MSM fail to report (a) survey by Sermo which showed HCQ most successful
(b) Vit C success
Newsletter published on April 6, 2020
I am amazed at the number of people who say that the pandemic is fake or
no worse than the flu. They fail to consider that, without the lockdowns
& quarantine, the death toll would be much higher. Covid-19 is different
from the flu, because it attacks your lungs and stops you from
breathing. I will not publish any articles saying that this is fake, a
scam.
In Event 201, a simulation of a Pandemic shortly before Covid-19, the
death toll reached 65 million people. That's without lockdowns &
quarantine. But why did Event 201 recommend keeping borders open, with
no restrictions on international travel or free movement of people? (see
item 7) Could they have WANTED a higher death toll? Why do the MSM poor
scorn on cures like HCQ & Vitamin C? Perhaps the sceptics are partly
right, that there is an ulterior motive of the Deep State (not Trump).
But this pandemic is not fake news - Peter M.
(1) MSM ignore survey by Sermo which showed HCQ most successful treatment
(2) Three US hospitals (out of thousands) use IV vitamin C without
ventilators
(3) MSM ignore intravenous vitamin C success without the use of ventilators
(4) MSM say "No supplement will cure or prevent disease"
(5) MSM run many articles saying Covid-19 no worse than Flu
(6) China report said patients taking HCQ for another condition were
found not to be infected by Covid-19
(7) Event 201 recommended that Borders remain Open, travel and trade
routes Not Closed
(8) Navajo Nation at risk 'We could get wiped out'
(9) Ecuador hospitals overloaded with patients struggling to breathe;
"our nurses are dying"
(10) World retreats into 'survival mode'; the return of Frugality
(11) Financial Times calls for Socialism, reversing the policy direction
of last 40 years
(1) MSM ignore survey by Sermo which showed HCQ most successful treatment
by Peter Myers, April 6, 2020
Murdoch publications (NY Post, Fox News, The Australian) report
favourably on CQ and HCQ. But the MSM deride it.
A survey conducted by Sermo of 6,227 doctors treating COVID-19 patients
in 30 countries found that 37% rated HCQ as the "most effective therapy"
of 15 options.
It was published on April 2. Which media reported the Sermo survey?
Today I searched Google for
survey Sermo hydroxychloroquine time: past week
There were reports in NY Post (Murdoch) and Wa Times (but it's not MSM).
No report in NYT, WaPo, or MSM.
Then I searched for
"survey" "Sermo" "hydroxychloroquine" "new york times" time: past week
No NYT hits
"survey" "Sermo" "hydroxychloroquine" "washington post" time: past week
No WaPo hits
(2) Three US hospitals (out of thousands) use IV vitamin C without
ventilators
Coronavirus XIV: The Good News is Still There But Not Reported By
Mainstream Media
[...] How about this news: Three US hospitals use of IV vitamin C and
other low-cost, readily available drugs cut the death-rate of
COVID-19-without the use of ventilators! A press release dated March 30,
2020 stated:
"If you can administer Vitamin C intravenously starting in the Emergency
Room and every 6 hours thereafter, while in the hospital, the mortality
rate of this disease and the need for mechanical ventilators will likely
be greatly reduced," says Dr. Pierre Kory, the Medical Director of the
Trauma and Life Support Center and Chief of the Critical Care Service at
the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He explains that it's the
inflammation sparked by the Coronavirus, not the virus itself, that kills
patients. Inflammation causes a condition called Acute Respiratory
Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which damages the lungs so that patients,
suffering fever, fatigue, and the sense that their inner chest is on
fire, eventually cannot breathe without the help of a ventilator.
The vitamin C is a combination therapy developed in 2017 by Dr. Paul
Marik at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He gives critically ill
patients IV doses of hydrocortisone, vitamin C, and vitamin B1 within
six hours of entering the emergency room. Dr. Marik reported a
significantly lowered death rate in those treated with his regimen. When
COVID-19 came to Virginia, Dr. Marik used his protocol. He reported
saving four COVID-19 patients including an 86-year-old man admitted to
the hospital with 100% oxygen. Elderly people on oxygen usually do not
survive COVID-19.
Dr. J. Varon at United General Hospital In Houston reported saving 16
lives with this protocol. He reports that his patients are getting off
the ventilator at 48 hours instead of 10-21 days!
My faithful readers know that I have been yelling as loudly as I can
that all COVID-19 patients should be getting vitamin C IVs. IN FACT,
they should be getting vitamin C IVs within six hours of entering the ER
because data shows a markedly reduced mortality rate if the IV is
started within six hours of admission. A delay above that markedly
increases the death rate. Once 12 hours has passed, it is too late.
There is no mortality benefit from the IV protocol.
So why isn't IV vitamin C along with the other therapies Dr. Marik
recommends being used in every COVID-19 patient? I am rarely at a loss
for words, but here I am.
