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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Trump is on the right track for helping America survive…


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Trump is on the right track for helping America survive…

As communities all over America shut down in order to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, job losses are already starting to rise to extremely alarming levels.  As you will see below, almost one out of every five households in the U.S. has already experienced “a layoff or a reduction in work hours” because of this pandemic. 

Unfortunately, many experts are now anticipating that we could see one of the most dramatic spikes in the unemployment rate in American history in the months ahead.  In fact, it is being reported that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin just told members of Congress that this crisis could actually push our unemployment rate up to 20 percent…

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned Republican senators Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic could drive up US unemployment to 20%, a Republican Senate source told CNN.

Mnuchin’s comments came as he urged Republican senators to act on economic stimulus measures totaling $1 trillion designed to avert that kind of worst case scenario.

If this coronavirus pandemic is over by the end of this calendar year, I think that Mnuchin’s projection may be accurate.

But if if this pandemic stretches into 2021 or beyond, the U.S. unemployment rate will likely go quite a bit higher.

If you doubt this, just look at what has already happened

The coronavirus pandemic has already started to hit American pocketbooks, with nearly 1 in 5 households experiencing a layoff or a reduction in work hours, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

As people stay home, avoid crowds and cancel plans to avoid spreading the disease, it’s rapidly causing a contraction in economic activity that is hurting a wide range of businesses.

To be more precise, the survey found that 18 percent of U.S. households have lost income already because of this pandemic.

Hopefully, this will encourage US manufacturers to RETURN their factories to America vs. China, Vietnam, Mexico, etc…the goal should be to restore America to its self-sufficient state while putting even more citizens back to work!
 
 

 THE CORONAVIRUS is the first large-scale crisis in a political era without historical parallel, and it will test the efficiency of our government and the theory that elected representatives will respond in a timely and adequate manner when the country needs them.

AS A POINT OF REFERENCE, in the days before the Sept. 11 attacks, a Gallup poll showed that 42% of Americans approved of Congress. After the attacks, that figure jumped to 84%

COMPARE THAT TO TODAY, an age of political venom. Congressional approval is in the 20s, and the two main candidates for the presidency are constantly barking at each other. President DONALD TRUMP and his team like to suggest that JOE BIDEN is a confused old man. BIDEN has called the president a racist who is "wholly unfit" for the job.

TO PUT IT MILDLY, we're in a starkly different political era.

The conventional wisdom is that President Donald Trump's uneven, and at times chaotic, handling of this crisis is deeply problematic for his reelection chances. But it may not be that simple.

So far, Trump has taken a beating. The economy is tanking, and just 46 percent of Americans believe the federal government is doing enough to confront coronavirus, down from 61 percent last month, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll . Few people trust what Trump is saying about the pandemic, the same poll found.

But Trump has time on his side, with the coronavirus spreading early in the election cycle. This week, the Republican president adopted a more somber tone, and Democrats are beginning to worry that he could mold the narrative to his benefit. A massive stimulus, including direct payments to Americans, could help him in November.

Those I speak with suggest the media & pundits on the Left are being unfair in their criticism of Trump; sowing seeds of divisiveness.

Several readers have emailed me evidence which support my theory that China has released this virus purposely to topple the economy of America…something I first proposed here a couple of weeks ago!

No one is perfect…

"The initial mishandling of the coronavirus by the government doesn't mean voters will penalize Trump in November," said Michael Ceraso, who worked for Sanders in 2016 and was Pete Buttigieg's New Hampshire director before leaving his campaign last year. "We know we have two candidates who can pivot this generation's largest health crisis to their policy strengths. But history tells us that an incumbent who steers us through a challenging time, a la Bush and 9/11 and Obama and the Great Recession, are rewarded with a second term."

Don’t let fear and panic rule your life…

“We are having conservatives,” Candace Owens pointed out yesterday, “who have been screaming about the necessity for individual freedom, for free market capitalism, almost transform into socialists overnight.”

Owens released a video yesterday 
blasting those -- especially liberty-leaning individuals -- who expect the government to solve this by regulating human behavior.

(Spoiler alert: As Owens outlines plain and simply, it doesn’t work!)

Rather, the values that we have always held dear -- personal responsibility, self-reliance, human ingenuity, and freedom to innovate -- will be what will help us survive and thrive in the coming months.

