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2 top French doctors say that coronavirus vaccines should be tested on poor Africans

Julian Kossoff
Business Insider
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:57 UTC
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Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht carried out the discussion on live French TV, leaving viewers including top African soccer players furious.
A discussion between two top French doctors on live TV left viewers horrified when they proposed that Africa should become a giant laboratory for coronavirus vaccine testing because the continent lacked the resources to defend against COVID-19.

In the segment broadcast on the French TV channel LCI, Jean-Paul Mira and Camille Locht raised the idea of testing new vaccines on impoverished African populations.

Mira is head of the intensive-care department at the Cochin Hospital in Paris, while Locht is the research director at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, known as Inserm.

Comment: Africans are understandably unimpressed:
Resist: Senator Wetangu'la calls on African leaders to reject COVID-19 vaccine test on continent

Africa coronavirus
© Moses Wetangula.
Bungoma Senator Moses Wetangu'la has called on African leaders to reject COVID-19 vaccine test on the continent.
Wetangula's objection came barely a day after French doctors suggested that Africa was the best continent for the samples to be used because it is "incapable of fighting COVID-19".

In a strongly worded statement, the FORD Kenya party leader called on African leaders to reject any attempt to use African people as "Guinea pigs".

"The epicenter of COVID-19(Coronavirus ) is China, Italy, Spain, France, US. Clinical trials on its possible cure must start there and not in any African country. African leaders must resist any attempt to use our people as Guinea pigs. Resist," he tweeted.


Why must any nation be subject to trials when it's a) less deadly than the seasonal flu and b) there are already numerous well tested drugs that have been shown to cure Covid-19?



The proposal has irked many people on the continent with majority of Kenyans trooping to social media sites to slam European nations and scientists for attempting to use Africans as "lab rats".

Globally, there are over 1 million COVID-19 infections and a total of 59, 172 deaths recorded so far.

Out of these numbers, the United States (US) has the highest number of infections currently standing at 277,467 and the third-highest number of deaths at 7, 402.


Italy has the highest number of deaths standing at 14, 681 and second-highest number of infections currently at 119,827.

Spain has 119, 199 infections and a total of 11, 198 fatalities, being the second-highest number of deaths after Italy. Germany has 91, 159 COVID-19 infections and 1,275 deaths while China, where the disease began, has 81, 639 infections and 3, 326 fatalities.

Africa as a whole has so far confirmed 212 deaths with most countries recording less than 1000 infection cases apart from South Africa whose case has hit 1, 505.


Kenya has 122 COVID-19 infections which have so far resulted in four deaths.
Using the world's poor instead of lab rats is nothing new: New oral polio vaccine to BYPASS key clinical trials as vaccine caused outbreaks overtake wild polio

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Did Bill Gates just reveal the reason behind the lock-downs?

Rosemary Frei
OffGuardian
Sat, 04 Apr 2020 06:44 UTC
Bill Gates
On March 24 Bill Gates gave a highly revelatory 50-minute interview (above) to Chris Anderson. Anderson is the Curator of TED, the non-profit that runs the TED Talks.


The Gates interview is the second in a new series of daily 'Ted Connects' interviews focused on COVID-19. The series's website says that:
TED Connects: Community and Hope is a free, live, daily conversation series featuring experts whose ideas can help us reflect and work through this uncertain time with a sense of responsibility, compassion and wisdom."
Anderson asked Gates at 3:49 in the video of the interview - which is quickly climbing to three million views - about a 'Perspective' article by Gates that was published February 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"You wrote that this could be the once-in-a-century pandemic that people have been fearing. Is that how you think of it, still?" queried Anderson.

"Well, it's awful to say this but, we could have a respiratory virus whose case fatality rate was even higher. If this was something like smallpox, that kills 30 percent of people. So this is horrific," responded Gates.

"But, in fact, most people even who get the COVID disease are able to survive. So in that, it's quite infectious - way more infectious than MERS [Middle East Respiratory Syndrome] or SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome] were. [But] it's not as fatal as they were. And yet the disruption we're seeing in order to knock it down is really completely unprecedented."

Comment: See also:


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Comedian and influential cultural commentator Joe Rogan: I'd vote for Trump over Biden

Joshua Caplan
Breitbart
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 03:26 UTC
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Comedian Joe Rogan said on Friday's edition of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that he would rather vote for President Donald Trump over former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee, in a hypothetical general election match-up.

Rogan made the remark when his wide-ranging conversation with guest Eric Weinstein, managing director of Thiel Capital and host of the podcast The Portal, took a turn into the current state of 2020 politics.
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What pandemic? Sarasota Memorial Hospital furloughs employees due to 'drastic drop in patient volumes'


WFTS
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 03:14 UTC
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The coronavirus pandemic has forced the Sarasota Memorial Health Care System to make tough decisions.

On Friday, Sarasota Memorial Hospital announced it will furlough some workers and reduce hours for others due to a "sudden and drastic drop in patient volumes and revenues."

"This was an extremely difficult decision, and one that we did not make lightly," CEO David Verinder said in a letter to employees. "Staff have gone above and beyond to care for our patients throughout this crisis, even as they have been anxious about the health and well-being of themselves and their families.

The hospital also implemented a hiring freeze as a result of the drop in revenues.