IT IS INFURIATING! I have shown you our success in treating COVID-19
patients with a holistic protocol that includes oral dosing of vitamins
A, C, D, and iodine as well as IV vitamin C, ozone, and hydrogen
peroxide. I passed along the information I presented above to two local
hospitals and offered my services to explain how to properly administer
IV nutrients. To date, I have heard that one of the hospitals is using
vitamin C. That is great news. I hope the results mirror Dr. Marik's
results.
Conventional medicine can wait for a vaccine. At the Center for Holistic
Medicine, we know there is not time to wait for a vaccine. Natural
therapies work. It is time for you to find a holistic doctor who
understands the best way to treat COVID-19 (and many other illnesses) is
to support the host. In particular, provide the immune system with the
right nutrients so that it can appropriately fight back and overcome the
disease.
Final Thoughts:
The press release regarding the success with vitamin C in treating COVID
was sent to me late at night Monday (March 30, 2020). On Tuesday
morning, I had a meeting with my nurses and said, "Finally, the
hospitals are going to start using vitamin C on COVID patients. They are
going to see what we have been seeing."
I guess I called that one wrong. I thought the press release would be
the lead story on Fox, CNN, MSN, and every other media outlet. I thought
there would be a run on IV vitamin C. I guess good news is not worth
reporting. I say turn off the news. It is not worth watching. In fact,
it is shameful. Where are the vitamin C reports? What about the reports
that hydroxychloroquine appears to be helping? [...]
To All Our Health, ~DrB
(3) MSM ignore intravenous vitamin C success without the use of ventilators
by Peter Myers, April 6, 2020
Today I searched Google for
"vitamin C" "IV" "brownstein" time:past month
no MSM hits
(4) MSM say "No supplement will cure or prevent disease"
Can Vitamin C Protect You from COVID-19?
Written by SaVanna Shoemaker, MS, RDN, LD on April 2, 2020
No supplement will cure or prevent disease.
With the 2019 coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, it’s especially important
to understand that no supplement, diet, or other lifestyle modification
other than social distancing and proper hygiene practices can protect
you from COVID-19.
You may have noticed the vitamin C section of the supplement aisle
looking bare these days or seen the claims on social media that vitamin
C can help with COVID-19.
While physicians and researchers are studying the effects of high dose
intravenous (IV) vitamin C on the new coronavirus, no supplement,
including vitamin C, can prevent or treat COVID-19.
One of the most common criticisms of Vitamin C claims is that the
results are frequently hard to replicate and at times contradictory.
Frequently the studies that are inconsistent are based on less rigorous
scientific reporting, relying on test subject recall versus actual blood
measurements. The other main limitation is related to its
water-solubility property. Because any excess gets excreted, it is
virtually impossible to raise the blood concentration of Vitamin C by
oral supplementation. This is where IV Vitamin C therapy comes into
play, because it has the ability to transiently supersaturate the blood
Vitamin C concentration, which is otherwise not achievable by oral
supplementation. This high concentration is what is commonly observed
with therapeutic benefits.
(5) MSM run many articles saying Covid-19 no worse than Flu
Who's Right: Donald Trump or the Media?
Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, April 3, 2020
I've seen this posted everywhere; article after article in the
mainstream media telling us to stop worrying about the coronavirus.
ConornavirusHoaxHeadlines
I checked them all, and every one is real.
"We Should Deescalate the War on the Coronavirus," by Robert Dingwall,
Wired, January 29, 2020
"As the coronavirus spreads, fear is fueling racism and xenophobia," by
Jessie Yeung, CNN, January 31, 2020
"You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus," by James Hamblin, The Atlantic,
February 24, 2020
"Is the Coronavirus Worse Than The Flu? Here's How the 2 Illnesses
Compare," by Leah Groth, Health, February 26, 2020
. The subtitle is, "It depends on what you mean by 'worse.'" A doctor
quoted in the story says the flu is worse, but that the coronavirus
spreads more easily.
"The Fear of the Coronavirus, and the Reality of the Flu," by Simon
Murray, HCPLive, February 10, 2020
. The final sentence says the outbreak "serves as a surrogate for a good
deal of xenophobia and fear of the country [China] itself."
