U.S. Stops Issuing Passports Except in Life-Or-Death Emergencies
April 6th, 2020Via: LA Times:
The U.S. State Department won’t be processing new passports and renewals except for emergency cases because of the coronavirus pandemic, the agency’s website said.
“Due to public health measures to limit the spread of COVID-19, effective March 20, 2020, we are only able to offer service for customers with a qualified life-or-death emergency and who need a passport for immediate international travel within 72 hours,” said a March 27 online statement.
Americans are being asked to wait to apply or renew until the agency resumes “normal operations.” If you do apply in person or renew by mail right now, you can expect “significant delays receiving their passports and citizenship evidence documents,” according to the State Department.
Dr. Shiva: Covid-19 Big Pharma Scam
April 5th, 2020Update: Critical Questions for Dr. Shiva About His Attempts to Splinter the Health Freedom Movement
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Note: I’ve been posting so many videos of interviews lately. In case you don’t know, you can increase the playback speed to get through it quicker if you like.
On YouTube, click the gear in the lower right area of the video and select the Playback Speed tab.
This interview starts out slow, but please stick with it. By 15 minutes in, he’s going full throttle.
Via: X22 Report:
Research Credit: Eileen
Covid-19 and the Auto Industry
April 5th, 2020Via: Cnet:
Here are all the automakers and companies that have elected to halt production in the US and Europe so far. Information on Detroit’s Big Three begin our coverage, with all other shutdowns organized by the date automakers announced them following.
Pneumonia Deaths Declining Rapidly Since January [???]
April 5th, 2020Update: Delay in Reporting the Numbers [???]
GB sent this Twitter post from @TylerMorganMe which states:
The “dip” people are talking about in pneumonia cases is caused by the lag in reporting of deaths through the CDC.
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Pneumonia deaths down.
Covid-19 deaths up.
Hmm.
I’m not able to figure out how to plot this on the CDC’s site, but the dataset is here if you want to make your own:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/NCHSData12.csv
There is a very active discussion of this on Reddit: Pneumonia Deaths have fallen off a cliff this year, I wonder what could have caused this to happen.
Via: According to Hoyt:
…the 2019-2020 season shows week by week pneumonia mortality to be low compared to the last few years, which is not what I expected. What I truly did not expect was the sharp decline over the last few weeks.
Google Releases Location Data To Help Authorities Check Lock-Downs
April 4th, 2020Via: silicon.co.uk:
Location data is being released by Google in 131 countries so officials can see if people are obeying self-isolating rules
Alphabet’s Google division has on Thursday published data for 131 countries that shows whether people are obeying self-isolating and quarantine rules.
Data or Deceit? The Covid-19 Peak
April 4th, 2020Via: The HighWire with Del Bigtree:
Dark Journalist: Blackouts and Bunkers! COG Deep State Plan for Crisis Takeover
April 4th, 2020Via: Dark Journalist:
Coronavirus: Half of Humanity Now on Lockdown
April 2nd, 2020Via: Euronews:
More than 3.9 billion people, or half of the world’s population, have now been asked or ordered to stay at home by their governments to prevent the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus.
Data from an AFP database collated compulsory or recommended confinements, curfews and quarantines in more than 90 countries or territories.
Due to the introduction of a curfew in Thailand (effective from Friday), the threshold of 50% of humanity will be reached.
The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming
April 2nd, 2020Via: The Nation:
Despite President Trump’s repeated assertions that the Covid-19 epidemic was “unforeseen” and “came out of nowhere,” the Pentagon was well aware of not just the threat of a novel influenza, but even anticipated the consequent scarcity of ventilators, face masks, and hospital beds, according to a 2017 Pentagon plan obtained by The Nation.
“The most likely and significant threat is a novel respiratory disease, particularly a novel influenza disease,” the military plan states. Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by the novel (meaning new to humans) coronavirus. The document specifically references coronavirus on several occasions, in one instant saying, “Coronavirus infections [are] common around the world.”
RECORD 6.6 MILLION SEEK U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AS LAYOFFS MOUNT
April 2nd, 2020Via: LA Times:
More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — doubling a record high set just one week earlier — a sign that layoffs are accelerating in the midst of the coronavirus.
The stunning report Thursday from the Labor Department showed that job cuts are mounting against the backdrop of economies in the United States and abroad that have almost certainly sunk into a severe recession as businesses close across the world.
Applications for unemployment benefits generally reflect the pace of layoffs. Combined with last week’s report that 3.3 million people sought unemployment aid two weeks ago, the U.S. economy has now suffered nearly 10 million layoffs in just the past several weeks — far exceeding the figure for any corresponding period on record.
