revolutionradio--2020-05-11--‘Social Distancing’ is Snake Oil, Not Science

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York says that it ’ s “ shocking ” to discover that 66 percent of new hospitalizations appear to have been among people “ largely sheltering at home.
” “ We thought maybe they were taking public transportation , ” he said , “ but actually no , because these people were literally at home.
” “ Much of this comes down to what you do to protect yourself , ” he continues .
“ Everything closed down , government has done everything it could , society has done everything it could.
” It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the hospitalized New Yorkers who loyally complied with his government directive .
But here ’ s an interesting alternative theory as to why , mostly , old people who are staying at home are being hospitalized .
What if the government directive to close everything down and mandate “ social distancing ” actually made the problem worse ?
Dr. David Katz predicted precisely this outcome on March 20 , in an article that is proving every bit as correct in its predictions and sober policy recommendations as Dr. Anthony Fauci has been proven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying that the article has proven flawless , so far .
[ I ] n more and more places we are limiting gatherings uniformly , a tactic I call “ horizontal interdiction ” — when containment policies are applied to the entire population without consideration of their risk for severe infection .
But as the work force is laid off en masse ( our family has one adult child home for that reason already ) , and colleges close ( we have another two young adults back home for this reason ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being sent home to huddle with their families nationwide .
And because we lack widespread testing , they may be carrying the virus and transmitting it to their 50-something parents , and 70- or 80-something grandparents .
If there are any clear guidelines for behavior within families — what I call “ vertical interdiction ” — I have not seen them .
One might be inclined to simply accept this as an unintended consequence of “ social distancing , ” but accepting that would require there to be some kind of benefit to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it worth the cost .
Is there ?
Very likely , you already instinctively know that the guidelines suggesting that it ’ s somehow helpful to keep a six-foot space between healthy people , even outdoors , is not based on science , but just an arbitrary suggestion we ’ ve been conditioned to accept without evidence .
And your gut feeling would be right .
There ’ s a reason that “ social distancing ” wasn ’ t a buzzword common to the American lexicon prior to 2020 .
There ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” at all .
“ It turns out , ” Julie Kelly writes at American Greatness , “ as I wrote last month , “ social distancing ” is untested pseudoscience particularly as it relates to halting the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus .
On its website , the CDC provides no links to any peer-reviewed social distancing studies that bolster its official guidance.
” There ’ s a reason for the lack of peer-reviewed studies on the CDC website .
She continues : The alarming reality is that social distancing never has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the modern age ; its current formula was conceived during George W. Bush ’ s administration and met with much-deserved skepticism .
“ People could not believe that the strategy would be effective or even feasible , ” one scientist told the New York Times last month .
A high school science project—no , I am not joking—added more weight to the concept .
“ Social distancing ” is very much a newfangled experiment , not settled science .
And , Kelley writes , the results are suggesting that our “ Great Social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ near the top of the list ” of “ bad experiments gone horribly wrong.
” You also don ’ t have to be a scientist to also instinctively know that “ two weeks to flatten the curve ” becoming “ America must lock down until a vaccine is created ” is more social experimentation than science .
But what the data have fleshed out , beyond the point of argument , is that the proximity of one human being to another has proven to be a very small factor in determining the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s far more important is which human beings happen to be in close proximity of one another .
According to Dr. Steven Shapiro and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center : Crowded indoor conditions can be devastating in nursing homes , while on the USS Theodore Roosevelt 1,102 sailors were infected , but only 7 required hospitalization , with 1 death .
This contrast has significant implications that we have not embraced .
Epidemiologic prediction models have performed poorly , often neglecting critical variables .
The USS Theodore Roosevelt had a crew of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing was holistic .
This yields an actual infection rate of roughly 23 percent , and among those infected , the fatality rate is 0.09 percent .
Among the Roosevelt ’ s entire crew of assumedly healthy and able-bodied sailors , on a floating Petri dish , during the thick of viral outbreak that shut down all schools and placed healthy citizens across America under house-arrest , the fatality rate was .002 percent .
It seems more than obvious that there is little sense in quarantining the young and healthy .
As Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar to the state of Pennsylvania , where the median age of death from COVID-19 is 84 years old .
The few younger patients who died all had significant preexisting conditions .
Very few children were infected and none died .
Minorities in our communities fared equally well as others , but we know that this is not the case nationally .
In sum , this is a disease of the elderly , sick , and poor .
Here ’ s another thing you likely already know .
Politicians and the media are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of these facts from you .
In fact , finding any news relating to Dr. Shapiro ’ s somewhat revelatory comments online is , so far , quite difficult .
That ’ s because , for the people who pushed “ social distancing ” and destroying the economy as an absolutely necessary evil , this is a matter of self-preservation .
If this information were widely known , citizens might be more inclined to demand that schools and parks and restaurants and malls be opened .
But if schools open tomorrow , without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ surge in hospitalizations or deaths , then the obvious question is why the schools closed in the first place .
If restaurants and other shuttered businesses open without a spike in hospitalizations and deaths , then why did they ever close ?
There ’ s value in the media and government officials maintaining the public perception that the costs of “ social distancing ” have been offset by its benefits .
But while those benefits are elusive in the data , and require mountains of presumption to imagine that they even exist at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distancing ” couldn ’ t be clearer .
What we can not do , is extended social isolation .
Humans are social beings , and we are already seeing the adverse mental health consequences of loneliness , and that is before the much greater effects of economic devastation take hold on the human condition… .
In this particular case , the problem we ’ re not going to be able to fix in the short term is the complete eradication of the virus .
The problem we can fix is to serve and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nursing homes .
If we do that , we can reopen society , and though infectious cases may rise as in the Theodore Roosevelt , the death rate will not , providing time for the development of treatments and vaccines .
At this point , this is little more than common sense , and the truth can ’ t continue to be suppressed for much longer .
It ’ s becoming more and more obvious that it ’ s well past time to take a more tactical approach to mitigation , as Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allocating resources and efforts toward protecting and caring for those most at-risk , and ending this soul-crushing and economy-crashing experiment with holistic “ social distancing.
” This entry was posted on Monday , May 11th , 2020 at 4:35 am and is filed under Government Evil , Health .
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By William Sullivan
AmericanThinker.com
May 11, 2020
Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York says that it’s “shocking” to discover that 66 percent of new hospitalizations appear to have been among people “largely sheltering at home.”
“We thought maybe they were taking public transportation,” he said, “but actually no, because these people were literally at home.”
“Much of this comes down to what you do to protect yourself,” he continues. “Everything closed down, government has done everything it could, society has done everything it could.”
It’s your fault, he says to the hospitalized New Yorkers who loyally complied with his government directive. But here’s an interesting alternative theory as to why, mostly, old people who are staying at home are being hospitalized. What if the government directive to close everything down and mandate “social distancing” actually made the problem worse?
Dr. David Katz predicted precisely this outcome on March 20, in an article that is proving every bit as correct in its predictions and sober policy recommendations as Dr. Anthony Fauci has been proven incorrect — which is another way of saying that the article has proven flawless, so far.
Dr. Katz writes:
[I]n more and more places we are limiting gatherings uniformly, a tactic I call “horizontal interdiction” — when containment policies are applied to the entire population without consideration of their risk for severe infection.
But as the work force is laid off en masse (our family has one adult child home for that reason already), and colleges close (we have another two young adults back home for this reason), young people of indeterminate infectious status are being sent home to huddle with their families nationwide. And because we lack widespread testing, they may be carrying the virus and transmitting it to their 50-something parents, and 70- or 80-something grandparents. If there are any clear guidelines for behavior within families — what I call “vertical interdiction” — I have not seen them.
One might be inclined to simply accept this as an unintended consequence of “social distancing,” but accepting that would require there to be some kind of benefit to “social distancing” that would make it worth the cost. Is there?
Very likely, you already instinctively know that the guidelines suggesting that it’s somehow helpful to keep a six-foot space between healthy people, even outdoors, is not based on science, but just an arbitrary suggestion we’ve been conditioned to accept without evidence.
And your gut feeling would be right. There’s a reason that “social distancing” wasn’t a buzzword common to the American lexicon prior to 2020. There’s very little science behind “social distancing” at all.
“It turns out,” Julie Kelly writes at American Greatness, “as I wrote last month, “social distancing” is untested pseudoscience particularly as it relates to halting the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. On its website, the CDC provides no links to any peer-reviewed social distancing studies that bolster its official guidance.”
There’s a reason for the lack of peer-reviewed studies on the CDC website. She continues:
The alarming reality is that social distancing never has been tested on a massive scale in the modern age; its current formula was conceived during George W. Bush’s administration and met with much-deserved skepticism.
“People could not believe that the strategy would be effective or even feasible,” one scientist told the New York Times last month. A high school science project—no, I am not joking—added more weight to the concept.
“Social distancing” is very much a newfangled experiment, not settled science. And, Kelley writes, the results are suggesting that our “Great Social Distancing Experiment of 2020” will be “near the top of the list” of “bad experiments gone horribly wrong.”
You also don’t have to be a scientist to also instinctively know that “two weeks to flatten the curve” becoming “America must lock down until a vaccine is created” is more social experimentation than science. But what the data have fleshed out, beyond the point of argument, is that the proximity of one human being to another has proven to be a very small factor in determining the impact of Covid-19 infections. What’s far more important is which human beings happen to be in close proximity of one another.
According to Dr. Steven Shapiro and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center:
Crowded indoor conditions can be devastating in nursing homes, while on the USS Theodore Roosevelt 1,102 sailors were infected, but only 7 required hospitalization, with 1 death. This contrast has significant implications that we have not embraced. Epidemiologic prediction models have performed poorly, often neglecting critical variables.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt had a crew of 4,800. Given the acute sample, testing was holistic. This yields an actual infection rate of roughly 23 percent, and among those infected, the fatality rate is 0.09 percent. Among the Roosevelt’s entire crew of assumedly healthy and able-bodied sailors, on a floating Petri dish, during the thick of viral outbreak that shut down all schools and placed healthy citizens across America under house-arrest, the fatality rate was .002 percent.
It seems more than obvious that there is little sense in quarantining the young and healthy. As Dr. Shapiro also observes:
Our outcomes are similar to the state of Pennsylvania, where the median age of death from COVID-19 is 84 years old. The few younger patients who died all had significant preexisting conditions. Very few children were infected and none died. Minorities in our communities fared equally well as others, but we know that this is not the case nationally. In sum, this is a disease of the elderly, sick, and poor.
Here’s another thing you likely already know. Politicians and the media are committing to damage control to hide all of these facts from you. In fact, finding any news relating to Dr. Shapiro’s somewhat revelatory comments online is, so far, quite difficult.
That’s because, for the people who pushed “social distancing” and destroying the economy as an absolutely necessary evil, this is a matter of self-preservation. If this information were widely known, citizens might be more inclined to demand that schools and parks and restaurants and malls be opened. But if schools open tomorrow, without testing, and there is not a surge in hospitalizations or deaths, then the obvious question is why the schools closed in the first place. If restaurants and other shuttered businesses open without a spike in hospitalizations and deaths, then why did they ever close?
There’s value in the media and government officials maintaining the public perception that the costs of “social distancing” have been offset by its benefits. But while those benefits are elusive in the data, and require mountains of presumption to imagine that they even exist at all, the costs of “social distancing” couldn’t be clearer.
As Dr. Steven Shapiro concludes:
What we cannot do, is extended social isolation. Humans are social beings, and we are already seeing the adverse mental health consequences of loneliness, and that is before the much greater effects of economic devastation take hold on the human condition….
In this particular case, the problem we’re not going to be able to fix in the short term is the complete eradication of the virus. The problem we can fix is to serve and protect our seniors, especially those in nursing homes. If we do that, we can reopen society, and though infectious cases may rise as in the Theodore Roosevelt, the death rate will not, providing time for the development of treatments and vaccines.
At this point, this is little more than common sense, and the truth can’t continue to be suppressed for much longer. It’s becoming more and more obvious that it’s well past time to take a more tactical approach to mitigation, as Dr. Katz suggested back on March 20, allocating resources and efforts toward protecting and caring for those most at-risk, and ending this soul-crushing and economy-crashing experiment with holistic “social distancing.”


