Edward Hopper Office in a Small City 1953 • PM’s Move To ICU Shows He’s Likely To Have Severe COVID19 (G.) • To Use Ventilators You Need Sedatives. The US Is Running Out Of Both (Vox) • UK Testing Chief Admits None Of 3.5 Million Antibody Kits Work (Ind.) • Spain To Extend Coronavirus Testing To People Without Symptoms (RT) • Dem Lawmaker Says Trump Saved Her Life By Recommending Hydroxychloroquine (NW) • Untested COVID19 Treatment Trump Talks Up
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John M. Fox WCBS studios, 49 East 52nd Street, NYC 1948 • Coronavirus Has Lit The Fuse On A Time Bomb In China’s Economy (SCMP) • Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right About China (Schadlow) • Head Of WHO Accused Of Putting Lives At Risk By Parroting China’s Lies (DM) • China Owes US £351 Billion (DM) • It Started In China, But Europe Is The Hub For Global Coronavirus Spread (IC) • Japan To Declare State Of
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Pietro Lorenzetti Jesus enters Jerusalem 1320 (Basilica of St Francis of Assisi) “And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, Who is this? And the multitudes said, This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.” – Matthew 21:10-11 #PalmSunday • Getting Your Head Around Exponential Growth (Steve Keen) • Reporting Estimated Rather Than Confirmed Infections Might Save Lives (M.) • Japan To Boost Avigan Drug Stockpile As Part Of Coronavirus Stimulus (R.) •
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Anonymous • This Crisis Is A Turning Point In History (John Gray) • Asian Development Bank Says Pandemic Could Cost $4.1 Trillion (UPI) • The Keys To Reopening America (BI) • At Least 8 Strains Of The Coronavirus Have Been Identified (Hill) • NY Funeral Homes Struggle As Virus Deaths Surge (AP) • US Doctors On Coronavirus Frontline Seek Protection From Malpractice Suits (R.) • Russian Ventilators Sent To US Made By Firm Under US Sanctions (R.) • US
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Elliott Erwitt National Congress Building by Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia, Brazil 1961 • US Paying Russia For Entire Planeload Of Coronavirus Equipment – Official (R.) • Our Finest Hour (Ben Hunt) • New York City Nurses Demand Personal Protection Equipment (WABC) • New Orleans Coronavirus Death Rate Is Twice New York. Obesity Is A Factor (R.) • US Weekly Jobless Claims Blow Past Six Million As Lockdowns Spread (R.) • Israeli Scientists: Coronavirus Vaccine Tested On Humans By June 1
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Steve Schapiro Muhammad Ali, Monopoly, Louisville, KY 1963 It’s funny how things go sometimes, how times roll -not just the good ones-. I said last week that all the world’s “leaders” had failed terribly, and I’m not taking that back. They all failed to a horrific extent at their no. 1 task when it comes to Disasters, Pandemics, whatever their respective governments file these events under: Prevention. But now we’re in a whole new world. Now these failed leaders
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William Henry Jackson Camp wagon on a Texas roundup 1901 • More Than 1,000 New York City Police Officers Have The Coronavirus (CNBC) • Of 125,000 NHS Staff Self-Isolating, Still Just 2,000 Were Tested (Ind.) • Chinese Smartphone Health Code Rules Post-Virus Life (AP) • More Than 1.7 Million Britons May Have Contracted COVID19 – NHS |(Ind.) • Pelosi Wants ‘Vote By Mail’ Provisions In Next US Coronavirus Bill (R.) • Key Medical Supplies Were Shipped From US Manufacturers
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Byron In Chinatown, Pell Street, New York 1900 • Greek Mothers, Grandmas and Wives to Enforce Quarantine As Police Struggle (GR) • White House Predicts 100,000 To 240,000 Will Die In US From Coronavirus (CNBC) • Putin Asked Trump If He Needed Help & He Accepted (RT) • How To Rescue Our Coronavirus-Infected Economy From Collapse (Richard Vague) • Obama’s Failure To Resupply Respirators In Federal Stockpile (JTN) • Do I Have to Pay My Rent or Mortgage During
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Vincent van Gogh The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring 1884 (stolen yesterday) • Fauci Offers More Conservative Death Rate In Academic Article Than In Public Briefings (JTN) • Hospital Equipment Shortages Renew Spotlight On Supply Chain Middlemen (JTN) • US COVID19 Job Losses Could Be 47 Million, Unemployment May Hit 32% (CNBC) • Trump Rips Pelosi For Criticizing His Handling Of Coronavirus Pandemic (NYP) • Pelosi Aims To Move Fast On Next Rescue Package (Pol.) • Rachel Maddow’s
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Hasui Kawase Mimhae Pavilion, Kyongju, Korea 1940 Earlier today in the March 30 Automatic Earth Debt Rattle aggregator I promised to come back to this. I wrote: Dr. Fauci, Trump’s main medical/epidemic advisor, said yesterday that 200,000 Americans could die from COVID19. The same Fauci, as I quoted two days ago, recently changed his case fatality rate prediction from 1% to 0.1%. I had to let that sink in for a while, because if those 200,000 people represent that
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