larouchepac--2020-04-15--We Must Mobilize to Defeat a Dark Age

We Must Mobilize to Defeat a Dark Age

It is only foolish and self-deluded people who fail to realize that we are facing a Dark Age , unless we mobilize to establish a new global healthcare system , Helga Zepp LaRouche stated in the opening of this week 's Schiller Institute webcast .
The Corona Virus pandemic , coming as the casino economy is collapsing , requires a total shift in thinking .
This has presented a moral test to humanity , as there are many who believe we can turn our back on poor countries , or worse , the committed Malthusians , who want population reduction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come before human life .
She called on viewers to join the Schiller Institute mobilization for a New Paradigm , based on the fight for the Common Aims of Mankind .
`` The symptoms of a Dark Age are everywhere , '' she said , identifying examples such as those in nursing homes or prisons who are infected and dying .
She said that she understands the pain caused by the lock down , of single mothers at home with no income , small businesses which are failing , but to try to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an even worse disaster than we face now .
Study what China , and other Asian nations did , to address the pandemic .
The push to blame China for the global pandemic is foolish , immoral and dishonest , she added , emphasizing the role of the usual suspects from the City of London and British intelligence , who are taking the lead .
She presented the actual chronology of the Chinese mobilization to discover what this new virus is , and to communicate what they were finding to others .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not a Chinese coverup , that is to blame .
The real anti-China push has nothing to do with corona virus , but that China 's rise threatens the unipolar world order of the geopoliticians and the neoliberals .
She urged viewers to back our call for an `` Apollo Project '' mobilization , and to organize for the April 25-6 Schiller Institute conference .

It is only foolish and self-deluded people who fail to realize that we are facing a Dark Age, unless we mobilize to establish a new global healthcare system, Helga Zepp LaRouche stated in the opening of this week's Schiller Institute webcast. The Corona Virus pandemic, coming as the casino economy is collapsing, requires a total shift in thinking. This has presented a moral test to humanity, as there are many who believe we can turn our back on poor countries, or worse, the committed Malthusians, who want population reduction, continue to insist that profit must come before human life. She called on viewers to join the Schiller Institute mobilization for a New Paradigm, based on the fight for the Common Aims of Mankind.
"The symptoms of a Dark Age are everywhere," she said, identifying examples such as those in nursing homes or prisons who are infected and dying. She said that she understands the pain caused by the lock down, of single mothers at home with no income, small businesses which are failing, but to try to go back to "normal" risks an even worse disaster than we face now. Study what China, and other Asian nations did, to address the pandemic.
The push to blame China for the global pandemic is foolish, immoral and dishonest, she added, emphasizing the role of the usual suspects from the City of London and British intelligence, who are taking the lead. She presented the actual chronology of the Chinese mobilization to discover what this new virus is, and to communicate what they were finding to others. It was the arrogance of the West, not a Chinese coverup, that is to blame. The real anti-China push has nothing to do with corona virus, but that China's rise threatens the unipolar world order of the geopoliticians and the neoliberals. She urged viewers to back our call for an "Apollo Project" mobilization, and to organize for the April 25-6 Schiller Institute conference.


larouchepac--2020-04-15--LaRouche’s ‘Apollo Mission’ for a World Health System and the Economy

We face a situation of world collapse .
What is required is a comprehensive solution , not just good ideas , however welcome and just .
The needed perspective is presented in the newly released Schiller Institute document , “ LaRouche ’ s ‘ Apollo Mission ’ To Defeat the Global Pandemic : Build a World Health System Now !
” whose focus is on saving lives , in the course of which , the mobilization involved will establish the agro-industrial and infrastructure capacity for a new economy .
It will not be a futile attempt to “ go back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ways that led up to the breakdown crisis to begin with .
Helga Zepp-LaRouche , Schiller Institute founder and president , commenting on this yesterdat , stating that there are worthwhile developments , such as calls for debt moratoria for impoverished nations , but they do not , standing alone , add up to the comprehensive shift in the system that is required .
Making this shift happen is the aim of the April 25-26 internet conference , “ Mankind ’ s Existence Now Depends on the Establishment of a New Paradigm !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ continent is itself contributing to the mass movement to change the course of history .
One welcome initiative comes today from Africa .
Out of Ethiopia cargo planes took off as part of an operation called “ Solidarity Flights , ” transporting protective gear and medical equipment for health caregivers and patients , to be delivered to every country in Africa .
The equipment was donated by the Jack Ma and Ali Baba Foundations Initiative , and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed .
The mission is jointly run by the World Food Program @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Union , out of a new “ humanitarian hub ” in Addis Ababa .
The volume of the aid is small , but the significance of the initiative is great .
The plan is to set up other such hubs elsewhere in the world .
What ’ s lacking is full funding .
The worldwide transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is causing nightmare conditions at multiple locations , even before it has fully spread throughout the Global South .
Today in India , where COVID-19 is progressing relentlessly , Prime Minister Narendra Modi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weeks of lockdown and encouraging his countrymen to withstand the restrictions , in order to slow the virus while more medical facilities can be mustered .
Elsewhere in Asia , the leaders of the ASEAN+3 nations—the 10 ASEAN nations plus China , Japan , and South Korea—met online summit , and pledged to be mutually supportive in measures to combat the SARS-CoV-2 , the virus that causes COVID-19 .
There is a dramatic economic crisis in the U.S. , where 18 million people have filed for unemployment help in just the past three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out ; agriculture capacity is at stake .
Every day , for example , farmers have dumped an estimated 5 % of all their milk output down the drain , for lack of a place to sell and decent price to sell it at .
An immediate factor is the drop of 12-15 % in public demand after stay-at-home orders in mid-March .
But well before the virus ever arrived , 3,000 U.S. dairy farmers were forced out of operation in 2019 alone , due to the systemic conditions of chronic low prices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ processing , and refusal of the Federal government to buck the Wall Street/City of London networks , and act in the public interest .
With different particulars , the same holds true for all other areas of life and production , from housing , to transportation , to water , power , disaster defense , and certainly to healthcare , and basic science .
The lack of basics in the face of the virus is most extreme in Africa , parts of South and Central America and parts of Asia .
Zepp-LaRouche stressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus under the existing economic system , which is bankrupt .
We must restore Glass Steagall banking reorganization , clean out the bad gambling debts , set up Hamiltonian banking with plentiful credit for priorities , and engage in international cooperation—a New Bretton Woods in these terms .
Such a clear perspective—guided by the direct policies and proposals of Lyndon LaRouche—is the content of what must be planned for both fighting the pandemic and for creating the post-pandemic economic system .
It stands in contrast to this week ’ s contrived flare-up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state governors , about who has authority to issue “ back to work ” orders—a classic British Empire mind-game of playing everyone off against each other , or , “ let ’ s you and him fight.
” Our focus in these troubled days is to bring maximum participation in the Schiller Institute April 25-26 international conference , and pre-event organizing .
“ Tough times never last .
Tough people do , ” Zepp-LaRouche quoted today , from the U.S .
Ambassador to China Terry Branstad , who spoke on radio from Beijing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said the motto had guided him as Iowa governor through the 1980s farm crisis , and will guide us all together today .

We face a situation of world collapse. What is required is a comprehensive solution, not just good ideas, however welcome and just. The needed perspective is presented in the newly released Schiller Institute document, “LaRouche’s ‘Apollo Mission’ To Defeat the Global Pandemic: Build a World Health System Now!” whose focus is on saving lives, in the course of which, the mobilization involved will establish the agro-industrial and infrastructure capacity for a new economy. It will not be a futile attempt to “go back to work” in any of the ways that led up to the breakdown crisis to begin with.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Schiller Institute founder and president, commenting on this yesterdat, stating that there are worthwhile developments, such as calls for debt moratoria for impoverished nations, but they do not, standing alone, add up to the comprehensive shift in the system that is required.
Making this shift happen is the aim of the April 25-26 internet conference, “Mankind’s Existence Now Depends on the Establishment of a New Paradigm!” Mobilizing for maximum attendance from every continent is itself contributing to the mass movement to change the course of history.
One welcome initiative comes today from Africa. Out of Ethiopia cargo planes took off as part of an operation called “Solidarity Flights,” transporting protective gear and medical equipment for health caregivers and patients, to be delivered to every country in Africa. The equipment was donated by the Jack Ma and Ali Baba Foundations Initiative, and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The mission is jointly run by the World Food Program, World Health Organization and the African Union, out of a new “humanitarian hub” in Addis Ababa. The volume of the aid is small, but the significance of the initiative is great. The plan is to set up other such hubs elsewhere in the world. What’s lacking is full funding.
The worldwide transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is causing nightmare conditions at multiple locations, even before it has fully spread throughout the Global South. Today in India, where COVID-19 is progressing relentlessly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation, announcing another three weeks of lockdown and encouraging his countrymen to withstand the restrictions, in order to slow the virus while more medical facilities can be mustered.
Elsewhere in Asia, the leaders of the ASEAN+3 nations—the 10 ASEAN nations plus China, Japan, and South Korea—met online summit, and pledged to be mutually supportive in measures to combat the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
There is a dramatic economic crisis in the U.S., where 18 million people have filed for unemployment help in just the past three weeks. Food supply lines are running out; agriculture capacity is at stake. Every day, for example, farmers have dumped an estimated 5% of all their milk output down the drain, for lack of a place to sell and decent price to sell it at. An immediate factor is the drop of 12-15% in public demand after stay-at-home orders in mid-March. But well before the virus ever arrived, 3,000 U.S. dairy farmers were forced out of operation in 2019 alone, due to the systemic conditions of chronic low prices to farmers and ranchers, concentration of processing, and refusal of the Federal government to buck the Wall Street/City of London networks, and act in the public interest.
With different particulars, the same holds true for all other areas of life and production, from housing, to transportation, to water, power, disaster defense, and certainly to healthcare, and basic science. The lack of basics in the face of the virus is most extreme in Africa, parts of South and Central America and parts of Asia.
Zepp-LaRouche stressed yesterday, that we cannot defeat the virus under the existing economic system, which is bankrupt. We must restore Glass Steagall banking reorganization, clean out the bad gambling debts, set up Hamiltonian banking with plentiful credit for priorities, and engage in international cooperation—a New Bretton Woods in these terms.
Such a clear perspective—guided by the direct policies and proposals of Lyndon LaRouche—is the content of what must be planned for both fighting the pandemic and for creating the post-pandemic economic system. It stands in contrast to this week’s contrived flare-up of conflict between President Donald Trump and state governors, about who has authority to issue “back to work” orders—a classic British Empire mind-game of playing everyone off against each other, or, “let’s you and him fight.”
Our focus in these troubled days is to bring maximum participation in the Schiller Institute April 25-26 international conference, and pre-event organizing. “Tough times never last. Tough people do,” Zepp-LaRouche quoted today, from the U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad, who spoke on radio from Beijing to Des Moines April 12. He said the motto had guided him as Iowa governor through the 1980s farm crisis, and will guide us all together today.[a:class=links_good_rands;href="https:\/\/www.pochta.uz\/en\/facvshop\/product-category\/adidas-yeezy-350\/"]adidas Yeezy Boost 350[/a][script][/script]


