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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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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