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--Tom Cotton blames China for coronavirus spread, says Beijing made “conscious decision” to allow it t

Tom Cotton blames China for coronavirus spread, says Beijing made “conscious decision” to allow it to escape the country

Sen. Tom Cotton , who said early on he believes that the Wuhan coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) escaped from a lab in China , now believes the Communist government made a “ conscious decision ” to let the virus spread beyond its borders .
In an interview with Fox News ’ Neil Cavuto , during a discussion about whether the ChiCom government is responsible for the pandemic , the Arkansas Republican said it is undeniable that Beijing let it escape and spread across the globe .
“ Whatever the origins of this virus — and , right now , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those labs in Wuhan , ” Cotton said .
“ But whatever the origins of it , it ’ s clear to me that , once China realized how deadly this virus could be to some people and how contagious this virus was , that they made the conscious decision to let it get outside of their borders .
They didn ’ t stop international air travel .
They pressured countries not to impose travel restrictions , ” he continued .
And it wasn ’ t just Beijing pressuring countries not to restrict @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Health Organization , especially Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , have consistently defended China in spite of the fact that Beijing has lied repeatedly about various aspects of the pandemic — its true origin and the country ’ s genuine casualty rate .
“ They pressured the WHO to oppose travel restrictions as well , even when they knew , as far back as early December , that this virus was highly contagious and very deadly , ” Cotton continued .
“ So , whatever the origins of this virus may ultimately be , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a mistake , the Chinese Communist Party is culpable for turning what could have been a local public health challenge in Wuhan into the worst global pandemic in a century , ” he added .
Cotton has also blasted the “ propaganda media ” in the U.S. , which has also worked to cover for the ChiComs .
“ The mainstream media are largely apologists for Chinese communists and they will accept Chinese communist propaganda , ” Cotton said last month .
“ They immediately try to accuse anyone who raises these reasonable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China of creating a biological weapon.
” Cotton never said he thought COVID-19 was a biological weapon , merely that it was likely created in a lab and escaped somehow .
He notes that China ’ s principle Level 4 bio research lab is located in Wuhan city , just 300 yards from the wet market where Beijing ’ s ChiCom leaders claim the virus originated .
The Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention , Cotton noted , has conducted studies involving horseshoe bats , which dovetails from a study conducted by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results in February about the virus ’ possible origins .
“ The killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan , ” the researchers wrote — before the ChiComs deep-sixed the research and the researchers .
“ The reason I have raised these questions from the very beginning is because of China ’ s statements and their actions , ” Cotton told the DCNF .
“ After concealing the virus for many weeks in December and then minimizing its severity for most of January , they then peddle an origin story about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Anytime the question returns to the forefront of the news , several of my peers say that they think that it ’ s very suspicious and that we ought to get to the bottom of it , ” he added .
Now , of course , we know that the same lab has been funded by U.S. taxpayers , compliments of President Donald Trump ’ s leading immunologist , Dr. Anthony Fauci .
Interestingly , Fauci has downplayed Cotton ’ s lab theory — but then again , he would , considering his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the evolution of the virus in bats and what ’ s out there now , [ the scientific evidence ] is very , very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated , ” Fauci said in an interview published this month in National Geographic .
“ Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [ this virus ] evolved in nature and then jumped species.
” This entry was posted on Monday , May 11th , 2020 at 4:10 am and is filed under BioWeapon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Pandemic .
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by: JD Heyes
NaturalMews.com
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Sen. Tom Cotton, who said early on he believes that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) escaped from a lab in China, now believes the Communist government made a “conscious decision” to let the virus spread beyond its borders.
In an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, during a discussion about whether the ChiCom government is responsible for the pandemic, the Arkansas Republican said it is undeniable that Beijing let it escape and spread across the globe.
“Whatever the origins of this virus — and, right now, I think the best circumstantial evidence points to those labs in Wuhan,” Cotton said.
“But whatever the origins of it, it’s clear to me that, once China realized how deadly this virus could be to some people and how contagious this virus was, that they made the conscious decision to let it get outside of their borders. They didn’t stop international air travel. They pressured countries not to impose travel restrictions,” he continued.
And it wasn’t just Beijing pressuring countries not to restrict travel. ChiCom propagandists at the World Health Organization, especially Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have consistently defended China in spite of the fact that Beijing has lied repeatedly about various aspects of the pandemic — its true origin and the country’s genuine casualty rate.
“They pressured the WHO to oppose travel restrictions as well, even when they knew, as far back as early December, that this virus was highly contagious and very deadly,” Cotton continued.
“So, whatever the origins of this virus may ultimately be, even if it was an accident or a mistake, the Chinese Communist Party is culpable for turning what could have been a local public health challenge in Wuhan into the worst global pandemic in a century,” he added.
Cotton has also blasted the “propaganda media” in the U.S., which has also worked to cover for the ChiComs.
Interestingly, Fauci has downplayed Cotton’s lab theory
“The mainstream media are largely apologists for Chinese communists and they will accept Chinese communist propaganda,” Cotton said last month. “They immediately try to accuse anyone who raises these reasonable questions as conspiracy theorists that are accusing China of creating a biological weapon.”
Cotton never said he thought COVID-19 was a biological weapon, merely that it was likely created in a lab and escaped somehow.
He notes that China’s principle Level 4 bio research lab is located in Wuhan city, just 300 yards from the wet market where Beijing’s ChiCom leaders claim the virus originated.
The Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Cotton noted, has conducted studies involving horseshoe bats, which dovetails from a study conducted by a pair of Chinese researchers who published results in February about the virus’ possible origins.
“The killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan,” the researchers wrote — before the ChiComs deep-sixed the research and the researchers.
“The reason I have raised these questions from the very beginning is because of China’s statements and their actions,” Cotton told the DCNF. “After concealing the virus for many weeks in December and then minimizing its severity for most of January, they then peddle an origin story about the food market in Wuhan.
“Anytime the question returns to the forefront of the news, several of my peers say that they think that it’s very suspicious and that we ought to get to the bottom of it,” he added.
Now, of course, we know that the same lab has been funded by U.S. taxpayers, compliments of President Donald Trump’s leading immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Interestingly, Fauci has downplayed Cotton’s lab theory — but then again, he would, considering his alleged culpability.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,” Fauci said in an interview published this month in National Geographic. “Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species.”
Yeah, right.


