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How I learned to stop worrying and love the virus

John R. Hall
Dissident Voice
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Dr. Strangelove
God help us all. The acrid stench of death wafts through the air. I cough, choke, every breath is an effort, and non-stop nausea portends retroperistalsis. The ceaseless, somber wail of ambulance sirens permeates every fiber of my being. They are busy non-stop, blasting through the streets, hauling the dying and the dead to overflowing Tucson, Arizona hospitals. Soon they'll be burning piles of corpses in the streets. There is nowhere to hide. My neighbor has become my potential assassin. I avoid her, and the virus which likely infects her, like the plague. Covid-19 changed everything...wait, I've heard something like that before...

In truth, none of the drivel in the first paragraph is happening. What's more, I don't think I've heard a single siren in at least a couple of days. And now I'm asking myself why it is that, from the beginning of this pandemic fiasco, I've had that old 9-11 queasiness, uneasiness, and the certainty that there's a lot more going on with this Covid-19 hysteria than they're likely to discuss on MSNBC, FOX, PBS, or anywhere else in the corporate media.
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Arrow Up

Weekly jobless claims hit 5.245 million, raising monthly loss to 22 million due to coronavirus

Jeff Cox
CNBC
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:45 UTC
homeless
© Reuters / Bryan R Smith
Protection measures against the coronavirus continued to tear through the employment ranks, with 5.245 million more Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

That brings the crisis total to just over 22 million, nearly wiping out all the job gains since the Great Recession.

The total was a bit worse than the 5 million expected from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.

Though the most recent count, for the week ended April 11, represented a drop from the previous two weeks, it showed that the damage to the U.S. labor market remains profound.

Comment: Economists believe that the number of unemployed Americans could hit 25 million soon.

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Megaphone

German court rules blanket ban on demonstrations 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL' as Merkel plans easing of Covid-19 restrictions


RT
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:18 UTC
german police
© Reuters / Michele Tantussi
Covid-19 health concerns are not grounds for a general ban on public demonstrations, a German court has ruled, after activists took a case arguing that Berlin's current restrictions on public gatherings are unconstitutional.

If they adhere to social distancing rules, Germans should have the right to hold political protests, the Constitutional Court said in the Thursday ruling.

Activists in Giessen, a town in the federal state of Hesse, had planned a protest march to denounce new rules that ban gatherings of more than two people in public, arguing that they were in breach of the country's constitution and citizens' right to free assembly.

The court agreed, saying that an outright ban on such gatherings would be unconstitutional and asked authorities to review the measures.
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Health

Over ONE THIRD of crew on France's only aircraft carrier have contracted coronavirus - military


RT
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 01:15 UTC
aircraft carrier
© REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier
At least 668 servicemen from the Charles de Gaulle carrier group have tested positive for coronavirus, the French defense ministry has said. The country's only aircraft carrier was forced to return to port due to the outbreak.

"As of the evening of April 14, 1,767 sailors from the carrier strike group have been tested," the ministry said in a statement Wednesday. "Some 668 have returned positive."
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Attention

Global food supply chains beginning to erode, crisis looms?

Tom Lewis
The Gold Telegraph
Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
farm
As the coronavirus continues to infect more and more people, food supply chains have started to become more strained in recent days. It was announced yesterday; the world's biggest pork producer is closing a primary U.S plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak amongst employees.

Smithfield Foods Inc. will halt its pork-processing facility in South Dakota, which accounts for 4% to 5% of U.S pork production. The company also warned that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies "perilously close to the edge" of shortfalls. This is just one of the latest examples of the coronavirus beginning to disrupt food chains at a more significant scale rapidly.

Smithfield farms
We anticipated this, as we reported on April 1 that food supply chains were in the early stages of being strained. Many countries were preparing many weeks ago by cutting back on exports to begin stockpiling. Surprisingly, dairy farmers in the United States are starting to dump milk because there was no place for them to go as the marketplace for dairy products has been affected by the closures of restaurants, schools, hotels, and food service businesses.

trucks dump milk

Comment: All this news, in addition to earth changes effecting crop growth, and the losing value of currency which is set to get much worse in Western nations in particular, have made the production, availability, purchasing and distribution of food - a MAJOR global issue the likes of which we haven't seen in generations.

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Microscope 2

China launches study into asymptomatic coronavirus cases and shared immunity

Mandy Zuo
South China Morning Post
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:00 UTC
China
© APChina is using dual testing to determine how many people have been infected with Covid-19 but recovered without showing symptoms.
The research will be conducted in six provinces, including Hubei which was the focus of the initial outbreak, as well as Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing.

Wuhan, the capital of Hubei and home to about 60 per cent of all infections reported in mainland China, is taking the lead in the study, which involves giving both nucleic acid and antibody tests to 11,000 of its 11 million residents, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

Health workers collected throat swabs and blood samples from about 900 people randomly selected from eight subdistricts of the city on Tuesday, Ding Gangqiang, head of the Wuhan epidemiological survey team, was quoted as saying.

