I believe Franklin Graham's March in Washington was a super spreader event.

I think the California Pastor contracted the virus at the march and then took it to the Rose Garden. There is a better than 50 percent chance Pence was exposed to COVID-19 at the Graham March.

Graham advocates prayer, church, and god as the way to survive an onslaught of a deadly virus. He DOES NOT advocate masks, distancing, or hand hygiene. I think Mr. Graham needs to be reviewed as a mass spreader.

These folks need to be called out when they don't follow the recommendations of doctors and authorities like the CDC, FDA, NIH, and WHO. Evangelicals are a global force on Earth. They could be causing some of the rise in COVID-19 cases globally. They are known for religious prejudice that causes harm to people.

March 28, 2020

Charlotte - Thousands of Americans (click here) have called a 24/7 COVID-19 prayer line started by the Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, president and CEO Franklin Graham said Saturday.

“Early this week, we began airing a 60-second evangelistic message on TV across the entire United States, and we have had thousands of people call,” the evangelist posted in a coronavirus ministry update.

“Maybe your heart has been gripped by fear as millions of others have because of the coronavirus pandemic,” Graham posted on Facebook on March 21 when he announced the prayer line, 888-388-2683.

“But I want you to know that God loves you, He made you, He created you, He knows everything about your life,” Graham continued. “You don’t need to be afraid. Jesus said I’ll never leave you nor forsake you.”

The March 21 post has drawn 56,000 likes and 26,000 shares.

On Saturday, Graham urged people who “are struggling with worry in the midst of this crisis” to call the line.

“Maybe your heart has been gripped by fear as millions of others have because of the coronavirus pandemic,” Graham posted on Facebook on March 21 when he announced the prayer line, 888-388-2683.

This reporting that included this picture of Greg Laurie states he became infected with SARS-CoV-2 at the Rose Garden Ceremony.

'My symptoms have been mild so far, and I expect to make a full recovery,' Laurie tells his followers

There needs to be a change in the Vice President debate to virtual. VP Pence cannot reassure anyone that he is not infected. Pence was with this California pastor after the Rose Garden ceremony in a parade. That was Saturday. We know as a fact that a positive result can take as long as 14-16 days from the date of exposure.

The Democrats had a great virtual convention. I am sure the DNC Chair Tom Perez could recommend people that could put a virtual debate together. The Republicans are not reliable in their reporting about anything. It is time to say it and handle the danger that could effect Senator Kamala Harris. This is not casual or amusing. This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed now.

October 5, 2020

By Steven Nelson

Greg Laurie (click here) addresses the controversy surrounding the billboards depicting himself holding a bible that were taken down during the run up to SoCal Harvest with Greg Laurie at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on Friday, August 17, 2018 in Anaheim, Calif.

A pastor who joined Vice President Mike Pence (click here) at a “prayer march” before the Rose Garden event to announce Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has tested positive for COVID-19.

Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif., joined Pence at the Rev. Franklin Graham-led Prayer March 2020 near the Lincoln Memorial, which drew thousands of participants.

Laurie is the latest participant in the Rose Garden event later that day to contract the serious respiratory illness, New York magazine reported.

Pence’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

President Trump tested positive for the virus on Thursday evening and was hospitalized the next day at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Trump is expected to return to the White House on Monday night to continue his recovery....

There is a chance that Laurie did not have contact with Vice President Pence after his exposure at the Rose Garden Ceremony.

WAIT A MINUTE. WAS THERE EXPOSURE OF PEOPLE AT THE MARCH on September 26th?

Just because Laurie is testing positive after the Rose Garden ceremony doesn't mean he wasn't exposed in the March. Are there people from the March testing positive?

October 6, 2020

By Carla Marinucci 

...A week earlier, (click here) he attended the Sept. 26 Prayer March on the National Mall with Vice President Mike Pence and evangelist Franklin Graham. Laurie also was on hand for the White House Rose Garden ceremony for the nomination of Barrett....

The reason there is confusion over this issue is that there is no communication from the White House. The media is left to piece together the facts that are available to them.

There need to be reassurances Senator Kamala Harris is safe beyond a reasonable doubt. Virtual is better. It makes no sense this has to take place with risk from the White House and it's staff.

