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  • No evidence onions can cure ailments or kill viruses but they are good for you

    No evidence onions can cure ailments or kill viruses but they are good for you

    CLAIM: Video says that onions can cure bronchitis, fever and kill viruses in the air.

    AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. While onions offer nutritional and health benefits, there is no evidence that onions can cure bronchitis, fever or kill viruses in the air if placed around a room.

    THE FACTS: Myths around using onions to cure various ailments have existed for years. As medical researchers around the world struggle to find a vaccine for coronavirus, social media users are searching online for ways to treat themselves at home.

    One video on Facebook with more than 50,000 views was shared with the comment, “onions better than any VACCINE.”

    “Do you know if you have fever or bronchitis, if you chop up onions and put it in like a cheese cloth or a thin cloth, put it on your chest, it gets rid of bronchitis?” says a woman featured in the video. “If you have a fever, cut a piece of the onion in slices, put it under your foot bottom and put on a sock. By morning your fever gone.”

    The woman also suggests cutting the tops off the onions and then putting them in every corner of a room. “It will pull out every virus, any bacteria out of the air,” she says.

    Myths about onions and viruses are totally undocumented by science, said Ruth S. MacDonald, who chairs the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University.

    According to the National Onion Association, myths about onions date back to the 1500s when it was said that putting cut onions around a room would protect against the bubonic plague. Back then it was believed diseases were spread through “noxious air.” The myth continued to live on to the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919.

    “In short, there is no scientific evidence that a cut raw onion absorbs germs or rids the air of toxins/poisons,” the association says on its website.

    Dr. Jen Caudle, a family physician and associate professor at Rowan University in New Jersey, said like the claims spreading online about onions, old wives’ tales are sometimes family traditions that are passed down through generations.

    “They may not be all bad to do, but are they going to cure the problem? That answer is likely no,” she said.

    Medical experts say it is important to consult a health care professional if you are showing signs of fever or bronchitis rather than relying on home remedies.

    “While someone may tell us to go try the onion thing, the real thing we should be doing in this day and age, especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, is if we are feeling terrible, worse than just a regular cold, we should be talking to our healthcare provider and potentially be evaluated,” Dr. Jason G. Newland, professor of pediatrics at Washington University, said.

  • Baseball Team Owners Propose 82 Game Season Starting Around July Fourth

    Baseball Team Owners Propose 82 Game Season Starting Around July Fourth

    Spring training could start in early to mid-June

    NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball owners gave the go-ahead Monday to making a proposal to the players’ union that could lead to the coronavirus-delayed season starting around the Fourth of July weekend in ballparks without fans, a plan that envisioned expanding the designated hitter to the National League for 2020.

    Spring training could start in early to mid-June, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the plan were not announced.

    MLB officials are slated to make a presentation to the union on Tuesday. An agreement with the players’ association is needed, and talks are expected to be difficult — especially over a proposal for a revenue split that would be unprecedented for baseball. Players withstood a 7 1/2-month strike in 1994-95 to fight off such a plan.

    “If you do anything that resembles a cap, that smells like a cap, you’ve given too much,” said Dave Stewart, a four-time 20-game winner who is now an agent and spent two years as Arizona’s general manager.

    “A salary cap has been a non-starter for the players as long as I’ve been in baseball,” said David Samson, president of the Expos and Marlins from 2002-17. “I think when MLB is proposing a revenue split, it is with the full knowledge that the players’ union will automatically reject that.”

    Each team would play about 82 regular-season games: against opponents in its own division plus interleague matchups limited to AL East vs. NL East, AL Central vs. NL Central and AL West vs. NL West.

    Postseason play would be expanded from 10 clubs to 14 by doubling wild cards in each league to four.

    Teams would prefer to play at their regular-season ballparks but would switch to spring training stadiums or neutral sites if medical and government approvals can’t be obtained for games at home. Toronto might have to play home games in Dunedin, Florida.

