People protesting against the stay-at-home orders in Colorado were confronted by a man and woman dressed in medical uniforms - apparently issuing a silent rebuke to participants...

... Now the photojournalist behind the images tells the BBC what happened that day when "two worlds collided".

Meanwhile, some states are reopening businesses despite warnings from health experts that infections may spread...

... They "stood their ground", Ms McClaran said, even as some demonstrators shouted and hurled racist comments at the pair. "It was honestly heartbreaking to see,"...

... Those protesting say that the strict measures restricting movement and businesses... "I'm gonna do what I got to do to feed my family," he said. "If it means I got to risk my health then so be it… and yes even potentially the health of others. "My mortgage payments are late, my truck payment is late and if I lose either of those I'm dead in the water." When you're quarantining healthy people, that's tyranny, he added. "Our constitutional rights are getting viciously trampled right now...

... At least three states are now moving toward a reopening...

... At the helm of Georgia's largest city, Atlanta mayor Keisha Bottoms said the decision put her "at a loss". "As I look at the data and as I talk with our public health officials, I don't see that it's based on anything that's logical,"...

Very strange scenes:

Coronavirus protests: The moment a man in scrubs confronts drivers
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... At least three states are now moving toward a reopening...

... At the helm of Georgia's largest city, Atlanta mayor Keisha Bottoms said the decision put her "at a loss". "As I look at the data and as I talk with our public health officials, I don't see that it's based on anything that's logical,"...

... If there was any hope that the coronavirus crisis would put a stop to the culture wars that ravage American society...

... When all it takes is a click to join, where there is no fee, or delay, no need to turn up, or interact; when this is where the action is today. Just one click.

And yet, while everyone simultaneously knows that the entire thing is a castle built on sand, it is still amazing to us all that there can be hundreds of thousands of people signing up to anything in a matter of days. We still haven’t grown used to internet scale.

But at the same time, there are real world consequences. Georgia’s governor announced on Monday that he was going to lift the state’s restrictions on movement, opening up gyms, restaurants, hair salons, massage studios and other businesses on Friday. Yes, this Friday.

It is an extraordinarily dangerous experiment on the state’s 10.7m residents given the contagious nature of COVID-19. And it has been driven directly by perceived political pressure driven by people whose expertise stretches no further than driving outrage.

April 21 (UPI) -- The coronavirus pandemic tops the list of the most important problems facing Americans, a poll released Tuesday indicates.

The Gallup poll found that 45 percent of Americans find COVID-19 to be the biggest problem facing the United States, up from 13 percent in March.

The remaining responses were healthcare and the economy in general at 6 percent each

A plan by President Donald Trump to temporarily close off U.S. borders to migrants during the coronavirus crisis

Concerns about ... immigration dropped from 8 percent in February to 2 percent in April.

An anti-malarial drug President Trump has aggressively promoted to treat covid-19 had no benefit and was linked to higher rates of death for Veterans Affairs patients hospitalized with the novel coronavirus, according to a study, raising further questions about the safety and efficacy of a treatment that has seen widespread use in the pandemic.
The study by VA and academic researchers analyzed outcomes of 368 male patients nationwide, with 97 receiving hydroxychloroquine, 113 receiving hydroxychloroquine in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin, and 158 not receiving any hydroxychloroquine.
Rates of death in the groups treated with the drugs were worse than those who did not receive the drugs, the study found. Rates of patients on ventilators were roughly equal, with no benefit demonstrated by the drugs.
More than 27 percent of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine died, and 22 percent of those treated with the combination therapy died, compared with an 11.4 percent death rate in those not treated with the drugs, the study said. The results were from an observational study of outcomes and were not part of a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, which is the gold standard for testing drugs.
The study was published on the site medrxiv.org, which is a clearinghouse for academic studies on the coronavirus that have not yet been peer-reviewed or published in academic journals.

Negotiations over D.C. hotel test how the government deals with Trump’s firm

Across Trump’s company, the situation is equally dire. Of the 24 clubs and hotels in the United States and abroad, 18 are now closed, including six of the top seven revenue producers.
The company has laid off or furloughed more than 2,600 employees at hotels and golf clubs in New York, Florida, California, Nevada, Illinois and elsewhere.

US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a new report on Intel Community Assessment of Russian Interference with the 2016 US presidential election.

Select Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner:

The ICA summarizing intelligence concerning the 2016 election represented the kind of unbiased and professional work we expect and require from the Intelligence Community. The ICA correctly found the Russians interfered in our 2016 election to hurt Secretary Clinton and help the candidacy of Donald Trump.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-new-report-intel-community-assessment-russian-interference

And what should be said about those trumptards, who did and still continue this same Vladimir Putin’s work?

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Virginia, first elected in 2008. He is a member of the Democratic Party and currently a Vice Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a new report on Intel Community Assessment of Russian Interference with the 2016 US presidential election.

Select Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner:

The ICA summarizing intelligence concerning the 2016 election represented the kind of unbiased and professional work we expect and require from the Intelligence Community. The ICA correctly found the Russians interfered in our 2016 election to hurt Secretary Clinton and help the candidacy of Donald Trump.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-new-report-intel-community-assessment-russian-interference

And what should be said about those trumptards, who did and still continue this same Vladimir Putin’s work?

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Virginia, first elected in 2008. He is a member of the Democratic Party and currently a Vice Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

.......says all that needs to be said about motivations of Mark Warner.........same as Schiff, Pelosi, and Humpty Dumpty Nadler.
Still trying to sell the discredited (by their own appointee, Mueller), Roosia, Roosia, Roosia, theory.

