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Pandemic-Related Unemployment and Shutdowns Are a Recipe for Social Unrest
Pandemic-Related Unemployment and Shutdowns Are a Recipe for Social Unrest That’s a huge concern as forecasters expect the U.S. unemployment rate in the months to come to surpass that seen during the depths of the Great Depression. Could the stalled economy we’ve inflicted on ourselves in our frantic efforts to battle the COVID-19 pandemic lead […]
Coronavirus: The Solution Is Becoming Clear
Coronavirus: The Solution Is Becoming Clear We are starting to win the war for data on covid-19 The world has been fighting covid-19 long enough that we are beginning to arrive at some constructive conclusions: Part of the intense infectiousness of this virus is due to its long asymptomatic phase, where hosts feel fine but […]
Maersk Crew Hospitalized In First Ever COVID-19 Cases On Board A Container Ship
Maersk Crew Hospitalized In First Ever COVID-19 Cases On Board A Container Ship Despite one of the the world’s largest shipping lines, Maersk, recently suspending all crew changes aboard its container vessels for up to one month in order to shield crew and operations from the coronavirus and keep them “as normal as possible,” this weekend witnessed the first ever confirmed cases […]
China Shuts Down All Cinemas, As Scientists Fear Second Coronavirus Wave
China Shuts Down All Cinemas, As Scientists Fear Second Coronavirus Wave China spent most of March attempting to normalize its economy after several months of virus-related shutdowns. There were reports of retail stores opening, people going outside, virus cases declining, factories restarting, and even movie theaters reopening. The Hollywood Reporter noted that the government gave nearly 600 movie theaters […]
“This Could Turn Violent” – Italian Officials Fear South Turning Into A Powder Keg
“This Could Turn Violent” – Italian Officials Fear South Turning Into A Powder Keg Signs of social unrest in major Western cities could be developing over the next few weeks, and as we previously warned last Friday, a global depression with high unemployment could unleash a “social bomb” in European countries and or North America. […]
P For Pandemic
P FOR PANDEMIC “People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.” – Alan Moore – V for Vendetta “Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.” – Alan Moore – V for Vendetta I wrote an article called V for Vendetta […]
Will Coronavirus End the Fed?
Will Coronavirus End the Fed? September 17, 2019 was a significant day in American economic history. On that day, the New York Federal Reserve began emergency cash infusions into the repurchasing (repo) market. This is the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other. The New York Fed acted after interest rates in […]
Overreacting to coronavirus? The perverse logic of panic during a potential pandemic
Overreacting to coronavirus? The perverse logic of panic during a potential pandemic The best time to panic, that is, overreact to a potential pandemic is shortly after a novel pathogen has been detected. So say famed student of risk, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, and his colleagues. Of course, at that point, by definition few […]
Answers
Answers The year is 2020. A new virus is spreading across the planet like a wildfire. More lethal than the flu, highly contagious with no cure. Stocks markets collapse, global economies are shutting down with billions of people quarantined to their homes and millions losing their jobs overnight. What do you do? What DO you […]
Dr. Fauci: “We’re Going To Have Millions Of Cases” And “Between 100K & 200K Deaths”
Dr. Fauci: “We’re Going To Have Millions Of Cases” And “Between 100K & 200K Deaths” The last time Dr. Anthony Fauci did the Sunday Shows a few weeks back, he achieved a vaunted Washington milestone by doing all five network and cable Sunday shows – NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News & CNN – in one […]
West Faces “Social Bomb” As Pandemic Sparks Unrest Among Poorest
West Faces “Social Bomb” As Pandemic Sparks Unrest Among Poorest The next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic could be a flare-up of social unrest across major Western cities as millions have lost their jobs, economies have crashed into depressions, and the military is being called up to maintain order. The Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) […]
Russia To Close All Borders Monday After Banning International Flights
Russia To Close All Borders Monday After Banning International Flights Though official numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases out of Russia have remained comparatively low to other large countries, there’s alarming signals coming out of the country of some 150 million people that authorities understand the true numbers to in reality be much higher. Russia will “temporarily” initiate […]
Trump Weighs “Enforceable” Quarantine Order For Greater New York, Including Conn. & NJ: Live Updates
Trump Weighs “Enforceable” Quarantine Order For Greater New York, Including Conn. & NJ: Live Updates Summary: Global case total tops 600k Japan fast-tracks approval of treatment drug for COVID-19 Third UK minister self-quarantines after showing symptoms of virus Trump weighing enforceable quarantine order for all of greater NY area Trump tells NBC reporter that quarantines […]
Global Pandemic Response Handing Governments Sweeping Powers They May Never Relinquish
Global Pandemic Response Handing Governments Sweeping Powers They May Never Relinquish While the response to the coronavirus pandemic have ranged from mocking the disease (such has Brazil’s Bolsonaro) to physically sealing people inside of apartment buildings in China, governments are deploying an array of legislative and technical measures to track and control citizens during the outbreak which has […]
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 03.26.2020
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 03.26.2020 It may sound paradoxical, but philosophers have proved useful in times of collapse and rebuilding. Some of the greatest works in philosophy–at least in terms of their longevity and influence–were written in and during such times.1 (More on this below.) Alfred North Whitehead, one of those philosophers writing in […]