    “We’ll see where we will be in July,” said California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose state is the home of five MLB clubs and who has talked with baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. “We certainly look forward to Major League Baseball and all sports resuming. But again, the question is when and that will be determined on the basis of public health and public safety and the spread of this virus.”

    The All-Star Game, scheduled for Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on July 14, likely would be called off.

    Medical issues will be at the forefront of talks along with economics.

    “Bear with me, but it feels like we’ve zoomed past the most important aspect of any MLB restart plan: health protections for players, families, staff, stadium workers and the workforce it would require to resume a season,” Washington pitcher Sean Doolittle tweeted. “What’s the plan to ethically acquire enough tests? … What’s the protocol if a player, staff member, or worker contracts the virus?”

    Teams will propose that players receive the percentage of their 2020 salaries based on a 50-50 split of revenues MLB receives during the regular-season and postseason, which likely will be among the most contentious aspects of the proposal during negotiations with the players’ association.

    “These concepts are beyond the spectrum of what players have both fought for and derived from the CBA from inception: salary caps, methodologies like this are something far afield from our working relationship with Major League Baseball,” said Scott Boras, the sport’s best-known agent. “You certainly know why they would suggest it.”

    That proposal would take into account fans being able to return to ballparks at some point, perhaps with a small percentage of seats sold at first and then gradually increasing.

    Baseball players have refused to consider even the frameworks for the type of revenue splits that have been agreed to by unions in the NFL, NBA and NHL.

    Active rosters would be expanded from 26 to around 30. With minor leagues shuttered, there likely will be the addition of about 20 players per club akin to the NFL’s practice squad.

    Teams would have the option of holding the resumption of spring training at home or at their facilities in Florida and Arizona. Most teams based in Florida appear to be leaning toward that option, while Arizona-based clubs are inclined to work out at home rather than deal with June heat in the Phoenix area.

    Players and teams agreed to a deal on March 26 that called for each player to receive only a portion of salary, determined by what percentage of a 162-game schedule is played. As part of that deal, if no season is played each player would receive 2020 service time matching what the player earned in 2019.

    But that deal is contingent there being no restrictions on mass gatherings at the federal, state, city and local level; no relevant travel restrictions in the U.S. and Canada; and Commissioner Rob Manfred after consulting the union and medical expects, determines there is no risk to playing in front of fans at regular-season ballparks.

    Players and teams committed to “discuss in good faith the economic feasibility of playing games in the absence of spectators or at appropriate neutral sites.” Manfred has said about 40% of MLB revenue is tied to gate, including concessions, parking, ballpark advertising, luxury suites and programs.

    Union officials and players have cited the March 26 agreement as setting economic terms and say they have no inclination for additional cuts. Players are more interested in medical protocols and testing designed to protect them from and detect the new coronavirus. The proposal will detail the plan for dealing with players and staff who test positive.

    Because players accrue salaries for the regular season only and not for spring training or the postseason, the union may counter by asking for more regular-season games during negotiations that could significantly alter or possibly even scuttle the restart plan.

    The DH was adopted by the American League for the 1973 season but has been resisted by National League owners. The players’ union has favored it because it would create more jobs for high-paying hitters in their 30s, by MLB has looked at it as an economic issue.

    Money, however, has disappeared as a DH issue at this stage for 2020 because nearly all veteran players have agreed to contracts. Yasiel Puig is the most notable exception.

  • Daniel Radcliffe And Other “Harry Potter” Stars Read First Book In Series For Fans

    Daniel Radcliffe And Other “Harry Potter” Stars Read First Book In Series For Fans

    The actor who played “Harry Potter” in all eight films reads Chapter One.

    As announced on the Wizarding World Twitter account, the official account of the Harry Potter World:

    Daniel Radcliffe reads the first chapter, and it’s just SO GOOD!

    Other actors from the film series including David Redmayne, Dakota Fanning, David Beckham, Stephen Fry, Claudia Kim and Noma Dumezweni will be reading chapters from the iconic book too!

