Dorothea Lange Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store. Person County, North Carolina 1939 • China Reports 97 New Deaths, 2,059 New Cases Confirmed (SCMP) • Coronavirus Cases Fall, Experts Disagree Over Whether Peak Is Near (R.) • Japan Cruise Ship Virus Cases Jump To 175 (R.) • At Least 500 Wuhan Medical Staff Infected With Coronavirus (SCMP) • China’s Banks Face $6 Trillion Coronavirus Cataclysm (ZH) • China Home Sales Crash In First Week Of February ‘Worse
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Mathew Brady Grand Review of the Army. Units of XX Army Corps, Army of Georgia, Pennsylvania Ave. near the Treasury, Washington, DC. May 24 1865 • 3 Wuhan Officials Summoned To Explain Failings (SCMP) • China Gets Back To Work As Death Toll Reaches 1,018 (SCMP) • China Firms Cut Staff On Virus Outbreak As Xi Vows No Large-Scale Layoffs (R.) • Senior Chinese Officials ‘Removed’ As Death Toll Hits 1,000 (BBC) • Outspoken Academic Blames Xi Jinping For
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René Magritte La belle captive 1946 Today I took a few things out of my daily Debt Rattle news aggregator because I think they shouldn’t get lost in there. It’s interesting, for instance, that the coronavirus incubation period is now thought to be 24, not 14 days. It’s also interesting that the Chinese government tells local officials not to be too strict on companies wanting to re-open plants: “We will strictly stop restricting the production resumption in an
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Arnold Genthe 17th century Iglesia el Carmen, Antigua, Guatemala 1915 • Japan: 60 More Coronavirus Infections On Diamond Princess Cruise Ship (SCMP) • iPhones Will Display China’s Back-to-Work Power (R.) • Beijing Officially Declares Lockdown (GNews) • Taiwan’s Foxconn Gets OK To Restart Plant In Zhengzhou, China (R.) • Nikkei Denies Reuters Story That Foxconn Will Restart Production (ZH) • Shenzhen Denies Blocking Apple Supplier Foxconn From Resuming Production (R.) • Amazon Latest To Pull Out Of Major Barcelona
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Dorothea Lange Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, NYC June 1936 • Authorities Order Foxconn To Keep Chinese Facilities Closed (AI) • China To Stagger Back To Work As Coronavirus Deaths Surpass SARS (R.) • In-Hospital Infection Blamed In Wuhan Hospital (NHK) • Coronavirus Outbreak Has Affected 4 Different Cruise Ships (H.) • Still No Port For Cruise Ship Westerdam (NHK) • Five Britons Contract Coronavirus In French Ski Resort (R.) • Coronavirus Brings China’s Surveillance
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Marjory Collins 3rd shift workers waiting to be picked up by car pools around midnight. Baltimore April 1943 • Virus Named NCP For Now, 86 New Deaths, US Citizen Dies In Wuhan (SCMP) • Wuhan Facing ‘Wartime Conditions’ As Global Coronavirus Deaths Reach 724 (G.) • Royal Caribbean Bans All Chinese Nationals From Its Cruise Ships (G.) • Tesla Shanghai Factory To Restart On Feb 10, Authorities To Assist (R.) • White House Asks Scientists To Investigate If 2019-nCoV
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Takeuchi Seiho Bear in snow 1940 As I said earlier today, I picked up a whole slew of articles on the “coronavirus” through the day yesterday, collected some more today, and then decided not to put them in my daily Debt Rattle news aggregator today because it would have been too much. I wasn’t trying to focus on number of deaths or cases, interest in that is overblown by now. What I look for is news about the
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Marjory Collins “Crowds at Pennsylvania Station, New York” Aug 1942 • China Reports 73 New Deaths From Coronavirus, 3,143 New Cases (SCMP) • Trump Expresses Confidence In China’s Confronting Its Coronavirus Outbreak (R.) • Texas Congresswoman Says Russia Responsible For Iowa Caucus Mess (WE) • The GIGO Impeachment (Turley) • Russian, Turkish Military Among 100s Killed & Injured In Idlib Terrorism (RT) • UK Town Halls Told To Fly Union Jack For Prince Andrew’s Birthday (Ind.) • Boeing’s Fraying
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Seattle, WA during Spanish Influenza. No ride on street cars without wearing a mask 1918/19 • China May Delay Annual Meeting Of Parliament Due To Virus Outbreak (R.) • “Leaked” Infection Numbers Over 154,000; Deaths Approach 25,000 (NN) • Major Mainland Chinese Airlines Place All Foreign Pilots On Unpaid Leave (SCMP) • With Virus Deaths At 565 China Considers Trade Deal Disaster Clause (SCMP) • Chinese Scholar Blames Xi Jinping, CCP For Not Controlling Outbreak (SCMP) • Who Owns
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Max Ernst Inspired hill 1950 Hi, it’s me again, with more virus stories. I know you may think it’s enough now, but I do want to do this one. Actually, I haven’t written all that much about it, just two essays, 2019-nCoV and The Party and the Virus, but the topic has become a staple of my daily Debt Rattle news aggregators lately. So much that I find I need to remind myself all the time that it’s been
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