BY RICK MORAN

Oh, put a sock in it, Francis.

Pope Francis is certainly not letting a planetary crisis go to waste. He is trying to piggyback the religion of climate change on the back of the coronavirus pandemic.

MSNNews:

“We did not respond to the partial catastrophes. Who now speaks of the fires in Australia, or remembers that 18 months ago a boat could cross the North Pole because the glaciers had all melted? Who speaks now of the floods?” the Pope said.

“I don’t know if these are the revenge of nature, but they are certainly nature’s responses,” he added.

Huh? What? Have the glaciers all melted? Why didn’t you wake me up? That would have been pretty cool to watch.

For the record, you cannot cross the North Pole. Climate scientists are predictingthat by 2050, it might be possible to “sail over the North Pole,” but not now, or 18 months ago, or 18 months from now.

The Vatican fact-checkers blew that one.

The theory that life systems on the world are all interconnected is a well-established one. But that doesn’t mean that a virus, originally found in bats, has anything to do with whatever stress is being placed on life on earth because the climate may be changing.

The coronavirus does not live outside the body. It does not interact with any other life form except the human or animal it’s living in. It can survive outside the human body for several days, making it extremely contagious, but it doesn’t interact with the air or water in our surroundings. In short, there is no evidence that climate change had anything to do with the creation or transmission of this virus.

I guess the pope thought he’d be laughed off the stage if he said it was “God’s response” to climate change, or that God is trying to tell us something about climate. But giving sentience to “nature” is appallingly stupid.

The Hill:

“There is an expression in Spanish: ‘God always forgives, we forgive sometimes, but nature never forgives,'” the Pope said in an  interview with The Tablet, a Catholic weekly produced in the United Kingdom, that was published on Wednesday.

In addition to climate change, the pope believes we should take the “opportunity” to consume less and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world.” Why do liberals always see opportunity in disaster, death, and destruction? Why not just see the tragedy and let “opportunity” take care of itself?

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The United Kingdom has, at least temporarily, a new acting prime minister with Czech roots.

Boris Johnson has been in the intensive care unit of St. Thomas Hospital since Sunday evening due to his coronavirus infection, where he has received oxygen treatment and remains in stable condition.

Johnson asked Foreign Minister Dominic Raab to deputize for the prime minister where necessary. In the past, Dominic Raab also served as Minister for Brexit. He is a son of a Czech Jew who fled with his family from Nazi persecution. In the past, he himself said that he feels to be “half Czech“.

Dominic Raab’s Czech roots

Dominic Raab was born on February 25, 1974, in Buckinghamshire. He grew up in Gerrards Cross and studied law at Oxford, and later at Cambridge University.

In the late 1990s, he worked for the main Palestinian negotiator involved with concluding peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinians in Oslo. After 2000, Raab was head of a team at the British Embassy in The Hague, trying to bring war criminals to justice. After returning to London, he worked as an advisor for the Israeli-Arab conflict, for the European Union and for Gibraltar.

According to The Times, many of Raab’s relatives died during the Holocaust. His father came to the UK in 1938 at the age of six and could not speak any English. Eventually, he graduated from high school and started working as a manager at Marks & Spencer.

Commenting on his Czech origins, Raab said that while growing up, he would often listen to his parents talk about the unfortunate consequences of the Nazi and then Soviet rule over Czechoslovakia.

Raab’s Cabinet roles

The 46-year-old Raab first appeared in the British government in July 2018, when he replaced David Davis as Secretary of State for Brexit. He only remained in the office until November of the same year when he resigned, criticizing former Prime Minister Theresa May’s position on Brexit. He was an influential voice in increasing opposition to May’s withdrawal agreement with the EU.

After May announced she was standing down, Raab entered the contest to become the leader of Conservative Party, and thus a potential prime minister. However, he was defeated by Johnson and Michael Gove.

He then returned to the government shortly after Johnson was elected as the Conservative Party’s leader. Johnson entrusted him with the post of foreign secretary and first Secretary of State.

