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Amy Klobuchar: DACA Illegal Aliens ‘Are Our Future’
“AIMLESS AMY KLOBUCHAR” declares “DACA ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE OUR FUTURE!” Who agrees with THAT WISDOM?
Two Years After Handing It The Biggest Ever Bailout Loan, IMF Finds Argentina Debt Levels Are "Unsustainable"
"Back in the summer of 2018, when the IMF handed Argentina an unprecedented $56 billion bailout loan, the largest in IMF history, some warned that this is a case of deja vu similar to the 2001/2002 precedent when Argentina eventually defaulted on its foreign creditors, while humiliating the IMF which had signed off on Argentina's economic policies that ended up in bankruptcy court. The IMF, however, was confident that this time would be different, and rushed - under now-ECB head Christine Lagarde - to hand to Argentina the greatest amount of money the IMF had ever disbursed to a struggling nation."
Note: About 17% of this loss is funded by the US Taxpayer if Argentina does not give the bondholders a haircut.
So much we don't know and only 5 things we do know.
"1. China is fighting for its life. The death-toll or even containment is not truly visible in any numbers as yet. This will have a tremendous impact on supply lines and not only on China’s economy but all parts of the international supply chain, upstream and downstream."
The key takeaways are the last 5 paragraphs of this article.
Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro
" In this study, we evaluated the antiviral efficiency of five FAD-approved drugs including ribavirin, penciclovir, nitazoxanide, nafamostat, chloroquine and two well-known broad-spectrum antiviral drugs remdesivir (GS-5734) and favipiravir (T-705) against a clinical isolate of 2019-nCoV in vitro."
Key Takeaway: "Our findings reveal that remdesivir and chloroquine are highly effective in the control of 2019-nCoV infection in vitro. Since these compounds have been used in human patients with a safety track record and shown to be effective against various ailments, we suggest that they should be assessed in human patients suffering from the novel coronavirus disease."
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"While China does everything in its power do demonstrate that the number of new cases in both Hubei province where the coronavirus epicenter of Wuhan is located, and across China, is declining with every passing day in a sign that the epidemic is being ringfenced and is gradually coming under control - whether people on the ground actually believe the government which for at least the first three weeks of the breakout was lying and arresting anyone who spread facts about the deadly disease is a different matter entirely and will manifest itself in how quickly China can return to normal - attention has gradually moved to the spread of the virus offshore, where the number of new cases is starting to turn exponential."
Key Takeaway: "The quarantine process failed," Fauci said. "I'd like to sugarcoat it and try to be diplomatic about it, but it failed. People were getting infected on that ship. Something went awry in the process of the quarantining on that ship. I don't know what it was, but a lot of people got infected on that ship."
The Key Question to ask is why? And not who to blame!
Disease modelers gaze into their computers to see the future of Covid-19, and it isn’t good
“Our overarching goal is to minimize the spread and burden of infectious disease,” said Sara Del Valle, an applied mathematician and disease modeler at Los Alamos National Laboratory. By calculating the effects of countermeasures such as social isolation, travel bans, vaccination, and using face masks, modelers can “understand what’s going on and inform policymakers,” she said. For instance, although many face masks are too porous to keep viral particles out (or in), their message of possible contagion here! “keeps people away from you” and reduces disease spread, Del Valle said. “I’m a fan of face masks.”
"In the current outbreak, researchers are building models not only to peek into the future but also to reality-check the present. Working backwards from confirmed infections in countries other than mainland China, researchers at Imperial College London who advise the World Health Organization estimated that Wuhan had 1,000 to 9,700 symptomatic cases as of Jan. 18. Three days later, all of mainland China had officially reported 440 cases, supporting the concerns of global health officials that China was undercounting."