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https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/corona-lehren-grosse-mehrheit-fordert-dauerhaft-mehr-gehoer-fuer-forscher-a-229585a7-0874-4113-acd0-ab7c4730624e

“capitalism has been suspended. The last time capitalism was suspended in the west was during the second world war, with the advent of the war economy: a command economy that fixed prices. The war economy marked the transcendence of the standard capitalist model.”

“But what we see now is not so much the suspension of capitalism. The rules of capitalism may have been suspended – all those sacrosanct policies are gone, the neat separation of fiscal and monetary policy is gone, the idea that public debt is a bad thing is gone.”

‘There is a glimmer of hope’: economists on coronavirus and capitalism | World news | The Guardian

An Article in the Guardian brought me to this: http://www.windowflicks.de/. If you want to do this in #Regensburg, let me know! Here’s the Guardian on it: 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2020/may/07/windowflick-berlin-screenings-in-pictures

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/tesla-hacker-kauft-alte-autoteile-und-hat-zugriff-auf-persoenliche-daten-fremder-a-2ce04bba-bf54-4b68-a1b3-46cd6eeb195d#ref=rss

https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/nazar-spirits-of-the-past/

https://research.checkpoint.com/2020/nazar-spirits-of-the-past/

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/26/media/snl-brad-pitt-dr-fauci-coronavirus/index.html

Profit over people, cost over care: America’s broken healthcare exposed by virus | US news | The Guardian

Since 2006, 30% of Americans each year on average have delayed any sort of medical treatment for cost, according to the polling firm Gallup. In that time, 19% of Americans each year on average have delayed treatment for a serious condition, according to Gallup’s December 2019 report. More Americans are afraid of paying for healthcare if they became seriously ill (40%) than are afraid of getting seriously ill (33%), according to a 2018 poll by the University of Chicago and the West Health Institute.

Corona-Krise: Daniel Domscheit-Berg produziert Gesichtsvisiere im 3D-Drucker – DER SPIEGEL

Domscheit-Berg: Es kamen immer mehr Anfragen, das Deutsche Rote Kreuz in der Mecklenburgischen Seenplatte zum Beispiel wollte 700 Stück. Die Zahlen wurden zu groß, diese Erkenntnis ist früher oder später wohl bei allen Werkstätten und Makerspaces in Deutschland angekommen. Wir in Brandenburg organisieren uns über civilize.it, dort haben wir gemeinsam über Spritzguss als alternative Produktionsweise nachgedacht. Dabei stellte sich heraus, dass es in Sachsen eine Initiative der Werkstatt “Kunststoffschmiede” gibt, die das 3D-Drucker-Design in ein Spritzguss-Design überführt hat. Die Firma 1st Mould Rapid Tools hat dann in absurd kurzer Zeit das passende Werkzeug hergestellt, einen Prototyp gespritzt – und dann 12.000 Halterungen für uns hergestellt.

Germany’s devolved logic is helping it win the coronavirus race | World news | The Guardian

Some private labs started offering tests for the Covid-19 virus long before statutory health insurers were offering to pay for the tests, giving Germany a head start. Now around 250 laboratories are carrying out between 300,000 and 500,000 tests for Covid-19 every week. Not bad for a lead-footed tortoise.

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Saufspiele und Speicheltausch – Wie Ischgl zur Corona-Drehscheibe wurde – Coronavirus — VOL.AT

Interessant sind auch die Schilderungen des Engländers Daren Bland aus East Sussex. Er könnte laut britschen Medien Patient null in Großbritannien gewesen sein. Besonders pikant ist, dass der 50-Jährige sich bereits Mitte Jänner in Ischgl angesteckt haben könnte, lange bevor die ersten Corona-Fälle in Österreich offiziell bekannt wurden. Auch Bland war Gast in der Bar „Kitzloch“ .

The missing six weeks: how Trump failed the biggest test of his life | US news | The Guardian

In the absence of sufficient test kits, the US Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially kept a tight rein on testing, creating a bottleneck. “I believe the CDC was caught flat-footed,” was how the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, put it on 7 March. “They’re slowing down the state.” The CDC’s botched rollout of testing was the first indication that the Trump administration was faltering as the health emergency gathered pace. Behind the scenes, deep flaws in the way federal agencies had come to operate under Trump were being exposed. In 2018 the pandemic unit in the national security council – which was tasked to prepare for health emergencies precisely like the current one – was disbanded. “Eliminating the office has contributed to the federal government’s sluggish domestic response,” Beth Cameron, senior director of the office at the time it was broken up, wrote in the Washington Post.

The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to COVID-19 | Boston.com

The result was a lost month, when the world’s richest country — armed with some of the most highly trained scientists and infectious disease specialists — squandered its best chance of containing the virus’ spread. Instead, Americans were left largely blind to the scale of a looming public health catastrophe. The absence of robust screening until it was “far too late” revealed failures across government, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, a former CDC director. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, said the Trump administration had “incredibly limited” views of the pathogen’s potential impact. Dr. Margaret Hamburg, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said the lapse enabled “exponential growth of cases.” And Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a top government scientist involved in the fight against the virus, told members of Congress that the early inability to test was “a failing” of the administration’s response to a deadly, global pandemic. “Why,” he asked later in a magazine interview, “were we not able to mobilize on a broader scale?”

Bob Dylan erinnert an JFK: Von Kennedy zu Corona – Kultur – Tagesspiegel

“Der Poet und Sänger wird in ein paar Wochen 79 Jahre alt, und sein Land wird von einem notorischen Lügner und Leugner ruiniert, dessen Zustimmungswerte mit der wachsenden Zahl von Infizierten und Toten steigen. Aber ist das noch ein Song? Ist es nicht ein Langgedicht im Sprechgesang, in der Tradition des Hymnikers Walt Whitman, der die Demokratie feierte, das unermessliche weite Land, das amerikanische Ego? 17 Minuten lang trägt Dylan, klar und verständlich, mit weiser, wunder Stimme seine Fackel durch eine sich verdunkelnde Welt.”

Coronavirus: Why Germany death rate lower than Spain or Italy – Business Insider

“A sturdy healthcare system

Germany is in good shape to fight its outbreak because it has a well-developed and comprehensive healthcare system, with both public and private options.

Germany spends $4,714.26 per person each year on healthcare, according to World Bank data from 2016. The figure is higher than most other nations.

Germany has the second-most critical care beds per capita in Europe, according to data from European Health for All. The beds are essential when trying to battle severe cases of the coronavirus.

Germany has 621 beds per 100,000 people. Italy has 275, and Spain 293.”

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