Ben Shahn Quick lunch stand in Plain City, Ohio 1938 • Italy Has Exported Cases Of Coronavirus To 24 Countries – WHO (TMZNaija) • China Manufacturing Collapse Confirmed By Private Sector Factory Survey (SCMP) • China Reports Surprising Rail Freight Growth In February (SCMP) • A Modern Jubilee As A Cure To Financial Ills Of Coronavirus (Steve Keen) • This Ain’t No Fooling’ Around (Kunstler) • Tucker Carlson On Dems’ Biden Push: ‘They’re Pushing A Defective Product’ (Fox) •
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John Vachon Big Four Cafe, Cairo, Illinois 1940 • China Leaves Asymptomatic Patients off Coronavirus Infection Tally (Caixin) • Epidemic Won’t Spark Financial Crisis In China (Global Times) • CDC Retesting Patient After Testing Negative, Being Released (KSAT) • CDC Testing Limits May Have Delayed Coronavirus Response (HP) • US Agency Investigating Production Of Faulty Coronavirus Test Kits (R.) • Murder Probe Sought For South Korea Sect At Center Of Coronavirus Outbreak (R.) • China Gives Relief to Shield
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John Waterhouse Diogenes 1882 This is a new essay from Alexander Aston. He describes how once the world has passed through the -narrow- bottleneck of the coronavirus and its effects on our societies, which are long overdue for a redo, and on the central bank-engineered distortions of the markets that are -make that were- supposed to be the foundation that allowed us to flourish, there will be a better world waiting. I’m all for it, and I have
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Arthur Rothstein Accident on US 40 between Hagerstown and Cumberland, Maryland 1936 • HK Coronavirus Outbreak Not At Peak: Gabriel Leung (RTHK) • Indonesia’s Frontline Hospital Defends Policies To Tackle Coronavirus (R.) • Don’t Test, Don’t Tell! (Ben Hunt) • Markets Expected To Fall Further As Coronavirus Hits China’s Economy (G.) • China Pollution Clear Amid Coronavirus Slowdown (BBC) • Bernie Sanders Looks To Blow Away Rivals On Super Tuesday (G.) • US and Taliban Ink Afghanistan
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Harris&Ewing National Emergency War Garden Commission display, Wash. DC 1918 • China Reports Catastrophic Data: PMIs Crash To Record Lows (ZH) • New York Scrambles To Replace US Government’s Faulty Coronavirus Test Kits (R.) • US Sanctions on Iran Helped Coronavirus Spread Undetected (NI) • Chinese Lab That First Shared Virus Genome Closed For ‘Rectification’ (SCMP) • Australia Defied WHO On Coronavirus (SMH) • Israeli Scientists Claim To Be Weeks Away From Coronavirus Vaccine (NYPost) • A Big Coronavirus
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Lewis Wickes Hine Gus Hodges, 11, instructs brother Julius 5. I found Gus selling as late as 9 pm, Norfolk VA 1911 • England Only Has 15 Beds For Worst Respiratory Cases (G.) • Diagnosis Of Coronavirus Patient In California Was Delayed For Days (NPR) • The Last Time This Happened Was Days Before The Great Depression (ZH) • Whistleblower Claims ‘Corrupt Cover-Up’ Of Dangerous Coronavirus Quarantines (ZH) • Greece Reports 4 Coronavirus Cases, Cancels Carnival (K.) • Abe
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‘Daly’ Store, Manning, South Carolina 1941 • China City Offers $1,400 To Virus Patients Who Report To Authorities (R.) • UK Hospitals To Deny Care To Weakest If Pandemic Hits (Ind.) • The Hunt For ‘Patient Zero’ – The World’s Health May Depend On It (SCMP) • Japanese Woman Tests Positive For Second Time (R.) • HIV-Like Mutation Makes Coronavirus Far More Infectious Than Sars (SCMP) • Virus Response Delay Could Have Added 100,000 Cases, China Expert (SCMP) •
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‘Daly’ Somewhere in the South, possibly Miami 1941 • First US Soldier Stationed In South Korea Tests Positive For Coronavirus (CNN) • China Outbreak Could Cause Critical Shortages Of Medical Products In US (CNN) • Larry Kudlow: US Has Contained Coronavirus, Economy Holding Up Nicely (CNBC) • Coronavirus Wipes Out $1.7 Trillion In US Stock Market Value In 2 Days (CNBC) • US Could See A Similar Death Rate To China If The Virus Spreads – Fauci (CNN) •
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Venice carnival or Black Death? Mary Poppins? Many of the things we see happening now with the coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, take your pick, I “predicted” a while ago. But I’m not in the predicting business, and anyone who would have said even just a week ago that Italy would have 11 deaths today and/or Iran would have 50, or the US 53+ cases of infection, would have been labeled a raving lunatic. Wuhan apparently relaxed some of their
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Andreas Feininger Production B-17 heavy bomber at Boeing plant, Seattle Dec 1942 • The Fall of Wuhan (Ben Hunt) • 40-70% Of People Will Be Infected With COVID19 – Epidemiologist (Atl.) • Xi Jinping Rings Alarm On Economy As China Shifts Priority To Growth (SCMP) • Confusion In Wuhan As Move To Ease Coronavirus Lockdown Is Reversed (SCMP) • How Iran’s Death Toll Came To Be The Highest Behind Only China (SCMP) • China Overestimating Economic Recovery By Leaving
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