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Every single member of the NRA. If we thought PizzaGate was bad...

Trump now blaming the fact that he has to be the cheerleader in chief for over optimism during the last four months. Now he took just took back his WHO threat...we’re looking into it bigly. Finally, ”They call it the herd.” And a press secretary resigning that never actually gave a single press conference. Well, that does it, one woman on that Laura Show, very good show, by the way...thought she was dead but now believes she was saved by hydroxychloroquine. How do we know it wasn’t her believing that she was going better...when they could have had the same impact with a placebo?

Seems like he’s starting to get cocky with the stock market recovering about half its lost value...it’s fine to be optimistic, but this is going to last at least through May/early June. Wish he would make the pledge that no Trump 2020 campaign, Organization or Ivanka product lines would ever be manufactured abroad as well. Of course, that will never happen. It’s like he just learned for the first time this last week that there were around 200 countries in the world. So we’re putting a hold on WHO funding but refusing any oversight on how hundreds of billions are being spent here? Well, that makes so much sense...to make it even harder to get information to prevent the next pandemic down the line. What is likely to happen is we will then get over-warned and it will be like the little boy crying wolf.

We’ve lost all perspective now in terms of what “doing a good job” in this situation even means... We first had that 80-100k figure, then 200k, then 240k, Navarro even put the 500k figure from the Spanish flu out there. The last 24 hours, now back down to the 50-80,000 range. We will never know the real numbers, unfortunately. This transition to opening up the economy again in May/June is going to be the trickiest part. One of the statistics I saw recently was that complete school shutdowns resulted in roughly 2-4% more deaths. That would mean something like 125-175 deaths so far prevented from those closures, in terms of US statistics. I’m guessing there are a lot of Americans under 50 who will argue it’s not worth the disruption based on numbers like that.

Somehow the Dow was up nearly 1,000 points but has since fallen back a bit...pretty astounding that it’s so disconnected from all these truly horrific daily statistics representing nearly aspects of everyday American life.

This makes me feel a little bit better...but God knows how many countries/doctors/hospitals/pharmacies are ordering all around the world. There was also a story over the weekend that India was the largest exporter/producer and considering holding it for domestic usage...haven’t see the follow-up. Trump: We have purchased and we have stockpiled 29 million pills of the hydroxychloroquine, 29 million. A lot of drugstores have them by prescription — and they’re not expensive. Also, we’re sending them to various labs, our military, we’re sending them to the hospitals, we’re sending them all over. STAT: Trump is mostly correct, but the units were donated by drug companies, not purchased by the federal government, and he’s actually underselling the number: It’s 31 million doses, not 29 million. Sandoz, the generic subsidiary of Novartis, donated 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate to the Strategic National Stockpile last month, and Bayer donated another 1 million doses of hydroxychloroquine phosphate. https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/trump-hydroxychloroquine-fact-check/ We’re going to pass 11,000 in the next few hours. Spain saw another surge in the last 24 hours, they’re at 14,000. At this rate, US and Spain will catch up to Italy at about the same time US goes to #1 overall for deaths. Something like a week now...of course, the US mortality rate is much lower, around 3% so far, but that also has been climbing. The overall rate for the world at 5.6%, as opposed to SARs at 9.6%...months ago, we were all thinking 2.5% seemed like a realistic number, or even 0.75-1.25% (those who were trying to compare it to seasonal flu.)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/09/20/family-matters-epipens-had-help-getting-schools-manchin-bresch/90435218/ I remembered the name Mylan from previously, it was the sky high epipen charges...when generic versions around the world cost fractions less. Look at the connections to the Manchin family, he’s barely a Dem but still counts. Mr. Trump first expressed interest in hydroxychloroquine a few weeks ago, telling associates that Mr. Ellison, a billionaire and a founder of Oracle, had discussed it with him. At the time, Dr. Mehmet Oz, the host of television’s “The Doctor Oz Show,” was in touch with Mr. Trump’s advisers about expediting approval to use the drug for the coronavirus. Mr. Giuliani has urged Mr. Trump to embrace the drug, based in part on the advice of Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a self-described simple country doctor who has become a hit on conservative media after administering a cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, the antibiotic azithromycin and zinc sulfate. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-malaria-drug.html So we have Giuliani, Larry Ellison (one of the richest in the world), Ken Fisher, Peter Navarro doing the Federal procurement of the drug, Dr. Oz (he’s as Fox News as you get)...as we said before much earlier in this thread, follow the MONEY. Might as well add Sens. Burr and Loeffler. Manchin (WV) family as well.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/health/coronavirus-coroners-uncounted-deaths-invs/index.html Uncounted Covid-19 deaths climbing

