Pandemic Data

The Center for Disease Control publishes data regularly for Covid-19 the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world .
CNN has a totally morbid and incorrect ‘ scoreboard ’ of cases and deaths .
I look at it everyday in the hope that it will eventually stopped being displayed .
It is meaningless and scary , especially scary for the statistically disinclined .
This is updated regularly .
The table we will discuss is for ‘ Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ) , pneumonia reported to National Center for Health Sciences ( NCHS ) by jurisdiction of occurrence , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 4/25/2020 .
I highly recommend every American look at this data as it is not very difficult to understand .
Here is a summary of data from the CDC website .
You can download this as an Excel spreadsheet for ease of manipulation right here .
These are government statistics so take them with a grain of salt they are really order of magnitude datums as the columns do not exactly total up , but you get the idea .
Looking at the numbers in red it is clearly obvious that this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of a population over a hundred million are not dying in great numbers .
There is an axiom in healthcare that if you make it through your fifties in good health it is highly probable that you will see old age .
The simple reason for this is accumulated bad habits as adults and even multiples of them start to wear you down after thirty years ; think of smoking , alcoholism , morbid obesity and drug abuse as good starters .
The young and healthy are not dropping dead in droves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will want to take the credit for the social distancing orders of questionable legality have handed down , but whether or not that is true will only be known retrospectively .
The Phoenix Program Douglas Valentine Best Price : $ 14.55 Buy New $ 11.00 Everyday at noon EDT CNN runs the governor of New York Andrew Cuomo talking off the top of his head for an hour ; a guy that actually does not have much new to say , he ’ s like a broken record .
Between slams on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ produces ) and demands for the rest of the country to do something for New York more healthcare workers , more drugs , more masks , more ventilators , more , more .
The very last place I would go for any reason right now is the states of New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania and Massachusetts the epi-center of this disaster !
Motown would not bother me .
New York City has been a plague on the public fisc as their inability to be fiscally responsible has caused the city to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Federal Government ( a clever euphemism for me and you ) .
When the housing bubble exploded I did not hear any stories of finance big shots bailing the poor out even though they gave themselves huge bonuses courtesy of Lil ’ Bush bail out largesse that kept them off the dole .
The table below will show you deaths by state .
It should be clear that the majority of Covid-19 deaths are in New York ( City being the worst ) , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Michigan and Massachusetts .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is much much higher than the rest of the nation .
Tennessee like Michigan has approximately 4 million residents yet Tennessee has only a 191 deaths compared to Michigan ’ s 1,851 .
Having grown up in Michigan I attest this to the fact that Detroit once one of the wealthiest cities in the country has fallen on abject times .
No other city in the history of this country has seen such a decline .
I witnessed this first-hand as the perfect storm of corrupt politicians and corrupt unions drove the automotive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story for another article .
It is the abject poverty , lack of education and healthcare that is killing in Detroit and even that will have stopped by August .
In a previous article I wrote about Ultraviolet Salvation how UV solar radiation from the Sun destroys the virus and naturally limits its spread .
As of today Malaysia a densely populated poor country in comparison to the west has 105 deaths .
Indonesia another densely populated state has 865 .
The death total in the Philippines is 623 .
Vietnam has zero @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strong the deaths are low .
Even where population densities are sky high by western standards UV destroys the viruses .
I am not a bio-statistician or even a regular statistician but anyone with a seventh grade education can read these charts and draw their own conclusions .
Some would say that the virus numbers are not accurate to which I would say if 60,000 dead covid-19 victims were stacked up in one of these countries someone would be talking about it .
The first statistic is that during this period 719,438 Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a population of more than 328,000,000 roughly 0.02 percent of Americans died .
Our population is increasing because the birth rate is greater than the death rate .
During this period 37,308 Americans died from Covid-19 .
Every diagnosis has something called and ICD-10 code ( International Classification of Disease version 10 ) and the Covid-19 code is U07.1 .
In the United States only a licensed Allopathic Physician ( M.D .
or D.O . )
can diagnose ; it is the right granted to their cartel by the government .
It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ column of pneumonia deaths that also have Covid-19 .
Pneumonia is an infection in one or both lungs .
Bacteria , viruses , and fungi cause it .
The infection causes inflammation in the air sacs in your lungs , which are called alveoli .
The alveoli fill with fluid or pus , making it difficult to breathe .
It is not clear if the pneumonia co-morbidity with Covid-19 is added to or is part of the 37,308 .
However , it is clear that pneumonia deaths during this period or much greater @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the concern for the national pneumonia nightmare , it is clearly greater ?
Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ) , pneumonia , and influenza reported to NCHS by jurisdiction of occurrence , United States .
Week ending 2/1/2020 to 4/25/2020 .
* Data as of May 1 , 2020 P.S .
The government explanation for this data is as follows : Pale Rider : The Spanis ... Spinney , Laura Best Price : $ 24.05 Buy New $ 15.49 Provisional death counts deliver our most comprehensive picture of lives lost to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death certificates , which are the most reliable source of data and contain information not available anywhere else , including comorbid conditions , race and ethnicity , and place of death .
The National Center for Health Statistics ( NCHS ) uses incoming data from death certificates to produce provisional COVID-19 death counts .
These include deaths occurring within the 50 states and the District of Columbia .
COVID-19 deaths are identified using a new ICD–10 code .
When COVID-19 is reported as a cause of death – or when it is listed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presumed ” cause — the death is coded as U07.1 .
This can include cases with or without laboratory confirmation .
Why these numbers are different Provisional death counts may not match counts from other sources , such as media reports or numbers from county health departments .
Our counts often track 1–2 weeks behind other data for a number of reasons : Death certificates take time to be completed .
There are many steps involved in completing and submitting a death certificate .
Waiting for test results can create additional delays .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 63 % of all U.S. deaths are reported within 10 days of the date of death , but there is significant variation among jurisdictions .
It takes extra time to code COVID-19 deaths .
While 80 % of deaths are electronically processed and coded by NCHS within minutes , most deaths from COVID-19 must be coded manually , which takes an average of 7 days .
Other reporting systems use different definitions or methods for counting deaths.
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The Center for Disease Control publishes data regularly for Covid-19 the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world. CNN has a totally morbid and incorrect ‘scoreboard’ of cases and deaths. I look at it everyday in the hope that it will eventually stopped being displayed. It is meaningless and scary, especially scary for the statistically disinclined. This is updated regularly. The table we will discuss is for ‘Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia reported to National Center for Health Sciences (NCHS) by jurisdiction of occurrence, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 4/25/2020. I highly recommend every American look at this data as it is not very difficult to understand. Here is a summary of data from the CDC website. You can download this as an Excel spreadsheet for ease of manipulation right here. These are government statistics so take them with a grain of salt they are really order of magnitude datums as the columns do not exactly total up, but you get the idea.
Looking at the numbers in red it is clearly obvious that this is an old age disease. The young out of a population over a hundred million are not dying in great numbers. There is an axiom in healthcare that if you make it through your fifties in good health it is highly probable that you will see old age. The simple reason for this is accumulated bad habits as adults and even multiples of them start to wear you down after thirty years; think of smoking, alcoholism, morbid obesity and drug abuse as good starters. The young and healthy are not dropping dead in droves in spite of the fearmongers. Bureaucrats will want to take the credit for the social distancing orders of questionable legality have handed down, but whether or not that is true will only be known retrospectively. The Phoenix Program Douglas Valentine Best Price: $14.55 Buy New $11.00 (as of 04:30 UTC - Details)
Everyday at noon EDT CNN runs the governor of New York Andrew Cuomo talking off the top of his head for an hour; a guy that actually does not have much new to say, he’s like a broken record. Between slams on the Trump administration (half of what CNN produces) and demands for the rest of the country to do something for New York more healthcare workers, more drugs, more masks, more ventilators, more, more. The very last place I would go for any reason right now is the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts the epi-center of this disaster! Motown would not bother me. New York City has been a plague on the public fisc as their inability to be fiscally responsible has caused the city to go bankrupt many times turning to the Federal Government (a clever euphemism for me and you). When the housing bubble exploded I did not hear any stories of finance big shots bailing the poor out even though they gave themselves huge bonuses courtesy of Lil’ Bush bail out largesse that kept them off the dole.
The table below will show you deaths by state. It should be clear that the majority of Covid-19 deaths are in New York (City being the worst), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Massachusetts. These all places where the population density is much much higher than the rest of the nation. Tennessee like Michigan has approximately 4 million residents yet Tennessee has only a 191 deaths compared to Michigan’s 1,851. Having grown up in Michigan I attest this to the fact that Detroit once one of the wealthiest cities in the country has fallen on abject times. No other city in the history of this country has seen such a decline. I witnessed this first-hand as the perfect storm of corrupt politicians and corrupt unions drove the automotive business elsewhere, but that is a story for another article. It is the abject poverty, lack of education and healthcare that is killing in Detroit and even that will have stopped by August.
In a previous article I wrote about Ultraviolet Salvation how UV solar radiation from the Sun destroys the virus and naturally limits its spread. As of today Malaysia a densely populated poor country in comparison to the west has 105 deaths. Indonesia another densely populated state has 865. The death total in the Philippines is 623. Vietnam has zero deaths. Where the sunshine’s strong the deaths are low. Even where population densities are sky high by western standards UV destroys the viruses. I am not a bio-statistician or even a regular statistician but anyone with a seventh grade education can read these charts and draw their own conclusions. Some would say that the virus numbers are not accurate to which I would say if 60,000 dead covid-19 victims were stacked up in one of these countries someone would be talking about it.
The first statistic is that during this period 719,438 Americans died from all causes. So in a population of more than 328,000,000 roughly 0.02 percent of Americans died. Our population is increasing because the birth rate is greater than the death rate. During this period 37,308 Americans died from Covid-19. Every diagnosis has something called and ICD-10 code (International Classification of Disease version 10) and the Covid-19 code is U07.1. In the United States only a licensed Allopathic Physician (M.D. or D.O.) can diagnose; it is the right granted to their cartel by the government. It is worth noting there is yet a second column of pneumonia deaths that also have Covid-19. Pneumonia is an infection in one or both lungs. Bacteria, viruses, and fungi cause it. The infection causes inflammation in the air sacs in your lungs, which are called alveoli. The alveoli fill with fluid or pus, making it difficult to breathe. It is not clear if the pneumonia co-morbidity with Covid-19 is added to or is part of the 37,308. However, it is clear that pneumonia deaths during this period or much greater than Covid-19 some 64,382. Where is the concern for the national pneumonia nightmare, it is clearly greater?
Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by jurisdiction of occurrence, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 4/25/2020.*
Data as of May 1, 2020
Jurisdiction of Occurrence COVID-19 Deaths (U07.1)1 Deaths from All Causes Percent of Expected Deaths2 Pneumonia Deaths
(J12.0–J18.9)3 Deaths with Pneumonia and COVID-19
(J12.0–J18.9 and U07.1)3 Influenza Deaths
(J09–J11)4 United States5 37,308 719,438 97 64,382 16,564 5,846 Alabama 152 12,426 91 769 42 83 Alaska – 856 79 41 – – Arizona 194 15,859 101 1,115 102 105 Arkansas 32 7,872 94 527 10 67 California 1,224 69,721 98 6,029 714 552 Colorado 551 10,846 104 972 328 91 Connecticut 120 1,398 15 130 34 18 Delaware 53 2,034 85 123 24 14 District of Columbia 66 1,464 92 173 66 – Florida 809 54,225 99 3,934 445 282 Georgia 460 19,740 91 1,306 212 94 Hawaii – 2,830 94 185 – 18 Idaho 44 3,553 96 195 13 24 Illinois 1,296 29,232 104 2,724 722 171 Indiana 494 16,503 95 1,526 266 121 Iowa 78 7,447 94 531 20 80 Kansas 89 6,582 94 455 40 85 Kentucky 117 10,855 86 969 67 86 Louisiana 920 11,401 95 902 400 63 Maine 40 3,824 100 318 11 30 Maryland 710 13,780 105 1,256 286 110 Massachusetts 2,009 17,802 112 2,088 735 150 Michigan 1,851 26,994 106 2,657 892 221 Minnesota 169 11,352 99 832 60 113 Mississippi 186 8,064 99 737 90 51 Missouri 196 15,163 89 971 68 169 Montana – 2,248 84 132 – 32 Nebraska 21 3,971 90 306 – 27 Nevada 134 6,431 96 534 106 36 New Hampshire 56 3,207 99 224 18 29 New Jersey 5,109 26,794 131 4,341 2,546 110 New Mexico 36 4,113 85 291 22 25 New York6 4,920 32,144 122 5,148 2,541 188 New York City 11,425 31,247 219 6,285 4,199 862 North Carolina 0 10,727 43 639 0 127 North Dakota – 1,546 85 140 – 18 Ohio 172 27,169 82 1,554 74 227 Oklahoma 117 8,768 84 782 43 90 Oregon 77 8,438 89 453 34 59 Pennsylvania 1,385 28,073 78 2,164 552 176 Rhode Island 55 2,235 82 124 13 23 South Carolina 150 12,807 101 786 56 91 South Dakota – 1,898 89 149 – 21 Tennessee 134 18,441 95 1,386 67 119 Texas 446 49,284 93 3,669 179 311 Utah 30 4,697 96 279 11 39 Vermont 42 1,570 104 108 10 14 Virginia 351 17,751 99 1,000 112 104 Washington 527 14,141 95 1,176 281 98 West Virginia 13 5,048 85 369 – 57 Wisconsin 209 13,718 100 786 32 145 Wyoming – 1,149 99 92 – – Puerto Rico 65 5,201 0 737 33 28
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P.S. The government explanation for this data is as follows:
“Understanding the Numbers: Provisional Death Counts and COVID-19
Pale Rider: The Spanis... Spinney, Laura Best Price: $24.05 Buy New $15.49 (as of 04:12 UTC - Details) Provisional death counts deliver our most comprehensive picture of lives lost to COVID-19. These estimates are based on death certificates, which are the most reliable source of data and contain information not available anywhere else, including comorbid conditions, race and ethnicity, and place of death.
How it works
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) uses incoming data from death certificates to produce provisional COVID-19 death counts. These include deaths occurring within the 50 states and the District of Columbia. COVID-19 deaths are identified using a new ICD–10 code. When COVID-19 is reported as a cause of death – or when it is listed as a “probable” or “presumed” cause — the death is coded as U07.1. This can include cases with or without laboratory confirmation.
Why these numbers are different
Provisional death counts may not match counts from other sources, such as media reports or numbers from county health departments. Our counts often track 1–2 weeks behind other data for a number of reasons: Death certificates take time to be completed. There are many steps involved in completing and submitting a death certificate. Waiting for test results can create additional delays. States report at different rates. Currently, 63% of all U.S. deaths are reported within 10 days of the date of death, but there is significant variation among jurisdictions. It takes extra time to code COVID-19 deaths. While 80% of deaths are electronically processed and coded by NCHS within minutes, most deaths from COVID-19 must be coded manually, which takes an average of 7 days. Other reporting systems use different definitions or methods for counting deaths.”
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lewrockwell--2020-05-07--The Coronavirus Circus Continues

