PARIS (Reuters) – France registered a record 10,593 new confirmed coronavirus in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Thursday, the country’s highest single-day count since the pandemic began. The rise followed a government decision to make COVID-19 tests free, leading to a surge in testing and an increase in infection rates. The previous high in 24 hours in France was 10,561 new cases, recorded on Sept. 12. The seven-day moving average of new cases – which smoothes out irregularities – rose to a high of nearly 8,800. The ministry reported that the cumulative number of cases had risen to 415,481, and the death toll had risen by 50 to 31,095, the second-highest number of new deaths in a day in two months. The government’s decision to make COVID-19 testing free has resulted in long queues at testing centres in cities and testing has increased six-fold since the peak of the first coronavirus wave. About 1.2 million tests were carried out last week, the health minister said. Data show 5.4% of tests were positive. Doctors say many tests are pointless as some people who have no symptoms, or have had no contact with people with confirmed cases, take multiple tests. “To get tested three times a week is totally delirious. Anyone can show up and say they have symptoms,” Jean-Jacques Zambrowski, a doctor and health policy lecturer at Paris Descartes university, said on BFM TV. French television showed scenes of chaos at testing centres in big cities, with people waiting hours and jostling in queues. Hundreds of workers at laboratories went on strike on Thursday over poor working conditions as the testing system buckles under the demand. The number of people being treated in hospital for COVID-19 rose by 25 to 5,844, the 19th consecutive daily increase after a low of 4,530 at the end of August, down from a mid-April high of over 32,000. Nick Note: what this poorly done article forgets to point out the positivity rate above 1% is a crises requiring isolation of large numbers of the population. They also forget to mention the ER and Covid units are starting to fill up in many regions of France. Look at the calendar. its a little over 2 weeks from the August vacation fest. And now the infected people after 2 week incubation are starting to show symptoms and in two week the emergency rooms will overflow and 2 weeks afterwords the death rate will soar. Remember the formular 2x 2x by 2x = 16 times increase in the death rate.
Airlines Make Final Plea for Aid to Avoid Job Losses
Top executives at major airlines including American Airlines Group Inc., Southwest Airlines Co. and United Airlines Holdings Inc. met Thursday with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as the companies and their employees make a final push for more job-saving government aid. Airlines agreed not to furlough or lay off employees through the end of September in exchange for $25 billion as part of a broad pandemic relief package last spring. They hoped the funds would see them through the worst of the crisis, but six months later, travel demand is still hovering at around 30% of last year’s levels and airlines expect recovery to be rocky and slow. The restrictions of the first round of aid expire at the end of the month. Unless they receive another infusion of cash, airlines have said they would furlough tens of thousands of workers starting Oct. 1. President Trump and lawmakers in both parties have said they support providing another $25 billion in aid to airlines so they can keep paying all their workers through next March. But Congress has been unable to come to terms on a broader relief package that could include the airline funds, and time is running out. “We remain hopeful for an outcome that spares thousands of our colleagues and their families from what we regard as an avoidable fate,” American Chief Executive Doug Parker and the leaders of the airline’s unions wrote Wednesday in a joint letter to the White House, the Treasury, and Congressional leaders. American has said that some 19,000 of its employees will lose their jobs through furloughs and layoffs Oct. 1 without additional aid. Airline executives and industry lobbyists have grown more pessimistic as Democrats and Republicans in Congress have remained at an impasse over basic questions like the overall size of the next relief package. Mr. Meadows has said previously that the administration was looking into executive orders that could assist the industry, but details have been murky.More recently, there have been signs of movement. Mr. Trump, who has largely remained on the sidelines during the latest discussions, said in a tweet Wednesday that Republicans should seek a more expensive aid package — something that could bring the two sides closer to an agreement. Airlines and labor unions are continuing to plan for the possibility that no further aid is coming. Southwest Airlines has said enough employees agreed to depart on their own that it won’t need to furlough any this year. Delta Air Lines Inc. said this week that it had been able to save enough through voluntary departures, reductions in workers’ hours and other measures that it won’t cut any flight attendants, mechanics, or other front-line workers, with the exception of pilots. Currently the airline is planning to furlough over 1,900 pilots, though the company and the union are still discussing measures that could mitigate that figure. United Airlines pilots are voting on whether to accept reductions in their work schedules, which translates into lower pay, in exchange for a guarantee that all their jobs would be safe until at least June. Union leaders endorsed the proposal Wednesday and members will vote at the end of this month, just days before the first swath of furloughs is due to go into effect. “Hundreds of thousands of airline workers need the CARES Act extension, but with pilot furloughs just weeks away, we can’t wait,” Capt. Todd Insler, chairman of United’s pilots union, said in a statement. Nick Note: Let me educate you on the bullshit. What they forget to tell you is MOST of the 24 billion in aid will not go to employees. But to cover airplane leases and loan payments. This is an example where we are killing the capitalist system. We have 3000 zombie financial institutions several of them trillion dollar enterprises. Now we are creating zombie airlines. Let the dead broke airlines go broke and stay broke. Let the capital system decide the winners and losers Having your PR firm running infomercials showing workers scrubbing airline cabins and claiming that a H10 (coffee paper) HEPA H10 system (which is noting new they installed them 30 years ago) with a MERVE RATING OF 13 that is only FILTERING OUT 89% OF SMALL PARTICLES will not cut it. As a foot note my latest creation a UPLA U15 cartridge filter has a MERV rating of 20 filtering out 0.9995% of particles down to 1um. Until they completely revamp airline cabins and put people in hazmat suits with hoods and separate air supplies flying will continue to be the hart of the pandemic. Don’t laugh people wear space suits. Why not do it on airlines?
