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Italians over 80 'will be left to die' as country overwhelmed by coronavirus news.yahoo.com/italians-over-…
Why the 🇨🇳Chinese Communist Party and its agricultural policies are to blame for coronavirus (and SARS).
🇨🇳China's wild animal farms began as a way for poor peasant households to make ends meet before becoming centers of mass industrial production.
The vast majority of 🇨🇳Chinese people do not eat wild animals from wet markets — it's mostly Jack Ma's fellow oligarchs and rich people who do so as a status symbol.

npr.org/2020/01/22/798…
"There are 45,000 ICU hospital beds and 160,000 ventilators nationwide..."
statnews.com/2020/03/14/cor…
😮 Scandinavian airline SAS is laying off 90% of its workforce temporarily.
😮 Virgin Atlantic is cutting 4/5 of its flights and has asked staff to take 8 weeks of unpaid leave.
😮 British Airways is slashing its capacity by 75%.
bbc.com/news/business-…
Take note, non-boomers. theweek.com/speedreads/902…
How Spanish flu helped create 🇸🇪Sweden's modern welfare state. theguardian.com/cities/2018/au…
In New Jersey, unemploment claims are up by 12x.

In Connecticut, unemployment claims are up by 8x.

In Ohio, unemploment claims are up by 7x.

#CoronavirusRecession☣😷

politi.co/39Xm2w4
🇰🇷South Korea is beating coronavirus without lockdowns (so far); here's how:
sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/c…
Every leftist wants to abolish Pentagon spending until shit really hits the fan.
thehill.com/policy/defense…
Here's some the things the U.S. military isn't doing to combat the pandemic thanks to Trump:

✅Constructing temp hospitals
✅Building triage tents near hospitals
✅Using beds on medical ships
✅Activating the VA for civilian use

archive.is/sDTvH
48% of American workers excluded from paid leave coronavirus relief bill. 😡
yahoo.com/news/qualifies…
While you spent hours in the ER or on the phone trying to get a coronavirus test, the 1% skipped ahead of everyone and got them.
reuters.com/article/us-hea…
Young, dumb, and full of ☣coronavirus. 🤦‍♂️
miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
80% revenue drop at Delta. 😳😧
news.yahoo.com/delta-warns-80…
🇨🇳China is cremating people without testing them for ☣coronavirus (often without or against the permission of families), which means China's COVID-19 statistics are lies.
aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/c…
Another reason to disregard 🇨🇳CCP's ☣coronavirus numbers. caixinglobal.com/2020-03-01/chi…
"Of the more than 1.5 million people who work in the state's restaurant & hotel industry, only between 200,000 to 400,000 are still employed, estimates Carol Dover, president and CEO of the Florida Restaurant and Lobbying Association."
tampabay.com/news/health/20…
🇩🇰Denmark is covering 75% of employee salaries in the private sector to avoid mass layoffs. That is 13% of their entire yearly economic output—roughly the equivalent of a $2.5 trillion stimulus in the 🇺🇲U.S.—spread out over just 13 weeks. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Hospitals are going to need bailouts and/or nationalization to stay open and fully staffed and equipped as the ☣coronavirus crisis begins to peak in the coming weeks.
archive.is/a2bLh
Economists expect 2 million jobs to be lost and 10 million jobs lost is not out of the question, which will disproportionately hit low-wage workers.
aljazeera.com/ajimpact/coron…
Could Trump order private companies to mass produce ventilators under the Defense Production Act?

Yes. 🙂

Is he doing it?

No. 🤬

thehill.com/policy/healthc…

🇭🇰Hong Kong tried to end the lockdowns.

☣Coronavirus cases doubled in about a week.
cnn.com/2020/03/23/asi…
In the war on ☣coronavirus, big business has sided with the enemy.
No more domestic flights? 😮😳wsj.com/articles/u-s-d…
Oregon nurses union says protective gear could run out by Tuesday of next week. kgw.com/mobile/article…
🇨🇳China sent the Czech Republic🇨🇿 150,000 ☣coronavirus test kits.

80% of the test results were wrong! 😡

praguemorning.cz/testing-kits-c…
irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/o…
"More than 43,000 people had tested positive for Covid-19 by the end of February but did not show symptoms. They have not been included in the official number of infections of more than 80,000."