By the way, the over/under on this report was (as expected) right down party lines.

We'll soon see what Special Counsel John Durham has dug up...........stay tuned.

“Russia’s aggressive interference efforts should be considered ‘the new normal,’ That warning has been borne out by the events of the last three years, as Russia and its imitators increasingly use information warfare to sow societal chaos and discord. With the 2020 presidential election approaching, it’s more important than ever that we remain vigilant against the threat of interference from hostile foreign actors.”

US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released a new report on Intel Community Assessment of Russian Interference with the 2016 US presidential election.

Select Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner:

The ICA summarizing intelligence concerning the 2016 election represented the kind of unbiased and professional work we expect and require from the Intelligence Community. The ICA correctly found the Russians interfered in our 2016 election to hurt Secretary Clinton and help the candidacy of Donald Trump.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/senate-intel-releases-new-report-intel-community-assessment-russian-interference

And what should be said about those trumptards, who did and still continue this same Vladimir Putin’s work?

Mark Robert Warner (born December 15, 1954) is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Virginia, first elected in 2008. He is a member of the Democratic Party and currently a Vice Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

.......says all that needs to be said about motivations of Mark Warner.........same as Schiff, Pelosi, and Humpty Dumpty Nadler.
Still trying to sell the discredited (by their own appointee, Mueller), Roosia, Roosia, Roosia, theory.

By the way, the over/under on this report was (as expected) right down party lines.

We'll soon see what Special Counsel John Durham has dug up...........stay tuned.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is only the vice chair.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the committee’s chairman. said

“Russia’s aggressive interference efforts should be considered ‘the new normal,’ That warning has been borne out by the events of the last three years, as Russia and its imitators increasingly use information warfare to sow societal chaos and discord. With the 2020 presidential election approaching, it’s more important than ever that we remain vigilant against the threat of interference from hostile foreign actors.”

“Russia’s aggressive interference efforts should be considered ‘the new normal,’ That warning has been borne out by the events of the last three years, as Russia and its imitators increasingly use information warfare to sow societal chaos and discord. With the 2020 presidential election approaching, it’s more important than ever that we remain vigilant against the threat of interference from hostile foreign actors.”

Further, a body of reporting, to include different intelligence disciplines, open source reporting on Russian leadership policy preferences, and Russian media content, showed that Moscow sought to denigrate then-candidate Clinton

This report also provides additional evidence against Donald Trump s false assertions regarding Ukraine. For example, the Committee conducted an extensive examination of the intelligence demonstrating Russia's intrusions into DNC networks. That review, which confirmed the ICA's findings, is fundamentally incompatible with Trump's conspiracy theories about Ukrainian involvement, for which there is no supporting evidence of any kind.

... Meanwhile he's gone quiet on his so called "wonder drug".

... Most recently, meeting former patients who had recovered from Covid-19, he pressed some on whether they or their loved ones had used it. “So you took the hydroxy?” he asked. “Why did you take the hydroxy? Why did you do that? You saw it on television?”

The malaria drug showed no benefit in a relatively large trial of its use at US veterans hospitals. An analysis showed that nearly a third of veterans at US military hospitals died when treated with hydroxychloroquine, a greater fraction than patients who received standard treatment.

“These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs,” researchers wrote...

... Trump earlier authorized the deployment of more than 25m doses of the drug from the national stockpile, creating a scarcity for those who use it to treat malaria, lupus and other illnesses...

The doctor who led the federal agency involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine said on Wednesday that he was removed from his post after he pressed for a rigorous vetting of a coronavirus treatment embraced by President Trump. The doctor said that science, not “politics and cronyism,” must lead the way.

Dr. Rick Bright was abruptly dismissed this week as the director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, and as the deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican President Donald Trump trails Democrat Joe Biden among registered voters in three Midwestern battleground states that he narrowly carried in 2016 and are seen as crucial to winning November’s election, according to an Ipsos public opinion poll conducted exclusively for Reuters.

The poll, which ran from April 15-20 in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, showed 45% of registered voters said they would support Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, while 39% said they would support Trump.

It also found that Biden, vice president under Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama, has an advantage of 3 percentage points among registered voters in Wisconsin, 6 points in Pennsylvania and 8 points in Michigan.

The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion,[8][9] and its reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" as often-pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning or "politically correct" tendencies.

... Meanwhile he's gone quiet on his so called "wonder drug".

Trump stops hyping hydroxychloroquine after study shows no benefit. wrote:

... Most recently, meeting former patients who had recovered from Covid-19, he pressed some on whether they or their loved ones had used it. “So you took the hydroxy?” he asked. “Why did you take the hydroxy? Why did you do that? You saw it on television?”

The malaria drug showed no benefit in a relatively large trial of its use at US veterans hospitals. An analysis showed that nearly a third of veterans at US military hospitals died when treated with hydroxychloroquine, a greater fraction than patients who received standard treatment.

“These findings highlight the importance of awaiting the results of ongoing prospective, randomized, controlled studies before widespread adoption of these drugs,” researchers wrote...

... Trump earlier authorized the deployment of more than 25m doses of the drug from the national stockpile, creating a scarcity for those who use it to treat malaria, lupus and other illnesses...

Phew! That is totally damning.

With what excuse?


All in our deadly greedy world...
Martin

Well Trump said he had a feeling about that drug but the facts how he was wrong so he will continue to practice other voodoo medicine practices.

The Guardian........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian

The paper's readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion,[8][9] and its reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing editorial has led to the use of the "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" as often-pejorative epithets for those of left-leaning or "politically correct" tendencies.

.......no radical Left axe to grind there................not.