Debates going forward should be virtual.

If the candidates are to be on the same stage there cannot be mingling of air between the two nor the audience. If Pence doesn't want a plexiglass barrier, then he MUST wear a mask. The debate stage has to be assessed for "air circulation" to be sure the air is vented out of the building from where the candidates and the audience are seated. That means there is a high rate of air exchange pushing the air to the floor and out of vents to the outside. 

October 6, 2020

By Michael Scherer and Josh Dawsey

Vice President Mike Pence (click here) is requesting that no plexiglass dividers be placed on his side of the stage at Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate, after an announcement Monday by the Commission on Presidential Debates that dividers had been agreed to as a safety measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of staff, said the vice president’s team does not view plexiglass dividers as medically necessary, given other safety measures at the debate, including a 12-foot distance between Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and daily testing of both candidates.

The commission and the Biden campaign both said Tuesday they understood that the Pence team was in agreement with the notion of plexiglass barriers. But the Pence team suggested they did not want any such dividers around the vice president, regardless of what Harris does....

The USA Gulf Coast needs to pay attention. This is another Katrina.

Hurricane Delta is currently a category 4 and will fuel higher once it hits the Gulf. 

This is the latest image of Delta. It is currently straddling the Yucatan Peninsula between the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. That is what gives it the "dual eye" storm. Those two eyes will become one large storm once it hits the Gulf of Mexico.

There is no doubt this storm needs a wide berth. I kindly ask the Gulf States to reflect on recent rains and flooding. The people will need to MOVE AWAY from those flooded and coastal areas. There is more flooding in the interior of these states than ever before. The people are important and their awareness is not enough, they have to be told it is mandatory to evacuate.

Currently, Hurricane Delta has a central pressure of 954 millibars of pressure. Katrina's central pressure was 920 at landfall in 2005. Delta has a huge potential to cause a threat to life.

There is no "maybe" about this storm. It is coming and it is a very dangerous storm. The width of this storm will bring danger to most of the Gulf Coast. Do not just concentrate on the eye of this storm. It will have enough diameter to reach other areas causing significant flooding, winds, and danger.

...The devastation left in Katrina’s wake (click here) over southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi was immense. The storm surge ravaged coastal Mississippi, and several levee breaches occurred in and around New Orleans. The levee breaches and overtopping resulted in floodwaters of 15 to 20 feet covering about 80 percent of the city. The catastrophic damage and loss of life inflicted by this hurricane is staggering, with an estimated 1,353 direct fatalities1 and 275,000 homes damaged or destroyed....

The width of Katrina's landfalling damage covered the coast of two states. The eye is a very dangerous part of the storm, but, the peripheral bands and the rains that come with these storms are just as dangerous and IMMEDIATE.

Katrina was an August storm.

...Delta, (click here) which was just a tropical depression at 5 a.m. EDT Monday, has put on a rare feat of rapid intensification, increasing its winds by 70 mph (from 40 mph to 110 mph) in its first 24 hours since becoming a named storm at 8 a.m. EDT Monday. According to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, this is the most intensification in a 24-hour period for an October Atlantic named storm since Hurricane Wilma in 2005. According to Tomer Berg, Delta did the fastest intensification from a 35-mph tropical depression to a 130-mph category 4 hurricane in modern Atlantic records, accomplishing the feat in just 30 hours. The previous record was Keith in 2000 (42 hours)....

The USA is failing in large measure. The first two to three weeks of the national emergency in the USA was squandered for Republican politics. This could be over by now.

Global Situation (click here)

Globally, as of 3:07pm CEST, 6 October 2020, there have been 35,347,404 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1,039,406 deaths, reported to WHO.

The USA hasn't learned a darn thing and is still leading the world in confirmed cases and deaths.

Situation by Country, Territory or Area by Confirmed Cases

United States of America 7,341,406

India 6,685,082

Brazil 4,915,289

Russia Federation 1,237,504

Columbia 855,052

Peru 828,169

When it comes to deaths there is no other country in our class. We lead the world in deaths by TWICE that of the next highest country, India. Graphs to the right is the trajectory of the two countries. (click here)

United States of America  208.433

India  103,569

Those numbers are stunning. The population of India is 1.35 billion with a B. The population of the USA is 328.2 million with an M. Those numbers reflect a far higher death rate per capita by the USA than any other country on Earth.

