Claude Monet Houses of Parliament (Sun Breaking through the Fog) 1904 • Nation To Celebrate 1st Anniversary Of Two Weeks To Flatten The Curve (BBee) • Mindless Lockdowns Destroy Lives — And Our Constitution (NYP) • Doctors Link Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines to Life-Threatening Blood Disorder (CHD) • Biden Team Fears No COVID Herd Immunity Until Thanksgiving (DB) • Trump Hid His Calls With Putin. Now, Biden Has Access To Them. (Pol.) • With Biden in Charge, Media Forgets Kids
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Horacio Coppola Avenida de Mayo entre Bolívar y Perú, Buenos Aires 1936 • Five Ways The Government Could Have Avoided 100,000 Covid Deaths (G.) • 14 Nursing Home Residents Test Positive For B117 Despite Vaccination (DF) • Israel and Greece Sign Deal To Allow Vaccinated Tourists To Travel (EN) • Why Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Shipments To Canada Have Been Delayed (Star) • Cuba’s COVID-19 Vaccines Serve the People, Not Profits (CP) • A Very Dangerous Variant Of The Global
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Claude Monet Houses of Parliament, Sunset 1904 • South Africa Halts AstraZeneca Vaccinations Over Variant Data (R.) • New Israeli Drug Cured 29 Of 30 Moderate/Serious Covid Cases In Days (ToI) • In Corzano 10% Of Population Positive For English Variant (ANSA) • Even ‘Scientist’ Models Now Forecast COVID Scourge Ending By Summer (ZH) • WaPo Says COVID Lab Accident “Plausible”, “Must Be Investigated” (ZH) • UK Vaccine Minister Says Gov’t Is Not Planning Covid Vaccine Passport (RT) •
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Paul Cézanne River Bend (Coin de rivière) 1865 At the Automatic Earth, we have been talking about COVID prevention and treatment for a year now. Of course, things have been evolving, fine-tuned. One of our most vocal commenters on the issue is John Day, a physician from Texas. John wrote down the current state of affairs. John Day MD: Concerned Parties, The question that I, as a COVID-19 Early Treating Physician, blogger, and human being
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Russell Lee Sign Along the Road Near Capulin New Mexico 1939 • Zero Covid Is A Mirage – The Virus Is Here To Stay (Jonathan Sumption) • Oxford Covid Jab Less Effective Against South African Variant (R.) • Supreme Court Lifts California Worship Bans Prompted By Coronavirus (Pol.) • Long-Term Unemployment Is Close To A Great Recession Record (CNBC) • UK Exports To EU Slashed By 68% Since Brexit (G.) • Google Reverses Course, Opens Paid Platform For (Some)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Allegory of the Planets and Continents 1752 • New Covid Strains ‘May Even Escape The Immune Response’ – Biden Advisor (CNBC) • Domestic Violence Is a Pandemic Within the COVID-19 Pandemic (Time) • YouTube Censors Senate Testimony From Doctor On Possible Covid Drug (Turley) • Biden Revokes Terrorist Designation For Yemen’s Houthis (Fox) • Biden: Trump Should No Longer Receive Classified Intelligence Briefings (CNN) • Trump’s Decision Not To Testify Is Not Evidence Of His Guilt
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Winslow Homer Mending the nets 1881 • Atlantic Council Anonymous Expose Calls for Regime Change in China (MPN) • Macron: EU Shouldn’t Gang Up On China With US (Pol.eu) • Hunger Games (Ben Hunt) • US Covid Hospitalizations Drop To Lowest Level Since Before Thanksgiving (F.) • No Special Freedoms For The Vaccinated In Germany (DW) • Trump Rejects Dems’ Request To Testify At Impeachment Trial (AP) • Incitement Is Not A Real Crime (McMaken) • Smartmatic Files $2.7
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John William Godward Dolce Far Niente (Sweet Idleness, or A Pompeian Fishpond) 1904 One year into the continuing COVID emergency, it’s high time to ask questions about the “legal status” of various measures and restrictions applied by various governments- as well as their other policies. Having those questions asked out in the open is good for everyone, not least for the governments themselves. If only because a government doesn’t make law, it is only supposed to abide by
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MC Escher Balcony 1945 • ‘Deadly Carrot’-Derived Antiviral Could Be Magic Bullet (RT) • 5.8 Million Fewer Babies: America’s Lost Decade in Fertility (IFS) • Dallas Fed’s Kaplan: Reddit-Fueled Trading Frenzy Driven Partly By Fed (R.) • Beware Of Social Media-Fuelled Bubbles In Market – French Regulator (R.) • The Stock Market Is Broken, Now for All to See (WS) • The Insiders’ Game (Sacks) • SWIFT Sets Up Digital Currency Joint Venture With China’s Central Bank (R.) •
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Norham Castle, Sunrise 1845 • Dems Threaten To Exclude Families Crushed By Pandemic (DP) • Senate Approves Budget Process For Passage of $1.9T COVID19 Stimulus (JTN) • Criticism Piles On Cuomo After Week Of Blunders (F.) • France Raises More Questions About AstraZeneca Jab (ZH) • P.2 Coronavirus Variant From Brazil Found In California (LAT) • WHO Team Visits Wuhan Virus Lab At Center Of Speculation (AP) • Will WallStreetBets Send The VIX Soaring Next?
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