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"The commission president's words were a mistake and I regret that she made them," Italian Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri told reporters at a news conference on Saturday, stressing that Europe needs "a great Marshall Plan" to keep its economy afloat.Trumps Covid advisor, Dr. Fauci, is also issuing dire predictions, presumably pulled out of thin air (or somewhere less pleasant):
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In an interview with DPA, von der Leyen did not rule out the idea of 'corona bonds' but said that they were "not the plan" the EU was working on. "The word corona bond is actually just a buzzword," she said. The option was similarly dismissed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that creating 'corona bonds' was "not... the view of all EU countries."
The American leadership should "really care about the lives of their people in New York and the states involved with coronavirus rather than thinking about Hollywood scenarios and killing people in Iraq," Major General Hossein Salami, Chief Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), pointed out.The rate of deaths in the UK dropped today, but the first UK healthcare worker died from the virus. Russia's emergency plan may cut into their economic growth. Moscow issued a stay-at-home order for the city (just short of full quarantine). Mayor Sobyanin said:
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Salami reminded his audience that Washington has already "tested the power" of Tehran and "knows very well how Iran will react to any efforts to undermine it." Claims by some US officials that they will continue to "carry out limited operations against the Iranians" were "nothing more than a political bluff."
So, instead of causing havoc around the globe and only "deteriorating its own power," the America had better keep its military at home "like Iran, which has used its armed forces to fight the coronavirus," IRGC chief said.
"The situation with the spread of the coronavirus has entered a new stage. More than 1,000 cases of have been recorded in Moscow already. No one is safe [from getting infected]," Sobyanin wrote on his blog on Sunday.Just because things are particularly bad in Italy, that doesn't imply that things will be that bad elsewhere. For whatever reasons (in addition to the mere presence of the virus), Italy seems hardest hit.
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"Please, stay safe. All Moscow residents must stay home in the coming week. If you are on the street or at the store, maintain safe distance," he warned. "Everyone is seeing what is happening in Italian and Spanish cities, in New York where tens and hundreds are dying daily."
Comment: While the coronavirus has been designated and treated as a pandemic of global proportions, the looming crisis is 'what is not in the pan'! Global food shortages are already here and on the rise, harbingers of the approaching ice age. Lessons on the surface remind us to look for deeper lessons underneath - and do it quickly!