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@70sBachchan
Jul 11, 2020 • 14 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
"In the end, Trump did what he said. He built a wall around 🇺🇸 & made the world pay for it. He just never told Americans that they’d be stuck inside. Welcome to the Plague States of 🇺🇸. You can check out, but you can never leave"
@indica turns the knife! medium.com/@indica/the-pl…
"Given than you need a functioning government to manage this pandemic, that's [2021] the soonest Americans can get one.

It’s far too late.

...In the absence of a humane government, America is now ruled by COVID-19. Welcome to the Plague States of America." 2/ Image
Travel out of infected Northeast & from Europe accelerated spread nationwide in Feb/March. Exodus from NY/NJ area especially by affluent sparked outbreaks. Its a comprehensive failure of national strategy, not of individual states. 3/ nytimes.com/interactive/20…
"Besides impeaching a dead-duck President, there’s nothing America can do but wait, while COVID-19 grows ever stronger. Grows completely out of control. In a pandemic, days matter, hours matter. A year is entirely too late." #viraltime 4/
"Plague States of America" is harsh but true. By November elections, US projected to have close to 7 Million cases (detecting roughly 1 in 5 infections, so thats 35 million infected americans and ~200,000 lives lost). /END covidanalytics.io/projections
covid19-projections.com/#current-us-pr… Image
.@BrankoMilan comparison. Germany beating Brazil was jaw-dropping during the first half. This is jaw-dropping, coronavirus shooting goals, running circles around a bungling defense, for a whole year.
GOP insane gamble isn't "ppl should die" but that
(1) virus is unstoppable anyway
(2) Better to infect ppl rapidly & 'achieve' peak by August
(3) Claim success as cases/deaths will be declining going into Nov elections. Boosts Economy prospects. (4) Win
washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020…
Trump/GOP stump speeches for elections:
"Yes 200-250,000 ppl are dead. But we fixed it. Remember how awful August was? September and October are so much better. Jobs are back. Wages are going back up. Its Morning in America again."
covid19-projections.com/#current-us-pr…
Look how close November elections are *now* with over 150,000 dead & economy in toilet. Best projections (@youyanggu) suggest covid declines from September onwards. Don't write off Teflon Trump.
covid19-projections.com/us
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Too many ppl are lost in a maze of numbers when the way to stop plague, is really simple - 'Find, Test, Trace, Isolate, & Support'. Its just each has to be coordinated & done in a focused way. All while #viraltime clock ticks fast independentsage.org/wp-content/upl…
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The Real Pandemic Danger Is Social Collapse
"If more people emerge from the current crisis with neither money, nor jobs, nor access to health care, and if these people become desperate and angry... "
-@BrankoMilan in March. pic ht @JStein_WaPo
foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-… Image
Best projections suggest each week from here on has fewer deaths. Trump/GOP campaign msg will be: "Yes 250,000 ppl are dead. But we fixed it. Remember how awful August was? Sept & Oct are better. Jobs are back. Wages are up. Its Morning in America again"
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Lot of self-congratulation in Pence's #RNC2020 speech. The corona czar has been bungling one thing after another, but not in this alt. reality. Key Q is whether ppl prefer to forget the scandals as daily new cases/deaths decline cnn.com/2020/08/26/pol…
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Heartening trends. In places that were hotspots before, cases per million are *way* down. Hospitalizations down nearly 70% in latest hotspots. Arizona, for eg., had ~3500 hospitalizations in mid July. Now, under 600.

covid19-projections.com @tedfertik

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NEW Dispatch @polycrisis @kmac: Trump is BRICS' greatest champion. buttondown.com/polycrisisdisp…Image
This week we scan the latest frontiers of Trump’s trade war, from India to Brazil, amid the US pressure campaign against Russia. We end in Alaska, where Putin is slated to meet Trump on Friday. Is a new world order taking shape before our very eyes?
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2/ On Aug 6, Trump punished India with an addil 25% tariff for buying Russian oil in an executive order The EO’s title —Addressing threats to the US by the Russian Federation —made it clear that this wasn’t about bilateral US-India trade but about Ukraine
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Holy moly trump killed Moderna in US!!
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...." Image
“The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.”
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Trump government curbing research in vaccines, satellites, NIH, NSF, cancer research, clean energy,
Is this the beginning of the American dark ages? Sure feels like it
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Jul 19
America in its florentine Medici
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America in its Florentine Medici era
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Free market capitalism is designed to produce Billionaire Raj. But the extraordinary FAANG tech boom is a v recent development. Since 2016 the largest corporations have shot up in market value. Their CEOs became *more* Right to protect wealth from taxes policytensor.substack.com/p/a-note-on-th…Image
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Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum is an energy systems expert. She is positioning Mexico to lead in the global green economy —from EVs & batteries to Renewables,Critical minerals,HVAC manufacturing. Her Plan Mexico is at a critical juncture. Our report:
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Claudia Sheinbaum:“Plan Mexico is the path that I am certain will lead us to a Mexico with more well-paid jobs, with less poverty & inequality...with a lower carbon footprint that respects the environment and increases our self-sufficiency and sovereignty"
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3/ How did Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum became the most popular president in the world?
Read this.
“We will not return to the neoliberal model … We will continue with Mexican Humanism and with the maxim of ‘For the good of all, first the poor.’”
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-f…Image
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Jan 12
"The Financial Times has misled its readers by not clearly stating that its promotion of trade blocs and revision of other key principles means in reality the abandonment of neoliberal globalization as a project"

This shd be published in FT @BrankoMilan
braveneweurope.com/branko-milanov…
Its genesis was Martin Wolf leaving a tart comment on Milanovic's blogpost:

Wolf misread @BrankoMilan argument which was not a peaen to Trump ending global neoliberalism but that he ia tool of History. Well worth reading:

branko2f7.substack.com/p/to-the-finla…Image
Martin Wolf: "It is conflicts over power that most threaten globalisation. By seeking to enhance their security, great powers make their rivals more insecure, creating a vicious downward spiral of distrust. We are already a long way down this spiral" ft.com/content/8954a5…Image
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Jan 8
1/ I'm not sure that ppl outside of California have grasped the magnitude of this deadly and still-escalating wildfire catastrophe. Fires in WUIs, fanned by 80 mph+ winds, bone dry stubble, after 2 yrs of growth in wet winters. Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated. Image
2/"The Getty Villa Museum has caught fire as the Palisades Fire pushes forward in Southern California, according to reporting from the LA Times. The museum’s collection contains more than 125,000 artifacts, many of them Greek and Roman antiquities"
latimes.com/california/sto…
3/ "A second fast-moving wildfire is burning out of control in the Los Angeles area hours after another blaze tore through the city’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood, destroying many homes and prompting evacuation orders for tens of thousands."
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