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The organization United Against Nuclear Iran published a report on Tuesday, disclosing that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is permitting Iranian banks sanctioned by the US government to operate within the federal republic.“The oldest Iranian bank operating in Germany is Bank Melli, established in 1965 in Hamburg. It is also Iran’s national bank, wholly owned by the Government of Iran (GOI), and its biggest company by revenue. The US Treasury sanctioned Bank Melli in 2018 for its support of the IRGC, having enabled the IRGC and its affiliates to move funds inside and outside Iran,” wrote the report’s author, Daniel Roth.

The Trump administration designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist entity.The UANI report further noted: “Also in Hamburg is Bank Sepah, another state-owned sanctioned bank tied to Iran’s Ministry of Defense (MODAFL). Bank Sepah has provided ‘direct and extensive financial services’ to Iran’s key ballistic missiles procurement and development agencies, including Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO) and its subsidiary, Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG).”UANI continued: “The third Hamburg-based bank and perhaps most notorious of all is the European Iranian Handelsbank (EIH). Unlike the others, EIH is in fact incorporated and headquartered in Germany, with branches in Tehran and Kish Island. Since its founding in 1971, it has financed billions of dollars of German-Iranian trade and is majority-owned by the sanction-designated Iranian state-owned bank, Bank of Industry and Mine.”The report said that “The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) has named EIH as a money-laundering threat, having assisted several of Iran’s top military and defense agencies, including the IRGC, the Defense Industries Organization (DIO) and AIO.”According to UANI’s website, the organization “is a not-for-profit, bi-partisan, educational and advocacy group that seeks to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to obtain nuclear weapons.” UANI was founded in 2008 by Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Middle East expert Ambassador Dennis Ross.

Holbrooke served as the US ambassador to Germany (1993-1994) during US President Bill Clinton’s tenure.UANI wrote that “Germany’s financial center, Frankfurt, is home to both Bank Sepah and Bank Saderat, which was set up in the same year as the Iranian Revolution, in 1979. With branches across Europe and the Middle East, Bank Saderat is another large state-owned bank that has helped the regime support its terrorist proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).”The fifth bank is the Middle East Bank (MEB). The MEB opened its branch in Munich in 2019.UANI wrote that “there are reports that Sina Bank and Parsian Bank are also looking to set up in the Bavarian capital. Oddly, MEB is the only Iranian bank here not subject to ‘secondary sanctions’ – which exposes companies to penalties even outside US jurisdiction. On November 11, 2018, just three days after the initial application, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) removed the tag. It is unclear why OFAC did so, and the agency may wish to look again, but MEB advertises the fact prominently on its website. Nonetheless, MEB remains a risky, sanction-designated entity.”Germany remains Europe’s largest trading partner with Tehran. In 2019, German companies exported $1.64 billion worth of goods.According to the UANI report, the five Iranian banks are enabling trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran, while large German banks have avoided Iran because of sanctions.UANI wrote that “With less exposure to US markets and potential sanctions than the multinational household names, Germany’s Mittelstand [mid-size companies] are still willing to supply Iran’s demand for industrial goods. Given the records of the Iranian banks that are helping to facilitate it, however, the risks are only amplified.”The Jerusalem Post exclusively reported in 2018 that the German bank Varengold, in the city of Hamburg, conducts business with Iran Air – an airline sanctioned by the US government.The US classified Iran’s regime as the worst state-sponsor of terrorism. The Jerusalem Post reported in February and last year that German’s foreign ministry celebrated the revolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

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A report from the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) indicates that the Turkish government purposely incited riots last month at the Greek border by planting members of its security services among crowds of migrants.

According to German weekly Der Spiegel, the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has evidence of Turkey’s actions.

“The Turkish authorities forced several thousand migrants to board buses and transported them to the border. State security forces mingled among the crowds of refugees, inciting violence at the border,” the BND analysis reports.

When German authorities asked their Turkish counterparts for an explanation, Turkish security officials denied their involvement in the riots, the German tabloid Bild reported at the end of March.

However, Der Spiegel pointed out that Greek security forces also concluded that some of the riots, which included migrants throwing rocks and other missiles at Greek forces, were driven by professionals.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan opened the European border to migrants in late February. By mid-March, the Greek forces recorded over 50,000 attempts by migrants to cross the border.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reported that due to the coronavirus outbreak, migrants had temporarily pulled back from the border with Turkey.