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--Man Who Predicted The Global Collapse Just Warned Investors They Should Now Prepare For The Collapse

Man Who Predicted The Global Collapse Just Warned Investors They Should Now Prepare For The Collapse Of The World Financial System

Today the man who predicted the global collapse just warned investors they should now prepare for the collapse of the world financial system .
Stock Market Time-Bomb And A World Falling Apart May 10 ( King World News ) –Egon von Greyerz : As the Nasdaq makes a new high for the year , the world outside the stock market time-bomb is falling apart .
For example , the UN agency , The International Labour Organisation ( ILO ) , reports that 1.6 billion jobs are at risk in the global economy .
That is half of the global workforce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 2 billion people in the informal economy .
For most of these vulnerable people , this means no income , no food , and no security , reports the ILO .
This is a human tragedy on a massive scale and most people in the Western world are totally unaware .
HALF UK ADULTS PAID BY THE STATE Looking at the UK , 23 million people , which is half of all adults , are now paid by the state .
This includes people being furloughed , on unemployment benefits and public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just an incredible proportion of the population which are getting free money for making no productive contribution .
Yes , the human side is of course incredibly important and suffering people should be helped .
The problem is only that THERE IS NO MONEY .
What half of the adult population is receiving is money that doesn ’ t exist but is just printed out of thin air and thus has no real value .
This entry was posted on Sunday , May 10th , 2020 at 9:25 pm and is filed under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Evil , New World Order .
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KingWorldNews.com
May 10, 2020
Today the man who predicted the global collapse just warned investors they should now prepare for the collapse of the world financial system.
Stock Market Time-Bomb And A World Falling Apart
May 10 (King World News) –Egon von Greyerz: As the Nasdaq makes a new high for the year, the world outside the stock market time-bomb is falling apart. For example, the UN agency, The International Labour Organisation (ILO), reports that 1.6 billion jobs are at risk in the global economy. That is half of the global workforce of 3.3 billion. Particularly vulnerable are the 2 billion people in the informal economy. For most of these vulnerable people, this means no income, no food, and no security, reports the ILO. This is a human tragedy on a massive scale and most people in the Western world are totally unaware.
HALF UK ADULTS PAID BY THE STATE
Looking at the UK, 23 million people, which is half of all adults, are now paid by the state. This includes people being furloughed, on unemployment benefits and public sector workers and pensioners. That is just an incredible proportion of the population which are getting free money for making no productive contribution. Yes, the human side is of course incredibly important and suffering people should be helped. The problem is only that THERE IS NO MONEY. What half of the adult population is receiving is money that doesn’t exist but is just printed out of thin air and thus has no real value.
REAL US UNEMPLOYMENT 39%
The Rest…HERE


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--“The Worst Case For Markets”: Massive Stagflation In 2021 As Prices Rise Without Rising Wages

“ We are witnessing the Great Monetary Inflation ( GMI ) —an unprecedented expansion of every form of money unlike anything the developed world has ever seen.
” – Paul Tudor Jones The current worry in global markets is a recession , or worse , as the shutdowns to contain the pandemic rob workers of paychecks and consumer spending collapses .
But those are relatively short-term concerns , most likely for the second and possibly third quarter of this year .
The real concern should be the fallout from the inflation that ’ s going to accompany any recovery we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 1970s-style stagflation .
Governments and central banks are throwing everything they can at this downturn , and will continue to do so until it improves .
Even a U-shaped recovery that happens as late as the beginning of 2021 will have an enormous impact on the prices of everyday items .
The biggest threat comes from companies shifting supply chains permanently away from cheaper China imports to more reliable , but expensive , suppliers .
But there are other concerns as well .
For example , companies like Disney , airlines and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to meet costs as social distancing rules will still apply .
Fees for cable services will jump due to rising costs to carry sports broadcasts to compensate for a lack of fan revenue .
Crude futures will likely rise as demand kicks in but suppliers stay firm in order to replenish revenues lost to the virus .
Vehicles could see price increases too as automakers attempt to recoup 1st half of 2020 revenue .
The U.S. Treasury will be servicing a massive public debt in 2021 and will be at the front of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ borrowing .
Meanwhile , the biggest buyer of Treasuries , the Fed , will likely be halting purchases as will other central banks , adding to pressure to debt instruments .
As rates rise , rents and home prices will jump , with rents a direct component of inflation figures .
There ’ s an unfortunate downside to this inflationary pressure .
While prices will be rising , job growth will be slower to return to normal as social distancing will prevent us from reaching full employment .
The combination of rising prices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the economy , no doubt causing a real economic recession in 2021 and not one that ’ s the result of a pandemic .
This stagflation scenario , not seen since the 1970s , is the worst case for markets , particularly risk assets like stocks and bonds .
This entry was posted on Sunday , May 10th , 2020 at 9:21 pm and is filed under Economics , God Help Us , Government Evil .
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by Vincent Cignarella, Bloomberg macro commentator
ZeroHedge.com
Sun, 05/10/202
“We are witnessing the Great Monetary Inflation (GMI)—an unprecedented expansion of every form of money unlike anything the developed world has ever seen.” – Paul Tudor Jones
The current worry in global markets is a recession, or worse, as the shutdowns to contain the pandemic rob workers of paychecks and consumer spending collapses. But those are relatively short-term concerns, most likely for the second and possibly third quarter of this year. The real concern should be the fallout from the inflation that’s going to accompany any recovery we have and the possibility of a return to 1970s-style stagflation.
Governments and central banks are throwing everything they can at this downturn, and will continue to do so until it improves. Even a U-shaped recovery that happens as late as the beginning of 2021 will have an enormous impact on the prices of everyday items. The biggest threat comes from companies shifting supply chains permanently away from cheaper China imports to more reliable, but expensive, suppliers. But there are other concerns as well.
For example, companies like Disney, airlines and restaurants will likely have to raise prices to meet costs as social distancing rules will still apply. Fees for cable services will jump due to rising costs to carry sports broadcasts to compensate for a lack of fan revenue. Crude futures will likely rise as demand kicks in but suppliers stay firm in order to replenish revenues lost to the virus. Vehicles could see price increases too as automakers attempt to recoup 1st half of 2020 revenue.
The U.S. Treasury will be servicing a massive public debt in 2021 and will be at the front of the line competing with the private sector borrowing. Meanwhile, the biggest buyer of Treasuries, the Fed, will likely be halting purchases as will other central banks, adding to pressure to debt instruments. As rates rise, rents and home prices will jump, with rents a direct component of inflation figures.
There’s an unfortunate downside to this inflationary pressure. While prices will be rising, job growth will be slower to return to normal as social distancing will prevent us from reaching full employment. The combination of rising prices without rising wages will place enormous pressure on the economy, no doubt causing a real economic recession in 2021 and not one that’s the result of a pandemic. This stagflation scenario, not seen since the 1970s, is the worst case for markets, particularly risk assets like stocks and bonds.


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--It’s Official! Benjamin Netanyahu Proposes Mark of The Beast, Calls For All Children To Be Microchip

It’s Official! Benjamin Netanyahu Proposes Mark of The Beast, Calls For All Children To Be Microchipped First

