Unknown Mark Twain (center, white suit) and a kitten (brown fur, left of center) at Tuxedo Park 1907 • More Patients Than Beds In Mumbai As India Faces Surge In Virus Cases (R.) • How Russia’s Coronavirus Crisis Got So Bad (Pol.eu) • Coronavirus Forces 100,000 NY Small Businesses To Close Permanently (Patch) • Big Pharma Rejected EU Plan To Fast-Track Vaccines In 2017 (G.) • Why Isn’t the Dollar Collapsing Given Trillions in Printing? (Mish) • Japan Eyes
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Walker Evans Street Scene, Vicksburg, Mississippi 1936 • Trump: ‘I Have A Chance To Break The Deep State’ (Attkisson) • The Influential Evangelical Group Mobilizing To Reelect Trump (IC) • Over 4,300 Virus Patients Sent To NY Nursing Homes (AP) • Cuomo Tries To Deflect Blame Of Nursing Home COVID19 Deaths On To Trump (Fox) • Russia Reports 153 Coronavirus Deaths, Highest Daily Toll Yet (R.) • Dominic Cummings Must Quit Over Lockdown Drive – Tory MP (R.) •
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Adam Zyglis The son of man May 19 2020 • US Grants Tentative OK For 15 Air Carriers To Cut Service To 75 Airports (R.) • UK Confirms 14-Day Quarantine Post-Travel (Y!) • Remdesivir Study Finds Mortality Too High For Standalone Treatment (ZH) • NIH Trial: Redesivir Works Best In COVID Patients On Oxygen (R.) • US Veterans Agency Has Given HCQ To 1,300 Coronavirus Patients (R.) • COVID19 ‘Taking Different Path In Africa’, Says WHO (G.) • Peruvian
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Cave of swimmers, Gilf Kebir plateau, Sahara c6000 BCE • Just 7.3% Of Stockholm Had COVID19 Antibodies By End Of April (G.) • Brazil Suffers Record Daily Coronavirus Death Toll, Soon To Be World No. 2 (R.) • Which US States Meet WHO Recommended Testing Criteria? (Johns Hopkins) • US Layoffs Spread Despite Businesses Reopening (R.) • New Zealand Discussing ‘Helicopter Money’ Handouts To Stimulate Economy (R.) • Washington State Loses 100s Of Millions Of Dollars In Unemployment Fraud
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Charles Camoin Village Street in Collioure 1912 • Don’t Count On Vaccine, US Scientist Warns (G.) • 42% Of Recent US Layoffs To Result In Permanent Job Loss – Study (Y!) • Sweden Had Highest Coronavirus Death Rate Per Capita In Last Week (Tel.) • YouTube Censors Video In Which Medical Doctors Said HCQ Might Help (JTN) • Media Matters and its Propaganda About Hydroxycholoroquine (Attkisson) • Apple-Google Contact Tracing Tech Draws Interest In 23 Countries (R.) • Andrew
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Russell Lee South Side market, Chicago 1941 • Study Finds Recovered COVID Patients Who Test Positive Not Infectious (ZH) • Australian Study: COVID19 Spreads In Schools ‘Considerably Less’ Than Flu (JTN) • Why Australia Must SPEND Its Way Out Of The COVID19 Crisis (DM) • EU Exec To Propose €1 Trillion Euro Recovery Plan With Grants And Loans (R.) • The Great Opening-up (Jim Kunstler) • China Backs Investigation Of WHO And Coronavirus Pandemic (SCMP) • 8 Countries to
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Jack Delano Engineer at AT&SF railroad yard, Clovis, NM 1943 • US States’ Reopening Plans Are All Over The Map (R.) • Moderna: Early Coronavirus Vaccine Results Are Encouraging (AP) • Trump Says He Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine Despite FDA Warning (R.) • Trump Threatens To Permanently Cut Off WHO Funding (CNBC) • CDC Plans Sweeping COVID19 Antibody Study In 25 Metropolitan Areas (R.) • Coronavirus Deadliest In New York City’s Black And Latino Neighborhoods (R.) • Brazil Sees 674
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Jack Delano Myrtle Beach, S.C. Air Service Command Technical Sergeant Choken 1943 • Ardern Becomes New Zealand’s Most Popular PM In A Century (R.) • 116 Countries Back Australia’s Push For Independent Corona Inquiry (SBS.au) • Start ‘Travel Bubbles’ For Low-Risk Countries, Heathrow Urges UK Govt (R.) • Profiting from Coronavirus (Craig Murray) • US Mulls Paying Companies, Tax Breaks To Pull Supply Chains From China (R.) • Cuomo Says No One Should Be Prosecuted For Coronavirus Deaths In
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Gerry Cranham They all fall in the round I call 1963 There was this comment at the Automatic Earth yesterday that got me thinking. It was sort of wrapped in a bit of -more- innuendo about health officials not getting the results they were looking for in COVID19 numbers, as if the whole virus event is some goal-seeked conspiracy. You’ll be familiar with it by now. I said back in the day that measures like lockdowns can’t last long,
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Dorothea Lange Plantation overseer and his field hands, Mississippi Delta 1936 • A Third Of COVID19 Hospital Patients Develop Dangerous Blood Clots (BBC) • China Adds Long-Term Organ Damage To List Of Effects Of COVID19 (SCMP) • May 16 Update: US COVID-19 Test Results (CR) • Llamas Could Be Our Secret Weapon Against Coronavirus (G.) • Lack Of Immunity Makes China Vulnerable To Another Wave Of Coronavirus (CNN) • Battle Looms At WHO Amid Pressure On China Over Coronavirus
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