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SARS2 is destroying our civilisation. We need to return to full lockdown and make like China on this plague:
“Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes.
Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected.
Thomas Oxley wasn’t even on call the day he received the page to come to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. There weren’t enough doctors to treat all the emergency stroke patients, and he was needed in the operating room.
The patient’s chart appeared unremarkable at first glance. He took no medications and had no history of chronic conditions. He had been feeling fine, hanging out at home during the lockdown like the rest of the country, when suddenly, he had trouble talking and moving the right side of his body. Imaging showed a large blockage on the left side of his head.
Oxley gasped when he got to the patient’s age and covid-19 status: 44, positive.
The man was among several recent stroke patients in their 30s to 40s who were all infected with the coronavirus. The median age for that type of severe stroke is 74.
As Oxley, an interventional neurologist, began the procedure to remove the clot, he observed something he had never seen before. On the monitors, the brain typically shows up as a tangle of black squiggles — “like a can of spaghetti,” he said — that provide a map of blood vessels. A clot shows up as a blank spot. As he used a needlelike device to pull out the clot, he saw new clots forming in real-time around it.
“This is crazy,” he remembers telling his boss.
Reports of strokes in the young and middle-aged — not just at Mount Sinai, but also in many other hospitals in communities hit hard by the novel coronavirus — are the latest twist in our evolving understanding of the disease it causes. The numbers of those affected are small but nonetheless remarkable because they challenge how doctors understand the virus. Even as it has infected nearly 2.8 million people worldwide and killed about 195,000 as of Friday, its biological mechanisms continue to elude top scientific minds. Once thought to be a pathogen that primarily attacks the lungs, it has turned out to be a much more formidable foe — impacting nearly every major organ system in the body.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/
Janine Starks (a financial commentator with expertise in banking, personal finance and funds management) asks whether we should consider adding a new bolt-on tool to the official cash rate to help stabilise the economy?
Suggesting charging GST on mortgages, thus enabling the official cash rate to be kept at a lower rate while boosting the tax take instead of bank profits.
Thoughts?
Here is the link to her opinion piece: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/300676286/no-gst-on-kiwisaver-what-about-charging-it-on-mortgages#:~:text=Our%20mortgage%2C%20rent%20payments%20and,schemes%20have%20been%20GST%20exempt.
Tired of thinking for yourself, with inadequate background information? Perun is a mouth machine that drones on and on and if you keep joined up to his broadcasts you may never have to think again.
Here’s one on China. His delivery will search and fill every spare buit of space in your neurons.
China’s Military Modernisation Speedrun – Budgets, Industry, and Purchasing Power Parity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5TlcMo_m4
A youtube talk from some great thinkers. Something to listen to when you have seen and heard, Martyn and friends, also Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning.
#EconomicCrisis2022
Should we save capitalism? | Slavoj Žižek, Paul Krugman, Yanis Varoufakis, Shoshana Zuboff, and more’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp3Bg7ecE9k
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