Debt Rattle May 19 2020
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Jack Delano Engineer at AT&SF railroad yard, Clovis, NM 1943 • US States’ Reopening Plans Are All Over The Map (R.) • Moderna: Early Corona
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 19 2020]http://www.johndayblog.com/2020/05/war-of-attrition.html
The pattern which seems to be governing this terrifying-pandemic is that of differential damage, imposing massive damage and losses on groups which are non-tributaries to a particular power structure.
The US seeks to impose unlimited losses upon Chinese interests. Fear must remain in place at home, to assure compliance of the masses, so actual cures, or relief from fear are banned on YouTube for going against WHO/CDC edicts.
WHO/CDC have been harmful, not helpful to public health, to date.
The overarching need of the current elites is to maintain power and control through this crisis, preferably to increase it.
That form of insecurity and grasping too hard, while obscuring or outlawing remedies they don’t control SHOULD be their downfall. We’ll see how this plays out.
Let me clarify that I see all elites as amoral and self serving.
None of them appear to represent the interests of life on Earth. Sociopaths all the way down…
I’m backing cheap public health measures like vitamin-D, zinc, NAC and growing fresh vegetables.Craig Murray points out that only PROFITABLE “solutions” to this crisis will be considered by the financial masters.
Please submit conforming proposals!
…the UK and the US are attempting to hide their vaccine and treatment research results from the rest of the world to make money out of them.
Much has been written about the possibility for a new and better kind of world to emerge after coronavirus. Yet our governments cannot conceive of any model for fighting this threat to the whole world, other than the capitalist, money-making model. The much-touted “race to develop a vaccine” is not a race to save lives. It is a race to make billions.
The United States and the United Kingdom are working in all international fora to head off efforts to pool global research and to make any vaccine or medicine a good for the world.
… the failure to set up a worldwide shared scientific database on all coronavirus vaccine and medicine research, and the failure to set up a prior agreement on free manufacture worldwide of effective resulting vaccines and treatments, is the most revealing fact about the entire coronavirus episode.Donald Trump announces that he is taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc prophylactically against coronavirus.
I hope he is also taking vitamin-D.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/trump-admits-taking-hydroxychloroquine-zinc[insert global trade war stories here]
Russia’s COVID Game of Elites looks at what has happened in the last 2 months, with regional officials directing regional responses to viral pandemic, sometimes in such a way as to cripple economy, and infect more people, while extending forms of electronic control and surveillance. That went badly. Moscow’s mayor did a security check on everybody who was out in early April, causing mass crowds standing in close proximity, awaiting individual evaluations of status and assessing millions of dollars of fines. Cases boomed a week later. Putin was in self-quarantine after exposure to a doctor who came down with coronavirus (Did Putin have it?) He is out and completely active again. Traitorous elements in the Russian Federation have shown their unpatriotic hands. The article is long and detailed, and a little hard to read.
Sweden, with voluntary social distancing, approaches “herd immunity” sooner than other countries. A lot of Swedes take vitamin-D and fish oil supplements… They figure you get the same number of deaths eventually, no matter what.
“I think there is relatively little chance of stopping this whatever measures we take.”
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/in-the-race-for-immunity-sweden-leads-the-pack/
Reminder: When the very rich are done with us, they plan to leave us behind
(or worse, but I don’t think it will work for them. dead end)Reminder: When the Very Very Rich Are Done With Us, They Plan to Leave Us Behind
Hamsters in cages with coronavirus blown onto them by fans have 2/3 reduction in cases of infection if they wear masks.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-hamster-masks-coronavirus-scientists.html[picture of blogger on curing work slab at end]
From Jonathan Turley today:
“The [House Judiciary] Committee’s investigation did not cease with the conclusion of the impeachment trial. … The withheld material remains central to the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the President’s conduct. If this material reveals new evidence supporting the conclusion that President Trump committed impeachable offenses that are not covered by the articles adopted by the House, the committee will proceed accordingly — including, if necessary, by considering whether to recommend new articles of impeachment.”
Coronavirus Deadliest In New York City’s Black And Latino Neighborhoods (R.)
Vitamin D deficiency may play a role.