The Coronavirus Circus Continues

• Researchers report most people infected with COVID-19 experience little or no symptoms ; but only 8 % developed sufficient antibodies in recent study .
Without natural exposure and infection , COVID-19 will surely return in November .
• The threat of re-infection : maybe just false-positive blood tests .
• Treatment kills : over-reliance upon ventilators can induce lung trauma and death .
The Deep State : How an ... Chaffetz , Jason Best Price : $ 5.03 Buy New $ 17.05 Welcome to the first U.S. lockdown and quarantine , brought to you by the World Health Organization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Melinda Gates Foundation ; and the Centers for Disease Control , a front for vaccine manufacturers ; and funded by The World Bank ; and enforced by your duly elected State Governors , who have banned sunshine and destroyed all wealth and savings as well as demolished the future for our children ; and made ( hopefully ) temporary laws banning the assemblage of any religious group and negated all rights and freedoms under the Constitution in the name of an invisible virus that is less deadly than the annual flu ; and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are more afraid of starvation than coronavirus infection ; in order to hide from a virus that has killed 252,000* worldwide as of May 5 , 2020 , or 3/1000ths of one percent of the world ’ s population ( compared to the Spanish flu of 1918 that killed an estimated 17-50 million people ( 9/10ths of one-percent to 2.8 % of the world population ) .
All of our sponsors deserve credit for saving the world from an imagined viral oblivion ( fake epidemic ) as humanity eagerly awaits the arrival and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the first anticipated global vaccination program ; a vaccine that would require universal inoculation of 7.8 billion people to spare the lives of 252,000 people ( 30,952 people will have to be vaccinated to save 1 life and induce more deaths than it prevents—see below ) ; a vaccine that is not likely to produce antibodies among high-risk individuals ( diabetics , cancer patients , obese , very old ) and end up causing ~1 % side effects that require hospitalization ( based on flu vaccination data ) or 78,000,000 hospitalizations , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to die from hospitalization ( 780,000 otherwise avoidable deaths ) .
Bottom line : save 252,000 and kill 780,000 for a net -528,000 ) .
Stay tuned for next year ’ s lockdown… and if you this is all fake news , we now have resumption of fake baseball in South Korea› *Claimed deaths , not a body count America Hijacked : How ... Carlson , S M Buy New $ 16.46 Need for the vaccine In an unpublished report , researchers suggest less than 8 % of populations have been infected by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 70-85 % needed to ensure herd ( natural , without vaccination ) immunity .
Therefore , a resurgence of the virus is predicted .
And what if a vaccine is never approved ?
Ian Frazer , an Australian virologist says microbiologists have not been able to produce a coronavirus vaccine in the past 8 years .
If all the safety steps are taken it would take till 2036 for an approved COVID-19 vaccine to be available .
What lays ahead ?
If COVID-19 returns in November it will be blamed on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that nutritional medicine can keep COVID-19 coronavirus in the closet , the misled and fearful masses will apply social or even legal pressure for forced vaccination ( survey shows 9 of 10 Canadians approve mandatory vaccination ) .
My impression is that the treatment has been killing the COVID-19 hospitalized patients .
A news report dated April 28 , 2020 , reveals machinery that oxygenates a patient ’ s blood outside the body produced a 68 % survival rate compared to 10-20 % survival for patients placed on ventilators .
Use of nasal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is proving to be less traumatic to the lungs and improves survival .
Why modern medicine didn ’ t realize this before in the treatment of pneumonia goes unexplained .
Maybe ventilators have been killing patients for a long time .
Some published reports appear to confirm , it is ventilator-trauma that can kill .
Treatment itself ( ventilator associated lung injury ) is a major cause of death in the intensive care unit .
Some reviewers of medical care suggest less reliance upon ventilators as the mortality for ventilator-induced pneumonia was found @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % among those patients without ventilator-induced pneumonia .
Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles Buy New $ 5.99 There is much talk of re-infection of COVID-19 coronavirus .
This raised suspicion patients initially infected did not develop sufficient antibodies from the first infection .
But now South Korea admits 292 cases classified as reinfection were simply “ false positive ” blood tests .
Had this admission not gone public governments could hold populations in lockdown indefinitely .
A report published in The Atlantic is entitled : “ Get used to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be the last.
” And then there are those inappropriate displays of bored hospital workers at Tik-Tok working on their dance routines .
And the me-generation doesn ’ t stop there .
Now there are even stylish surgical scrub suits for the fashion-conscious nurse .
You can watch the video of the two women walking through an obviously rented warehouse for the photo-op filled with boxes of their stylish hospital garb .
Just what America needed… .
Saving lives stylishly .

