Douglas McKinnon asks the question-

“As we are also learning with each passing day, in order to justify their highly controversial, extremely punishing, draconian lockdowns, the handful of politicians, officials, and experts who upended our lives and ordered those lockdowns, are being very creative and very liberal as to what constitutes a COVID-19 fatality, all of which begs the question: Are there any ethical and honest reporters left within the mainstream media who could investigate this clearly duplicitous – but officially condoned – counting method?”

Townhall-

“This same doctor I spoke with also stressed to me that the “experts” our nation and the world relied upon to shut it down, could not answer one simple question.  That being:  Is COVID-19 less or more lethal than the Hong Kong flu pandemic (H3N2) of 1968?  A pandemic that mirrored COVID-19 in that it was highly infectious and was primarily lethal to those over 65 with pre-existing conditions.  A pandemic that infected millions of Americans and killed approximately 100,000 out of a then population of about 200 million.  A pandemic which worldwide, killed upwards of 4 million people.”

And as with many things these days, no one will ever be held accountable or even made to answer any of the questions put forth.

As many suspected, the so called “Medical worker counter protests” are staged-

Hubble gives us a birthday present-

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52106420

From our Friend Terry-

California filled in some skateboard parks with sand, because of authoritarian overreach. So some kids on dirt bikes showed up to try out the new “dirt bike parks”

Government Overreach Backfires as Dirt Bikers Show Up to Skate Park Filled with Sand

Well done lads, well done!

Lost in the corona news cycle was the 3rd largest Tornado in US history. It cut a swath through central Mississippi 2-1/2 miles (4km) wide and 68 miles (109km) long and caused 14 fatalities. The storm featured sustained winds of 190mph+(305kph)  and was part of a seven state Tornado outburst that hit the area Easter Sunday resulting in a combined death toll of 38.

All the usual local and federal government agencies rolled out as well as an army of volunteers to begin clearing debris and helping people put their lives back together. Logger and Youtuber Cotontop3  was one of the men that volunteered their time and equipment to the task at hand. Short video shows some drone footage of the path and later in the video there are some close up views of the destruction on the ground.

The study in question-

http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/phcommon/public/media/mediapubhpdetail.cfm?prid=2328

“Los Angeles (April 20, 2020) – USC and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) today released preliminary results from a collaborative scientific study that suggests infections from the new coronavirus are far more widespread – and the fatality rate much lower – in L.A. County than previously thought.

The results are from the first round of an ongoing study by USC researchers and Public Health officials. They will be conducting antibody testing over time on a series of representative samples of adults to determine the scope and spread of the pandemic across the county.

Based on results of the first round of testing, the research team estimates that approximately 4.1% of the county’s adult population has antibody to the virus. Adjusting this estimate for statistical margin of error implies about 2.8% to 5.6% of the county’s adult population has antibody to the virus- which translates to approximately 221,000 to 442,000 adults in the county who have had the infection. That estimate is 28 to 55 times higher than the 7,994 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported to the county by the time of the study in early April. The number of COVID-related deaths in the county has now surpassed 600.

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Webpage with a wealth of data and articles dealing with the current “crisis”

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

Hat tip to Pascal for the link

CDC’s failed Coronavirus test kits were contaminated with Coronavirus-

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/cdcs-failed-coronavirus-tests-were-tainted-with-coronavirus-feds-confirm/

“Shortly after the problems became apparent in early February, the Food and Drug Administration sent Timothy Stenzel, chief of in vitro diagnostics and radiological health, to the CDC to investigate what was going wrong. According to the Times, he found a lack of coordination and inexperience in commercial manufacturing.

Problems that led to the contamination included researchers coming and going from labs working on the test kits without changing their coats and researchers sharing lab space to both assemble test components and handle samples containing the coronavirus.”

Also-

https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-tests-uk-contaminated-covid-19

“Eurofins Scientific, a testing laboratory company based in Luxembourg, sent an email Monday morning informing government laboratories in the U.K. that delivery of key “probes and primers” for coronavirus tests would be delayed after traces of the coronavirus were found on the supplies, The Daily Telegraph reported.

It was not clear in the email how the tests became contaminated. Eurofins Scientific insisted other private coronavirus test suppliers have experienced similar problems.”

Random incompetence? Or a great way to make sure a pandemic gets a start?