First to the serious stuff, because coronavirus is very serious. Countries are on lockdown. For someone like me with asthma problems and highly susceptible to lung issues, it can be deadly. For everyone, whistleblowers say catching it a second time is definitely deadly.
Our current case tracking shows we are on track with Italy’s rate infection. This map is from two days ago:
To be sure, the virus is being taken seriously in many factions of life. This past week, my own employer dismissed everyone with the mandate to work from home for a minimum of the next two weeks. Self quarantining is smart.
Below, Dr. John Campbell discusses the contradiction in the British government’s message versus the knowledge evolving from China’s experience, about managing the deadly coronavirus. Isolate the sick and self quarantine their social circle.
Everyone but Trump is taking it seriously . Trump message to the US is his usual plethora of misleading statements and false information. I don’t think that surprises anyone. Twitter is having a field day with his “testing flow chart,” including:
Robert Reich had this to share:
The stock market is having some crazy swings with coronavirus amongst our midst. Trump meets with Wall Street executives.
And humans have lost their damn minds! The hoarding, especially the hoarding of toilet paper is panic level.
You can’t order from Amazon for delivery.
Don’t think the richy rich aren’t capitalizing off this pandemic time either. With advice to quarantine for two weeks, let’s talk about Whole Foods, owned by amazon.com, and Jeff Bezos with a net work of over $100 billion dollars, who is asking employees to pool their sick leave and donate it to others.
Business as usual in the US it seems. (Unless your a small business owner, but I won’t go into the devastation playing out there in today’s post.)
How about before I close, I leave you with some kindness and beauty that has happened among the chaos. Italy has seen some of the worst of coronavirus and yet, their humanity shines through in this video below of a beautiful serenading happening while in quarantine. So gorgeous.
I hope you all are healthy, and you are doing all you can to minimize your own exposure and boost up your immune system. Myself, I’ve added Oil of Oregano, a prebiotic and sambucol gummies to my daily vitamin routine. Remember at the first sign you think you are going to get sick, put some hydrogen peroxide in your ear (no stronger than a 3% solution). Self isolate.
Stay safe everyone! Love you all!
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
The Corona toilet paper mystery explained:
When one person sneezes; ten people shit their pants!
it’s a munted shit show
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mRl7Qt3aKxY&feature=youtu.be
Loved the link. Passed it on.
Hi, PrP et al,
Be safe, healthy and stay at home. #MeetTheMoment
Love,
~Michelle
Michelle, what are you doing now? When will your blog be back?
Michelle, what are you doing now? When will your blog be back?
This really pisses me off. I saw it on Axios:
Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) dumped between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his stocks on Feb. 13, days after writing a Fox News op-ed that said the U.S. is “better prepared than ever before” to face public health threats like the coronavirus, according to ProPublica.
Why it matters: Reuters reported on Feb. 27 that as chairman of the secretive committee, Burr had been receiving daily updates from the intelligence community about the outbreak.
NPR reported earlier Thursday that Burr struck a much darker tone on Feb. 27, telling a private luncheon of constituents that the coronavirus is “much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history.”
“It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic,” he added.
The stock market has dropped about 30% since Burr’s sales.
Between the lines: Burr’s sell-offs — which were executed between his op-ed and later warnings — included stocks in several companies that were set to be hit particularly hard by the coronavirus, according to ProPublica.
Up to $150,000 of his sold stocks were shares of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. Up to $100,000 were shares of the hospitality chain Extended Stay America.
Tourism has been one of the hardest hit industries as travel has come to a virtual standstill as a result of the pandemic.
Worth noting: In 2012, Burr was one of only three senators to oppose a bill that would explicitly bar members of Congress and their staff from using non-public information for personal benefit, including stock-trading.
These crooks will never stop
Richard Burr, Dianne Feinstein, Kelly Loeffler and James Inhofe reportedly sold off millions of dollars in stock.
They are all about the money. And like white thugs with badges, they do it because they know they won’t have to answer for it legally.
The big difference from what Feinstein did and what the other two did is they lied about the virus to prevent others from selling off their stock to enable them to get full value for their sell off.
Those lies will lead to more deaths because people believed them when they were assuring their followers that the virus wasn’t that bad.
They are not just thieves, but murderers. And that doesn’t take into consideration all the needlessly infected people because they didn’t take the precautions they might have had they been told the truth.
Oh well, if it is just the idiots who support this cabal of corruption that die, then maybe god has a plan.
De Blasio makes the mistake of assuming that Trump actually knows how to go about helping NY, even if he wanted to. Trump has to do it himself so that he can take all the credit, but he has the skills and mentality of a sociopathic 8 year old. I don’t know why De Blasio (and others) aren’t just calling the president insane on a daily basis, demanding that Pence and the Cabinet save us by invoking the 25th Amendment. At this stage, Mitch might even go for it. Not as much stigma if the Republicans agree that he is merely insane rather a treasonous criminal
What an absolute failure of leadership, courage, morality and ethics. This is a criminal government.
Nowhere to hide from Trump’s Genocide
tRump is a mass murderer.
When he knew in Dec,when he heard of Chinese outbreak he should have been doing things to prepare,he did the opposite.
So yes, he is a mass murderer.
I am not blaming trump for the virus, but I blaming him for his slow response that is causing thousands to die.
He was briefed about pandemics when he took office. Got rid of Obama’s pandemic team in 2018, fired a person in Chins who was reporting on the virus. He had briefings in November that this was coming and then in January and did nothing; went golfing and held rallies. He owns this virus. It’s the tRump virus and History will reflect as much.