"Panic over coronavirus could be caused by flu numbers," by Renae
Skinner, KOAA, February 7, 2020
"The Flu Is a Way Bigger Threat to Most People in The US Than
Coronavirus. Here's Why," by Aylin Woodward, Business Insider, January
25, 2020
"Heath official: You are more likely to catch flu in Oregon than deadly
Wuhan coronavirus," by Stephanie Rothman and KVAL.com staff, KVAL,
January 22, 2020
"Is the new virus more 'deadly' than flu? Not exactly," Associated
Press, February 18, 2020
"Amid coronavirus Panic, doctors remind public: Flu is deadlier, more
widespread," by Denis Dador, Eyewitness News 7, March 4, 2020
"MD Flu Deaths Climb As Flu More Worrisome Than Coronavirus," by Deb
Belt, Patch, February 23, 2020
"New coronavirus may be no more dangerous than the flu despite worldwide
alarm: experts," by Tom Blackwell, National Post, February 3, 2020
"Experts warn flu is greater risk than coronavirus," by WICS/WRSP staff,
News Channel ABC 20, February 13, 2020
"Want to Protect Yourself From Coronavirus. Do the Same Things You Do
Every Winter," by Jamie Ducharme, Time, January 31, 2020
"Doctor suggests worrying about the common flu, not coronavirus," by
Michael Martin, Fox 17 West Michigan, January 31, 2020
"New coronavirus is likely to go pandemic, but that's no reason to Panic
or overreact," by Bob England and Will Humble, AZCentral, February 25, 2020
"Relax! Coronavirus is Less Dangerous Than the Flu, Says Epidemic
Expert," by Mark Emem, CCN, January 31, 2020
"The Flu Is Still a Bigger Health in the U.S. than Novel Coronavirus,"
by Lesley McClurg, KQED, January 29, 2020
"Why are we panicked about coronavirus – and calm about the flu?" by
Anthony DiFlorio, The Hill, February 4, 2020
"Flu hitting Arizona more than usual this season, despite attention on
coronavirus," by Mike Pelton, ABC 15, February 6, 2020
"New coronavirus spreads more like flu than SARS: Chinese study," by
Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters, February 19, 2020
"Forget the Coronavirus: The Flu Pandemic of 1918 Killed More People in
One Year than all of World War I," by Sebastien Roblin, National
Interest, February 15, 2020
"The Virus Killing U.S. Kids Isn't the One Dominating the Headlines," by
Michael Daly, Daily Beast, February 6, 2020
Hint: It's a three-letter-word that begins with F.
"Is Coronavirus Spreading Faster Than SARS, Ebola, and Swine Flu?" by
Dan Evon, Snopes, February 26, 2020
"Why we Panic about coronavirus, but not the flu," by Bob Herman, Axios,
January 29, 2020
"Coronavirus is deadly, but flu has claimed over 8,000 lives this
season," by Jasmine Vaughn-Hall, York Daily Record, January 31, 2020
Several articles reported that the flu had, at the time, killed more
people than the virus. Today, journalists at many publications are
slamming President Trump for having compared coronavirus to the flu, but
their colleagues did the same thing. Vox didn't just compare coronavirus
to the flu, but said the new disease might "look more like the common
cold than like SARS."
Vox shamelessly deleted an article that assured readers we wouldn't get
"a deadly pandemic."
This matters because many journalists now refuse to cover President
Trump's press conferences. They say the briefings are
"falsehood-filled," to use New York Magazine's phrase. They want a
monopoly on information, which is not reassuring when they are so
reliably unreliable.
President Trump made the same mistake many journalists did, and he
didn't act strongly when he should have. However, he did ban travel from
China and imposed a quarantine on returning travelers.
He was blasted for that:
"Coronavirus quarantine, travel ban could backfire, experts fear," by
Alice Miranda Ollstein, Politico, February 4, 2020
"The US coronavirus travel ban could backfire. Here's how," by Catherine
Shoichet, CNN, February 7, 2020
"Coronavirus: could the US government's quarantine and travel ban
backfire?," by Sam Levin, The Guardian, February 4, 2020
On January 31, Joe Biden attacked President Trump's "hysteria xenophobia
[sic], hysterical xenophobia." In March, Bernie Sanders said if the
choice were his, he wouldn't close the borders; he would listen to
"scientists" instead.
This all seems ridiculous now that we are trapped in our own homes. It
would have been better to have one large wall around the whole country
rather than countless little ones inside it.
The press also heaped scorn on President Trump for offering "false hope"
when he mentioned the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.
"Coronavirus treatment: Dr. Donald Trump peddles snake oil and false
hope," USA Today Editorial Board, March 21, 2020
"Trump's claim that malaria drug can treat coronavirus gives hope, but
little evidence it will work," by Berkeley Lovelace Jr., CNBC, March 26,
2020
"Trump touted hydroxychloroquine as a cure for Covid-19. Don't believe
the hype," by Oliver Milman, The Guardian, March 28, 2020
Twitter removed a tweet from Laura Ingraham that claimed there were
"very promising results." Once again, a tech company decided what people
should read.
President Trump didn't say it was a cure. He said there was promising
evidence, but the New York Times tried to blame him when a couple
foolishly drank fish-tank cleaner. The husband died and his wife barely
survived. "The drug, known as chloroquine phosphate or chloroquine,"
wrote Neil Vigdor in The New York Times, "has been bandied about by
President Trump during White House briefings on the coronavirus pandemic
as a potential 'game changer'." But President Trump had not recommended
that specific chemical — chloroquine phosphate — something the Axios
news site admitted when it deleted a tweet blaming him.