Vitamin D deficiency is more common among African Americans (AAs) than among European Americans (EAs), and epidemiologic evidence links vitamin D status to many health outcomes… Vitamin D deficiency is common even among AAs who live in sunlight intense southern and southwestern states or who have higher dietary vitamin D intake than the longstanding recommended daily allowance (≥400 IU/day)
Common vitamin D pathway gene variants reveal contrasting effects on serum vitamin D levels in African Americans and European Americans
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00439-014-1472-yLong-term TAE reader, but first post. Regarding the following article:
The author speaks to many points, but would one of the doctors (or other qualified individuals) who contribute to TAE, comment on the author’s contention that while perhaps useful to other groups in treating covid-19, hydroxycholoroquine may adversely affect Africans or those of African descent because of a gene deficiency?
There have been several explanations put forth as to why this group has been much more severely affected by the virus; does this add anything to our understanding?
Hmmm! Link in previous post not visible. Second try:
Article re complicating gene deficiency in use of hydroxychloroquine.
I’m not an MD, but I presented some evidence (in an earlier comment) that counters those OffGuardian claims about hydroxychloroquine and African Americans.
That OffGuardian article was based on this assertion:
“I looked at the drugs that can cause severe hemolysis in G6PD deficiency and got really scared. One of the substances that is called very dangerous in all forms of this enzyme deficiency is the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).”A quick search for evidence indicated that this assertion is false.
There is evidently a related problem with Chloroquine (CQ), but not with Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).“One drug commonly associated with hemolytic anemia in G6PD deficiency is … chloroquine.
Should this be a concern in the present debate over treating COVID-19 patients? In my opinion, yes. G6PD deficiency is rather common; in fact, it is the second most common human enzyme defect, affecting some 400 million people worldwide. It affects 1 in 10 African-American males in the U.S…Given the challenges of knowing who may or may not have G6PD deficiency, it would seem prudent not to use chloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients who may be at risk for this genetic condition. The last thing they need is to have a serious respiratory disease compounded by hemolytic anemia, resulting in further loss of oxygenation.
Hydroxychloroquine, on the other hand, does not induce hemolytic anemia in people with G6PD deficiency despite the molecular similarity to chloroquine. It has shown effectiveness in inhibiting the pandemic coronavirus during in vitro testing.”
Chloroquine Is Not a Harmless Panacea for COVID-19
— There’s a real safety concern with malaria drug
by Dan J. Vick MD, DHA, MBA, CPE March 23, 2020
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85552Is Hydroxychloroquine Safe for Patients with G6PD Deficiency?
There is no data to support the withholding of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) therapy among African American patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD), according to the results of a recent review… “This is the largest study to date evaluating G6PD deficiency with concurrent use of HCQ,” the researchers concluded. “These data do not support routine G6PD level measurement or withholding HCQ therapy among African American patients with G6PD deficiency.”
https://www.consultant360.com/exclusives/hydroxychloroquine-safe-patients-g6pd-deficiency
Yeah, thanks Doc.
Of course I still have a question: how does the prevalence of G6PD deficiency among African Americans sync with the use of chloroquine through the years for millions of Africans in malaria zones? Shouldn’t there be a ton of medical info collected over time? If one in 10 have the deficiency and 1 in 10 gets treated for malaria, it would seem you’re looking at very large numbers. At least potentially
I believe the case rate in the U.S. is pretty-close to the lower health of Blacks and Latinos, which is partially poverty: wealth is the single foremost indicator of health, but also blacks and native-descended Latinos (and not Spaniards) have the “efficiency gene”. This causes overweight and Type II diabetes in massive effect. Overweight, high blood pressure, and pre-existing conditions being massive risk factors.
The irony is that a gene that should save your life and make it easier, by being better at using food, turns out to be a giant liability when the main risk is too much empty fast-carbs, even for white people to tolerate, who are dying of voluntary Type II in record numbers themselves.
On a positive note, the Navajo (I think) did a study of returning people to traditional native diets and crushed Type II almost completely, like a light switch. Problem is, you can never go back to sugar, alcohol, fry bread, and they are always, always available, day and night, addictively calling. So far.
So my guess is the gene, by much, and poverty and exposure, by a little, adding up to the difference in numbers you see. Which really isn’t all THAT much different. It’s not 2:1 or anything. Like men, it was like 60:40 max, and men treat themselves badly and expose themselves to more risk. I’d rather focus on the process common to all than trace the ways the virus is racist.
