Joseph Mallord William Turner The Fifth Plague of Egypt 1800 Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m under the impression that President Trump yesterday wanted to quarantine New York City but let himself get talked out of that by, among others, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo went as far as calling such a measure not merely “un-American”, he said it would be “preposterous” and “anti-American”. Obviously, Cuomo is not just of the belief, like most Americans, that a country
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Dorothea Lange Kern County, California 1938 • Trump Backs Off Threat Of Coronavirus Quarantine For NYC Area (NYP) • Florida Coronavirus Cases Are Growing Fast. Here’s What That Means. (TBT) • Rhode Island Door Knocks in Search of Fleeing New Yorkers (AP) • 700 N.J. Police Officers Have Tested Positive For Coronavirus (NJ.com) • More Than 500 Members Of The NYPD Have Coronavirus (NYP) • Italy PM Adopts New Measures To Help Coronavirus-Hit Economy (R.) • Home Confinement In
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Dorothea Lange White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco 1933 • US Coronavirus Cases Top 100,000, Doubling In Three Days (CNBC) • The UK’s Coronavirus Policy May Sound Scientific. It Isn’t (Taleb, Bar-Yam) • Up To 40 Million Lives Could Be Saved If Countries Act Quickly (Ind.) • Dr. Fauci: Coronavirus Death Rate Like Very Bad Flu (WND) • China Closes Borders, Claims Wuhan ‘Basically Blocked’ Coronavirus (SAC) • Countries Worldwide Roll Out Draconian Measures To Fight Covid-19 (RT) •
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• More People Are Dying Of COVID-19 In The US Than We Know (BF) • We Could Watch Entire Populations Vanish (IC) • Coronavirus Could Kill 81,000 In US, Subside In June – Washington U. (R.) • Hold The Line (M.) • China Promotes Bear Bile As Coronavirus Treatment (NatGeo) • Fed Balance Sheet Tops $5 Trillion For First Time (R.) • Broward Poll Workers Test Positive For COVID-19 (L10) • Moscow Laboratories Will Conduct 13,000 Tests For
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Rembrandt van Rijn Portrait of his father 1628-29 I was following the numbers all afternoon, because I knew this was going to be the day that the US would become the no. 1. The no. 1 loser, that is. Here’s some of what I wrote in the Automatic Earth Comments section as we went along: 500,000 global cases was at noon EDT. 3.5 hours later there were another 20,000. [..] At 12.38 pm the US was 6,300 cases behind
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• 1/4 of $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill Devoted to Useless Accounting Gimmick (Tankus) • At Least 13 Patients Die From Coronavirus In One Day At New York Hospital (CNN) • Worker At NYC Hospital Where Nurses Wear Trash Bags As Protection Dies (NYP) • UK Coronavirus Mass Home Testing To Be Made Available ‘Within Days’ (G.) • NHS Could Soon Exceed Capacity – Chief Medical Officer (Ind.) • How Did Spain Get Its Coronavirus Response So Wrong? (G.)
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Harris&Ewing Washington DC in April April 1924 • Coronavirus Stimulus Package To Exceed $6 Trillion – Kudlow (NYP) • US Senate Leaders Reach Deal With White House On $2tn Coronavirus Package (G.) • Share Buybacks, $4.6 Trillion Driver of Stock Market Bubble, Are Toast (WS) • White House Tells New Yorkers Who Leave State To Self Quarantine (USAT) • LA To Shut Off Water, Power For Non-Essential Businesses That Stay Open (GP) • United States Could Become Coronavirus Epicenter
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James Proudfoot Sun on a House, Dieppe 1937 Famous last words?! “I would love to have it open by Easter,” Trump said in an interview Tuesday with Fox News. “I would love to have it opened up and just raring to go by Easter.” “A lot of people agree with me. Our country is not built to built to shut down. Our people are full of vim and vigor and energy. They don’t want to be locked into
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DPC City Hall subway station, New York 1904 • Coronavirus Survived In Vacated Cruise Ship Cabins For Up To 17 Days (CNBC) • 46.5% Of Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Passengers, Crew Were Asymptomatic (CNN) • Italy Has A Brief Glimpse Of Hope As New Cases Drop To A 5-Day Low (SCMP) • India Faces Spike In Coronavirus Cases – Study (R.) • Coronavirus Treatment Developed By Gilead Granted “Rare Disease” Status (IC) • Man Dies After Ingesting Chloroquine (NBC)
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Rembrandt van Rijn Man in Oriental Costume (The Noble Slav) 1632 It’s been two weeks since I last wrote an original article. That’s a long time. Then again, that article was The Virus is a Time Machine, which was – and still is, pardon the pun, deadly accurate. All my time between then and now has gone into the daily Debt Rattles, which have increasingly become almost exclusively Virus Rattles. A lot of it has been numbers, not because
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