This follows Bill & Melinda Gates filing patents for similar systems Israel ’ s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling for all children to be microchipped in the name of protecting public health .
Speaking at a press conference on Monday , Netanyahu suggested the Health Ministry use new technology to help Israel socially adapt ahead of lifting the coronavirus lockdown .
“ That is , technology that has not been used before and is allowed under the legislation we shall enact , ” he clarified .
“ I spoke with our heads of technology in order to find measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sensors .
For instance , every person , every kid – I want it on kids first – would have a sensor that would sound an alarm when you get too close , like the ones on cars , ” Netanyahu said .
Hear that ?
Children are just like cars !
So why can ’ t they be microchipped like cars ?
However , the prime minister received swift pushback from cybersecurity experts , with some claiming that using the implantable microchip technology to keep children socially distant is “ fictional and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do it to more than a million schoolchildren who return to their educational institutions in order to ensure one student sits at the distance of two meters from another .
It is fictional and dangerous , ” cyber resilience expert Einat Meron told Ynet .
“ Theoretically , I get the idea behind it , ” she said .
“ But although such distance-sensitive microchips exist in vehicles , it is different in humans.
” “ A beeping sound telling me I got close to someone is not enough .
Who says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have gotten closer either way , ” Meron added .
This comes after Bill Gates announced his plan to implement tracking bracelets and invisible tattoos for Americans to monitor their health .
Additionally , Microsoft filed patent # 060606 in 2020 , which details a technology that uses internal human body activity to mine cryptocurrency .
The dam that is the globalist dehumanization agenda is breaking , with all its advanced tracking and control systems already being rolled out .
In China , the communist regime uses a social credit system to control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the U.S. , the same technology is being rolled out to control Americans , but in the name of medical security and public health .
And remember , this is in addition to Big Pharma ’ s plan to vaccinate over 1 billion people by next year .
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This follows Bill & Melinda Gates filing patents for similar systems
Newswars.com
Sunday, May 10, 2020
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling for all children to be microchipped in the name of protecting public health.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Netanyahu suggested the Health Ministry use new technology to help Israel socially adapt ahead of lifting the coronavirus lockdown. “That is, technology that has not been used before and is allowed under the legislation we shall enact,” he clarified.
“I spoke with our heads of technology in order to find measures Israel is good at, such as sensors. For instance, every person, every kid – I want it on kids first – would have a sensor that would sound an alarm when you get too close, like the ones on cars,” Netanyahu said.
Hear that? Children are just like cars! So why can’t they be microchipped like cars?
However, the prime minister received swift pushback from cybersecurity experts, with some claiming that using the implantable microchip technology to keep children socially distant is “fictional and dangerous.”
“It will be hard to do it to more than a million schoolchildren who return to their educational institutions in order to ensure one student sits at the distance of two meters from another. It is fictional and dangerous,” cyber resilience expert Einat Meron told Ynet.
“Theoretically, I get the idea behind it,” she said. “But although such distance-sensitive microchips exist in vehicles, it is different in humans.”
“A beeping sound telling me I got close to someone is not enough. Who says it will change anything? I would have gotten closer either way,” Meron added.
This comes after Bill Gates announced his plan to implement tracking bracelets and invisible tattoos for Americans to monitor their health.
Additionally, Microsoft filed patent #060606 in 2020, which details a technology that uses internal human body activity to mine cryptocurrency.
The dam that is the globalist dehumanization agenda is breaking, with all its advanced tracking and control systems already being rolled out.
In China, the communist regime uses a social credit system to control how its population makes purchases.
Here in the U.S., the same technology is being rolled out to control Americans, but in the name of medical security and public health.
And remember, this is in addition to Big Pharma’s plan to vaccinate over 1 billion people by next year.


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--The Government Has Chosen the Winners and Losers In the New Normal! Which List Are You On?

In the midst of the plandemic , the so-called CV-19 crisis , we have made some amazing discoveries .
It @ @ @ @ @ of how our world is permanently changing .
Let ’ s first make an accounting @ @ @ @ @ picked winners and losers in the reshaping of America .
The Deep State controlled politicians @ @ @ @ @ triage on the United States and they have decided who will live and who will @ @ @ @ @ feat , they have created mythical virus free zones where it is safe to go @ @ @ @ @ allow me to explain .
A virus free zone is one in which a person @ @ @ @ @ to the fullest extent .
These businesses , by default , have been declared to @ @ @ @ @ include the following establishments : This entry was posted on Monday , May 11th , @ @ @ @ @ is filed under Economics , Government Evil , New World Order .
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by Dave Hodges
TheCommonSenseShow.com
Monday, May 11, 2020
In the midst of the plandemic, the so-called CV-19 crisis, we have made some amazing discoveries. It is time to take stock of how our world is permanently changing.
Let’s first make an accounting of how the government has picked winners and losers in the reshaping of America.
The Creation of Virus Free Zones
The Deep State controlled politicians have done a type of triage on the United States and they have decided who will live and who will die. In performing this feat, they have created mythical virus free zones where it is safe to go and fully operate. Please allow me to explain. A virus free zone is one in which a person is allowed to conduct business to the fullest extent. These businesses, by default, have been declared to virus free zones and they include the following establishments:
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revolutionradio--2020-05-11--It Is Much Worse Than You Are Being Told