On April 2, thousands of doctors reported in a poll that
hydroxychloroquine actually is the most effective known treatment for
coronavirus. A small study from China reported it is effective in
treating patients with mild cases. A test of the drug's preventive power
is also underway. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whom many Democrats want
to be their presidential nominee, has already begun a larger clinical
trial. It's wrong to claim hydroxychloroquine works, but President Trump
wasn't just making things up. If he was selling "snake oil," so is
Andrew Cuomo.
President Trump should have done more to prevent this crisis. His claim
that it could be over by Easter was stupid. Of course, had he done what
was necessary, journalists would have said he was using Nazi tactics.
Some do anyway.
The Forward claimed that President Trump referring to a "foreign virus"
is "as dangerous as coronavirus itself" and "straight out of the Nazi
playbook."
"Trump Is Using Pandemic Panic to Ramp Up Attacks on Migrants," said The
Nation. "Be Careful," warned The Guardian. "Trump may exploit the
coronavirus for authoritarian ends."
If only. Had he done so a few months ago, I could take my family out to
dinner instead of being stuck in my house.
In an emergency, we need to know whom we can trust for accurate
information. President Trump sometimes exaggerates, dissembles, or
outright lies, but so do journalists, usually because they want to
attack the president. Worse, many journalists believe they should decide
what we should know.
Whoever is right, our economy has collapsed, millions are unemployed,
thousands are dead, and people are wearing masks just to go to the
grocery store. You can make a strong case that if President Trump had
taken "racist" measures sooner, we would have avoided the worst. Of
course, if Joe Biden thinks "hysterical xenophobia" was the problem,
Democrats would have made a terrible hash of things.
Journalists have power — more than most politicians. Read their stories
from the last few months, and see how they used that power.
Nationalism isn't "as dangerous as coronavirus." Nationalism could have
stopped the virus. I'm frustrated with President Trump, but I'm furious
with these journalists.
(6) China report said patients taking HCQ for another condition were
found not to be infected by Covid-19
Coronavirus And The Doom World Dystopia To Come
April 5, 2020
By HAROLD SMITH and ARCH STANTON
Edited and abridged by Lasha Darkmoon with an introduction setting the scene
HAROLD SMITH: The evidence is now overwhelming that what we have going
on here should not be called a "pandemic" but a "plandemic."
Back in February, a news article was published in China, within which
can be found the following amazing statement:
"Hydroxychloroquine is a mature immunosuppressive agent for clinical
application. It also has anti-inflammatory, anti-infective, anti-viral,
optical filter, anticoagulant effects, and has fewer adverse reactions.
It is also a basic drug for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
The research team conducted a clinical analysis of 178 neocoronavirus
patients admitted to the hospital from December 2019 and found that none
of them were patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Later, in
consultation with 80 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus treated
in the dermatology department of the hospital, they were found not to be
infected with neocoronavirus pneumonia."
So right in the middle of Wuhan China, while people were being infected
and killed en masse, a group of 80 SLE patients who were taking
hydroxychloroquine seemed to be immune to the virus. That's interesting.
In fact it's so interesting that I wonder: Why didn't Fauci and the
incessantly talking heads never mentioned this amazing fact?
Then just yesterday as it turns out, a paper was published wherein the
authors describe a newly discovered mechanism of action of
hydroxychloroquine which appears to explain why the SLE patients never
got sick and why hydroxychloroquine seems to be such an effective
treatment for COVID-19 disease. (See here)
According to the authors:
"The identification of this new mechanism of action of CLQ and CLQ-OH
supports the use of these repositioned drugs to *CURE* SARS-CoV-2
infected patients and stop the pandemic."
We're being scammed. Somebody doesn't want the "pandemic" to end. Our
masters were forced to acknowledge hydroxychloroquine because they
couldn't stop information coming out of China and elsewhere which was
being published in journals, so they had to resort to intellectually
dishonest pedantry. And of course they politicized the issue. [...]
Secondly, our rulers may feel the need to delay the widespread knowledge
and use of a cheap and effective drug treatment. Why? It is obvious.
Because they need more deaths, more panic, and a severe lock-down on
society in preparation for the outrageous events ahead that will tax
the patience of the populace to its limits. [...] ==
{machine translation}
Wu big people Hospital small clinical trials: hydroxychloroquine
treatment new Crown pneumonia has short-term efficacy
2020 02 months 18 days 14:11:45
source: surging news network
2 December 18, surging news from the Wuhan University people's hospital
informed that the hospital multidisciplinary jointly carried out a
clinical trial results demonstrated that 20 cases of a new Crown
pneumonia NCP patients in the use of hydroxychloroquine after, clinical
symptoms were significantly improved and did not occur the disease
progress. The experts thus recommended that, in the currently no cure
case, may be considered in the new Crown pneumonia clinical treatment in
the application of hydroxychloroquine.
