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Scientists lead unprecedented collaboration efforts towards Covid-19 research while government's enforce draconian lockdown

Norman Lewis
RT
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 12:44 UTC
Hungary

(L) Researchers work on a vaccine against the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the Copenhagen’s University research lab in Copenhagen, Denmark AFP/Thibault Savary; (R) A military police officer patrols the deserted Heroes’ Square in Budapest, Hungary REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
Two opposing dynamics have emerged in the global race for a coronavirus vaccine: unprecedented scientific collaboration on the one hand; and a worrying strengthening of national autarky on the other.

The contrast between the world of politics and governments with that of science could never be starker. While governments have been quick to close their borders and imprison their citizens, the fiercely competitive scientific community has shattered theirs to create unprecedented collaboration and freedom of information-sharing.

The cooperation among the global scientific communities is an inspiration at a time of a grave health crisis. Never before have so many experts in so many countries focused simultaneously on a single topic and with such urgency. Nearly all other research has ground to a halt.


Comment: Except the coronavirus is less 'grave' than the seasonal flu.

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Roses

More people died of suicide last week in Tennessee than COVID-19, mayor speaks out

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Mayor Glenn Jacobs

Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs

As we previously warned, this pandemic will bankrupt and kill more people from suicide than the virus will. When you sacrifice people's livelihoods, you create a difficult situation of desperation for many who will see no other way out.

We are about to have a mental health crisis during an economic depression that will be tough to live through. The virus is no longer the problem. The government's reaction has been the problem and even some politicians have figured it out. Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs revealed in a weekly update that our solution to this pandemic has not been a good one. "Thus far, our reaction to COVID-19 has been to sacrifice the global economy," said Jacobs. "The truth is: a sick economy produces sick people."

Most people don't want to hear the truth, unfortunately, and the longer state governments insist on businesses being closed and an economy shut down to combat what's looking like a fairly insignificant virus for most of the population, the aftermath will worsen. Each day that drags on will make the next few years more difficult.

Comment: See also:

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Eye 1

The lockdown was supposed to protect the most vulnerable & the elderly but the result is precisely the opposite

Rob Lyons
RT
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 08:43 UTC
elderly
© Getty images / Matthew Horwood
An elderly man pushes a mobility walker in front of a closed down shop in Cardiff City centre on March 17, 2020 in Cardiff, Wales.
Putting old people under virtual house arrest at home or in their care homes, denying them proper medical care, destroying the value of their pensions - how are these devastating measures supposed to be helping them?

Covid-19 is a disease that is disproportionately dangerous to older people and those with serious underlying health conditions. The most frightening figures from the overall death toll attributable to the disease arise where health services are overwhelmed and cannot cope with large numbers of elderly people who have contracted it. In short, the lockdowns that we are seeing around the world should be largely justified by saving the lives of older people.

The trouble is that stories are also emerging which suggest that older people are not being protected anywhere near as well as we might expect. This first became apparent in Italy. Even as early as mid-March, there were reports that Piedmont had put in place guidelines to refuse intensive care for the over-80s if resources became too stretched.
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Stormtrooper

Bizarre: States use sirens from the movie "Purge" to signal curfew, fines and arrests to force people to comply with stay-at-home orders

mapi
MassPrivateI
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Bizarre
Historically speaking, it is hard for American's to see how their liberties have been taken away. With the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the country, hopefully that will no longer be the case.

In Crowley, Louisiana police are using "Purge" sirens to warn people to stay indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"In an effort to alert residents to the parish-wide curfew in Acadia Parish, Crowley Police rode around town broadcasting an alarm signal at 9:00 last night, but it's not what anyone expected. In a video provided to KATC, the audible alarm from Crowley Police is actually the alarm sound from the successful film franchise The Purge".
Crowley Police will ticket people for going outside without documentation.
"After several days of this, the police department says they will begin giving out citations to violators. If you are headed to work or leaving work, you must have documentation from your employer."
In Louisville, Kentucky a judge has ordered that people who ignore stay-at-home orders to wear GPS ankle bracelets.
"A judge has ordered one resident to stay at home after refusing to self-quarantine. CNN affiliate WDRB reports that the person, identified as D.L. in the court order, is living with someone who has tested positive for the illness and another person who is a presumptive case, according to an affidavit from Dr. Sarah Moyer, director of the health department."

Comment: Illegal leaf blowing, no ball playing in parks, scary sounds borrowed from scary movies to keep people in line?! Bizarre indeed!

Don't ask what's next.

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Health

Pakistani doctors arrested during heated protest over lack of protective gear


RT
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:20 UTC
pakistani doctors protest protective gear covid-19
© Ruptly/screencapture
A group of Pakistani doctors clashed with police after taking to the streets to protest over shortages of protective equipment for frontline healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus. The scuffles led to dozens arrests.