For a long time I warned that our economic bubble would burst and that we would plunge into a nightmarish economic collapse .
Now it has happened , and it turns out that fear of COVID-19 was the “ black swan event ” that triggered the collapse .
The ironic thing is that COVID-19 is not even close to the worst thing that is going to happen to us .
But it was more than enough to topple our incredibly fragile economic system , and now tens of millions of Americans are deeply suffering .
On Friday , the April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the worst jobs report in U.S. history by a very , very wide margin .
According to the official numbers , 20.5 million Americans lost their jobs during the month , and the unemployment rate shot up to 14.7 percent .
During the last recession , the unemployment rate peaked at about 10 percent , and we have already left that number in the dust .
The figures that we are seeing now are truly , truly horrifying , and what is even more frightening is that they aren ’ t even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take my word for it .
On Friday , the U.S. Labor Department publicly admitted that the true unemployment rate in April was closer to 20 percent… Millions of U.S. residents were counted as employed in April despite having no job , suggesting April ’ s true unemployment rate was closer to 20 % , much higher than the official 14.7 % reported , the Labor Department said Friday .
The jobless rate should have included people on temporary unpaid leave , furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic , the government said .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be honest .
In the report , they openly admitted that an “ additional 7.5 million workers ” should have been classified as unemployed… But responses to the survey by which the data was collected show 11.5 million people were categorized as employed but absent from work because of vacation , parental leave or other reasons , but including 8.1 million absent for “ unspecified ” reasons , a group that usually numbers about 620,000 .
“ One assumption might be that these additional 7.5 million workers …should have been classified as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ note attached to the government ’ s jobs report Friday said .
If those workers had been correctly classified , the official unemployment rate would have been about 19.5 percent , and that would have put us solidly in Great Depression territory .
But others have looked at the numbers and calculated that the true rate of unemployment should be even higher than that .
For example , Standard Chartered has calculated that the true rate of unemployment could be as high as 27.5 percent… While it is true that what the BLS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UR ) was less than expected ( 14.7 % versus consensus of 16.0 % ) and the drop in payroll employment of 20.5 million was also less than the 22.0 million expected , Standard Chartered bank has calculated that adjustments to the headline unemployment rate push the effective number of unemployed to 42 million and the effective UR rate to 25.5 % , higher even than the U-6 underemployment rate of 22.8 % .
Worse , if one treats underemployed in line with the U-6 methodology , the true April unemployment number would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So how did Standard Chartered arrive at those numbers ?
The following is how Zero Hedge explained it… How does one get these numbers ?
As the bank ’ s chief FX strategist Steve Englander explains , start with the 23.1 million unemployed as published by BLS .
To this add 8.1mn people who have dropped out of the labor force since February ( previously the labor force had been growing steadily , so these are likely unemployed ) .
Add back 7.5MM workers classified as ‘ employed but not at work for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these workers are likely misclassified as employed , when they are in fact unemployed .
Involuntary part-time work for economic reasons has gone up by 6.6MM and we treat these as half-unemployed ( i.e.
, a contribution of 3.3MM ) .
And Standard Chartered is not the only one that has come up with such a high figure .
In fact , John Williams of shadowstats.com says that if honest numbers were being used that the U.S. unemployment rate would now be an eye-popping 35.4 percent .
Of course everyone admits that things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the numbers for next month are likely to be even worse .
If you can believe it , even White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett is admitting that the official unemployment rate is likely to surge above 20 percent in “ May or June ” … White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett believes the unemployment rate could rise above 20 % and the worst job losses would come in “ May or June ” because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic .
When asked Sunday what the “ bottom ” of the country ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who advises the Trump administration on economic policy and is the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers , told CBS ’ s “ Face the Nation , ” “ to get unemployment rates like the ones that we ’ re about to see … which I think will climb up toward 20 % by next month , you have to really go back to the Great Depression to see that.
” And even once this pandemic fades , many of those jobs won ’ t be coming back .
Initially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be bringing all of their employees back following a short , severe crisis .
But at this point reality is beginning to set in for many of them .
For example , a restaurant owner in Kentucky named Britney Ruby Miller has had to lower her expectations as this pandemic has dragged on… In late March , Britney Ruby Miller , co-owner of a small chain of steakhouse restaurants , confidently proclaimed that once the viral outbreak had subsided , her company planned to recall all its laid-off workers .
Now ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ by year ’ s end , three-quarters of the roughly 600 workers her company had to let go .
Yes , the state of Kentucky is starting to “ reopen for business ” , but for now her restaurants will “ be limited to 33 % of capacity ” and there will be all sorts of other new expenses that Miller will be forced to deal with… Yet business won ’ t be returning to what it was before .
In Kentucky , the restaurants will be limited to 33 % of capacity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tables in all their restaurants , thereby limiting seating .
Miller estimates that the company ’ s revenue will plunge by half to three-quarters this year .
And expenses are rising because the company must buy face masks and other equipment for the workers it does recall and restock its food , drink , and equipment supplies .
There are very , very few restaurants that can be profitable under such circumstances .
Unless the state of Kentucky lifts those ridiculous restrictions , Miller may soon lose all of her restaurants and all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of jobs .
Of course more layoff announcements just keep rolling in from all over America with each passing day .
The following examples come from the Wall Street Journal… This past week , General Electric Co. , Uber Technologies Inc. UBER 6.01 % and Airbnb Inc. said they would lay off thousands of workers .
MGM Resorts International MGM 4.42 % warned that some of the 63,000 employees it has furloughed may be let go permanently starting in August .
Aerospace supplier Raytheon Technologies Corp. , RTX 2.91 % job-listings site @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11.74 % also said in the past week that they had reduced jobs or planned to do so .
This is what an economic depression looks like , and it is going to be so incredibly painful .
And it is critical to understand that what we have experienced so far is just a warm-up act for the next chapters .
If you remember how bitter the last recession was , that should motivate you to take action to prepare for what is ahead , because this economic downturn is already even worse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of us will be exceptionally challenging , but you can get through this .
Things may look really bleak , but for now you just need to keep hanging in there .
There will be life on the other side , but your future may end up looking far different than you originally anticipated .
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by Michael Snyder
TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com
May 10, 2020
For a long time I warned that our economic bubble would burst and that we would plunge into a nightmarish economic collapse. Now it has happened, and it turns out that fear of COVID-19 was the “black swan event” that triggered the collapse. The ironic thing is that COVID-19 is not even close to the worst thing that is going to happen to us. But it was more than enough to topple our incredibly fragile economic system, and now tens of millions of Americans are deeply suffering. On Friday, the April jobs report was released, and it was the worst jobs report in U.S. history by a very, very wide margin. According to the official numbers, 20.5 million Americans lost their jobs during the month, and the unemployment rate shot up to 14.7 percent. During the last recession, the unemployment rate peaked at about 10 percent, and we have already left that number in the dust. The figures that we are seeing now are truly, truly horrifying, and what is even more frightening is that they aren’t even that accurate.
But don’t take my word for it.
On Friday, the U.S. Labor Department publicly admitted that the true unemployment rate in April was closer to 20 percent…
Millions of U.S. residents were counted as employed in April despite having no job, suggesting April’s true unemployment rate was closer to 20%, much higher than the official 14.7% reported, the Labor Department said Friday.
The jobless rate should have included people on temporary unpaid leave, furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said.
I applaud the Labor Department for trying to be honest. In the report, they openly admitted that an “additional 7.5 million workers” should have been classified as unemployed…
But responses to the survey by which the data was collected show 11.5 million people were categorized as employed but absent from work because of vacation, parental leave or other reasons, but including 8.1 million absent for “unspecified” reasons, a group that usually numbers about 620,000.
“One assumption might be that these additional 7.5 million workers …should have been classified as unemployed on temporary layoff,” a note attached to the government’s jobs report Friday said.
If those workers had been correctly classified, the official unemployment rate would have been about 19.5 percent, and that would have put us solidly in Great Depression territory.
But others have looked at the numbers and calculated that the true rate of unemployment should be even higher than that.
For example, Standard Chartered has calculated that the true rate of unemployment could be as high as 27.5 percent…
While it is true that what the BLS reported that the April unemployment rate (UR) was less than expected (14.7% versus consensus of 16.0%) and the drop in payroll employment of 20.5 million was also less than the 22.0 million expected, Standard Chartered bank has calculated that adjustments to the headline unemployment rate push the effective number of unemployed to 42 million and the effective UR rate to 25.5%, higher even than the U-6 underemployment rate of 22.8%. Worse, if one treats underemployed in line with the U-6 methodology, the true April unemployment number would rise to an mindblowing 27.5%.
So how did Standard Chartered arrive at those numbers? The following is how Zero Hedge explained it…
How does one get these numbers? As the bank’s chief FX strategist Steve Englander explains, start with the 23.1 million unemployed as published by BLS. To this add 8.1mn people who have dropped out of the labor force since February (previously the labor force had been growing steadily, so these are likely unemployed).
Add back 7.5MM workers classified as ‘employed but not at work for other reasons’ – BLS states that these workers are likely misclassified as employed, when they are in fact unemployed. Involuntary part-time work for economic reasons has gone up by 6.6MM and we treat these as half-unemployed (i.e., a contribution of 3.3MM).
This totals almost 42 Million effectively unemployed.
And Standard Chartered is not the only one that has come up with such a high figure.
In fact, John Williams of shadowstats.com says that if honest numbers were being used that the U.S. unemployment rate would now be an eye-popping 35.4 percent.
Wow.
Of course everyone admits that things are really, really bad and that the numbers for next month are likely to be even worse.
If you can believe it, even White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett is admitting that the official unemployment rate is likely to surge above 20 percent in “May or June”…
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett believes the unemployment rate could rise above 20% and the worst job losses would come in “May or June” because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
When asked Sunday what the “bottom” of the country’s unemployment pain would be, Hassett, who advises the Trump administration on economic policy and is the former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” “to get unemployment rates like the ones that we’re about to see … which I think will climb up toward 20% by next month, you have to really go back to the Great Depression to see that.”
And even once this pandemic fades, many of those jobs won’t be coming back.
Initially, many employers had anticipated that they would be bringing all of their employees back following a short, severe crisis. But at this point reality is beginning to set in for many of them.
For example, a restaurant owner in Kentucky named Britney Ruby Miller has had to lower her expectations as this pandemic has dragged on…
In late March, Britney Ruby Miller, co-owner of a small chain of steakhouse restaurants, confidently proclaimed that once the viral outbreak had subsided, her company planned to recall all its laid-off workers.
Now? Miller would be thrilled to restore, by year’s end, three-quarters of the roughly 600 workers her company had to let go.
Yes, the state of Kentucky is starting to “reopen for business”, but for now her restaurants will “be limited to 33% of capacity” and there will be all sorts of other new expenses that Miller will be forced to deal with…
Yet business won’t be returning to what it was before. In Kentucky, the restaurants will be limited to 33% of capacity. They are putting six feet between tables in all their restaurants, thereby limiting seating. Miller estimates that the company’s revenue will plunge by half to three-quarters this year.
And expenses are rising because the company must buy face masks and other equipment for the workers it does recall and restock its food, drink, and equipment supplies.
There are very, very few restaurants that can be profitable under such circumstances.
Unless the state of Kentucky lifts those ridiculous restrictions, Miller may soon lose all of her restaurants and all of her employees may soon be permanently out of jobs.
Of course more layoff announcements just keep rolling in from all over America with each passing day. The following examples come from the Wall Street Journal…
This past week, General Electric Co., Uber Technologies Inc. UBER 6.01% and Airbnb Inc. said they would lay off thousands of workers. MGM Resorts International MGM 4.42% warned that some of the 63,000 employees it has furloughed may be let go permanently starting in August. Aerospace supplier Raytheon Technologies Corp., RTX 2.91% job-listings site Glassdoor and United Airlines Holdings Inc. UAL 11.74% also said in the past week that they had reduced jobs or planned to do so.
This is what an economic depression looks like, and it is going to be so incredibly painful.
And it is critical to understand that what we have experienced so far is just a warm-up act for the next chapters.
If you remember how bitter the last recession was, that should motivate you to take action to prepare for what is ahead, because this economic downturn is already even worse.
Yes, the months in front of us will be exceptionally challenging, but you can get through this. Things may look really bleak, but for now you just need to keep hanging in there.
There will be life on the other side, but your future may end up looking far different than you originally anticipated.


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--Meat Exports To China Soar As US Supplies Dwindle & Workers Risk COVID-19 Infection

