Banksy Girl With a Pierced Eardrum (and face mask) 2020 • Americans Prioritize Staying Home, Worry Restrictions Will Lift Too Fast (CBS) • Doctors Rethink Rush To Ventilate (R.) • First Known US COVID19 Death Occurred On Feb. 6 In Santa Clara County (SFC) • Chinese Scientists ‘Unable To Judge’ If US Lab Is Virus Source (Global Times) • House Passes $484 Billion Coronavirus Relief Package (Hill) • Fed Balance Sheet Increases To Record $6.62 Trillion (R.) • No,
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Jack Delano Union Station, Chicago, Illinois 1943 • Not a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System – Taleb (NYer) • Coronavirus Started Spreading In US Much Earlier Than Thought (CoD) • Coronavirus Study Points To Vast Number Of Cases Under Radar In China (SCMP) • How Does Coronavirus Kill? (ScienceMag) • Many Small Businesses Say Loans Won’t Get Them To Rehire (AP) • Congressional Democrats Do Little To Improve ‘Pathetic’ Coronavirus Deal (IC) •
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Saul Leiter Man in straw hat 1955 The following was written by Bruce Wilds, who runs the Advancing Time blog. Bruce is a small business owner in the Midwest. I get lots of articles sent to me, but hardly ever publish any (sorry I can’t send everyone a reply) because they’re not what I think this site should be. But with this article it’s different. I think what Bruce describes is interesting, important even. The US has
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DPC Yard of tenement, Manhattan, New York City 1900 • In US COVID19 Can No Longer Be Listed As Primary Cause Of Death (Salon) • England, Wales COVID19 Death Toll 41% Higher Than Government Figures (FT) • UN: Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Will Cause Famine Of Biblical Proportions’ (G.) • Missouri Is Suing China Over Coronavirus Impacts (CNN) • CDC’s Failed Coronavirus Tests Were Tainted With Coronavirus (AT) • CDC Chief Warns Second COVID-19 Wave May Be Worse (R.) • The
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Gordon Parks Muhammad Ali in training 1966 There are times when you think: now things must be easy to comprehend, but as it turns out, they are still not. Let me try once more. See, I was thinking it must have become much easier to gauge the impact in the US of COVID19 when I published the graph below from TheNewAtlantis.com a few days ago. That the stories about seasonal flu etc. at least should be dead and buried,
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Ben Shahn “Scene in Jackson Square, New Orleans” 1935 • Coronavirus’s Ability To Mutate Has Been Vastly Underestimated (SCMP) • WHO Warns That Few Have Developed Antibodies To COVID19 (G.) • LA Infections 40 Times Greater Than Known Cases In Antibody Tests (R.) • Getting A Handle On Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Scripps) • Coronavirus Attacks Blood Vessel Linings All Over The Body (SCMP) • Through No Fault of Their Own (Ben Hunt) • US Economic Shutdown Too Tight For
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Paul Caponigro Backlit Sunflower, Winthrop, MA 1965 • 20 Million COVID19 Tests Per Day Needed To Fully Open US Economy (ABC) • Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen. And We’re Testing The Wrong People (Atl.) • Trump To Use Defense Production Act To Increase Swab Production (CNBC) • Israel Launches New ‘Contactless’ Roadside COVID19 Testing Booths (DM) • US Coronavirus Study Warns Sick Children Could Overwhelm Health System (SCMP) • Testicles May Make Men More Vulnerable To Coronavirus
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Unknown A couple wearing smog masks, London 1953 • Did COVID19 Outbreak Start Months Earlier And Not In Wuhan? (RT) • New Wave Of Infections Threatens To Collapse Japan Hospitals (AP) • Florida Prison System Begins To Reveal Ravages Of Coronavirus (MH) • UK Care Home Deaths ‘Far Higher’ Than Official Figures (BBC) • Anger In Sweden As Elderly Pay Price For Coronavirus Strategy (O.) • A Scam To Enrich Execs: COVID19 Bailouts Fuel More Share Buybacks (Feierstein) •
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Edward Hopper Cat boat 1922 • Antibody Study Suggests Coronavirus Far More Widespread Than Thought (G.) • No Evidence COVID-19 Survivors Have Immunity – WHO (Sky) • Double Warning Over Antibody Tests (BBC) • Existing Drugs ‘May Prove Effective On Coronavirus Before Vaccine Comes’ (SCMP) • Emirates First Airline To Conduct On-Site Rapid COVID-19 Tests (Em.) • US Seeks Access To Wuhan Virology Lab, Trump Questions China Death Toll (SCMP) • US, China and WHO Are All Keen To
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Dorothea Lange American River camp, Sacramento, CA. Destitute family. 5 children, aged 2 to 17 years 1936 • China Didn’t Warn Public Of Likely Pandemic For 6 Key Days (AP) • US Alerted Israel, NATO To Disease Outbreak In China In November (ToI ) • Wuhan Death Toll Up By 50% As 1,290 ‘Delayed & Omitted’ Fatalities Added (RT) • Men Are Much More Likely To Die From Coronavirus. Why? (G.) • France Summons Chinese Envoy Over Criticism Of
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