Coronavirus Central

Having discontinued Coronavirus Central, allow me to invite you to listen to my new and ongoing work every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with a weekend mailbag episode for your questions at Free Atlantic Radio.

For sixty to seventy minutes, we look into questions of how to restructure our society in the post-Covid world covering all areas ranging from politics to economy and from culture to scholarship.  Feel free to listen.Episodes are available on iTunes and Google Play, but also at https://free-atlantic-radio.castos.com.

Thank You and God Bless.  Dana and I hope you are all safe and healthy!

Episode 87 will be the final episode of Coronavirus Central in light of the other challenges America faces and my desire to cover them more fully including a wider focus of topics and a more regional impact.  Allow me to say thank you to you all.  Today's episode starts by looking at a viral outbreak reaching new heights with an emphasis in the South and West, a bizarre and deadly means of transmission between cells by viral tentacles, and cases of delirium being caused by this still poorly understood pandemic.  We see threats on the horizon of a new swine flu, and an economy that can't close but people at risk in every situation.  Big money is running away from the system, and India and China continue escalating their provocations as weapons are being smuggled into the US from China to unknown ends.  Perhaps, in support of cancel culture and monument wrecking, as America spirals toward an unhappy end.  Keep safe everyone and God Bless.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

US on target for highest number of cases yet: https://apnews.com/8e2b3b7ca3bb2475b9ae901dad4e09ee

The tentacles that Covid uses to infect from cell to cell: https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/inside-body-coronavirus-even-more-150022628.html

Related Cell study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.034

Covid causes delirium and strange visions in some patients: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/health/coronavirus-delirium-hallucinations.html

Emerging swine flu risk from China: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/emerging-flu-virus-chinese-pigs-has-pandemic-potential-researchers-say

2/3 value life more, 1/3 say economy: https://www.statista.com/chart/22149/government-attitude-towards-saving-lives-and-the-economy/

Surviving the economic kill switch: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/16/coronavirus-shutdown-kill-switch-320497

Fed now buying companies directly: https://fortune.com/2020/06/30/federal-reserve-corporate-bonds-credit-facilities/

Updates on India-China conflict as relations remain frosty:&

In this eighty-sixth episode, the question becomes who do you trust?  We see rising numbers throughout the south and west as Texas, California, and Florida lead the way with many new cases, expected after their reopening.  But as we ask what sources are there to guide our search, we share how the CDC lied about masks, the Lancet and New England Journal used fake data, and how Chinese lab reports are compromised.  So we're forced to look beyond at bigger agendas, and as we see the racial resentment machine ratcheted up to unsustainable levels.  Statues fall, but do we question the right institutions who set us against one another?  This episode closes with an in-depth profile from Seattle, a sad harbinger of a likely future inevitable by our continuing failure to come together.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

Virus spread accelerating leading to cancel of openings: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/virus-surges-across-us-throwing-reopenings-into-disarray/ar-BB15SSck?li=BBnb7Kz

Texas Governor Abbot tells Texans to stay home unless necessary as cases spike: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/06/23/spread-is-so-rampant-texas-hits-all-time-high-of-more-than-5k-new-covid-19-cases-gov-greg-abbott-says/

Fauci admits to lying about masks as government policy: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/502890-fauci-why-the-public-wasnt-told-to-wear-masks

Lancet and New England Journal used false data for conclusions: https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-covid-19-paper-that-raised-safety-concerns-about-malaria-drugs/

China destroyed evidence of virus: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-confirms-that-it-destroyed-early-samples-of-new-coronavirus-2020-5

Kentucky Governor promises to help some but not others with health care in racially determined support: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/501811-kentucky-governor-commits-to-providing-health-coverage-for-100-percent

Minorities exempted from face mask o

The eighty-fifth episode of Coronavirus Central looks at the escalation of the culture war between police and activists.  Call offs in Atlanta and a future planned event in New York hint that the events of Seattle and Minneapolis are driving a nationwide wedge.  We look at the frustrations of officers, the mentality of combatants, the question of how public officials manage these struggles, and both sides of the equation. From blacks fearing harm to whites trapped in now unsafe cities, what is clear is the polarization is growing, the lines are hardening, and people are moving as the summer promises more blood with no end in sight.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

Atlanta police calling off sick: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/06/18/as-atlanta-police-protest-is-blue-flu-the-next-pandemic/#2c7c01b2638f

NYPD may strike on July 4th: https://nypost.com/2020/06/18/nypd-cops-being-encouraged-to-strike-on-july-4/

Problems of police reforms from a former Minneapolis Mayor: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/i-know-why-police-reforms-fail/613189/

Rumored letter from Seattle PD Officer: https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message4430472/pg1

Businesses plan exodus from Seattle: https://www.foxnews.com/media/joey-rodolfo-seattle-mass-exodus-downtown-decimated

George Washington burning in Seattle: https://mobile.twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1273862338764931072

Rural militias organizing: https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/As-protests-spread-to-small-town-America-militia-15348677.php

Over one-third of Americans now think Civil War likely: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/16/poll-34-of-american-voters-think-second-civil-war-is-likely/

