• how this differs from the 2008 recession • good points on how Trump tariffs hurt the USA more than asia • Because the USA is not heavy in the manufacturing sector, a full third of the population can continue to work from home Click to access coronavirus-and-emerging-markets-rev-4.23a.pdf
Discussed: • The ‘Prevention Paradox’: When people get upset about economic closures because they don’t see cases impacting their community. Therefore prevention is working well for those communities and reopening would be dangerous. • Good leaders don’t use this crisis as a political opportunity. • Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, is well suited to handle the […]
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Dr. Rick Bright, the director of the agency responsible for leading the charge on the production and purchase of vaccines in the Trump administration, released a statement Wednesday blaming political motives for his abrupt reassignment. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/22/politics/read-whistleblower-vaccine-development/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
In essence, an immediate and austere lockdown is the best way to get the economy back on its feet. This was proven in the spanish flu pandemic of 1918. The federal government should be organizing a single virus war department to lead one master effort to immediately coordinate all manufacturers, financiers, designers, lawyers, logistics experts, and […]
Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks: Would They Protect in an Influenza Pandemic? [Editor’s note: Coronavirus is not ‘the flu’ a.k.a. influenza but this particular study seems applicable to Coronavirus] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_the_Efficacy_of_Homemade_Masks_Would_They_Protect_in_an_Influenza_Pandemic Dr. Larry Brilliant who helped to eradicate smallpox and predicted this pandemic years ago: Should we be wearing masks? The N95 mask itself is […]
What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time Published 3/19/20, this is still an important read today. This is an excellent follow up to the author’s previous piece which was read 40 million times and translated into 41 languages!
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