     

  • PODCAST: Interview with Dr. Blane Mire of the Natchez COVID-19 Task Force

    PODCAST: Interview with Dr. Blane Mire of the Natchez COVID-19 Task Force

    Dr. Mire answers your questions:

    Dr. Blane Mire works at Internal Medicine Associates at Merit Health hospital in Natchez.  He is a graduate of LSU’s School of Medicine, and is on Natchez Mayor Darryl Grennell’s COVID-19 Task Force, and the Economic Recovery Task Force as well.

    The doctor talked with us this morning about where the Miss-Lou is currently with this pandemic, and what it takes to move forward.  He also answers questions like:

    How do I go back to work and keep myself and my family safe?

    How do I stay calm and center myself when the uncertainty about what is next is driving me crazy?

    How do I stay safe after I go shopping and bring food home?

    Should I wipe down packages delivered to my house?

    Do mosquitoes spread COVID-19?

    Which will come first, a treatment or a vaccine?

    If I’m making a homemade mask, how thick and how many layers should my mask be?

    You’ll hear answers to these questions and more facts in this outstanding interview!

  • Harold Reid, Statler Brothers Bass Singer, Dies At 80

    Harold Reid, Statler Brothers Bass Singer, Dies At 80

    The Statlers won three Grammy Awards and were named top vocal groups nine times by the Country Music Association.

    STAUNTON, Va. (AP) — Harold Reid, who sang bass for the Grammy-winning country group the Statler Brothers, has died after a long battle with kidney failure. He was 80.

    Reid died Friday in his hometown of Staunton, Virginia, his nephew Debo Reid said.

    The Statler Brothers frequently sang backup for country icon Johnny Cash. Some of their biggest hits included 1965’s “Flowers on the Wall” and 1970′s “Bed of Rose’s.”

    Harold Reid was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He was also a comedian.

    “He is and will always be loved by his family, friends and millions of fans,” a statement on the band’s website said. “His singing, his songwriting and his comedy made generations happy. He has taken a piece of our hearts with him.”

    Reid and three boyhood friends — Lew DeWitt, Phil Balsley and Joe McDorman — formed the Four-Star Quartet in 1948. The group, later known as the Kingsmen, sang mostly gospel music. McDorman quit and was replaced by Don Reid, Harold’s younger brother.

    DeWitt once said the group changed its name again because several other acts — all better known — were billed as the Kingsmen. The new name came from a box of Statler tissue, he said.

    The quartet switched to country music in 1964, after meeting Cash and joining his road show.

    Over the next two decades, the Statlers won three Grammy Awards and were named top vocal groups nine times by the Country Music Association.

    “He leaves a large and loving family and millions of fans who remember his stage and TV antics with smiles and cherish his music that will live with the ages,” Debo Reid said in a statement.

  • Eric Church wants people to feel safe when concerts return

    Eric Church wants people to feel safe when concerts return

    “When people roared, they roared. I believe that will happen again.”

    By KRISTIN M. HALL 
    April 24, 2020

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country star Eric Church doesn’t know when concerts might resume in the United States after the spread of the coronavirus, but he wants people to feel safe when they return to hear live music.

    The singer known for his often-worn sunglasses sent a message to fans over the weekend in a new video and tease of a new song that offers his belief in the American resolve to overcome the pandemic.

    With echoes of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas in his mind, Church recorded the song “Through My Ray Bans,” co-written with Luke Laird and Barry Dean, in February about seeing people standing shoulder to shoulder, “like an army of Friday night soldiers.”

    “It could be sports. It could be music. It could be church. It’s that fellowship that we have that makes life worth living,” Church said in an interview with The Associated Press.

    The virus reminded him of the fear that many people, even himself, felt after the Route 91 Harvest music festival, where Church had played the night before the shooting.

    “The thing that shook me about Vegas was that was my safe place,” Church said. “As messed up as the world is, I never in a million years thought that could be a danger area.”