The response by the USA federal government is failing the people in large measure. Deaths are not acceptable and should be fought at every turn.

The USA passed legislation to benefit the hospitals and make them stronger, it paid businesses into a program that was to provide paychecks to keep the population going until the end of July. When the denial of the severity of this virus was squandered by the Republican political circus, deaths were not the only vital statistic of failure, the economy of the USA is failing as well. The entire Republican circus must be opposed as it opens the USA to failing national security.

These observations are based on FACT.

I MEAN EVERY WORD IN THIS ENTRY!

The rest of the world is NOT carrying out opposition to reality by holding "COVID Parties." They are finding ways to carry important messages such as brilliant works of art where people can find it.

Video (click here)

What is Australia doing to reduce wildfires?

Australia believes Earth actually knows how to maintain a safe environment. The Tasmanian devils were brought back to the wildlands of Australia. It is a similar story as the Grey Wolf in Yellowstone. Nature actually knows what balance is and maintains it.

October 5, 2020

By Jack Guy

Eleven Tasmanian devils (click here) have been reintroduced to mainland Australia, more than 3,000 years after they died out there.

The carnivorous marsupials have been released into a 400-hectare (988-acre) wildlife sanctuary north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australian NGO Aussie Ark said in a statement.

"In 100 years, we are going to be looking back at this day as the day that set in motion the ecological restoration of an entire country," said Tim Faulkner, president of Aussie Ark.

"Not only is this the reintroduction of one of Australia's beloved animals, but of an animal that will engineer the entire environment around it, restoring and rebalancing our forest ecology after centuries of devastation from introduced foxes and cats and other invasive predators."...

August 6, 2020

Pullman, Washington - A rare, transmissible tumor (click here) has brought the iconic Tasmanian devil to the brink of extinction, but new research by scientists at Washington State University and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle indicates hope for the animals’ survival and possibly new treatment for human cancers.

The study, published in Genetics on Aug. 1, found a single genetic mutation that leads to reduced growth of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils in the wild.

“This gene is implicated in human prostate and colon cancers,” said Andrew Storfer, professor of biological sciences at WSU. “While the findings hold the most immediate promise to help save the world’s few remaining Tasmanian devils, these results could also someday translate to human health.”

The research team, led by Storfer and  and Mark Margres, now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, studied the genomes of cases of devil facial tumor disease, or DFTD, that regressed spontaneously — that is, the cancer began disappearing on its own....

August 21, 2020 

By Mark J. Margres,  View ORCID ProfileManuel Ruiz-Aravena, Rodrigo Hamede, Kusum Chawla,

Austin H. Patton, Matthew F. Lawrance, Alexandra K. Fraik, Amanda R. Stahlke,

Brian W. Davis,  View ORCID ProfileElaine A. Ostrander, Menna E. Jones, Hamish McCallum,

Patrick J. Paddison, Paul A. Hohenlohe, David Hockenbery and Andrew Storfer

Abstract

Spontaneous tumor regression (click here) has been documented in a small proportion of human cancer patients, but the specific mechanisms underlying tumor regression without treatment are not well understood. Tasmanian devils are threatened with extinction from a transmissible cancer due to universal susceptibility and a near 100% case fatality rate. In over 10,000 cases, <20 instances of natural tumor regression have been detected. Previous work in this system has focused on Tasmanian devil genetic variation associated with the regression phenotype. Here, we used comparative and functional genomics to identify tumor genetic variation associated with tumor regression. We show that a single point mutation in the 5′ untranslated region of the putative tumor suppressor RASL11A significantly contributes to tumor regression. RASL11A was expressed in regressed tumors but silenced in wild-type, nonregressed tumors, consistent with RASL11A downregulation in human cancers. Induced RASL11A expression significantly reduced tumor cell proliferation in vitro. The RAS pathway is frequently altered in human cancers, and RASL11A activation may provide a therapeutic treatment option for Tasmanian devils as well as a general mechanism for tumor inhibition....