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“Immunity Certificates” Are Coming – COVID-Survivors To Get ‘Special Passports’ Enabling Return To ‘Normalcy’
“Immunity Certificates” Are Coming – COVID-Survivors To Get ‘Special Passports’ Enabling Return To ‘Normalcy’ Update: Even more prophetically, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman tweeted about his “optimism” and the need for “…Hydroxychloriquine and antibiotics appear to help. There is increasing evidence that the asymptomatic infection rate could be as much as 50X higher than expected. If this is […]
What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?
What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism? The coronavirus crisis that has enveloped the world has brought about calls for society and economy-wide action on the part of governments that has been matched by the imposing of radical shutdowns and compulsory mass quarantining as tens of millions of people are told to not to […]
When Will The Coronavirus Lockdowns Be Lifted? Here Are One Bank’s Estimates
When Will The Coronavirus Lockdowns Be Lifted? Here Are One Bank’s Estimates With most of the developed world on lockdown, and markets and economies paralyzed until there is a material decline in new coronavirus cases, i.e., until we slide “over the hump” of the coronavirus curve, the biggest question – and variable – in assessing […]
The JackPot Chronicles Scenario 1: Force Majeure
The JackPot Chronicles Scenario 1: Force Majeure This is the second instalment of The Jackpot Chronicles: Four Possible Post-Coronavirus Scenarios. Force Majeure means: a chance occurrence or superior force that renders a contract unenforceable and frees all parties from their obligations under it. We are frequently told that there exists some manner of “Social Contract” to […]
350 More COVID-19 Deaths Reported In NYC As US Braces For ‘Seven Days Of Hell’: Live Updates
350 More COVID-19 Deaths Reported In NYC As US Braces For ‘Seven Days Of Hell’: Live Updates Summary: UK reports more than 700 deaths, mortality rate climbs to record 10.35 Germany reports smallest batch of deaths in 2 weeks NYC reports 249 deaths in evening update Spain case numbers pass Italy, after reported lowest deaths […]
Police App Encourages People To Report Neighbors Who Violate Stay At Home Orders (UPDATED)
Police App Encourages People To Report Neighbors Who Violate Stay At Home Orders (UPDATED) How do you encourage people to turn against each other during the COVID-19 pandemic? The answer is not that complicated, especially if you live in the City of Bellevue, Washington. Four years ago, when the city created the MyBellvue app, it was […]
This Is Where The World Is On The “Corona Curve” At This Moment
This Is Where The World Is On The “Corona Curve” At This Moment Two weeks ago, we wrote that with 1.7 billion people in the world under quarantine (a number which has since ballooned to over 3 billion) and “desperate to find out where on the coronavirus “curve” they are to calculate how much more pain there is, […]
COVID 19 and Our Food Supply
COVID 19 and Our Food Supply Though food is still plentiful, with only temporary and localized shortages, the threat of the COVID 19 crisis to the food supply is considerable. There is no evidence thus far that the disease can be transmitted via food or packaging (though the virus apparently remains viable on plastic for […]
When It’s Over, Will We Be the Same America?
When It’s Over, Will We Be the Same America? If March shocked this nation as severely as 9/11, what is coming may be even more sobering. “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully,” said Samuel Johnson. And as it is with […]
Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What’s Next?
Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What’s Next? Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a “Fortress Earth” or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values? Think Bigger Whatever you might be thinking about the long-term impacts of the […]
Molecular Biologist Says Coronavirus Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Biolab
Molecular Biologist Says Coronavirus Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Biolab The theory “cannot–and should not–be dismissed.” A molecular biologist proclaimed Thursday that the Chinese coronavirus could have originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and been leaked, leading to it’s horrific spread around the globe. Richard H. Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told The Daily Caller that […]
Ontario to release ‘stark’ COVID-19 projections Friday
Ontario to release ‘stark’ COVID-19 projections Friday Premier Doug Ford promising a ‘sobering discussion’ about the coronavirus Provincial health experts are expected to provide a briefing Friday on modelling projections for the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario. At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Premier Doug Ford promised health officials would explain “where this could go.” […]
March Jobs Disaster: 701,000 Jobs Lost, Unemplyment Rate Soars Most In 45 Years As US Slides Into Depression
March Jobs Disaster: 701,000 Jobs Lost, Unemplyment Rate Soars Most In 45 Years As US Slides Into Depression Just like that the 113 record straight months of employment growth is over with a bang. While today’s payrolls report was expected to be not quite as terrible as the recent initial claims suggested, especially since the […]
In Major Reversal, Singapore Imposes Month-Long Lockdown As Asia Faces “Second Wave” Of COVID-19: Live Updates
In Major Reversal, Singapore Imposes Month-Long Lockdown As Asia Faces “Second Wave” Of COVID-19: Live Updates As we arrive at the end of another week, In NYC, subway trains are still crowded with commuters as the MTA is forced to reduce trains and cars as more of its workforce falls ill or simply refuses to […]
“Pandemic Drones” Can Now Detect Fever and Coughing
“Pandemic Drones” Can Now Detect Fever and Coughing The COVID-19 outbreak is proving to be the Trojan horse that justifies the ushering in of the surveillance state. We’ve noted how governments and corporations are quickly deploying big data and spy tools to monitor people during the pandemic. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, […]
