@jleo...the very fact there was an increase in a number that, if the population had an average IQ above 50, should have been a constant zero...demonstrates that americans are not the brightest lot to start with. I read that the guy who digested hydroxy fish formula was thought of as an intelligent engineer. Well...go figure.

Degenerates making 2m distance marking

All "scientists" who proposed this must be hunted down and defeated (c).

"Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001/

Capitalism kills.

@kurth

Do you have some big issues with cookies and cakes? :-)

another face of kids w/corona ..... https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242314111.html

all the antibody tests aren't worth a shxt ...... https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/coronavirus-antibody-tests.html?algo=identity&fellback=false&imp_id=313919410&imp_id=955642326&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage

@DrDave

It is class thingy and petty bourgeoisie is being thrown under the train now. Ruling class now wants most of the in the role of poor workers who will work for food.

Tens of millions of pounds of American-grown produce is rotting in fields as food banks across the country scramble to meet a massive surge in demand, a two-pronged disaster that has deprived farmers of billions of dollars in revenue while millions of newly jobless Americans struggle to feed their families.

While other federal agencies quickly adapted their programs to the coronavirus crisis, the Agriculture Department took more than a month to make its first significant move to buy up surplus fruits and vegetables — despite repeated entreaties.

Capitalism kills.

A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies found that, while tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, America’s ultra-wealthy elite have seen their net worth surge by $282 billion in just 23 days. This is despite the fact that the economy is expected to contract by 40 percent this quarter. The report also noted that between 1980 and 2020 the tax obligations of America’s billionaires, measured as a percentage of their wealth, decreased by 79 percent. In the last 30 years, U.S. billionaire wealth soared by over 1100 percent while median household wealth increased by barely five percent. In 1990, the total wealth held by America’s billionaire class was $240 billion; today that number stands at $2.95 trillion. Thus, America’s billionaires accrued more wealth in just the past three weeks than they made in total prior to 1980. As a result, just three people ­– Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet – own as much wealth as the bottom half of all U.S. households combined

https://www.mintpressnews.com/super-rich-see-wealth-rise-282-billion-three-weeks-coronavirus/267027/?fbclid=IwAR0SWTLp9YVUmfMp5DqMBn_EEy4CReSKbWoO5FAzOP1C0dh4iM6pT8pMquY

Commentary: Gerry Brown: || Looting of the nation in Easy to Understand steps :

1. The ruling class and corporates resisted any restrictive measures especially lockdowns that would affect their profits.

2. When cases and deaths began to mount, pressure for response came, and some state governors decided to impose lockdown

3. The politicians and corporates demanded a rescue package. The ruling class saw an opportunity to loot the nation, and seized the opportunity to impose measures to strip civilian liberty.

4. 6 trillion dollar rescue package was passed, with 5 trillion dollars going to big corporates, many used the money to buy back their stocks.

5. With money already in their hands, big corporates pushed for lifting of lockdowns so they can resume operations to make money. Protests were instigated to pressure reopening even though the time has not come for some states.

6. Result : transmission will resume in earnest, spreading to more people for another 6 to 12 months.

Miguel A. Castorena:

Many of those corporations receiving the "relief" were headed down hill before all this happened, as was the economy in general, this has turned into a great opportunity for them.to blame the downfall on this instead of their ponzi scheme, all and all, they were gonna lose and now they get to gain back some of those losses, people will be glad to return to their posts, they aren't exactly on a paid vacation and the bills are gonna keep piling up, as I said before, this are fuckdowns, not lockdowns, and not many are seeing this reality, this would be a prime time to call for a complete shutdown of business as usual with a national strike, but then again, this are americans we're talking about.

This can be also related to coronavirus

The role of host immune responses in viral clearance and its involvement in pathogenesis remains unresolved. For SARS-CoV (2002/03), however, CD4+ T cell responses are generally associated with positive outcomes3,4, while cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 have not yet been investigated. Here we describe an assay that allows direct detection and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (S)-reactive CD4+ T cells in peripheral blood. We demonstrate the presence of S-reactive CD4+ T cells in 83% of COVID-19 patients, as well as in 34% of SARS-CoV-2 seronegative healthy donors, albeit at lower frequencies.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20061440v1

@Vitaliy....source ? ....""It became known that authorities requested to move coronavirus patients into nursing homes to use them as kind of extra medical spaces. This resulted in staggering amount of deaths from people who had been in same nursing homes.

Such way up to 80% of cases had been orchestrated.""

YouTube has censored a viral video in which two doctors criticized the logic of whether California’s stay-at-home coronavirus order is necessary.

Earlier this month, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told CNN that the company would ban any video content that contradicted World Health Organization recommendations.