Thursday, April 2, 2020

Thursday Things - Part 1

On a sunny and windy Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the Democrats postpone their national convention due to the coronavirus.

From FrontpageMag, "lessons that must be learned" from dealing with the coronavirus.

From Townhall, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Aso Taro suggests a new name for the World Health Organization.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Supreme Court faces uncertainty as lower courts use remote work technologies.

From the Washington Examiner, even if you hate President Trump, don't root against him during the coronavirus crisis.

From The Federalist, seven cultural shifts that should result from the coronavirus crisis.

From American Thinker, Trump was right about medical equipment being stolen.

From CNS News, Sean Lennon, whose father once warned against "carrying pictures of Chairman Mao", criticizes the media for quoting Mao's modern successors.

From LifeZette, why we will make it through the coronavirus pandemic.

From NewsBustersMRC President Brent Bozell writes an open letter to President Trump, in which he explains the waste of sending coronavirus relief money to public broadcasting.

From Canada Free Press, the coronavirus scares the people and brings on the crazy.

From CBC News, Canada now has over 10,000 coronavirus cases.

From Global News, according to Prime Minister Trudeau, 11 million face masks have arrived in Canada.

From CTV News, Canadian tax collectors and auditors will help field "historic" numbers of benefit seekers.

From TeleSUR, three migrant children test positive for the coronavirus in New York state.

From The Mainichi, an old statute of a bodhisattva in Iwaji, Japan will be demolished.

From the Borneo Post, anyone entering Malaysia will be quarantined for 14 days, which takes effect tomorrow.

From Free Malaysia Today, anyone traveling between districts in the Malaysian state of Sarawak must get permission from the police, starting tomorrow.  (Since it's already April 3rd in Malaysia, any Malaysians reading this should assume that this order is already in effect.)

From The Straits Times, according to a new study, at least 10 people in Singapore caught the coronavirus from someone who wasn't showing any symptoms.

From The Jakarta Post, 127 people who attended a church event in Bandung, Indonesia have tested positive for the coronavirus.

From Maldives Insider, the Maldive Islands expects its number of tourists to drop by half in 2020.

From the Daily Mirror, two more people are arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday terror attacks, which happened about a year ago.

From the Colombo Page, SriLankan Airlines decides to implement cost-cutting measures to ensure its survival and the livelihoods of its employees.

From the Dhaka Tribune, in Bangladesh, anyone wishing to distribute relief material or services must first inform the police.

From The Hans India, with few people attending, the celestial wedding of Lord Rama is held at the Lord Seetha Rama temple in Bhadrachalam, India.

From the Hindustan Times, 9,000 members of Tablighi Jamaat, including more than 1,300 foreigners, are put in quarantine due to the coronavirus.  (The Tablighi Jamaat, whose name means "outreach society", is an Islamic missionary movement.)

From ANI, the Indian state of Haryana bans the use and sale of chewing gum.

From India Today, an Indian Islamic cleric issues a fatwa asking Muslims to get tested for the coronavirus if they have symptoms.

From the Deccan Herald, a mob assaults a health worker doing surveillance work in Bengaluru, India.  (via Swarajya.)

From Khaama Press, the Taliban agrees to a cease fire only in areas of Afghanistan affected by the coronavirus.

From Dawn, the High Court of the Pakistani province of Sindh overturns the murder conviction of the man accused of killing Wall Street Journal reported Daniel Pearl.

From The Express Tribune, Pakistan's first coronavirus patient donates blood plasma for possible new therapy for other patients.

From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani Supreme Court is informed that the country has 48,008 under-trial prisoners.

From Radio Farda, evidence suggests that Iran's "nuclear shopping sprees" are still going on.

From IranWire, 41 years of Iran's persecution of Baha'i doctors.

From StepFeed, the Middle East e-commerce company Noon become the latest to shift to cashless payments in the UAE.

From The New Arab, according to Human Rights Watch, Lebanon is unfairly targeting refugees in its coronavirus lockdown.

From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia enforces a 24-hour curfew in the cities of Mecca and Medina.

From Hürriyet Daily News, according to Turkey's interior minister, most of the coronavirus cases in İstanbul were imported from Europe.

From Turkish Minute, according to İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the state-run bank Vakıfbank blocked $135,000 worth of donated coronavirus relief funds.  (The Turkish language appears to have a version of the letter "i" in which the dot appears above the capital but not the miniscule.  As for how, if at all, its pronunciation differs from the "regular" letter "i", I have no idea.)

From Rûdaw, terrorists see the chaos resulting from the coronavirus as an opportunity.

From In-Cyprus, Limassol, Cyprus steps up its measures against the coronavirus.

From The Syrian Observer, Syrian government soldiers and allied Shiite militia fighters allegedly loot in areas they have taken.

From Arutz Sheva, researchers at Hebrew University create a model for predicting the spread of the coronavirus.

From The Times Of Israel, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, who is coronavirus-positive, is accused of flouting rules and endangering Israel's leaders.

From The Jerusalem Post, IDF troops will be deployed to help efforts against the coronavirus in the city of Bnei Brak.

From YNetNews, the Israeli government plans to evacuate 4,500 elderly people from Bnei Brak.

From the Egypt Independent, President Abdel al-Sisi orders the Mahya Misr Fund to pay the quarantine costs of Egyptians returning home.

From Egypt Today, Egypt's interior ministry sterilizes the country's prisons as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus.

From Morocco World News, Morocco's Royal Armed Forces build a field hospital in record time.

From Gatestone Institute, the coronavirus poses a greater threat to Iran's ayatollas than that posed by U.S. sanctions.

From The Stream, while stamping out the coronavirus, let's not also stamp out the Constitution.

From NBC News, a man in Georgia pleads guilty to planning an attack on the White House and other landmarks.  (via the Washington Examiner)

From TechRepublic, a new software dashboard similates how face masks and hand washing can stop the spread of the coronavirus.

From Breitbart, OANN correspondent Chanel Rion is invited back into the White House briefing room.

From Accuracy in Media, the media ignores former Vice President Biden's "Luhan" gaffe.

From Fox News, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), nothing from the Chinese government should be taken at face value.

From Twitchy and the "you can't make this up" department, this year's first special edition quarter depicts....drum roll, please....a bat.  (And I don't mean the bat used in baseball.)

And from the New York Post, Dr. Anthony Fauci might receive an unexpected new title.

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