“…still we close our eyes. Not again.”
4♣
Although I generally try to keep this blog steered away from current events while focusing on issues I believe to be more lasting, I felt it necessary to share a portion of the vast amount of research I’ve done regarding the COVID-19 subject.
This is not a coherent post, in and of itself.
Rather, a collection of data which I leave to you, dear reader, to utilize in forming your own conclusions.
To begin:
Docked in NYC, literally the hardest hit area in the USA: “…admit patients within a ONE-HOUR traveling radius from the ship” Treated ~120 patients (COVID & nonCOVID; had room for 500) from 30 MAR to 17 APR; 50 already discharged. Set to leave.
Roads are ostensibly empty (compared to traffic 6 months ago), yet they couldn’t fill the beds even permitting up to an hour drive time in what’s classified as the US epicenter.
https://t.co/RFXMPHHQrm?amp=1
In just a few weeks:
Record 30 million people lost their jobs
Billionaires grew $308 billion richer
This is after billionaire wealth grew 200 times faster than median American wealth in the prior three decades
Intended or not, this is the solidification of corporatocracy (as I stated earlier).
Gyms closed
Parks closed
Take out permissible and encouraged
Must stay indoors (severely limited physical activity)
Harvard gets ~$9,000,000 while saying we need to take precautions until 2022
Empty
Some studies
Germany
USA
US death reporting guidance
From page 2
“In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely … it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed’.”
Money for numbers
80-Proof Oinomancy 
May 1, 2020 at 9:25 pm
I’d say, “Keep fighting the good fight”, but you’ve been doing it for 30 years.
Seeing your example certainly makes it easier for me to keep it up, though.
Wald
May 2, 2020 at 7:13 pm
A♠,
We’ve touched on this topic briefly but I think if there’s a legitimate reason for the apparent overreaction, it’s simply this:
– The CervezaBug came out of a lab, accidentally or otherwise … and my vote is for ‘otherwise’.
– On that basis it’s an attempt at mass murder.
The ‘flu’ or any other cause of mortality is considered as just another line item on an actuarial table – part of the risk of being alive.
CervezaBug doesn’t fall into that category. Something released on purpose subjects all levels of government to extreme financial or political liability if they don’t act. Think ‘Erin Brockovich’ x 1 million.
That it can be used for abuses of power is a hazard but comes with the territory. Pearl Harbor was in modern parlance a ‘limited airstrike with no boots on the ground’ but gave FDR the green light to take the US into WW2. It would be 70 years until the average American got a glimmer of the truth; that FDR let it happen for that purpose.
My working conclusion is that the world’s intelligence agencies know what CervezaBug is, how and why it was released (and IMO American politics and the ‘Trump Economy’ were the main target), and are holding those cards for later. ‘Globalization’ is now in the crosshairs of many ambitious nationalist leaders.
China will be economically devastated, to be sure, but the result may be something akin to the Tet Offensive … amplifying American political defeatism and economic chaos in an election year. The CCP was bound to lose face in a tariff war; I think this was their Hail Mary to get a compliant US administration back into power. We’ll see.
JD