🇨🇳China also refuses to test people w/ Covid-19 symptoms.
theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
We're getting to the "bosses and corporations stage a #RENTSTRIKE" stage of the ☣coronavirus crisis pretty soon. 😳bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Below = fake news. Sanders introduced no amendments. Unemployment provisions were wrested from McConnell by Schumer in talks. Sanders did threaten to hold up the bill if the GOP slowrolled it in an attempt to remove the provisions.
congress.gov/bill/116th-con…
politi.co/3bt4zfu
McConnell: "Big Labor" sucks! 👎

Big Labor: We found 39 million N95 masks. ✊

seiu-uhw.org/press/union-lo…
If you were to read only 1 article about the ☣corinavirus crisis, how we got here, and where we're headed, make sure it's @edyong209's. 👇👍
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Interesting post on the cultural practices and social norms that made it hard for ☣coronavirus to spread in 🇯🇵Japan. link.medium.com/fxyEhY9F24
Study of current trends projects that the 🇺🇲U.S death rate will peak sometime in April at 2,300 deaths *per day*. Total deaths estimated from ☣coronavirus guesstimated to be between 38,000 and 160,000.
news.yahoo.com/us-virus-death…
🇨🇳China, population 1.4 billion: We've had 50-150 flu deaths annually.

🇺🇲U.S., population 327 million: We've had 10,000+ flu deaths annually.

Why do so many verified Twitter accounts cite China's obviously bogus stats? 🤔
chinadaily.com.cn/a/201902/22/WS…
blogs.sas.com/content/graphi…
Very stable genius decides to fuck over a state that was critical to his victory in 2016.
If 🇨🇳China has the ☣coronavirus under control, why did cops from Jiangxi province stop and detain people from Hubei province (where Wuhan is), triggering street battles where cops from the two provinces fought each other? 🤔
theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
🇨🇳China sent the 🇳🇱Netherlands 1.3 million masks that don't work. Fortunately some hospitals tested them to see if they met safety standards.
amp.nos.nl/artikel/232867…
🇬🇧British scientists have told their government that 🇨🇳China may have undercounted their ☣coronavirus cases by a factor of 15x-40x. 😮
yahoo.com/news/boris-joh…
Homeless moms in Los Angeles seize vacant state-owned houses amid ☣coronavirus crisis. fastcompany.com/90480348/in-pr…
Wuhan residents guesstimate that more than 40,000 died from ☣coronavirus based on funeral home activity, roughly in line with what British scientists think.
rfa.org/english/news/c…
How come 🇨🇳Wuhan doctors keep "disappearing" or dying? 🤔
Is Jared to blame for this or Pence? I forget who is in charge of the clown car.
🇮🇹Italy's ☣coronavirus fatality numbers are probably too low. Average death rate vs. actual death rate during the pandemic might be a more accurate way to measure since not every person who dies now is going to be tested. corriere.it/politica/20_ma…
Michael Bloomberg is not in the same boat as people living in the projects or even his doorman when it comes to ☣coronavirus. 🤦‍♂️ #duh
Guy who bankrupted multiple casinos gambled with our lives and lost. Who could've possibly seen this coming? 🤦‍♂️
Pres. Jared is really fucking this up, bigly.
vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/i…
Mini-thread on how the 🇳🇱Netherlands is handling ☣coronavirus. Spoiler alert: Not well.
☣Biological class war. latimes.com/california/sto…
Dear Jeff Bezos: Instead of firing me, protect your workers from ☣coronavirus. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The only person who should lose their job over ☣coronavirus is @realDonaldTrump.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/r…
Nothing says "🇨🇳China has ☣coronavirus under control" like a new lockdown. politi.co/2UAKMVI
Proof things can always get worse. 😳
nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavir…
Five-hour wait for a Pittsburgh food bank. 1,500 families got help before supplies ran out.
Made in 🇨🇳China strikes again, this time in 🇮🇪Ireland.
rte.ie/news/2020/0403…
🤑Capitalists ☣coronavirus
🤝
Attacking health
care workers
during pandemics
Does Jared know "his" stockpile is basically empty? 😳
news.trust.org/item/202004010…
"Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics."
cnn.com/2015/12/04/pol…
This is what 🇨🇳China sent to its ally, 🇵🇰Pakistan. What do you think they're sending Western democracies?
🇸🇪Sweden's social-democratic government decided not to do lockdowns.

Now, "there are signs that the ☣death rate in Sweden is growing faster than elsewhere in Scandinavia..."

