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France's most recognized virologist: 'The West is managing Covid-19 worse than poor countries'


RT
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:15 UTC

Comment: From the point of view of actually tackling the virus, yes, the West is managing this abominably. But that isn't the agenda...


Raoult
© UnknownProfessor Didier Raoult
The world's experience with Covid-19 has exposed the fact that wealthy nations are not necessarily more prepared than poorer ones to deal with a pandemic and they are often too slow to act, French biologist Didier Raoult said.

In a video posted on YouTube, Raoult noted that many of the countries with the highest coronavirus mortality rates are "wealthy countries." This reveals "a disconnect between wealth and the ability to respond to situations of this kind."

The difference could lie in how rich and poor countries have chosen to deal with the virus, Raoult believes.
"The rich and developed countries have had less significant results than the poor countries, which chose to treat [Covid-19] like pneumonia with common drugs and which cost nothing."
Raoult has been at the center of an international debate over the use of the hydroxychloroquine anti-malaria drug which he promoted as a possible treatment for the coronavirus, citing his own small study and some positive experiences with the drug in China.

Comment: This is because the agenda in the west was never about actually 'tackling Covid-19'. It was and is about leveraging the virus/illness to implement totalitarian social control.

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US Dept of Defense publishes accounts of troops who experienced Iran's retaliatory strike on January 8


Sputnik
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 06:47 UTC
2 US troops
© Ako Rasheed
The Iranian attack on US military bases in Iraq on 8 January followed an American drone strike that killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. Before the attack, Iranian officials had said Tehran would retaliate against US forces for Soleimani's killing.

The US Department of Defense on Tuesday released a 36-page dossier of firsthand accounts from the airmen who were present during the "retaliatory" missile strike by Iran on 8 January.

The document includes stories from soldiers who were at the US bases of Ayn al-Asad, Erbil, Camp Taji, and Al Taqaddum in Iraq during the attack.

Iran warned the Iraqi government about the attack shortly before it happened, and the information was reportedly passed to the Americans. According to the DoD report, the warning gave the base commanders little time to make "life or death decisions based on little information and a lot of gut", many of them thinking that everyone who was left at the airbase would "perish".

The officers there had to quickly compile lists of their personnel divided into two groups: those who should be evacuated and those who would remain to maintain operations, according to the new DoD report.
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UPMC: Feared coronavirus surge 'simply hasn't happened' - will resume elective surgeries

David Wenner
pennlive.com
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 05:55 UTC
Dr. Yealy
© UPMCDr. Donald Yealy at a virtual news conference April 21, 2020.
UPMC [University of Pittsburgh Medical Center] said Tuesday the predicted surge of COVID-19 patients hasn't arrived and cases are on the decline in central and western Pennsylvania. In light of that, UPMC plans to resume some of the elective surgeries that were canceled as the result of government directives to conserve beds and supplies for COVID-19 patients.

"The very high surge we prepared for simply hasn't happened," said Dr. Donald Yealy, UPMC's chair of emergency medicine. However, state Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said Tuesday that while the state has begun talking to hospitals about resuming some surgeries, "we're not there yet."

Of 5,500 beds in the UPMC hospital system, only 2% are occupied by COVID-19 patients, as are 8% percent of intensive care beds, according to Yealy, who also said UPMC has strong supplies of protective equipment such as masks, shields and gowns.

The 118 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at UPMC hospitals are "not a significant increase from last week," he said.

Yealy further said the rate of positive coronavirus tests done through UPMC hospitals has dropped to 6.6 percent, down from 12 percent earlier in the pandemic, another sign the coronavirus threat is declining in areas served by UPMC.
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Sarah Sanders to AOC: Unlike congresspersons, American workers have to show up to get paid

Jennie Taer
saraacarter.com
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Sanders AOC
© Red JournalistsFormer WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders • US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
During an appearance on Fox & Friends Thursday, Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders sounded off on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who suggested that American workers orchestrate a national boycott when the economy reopens after the coronavirus, saying she needs to look back to where she came from and remember that she still gets paid as a member of Congress regardless of whether she's doing her job.
"This is the same Congresswoman who just last week was celebrating the devastation of the oil and gas industry and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are tied to that because she hoped it would provide momentum for her Green New Deal.

"This is also a person who may want to go back to her roots and remember that most Americans, unlike those in Congress have to show up in order to get paid and that they don't have the luxury of not doing their job and still being able to provide for her family like she does as a member of Congress.

"There are people that are really hurting. The President is looking for ways to protect, to help them. She might want to join in that effort instead of putting people down who are struggling and trying to figure out how best to help their families and provide that food. She might wanna go back and remember that when she was a bartender and not a member of Congress, she didn't have that luxury."
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On the outskirts of Paris, the food bank queues grow longer

Yanathan Van der Voort
Reuters
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:06 UTC
Food bank line in Clichy-sous-Bois, France
© Reuters/Charles PlatiauFILE PHOTO: Residents line up during a food distribution by volunteers from ACLEFEU association in Clichy-sous-Bois near Paris during a lockdown imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, April 22, 2020.
The queue for the food bank snaked for hundreds of metres, out of the shuttered marketplace bordered by tower blocks and down the side of a four-lane highway on the outskirts of one of Europe's wealthiest cities.