While, for some, fear is winning…

Every individual, organization, and media company that used this virus to try to win political points and “dunk” on those they don’t like… you can safely ignore from now on.

They’ve proven their true worth when crunch time comes.

You can’t count on them to keep you safe and informed.

Project Zimbabwe 2.0: Mnuchin is planning on sending you $1,000. Here’s the ONLY thing you should spend it on.

- San Francisco’s Soft Martial Law: How 
“idiot compassion” has created fascism with a smiley face… and a disaster-in-the-making.

The Crown Virus: One mayor in Illinois is pondering seizing assets, guns, and banning the sales of gasoline and everything else. 

4 Things to Watch: Eric Weinstein is nervously watching out for these 4 tyranny indicators.

Do masks work?: One study reveals evidence that flies in the face of those who claim “masks don’t work.” (But we all knew it.) 

- Is This #TheStorm?: One friend, a “Q” guy, weighs in on why the “adrenochromers” are going down. 

- ER Doctor: “Tech nerds: please help us!”: Why self-organizing systems beat out central planning every time. And a few incredible examples in the decentralized coronavirus response.

- The view from the apogee: Our in-house macro expert doses us with the latest on what to expect… and what you should do to stay safe.

Read on.

Project Zimbabwe 2.0

As part of America’s “Project Zimbabwe,” Steve Mnuchin wants to give every American $1,000.

This won’t help create products, of course…





Worse, the panic is giving busybodies incredible leeway to strip individuals of their rights. 

“Social distancing” is now a buzzword used for soft martial law. 

The Bay Area, no surprise, is prohibiting people from leaving their homes, “except,” the SF Examiner reports, “to meet basic needs including visiting the doctor, or buying groceries or medicine, until at least April 7, Mayor London Breed announced Monday.”

Meanwhile, the feces infested tent cities that Bay Area officials have irresponsibly allowed to grow are sitting ducks.

The only appropriate action for governments is to give the population the best information possible.

(As in, don’t tell people masks don’t work. 
They doAnd you only disincentivize their production.)

A responsible government would encourage people to organize… prepare… be responsible… take care of one another…


And give the best information possible.

(Perhaps some of your friends have also told you to “Trust the plan.” Whoever got American patriots to cheer for martial law… bravo. 
Here’s how one “Q” proponent says #TheStorm will unfold. It doesn’t get any Hollyweird-er than this. But, hey, if that’s our timeline… adrenochromers are going down, bucko. Even General Flynn is talking about it. #Frazzledrip?)

The Crown Virus

Deborah Frank Feinen, mayor of Champaign, Illinois, is one such poli-tick blooming into full-blown, ruthless authoritarianism.

According to a local report from WAND 17, the mayor has signed an executive order that will grant her office “extraordinary powers.”

Despite the town having ZERO confirmed cases, the executive order grants her office the ability to:

- Ban the sale of “food, water, fuel, clothing, and/or commodities, materials, goods, services, and resources,” including gasoline and alcohol.

- The issuance of an arbitrary curfew 

- The closing of all retail liquor stores, pubs, taverns, and bars. 

- The discontinuance of selling, distributing, or giving away gasoline, or other flammable or combustible products

- The ability for city employees or agents to take possession of ANY private property… 

- Suspend or limit the use of water resources or other infrastructure… 

- Ban sales, or anyone “giving away” firearms or ammunition of any character whatsoever…

Eric Weinstein outlined the dangers of this kind of response on Twitter yesterday.

He wrote:

“Here’s what I’m nervously waiting for

A) Any push for broad phone surveillance powers to track the outbreak.

B) New powers asserted by central banks.

C) Use of the National Guard to enforce new restrictions.

D) Patriotic calls never to question A-C or our outbreak narrative.

The Decentralized Response Team

Now here’s where the rubber meets the road.

Doctors are beginning to see the necessity for a decentralized, anonymous, frictionless, censorship-resistant platform to share information about the virus.

Jennifer Ellis, an ER doctor in LA, 
wrote:

“We need a platform for frontline doctors to share information quickly and anonymously. Right now, we are flying blind, sharing snippets from anonymous doctors over Facebook, Twitter. I need a platform where docs can join, their credentials validated, and then can post and ask questions of other frontline doctors.