Episode 84 looks at the scene around the world to follow up on two trends predicted by this show.  Firstly, we see hints of a major new outbreak happening in Beijing and begin questioning what is happening in China as border clashes with India leave three dead with more injured as 54 scientists are discovered by the NIH to be on their payroll.  North Korea also literally blew up their connection to the South.  So we ask how that fits into the American chaos, looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the emerging polarities, concluding China and America both have an economic problem. Can China keep stability if it cannot export and deliver growth within its authoritarian system?  Can America afford the debts it is running up, and placing on the backs of our people as the Fed guarantees even deeper investment into corporate bonds causing more disparity to emerge?  More questions than answers are out there as we see the asymmetric war of unknown parameters continue to evolve with the dollar as one clear target.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

Major restrictions accompany new Chinese coronavirus outbreak: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/16/beijing-coronavirus-outbreak-travel-restricted-china-severe-measures

54 scientists fired for taking improper Chinese money in US: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/fifty-four-scientists-have-lost-their-jobs-result-nih-probe-foreign-ties

Three dead after brutal border clash between India and China: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53061476

North Korea belligerence continues to accelerate: https://abcnews.go.com/International/north-korea-blows-liaison-office-south-korea/story?id=71271944

Comparison of American and Chinese capacities as struggle advances: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/united-states-china-power-influence/612961/

New US investment bank to counter China geostrategically: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/new-us-foreign-investment-agency-counters-china-belt-and-road-colonialism

The Fed is now buying even more corporate bonds:

For the 83rd Episode, we start with three medical pieces showing how Covid has a distinctly neurological character, how it can be corrosive over time, and look at how the nervous system could represent the perfect hiding spot.  As we examine that, we see the predicted rise in cases beginning to more fully manifest in the Sun Belt and early opening states, with promises that rallies and protests will add fuel to this toxic fire.  The virus remains even as our regard slips, and we look at New York losing over 90% of its traffic and hotels, restaurants, and retailers alike being decimated in Boston as the example of why a second shut down may prove impossible no matter the risks ahead.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

Covid threatens central nervous system: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-covid-threatens-entire-nervous.html

Alzheimer's researchers identify three phases of Covid neurological impact: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-stages-covid-brain-neurologists.html

If brain cells harbor HIV... https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-brain-cells-harbor-hiv-virus.html

Record spikes in cases reported across the South: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/record-spikes-in-new-coronavirus-cases-hospitalizations-sweep-parts-of-u-s-idUSKBN23L0JB

Further problems in the South and Southwest: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-cases-spike-across-sun-belt-as-economy-lurches-into-motion/ar-BB15qRR0

Protests putting cities at risk of exposure: https://nypost.com/2020/06/13/protesting-amid-coronavirus-puts-everyone-else-at-risk/

Five reasons the pandemic is far from over: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/6/11/21285077/covid-19-arizona-texas-next-wave

New York is an emptier place these days: https://news.yahoo.com/york-survived-coronavirus-crisis-survive-183058931.html

20% of restaurants shut permanently across Massachusetts:

Episode 82 looks at our economy and reveals the house of cards that has been built upon the increasingly shaky foundation of corporate debt.  Counting on businesses to stay afloat, the shock of the coronavirus pandemic and all it has wrought has put retail out of business in huge numbers, threatening commercial mortgage defaults.  The Fed intervened and changed the rules to ensure corporate debt would remain liquid, which led to corporations acting like banks to buy their own debt with money basically created in the market through changes in Fed policy and the policy changes enacted by the CARES act, inflating a gigantic bubble.  But where 2008 was about mortgages, 2020 is about corporate bonds and CLOs, collateralized loan obligations.  Corporations issue debt the Fed backstops which the banks then buy when rebundled into assets about those loans in a cynical pyramid scheme just waiting for a second wave to topple it, or perhaps China dumping debt, as we ask what a post-dollar world might look like?  With America adding trillions of debt both on and off books, the financial attack upon us, and the sordid system trying to save itself at the impoverishment of our people might yet prove still the greatest risk of all, amplifying all the threats we already face beyond our ability to survive.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

Retailers getting crushed as malls close: https://www.businessinsider.com/retail-store-closings-mount-in-blow-to-shopping-malls-2020-6

How the Fed saved corporate debt and took ownership of the bond market: https://theintercept.com/2020/05/27/federal-reserve-corporate-debt-coronavirus/

How the banks have that same debt on balance and the risks of systemic financial collapse of a character but far greater magnitude than 2008 exists: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/coronavirus-banks-collapse/612247/

Total US debt surges past $55 trillion as government debt crosses $26 trillion: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/total-us-debt-surges-to-55point9-trillion-amid-big-increases-in-corporate-and-government-borrowing.html

Evidence China is pulling out as creditor: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-may-sell-treasurys-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-weaponizing-its-more-than-1-tri