“There has not been the slightest hint of interest on the part of Congress in creating a national uniform set of rules..”
This was very interesting to me since the author clearly failed out of high school and never took a civics class. This is exactly how the U.S. is supposed to be set up, since 1789, 1776, or before 1750. The States have pre-eminence. And a lot, most of our present social and economic problems have a single source in the “I know best” “One size fits all” top-down diktat we’ve been savaged under. NYC: 20,000 deaths. Wyoming: 7. One 67,000 people/square mile, one 6 people per square mile. Savage attempt at the same rules, same solutions. And Whhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyy? No reason, but you notice it isn’t Wyoming telling NYC how it’s gonna be. Only the other way around.
This is EXACTLY why the states, federalism, is primary, and HAS to be. Rhode Island: 1,000 sq miles. Alaska: 570,000 sq miles. Hawaii is a distant island. Kansas is landlocked. Texas is a border. Minnesota is a snowdrift. NOLA is Caribbean, DC doesn’t even have locals, only transplants. They’re all one nation. And you have the “Slightest hint” that somehow, some way they could NOT have different rules? That the Feds would be able to understand and dictate to each and all?
But why not? That’s what I’ve been hearing from these IYI delinquents and dropouts all my life. And it’s been failing all my life, and they have yet to go anywhere outside Brooklyn and talk to anyone not like them, despite that they’re reporters and it’s their literal day job. Well, it happened this time anyway, perhaps by accident. Maybe the Governors can take a clue, stop slobbering over and blaming the President for everything (Ford to NYC: Drop Dead) and re-claim the power that has always been theirs. Then Massachusetts can be small, ecological, progressive, and Texas can be big, rowdy, and conservative, or whatever they want to be, because I won’t tell them. Isn’t that fine? Isn’t that diversity? How could they possibly have diversity any other way?
Because they hate diversity. Everyone must be like my ego. And difference, diversity, has advantages as stated above, and also disadvantages, but at the moment, that is the actual law, should anybody wish to ever follow and obey it again.
Well, in any case, we see the states, the people, aren’t going to obey anything, take any orders any more even if you tell them to. We’re now de-centralizing, Ms. Brice from NYU, and we will be for some time.
It would be fun to arrest the vaccine czar, but what he did was very clever: he HAD to sell, BECAUSE he was just hired. It’s not his fault his company released a super-duper press release and accidentally boosted the stock the same day the government forced him to divest! Honest!
“is there anyone left who thinks US healthcare can be salvaged?”
It depends what you mean by “salvaged.” We’ve been saying since the first day, in 1992, that the plan was, since they couldn’t get socialized health care through, to so utterly destroy the system and ruin the people that we’d beg for socialize care. Every step over every year has borne out that accusation, especially the 10% increases the 5 years into ACA, and the 3-4 10% increases AFTER, with a DROP in care and coverage, with NO doctors trained, hired, or planned. That’s a dead giveaway the object was to murder and destroy when you add 300,000 to the system with zero resources added.
So how do you mean “salvaged?” If we just repealed the laws back to 1992, it would improve many-fold. But what is meant is, “Although we, the insurance lobbyists, worked long and tirelessly for decades specifically TO increase costs and profits, there is no possible way removing us would fix anything. You simply must enshrine us all and our high prices into a federal monopoly.” You know, that will work as well as Amtrak, Comcast, Exxon, and Boeing. We clearly must NOT salvage it by looking at the few sectors where medical cost dropped tirelessly: Lasik, plastic surgery, and cash-only locations like Oklahoma, because then we would be picking what works instead of enriching and empowering my insider-lobbyist pals.
Since we can’t trust these guys to give guidance that basement-dwelling idiots like me could see, like air travel and masks, can’t trust them to not screw up two massive CV test releases in a row, can’t trust them not to loose and leak anthrax, can’t trust them not to sell medical bio-weapons secrets to the Chinese, can’t trust them to not put out a new drug every year like Vioxx that kills thousands, can’t trust them not to hide, subvert, and protect Monsanto from killing millions with glyphosate, can’t start studies until 6 months too late, can’t get medical care in the VA, can’t trust them to have a safe number of beds, doctors, and nurses, but now you want to hand the whole thing – that they’ve visibly failed at, constantly, for 70 years – TO the nation’s least-trusted group, Congress, by nationalizing it? I just don’t know what to say. Go ahead. Maybe you’ll learn your lesson when they maim you and leave you for dead, or it bankrupts the entire nation and you have no care, like Finland and UK look to.