KEY POINTS
Researchers report most people infected with COVID-19 experience little or no symptoms; but only 8% developed sufficient antibodies in recent study. Without natural exposure and infection, COVID-19 will surely return in November.
The threat of re-infection: maybe just false-positive blood tests.
Treatment kills: over-reliance upon ventilators can induce lung trauma and death.
(To be read like it is an advertising script)
The Deep State: How an... Chaffetz, Jason Best Price: $5.03 Buy New $17.05 (as of 02:10 UTC - Details) Welcome to the first U.S. lockdown and quarantine, brought to you by the World Health Organization; covertly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and the Centers for Disease Control, a front for vaccine manufacturers; and funded by The World Bank; and enforced by your duly elected State Governors, who have banned sunshine and destroyed all wealth and savings as well as demolished the future for our children; and made (hopefully) temporary laws banning the assemblage of any religious group and negated all rights and freedoms under the Constitution in the name of an invisible virus that is less deadly than the annual flu; and opposed by the Bangladesh garment workers who are more afraid of starvation than coronavirus infection; in order to hide from a virus that has killed 252,000* worldwide as of May 5, 2020, or 3/1000ths of one percent of the world’s population (compared to the Spanish flu of 1918 that killed an estimated 17-50 million people (9/10ths of one-percent to 2.8% of the world population). All of our sponsors deserve credit for saving the world from an imagined viral oblivion (fake epidemic) as humanity eagerly awaits the arrival and rollout of the first COVID-19 vaccine and the first anticipated global vaccination program; a vaccine that would require universal inoculation of 7.8 billion people to spare the lives of 252,000 people (30,952 people will have to be vaccinated to save 1 life and induce more deaths than it prevents—see below); a vaccine that is not likely to produce antibodies among high-risk individuals (diabetics, cancer patients, obese, very old) and end up causing ~1% side effects that require hospitalization (based on flu vaccination data) or 78,000,000 hospitalizations, and 1% of those hospitalized are predicted to die from hospitalization (780,000 otherwise avoidable deaths). Bottom line: save 252,000 and kill 780,000 for a net -528,000). Stay tuned for next year’s lockdown… and if you this is all fake news, we now have resumption of fake baseball in South Korea›
*Claimed deaths, not a body count America Hijacked: How ... Carlson, S M Buy New $16.46 (as of 03:54 UTC - Details)
Need for the vaccine
In an unpublished report, researchers suggest less than 8% of populations have been infected by the COVID-19 coronavirus, far less than the 70-85% needed to ensure herd (natural, without vaccination) immunity. Therefore, a resurgence of the virus is predicted.
And what if a vaccine is never approved? Ian Frazer, an Australian virologist says microbiologists have not been able to produce a coronavirus vaccine in the past 8 years. If all the safety steps are taken it would take till 2036 for an approved COVID-19 vaccine to be available.
What lays ahead? If COVID-19 returns in November it will be blamed on the protestors. Unless the world is shown that nutritional medicine can keep COVID-19 coronavirus in the closet, the misled and fearful masses will apply social or even legal pressure for forced vaccination (survey shows 9 of 10 Canadians approve mandatory vaccination).
The treatment kills
My impression is that the treatment has been killing the COVID-19 hospitalized patients. A news report dated April 28, 2020, reveals machinery that oxygenates a patient’s blood outside the body produced a 68% survival rate compared to 10-20% survival for patients placed on ventilators.
Use of nasal cannulas to deliver oxygen to the lungs is proving to be less traumatic to the lungs and improves survival. Why modern medicine didn’t realize this before in the treatment of pneumonia goes unexplained. Maybe ventilators have been killing patients for a long time. Some published reports appear to confirm, it is ventilator-trauma that can kill. Treatment itself (ventilator associated lung injury) is a major cause of death in the intensive care unit. Some reviewers of medical care suggest less reliance upon ventilators as the mortality for ventilator-induced pneumonia was found to be 16% versus just 3% among those patients without ventilator-induced pneumonia.
Threat of re-infection
Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details) There is much talk of re-infection of COVID-19 coronavirus. This raised suspicion patients initially infected did not develop sufficient antibodies from the first infection. But now South Korea admits 292 cases classified as reinfection were simply “false positive” blood tests. Had this admission not gone public governments could hold populations in lockdown indefinitely.
Final note
A report published in The Atlantic is entitled: “Get used to it: this lockdown won’t be the last.”
And then there are those inappropriate displays of bored hospital workers at Tik-Tok working on their dance routines. And the me-generation doesn’t stop there. Now there are even stylish surgical scrub suits for the fashion-conscious nurse. You can watch the video of the two women walking through an obviously rented warehouse for the photo-op filled with boxes of their stylish hospital garb. Just what America needed…. Saving lives stylishly.


lewrockwell--2020-05-07--Money Creation—Not Low Interest Rates—Is Behind the Boom-Bust Cycle