As wholesale beef prices exploded to record highs and President Trump ordered workers at meatpacking plants around the US to get back to work after COVID-19 outbreaks prompted ~1/3rd of them to close ( as we explained at the time , meatpacking plants are veritable breeding grounds for SARS-CoV-2 ) , the plants that were still on-line continued to churn to try and prevent the US “ food-supply chain from breaking ” .
However , rather than doing their patriotic duty , a Reuters investigation has found that these plants have been increasingly exporting to China since the crisis began @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t surprise experienced analysts who have been watching China for years .
Since President Xi ’ s rise to power , China has been taking steps to secure a growing share of American pork and other meats .
Analysts warned at the time that this could create serious problems for the US food supply as China turns America ’ s own ‘ hyper-capitalist ’ system against it .
China promised to increase purchases of U.S. farm goods by at least $ 12.5 billion in 2020 and $ 19.5 billion in 2021 , over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Since Jan. 1 , ~31 % of American pork produced has been exported , totaling about 838,000 tons , according to data from the US Meat Export Federation .
1/3rd of that went to China , accounting for more than 10 % of total Q1 production , according to the MEF .
What ’ s more , the growing exports are actually a good thing , in a sense , since it means Beijing is technically taking steps to abide by its agreement to buy more than $ 200 billion in additional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China has mostly limited its purchases to goods that benefit China ( often these involve purchases of ag or energy commodities ) .
But as reports published in the Chinese press on Monday raised new doubts about the viability of the US-China trade deal , it suddenly appears that perhaps President Trump has finally realized that his ‘ largely-for-show ’ trade deal is no longer the PR win he once believed it to be , now that ~70 % of Americans are now suspicious of China .
“ We know that over time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we need to focus on meeting domestic demand at this point , ” said Mike Naig , the agriculture secretary in the top U.S. pork-producing state of Iowa who supported Trump ’ s order .
And now , it looks like that ’ s exactly what ’ s happening , as data cited by Reuters have shown : Processors including Smithfield Foods , owned by China ’ s WH Group Ltd , Brazilian-owned JBS USA [ JBS.UL ] and Tyson Foods Inc temporarily closed about 20 U.S. meat plants as the virus infected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grocers to warn of shortages .
Some plants have resumed limited operations as workers afraid of getting sick stay home .
The disruptions mean consumers could see 30 % less meat in supermarkets by the end of May , at prices 20 % higher than last year , according to Will Sawyer , lead economist at agricultural lender CoBank .
While pork supplies tightened as the number of pigs slaughtered each day plunged by about 40 % since mid-March , shipments of American pork to China more than quadrupled over the same period @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data .
Smithfield , which China ’ s WH Group bought for $ 4.7 billion in 2013 , was the biggest U.S. exporter to China from January to March , according to Panjiva , a division of S & P Global Market Intelligence .
Smithfield shipped at least 13,680 tonnes by sea in March , Panjiva said , citing its most recent data .
Smithfield , the world ’ s biggest pork processor , said in April that U.S. plant closures were pushing retailers “ perilously close to the edge ” on supplies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ namesake pork plant in Smithfield , Virginia , to supply fresh pork , bacon and ham to more U.S. consumers , according to a statement .
The move is an about-face after the company reconfigured the plant last year to process hog carcasses for the Chinese market , employees , local officials and industry sources told Reuters .
Of course , the owners of slaughterhouses have opposed the president ’ s order , claiming forcing workers back into the plants could result in unnecessary sickness and death .
Of course , the falling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ potentially benefit the bottom lines of these companies .
Remember , Smithfield Foods is the biggest pork producer in the world .
On top of the coronavirus crisis , China has been struggling with a brutal outbreak of African swine fever , which wiped out roughly one-third of the country ’ s live hogs last year , forcing China to ratchet up imports ( one reason why striking the ‘ Phase 1 ’ deal was politically advantageous for President Xi ) .
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by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mon, 05/11/2020
As wholesale beef prices exploded to record highs and President Trump ordered workers at meatpacking plants around the US to get back to work after COVID-19 outbreaks prompted ~1/3rd of them to close (as we explained at the time, meatpacking plants are veritable breeding grounds for SARS-CoV-2), the plants that were still on-line continued to churn to try and prevent the US “food-supply chain from breaking”. However, rather than doing their patriotic duty, a Reuters investigation has found that these plants have been increasingly exporting to China since the crisis began.
Of course, this shouldn’t surprise experienced analysts who have been watching China for years. Since President Xi’s rise to power, China has been taking steps to secure a growing share of American pork and other meats. Analysts warned at the time that this could create serious problems for the US food supply as China turns America’s own ‘hyper-capitalist’ system against it.
China promised to increase purchases of U.S. farm goods by at least $12.5 billion in 2020 and $19.5 billion in 2021, over the 2017 level of $24 billion. Since Jan. 1, ~31% of American pork produced has been exported, totaling about 838,000 tons, according to data from the US Meat Export Federation. 1/3rd of that went to China, accounting for more than 10% of total Q1 production, according to the MEF.
What’s more, the growing exports are actually a good thing, in a sense, since it means Beijing is technically taking steps to abide by its agreement to buy more than $200 billion in additional American goods over two years – though China has mostly limited its purchases to goods that benefit China (often these involve purchases of ag or energy commodities). But as reports published in the Chinese press on Monday raised new doubts about the viability of the US-China trade deal, it suddenly appears that perhaps President Trump has finally realized that his ‘largely-for-show’ trade deal is no longer the PR win he once believed it to be, now that ~70% of Americans are now suspicious of China.
“We know that over time exports are critically important. I think we need to focus on meeting domestic demand at this point,” said Mike Naig, the agriculture secretary in the top U.S. pork-producing state of Iowa who supported Trump’s order.
And now, it looks like that’s exactly what’s happening, as data cited by Reuters have shown:
Processors including Smithfield Foods, owned by China’s WH Group Ltd, Brazilian-owned JBS USA [JBS.UL] and Tyson Foods Inc temporarily closed about 20 U.S. meat plants as the virus infected thousands of employees, prompting meatpackers and grocers to warn of shortages. Some plants have resumed limited operations as workers afraid of getting sick stay home.
The disruptions mean consumers could see 30% less meat in supermarkets by the end of May, at prices 20% higher than last year, according to Will Sawyer, lead economist at agricultural lender CoBank.
While pork supplies tightened as the number of pigs slaughtered each day plunged by about 40% since mid-March, shipments of American pork to China more than quadrupled over the same period, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
Smithfield, which China’s WH Group bought for $4.7 billion in 2013, was the biggest U.S. exporter to China from January to March, according to Panjiva, a division of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Smithfield shipped at least 13,680 tonnes by sea in March, Panjiva said, citing its most recent data.
Smithfield, the world’s biggest pork processor, said in April that U.S. plant closures were pushing retailers “perilously close to the edge” on supplies.
The company is now retooling its namesake pork plant in Smithfield, Virginia, to supply fresh pork, bacon and ham to more U.S. consumers, according to a statement. The move is an about-face after the company reconfigured the plant last year to process hog carcasses for the Chinese market, employees, local officials and industry sources told Reuters.
Of course, the owners of slaughterhouses have opposed the president’s order, claiming forcing workers back into the plants could result in unnecessary sickness and death. Of course, the falling supplies they’ve warned about could potentially benefit the bottom lines of these companies. Remember, Smithfield Foods is the biggest pork producer in the world.
Source: Reuters
On top of the coronavirus crisis, China has been struggling with a brutal outbreak of African swine fever, which wiped out roughly one-third of the country’s live hogs last year, forcing China to ratchet up imports (one reason why striking the ‘Phase 1’ deal was politically advantageous for President Xi).


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--As The World Is Distracted By COVID-19, A Series Of Large Earthquakes Is Rocking “The Ring Of Fire”