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breathing and critical syndrome medical section of the piece but the
Professor, in clinical diagnosis and treatment in found, severe new
Crown pneumonia patient may appear"inflammatory storm", i.e. a cytokine
storm. It is caused by an infection, drugs or some diseases caused by
the body's immune system over-activation, once the occurrence can be
quickly caused by single-organ or multi-organ failure, and ultimately
life-threatening.
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inhibitors, but also anti-inflammatory, anti-infection, antiviral,
optical filter, anti-coagulation and other effects, and adverse
reactions less, it is a systemic lupus erythematosus patient basis with
drugs. The study group upfront by the court of justice from 2019 12
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erythematosus patients. Thereafter at the Academy of Dermatology the
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pneumonia.
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medicine, dermatology, rheumatology joint discussions made after the
court receives the systemic lupus erythematosus patients are not
infected with the new Crown pneumonia, whether or not with their
long-term use of hydroxychloroquine about? In view of the outbreak of
urgency, and there is no effective anti-novel coronavirus drugs, and
hydroxychloroquine also has antiviral and immunomodulatory effects, the
study group proposed to carry out the hydroxychloroquine for a new Crown
virus pneumonia in patients in clinical trials.
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ethics Committee approval, the "hydroxychloroquine of the novel
coronavirus virus, COVID-19 of treatment efficacy research"registered in
the clinical trials platform registration number: ChiCTR2000029559 it.
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treatment group"into a group of 20 patients new Crown pneumonia
patients, found that the use of hydroxychloroquine after treatment, the
patient in 1-2 days of clinical symptoms significantly improved. In the
use 5 days after the review of chest CT, 19 patients had significantly
absorb better; only 1 case of patients after renal insufficiency?chest
CT there is progress, but the patient in the use of hydroxychloroquine
next day clinical symptoms have significantly improved. In addition, the
group of the ordinary type the patient did not progress to be severe,
including 1 case in 2 months 13 sunrise court.
Zhang but said that a clinical trial preliminary results confirmed the
hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of the new Crown pneumonia,
effective relief of symptoms, reversal of the severe rate, shorten the
course of the short-term efficacy. Hydroxychloroquine systemic lupus
erythematosus patients with long-term maintenance medication, the
clinical to the drug of use has a relatively rich experience. 20
patients in the 2 cases had slight rash and a slight headache adverse
reaction, adjust the drug after the are promptly relieved.
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patients although due to the cases of the few, and the results there may
be bias, but the current test data available for clinicians making
treatment programs to provide reference.Currently, Zhang but the team is
further hydroxychloroquine in severe and critically ill new Crown
pneumonia in the application of the test.
[Editor: Zhu Qian Wen PN271]
(7) Event 201 recommended that Borders remain Open, travel and trade
routes Not Closed
In its simulation of a Pandemic, shortly before Covid-19, the death toll
reached 65 million people. It would seem that the lockdowns, quarantine
and distancing are the reason the toll will be much less. But why did
Event 201 recommend keeping borders open, international travel and free
movement of people? Why isn't the MSM asking these questions? - Peter M.
Event 201 > Event 201 Recommendations
Public-private cooperation for pandemic preparedness and response
Download the recommendations (PDF)
A call to action
[...] Countries, international organizations, and global transportation
companies should work together to maintain travel and trade during
severe pandemics. Travel and trade are essential to the global economy
as well as to national and even local economies, and they should be
maintained even in the face of a pandemic. Improved decision-making,
coordination, and communications between the public and private sectors,
relating to risk, travel advisories, import/export restrictions, and
border measures will be needed. The fear and uncertainty experienced
during past outbreaks, even those limited to a national or regional
level, have sometimes led to unjustified border measures, the closure of
customer-facing businesses, import bans, and the cancellation of airline
flights and international shipping. A particularly fast-moving and
lethal pandemic could therefore result in political decisions to slow or
stop movement of people and goods, potentially harming economies already
vulnerable in the face of an outbreak. Ministries of Health and other
government agencies should work together now with international airlines
and global shipping companies to develop realistic response scenarios
and start a contingency planning process with the goal of mitigating
economic damage by maintaining key travel and trade routes during a
large-scale pandemic. Supporting continued trade and travel in such an
extreme circumstance may require the provision of enhanced disease
control measures and personal protective equipment for transportation
workers, government subsidies to support critical trade routes, and
potentially liability protection in certain cases. International
organizations including WHO, the International Air Transport
Association, and the International Civil Aviation Organization should be
partners in these preparedness and response efforts.
(8) Navajo Nation at risk 'We could get wiped out'
'We could get wiped out': American Indians have the highest rates of
diseases that make covid-19 more lethal
Conditions in Indian Country are ripe for a rapid spre of the
coronavirus. Rates of infection among Navajos is a major concern.