The migrants were evacuated by Turkey to facilities where they were placed into quarantine for two weeks.

However, Mitsotakis added that the move will not change the Greek plans of Greece on bolstering the border fence.

“A chapter may be closing, but have no doubt that this battle continues,” the prime minister reportedly told his ministers.

‘Europe cannot endure this, cannot handle this’

Turkey has also signaled that migrants will be back at the border once the coronavirus crisis is over, in a move that is sure to inflame tensions between Turkey in Europe.

“When this epidemic is over we would not prevent whoever wants to leave,” warned Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.

Soylu has also been open about his motivations behind the pushing migrants into Europe.

In March, Soylu made a dire warning to Europe, saying that mass migration will change Europe’s governments, bring down Europe’s economies, and help collapse the stock market.

“Refugees who cross to Europe will soon top to a million, European governments will fall, their economies will be destabilized and their stock exchanges will tumble, and they can’t do anything about it,” said the interior minister during an interview on the Tarafsız Bölge show on CNN Türk

“Europe cannot endure this, cannot handle this,” he warned.

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Days after video footage surfaced showing groups of migrant men ignoring social distancing measures and ridiculing the police officers trying to enforce them, illegal migrants from the Moria camp on the Greek island have struck again, chopping down 5,000 olive trees.

The destruction of these olive trees, which can take 65 to 80 years to reach stable yields, is being viewed as an assault on Greek history, culture, and identity, as well as an attack against the island’s local economy, the Greek City Times reports.

The olive tree is one of the most ubiquitous symbols in Greece and classical Western civilization. Among other things, to the ancient Greeks, the olive branch served as a symbol of Olympic ideals. It’s for this reason that medalists of the Olympic Games were given “kotinos” – wreaths made of olive branches.

For the ancient Greeks, the olive tree was also viewed as a symbol of peace, wisdom, fertility, and victory, and was believed to have been a gift from Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.

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The island’s local economy will suffer for years to come as a result of the destruction of these decades-old olive trees. Each year, olive exports contribute nearly 650 million euros to Greece’s national economy.

The chopping down of the olive trees will inevitably escalate tensions – which have already been boiling over for months now –between local Greeks and the illegal migrants.

The Moria migrant camp, which is home to roughly half of the 50,000 illegal immigrants who are living on Lesbos, has been a tinderbox for some time now.

Last month, Voice of Europe reported on an Orthodox Greek Church that was trashed by angry migrants from the Moria camp.

https://twitter.com/V_of_Europe/status/1235214007893663745

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The region of Lombardy has involuntarily found itself to be the epicenter of the Italian epidemic and is paying the price: 9 202 deaths since the beginning of the infection and over 51 000 cases.

For every ten patients diagnosed, two die. In Milan, in the last week there are 100 deaths per day – three times above average, Italian daily Il Giornalereported.

Covid-19’s lethality rate in Lombardy is almost double that in the rest of the country. The death rate is almost certainly overestimated due to the huge number of Coronavirus-infected people that the authorities are unable to record.

According to some studies, in Italy there are 1,4 to 7 million people already infected, but asymptomatic. The virus kills, but in many cases no one notices it: according to Istat research, comparing the deaths of 2019 with those of 2020 there is a 100 percent increase in the thousand municipalities analyzed.

However, the Lombard anomaly remains. The average lethality rate in Italy is 12,5 percent, while in Lombardy the percentage rises to 17,9 percent. But if one considers only the rest of the regions of Italy, excluding the Lombardy provinces, the national lethality is 9 percent.

It must be said that Lombardy has performed nothing short of a miracle to double the available beds in a few days, which at the beginning of the emergency numbered 724. Thanks to the increase in intensive care places and the slowdown of infections, hospital staff are currently less pressured.

During the first wave, when the whole country was unprepared, doctors were forced to choose who to assign a respirator to and who to let die, according to the now famous Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Intensive Care or SAARTI document, revealed by Il Giornale.