In a recent article entitled “ Where Are All the Austrian Scholars ’ Yachts ?
” John Tamny has criticized Austrian economists , and Mark Thornton in particular , for their skepticism regarding the relatively “ ebullient stock market ” in the midst of the pandemic .
Mark Thornton responded to Tamny ’ s main argument in an earlier post .
In this post , I will address two serious errors that underlie Tamny ’ s argument .
The first error involves a common misinterpretation of Austrian business cycle theory ( henceforth ABCT ) .
Tamny represents Austrian cycle theorists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bubbles are caused by the central bank arbitrarily reducing interest rates .
But this is a misunderstanding .
According to ABCT , it is not the arbitrary lowering of interest rates per se that causes an inflationary boom , asset bubbles , and a subsequent recession .
Rather , it is the issue of “ fiduciary media , ” or bank deposits unbacked by reserves , that are created via new business loans that actuate the boom-bust cycle .
The decline of interest rates on loans is merely one of the results of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not essential to the process .
On the one hand , banks could arbitrarily lower the interest rate on loans and this would not initiate an inflationary boom ; on the other hand , banks could leave the interest rate unchanged but lend out newly-created bank reserves by lowering credit standards , which would ignite a boom and asset price inflation .
Mises emphasized this point in 1949 ( Human Action , p. 789n5 ) : Money : Sound and Unsound Salerno , Joseph T. Best Price : $ 20.00 Buy New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when he writes : In this passage , Tamny ’ s misrepresentation of ABCT is on full display .
First , neither Thornton nor any other Austrian economist , past or present , has ever proposed that the Fed lowers interest rates “ merely by decreeing ‘ cheap credit.
’ ” The fact that Tamny maintains this indicates that he is innocent of any knowledge of the crucial role of money and credit expansion in ABCT .
As pointed out above in the quotation from Mises , what engenders the boom and perpetuates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ into credit markets regardless of the movements of interest rates , especially short rates .
As I have argued elsewhere , a higher ( lower ) growth rate of the money supply is perfectly consistent with increases ( decreases ) in the fed funds rate .
This is illustrated in the graph , which over the period 1990-2020 displays no systematic relationship between the monetary growth rate and the fed funds rate .
Tamny ’ s failure to grasp the essence of ABCT is starkly revealed by his contention that the Nikkei Index @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fact that the BOJ has maintained its targeted interest rate near zero since the 1990s .
As the graph below shows , the average year-over-year growth rate of the Japanese monetary aggregate M2 in the 1980s was more than twice as high as it was from 1990 to 2020 .
For Austrians it is the money supply and not manipulations of a short-term interest rate that affects asset prices .
Human Action : The Scho ... Ludwig von Mises Best Price : $ 6.75 Buy New $ 15.36 That a fine economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a technical point of business cycle theory is understandable .
Many prominent economists have failed to comprehend the causal significance of fiduciary media in ABCT .
This includes Gottfried Haberler , a former follower of Mises and an expert on business cycle theory .
Unfortunately , Tamny can not be so easily excused for the second error in his article , which appears to be based on ignorance of the nature and function of money .
Thus Tamny opines , Now it appears to me that Tamny is here claiming that , even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Fed is unable to commandeer for itself or the immediate recipients of its largesse control over “ real resources.
” The reason , Tamny asserts , is that market participants are smart enough not to accept the depreciating dollars for their labor services and other real stuff they have to sell .
Examined closely , this claim is breath-taking in its theoretical and historical obtuseness .
For it implies that no one will ever accept a depreciating currency in exchange , even though it has a positive purchasing power .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact that a fiat currency does have a purchasing power—a power to command real goods in exchange—means that it is already being traded for goods and services in the market place .
The Real Crash : Americ ... Schiff , Peter D. Best Price : $ 3.00 Buy New $ 9.55 Let us examine this point in a little more depth .
At any given moment the dollar has a given purchasing power , which is reflected in the array of dollar prices for the various goods currently being exchanged in the economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for banks to lend , these dollars have exactly the same purchasing power as those already in circulation and being readily accepted in exchange for real goods .
The first recipients of the new dollars—be they business borrowers or the US Treasury—are able to trade them at approximately their current purchasing power thereby “ summoning real resources , ” because prices have not yet begun to rise in response to the expanded money supply .
However , as these dollars are spent and re-spent in subsequent periods on a widening array of goods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economy and the dollar begins to depreciate or lose purchasing power .
At this point , those who have not yet received the new dollars are thus forced to cede command over some of the real goods that their nominal incomes had previously exchanged for .
Nonetheless , contrary to Tamny , once all prices have risen , sellers continue to trade “ real market goods ” for these depreciated dollars not because they are “ dense , ” but because the higher prices they are receiving offset the loss of purchasing power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of course , the sellers require these greater quantities of depreciated dollars in order to pay the higher prices of the goods that they demand .
As episodes of aggressive and persistent inflation , e.g.
, the Great Inflation of the 1970s in the US , have amply demonstrated , this process of rational people continuing to trade real goods for an ever depreciating currency can go on for many years with the economy thus absorbing greater and greater quantities of depreciating monetary units printed by the central bank .
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the US economy over the past three decades .
As the graph below shows , from 1990 to 2020 , the Fed appeared to “ aggressively print money , ” increasing the M2 aggregate from $ 4.653 trillion to $ 16.871 trillion or by 270 percent .
This near quadrupling of the money supply resulted in a continually depreciating dollar , as the price level as measured by the headline CPI index more than doubled and the dollar in 2020 retained only $ .49 of purchasing power compared to the 1990 dollar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s assertion , there continue to be “ takers ” for the depreciating US dollar , as the advance estimate of last quarter ’ s ( annualized ) GDP of $ 21.51 trillion—albeit forcibly shrunken by government restrictions of economic activity—can readily attest .
Note : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
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In a recent article entitled “Where Are All the Austrian Scholars’ Yachts?” John Tamny has criticized Austrian economists, and Mark Thornton in particular, for their skepticism regarding the relatively “ebullient stock market” in the midst of the pandemic. Mark Thornton responded to Tamny’s main argument in an earlier post. In this post, I will address two serious errors that underlie Tamny’s argument.
The first error involves a common misinterpretation of Austrian business cycle theory (henceforth ABCT). Tamny represents Austrian cycle theorists as claiming that stock market booms and bubbles are caused by the central bank arbitrarily reducing interest rates. But this is a misunderstanding. According to ABCT, it is not the arbitrary lowering of interest rates per se that causes an inflationary boom, asset bubbles, and a subsequent recession. Rather, it is the issue of “fiduciary media,” or bank deposits unbacked by reserves, that are created via new business loans that actuate the boom-bust cycle. The decline of interest rates on loans is merely one of the results of this expansion of money and credit and is not essential to the process. On the one hand, banks could arbitrarily lower the interest rate on loans and this would not initiate an inflationary boom; on the other hand, banks could leave the interest rate unchanged but lend out newly-created bank reserves by lowering credit standards, which would ignite a boom and asset price inflation. Mises emphasized this point in 1949 (Human Action, p. 789n5): Money: Sound and Unsound Salerno, Joseph T. Best Price: $20.00 Buy New $21.43 (as of 03:59 UTC - Details)
If a bank does not expand circulation credit by issuing additional fiduciary media…it cannot generate a boom even if it lowers the amount of interest charged below the rate of the unhampered market….The inference to be drawn from the [Austrian] monetary cycle theory by those who want to prevent the recurrence of booms and of the subsequent depressions is not that the banks should not lower the rate of interest, but that they should abstain from credit expansion.
Tamny completely misses this point when he writes:
As Thornton sees it, the main driver of modern stock-market health has been the Fed. Supposedly the Fed’s artificially low rates boosted equity prices. In Thornton’s estimation, Fed rate cuts equal artificial equity rallies. To then presume that the Fed, merely by decreeing “cheap credit,” can make it cheap is not something one would expect Thornton to take seriously. . . . Furthermore, if zero or low rates were the path to soaring stock markets as Thornton et al assume, Japan’s stock market would have outperformed all other global equity markets by many miles when it’s remembered that the BOJ [Bank of Japan] has kept the rate it targets near zero since the 1990s. Except that the Nikkei is still well off of highs last experienced in 1989.
In this passage, Tamny’s misrepresentation of ABCT is on full display. First, neither Thornton nor any other Austrian economist, past or present, has ever proposed that the Fed lowers interest rates “merely by decreeing ‘cheap credit.’” The fact that Tamny maintains this indicates that he is innocent of any knowledge of the crucial role of money and credit expansion in ABCT. As pointed out above in the quotation from Mises, what engenders the boom and perpetuates it is the injection of fiduciary media into credit markets regardless of the movements of interest rates, especially short rates. As I have argued elsewhere, a higher (lower) growth rate of the money supply is perfectly consistent with increases (decreases) in the fed funds rate. This is illustrated in the graph, which over the period 1990-2020 displays no systematic relationship between the monetary growth rate and the fed funds rate.
Tamny’s failure to grasp the essence of ABCT is starkly revealed by his contention that the Nikkei Index is still below its 1989 peak despite the fact that the BOJ has maintained its targeted interest rate near zero since the 1990s. As the graph below shows, the average year-over-year growth rate of the Japanese monetary aggregate M2 in the 1980s was more than twice as high as it was from 1990 to 2020. For Austrians it is the money supply and not manipulations of a short-term interest rate that affects asset prices.
Human Action: The Scho... Ludwig von Mises Best Price: $6.75 Buy New $15.36 (as of 05:45 UTC - Details) That a fine economic journalist such as Tamny should err on a technical point of business cycle theory is understandable. Many prominent economists have failed to comprehend the causal significance of fiduciary media in ABCT. This includes Gottfried Haberler, a former follower of Mises and an expert on business cycle theory. Unfortunately, Tamny cannot be so easily excused for the second error in his article, which appears to be based on ignorance of the nature and function of money. Thus Tamny opines,
Thornton and other Austrians will say the Fed can create dollars, but that’s not the same as creating credit. If so, every central bank in the world would aggressively print money as a way of summoning real resources. Except that there would be no takers; unless Thornton thinks market actors are so dense as to readily exchange real market goods for paper, and without regard to what the paper will subsequently command in the marketplace. Not very likely.
Now it appears to me that Tamny is here claiming that, even when “aggressively” creating new money, the Fed is unable to commandeer for itself or the immediate recipients of its largesse control over “real resources.” The reason, Tamny asserts, is that market participants are smart enough not to accept the depreciating dollars for their labor services and other real stuff they have to sell. Examined closely, this claim is breath-taking in its theoretical and historical obtuseness. For it implies that no one will ever accept a depreciating currency in exchange, even though it has a positive purchasing power. But this is a logical contradiction. The fact that a fiat currency does have a purchasing power—a power to command real goods in exchange—means that it is already being traded for goods and services in the market place.
The Real Crash: Americ... Schiff, Peter D. Best Price: $3.00 Buy New $9.55 (as of 12:25 UTC - Details) Let us examine this point in a little more depth. At any given moment the dollar has a given purchasing power, which is reflected in the array of dollar prices for the various goods currently being exchanged in the economy. When the Fed creates new dollars for banks to lend, these dollars have exactly the same purchasing power as those already in circulation and being readily accepted in exchange for real goods. The first recipients of the new dollars—be they business borrowers or the US Treasury—are able to trade them at approximately their current purchasing power thereby “summoning real resources,” because prices have not yet begun to rise in response to the expanded money supply. However, as these dollars are spent and re-spent in subsequent periods on a widening array of goods, prices begin to increase throughout the economy and the dollar begins to depreciate or lose purchasing power. At this point, those who have not yet received the new dollars are thus forced to cede command over some of the real goods that their nominal incomes had previously exchanged for. Nonetheless, contrary to Tamny, once all prices have risen, sellers continue to trade “real market goods” for these depreciated dollars not because they are “dense,” but because the higher prices they are receiving offset the loss of purchasing power of the individual dollar. And, of course, the sellers require these greater quantities of depreciated dollars in order to pay the higher prices of the goods that they demand. As episodes of aggressive and persistent inflation, e.g., the Great Inflation of the 1970s in the US, have amply demonstrated, this process of rational people continuing to trade real goods for an ever depreciating currency can go on for many years with the economy thus absorbing greater and greater quantities of depreciating monetary units printed by the central bank.
In fact, this is precisely what has been occurring in the US economy over the past three decades. As the graph below shows, from 1990 to 2020, the Fed appeared to “aggressively print money,” increasing the M2 aggregate from $4.653 trillion to $16.871 trillion or by 270 percent. This near quadrupling of the money supply resulted in a continually depreciating dollar, as the price level as measured by the headline CPI index more than doubled and the dollar in 2020 retained only $.49 of purchasing power compared to the 1990 dollar. And yet, contrary to Tamny’s assertion, there continue to be “takers” for the depreciating US dollar, as the advance estimate of last quarter’s (annualized) GDP of $21.51 trillion—albeit forcibly shrunken by government restrictions of economic activity—can readily attest.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-07--Lockdowns: Looks Like an Op, Smells Like an Op, Walks Six Feet Apart Like an Op

