COVID Reporting

As we prepare to enter “hell month” across the globe, when coronavirus infection and death totals will climb to peak intensity, today’s video look at what we need to do to get out the other side of this pandemic as quickly and safely as possible.

Very promising developments on the covid-19 treatment and vaccine fronts.

We’ll need to hold tight to that good news, as the next few weeks will be quite traumatizing with the expected huge increases in # of infected and deaths.

So many of you asked us to create a short educational — and SHAREABLE! — clip for why masks are so important, so that you can get others onboard this movement.

You asked; and we’ve answered by creating this short, shareable video.

OK… we’ve done our part. Now, help us out: SHARE THIS VIDEO with those you care about!

And, right on cue, the finger pointing begins.

US authorities are now firing an opening salvo at China, claiming that the country misinformed the rest of the world about the severity of covid-19. And that better information would have spurred other nations to take the threat more seriously.

That would perhaps make sense if it weren’t such a crock of baloney.

We should have had a much higher state of readiness to face this pandemic — it was a certainty that sooner or later, one of this magnitude would hit. So faced as we’ve been with medical supply shortages, botched mobilization efforts, and contradictory/harmful official guidance  — it’s inexcusable.

But just as maddening is the predictable outcome we’re seeing with governments’ response to the economic crisis triggered by covid-19.

In short, as happened in 2008, those who created the economic instability in the first place, by looting and abusing the system, are being bailed out — generously. And the tab is being picked up by the taxpayer.

As we reported yesterday, with the world sharing its data, we are starting to get a better handle on understanding the coronavirus.

This real-time exchange of data and insights going on across the globe right now is invaluable to global efforts to fight the spread of covid-19 more effectively.

Germany has recently contributed two important pieces to the puzzle.

We are starting to win the war for data on covid-19 and this is leading to smarter practices that will flatten the curve, reduce deaths and get folks back to work.

Finally, some encouraging news.

It’s amazing that people are still being chided for taking steps to protect themselves from the coronavirus, when anyone with eyes can see that the spread of the disease is fast overwhelming authorities’ ability to deal with it.

A citizen DIY movement, not unlike the WW2 victory gardens, could and should be promoted, making millions of masks in short order for us all to wear — just as they’re doing in the Czech Republic with the #Masks4All movement.