US President Donald Trump Wrote:China will do anything they can to make me lose my re-election bid.

AP Wrote:Under Japan’s coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others continue to dine out, picnic in parks and crowd into grocery stores with scant regard for social distancing.
On Wednesday, the first day of the “Golden Week” holidays that run through May 5, Tokyo’s leafy Shiba Park was packed with families with small children, day camping in tents.

AP Wrote:Biden’s campaign has denied the allegation from his former Senate staffer Tara Reade, who has said Biden assaulted her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the 1990s. But the story garnered fresh attention this week after two of Reade’s associates said she previously told them about elements of her allegations.

20,849 confirmed, 985 deaths + 93 under , 1,361 recoveries
Maryland has about 1 million more inhabitants than Costa Rica itself and still, they've found more covidose patients than Costa Rican authorities. Curious note: Maryland reported its first case one day before Costa Rica had to make the same kind of announcement.  

No recoveries!? That sounds bad for people waiting for good news since early March...

Should we ever believe them when they say they're doing better than Germany itself!?

(04-30-2020, 05:19 AM)kyonides Wrote: Biden assault allegation prompts GOP attacks, Dem worries
https://apnews.com/dd316041bfb530459ae07a60ef764aed

AP Wrote:Biden’s campaign has denied the allegation from his former Senate staffer Tara Reade, who has said Biden assaulted her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the 1990s. But the story garnered fresh attention this week after two of Reade’s associates said she previously told them about elements of her allegations.

So she's sticking to her story after all these years...

BBC Wrote:Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Alabama-based Dynetics were selected to work on landers under the space agency's Artemis programme.

Daily Telegraph Wrote:It notes a 2013 study conducted by a team of researchers, including Dr Shi, who collected a sample of horseshoe bat faeces from a cave in Yunnan province, China, which was later found to contain a virus 96.2 per cent identical to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused COVID-19.
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Their November 2015 study, done in conjunction with the University of North Carolina, concluded that the SARS-like virus could jump directly from bats to humans and there was no treatment that could help.

Daily Telegraph Wrote:A few years later, in March 2019, Dr Shi and her team, including Peng Zhou, who worked in Australia for five years, published a review ­titled Bat Coronaviruses in China ... It is highly likely that future SARS or MERS like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China.

BBC Wrote:England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said the number of people being treated in hospitals for the virus had fallen by 13% over the past week.

Associated Press Wrote:Trump’s standing has slumped as the nation’s focus on him has intensified during the coronavirus outbreak, revealing an erratic and often self-absorbed approach to the crisis.
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Now, that economy is crumbling around Trump. A staggering 30 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past six weeks as businesses have shuttered due to stay-at-home restrictions aimed at containing the pandemic. One of the president’s own economic advisers predicted nationwide unemployment could reach 20% by June.

(05-03-2020, 02:10 AM)kyonides Wrote: 'Once Upon a Virus': China mocks U.S. coronavirus response in Lego-like animation
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/once-upon-a-virus-china-mocks-u-s-coronavirus-response-in-lego-like-animation-idUSKBN22E0C4
China seriously laughed at Trump this time.