We don ’ t need Rahm Emanuel to tell us a crisis shouldn ’ t go to waste .
It ’ s a strategy that probably got off the ground a hundred thousand years ago .
The other half of it is , create the crisis to begin with .
Then don ’ t waste it .
The Bill Gates plan involves a mother of all vaccines for COVID , mandated across the globe , before the lockdowns end .
That ’ s his psychopathic wet dream .
Then , coming in behind that , his lackey , the World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liars at the CDC , will add— “ we must mandate EVERY vaccine… ” To pull off a mandated global vaccine for eight billion people takes a manufactured crisis .
Fake virus plus real lockdown is the crisis .
You don ’ t think that one up overnight .
You plan .
You drill , and you organize .
You put all your ducks in a row .
You prepare , in order to become Stalin and Mao .
Then somebody has to break the ice .
The End of October : A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 16.25 Buy New $ 19.56 In this case , it was the Chinese regime—locking down 50 million people overnight in three cities .
Moving quickly to a hundred million .
“ If the Chinese did it , we can do it , too .
We must.
” Then follow up with a dire prediction .
Where will that come from ?
“ Let ’ s dust off that broken-down hack , Neil Ferguson .
He ’ ll give us what we want .
He always does .
Tell him to slap together @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know , predictions of lots of deaths up the road .
Half a million in the UK , a couple of million in the US .
Fauci will salute it like money.
” Drive people back into their homes .
Put them out of work .
Shut down businesses .
Wreck economies .
NOW , hold out the carrot .
The vaccine .
Note : A new COVID vaccine could be used to alter the genetic makeup of humans .
That ’ s exactly what the emerging ( and as yet unlicensed ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a form of gene therapy , now in clinical trials—and , officially , one of the “ competing candidates ” for a COVID vaccine .
Data and Goliath : The ... Bruce Schneier Best Price : $ 3.33 Buy New $ 11.03 The New York Times , 3/10/15 , “ Protection Without a Vaccine.
” It describes a frontier of research .
Here are key quotes that illustrate the use of synthetic genes to “ protect against disease , ” while changing the genetic makeup of humans .
This is not science fiction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the muscles of the [ experimental ] monkeys , the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease.
” “ ’ The sky ’ s the limit , ’ said Michael Farzan , an immunologist at Scripps and lead author of the new study.
” “ The first human trial based on this strategy — called immunoprophylaxis by gene transfer , or I.G.T .
— is underway , and several new ones are planned.
” [ That was five years ago . ]
“ I.G.T .
is altogether different from traditional vaccination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gene therapy .
Scientists isolate the genes that produce powerful antibodies against certain diseases and then synthesize artificial versions .
The genes are placed into viruses and injected into human tissue , usually muscle.
” Here is the punchline : “ The viruses invade human cells with their DNA payloads , and the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient ’ s own DNA .
If all goes well , the new genes instruct the cells to begin manufacturing powerful antibodies.
” The Chronic Fatigue Sy ... Ortleb , Charles Best Price : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that again : “ the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient ’ s own DNA.
” Alteration of the human genetic makeup .
Permanent alteration .
The Times article taps Dr. David Baltimore for an opinion : “ Still , Dr. Baltimore says that he envisions that some people might be leery of a vaccination strategy that means altering their own DNA , even if it prevents a potentially fatal disease.
” Yes , some people might be leery .
If they have two or three working brain cells .
Even if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an epidemic caused by a virus , the official case numbers—as I ’ ve described in a recent article—do NOT warrant nearly as much concern as annual official flu numbers .
And , of course , NO lockdowns faintly resembling what we have now have ever been recommended , much less enforced , for flu .
And there is no mandated global flu vaccine .
Therefore , a planet-wide , mandated COVID vaccine , as a get-out-of-jail-card , is absurd .
America Hijacked : How ... Carlson , S M Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ MUST be protected .
The actual conspiracy theorists—Gates , WHO , CDC—who invented the conspiracy , must also be rejected .
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We don’t need Rahm Emanuel to tell us a crisis shouldn’t go to waste. It’s a strategy that probably got off the ground a hundred thousand years ago. The other half of it is, create the crisis to begin with. Then don’t waste it.
The Bill Gates plan involves a mother of all vaccines for COVID, mandated across the globe, before the lockdowns end. That’s his psychopathic wet dream. Then, coming in behind that, his lackey, the World Health Organization, along with the professional liars at the CDC, will add—“we must mandate EVERY vaccine…”
To pull off a mandated global vaccine for eight billion people takes a manufactured crisis.
Fake virus plus real lockdown is the crisis.
You don’t think that one up overnight. You plan. You drill, and you organize. You put all your ducks in a row. You prepare, in order to become Stalin and Mao.
Then somebody has to break the ice. The End of October: A ... Wright, Lawrence Best Price: $16.25 Buy New $19.56 (as of 04:02 UTC - Details)
In this case, it was the Chinese regime—locking down 50 million people overnight in three cities. Moving quickly to a hundred million.
“If the Chinese did it, we can do it, too. We must.”
Then follow up with a dire prediction. Where will that come from? “Let’s dust off that broken-down hack, Neil Ferguson. He’ll give us what we want. He always does. Tell him to slap together one of his computer models. You know, predictions of lots of deaths up the road. Half a million in the UK, a couple of million in the US. Fauci will salute it like money.”
Then LOCKDOWN.
Drive people back into their homes. Put them out of work. Shut down businesses. Wreck economies.
NOW, hold out the carrot. The vaccine.
Note: A new COVID vaccine could be used to alter the genetic makeup of humans. That’s exactly what the emerging (and as yet unlicensed) DNA technology does. It’s a form of gene therapy, now in clinical trials—and, officially, one of the “competing candidates” for a COVID vaccine. Data and Goliath: The ... Bruce Schneier Best Price: $3.33 Buy New $11.03 (as of 06:05 UTC - Details)
The New York Times, 3/10/15, “Protection Without a Vaccine.” It describes a frontier of research. Here are key quotes that illustrate the use of synthetic genes to “protect against disease,” while changing the genetic makeup of humans. This is not science fiction:
“By delivering synthetic genes into the muscles of the [experimental] monkeys, the scientists are essentially re-engineering the animals to resist disease.”
“’The sky’s the limit,’ said Michael Farzan, an immunologist at Scripps and lead author of the new study.”
“The first human trial based on this strategy — called immunoprophylaxis by gene transfer, or I.G.T. — is underway, and several new ones are planned.” [That was five years ago.]
“I.G.T. is altogether different from traditional vaccination. It is instead a form of gene therapy. Scientists isolate the genes that produce powerful antibodies against certain diseases and then synthesize artificial versions. The genes are placed into viruses and injected into human tissue, usually muscle.”
Here is the punchline: “The viruses invade human cells with their DNA payloads, and the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA. If all goes well, the new genes instruct the cells to begin manufacturing powerful antibodies.” The Chronic Fatigue Sy... Ortleb, Charles Best Price: $16.55 Buy New $17.95 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
Read that again: “the synthetic gene is incorporated into the recipient’s own DNA.” Alteration of the human genetic makeup. Permanent alteration.
The Times article taps Dr. David Baltimore for an opinion:
“Still, Dr. Baltimore says that he envisions that some people might be leery of a vaccination strategy that means altering their own DNA, even if it prevents a potentially fatal disease.”
Yes, some people might be leery. If they have two or three working brain cells.
Even if we (falsely) assume this is an epidemic caused by a virus, the official case numbers—as I’ve described in a recent article—do NOT warrant nearly as much concern as annual official flu numbers.
And, of course, NO lockdowns faintly resembling what we have now have ever been recommended, much less enforced, for flu.
And there is no mandated global flu vaccine.
Therefore, a planet-wide, mandated COVID vaccine, as a get-out-of-jail-card, is absurd. America Hijacked: How ... Carlson, S M Buy New $16.46 (as of 03:54 UTC - Details)
The freedom to reject the vaccine MUST be protected.
The actual conspiracy theorists—Gates, WHO, CDC—who invented the conspiracy, must also be rejected.
SOURCES:
* https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/health/protection-without-a-vaccine.html
* https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/05/05/covid-the-numbers-game-the-fraud-and-the-final-answer/
* https://medcitynews.com/2020/04/gsk-sanofi-huddle-to-develop-covid-19-recombinant-dna-vaccine/
* https://www.technologynetworks.com/biopharma/product-news/phase-1-us-trial-of-covid-19-dna-vaccine-enrollment-complete-334373
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-07--Where’s the Beef? – Not on the Horizon