larouchepac--2020-04-14--Now Is The Time To Reorganize The Financial System

World-wide , central banks are bailing out worthless financial assets held by the City of London and Wall Street -- this in a midst of a pandemic of global suffering , and , in the developing sector of the world and impoverished areas right here in the U.S. , almost certain death .
To see how these maniacs think just look at the investment article today by the “ formidable Wall Street figure ” and Davos raconteur Scott Minerd , billionaire CEO of Guggenheim Investments , who told his clients COVID-19 is going to devastate the developing countries—which he calls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ emerging markets ” or just “ EMs.
” “ The emerging markets soon will be hit very hard by the global pandemic , ” Minerd wrote .
“ The pandemic will be followed by goods and ood shortages , and social unrest .
Before the virus hit them directly , EM countries had already been adversely affected by falling commodity prices and the economic impact of the shutdown in China and other parts of the developed world .
Most EM countries have very weak healthcare systems , nowhere near enough hospital beds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and large numbers of workers in the economy who are paid daily wages or work in the informal economy and can ’ t work remotely .
For many EM countries , this pandemic will quickly escalate from a health crisis to a humanitarian crisis , and ultimately to a solvency crisis .
Political stability will be the last domino to fall.
” And Minerd then goes on from there to advise clients on the relevant Investments in the ravaged developing sector !
The threat of very large numbers of people dying in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people—and for us .
But for Wall Street and the City of London-centered banks : They ’ re getting bailed out , from an admitted , complete collapse of the monetary system they have played for 50 years .
The Federal Reserve is printing $ 5 trillion so far , under the aegis “ unlimited , ” to purchase bad assets from and lend money to speculative financial firms , while offering one-third of that in loans to municipalities and other businesses .
Another author today , Jonathan Tepper , CIO of Prevatt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criticizing the FED in , of all places , the Financial Times of London : “ Lending to potentially insolvent companies is bad enough , but buying corporate bonds and ETFs in the secondary market is of questionable legality under Section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act ... .
It also does nothing to help fund the economy , and merely helps the returns of investors who have already bought corporate bonds .
It is a paradise for speculators .
“ The obvious beneficiaries of the junk bond-buying program are overleveraged private equity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not surprising .
[ Fed Chairman Jerome ] Mr. Powell spent years at Carlyle , the private equity giant , ” Tepper notes .
Meanwhile Americans under unprecedented mass unemployment get $ 1,200 each .
They get to postpone their mortgage and tax payments but must make a balloon payment later—while Capital One bank is told by regulators it simply need not pay a $ 1 billion margin call on its derivatives losses at all .
So , the injustice to the developing sector of the world is also in force for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizens with generally poorer lifetime healthcare , and the elderly , fill 80-90 % or more of the death rolls from COVID-19 .
The floating-exchange-rate , casino monetary system of the past half century , which has produced flagrant wealth , real wage losses and poverty , and widespread Malthusian views of human life , is now a wreck .
But the central banks led by the Fed insist they ’ ll repair it .
“ We can prevent deflation !
” Fed Vice-Chair Richard Clarida swore today .
If they do , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explosion .
This rotten-ripe system , which the population rightly hates , can be replaced completely by a new credit system of the leading technological powers acting in concert , beginning by building a world health system which can prevent mass death in the developing countries .
This new system will be presaged by the international conference of the Schiller Institute to be held online April 25-26 .

World-wide, central banks are bailing out worthless financial assets held by the City of London and Wall Street --this in a midst of a pandemic of global suffering, and, in the developing sector of the world and impoverished areas right here in the U.S., almost certain death.
To see how these maniacs think just look at the investment article today by the “formidable Wall Street figure” and Davos raconteur Scott Minerd, billionaire CEO of Guggenheim Investments, who told his clients COVID-19 is going to devastate the developing countries—which he calls, in the customary contemptuous finance-speak, “emerging markets” or just “EMs.”
“The emerging markets soon will be hit very hard by the global pandemic,” Minerd wrote. “The pandemic will be followed by goods and ood shortages, and social unrest. Before the virus hit them directly, EM countries had already been adversely affected by falling commodity prices and the economic impact of the shutdown in China and other parts of the developed world. Most EM countries have very weak healthcare systems, nowhere near enough hospital beds and respirators, crowded cities and slums, and large numbers of workers in the economy who are paid daily wages or work in the informal economy and can’t work remotely. For many EM countries, this pandemic will quickly escalate from a health crisis to a humanitarian crisis, and ultimately to a solvency crisis. Political stability will be the last domino to fall.”
And Minerd then goes on from there to advise clients on the relevant Investments in the ravaged developing sector!
The threat of very large numbers of people dying in the developing countries is real for those people—and for us. But for Wall Street and the City of London-centered banks: They’re getting bailed out, from an admitted, complete collapse of the monetary system they have played for 50 years. The Federal Reserve is printing $5 trillion so far, under the aegis “unlimited,” to purchase bad assets from and lend money to speculative financial firms, while offering one-third of that in loans to municipalities and other businesses.
Another author today, Jonathan Tepper, CIO of Prevatt Capital, tells the actual story, criticizing the FED in, of all places, the Financial Times of London:
“Lending to potentially insolvent companies is bad enough, but buying corporate bonds and ETFs in the secondary market is of questionable legality under Section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act.... It also does nothing to help fund the economy, and merely helps the returns of investors who have already bought corporate bonds. It is a paradise for speculators.
“The obvious beneficiaries of the junk bond-buying program are overleveraged private equity groups and unhealthy borrowers. This is not surprising. [Fed Chairman Jerome] Mr. Powell spent years at Carlyle, the private equity giant,” Tepper notes.
Meanwhile Americans under unprecedented mass unemployment get $1,200 each. They get to postpone their mortgage and tax payments but must make a balloon payment later—while Capital One bank is told by regulators it simply need not pay a $1 billion margin call on its derivatives losses at all. So, the injustice to the developing sector of the world is also in force for the American and European populations, where minority citizens with generally poorer lifetime healthcare, and the elderly, fill 80-90% or more of the death rolls from COVID-19.
The floating-exchange-rate, casino monetary system of the past half century, which has produced flagrant wealth, real wage losses and poverty, and widespread Malthusian views of human life, is now a wreck. But the central banks led by the Fed insist they’ll repair it. “We can prevent deflation!” Fed Vice-Chair Richard Clarida swore today. If they do, it will be with a deadly hyperinflationary explosion.
This rotten-ripe system, which the population rightly hates, can be replaced completely by a new credit system of the leading technological powers acting in concert, beginning by building a world health system which can prevent mass death in the developing countries. This new system will be presaged by the international conference of the Schiller Institute to be held online April 25-26.[a:class=links_good_rands;href="https:\/\/www.sportaccord.sport\/afegshop\/klaer"]Klær Nike[/a][script][/script]


larouchepac--2020-04-14--The Last Days of Pompeo

The Last Days of Pompeo

Each week , founder and President of the Schiller Institute , Helga Zepp-LaRouche , briefs an international audience on the @ @ @ @ @ around China 's Belt and Road initiative .

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larouchepac--2020-04-13--Defeating the Pandemic, Part III: Industry, Infrastructure, and Political Requirements

This is the third part in a three-part series .
In Part I , we gave a road map for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic from a global standpoint .
In Part II , we discussed the necessary health measures in more detail .
Providing the health measures in Chapter 1 will require major investments into manufacturing and into basic economic infrastructure .
Here in Part III , we take up the physical , economic , scientific , and political changes needed to make these measures possible on a global scale .
The inexcusable condition of the world , in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , must be remedied .
This is eminently possible , as China ’ s experience in eliminating poverty over the past four decades has shown .
The platforms of physical improvements we make to our surroundings provide the human species with a synthetic , nurturing environment far superior to the “ natural ” environment we share with the apes .
By controlling water flows , draining swamps , irrigating fields , building canals , railroads and roadways , developing water and wastewater systems , creating electrical and communication grids , and improving the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has a unique power to make this Earth a garden .
This infrastructure includes such soft infrastructure as an educated and culturally uplifted populace .
Much of the investment into eliminating poverty will be of the form of basic economic infrastructure .
And the current coronavirus pandemic points to the particularly urgent need of health infrastructure .
But can a hospital be built where there are no roads or electricity ?
What are the requirements for the provision of health services ?
Numerous companies have expressed interest in retooling for the production of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The list includes : • Automakers General Motors ( which will work with Ventec Life Systems to produce 10,000 units a week ) , Ford Motor Company ( which has committed , with General Electric , to produce 50,000 by July 4 ) , McLaren , Jaguar Land Rover , and the VW Group .
• Aerospace companies such as Brazil-based Embraer , Europe-based Rolls Royce and Airbus , and the American firm SpaceX .
• Philips is doubling production to 2,000 per week , and Getinge will increase production to 3,750 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the Smiths Group are all working to produce additional ventilators for governments .
If all goes according to projection , the companies listed above would supply at least 300,000 ventilators by July .
An April 9 Politico article reports that estimated demand solely from the United States and several Western European nations was for one million ventilators ; the world ’ s needs will be higher .
3M intends to double its international production to 2 billion N95 respirators over the next year , and is presently producing about 100 million respirators @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a facility in Rhode Island and is revamping its aerospace facility in Phoenix as part of their overall increase in production to 120 million per year .
The coronavirus pandemic now afflicting the world is only one of the deadly viruses we face .
The financial virus chiefly centered in the City of London and in Wall Street has proven to be no less deadly over the past decades .
The cultural virus infecting the addled minds of foolish politicians still fighting the Cold War threatens to wreck the potential for precisely the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other viruses .
A summit discussion involving President Donald Trump , President Vladimir Putin , President Xi Jinping , and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is urgently required to achieve the cooperation needed in the short term to address the menacing health crisis .
Such a summit is also the means by which , according to Lyndon LaRouche , a new and just economic system can be put into place globally .
The world must join forces as a single humanity to stop the impending mass-death in Africa , in particular , as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medics , and other skilled personnel from scores of nations must be mobilized , deployed and coordinated under the United Nations and African Union , and with full respect for the sovereignty of all nations .
Building health and sanitation infrastructure , assisting in supplying necessary medical and protective equipment , and assisting with administration of health systems are among the urgent jobs at hand .
African nations must also be granted an immediate cancellation of their foreign debts ; the world must choose life over debt .
Similarly , all sanctions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like must stop internationally .
Much better to use those resources for the common battle of mankind against the coronavirus .
Lyndon LaRouche warned nearly fifty years ago that President Nixon ’ s August 15 , 1971 takedown of the Bretton Woods system would lead to devastating economic effects that would result , in the end , in fascism .
This is seen today in , among other places , the green outlook whereby people supposedly concerned about the world ’ s future act to deny energy development to the world , condemning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years later , in 1974 and 1975 , LaRouche warned that worsening economic conditions would create the conditions for the rapid spread of diseases , including new diseases , threatening a biological holocaust .
While it may seem that China and major developed countries are bringing the current pandemic under some form of control , what will the next months bring to the developing world if there is not a radical and sudden change ?
To create an economy resilient in the face of such crises as the emergence of new diseases , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as well as a reconceptualization of economics .
Lyndon LaRouche was adamant that economics is not about money , or about values that could be expressed in monetary terms .
Rather , the secret of economic growth is the ability of the creative human mind to discover and develop new physical principles that expand the capabilities of the human species .
As a rough measure of the value of a discovery , or of a cultural outlook , Lyndon LaRouche used the metric of increase of potential relative population density — a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be , relative to the quality of land and improvements made to it .
That is , how many people could be supported , per square kilometer , on the basis of a certain repertoire of discoveries , technologies , and culture ?
And what sort of culture could act to increase that value ?
That is the location of economic value .
In one of his last policy papers , Lyndon LaRouche demanded the immediate implementation of four laws that he said were necessary for the United States .
They are needed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a banking reform based on principles of the 1933 Glass–Steagall law , to deny speculative investment the protection of government while ensuring commercial banking could play its useful role .
Second , national banking arrangements whereby governments can make long-term credit available for physical economic purposes , rather than for financial stability as has been the practice of the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank .
Third , metrics for the application of the needed credit , based not on financial gain but on physical economic growth .
Fourth , the new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next fifty to a hundred years : nuclear fusion , space research , and fundamental breakthroughs in biology , to name three powerful examples .
By unlocking the true economic potential of our current repertoire of scientific discoveries and the potential to further expand it , poverty and hunger can be entirely eliminated within a generation , or even within a decade .
Nuclear fusion power will change our relationship to energy , water , and resources .
Fusion-powered rockets will keep us safe from any asteroids threatening to careen into our planet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allow for the rapid eradication of newly emerging threats .
And , most importantly , the fear of large-scale international conflict can be overcome as we come to realize our common aims , here on Earth , and beyond !
Join the discussion , register for our online conference April 25-26 .

This is the third part in a three-part series. In Part I, we gave a road map for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic from a global standpoint. In Part II, we discussed the necessary health measures in more detail.
Providing the health measures in Chapter 1 will require major investments into manufacturing and into basic economic infrastructure. Here in Part III, we take up the physical, economic, scientific, and political changes needed to make these measures possible on a global scale. The inexcusable condition of the world, in which poverty still exists in the year 2020, must be remedied. This is eminently possible, as China’s experience in eliminating poverty over the past four decades has shown.
Infrastructure
The platforms of physical improvements we make to our surroundings provide the human species with a synthetic, nurturing environment far superior to the “natural” environment we share with the apes. By controlling water flows, draining swamps, irrigating fields, building canals, railroads and roadways, developing water and wastewater systems, creating electrical and communication grids, and improving the flora and fauna, the human species has a unique power to make this Earth a garden. This infrastructure includes such soft infrastructure as an educated and culturally uplifted populace. Much of the investment into eliminating poverty will be of the form of basic economic infrastructure. And the current coronavirus pandemic points to the particularly urgent need of health infrastructure. But can a hospital be built where there are no roads or electricity? What are the requirements for the provision of health services?
Production Requirements
Medical equipment
Numerous companies have expressed interest in retooling for the production of ventilators, from automakers to aerospace companies. The list includes:
Automakers General Motors (which will work with Ventec Life Systems to produce 10,000 units a week), Ford Motor Company (which has committed, with General Electric, to produce 50,000 by July 4), McLaren, Jaguar Land Rover, and the VW Group.
Aerospace companies such as Brazil-based Embraer, Europe-based Rolls Royce and Airbus, and the American firm SpaceX.
Current producers are ramping up production:
Philips is doubling production to 2,000 per week, and Getinge will increase production to 3,750 per week. Drager, Vyaire, and the Smiths Group are all working to produce additional ventilators for governments.
If all goes according to projection, the companies listed above would supply at least 300,000 ventilators by July. An April 9 Politico article reports that estimated demand solely from the United States and several Western European nations was for one million ventilators; the world’s needs will be higher.
PPE
3M intends to double its international production to 2 billion N95 respirators over the next year, and is presently producing about 100 million respirators per month.
Honeywell Industries has upgraded a facility in Rhode Island and is revamping its aerospace facility in Phoenix as part of their overall increase in production to 120 million per year.
Required Global Policy Changes
International Collaboration
The coronavirus pandemic now afflicting the world is only one of the deadly viruses we face. The financial virus chiefly centered in the City of London and in Wall Street has proven to be no less deadly over the past decades. The cultural virus infecting the addled minds of foolish politicians still fighting the Cold War threatens to wreck the potential for precisely the kind of collaboration required to defeat the other viruses.
A summit discussion involving President Donald Trump, President Vladimir Putin, President Xi Jinping, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is urgently required to achieve the cooperation needed in the short term to address the menacing health crisis. Such a summit is also the means by which, according to Lyndon LaRouche, a new and just economic system can be put into place globally.
The world must join forces as a single humanity to stop the impending mass-death in Africa, in particular, as the coronavirus spreads. Brigades of engineers, medics, and other skilled personnel from scores of nations must be mobilized, deployed and coordinated under the United Nations and African Union, and with full respect for the sovereignty of all nations. Building health and sanitation infrastructure, assisting in supplying necessary medical and protective equipment, and assisting with administration of health systems are among the urgent jobs at hand.
African nations must also be granted an immediate cancellation of their foreign debts; the world must choose life over debt.
Similarly, all sanctions, armed conflict, border disputes and the like must stop internationally. Much better to use those resources for the common battle of mankind against the coronavirus.
A Paradigm Shift
Lyndon LaRouche warned nearly fifty years ago that President Nixon’s August 15, 1971 takedown of the Bretton Woods system would lead to devastating economic effects that would result, in the end, in fascism. This is seen today in, among other places, the green outlook whereby people supposedly concerned about the world’s future act to deny energy development to the world, condemning millions to early deaths. Some few years later, in 1974 and 1975, LaRouche warned that worsening economic conditions would create the conditions for the rapid spread of diseases, including new diseases, threatening a biological holocaust. While it may seem that China and major developed countries are bringing the current pandemic under some form of control, what will the next months bring to the developing world if there is not a radical and sudden change?
To create an economy resilient in the face of such crises as the emergence of new diseases, requires enormous investments in basic economic infrastructure, as well as a reconceptualization of economics.
Lyndon LaRouche was adamant that economics is not about money, or about values that could be expressed in monetary terms. Rather, the secret of economic growth is the ability of the creative human mind to discover and develop new physical principles that expand the capabilities of the human species. As a rough measure of the value of a discovery, or of a cultural outlook, Lyndon LaRouche used the metric of increase of potential relative population density — a measure of what the population density could be, relative to the quality of land and improvements made to it. That is, how many people could be supported, per square kilometer, on the basis of a certain repertoire of discoveries, technologies, and culture? And what sort of culture could act to increase that value? That is the location of economic value.
In one of his last policy papers, Lyndon LaRouche demanded the immediate implementation of four laws that he said were necessary for the United States. They are needed for the world as well. First, a banking reform based on principles of the 1933 Glass–Steagall law, to deny speculative investment the protection of government while ensuring commercial banking could play its useful role. Second, national banking arrangements whereby governments can make long-term credit available for physical economic purposes, rather than for financial stability as has been the practice of the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank. Third, metrics for the application of the needed credit, based not on financial gain but on physical economic growth. Fourth, the new discoveries needed for human growth over the next fifty to a hundred years: nuclear fusion, space research, and fundamental breakthroughs in biology, to name three powerful examples.
By unlocking the true economic potential of our current repertoire of scientific discoveries and the potential to further expand it, poverty and hunger can be entirely eliminated within a generation, or even within a decade. Nuclear fusion power will change our relationship to energy, water, and resources. Fusion-powered rockets will keep us safe from any asteroids threatening to careen into our planet. Biological advancements will cure disease and allow for the rapid eradication of newly emerging threats. And, most importantly, the fear of large-scale international conflict can be overcome as we come to realize our common aims, here on Earth, and beyond!
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larouchepac--2020-04-13--Defeating the Pandemic, Part II: Public Health Measures

