Takeuchi Seiho Bear in snow 1940 As I said earlier today, I picked up a whole slew of articles on the “coronavirus” through the day yesterday, collected some more today, and then decided not to put them in my daily Debt Rattle news aggregator today because it would have been too much. I wasn’t trying to focus on number of deaths or cases, interest in that is overblown by now. What I look for is news about the
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Marjory Collins “Crowds at Pennsylvania Station, New York” Aug 1942 • China Reports 73 New Deaths From Coronavirus, 3,143 New Cases (SCMP) • Trump Expresses Confidence In China’s Confronting Its Coronavirus Outbreak (R.) • Texas Congresswoman Says Russia Responsible For Iowa Caucus Mess (WE) • The GIGO Impeachment (Turley) • Russian, Turkish Military Among 100s Killed & Injured In Idlib Terrorism (RT) • UK Town Halls Told To Fly Union Jack For Prince Andrew’s Birthday (Ind.) • Boeing’s Fraying
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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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