'DOWNGRADE: 24% contraction — thats another downgrade of economic outlook because of #COVID19. We must prepare for a much longer recession / depression now. <blockquote>'Goldman Sachs is now projecting a massive U.S. economic contraction in the second quarter of the year. The bank is forecasting a 24% decline in economic activity next quarter, compared to their previous forecaby ProjectC - Project C
'LOCKDOWN STARTING TO WORK? look at how the exponential line (Y-axis is log) is now bending towards sub-exponential once lockdown goes into place. Contact your local leaders and tell them lockdowns and containment measures can help stop the epidemic! #COVID19' - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Source, March 15, 2020 Context (The Guardian)(Global Lockdown 2020 - (2021?)) - UK coronavirby ProjectC - Project C
'Secret UK briefing- “epidemic last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million hospitalised, a secret briefing for senior NHS officials. health chiefs are braced for up to 80% of Britons becoming infected with coronavirus over that time.” #COVID19' - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Source, March 15, 2020 'Why should we all care & deeply worry about New South Wales, Australiby ProjectC - Project C
'We need to brace for longer lockdowns: “Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing” says longtime NIAID director Dr Fauci. He is one of the few voices in US govt that I absolutely trust on #COVID19' - Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Source, March 15, 2020 'Why should we all care & deeply worry aboutby ProjectC - Project C
'Traces of such habits will endure long after the virus lockdowns ease, acting as a brake on demand. On the supply side, international manufacturers are being forced to rethink where to buy and produce their goods -- accelerating a shift after the U.S.-China trade war exposed the risks of relying on one source for components.' 'Every economic shock leaves a legacy. The deadly coby ProjectC - Project C
'The president urged states to set up emergency operation centers and hospitals to active emergency preparedness plans, as well as a partnership with private companies to increase testing capabilities. He also said that the administration was working to set up drive-thru test sites. The administration has faced intense criticism over the slow rollout and availability of tests.'by ProjectC - Project C
'(CNN) - More and more of the world is working from home as the novel coronavirus spreads -- and so is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Canada's leader is currently trying to run his country in self-isolation after his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, tested positive for coronavirus.' - CNN, The coronavirus has officials running the world from home, March 13, 2020 Contextby ProjectC - Project C
'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