In Part I , we laid out our overview of tackling the global pandemic from a global standpoint .
Here in Part II , we will discuss necessary health measures in more detail .
Part III will take up the physical , economic , scientific , and political changes needed to make these measures possible on a global scale .
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ( University of Washington School of Medicine ) estimates , as of April 8 , that a peak of approximately 100,000 hospital beds , 20,000 ICU beds , and over 16,000 ventilators will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of spread and medical care .
According to a survey by the American Hospital Association , in 2018 there were just shy of 800,000 staffed beds in U.S. community hospitals , and around 70,000–80,000 adult ICU beds .
Since these beds are not typically empty , just waiting for patients to need them , the large number of beds does not mean that there will not be shortages , especially local shortages , as the number of hospitalized patients reaches its peak .
The current level of total hospital beds in the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is 2.8 per 1,000 people , barely one-third the 1970 level of 7.9 beds .
On the basis of “ community hospital beds , ” which most of the population uses , there are only 2.4 beds per 1,000 people .
Consider the power , water , sanitation , and transportation requirements of hospitals .
Using the United States as a case study , an additional 575,000 beds would be required to bring the national average to 4.5 per 1,000 people .
According to a 2007 report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospitals , with approximately 915,000 beds ( at the time of the study ) , used about 458 trillion BTUs of energy per year : 194 trillion BTUs in the form of electricity ( 57 billion kWh ) and the remainder in the form of natural gas , district heating , and fuel oil .
Using this figure , hospitals with an additional 575,000 beds would require about 36 billion kWh of electricity per year .
That translates into power plants supplying 5,000 MW at an 80 % capacity factor .
This would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reactors or two Grand Coulee Dams ( running at average capacity ) .
And that doesn ’ t even take into account the natural gas requirements !
In the same report , EIA estimated that these 3,040 large hospitals used 133 billion gallons of water per year .
Hospitals with an additional 575,000 beds would require an additional 84 billion gallons per year .
For a sense of perspective , the world ’ s largest proposed desalination plant , located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , would provide about 100 billion gallons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bring online another 15 to 20 million hospital beds — to bring the world hospital bed count to the Hill–Burton level of 35 million hospital beds — would require about 100,000 MW of generating capacity , as could be supplied by 100 large nuclear power plants or nearly 2,000 small scale modular nuclear plants .
Global water requirements for these new hospitals would require about 4 trillion gallons annually , which is about half the volume of water contained by the Three Gorges Dam .
Hospital beds aren ’ t much good without @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is seeing retired health care workers coming back to work , and there are cases of medical schools offering early graduation for students in their final year if they are willing to immediately go to work as doctors .
As virus hotspots move around the world , healthcare providers able to travel should be encouraged to work in other regions and countries .
Using influenza pandemic scenarios considered in a 2005 planning study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , there could be several million hospitalizations in the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more patients requiring ICU treatment and half a million requiring mechanical ventilators .
Projecting from these figures to the present world population , 10 million people could require ventilators , with an estimated 1 million each in Africa , Latin America , and India .
Personal Protective Equipment ( PPE ) is used at health care facilities to prevent patients from transmitting disease to health care workers or other patients .
This includes gloves , respirators and masks , face visors , goggles , gowns , hair coverings , and full-body suits .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ N95 ( or equivalent ) certified mask , workers are put at serious risk of catching the disease themselves .
Shortages are causing enormous price increases and tensions among nations seeking to produce or to import equipment from those nations that manufacture it .
An industrial gear-up is required to ensure that adequate supplies of PPE are available .
The physical layout of a hospital or other care facility can have an enormous impact on the quantity of PPE required .
In a healthcare setting that includes only confirmed COVID-19 cases , care @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the disease from one patient to another , and health care workers can wear protective equipment through an entire shift .
But if nurses must attend to patients of mixed COVID-19 status , best practices mandate that they equip themselves with PPE before entering a COVID-19 patient room , and then dispose of the equipment immediately upon leaving , to avoid carrying the virus to the uninfected patients they will next be visiting .
With this setup , ten sets of PPE could be consumed per day per patient room .
Thus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from non-COVID patients can permit significant savings of PPE .
Accurately separating these patients requires testing .
A properly fitted N95 respirator protects the wearer from 95 % of particles over 0.3 microns in size .
While the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus itself is smaller than this size , the virions do not float around entirely on their own and are effectively blocked by N95 respirator masks .
A 2015 study by the U.S. National Library of Medicine , part of the National Institutes of Health , examining three scenarios of demand , estimated that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were to become ill , some 4 billion N95 respirator masks would be required .
Extrapolating this figure to the world ’ s population , the global requirements would be on the order of 100 billion N95 masks for the duration of the outbreak : some 15 billion in Africa , 10 billion in Latin America , and 20 billion in India .
Developments in testing technology now allow for thousands of tests to be processed per day by a single piece of equipment in a dedicated laboratory ( high-throughput ) as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ point of care .
The development by Abbott Laboratories of a portable testing unit capable of delivering a positive result in as little as 5 minutes or a negative result within a quarter hour greatly speeds the process of processing patients presenting with possible COVID symptoms , allowing them to be sent to the appropriate COVID-only or non-COVID facility or hospital wing .
Everyone confirmed to have the novel coronavirus should have the opportunity to be isolated from their neighbors , roommates , and families .
This means that asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ board accommodations in facilities designed to keep them isolated and healthy .
Hotels — which have occupancy rates in the single digits — could be repurposed to this effect , with adequate PPE supplies and training for a reduced hospital staff .
The types of shelter arrangements provided following natural disasters would also be appropriate for these individuals .
This was the approach taken in Wuhan , in which every positive confirmed case was isolated under medical supervision , whether in a hospital , gymnasium , or hotel .
Mild and asymptomatic cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exercise classes — far better for their mental health than hiding in a room at home , fearful of infecting their loved ones !
Two negative nucleic acid tests for the virus , taken 24 hours apart , were required before people could leave the isolation facilities .
This form of isolation , going beyond staying ( and infecting ) at home , helped drive Wuhan ’ s eventual victory over the virus .
In fact , China ’ s achievement in Wuhan remains the most successful model to date for combating the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one-half of those infected with the coronavirus display extremely mild symptoms or no symptoms at all , it is impossible to rely on symptoms to locate all cases of the disease .
Large-scale community testing — emphatically including for those without symptoms — will make it possible to isolate cases in an effective and targeted way and make contact-tracing more manageable .
South Korea tested one in 170 people and used this knowledge to trace contacts , alert residents via text messages of nearby cases and hotspots , and reduce the spread of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ used to crush the spread of the coronavirus do carry a toll , both economic and social .
While these shutdowns are appropriate given a relatively low level of testing , truly large-scale testing will make it possible to make intelligent decisions about lifting restrictions .
To test the world at the South Korea level of one in 170 , would require 45 million tests .
But many people will require more than one test : Examples include a person who has tested negative but who has had recent potential exposure or a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being tested to make sure it is safe to discharge them .
To perform 60 million tests ( factoring in some people being tested multiple times ) at current worldwide testing rates would take the better part of a year .
The nasal swab tests most widely used at present operate by detecting components of the virus ’ s genome .
These are referred to as PCR tests , named for the polymerase chain reaction process by which the genetic material is multiplied by 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 times to allow it to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use blood , rather than swabs , and would detect , instead of the virus itself , antibodies produced by the body to fight the disease .
These antibodies are present in people who were once infected but have since recovered .
A virus test would come back negative , but an antibody test would be positive .
With these tests , it will be possible to identify potential blood plasma donors ( for convalescent blood serum therapy ) and identify people who are no longer infected and likely to be immune .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ enjoyed by those who have recovered is long-lasting , perhaps such people could be allowed to return to work , or be recruited to serve in the community as coordinators of meal deliveries , workers in isolation facilities for mild cases , etc .
Yet another form of testing could use samples of untreated sewage to detect the general presence and prevalence of the virus in a community .
Pharmaceutical interventions can save lives and reduce disease in several ways .
Vaccines “ teach ” the immune system about a pathogen , allowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the future .
Antiviral medications can target the virus itself , by preventing its entry into cells or its replication .
Antibodies , derived from the blood of recovered patients or produced in a laboratory , can help the immune system fight the virus .
Combating cytokine storms is a fourth approach , which could reduce the deadly respiratory effects of the virus , while not fighting the virus itself .
Readers eager to learn more can visit the accompanying information page “ Pharmaceutical Interventions to Defeat COVID-19.
” Vaccines are used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a disease , by `` priming the pump '' of the immune system to get practice in defeating something that is similar to the pathogen but does not itself cause harm .
People who are vaccinated against a disease are able to quickly fight it off if they come in contact with it , since their bodies are already prepared to do so .
The first phase of research is to establish the safety of the new vaccine .
Researchers must make sure that the vaccine doesn ’ t itself cause problems .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ next phases of study will determine the effectiveness of the vaccine .
Then manufacturing capabilities must be developed to produce the specific treatment .
These multiple stages are the reason that a timespan of 12-18 months is given for vaccine development and production .
Once the virus has taken hold in the body , treatments can prevent it from entering cells , prevent it from replicating , or target it for destruction by the immune system .
Several already existing medications are undergoing testing : • Avigan ( favilavir / favipiravir ) — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Japan , it is now included in China ’ s treatment plan and is being studied in several countries , including the United States , China , and Japan .
• Remdesivir — undergoing trials in several nations , this drug was originally developed to combat Ebola by Gilead Sciences in the U.S. , a company with significant experience treating other viral infections .
• Plaquenil ( hydroxychloroquine ) and chloroquine — originally used to treat malaria , these drugs have been used for auto-immune disorders as well .
Trials are underway around @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already using hydroxychloroquine for their COVID-19 patients .
Hundreds of millions of tablets are being produced even as its effectiveness is being studied .
Antibodies are structures created by the human immune system , which attach to pathogens , deactivating them , preventing their entry into cells , or marking them for destruction by the immune system .
They can be created in the laboratory by using yeast , mice , or other animals as “ factories.
” At least a dozen groups are working on developing antibodies against the coronavirus .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blood continues to contain antibodies created by their own immune system to defeat the virus .
Their donated blood can be transfused into severely ill patients to help their bodies fight the disease .
U.S. hospital use of this technique began in the last weekend in March , and appeals on social media are now recruiting recovered COVID-19 survivors to donate their blood to help others .
There are some drugs that do not target the virus itself , but seek to reduce the death rate and symptoms of COVID-19 .
An advanced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ severe and life-threatening respiratory problems develop , is associated with an excessive response by the body ’ s own immune system , in which the patient ’ s body damages healthy lung cells in addition to those harboring the virus .
Two antibody drugs already approved for other conditions — Kevzara ( sarilumab ) and Actemra ( tocilizumab ) — are being studied and used to reduce this excessive immune system activity .
Entirely new antibodies are also being developed for this purpose .
Steroids can be used to reduce the immune auto-response @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of weakening the immune system .
They are also becoming widely used by physicians .
Society must maintain stability , and people who are ill must be able to follow public health measures .
It is impossible to require people to remain at home if they rely on their daily work to supply their necessities of life .
It is impossible to require homeless people to remain at home .
Employees must be provided with sick leave time to allow them to quarantine themselves to arrest the spread of the virus .
Loans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to allow them to continue to pay employees unable to work .
Unemployment protection should be expanded to include those in nontraditional employment situations .
To protect those who work informally and could not be expected to benefit from such programs , direct assistance in the form of basic income payments and the supply of necessities such as food and basic supplies is required .
It is important that the isolation facilities for positive cases include people without homes , and that food and other necessities be included to allow everyone to isolate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessities of life will not be sufficient to pay mortgages , rent , utilities and car payments .
A moratorium on foreclosures , evictions and utility shutoffs ( including internet and telephones ) must be implemented during the time of lockdown , and payments on mortgages and personal loans should be made optional .
Businesses negatively affected by these policies will be able to apply for aid .
The world ’ s financial system , particularly that in the trans-Atlantic world , includes quadrillions of dollars in financial instruments that can never be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attempt to maintain the values of financial markets .
The financial collapse now occurring may have been triggered by the coronavirus , but the conditions for the blow-out have been laid by decades of disastrous policies .
As Lyndon LaRouche expressed concisely with his triple-curve image , the physical productivity of many so-called “ western ” nations ( including the United States ) has decreased in per capita terms over the last several decades , in a way that accelerated with the collapse of the Soviet Union , while financialization has increased at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ required summit of the leaders of the United States , Russia , China , and India must take up the need for an orderly bankruptcy-style reorganization of the financial markets , to set the stage for banking to play a useful role in financing a global economic and health gear-up .
People whose daily work is not truly essential for the functioning of society should stay home .
Financial and logistical arrangements required to support their livelihood must be implemented .
Everyone should wear masks when they are among other people ( which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
This will provide the wearers themselves some protection against infection and reduce the potential for wearers to spread the disease .
They also reduce face-touching .
Read why here .
( Note that the CDC now does recommend wearing masks . )
Frequent hand washing with soap can help reduce the spread of coronavirus , as does the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers .
But there are over three-quarters of a billion people on this globe without access to improved water .
Two and a half billion people lack access to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health and well-being are staggering .
According to a fact sheet issued by the CDC , citing research published in the Lancet , every year 800,000 children under five years of age die from diarrheal diseases .
Lack of sanitation and of water for drinking and hygiene contributes to 88 % of deaths from diarrheal diseases worldwide .
Urging a community without sanitary facilities to practice frequent handwashing is both insulting and foolish .
A crash program to develop sanitary facilities must be implemented , supplemented with the provision of hand sanitizer for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the NSA ’ s intimate knowledge of the whereabouts of everyone with a cellphone can be put to good use !
As one example , it could be used to provide text alerts to people who have been in the vicinity of someone who later tests positive .
This approach was used in South Korea to help people get a better sense of their risk of exposure , and is part of the relative success that nation has seen in reducing the spread of coronavirus .
When testing is performed at a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the different incidence of the virus in different areas , travel restrictions may be sensible to prevent its spread from areas with significant community transmission .
This may make more sense as the first wave of the pandemic is crushed .

