Today's News (2020/4/8): 50% Edition

Combine item 1 with yesterday's new big pivot by Fox and a strategy may be revealing itself: if the "let people die, it's for the economy" faction has won in the White House, then if nobody knows how widespread the virus is, they can deny what they're doing.

HHS say these were always to be transitionary sites anyway and maybe that's true? But who even knows. I doubt it.

As for why the Federal government is stealing supplies from people and redistributing it to private companies for further resale, all I can say is that neither the larceny, nor the profiteering, nor the pettiness know any bounds. It's just evil.

1. Federal Support Ends For Coronavirus Testing Sites As Pandemic Peak Nears
2. Trump could put lives at risk by firing government watchdogs: Conservative columnist
3. Ventilators destined for Barbados seized by U.S.
4. Hannity’s latest propaganda actually exposes Trump’s epic failures
5. Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources
6. 50% of the supplies coming in to U.S. are going... to private companies.
7. FEMA usually gives to the state. Directly.
8. Hydroxychloroquine: how an unproven drug became Trump’s coronavirus 'miracle cure'
9. Red States Are Exploiting Coronavirus to Ban Abortion
10. Fast Foods Workers at 30 Restaurants Across California Are Going on Strike
11. Bill O’Reilly’s Macabre Take: Many Who Died From Coronavirus ‘Were on Their Last Legs Anyway’

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