A Coroner in Ca. found deaths from covid as early as feb 9. and one a week later.
This was an unusually bad flu season, and not all suspected flu deaths were tested for flu, and none were tested for covid under CDC rules in feb.
Mortuaries and crematorium are seeing far more bodies than the reported covid deaths. Even the coroner's offices of New Jersey are not allowed to put the cause of death as covid, instead using "respiratory failure," and mentioning covid as a contributing factor, making any kind of assessment of actual covid deaths difficult.
By the time we are done here and get our facts strait, we will find that the death rate from covid will approach Sars.
On Frontline last night, you could really see the effects of bad management.
In Seattle Wa. they did everything right. Had the Fed done the same thing, this epidemic would be on the level of H1N1 in deaths.
You can't fight viruses with stupid. I am not a fascist. I know we can manage successfully in a decentralized way, just like we driver our cars, but even transpiration needs some centralization. No one needs to be told when and where they can drive, but roads have to be built. It is not about balance but about what works under what conditions.
That applies to economics as well. There is a time for the decentralization of a market where consumption informs production, and money is used as a decentralized bookkeeping system, and there are times when you just have to nationalize the banks, and bankrupt and jail the corrupt managers, and order people to produce.
That is not called fascism, authoritarianism, or any "ism." This is just proper management.