🤦‍♂️
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Not "late capitalism," just capitalism.
Money laundering failed casino reality TV star is fucking this up bigly. nbcnews.com/politics/white…
"Most active pharmaceutical ingredients in all drugs are currently manufactured in 🇨🇳China..." 😳
thedailybeast.com/the-next-coron…
PPE protest practices social distancing.
Hospitals are cutting pay and laying off staff because they are no longer doing non-Covid-19-related procedures and need to keep making money to stay open.
yahoo.com/news/during-pa…
Don't worry, he's just working really hard on his herd immunity.
Landlord CCs 300 tenants in one email, accidentally aids rent strike. ✊😆businessinsider.com/landlord-email…
🇮🇹Italy gave 🇨🇳China PPE to help with coronavirus — then 🇨🇳China made them buy it back! 😡
spectator.us/italy-china-pp…
"Frighteningly, the St Louis Federal Reserve projects that 47 million more people may become unemployed by the end of June, with unemployment reaching 32%." 😦
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The road from banana republic to failed state is pretty short. npr.org/sections/coron…
At least 🇸🇦they stopped bombing 🇾🇪Yemen for a bit. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
"[T]here is no normal for the foreseeable future. Until there’s a vaccine..."
vox.com/2020/4/10/2121…
Hospital bosses cracking down on union staff who complain about PPE and safety issues. 😡🤬
archive.is/xytGg
nytimes.com/2020/04/09/bus…
First known 🇺🇸U.S. Covid-19 case: January 21.

Date when Covid-19 testing becomes available to all who need it: Unknown.

statnews.com/2020/04/09/doc…
🇨🇳CCP aiding ☣coronavirus again! 🤬
cnn.com/2020/04/12/asi…
Made in 🇨🇳China masks flown in by @Patriots turn out to be substandard dangerous crap, surprising no one who is paying attention. 🤦‍♂️
bostonglobe.com/2020/04/12/met…
🇸🇪Sweden decided not to lockdown. Now:

"Sweden’s cases are rising. The country of some 10 million now has more than 10,000 cases and 887 deaths. Its total death toll is higher than that of all the other Nordic countries put together."
independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
Comprehensive look by @edyong209 at how we get from lockdowns to the new normal of the next 2 years. Spoiler alert: It won't be quick, easy, or straightforward.
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Morgan Stanley's timeline for beginning to reopen the economy was based on the assumption we'd be testing 500k/day by April 30; we are at ~150k now. 😳
Six days that shook the world. 🇨🇳😖😠apnews.com/68a9e1b91de4ff…
✅73% think the ☣worst has yet to come
✅66% worry states will reopen too soon
✅65% say Trump was too slow to act
politi.co/2XIjnDa
5 ways to stop debt collectors from snatching your $1,200 stimulus check.
marketwatch.com/story/debt-col…
The flattened curve is really more of a gently sloping plateau of illness and death. finance.yahoo.com/news/isn-t-fla…
✅4,800 🇺🇸sailors.
✅600 tested positive for ☣COVID-19.
✅60% of the positives showed no symptoms.
reuters.com/article/us-hea…
100% of the ☣positives at a Boston homeless shelter had no symptoms? 😦
boston25news.com/news/cdc-revie…
World's wealthiest country can't re-open its economy any time soon because a mobbed-up failed conman turned reality TV star is in charge of leading the nation through a global pandemic. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…
Can't develop herd immunity when there's no immunity. independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
“A different, data-driven model ... predicts 'about 1 million cases in the U.S. by the end of the epidemic, around the first week in June, with new cases peaking in mid-April,' said UW applied mathematician Ka-Kit Tung, who led the work.” statnews.com/2020/04/17/inf…
Trump isn't the only one who blew it when it mattered. 🤦‍♂️
archive.is/rbG5Z
washingtonpost.com/investigations…
Less than half of L.A. County residents still have jobs. 😲
latimes.com/california/sto…
Ah yes we must always have "balance" between "both sides," even during a pandemic that could potentially kill millions of people. yahoo.com/news/infamous-…
🇨🇳China argued within @who against declaring an emergency in meetings on January 22 and 23. Emergency was eventually declared on January 30.
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Elder care nurses "should not wear protective masks or use other protective equipment unless they are dealing with a resident in the home they have reason to suspect is infected" says 🇸🇪Sweden's government. 😲😡
theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
"Because of a combination of factors – including working in low-paying front-line jobs and a lack of savings and health insurance – Latinos are shouldering a disproportionate burden of the pandemic."
news.yahoo.com/latinos-dispro…
So 🇺🇸American taxpayers funded a $3.7 milllion grant for research at a 🇨🇳Wuhan lab with a bunch of ☣coronaviruses that had iffy safety procedures?