Within the past several days , large earthquakes have been striking all along the outer rim of the Pacific Ocean , and many are wondering if all of this activity could potentially be building up to something really big .
Those that follow my work on a regular basis know that I have been deeply concerned about seismic activity on the west coast for a long time , and scientists assure us that it is just a matter of time before “ the Big One ” hits us .
According to Wikipedia , approximately 81 percent of all large earthquakes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and of course the west coast of North America accounts for a large stretch of it .
As you can see from this map , the California and Alaska coastlines have been absolutely peppered by quakes in recent days , but nobody is really talking about these quakes because everyone is so focused on COVID-19 right now .
Yes , this pandemic deserves our attention , but I would submit that all of the unusual shaking that has been happening certainly deserves our attention as well .
You may not have heard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 4.5 earthquake rocked San Diego on Sunday afternoon… A 4.5 magnitude earthquake originating in Imperial County rocked San Diegans from East Village to Lakeside on Sunday afternoon , according to the United States Geological Survey .
The quake struck at 3:07 p.m. in Imperial County about 10.5 miles southeast of Ocotillo Wells , according to the USGS .
It had a depth of 10 kilometers or 6.2 miles .
That is a rather large quake for that particular area , and it is just one of hundreds that have been hitting the region @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there have been 1,227 earthquakes in California and Nevada over the last 7 days .
Meanwhile , the section of the Ring of Fire that runs along the west coast of South America has also been getting hit pretty hard .
A magnitude 5.4 quake struck northern Chile on Sunday , and that really shook a lot of people up .
Subsequently , the portion of the Ring of Fire that runs along the coast of Japan was hit by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake very late on Sunday… The quake hit near the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Sunday .
The earthquake was reported to have a depth of 80km .
It also hit 129km north east of Saitama and also 26km south east of Hitachi , according to emsc-csem .
USGS tweeted : “ Prelim M5.8 Earthquake near the east coast of Honshu , Japan May-10 23:58 UTC ” And that unusual event in Japan was very quickly followed by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in Indonesia .
Of course Indonesia sits right along the Ring of Fire as well .
There has been so much shaking in Indonesia recently @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
Just a few days ago , Indonesia was hit by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that was so powerful that it was actually felt in Australia… A powerful earthquake in Indonesia has been felt in the Northern Territory .
Residents of Darwin reported online they had felt the shake , which registered as a magnitude-6.9 quake late on Wednesday evening .
The tremor hit the Banda Sea , more than 600km north of Darwin , at a depth of 142km .
So as you can see , there have been significant seismic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ within the past several days .
But it isn ’ t just the Ring of Fire that has been shaking .
Big earthquakes have been popping up in diverse places all over the globe , and the magnitude 5.1 quake that just hit Iran really surprised a lot of people… A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit Iran shortly after midnight on Thursday night with its epicenter 34 miles east of the capital city Tehran .
AFP reported that panicked residents rushed into the streets , abandoning buildings in fear they would collapse .
Two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the earthquake .
The earthquake was followed by eight more mild aftershocks .
And weird earthquakes have been happening in the U.S. as well .
Anyone that follows my work on a regular basis knows that in addition to the west coast I am always watching the New Madrid seismic zone very carefully .
So when two unusual earthquakes hit southern Tennessee on Sunday morning , it definitely got my attention… Two earthquakes were reported back to back in southern Tennessee early Sunday morning , officials say .
Both quakes happened about 4.3 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ near the Alabama border and about 52 miles from Chattanooga , according to the U.S. Geological Survey .
The first , a 3.1 magnitude , hit at 3:33 a.m. and the second , a 2.8 magnitude , hit at 3:34 a.m .
Without a doubt , there is a whole lot of shaking going on right now .
That does not necessarily mean that a major event of some sort is imminent , and we should certainly hope that the next major event can be put off for as long as possible .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ crust of our planet is very unstable , and many have been warning that we should expect that instability to only get worse in the days ahead .
Seismologists have warned us over and over that it is just a matter of time before “ the Big One ” absolutely devastates the west coast .
They have told us that the San Andreas fault appears to be “ locked and loaded ” and that it could potentially “ unzip all at once ” .
And if that actually happens , seismologists have warned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by up to 3 feet , and that could potentially result in vast portions of southern California suddenly being way below sea level .
In other words , we are talking about the sort of disaster that most people don ’ t even want to think about .
Of course very few people ever imagined that a coronavirus pandemic would virtually shut down the entire country , and yet here we are .
We live in very strange times , and I have a feeling that they will soon get a whole lot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , May 11th , 2020 at 2:39 pm and is filed under Earth Changes .
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by Michael Snyder
EndOfTheAmericanDream.com
May 10, 2020
Within the past several days, large earthquakes have been striking all along the outer rim of the Pacific Ocean, and many are wondering if all of this activity could potentially be building up to something really big. Those that follow my work on a regular basis know that I have been deeply concerned about seismic activity on the west coast for a long time, and scientists assure us that it is just a matter of time before “the Big One” hits us. According to Wikipedia, approximately 81 percent of all large earthquakes take place along the Ring of Fire, and of course the west coast of North America accounts for a large stretch of it. As you can see from this map, the California and Alaska coastlines have been absolutely peppered by quakes in recent days, but nobody is really talking about these quakes because everyone is so focused on COVID-19 right now.
Yes, this pandemic deserves our attention, but I would submit that all of the unusual shaking that has been happening certainly deserves our attention as well.
You may not have heard about it yet, but a magnitude 4.5 earthquake rocked San Diego on Sunday afternoon…
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake originating in Imperial County rocked San Diegans from East Village to Lakeside on Sunday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey.
The quake struck at 3:07 p.m. in Imperial County about 10.5 miles southeast of Ocotillo Wells, according to the USGS. It had a depth of 10 kilometers or 6.2 miles.
That is a rather large quake for that particular area, and it is just one of hundreds that have been hitting the region. In fact, CalTech says that there have been 1,227 earthquakes in California and Nevada over the last 7 days.
Meanwhile, the section of the Ring of Fire that runs along the west coast of South America has also been getting hit pretty hard. A magnitude 5.4 quake struck northern Chile on Sunday, and that really shook a lot of people up.
Subsequently, the portion of the Ring of Fire that runs along the coast of Japan was hit by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake very late on Sunday…
The quake hit near the east coast of Honshu at 23.58 UTC on Sunday. The earthquake was reported to have a depth of 80km. It also hit 129km north east of Saitama and also 26km south east of Hitachi, according to emsc-csem. USGS tweeted: “Prelim M5.8 Earthquake near the east coast of Honshu, Japan May-10 23:58 UTC”
And that unusual event in Japan was very quickly followed by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in Indonesia.
Of course Indonesia sits right along the Ring of Fire as well.
There has been so much shaking in Indonesia recently, but most Americans never hear about it. Just a few days ago, Indonesia was hit by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that was so powerful that it was actually felt in Australia…
A powerful earthquake in Indonesia has been felt in the Northern Territory.
Residents of Darwin reported online they had felt the shake, which registered as a magnitude-6.9 quake late on Wednesday evening.
The tremor hit the Banda Sea, more than 600km north of Darwin, at a depth of 142km.
So as you can see, there have been significant seismic events all over the Ring of Fire within the past several days.
But it isn’t just the Ring of Fire that has been shaking. Big earthquakes have been popping up in diverse places all over the globe, and the magnitude 5.1 quake that just hit Iran really surprised a lot of people…
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit Iran shortly after midnight on Thursday night with its epicenter 34 miles east of the capital city Tehran. AFP reported that panicked residents rushed into the streets, abandoning buildings in fear they would collapse. Two people were killed and 55 injured in the earthquake. The earthquake was followed by eight more mild aftershocks.
And weird earthquakes have been happening in the U.S. as well.
Anyone that follows my work on a regular basis knows that in addition to the west coast I am always watching the New Madrid seismic zone very carefully.
So when two unusual earthquakes hit southern Tennessee on Sunday morning, it definitely got my attention…
Two earthquakes were reported back to back in southern Tennessee early Sunday morning, officials say.
Both quakes happened about 4.3 miles southeast of Sewanee, which is near the Alabama border and about 52 miles from Chattanooga, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The first, a 3.1 magnitude, hit at 3:33 a.m. and the second, a 2.8 magnitude, hit at 3:34 a.m.
Without a doubt, there is a whole lot of shaking going on right now.
That does not necessarily mean that a major event of some sort is imminent, and we should certainly hope that the next major event can be put off for as long as possible.
But as I keep warning, the crust of our planet is very unstable, and many have been warning that we should expect that instability to only get worse in the days ahead.
Seismologists have warned us over and over that it is just a matter of time before “the Big One” absolutely devastates the west coast. They have told us that the San Andreas fault appears to be “locked and loaded” and that it could potentially “unzip all at once”.
And if that actually happens, seismologists have warned that the ground level could suddenly decline by up to 3 feet, and that could potentially result in vast portions of southern California suddenly being way below sea level.
In other words, we are talking about the sort of disaster that most people don’t even want to think about.
Of course very few people ever imagined that a coronavirus pandemic would virtually shut down the entire country, and yet here we are.
We live in very strange times, and I have a feeling that they will soon get a whole lot stranger…


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--FOURTH TURNING ACCELERATING TOWARDS CLIMAX

“ At some point , America ’ s short-term Crisis psychology will catch up to the long-term post-Unraveling fundamentals .
This might result in a Great Devaluation , a severe drop in the market price of most financial and real assets .
This devaluation could be a short but horrific panic , a free-falling price in a market with no buyers .
Or it could be a series of downward ratchets linked to political events that sequentially knock the supports out from under the residual popular trust in the system .
As assets devalue , trust will further disintegrate , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and so on .
Every slide in asset prices , employment , and production will give every generation cause to grow more alarmed.
” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning I ’ ve been writing articles about the Fourth Turning for over a decade and nothing has happened since its tumultuous onset in 2008 , with the global financial collapse , created by the Federal Reserve and their Wall Street co-conspirator owners , that has not followed along the path described by Strauss and Howe in their 1997 book – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bursting forth from a long dormant ( 80 years ) volcano , the core elements of this Fourth Turning continue to flow along channels of distress , long ago built by bad decisions , corrupt politicians and the greed of bankers .
The molten ingredients of this Crisis have been the central drivers since 2008 and this second major eruption is flowing along the same route .
The core elements are debt , civic decay , and global disorder , just as Strauss & Howe anticipated over two decades ago .
“ In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ominous as a financial crash , as ordinary as a national election , or as trivial as a Tea Party .
The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios : An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses and further emergencies .
The core elements of these scenarios ( debt , civic decay , global disorder ) will matter more than the details , which the catalyst will juxtapose and connect in some unknowable way .
If foreign societies are also entering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the chain reaction .
At home and abroad , these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where America will have neglected , denied , or delayed needed action.
” – The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe The initial spark for this Crisis was the massive mortgage fraud perpetrated on the nation by the Wall Street banks and enabled by their drug dealer at the Fed – Ben Bernanke .
Once he took his Wall Street payoff , becoming a multi-millionaire after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rewards ( aka bribes ) , Yellen stepped into the breach , shoveling billions into the deep pockets of the ruling elite .
QE to infinity for the connected billionaire set and .25 % interest on granny ’ s dwindling retirement nest egg .
Then another spineless academic dweeb took over the reins of money printing for the .1 % in 2018 .
Jerome Powell had the gall to raise rates all the way back to 2.25 % and wind the Fed ’ s balance sheet all the way down to $ 3.8 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was sternly told who he works for .
And it ’ s not you and me .
I wonder what threats were made to convince him to fall into line .
This entry was posted on Monday , May 11th , 2020 at 2:28 pm and is filed under Civil War II , Conspiracy , Corruption , Economics , Government Evil , New World Order .
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James Quinn
TheBurningPlatform.com
May 10, 2020
“At some point, America’s short-term Crisis psychology will catch up to the long-term post-Unraveling fundamentals. This might result in a Great Devaluation, a severe drop in the market price of most financial and real assets. This devaluation could be a short but horrific panic, a free-falling price in a market with no buyers. Or it could be a series of downward ratchets linked to political events that sequentially knock the supports out from under the residual popular trust in the system. As assets devalue, trust will further disintegrate, which will cause assets to devalue further, and so on. Every slide in asset prices, employment, and production will give every generation cause to grow more alarmed.” – Strauss & Howe – The Fourth Turning
I’ve been writing articles about the Fourth Turning for over a decade and nothing has happened since its tumultuous onset in 2008, with the global financial collapse, created by the Federal Reserve and their Wall Street co-conspirator owners, that has not followed along the path described by Strauss and Howe in their 1997 book – The Fourth Turning.
Like molten lava bursting forth from a long dormant (80 years) volcano, the core elements of this Fourth Turning continue to flow along channels of distress, long ago built by bad decisions, corrupt politicians and the greed of bankers. The molten ingredients of this Crisis have been the central drivers since 2008 and this second major eruption is flowing along the same route. The core elements are debt, civic decay, and global disorder, just as Strauss & Howe anticipated over two decades ago.
“In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that underlies all of these scenarios: An initial spark will trigger a chain reaction of unyielding responses and further emergencies. The core elements of these scenarios (debt, civic decay, global disorder) will matter more than the details, which the catalyst will juxtapose and connect in some unknowable way. If foreign societies are also entering a Fourth Turning, this could accelerate the chain reaction. At home and abroad, these events will reflect the tearing of the civic fabric at points of extreme vulnerability – problem areas where America will have neglected, denied, or delayed needed action.” – The Fourth Turning – Strauss & Howe
The initial spark for this Crisis was the massive mortgage fraud perpetrated on the nation by the Wall Street banks and enabled by their drug dealer at the Fed – Ben Bernanke. Once he took his Wall Street payoff, becoming a multi-millionaire after departing the Eccles building and reaping his rewards (aka bribes), Yellen stepped into the breach, shoveling billions into the deep pockets of the ruling elite. QE to infinity for the connected billionaire set and .25% interest on granny’s dwindling retirement nest egg.
Then another spineless academic dweeb took over the reins of money printing for the .1% in 2018. Jerome Powell had the gall to raise rates all the way back to 2.25% and wind the Fed’s balance sheet all the way down to $3.8 trillion from $4.5 trillion, before he was sternly told who he works for. And it’s not you and me. I wonder what threats were made to convince him to fall into line.
The Rest…HERE