Where’s the Beef? – Not on the Horizon

The reports continue to come in that there ’ s a real problem with the U.S. food supply .
From McDonald ’ s reviewing their supply chain for beef to the pleas of ranchers already staring at feeding issues with last year ’ s poor harvests the signs are there for a major supply dislocation in beef going forward .
Kroger is limiting the amount of beef and pork people can buy .
My local Winn-Dixie has had limits on large cuts of pork for the past couple of weeks .
Pork loins have been gone for weeks now , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is a tragedy .
Now Wendy ’ s , which doesn ’ t use frozen beef , is reporting more than 20 % of their stores are out of beef .
If you subscribe , like I do now , to the idea that this Coronapocalypse is mostly a cover story for the failures of the global financial and political system to usher in a new round of totalitarian control then destroying the most vulnerable , yet important , part of our food supply would be a key strategic goal .
My @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wire recently covered the motive , means and opportunity for why this perspective should be our default setting .
But this beef shortage has been a year in the making .
Last year because of poor grain harvests , especially corn , where millions of bushels came in at quality not even fit for silage , we were already expecting disruptions in the beef market as ranchers were thinning herds and bidding up the price of feeder calves earlier in year .
I ’ ve spoken with ranchers here in Florida about this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 ) grows a lot of cows , and 2 ) where meat packing plants have been mostly unaffected by COVID-19 .
So , it ’ s important when I tell you this dynamic in January and February has completely reversed itself .
Finished cattle are fetching excellent prices while feeders are down .
Comex Live Cattle futures , however , have yet to get the news because the dislocation in the supply chain has farmers slaughtering animals faster than they can be processed and brought to market .
And just like in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a heifer or cap a well it takes a long time to bring that lost supply back into the supply chain .
Safe and Effective ?
: W ... McCormack , RN , BSN , PH ... Buy New $ 15.50 Moreover , the supply bottlenecks are not at the independent processors , but the large scale ones who are optimized to feed this meat into the restaurant and food service supply chain rather than to the supermarkets .
And even then , they are experiencing shortages , which means there is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ isn ’ t going to be easy to unwind .
More than chicken or pork , beef is vulnerable because of the life cycle of the cow and the time necessary to rebuild a robust supply chain .
And with huge uncertainty in the market right now who can blame ranchers for conserving cash and being defensive .
This is no different than any another commodity with high start up costs .
It involves high risk and a long time to return on that risk .
So when the market gets ugly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take a long time to recover when lost .
I ’ ve been there , I ’ ve lost dairy goats to disease .
Not only does it break your heart losing an animal you ’ ve bottle raised but you ’ ve lost years of input costs and future production .
For a cattle rancher looking at slaughtering middle-aged , productive heifers because of poor market conditions the time is prohibitive .
Here ’ s the data for how long it takes to replace the lost production from this year because it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year ’ s food .
Shave a month or two off these times depending on breed , conditions etc .
but the basic math is inarguable .
Slaughtering a productive heifer takes around six years to replace .
Pigs aren ’ t nearly as bad .
This is why the pork industry can bounce back so quickly from swine flu outbreaks .
Vaccine Whistleblower : ... Barry , Kevin Buy New $ 12.94 And guess who can ill afford to lose these heifers ?
The smaller ranchers working on thinner margins because they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over .
If you think the fixed costs due to government-mandated food safety and the like will be lightened in the coming years , then I suggest you are terminally naive .
If anything it will get worse for domestic producers .
Because we ’ ve blown open gaping holes in government budgets which can ’ t be filled with deficit spending .
So , we ’ ll see more stringent enforcement of petty crimes and an increase in fines which always fall hardest on the smaller producers who don ’ t have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them .
In fact , this is what I ’ ve been banging on about as the real problem with our response to the financial crisis and the Coronapocalypse .
Why has the private sector been shut down , tens of millions thrown out of work , while no one is talking about downsizing the costs of local , state and federal government agencies ?
As a libertarian I want to see freedom return to the food production industry , the barriers to small farmers torn down and the assumption of risk placed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rather than the government through the USDA providing the false security of its stamp of approval and leaving the door open to systemic corruption and ineffeciency .
Why are the productive members of society losing their jobs by the millions ?
These are the people who produce the taxes which pay for all this wonderful government oversight which is responsible for clogging up the supply chains for everything from oil to beef to paper products .
Shouldn ’ t they be the ones at work ?
Shouldn ’ t the secretaries , janitors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , HR managers , lawyers , assistants and department heads who cost taxes to pay their salaries be the ones on the unemployment lines ?
How many jobs could we save by downsizing , right now , the Federal government back to levels seen just ten years ago ?
Imagine how much cheaper things would be if most of the USDA and Department of Agriculture were laid off right now and those savings used to not pay farmers to plough under crops to maintain prices or slaughter animals which are now financial burdens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t be needlessly destroyed ( the stock ) and disrupted ( the people ) while we quickly reorient capital spending towards the things we truly need .
Blind Trust in Doctors ... Mason , Howard Buy New $ 12.99 Now what if instead of freaking out and destroying our society and our food supply about a disease not much worse than the annual flu our state and local governments did the same things ?
At the end of the day the costs are the costs and bailing out one side of the tax @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out the other .
Because every private worker laid off is another one not paying taxes to support the job of the government worker .
And we still have to pay both unemployment and the government worker ’ s salary .
If you fire the government worker , you just have to pay his unemployment .
The salary and the benefits are eliminated .
If we have to downsize and tighten our belts during a crisis , why shouldn ’ t we start with the true luxury item , government itself .
Beef @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a response to our expanded and diverse division of labor which allows us to utilize the vast lands of North America to grow cattle , lands beautifully suited to the task with people happy to make their living doing so .
But it will not continue so long as busybodies and ideologues continue standing in the way of our solving real problems .
The problem isn ’ t the farmers , the truckers , the refrigeration companies and the consumers , the problem is where it always is , in the decrees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of knowledge who use their monopoly power over pointing guns and using force to stand in the way of progress during the good times and fixing what ’ s broken during the bad .
And until we get this through our thick heads , until we stop looking for handouts and bailouts we will have no one to blame but ourselves , especially when the pantries are empty and hamburger is $ 12 a pound .
The Best of Thomas Luongo

The reports continue to come in that there’s a real problem with the U.S. food supply. From McDonald’s reviewing their supply chain for beef to the pleas of ranchers already staring at feeding issues with last year’s poor harvests the signs are there for a major supply dislocation in beef going forward.
Kroger is limiting the amount of beef and pork people can buy. My local Winn-Dixie has had limits on large cuts of pork for the past couple of weeks. Pork loins have been gone for weeks now, so no pork jerky for us, which is a tragedy.
Now Wendy’s, which doesn’t use frozen beef, is reporting more than 20% of their stores are out of beef.
Stephens analyst James Rutherford noted 18% of Wendy’s restaurants were “completely sold out of beef items as of Monday evening,” reported Bloomberg. The Vaccine Court: The... Rohde, Wayne Buy New $17.99 (as of 04:05 UTC - Details) “By our count 1,043 Wendy’s units were selling zero beef items yesterday evening,” but within the figure, about 128 restaurants were still selling beef chili. Rutherford added that the shortage varies across the country and said some restaurants still have full menus, while states like Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, Connecticut, and New York are “fully out of fresh beef.” The note also said Wendy’s is “more exposed” to meat shortages because of its reliance on fresh beef compared with its competitors.
If you subscribe, like I do now, to the idea that this Coronapocalypse is mostly a cover story for the failures of the global financial and political system to usher in a new round of totalitarian control then destroying the most vulnerable, yet important, part of our food supply would be a key strategic goal.
My talk with Patrick Henningsen of 21st Century Wire recently covered the motive, means and opportunity for why this perspective should be our default setting.
But this beef shortage has been a year in the making. Last year because of poor grain harvests, especially corn, where millions of bushels came in at quality not even fit for silage, we were already expecting disruptions in the beef market as ranchers were thinning herds and bidding up the price of feeder calves earlier in year.
I’ve spoken with ranchers here in Florida about this. And this is an area which 1) grows a lot of cows, and 2) where meat packing plants have been mostly unaffected by COVID-19. So, it’s important when I tell you this dynamic in January and February has completely reversed itself.
Finished cattle are fetching excellent prices while feeders are down. Comex Live Cattle futures, however, have yet to get the news because the dislocation in the supply chain has farmers slaughtering animals faster than they can be processed and brought to market.
And just like in the oil industry, once you kill a heifer or cap a well it takes a long time to bring that lost supply back into the supply chain. Safe and Effective?: W... McCormack, RN, BSN, PH... Buy New $15.50 (as of 04:05 UTC - Details)
Moreover, the supply bottlenecks are not at the independent processors, but the large scale ones who are optimized to feed this meat into the restaurant and food service supply chain rather than to the supermarkets.
And even then, they are experiencing shortages, which means there is a real dislocation in the supply chain that isn’t going to be easy to unwind.
More than chicken or pork, beef is vulnerable because of the life cycle of the cow and the time necessary to rebuild a robust supply chain. And with huge uncertainty in the market right now who can blame ranchers for conserving cash and being defensive.
This is no different than any another commodity with high start up costs. It involves high risk and a long time to return on that risk. So when the market gets ugly, better safe than sorry.
Why?
Because animals take a long time to recover when lost. I’ve been there, I’ve lost dairy goats to disease. Not only does it break your heart losing an animal you’ve bottle raised but you’ve lost years of input costs and future production.
For a cattle rancher looking at slaughtering middle-aged, productive heifers because of poor market conditions the time is prohibitive. Here’s the data for how long it takes to replace the lost production from this year because it was slaughtered as opposed to birthing next year’s food.
Animal Gestation (days) Avg. Litter Size Time to Maturity (months) Breeder Replacement Time (months) Time to Market (months) Market Replacement Time (months) Goat 150 2 10 15 6 ~21 Chicken 22 2 4.5 5.5 2 ~7 Cattle 330 1 24 46 30 ~76 Pigs 114 9 10 11 4 ~15 Sheep 5 1.5 10 16.5 6 ~23
—
Shave a month or two off these times depending on breed, conditions etc. but the basic math is inarguable. Slaughtering a productive heifer takes around six years to replace.
Pigs aren’t nearly as bad. This is why the pork industry can bounce back so quickly from swine flu outbreaks. Vaccine Whistleblower:... Barry, Kevin Buy New $12.94 (as of 04:05 UTC - Details)
And guess who can ill afford to lose these heifers? The smaller ranchers working on thinner margins because they have fewer animals to spread fixed costs over.
If you think the fixed costs due to government-mandated food safety and the like will be lightened in the coming years, then I suggest you are terminally naive. If anything it will get worse for domestic producers.
Because we’ve blown open gaping holes in government budgets which can’t be filled with deficit spending. So, we’ll see more stringent enforcement of petty crimes and an increase in fines which always fall hardest on the smaller producers who don’t have the resources or political clout to fight them.
In fact, this is what I’ve been banging on about as the real problem with our response to the financial crisis and the Coronapocalypse. Why has the private sector been shut down, tens of millions thrown out of work, while no one is talking about downsizing the costs of local, state and federal government agencies?
As a libertarian I want to see freedom return to the food production industry, the barriers to small farmers torn down and the assumption of risk placed back on the consumer and producer equally rather than the government through the USDA providing the false security of its stamp of approval and leaving the door open to systemic corruption and ineffeciency.
Instead of using government to force meat processing plants to open, let’s pass @RepThomasMassie’s PRIME Act to get government out of the way of farmers who want to sell meat directly to consumers, restaurants, and grocers within their state. Happy to be an original cosponsor. — Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 2, 2020
Why are the productive members of society losing their jobs by the millions? These are the people who produce the taxes which pay for all this wonderful government oversight which is responsible for clogging up the supply chains for everything from oil to beef to paper products.
Shouldn’t they be the ones at work? Shouldn’t the secretaries, janitors, administrators, middle managers, statisticians, HR managers, lawyers, assistants and department heads who cost taxes to pay their salaries be the ones on the unemployment lines?
How many jobs could we save by downsizing, right now, the Federal government back to levels seen just ten years ago? Imagine how much cheaper things would be if most of the USDA and Department of Agriculture were laid off right now and those savings used to not pay farmers to plough under crops to maintain prices or slaughter animals which are now financial burdens.
Imagine how many lives wouldn’t be needlessly destroyed (the stock) and disrupted (the people) while we quickly reorient capital spending towards the things we truly need. Blind Trust in Doctors... Mason, Howard Buy New $12.99 (as of 02:43 UTC - Details)
Now what if instead of freaking out and destroying our society and our food supply about a disease not much worse than the annual flu our state and local governments did the same things?
At the end of the day the costs are the costs and bailing out one side of the tax ledger is demonstrably more expensive than bailing out the other. Because every private worker laid off is another one not paying taxes to support the job of the government worker.
And we still have to pay both unemployment and the government worker’s salary. If you fire the government worker, you just have to pay his unemployment. The salary and the benefits are eliminated.
If we have to downsize and tighten our belts during a crisis, why shouldn’t we start with the true luxury item, government itself.
Beef isn’t a luxury item it is a response to our expanded and diverse division of labor which allows us to utilize the vast lands of North America to grow cattle, lands beautifully suited to the task with people happy to make their living doing so.
But it will not continue so long as busybodies and ideologues continue standing in the way of our solving real problems.
The problem isn’t the farmers, the truckers, the refrigeration companies and the consumers, the problem is where it always is, in the decrees of clueless government officials with a pretense of knowledge who use their monopoly power over pointing guns and using force to stand in the way of progress during the good times and fixing what’s broken during the bad.
And until we get this through our thick heads, until we stop looking for handouts and bailouts we will have no one to blame but ourselves, especially when the pantries are empty and hamburger is $12 a pound.
Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
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Corona Clunkers

