Tomb of the diver, Paestum c480 BCE • Ugly US Jobs Data Hides As Much As It Reveals (R.) • How Australia Got On Top Of COVID19 (SMH) • South Korea’s COVID19 Exceptionalism (Atl.) • South Korea Backtracks On Reopening After COVID19 Cases Jump (NW) • Enough With the Phoney ‘Lockdown’ Debate (Kay) • UK To Place All Incoming Travellers Under 14-Day Quarantine (R.) • COVID19 Death Rate Sinking? Data Reveals A Complex Reality (DW) • Want To Be
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NPC Shad fishing on the Potomac 1920 • US Death Toll Would Have Been Halved Had It Acted 4 Days Sooner (SCMP) • US Doctors Want Details On Federal Distribution Of Remdesivir (R.) • China Backs WHO Investigating COVID19 Origin (SCMP) • Blood Thinners May Help Sickest COVID19 Patients Survive • COVID19 Wreaks Economic Havoc Across Europe (ZH) • Japan On Course For Deep Recession As Spending, Services Plunge (R.) • Black Britons Face ‘Twice The Risk’ Of Death
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Banksy – Sounthampton General Hospital – 2020 • Coronavirus May Have Jumped To Humans As Early As October (SCMP) • Italian Scientists Claim To Have Developed World’s First Coronavirus Vaccine (Ind.) • Trump Calls Americans ‘Warriors’ In Fight To Open The Economy (LAT) • Are Americans Ready For A -Costly- Breakup With China? (CSM) • Coronavirus Survivors ‘Permanently Disqualified’ From Joining US Military (NW) • California Expected To Experience ‘Jaw-Dropping’ Unemployment – Newsom (JTN) • UK GPs In
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Saul Leiter Phone call c1957 Don’t worry, we’re still talking virus, just from a slightly different angle. I was going to do something completely different, but then I saw an article at the South China Morning Post (SCMP) today that made me think “I don’t think that’s true”, realizing that at the same time many people would think it is. Foreign holdings of US Treasuries are a misty environment for perhaps not just many, but most people. What triggered
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Harris&Ewing Less taxes, more jobs, US Chamber of Commerce campaign 1939 • Now-Dominant Strain Of Coronavirus Could Be More Contagious Than Original (LAT) • New Mutation Indicates That Coronavirus Might Be Weakening (NYP) • Coronavirus Started Infecting People Globally Late Last Year (Hill) • UK COVID-19 Death Toll Rises Above 32,000, Highest In Europe (R.) • Pseudo-Science Behind The Assault On Hydroxychloroquine (ZH) • Goat and Pawpaw ‘Test Positive’ For COVID19 In Tanzania (AlJ) • Pennsylvania Woman Jailed For
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G.G. Bain ‘Casino Theater playing musical ‘The Little Whopper’, NY 1920 • 30,000 New Cases, 3,000 New Deaths Daily Expected in US (CNN) • New Projection Puts US COVID19 Deaths At Nearly 135,000 By August (R.) • New Zealand PM: No Open Borders For ‘A Long Time’ (BBC) • Just 273 Of 18.1 Million People Arriving In UK Prior To Lockdown Quarantined (G.) • France’s First Known COVID19 Case ‘Was In December’ (BBC) • US Treasury Seeks To Borrow
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Steve Schapiro Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) with mini gloves, Louisville, KY 1963 There was another comment at the Automatic Earth yesterday questioning the function and wisdom of various lockdowns. I thought I’d explain this in more detail. Ilargi if you or anyone else could explain what the exit strategy is from a lockdown I’d be interested in hearing it. As it is, this lockdown I repeat is no different than financial QE – everyone comes out weaker
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Underwood&Underwood Chicago framed by Gothic stonework high in the Tribune Tower 1952 • ‘Biggest Failure In A Generation’: Where Did Britain Go Wrong? (SMH) • UK Chafes At COVID19 Death Toll Comparison With Italy (R.) • UK Health Passports ‘Possible In Months’ (G.) • Boris Johnson: COVID19 Vaccine Hunt ‘Most Urgent Endeavour Of Our Lives’ (PA) • As Lockdowns Ease, Some Countries Report New Infection Peaks (SCMP) • DOJ Intervenes For Church In Virginia Restrictions Challenge (Solomon) • Pompeo:
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Wyland Stanley Pedestrians ascending steep grade, San Francisco 1940 • The US Just Reported Its Deadliest Day For Coronavirus (CNBC) /span> • For Many COVID19 Patients Symptoms Last More Than A Month (BI) • Women, Children Just As Likely To Get COVID19, Men Have Worse Symptoms (F.) • Half Of All New UK Infections Last Week Were Among Healthcare Workers (O.) • Is Sweden’s Covid-19 Handling a Failure or a Success? • New Mexico Governor Quarantines Entire Town Over
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Yevgeny Khaldei – 75 years ago the Soviet banner was raised over the Reichstag. 11 million Soviet soldiers died in WW2 and three-quarters of German losses were suffered at the hands of the Red Army – May 2 1945 • Opening Up (Yaneer Bar-Yam et al, New England Complex Systems Institute) • New Yorkers Face Back-to-Work Commuting Nightmare (R.) • US Approves Remdesivir for Coronavirus Treatment (GR) • 80 Patients, Staff Infected at Texas Nursing Home, HCQ Saves
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