Lombardy, moreover, believes that it is paying for the government’s inability to respond immediately to the crisis: protection systems arrived late, forcing staff to wear “toilet paper” masks. “We were hit by a tsunami,” one councilor explained, accusing Prime Minister Conte of having done too little.

“Almost a month and a half has gone by since the beginning of the epidemic and basically we are receiving crumbs from Rome. If we had not done it ourselves, we would have closed the hospitals after two days”.

In general, all of Italy showed an inability to cope with the emergency of the Coronavirus. Their preparedness was lower than other EU countries, where lethality appears lower. According to Eurostat data, in 2017 Germany boasted 6,0 places per thousand inhabitants for the treatment of acute cases, against 2,6 in Italy.

The same applies to intensive care: at the beginning of the crisis Berlin could count on 28 000 respirators (34 for every 100 thousand people). Italy only had 12 per 100 thousand. But there are those who, in the government, seem to want to blame the Lombard system only.

The death toll among Italian doctors from the Coronavirus rose to 94 after another five died on Tuesday, the federation of doctors guild FNOMCEO said.

The intensity of the crisis triggered by the pandemic for households and businesses is unprecedented, even worse than the 2008 financial crisis, ISTAT said on Tuesday.

The statistics agency said consumer spending will plunge 9,9 percent if the lockdown persists until June, and added that an anti-Coronavirus shutdown covered 34 percent of all productive activities.

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Since the first coronavirus case in Turkey was officially confirmed on March 11, the number of cases has climbed to 30,217 and Turkey’s death toll to 649, Turkey’s health minister announced on April 6.

Many medical experts, however, who have called on people in Turkey to take more precautions or who have criticized the government for mishandling the virus crisis have been silenced by authorities.

Two physicians have been made to apologize after giving information to their colleagues or the public about the threat of coronavirus in the country, and two others have been summoned to appear at police headquarters for statements they made to the media. The doctors, now officially under investigation, are accused of allegedly “creating fear and panic among the people”.

On March 28, Dr. Yusuf Savran, a Pandemic Service Specialist at Izmir’s Dokuz Eylül University, shared a video on his YouTube account, in which he said:

“Unfortunately, the majority of our people are still not aware of the danger we are facing… The whole world – including the most developed countries and richest people – are helpless in the face of this disease. This is a virus disease that medical people or scientists have never seen before and for which an effective, proven treatment does not exist yet. It has caused a serious number of deaths across the world and even in most advanced European countries.

“Turkey has still not understood the severity of the situation. So I want to share with you my observations as an official of the pandemic center.

“It has been 10 days since the first case emerged in Turkey on March 11. When we look at the statistics, unfortunately, we see that Turkey, which says ‘we are prepared for that’, is going through a more serious test than Italy, which has been caught unprepared. The number of our coronavirus cases and deaths are now more than those of Italy…

“Another observation is that because of some people who have not taken seriously our repeated calls to stay home, the virus has spread in a major way. Most of the initial cases were of young people that could recover easily – but the cases in the last 48 hours demonstrate that our elderly people have mostly been affected…”

Dr. Savran went on to give health advice on issues such as how people should wash their hands and what type of medical masks they should wear.

“I am saying this with concern and sadness. If we don’t take it seriously, it will get out of control and thousands of people will die. So I am kindly asking you please to stay home. It is still not too late. This is the only way we can stop the virus…. This illness does not discriminate between the old and the young, or the rich and the poor. Even the richest people in the super-power countries suffer from this disease. Trust medical personnel and stay home.”

The rector’s office of the university immediately issued an “explanation for the public” saying:

“… it was unscientific to compare the deaths in Italy and other countries to the deaths in Turkey and based on that, to criticize the decisions that have been made… The professor shared his concerns and fear in a different style to warn our citizens. He has been misunderstood and he is sorry.”

On March 30, Dr. Savran posted another video on his YouTube account, saying:

“Our state [government] and ministry of health have been handling the situation studiously from the very beginning. They have been providing us with all medical supplies and moral support that we need. I have full trust in the treatment algorithms and scientific data of our health ministry. As a doctor who loves our country, state and nation so much, if my messages that aimed to protect the health of our people and help them stay home had been misunderstood and caused panic, I apologize to all my state authorities and my people.”

