'UK is about to become Lombardy (Italy) says editor in chief of the Lancet. And HCW will absorb the brunt of UK govt complacency, he says. <blockquote>The UK is on the edge of an avoidable calamity. In addition to deaths preventable by more aggressive government action, it will be health workers who absorb the brunt of government complacency. In Lombardy, 20% of health workers have beby ProjectC - Project C
'Trump is going to try to spin this, but what he's going to find...is that you can't spin death.' - Dr. Dena Grayson (Source, March 12, 2020) 'SHAMEFUL - America has done 23 tests per million people - Korea 3692 tests per million people. US is 160x behind! Japan is very behind too. Same with UK, Netherlands, and Italy- but much better than US.' - Dr. Eriby ProjectC - Project C
'Trump clearly has no plan. Closing the borders and restricting travel doesn’t matter, because experts think that the coronavirus had been in the United States for weeks before the first case was detected.' - Trump Embarrasses Himself In Clueless Coronavirus Briefing, March 9, 2020 'Local officials in some hard-hit areas are meanwhile warning that failures in the federalby ProjectC - Project C
'Thanks to the quarantine, St. Louis’ death rate in 1918 was lowest among major U.S. cities. In Philadelphia, where bodies piled up on sidewalks when the morgues overflowed, the death rate was nearly twice as high.' - Context: (BBC) Coronavirus confirmed as pandemic by World Health Organization - 'He said he was "deeply concerned" by "alarming levels of inaction&qby ProjectC - Project C
'“Yet in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, Chinese officials were busy arresting and punishing citizens for ‘spreading rumors’ about the disease, while online censors controlled the flow of information. Despite growing evidence of China’s mishandling of the outbreak and rising domestic Chinese outrage over the government’s censorship, Tedros remains unmoved. On February 20 at the Munichby ProjectC - Project C
'Thanks to the quarantine, St. Louis’ death rate in 1918 was lowest among major U.S. cities. In Philadelphia, where bodies piled up on sidewalks when the morgues overflowed, the death rate was nearly twice as high.' 'In early October, city health commissioner Dr. Max C. Starkloff ordered the closure of schools, movie theaters, saloons, sporting events and other public gatheringby ProjectC - Project C
'For Fisher, fractional reserve banking is “a very risky affair,” and “It is obvious that such a top-heavy system is dangerous.” .. the 100% plan is “incomparably the best proposal ever offered for speedily and permanently solving the problem of depressions.” ' - (Banking Reform) - '..For Saravia de la Calle, those who engage in fractional reserve banking commit a mortal sin..by ProjectC - Project C
'..I am blaming the Fed for its erroneous inflationary tactics that blew three of the biggest economic bubble in succession: 2000, 2007, 2020. Bubbles are inherently deflationary. It’s asset asset bubble deflation that is damaging, not routine price deflation. When asset bubbles burst, debt deflation results. Here we go again.' 'The Fed blew three economic bubbles inby ProjectC - Project C
'This is not a drill. This is not the time to give up. This is not a time for excuses. This is a time for pulling out all the stops. Countries have been planning for scenarios like this for decades. Now is the time to act on those plans," Tedros said. "This epidemic can be pushed back, but only with a collective, coordinated and comprehensive approach that engages entire machineryby ProjectC - Project C
' “In North America and Europe, there is a recalibration, a wanting to engage on a more selective basis,” said. ' 'The coronavirus that has seeped out of China, insinuating itself into at least 76 countries while killing more than 3,200 people, has effectively accelerated and intensified the pushback to global connection. It has sown chaos in the global supply chain that linby ProjectC - Project C
'It was “in the name of ‘stability maintenance,’” Xu Zhiyong’s essay charges, that “the Public Security Bureau of Wuhan threatened and denigrated doctors who tried to reveal the truth about the coronavirus.” The state-controlled China Central Television in Beijing, he adds, “offered support by condemning rumormongers and decried the doctors’ legitimate freedom to express their views. The covby ProjectC - Project C
'Fusion energy can make possible a fundamental global transformation to the next stage of human history. The first part of that transformation would be the elimination of want. Today, the majority of humanity lacks decent housing, good quality healthcare, clean air, clean water, and healthy food..' The Fusion Transformation By Eric Lerner March 1, 2020 Source As our latestby ProjectC - Project C
'In 1965, CEOs in the US earned 20 times more than the average worker but by 2015 it had risen to 300 times (in the UK, the bosses of FTSE 100 companies now earn 117 times the salary of their average worker).' 'In 2015, the boss of a card payments company in Seattle introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all of his 120 staff - and personally took a pay cut of $1m. Five years laby ProjectC - Project C
'Reluctance to tell the public the truth for fear of causing panic has plagued responses to other disease emergencies..' - New Scientist, Covid-19: Why won't the WHO officially declare a coronavirus pandemic? February 26, 2020 'After the WHO raised its alert level, the agency’s Emergencies Program Director Michael Ryan called the situation “a reality check for everyby ProjectC - Project C
'People have asked us—how can we expect to go rapidly from where we are to net energy—when we get more energy out of the device than we put in. So we are going to show you the math. Here’s our plan.' - Eric J. Lerner, How We Will Get to Net...Energy, February 25, 2020 Context Greater New York Mensa, as part of our public lecture series, presents: "Could the Green Newby ProjectC - Project C
