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Posted on   April 3, 2020   by  Yves Smith It is hard to think that anyone is getting through this Covid-19 crisis unscathed. Even the super rich have fled and tried bunkering themselves, only to discover that they can’t get ventilators and the specially trained operators on site too if they are felled by the disease. Most people are looking at at best, interruptions to income. Last week’s unemployment filings, 6.6 million, came after 3.3 million the week prior total and considerably exceeded the most dour forecasts. Blood is in the street everywhere.  From the Financial Times : About 4m French workers — equivalent to a fifth of France’s private sector employees — had applied for temporary unemployment benefits during the past two weeks, according to data released on Thursday. Spain, which has the third-highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases after the US and Italy, recorded the biggest jump in unemployment in its history, with more than 800,000 people losin

April 2, 2020  · by  regensordo  ·  Guest Post Where are the patients? #filmmyhospital ,  #emptyhospitals ,  #plandemic Reports of  empty, ghostlike hospitals  have been circulating on  Twitter ,  Facebook  and YouTube, despite claims all over corporate and mainstream media that hospitals are overwhelmed globally, and in  New York City  that morgues are overflowing,  crematories are working overtime  and  bodies are being stored in refrigerated trailer trucks . #filmmyhospital contains videos from New York,  Los Angeles , around the US and  around the world , from the  UK  to Germany, to the Netherlands and India, showing empty hospital entrances including emergency room entrances. They have even filmed from the allegedly notoriously overflowing hospital in Elmhurst, Queens — also a ghost town, posted March 29: Overwhelmed Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY Hospitals are maximally stressed, we are told, usually by very young doctors testifying on corporate news outlets. In N

Ground Control to Planet Lockdown: This Is Only a Test Pepe Escobar April 2, 2020 As much as Covid-19 is a circuit breaker, a time bomb and an actual weapon of mass destruction (WMD), a fierce debate is raging worldwide on the wisdom of mass quarantine applied to entire cities, states and nations. Those against it argue Planet Lockdown not only is not stopping the spread of Covid-19 but also has landed the global economy into a cryogenic state – with unforeseen, dire consequences. Thus quarantine should apply essentially to the population with the greatest risk of death: the elderly. With Planet Lockdown transfixed by heart-breaking reports from the Covid-19 frontline, there’s no question this is an incendiary assertion. In parallel, a total corporate media takeover is implying that if the numbers do not substantially go down, Planet Lockdown – an euphemism for house arrest – remains, indefinitely. Michael Levitt, 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry and Stanford bi