The Turkish Medical Association (TTB) Central Council President Sinan Adıyaman criticized those who made Dr. Savran apologize for his statements:

“The doctors are under pressure. The presidents of Van-Hakkari and Mardin Medical Chambers have been called by the police to testify at local police stations. Dr. Savran’s statements aimed at bringing public attention to the seriousness of the virus. The current situation is not a bed of roses. Are we not supposed to say that?…

“A doctor who works 24 hours a day needs at least 6 masks daily. But only one mask is given to doctors. The ministry of health and authorities should solve this problem of doctors and health professionals who have to work with insufficient protective materials. If the struggle against the virus is a war, health professionals should not be left unarmed and unprotected on the battlefield. Doctors tell us about these problems but they also tell us not to reveal their names.”

Meanwhile, the same university has launched an investigation into yet another doctor, Barbaros Çetin, a professor at the Department of Biology at Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, for his statements on the coronavirus to the media.

In an interview on March 30, Dr. Çetin said:

“Those who recover from coronavirus treatment continue spreading the virus from 1 to 8 days. Quarantine should continue for at least 8 days after the treatment is completed. The coronavirus is a strong, pathogenic, lethal virus. People are in big trouble; we cannot see ahead. We do not know where we will stop it.

“The only thing that needs to be done against this virus worldwide is to be isolated and to be at home. We should definitely avoid going to public areas. When we have to leave the house, we must protect our social distance and use gloves and masks. We should not move out of our house for a long time, except for the obligatory food purchases. We see images coming from all over country. Mass graves are being excavated. They deny these images, but until when will they deny them? Why have all hospitals in Izmir been declared the coronavirus hospitals? Intercity travels and flights have been stopped. There is an inescapable situation; that is why, these things are being done. I’m so sorry; I wouldn’t want to say these things as a biologist, but I’ve been in this business for over 40 years. Listen to biologists now and follow the rules. Biologists have been studying viruses and bacteria for years. But biologists in this country are not taken seriously.

“It is not revealed where the intense cases are in our country,” Dr. Çetin said in another interview.

“The provinces and districts where there are intense cases should be revealed, as soon as possible…. When this epidemic started 15-20 days ago in our country, if announcements had been made [as to where the cases were] spot by spot — like the US and Europe has done — citizens would have taken precautions accordingly. This has nothing to do with creating panic. The truth must be told. Let people be afraid; it is okay to be afraid. Look at what’s happening; people get too relaxed. The same thing happened in Iran. Cases were kept secret because [the government there was concerned about] the crisis and the economy. Then [cases] exploded in an instant.”

The dean’s office of the Physical Sciences Department of Dokuz Eylül University in Izmir then announced that they initiated “a legal process because of the doctor’s irresponsible statements that could create fear and panic within society.”

Another physician, Dr. Güle Çınar, of the Ankara University Medical School and an official of the Turkish Association of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Klimik), was also made to apologize for her statements on the pandemic in Turkey.

On a video posted on social media on March 18, Dr. Çınar was seen giving in-house training to health personnel of the university. She said that the situation was initially under control but that those who came from their pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia to Turkey had “ruined” the coronavirus situation in the country.

“Apparently, we have started off badly. And we do not know how it will continue. We hope we will not be like Italy,” Dr. Çınar told her colleagues.

Dr. Çınar noted that the coronavirus cases in Turkey were not in the hundreds but in the thousands, contrary to what the government claimed. She also mentioned that those who had come back from their pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, had changed the course of the pandemic for the worse. She added that the situation in Istanbul and Ankara was particularly serious and that there were concerning cases in eastern Turkey, as well.

On the same day, Ankara University issued a statement, saying that “an investigation had been launched on the issue and required warnings had been made”. The school added that they had also started an investigation into those who had filmed the training and posted it on social media.

Ankara University also issued an apology, which it claimed was written by Dr. Çınar, addressing the head physician’s office of the university. The apology said that she had been participating in her medical duties and trainings “with very little sleep”.