By Dana Hedgpeth, Darryl Fears and Gregory Scruggs
April 4, 2020 at 2:35 PM EDT
LUMMI NATION, Wash. — They hastily piled all the dumbbells and tremills
in the back of a gym to make room for 23 extra hospital beds. The beds
aren't needed yet, but on a reservation where residents suffer high
rates of diseases that exist throughout Indian Country, the Lummi Tribal
Health Clinic is taking every precaution to prepare for the dely
coronavirus.
Two thousand miles away at the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, where 11
people have tested positive for the virus as of Friday and one has died,
Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. said: "We're preparing for the worst." Health
workers plan to move hospital beds into a nearby university and a
job-training facility shuttered because of the pandemic. "This is the
worst public health crisis we've h in a generation."
At the Navajo Nation that crosses three western states, 321 people were
infected as of Saturday, an increase of 51 cases in a single day with 13
fatalities, the most in Indian Country. Police started issuing citations
to anyone who violates a stay-at-home order.
"This is a matter of life and death," President Jonathan Nez said in a
statement, "especially for those who have underlying health issues.
Before you consider going out for any reason, think of the well-being of
your elders and your children. Be mindful that the numbers we are seeing
are two to three days old due to the delay in test results for covid-19."
The coronavirus is ravaging the United States, but experts say more than
5 million people who identify as American Indian and Alaskan Native are
especially vulnerable.
"When you look at the health disparities in Indian Country — high rates
of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, asthma and then you combine that
with the overcrowded housing situation where you have a lot of people in
homes with an elder population who may be exposed or carriers — this
could be like a wildfire on a reservation and get out of control in a
heartbeat," said Kevin Allis, chief executive of the National Congress
of American Indians.
"We could get wiped out," Allis said.
About half of Native Americans live on reservations mainly in the West,
Midwest and South, according to the National Congress of American
Indians. They live in small homes, where the virus can easily spre
through families. Houses often lack electricity and running water so
washing hands is more challenging, health experts at Johns Hopkins
University said.
And they suffer disproportionately from hypertension, asthma, cancer,
heart and cardiovascular disease — malies that put them at a higher risk
of fatal complications from the coronavirus. American Indians are 600
times more likely to die of tuberculosis and nearly 200 times more
likely to die of diabetes than other groups. More than a quarter under
age 65 lack health insurance.
American Indians have a dark history with infectious disease, dating
back hundreds of years. In the last century, the 1918 flu struck the
group four times harder than the general population, according to a 2014
study published in American Indian Quarterly. At least 3,200 died,
including 72 of 80 residents at the Inupiat village of Brevig Mission,
Alaska, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Tribes "suffered hideously," the study said, citing reports from the
time. "The Navajos' situation of 1918-19 was an almost perfect storm."
Considering the conditions that me them vulnerable, the researchers
said, "it is remarkable not that so many of them were lost but that so
many survived."
Conditions a century ago were similar to what exist today in Indian
Country: multigenerational families living in close quarters, struggling
with poverty, poor nutrition and underfunded health-care programs.
"We have very limited data right now because of lack of surveillance
systems, but we are hearing disproportionate level of severity of health
impacts from coronavirus, a higher need for intubation and ICU-level
care and more severe stress," said Laura Hammitt, an associate professor
of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, which works with
the Navajo Nation.
Nez watched in frustration as the virus spre through the population of
350,000 Navajos. As infections more than tripled from 71 to about 270 in
just over a week, he said the Navajo couldn't quickly get federal
funding for American Indians allocated by Congress in early March
because he h to apply for it through the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Nez said money should have come directly to the tribe so he
could quickly buy protective gear for health workers.
"I'm pretty pissed," Nez said. "I think you really need to let the
people know the federal government again is shortchanging tribes
throughout the country. We're always at the bottom of the list. That
money has alrey been given to the states. What they want us to do is beg
for money."
From California to New York, tribal presidents and chiefs expressed
similar frustration. When the economy shut down last month, so did the
casinos and tourism that funded their way of life. Tribal gaming
operations are the 13th largest employer in the United States, with a
workforce of about 640,000.
Joe Kalt, a professor and co-director of the Harvard University Project
on American Indian Economic Development, said tribes' casino revenue is
going to "get hammered."
"Just like a county or city collecting taxes, tribes use their casino
revenue to provide for their citizens and the travel and tourism
industries are going to take a direct, immediate hit," Kalt said.
The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma closed its 10 casinos and hotel
operations more than two weeks ago and sent home its 4,000 workers with
full pay and benefits. The Cherokee are losing $40 million per month,
Hoskin said.
"If you imagine a state's entire tax base turning off like a switch,
that's what's happened to us," Hoskin said. "Our revenue stream for
education, health care, housing — all of that is tied to our
businesses." [...]
Less than equate health facilities are another concern. At the Oglala
Sioux in South Dakota, President Julian Bear Runner said the federal
Indian Health Services facilities "are not well equipped." For the
tribe's 50,000 members, there are 24 coronavirus test kits, six
ventilators and four beds set aside for quarantine at the Pine Ridge
Hospital.
