by Jim Quinn, The Burning Platform:
These are the types of “projections” that drive the #COVID19 hysteria. The level of exaggeration by these so-called models is staggering. This is also what JUNK science looks like.
Dr. Fauci’s recommendations for lockdown are based on such faulty models. It’s truly a disgrace!
— Ned Nikolov, Ph.D. (@NikolovScience) April 5, 2020
by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds:
Recall that the initial deaths and related costs are only the first-order effects; policy makers have to consider the second-order effects.
Everyone who reckons that the lockdown is needless and more destructive than the pandemic that triggered it has to answer this question: then why did China lockdown half its economy?
The reasoning of those who reckon the lockdown is needless can be summarized as follows:
1. The lockdown is based on poorly executed extrapolations of faulty data; the death rate is much lower than expected, and most cases are mild or asymptomatic.
by Alanna Ketler, Collective Evolution:
While the majority of rest of the world is under a state of quarantine and some places with a police enforced lockdown, the country of Sweden takes an entirely different approach. The Western approach has triggered mass panic, fear and confusion about what is going on and when and if they will ever get to go back to how things were. The Swedish government, on the other hand has a close bond with their citizens and they have developed a sense of trust over the years by treating the adults, as adults who are capable of making informed decisions and taking appropriate measures to keep themselves and their families safe.
by Dean Garrison, DC Clothesline:
In several cities all over China, worried citizens have cleared out rice and cooking oil from store shelves. This new wave of “panic buying” has swept across the country in response to rumors of possible food shortages due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
In an interview with the Chinese-language The Epoch Times, Li, a resident of Ezhou in Hubei Province, said that residents have been buying out all the rice from stores in the last couple of days.
by Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Voima Gold:
Interview Jan Nieuwenhuijs by Piotr Rosik for Polish financial website “Strefa Inwestorow.”
I was interviewed by Polish financial journalist Piotr Rosik this week. Because I found his questions interesting, I would like to share this publication with my regular audience too. Piotr asked me what was causing the spread between the gold futures price in New York and the London spot price, the high gold-silver ratio, if there can be a shortage of gold, and more.
from True Pundit:
Several new pieces of publicly available evidence that have come to light in recent days seem to indicate that a virology lab in Wuhan, China, may have been the location where the novel coronavirus originated.
In a lengthy article published Friday, National Review senior correspondent Jim Geraghty detailed the investigatory work of Matthew Tye, a documentary filmmaker and YouTuber who used to live in China. In his most recent video upload, Tye professes to have identified the source of the virus.
by JD Heyes, Natural News:
The longer the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic lasts, the longer governors and mayors will keep ‘stay-at-home’ policies in place, and the longer those last, the longer ‘non-essential’ businesses will be closed and Americans will be laid off from their jobs.
And the longer states will be starved for income taxes, which is creating a new fiscal crunch for jurisdictions that were already hard-pressed.
According to Sophie Quinton of the Pew Trust:
by Chris Powell, Gold Seek:
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
A friend writes:
“Here’s a question for you.
“People like GoldMoney’s Alasdair Macleod have stated that China has 20,000 to 25,000 tonnes of gold. Does this total refer just to the People’s Bank of China or does it include all the gold that the central bank and the people of China have?
“Is it possible that the total is much higher — that the central bank has 20,000 tonnes and the Chinese people have another 12,000 tonnes for a total of 32,000 tonnes?
from ZeroHedge:
In addition to the selfless human heroes who continue to fight the unprecedented global pandemic on its front-lines, there has also been a lesser covered group of virus-fighters, dutifully going about their daily tasks to help battle the virus.
We’re referring to the global robot army that has been deployed to fight the virus.
Robots worldwide are doing everything from bathing surfaces with radiation, sanitizing floors, scanning for fevers, spewing anti-microbial gas and enforcing mask wearing, according to the WSJ. Many of the robots are being put to work in areas where humans haven’t tread yet, especially in areas like hospital cleaning.
by Harley Schlanger, LaRouche PAC:
The COVID-19 pandemic is proceeding on course around the globe, with both a terrible death toll in the hotspots, while early arrival in others. Standing out amid the hardship and horrors, are singular expressions of humanity, that signify not only decency, but a reflex of moral courage. It is the impetus to accomplish what otherwise seems impossible: To change the system that created the conditions for this scourge in the first place, and open up a glorious new era for mankind.
by Harvey Organ, Harvey Organ Blog:
GOLD ROCKETS NORTHBOUND BY $32.00 TO $1650/SILVER ALSO RISES BY 50 CENTS TO $14.85/COMEX COMPLETELY BROKEN(BLEW UP)/CORONAVIRUS UPDATES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE//BORIS JOHNSON IS SERIOUS CONDITION IN UK/TAKEN TO ICU//JAPAN ISSUES A STATE OF EMERGENCY SET FOR TOMORROW//TRUMP FURIOUS WITH CHINA..JUST THE START..//OIL MEETING PUT OFF//PROBABLY THE MEETING THIS FRIDAY//SAUDI ARABIA SET ON KNOCKING OUT THE SHALE BOYS//THIS WILL BE A WORK IN PROGRESS
by Geoffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins:
by Gareth Porter, Russia Insider:
For the past three years the new narrative of Russian interference in U.S. elections has bound corporate news media more tightly than ever to the interests of the national security state. And no outlet has pushed that narrative more aggressively – and with more violence to the relevant facts – than The New York Times.
Times reporters have produced a series of stories that loudly proclaim the Russian election meddling narrative but offer no real facts in the body of the story supporting its most sensational claims.
from Sputnik News:
For years, “gold bugs” – investors encouraging buying precious metals at low prices as a hedge against future global economic risks, were shunned amidst consistently rallying global equities markets.
“Gold bug” analysts who have long advocated investing in gold and silver ahead of an allegedly looming “financial apocalypse” appear to be correct as markets crash and the accumulation of physical metals is predicted as likely to pay off in a big way, writes Bloomberg.