Tax writeoffs! For at least a decade. It would be interesting to see how much money the Trump organization actually invested/risked (they’re more into branding and management fees), how much he’s personally lost, how much money ended up not getting paid to vendors/workers in all the bankruptcies/restructurings and what the real net is....let’s not get started with the attempted charity endeavors. Probably a lot less than the ROR on the Vanguard 500 Index over that entire time frame.

The Journal is now ranked 15th out of 89 journals in the Infectious Diseases category, 25th out of 123 journals in the Microbiology category and 41st out of 253 journals in the Pharmacology & Pharmacy category of the Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports. From their own website, btw That’s good enough for America!

How did coronavirus break out? Theories abound as researchers race to solve genetic detective story https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/us/coronavirus-scientists-debate-origin-theories-invs/index.html

I used to think Haley would get the VP nod this time around, but Ingraham’s quickly picking up speed. Fortunately, Trump is so stubborn and insistent that he’s always right that it won’t allow him to countenance a change. That and the fact that he’s immediately threatened by those getting so much positive attention, like Dr. Fauci, like Governor Cuomo. It wouldn’t work because she was too independent at the UN, as she ramps up her shadow campaign for 2024.

You’re an elected official now? Well, that would only make sense, since your dear elected leader spends more time following the way he’s bring covered and wasting everyones’ time holding briefings on national t.v. than he does solving the actual problems. Recently, he’s taken to not even letting the actual health experts talk. He has had some really great/amazing/beautiful/perfect phone calls, I guess. Lots of genuflecting and expressions of appreciation from the “good” governors... We’re in month five of this and there’s still no agreed-upon plan, just posturing to treat any death count under 240k as a victory, all the failures to be attributed to the mayors in urban areas/Dem governors/MSM/Federal Reserve/Biden corruption/deep state cabals, like the Inspector General of HHS who has been in government since 1999 and has served in a nonpartisan fashion over multiple presidencies of both parties.

This just in. Every president other than Jimmy Carter has made millions from book deals and speaking appearances. He was arguably the worst president, and the best humanitarian. I think every cent he’s raised has gone back to Habitat for Humanity or church related charities. Let’s talk about Dick Cheney and Rumsfield and their current stock holdings, it’s not like we haven’t spent $8 trillion on endless Middle East wars since Bush, Sr. But cue next Pete Schweitzer scandal/expose on the Biden family. And yet the insider trading stories (Burr/Loeffler) just die from lack of interest...”that’s just the way it is.” No wonder Money Heist (Spain) is becoming one of the most popular shows around the world.

I’m not sure you could have deliberately picked someone with a more ill-suited temperament...and complete lack of empathy/compassion, to guide our country in these trying times. He just cannot handle challenging questions from ANY female reporters with calling the nasty or horrid. Makes me appreciate all the other presidents (even GW) going back to Nixon that much more. I mean...it’s not like we didn’t have the swine flu epidemic in 2009...and an obstructionist Congress. Not sure who exactly was for rebuilding our stockpiles of PPE and ventilators at that point. It’s not like we haven’t had a majority of governorships and state legislatures in control of the GOP from 2010 onwards...and a major shift didn’t begin to occur before January, 2019. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3078669/one-virus-caused-covid-19-scientists-say-thousands-more-are-waiting Coronavirus: One virus caused Covid-19. Scientists say thousands more are in waiting Coronavirus has forced changes on all levels of society, and shown how being able to ship goods and people around the world in 24 hours helps viruses spread The second part of our series on lessons learned from the pandemic looks at the importance of identifying new viruses and the risks of them infecting humans