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Bank of England eyes sub-zero rates in face of virus, Brexit
LONDON — The Bank of England indicated Thursday that it could cut interest rates below zero for the first time in its 326-year history as it tries to shore up a U.K. economic recovery that is facing the dual headwinds of the coronavirus and Brexit. After unanimously deciding to maintain the bank’s main interest rate at the record low of 0.1%, the nine-member rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee said it had discussed its “policy toolkit, and the effectiveness of negative policy rates in particular.” In minutes accompanying the decision, the rate-setters said a recent wave of virus infections has “the potential to weigh further on economic activity, albeit probably on a lesser scale than seen earlier in the year.” Though the committee noted that recent economic data have been a “little stronger than expected” at its last meeting in early August, it said it is unclear what that says about the future “given the risks.” One clear concern relates to whether Britain, like others in Europe, will reimpose broad restrictions on businesses and public life after the recent flare-up in virus infections across the region. Already social gatherings are being restricted and certain areas of the U.K. are seeing localized lockdowns. The British economy suffered one of the deepest recessions in the world this year when many sectors were effectively mothballed to help contain the pandemic. Though it recouped some ground in the summer as lockdown restrictions were eased, the economy was still around 12% smaller at the end of July than it was in February, when the pandemic started in Europe. The other major risk facing the U.K. economy relates to the post-Brexit trade discussions between the U.K. and the EU following a worsening in relations. If the talks collapse, tariffs and other impediments to trade will be imposed by both sides at the start of 2021, a development that would hurt the U.K. more. The U.K. left the EU on Jan. 31, but is in a transition period that effectively sees it benefit from the bloc’s tariff-free trade until the end of the year while the future relationship is negotiated. With the outlook so murky, the bank was not expected to provide more stimulus on Thursday. Since the pandemic started, it has cut its main rate to a record low and boosted its bond-buying program to oil the financial market’s wheels and keep borrowing affordable. The policymaking panel said Thursday it could take further action on borrowing costs after revealing it had been briefed on how to effectively implement negative interest rates, which would seek to encourage banks to lend rather than hoard their cash. The central bank will further discussions the potential use of negative rates during the fourth quarter. Though that doesn’t necessarily mean a rate cut is likely this fall, it’s a clear signal that the bank could enact further stimulus measures. “While the Bank is clearly exploring the possibility of using negative rates as a potential tool, we doubt it will go down that path anytime soon — at any rate, not in November,” said Kallum Pickering, senior economist at Berenberg Bank. Still, financial markets interpreted the announcement as increasing the likelihood of negative rates next year, potentially in the event of the U.K. and the EU failing to agree on a trade deal. The pound fell 0.7% to $1.2884. Most economists think the bank will boost its bond-buying stimulus program in November. By then, unemployment across the U.K. is expected to be rising sharply as a government salary support program will have come to an end. The Job Retention Scheme, under which the government pays the bulk of the salaries of workers that firms keep on rather than fire, has kept a lid on unemployment. However, it ends on Oct. 31, a change that most economists think will more or less double the U.K.’s unemployment to around 8% from 4.1% at present. Nick Note: We both know the central banks of the G7 will have no choice but go to double digit interest rates. It is a forgone conclusion. As you know we have been predicting this event for years now. The coronavirus guarantees this as far as i am concerned. I predict people will be shocked when the vaccine increases the death rate. Talk about a false sense of security.I am deeply saddened. Economies will be devastated.
