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Sir Isaac Newton's Self-Quarantine
While the bubonic plague raged elsewhere, Newton, in seclusion, embarked on what he'd later describe as the most intellectually productive period of his life.
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Recent Corona News Rundown
- Slavoj Zizek: Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but BARBARISM with human face (RT)
- Israeli Nobel Laureate: Coronavirus spread is slowing (jpost)
- Goldman Sachs gives CEO 20% raise as it forecasts crash for America (RT)
- Senators deny they’re corrupt after dumping stocks before coronavirus crash (NYPost)
- German "news" blaming Russian bots for any and all alternative narratives (Tagesspiegel)
- Italian Istituto superiore di sanità published detailed figures on pandemic victims for the first time. Result: average age 80.3 years; only 1.1% had no previous illnesses, 75% had 2 or more.
- 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says (Bloomberg)
- Life, the Universe and Everything look closer from italy lockdown (Stop at Zona M)
- Iranian physicians urge regional leaders to take action to destroy US biological labs (PressTV)
- Die Ruhe vor dem perfekten Sturm (zeitpunkt)
- 'The virus has mutated very well': What Russian doctors say about the new infection (rbth)
- Dino Melaye, former senator from Nigeria, says tackling the coronavirus pandemic requires adhering to the instruction of God. (thecable.ng)
- The Kushner Family Could Be Getting Very Rich Thanks to the Coronavirus (Mintpress)
- Big Tech Firms are Using Automation to Censor News About the Coronavirus (Mintpress)
- Palantir & Clearview AI are among tech firms now in discussion with the US government about implementing widespread surveillance tools in response to the coronavirus (WSJ)
- Cuba and coronavirus: how Cuban biotech came to combat COVID-19 (LSE)
- South Korea, China, Japan to discuss COVID-19 response (CNA)
- Coronavirus: Xi Jinping calls leaders of France, Spain, Germany and Serbia with offers of support (SCMP)
COVID-19 - Evidence Over Hysteria (Aaron Ginn)
Coronavirus: The Beijing Quarantine Diaries (ARTE Documentary)
- https://helpwithcovid.com/
- Slavoj Zizek: Biggest threat Covid-19 epidemic poses is not our regression to survivalist violence, but BARBARISM with human face (RT)
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iFixit is building a repair database for medical equipment, and it needs your help (Verge)
Repair specialist iFixit is building a database filled with repair information for the world’s hospital equipment in anticipation of the increased demand caused by COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. In particular, it’s calling for repair manuals for ventilators and BiPAP machines that can be used as ventilators. iFixit’s database can be found here, and the company is calling for people to create new device pages and upload photos and manuals.
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Building Immunity in Qi Gong - by Lotus Nei Gong International
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The next outbreak? We’re not ready - TEDTalk by Bill Gates (2015)
In his 2015 TED Talk titled "The Next Outbreak? We're Not Ready," Bill Gates predicting: "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."
Meet the world’s most powerful doctor: Bill Gates (2017, Politico)
Over the past decade, the world’s richest man has become the World Health Organization’s second biggest donor, second only to the United States and just above the United Kingdom. This largesse gives him outsized influence over its agenda, one that could grow as the U.S. and the U.K. threaten to cut funding if the agency doesn’t make a better investment case.
“The foundation’s impact on the WHO is enormous,” said Garrett, of the Council on Foreign Relations. “If they weren’t there, if they walked away with their money, the deleterious impact would be profound, and everyone is all too aware of that.”
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Put clean energy at the heart of stimulus plans to counter the coronavirus crisis (IEA)
The impact of the coronavirus around the world and the resulting turmoil in global markets are dominating global attention. As governments respond to these interlinked crises, they must not lose sight of a major challenge of our time: clean energy transitions.
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WHO expert: We need more testing to beat coronavirus (newscientist)
“To actually stop the virus, [China] had to do rapid testing of any suspect case, immediate isolation of anyone who was a confirmed or suspected case, and then quarantine the close contacts for 14 days so that they could figure out if any of them were infected,” Aylward told New Scientist in an exclusive interview. “Those were the measures that stopped transmission in China, not the big travel restrictions and lockdowns.”
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Glencore closes London office due to coronavirus (Nasdaq)
Commodity group Glencore GLEN.L has temporarily closed down its London offices due to coronavirus, a Glencore spokesman said on Friday. The spokesman said the move came after one of the company's employees tested positive for coronavirus.
Prince Albert of Monaco has tested positive for COVID-19 (hellomagazine)
Prince Albert of Monaco has tested positive for coronavirus. The 62-year-old's COVID-19 diagnosis was revealed on March 19 by the Prince's Palace. The day before, the royal said Monaco would go into lockdown to fight the virus, which the World Health Organization has declared a pandemic.
Prince Albert's close friend Prince Andrew, - and Jeffrey Epstein (Monaco Media)
Prince Albert of Monaco's Jeffrey Epstein connection is his close friend Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who was one of Epstein's best clients. Also Princess Caroline's ex husband and playboy Philippe Junot and Princess Stephanie's ex Jean-Yves Le Fur were closely tied to Epstein.
Trump wants to bring Bayer medication to the US "almost immediately"
If the Monsanto lawsuits against Bayer soon dissolve, it may be because of this: US President Donald Trump said in the White House on Thursday that the drug agency FDA has approved chloroquine, a drug manufactured by the German Bayer Group, for the treatment of coronavirus patients.
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A group of Iranian physicians have written a letter to certain regional heads of state, urging them to take necessary measures to destroy “all of the US biological laboratories,” amid reports and speculation that the global coronavirus outbreak has been caused by unidentified laboratories spreading the epidemic as part of a "biological warfare."
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Open-Source Project Spins Up 3D-Printed Ventilator Validation Prototype In Just One Week
Open-Source 3D-Printed Ventilator In a great example of what can happen when smart, technically-oriented people come together in a time of need, an open-source hardware project started by a group including Irish entrepreneur Colin Keogh and Breeze Automation CEO Gui Calavanti has produced a prototype ventilator using 3D-printed parts and readily available, inexpensive material. The ventilator prototype was designed and produced in just seven days, after the project spun up on Facebook and attracted participation from over 300 engineers, medical professionals and researchers.
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A Short Dhamma Talk on Corona from an 80 year old monk
Old Student: How can Vipassana help in an uncertain and fearful time like this Covid-19 viral pandemic and attendant hysteria?
Response: A virus is contagious. Likewise fear is contagious as well. We may become carriers of the virus, we don’t have to be carriers of fear.
Arresting our own inner fears so that we do not become carriers of it is a significant contribution Vipassana yogis can make to all those around us at this time.
Media inundates us with fear-mongering. At every turn, obsessive fear of impending doom from without and within clouds us, impedes right understanding and leads to wrong decisions and even to paralysis where we don’t know what to do to protect ourselves. This triggers our own inner fears and insecurities.
In the course of Vipassana practice, we have the chance to arrest, attenuate and ultimately eradicate fear. But this is only possible via our practice of Vipassana: when fear arises we remain in sampajjañña. In other words, while meditating when worry, fear or dread arises in the mind in the form of thoughts and emotions it is critical that we remain aware of the accompanying sensations recognizing their inescapable evidence of impermanence. The more we become adept at doing this the more we undo the tendency of mind to dwell and react upon counter-productive ideation that produces nothing but suffering and unhappiness.
Epidemics, pandemics shouldn’t distract us from these fundamentals. As human beings, throughout our lives we will cycle incessantly between good and bad health, wellness and sickness, until we die. Ignorant wild swings of behavior accompany the extremes of each: in youthful exuberance, we blithely feel carefree and take risks thinking ourselves somehow immortal. As adults in the throes of illness, we over-react with despair thinking our suffering is somehow unique and interminable. “Yikes, it must be cancerous. Yikes, surely I’ve got the Covid-19 virus !” The hallmark of each of these extremes is the absence of the awareness of the truth of impermanence. Dhamma practice is the only remedy to correct and undo the effects of this deep-seated ignorance.We are going to become ill at some point and we will recover until we don’t. Reasonable precautions to safeguard health by definition are those undertaken with a balanced mind. We obtain a balanced mind increasingly when we purify it with the practice of Vipassana/sampajjañña.
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Snoop Dogg Says 'I'm Good', Holds Breath For 10 Seconds With No Coughing Amid Coronavirus Concern (msn)
The rapper put out his "P. S. A." on Instagram and held his breath for 10 seconds to prove that he is healthy. Unfortunately, holding one's breath is NOT A TEST for the Coronavirus but his message for everyone to "stay safe" came across. The artist then proceeded to hold his breath. "No coughing," Snoop triumphantly declared after his exhale. I mean... we already knew he had strong lungs because he smokes like a chimney.
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China locked in hybrid war with US - by Pepe Escobar (asiatimes)
Fallout from Covid-19 outbreak puts Beijing and Washington on a collision course. Additionally, along the hard slog down the road, with immense, inbuilt human and economic sacrifice, with or without a reboot of the world-system, a more pressing question remains: will imperial elites still choose to keep waging full-spectrum-dominance hybrid war against China?
US keeps public in dark over COVID-19 - by Yang Sheng and Cao Siqi (Global Time)
"US irresponsible, opaque, selfish, disorganized: analysts" - "Low transparency" - "Anarchy in the US" - "The world should be worried about the situation in the US."
Bolsonaro’s son enrages Beijing by blaming China for coronavirus crisis (theguardian)
“It’s China’s fault,” Bolsonaro claimed on Twitter, retweeting a message that said: “The blame for the global coronavirus pandemic has a name and surname: the Chinese Communist party.” Yang Wanming, Beijing’s top diplomat in Brazil, demanded an immediate retraction and apology for the “evil insult”, while his embassy accused Eduardo Bolsonaro of contracting “a mental virus” during a recent trip to the United States.
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Which Tech Bro Is Fleeing Coronavirus On This ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Plane? (hufpo, 2020)
"If the pandemic does come, [Sam] Altman’s backup plan is to fly with his friend Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist, to Thiel’s house in New Zealand." - NewYorker, 2016
Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand (Guardian, 2018)
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific
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Bill Gates Calls For National Tracking System For Coronavirus During Reddit AMA (forbes)
Bill Gates Meeting Jeffrey Epstein Question: "What changes are we going to have to make to how businesses operate to maintain our economy while providing social distancing?" Answer: "The question of which businesses should keep going is tricky. Certainly food supply and the health system. We still need water, electricity and the internet. Supply chains for critical things need to be maintained. Countries are still figuring out what to keep running. Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it." From Bill Gates' Reddit AMA
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Meditation may have shaved 8 years of aging off Buddhist monk's brain (Livescience)
Analysis of the brain of a Tibetian Buddhist monk showing that his 41-year-old brain actually resembles that of a 33-year-old. The monk, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche (YMR), a renowned meditation practitioner and teacher, began meditating at age 9. The findings add to a growing pile of evidence "that meditative practice may be associated with slowed biological aging," the researchers wrote in the case study, published online Feb. 26 in the journal Neurocase.
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Coronavirus: nitrogen dioxide emissions drop over Italy (ESA)
New data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite reveal the decline of air pollution, specifically nitrogen dioxide emissions, over Italy. This reduction is particularly visible in northern Italy which coincides with its nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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New coronavirus infections may drop to zero by end-March in Wuhan: Chinese government expert (reuters)
Wuhan, the epicenter of China’s coronavirus epidemic, will likely see new infections drop to zero by the end of this month, an expert with the country’s top panel on battling the illness said on Thursday, even as the city reported a quicker rise in new confirmed cases.
In China, life returning to normal as coronavirus outbreak slows (aljazeera)
Even in Hubei, where some 10,000 cases remain, the pressure on front-line medical workers has eased. On March 17, the first batch of nearly 4,000 medical workers who were parachuted into Wuhan to help control the outbreak were able to leave. With so many provinces having downgraded their emergency response levels, China is slowly - and cautiously - returning to normal lif
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"India plans to build an all-seeing database to track citizens’ every move by 2021" (nextweb)
India, the world’s biggest democracy, built a massive database containing information and biometrics of its citizens in the form of Aadhaar back in 2009. Now, it’s planning to build a new database that will continually track the lives of 1.2 billion people living in the country — and further enable surveillance without legal frameworks to prevent its misuse.
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Israel Takes Step Toward Monitoring Phones of Virus Patients (abcnews, alt)
Israel's Cabinet has authorized the Shin Bet internal security agency to use mobile-phone tracking technology to monitor the movements of coronovirus patients, despite an outcry from privacy advocates.