In Part I, we laid out our overview of tackling the global pandemic from a global standpoint. Here in Part II, we will discuss necessary health measures in more detail. Part III will take up the physical, economic, scientific, and political changes needed to make these measures possible on a global scale.
Health Care for Serious Cases
Hospitals
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (University of Washington School of Medicine) estimates, as of April 8, that a peak of approximately 100,000 hospital beds, 20,000 ICU beds, and over 16,000 ventilators will be required, based on current rates of spread and medical care. According to a survey by the American Hospital Association, in 2018 there were just shy of 800,000 staffed beds in U.S. community hospitals, and around 70,000–80,000 adult ICU beds. Since these beds are not typically empty, just waiting for patients to need them, the large number of beds does not mean that there will not be shortages, especially local shortages, as the number of hospitalized patients reaches its peak.
The current level of total hospital beds in the United States, in its broadest measure, is 2.8 per 1,000 people, barely one-third the 1970 level of 7.9 beds. On the basis of “community hospital beds,” which most of the population uses, there are only 2.4 beds per 1,000 people.
Consider the power, water, sanitation, and transportation requirements of hospitals. Using the United States as a case study, an additional 575,000 beds would be required to bring the national average to 4.5 per 1,000 people. According to a 2007 report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the largest 3,040 hospitals, with approximately 915,000 beds (at the time of the study), used about 458 trillion BTUs of energy per year: 194 trillion BTUs in the form of electricity (57 billion kWh) and the remainder in the form of natural gas, district heating, and fuel oil.
Using this figure, hospitals with an additional 575,000 beds would require about 36 billion kWh of electricity per year. That translates into power plants supplying 5,000 MW at an 80% capacity factor. This would be the equivalent of five large nuclear reactors or two Grand Coulee Dams (running at average capacity). And that doesn’t even take into account the natural gas requirements!
In the same report, EIA estimated that these 3,040 large hospitals used 133 billion gallons of water per year. Hospitals with an additional 575,000 beds would require an additional 84 billion gallons per year. For a sense of perspective, the world’s largest proposed desalination plant, located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, would provide about 100 billion gallons of desalinated water per year.
To bring online another 15 to 20 million hospital beds — to bring the world hospital bed count to the Hill–Burton level of 35 million hospital beds — would require about 100,000 MW of generating capacity, as could be supplied by 100 large nuclear power plants or nearly 2,000 small scale modular nuclear plants. Global water requirements for these new hospitals would require about 4 trillion gallons annually, which is about half the volume of water contained by the Three Gorges Dam.
Hospital beds aren’t much good without doctors and nurses. The current crisis is seeing retired health care workers coming back to work, and there are cases of medical schools offering early graduation for students in their final year if they are willing to immediately go to work as doctors. As virus hotspots move around the world, healthcare providers able to travel should be encouraged to work in other regions and countries.
Ventilators
Using influenza pandemic scenarios considered in a 2005 planning study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there could be several million hospitalizations in the United States, with up to a million or more patients requiring ICU treatment and half a million requiring mechanical ventilators. Projecting from these figures to the present world population, 10 million people could require ventilators, with an estimated 1 million each in Africa, Latin America, and India.
Personal Protective Equipment
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is used at health care facilities to prevent patients from transmitting disease to health care workers or other patients. This includes gloves, respirators and masks, face visors, goggles, gowns, hair coverings, and full-body suits. Without the high-quality filtration afforded by a N95 (or equivalent) certified mask, workers are put at serious risk of catching the disease themselves. Shortages are causing enormous price increases and tensions among nations seeking to produce or to import equipment from those nations that manufacture it.
An industrial gear-up is required to ensure that adequate supplies of PPE are available.
The physical layout of a hospital or other care facility can have an enormous impact on the quantity of PPE required. In a healthcare setting that includes only confirmed COVID-19 cases, care need not be taken to avoid transmitting the disease from one patient to another, and health care workers can wear protective equipment through an entire shift. But if nurses must attend to patients of mixed COVID-19 status, best practices mandate that they equip themselves with PPE before entering a COVID-19 patient room, and then dispose of the equipment immediately upon leaving, to avoid carrying the virus to the uninfected patients they will next be visiting. With this setup, ten sets of PPE could be consumed per day per patient room. Thus, health care facility arrangements that separate COVID from non-COVID patients can permit significant savings of PPE. Accurately separating these patients requires testing.
Respirators
A properly fitted N95 respirator protects the wearer from 95% of particles over 0.3 microns in size. While the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus itself is smaller than this size, the virions do not float around entirely on their own and are effectively blocked by N95 respirator masks.
A 2015 study by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, examining three scenarios of demand, estimated that if 20–30% of the U.S. population were to become ill, some 4 billion N95 respirator masks would be required. Extrapolating this figure to the world’s population, the global requirements would be on the order of 100 billion N95 masks for the duration of the outbreak: some 15 billion in Africa, 10 billion in Latin America, and 20 billion in India.
Rapid Point-of-Care Testing
Developments in testing technology now allow for thousands of tests to be processed per day by a single piece of equipment in a dedicated laboratory (high-throughput) as well as for rapid test results at the point of care. The development by Abbott Laboratories of a portable testing unit capable of delivering a positive result in as little as 5 minutes or a negative result within a quarter hour greatly speeds the process of processing patients presenting with possible COVID symptoms, allowing them to be sent to the appropriate COVID-only or non-COVID facility or hospital wing.
Health Care for Mild or Asymptomatic Cases
Isolation accommodations
Everyone confirmed to have the novel coronavirus should have the opportunity to be isolated from their neighbors, roommates, and families. This means that asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic individuals must be offered free room and board accommodations in facilities designed to keep them isolated and healthy. Hotels — which have occupancy rates in the single digits — could be repurposed to this effect, with adequate PPE supplies and training for a reduced hospital staff. The types of shelter arrangements provided following natural disasters would also be appropriate for these individuals.
This was the approach taken in Wuhan, in which every positive confirmed case was isolated under medical supervision, whether in a hospital, gymnasium, or hotel. Mild and asymptomatic cases could then socialize and engage in group exercise classes — far better for their mental health than hiding in a room at home, fearful of infecting their loved ones! Two negative nucleic acid tests for the virus, taken 24 hours apart, were required before people could leave the isolation facilities. This form of isolation, going beyond staying (and infecting) at home, helped drive Wuhan’s eventual victory over the virus.
In fact, China’s achievement in Wuhan remains the most successful model to date for combating the coronavirus.
Mass testing
Since anywhere from one-quarter to one-half of those infected with the coronavirus display extremely mild symptoms or no symptoms at all, it is impossible to rely on symptoms to locate all cases of the disease. Large-scale community testing — emphatically including for those without symptoms — will make it possible to isolate cases in an effective and targeted way and make contact-tracing more manageable. South Korea tested one in 170 people and used this knowledge to trace contacts, alert residents via text messages of nearby cases and hotspots, and reduce the spread of the disease.
The large-scale shutdowns currently used to crush the spread of the coronavirus do carry a toll, both economic and social. While these shutdowns are appropriate given a relatively low level of testing, truly large-scale testing will make it possible to make intelligent decisions about lifting restrictions.
To test the world at the South Korea level of one in 170, would require 45 million tests. But many people will require more than one test: Examples include a person who has tested negative but who has had recent potential exposure or a person in an isolation facility who is being tested to make sure it is safe to discharge them. To perform 60 million tests (factoring in some people being tested multiple times) at current worldwide testing rates would take the better part of a year.
The nasal swab tests most widely used at present operate by detecting components of the virus’s genome. These are referred to as PCR tests, named for the polymerase chain reaction process by which the genetic material is multiplied by 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 times to allow it to be detected.