It ’ s going to take a whole lot of ether in the carburetor to restart the car business once the economy “ reopens ” ( neat term , that ; it conveys the horrid truth that government has successfully asserted – because people have accepted it – full Decider power to tell us whether and when we may live our economic lives – at its arbitrary whim . )
There is already talk of Cash for Clunkers II – though it probably won ’ t be cash , as part of the Plandemic ’ s goals , in addition @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eliminate cash in the name of hygiene .
But actually for the sake of eliminating anonymity – and enforcing control .
Every transaction you make – every cup of coffee you buy – will be known immediately to them .
Data about your buying habits will be compiled , sold .
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and used to make sure you neither pay for nor are paid for any work that is not fully taxed .
Also that everything you do is approved .
Top Gear Premium Roads ... Buy New $ 37.73 Anything you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dealt with by throttling your ability to buy and sell .
It ’ ll be like a credit card except one with a real-time-adjustable credit line – adjusted at the pleasure of the government , whenever you incur its displeasure .
Another coming nudge – which will be more like a shove this time – will be in the direction of electric cars , the non-electrics to be characterized as the “ clunkers ” of 2020 and anathematized in the same manner as walking around in public without a Fear Mask .
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
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screech the deranged .
You have no right to hurt my environment !
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screech the deranged .
The difference then vs. now is that a virtue-signaling person afflicted with anxiety disorder about the “ climate ” could not force you to share his anxiety – or drive a Tesla .
But if you can be forced to wear a Fear Mask – because “ someone ” might get sick – then why shouldn ’ t you be forced to drive an EV – because the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ?
One neurosis is as good as another .
LED Road Flares Emerge ... Buy New $ 23.95 Electrics have been off the radar scope for the past couple of months while the population has been adjusting to the “ new normal ” of not being allowed to do anything without the government ’ s permission .
Because they ’ ve already been mandated .
“ Zero emissions ” edicts that only EVs can meet , despite the production of lots of emissions , elsewhere .
Federal mileage mandates that can ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ EVs , which plump up the “ fleet averages.
” One 30 MPG non-EV plus one 120 “ MPGe ” EV divided by two equals compliance with the current 35.5 MPG mandatory MPG minimums .
Worse , the industry committed to building millions of EVs , the pre-Corona virtue-signaling equivalent of Fear Masking now .
All that ’ s needed is a new mandate .
The Best of Eric Peters

It’s going to take a whole lot of ether in the carburetor to restart the car business once the economy “reopens” (neat term, that; it conveys the horrid truth that government has successfully asserted – because people have accepted it – full Decider power to tell us whether and when we may live our economic lives – at its arbitrary whim.)
There is already talk of Cash for Clunkers II – though it probably won’t be cash, as part of the Plandemic’s goals, in addition to Advanced Servility Training, is to eliminate cash in the name of hygiene.
But actually for the sake of eliminating anonymity – and enforcing control.
Every transaction you make – every cup of coffee you buy – will be known immediately to them. Data about your buying habits will be compiled, sold . . . and used to make sure you neither pay for nor are paid for any work that is not fully taxed.
Also that everything you do is approved. Top Gear Premium Roads... Buy New $37.73 (as of 04:02 UTC - Details)
Anything you do that isn’t will be dealt with by throttling your ability to buy and sell. It’ll be like a credit card except one with a real-time-adjustable credit line – adjusted at the pleasure of the government, whenever you incur its displeasure.
Another coming nudge – which will be more like a shove this time – will be in the direction of electric cars, the non-electrics to be characterized as the “clunkers” of 2020 and anathematized in the same manner as walking around in public without a Fear Mask.
You have no right to get me sick! . . . screech the deranged.
You have no right to hurt my environment! . . . screech the deranged.
The difference then vs. now is that a virtue-signaling person afflicted with anxiety disorder about the “climate” could not force you to share his anxiety – or drive a Tesla. But if you can be forced to wear a Fear Mask – because “someone” might get sick – then why shouldn’t you be forced to drive an EV – because the “climate” might be in “crisis”?
One neurosis is as good as another. LED Road Flares Emerge... Buy New $23.95 (as of 04:02 UTC - Details)
Electrics have been off the radar scope for the past couple of months while the population has been adjusting to the “new normal” of not being allowed to do anything without the government’s permission.
But – cue Arnold Voice – they’ll be back.
Because they’ve already been mandated.
“Zero emissions” edicts that only EVs can meet, despite the production of lots of emissions, elsewhere. Federal mileage mandates that can’t be met without making lots of EVs, which plump up the “fleet averages.” One 30 MPG non-EV plus one 120 “MPGe” EV divided by two equals compliance with the current 35.5 MPG mandatory MPG minimums.
Worse, the industry committed to building millions of EVs, the pre-Corona virtue-signaling equivalent of Fear Masking now.
All that’s needed is a new mandate.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-07--Is Big Pharma Behind the Great War on Hydroxychloroquine?

