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Here's your friendly Costa Rican shark from the Central Valley as usual!

India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-52435463
When everybody expected to learn about the sudden emergence of hotspots in India, things look quite different nowadays. Yes, they implemented some lockdowns for sure, but they had lots of confirmed cases back then...

Amazon Bets On The Human Talent In Costa Rica
It will create more than 2000 new jobs in the country
https://thecostaricanews.com/amazon-bets...ta-rica-2/
I'm not sure that's because they respect us or just because Americans refused to work under their current conditions.

Number of Deceased Costa Ricans in the US by COVID-19 Almost Doubles the Number of Deaths in Costa Rica
https://thecostaricanews.com/number-of-d...osta-rica/
Yeah, I know, it's a weird fact indeed.

Costa Rica Is The Country With The Greatest Freedom Of Expression In Latin America, Says Reporters Without Borders
They also warn that media concentration is an "important brake on the country's pluralism"
https://thecostaricanews.com/costa-rica-...t-borders/
Then it isn't as great and democratic as they pretended us to think at the very beginning...

Costa Rica Accumulates Consecutive Days of Sustained Reduction of Active COVID-19 Cases
A small country that took great measures in time against the Pandemic and its effectiveness is being felt
I should be glad about this, still, I feel like there's something missing. You see, they first denied there were any covidose in Costa Rica and it took some time to start the nationwide lockdown. Such measures have been slowly relaxed since the end of Easter. On May 1st even gyms, theaters and cinemas will be able to open with reduced capacity. And yeah, the Health Ministry refuses to mass test the population, they think it's unnecessary...

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BBC News Updates (No full articles)
South Korea says it recorded no new domestically transmitted cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday. Four new cases had all been imported and were detected as the patients arrived in the country
Germany's warning against worldwide travel is extended to mid-June - an sign that tourism won't return soon

Trump says China wants him to lose re-election
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52482109

China will do anything they can to make me lose my re-election bid.

Reported Reuters and BBC ealier today. He's stepping up his criticism of Beijing amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Remdesivir seems to be effective against
https://apnews.com/923e7fe01b35888ff5562ca577a26aa4

Many Japanese defy appeals to stay home to curb virus
https://apnews.com/ca4ab1a1ccf59500aed9e6c21ad5b18f

Under Japan’s coronavirus state of emergency, people have been asked to stay home. Many are not. Some still have to commute to their jobs despite risks of infection, while others continue to dine out, picnic in parks and crowd into grocery stores with scant regard for social distancing.
On Wednesday, the first day of the “Golden Week” holidays that run through May 5, Tokyo’s leafy Shiba Park was packed with families with small children, day camping in tents.

I wonder if Metal can confirm us his neighbors act as if everything were completely normal.
By the way, Japanese Covid-19 team seems to be lead by the Economy Minister... So economy is first!?  

Biden assault allegation prompts GOP attacks, Dem worries
https://apnews.com/dd316041bfb530459ae07a60ef764aed

Biden’s campaign has denied the allegation from his former Senate staffer Tara Reade, who has said Biden assaulted her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the 1990s. But the story garnered fresh attention this week after two of Reade’s associates said she previously told them about elements of her allegations.

So she's sticking to her story after all these years...

Police called after NYC funeral home puts bodies in trucks
https://apnews.com/7be279ec774d9aea4a50309861129eb9
Demands of their funerary services has not diminished over time... They're still collapsed.

Many field hospitals went largely unused, will be shut down
https://apnews.com/e593ba57f37206b495521503d7e5e4c5
I know authorities always need to get ahead of the current circumstances to prevent a collapse of health services... but you know there are many people in the US that still needs attention but they waste resources in places like New York that didn't depend on field hospitals even after watching De Blasio's and Cuomo's tantrums almost on a daily basis.

De Blasio Breaks Up Rabbi’s Funeral and Lashes Out Over Virus Distancing
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/nyreg...lasio.html
Even if they are right about social distancing, why haven't they harassed Muslims the same way they do with Churches and Jews? Rules are supposed to be valid everywhere, not just in a few communities or at some buildings. Oh, but NYPD was not enough for him, the very same mayor had to push them away and attempt to scare the hell out of them somehow. Where are the cops near mosques? Right, there are none in their vicinities...

