M.C. Escher Fluorescent sea 1933 It’s a little amusing, though that word may not fit the topic, to see how people react to the 2019-nCoV (Wuhan coronavirus) “epidemic” that appears to have started in the city of that name. It’s understandable that people compare the warnings about it to those about for instance SARS (also a coronavirus, so either call this one 2019-nCoV or “Wuhan coronavirus”), and conclude that since that episode was not so bad, neither will this
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Marion Post Wolcott Main Street. Sheridan, Wyoming 1941 • Number Of Coronavirus Cases Surpasses SARS (ZH) • Coronavirus May Disrupt Apple’s iPhone Production Ramp Up (R.) • White House Tells Airlines It May Suspend All China-US Flights (CNBC) • British Airways Suspends All Direct Flights To And From Mainland China (BBC) • China Boom Exposes Airlines To Coronavirus Risk (R.) • Viewers Choose Day Time Soaps Over The Impeachment Trial (Turley) • Democrats’ Dubious Impeachment Subtext of Treason (Michael
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Walker Evans Vicksburg, Mississippi. “Vicksburg Negroes and shop front.” 1936 • Coronavirus Has Killed 106 And Infected 4,515 People In China (CNBC) • Coronavirus Death Toll Climbs To 106, Infections Rise To 4,515 (BBC) • US and Japan To Fly Out Citizens As Coronavirus Deaths Rise (G.) • China Coronavirus Cases Almost Double Overnight (ZH) • Hong Kong Scientist Insists 44,000 Already Infected In Wuhan (ZH) • How Testing Woes Slowed China’s Coronavirus Response (R.) • Coronavirus ‘Significant Threat’
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Lewis Wickes Hine A heavy load for an old woman. Lafayette Street below Astor Place, NYC 1912 • China Extends Holiday, Businesses Shut As Virus Toll Rises To 81 (R.) • Coronavirus Latest: Over 2,800 Global Cases Resulting in 80 Fatalities (ZH) • Coronavirus: 100,000 May Already Be Infected, Experts Warn (G.) • Chinese Nurse Says 90,000 Already Infected (ZH) • WHO To Hold Special Meeting In Beijing As Death Toll Jumps (G.) • Bolton’s Manuscript Leaks On Same
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Jack Delano Long stairway in mill district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1941 • Chinese Virus Deaths Rise To 56, 2,000 Infected & More Cases Abroad (RT) • Coronavirus Contagion Rate Makes It Hard To Control (R.) • No Link With Seafood Market In First Case Of China Coronavirus (SCMP) • China Stole Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It (GGI) • US Economic Confidence at Highest Point Since 2000 (Gallup) • Stock Market A ‘Ponzi Scheme’ That Eventually Must Collapse –
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Harris&Ewing Happy News Cafe, “restaurant for the unemployed”, Washington, DC 1937 • China Virus Death Toll Rises To 41, More Than 1,300 Infected Worldwide (R.) • UK Researcher: Over 250,000 Chinese Will Have Coronavirus In 10 Days (ZH) • GOP Senators Incensed By Schiff’s ‘Head On A Pike’ Remark (AP) • Adam Schiff’s Very Scary Warmongering Speech (Daniel Lazare) • Adam Schiff Is Turning Into A Tom Clancy Character (Tucker Carlson) • The Big Sleep (Jim Kunstler) • 2016
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John Vachon Window in home of unemployed steelworker, Ambridge, PA 1941 • Chinese Hospitals In Chaos As Lockdown Spreads To Affect 33m People (G.) • Four ‘Generations’ Of Spread Seen With Virus In China (STAT) • Cases of China’s Viral Pneumonia Surge Exponentially (ET) • Wuhan Virus Will Shape China’s Smart City Vision (R.) • Doomsday Clock Moves Within 100 Seconds Of Midnight (NPR) • The House Impeachment Case Vs The Law of Attempts (Turley) • Fed’s Repos Drop
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Jack Delano Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops San Bernardino, CA 1943 • Adam Schiff’s Opening Argument At Senate Impeachment Trial (Pol.) • Gabbard Suing Clinton For Defamation Over ‘Russian Asset’ Comments (Hill) • Black South Carolina Elected Official Now Backing Sanders Over Biden (AP) • Hunter Biden Ordered To Appear In Court Next Week For Contempt Hearing (ZH) • UN Demands US Probe Of Alleged Saudi Hack of Bezos’ Phone (ZH) • The Great American Shale
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Jack Delano Repair and overhauling in Chicago & North Western Railroad locomotive shops, Chicago 1942 • New Coronavirus Has Unusually High Ability To Bind To A Human Protein (SCMP) • Life After Putin (Dmitry Orlov) • Senate Votes Down Democrats’ Subpoena Proposals (G.) • Adam Schiff Caught ‘Fabricating’ Evidence (US24) • Hillary Clinton Kicks Off ‘Stop Sanders’ Movement. Will Obama Follow? (Y!) • Why Congress Must Keep Investigating Trump After the Impeachment Trial (Pol.) • Ukrainian Prosecutor Biden Pushed
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Alfred Palmer U.S. Marine Corps glider detachment training camp, Parris Island, SC 1943 • Davos Man Is Richer Than Ever (BBG) • Markets Tumble As Human-to-Human Transmission Coronavirus Confirmed (ZH) • Flynn’s Lawyer: FBI Agents Wrote Flynn Didn’t Lie, We Have Eyewitness (ET) • McConnell Proposes Compressed Schedule For Impeachment Trial (Hill) • How The Senate Trial’s First Day May Proceed (Fox) • White House Appoints GOP House Members To Advise Trump’s Impeachment Team (Hill) • Chief Justice Roberts
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