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France reports 10,593 new COVID-19 cases
PARIS (Reuters) – France registered a record 10,593 new confirmed coronavirus in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Thursday, the country’s highest single-day count since the pandemic began. The rise followed a government decision to make COVID-19 tests free, leading to a surge in testing and an increase in infection rates.The previous high in 24 hours in France was 10,561 new cases, recorded on Sept. 12. The seven-day moving average of new cases – which smoothes out irregularities – rose to a high of nearly 8,800. The ministry reported that the cumulative number of cases had risen to 415,481, and the death toll had risen by 50 to 31,095, the second-highest number of new deaths in a day in two months. The government’s decision to make COVID-19 testing free has resulted in long queues at testing centres in cities and testing has increased six-fold since the peak of the first coronavirus wave. About 1.2 million tests were carried out last week, the health minister said. Data show 5.4% of tests were positive. Doctors say many tests are pointless as some people who have no symptoms, or have had no contact with people with confirmed cases, take multiple tests. “To get tested three times a week is totally delirious. Anyone can show up and say they have symptoms,” Jean-Jacques Zambrowski, a doctor and health policy lecturer at Paris Descartes university, said on BFM TV. French television showed scenes of chaos at testing centres in big cities, with people waiting hours and jostling in queues. Hundreds of workers at laboratories went on strike on Thursday over poor working conditions as the testing system buckles under the demand.The number of people being treated in hospital for COVID-19 rose by 25 to 5,844, the 19th consecutive daily increase after a low of 4,530 at the end of August, down from a mid-April high of over 32,000.
Hydroxychloroquine, evidence of efficacy
It’s the dose: I want to be clear here. I believe it works… the Belgium study had 8,000 people. The studies that failed used massive doses. Where it works the dose recommended is 200 to 400mg a day… Where it failed the dose was over 1000mg a day… Crazy shit. Talk to your health professional. My health care professional recommend the dosages as in the video. We have to break out the Plaquenil 4 times. And each time the shit went away. This is far from a clinical study… Why would there be one for a medicine that has been used for over 50 years. Never has a death associated with it and costs pennies a pill to make. As a foot note in Africa where they use this medicine for Malaria the infection rates are similar and the hospitalizations are minuscule and death due to the Coronavirus rare…
Leaked FEMA Memo Reveals 17 Percent Jump in U.S. COVID Deaths Last Week
Coronavirus cases in US up by 74,667 in a day
United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State
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AMERICA: China and Russia Are Plotting to Destroy Us
It seems clear now that Covid-19 will take a place in world history, a seismic event of the twenty-first century whose effects will only be fully understood over many years, even decades. What also seems clear is that the United States-China relationship will change — indeed, must change. The question is how, and along what lines. Among Americans, anger at China runs high. American voters may, in the short term, choose to blame the Trump administration at the polls in November 2020; in the long term, whomever they vote for, most Americans understand that China is responsible for a global catastrophe that could have been greatly minimized or even averted entirely had Beijing simply told the truth about it from the beginning. No number of missteps, from often-bungling Western governments, can disguise Beijing’s fundamental culpability. Recent polls in the United States suggest that Americans understand this — overwhelming majorities blame China for causing this disaster. Moreover, the coronavirus has darkened Americans’ views of China more broadly. A Pew poll showed two-thirds of American respondents now view China negatively. American policymakers — regardless of whether they are part of a Trump or Joe Biden administration in 2021 — will have to respond to the American people’s darkening view of China. Even the most devout China apologists — and their numbers are legion in the federal government, in the private sector, and in the American media — will have to recognize that the coronavirus has ripped the curtain down on Beijing’s masquerade as a responsible member of the global community. China’s refusal to take responsibility for the virus has revealed the true character of the Communist regime even for those who had not been willing to acknowledge the obvious before. If U.S. officials, of either party, hope genuinely to serve the American national interest, then we’re going to see changes in the years ahead. Some of those changes are already afoot. The Trump administration has cut investment ties, for example, between U.S. federal retirement funds and Chinese equities. The move affects about $4 billion in assets. Meantime, U.S. lawmakers, in tandem with Canadian counterparts and Indian attorneys, are pursuing various legal actions, including reparations, against China for inflicting the coronavirus on the world, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and hundreds of billions, if not trillions, in economic damage. Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee has sponsored a Senate resolution calling on Beijing to forgive some of its holdings of American debt. Private American citizens have filed lawsuits against China seeking damages, including a $20 trillion class-action suit in Texas. Beijing will pay no heed to Blackburn’s gesture, and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act will almost surely protect it against citizen claims, but these actions indicate the resentment against China felt by large portions of the American public. Some China observers, such as Gordon Chang, argue that the United States should retaliate by seizing China’s holdings of U.S. Treasury obligations — but only in tandem with our allies and issuers of other major currencies. “If we act alone,” Chang argues, “China is going to say that we repudiated our debt. We’re going to take a reputational hit, which is going to be a big one… they’re going to say that we are an irresponsible member of the global financial system, and that the dollar shouldn’t be the reserve currency of the world.” But if the U.S. acts in concert with allies, then “we can take away that argument from China.” The anger extends far beyond Washington’s shores. India’s bar association, in tandem with the International Council of Jurists (ICJ), is appealing to the United Nations Human Rights Council for compensation from China for “surreptitiously developing a biological weapon capable of mass destruction.” The ICJ’s president called Covid-19 a “crime against humanity,” caused by China, which has “deliberately concealed crucial information about coronavirus.” He asked the UN to “enquire and direct China and to adequately compensate international community and member states, particularly India, for surreptitiously developing a biological weapon capable of mass destruction of mankind.” He further alleged that China had exploited the virus with the intention of controlling the global economy and taking advantage of countries weakened by the virus and facing economic collapse.