    Now as tours and festivals are canceled or rescheduled or postponed indefinitely, Church wants to remind fans that concerts and gatherings will resume eventually, but urged people in his new video not to give into fear and panic.

    “When people come back, they have to feel that it’s OK to be there, that they can experience it the way they want to experience it,” Church said. “They should be able to go up and throw their arms around the person next to them. They should not be scared about being three feet away and not six.”

    But Church said he thinks major festivals and touring could be delayed as far out as next year.

    “For me, I think it’s summer or fall of ’21. I am going on the promise of a vaccine. I’m going on the possibility of a therapeutic that could change the game,” Church said.

    The virus has also upended a lot of plans for album releases this year, including his own. Prior to the virus spread, Church voluntarily secluded himself in a makeshift studio in the North Carolina mountains to record for a full month with several writers and his band. He wrote and recorded a song each day, ending up with about 28 songs. “It’s always intrigued me, a kind of old rock ‘n’ roll model,” Church said. “You write the song in the studio. You record the song the same day.”

    Even though he hasn’t released any songs for download or streaming or to radio yet, he’s been living with them a lot longer than he normally does before the public or even the people at his label or management has heard them.

    “I don’t know if this is an album, if it’s two albums, if it’s three,” he said. “I feel confident enough with the material that people will get to hear all of these songs at some point.”

    Meanwhile, Church said he is looking to history as a guide for what’s to come after the pandemic.

    “I think about the 1918 pandemic and there’s a reason the Roaring Twenties happened,” said Church. “When people roared, they roared. I believe that will happen again.”

  • Buccaneers QB Tom Brady Ejected From Tampa Florida Park

    Buccaneers QB Tom Brady Ejected From Tampa Florida Park

    Four-time Super Bowl MVP Told To Leave By Park Rangers

    TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Six Super Bowl rings may get you special treatment in a lot of places but former Patriots quarterback Tom Brady learned Monday that it won’t get you anything when you’re caught working out in a park that is closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    Tampa Mayor Jane Castor said during a news briefing Monday that the new Buccaneers quarterback was spotted working out by himself at a park downtown by staff patrol. The staffer went over to tell him he had to leave and she recognized the man to be the 42-year-old Brady.

    “He’s been sighted,” Castor said.

    The City of Tampa tweeted from its page Monday”

    “Sorry @TomBrady! Our @tampaparksrec team can’t wait to welcome you and our entire community back with even bigger smiles — until then, stay safe and stay home as much as you can to help flatten the curve.”

    Brady recently moved his family into a furnished mansion he’s renting from former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter in Tampa.

    The four-time Super Bowl MVP left the New England Patriots and signed a two-year, $50 million contract with the Bucs in free agency, joining a team with the worst winning percentage in league history.

  • Hoax Alert: Do You Have To Pay Back Your $1200 Relief Check???

    Hoax Alert: Do You Have To Pay Back Your $1200 Relief Check???

    Fake News: Relief Checks Being Sent To U.S. Taxpayers By The Government Under The Coronavirus Economic Recovery Bill Will Have To Be Paid Back.

    In recent days, social media posts have falsely claimed there’s one catch to this money – that you’ll eventually have to pay it back. ‘Next year, you’re automatically going to owe $1,200 come tax season,’ one of the videos, viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube, falsely claims.   Videos and online reports claiming that millions of Americans will have to repay the relief checks they receive from the federal government under the $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic recovery bill are not true. 

    The Truth (As Reported By AP):  The U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, which are working to deliver the money to people, confirmed to The Associated Press that households will not have to pay back the money in next year’s tax filing.  The government began issuing the one-time payments this week. Most adults who earned up to $75,000 will see a $1,200 payout, while married couples who made up to $150,000 can expect to get $2,400. Parents will get payments of $500 per child. The checks will be directly deposited into bank accounts or mailed to households, depending on how you’ve filed your tax returns in the past. 

