Some hellish Monday news from Russia.
Yesterday I wrote about the total ban on leaving home in Moscow, and today absolutely the same ban is imposed in St. Petersburg (from March 31), as well as in the Leningrad region (and in my city too) and many other regions of Russia.
Gulag all over Russia!
Well, let’s see how they (the authorities) manage to organize all this. I already wrote before that I am very skeptical of all these TOTAL BANS. No prohibition will work if people themselves do not voluntarily want to abide by it. This is a test for lice (as we say) for people in Russia
 
For me, it's a little strange that Jeff Bezos sold so much stock just before the crash. Lots of people were wondering about this unusual move...

Added: USA, Dec 19 2019 $2.5 Billion Dump: Travis Kalanick Has Sold 92% of His Uber Shares
Update:
USA, JAN 31 - Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn $4.1bn stock of Amazon just before Covid-19 Collapse


Corona Virus timeline

CHINA Nov, 2002:
After its experience with the SARS outbreak in Guangdong Province in 2002, China implemented a rapid response protocol for infectious diseases. The protocol empowered the Health Ministry to assemble professional and managerial help from across the country, established an emergency response coordinating team, prepared funding and authorization for supplies, equipment and emergency health care facilities, anticipating that existing hospitals would be overwhelmed.

USA April, 2004: Patent Application

USA Nov, 2006: Patent SARS coronavirus. Abstract: An outbreak of a virulent respiratory virus, now known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), was identified in Hong Kong, China and a growing number of countries around the world in 2003. The invention relates to nucleic acids and proteins from the SARS coronavirus. These nucleic acids and proteins can be used in the preparation and manufacture of vaccine formulations, diagnostic reagents, kits, etc. The invention also provides methods for treating SARS by administering small molecule antiviral compounds, as well as methods of identifying potent small molecules for the treatment of SARS.

USA Sep 2008: Though the first cases of H1N1 swine flu were reported in California and Texas in late March, 2009, subsequent genetic analysis suggests that it began six months before it was first detected, in September, 2008, at the start of the ‘flu season. The CDC admits, below, that earlier Covid-19 cases went undetected, too

FIVE YEAR GAP

UK, Saudi Arabia, Jordan Feb/Mar 2013 New Mystery Virus kills 9th Victim, This virus is in the family of coronaviruses, a new virus, previously unknown to mankind, Symptoms of the disease consist of respiratory distress, fever, coughing and difficulty in breathing.

USA Jul, 2015: Patent application lodged for attenuated coronavirus by The Pirbright Institute (UK), application granted November 2018.

USA Jun, 2017: World Bank issues Pandemic Bonds for emergency pandemic financing and pandemic insurance.

USA May, 2018: The President Fires the entire US Pandemic Response Team and does not replace it.

USA Nov 2018: Patent application for attenuated coronavirus (see July 2015) granted.

USA Apr, 2019: An outbreak of severe vaping-associated lung illness is exclusively confined to the United States, despite the fact that the majority of vapers live outside the US.

USA Jul 3, 2019: The CDC halts research at Fort Detrick, citing “national security reasons” for not releasing information about its decision.

USA Jul 14, 2019: Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP investigation. Public Health Agency of Canada describes it as a possible ‘policy breach,’ no risk to Canadian public. The first Chinese to discover or warn about the Covid-19 outbreak?

AUSTRALIA Aug, 2019: Australia Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza released.

USA Aug, 2019: First Vaping Death Reported by Health Officials “Amid the lack of information, investigators scrambled to find shared links to the respiratory problems. Officials said earlier this week that many patients, most of whom were adolescents or young adults, had described difficulty breathing, chest pain, vomiting and fatigue,” the precise symptoms of Covid-19 infection.

USA Sep 2019: Recently (2020), a team of Chinese researchers claimed to demonstrate that Covid-19 was born in September, 2019. The British researchers who had discovered the earlier H1N1 date are not convinced.

USA Oct 18, 2019: The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. Event 201 simulated an "outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic that leaves 65 million dead.

CHINA Oct 27, 2019 At a peak of international tension and the ‘flu season in the northern hemisphere, on the eve of China’s biggest travel season, 300 American military servicemen visit Wuhan for the International Military Games.

USA/CHINA Dec 2019: Chinese researchers in the USA informed China’s Health Ministry of a novel Coronavirus outbreak there, triggering a readiness alert nationwide. The WHO describes what happened next, “In the face of a previously unknown virus, China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile, and aggressive disease containment effort in history…China’s bold approach to contain the rapid spread of this new respiratory pathogen has changed the course of a rapidly escalating and deadly epidemic.”

USA Dec, 19 2019. $2.5 Billion Dump: Travis Kalanick Has Sold 92% of His Uber Shares. Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick has unloaded more than 90% of his shares in the ride-hailing company

GERMANY Dec 25-Dec 31, 2019: Charité (clinic in Berlin) starts developing test for the new Corona virus after first informal information reaches them. Later sends prototype to China, "unnamed colleagues" in China confirm that it works. WHO then publishes the test on its website as the first test. China develops own test, but demand is high elsewhere - even in Southeast Asia.

CHINA Dec 30, 2019: China’s national CDC notifies the WHO

CHINA Dec 31, 2019: WHO reports Zhang’s discovery to the world.

MALAYSIA Jan 5, 2020: Malaysia’s Assistant to the Prime Minister, Matthias Chang, speculates that the US is waging biological warfare on China.

USA Jan 6: Infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, agrees, “We are on track to have a season like the 2017-2018 season,” when 80,000 Americans died of flu complications. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice for Wuhan, China due to the spreading coronavirus

CHINA January 7: China identifies the virus as 2019-nCov and confirms it five days later. President Xi tells officials that the country is on a ‘war footing’

USA Jan 7: The CDC established a coronavirus incident management system to better share and respond to information about the virus

USA Jan 11: The CDC issued a Level I travel health notice for Wuhan, China

CHINA Jan 13: China makes the first 2019-nCov test kits available.

USA Jan 17: The CDC began implementing public health entry screening at the 3 U.S. airports that received the most travelers from Wuhan – San Francisco, New York JFK, and Los Angeles

USA Jan 19: A 35-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington, with a 4-day history of cough and subjective fever. He disclosed that he had returned to Washington State on January 15 after traveling to visit family in Wuhan, China. Apart from a history of hypertriglyceridemia, the patient was an otherwise healthy nonsmoker. On January 20, 2020, the CDC confirmed that the patient’s nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs tested positive for 2019-nCoV. By Jan. 30, the patient’s symptoms had resolved, according to a New England Journal of Medicine paper. Snohomish County officials allowed him to leave home isolation three weeks later.

USA Jan 20: Dr Fauci announces the National Institutes of Health is already working on the development of a vaccine for the coronavirus

USA Jan 21: The CDC activated its emergency operations center to provide ongoing support to the coronavirus response

USA Jan 23: The CDC sought a “special emergency authorization” from the FDA to allow states to use its newly developed coronavirus test

CHINA Jan 25: Construction begins on a 1,000 bed intensive care hospital in Wuhan.

CHINA Jan 26: China extends Spring Festival holiday to contain the outbreak.

USA Jan 27: The CDC issued a level III travel health notice urging Americans to avoid all nonessential travel to China due to the coronavirus

USA Jan 28: Harvard Chemistry Professor Arrested, Handcuffed, And Accused Of Lying About Ties To China. Charles Lieber, Chair of Harvard’s Department of Chemical Biology, led a Chinese research group focusing on the use of nanotechnology to identify viruses.

USA Jan 29: The White House announced the formation of the Coronavirus Task Force to help monitor and contain the spread of the virus and provide updates to the President

USA Jan 31: The Trump Administration:Declared the coronavirus a public health emergency; Announced Chinese travel restrictions; Suspended entry into the United States for foreign nationals who pose a risk of transmitting the coronavirus. The Department of Homeland Security took critical steps to funnel all flights from China into just 7 domestic U.S. airports

USA Jan 31: Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse, series of sales began on Jan. 31, the filings show, and continued through Feb. 3, and were executed under a pre-arranged trading plan. In total, Bezos sold 905,456 shares in the company for $1.84 billion, according to the filings. In next week total sum was $4.1bn

USA Feb 3: The CDC had a team ready to travel to China to obtain critical information on the novel coronavirus, but were in the U.S. awaiting permission to enter by the Chinese government

USA Feb 4: President Trump vowed in his State of the Union Address to “take all necessary steps” to protect Americans from the coronavirus

CHINA Feb 5: First patients moved into new 1,000 bed intensive care hospital.

USA Feb 6: The CDC began shipping CDC-Developed test kits for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus to U.S. and international labs

USA Feb 9: The White House Coronavirus Task Force briefed governors from across the nation at the National Governors’ Association Meeting in Washington

USA Feb 11: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expanded a partnership with Janssen Research & Development to “expedite the development” of a coronavirus vaccine

USA Feb 12: The U.S. shipped test kits for the 2019 novel coronavirus to approximately 30 countries who lacked the necessary reagents and other materials; The CDC was prepared to travel to China but had yet to receive permission from the Chinese government

USA Feb 14: The CDC began working with five labs to conduct “community-based influenza surveillance” to study and detect the spread of coronavirus

USA Feb 18: HHS announced it would engage with Sanofi Pasteur in an effort to quickly develop a coronavirus vaccine and to develop treatment for coronavirus infections

CHINA Feb 23. Chinese scientists found genomic evidence that the seafood market in Wuhan was not the source of the novel coronavirus. Their genetic data suggests the virus was introduced from elsewhere and had already circulated widely among humans in Wuhan before December 2019, probably beginning in mid- to late November.

USA Feb 24: The Trump Administration sent a letter to Congress requesting at least $2.5 billion to help combat the spread of the coronavirus

USA Feb 26: President Trump discussed coronavirus containment efforts with Indian PM Modi and updated the press on his Administration’s containment efforts in the U.S. during his state visit to India

CHINA Feb 27: On Taiwan TV a prominent virologist explained flow charts suggesting that the coronavirus originated in the US.

USA Feb 29: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed certified labs to develop and begin testing coronavirus testing kits while reviewing pending applications. The Trump Administration:Announced a level 4 travel advisory to areas of Italy and South Korea; Barred all travel to Iran; Barred the entry of foreign citizens who visited Iran in the last 14 days

USA Mar 3: The Director General of the WHO announced: "While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease. Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected." This was patently false. The coronavirus mortality rate reported by the media as stated by Dr. Ghebreyesus is completely inaccurate as all subsequent numbers show. The CDC lifted federal restrictions on coronavirus testing to allow any American to be tested for coronavirus, “subject to doctor’s orders.” The White House announced President Trump donated his fourth quarter salary to fight the coronavirus!

CHINA Mar 4: February rail freight loadings rise 4.5% YOY.

USA Mar 4: The Trump Administration announced the purchase of $500 million N95 respirators over the next 18 months to respond to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Secretary Azar announced that HHS was transferring $35 million to the CDC to help state and local communities that have been impacted most by the coronavirus

CHINA Mar 5: Shipments to foreign JIT customers upgraded: government subsidizes upgrades from sea to rail delivery and from rail to air delivery.

USA Mar 6: Question: How did the virus come to the United States? Answer: “The first known patients in the U.S. contracted the virus while traveling in other countries or after exposure to someone who had been to China or one of the other affected areas. But now, a few cases here cannot be traced to these risk factors. This is concerning because it suggests the illness may be spreading across communities for which the source of infection is unknown, which we call community spread/transmission. Dr. Emily Landon, spokesperson, U Chicago School of Medicine. President Trump signed an $8.3 billion bill to fight the coronavirus outbreak. The bill provides $7.76 billion to federal, state, & local agencies to combat the coronavirus and authorizes an additional $500 million in waivers for Medicare telehealth restrictions

USA Mar 9: HHS staffers often weren’t informed about coronavirus developments because they didn’t have adequate clearance. He said he was told that the matters were classified “because it had to do with China.”

USA Mar 9: President Trump called on Congress to pass a payroll tax cut over coronavirus

USA Mar 10: President Trump and VP Pence met with top health insurance companies and secured a commitment to waive co-pays for coronavirus testing

USA Mar 11: White House classifies coronavirus deliberations. The meetings at HHS were held in a secure area called a “Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility,” or SCIF, usually reserved for intelligence and military operations. HHS has SCIFs because theoretically it would play a major role in biowarfare or chemical attacks.

USA Mar 11: President Trump: Announced travel restrictions on foreigners who had visited Europe in the last 14 days; Directed the Small Business Administration to issue low-interest loans to affected small businesses and called on congress to increase this fund by $50bil

CHINA Mar 10: Government organizes and subsidizes bus, rail and air transport for two hundred million migrant workers to return to urban jobs.

USA Mar 12,: CDC director Robert Redfield admits to a House Oversight Committee that some Americans who were diagnosed as dying from influenza tested positive for Covid-19 posthumously.

CHINA Mar 13: Chinese FM’s Lijian Zhao demands US authorities reveal what they’re hiding about the origins of Covid-19. “When did patient zero begin in the US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make your data public! The US owes us an explanation!”

CHINA Mar 16: Ninety percent of businesses expected to resume full operations. All Apple stores open.

USA Mar 18: HHS temporarily suspended a regulation that prevents doctors from practicing across state lines

CHINA Mar 19: No new corona virus cases.

USA Mar 19: President Trump Announced: Very encouraging progress shown by anti-malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine for fighting coronavirus; Carnival Cruise Lines will make ships available for use as hospitals in impacted areas to use for non-coronavirus patients; Vice President Pence announced tens of thousands of ventilators have been identified that can be converted to treat patients; The State Department issued a global level 4 health advisory, telling Americans to avoid all international travel due to coronavirus; President Trump directed FEMA to take the lead on the Federal Government’s coronavirus response & visited FEMA HQ with Vice President Pence for a video call with Governors

USA Mar 20: The U.S. and Mexico agreed to mutually restrict nonessential cross-border traffic; Secretary Mnuchin announced at the direction of President Trump that tax day will be moved from April 15 to July 15 for all taxpayers and businesses; President Trump: Spoke with Sen. Schumer about coronavirus response & stimulus measures; Held a call with over 12,000 small business owners to discuss relief efforts; Announced the CDC will invoke Title 42 to provide border patrol with tools to secure the borders. The Department of Education announced it will: Not enforce standardized testing requirements for the remainder of the school year; allow federal student loan borrowers to stop payments without penalty for 60 days. Secretary Azar announced: FEMA is coordinating and assisting coronavirus testing at labs across the country; The CDC is suspending all illegal entries to the country based on the public health threat, via Section 362 of the Public Health & Security Act; sent a letter to all 50 Governors announcing that the federal government is buying and making available 200,000 testing swabs
 
My sentiment is that for many people and forum members whatever proof or description i give they don't believe anyway. I understand because is better and safer to think (and 1 month ago i feel exactly the same) that all is an exageration and this virus is less than a cold.
I am used to this. The world is full of people than know more than me in medical term and that don't need a medical degree to make or confute diagnosis. No problem for me. If my contribute is not useful and create fear i would stop posting.
But i am only telling the truth of facts. Personally i prefer to hear the truth. If 1 month ago a chinese doctor have had told me what happened in Wuhan area and the clinical characteristic of the virus i would have done some different choices and action and maybe now i would not be in quarantine with coronavirus..

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Have you started taking any meds for the condition? Sodium bicarbonate? Anything? Any symptoms?
 
My daughter works in a private hospital and the carers are regularly supplied with masks, gel etc.. The public hospital is located next to the private, the two buildings touch each other. The situation is not the same in both hospitals. The public lacks masks, outfits such as over-sleeves , etc... Nurses decided to bring their own masks, this was refused and for those who violated this order, they would be "punished" and forced to join the service of patients infected with covid19. The consequence is that the replacements no longer come, the services are understaffed ans the nurses and nursing assistants are at the edge of the nerve


They are being "punished"??? This is sick. This is a neat example of "obey or else"...
I have a sister who is a nurse-in-training. Many students in nursing schools have been asked to work at hospitals. She has been left alone to care for patients with covid19 who where in a critical state (all of them had other illnesses). She was completly terrified, not so much because of the responsibility, but because many nurses (some with +10 years of experience) were completly at lost.
Now that she saw that, she takes high doses of Vit C, because she refuses to step a foot in an hospital as a patient. The irony...
 
Coronavirus: Police turning parts of UK into 'dystopia' after prosecuting shoppers and people driving 'due to borboredom'
WOW! Such title in MSM:jawdrop:
"This kind of thing is contributing to this dystopian sense of society where we risk adding significant mental health concerns on top of the existing fears around our physical health.

"It is very important that the police retain public trust as we face this crisis but overzealous actions such as these - along with the use of drones and roadblocks - will call into question the integrity of the police and they will rapidly lose credibility."
Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove previously told Sky News it was "unlikely" police would be pulling cars over just for driving.

And while the legislation says no person should leave their home "without reasonable excuse", it does not prohibit "multiple people from the same household going to the shops".
 
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Same thing here. We had rain after that we had snow and thunder and lightening during the time it was snowing. I don't remember having seen that during that period of the year.
Last night, I woke to a fairly heavy rain splattering on the roof of the RV coach that has been my home for the past year. I smiled remembering previous failed attempts of attack ending with a heavy rain. It was almost like quite a few people took the attack more seriously, taking the initiative to do what they can, in a way that suits them, to protect themselves and loved ones from attacks. It was almost like a brake of some sort was applied, fairly strongly.

Possibly it was wishful thinking on my part, I am not quite sure. Many times trusting in these feelings have proven them to be the correct action, in the past.

Last evening, as near as I could estimate, a fairly significant attack was taking place. All day the low level Jets were crisscrossing the sky leaving trails stretching back as far as could be seen. The trails remained, nearly blocking the sunshine. With the significant reduction in air traffic these days, it became fairly obvious that something was happening.

At any rate, despite medication, my heart was racing when I went to bed. My flight response was in high gear. Thoughts of not waking up in this realm went through my head. I woke up to p during a dream that some lizard type was frenching me, disguised as someone I knew. It was like the life was being sucked out of me. Crazy dream and shortly after the rain started to fall.
 
A crazy thought comes to my mind. On a lot of articles posted on this thread and this video I just saw post by Joe (see below) it seems to me that people are being taken to the hospital supposedly because of the virus and on the other hand, people / articles report that oddly the hospitals are empty, so the logical question that follows is where did all these people go, or were they taken away ?

The doctors who stayed at our the gesthouse last week told me that after a brief examination, people who have mild symptoms (the majority) are sent back home. So this could explain your question, at least here in France.
 
This TIME Magazine article from 2017 shows that Bill Gates and his CEPI was already working on a vaccine three years ago.


Some interesting pieces:
On a hyperconnected planet rife with hyperinfectious diseases, experts warn we aren't ready to keep America--and the world--safe from the next pandemic
Across China, the virus that could spark the next pandemic is already circulating
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It’s a bird flu called H7N9, and true to its name, it mostly infects poultry. Lately, however, it’s started jumping from chickens to humans more readily–bad news, because the virus is a killer. During a recent spike, 88% of people infected got pneumonia, three-quarters ended up in intensive care with severe respiratory problems, and 41% died.

What H7N9 can’t do–yet–is spread easily from person to person, but experts know that could change. The longer the virus spends in humans, the better the chance that it might mutate to become more contagious–and once that happens, it’s only a matter of time before it hops a plane out of China and onto foreign soil, where it could spread through the air like wildfire.

So we knew a few years back that this will be a Chinese virus?

And while a mutant bug that moves from chickens in China to humans in cities around the world may seem like something out of a Hollywood script, the danger the world faces from H7N9–and countless other pathogens with the potential to cause enormous harm–isn’t science fiction. Rather, it’s the highly plausible nightmare scenario that should be keeping the President up at night.

Too late because even as the scientific and international communities have begun to take the threat of pandemics more seriously, global health experts–including Bill Gates, World Health Organization director Dr. Margaret Chan and former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, to name just a few–warn that nowhere near enough is being done to prepare, leaving the U.S. scarily exposed. That’s because the system for responding to infectious disease is broken. So broken that it recently prompted Gates and his wife Melinda to put their weight behind a major public-private initiative called the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). The Gates Foundation alone will devote $100 million over the next five years to CEPI, which will help speed the development of vaccines against known diseases, like MERS, while also investing in next-generation technologies that can counter future threats.

So if they started this three years ago with $100M in financing, they are only now starting to collaborate with GSK?

But coming back to the TIME article...

Since President Donald Trump took office, key government positions remain unfilled, including a new director for the CDC.

The consequences of a major pandemic would be world-changing. The 1918 flu pandemic killed 50 million to 100 million people–at the top end, more than the combined total casualties of World Wars I and II–and for a slew of reasons, humans are arguably more vulnerable today than they were 100 years ago. First of all, there are simply more of us.

Huh?

Climate change also plays a role as warmer temperatures expand the range of disease-carrying animals and insects we’re exposed to, like the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit Zika. And if nature isn’t bloody-minded enough, genetic-engineering tools have made it easier for terrorist groups or lone madmen to unleash custom-designed killer germs.

Some lone madman has a gene editing lab in a cave somewhere?

In the case of a new pandemic, modern medicine should provide some protection. But experts say it’s more likely that we’ll be caught without a vaccine to prevent it or a drug ready to treat it.

This guy should try to predict the numbers to the lottery!

There are troubling economic implications as well.

Good one...

One saving grace is that the scientific understanding of that risk is better than ever. Research groups are working feverishly to predict the next pandemic before it even happens. They’re cataloging threats and employing next-generation genetic-sequencing tools to speed the discovery of new or mysterious viruses. They’re helping identify and track outbreaks as they happen.

It seems they are still close to the accuracy of their climate science colleagues?

At the UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, Chiu and his team can map blood samples against more than 8 million distinct DNA sequences to see if they match any of the known pathogens on file.

Oh, wow, these would be the first guys to go to when there is a new or mysterious virus, no?

Hmm... interestingly enough there is not much communication from these UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center guys related to Covid, other than this announcement from Feb 21, 2020,


which doesn't really say much other than:

Not surprisingly, the global influenza market is vast, valued at about $6 billion and is expected to reach nearly $6.5 billion by 2022, according to BCC Research.

Oh, great, there's a lot of money in it!

And then they show this beautiful infographica about the influenza market (I bet nobody being scared of the plandemic now is thinking in terms of its market share):

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And look who shows up in the first reference: Anthony S. Fauci.

But again I digress, let's go back to the TIME article.

Nearly all the new infectious diseases that scientists know about today originate in animals, and so will the emerging diseases of tomorrow. HIV began in chimpanzees, SARS in Chinese horseshoe bats, influenza in aquatic birds. At some point the animal pathogens jump the species barrier to humans, an event disease experts call a spillover. Spillovers have always occurred, but the rapid environmental change wreaked by humans in recent years has accelerated the spread.

But what if there were a way to prevent those spillovers from ever occurring? That’s the aim of PREDICT, an ambitious program designed to rapidly detect and respond to emerging pathogens. Since it was launched in 2009, PREDICT, which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has helped discover nearly 1,000 new viruses in animals and humans.

Oh, PREDICT seems to have been shut down in Oct 2019, maybe another candidate for the Timeline?


Back to the TIME article again...

“Outbreaks are like fires,” says Dr. Eddy Rubin, chief science officer at Metabiota, a San Francisco–based startup that uses big data to analyze outbreaks and is a partner of PREDICT. “If you’re able to understand where there is a greater likelihood of their occurring and detect them early on, you can shift the impact.”

Guess what, Metabiota is currently tracking 58 different epidemics


Back to the TIME article again...

Another piece of the pandemic-prevention puzzle is the Global Virome Project, an ambitious strategy to identify, characterize and sequence the nearly half-million viruses that have the potential to spill over. The scientists behind the project estimate that it would cost $3.4 billion to complete. It’s a huge amount of money in the shoestring world of animal health–PREDICT, by comparison, is funded at $100 million–but its proponents believe that the project would easily pay for itself many times over if it could successfully stop a single pandemic.

The Global Virome Project, which has been championed by leading infectious-disease experts around the world, is still almost entirely aspirational–though so was the Human Genome Project when it was first proposed by academic biologists years before its formal government launch. But if deep cuts to USAID’s budget are made, there may not be sustained funding for the current work being done in the field–let alone something even more ambitious. “This ties into global security,” says Jon Epstein, a vice president at EcoHealth Alliance, another PREDICT partner. “Hopefully they’ll see the value in that.”

I guess EcoHealth Alliance and the Global Virome Project need a separate deep dive to untangle, but it is interesting to note that the Global Virome Project has been around for 10 years and they say they predicted the pandemic and feature on the first page of their site a TED Talk:


What if we could immunize the world against pandemics?
— Dr. Jonna Mazet, Global Virome Project

For all the advances in finding dangerous pathogens, the simple truth is that neither the world as a whole nor the U.S. in particular is at all prepared to handle a major infectious-disease pandemic–and a significant reason for that is a failure to invest in things now that can keep us safe later. The middle of the 20th century was a golden age for vaccines as scientific heroes like Dr. Jonas Salk developed drugs to protect against life-threatening diseases like polio. Yet today, while the worldwide pharmaceutical market is worth more than $1 trillion, the market for vaccines makes up at most 3% of it.

Again, it is not about people's welfare, it is about the market share of big pharma.

That’s why the Gates Foundation, Britain’s Wellcome Trust charity and several governments launched CEPI this year. Beyond funding research to develop vaccines against existing threats, the CEPI fund–which aims to raise and spend $1 billion over the next five years–will also support research into entirely new ways to develop vaccines.

This means that after spending $600 Million they were not able to predict the current event, so we can prepare for it and couldn't find a cure, so we need to give them more money.

No disease better illustrates the need for a next-gen vaccine than influenza. “We need to do better with flu vaccine,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. A healthy market exists for the seasonal-flu vaccine, but because the influenza virus constantly mutates, a new version has to be made each year, a process that takes months. That lag could be deadly during a severe influenza pandemic. Humans have little to no immune protection against new flu strains, which then spread rapidly around the world and–sometimes–cause severe disease. And though the flu usually isn’t deadly for otherwise healthy people, it can be, as the 1918 pandemic showed. While flu vaccines didn’t exist in 1918, they did in 2009, when a new flu strain jumped from pigs to people and ultimately killed an estimated 203,000 people around the world, a majority of them under the age of 65. Efforts were made to fast-track a vaccine, but the first doses weren’t available for 26 weeks, and it would have taken a year to produce vaccines for every American.

Since it can require years of testing and well over $1 billion to successfully develop a single vaccine against a single pathogen, drug companies have increasingly shied away from the business. “There’s just no incentive for any company to make pandemic vaccine to store on shelves,” says Dr. Trevor Mundel, president of the global health division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

And now we can get it done in a short term and we don't need incentives?

Make no mistake: for all our high-tech isolation units, top-tier doctors and world-class scientists, the U.S. health care system is not ready for the stresses of a major pandemic. As the infectious-disease expert Osterholm notes, a pandemic is not like other natural disasters, which tend to be confined to a single location or region. Disease can strike everywhere at once. In the event of a pandemic, even the best hospitals could rapidly run out of beds and mechanical ventilators.

Wait, what?? I thought we were talking in generic terms about pandemics, how did you arrive to mechanical ventilators? Did you assume that the next pandemic will cause respiratory problems requiring a ventilator?

The U.S. does have a national strategy for pandemics, and there have been welcome steps taken since the bioterrorism fears that followed 9/11. In February, the military think tank DARPA launched a program aimed at producing effective medicines within 60 days of the identification of a new, pandemic-causing pathogen. But the country hasn’t been truly tested yet.

Melissa Harvey, who heads the division of national health care preparedness programs at HHS, is in charge of helping U.S. hospitals get ready for the next big threat. She notes that while hospitals were able to handle a handful of sick people during Ebola, a truly major crisis would be a different story. “In a situation like the 1918 pandemic, the expectation is that the resources are not going to be there for everyone.

Again, we are linking to an influenza event... If those guys had so much foresight, how come we were still unprepared?

If you look at the numbers, it’s clear that right now the U.S. government doesn’t spend in a way that says fighting pandemics is a consistent national priority. Instead, money gets issued on a disease-by-disease basis, often after a crisis has started. During Ebola, for instance, Congress appropriated more than $5 billion in much-needed emergency spending–but it did so nearly five months after international health groups had called it a crisis.

I cannot agree more, let's take a look at the top spending category, shall we?

Experts say the U.S. needs sustained funding for pandemic preparedness that extends out for years. That kind of money could help push vaccine candidates across the valley of death from R&D to commercialization as well as fund entirely new vaccine technologies. It could also ensure a steady supply of doctors and nurses trained to deal with pandemics at home, support U.S. efforts to build defenses abroad and provide a fund that could be easily tapped in the event of an outbreak.

Will Trump do that? His proposed budget from March contained some encouraging signs, including a pledge to create a new federal emergency-response fund for public-health threats as well as commitments to continue funding international programs on HIV/AIDS. But the details of the emergency fund are vague, and Trump’s pledge to increase the defense budget by $54 billion would have to be offset in part by slashing spending on health, including the NIH, which would have seen its budget cut by a fifth. Some research groups, like the NIH’s Fogarty International Center, which works on emerging-disease research overseas, would have been eliminated altogether. Proposed cuts to foreign aid and the State Department–which could eventually hit pandemic-prevention programs like PREDICT–would also be felt when the next pandemic hits.

Trump’s budget proposal is just that–Congress holds the ultimate power over government spending. But in the event of a pandemic, it is the President who must lead the country.

During Ebola, Trump issued a series of tweets that have sown doubts about how he would handle a true health crisis. One called for stopping American health care workers who had been infected with Ebola from returning to the U.S. “The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great–but must suffer the consequences!” he wrote. Another tweet warned, without evidence, that “Ebola is much easier to transmit than the CDC and government representatives are admitting.” In the past he has raised doubts about the safety of vaccines, a long-discredited belief that is nonetheless shared by an increasing number of Americans, leading to a resurgence of preventable childhood diseases like measles.

Trump’s habit of making wild claims on Twitter could be especially dangerous in the event of a pandemic, when public confidence in government is critical to public safety. “The emerging climate of fake news and alternative facts leaves us worse off than ever before,” says Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University. “I am very worried, because I’m certain that we will get an outbreak.”

On the campaign trail Trump said repeatedly that he would make America safe. But a multibillion-dollar wall at the border won’t keep out disease, and cutting aid to health systems overseas is akin to slashing the CIA’s budget in a time of war. If Trump is serious about protecting Americans, global health critics contend, he must embrace the soft power of pandemic preparation.

[QUOTE]In a memorable 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates told his audience that “when I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.” But today, he said, “if anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.” [/QUOTE]

OK, so I don't know about you guys, but I think what we are looking at, beside the obvious collapse of the economy and loss of civil liberties, there is a clear agenda to push for the vaccine making / enforcing machine, sort of An Inconvenient Truth setup where we might even look at a replacement of the petro-dollar with a vaccino-dollar.

There's too many coincidences and the same names pop up again and again, don't you think?
 

Talking with my sister in the UK today, she related to me something that had been posted on Teletext (a message service through the TV broadcast, as I understand it).

A 53 year old man had been arrested for getting too close to shoppers outside a grocery store in Staybridge an area outside of Manchester. Violating social distance rules. He admitted to the offence and has been fined 635 UK pounds. He is the first person in the UK to be charged with this offence.

I suspect if this report is true, that the community are self policing, and this contributed to his arrest.
 
About the bunkers

There are the bunkers, like Cheyanne Mountain and maybe DIA, which are at high elevations. But most of the populations are situated close to the waters. So, another place to evacuate to is the waters. Cruise ships, naval medical facilities, ect.
So early on, they create a association with cruise ships and pandemics. The same with the naval medical ships - it is like civil camouflage. But these too are like bunkers from which the populace can escape tidal threats - by heading out to sea.
As well, confinement on these ships and in bunkers introduce a biological threat, so vaccination is a important factor.
And the food shortages that seemed to be temporary - at least where I live - can be accounted for by a emergency preparation for a disaster.
That can account for people having a sense of doom. Because the circumstances add up to impending doom, as if the hyped up flu no - matter its particulars - wasn't enough.
 
Something else worth noting in regards to a really split. Since this started to really kick off in Europe others mentioned also and I feel the same, closer to the forum members and seeing people like myself who hadn't engaged much, are now posting and getting to know each other.

Also, I've made friends, meeting a forum member recently who lives not to far from me. We had a nice chat it was great to finally meet someone on the same page. I'm friends on Facebook with a guy for years who is not an authoritarian follower and didn't buy into this from the start. We started messaging each other for the first time and are gonna meet up when we can organise it. I sent him the link to this thread a few days ago. We have messaged since, I didn't ask if he looked at the thread, he didn't say if he did or not. It seems people of like mind are being drawn to each other. This makes me happy 😀

A good friend of mine for many years who is open minded on certain things, won't listen to reason about this thing, how we interact has changed. Same with my partner and some of her close friends. Anyway just thought id share my observations in this regard, I'm sure others said and are seeing/feeling the same.
Definitely true. This situation still has its positives. My wife has finally seen the light, and although she is taking it pretty hard at the moment (the fact that we're heading for a global collapse and fascist takeover, not the plandemic situation), I'm sure she'll step up when needed for our child and our livelihood. We bought a house with land outside of the city two years ago because I insisted exactly for this reason. I was, like many here, expecting this. Then we had a baby and business really picked up so we've had no time to start our garden. In light of this situation, I'm going ahead with it immediately. In a way it's a good thing I didn't manage to start because the frost and snow would have killed all the crops outside. Tomorrow I have to go buy all the supplies and tools I'm missing and start setting it up. It's priority number one now.
Also, all the people who have known me over the years as a conspiracy theorist, are now beginning to agree with most of it. My parents are completely open now. They've been seeing things I said come to pass and now it's obvious. Perhaps this might be a good time to strategically open up those strategic enclosures.
 
concerning the elderly woman, my husband witnessed a scene in the tram yesterday, really grotesk, but not physically violent. A really old woman, hunchback, walker, glasses, really old, he said maybe over 90 years old entered the tram and took the seat closest to the door. A young woman sat there already (a seat for two people) and she shrieked on the old lady to keep the distance. The old lady said something like "but I have to sit..." and with really dirty words the young woman got up and seated at the other end of the tram.

This is so sad. I think that a lot of old people simply do not understand what is going on.
 
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