Another kind of test would use blood, rather than swabs, and would detect, instead of the virus itself, antibodies produced by the body to fight the disease. These antibodies are present in people who were once infected but have since recovered. A virus test would come back negative, but an antibody test would be positive. With these tests, it will be possible to identify potential blood plasma donors (for convalescent blood serum therapy) and identify people who are no longer infected and likely to be immune. If further research reveals that the immunity enjoyed by those who have recovered is long-lasting, perhaps such people could be allowed to return to work, or be recruited to serve in the community as coordinators of meal deliveries, workers in isolation facilities for mild cases, etc.
Yet another form of testing could use samples of untreated sewage to detect the general presence and prevalence of the virus in a community.
Treatments and Vaccines
Pharmaceutical interventions can save lives and reduce disease in several ways. Vaccines “teach” the immune system about a pathogen, allowing it to immediately fight it when encountered in the future. Antiviral medications can target the virus itself, by preventing its entry into cells or its replication. Antibodies, derived from the blood of recovered patients or produced in a laboratory, can help the immune system fight the virus. Combating cytokine storms is a fourth approach, which could reduce the deadly respiratory effects of the virus, while not fighting the virus itself.
Readers eager to learn more can visit the accompanying information page “Pharmaceutical Interventions to Defeat COVID-19.”
Vaccines
Vaccines are used in advance to protect people from contracting a disease, by "priming the pump" of the immune system to get practice in defeating something that is similar to the pathogen but does not itself cause harm. People who are vaccinated against a disease are able to quickly fight it off if they come in contact with it, since their bodies are already prepared to do so.
The first phase of research is to establish the safety of the new vaccine. Researchers must make sure that the vaccine doesn’t itself cause problems. If study results are promising, the next phases of study will determine the effectiveness of the vaccine. Then manufacturing capabilities must be developed to produce the specific treatment. These multiple stages are the reason that a timespan of 12-18 months is given for vaccine development and production.
Antiviral Medications
Once the virus has taken hold in the body, treatments can prevent it from entering cells, prevent it from replicating, or target it for destruction by the immune system.
Several already existing medications are undergoing testing:
Avigan (favilavir / favipiravir) — an anti-influenza drug developed by Fujifilm in Japan, it is now included in China’s treatment plan and is being studied in several countries, including the United States, China, and Japan.
Remdesivir — undergoing trials in several nations, this drug was originally developed to combat Ebola by Gilead Sciences in the U.S., a company with significant experience treating other viral infections.
Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) and chloroquine — originally used to treat malaria, these drugs have been used for auto-immune disorders as well. Trials are underway around the world, and many hospitals are already using hydroxychloroquine for their COVID-19 patients. Hundreds of millions of tablets are being produced even as its effectiveness is being studied.
Antibodies are structures created by the human immune system, which attach to pathogens, deactivating them, preventing their entry into cells, or marking them for destruction by the immune system. They can be created in the laboratory by using yeast, mice, or other animals as “factories.” At least a dozen groups are working on developing antibodies against the coronavirus.
Plasma of Recovered Patients
When someone recovers from the coronavirus, their blood continues to contain antibodies created by their own immune system to defeat the virus. Their donated blood can be transfused into severely ill patients to help their bodies fight the disease. U.S. hospital use of this technique began in the last weekend in March, and appeals on social media are now recruiting recovered COVID-19 survivors to donate their blood to help others.
Preventing Lung Problems
There are some drugs that do not target the virus itself, but seek to reduce the death rate and symptoms of COVID-19.
An advanced stage of the disease, in which severe and life-threatening respiratory problems develop, is associated with an excessive response by the body’s own immune system, in which the patient’s body damages healthy lung cells in addition to those harboring the virus. Two antibody drugs already approved for other conditions — Kevzara (sarilumab) and Actemra (tocilizumab) — are being studied and used to reduce this excessive immune system activity. Entirely new antibodies are also being developed for this purpose.
Steroids can be used to reduce the immune auto-response, although they have the side effect of weakening the immune system. They are also becoming widely used by physicians.
Social Stability
Society must maintain stability, and people who are ill must be able to follow public health measures.
Sick leave, unemployment benefits, basic income stipend payments
It is impossible to require people to remain at home if they rely on their daily work to supply their necessities of life. It is impossible to require homeless people to remain at home.
Employees must be provided with sick leave time to allow them to quarantine themselves to arrest the spread of the virus. Loans and grants must be made to businesses to allow them to continue to pay employees unable to work. Unemployment protection should be expanded to include those in nontraditional employment situations. To protect those who work informally and could not be expected to benefit from such programs, direct assistance in the form of basic income payments and the supply of necessities such as food and basic supplies is required. It is important that the isolation facilities for positive cases include people without homes, and that food and other necessities be included to allow everyone to isolate safely.
Moratorium on foreclosures, evictions, and utility shutoffs
Basic income to ensure the necessities of life will not be sufficient to pay mortgages, rent, utilities and car payments. A moratorium on foreclosures, evictions and utility shutoffs (including internet and telephones) must be implemented during the time of lockdown, and payments on mortgages and personal loans should be made optional. Businesses negatively affected by these policies will be able to apply for aid.
Securing financial system stability
The world’s financial system, particularly that in the trans-Atlantic world, includes quadrillions of dollars in financial instruments that can never be settled. There should be no general attempt to maintain the values of financial markets. The financial collapse now occurring may have been triggered by the coronavirus, but the conditions for the blow-out have been laid by decades of disastrous policies. As Lyndon LaRouche expressed concisely with his triple-curve image, the physical productivity of many so-called “western” nations (including the United States) has decreased in per capita terms over the last several decades, in a way that accelerated with the collapse of the Soviet Union, while financialization has increased at a rapid and accelerating rate.
The required summit of the leaders of the United States, Russia, China, and India must take up the need for an orderly bankruptcy-style reorganization of the financial markets, to set the stage for banking to play a useful role in financing a global economic and health gear-up.
Social Distancing / Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
Closing of non-essential businesses
People whose daily work is not truly essential for the functioning of society should stay home. Financial and logistical arrangements required to support their livelihood must be implemented.
Masks
Everyone should wear masks when they are among other people (which should be kept to an absolute minimum). This will provide the wearers themselves some protection against infection and reduce the potential for wearers to spread the disease. They also reduce face-touching. Read why here. (Note that the CDC now does recommend wearing masks.)
Hand washing / sanitation
Frequent hand washing with soap can help reduce the spread of coronavirus, as does the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
But there are over three-quarters of a billion people on this globe without access to improved water. Two and a half billion people lack access to improved sanitation infrastructure. The costs to health and well-being are staggering. According to a fact sheet issued by the CDC, citing research published in the Lancet, every year 800,000 children under five years of age die from diarrheal diseases. Lack of sanitation and of water for drinking and hygiene contributes to 88% of deaths from diarrheal diseases worldwide.
Urging a community without sanitary facilities to practice frequent handwashing is both insulting and foolish. A crash program to develop sanitary facilities must be implemented, supplemented with the provision of hand sanitizer for hygiene purposes.
Contact Tracing
In the United States, the NSA’s intimate knowledge of the whereabouts of everyone with a cellphone can be put to good use! As one example, it could be used to provide text alerts to people who have been in the vicinity of someone who later tests positive. This approach was used in South Korea to help people get a better sense of their risk of exposure, and is part of the relative success that nation has seen in reducing the spread of coronavirus.
Travel Restrictions
When testing is performed at a high enough level to give a sense of the different incidence of the virus in different areas, travel restrictions may be sensible to prevent its spread from areas with significant community transmission. This may make more sense as the first wave of the pandemic is crushed.
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larouchepac--2020-04-13--There Is No Normal To Return To: Time for Debt Moratorium or Cancellation