😳

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
"Research ... in the Lancet ... showed the first known ☣patient ... had no connection to the [wet] market, nor did more than one-third of the cases in the first large cluster. Also, the market didn’t sell bats."
archive.is/RgBE0
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Made in 🇨🇳China strikes again. wgntv.com/news/coronavir…
How many doctors and nurses died because the feds seized PPE destined for their hospitals? nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Many experts succumbed to wishful thinking, confirmation bias, and groupthink as ☣Covid-19 spread globally. statnews.com/2020/04/20/the…
Landlords commit fraud to illegally spy on tenants' stimulus check status.
forbes.com/sites/shaharzi…
"🇯🇵Japan has been stuck in an endless loop of disappointing growth, low interest rates and mounting debt, and the 🇺🇸United States could face a similar future."
archive.is/Cwk2T
washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020…
He's not going to be able to bullshit his way through this one. politi.co/2VoVUpb
Hospital closures in Trump country just as the pandemic is gaining steam there.
The more successful the lockdown, the more a second wave becomes a threat? 🤔
ft.com/content/79eaad…
Jared and Pence got bumped for this guy? vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/b…
Scientists wanted tests, Trump wanted a cure. vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/i…
0 deaths is hard to believe but if it were thousands there would be some evidence of a cover-up. thenation.com/article/world/…
"2/3 of the world’s 26,000 passenger aircraft are grounded, and some 25 million jobs are at risk. ... carriers face a $314 billion shortfall in ticket sales this year, and half of them face bankruptcy in two to three months without government help."
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
IRS orders 10,000 workers back on the job but won't provide any PPE.
commondreams.org/news/2020/04/2…
"Heart damage was discovered in 20% of patients hospitalized in Wuhan, where 44% of those in ICU exhibited arrhythmias; 38% of Dutch ICU patients had irregular blood clotting; 27% of Wuhan patients had kidney failure..." nymag.com/intelligencer/…
"Despite the more than 1000 papers now spilling into journals and onto preprint servers every week, a clear picture is elusive, as the virus acts like no pathogen humanity has ever seen."
sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/h…
"Out of Los Angeles they were reporting that younger African-Americans and Latinos were being affected by Covid more severely and actually being hospitalized..." cnn.com/2020/04/27/hea…
"The initial ☣coronavirus outbreaks in New York City emerged at roughly the same time as those in Seattle. ... By the second week of April, Washington State had roughly one recorded fatality per 14k residents. NY’s rate of death was nearly 6x higher."
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
~40 African nations have less than 5 intensive care beds per million (Europe has 4,000 per million) and fewer than 2,000 ventilators.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Internatio…
Pork might be the new toilet paper.
axios.com/coronavirus-me…
🚩🏴May 1 rent strike.
vice.com/en_us/article/…
🇸🇪Sweden is the future #ReopenAmericaNow wants for us. cnn.com/2020/04/28/eur…
100-200 out of 1,000 liberal arts colleges are likely to close in the next year.
archive.is/jM75v
wsj.com/articles/coron…
How can we reopen the country if we can't even guarantee 100 tests for Senators? politi.co/3d49xjo
"Experts estimate the country needs as many as 300,000 contact tracers to chart and break the chains of the pandemic. Currently, there are fewer than 8,000." buzzfeednews.com/article/caroli…
🇩🇪Germany tried to reopen. ☣Infection rates spiked. marketwatch.com/story/coronavi…
“Angela Merkel has said that 🇩🇪German hospitals will be overwhelmed by the end of June if the number rises even a little higher...” thetimes.co.uk/article/german…
Amazon, Walmart, Target 🚩🏴#MayDay mega-strike.
fastcompany.com/90499409/amazo…
Lotta class struggle going on on #MayDay. ✊ paydayreport.com/defying-trumps…
"[T]he 🇨🇳Chinese government covered-up news of the ☣virus by silencing or 'disappearing' doctors who spoke out, destroying evidence of it in laboratories and refusing to provide live samples to international scientists who were working on a vaccine." dailytelegraph.com.au/coronavirus/bo…
🇨🇳CCP vs the Chinese people + the internet.
wired.com/story/inside-t…
That's one way of coping with supply chain disruption. 😳
yahoo.com/news/americans…
🇨🇳Lying about ☣coronavirus to own the PPE.