“So an ER doc in Los Angeles can ask questions of an ICU doc in NY, Seattle, or even Italy. So I can post what I’m seeing on the frontlines in Los Angeles to my colleagues on the east coast and the interior in places where there has yet to be widespread community transmission. And so that my colleagues can learn from my experiences before they are inundated.

“We do not have time to practice according to the usual evidence-based, peer-reviewed, data in journals and professional association guidelines. We need a better way to communicate what we are seeing so we can be agile and change practices quickly. Tech nerds: please help us!”

And another doctor outlines the importance of decentralized decision-making:

“As a pathologist who follows COVID-19 issues closely from a medical perspective,” says Simon Boyi Chen, “I have to confess that I have learned far more from Facebook, Twitter, and WeChat than from peer-reviewed and even pre-pub medical research literature, due to time lag and international borders.”

Furthermore, in Ontario, roughly 
2,300 nurses have volunteered to help the provincial health line Telehealth.

“Everybody’s stepping up to the plate,” CEO Dr. Doris Grunspun.

Also, there’s a Facebook group with over 6,000 members dedicated to crowdsourcing DIY medical supplies.

Doctors are beginning to see the necessity for a decentralized, anonymous, frictionless, censorship-resistant platform to share information about the virus.

Jennifer Ellis, an ER doctor in LA, 
wrote:

“We need a platform for frontline doctors to share information quickly and anonymously. Right now, we are flying blind, sharing snippets from anonymous doctors over Facebook, Twitter. I need a platform where docs can join, their credentials validated, and then can post and ask questions of other frontline doctors.

“So an ER doc in Los Angeles can ask questions of an ICU doc in NY, Seattle, or even Italy. So I can post what I’m seeing on the frontlines in Los Angeles to my colleagues on the east coast and the interior in places where there has yet to be widespread community transmission. And so that my colleagues can learn from my experiences before they are inundated.

“We do not have time to practice according to the usual evidence-based, peer-reviewed, data in journals and professional association guidelines. We need a better way to communicate what we are seeing so we can be agile and change practices quickly. Tech nerds: please help us!”

And another doctor outlines the importance of decentralized decision-making:

“As a pathologist who follows COVID-19 issues closely from a medical perspective,” says Simon Boyi Chen, “I have to confess that I have learned far more from Facebook, Twitter, and WeChat than from peer-reviewed and even pre-pub medical research literature, due to time lag and international borders.”

Furthermore, in Ontario, roughly 
2,300 nurses have volunteered to help the provincial health line Telehealth.

“Everybody’s stepping up to the plate,” CEO Dr. Doris Grunspun.

Also, there’s a Facebook group with over 6,000 members dedicated to crowdsourcing DIY medical supplies.

My neighborhood is already organizing mutual aid to keep everyone afloat… and our elders safe.

Most service-industry jobs near my house have been terminated. In an economy where most of the jobs are service-oriented, this is a massive hit.

The markets won’t be able to sustain a long-term shutdown


Yours for a Socialist-Free America!

Bruce ‘the Poor Man’

 

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They hold information and special functions that are essential for survival.

Essential information like important contacts, incoming public alerts, and they give us online access to survival strategies and life-saving techniques.

Your phone also has special functions like digital compasses, levels, and even the tiny flashlight that can be the difference between life or death in a crisis.

Your phone is that important, and should not be overlooked as an essential survival device.

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5 comments:

Ron said...

off reporters/media seem more concerned w/ PC crap over calling this a China virus-how ignorant.

Stacy said...

4 Products that will kill the coronavirus-already in your home: Consumer Reports
https://www.rd.com/home/cleaning-organizing/household-products-that-kill-coronavirus/?_cmp=readuprdus&_ebid=readuprdus3192020&_mid=334487&ehid=7318661E144A04614405964C5423073A4161E057

Mark said...

Your blog is always reliable & resourceful!

Cy said...

You strike a reasonable balance-thankfully, you don't promote hysterics like much of the media.

Rick said...

News about the virus is relentless, non-stop from every conceivable source; I think this contributes to the hysteria. Despite that, there are a lot of poorly prepared/dumb people in the country who seem bewildered...government treats everyone as if they're children [guess in some respects, many are]...keep up the good work & stay safe!