“My statements were not political and did not intend to cause public unrest. Unfortunately, only a small part of my speech, which was recorded secretly, was posted on social media. If my entire speech had been recorded and posted, it would have been clear that I did not mean to create a negative atmosphere.

“I realize that some of my erroneous words have created a very different perception in the society. I am so sorry. I will be much more careful from now on, as I continue my keen work to serve my patients, university and country, I will choose my words much more attentively. I apologize to everyone for causing a negative perception in the society.”

Meanwhile, students at the Medical School of Ankara University issued a written statement, saying they support Dr. Çınar and wanted to express their gratitude to her for her efforts.

The Istanbul Medical Chamber also supported Dr. Çınar and criticized the Medical School of Ankara University for making her apologize:

“We support our colleague who works day and night, sticking to the Hippocratic oath. If there is anyone that needs to apologize, it is those who wrote the apology statement and posted it.”

While many on social media, particularly doctors, expressed their support for Dr. Çınar, the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) also issued a statement supporting her and condemning the university’s reaction:

“The statements by our colleague did not contain any defamation… As of today, about 21,000 people who came back from pilgrimage [in Mecca] have not been tested or put under quarantine and they have been scattered across Turkey.

“It is a shameful act to make a doctor apologize for the words she used at an in-house local gathering. In addition, putting pressure on an employee in this way is an attack on her personal rights and employee rights.

“The Turkish Medical Association… demands that the officials of the university apologize for publicly offending the dignity of the physician and our profession.

“Despite everything and everyone, we physicians will continue to fight the disease, be guided by scientific knowledge and prioritize the benefit of society.

“However, it should be known that while healthcare professionals in other countries are applauded and supported, such attitudes against physicians like Dr Güle Çınar, who work devotedly to stop the epidemic, disrupt the motivation of physicians and healthcare professionals, reinforce the feeling of being left alone, and carry the danger of negatively affecting the mass resistance and struggle against the epidemic.”

Also targeted for their statements were the heads of the Van-Hakkari Medical Chamber and the Mardin Medical Chamber, Özgür Deniz Değer and Osman Sağlam.

The chairman of the Van-Hakkari Medical Chamber, Psychiatric Doctor Özgür Deniz Değer, in an interview with media on March 19, addressed his concerns for the enormous risk of the virus being spread in prisons across Turkey. He also criticized the ministry of health for not working with dissident health organizations. “We’re ready for cooperation,” he said, “but the government continues to distance itself from dissidents.”

Değer further stated that the government engaged in inadequate testing, inadequate quarantine rules and inaccurate information sharing.

“Our guess is that the real number of cases in Turkey is much higher than what the ministry of health is saying,” Değer said. “Also, not enough precautions are being taken at border entries and for those who return from their trips abroad.”

On March 24, Değer was called to the local police department to testify about his statements. An investigation has been started into him for allegedly “creating fear and panic among the people”.

Four days later, another doctor, the co-chair of the Mardin Medical Chamber, Osman Sağlam, was called to the police station. Sağlam, in an interview on March 18, had said:

“A doctor in the city of Mardin who diagnosed a patient with the coronavirus was told to go on leave after making a statement about the case to the public. Physicians are afraid to make a diagnosis.”

Sağlam claimed that when it comes to the coronavirus, the Turkish government has been carrying out “a policy of denial and rejection.”

“There are many patients for whom physicians are afraid of making a diagnosis. Obviously, private and other hospitals are also putting pressure on physicians.”

Immigration between countries, Sağlam said, is also a factor in the transmission of the virus:

“Our region is at serious risk especially due to travel from Iraq, Iran, the Turkic Republics, Russia and other Caucasian countries. Currently, especially those who return from the pilgrimage [in Mecca] puts our country at risk. The shortcomings of the Ministry of Health and other ministries have had an enormous [role] in this disease’s turning into an epidemic in Turkey.”

Sağlam also told the newspaper Duvar on March 25 that doctors “need safe protective equipment, not applause from officials.”

