April 10 Reads

Not an Obama fan, but better a third Obama term than a second Trump one:

Michele Bachmann warns that if Joe Biden is elected president, "this will become Barack Obama's third term." pic.twitter.com/KK7Gl4MMNk

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 10, 2020

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There are over 500,000 cases of COVID-19 reported, with over 18,000 deaths.
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Sounds like another brainless millennial thing they have come up with.
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Interesting theory about California and the coronavirus.

I also have heard there are three different strains of COVID-19.  The "A" strain came from China directly to the West Coast of the U.S.  This is the first one to have hit here.  The "C" strain has stayed mostly around southeast Asia such as Hong Kong.  The "B" strain is the one that is so devastating to the eastern part of the United States, and it is said to be the so-called "European" strain because people traveled from China to Europe, and it mutated.

More about the strains is here:

And researchers at Mount Sinai started sequencing the genomes of patients coming through their hospital. They found that the earliest cases identified in New York were not linked to later ones.

“Two weeks later, we start seeing viruses related to each other,” said Ana Silvia Gonzalez-Reiche, a member of the Mount Sinai team.

Dr. Gonzalez-Reiche and her colleagues found that these viruses were practically identical to viruses found around Europe. They cannot say on what particular flight a particular virus arrived in New York. But they write that the viruses reveal “a period of untracked global transmission between late January to mid-February.”

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Indonesian volcano Krakatoa strikes again.

Some video:


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