Facebook--the social media giant which has been at the center of such wide-ranging scandals as the Russian campaign to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election to the effort to distribute a so-called "deepfake" of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi which made her appear intoxicated--has taken action to remove posts which promote the protests around the United States challenging the lockdown conditions in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to company chief Mark Zuckerberg.

We're about to see that, when it comes to loosening the extreme lockdown conditions gripping the United States as a result of the novel coronavirus outbreak, that there's a right way to do things and a wrong way. We can only hope and pray that the wrong way doesn't end in tragic results.

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As the novel coronavirus, and the COVID-19 disease, continues to spread throughout the United States, making New York its epicenter with more than 10,000 deaths, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) is urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately clarify its plan to address the lack over oversight and inspection of the American food supply system – to restore peace of mind to millions of consumers.

Donald Trump wants to be seen as a leader and a statesman, carrying his nation through this national emergency. But by stoking the protesters across the country who are challenging the lockdown and social distancing measures in place to deal with the spread of the novel coronavirus, Trump actually will have blood on his hands.

Donald Trump, pockets of protesters around the country, and others are clamoring for the United States to be "reopened" from the severe lockdown conditions it's been under to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, but that won't happen until individual testing for the virus ramps up dramatically.

Since Donald Trump has left the roadmap for moving forward with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and the eventual lifting of the extreme lockdown and social distancing measures to the individual states, New York Gov Andrew Cuomo said his immediate concern is to stabilize the finances of the states.

Public health professionals and government officials continue to tell Americans that the road back from the strict lockdown conditions and social distancing measures which have become a fact of life for most Americans in the fight to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, will rely on getting massive testing, tracking and contact-tracing programs up and running.

Although infections from the novel coronavirus appear to have perhaps turned a corner in hardest-hit New York, Gov Andrew Cuomo (D) put some sober perspective on that, while also continuing to look forward to when the Empire State might once again open it's doors.

Congress has already had to set up a special committee dedicated to watchdogging the administration's use of funds made available in the recent $2 trillion economic stimulus package. Now it appears that lawmakers will also have to investigate whole other examples of what's either incompetence or someone with a hand in a federal cookie jar, trying to actually profit off of this disease.