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Sweden's Top Epidemiologist: COVID-19 Infections Flattening Under Policy of Individual Responsibility https://fee.org/articles/sweden-s-top-epidemiologist-covid-19-infections-flattening-under-policy-of-individual-responsibility/ He traveled to a hospital to set up its new computer system. Three weeks later, he died there. - NBC https://apple.news/AAT4ElK12R9-vsiiQ-g1VlQ MasterMyTrades.com Patreon.com/goodmorningliberty --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2 cats in NY become first US pets to test positive for virus Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for the coronavirus, marking the first confirmed cases in companion animals in the United States Read in ABC News: https://apple.news/AUj-y6owlTiqNeTHfXWbSGw Mastermytrades.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MasterMyTrades.com Patreon.com/GoodMorningLiberty Judge tosses Twitter suit over surveillance secrecy https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/18/federal-judge-dismisses-surveillance-twitter-suit-193557?cid=apn A federal judge has dismissed Twitter's long-running lawsuit aimed at receiving a green light to provide users with a more detailed picture of U.S. government surveillance requests. On Friday evening, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Rogers turned down the social media company's bid to reverse the FBI's classification of statistical reports Twitter wanted to release about demands it receives from U.S. authorities through National Security Letters and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants. Hundreds of Amazon warehouse workers are set to call in sick to protest its response to COVID-19 https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-amazon-workers-call-in-sick-to-protest-coronavirus-response-2020-4 Hundreds of US Amazon workers are set to protest Amazon's handling of the coronavirus crisis by calling in sick this week. More than 300 Amazon employees have pledged to not go into work starting Tuesday, according to worker rights group United for Respect. The figures were first reported by The Guardian. Trump Plans to Halt Nearly All Legal Immigration Into the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/trump-suspend-legal-immigration-green-card-immigrants-travel-ban-coronavirus.html The coronavirus has led the U.S. to a dark place of national reckoning. On Monday evening, President Donald Trump announced his intention to further dim what remains of American life from just two months ago by suspending nearly all legal immigration into the country. "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!" Trump tweeted. The move is being made under the guise of the pandemic and an effort to protect American workers, many millions of whom now find themselves out of work, but it's hard not to see something deeper and darker in the "America First" president's motives. It's hard not to read this as an opportunist seizing an opportunity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Nation Without Medicare for All, 3.5 Million Workers May Have Lost Employer-Provided Insurance Over Last Two Weeks https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/02/nation-without-medicare-all-35-million-workers-may-have-lost-employer-provided Where You're Out of Work Makes All the Difference in the World https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygmky/where-youre-out-of-work-makes-all-the-difference-in-the-world-right-now Mastermytrades.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MasterMyTrades.com Patreon.com/GoodMorningLiberty The COVID-19 Crisis Is the Result of Decades of FDA Misrule https://fee.org/articles/the-covid-19-crisis-is-the-result-of-decades-of-fda-misrule/ The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing how the US Food and Drug Administration puts Americans at increased risk of sickness and death. Decades of killing medical innovation and forcing industries offshore made this inevitable. Rightfully, many are questioning how things got this bad. As political stock rises in calls for change in Washington, Americans must watch out for any false debate that merely aims at rearranging deck chairs. IRS sends coronavirus stimulus checks to dead people https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/17/irs-sends-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-to-dead-people.html An unlikely group counts itself among the recipients of the coronavirus stimulus checks: the dead. The IRS began distributing $290 billion in direct cash payments within the past week as part of the $2 trillion CARES Act stimulus bill. As part of the plan, IRS is sending checks of up to $1,200 per individual and $2,400 per married couple over the past several days to weather the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.IRS sends coronavirus stimulus checks to dead people How Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus 'Checks' Averaging $1.7 Million https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/17/irs-sends-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-to-dead-people.html A $1.7 million stimulus check? While wealthy Americans are not eligible for the comparatively measly $1,200 stimulus checks that are now being disbursed to many Americans, they are on pace to do even better. 43,000 taxpayers, who earn more than $1 million annually, are each set to receive a $1.7 million windfall, on average, thanks to a provision buried in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MasterMyTrades.com Patreon.com/GoodMorningLiberty N.Y.C. Death Toll Soars Past 10,000 in Revised Virus Count https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-deaths.html New York City, already a world epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 victims on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it. 'This Did Not Have To Happen': McConnell, McCarthy Blast Democrats For Blocking Funds For Small Businesses https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-did-not-have-to-happen-mcconnell-mccarthy-blast-democrats-for-blocking-funds-for-small-businesses?