“We have requested an appointment from the provincial health directorate [in Mardin]. We called the provincial health director’s personal phone for two days, sent him text messages, but we have not got any response for our request, so we cannot share information and cooperate with them.”

Sure enough, on March 28, Sağlam was called to the Mardin police station to testify about his statements and an investigation has been launched into him for “creating fear and panic among the people.”

Meanwhile, the Turkish government appears to be slowly waking up to the seriousness of the situation. On March 21, the government stated that citizens aged 65 and older and those with chronic medical conditions would be restricted from leaving their residences. On April 3, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a partial curfew on citizens under the age of 20, effective from midnight, as a measure against the coronavirus outbreak.

Turkey’s government also decided to shut down the borders of 31 cities, including Istanbul, to all vehicles, excluding transit passage and essential supplies such as food, medical and sanitary products, to contain the disease.

According to a report by Oxford University’s “Our World in Data,” the number of coronavirus cases in Turkey is growing at a faster pace than infections did during the same phase in other countries.

So, it appears that the doctors who have been calling on the people to stay home and take the virus seriously, or who have been criticizing the government for not taking enough measures such as implementing proper border controls, quarantine and testing on citizens, were right. The Turkish government, like China’s, would be better off putting human lives first and listeneng to the country’s medical experts, instead of silencing and persecuting them.

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German authorities add insult to injury. First, they import vast numbers of “refugees” (aka rapefugees), subjecting the native population to colognization. Then they spin the consequences to make it look like the native population is committing the sex crimes.

Via REMIX:

A 31-year-old African migrant was arrested by Dachau police officers for sexually assaulting and threatening a 15-year-old German girl last week, but the assault sparked further outrage after the Munich police department posted a stock photoof a white male to describe the crime.

The colognizer is from Eritrea, unlike the fellow in this photo:

Ein 31-jähriger Eritreer, der in einer #sbahn (S2, Richtung #Petershausen) eine 15-jährige Deutsche hinter #Dachau sexuell belästigte, konnte von der @polizeiOBN bei der Fahndung aufgegriffen werden. #Bundespolizei #München ermittelt. *M – mehr unter: https://t.co/tpu6znbdzc pic.twitter.com/xw1rBSp5Lr

— Bundespolizei Bayern (@bpol_by) March 29, 2020

What’s true for Chinese goes double for Africans. They are not Caucasian; therefore, to associate them with anything bad is racist.

Some [Twitter] users pointed to the outrage that would have followed if the police [had] chosen a stock photo of a black male for a crime perpetrated by a white male.

Someone requires reeducation. Racism against whites is not racism. It is social justice. Ask any college professor or mainstream journalist.

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Left-wing Labour Party Mayor Sheila Oakes has apologized after the furious storm rained on her vindictive parade against British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. After Johnson was moved to intensive care while fighting the Chinese coronavirus, Oakes posted on Facebook, “Sorry, he completely deserves this and he is one of the worst PM’s we’ve ever had.”

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Johnson seems to trigger the left almost as much as Donald Trump does, inspiring unhinged hatred in the opposition. But British people seem to be better behaved than we are because the outcry over Oakes’ comment was swift and widespread, leading the Labour Party to exile her from the party and remove her from her position as whip. This means she will have to run as an independent in future elections.

On Tuesday, Ms. Oakes told the BCC she “apologised for upsetting people and saying it.” She added, “I didn’t think what I said would upset so many people. It came across as not a nice thing to say.”

“I’m concerned about nurses and doctors who don’t have protective equipment. I said something when I was angry without thinking about the prime minister or his family,” she explained.

The Amber Valley Labour Group said it was launching an investigation into Oakes’s behavior after it had stricken her from the party. Piers Morgan weighed in on all the negative comments on social media from leftists wishing Johnson would die, among other horrors. Morgan told them to shut up if they can’t be supportive of a man fighting for his life.

Johnson is reportedly in stable condition and not on a ventilator, but still in the ICU. Most people in the UK are wishing the prime minister a speedy recovery.

Benevolence, humanity and kindness is still there after all.#BorisJohnson pic.twitter.com/qq2BnXh2Wd

— K. (@nick_the_geek78) April 7, 2020

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