News Briefs – 04/05/2020

I always see lots of r/K related stories I think might interest the readers here, but I only have time to blog about a few, so here are some additional news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. For unknown reasons, in some browsers the tweets in these posts display best if you click on the post instead of viewing it on the main page. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of the Fake News, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages, especially about President Trump.

No Q. You can see Q’s posts aggregated live, and new ones which may have gone live after our print deadline at http://www.qanon.pub

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The final report of a rigorous four-year computer modeling simulation that was followed by a robust peer review process has concluded that World Trade Center Building 7 could not have collapsed as a result of office fires, as the “official” explanation dubiously claims.

A thread on the Storm which raises interesting points is here.

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes on Friday threatened to escalate his concerns about Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson’s handling of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint to the Justice Department unless Atkinson complies with congressional requests for information and documents.

This screenshot from here makes me realize just how much I am going to miss our Pennsylvania Anons:

House Democrats introduce bill giving coronavirus aid to illegal immigrants.

Another town in China goes into a lockdown as the virus reemerges.

Hong Kong back into shutdown.

As the Coronavirus hits Africa, governments respond with violence and oppression as the people respond with chaos, confusion, and violence of their own.

Biggest slums in Brazil see first coronavirus deaths.

Startling theory coronavirus leaked from a research lab in Wuhan is ‘no longer being discounted’ amid claims staff ‘got infected after being sprayed with blood.’

Fauci says it’s mind-boggling that China’s wet markets are still operating during the coronavirus pandemic.

Finland elected an all female leftist/feminist government, and now the country is entirely fucked and without leadership as Corona-Chan prepares to run rampant over it.

In France, medical workers are assigned bodyguards to escort them to and from work after being attacked by Muslim migrants as they travel to and from a hospital in a Muslim area.

Chinese cops given Robocop-style helmets which can detect and point out coronavirus sufferers using AI-processed thermal imaging.

Dr. Deborah Birx said Saturday that Americans should especially focus on social distancing guidelines in the next two weeks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. “This is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe.”

After NY Times caves on Hydroxychloroquine, Twitter hero posts screenshots from everyone who mocked Trump for promoting it.

Brian D. Miller, a special assistant to the president and a senior associate White House counsel, will serve as Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery inside the Treasury Department, and personally oversee that pandemic recovery funds are spent properly.

An experimental HIV drug that has been used to successfully treat COVID-19 patients is in its second phase of testing with the Food and Drug Administration and could potentially be approved for use in four weeks, its manufacturer says.

Actual hospitalizations for Coronavirus are significantly lower than projections in the current model.

SoCal McDonalds says Breakfast is free for health care workers and  first responders.

Surgeon General Jerome Adams shows you how to turn a T-shirt and two rubber bands into a pretty good looking, quick and easy face covering.

A rundown of all the drugs and vaccines in the works around the world. Not all of them as it does not cover Ivermectin, which sounded very promising in the one report, and which needs to be ironed out fully ASAP given its wide spectrum of biochemical effects on cells. And the page does not tell you how close each therapy is to development and rollout, so it is a long read which does not focus your energies in productive ways. But I include it here for the archive and to point out there is a lot of hope to look forward to.

A video by an enterprising doctor on 3D printing N95-equivalent masks that use widely available filter material to make their cartridges:

Kentucky governor vetoes voter ID bill, calling it the ‘wrong move.’

Biden bizarrely claims Donald Trump is holding up Coronavirus relief checks because he wants to personally sign all of them. I am beginning to think the single biggest thing China will steal from us is the comedy gold which was to be three Presidential debates between President Donald J. Trump and Biden.

SC Senate candidate arrested on charges of sexual misconduct with a minor. Before Trump and Q, his star would have risen high.

Child rapist ordered released to keep him safe from coronavirus.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns.

https://youtu.be/50IA9dsekFs

Spread r/K Theory, because this is the minor happening of our time

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Peripatetic Commenter
Peripatetic Commenter
4 years ago

I think voters are going to remember which party has been spending money on crap in November:

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/we-have-no-money-coronavirus-slams-state-taxes

Amy Armadillo
Amy Armadillo
4 years ago

“The Best Is Yet To Come” – Daystar Singers. It always makes me cry.

https://youtu.be/tL_JsWUso2g?t=168

E
E
4 years ago

The tweets from Trumpstien and Ivaka are supporting the official narrative. There is no dangerous virus you can just “catch”. It’s possible that a real bio weapon was released but covid19 is a strong case of the flu.

Dr Fauci says that covid19 is a version on the flu

You cannot catch a virus

Cool Saipradit
Cool Saipradit
4 years ago

https://harvardmagazine.com/2011/01/virus-sized-transistors

This is one of the research interests of Charles Lieber, the Harvard Chair who was arrested on campus January 28, 20202, was working on (his CV is prodigious, hundreds of papers on nanotech).

“Imagine being able to signal an immune cell to generate antibodies that would fight bacteria or even cancer. That fictional possibility is now a step closer to reality with the development of a bio-compatible transistor the size of a virus. Hyman professor of chemistry Charles Lieber and his colleagues used nanowires to create a transistor so small that it can be used to enter and probe cells without disrupting the intracellular machinery. These nanoscale semiconductor switches could even be used to enable two-way communication with individual cells.

Lieber has worked for the past decade on the design and synthesis of nanoscale parts that will enable him to build tiny electronic devices (see “Liquid Computing,” November-December 2001, page 20). Devising a biological interface, in which a nanoscale device can actually communicate with a living organism, has been an explicit goal from the beginning, but has proven tricky. At its simplest, the problem was inserting a transistor constructed on a flat plane (think of the surface of a computer chip) into a three-dimensional object: a cell perhaps 10 microns in size. Merely piercing the cell was not enough, because transistors need a source wire from which electrons flow and a drain wire through which they are discharged.”

One imagines that this nanotech signalling could also be used to “turn off” immune cells. So possibly a relatively innocuous viral infection could be allowed to run rampant if your normal immune response is impaired.

The possibilities are limitless. Directing T or B cells to reproduce without limit and you have leukemia/lymphoma. Disable T cells and certain cancers would be able to take hold and metastasize.

And this guy was paid $1.5 million to set up the lab in Wuhan, in addition to a monthly stipend of $50k/month and a cohort of Chinese grad students, some of whom were military officers (as per the original WaPo article on his arrest).

“When scaled down, the difference between digital and living systems blurs, so that you have an opportunity to do things that sound like science fiction–things that people have only dreamed about.”

Dreams, or nightmares? (and note, this article was from 2011. UK’s first 4G system was installed 2012. Now the 5G rollout…)

Here’s Forbes in 2018, on Smart Dust:

I”magine a world where wireless devices are as small as a grain of salt. These miniaturized devices have sensors, cameras and communication mechanisms to transmit the data they collect back to a base in order to process. Today, you no longer have to imagine it: microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), often called motes, are real and they very well could be coming to a neighborhood near you. Whether this fact excites or strikes fear in you it’s good to know what it’s all about.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/09/16/smart-dust-is-coming-are-you-ready/#2d2719635e41

Practical applications of smart dust

The potential of smart dust to collect information about any environment in incredible detail could impact plenty of things in a variety of industries from safety to compliance to productivity. It’s like multiplying the internet of things technology millions or billions of times over. Here are just some of the ways it might be used:

Monitor crops in an unprecedented scale to determine watering, fertilization and pest-control needs.
Monitor equipment to facilitate more timely maintenance.
Identify weaknesses and corrosion prior to a system failure.
Enable wireless monitoring of people and products for security purposes.
Measuring anything that can be measured nearly anywhere.
Enhance inventory control with MEMS to track products from manufacturing facility shelves to boxes to palettes to shipping vessels to trucks to retail shelves.
Possible applications for the healthcare industry are immense from diagnostic procedures without surgery to monitoring devices that help people with disabilities interact with tools that help them live independently.
Researchers at UC Berkeley published a paper about the potential for neural dust, an implantable system to be sprinkled on the human brain, to provide feedback about brain functionality.

Read that last one again. “Neural dust.” Coupled with Dr. Lieber’s work,

Here’s a downside of Smart Dust tech that Forbes highlights: Control:

“Once billions of smart dust devices are deployed over an area it would be difficult to retrieve or capture them if necessary. Given how small they are, it would be challenging to detect them if you weren’t made aware of their presence. The volume of smart dust that could be engaged by a rogue individual, company or government to do harm would make it challenging for the authorities to control if necessary.”

Here’s TSE Systems, which makes aerosolized nanotech:

https://www.tse-systems.com/product-details/inhalation-systems

2017: Characterization of Aerosols of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Following Three Generation Methods Using an Optimized Aerosolization System Designed for Experimental Inhalation Studies

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5634700/

“Nanoparticles (NPs) can be released in the air in work settings, but various factors influence the exposure of workers. Controlled inhalation experiments can thus be conducted in an attempt to reproduce real-life exposure conditions and assess inhalation toxicology.”

Here’s where it gets even more problematic: Companies like Raytheon are working on “Microelectric Mechanical Sensors” and “Global Environmental Mechanical Sensors”. But according to a flier produced by the U.S. Military Inc. called Military Progress, “The green light has been given” to disperse swarms of these wirelessly-networked nano-bots into the atmosphere via remotely-controlled UAV drones for “global warming mitigation.”

These robot sprayers include the U.S. Army’s Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and the U.S. Air Force’s own Global Hawks and Predators. The UAVs “are slated to deploy various payloads for weather warfare,” per Military Progress

Threatening to further unhinge an increasingly heat-stressed atmosphere, more nano-size aerosols can be crammed into a small robot plane than all the conventional weather mod chemicals packed into a tanker the size of a DC-10.

Rutgers University scientist J. Storrs Hall loves nano weather bots. “Interconnected, atmospherically buoyant, and having navigation capability in three dimensions – clouds of microscopic computer particles communicating with each other and with a control system, could provide tremendous capability,” Hall enthuses.

“It is potentially relatively inexpensive to do,” says Hall . How can high-tech nano chips be so cheap?

Answer: Nano particles are self-replicating. That is, these ultra-miniature self-assembling machines can be made to reproduce themselves until programmed to stop.

“Nanoparticles can easily be released in the air in an aerosol form, and inhalation is generally considered as the primary route of occupational exposure to NPs. Once inhaled, NPs may reach the deep lung and alveolus; this region is the primary site of deposition for particle size under 100 nmp.” Such deep penetration can illicit inflammation, and deposits in peripheral airways and terminal acini would produce the typical peripheral ground-glass opacities being described on CT scans of Corona virus.

One last thing. AC and others have wondered about potential neural involvement by Covid19. Here’s an “emergency” publication put out last week by the Radiological Association of North America. This article includes MRI images of patient with extensive thalamic and medial temporal involvement, “necrotizing encephalitis.”

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020201187.

(Sorry about the long post. BTW, yesterday’s comments thread was outstanding, thanks to all)

M in the 517
M in the 517
Reply to  Cool Saipradit
4 years ago

I definitely didn’t want to find out that Michael Crichton’s Prey was kind of happening in real life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(novel)

Farcesensitive
4 years ago

When this is over Trump needs to default on our debt held by China, end their Most Favored Nation status and hit them with huge tariffs.

And look at seizing Chinese assets.

REX 2020
REX 2020
Reply to  Farcesensitive
4 years ago

Amen to that, Bro

whiteguy1
whiteguy1
4 years ago

So I ‘dehydrated’ one of my 3M N95 masks (Model #1870). This is a surgical mask with rubber bands and has a foam piece across the bridge of the nose with a metal band to shape it. I had used this mask a number of times when I went ‘out’ (grocery and hardware stores) I figured it was time to ‘cure it’.

It spent 4 hrs inside my ex-caliber food dehydrator @ 140F.

Results, the only thing I can tell about the materials is that the rubber bands aren’t as ‘snappy’, it’s like they relaxed. But the rest of the mask is fine. Foam is still glued, everything else seems to be the same.

whiteguy1
whiteguy1
4 years ago

Success cooking my N95 mask (3M Model #1870). 4hrs @140F in my food dehydrator the only material change I can see is the rubber bands aren’t as snappy, everything else seems to be AOK.

Luigi
Luigi
4 years ago

New York: Jews At Brooklyn Hospital Will Enjoy Privileged Access to Ventilators Over Gentiles
https://national-justice.com/new-york-jews-brooklyn-hospital-will-enjoy-privileged-access-ventilators-over-gentiles

Uncompliant
Uncompliant
4 years ago

Amazing. Thank you for posting this.

Farcesensitive
4 years ago

Puerto Rico discovers protective supply cache amid COVID-19

https://news.yahoo.com/puerto-rico-discovers-protective-supply-174258955.html