New York mayor faces backlash after breaking up rabbi's funeral
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/wor...s-12689738
So police knew about the event and still, they plus a good for nothing NY mayor harassed the Hassidic Jews anyway, no matter if the police had placed barricades on purpose to stop the flow of traffic.  Who knows what the hell is that mayor supposed to accomplish there? Perhaps he wanted to show off as a major racist threat of sorts in modern times!?

False belief poison cures virus kills over 700 in Iran
https://apnews.com/fece5d0e017849911aa86c0c07799e6b

People, methanol and Covid-19 are both deathly! The only difference is that doesn't always kill her victims.

Coronavirus in Costa Rica

713 confirmed, 6 deaths, 323 recoveries, ~8500 discarded

Coronavirus in New York, USA

305,024 confirmed, 23,317 deaths, ~33,000 recoveries

Coronavirus in Maryland, USA

20,849 confirmed, 985 deaths + 93 under , 1,361 recoveries
Maryland has about 1 million more inhabitants than Costa Rica itself and still, they've found more covidose patients than Costa Rican authorities. Curious note: Maryland reported its first case one day before Costa Rica had to make the same kind of announcement.  

Wulfo's County Only

5,738 confirmed, 213 deaths, 11 suspected deaths, 0 recoveries

No recoveries!? That sounds bad for people waiting for good news since early March...

Coronavirus in Canada

51,597 confirmed, 2,996 deaths, 20,327 recoveries

Coronavirus in Japan

14,120 confirmed, 436 deaths, 3,187 recoveries

Coronavirus in Germany

162,000+ confirmed, 6,467 deaths, 113,000+ recoveries

Coronavirus in Iran

93,657 confirmed, 5,957 deaths, 73,791 recoveries

Should we ever believe them when they say they're doing better than Germany itself!?

John Bolton book again delayed, this time to June 23
https://apnews.com/5b15cc8a82f404d0b012b3d0aaad5a16
Yes, Wulfo! It might have been delayed but never canceled!

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Biden assault allegation prompts GOP attacks, Dem worries
https://apnews.com/dd316041bfb530459ae07a60ef764aed

Biden’s campaign has denied the allegation from his former Senate staffer Tara Reade, who has said Biden assaulted her in the basement of a Capitol Hill office building in the 1990s. But the story garnered fresh attention this week after two of Reade’s associates said she previously told them about elements of her allegations.

So she's sticking to her story after all these years...

Hey, it gets better.... From Business Insider:
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-re...ims-2020-4
"Reade said she believed that Biden's senatorial papers, which are housed at the University of Delaware, may contain notes and other personnel records supporting some of her allegations.
But the archives are sealed until "two years after Biden retires from public life," and the Biden camp refuses to open them to the public."
So there are records. Documentation of her complaint about Biden in 1993. OH, I should point out... SHE WAS FIRED right after issuing the complaint.

Oh, about firings???
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/30/biden-s...legations/
"Though the allegations against Biden have now been widely reported, many of the Democrat's supporters called for MSNBC to "#FireChrisHayes." Some even alleged that Hayes was a Russian plant."
What? So now they wanna call out one of their own for RUSSIA COLLUSION?


Well, the beginnings of the Russia Collusion began with General Michael Flynn, 30+ year Veteran, and now it looks like the FBI is so screwed!
https://nypost.com/2020/04/30/fbi-agents...ed-report/
“What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Now revealed in their own memos, FBI Agents were intent to entrap him? Entrapment is a felony! Gets better... notes also reveals the 7th floor was in charge. The 7th floor of the FBI building, if you weren't aware, is administration... Comey!

But how did they get Flynn to plead guilty of the charges if he was innocent??
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/e...lynn-case/
"Specifically, Flynn is said to have been warned that, if he refused to plead guilty, prosecutors would charge his son with a felony for failing to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent."
Now it's extortion? And further reading shows they intended to hide this from the court!

