the lake you used to fish in is now under foreign ownership, that the forest you hunted in belongs to China.

This is not hypothetical. This is the logical conclusion of treating land like a piggy bank.

The American way

There’s a better way — and it’s the American way.

Let the people who live near the land steward it. Let ranchers, farmers, sportsmen, and local conservationists do what they’ve done for generations.

Did you know that 75% of America’s wetlands are on private land? Or that the most successful wildlife recoveries — whitetail deer, ducks, wild turkeys — didn’t come from Washington but from partnerships between private landowners and groups like Ducks Unlimited?

Private stewardship works. It’s local. It’s accountable. It’s incentivized. When you break it, you fix it. When you profit from the land, you protect it.

This is not about selling out. It’s about buying in — to freedom, to responsibility, to the principle of constitutional self-governance.

So when you hear the pundits cry foul over 3 million acres of federal land, remember: We don’t need Washington to protect our land. We need Washington to get out of the way.

Because this isn’t just about land. It’s about liberty. And once liberty is lost, it doesn’t come back easily.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

EXPOSED: Why the left’s trans agenda just CRASHED at SCOTUS

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You never know what you’re going to get with the U.S. Supreme Court these days.

For all of the Left’s insane panic over having six supposedly conservative justices on the court, the decisions have been much more of a mixed bag. But thank God – sincerely – there was a seismic win for common sense at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. It’s a win for American children, parents, and for truth itself.

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s state ban on irreversible transgender procedures for minors.

The mostly conservative justices stood tall in this case, while Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson predictably dissented. This isn’t just Tennessee’s victory – 20 other red states that have similar bans can now breathe easier, knowing they can protect vulnerable children from these sick, experimental, life-altering procedures.

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Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, saying Tennessee’s law does not violate the Equal Protection Clause. It’s rooted in a very simple truth that common sense Americans get: kids cannot consent to permanent damage. The science backs this up – Norway, Finland, and the UK have all sounded alarms about the lack of evidence for so-called “gender-affirming care.” The Trump administration’s recent HHS report shredded the activist claims that these treatments help kids’ mental health. Nothing about this is “healthcare.” It is absolute harm.

The Left, the ACLU, and the Biden DOJ screamed “discrimination” and tried to twist the Constitution to force this radical ideology on our kids.

Fortunately, the Supreme Court saw through it this time. In her concurring opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett nailed it: gender identity is not some fixed, immutable trait like race or sex. Detransitioners are speaking out, regretting the surgeries and hormones they were rushed into as teens. WPATH – the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the supposed experts on this, knew that kids cannot fully grasp this decision, and their own leaked documents prove that they knew it. But they pushed operations and treatments on kids anyway.

This decision is about protecting the innocent from a dangerous ideology that denies biology and reality. Tennessee’s Attorney General calls this a “landmark victory in defense of America’s children.” He’s right. This time at least, the Supreme Court refused to let judicial activism steal our kids’ futures. Now every state needs to follow Tennessee’s lead on this, and maybe the tide will continue to turn.

Insider alert: Glenn’s audience EXPOSES the riots’ dark truth

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Glenn asked for YOUR take on the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots, and YOU responded with a thunderous verdict. Your answers to our recent Glennbeck.com poll cut through the establishment’s haze, revealing a profound skepticism of their narrative.

The results are undeniable: 98% of you believe taxpayer-funded NGOs are bankrolling these riots, a bold rejection of the claim that these are grassroots protests. Meanwhile, 99% dismiss the mainstream media’s coverage as woefully inadequate—can the official story survive such resounding doubt? And 99% of you view the involvement of socialist and Islamist groups as a growing threat to national security, signaling alarm at what Glenn calls a coordinated “Color Revolution” lurking beneath the surface.

You also stand firmly with decisive action: 99% support President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to quell the chaos. These numbers defy the elite’s tired excuses and reflect a demand for truth and accountability. Are your tax dollars being weaponized to destabilize America? You’ve answered with conviction.

