U.N. warns economic downturn could kill hundreds of thousands of children in 2020<\/h1>\n
(Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n Why is there nowhere the equal concern and passion for these dying and innocent humans? Is it that the headline is not over-the-top<\/a> enough? Not sensational<\/a> enough?<\/p>\n \u201cWhether one likes it or not, it is a fact that the main issues of present day politics are purely economic and cannot be understood without a grasp of economic theory,\u201d wrote Ludwig von Mises, who was a thinker of the highest magnitude — truly on par with the brightest and smartest people in all of human history. I’ve quoted the above passage before<\/a> and quote it again now because it is undeniable — it’s called the seen and the unseen<\/a> — and the ramifications of the panic-driven policies and controls enacted by bumbling bureaucrats will dwarf the ramifications of the disease, the damage and destruction far longer lasting, unless those policies and controls are lifted.<\/p>\n This breaking news is from Boston 25 News:<\/a><\/p>\n The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now \u201cactively looking into\u201d results from universal COVID-19 testing at Pine Street Inn homeless shelter. The broad-scale testing took place at the shelter in Boston\u2019s South End a week and a half ago because of a <\/span>small cluster of cases there<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Of the 397 people tested, 146 people tested positive — not a single one of whom had any symptoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt was like a double knockout punch. The number of positives was shocking, but the fact that 100 percent of the positives had no symptoms was equally shocking,\u201d said Dr. Jim O\u2019Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program<\/a>, which provides medical care at the city\u2019s shelters.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the screening we were doing before this was based on whether you had a fever above 100.4 and whether you had symptoms,\u201d said O\u2019Connell. \u201cHow much of the COVID virus is being passed by people who don\u2019t even know they have it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The 146 people who tested positive were immediately moved to two different temporary isolation facilities in Boston. According to O\u2019Connell, only one of those patients needed hospital care, and many continue to show no symptoms.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we did universal testing among the general population, would these numbers be similar?\u201d said Lyndia Downie, president and executive director at the Pine Street Inn.<\/p>\n (Full article here<\/a>)<\/p>\n And breaking news from Stanford University:<\/p>\n “Stanford released its initial Santa Clara antibody seroprevalence results. Implied infection fatality rate is less than 0.2% in Santa Clara county, with 50-85X more cases than current measured.”<\/p>\n This is good news, big news, and exciting news, but Stanford also issued this wise caveat (click the fine print to make it larger):<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-17-at-3.30.32-PM-300x181.png\")
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