Yeah, it’s the apocalypse. Who knew we’d be watching so much on the little screen?
For our quasi-lockdown, we’ve got pay-for-it Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. VuDu and YouTube movies and other odds and ends are free-ish. RedBox, piles of DVD’s from the basement, mp4 files that are legal or otherwise, where does it stop? First World problems.
We watched Little Monsters last night. The 2019 one with starring Lupita Nyong’o and Alexander England (with a great performance by child actor Diesel La Torraca), not the unrelated 1989 flick with Fred Savage and Howie Mandel. Part horror movie, part comedy, part drama, frequent train wreck — you’ve got to watch it.
Also make time for Mr. Right, a hard-to-categorize action adventure romcom starring Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, and co-starring Tim Roth.
Coronavirus News and Analysis:
An oldie but a goody. Not at all about coronavirus, but relevant from a public health policy perspective:
SJ Baker: The woman who transformed public health
Among those who opposed the bill included the American Medical Association (AMA). When the bill was debated in Congress, a physician representing the AMA said: “We oppose this bill because, if you are going to save the lives of all these women and children at the public expense, what inducement will there be for young men to study medicine?”
Sweden's COVID-19 Death Toll 'Horrifying,' Says Scientist
The Day Coronavirus Nearly Broke the Financial Markets
An urgent call reached Ronald O’Hanley, State Street Corp.’s chief executive, as he sat in his office in downtown Boston. It was 8 a.m. on Monday, March 16.
A senior deputy told him corporate treasurers and pension managers, panicked by the growing economic damage from the Covid-19 pandemic, were pulling billions of dollars from certain money-market funds. This was forcing the funds to try to sell some of the bonds they held.
March 16 was the day a microscopic virus brought the financial system to the brink. Few realized how close it came to going over the edge entirely…
The financial system has endured numerous credit crunches and market crashes, and memories of the 1987 and 2008 crises set a high bar for market dysfunction. But longtime investors and those who make a living on Wall Street say mid-March of this year was far more severe in a short period. Moreover, the stresses to the financial system were broader than many had seen.
Thinking of Buying a Bike? Get Ready for a Very Long Wait
Half of Chile senate, four ministers in coronavirus quarantine
Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever
Dumped milk in Wisconsin. Smashed eggs in Nigeria. Rotting grapes in India. Buried hogs in Minnesota. These disturbing images have stirred outrage around the world. But here’s the surprising part: the world may not actually be wasting more than normal, when a third of global food production ends up in landfills.
Trump Administration to End National Guard COVID Deployments One Day Before GI Bill Benefits Kick In
China stocks up food and oil supplies as coronavirus spurs fears about shortages
…with the passage of the coronavirus bailout package, a new decade and a new economic catastrophe has brought a passing of the torch. The Goldman decade has begun to fade, giving way to our newest age: the BlackRock era.
Whenever the United States emerges from the coronavirus, its future will already have been indelibly shaped by BlackRock. And given the profound economic influence of the Fed’s buying program, in tandem with BlackRock’s expansion into international governance in other major economies like Germany that are battling recessions of their own, that may well be true for the rest of the world as well.
Total Catastrophe Of The Currency System
This is what is so sad with the current economic crisis – there is no solution. Nobody should believe that it is the Coronavirus that has caused this catastrophe for the world. CV was the catalyst but the underlying problems have been there for a long time. The Great Financial Crisis in 2006-9 was temporarily patched up with trillions of money printing but it was never solved. The GFC was only a rehearsal and now the world is facing the inevitable collapse of the financial system.
The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19
…respondents looking at a linear scale graph have different attitudes and policy preferences towards the pandemic than those shown the same data on a logarithmic graph. Consequently, merely changing the scale on which the data is presented can alter public policy preferences and the level of worry…
Chris Martenson’s latest:
