Why Lockdowns are so wrong , and why.
endorsement of Joe Biden
TIME TO DEFUND THE WHO !
NOTES AND COMMENTS:
(1)>>We cannot wreck our economy every Fall therefore we MUST find another solution. Advocates of the Chinese strategy sometimes forget that, with all its faults, Italy is still a Western democracy, and that makes a difference. You cannot lock people down, flat by flat. You need to appeal somehow to their sense of responsibility, doing whatever you can to contain the virus, but keeping the economy trudging on too. Social distancing, as important as it might be, ought to be by and large a measure that individuals understand they need to take. Economics has taken a terrible battering this last month, because it is thought to put “money before lives”. But all options cost lives, which is why political judgment has moved to center stage. Businesses are ruined, dreams shattered, people die. As in the conundrum of the swerving driver, do you avoid one death now, but is it at the cost of five down the road? The outcome should go some way to settle the central argument of coronavirus policy, of lockdown and suppression v mitigation and herd immunity. It will also condition a later political blame game, who was right and who was wrong. As in epidemiology, the basis of the financial markets, and of arguments about them, is numbers—data and their deployments. Reliable data about covid-19 have been scarce, mainly because, in the shameful absence of widespread testing, no one knows how many people have or have had the virus, which would determine the rate of infection and, most crucially, the fatality rate. The numerator (how many have died) is known, more or less, but it’s the denominator (how many have caught it) that has been the object of such speculation. (1.2)>>Schools, universities, public transport and non-essential retail should be closed The government has lurched from 'doing nothing' to a panic-fuelled shutdown of almost the entire country, and it will be very difficult to backtrack. The cost looks set to be astronomical - and environmental benefits may be offset by lack of money to develop alternative energy etc. While it's probably correct to close schools and universities , but that can't go one for such a time , it could be economic suicide to keep schools closed for than the school year , not beyond . (2)>>Pres. Trump knows it , that is why he wanted to "reopen" the nation this past Easter .For Trump, the economy is basically the stock market. He’s obsessed with it, much the way he fixates on television ratings. The stock market is, among other things, a great mood indicator. But it isn’t the economy—not even close. As we’re now discovering, to more horror than surprise, the cessation of commercial activity—travel, tourism, entertainment, restaurants, sports, construction, conferences, or really any transactions, in significant volume, be they in lawyering, accounting, book sales, or sparkplugs—means no revenue, no ability to make payroll or rent, mass layoffs, steep declines in both supply and demand, and reverberations, up and down the food chain, of defaults on debt. That’s the economy.(2.1)>>It seems the pandemic is all about blaming Trump. The failure of the impeachment of Trump now has spun a new political aim by Democrats to get Trump with the idea idea he was slow to act when the Pandemic hit the country . We know the record of the events that unfolded . Trump did all he could at his own disposal , when he tried to ban travel to countries like China for fear of spreading the virus , he was attacked by Democrats as being racist . So go figure it , dammed if you and dammed if you don't . (3)>>The Stocks can be stable enough. This is staggering , but what is interesting is the Stock Market is still UP UP UP! at 23,719.37 +285.80 Dow is up even more , rising almost 29% from its 52-week low close set on March 23. In fact, 28 of the 30 Dow stocks ended in the green Wednesday. It's about as level as it was in 2017 when Donald J Trump became President. With the coronavirus wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy, it had been one of the darkest months for stock-market investors in memory. Then in the past few days, everything seemed to change — or did it?The stock market continues to bounce back and analysts and investors are lining up on opposing sides of the market's big new question — whether stocks have hit the bottom. The market will have wild swings in the next few months , but I see it rebounding by October .The one thing they both agree on is that there will be significant volatility ahead.For much of March, financial markets simply stopped working. All investors wanted was their money back, in cash, and, more specifically, in dollars. That Can CHANGE as LONG AS THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT PUTS THE PEOPLE FIRST !!!.( 4)>>Barack Obama offered his formal endorsement of Joe Biden. Former President Obama in 2015 pushed former Vice President Joe Biden not to run for president in 2015, The New York Times reported. Obama believed at the time that Clinton, who would become the Democratic presidential nominee and lose to President Trump in the general election, had the best chance to win, according to the Times”. How did that work out? Hahaha. She was humiliated.The sudden "change" might be out of desperation . Look, 2016 should've been a wake-up call for the DNC. They should have recognized that the voting public does NOT want anybody even resembling the "old guard" as President. Sure, HRC won the popular vote, but she still lost an election that IN NO WAY should have been lost. Period, end of story. I Think that Bernie Sanders "sell out" was alltogether stupid , dashed hope of many supporters of Sanders its much a do a repeat of 2016 when a lot of Bernie supporters jumped to vote for Trump. (5)>>...AS I said before , the whole election on the Democratic side involves a lot of rigging . Although it cannot be proven that the Democratic Party primary system is rigged . By all appearances, the timing of Buttigieg and Klobuchar exiting the primary race was unorthodox because the Super Tuesday primaries were taking place within 72 hours. Neither candidate indicated that they would leave the race after the South Carolina primary election. Additionally, news reports said that Buttigieg suspended his campaign after speaking with former president Barack Obama, a Biden ally. NBC News said, “There appears to be a quiet hand behind the rapid movement: former President Barack Obama.” Biden rolled to multiple Super Tuesday victories, which was bolstered by the endorsements from former primary opponents South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out of the primaries before the Super Tuesday primaries and left Biden as the sole primary candidate representing the moderate Democratic Party wing. Their exits from the race bolstered Trump’s claim that the moderates’ gathering behind Biden was one example of rigging the primary system against Sanders. Sanders supporters have complained that the playing field isn’t level and that party coordination of any sort is an undemocratic influence. But this isn’t a new conflict. Tension between pure democracy and the preferences of political elites has long been a part of America’s complicated presidential nomination system. At that point, with the Sanders movement claiming at every step of the way that the party is rigging the race against them, culminating in a convention where his enraged supporters will again try to shout down the proceedings. The Nomination of Biden sounds like history repeating it's self. (6)>>WHO may have mislead the world. The U.S. is the largest single-country contributor to the WHO, with its funding making up 15 percent of the organization's budget, per NBC News. Trump, complaining that the agency is too “China-centric,” said the U.S. would work with the WHO to reform its failings but would direct its funding elsewhere in the meantime, saying, “for the time being, we will redirect global health and directly work with others.” “All of the aid we send will be discussed at very, very powerful letters and with very powerful and influential groups, and smart groups, medically, politically, and every other way” the president said. “We will be discussing with other countries and global health partners what we do with all of that money that goes to WHO.” (7)>>failing to communicate the disease’s threat. But two facts seem absolutely certain. First, China’s Communist authorities have lied, concealed and misled about the origins of the epidemic and the toll of the virus in China. Second, the World Health Organization has acted as Beijing’s handmaid. The WHO should have known at the outset that it was dealing with a bad-faith actor in Beijing. Yet instead of immediately insisting upon access, openness and transparency from China, WHO leadership followed the Chinese lead and at times even took the Chinese line. Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO doctor, said at a press briefing on that “right from the start” she thought the coronavirus was human-to-human transmissible, but senior WHO leadership disregarded the evidence of this.