Going back to normal would be a disaster .
We are living on one rolled over and bailed out debt @ @ @ @ @ of throwing money at the financial system to `` get back to normal '' , @ @ @ @ @ it .
Harley uses the examples of Germany and Mexico to illustrate what happens when @ @ @ @ @ .
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Going back to normal would be a disaster. We are living on one rolled over and bailed out debt bubble after another. Instead of throwing money at the financial system to "get back to normal", it's time to REORGANIZE it. Harley uses the examples of Germany and Mexico to illustrate what happens when you don't reorganize debt.
Every weekday morning Harley will brief you on what you need to know to start your day. If you haven't already, sign up for Harley's weekly articles.
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larouchepac--2020-03-14--Is Your Opinion Really Your Own? — Manhattan Town Hall Meeting

Join us Saturday at 2pm eastern .
Speaker : Diane Sare - What 's the relationship between the music you @ @ @ @ @ economy you live in ?
In January Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote that the Darmstadt Regietheater production @ @ @ @ @ had `` crossed the line . ''
What line ?
Why should we worry about @ @ @ @ @ had been studying Classical poetry , and performing Beethoven 's music , COVID-19 would not @ @ @ @ @ economy , and the people currently running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination would have been @ @ @ @ @ history .
This is no exaggeration .
Come to this meeting if you have the @ @ @ @ @ own mind .

Join us Saturday at 2pm eastern. Speaker: Diane Sare - What's the relationship between the music you listen to, and the economy you live in? In January Helga Zepp-LaRouche wrote that the Darmstadt Regietheater production of Beethoven's Opera Fidelio had "crossed the line." What line? Why should we worry about that? If more children had been studying Classical poetry, and performing Beethoven's music, COVID-19 would not be disrupting the world's economy, and the people currently running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination would have been laughed off the stage of history. This is no exaggeration. Come to this meeting if you have the courage to look inside your own mind.


larouchepac--2020-03-13--Paul Gallagher on the Meltdown of the Financial System

You are now living through the end of a system , manifesting itself in the outbreak of the corona virus and the accompanying implosion of the one-quadrillion-dollar-plus speculative bubble .
When that system was created in 1971 , Lyndon LaRouche warned that it was foredoomed , having placed control of the world economy increasingly in the hands of the London and Wall Street financial elite .
And from that moment onward , he put forward , to governments and populations , the necessary solutions .
Deliver this message to President Trump and to your members of Congress : 1 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bailout of the old one .
2 .
LaRouche 's `` Four Laws for Economic Recovery '' and his call for a New Bretton Woods monetary system , both based on the principle of protecting and advancing the physical economy must be acted on NOW !
What more you can do : Sign the petition for President Trump to convene a summit with Russia , China and India to adopt LaRouche 's Four Laws and a New Bretton Woods .
Donate to LaRouchePAC , help us get through to President Trump , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

You are now living through the end of a system, manifesting itself in the outbreak of the corona virus and the accompanying implosion of the one-quadrillion-dollar-plus speculative bubble. When that system was created in 1971, Lyndon LaRouche warned that it was foredoomed, having placed control of the world economy increasingly in the hands of the London and Wall Street financial elite. And from that moment onward, he put forward, to governments and populations, the necessary solutions.
Deliver this message to President Trump and to your members of Congress:
1. We need a new system, not a bailout of the old one.
2. LaRouche's "Four Laws for Economic Recovery" and his call for a New Bretton Woods monetary system, both based on the principle of protecting and advancing the physical economy must be acted on NOW!
White House Comment Line: 202-456-1111
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121
What more you can do:
Sign the petition for President Trump to convene a summit with Russia, China and India to adopt LaRouche's Four Laws and a New Bretton Woods.
Donate to LaRouchePAC, help us get through to President Trump, and turn this crisis into an opportunity.


larouchepac--2020-03-13--LaRouche Warned About this Financial Crisis, He Knows How to Solve It

As Lyndon LaRouche had spent his lifetime warning , we were already in the middle of a financial and physical @ @ @ @ @ pandemic just pulled the mask away .
Harley discusses how the breakdown happened bit by @ @ @ @ @ a hospital in Italy , and the lesson of waiting to test .
Using LaRouche @ @ @ @ @ turn a crisis into an opportunity .
Every weekday morning Harley will brief you on @ @ @ @ @ to start your day .
On Tuesdays , we broadcast his briefing live on the @ @ @ @ @ pm eastern , where he fields questions about current events , history , economics , @ @ @ @ @ discussion , and , if you have n't already , sign up for Harley 's @ @ @ @ @ the LaRouchePAC YouTube channel , and hit the notifications button to be notified when Harley @ @ @ @ @ And , follow us on Soundcloud for audio versions of these updates .