According to officials, Sarasota Memoria Hospital experienced a $16 million reduction in revenue in March. After non-emergency procedures were canceled due to the pandemic, surgery cases fell by more than 50 percent and the hospital saw a 30-percent drop on the number of inpatients, according to the press release.
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Why are individuals and institutions buying gold and silver in droves right now?

Alasdair Macleod
Goldmoney
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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Comment: Yes, the article below comes from a company that does its business selling and storing gold. The information provided is, nonetheless, a very good summary of the issues at hand; for entertainment and educational purposes of course.


The purpose of this article is purely educational. Increasingly, the wider public is turning to gold in a spontaneous reaction to financial and economic problems that have become suddenly apparent, hastened by the spread of the coronavirus. For everyone now thinking of buying gold it is a leap into the unknown, so they should know why.

It is not just the financially inexperienced, but investment managers and financial advisors are equally unaware of what is happening to money and capital markets. We are in the early stages of a radical debasement of state-issued currencies which is on course to collapse the entire financial system.

I explain the two phases of this destruction of fiat money, the one experienced so far and the one we are about to suffer.

I explain why sound money has always been physical gold and silver, returned to by the people after government and banks have collectively destroyed state-originated unsound money.

Comment: And having enough stored food and needed supplies for an extended period of time is just as - if not more - important to have on hand when conditions worsen.

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This is what economic collapse looks like

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
covid-19 economy
Approximately ten million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the past two weeks. To put that in perspective, the all-time record for a single week before this coronavirus pandemic hit was just 695,000. So needless to say, 6.6 million claims in a single week puts us in uncharted territory. Just check out this chart. We have never seen a week like this before, and we may never see a week quite this bad again. Of course millions more jobs will be lost in the months ahead as this pandemic stretches on, but it is hard to imagine another spike like we just had. When you add the last two weeks together, somewhere around 10 million Americans have filed new unemployment claims during that time period...
The torrent of Americans filing for unemployment insurance skyrocketed last week as more than 6.6 million new claims were filed, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That brings to 10 million the total Americans who filed over the past two weeks.

Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had expected 3.1 million for last week, one week after 3.3 million filings in the first wave of what has been a record-shattering swelling of the jobless ranks. The previous week's total was revised higher by 24,000.
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Is it Brave New World or 1984? Here are a few dystopias we ALREADY live in

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 17:32 UTC
This is the Voice you have learned to fear
© Warner Brothers / Reuters / Toby Melville
This is the Voice you have learned to fear
The post-coronavirus future is looking grim: economic collapse, martial law. It's not like we weren't warned humanity was heading south, however, and there's a lot more doomsaying to explore beyond Orwell and Huxley.

Who wouldn't want to live in a future described as "a boot stomping on a human face, forever"? It's all but impossible to describe Western life in 2020 without invoking George Orwell, who crystallized the police-state paranoia not only of the Cold War but of its tech-enabled aftermath with '1984'.

Constant surveillance by an omnipresent 'Big Brother' keeps citizens in line, while the 'memory hole' greedily sucks down inconvenient history as fast as the government's scribes can rewrite it.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Aldous Huxley laid out the infantilizing future of those societies that don't fit the Orwellian mold in 'Brave New World', in which the elevation of the mindless pursuit of pleasure to the focus of life makes totalitarian repression almost beside the point, keeping citizens dumb and docile with drugs and sex.
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Two killed in refugee stabbing attack in French town of Romans-sur-Isère


France 24
Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:48 UTC
Romans-sur-Isère attack
A Sudanese refugee went on a knife rampage in a town in southeastern France on Saturday, killing two people in what is being treated as a terrorist attack.

The attack in broad daylight, which President Emmanuel Macron called "an odious act", took place with the country on lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

Counter-terrorism prosecutors have launched an investigation into "murder linked to a terrorist enterprise" after the rampage in a string of shops in Romans-sur-Isere, a riverside town with a population of about 35,000.

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Zoom privacy debacle shows the danger of our reliance on Big Tech during coronavirus lockdown


RT
Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:32 UTC
Zoom
© Reuters / Albert Gea
A student takes classes online with his companions using the Zoom app in El Masnou, north of Barcelona, Spain April 2, 2020
Security vulnerabilities video conferencing app Zoom have revealed the danger of putting blind faith in big tech's coronavirus solutions. Zoom was riddled with privacy issues for years, and its competitors aren't much better.

With more than half of humanity under some form of lockdown, those lucky enough to keep their jobs have gotten to grips with video conferencing apps, with Zoom the most popular. According to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, the app had 200 million daily users in March, up from 10 million just three months earlier.

However, it didn't take long for problems to emerge.

First, "zoom-bombers" discovered public video chats and jumped in, hijacking them with porn and racial slurs. In one case, swastika-tattooed scoundrels interrupted a classroom session to spout profanities, prompting the FBI to issue a warning.
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Man commits self-immolation outside Pakistan's PM house


Pakistan Today
Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:36 UTC
Pakistan police
© FILE PHOTO Athar Hussain / Reuters
A man self-immolated outside Prime Minister's House on Friday.

According to Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat, the man was "mentally disturbed".

He said that the deceased, identified as Faisal Mehmood, was a resident of Murree and was mentally unstable and a drug addict.

The claim about Mehmood's mental health could not be independently verified.
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