Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
33 Million Americans Lost Their Jobs Due to Covid-19 Lockdowns Over Past Seven Weeks
May 7th, 2020Via: Yahoo Finance: Another 3.169 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending May 2, exceeding economists expectations for 3 million initial jobless claims. The prior week’s figure was revised higher to 3.846 million from the previously reported 3.839 million. So far over the past seven weeks, more than 33 million Americans have […]
Facing Meat Shortages, Some Americans Turn to Hunting During Pandemic
May 4th, 2020Via: Reuters: Game and fish agencies from Minnesota to New Mexico have reported an increase in either hunting license sales, permit applications, or both this spring. Indiana saw a 28% jump in turkey license sales during the first week of the season as hunters likely had more time to get out into the woods, said […]
Coronavirus Health Passports for UK ‘Possible in Months’
May 3rd, 2020Here we go. Via: Guardian: Tech firms are in talks with ministers about creating health passports to help Britons return safely to work using coronavirus testing and facial recognition. Facial biometrics could be used to help provide a digital certificate – sometimes known as an immunity passport – proving which workers have had Covid-19, as […]
The Models, the Tests and Now the Consequences
May 3rd, 2020Related: Corbett Report: Via: William Engdahl: Two major models are being used in the West since the alleged spread of coronavirus to Europe and USA to “predict” and respond to the spread of COVID-19 illness. One was developed at Imperial College of London. The second was developed, with emphasis on USA effects, by the University […]
Gluts Forming Across Multiple Sectors of Wrecked Economy
May 1st, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The length of almost two football fields, the cargo ship Jupiter Spirit arrived in Los Angeles’ harbor on April 24 after an almost three-week journey from Japan, ready to unload its cargo of about 2,000 Nissan Armada SUVs, Rogue crossovers and Infiniti sedans in a quick, half-day operation. But when the ship, operated […]
Las Vegas Casinos Turned Into Food Banks
May 1st, 2020Via: Daily Mail: Mass lay-offs of casino staff in Las Vegas have left thousands of unemployed workers in dire need of support, and food banks have popped up to sustain the needy. Las Vegas, casinos are being transformed into food banks for those unemployed workers, some of whom may of worked there just months earlier, […]
Cities Face 100 Million ‘New Poor’ in Post-Pandemic World
April 29th, 2020Via: Reuters: About 100 million people living in cities worldwide will likely fall into poverty due to the coronavirus pandemic, urban experts said on Wednesday, calling for mapping tools to identify vulnerable communities and investment focusing on slum areas. Densely populated cities are poised at the frontline of the contagious outbreak, hard hit where people […]
Fact Check: Hospitals Get Paid More if Patients Listed as COVID-19, on Ventilators
April 26th, 2020Flashback: Minnesota Doctor Blasts ‘Ridiculous’ CDC Coronavirus Death Count Guidelines “Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. Nobody can tell me, after 35 years in the world of […]
Covid-19: 0.03% Fatality Rate in California
April 26th, 2020Update: YouTube Deleted Video, Attempting to Censor This Information Mirror #1: Mega Mirror #2: Off-Guardian — Via: Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi Press Briefing – 23 ABC News KERO: Part 1: Part 2: More: Two Bakersfield Doctors Cite Their Testing Data to Urge Reopening Research Credit: BV, NH
Japan to Subsidize 100% of Salaries at Small Companies
April 26th, 2020Via: Nikkei: Japan is working on a subsidy to ensure that temporarily idled small-business employees receive 100% of their wages during the current state of emergency, Nikkei has learned. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare plans to use an existing employment adjustment subsidy, which helps enterprises seeing no choice but to temporarily lay off […]