All of it.

apnews.com/bf685dcf52125b…
Nearly four decades and 32 million deaths later the world is still waiting for the HIV vaccine that US Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler predicted in 1984 would be ready for testing by 1986.
cnn.com/2020/05/03/hea…
Essential workers “are mostly women, people of color and more likely to be immigrants.... and ... likely to live below the federal poverty line or hover just above it. They are more likely to have children at home...” apnews.com/029ea874dc9646…
Hospital support staff (non-doctors, nurses) were often denied scarce PPE and died.
yahoo.com/news/3-hospita…
Mutant ☣coronavirus strain "appeared in February in Europe, migrated quickly to the East Coast of the United States and has been the dominant strain across the world since mid-March..."
chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/sn…
Do they make those "I'm with stupid" shirts with the arrow pointing upwards in 🇸🇪Swedish? businessinsider.com/coronavirus-sw…
Natural selection comes in many forms. 🤦‍♂️
What could go wrong by ignoring the CDC? apnews.com/7a00d5fba3249e…
No surprise here. axios.com/us-coronavirus…
GrubHub, Seamless, UberEats, Doordash, and other third-party apps are
ripping off small businesses. gothamist.com/food/grubhub-a…
🇩🇪Germany is reopening and their ☣case numbers are jumping.
bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic…
🤡😫
abcn.ws/3fzBySi
Re-opening and re-closing is going to drive some people nuts even though it's the right thing to do. barrons.com/news/german-to…
Bernie bros: Kamala Harris is a cop!

Bernie Sanders: And your point is...?
cnn.com/2020/05/08/pol…
Crisis lays bare poverty in Geneva, 🇨🇭Switzerland as thousands queue for food.
yahoo.com/news/crisis-la…
🇺🇲'Murica:

❌flattened the curve
❌adequate daily testing
❌army of contact tracers
✅re-opening anyway

nymag.com/intelligencer/…
🇸🇪Sweden decided to avoid a second wave by not stopping the first wave. Here's how that's working out for them:
Second wave in 🇯🇵Japan. time.com/5826918/hokkai…
"There is still a mandatory school attendance (ages 6-15) for healthy children in 🇸🇪Sweden. This means healthy teachers are also pressured to continue showing up in the classroom. We now see that teachers have died..."
newsweek.com/sweden-coronav…
Second ☣wave in 🇱🇧Lebanon.
npr.org/sections/coron…
The number of people flying has plummeted 90% and there are only 17 passengers on the average flight. npr.org/2020/05/10/852…
"Goldman Sachs warned Wednesday that the real jobless rate will peak at 35%, up from the bank's previous projection for a peak of 29%." 😳
cnn.com/2020/05/13/eco…
🇯🇵Japan is winning. 😮
japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/1…
"The main sources for infection are home, workplace, public transport, social gatherings, and restaurants. This accounts for 90% of all transmission events."
erinbromage.com/post/the-risks…
Nice curve you flattened there.

Be shame if it was mostly misleading bullshit. 😡

apnews.com/6dbd9ad370add2…
Capitalists Are Behind the Rush to Reopen (duh). shar.es/aHU67m
"A staggering 40.3% of the state's workers — two out of every five — has filed for unemployment insurance payments." 😲😳
politi.co/3bUYxUC
In case anyone still thinks lockdowns was the wrong move. telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/2…
Cramped urban slums + weak health care system = lots of dead younger people. businessinsider.com/washington-pos…
"Causes unclear"? Georgia was first to reopen on April 24. ajc.com/news/state--re…
#COVIDIOTS 'but from the left.' 🤦‍♂️
thehill.com/changing-ameri…
"Physical distancing (3 feet or more) is most important, even more important than wearing a mask" according to new study.
How many lives were lost because 🇨🇳China continually delayed giving 🇺🇳WHO information on COVID-19? 10,000? 100,000? apnews.com/fed0f89a3b46cf…
Ending lockdowns won't restore the pre-pandemic economy; just look at 🇰🇷South Korea and 🇹🇼Taiwan both of which contained COVID-19 without lockdowns. barrons.com/articles/bl8U1…
Suspect the spike in COVID-19 infections and deaths in the coming weeks stemming from the protests won't be concentrated among young, healthy marchers but their older loved ones (hope I'm wrong) given that Navy ships had high infection rates and few ill.
politi.co/2XZZTIJ
San Diego activist Shane Harris may have exposed George Floyd's family to ☣COVID-19 at the funeral. 🤦‍♂️
dlvr.it/RY4w08
Tear gas and ☣COVID-19 don't mix.
npr.org/sections/healt…
The only campaign that's going to do well in 2020 is ☣COVID-19's. politi.co/37eKoRi
Now is not the time for complacency re: ☣COVID-19.
thedailybeast.com/fourteen-state…
Infecting your own campaign and voters to own the libs. 😖
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