' “This is a big development,” Ms. Hutchison said, “and our alliance is with Turkey, it is not with Russia.” She added, “We want Turkey to understand that we are the ones that they’ve been allied with.” .. The escalation came as Western members of the United Nations Security Council in New York implored Russia and Syria to decree a humanitarian cease-fire in the Idlib region. ..by ProjectC - Project C
'I have been waiting for this book for quite a while. I have been an avid follower of the work of the Rebels on their website (just search for Corporate Rebels and you’ll find it) since it landed on the internet. The rebel label is an apt one for these guys. They quit their safe, but frustrating, corporate jobs and set out on a learning mission to find out as much as possible about leaderby ProjectC - Project C
'..In haptotherapy, however, affective touch has to do with contact, connectedness, and reciprocity.' 'The first day was rather tough. At high speed, researchers presented their fundamental research in neurosciences. As practising haptotherapists, we felt blown away by all kinds of scientific terms on rather too full slides, for example: CT-fibres and CT appropriate touch, Aß-neby ProjectC - Project C
'Sudan's rulers have agreed to hand over ex-President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face genocide and war crimes charges. Bashir is accused of serious crimes in a conflict that broke out in Darfur in 2003 and led to the deaths of 300,000. Authorities said the former president, and others charged by the ICC, should appear at The Hague to face a tribunaby ProjectC - Project C
' "In my mind you can transform a company in two ways. First, by innovating in what you do which is the obsession of the word. To be a Google, to be a Facebook, to be a Tesla. But there is a more interesting, human way of transforming yourself. It's about how you treat your employees." Vineet decided to embark on the path of transforming how the company worked and how it trby ProjectC - Project C
'Now the spin doctors and censors will try to find a way to convince 1.4 billion people that Dr Li's death is not a clear example of the limits to the party's ability to manage an emergency - when openness can save lives, and restricting it can kill.' 'The death of Dr Li Wenliang has been a heart-breaking moment for this country. For the Chinese leadership it is an epiby ProjectC - Project C
'Li Wenliang, the Chinese whistleblower doctor who became an online hero in China after warning the public of a potential "SARS-like" disease in December 2019, has died of coronavirus in Wuhan, according to several state media reports. CNN's David Culver reports from Beijing, China.' - CNN, Whistleblower doctor silenced by police dies from coronavirus, February 6, 2020by ProjectC - Project C
'..The modern world calls for people who are flexible, creative, inventive, people who can make choices themselves, people with a high degree of adaptability. We strive to help children embrace the uncertain future of tomorrow.' 'Agora is a far-reaching form of personalized learning developed in the Netherlands for all students from VMBO (vocational stream) to VWO (university stby ProjectC - Project C
'..Amir Attaran, a professor of law and epidemiology at the University of Ottawa and a frequent W.H.O. critic, called the declaration “inexcusably late.” The committee’s reasoning that it lacked enough scientific evidence to declare an emergency last week was “balderdash,” he added. .. Experts in the United States have complained of spotty epidemiological information from China.'by ProjectC - Project C
'SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Mongolia has closed from Monday until Mar. 2 all universities and educational institutes to contain the spread of a deadly coronavirus sweeping China, state media Montsame said, citing a cabinet meeting. It has also closed border crossings for auto vehicles and pedestrian traffic, from Monday, and called for all public gatherings to be canceled.' - Mongolia sby ProjectC - Project C
'4: Even the author of the new 2.6 report admits that we need to plan for chance that “CONTAINMENT OF THIS EPIDEMIC ISN’T POSSIBLE”. Hence I’m not being uniquely distressed about this — the public health concern is very real!! (January 25, 2020) .. 7: the author of the 2.6 transmission report now acknowledges that given the way the #coronavirus is trending, “the evidence now suggests iby ProjectC - Project C
'China’s health minister Ma Xiaowei had some very bad news Sunday about the Wuhan coronavirus: He said people can spread it before they have symptoms. A veteran adviser for a US health agency called the news a "game changer." “When I heard this, I thought, ‘oh dear, this is worse than we anticipated.’ It means the infection is much more contagious than we originally thought,”by ProjectC - Project C
'...By declaring a global emergency, WHO would set in motion coordination efforts among various countries and encourage UN member states to institute strict surveillance measures. While some initial panic could result, WHO's leadership would jolt passive governments into action. .. By WHO's own definition, an international public health emergency is "an extraordinary eveby ProjectC - Project C
'Few blame the root cause of all these failures: Loose money, fractional reserve lending, and government interventions to promote housing, solar energy, etc.' 'The Most Redeeming Feature of Capitalism is Failure There is an interesting interview in Barron's with two hedge fund managers called Shorting the Economic Recovery. Here are some interesting .. snips pertaininby ProjectC - Project C
'By the year 2000 our discussions had advanced to the point where we believed we could demonstrate, empirically, that the materialistic consensus which undergirds practically all of current mainstream psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind is fundamentally flawed .. the publication in 1903 of an extraordinary book by a largely forgotten genius, F. W. H. Myers, titled Human Personalby ProjectC - Project C