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Echoing the thoughts of many, Burry opined in a series of tweets over the past two weeks that the government-enforced lockdowns and business shutdowns across America may trigger one of the country's deepest-ever economic contractions, and further still, are not necessary to contain the epidemic (on March 22nd).
COVID-19 policy cannot be settled by CYA politicians career ID docs. Too much hammer/nail and too little common sense.
POTUS must reflect the interests of the working class and small business here - the economy cannot crash 30% to save the 0.2%.
Set America Free!
If COVID-19 testing were universal, the fatality rate would be less than 0.2%.
This is no justication for sweeping government policies, lacking any and all nuance, that destroy the lives, jobs, and businesses of the other 99.8%.
Comment: How much longer can the PTB keep things locked down when so many informed voices are calling things out for what they are and saying basically the same thing about the Covid-19 "pandemic"?
A veteran scholar of epidemiology has warned that the ongoing lockdowns throughout the United States and the rest of the world are almost certainly just prolonging the coronavirus outbreak rather than doing anything to truly mitigate it.
Knut Wittkowski, previously the longtime head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City, said in an interview with the Press and the Public Project that the coronavirus could be "exterminated" if we permitted most people to lead normal lives and sheltered the most vulnerable parts of society until the danger had passed.
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And it's more than a little frightening.
People in Southern California tut-tutted on the Nextdoor app that there were a few people on a wide swath of sand by an ocean, called a beach. You know, fresh air, water for as far as the eye can see? Someone immediately chimed in and demanded they call the health department on beachgoers. The beach was closed.
Spying security guards were keeping watch over the public parking lot where I had met a family member to transmit bouquets of flowers. I'm not sure what they would have done if I'd made physical contact.
Every conversation and tete-a-tete witnessed for many seems like an ethical dilemma. Are they too close? Do I turn them in?
As I reported, the city of Los Angeles has instituted a spy program to snitch on businesses breaking the rules.
Comment: We have been living in a police state for quite some time. It's just that now even the masses cannot fail to notice, and sadly far too many are just fine with that:
- Objective:Health - Welcome to the Coronavirus Police State
- We have become a police state, and none of us should be okay with that
- Bizarre: States use sirens from the movie "Purge" to signal curfew, fines and arrests to force people to comply with stay-at-home orders
- World is "sleepwalking into surveillance state" as COVID-19 crackdowns escalate
Best of the Web: Total U.S. deaths DOWN 10% in March from prior years, further raising question of COVID impact
The average for weeks 9 through 11 for the four prior years was a total of 170,555 deaths. For weeks 9 through 11 this year, the total is 153,015, meaning 17,540 fewer people died in America during the first three weeks of March than could be reasonably expected. And the gap between historic deaths and weekly deaths is widening. For week 11, just 47,655 Americans died, 8,773 and 15% fewer than the average for week 11 in the prior four years. And while data on week 12 is not complete, it is trending similar to week 11 and will likely be down by 15% (around 8,700 deaths less than expected) even though 1,919 COVID-19 deaths were reported (in week beginning 3/22).
26,000 Fewer U.S. Deaths in March
The final data for March could show a total of 26,000 or more FEWER DEATHS in the month than would be expected without even factoring in the impact of 4,000 COVID deaths.
Comment: So... WHY THE GLOBAL LOCKDOWN?
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Shaffer told PennLive that she went for a leisurely drive simply to get out of the house, but ended up getting pulled over by two state police officers as she was returning home. The cops said her taillight was out, but the ticket they ended up issuing to Shaffer says she violated the state's Disease Control and Prevention Act of 1955 and "failed to abide by the order of the governor and secretary of health issued to control the spread of a communicable disease."
"He asked me if I was aware of the stay-at-home act," Shaffer told PennLive's Jan Murphy. "I am aware of it but I didn't know it pertained to just driving."
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It said the measure, to ensure social distancing, took in almost a third of all young workers, with a disproportionate amount of women working in retail.
"There is a remarkable concentration of younger and lower-paid workers in the sectors most affected by the current lockdown," senior research economist, Xiaowei Xu, noted, adding, "Women are also more likely to be affected than men."
Comment: The UK's poorest have been suffering for nigh on a decade, but now with the lockdown, and with what will follow, the suffering - and not just for the poorest - is likely to only get more crushing:
- 'Unprecedented' rise in infant mortality in England linked to poverty
- Life expectancy in UK began declining at "breakpoint" year of 2011
- UK: Met police officer explains why they've lost control of the streets - 'austerity'
- London's Met police to buy military-style vehicles for riot control
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Deputies from the Will County Sheriff's Office went to a residence in Lockport Township southwest of Chicago to conduct a welfare check at about 8 p.m. Thursday and had to force entry alongside fire personnel into the home because all doors and windows were locked, according to NBC News.
Patrick Jesernik, 54, and Cheryl Schriefer, 59, were found dead in separate rooms with head trauma. The unwed couple had been together for eight years, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office said according to NBC News. The police also discovered a loaded revolver near Jesernik's body.
© Ryan J. Foley/APTyson Foods says it has suspended operations at its pork plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, pictured in February 2013, after more than two dozen workers got sick with COVID-19.
Several meat processing plants around the U.S. are sitting idle this week because workers have been infected with the coronavirus. Tyson Foods, one of the country's biggest meat processors, says it suspended operations at its pork plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa, after more than two dozen workers got sick with COVID-19. National Beef Packing stopped slaughtering cattle at another Iowa plant, and JBS USA shut down work at a beef plant in Pennsylvania.
Most farms and food companies are continuing to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic. There's concern that the coronavirus could spread among workers doing some of the most labor-intensive jobs, including meat processing.
Christine McCracken, a top meat industry analyst with RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness, told NPR via email that these plant closings aren't yet having a significant impact on the overall supply of meat to consumers, but there's increasing concern in the industry about worker shortages.
Comment: US dairy farmers are apparently being encouraged to quit and onion farmers in the US are literally dumping produce due to coronavirus lockdown:
© Shay MyerScreenshot from farmer Shay Myer's LinkedIN video where he explains why lockdown has resulted in him dumping produce
All of this and more is featured on Ice Age Farmer's most recent video:
This is just the latest in numerous converging factors that threaten the world's food supply - see also:
- Extreme weather & disease: The fight to save Europe's olive trees
- Devastating swarms of locusts now headed for the Middle East - UN forecaster
- UK's empty supermarket shelves: Panic is not the problem
© APMembers of the European Council are seen on the screen during a video conference call at the Elysee Palace in Paris
Mauro Ferrari resigned Tuesday as president of the European Research Council, a position he held only since Jan. 1. Ferrari's departure, announced via email, took immediate effect., a spokesman for the EU's executive commission said Wednesday.
"The commission regrets the resignation of Professor Ferrari at this early stage in his mandate (...) and at these times of unprecedented crisis in which the role of EU research is key," European Commission spokesman Johannes Bahrke said.
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