"The purpose is to learn about the immunity level in communities and provide scientific support on how we should adjust our disease control strategies," he said.

Comment: Some stats from Pepe Escobar:

From the post:
THE NUMBERS BEHIND THROWING 1.25 BILLION PEOPLE

I REPEAT, 1.25 BILLION PEOPLE

ACROSS THE PLANET INTO UNEMPLOYMENT

WHO "official" Covid-19 death rate: 3.4%

BUT

based ONLY on patients treated in hospitals.

And not considering that from 50% to 80% of infected people NEVER EXPERIENCE ANY SYMPTOMS.

Best and broadest studies testing random population with NO symptoms; Germany, South Korea, Iceland.

Death rates:

Germany: 0.37%
South Korea: 0.6%
Iceland: 0.4%

Dr John Ioannidis, Stanford University: real death rate is between 0.025% and 0.65%.

Japanese study: death rate between 0.04% and 0.12%.

A death rate around 0.1% means Sars-Cov-2 kills THE EQUIVALENT OF A REGULAR SEASON FLU.

Essential reference HERE: https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/


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People

A cure worse than the disease: 150,000 Brits will die an 'avoidable death' during coronavirus pandemic through depression, domestic violence and suicides

Vanessa Chalmers
Daily Mail
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
  • Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, raised concerns of thousands of deaths
  • Predictions for 'indirect' coronavirus deaths could surpass those of COVID-19
  • The pandemic is expected to have a knock-on effect on people's mental health
  • Charities have recorded spikes in helplines from domestic abuse victims
  • Pressure is mounting on the government to reveal how lockdown will be eased
depression
Up to 150,000 Britons could die from non-coronavirus causes because of the UK's draconian lockdown, it is feared.

A tentative estimate circulating in Whitehall suggests a six-figure death toll from a long-term lockdown, caused by a spike in suicides and domestic violence.

Official figures show around 9,000 Britons have already died after testing positive for COVID-19.

The pandemic is expected to have a huge knock-on effect on people's mental health due to financial worries and a disruption to routine.
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Megaphone

Riots in South Africa as lockdown causes many to go hungry


New Straits Times
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:19 UTC
Tafelsig
© AFPPeople run away as a South African Police Services armoured vehicle drives into a street during clashes with residents of Tafelsig, an impoverished suburb in Mitchells Plain, near Cape Town, on April 14, 2020, after some people in the community did not receive food parcels which were being handed out as part of the support for this community during the nation wide lockdown to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
South African police on Tuesday fired rubber bullets and teargas in clashes with Cape Town township residents protesting over access to food aid during a Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown.

Hundreds of angry people fought running battles with the police, hurling rocks and setting up barricades on the streets with burning tyres in Mitchells Plain over undelivered food parcels.

"We have small children. We want to eat. They must also eat," said resident and mother Nazile Bobbs.

"They said we are going to get parcels, where (are) the parcels? How long are we (going to be) in the lockdown?"

Comment: See also: Mafia distributes food to Italy's struggling residents





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Syringe

Ron Paul: People 'Should Be Leery About' a Coronavirus Vaccine

Adam Dick
The Ron Paul Institute
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
bill gates
© DR
Ron Paul, in a Monday interview with host Dan Dicks at Press for Truth, warns that people "should be leery about" coronavirus vaccines that may come out. Further, says Paul, a doctor and former United States House of Representatives member, "right now I wouldn't think there is any indication for anybody to take them," noting that "scare tactics" are being used to pressure people into thinking they should take such potential vaccines to protect against coronavirus.

Paul supports this conclusion by stressing in the interview the potential danger of a vaccine as well as the overstated threat from coronavirus.

Regarding the potential danger from a coronavirus vaccine, Paul discusses at the beginning of the interview how, in 1976 in his first week as a House member, Paul was one of only two members, both doctors, who voted against legislation that helped rush through a vaccine in response to swine flu. Paul describes the results of the push for people to take the swine flu vaccine as follows:
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Shopping Bag

Mafia distributes food to Italy's struggling residents

Lorenzo Tondo
The Guardian
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:29 UTC
Sicily
© Antonio Parrinello/ReutersShoppers queue up in the rain in Sicily. Protestors in the region have criticised the government response.
As Italy struggles to pull its economy through the coronavirus crisis, the Mafia is gaining local support by distributing free food to poor families in quarantine who have run out of cash, authorities have warned.

In recent weeks, videos have surfaced of known Mafia gangs delivering essential goods to Italians hit hard by the coronavirus emergency across the poorest southern regions of Campania, Calabria, Sicily and Puglia, as tensions rise across the country.

"For over a month, shops, cafés, restaurants and pubs have been closed," Nicola Gratteri, antimafia investigator and head of the prosecutor's office in Catanzaro, told the Guardian. "Millions of people work in the grey economy, which means that they haven't received any income in more than a month and have no idea when they might return to work. The government is issuing so-called shopping vouchers to support people. If the state doesn't step in soon to help these families, the mafia will provide its services, imposing their control over people's lives."

Comment: See also:


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