Comment: God bless Amir and all the other victims of COVID-19.

Some of them might have been saved with timelier intervention, given that it's now known that forcing air into their lungs is actually medical malpractice. Unfortunately, the 'heroes' in hospitals have unnecessarily killed a lot of people, but then they too have been caught in a web of hysteria that is completely out of all proportion to the threat this virus represents.

Comment: While the decrease in demand due the coronavirus-induced economic slowdown is certainly one factor explaining the oil price drop, we should not forget the other side of the equation: supply.

During March OPEC meeting, Russia and Saudi Arabia, the two largest oil producers along with the USA, made the same move, they refused to cut down their production in order to prop up oil price, unlike the preceding decades where the cartel made of the largest producers agreed to limit production in order to maintain profitable price.

There's one obvious victim of this decision to not cut production: the USA and in particular its shale industry. While Russian and Saudi production cost is about $40/barrel, US shale costs about $70.

Sustained low oil price will harm US shale production first. The effects are already visible with U.S. production of crude oil expected to fall 13% by the end 2020. This way supply will be reduced without Russia and Saudi Arabia cutting their production.

As those lines are being written (April 12th) an emergency OPEC meeting is ongoing. No doubt that the USA will ask Russia and Saudi Arabia to cut production substantially. The question is: "are the USA willing to give enough politically in order to change Russia and Saudi Arabia production policy?"

Comment: According to Radio Free Europe, the body of one inmate was found in the ruins of a burned-out prison building.

Comment: Good to see more and more people questioning the narrative:

• Dr. Ted Noel torches fabricated COVID death tally: 'The statistics are just plain lies'
• Minnesota senator Dr. Scott Jensen reveals COVID-19 death certificate instructions, suggests they're designed to INFLATE death toll
• Montana doctor blows the whistle on the CDC's manipulated coronavirus figures
• Mainstream media starting to ask questions - Laura Ingraham reports on faulty WHO coronavirus mortality rates
• Coulter: How do we flatten the curve on panic?
• Coronavirus COVID-19: Public health apocalypse or panic and anti-human?

Comment: Meanwhile farmers are being forced to throw away food, are unable to harvest, may be unable to plant for the coming season, and some are even being told to sell up: Food supply shutdown: US meat processing plants suspend operations, dairy farmers told to quit, farmers dumping produce

Comment: Readers have likely seen the push for mail-in ballots, mostly from democrats, during this fear pandemic. We know it's not because these people are looking out for 'public health'! More likely, mail-in ballets are easier to 'disappear', especially during a time of manufactured crisis.

Breitbart carried this report:

The data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and the Election Administration and Voting Surveys for 2016 and 2018, provided by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), shows that between the 2016 and 2018 elections, roughly 16.4 million ballots mailed to registered voters went missing.

In the 2018 election, about 42.4 million ballots were mailed to registered voters. Of those mailed, more than one million were undeliverable, more than 430,000 were rejected, and nearly 10.5 million went missing.

The 2016 election showed similar discrepancies. That year, about 41.6 million ballots were mailed to registered voters. Of those mailed, more than 568,000 were undeliverable, nearly 320,000 were rejected, and close to six million went missing.

"Putting the election in the hands of the United States Postal Service would be a catastrophe. In 2018 and 2016, there were 16 million missing and misdirected ballots," PILF President J. Christian Adams said in a statement. He went on:

"These represent 16 million opportunities for someone to cheat. Absentee ballot fraud is the most common; the most expensive to investigate; and can never be reversed after an election. The status quo was already bad for mail balloting. The proposed emergency fix is worse."

Los Angeles County, California, for instance, had nearly 1.4 million mail-in ballots go missing in the 2018 election, while Maricopa County, Arizona saw 408,000 mail-in ballots go missing.

Likewise, Orange County, California, had 374,000 mail-in ballots go missing in 2018 and King County, Washington, had 353,000 mail-in ballots go missing.

San Diego County, Sacramento County, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Alameda County, Santa Clara County — all located in California — saw a combined 1.6 million mail-in ballots go missing in the 2018 election.

Left-wing organizations, funded by billionaire George Soros, are spearheading a nationwide effort to hold mail-in state primaries and nationwide mail-in voting for the 2020 presidential election.

Research director of the Government Accountability Insititute Eric Eggers has said nationwide mail-in voting would potentially send ballots to an estimated 24 million ineligible voters — including two million dead voters and nearly three million voters who are registered to vote in more than one state.