In Paris's depressed suburbs, the number of people relying on food handouts is soaring as a strict coronavirus lockdown plunges France into its deepest recession since World War Two.

Many worked in the grey economy before the outbreak, and now receive little protection from France's generous welfare state.

"There were lots of women who worked looking after children... There was a whole economy based on getting by," said Bachir Ghouinem, volunteering at the food bank in Clichy-sous-Bois, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the city centre.
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Bio-terror: Israeli squatters with Covid-19 break quarantine, assault Palestinians in nearby hamlet

Juan Cole
Informed Comment
Fri, 17 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Palestine Covid
© Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA/ShutterstockPalestinian security forces arresting a shop owner who did not abide by the lockdown in Hebron last month.
On Wednesday, a band of 20 Israeli squatters diagnosed with Covid-19, who had been placed in quarantine in their squatter-settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank's Ghor Valley, ghoulishly broke out and attacked a nearby Palestinian hamlet. They are members of the violent "Hilltop Youth" extremist group.

The Israeli terrorists, operating in Palestinian territory, burned cars, stoned civilians, and attacked individuals. They beat a young Palestinian woman so badly that she had to be rushed to the emergency room in an Israeli hospital.

Since she has now likely been infected, this injury may be a death sentence, since comorbidity conditions severe enough to require hospitalization would worsen her chance of surviving when she contracts the virus and it attacks her lungs.

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"Antifa" organizer exposed as member of elite political family

Eric Striker
National Justice
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:36 UTC
Sean Thomas Kratovil-Lavelle
A leading organizer in a self-described "Antifa" cell, Iron Front USA, is a member of a prominent Maryland political family. The organization takes inspiration from the German Iron Front, a paramilitary group that embraced violence against conservatives, National Socialists, and even left-wing rivals.

Sean Thomas Kratovil-Lavelle, pictured above at an "Antifa" rally next to his sister Charlotte, posts on the Iron Front's reddit under his own name, bragging about engaging in the groups masked antics. Kratovil-Levelle is wearing the three arrows symbol appropriated by anarchist paramilitary organizations, while his sister is wearing a "Refuse Fascism" t-shirt, a group run by the Revolutionary Communist Party.

According to witnesses, the mother of the two, an immigration attorney and open borders activist, was present with them at the rally.
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After one month of coronavirus lockdown, more than 50% of Los Angeles is now unemployed

Tom Murray
Business Insider
Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:16 UTC

Comment: Good job, globalists and liberal enablers...


food bank
© REUTERS / Lucy NicholsonPeople queue to pick up fresh food at a Los Angeles Regional Food Bank giveaway of 2,000 boxes of groceries, lockdown continues, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 9, 2020.
More than half of the population of Los Angeles are now unemployed, according to a national survey from the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research.

Researchers found that only 45% of LA workers are still employed, compared with 61% in mid-March as 1.3 million people have lost their jobs during the coronavirus crisis.

"In LA, there was a certain level of insecurity to begin with, and it has increased a little bit more than it has in the national average," USC's Jill Darling, survey director for the Understanding America Study, said according to LAist.

Comment: No doubt they'll go 'Q' on us and say 'Trust the Plan!'

We're ruled by utter morons.

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The US slipping into poverty before our eyes

Vladimir Odintsov
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
tent city
The coronavirus epidemic that has put the world under lockdown is having numerous negative consequences, and one of them is the terrifying impoverishment people are experiencing in many countries.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the economic and social consequences of the outbreak were compared with the 2008-2009 financial crisis, but now researchers are beginning to compare it with the Great Depression. "COVID-19 is laying bare socio-economic inequalities and could exacerbate them in the near future," writes economist Enrico Bergamini, a research assistant at the Bruegel European think tank. People will feel the economic shock brought on by the pandemic in different ways, depending on their level of income, living conditions and profession, which may make society more polarized.

At the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, the media was dominated by headlines about business people losing billions within a short space of time, but as time went on, the most vulnerable socio-economic groups have begun feeling the more and more painful impact of the financial blow, as they could face a significant deterioration in living standards or even be left with nothing at all. The International Labor Organization fears that more than one billion workers are at high risk of a pay cut or being left completely unemployed. The UN is also sounding the alarm: the current crisis may undo the significant progress that had been made over recent decades towards the target of ending poverty, which had been set for 2030.
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Big businesses usurp relief loans said to be for small businesses

Thomas Franck
CNBC
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 18:02 UTC
we the corporations
Hundreds of millions of dollars of Paycheck Protection Program emergency funding has been claimed by large, publicly traded companies, new research published by Morgan Stanley shows.

In fact, the U.S. government has allocated at least $243.4 million of the total $349 billion to publicly traded companies, the firm said.

The PPP was designed to help the nation's smallest, mom-and-pop shops keep employees on payroll and prevent mass layoffs across the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Comment: If mega-corporations are exploiting 'loop holes' in the existing fund, it is because the lawmakers designed it that way. The result is that the remaining creative and productive spirit in the US is being stamped out so big business might gain an even larger market share than they already have.

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