Seattle, WA during Spanish Influenza. No ride on street cars without wearing a mask 1918/19 • China May Delay Annual Meeting Of Parliament Due To Virus Outbreak (R.) • “Leaked” Infection Numbers Over 154,000; Deaths Approach 25,000 (NN) • Major Mainland Chinese Airlines Place All Foreign Pilots On Unpaid Leave (SCMP) • With Virus Deaths At 565 China Considers Trade Deal Disaster Clause (SCMP) • Chinese Scholar Blames Xi Jinping, CCP For Not Controlling Outbreak (SCMP) • Who Owns
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Max Ernst Inspired hill 1950 Hi, it’s me again, with more virus stories. I know you may think it’s enough now, but I do want to do this one. Actually, I haven’t written all that much about it, just two essays, 2019-nCoV and The Party and the Virus, but the topic has become a staple of my daily Debt Rattle news aggregators lately. So much that I find I need to remind myself all the time that it’s been
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DPC Pine Street below Kearney after the great San Francisco earthquake and fire 1906 • China Applies For Drug Patent, Virus Death Toll +65 To 492 (SCMP) • Cruise Ship Carrying 3,700 Quarantined In Japan After 10 Test Positive (G.) • China’s Airlines Told Not To Axe Global Flights As Thousands Cut (R.) • Cathay Pacific Asks All 27,000 Employees To Take 3 Weeks Unpaid Leave (SCMP) • Trump-Pelosi Feud Erupts During SOTU As Impeachment Trial Nears End (R.)
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DPC The heart of Chinatown, San Francisco, after the earthquake and fire 1906 • China Death Toll Hits 427 As New Cases In Hubei Increase By Record High (SCMP) • Coronavirus: China Admits ‘Shortcomings And Deficiencies’ (BBC) • Chinese Military Takes Control Of Medical Supplies In Wuhan (SCMP) • Coronavirus Tally In Epicentre Wuhan May Be ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’ (SCMP) • ‘Striking’ Coronavirus Mutations Found Within One Family Cluster (SCMP) • Coronavirus Found On Doorknob Of
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Harris&Ewing “Slaves reunion DC. Lewis Martin, age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, age 104; Amy Ware, age 103; Rev. Simon P. Drew, born free.” c1916 • China Censors Top Media Outlet That Says It Underreports Cases, Deaths (ZH) • Virus Worries Wipe $420 Billion Off China’s Stock Market (R.) • Chinese Shares Drop 9% (G.) • China’s Sinopec Cuts Feb Daily Refinery Output By 12% As Virus Hits (R.) • Huawei, Chinese Chip Makers Keep Factories Humming Despite Coronavirus (R.)
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Samuel Colman The Edge of Doom 1836-38 What the future will bring for the 2019nCoV novel Wuhan coronavirus is still unclear. An epidemic it already is, but is it also a pandemic? Some 20 countries have reported infections, but it still could all fizzle out; 305 deaths can be forgotten by next week. Nobody can tell you how this will play out, not even the most experienced and/or smartest virologists and other experts. Because there’s no telling what viruses
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NPC “Georgetown-Marines game” 1923 • US Confirms Its Eighth Case Of Coronavirus (R.) • Uber Suspends 240 Accounts In Mexico To Prevent Coronavirus Spreading (R.) • US Senator Shreds China’s Official Virus Story, Warns Of “Super Laboratory” (ZH) • Pelosi Questions Why The President’s Lawyers Are Not Disbarred (Turley) • CNN’s Blatant And Bizarre Tulsi Gabbard Snub (Hill) • Is Hillary Clinton Angling To Become Vice President? (Hill) • DNC Members Planning Move To Block Bernie Sanders . .
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Russell Lee Street scene. Spencer, Iowa 1936 • Coronavirus “HIV Insertions”: Fears Over Artificially Created Bioweapon (ZH) • Chinese Furious At Officials Who Lied About Human Transmission (ZH) • China Voices Anger At US Travel Ban (G.) • Australia Bars Entry To Foreign Nationals Traveling From Mainland China (R.) • What Trump Acquittal Would Mean For 2020 Election (BBC) • Is Bernie’s Hour of Power at Hand? (Buchanan) • Hillary Clinton Blames Bernie Sanders For Disunity In Democratic Party
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Walker Evans Waterfront in New Orleans. French market sidewalk scene 1935 • WHO Declares International Health Emergency Over Coronavirus Outbreak (RT) • Spate Of Anti-Chinese Incidents In Italy As Two Cases Of Virus Confirmed (G.) • Hillary Clinton Refuses To Be Served Tulsi Gabbard’s Defamation Lawsuit (NYP) • Major Blow For Democrats At Trump Trial (BBC) • Warren Questions Roberts ‘Legitimacy’ Without Trial Witnesses (Fox) • Was The Bolton Leak Too Perfect? (Turley) • Simon & Schuster Won’t Back
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Ben Shahn “Just one more bolt of cloth”, county fair, central Ohio 1938 • Coronavirus Deaths Leap In China As Countries Struggle To Evacuate Citizens (G.) • New Coronavirus Spreads As Readily As 1918 Spanish Flu, Linked To Bats (LAT) • WHO: Coronavirus Spread Outside Of China Is Of ‘Grave Concern’ (CNBC) • Hubei Province Has Severe Shortage Of Medical Supplies – Governor (CGTN) • Joe Biden’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Memo To Media Doesn’t Match The Facts (Solomon) • Ukraine
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