Category: This Weeks News
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Message to Government Representatives
By Thomas Barnes – April 28, 2020 SACRAMENTO, Calif. Officials from six rural Northern California counties and 14 small cities have urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to let the counties reopen their economies, marking the most significant pushback yet from local leaders against a mandatory stay-at-home order that is in its second month that has left…
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Earth Day Turns 50: Let’s Remember Why It Started
Copied in it’s entirety per the guidelines of numbersUSA.com. PUBLISHED: Thu, APR 23rd 2020 @ 5:55 pm EDT by Eric Ruark The 50th anniversary of Earth Day was yesterday and like everything else not related to the coronavirus, it received underwhelming attention. That’s understandable. What’s also not surprising is that celebrations commemorating Earth Day, and commentary in the media, neglected to mention a main…
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Media hysteria, Doctors and Scientists numbers off, what’s going on?
By Samuel Strait – April 24, 2020 – When I returned from a much needed decompress on March 1st, then transiting through LAX, I was greeted by an hysterical US media on nearly every channel, hyping the end of the world as we know it, two point two million deaths by April in the US…
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Response to April 21st Protest
Submitted by Mike Cuthbertson originally posted on Facebook – Just a morning rant…not aimed at anyone or written with bad feelings..I have tried to stay away from posting anything political on here for quite a long time now. And i don’t see this as political…just my thoughts. The county is divided and there’s nothing i…
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Is it time to responsibly open up the economy?
By Donna Westfall – April 22, 2020 If we look at the numbers of deaths in Los Angeles County, 1,320 so far and climbing with about 100 reported on Tuesday, April 21st, (over 35,000 confirmed cases) the city is definitely a disaster. The only city to surpass those numbers is New York with a whopping…
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Little coronavirus relief for property owners
By Jon Coupal – April 20, 2020 The second installment of the 2019-2020 property tax bill was due on Friday, April 10th, and we hope the majority of California’s property owners were able to pay it without economic hardship. Unfortunately, for many homeowners and small businesses, it was more than just a hardship. They simply…
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The Cure is Worse than the Disease
Submitted By Dan Schultz – April 11, 2020 Masks as a Cure Wearing a mask while healthy might actually make you sick” (1) –Dr. David Eisenman a professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at UCLA says “A mask may also cause respiratory distress and become a hotbed for microbes to thrive. As carbon…
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Current Covid 19 info
Submitted by Roger Gitlin – April 10, 2020 As of Late Friday, April 10. Good Evening, folks: Am very pleased to report the latest COVID 19 numbers for Del Norte County… Disclosed just TWO cases POSITIVE for the Virus. Also wish to share the latest CDCR COVID 19 numbers. Across the 35 instituion system there…
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Rep Huffman Virtual Town Hall Meeting
April 10, 2020 Please join Congressman Jared Huffman for an on-line “shelter in place” community town hall on Monday, April 13th. Rep. Huffman will be joined by local experts to discuss the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and answer questions from viewers. In compliance with Shelter in Place orders, this is not an in-person event.…
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Fear from Meaningless Numbers
Submitted by Dan Schultz – April 7, 2020 Mark Twain said, “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned lies, and Statistics.” “The numbers are almost meaningless,” (1) — Steve Goodman, MD, MHS, PhD. Stanford University Professor of Epidemiology “With a population of 1.5 billion people, China’s some 80,000 cases look like a rounding error” (1) –Nigam Shah, Stanford…