Or we could just expand the few places in medicine that are working better than ever, your choice.
“the govt were considering going it alone with the #Herd_Immunity strategy weeks ago,”
They already did that, but you wouldn’t let them. So they did they easiest thing: they patted you on your little head and lied. You still don’t seem to understand that’s what happened, so I guess they did the right thing.
With the “Three C’s” so as they say, masks may work but not for long: like for the customers, but not the workers trapped in with thousands of new customers all day.
So…then…where are all the hundred-thousand cases of grocery workers, etc? Why aren’t they sick? Is something else going on? Because…not science, not your theory. So we need a new theory. Anybody got one?
Bonus question: why do the new child cases include children that test NEGATIVE for CV?
Ilargi, this is related to your question. Primaquine (not chloroquine) appears to be the drug of choice to fight malaria. Primaquine also is problematic for G6PD-deficient patients. “In six decades of primaquine use in approximately 200 million people, 14 deaths have been reported.”
“G6PD deficiency provides great protection from malaria infection, especially for falciparum infections. On the other hand, G6PD deficiency has been recently demonstrated to cause serious problems in fighting against malaria. Primaquine, which is the only drug currently used in the treatment of Plasmodium infections leads to severe hemolysis in G6PD-deficient patients. This drug may even cause death in G6PD-deficient patients”
https://www.intechopen.com/books/dehydrogenases/glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase-deficiency-and-malaria-a-method-to-detect-primaquine-induced-hemolPrimaquine is the only generally available anti-malarial that prevents relapse in vivax and ovale malaria, and the only potent gametocytocide in falciparum malaria. Primaquine becomes increasingly important as malaria-endemic countries move towards elimination, and although it is widely recommended, it is commonly not given to malaria patients because of haemolytic toxicity in subjects who are glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficient (gene frequency typically 3-30% in malaria endemic areas; >180 different genetic variants).In six decades of primaquine use in approximately 200 million people, 14 deaths have been reported. Confining the estimate to reports with known denominators gives an estimated mortality of one in 621,428 (upper 95% CI: one in 407,807). All but one death followed multiple dosing to prevent vivax malaria relapse. Review of dose-response relationships and clinical trials of primaquine in G6PD deficiency suggests that the currently recommended WHO single low dose (0.25 mg base/kg) to block falciparum malaria transmission confers a very low risk of haemolytic toxicity.”
https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2875-13-418What are the USA enemies saying
https://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13990230000785
Tue May 19, 2020
8 Countries to Import Iran-Made Coronavirus Test KitsTEHRAN (FNA)- Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that Iranian knowledge-based firms have started manufacturing coronavirus test kits and eight countries have agreed to import such items from the country.
“Iran presently has a capacity of producing 1 million serology test kits per day and 1.5 million of C-Creative Protein (CPR) test kits per month,” Sattari said on Tuesday.“Part of the mentioned figure is used inside the country and the rest is exported,” he added.
In relevant remarks on May 10, Deputy head of the Iranian presidency’s office for scientific affairs Mehdi Qalenoyee said that Iranian firms are going to export serological test kits to eight more countries after a first successful cargo was sent to Germany earlier in the week.
Has our blog host got himself into precisely the same point as most western governments?
In March, leading every day with the Worldometer stats probably seemed like a good way to galvanise debate.
But now? The stats aren’t remotely insightful.. in fact they just emphasise the debacle that is Covid “management”.
But….. how does one pivot away from the focus of the previous two months?
A rationalist might say – “well it was fascinating, but events have moved on, and so must we”
But here, as with government responses, the sunk-cost fallacy will have it’s way.
Abandoning the mast-head opinion and structure is a felt as loss and not simply as the tide of the time.
Tucker Carlson nailed it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIf2audbX0Q
And yep, I know.. most of you have absorbed from other places that Tucker is a douchebag (racist!) Strange thing is, if you stop long enough to actually listen (don’t have to agree) then, yeah, some well-made points.
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