Your voice sends a powerful message to those who dismiss the unrest as mere “protests.” You spoke, and Glenn listened. Keep shaping the conversation at Glennbeck.com.

Want to make your voice heard? Check out more polls HERE.

EXPOSED: Your tax dollars FUND Marxist riots in LA

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Protesters wore Che shirts, waved foreign flags, and chanted Marxist slogans — but corporate media still peddles the ‘spontaneous outrage’ narrative.

I sat in front of the television this weekend, watching the glittering spectacle of corporate media do what it does best: tell me not to believe my lying eyes.

According to the polished news anchors, what I was witnessing in Los Angeles was “mostly peaceful protests.” They said it with all the earnest gravitas of someone reading a bedtime story, while behind them the streets looked like a deleted scene from “Mad Max.” Federal agents dodged concrete slabs as if it were an Olympic sport. A man in a Che Guevara crop top tried to set a police car on fire. Dumpster fires lit the night sky like some sort of postapocalyptic luau.

If you suggest that violent criminals should be deported or imprisoned, you’re painted as the extremist.

But sure, it was peaceful. Tear gas clouds and Molotov cocktails are apparently the incense and candles of this new civic religion.

The media expects us to play along — to nod solemnly while cities burn and to call it “activism.”

Let’s call this what it is: delusion.

Another ‘peaceful’ riot

If the Titanic “mostly floated” and the Hindenburg “mostly flew,” then yes, the latest L.A. riots are “mostly peaceful.” But history tends to care about those tiny details at the end — like icebergs and explosions.

The coverage was full of phrases like “spontaneous,” “grassroots,” and “organic,” as if these protests materialized from thin air. But many of the signs and banners looked like they’d been run off at ComradesKinkos.com — crisp print jobs with slogans promoting socialism, communism, and various anti-American regimes. Palestinian flags waved beside banners from Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, and El Salvador. It was like someone looted a United Nations souvenir shop and turned it into a revolution starter pack.

And guess who funded it? You did.

According to at least one report, much of this so-called spontaneous rage fest was paid for with your tax dollars. Tens of millions of dollars from the Biden administration ensured your paycheck funded Trotsky cosplayers chucking firebombs at local coffee shops.

The same aging radicals from the 1970s — now armed with tenure, pensions, and book deals — are cheering from the sidelines, waxing poetic about how burning a squad car is “liberation.” These are the same folks who once wore tie-dye and flew to help guerrilla fighters and now applaud chaos under the banner of “progress.”

This is not progress. It is not protest. It’s certainly not justice or peace.

It’s an attempt to dismantle the American system — and if you dare say that out loud, you’re labeled a bigot, a fascist, or, worst of all, someone who notices reality.

And what sparked this taxpayer-funded riot? Enforcement against illegal immigrants — many of whom, according to official arrest records, are repeat violent offenders. These are not the “dreamers” or the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. These are criminals with long, violent rap sheets — allowed to remain free by a broken system that prioritizes ideology over public safety.

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This is what people are rioting over — not the mistreatment of the innocent, but the arrest of the guilty. And in California, that’s apparently a cause for outrage.

The average American, according to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, is supposed to worry they’ll be next. But unless you’re in the habit of assaulting people, smuggling, or firing guns into people’s homes, you probably don’t have much to fear.

Still, if you suggest that violent criminals should be deported or imprisoned, you’re painted as the extremist.

The left has lost it

This is what happens when a culture loses its grip on reality. We begin to call arson “art,” lawlessness “liberation,” and criminals “community members.” We burn the good and excuse the evil — all while the media insists it’s just “vibes.”

But it’s not just vibes. It’s violence, paid for by you, endorsed by your elected officials, and whitewashed by newsrooms with more concern for hair and lighting than for truth.

This isn’t activism. This is anarchism. And Democratic politicians are fueling the flame.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.