What the hell is this??? When did they do this in NY?
https://www.businessinsider.com/nursing-...nts-2020-4
Sending Covid patients to nursing homes in NY along with... BODY BAGS? What of any consequences for this?

Well, Cuomo double downs on it...
https://nypost.com/2020/04/28/andrew-cuo...s-horrors/
... and he gets SNARKY?
Oh, this is like a Hoover Vacuum cleaner. it sucks and blows!

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Costa Rica, The Positive Exception Of America During The Coronavirus Epidemic
https://thecostaricanews.com/costa-rica-...-epidemic/
With a coronavirus fatality rate at 0.9% Costa Rica has proven it knows how to handle the outbreak even if it's not a rich country.

Curiously, on national TV we could listen to an expert on genomics that stated...

Coronavirus genome in Costa Rica: came from the USA, Germany and Brazil
https://qcostarica.com/coronavirus-genom...nd-brazil/
It was only on channel 11.1 that the expert admitted that it originally came from China but during the press conference he refused to mention China even if journalists asked him, a couple of times, about all places where the strains found in Costa Rica came from.

Costa Rica Could Suffer The Worst Economic Contraction Since The 1980s Due To Covid-19, Says The Central Bank
https://thecostaricanews.com/costa-rica-...tral-bank/
I dunno if it'd be a good read at all.

Nasa names companies to develop Moon landers for human missions
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52465585
And yes, guys! We might be in the midst of a pandemic but we got time for the moon as well!

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Alabama-based Dynetics were selected to work on landers under the space agency's Artemis programme.

Yeah, why aren't I surprised that Musk was mentioned there...

Los Angeles offers free virus testing to all residents
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52492634
Wulfo, tell me if I'm wrong but hadn't Trump or his team already stated it would be free for everybody in the US!?

Russian PM Mishustin tests positive for virus
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52491205
Nope, Wulfo, Putin has never contracted

Colombia foils jail break attempt amid contagion fears
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52454524
Well, I guess there's always a good excuse to practice everything that jailmates have learned so far after watching Prison Break.

High microplastic concentration found on ocean floor
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52489126
I might assume that Coca Cola is guilty of this.

Coronavirus in Costa Rica
719 confirmed, 6 deaths, 338 recoveries, ~8700 discarded

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China tries to contain new coronavirus outbreak
https://www.dw.com/en/china-tries-to-con...a-53280411
Although the worst of COVID-19 in China appears to be over, a possible resurgence is brewing in remote northeastern Heilongjiang province. Containment measures have been introduced as residents fear for their safety.
The provincial capital, Harbin, has also reported several new COVID-19 infection clusters at hospitals. In one instance, an 87-year-old patient infected 78 others within a few days, forcing the Harbin Second Hospital to close.

Oh but they pretended us to believe they had solved their problems already...

Soccer - Three test positive for COVID-19 at FC Cologne
https://in.reuters.com/article/health-co...NL8N2CJ4E4
German top-flight soccer team FC Cologne said on Friday that group training was continuing despite three people at the club testing positive for COVID-19.
Err, Melana, it seems you won't be able to travel freely in the next couple of days.


Costa Rican Chamber of Restaurants Reports 8,550 Closed Businesses and 121,000 Unemployed
https://thecostaricanews.com/costa-rican...nemployed/
Not letting restaurants serve customers at their stores seems to hit restaurants hard, especially in the surroundings of tourist attractions like Poás Volcano. Many small restaurants in San José and nearby cities and towns had to close because customers didn't feel the need to order anything they offered. Well, most of them now eat at home...

Kim Jong-un appears in public, North Korean state media report
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52508437
I told you, wulfo, this would eventually happen as it already did.

FDA approves experimental drug remdesivir for emergency use
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...st-updates
FDA thinks this drug might help fight our lovely but are they right about that? I hope they are but...

Nicoya, Guanacaste province in Costa Rica the place where several centenarians love to live their peaceful lives for quite a long time
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/202...ans-thrive
One of its long living inhabitants owns a 28 year old horse, something that's kind of unusual as well.

New Mexico governor orders roads closed to city of Gallup in effort to stop coronavirus spread
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-mex...rus-spread
But is it necessary? Or is it out of time?