"If we were to be infected or have an outbreak of 10 or more people
that's going to be overwhelming for IHS here, and they're going to be
unable to handle that," Bear Runner said.
Which is why so many tribes are walling off the outside world.
The Chippewa Cree in northern Montana erected checkpoints at the borders
to block anyone who didn't belong.
The Crow and Northern Cheyenne in that state ordered curfews.
The Oglala Sioux's president plans to enlist retired veterans to help
run checkpoints at the dozen entrances to its 3.6 million acre
reservation in South Dakota.
"We're trying to limit the amount of travel coming and going and to
educate people that aren't aware of the dangers," Bear Runner said on
March 27. "Right now, none of our tribal members have it."
No tribe has been more proactive than the Lummi. As early as Jan. 22,
when there were only a handful of confirmed cases in the United States,
clinic physicians on the reservation started ordering medical supplies,
including test kits.
"Any time there was an opening for an order, we just ordered," said
Dakotah Lane, the clinic's executive director. "We were always a week
ahe of everyone else and that gave us an vantage."
On March 3, the clinic declared a public health emergency. It started
testing early, confirming the reservation's first infection on March 12
— a worker on the reservation who lived in Seattle and wasn't a tribal
member. By March 27, the Lummi Tribal Health Clinic h conducted more
than a third of the 330 tests in surrounding Whatcom County, despite
having only two percent of its population.
Eighteen people have tested positive for the coronavirus at the clinic,
so far with no fatalities. A tribal elder at a nearby nursing home
experiencing an outbreak died in early March.
Tribal leership attribute the low infection to dogged prevention efforts
put in place before similar measures by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D).
"The public health team kept pushing — we'd be right back at the table a
day or two later — and it really started to sink in," Lummi tribal
councilman Nickolaus Lewis said.
It took time because defenses against the coronavirus — separating
elders and children — are offensive to the Indian way of life.
"Social distancing is at odds with the Cherokee culture," Hoskin said.
"It probably feels to people like we're saying break up the family, but
literally going to see elderly grandparents is putting them in peril. It
goes against the natural inclination of Cherokee Nation."
American Indian attachment to family is tighter than the general
population and isn't easily discouraged, said Allison Barlow, director
of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.
"It's such a strong reverence for elders, but it's also terrifying," she
said. "Elders have a different meaning from other communities. They are
the speakers of the native language. The meaning of this virus in tribal
communities is incredibly traumatizing."
Scruggs reported from the Lummi Nation in Washington. Staff Writers Dana
Hedgpeth and Darryl Fears reported from Washington, D.C.
(9) Ecuador hospitals overloaded with patients struggling to breathe;
"our nurses are dying"
Japan use hotels for mild cases, or keep home; China 25% unemployment;
world retreats into 'survival mode' & frugality
APRIL 3, 2020 / 1:08 PM / 2 DAYS AGO
Ecuador builds 'special camp' for coronavirus victims as bodies lie in homes
Alexandra Valencia
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's government said on Thursday it was building
a "special camp" for coronavirus victims in the country's largest city
of Guayaquil, where an outbreak has killed over 80 people, with many
bodies left at home for days.
President Lenin Moreno said the official total of 120 deaths across the
Andean nation, among the highest tallies in Latin America, was "short"
as authorities had been unable to keep up with the virus' spread.
"The reality always exceeds the number of tests and the speed with which
we can act," Moreno said in televised comments.
A unit of police officers and soldiers, tasked with burying coronavirus
victims, was now collecting as many as 150 bodies a day from homes in
Guayaquil, up from 30 several days ago, Moreno said.
Residents in Guayaquil have complained they have no way to dispose of
relatives' remains due to strict quarantine and curfew measures designed
to prevent spread of the virus. Last week, authorities said they had
removed 100 corpses from homes in the port city.
Several locals have taken to social media to appeal for help, posting
videos of dead relatives lying in their residences. Others families left
bodies in the street for authorities to collect.
Moreno said the government expected the total number of deaths in
Guayaquil's surrounding province of Guayas, home to 3.8 million
Ecuadoreans, to reach between 2,500 and 3,500. "We're building a special
camp for the fallen," he said.
Guayaquil's hospitals are overloaded with patients struggling to breathe
and a growing number of health workers were also getting infected, said
Liliana Triana, head of Guayas' nursing school. The government is
urgently recruiting 700 new doctors and nurses, chiefly in the city.
"We're sending out an S.O.S. because our nurses are dying," Triana told
Reuters, adding they had five deaths and 70 infections among the
school's ranks.
