Ann Rosener Reconditioning used spark plugs for use in testing airplane motors, Melrose Park Buick plant, Chicago 1942 • The Extraordinary Decisions Facing Italian Doctors (Mounk) • ‘Healthcare On Brink Of Collapsing’: The Italy Coronavirus Quarantine (ITV) • Politicians, Community Leaders, Business Leaders: What To Do and When (M.) • Trump Suspends Travel From Europe To US (BBC) • Ban On European Travel To US Will Batter Airlines (R.) • Why Does The Coronavirus Spread So Easily
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Gordon Parks A scene at the Fulton Fish Market, New York Jun 1943 • Cancel Everything (Mounk) • An Italian Financial Crisis Is Certain – But How Contagious Will It Be? (G.) • Johns Hopkins Doctor: ‘What Happened In Wuhan Could Happen Here’ (CNBC) • Johns Hopkins Doctor: ‘What Happened In Wuhan Could Happen Here’ (CNBC) • Leaked: US Hospitals Prep For 96 Million Infections & 480k Deaths (SHTF) • Merkel Expects 60-70% Of Germans To Be Infected With
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James F. Gibson Tent of A. Foulke, sutler, 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery. Brandy Station, Virginia 1864 • Thread: Intensivist/A&E Consultant Currently In Northern Italy (Twitter) • Italy Not Europe’s Coronavirus Hotbed, Just First Country That Snapped (RT) • Trump Has Not Been Tested For Coronavirus – White House (R.) • Seattle-Area Nursing Home Unable To Test 65 Workers With COVID-19 Symptoms (R.) • Coronavirus Symptoms Usually Take 5 Days To Appear – Study (CNN) • Bail Out The People
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• ‘Fake Wealth’ Set To Pop (ABR) • Global Markets Plunge 7-8%, Oil Falls 30% To $30 (G.) • Goldman Cuts Brent Forecasts To $30 On Price War, Virus (R.) • Gig Economy Workers Can’t Afford To Be Ill (G.) • Plummeting Oil Prices And Mortgage Rates Could Boost Consumers (CNBC) • More Countries Will Adopt Italy’s Measures – Austria PM (G.) • Leaked Italy Quarantine Plans Create Chaos, Threaten To Spread Virus (ZH) • Charities Preparing To Feed
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Heinrich Hofmann Christ and the Rich Young Man 1889 Around mid-January I started including coronavirus news in the daily Automatic Earth “Debt Rattle” news aggregators, and wrote the first essay on the topic on January 29. Tons of people since have asked why, but I thought the virus had “potential”. Though not everybody would agree, I still think that. So the Debt Rattles are full of coronavirus these days. For a proper understanding, we must remember that China was
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Unknown Daniels-Wells Pontiac, 3055 Broadway, Oakland CA 1938 • Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing (Atl.) • US Airport Screeners, Health Workers Plagued By Fear And Anger (R.) • One Tests Positive After Conference Also Attended By Trump, Pence, Pompeo (X.) • Nebraska Woman Rushed To Bio-Containment Unit In Specialized Isolation Pod (DM) • Italy To Quarantine Whole Of Lombardy Due To Coronavirus (O.) • Quarter Of Italy’s Population Put In Quarantine (O.) • Head Of
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John Vachon Trucks loaded with mattresses at San Angelo, Texas Nov 1939 • How America Can Beat COVID-19 (Galbraith) • Don’t Test, Don’t Tell: The Bureaucratic Bungling of COVID-19 Tests (Ben Hunt) • Coronavirus Matters, The Stock Market Doesn’t (IC) • Not Enough Face Masks Are Made In America To Deal With Coronavirus (NPR) • US Excludes Chinese Face Masks, Medical Gear From Tariffs (R.) • Virus Concerns Drag Down Wall Street, But Indexes Eke Out Weekly Gains (R.)
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Russell Lee Proprietor of small store in market square, Waco, Texas Nov 1939 • China Pharma Exports Cut Would “Plunge US Into Mighty Sea Of Coronavirus” (ZH) • Coronavirus Could Erase $211 Billion From Asia-Pacific Economies – S&P (R.) • South Korea Protests Japan Travel Curbs As Corona Ignites Diplomatic Row (R.) • Vietnam Able To Make 10,000 Coronavirus Test Kits Per Day (VnE) • Boeing 737 MAX Certification Flight Could Come Within ‘A Few Weeks’ (R.) • Trump
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DPC Mott Street, Chinatown, New York c1900 • Wuhan Coronavirus Infections Spike (R.) • Chinese Scientists Identify Two Strains Of The Coronavirus (CNBC) • On The Origin And Continuing Evolution Of SARS-CoV-2 (NSR) • Official US Coronavirus Numbers Are Wrong, and Everyone Knows It (Atl.) • Flybe, Europe’s Largest Regional Airline, Collapses (G.) • California-Based Cruise Ship Quarantined Off Pacific Coast (Pol.) • Purell For $400? US Lawmaker Urges Amazon To Tamp Down Price Gouging (R.) • The Greatest
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DPC North approach, Pedro Miguel Lock, Panama Canal 1915 • WHO Raises Global Mortality Rate For COVID-19 Up To 3.4% (CNBC) • Maybe Jay Powell’s Not Cut Out For This Fed Chair Thing (Shazar) • Airlines Rush To Boost Demand As Coronavirus Shreds Crisis Playbooks (R.) • Market Mayhem Exposes Fears About Oil Companies (CNN) • China’s Funding Breakdown Emphasises Economic Imbalances (SCMP) • CIA Has Been Attacking Multiple Chinese Bodies For 11 Years (PDaily) • Court:
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