New Mexico mayor fires city manager for refusing to defy stay-at-home order by reopening a golf course
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-mexico-co...rse-reopen
Wasn't he a bit too abusive here!?

Leaked Western intel dossier reveals how China deceived the world about coronavirus
https://www.foxnews.com/world/new-dossie...9-outbreak
You know it, I know it, we all know how China doesn't really love the truth at all. The question here is... will Chinese authorities try to hurt the Australian Daily Telegraph somehow after they made these revelations public?

It notes a 2013 study conducted by a team of researchers, including Dr Shi, who collected a sample of horseshoe bat faeces from a cave in Yunnan province, China, which was later found to contain a virus 96.2 per cent identical to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused COVID-19.
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Their November 2015 study, done in conjunction with the University of North Carolina, concluded that the SARS-like virus could jump directly from bats to humans and there was no treatment that could help.

And yet, China denied it could be transmitted from bats to humans directly, check the snake and pangolin fake theories, and then hid the fact there was human to human transmission as well.

A few years later, in March 2019, Dr Shi and her team, including Peng Zhou, who worked in Australia for five years, published a review ­titled Bat Coronaviruses in China ... It is highly likely that future SARS or MERS like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China.

Their scientists knew China's bats could ignite another severe outbreak. Nope, they didn't stop their research, did they?

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Johnson reveals 'contingency plans' made during treatment
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52517996

England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said the number of people being treated in hospitals for the virus had fallen by 13% over the past week.

Well, it seems things are getting better in the UK... even if it's taking its own darn time.

The Prime Minister admitted he badly needed too many liters of oxygen to stay alive.

US Women's equal pay claim dismissed by court
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52513218
I don't wanna insult female players but I've always thought this is not about gender but just based on the market itself only. If a team gets more and more ads and other revenues, it's highly likely all of its associated players will get raises. Some Juan Morales won't ever earn as much as Lionel Messi, the latter attracts many organizations interested in investing in his public image. Perhaps the girls should focus more on getting more of sponsors than salaries. That seems to be the way to get some good after all.

Kim Jong-un: Trump 'glad' about reappearance of North Korean leader
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52518184
Trump, hear me when I tell you this... You're definitely crazy!

Colombian Coffee Farmer on Coronavirus: 'We're definitely scared'
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52442123
Yeah, even if you produce a badly needed item like coffee, you can get bankrupt thanks to

Mystery 'poison plot' sends Czech mayors into hiding
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52500865
The Prague 6 district council voted to move the bronze statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev. The Russian government has reacted angrily to the monument's removal and has even threatened legal action. Suddenly a few Czech politicians were threatened by alleged Russian assassins that would poison them with ricin if given the chance.  Russia obviously denied their claims. Even so the politicians are in hiding hoping they can stay alive and go back to their families one day...
Be sure the story even gets better!

Man arrested trying to quarantine on private Disney island
https://apnews.com/1477395d92120263106c07ca9aeeb7a0
Well, a guy thought it was a nice place to camp...

A referendum election in November? Trump allies see risks
https://apnews.com/c9fd6017bbf72dc5b7cf0b65dbc9c585

Trump’s standing has slumped as the nation’s focus on him has intensified during the coronavirus outbreak, revealing an erratic and often self-absorbed approach to the crisis.
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Now, that economy is crumbling around Trump. A staggering 30 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past six weeks as businesses have shuttered due to stay-at-home restrictions aimed at containing the pandemic. One of the president’s own economic advisers predicted nationwide unemployment could reach 20% by June.

According to AP, Trump has no idea how the White House should deal with at all.
What I don't get is why do they blame him for the quarantine if that was pretty much a decision taken by governors. So what do they want him to do? Not to quarantine people and let see if they'd all be dead by now? Or stay at home and lose more millions of jobs? Still, several media criticized him for supporting the idea of opening businesses once again.  Who knows what these journalists are actually looking for?

'Once Upon a Virus': China mocks U.S. coronavirus response in Lego-like animation
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN22E0C4
China seriously laughed at Trump this time.

Coronavirus in Costa Rica

735 confirmed, 6 deaths, 372 recoveries, ~9,000 discarded, ~14,000 tests have been run

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'Once Upon a Virus': China mocks U.S. coronavirus response in Lego-like animation
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN22E0C4
China seriously laughed at Trump this time.

Hrm.. Every nation got recommendations from the WHO (World Health Organization).
Like the US Corona Virus Task force, every nation was told by the WHO
[*] There was no Human-to-Human contact.
[*] It was not a threat to the world.
[*] That face masks were not for use except by doctors.
.... And this all turned out to be false.
.... And all being Chinese talking points.
So is there something to be said about changing direction? Hell yeah, if you had put your trust in China and its proxies.

An internal EU document is much blunter on China's Corona-Virus Disinformation than the Public Report
https://www.cyberscoop.com/coronavirus-c...formation/
"It states that Chinese officials had been aggressively pressuring the French government with “disinformation messages” related to the pandemic, an anecdote missing from the public report.
And much more. Links to the full internal report are available at the bottom. Get this one, because the public report was watered down due to pressure from Bejing.

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Citing hacking threats, Trump limits foreign-sourced equipment in U.S. electric sector
https://www.cyberscoop.com/executive-ord...g-threats/
Well, to be honest with you, I wouldn't like China to take control of the Costa Rican electric grid... I can't say the same about telecoms... So why not? Go prevent them from hacking your country.

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Maze Stated It Has Hacked a Costa Rican Bank since 2019 - in Spanish only
https://www.crhoy.com/tecnologia/que-es-...osta-rica/
Why might some people care about this? Well, it happens that 140,000 Americans have accounts or cards there and guess what? Maze extracted their information! The bank denies this but they didn't report the first attack...  

Other companies affected by Maze hacks are Chubb, an insurance company located in Switzerland, Hammersmith Medicines Research and Cognizant.

Michigan's Whitmer says armed protesters displayed 'worst racism and awful parts' of US history
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michiga...-s-history
Well, people are allowed to bring their guns along there, even if that's pretty much forbidden elsewhere in the world...  

Costco, Walmart, Kroger 'grossly inflated' the price of eggs during coronavirus pandemic, lawsuit claims
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/lawsu...s-pandemic
Well, that reminds me of a time after storm Nathan, a hurricane for Americans, where eggs got expensive down here in Costa Rica. Even over half a year later the prices didn't drop as expected. Come on! Do you think we're stupid?

Americans without bank accounts must wait for federal checks
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/americ...ral-checks
Well, it might not be the fastest way to get it, but they still get it at some point.

Pompeo says 'significant' evidence new coronavirus emerged from Chinese lab

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN22F0SC

Brazil's Bolsonaro headlines anti-democratic rally, amid alarm over handling of virus
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...2F0TQ?il=0
Things are getting complicated for the Brazilian president...


North Korea's Kim did not have surgery, South says, as shots fired at DMZ
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-north...SKBN22F03N
Practically you could say South Korea told DMZ to stop posting BS on their media.

Coronavirus cases in Russia rise by record daily amount, mortality rate slows
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN22F07K
No, Russians, Putin can't cope with !

White House adviser will not rule out more money for states, small businesses
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKBN22F0KN
That sounds like a relief, don't you think?

Coronavirus in Costa Rica

739 confirmed, 6 deaths, 386 recoveries, ~9,000 discarded, ~14,000 tests run so far

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I just designed a destruction of a life
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50270731
This is the story of a business man that ruined his life by taking drugs but life gave him a second chance and he's back with a company of his own and a girlfriend he met at the gym where a friend let him work doing odd jobs.

Sir Cameron Mackintosh: 'Theatres could be closed until next year'
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52525380
Learn about why a renowned theater owner and theatrical producer has such a negative prognostic for his own niche.

Venezuela accuses Colombia of attempting 'terrorist' sea invasion
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52525209
A Venezuelan minister denounced some speedboats transported invaders that wanted to overthrow Maduro. Right...
The opposition dismissed the allegations, saying the apparent incursion was staged. It seems Maduro loves to waste time coming up with ridiculous stories just as much as Chaves loved to write stupid poems.