Writing by Angus Berwick; Editing by Richard Chang
(10) World retreats into 'survival mode'; the return of Frugality
Coronavirus: from China to the US, consumer behaviour radically altered
as world retreats into 'survival mode'
The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed patterns of consumer
psychology across the world, experts say
Complexity of the crisis, the number of variables and its magnitude make
a consumer recovery unprecedented and difficult to predict
Cissy Zhou and Mark Magnier
South China Morning Post
Published: 1:42pm, 1 Apr, 2020
[...] Before the coronavirus crisis began rippling through the global
economy, Susan Wang had big plans for 2020.
Not only was she going to buy a new Apple MacBook and iPad, plus a
projector so she could host friends for movies at home, but she was set
on making a career move.
"I was planning to change my job, but my headhunter told me that all
recruitment has been postponed to the second quarter," said the
27-year-old who works for a British company in Hong Kong.
"Our headquarters in London has a plan for redundancy, too. It is better
to save some money in case I get laid off."
As Covid-19 spreads across the world, sending stock markets reeling and
prompting big companies to slash jobs, Wang has become increasingly
frugal like scores of other consumers from China to the United States.
She has stopped eating at restaurants and now tries to keep her weekly
food bill under HK$500 (US$64), whereas in the past she wouldn't think
twice about spending HK$100 per meal.
Amid mounting uncertainty, the coronavirus pandemic – which has claimed
the lives of more than 41,000 people and infected at least 842,000
worldwide – is fundamentally changing consumer behaviour in Asia, Europe
and North America.
Consumer experts said the 2009 global financial crisis, the Great
Depression that started in 1929 and the September 11 terrorist attacks
give some clues about how and when global consumption might recover. But
the complexity of this crisis, the number of variables and its magnitude
make this consumer recovery unprecedented and difficult to predict, they
added.
"The coronavirus pandemic has completely changed patterns of consumer
behaviour all over the world. People are afraid, and when people are
afraid, they go into survival mode," said Jesse Garcia, a Los
Angeles-based consumer psychologist, who is also the CEO of market
consulting firm My Marketing Auditors.
(11) Financial Times calls for Socialism, reversing the policy direction
of last 40 years
Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract
Radical reforms are required to forge a society that will work for all
The editorial board
April 3, 2020
If there is a silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that it has
injected a sense of togetherness into polarised societies. But the
virus, and the economic lockdowns needed to combat it, also shine a
glaring light on existing inequalities — and even create new ones.
Beyond defeating the disease, the great test all countries will soon
face is whether current feelings of common purpose will shape society
after the crisis. As western leaders learnt in the Great Depression, and
after the second world war, to demand collective sacrifice you must
offer a social contract that benefits everyone.
Today's crisis is laying bare how far many rich societies fall short of
this ideal. Much as the struggle to contain the pandemic has exposed the
unpreparedness of health systems, so the brittleness of many countries'
economies has been exposed, as governments scramble to stave off mass
bankruptcies and cope with mass unemployment. Despite inspirational
calls for national mobilisation, we are not really all in this together.
The economic lockdowns are imposing the greatest cost on those already
worst off. Overnight millions of jobs and livelihoods have been lost in
hospitality, leisure and related sectors, while better paid knowledge
workers often face only the nuisance of working from home. Worse, those
in low-wage jobs who can still work are often risking their lives — as
carers and healthcare support workers, but also as shelf stackers,
delivery drivers and cleaners.
Governments' extraordinary budget support for the economy, while
necessary, will in some ways make matters worse. Countries that have
allowed the emergence of an irregular and precarious labour market are
finding it particularly hard to channel financial help to workers with
such insecure employment. Meanwhile, vast monetary loosening by central
banks will help the asset-rich. Behind it all, underfunded public
services are creaking under the burden of applying crisis policies.
The way we wage war on the virus benefits some at the expense of others.
The victims of Covid-19 are overwhelmingly the old. But the biggest
victims of the lockdowns are the young and active, who are asked to
suspend their education and forgo precious income. Sacrifices are
inevitable, but every society must demonstrate how it will offer
restitution to those who bear the heaviest burden of national efforts.
Radical reforms — reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last
four decades — will need to be put on the table. Governments will have
to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public
services as investments rather than liabilities, and look for ways to
make labour markets less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the
agenda; the privileges of the elderly and wealthy in question. Policies
until recently considered eccentric, such as basic income and wealth
taxes, will have to be in the mix.
The taboo-breaking measures governments are taking to sustain businesses
and incomes during the lockdown are rightly compared to the sort of
wartime economy western countries have not experienced for seven
decades. The analogy goes still further.
The leaders who won the war did not wait for victory to plan for what
would follow. Franklin D Roosevelt and Winston Churchill issued the
Atlantic Charter, setting the course for the United Nations, in 1941.
The UK published the Beveridge Report, its commitment to a universal
welfare state, in 1942. In 1944, the Bretton Woods conference forged the
postwar financial architecture. That same kind of foresight is needed
today. Beyond the public health war, true leaders will mobilise now to
win the peace.
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