Episode 81 explores an interesting premise.  When one power so dominates the world as America has done since the end of the Cold War, what happens when it becomes proxy for global conflicts between peoples, powers, and principles, that its own domestic sphere becomes the battlefield for a larger international contest?  We go big to understand small, looking at China, Asia, and the shifting arrangements.  Post-Covid world has nations making goods at home, so China, most impacted is absorbing Hong Kong, threatening Taiwan, invading India, and developing Pakistan as it courts Russia.  India arises in opposition making friendly with Australia as Japan hesitates.  Korea is further destabilized.  And the American military wanting to stay outwardly focused on the military war for which it is designed, has to glance uncertainly backwards toward the cultural war which everyone seems to comment upon back home, making no one happy and maintaining its own legitimacy in a land where no one else has such.  Strange days in the time of revolution and pandemic as we look at the world as it is as these contradictions barrel toward resolution.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

Watch CV Central Unscripted tonight on YouTube at 7:00 Eastern: https://youtu.be/8lYtyOsAMTg

North Korea cuts off communication with South Korea: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-says-it-will-no-longer-talk-to-the-south-dialing-up-pressure/2020/06/09/2e9ce820-a9f5-11ea-a43b-be9f6494a87d_story.html

Chinese spy agency operating openly against dissidents in Hong Kong: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-hong-kong-spy-agency-official-presence-national-security-laws-report-2020-6

American destroyer transits Strait of Taiwan: https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/navy-sends-another-guided-missile-destroyer-through-taiwan-strait-1.632855

Taiwanese fighter jets confront Chinese counterparts as American transports pass through their airspace: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33964/taiwanese-fighters-drive-off-chinese-jets-after-navy-transport-plane-flies-over-the-island

Lessons from the miliitary forces used in the Arab Spring demonstrations:

Our eightieth episode looks at the two pressing issues of our time in concert:  The ongoing though too readily ignored coronavirus pandemic and the mass demonstrations, seeking to connect the two.  It starts with a compelling piece from the people who run the Doomsday Clock about the probability Covid is man-made, bolstered by research from Norway and England that is quietly being released while attention is elsewhere.  Against that, we see America diving once more into the mess, as Minneapolis agrees to disband the police and we wonder what that will do to both minority wealth and safety and public health.  Multiple studies show blacks specifically have more health risk from Covid, yet the media and money keep pushing the protests harder, calling the very act of opposing them the dreaded canard of white supremacy.  What we find, however, is quite different:  From economic status, to safety, to free speech, to health, these demonstrations against a single act of police brutality that go against the trend toward better relations as demonstrated by statistics, show that ultimately one must question just how and why this animus is being used, and over this week we're going to start asking more clearly by whom.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

Watch CV Central Unscripted tonight on YouTube at 7:00 Eastern: https://youtu.be/Pb0VTJtus48

Likelihood of Covid being man-made: https://thebulletin.org/2020/06/did-the-sars-cov-2-virus-arise-from-a-bat-coronavirus-research-program-in-a-chinese-laboratory-very-possibly/#

Efficacy against human receptors suggests lab made optimization: https://techstartups.com/2020/06/07/norwegian-scientist-birger-sorensen-claims-coronavirus-lab-made-not-natural-origin/

America got bored with the pandemic: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/06/america-giving-up-on-pandemic/612796/

Minneapolis Council plans to abolish police: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/7/minneapolis-city-council-pledge-dissolve-police-de/

UK: Blacks four times more likely to die from Covid: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/black-people-four-times-more-likely-to-die-from-covid-19-ons-finds

Black Floridi

To celebrate our return to timely posting to podcast land, a special extended episode to include 78 and 79 is shared here as a story of two nations.  It was the time of protests; the time of riots, the revolution for the people, the threat of incipient anarchy; the government would kill us, the government will save us, the good guys seizing power from the bad, the bad guys trying to steal power from the good, and amidst this all, a Dickensian struggle to paint the narrative in a way that makes it less possible each day for Americans to talk to one another.  We look at both sides that are out there in the evolving social unrest, the players funding behind the game and their motives, and ask a question about what narrative will win out as America reimagines itself and burns away the old to find what, I wonder, as the new.

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Links:Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/Case sources: https://bnonews.com/Covid-19 news: http://covidreport.net/

British Intel Chief assesses that Covid likely manmade: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8386235/Coronavirus-man-says-ex-head-MI6-Sir-Richard-Dearlove.html

The splintering American narrative: https://apnews.com/11dda75914bc5ee045a1a796d5dcae8c

How America's problems would be reported elsewhere: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-war-correspondents-reported-on-the-american-protests-in-the-same-way-they-reported-on-protests-in-other-countries

Are we on the brink of revolution? https://www.thehour.com/opinion/article/Are-we-on-the-brink-of-revolution-15316674.php

When conservatives cheer tyranny: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/490661-us-conservatives-cheered-government-tyranny/

How antifa operates like an insurgency: https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/3/antifa-planned-anti-government-insurgency-george-f/

Fears the unrest will be brought to the rural areas: https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-06-03-antifa-terrorists-sparta-illinois-burn-farmhouses-kill-livestock.html

American imports and exports are tumbling in larger global trend: