America's not safe' - Leading coronavirus expert on Donald Trump's response to Covid-19

Chris Martenson deserves credit for trying to warn the world about Coronavirus

I am sure there were others warning about this but this is really great:

Why fasting bolsters brain power: Mark Mattson at TEDxJohnsHopkinsUniversity

For those nutty fundamentalist folks. Why did God send this during Trump's term?

Just saying.

The 1918 Pandemic: The Deadliest Flu in History

Interesting that younger adults were the hardest hit because they hadn't seen anything like that strain in their life while older adults had.

Schools closing for two and 3 weeks? This virus is really going to be taking off in 3 weeks

Won't they just make a decision to break for the summer at that point?

'Don't believe the numbers': Johns Hopkins prof says up to 500,000 Americans have coronavirus

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, also known as the new coronavirus, to be a pandemic on March 11.

The virus has killed thousands of people worldwide, with over 135,000 confirmed cases and over 5,000 deaths. Public reaction has been mixed — many people have been rushing to grocery stores to stock up for a potential quarantine, while others have called the responses to be an overreaction.

According to Dr. Marty Makary, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University, the coronavirus is something that “people need to take seriously.”

“I’m concerned when I hear a neighbor or a friend say that they’re planning to go to a kid’s swim meet in three weeks or going on vacation next week,” Makary said on Yahoo Finance’s “On the Move” (video above) on Friday. “No — we’re about to experience the worst public health epidemic since polio.”

‘Don’t believe the numbers you see’
In the U.S. there are over 1,600 confirmed cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with 41 deaths. Makary said that the number of cases, though, is likely much higher.

“Don’t believe the numbers when you see, even on our Johns Hopkins website, that 1,600 Americans have the virus,” he said. “No, that means 1,600 got the test, tested positive. There are probably 25 to 50 people who have the virus for every one person who is confirmed.”

He added: “I think we have between 50,000 and half a million cases right now walking around in the United States.”

Part of the reason the number of cases might be higher without people realizing it is because of the shortage of coronavirus testing kits from the CDC. Between Jan. 18 and March 12, there were 13,624 tests for COVID-19 conducted in the U.S. Meanwhile, South Korea has conducted over 100,000 tests, and the U.K. has tested nearly 25,000 people.

More: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/marty-makary-on-coronavirus-in-the-us-183558545.html

This chart of the 1918 Spanish flu shows why social distancing works

March 11, 2020
Michael J. Coren

In 1918, the city of Philadelphia threw a parade that killed thousands of people. Ignoring warnings of influenza among soldiers preparing for World War I, the march to support the war effort drew 200,000 people who crammed together to watch the procession. Three days later, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled with sick and dying patients, infected by the Spanish flu.

By the end of the week, more than 4,500 were dead in an outbreak that would claim as many as 100 million people worldwide. By the time Philadelphia’s politicians closed down the city, it was too late.

A different story played out in St. Louis, just 900 miles away. Within two days of detecting its first cases among civilians, the city closed schools, playgrounds, libraries, courtrooms, and even churches. Work shifts were staggered and streetcar ridership was strictly limited. Public gatherings of more than 20 people were banned.

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More: https://qz.com/1816060/a-chart-of-the-1918-spanish-flu-shows-why-social-distancing-works/?fbclid=IwAR2UXfRCovHjAlatH--Knb7Eq_HOJ5WFfPbAK4LkLpvadK93nVtkiYv51-Y

Betting markets flipping to favor Biden over Trump finally.

It had been getting close so I figured the speech would be enough of a final blow to flip flop things. Took a look and sure enough it just changed:

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3698/Who-will-win-the-2020-US-presidential-election

What Bill Gates is afraid of - From 2015