Well, this os something that should have been anticipated weeks ago looking at even limited Chinese, South Korean and Italian/Spanish data. More men, almost 2x die, over 50-60 predominantly, smoking and preexisting conditions...plus the extreme results amongst the lower socioeconomic economic ladders who don’t have access to consistently high-quality health care. How often do we talk about the much lower preventive care costs associated with health care, vs. emergency reactive interventions when the damage has already been done and it’s too late? Media cannot ask any questions that are not positive and affirming? And the confusion over small business loan rollout... US cannot “show any weakness” in terms of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, because it’s a great, amazing modern nuclear powered ship we should instead be proud of...sigh. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/jamie-dimon-on-covid-19-crisis-114330705.html “As a nation, we were clearly not equipped for this global pandemic, and the consequences have been devastating,” Dimon wrote in his firm’s widely-read annual letter to JPMorgan shareholders. .... Dimon wrote: “Our inner city schools don’t graduate half of their students and don’t give our children an education that leads to a livelihood; our healthcare system is increasingly costly with many of our citizens lacking any access; and nutrition and personal health aren’t even being taught at many schools. Obesity has become a national scourge. We have a litigation and regulatory system that cripples small businesses with red tape and bureaucracy; ineffective infrastructure planning and investment; and huge waste and inefficiency at both the state and federal levels. We have failed to put proper immigration policies in place; our social safety nets are poorly designed; and the share of wages for the bottom 30% of Americans has effectively been going down.” “We need to acknowledge these problems and the damage they have done if we are ever going to fix them,” he said.

It was running 15% pretty consistently throughout Asia, closer to 18-20% in Italy, Spain, France, etc. Checks stock market and shakes head after all the day’s news about Boris Johnson and record-setting deaths. Is it all based on EU rates slowing down, or yet another suckers’ rally?

My money is on the Gates Foundation trials...

Broke 10,000 deaths....about 6k behind Italy now, and closing quickly

Well, Peter Navarro just stating that he’s the “second opinion” to Dr. Tony Fauci is only amusing on Curb Your Enthusiasm. And Dr. Birx will line up in the middle, but leaning towards the admin side. Seems like they could use a few more doctors on that task force, beyond the FDA and CDC political appointees. Almost nobody mentions the side effects, organ toxicity...or how potent it actually is.

They spent more time with antibodies and platelets from recovered patients, Remdesivir, antivirals/antiretrovirals. To say it was widespread would definitely not be the case. Dr. Fauci was muzzled yesterday. He had a direct question on the drug and Trump basically jumped in front and stopped him from answering. Something’s gotta give the way things are going, probably when the US passes Italy for most deaths in the next 7-10 days. Unless Fauci does a Mattis/Kelly/Tillerson and argues it’s better to stay and bite his tongue than become co-opted to the extent Dr. Birx has. Can’t serve a political and scientific master simultaneously.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/491260-giuliani-touts-experimental-coronavirus-treatment-in-private https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-a-familiar-voice-in-trumps-ear-promotes-experimental-coronavirus-treatments/2020/04/05/d4b3b56a-7438-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html Always follow the money with this administration...Navarro has adopted this same obsession as the Federal stockpilbe has grown to something like 29 million doses.

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-white-house-01306286-0bbc-4042-9bfe-890413c6220d.html Fringe economist Peter Navarro is attempting to intervene with his gut health care advice that has literally zero grounding in sound scientific testing methods. God help us all. We get the government we deserve when people don’t pay enough attention to exactly what it is that they’re voting for, which is Jared Kushner masquerading as a logistics/procurement expert and Navarro rampaging like a bull through a China (figuratively) shop. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/05/opinions/coronavirus-wealthy-false-security-vicky-ward-opinion/index.html For some of the rich I speak to, a more urgent headache than the symptom of the virus is the possible ramifications of the economic shutdown — but even that may be much less meaningful than you'd think given the tax break some are getting from the stimulus package. A clause in the bill allows commercial real estate developers to offset paper losses from the depreciation of their buildings against taxes on profits from other investments like the stock market. A New York Times report says the estimated cost of the change over 10 years is $170 billion. One real estate mogul told me that he cracked open the champagne beside the pool the day the CARES Act was passed by Congress. "Some people are going to get very rich out of this," says someone else I know in the health care supplies business. Harvard-trained epidemiologist Dr. Ashwin Vasan told me that he's heard disturbing stories of wealthy individuals procuring their own ventilators. This at a time governors of hard-hit states say they're about to run out of their own essential supplies.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/04/05/fareeds-take-coronavirus-global-crisis-gps-vpx.cnn This kind of puts it all in perspective...

Taiwan's best-in-world response to coronavirus buried in global politics https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/04/asia/taiwan-coronavirus-response-who-intl-hnk/index.html