    ‘This is not an advance and there is absolutely no obligation to pay it back,’ Treasury spokeswoman Patricia McLaughlin said.

  • Country Stars Live Streaming Today, Monday April 13

    Country Stars Live Streaming Today, Monday April 13

    All times are in Central Time.

    Ashley McBryde
    Time: 2:30 p.m. CT
    What: Playing some favorites for the kids!
    Where: Facebook

    Tenille Townes
    Time: 3 p.m. CT
    What: Martin Guitar’s “Jam In Place” series
    Where: Facebook

    Laine Hardy
    Time: 5 p.m. CT
    What: “Ground I Grew Up On” Virtual Tour
    Where: Facebook

    Colter Wall
    Time: 6 p.m. CT
    What: Create The West; A Boot Barn series showing live creative escapes, from behind the scenes of their craft how-to’s.
    Where: Instagram

    Jimmie Allen
    Time: 6 p.m. CT
    Where: Instagram

    Randy & Mary Travis
    Time: 6 p.m. CT
    Where: Instagram

    Sara Evans
    Time: 7:30 p.m. CT
    What: Closet Chaos
    Where: Instagram

    Jillian Jacqueline
    Time: 8 p.m. CT
    Where: Facebook Instagram

    Mark Wills
    Time: 8 p.m. CT
    What: Live From The Bunker
    Where: Facebook

  • Drinking tonic water WILL NOT prevent or cure the COVID19 coronavirus

    Drinking tonic water WILL NOT prevent or cure the COVID19 coronavirus

    Medical experts say as of now there is no proven medication or home remedy that can cure coronavirus.

    THE FACTS: Posts circulating on Facebook and Twitter suggest that drinking tonic water from Schweppes or Fever-Tree will work to treat the new coronavirus because the drinks contain quinine. Other posts tout a combination of tonic water and zinc, an idea that gained traction after a St. Louis chiropractor posted a video recommending the combination.

    Experts say there is no scientific evidence that quinine would have any impact if used in this way. The concentration used for medical use is much different from the concentration of quinine used in soft drinks, said Dr. Humberto Choi, a pulmonologist at Cleveland Clinic.

    “I would not encourage anyone to drink tonic water to prevent or treat covid at all,” said Dr. Michael Angarone, assistant professor of infectious diseases at Northwestern University Feinberg school of Medicine.

    The U.S. Food & Drug Administration states that in carbonated beverages as a flavor, the level of quinine used should not exceed 83 parts per million.

    As far as taking tonic water and zinc, Choi said while zinc has been studied to see if it could help protect organs against low oxygen supply in cases of severe lung infection or inflammation, it has not been proven to treat the infection itself.

    “I don’t think people should be fooled to think they are ingesting something that is causing any benefit to them,” he said.

    Quinine is a compound found in the bark of the Cinchona tree and has been used to treat malaria. Malaria drugs like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are the synthetic form of quinine.

    Social media users appear to be suggesting there is no difference between quinine and hydroxychloroquine, which has been touted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for coronavirus. Hydroxychloroquine has not been approved as a drug to treat coronavirus and medical experts have not concluded whether the drug is safe or effective for this use.

    “The data so far in terms of therapeutic efficacy are pretty shaky,” said Dr. David Hamer, a professor at Boston University School of Public Health and School of Medicine and physician at Boston Medical Center.

    Tonic water companies like Fever-Tree are now debunking the myth on their websites.

    Fever-Tree says anti-malaria drugs “contain a significantly higher amount of quinine than tonic water.”

     “We would not advise using our tonic water for anything other than making a tasty drink to keep your spirits up during this difficult time,” the company states on its website.

    It’s not the first time tonic water has been promoted as a cure. Tonic water has also been falsely suggested as a way to cure malaria.

    “You have to be mindful of people touting miracle cures or cure all or miracle drugs for coronavirus,” Dr. Angarone said.