As Lyndon LaRouche had spent his lifetime warning, we were already in the middle of a financial and physical economic breakdown, the corona pandemic just pulled the mask away. Harley discusses how the breakdown happened bit by bit. An update from a hospital in Italy, and the lesson of waiting to test. Using LaRouche's approach, we can turn a crisis into an opportunity.
Every weekday morning Harley will brief you on what you need to know to start your day. On Tuesdays, we broadcast his briefing live on the LaRouchePAC Facebook page at 12:00 pm eastern, where he fields questions about current events, history, economics, and culture. Join the discussion, and, if you haven't already, sign up for Harley's weekly articles.
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larouchepac--2020-03-12--Globalization and Free Trade Created COVID-19 - LaRouchePAC Fireside Chat

LIVE at 9pm EDT , 6pm PDT - Tonight ’ s Fireside Chat will discuss the economic measures now necessary @ @ @ @ @ of COVID-19 and to attack its creator : the globalization and free trade policies which @ @ @ @ @ and surge capacity and otherwise decimated the U.S. and other advanced sector economies .
This @ @ @ @ @ in the works of Lyndon LaRouche beginning in 1971 and more recently in the work @ @ @ @ @ Dr. Mark Osterholm .
The killers are in free trade supply lines and the “ @ @ @ @ @ of financializaton .
We need a national infrastructure and national re-industrialization policy to change the @ @ @ @ @ Manhattan project in the biological sciences and public health now , the policy impetus in @ @ @ @ @ .
One of the main threats on the horizon is a Biden presidency by Wall @ @ @ @ @ one aspect of the exploitation of this crisis .

LIVE at 9pm EDT, 6pm PDT - Tonight’s Fireside Chat will discuss the economic measures now necessary to both mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and to attack its creator: the globalization and free trade policies which have stripped our healthcare infrastructure and surge capacity and otherwise decimated the U.S. and other advanced sector economies.
This epidemic was predicted, both in the works of Lyndon LaRouche beginning in 1971 and more recently in the work of various epidemiologists, including Dr. Mark Osterholm. The killers are in free trade supply lines and the “just in time” economics of financializaton. We need a national infrastructure and national re-industrialization policy to change the economy in depth and a Manhattan project in the biological sciences and public health now, the policy impetus in LaRouche’s Four Laws. One of the main threats on the horizon is a Biden presidency by Wall Street banker committee which is one aspect of the exploitation of this crisis.
Join us for tonight’s discussion.


larouchepac--2020-03-12--Bank of England Panics, Wall Street Explodes: Will Trump Listen to the Wise Words of Lyndon LaRouche

Bank of England Panics, Wall Street Explodes: Will Trump Listen to the Wise Words of Lyndon LaRouche?

UPDATE : The following paragraph was added after the original story was written .
President Donald Trump spoke for ten minutes Wednesday night .
All travel from Europe ( other than the U.K. ) is restricted as of Friday , March 13 , 11:59 EDT , for 30 days .
The European Union failed to take the immediate measures we did in closing travel with China , and they are paying the consequences .
As China and South Korea recover , there will be consideration of lifting restrictions .
Nursing homes are encouraged to suspend all non-medically necessary visits .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide relief to those who must stay home when ill , or forced off the job .
The Small Business Administration will be given $ 50 billion ( pending Congressional approval ) for SMEs affected .
SBE tax-payment deferrals and payroll tax relief will be proposed to Congress .
“ This is not a financial crisis , ” he said .
Our banking system “ incredibly strong.
” President Donald Trump addressed the nation Wednesday night , after this report was closed out ( see update above ) .
Whether or not he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Presidency , as designed by America ’ s Founding Fathers , and as embedded in the post-World War II Defense Production Act , to bypass the corrupt and impotent Congress to declare a national emergency , to unleash a massive infrastructure and industrial expansion policy , may determine the fate of the nation and the world .
The takedown of the public health system over the past 50 years , both in the U.S. and in Europe , is now standing naked before world , as the West ’ s leading nations , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the United States , have no capacity to meet the extraordinary health requirements of what has , finally , been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization .
And it is also now abundantly clear to all but the blind , that the entire industrial capacity—especially the basic infrastructure which sustains that capacity—is so decrepit , that even rebuilding the industrial capacity will take mammoth government interventions , on the scale with which Franklin Roosevelt intervened in 1933 .
To start , the panicked collapse of the “ market ” —the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 20 % for the week—can only be resolved in one way—the immediate restoration of Glass-Steagall , ending the speculative hysteria .
Then , the President must assert his powers as President to exonerate Lyndon LaRouche , so that the full power of his “ Four Laws ” can be fully implemented .
With that , the leaders of the great nations of the world—necessarily including Russia , China , India , and the United States—must come together to implement a new Bretton Woods system based upon these Four Laws , freeing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system of monetarism governed by Wall Street and the City of London .
Helga Zepp-LaRouche yesterday called on President Trump and NATO to end the insanity of the Europe-Defender 2020 exercises—the largest NATO exercises since the Cold War , openly moving huge numbers of NATO troops and military equipment to the Russian border .
Besides the insanity from a strategic standpoint—threatening war between the world ’ s two largest nuclear-armed powers—it is equally insane to have huge numbers of soldiers moving across Europe as the coronavirus threatens mass death if not contained .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
To our advantage as human beings , the population increasingly recognizes that the “ rules that be ” no longer hold .
Many are looking back , asking , “ Who has been telling the truth all these years , while the governments and the media and Wall Street lied ?
” If the institutional leaders continue to be blind to the need for revolutionary change , for a return to “ American System ” measures of directed credit , and of allowing President Trump to carry out his intention to restore @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then we must mobilize the citizenry to demand precisely that policy .

UPDATE: The following paragraph was added after the original story was written.
President Donald Trump spoke for ten minutes Wednesday night. All travel from Europe (other than the U.K.) is restricted as of Friday, March 13, 11:59 EDT, for 30 days. The European Union failed to take the immediate measures we did in closing travel with China, and they are paying the consequences. As China and South Korea recover, there will be consideration of lifting restrictions. Nursing homes are encouraged to suspend all non-medically necessary visits. Emergency actions are in the works to provide relief to those who must stay home when ill, or forced off the job. The Small Business Administration will be given $50 billion (pending Congressional approval) for SMEs affected. SBE tax-payment deferrals and payroll tax relief will be proposed to Congress. “This is not a financial crisis,” he said. Our banking system “incredibly strong.”
President Donald Trump addressed the nation Wednesday night, after this report was closed out (see update above). Whether or not he chose to use the power of the Presidency, as designed by America’s Founding Fathers, and as embedded in the post-World War II Defense Production Act, to bypass the corrupt and impotent Congress to declare a national emergency, to unleash a massive infrastructure and industrial expansion policy, may determine the fate of the nation and the world. The takedown of the public health system over the past 50 years, both in the U.S. and in Europe, is now standing naked before world, as the West’s leading nations, including Germany, Italy, France, and the United States, have no capacity to meet the extraordinary health requirements of what has, finally, been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
And it is also now abundantly clear to all but the blind, that the entire industrial capacity—especially the basic infrastructure which sustains that capacity—is so decrepit, that even rebuilding the industrial capacity will take mammoth government interventions, on the scale with which Franklin Roosevelt intervened in 1933. To start, the panicked collapse of the “market”—the Dow was down over 5% yesterday, 20% for the week—can only be resolved in one way—the immediate restoration of Glass-Steagall, ending the speculative hysteria. Then, the President must assert his powers as President to exonerate Lyndon LaRouche, so that the full power of his “Four Laws” can be fully implemented.
With that, the leaders of the great nations of the world—necessarily including Russia, China, India, and the United States—must come together to implement a new Bretton Woods system based upon these Four Laws, freeing the entire world from the bankrupt British imperial system of monetarism governed by Wall Street and the City of London.
Helga Zepp-LaRouche yesterday called on President Trump and NATO to end the insanity of the Europe-Defender 2020 exercises—the largest NATO exercises since the Cold War, openly moving huge numbers of NATO troops and military equipment to the Russian border. Besides the insanity from a strategic standpoint—threatening war between the world’s two largest nuclear-armed powers—it is equally insane to have huge numbers of soldiers moving across Europe as the coronavirus threatens mass death if not contained.
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larouchepac--2020-03-11--Will Ongoing Shocks Provoke a New Kind of Thinking Necessary to Overcome a New Dark Age?

Helga reiterates the serious warnings from leading German infectious disease officials and looks at the Wuhan model of breaking transmission @ @ @ @ @ Helga calls on countries to coordinate their efforts to conquer this pandemic , including stemming @ @ @ @ @ global economy , but that does n't mean a bailout for Wall Street !
See @ @ @ @ @ and Harley discuss the fraud of the just-in-time economy , reminding people of Lyndon LaRouche @ @ @ @ @ continued down the road of zero-growth , the West would no longer be able to @ @ @ @ @ She calls for an end of geo-politics and all efforts to be focused on solving @ @ @ @ @ crisis .

Helga reiterates the serious warnings from leading German infectious disease officials and looks at the Wuhan model of breaking transmission paths at the outset. Helga calls on countries to coordinate their efforts to conquer this pandemic, including stemming the economic impacts on the global economy, but that doesn't mean a bailout for Wall Street! See her updated petition.
Helga and Harley discuss the fraud of the just-in-time economy, reminding people of Lyndon LaRouche's warning that if we continued down the road of zero-growth, the West would no longer be able to support itself and implode. She calls for an end of geo-politics and all efforts to be focused on solving the joint virus and finance crisis.