Beijing’s shameful actions in regard to medical equipment and supplies, as well as testing materials — buying up these materials on the global market, thus causing shortages, and then selling everything from defective equipment to bad tests to countries facing virus outbreaks — has caused anger and resentment in capitals around the world. Several countries in Asia and Europe, including Great Britain and Spain, have sent these useless materials back to Beijing.And more recent steps in Washington reflect a broader awareness developing of the scope and range of the response needed.
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Michael Cohen Says Trump Is Afraid He’ll End Up Facing Tax Fraud Charges
Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen, a convicted felon, said Wednesday that he believes the primary reason the president has fought tooth-and-nail to keep his tax returns away from investigators in Congress and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is that the documents may lead to criminal tax fraud charges. In an interview with CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, Cohen said he believed the president’s stonewalling was, at best, an effort to avoid paying a “massive tax bill,” and at worst, an attempt to skirt “fraud penalties.” “The fact that he doesn’t report the income that he claims, his wealth is not as significant, and I believe that they were probably very lenient in how they took deductions,” Cohen said. “His biggest fear is that if in fact the tax return was released, there’s a whole slew of organizations, of accountants and forensic accountants that will rip through it and he will end up with a massive tax bill, fraud penalties, fines, and possibly even tax fraud.” Cohen, a former vice president of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty to lying to congressional investigators in Nov. 2018; he was sentenced to three years in prison back in Dec. 2018 for campaign finance violations, bank fraud and tax evasion. Cohen famously said in court that then-candidate Trump (“Individual-1”) “directed him” to make the hush payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal ahead of the 2016 election. Cohen secured his release from an Otisville, New York federal prison in May due to COVID-19 concerns, allowing him to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest. But that hit an awkward snag in July when Cohen was re-arrested due to his tell-all book about the president. Cohen was released again weeks later. Earlier in September, the disbarred attorney released Disloyal: The True Story of Michael Cohen, Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump, which contained first-hand accounts of the president’s “graphic and unflattering” behavior behind closed doors. After discussing the president’s tax returns, Camerota asked Cohen if he had any thoughts on who he believes is filling his former role as President Trump’s “new fixer.” “Attorney General Bill Barr,” Cohen responded. “Rudy Giuliani, to an outside extent, but I would say for the most part it would be Attorney General Bill Barr. And boy, what a terrible shame, taking an illustrious career and throwing it right down the toilet.” Nick Note: If Trump loses the presidential elections he will go to jail. The case in the Southern District in New York is ready. The only thing that is holding them back is a long term tradition that you cannot indict a sitting president. If he loses the elections he will be indicted. And if he wins he will do everything he can to engineer his rising to a dictator. And he will do anything to win these elections including declaring them illegal if he loses.
Trump: COVID vaccination could start in mid-October
United States President Donald Trump stated on Wednesday that the WIDE distribution of the first coronavirus vaccine could start in mid-October or “maybe a little bit later.” He added that the US could supply at least 100,000,000 doses by the end of the year, as well as that all the necessary supplies for vaccination had been manufactured. Trump contradicted the Center for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield, who said in his testimony to Congress that it would take six to nine months before a vaccine could be distributed nationally. Trump repeatedly speculated that Redfield “misunderstood the question” when he was asked about vaccine distribution. The president launched another attack on his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, alleging that he “promotes anti-vaccine theories.” He called on states with Democratic governors to “open them up,” claiming that the measures against the coronavirus were “hurting people far more than the disease itself.” Nick Note: As you know we are in a VERY aggressive trade. And i owe you a explanation in writing. Unequivocally i am convinced their will be a October surprise. As in October starts in 13 days. I believe they will have millions of doses crammed down the public throats (injection in their arms) in October. Just in time before the elections BUT in to short a time for it to be know if the vaccine will work. And before if their are life threatening side effect it will only come out After the elections. The Type of Neurological side effects vaccine side effects has already been seen. And misdiagnose on purpose… A plain ole fashioned drug company coverup. When caught at it the drug companies claimed Patient privilege. I am told this is unprecedented and obviously a cover up. in consulting with experts Neurological side effects show up weeks after the vaccine. I believe the vaccine will fail. But not before Trumps greatest publicity stunt wins him the election. As a foot note their will be a stimulus agreement. Bottom line. I believe that our trade will do great on the announcement of the great white hope. A vaccine that Trump takes the credit for that will be celebrated by the markets…..