Coronavirus Economic Impact & Pandemic Production Act

Coronavirus cases worldwide climb to half a million today: with a million Covid-19 disease cases expected as early as Sunday March 29th…

Mar 26, 2020

Coronavirus cases worldwide climb to half a million today: with a million Covid-19 disease cases expected as early as Sunday March 29th. What is the fastest way to restart the global economy? In this article I will make the argument that governments need to order corporations to make billions of full body hazmat suits and train workers to correctly operate them. When workers are dressed like Vladimir Putin in this photo below they can go back to work, and no one will die.

A news analysis of the coronavirus economic impact by Micah Blumberg, Neurohacker, Journalist, and WebXR A-Frame Software Architect at Silicon Valley Global News http://svgn.io http://vrma.io

Judging by this photo alone Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be smarter than most other world leaders.

Russian President Putin dons hazmat suit as Moscow mayor says coronavirus outbreak is worse than it…
Russian President Vladimir Putin wore a hazmat suit and respirator on Tuesday during a visit to a hospital treating…news.yahoo.com

Right now the major situation that is contributing to exponential sickness and death in the United States and in the Western world has everything to do with the fact that we did not and still do not have enough supplies to deal with this crises.

Some countries have a lot more PPE Personal Protective Equipment and they are doing a lot better than the Western countries.

If we had a ton of tests and a ton of masks then our bell curve may have been more like China’s, South Korea’s, Hong Kong’s, Taiwan’s, Singapore’s, or even Japan’s.

If Trump had followed the NSC’s pandemic playbook we might have a lot more of these supplies now. Chiefly we are talking about coronavirus testing kits, n95 respirators, and ventilators.

The NSC’s pandemic playbook is a “69-page document, finished in 2016, provided a step by step list of priorities — which were then ignored by the administration.”

Trump team failed to follow NSC's pandemic playbook
"Each section of this playbook includes specific questions that should be asked and decisions that should be made at…www.politico.com

We didn’t have enough supplies so the United States told the people not to buy them, to save them for the hospitals, the United States even lied and said the masks would not help.

Unfortunately even the US Surgeon General lied to the American people when he said that masks do not work.

But the evidence shows us the opposite that masks do work.

Effectiveness of N95 respirators versus surgical masks in protecting health care workers from acute…
Background: Conflicting recommendations exist related to which facial protection should be used by health care workers…www.cmaj.ca

Face Mask Use and Control of Respiratory Virus Transmission in Households
C. Raina MacIntyre, Simon Cauchemez, Dominic E. Dwyer, Holly Seale, Pamela Cheung, Gary Browne, Michael Fasher, James…www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

“Here’s 34 scientific papers that all point to the same thing: masks work to dramatically reduce the spread of covid-19.” http://tiny.cc/maskswork

Masks work but we don’t have them. Save for some donations from billionaires like Tim Cook, and these donations are for the hospitals that need them the most.

Because of this situation, the lack of overall supplies, in the West, we (Western countries) are currently trying to slow the exponential infection rate and the exponential death rate by asking people to self isolate.

Unfortunately because we did not act sooner, and because we did not have PPE (Personal Protective Equipment like respirators) we are not going to make a fast recovery like the East and the consequence is that Western countries are going to be far more stressed economically than economies in China, Korea, Japan etc…

So health experts may recommend that we remain in isolation for weeks, months, and in theory the problem could extend to 18 months until we get a vaccine. That situation would be a disaster for the economy.

““We wanted to start a larger conversation about how our long term response might look,” Dr. Mordecai said. A potential vaccine may take 12–18 months to be developed. Researchers at Stanford were inspired to explore non-pharmaceutical interventions after reading about it during the 1918 influenza pandemic. During the 1918 influenza, major cities lifted their measures within three to eight weeks only to experience a resurgence of the influenza.”

Flattening the curve: Stanford researchers create model to show long-term COVID-19 interventions
STANFORD, Calif., (KRON) - A lab at Stanford's Department of Biology developed a web model to show the spread of…www.kron4.com

Economists are essentially saying that the longer the economy is suspended for this health care crises the worse the economic recovery looks.

Right now, in the first few weeks of isolation (for some places in the United States (and also some places in Europe) the economy is already taking a big hit, but at this stage, a lot can be recovered, the economy could bounce back.

As Fed chairmen Jerome Powell points out: ‘There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with our economy’ (right now)

We might be in a recession, but its different from the recession in 2008, if our country recovers from the Coronavirus quickly then the economy might bounce back.

Fed chairman Jerome Powell: 'There's nothing fundamentally wrong with our economy'
Joining TODAY for a rare and exclusive live interview, Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, acknowledges…www.today.com

However right now the Coronavirus is stressing US banks out worse than the Fed’s planned bank stress test “Coronavirus slowdown starts to rival Fed’s doomsday bank stress test scenario”

Coronavirus slowdown starts to rival Fed's doomsday bank stress test scenario
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The unfolding market shock and economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus disruption is shaping…www.reuters.com

So how can we get the supplies that we need? Well essentially we have to make them.

The Defense Production Act or DPA is the type of act that in theory might allow the US Federal Government to order companies to make billions of full body haz mat suits, respirators, n95 masks, ventilators, and testing kits at a price low enough to save the United States of America.

There are two problems however, one is that it’s budget is too small and two is that Trump isn’t using it.

The Defense Production Act gives Trump a lot of power - but there's a hitch
President Donald Trump is under fire for his reluctance to use the Defense Production Act, a 70-year-old law that…www.rawstory.com

“Trump faces mounting pressure to unleash Defense Production Act”

Trump faces mounting pressure to unleash Defense Production Act
is resisting growing pressure to use his authority under a defense law to increase production of urgently needed…thehill.com

“Defense Production Act could help amid coronavirus, even as President Trump resists: experts”

Defense Production Act could help amid coronavirus, even as President Trump resists: experts
The emergency law could help "light a fire," one economist said. President Donald Trump's continued resistance to use…abcnews.go.com

We will need an act of Congress to get a budget big enough to build all the supplies we need to get humans back to work safely.

Its crazy to consider it, but consider this we must, how many people could die if there is a global total economic collapse? What if everyone stops working? What happens then?‬ Tim Draper says we need to stay open for business or more people could die. What do you think?

Right now in the United States there is a division between what Progressives want and what Conservatives want. I’m going to illustrate this with a few examples and some links.

For example conservative Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick went on Fox news and made the case that old folks like himself would be willing to die to save the country.

“Texas Lt. Gov: Senior Citizens Willing to Die to Save Economy for Grandkids”

Conservatives on Fox News like Glen Beck insist that the country (USA) is dying “Even if we all get sick, I would rather die than kill the country, because it’s not the economy that is dying, it’s the country”

Dick Kovacevich, the former CEO and chairman of Wells Fargo, told Bloomberg News that healthy workers under the age of 55 should return to work in April if the outbreak is controlled, saying that “some may even die” with his plan.

'Some may even die, I don't know': Former Wells Fargo CEO wants people to go back to work and 'see…
Business Insider 16 hrs ago Isaac Scher The coronavirus crisis in the United States is only just beginning. But it's…www.msn.com

Hurting the economy “could be worse than losing a few more people,” Paychex founder Tom Golisano told Bloomberg.

Billionaires Want People Back At Work, Even If It Kills Them
As President Donald Trump pushes for an end to the nationwide social distancing practices that health professionals say…www.huffpost.com

Trump and other right wing pundits insist that the “cure can’t be worse than the disease”

Cure worse than disease? Trump, pundits would ease virus restrictions
We're all going to hear this phrase again and again: "We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself." That's…www.foxnews.com

On the Progressive side Bill Gates said that he would keep people in isolation as long as it takes, be that 6 weeks or longer.

Bill Gates: If I were president, this is what I would do now to fight coronavirus
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says if he were president of the United States, he would…www.cnbc.com

“Bringing the economy back and doing money, that’s more of a reversible thing than bringing people back to life” Bernie Sanders said

'We will not die for oligarchs' quarterly profit margin': Progressives reject effort to put…
As President Donald Trump and business elites suggest the U.S. public should go back to work in the midst of the…www.alternet.org

The point is that there is a tension between Conservatives who want the economy to keep going and Progressives who want to follow the recommendations of scientists in healthcare.

The solution to accomplishing both is for Congress to pass a new larger Defense Production Act, or rather a Pandemic Production Act.

The Pandemic Production Act allows the Federal Government to order companies to mass produce PPE, including hazmat suits with respirators for workers, the Federal Government will buy these hazmat suits and then sell them to companies for their workers to use. This means everyone can get back to work safely without the risk of being infected by learning how to wear a hazmat suit and respirator. It means that these PPE products will be produced and sold at the lowest cost, because the Government will have the biggest order. We will get the benefit of isolation, while more tests are made, while vaccines are researched, while new treatments are explored and tested (such as anti-viral and antibody treatments) and at the same time people can go back to work and the economy can keep going.

With the Pandemic Production Act we will protect the American worker, have companies pay for it, get the economy going again, and fight the coronavirus all at once.

Thank you.

I have a few more thoughts:

Here is a really neat real-time Covid-19 visualizer.

COVID-19 Visualizer
Data last update [loading...] by Worldometers. This website was developed by Navid Mamoon and Gabriel Rasskin, two…www.covidvisualizer.com

This graphic below is from Jo Di. Notice that per Capita testing is low in the US, and yet already the US has horrific numbers of new cases.

These graphics from Jo Di illustrate that despite skyrocketing case numbers the United States is still massively under testing compared to smarter countries. This means the problem in the United States is probably far worse than anyone in the US Government knows for sure.

ΑΡΧΙΚΗ - Jo Di
Επί του παρόντος υπάρχουν 4.652 επιβεβαιωμένες περιπτώσεις παγκοσμίως, συμπεριλαμβανομένων 106 θανάτων. Ο παρακάτω…jodi.graphics

Bill Gates thinks the US has missed it’s big window of opportunity

Bill Gates says the US missed its chance to avoid coronavirus shutdown and businesses should stay…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday that the United States missed its chance to avoid mandated shutdowns…www.cnbc.com

The CDC the NIH and the Whitehouse have to assume for example that every New Yorker has been infected at this point, or at least potentially exposed.

“Coronavirus task force members Birx and Fauci warn people leaving New York ‘may have been exposed’”

Birx and Fauci warn people leaving New York: 'You may have been exposed'
During the White House coronavirus task force briefing, Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci supported Florida Gov. DeSantis' order…www.nbcnews.com

The worst of worst case scenarios appears to have already happened, the United States of America may have received the mortal wound that ends the USA, but the sudden death is happening in slow motion.

For example deaths in NYC appear to be double every day. So what is that 200,000 deaths in 10 days? Day 13 is 1.6 million? My numbers can’t be true can they? It’s as if NYC was hit by a Nuclear bomb, but really it’s like the whole earth was hit by a nuclear bomb, that’s how much death is happening.

Chernobyl is starting to look small by comparison. At least the rate of testing is increasing significantly in NY but the rate of testing needs to increase dramatically in California, Washington, New Orleans and other hot spots otherwise this could be happening at NY scale elsewhere and we don’t really know.

The Coronavirus is a bigger global disaster than the Chernobyl incident. Although (this paragraph is humor) in both cases people can argue that huge numbers of untested unidentified asymptomatic cases balance out the death rate to something less than the seasonal flu and argue that these infected people represent herd immunity. Are you shocked? Yes people actually argue this in peer reviewed science papers. I argue that the existence of a very large number of undetected infections does not imply that herd immunity already exists. A large number of infections implies a large number of future hospitalizations that are coming soon and a large number of deaths are coming soon as well.

The sad news in Russia is that government still basically acts the same as they did during the Chernobyl incident, and unfortunately as you can see by the numbers and with Trump that culture has spread to the United States as well.

Doctors in Russia are accusing the government of covering up its coronavirus outbreak and denying…
A doctors' union in Russia accused authorities of disguising the extent of the country's coronavirus outbreak. The head…www.msn.com

How long do you think it will take for half a million Coronavirus cases to double to 1 million cases? 7 days? Try 2.5 days. So by Sunday March 29th we ought to have a million cases of the Coronavirus worldwide. How long will it take for 21,353 deaths to double? Oh the death count doubles at the same rate, as you can see in the chart below.

US Coronavirus death toll rises over 1000, doubling every 3 days | The Global Dispatch
Economists and health care officials seem to be at odds over the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, politicians are feuding…www.theglobaldispatch.com

US coronavirus: Death toll nears 1,000 with California cases doubling every three to four days
CNN 19 mins ago By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Officials are racing to get a handle on the novel coronavirus as the number…www.msn.com

Coronavirus spreading faster in Detroit than nearly anywhere in United States
The virus is spreading faster in Detroit than most places in the nation. Some attribute that to testing. Others say…www.bridgemi.com

Coronavirus sweeps across New York, California fears it could be next
New York state suffered another quick and brutal rise in the number of COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, staggering hospitals…www.reuters.com

“The pandemic is accelerating,” via WHO Director Ghebreyesus “It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach 100,000 cases, 11 days for second 100,000 cases, and just four days for the third 100,000 cases.”

Coronavirus live updates: As WHO warns 'pandemic is accelerating,' Donald Trump wants US to soon…
Near the end of another day packed with dreary developments amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump…www.usatoday.com

The Pandemic is accelerating and we need Congress to pass a Pandemic Production Act to get workers into full sealed haz mat suits with respirators so that they can go back to work while treatments are being researched.

Please share this article so that more people find out about the Pandemic Production Act.

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About the author of this page: Micah Blumberg

I’m a neurohacker. I study this topic, neural lace, I have a group focused on it with 2,400 members. Its called Self Aware Networks: Computation Biology: Neural Lace and the idea is that your computational biology is rendering a volumetric video stream, a simulation, when your awake, and that we can tap into that with medical imaging technologies for two way data transmission, downloading what your eyes see, what your ears hear, and bringing AR VR like experiences without glasses via direct brain stimulation. I also have a podcast called the Neural Lace Podcast and I hosted Neurotech SF meetups for two years where I led a team that brought eeg into Webxr. My latest project is a webxr magazine for a news channel I started called Silicon Valley Global News intended to be on the front lines of science and technology. I’ve been self studying biology and computer science related topics for 14 years or so I estimate. Example of my software https://twitter.com/worksalt/status/1214759820521177090?s=20

Tech demo video reel #2 how it works on Oculus Go

https://www.facebook.com/worksalt/videos/3326241334069157/

Tech demo video reel #3 how it works on Oculus Quest

https://www.facebook.com/worksalt/videos/3319097944783496/

Tech demo video reel #4 how it works on an Android Phone in AR mode.
https://www.facebook.com/worksalt/videos/3338870806139543/