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Economies won’t be able to recover after shutdowns
Economies won’t be able to recover after shutdowns Citizens seem to be clamoring for shutdowns to prevent the spread of COVID-19. There is one major difficulty, however. Once an economy has been shut down, it is extremely difficult for the economy to recover back to the level it had reached previously. In fact, the longer the […]
Canada: Police to Make Home Visits to Check Quarantine Compliance
Canada: Police to Make Home Visits to Check Quarantine Compliance Violators face up to $1 million fine and three years in jail. Police in Canada will visit the homes of people under coronavirus quarantine to check they are in compliance, with those who flout the law facing a fine of up to $1 million dollars […]
Eight Phases of Crisis: COVID-19 Edition
Eight Phases of Crisis: COVID-19 Edition “You had a dishwasher box to sleep in? I didn’t even know sleep. It was pretty much twenty-four seven ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn.” – Deadpool One girl I dated in High School asked if she used too much makeup. I replied, “Dunno, depends on if you are trying […]
Global Coronavirus Death Toll Nears 100k As Thousands Die In Britain & America: Live Updates
Global Coronavirus Death Toll Nears 100k As Thousands Die In Britain & America: Live Updates The number of new coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide climbed at a rate of roughly 85k overnight yesterday, a rate that was roughly consistent with the prior two days. That would lead scientists to believe that the global outbreak might finally […]
Building resilience into our food systems
Building resilience into our food systems Over the next few months and years, significant thought will be given to the lessons we need to learn from the coronavirus pandemic, its impact on the global economy, the rapid way in which it spread across the global population and the impact it is having on our daily […]
This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same song
This pandemic IS ecological breakdown: different tempo, same song Comparisons between the toll of COVID-19 and climate change are not helpful because they view each as two separate “things” In late 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) emerged from a wet market in Wuhan in the province of Hubei in China. At the time of writing, […]
The World Has Changed More Than We Know
The World Has Changed More Than We Know Put another way: eras end. While the mainstream media understandably focuses on the here and now of the pandemic, some commentators are looking at the long-term consequences. Here is a small sampling: Coronavirus, synchronous failure and the global phase-shiftCoronavirus Will Require Us to Completely Reshape the EconomyFlorence Hit by […]
How To Protect Yourself From Long Term Pandemic Lockdown
How To Protect Yourself From Long Term Pandemic Lockdown It has been only two weeks since widespread pandemic lockdowns were implemented in the US and as expected the public is not handling the idea very well. Within one week there were already frantic demands for the economy to reopen by Easter (spurred on by Donald […]
The New Normal: Cascading and Multilayered Crises
The New Normal: Cascading and Multilayered Crises “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” – Antonio Gramsci The Pandemic & Public Health Crisis On January 20th, 2020, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 infection […]
South Korean Scientists Warn: COVID-19 Can Spontaneously “Reactivate” In Cured Patients
South Korean Scientists Warn: COVID-19 Can Spontaneously “Reactivate” In Cured Patients Yesterday, we reported on some new research that has just been published in the the Lancet, a journal of non-peer-reviewed research that is nonetheless viewed as an extremely credible resource. The report, published by scientists at a university in Shanghai, claimed that some COVID-19 patients showed […]
What Comes Next?
What Comes Next? Predicting life after coronavirus If covid-19 is indeed hastening the permanent disruption of the status quo, what will life in a post-coronavirus world look like? In a prognosticating session building on last week’s Economic Shockwaves roundtable, John Rubino, Charles Hugh Smith and I — also joined by Chris Martenson this time — discuss the […]
The worst economic collapse ever?
The worst economic collapse ever? Country after country has reported extremely dark economic numbers. The gigantic jobless claims, 6.6 million from the U.S. last week, are just the tip of the iceberg. For example, the service sector PMIshave been simply ghastly across the globe. We are now in a crisis of epic proportions. But, how massive […]
Coronavirus Cases Pass 1.4 Million As Scientists Discover Reinfection Risk For Patients Much Higher Than Expected: Live Updates
Coronavirus Cases Pass 1.4 Million As Scientists Discover Reinfection Risk For Patients Much Higher Than Expected: Live Updates Summary: Confirmed cases across Africa pass 10k China reopens Wuhan Global case total passes 1.4 million Scientists find evidence some recovered don’t have antibodies WHO again insists lockdowns must stay in effect Iraq extends border closure with […]
Global Economies Suffer “Largest Drop On Record”: OECD
Global Economies Suffer “Largest Drop On Record”: OECD In case anyone needed more proof that the entire world is sliding into recession, if not outright depression, on Wednesday morning the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said that major economies are seeing the biggest monthly slump in activity ever amid the coronavirus crisis and no […]
World Is “Sleepwalking Into Surveillance State” As COVID-19 Crackdowns Escalate
World Is “Sleepwalking Into Surveillance State” As COVID-19 Crackdowns Escalate All across the world, starting with China, the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed for the proliferation of the surveillance state. More than 100 rights groups are warning that governments and corporations are partnering as a collaborative force to employ big data and increase widespread surveillance that […]