revolutionradio--2020-05-11--“Be Safe, Move Quickly!” – Trump Accuses PA Gov Of “Playing Politics” By Delaying Reopening

Trump spars with PA gov US just below 80k deaths Wuhan to test entire city after latest outbreak Cuomo says central NY on track to reopen Friday South Carolina reopens restaurants for ‘ limited service ’ Iowa Gov says she will do limited quarantine WHO says 500k could die from AIDS thanks to disruptions in antiviral distribution South Korea ’ s latest cluster swells to 80+ ; school reopenings delayed Wuhan reports first new cases since reopening Germany hits another reopening ‘ speed bump Iran sees spike in infections , reimposes lockdown in one hot spot Disneyland Shanghai reopens UK @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ to ‘ Stay Alert ’ Russia reports another record jump Tokyo accused of excluding 100 cases from official count Spain sees new cases drop to 2 month low Dozens of US states take more dramatic steps toward reopening * * * Update ( 1344ET ) : As the US death toll teeters just below 80k ( at roughly 79,500 as of 2pmET ) , President Trump clashed with the Governor of Pennsylvania on Twitter Monday in yet another example of Trump butting in to try and influence a state ’ reopening plan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the states .
Trump accused Democratic Gov .
Tom Wolfe of “ playing politics ” by trying to delay the reopening of his state .
“ Don ’ t play politics , ” Mr. Trump said on Twitter .
“ The great people of Pennsylvania want their freedom now , and they are fully aware of what that entails…be safe , move quickly !
” To which governor Wolf responded during a virtual press conference… While Trump ’ s urges might seem callous and are certainly politically inept – as we ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in it gives Democrats the opportunity to try and blame him for the inevitable recession plus all of the virus deaths – even the NYT acknowledges that PA falls in the category of states that have notably flattened the curve .
As one local TV station reported on Monday , a growing number of PA Counties have decided to move ahead with reopening their economies without an ‘ OK ’ from the governor .
Lebanon County elected officials say they plan to move the county into the yellow phase of reopening without waiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Now Dauphin , Perry , Juniata , Adams , and Mifflin have released similar statements urging the governor to reopen or yellow phase the counties , many stating they will open without the governor ’ s approval .
Cumberland County Sheriff is also stating he will no longer enforce the closures and the Lancaster County District Attorney will not prosecute stay-at-home violator .
Some Lancaster County officials penned a letter to the government , but the city mayor says she the city will not to reopen early .
Lancaster County from the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ designation ” of his COVID-19 Phased Reopening Plan immediately .
Lancaster County elected officials say “ We as a county , are prepared to do so on Friday , May 15 , 2020 .
We prefer to act with your cooperation , but we intend to move forward with a plan to restore Lancaster County.
” The Lancaster County District Attorney ’ s Office will not prosecute citations pursuant to the Disease Prevention and Control Law regarding violations of state-mandated stay-at-home orders and closure orders of “ non-essential businesses.
” The Pennsylvania Governor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the latest extension of its order that non-life sustaining businesses remain closed .
The Governor also granted waivers to numerous businesses , allowing those businesses to open while others of their kind remain under closure order .
This entry was posted on Monday , May 11th , 2020 at 2:15 pm and is filed under Communists , Conspiracy , Corruption , Government Evil , New World Order .
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by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mon, 05/11/2020
Summary:
Trump spars with PA gov
US just below 80k deaths
Wuhan to test entire city after latest outbreak
Cuomo says central NY on track to reopen Friday
South Carolina reopens restaurants for ‘limited service’
Iowa Gov says she will do limited quarantine
WHO says 500k could die from AIDS thanks to disruptions in antiviral distribution
South Korea’s latest cluster swells to 80+; school reopenings delayed
Wuhan reports first new cases since reopening
Germany hits another reopening ‘speed bump
Iran sees spike in infections, reimposes lockdown in one hot spot
Disneyland Shanghai reopens
UK officially switches from ‘Stay at Home’ to ‘Stay Alert’
Russia reports another record jump
Tokyo accused of excluding 100 cases from official count
Spain sees new cases drop to 2 month low
Dozens of US states take more dramatic steps toward reopening
* * *
Update (1344ET): As the US death toll teeters just below 80k (at roughly 79,500 as of 2pmET), President Trump clashed with the Governor of Pennsylvania on Twitter Monday in yet another example of Trump butting in to try and influence a state’ reopening plan contrary to the decision to delegate to the states. Trump accused Democratic Gov. Tom Wolfe of “playing politics” by trying to delay the reopening of his state.
“Don’t play politics,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter. “The great people of Pennsylvania want their freedom now, and they are fully aware of what that entails…be safe, move quickly!”
To which governor Wolf responded during a virtual press conference…
"I don't know how you stay safe and move quickly. The irresponsible thing to do is just willy-nilly go off and pretend that we can wave a magic wand and go back into business and suspend the reality of this virus that is surrounding us." – @GovernorTomWolf responds to this tweet. https://t.co/VdZ5TNjdN2 — Cody Carlson (@CodyCarlsonNews) May 11, 2020
While Trump’s urges might seem callous and are certainly politically inept – as we’ve repeatedly explained, every time Trump buts in it gives Democrats the opportunity to try and blame him for the inevitable recession plus all of the virus deaths – even the NYT acknowledges that PA falls in the category of states that have notably flattened the curve.
As one local TV station reported on Monday, a growing number of PA Counties have decided to move ahead with reopening their economies without an ‘OK’ from the governor.
Lebanon County elected officials say they plan to move the county into the yellow phase of reopening without waiting for an OK from the governor. Now Dauphin, Perry, Juniata, Adams, and Mifflin have released similar statements urging the governor to reopen or yellow phase the counties, many stating they will open without the governor’s approval.
Cumberland County Sheriff is also stating he will no longer enforce the closures and the Lancaster County District Attorney will not prosecute stay-at-home violator. Some Lancaster County officials penned a letter to the government, but the city mayor says she the city will not to reopen early.
Lancaster County from the “red designation” to the “yellow designation” of his COVID-19 Phased Reopening Plan immediately.
Lancaster County elected officials say “We as a county, are prepared to do so on Friday, May 15, 2020. We prefer to act with your cooperation, but we intend to move forward with a plan to restore Lancaster County.”
The Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office will not prosecute citations pursuant to the Disease Prevention and Control Law regarding violations of state-mandated stay-at-home orders and closure orders of “non-essential businesses.”
The Pennsylvania Governor’s administration on May 8 issued the latest extension of its order that non-life sustaining businesses remain closed. The Governor also granted waivers to numerous businesses, allowing those businesses to open while others of their kind remain under closure order.
Source: WGAL