Marching from Quetta's Civil Hospital to the local chief minister's office on Monday, members of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) came out in force to demand better protection for those treating Covid-19 patients. The medics were met by baton-wielding officers, however, who dispersed the intense street protest, which came just one day after some 13 doctors in the city tested positive for the illness.
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Stormtrooper

Syrian state media reports American officer, two SDF fighters killed in ambush in Deir ez-Zor


Sputnik
Mon, 06 Apr 2020 19:46 UTC
SDF fighter syria
© AP Photo / Felipe Dana
A U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter talks on the radio at a check point near Omar oil field base, eastern Syria
Earlier, Kurdish media reported that Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-sponsored international coalition had redeployed their troops to the Syrian cities of Al-Hasakah, Qamishli, Al-Malikiyah and Deir ez-Zor to "protect oil fields and fight sleeper cells" said to belong to Daesh*.

An American officer and two SDF members were killed in the town of Al-Sur in the Deir ez-Zor countryside after an ambush was carried out by unknown persons, according to state-run news agency SANA. The attack was organised against a joint patrol of "American occupation forces" and the SDF group near the village of Wasiah, according to SANA.
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Pistol

Smugglers posing as wall construction workers provoke shootout with Border Patrol

Stephen Dinan
Washington Times
Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:32 UTC
border wall construction
© AP Photo/Eric Gay/ File
In this Nov. 7, 2019, file photo, the first panels of levee border wall are seen at a construction site along the U.S.-Mexico border, in Donna, Texas.
A Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting last week with a smuggler who was posing as part of the construction crews working on President Trump's border wall in Arizona, The Washington Times has learned.

Nobody was reported injured. Although one driver was caught, another smuggler who was part of the shootout managed to escape back into Mexico. Nearly 20 illegal immigrants were discovered in the two trucks they were driving.

It was the latest incident of smuggling cartels using the tumult of wall construction to try to sneak people or drugs into the U.S.

President Trump has ordered the border to be shut down to noncommercial traffic in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. While overall illegal border crossings are down, they have not halted entirely, according to a Times review of smuggling cases that shows cartels are still trying to move medium-sized groups.
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TV

MSM peddles emotionally-charged fake news by covering 'no masks nurse'


RT
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 18:12 UTC
Imaris Vera
© Instagram / @nurse.iv
A screenshot from Imaris Vera's Instagram page
Stories of human tragedy abound during the Covid-19 pandemic, but in its hunger for tear-jerking moments, CBS has thrown the rule book out the window and spread some viral "fake news."

In a clip aired on Sunday but filmed a week earlier, nurse Imaris Vera bursts into tears and describes how she quit her job after "none of the nurses" in a dedicated coronavirus unit were wearing masks. Furthermore, she called out her Chicago hospital for banning nurses from using their own protective equipment in the facility.

"America is not prepared," she sobbed, "and nurses are not being protected."
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Bad Guys

Most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sex abuse WALKS FREE from jail after appeal granted in unanimous decision


RT
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 08:45 UTC
Cardinal George Pell
© Reuters / Mark Dadswell
Cardinal George Pell is surrounded by Australian police as he leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court in Australia.
Australia's highest court has tossed the conviction of Cardinal George Pell, who was found guilty of historic child sex crime and sentenced to six years in prison. The ex-Vatican treasurer was once a close aide to Pope Francis.

"The High Court found that the jury, acting rationally on the whole of the evidence, ought to have entertained a doubt as to the applicant's guilt with respect to each of the offenses for which he was convicted, and ordered that the convictions be quashed and that verdicts of acquittal be entered in their place," a Queensland High Court said in a statement on Tuesday.

Pell was convicted by a jury in Australia of five counts of historic sex crimes in December 2018. Pell, who is the most senior Vatican figure to ever be found guilty of the sexual abuse of a minor, was sentenced to six years behind bars with a possibility of parole. He had served 405 days of his sentence before the groundbreaking verdict was overturned unanimously on Tuesday.

The case against Pell was solely based on the testimony of one of his alleged victims - a former choirboy who said that the cardinal, then the archbishop of Melbourne, sexually abused him and another boy in late 1996 and early 1997.

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Light Saber

German lawyers preparing lawsuits against medical martial law, ACLU files the first one in the US


Anti-Empire
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 06:50 UTC
court


Several German law firms are preparing lawsuits against the measures and regulations that have been issued. A specialist in medical law writes in a press release: "The measures taken by the federal and state governments are blatantly unconstitutional and violate a multitude of basic rights of citizens in Germany to an unprecedented extent. This applies to all corona regulations of the 16 federal states. In particular, these measures are not justified by the Infection Protection Act, which was revised in no time at all just a few days ago. () Because the available figures and statistics show that corona infection is harmless in more than 95% of the population and therefore does not represent a serious danger to the general public."

Source: Swiss Propaganda Research

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The ACLU said Sunday it is seeking an injunction to block part of Puerto Rico's strict curfew against the new coronavirus, arguing that some of its restrictions are unconstitutional.

The curfew imposed March 15 has shuttered non-essential businesses in the U.S. territory and ordered people to stay home from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. unless they have to buy food or medicine, go to the bank or have an emergency or health-related situation. Violators face a $5,000 or a six-month jail term, and police have cited hundreds of people.

"There's been no martial law declared, and there are no circumstances for it," the ACLU argued. "As such, emergency states cannot be used to suspend fundamental rights."

Kelvin Carrasco, a spokesman for Puerto Rico's Justice Department, said there was no immediate comment.
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