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) slammed Democrats and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in a statement on Wednesday for refusing to replenish the Paycheck Protection Program of the CARES Act, which will result in harm to Americans. Coronavirus timeline shows politicians', media's changing rhetoric on risk of pandemic https://www.foxnews.com/politics/from-new-york-to-canada-to-the-white-house-initial-coronavirus-responses-havent-aged-well As reporters looked on during a contentious White House briefing this week, President Trump stepped aside and played a brief video showing several media figures downplaying the coronavirus in January and February, including some personalities who now argue the president didn't act quickly enough. Sources believe coronavirus outbreak originated in Wuhan lab as part of China's efforts to compete with US https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources There is increasing confidence that the COVID-19 outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China's attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MasterMyTrades.com Patreon.com/GoodMorningLiberty Budget Deficit Now Expected To Near $4 Trillion This Year https://reason.com/2020/04/14/budget-deficit-now-expected-to-near-4-trillion-this-year/ In the halcyon days of yore—you know, 10 weeks ago—budget hawks were fretting about the return of trillion-dollar deficits, with the Congressional Budget Office's latest 10-year projection showing that the annual budget deficit would hit $1.7 trillion by 2030. Alyssa Milano Discovers Due Process https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/alyssa-milano-discovers-due-process/ Only some women are to be believed, when it's politically convenient. It's one thing to adopt a poorly formed set of principles and foist them on others at every opportunity. It's another to apply those principles unflinchingly to one's political opponents while giving allies a free pass. Milano's pro-due-process statement on the accusations against Biden is, in essence, the correct one, just as Biden's recent defense of himself was justifiable. Due process is an essential part of the liberal legal tradition and a foundational part of our culture; there's nothing wrong with invoking "innocent until proven guilty" on one's own behalf or that of a friend. There is, however, quite a bit wrong with invoking this principle only when it suits you and jettisoning it when it comes to people holding political beliefs you find abhorrent. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MasterMyTrades.com Patreon.com/GoodMorningLiberty Trump wants to reopen country soon. But power really lies with governors https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/12/politics/governors-trump-coronavirus-response/index.html As President Donald Trump leans in to his fervent desire to reopen the nation's economy by May 1, there is a major obstacle standing in his path: the nation's governors and mayors who hold the power to enforce closures and who have often taken a far more aggressive posture on protecting public health than the President. DOJ: 'Expect action' on government regulation of religious services amid COVID-19 outbreak https://www.foxnews.com/us/doj-expect-action-government-regulation-religious-covid-19 The Justice Department (DOJ) may take action next week against local governments that have cracked down on religious services as widespread parts of the country are shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, a DOJ spokesperson said Saturday. Corporations step up in the coronavirus crisis—Is it PR or purpose? https://fortune.com/2020/04/13/corporations-coronavirus-response-pr/ For the past month, my email inbox has flooded with press releases from companies touting the good works they are doing during the coronavirus crisis. In some cases, their actions seem like random acts of charity. In others, they loom large—like Jack Dorsey's decision to dedicate $1 billion worth of Square stock for coronavirus relief. A number of companies are taking substantial actions to reward frontline workers—like Albertsons granting a $2 an hour pay increase on top of overtime, or Target investing more than $300 million in added wages, paid leave, and back-up childcare. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MasterMyTrades.com Patreon.com/GoodMorningLiberty On Monday, Forbes revealed Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutical was handed $450 million to work on a preventative treatment for COVID-19. Later, the pharma giant confirmed the coronavirus vaccine could roll out to the public by early 2021. Now the company's chief scientist says it will also spend $500 million as part of a $1 billion partnership with the U.S. government to research and produce a vaccine. And Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer at Johnson & Johnson, says it will start manufacturing this month before the vaccine has gone through clinical trials or been approved by the FDA. That's in order to get large quantities of the vaccine ready to go to market early next year, if it's given the green light by regulatory agencies, Stoffels tells Forbes . U.S. coronavirus restrictions create split among religious liberty advocates https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-religion-idUSKBN21Q1AI WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When an evangelical Christian pastor was arrested in Florida for flouting a stay-at-home order aimed at curbing the new coronavirus, a conservative religious liberty group was quick to leap to his defense. Bernanke rejects Great Depression comparisons as he says GDP could slump by 30% https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bernanke-rejects-great-depression-comparisons-as-he-says-gdp-could-slump-by-30-2020-04-08 Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is a scholar of the Great Depression, a background he put to use during the global financial crisis when he invented many of the emergency lending programs the central bank is now reusing. But he thinks the Great Depression is a bad comparison to make to the current economic nosedive caused by the shutdowns in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MasterMyTrades.com Patreon.com/GoodMorningLiberty Wobbly U.S. fiscal response could deepen coronavirus recession https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fiscal-analysi-idUSKBN21Q0H1 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's massive effort to nurse the economy through the coronavirus crisis was billed as a send-money-and-don't-sweat-the-details flood of cash to people and businesses in a $22 trillion system that has ground to a halt. Illinois Mayor Sends Police To Break Up Parties. They Found His Wife At One Of Them. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alton-illinois-mayor-wife-coronavirus-party_n_5e8bfed2c5b62459a92e0da5?guccounter=1 The Alton, Ill., mayor said his wife showed a stunning lack of judgment in violating stay-at-home orders intended to stop the spread of coronavirus. The mayor of a small city in Illinois warned citizens that he had ordered police to break up parties and issue citations to enforce the state's stay-at-home orders that are meant to slow the coronavirus pandemic. But when the officers did so, they found his wife at one such gathering. ESSENTIAL WORKERS WOULD GET UP TO $25,000 BOOST UNDER SENATE DEMOCRATS' NEW 'HEROES FUND' STIMULUS https://www.newsweek.com/essential-workers-would-get-25000-boost-under-senate-democrats-new-heroes-fund-stimulus-1496639 Senate Democrats unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would boost the pay of essential workers on the frontlines of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic by potentially tens of thousands of dollars. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices