Headline Thursday

 18 April 2020

Dear Fellow Investor,

Trump announces guidelines to ‘open up’ U.S. economy, ease coronavirus restrictions.

On  this headline Thursday, world markets rose strongly.  32 out of 50 American states have only a few Covid cases and Trump reasoned why shut all of America even areas with no or low infections in a massive lockdown and put millions into the unemployment line and bankrupt many businesses?  He did say protect the elderly and vulnerable but that is not a reason to shut down the whole economy. The plan is to gradually reopen America with strict guidelines and protocols.   

China is using the same policy to open up its economy in a gradual way.

Chinese Aviation Industry Recovery Continues To Offer Hope

The latest data indicates that normal life is making a slow but sure return to China. Airline capacity is increasing week on week and most of the airports, including in hard-hit Hubei province, are reopening for business. Do these tiny  sparks of hope give optimism to the rest of the world?

Capacity returning to China

For the first time since January, China’s aviation industry is beginning to show the green shoots of recovery. Traffic had begun to pick up again over the last few weeks, and today CH-Aviation reports that all airports in the Hubei province apart from Wuhan have reopened for domestic flights.

Although China has a strong international network, a huge proportion of its travel is domestic. As such, the uptick in passenger services seen across the country is largely limited to these domestic services, as most international flights are still limited by national restrictions both at home and in other parts of the world, not to mention the ongoing slump in demand.

This will benefit our positions in Alibaba and EWH, the Hong Kong country fund as well as Singapore and Malaysian companies exposed to China.

Here is an optimistic note from :

Multi-Billionaire Hugo Salinas Price On The Coronavirus
Multi-Billionaire Hugo Salinas Price:  2,835,205 Americans died in the year 2018. (Source: National Vital Statistics System).

Humans have a habit of dying, and as the population of the US has grown since 2018, the figures we shall eventually see for total deaths in the US in 2019, will very likely be a bit larger, and the same holds for 2020.

Let us take the figures for 2018 – 2,835,205 deaths – and divide by 365 to get the daily death toll for the US: 7,768 Americans died every day in 2018.

In three months of 2018 – 90 days – 699,120 Americans died of all causes, including simple old age.

The world is being deliberately terrorized, and fear is a great obstacle to human reasoning – always fairly weak in itself – by a dreadful fear of death due to the infamous Covid-19 virus.

We are told that the US is suffering a pandemic of Covid-19 infections, and the number of deaths it’s causing is the continuous theme presented to us, day in and day out, by the Media.

The fact is that Americans are suffering a pandemic of misinformation, whose object is to terrorize them into quiet submission to the despotism of those who govern.

The Internet shows us a total US death-toll due to Covid-19 as of April 13, of 22,000. This so-called “Covid-19 Pandemic” began some 90 days ago, and ought to be compared to the total deaths in 90 days, which in 2018 was of 699,120 Americans. 22,000/699,120 = 3.15% of normal, yearly recurring deaths in the US  in the year 2018.

By way of comparison, the leading causes of death in the US have remained fairly stable over the last five years, and are Heart Disease, causing 647,457 deaths (23.5% of total in 2017) and Cancer, causing 599,108 deaths (21.3% of total in 2017). Source: Medical News Today.

I submit that a “Pandemic” that only produces 3.15% of the normally recurring deaths of Americans, is hardly a Pandemic, while Heart Disease and Cancer, which account for 44.8% of deaths in the US, are quite absent from the news.

I have a very big question: Why are we not favored with data regarding the ages of those dying of Covid-19?

Here’s what I think:  a good number of deaths attributed to covid-19 are deaths of aged people already at death’s-door, from Heart Disease or Cancer, or a host of other sicknesses that carry-off older people. So that when all the data is in, later on, it will be noticed that the total number of deaths registered in 2020, was actually in line with the number of deaths in previous years.

And yet the American Media are terrorizing the American people, 24/24 hours a day, with an overpowering fear of dying of Covid-19.

What should really terrify the American nation, is not fear of dying of an infection of Covid -19, but terror of the purposes of those who govern the US, and who are cowing the Nation into submission to their purpose of achieving total despotic power over a once-free Nation.

That said, what is yet to come will be a devastating collapse of the economy of the US, due to the suspension of normal economic activity for so many months.

That is why Trump is taking decisive action to reopen America. 

The Media induced fear has even infected Malaysia but the MCO (Movement Control Order) has been working :  less infections, less deaths and higher recovery rates. I will be buying for you more quality US/ Singapore and Malaysian shares next  week anticipating further recovery.  

Keep safe

Bill

Critters of the week are some test monkeys in a drug trial by Gilead Life Sciences who have conducted successful experimental human trials as well with remdesivir.

Monkey Trial Shows 100% Success of Remdesivir in Fighting COVID-19

A scientific trial using the experimental drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19 in monkeys has been successful, according to a preliminary report.

Scientists infected two groups of six rhesus macaque monkeys with the coronavirus and treated half with remdesivir intravenously. 

None of the animals given the drug showed "signs of respiratory disease" after treatment, and scans showed their lungs contained less substances linked to pneumonia, the report states.

How the study will translate to treating infected humans is still unknown, researchers say. 

The monkeys were dosed 12 hours after they were infected and once a day for six days after, which follows the same schedule as humans in similar trials.

Researchers checked the monkeys’ symptoms and monitored how much of the virus they were carrying. They were autopsied after seven days. 

The results indicated that as early as 12 hours after the first treatment was administered, levels of the virus declined in the monkeys’ lower respiratory system, the team said.

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