When President Trump brought up hydroxychloroquine as a promising potential treatment for COVID-19 , a huge upsurge of negative political publicity followed from it .
It was strange stuff , because up until then , the treatment , which had been safely used to treat malaria , lupus , and arthritis , had been seeing promising results for COVID-19 , too .
Yet the condemnations from all sides poured for weeks .
It wasn ’ t just the political establishment blasting it ; it seemed to be the medical establishment , too .
That raises questions as to whether financial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ started with the press engaging in its customary contrarianism against Trump when he called the treatment “ promising.
” The logic was simple : If Trump liked it , then it had to be bad .
How ’ s this for a slanted headline and report from NPR , which ran on April 10 ?
Last night , the real story was obtained by Fox News host Laura Ingraham , and it ’ s quite a different picture .
It isn ’ t out on YouTube yet , so I will describe it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Ben Goldacre Best Price : $ 7.19 Buy New $ 10.99 A Galveston-area doctor , Dr. Robin Armstrong , who was in charge of a nursing home , found himself in the middle of the worst health care nightmare anyone can imagine : a COVID-19 outbreak , on a home full of elderly people , and he was in charge .
Odds were big they were going to die .
We already know what the coronavirus did to a nursing home in Washington State , and we have subsequently learned what inserting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York City did to those populations .
Coronavirus + Nursing Home = Death Sentence .
That was what he was looking at .
In desperation , the Texas doctor decided to treat his threatened patients with hydroxychloroquine in a last-ditch effort to save them…and he called it right .
Unlike those other places , his patients got well .
His informed judgment saved the lives of a building full of nursing home patients , and he reported no bad side-effects such as heart problems brought on by the treatment .
He would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because his treatment was triage , and the alternative was the death sentence .
But there wasn ’ t even that .
His patients lived , they regained their fragile health , and there were no stacked bodies or chaotic medical scenes in his part of Texas on his watch .
That ’ s frankly a story of heroism , and the brilliant medical man should be celebrated for the huge number of lives he saved .
Instead , all he got were trashy stories with scare headlines like NPR ’ s , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Bad medicine , unproven treatment , everybody get scared .
The anti-HCQ hysteria spread much farther than the reflexively anti-Trump press — it went deep into the Trump-hating Democratic Party , which also condemned Trump ’ s favorable mention of HCQ .
A young black Democratic state legislator from Michigan , who said the treatment most certainly helped save her life , was vilified by her own party for giving President Trump credit for mentioning it .
She said thanks , and they threatened to expel her from their party .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black community was getting hit harder by the coronavirus than others and therefore stood to gain the most from the cheap and plentiful HCQ and HCQ-antibiotic treatments .
For Democrats , hating Trump was a bigger priority , so if Trump liked the treatment , then it would be important to not just scream about it but keep it away from patients — even if they had to intimidate them .
Anyone Who Tells You V ... Coleman , Dr Vernon Buy New $ 3.99 The political picture was strange as hell .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ likes a treatment or not ?
If you ’ re sick , what matters is whether a treatment is going to work and whether it ’ s going to be safe .
That ’ s all a COVID-19 patient , struggling to breathe on a ventilator , cares about , and while there were no big extended conclusive studies proving hydroxychroquine a panacea for treating the illness , there were many smaller studies out there and experiences that pointed to the drug ’ s safety and effectiveness , with one showing a 91 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how could a drug that had been on the market for years for the treatment of lupus , rheumatoid arthritis , and malaria suddenly be bad stuff , particularly since it had been used so successfully to treat COVID-19 abroad ?
Yet the negative waves kept coming — at one point the New York Times argued that Trump had a stake through a mutual fund portfolio in a company that manufactured the drug — worth all of $ 1,300 at best , which for him is money he tips the waiters .
Even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s also worth noting that many pharmaceuticals make the drug — Teva , Sanolfi , and Novartis are the ones that turned up in a quick Google search — and there are many generic versions , so it ’ s a pretty cheap thing with less money to be made .
They might have been barking up the wrong tree .
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When President Trump brought up hydroxychloroquine as a promising potential treatment for COVID-19, a huge upsurge of negative political publicity followed from it. It was strange stuff, because up until then, the treatment, which had been safely used to treat malaria, lupus, and arthritis, had been seeing promising results for COVID-19, too. Yet the condemnations from all sides poured for weeks. It wasn’t just the political establishment blasting it; it seemed to be the medical establishment, too. That raises questions as to whether financial interests might be involved here.
It started with the press engaging in its customary contrarianism against Trump when he called the treatment “promising.” The logic was simple: If Trump liked it, then it had to be bad.
How’s this for a slanted headline and report from NPR, which ran on April 10?
COVID-19 Patients Given Unproven Drug In Texas Nursing Home In ‘Disconcerting’ Move
Last night, the real story was obtained by Fox News host Laura Ingraham, and it’s quite a different picture. It isn’t out on YouTube yet, so I will describe it: Bad Pharma: How Drug C... Ben Goldacre Best Price: $7.19 Buy New $10.99 (as of 08:40 UTC - Details)
A Galveston-area doctor, Dr. Robin Armstrong, who was in charge of a nursing home, found himself in the middle of the worst health care nightmare anyone can imagine: a COVID-19 outbreak, on a home full of elderly people, and he was in charge. Odds were big they were going to die. We already know what the coronavirus did to a nursing home in Washington State, and we have subsequently learned what inserting COVID-19 patients into unwilling nursing homes in New York City did to those populations. Coronavirus + Nursing Home = Death Sentence. That was what he was looking at. In desperation, the Texas doctor decided to treat his threatened patients with hydroxychloroquine in a last-ditch effort to save them…and he called it right. Unlike those other places, his patients got well. His informed judgment saved the lives of a building full of nursing home patients, and he reported no bad side-effects such as heart problems brought on by the treatment. He would have been justified to take such risks because his treatment was triage, and the alternative was the death sentence. But there wasn’t even that. His patients lived, they regained their fragile health, and there were no stacked bodies or chaotic medical scenes in his part of Texas on his watch.
That’s frankly a story of heroism, and the brilliant medical man should be celebrated for the huge number of lives he saved.
Instead, all he got were trashy stories with scare headlines like NPR’s, painting him as some kind of evildoer. Bad medicine, unproven treatment, everybody get scared.
No good deed goes unpunished.
The anti-HCQ hysteria spread much farther than the reflexively anti-Trump press — it went deep into the Trump-hating Democratic Party, which also condemned Trump’s favorable mention of HCQ. A young black Democratic state legislator from Michigan, who said the treatment most certainly helped save her life, was vilified by her own party for giving President Trump credit for mentioning it. She said thanks, and they threatened to expel her from their party. This, despite the ugly fact that the black community was getting hit harder by the coronavirus than others and therefore stood to gain the most from the cheap and plentiful HCQ and HCQ-antibiotic treatments. For Democrats, hating Trump was a bigger priority, so if Trump liked the treatment, then it would be important to not just scream about it but keep it away from patients — even if they had to intimidate them. Anyone Who Tells You V... Coleman, Dr Vernon Buy New $3.99 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details)
The political picture was strange as hell. Who the heck should care if Trump likes a treatment or not? If you’re sick, what matters is whether a treatment is going to work and whether it’s going to be safe. That’s all a COVID-19 patient, struggling to breathe on a ventilator, cares about, and while there were no big extended conclusive studies proving hydroxychroquine a panacea for treating the illness, there were many smaller studies out there and experiences that pointed to the drug’s safety and effectiveness, with one showing a 91% effectiveness rate.
After all, how could a drug that had been on the market for years for the treatment of lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and malaria suddenly be bad stuff, particularly since it had been used so successfully to treat COVID-19 abroad?
Yet the negative waves kept coming — at one point the New York Times argued that Trump had a stake through a mutual fund portfolio in a company that manufactured the drug — worth all of $1,300 at best, which for him is money he tips the waiters. Even Snopes called that “mostly false.” It’s also worth noting that many pharmaceuticals make the drug — Teva, Sanolfi, and Novartis are the ones that turned up in a quick Google search — and there are many generic versions, so it’s a pretty cheap thing with less money to be made.
They might have been barking up the wrong tree.
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Deaths of Despair

The new book Deaths of Despair : And the Future of Capitalism by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton attempts to explain their important discovery—the declining lifespans of working-class white Americans since the turn of the century—by way of a strained analogy with the social chaos that African-Americans unleashed upon themselves as soon as the civil rights struggle was won for them in the 1960s : But the more I study the White Death of the past two decades , the more I am instead reminded of the tragic trajectory of a now much less publicized American race , Native @ @ @ @ @ @ @ white Americans seem to be living , and dying , like a defeated people , quietly offing themselves with so little to-do that nobody even noticed what was happening to working-class white lifespans for the first fifteen years of this century .
Deaths of Despair and ... Deaton , Angus Best Price : $ 20.71 Buy New $ 20.68 Indians used to be admired by whites for having put up a strong fight for over 250 years , in contrast to blacks , who were relatively easy to dominate .
But in this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indians , who also seem to have lost interest in themselves as the other Indians have come to play a much larger role in American life .
In 21st-century America , however , the new fashion for asserting your claim to privilege is that you come from a long line of victims and losers .
By intention , this leaves white Americans , the descendants of the men who won The Big One and went to the Moon , psychically dispossessed in their own native land .
Another obvious analog to the White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drank themselves into an early grave during their defeat in the Cold War .
Case and Deaton note in passing that life expectancy for Russian males declined by 7.3 years between 1987 and 1994 .
But since 2005 , Russian life expectancy has rebounded .
We ’ re Still Here ... Silva , Jennifer M. Best Price : $ 20.75 Buy New $ 17.99 It ’ s worth remembering that the main reason the media paid attention to Case and Deaton ’ s paper in November 2015 demonstrating that white lifespans had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was because Deaton had won the ( quasi ) Nobel Prize for economics just the month before .
This horrible trend had been happening for fifteen years with virtually no news coverage .
As Case and Deaton explain , they were shocked to discover in 2014 the life-shortening trends besetting whites .
Back in 2014–2015 , the mainstream media were instead obsessed with proving that the police were racistly gunning down blacks in vastly larger numbers than their propensity toward violence would warrant .
In truth , though , blacks only comprise about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shootings , while committing 57 % of gun homicides .
That ’ s not , by the way , because cops particularly want to kill more whites than blacks .
It appears to be mostly because suicide-by-cop is much more of a white thing than a black thing .

In 2017, 158,000 Americans died from what we call deaths of despair: suicide, overdoses, and alcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis. This is the equivalent of three full 737 MAXs falling out of the sky every day, with no survivors.
The new book Deaths of Despair: And the Future of Capitalism by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton attempts to explain their important discovery—the declining lifespans of working-class white Americans since the turn of the century—by way of a strained analogy with the social chaos that African-Americans unleashed upon themselves as soon as the civil rights struggle was won for them in the 1960s:
What happened to inner-city African Americans after midcentury is, we shall argue, a foreshadowing of our account of whites in the 21st century….
But the more I study the White Death of the past two decades, the more I am instead reminded of the tragic trajectory of a now much less publicized American race, Native Americans. Like American Indians, working-class white Americans seem to be living, and dying, like a defeated people, quietly offing themselves with so little to-do that nobody even noticed what was happening to working-class white lifespans for the first fifteen years of this century. Deaths of Despair and ... Deaton, Angus Best Price: $20.71 Buy New $20.68 (as of 04:10 UTC - Details)
Indians used to be admired by whites for having put up a strong fight for over 250 years, in contrast to blacks, who were relatively easy to dominate. But in this century, whites have lost interest in Indians, who also seem to have lost interest in themselves as the other Indians have come to play a much larger role in American life.
Human beings have always concocted rationalizations for why they deserve privilege. For most of history, a common explanation of why you should be privileged was that your ancestors were warriors and conquerors who had defeated their foes.
In 21st-century America, however, the new fashion for asserting your claim to privilege is that you come from a long line of victims and losers. By intention, this leaves white Americans, the descendants of the men who won The Big One and went to the Moon, psychically dispossessed in their own native land.
Another obvious analog to the White Death in America is how Russian men drank themselves into an early grave during their defeat in the Cold War. Case and Deaton note in passing that life expectancy for Russian males declined by 7.3 years between 1987 and 1994. But since 2005, Russian life expectancy has rebounded.
As the US suffers from its epidemic of deaths, Russia appears to have overcome its own.
We’re Still Here... Silva, Jennifer M. Best Price: $20.75 Buy New $17.99 (as of 04:10 UTC - Details) It’s worth remembering that the main reason the media paid attention to Case and Deaton’s paper in November 2015 demonstrating that white lifespans had been falling since the end of the 1990s was because Deaton had won the (quasi) Nobel Prize for economics just the month before. This horrible trend had been happening for fifteen years with virtually no news coverage. As Case and Deaton explain, they were shocked to discover in 2014 the life-shortening trends besetting whites.
Back in 2014–2015, the mainstream media were instead obsessed with proving that the police were racistly gunning down blacks in vastly larger numbers than their propensity toward violence would warrant. In truth, though, blacks only comprise about 30% of all victims of police shootings, while committing 57% of gun homicides. That’s not, by the way, because cops particularly want to kill more whites than blacks. It appears to be mostly because suicide-by-cop is much more of a white thing than a black thing.
In contrast to whites these days, African-Americans in the late 1960s, when they started to overdose and murder each other in ever larger numbers, were a triumphant race, celebrated all over the world for their soul. The black murder rate accelerated in 1964, the year of the landmark Civil Rights Act, and grew higher into the mid-1970s, then peaked during the gangsta-rap/crack era of the early 1990s, then soared again during the Great Awokening in the two years after Ferguson. In other words, blacks seem to shoot each other the most precisely when they are encouraged by whites to feel best about themselves.
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