coronavirus: it's cost trs so far; how much would it have cost to prepare for it ahead of time given we've known for 20y it was coming?

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[STOP DA LOCKDOWNS!]
Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49 21 Apr 2020 04:52Z
Replying to @gspeng @HollyBell8
Yep. People would rather have no pain now and then max pain in
perpetuity, versus low pain now and no pain in perpetuity.

[Foot Off The Brake:]
Eric Steig @ericsteig 21 Apr 2020 01:53Z
Remember when President Roosevelt, and Major General William C. Lee,
who organized the first paratroop platoon in WWII, told the
paratroopers that "once you start to slow down, you can just ditch the
parashoot"? Me neither.

[Why Wasn't I Told?]
Mia Farrow @MiaFarrow 19 Apr 2020 21:43Z
More than a dozen U.S researchers, physicians & health experts, incl
CDC staffers were working full time in Geneva at WHO headquarters as
coronavirus emerged. Trump admin was fully informed. Senior
Trump-health officials consulted at "highest levels w WHO
<https://t.co/vJNAkMjFPk>washingtonpost.com/world/national...

[When Did They Know?]
'We Alerted The World' To Coronavirus On Jan. 5, WHO Says In Response To US
NPR, 15 Apr 2020 23:26Z
"We regret the decision of the president of the United States to order a
halt in funding to the World Health Organization," WHO Director-General
Tedros Adhanom ...

Pneumonia of unknown cause - China
WHO, 05 Jan 2020
On 31 Dec 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of
pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in ...

[Keep It Inna Ground!]
Trump's Cure for Negative Oil Prices Is # More Oil?
Bloomberg, 21 Apr 2020 17:46Z
President Donald Trump has been floating various ideas to revive ...
novelties as paying producers to keep oil in the ground and branding it a ...

Trump administration eyes paying oil companies to keep ...
The Hill, 16 Apr 2020
Trump administration eyes paying oil companies to keep crude in the ...
paying oil companies to leave their product in the ground, a measure that ...
the idea to purchase and store crude oil onsite in producing fields," said ...

Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng 21 Apr 2020 13:38Z
The number of people facing acute food insecurity can nearly double
this year to 265 mn due to the economic fallout of
#coronavirus, says the #UN's World Food Programme.
#COVID_19 <https://t.co/aObbfuMrKG>english.alarabiya.net/en/coronavirus...

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 21 Apr 2020 13:30Z
An internal memo written by US officials and addressed to Mike Pompeo
warns that cutting funding to the World Health Organization, as Trump
said he would do, would threaten US lives and hobble global efforts
to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
<https://t.co/yuFC619DFV>propublica.org/article/trump-...

[Undercount!]
Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing 21 Apr 2020 13:09Z
Huge numbers of excess deaths.... likely either due to #COVID19 or
related deaths due to healthcare system over capacity.
<https://t.co/dICduTqN2E>nytimes.com/interactive/20... pic.twitter.com/0k47emGMsX

Russia reports record 5642 new coronavirus cases and 51 ...
Daily Mail, 21 Apr 2020 10:02Z
Veronika Skvortsova, head of Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency
(FMBA) and ...

[Undercount!]
UK's COVID-19 death toll is far higher than daily figure, data ...
Reuters, 21 Apr 2020 09:00Z
UK's COVID-19 death toll is far higher than daily figure, data suggests ...
extent of Britain's COVID-19 death toll was more than 40% higher than the ...
typical medical care for other conditions because of COVID-19 activities.".

Piers Morgan @piersmorgan 21 Apr 2020 13:25Z
BREAKING: Massive 40% spike in UK #coronavirus deaths - 873 new
fatalities reported in past 24hrs. Total deaths now 17,382, & that
doesn't include 1000s more in care homes & communities. Terrible news
after a few days of much lower reported deaths.

AJ+ @ajplus 21 Apr 2020 13:35Z
The UK's early #coronavirus death toll was 40% higher than
reported. Early figures showed only deaths in hospitals, but new data
shows almost 1,600 more in nursing homes and elsewhere over that
period. It currently reports 16,550 deaths, but the real total could be
over 23,000. pic.twitter.com/lHZBThk4JI

Kim Daly Nobbs @livingjuicy2day 20 Apr 2020 22:57Z
Replying to @ddale8
Someone needs to tell him that if the US had mobilized as South Korea
did instead of marinating in American exceptionalism and not learning
from other countries, we might have had fewer than 5,000 deaths. I
doubt anyone on his team has had the courage to point that out.

Reed Timmer @ReedTimmerAccu 21 Apr 2020 0:56Z
WOW! Another violent tornado in southern MS. EF4 with 54.2 mile long
path @RadarOmega_WX <https://t.co/nvFCRaxKE3>twitter.com/nwsjacksonms/s...

[Anodda warm one:]
Zack Labe @ZLabe 21 Apr 2020 01:58Z
We've added yet another month (March 2020) greater than 1°C above the
1951-1980 climate baseline ´ *Note: M = sunspot cycle max, m = sunspot
cycle min, V = volcano [Anomalies from @NASAGISS. Graphic by
<https://t.co/ZTndADSk5W>columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temper...]
pic.twitter.com/AZXkVuiZLP

Brian Brettschneider @Climatologist49 21 Apr 2020 04:52Z
Replying to @gspeng @Eco_Promos @HollyBell8
I saw that. Not sure what to make of it. It suggests a mortality rate
of about 0.2%. But an Ro of ~2.8 means you need 70% of population
infected to reach herd immunity. That suggests 460k total US deaths.
This is not a prediction by the way.

AccuWeather @breakingweather 21 Apr 2020 05:49Z
It has been a very active stretch of severe weather across the South
this April, with 2 major severe weather producers in as many weeks.
Unfortunately, the threat for all modes of severe weather will ramp up
once again in the coming days: <https://t.co/fkAlstaSTo>bit.ly/3at5jQK
pic.twitter.com/bvvyLd3ngj

Paul Eastwood @pauleastwd 21 Apr 2020 05:57Z
A stunning visualisation showing the significant drop in number of
flights over Europe on the same day in April this year compared to
2019. Created by @eurocontrol with more info at <https://t.co/cKRzUj8O7y>eurocontrol.int
pic.twitter.com/UF706CWm84

Trump (sort of) accepted Covid-19 modelling. Don't expect the same on
climate change.
James Bruggers, InsideClimate News

The climate crisis will deepen coronavirus. A green stimulus plan can
tackle both
Daniel Aldana Cohen and Daniel Kammen, The Guardian

Evian serves up carbon neutral certification
Cecilia Keating, BusinessGreen

As Earth Day turns 50 amid lockdowns, environmental action goes digital
Thin Lei Win, Reuters

Nearly half lived with unhealthy pollution levels in 2016-2018: analysis
Rachel Frazin, The Hill

World shares skid after oil prices plunge below zero
USA TODAY, 21 Apr 2020 09:16Z
Bangkok. World share prices skidded Tue after the price of US crude
oil plunged below zero, with demand collapsing as the pandemic leaves
factories, ...

Stock market live updates: Dow futures fall 500 points, unprecedented
oil losses continue
CNBC, 21 Apr 2020 13:03Z
Crude's historic decline pressured Wall Street once again as the global
economic outlook becomes even murkier.

$0 Oil Forces Canada To Shut Down Crude Production
OilPrice.com, 20 Apr 2020 14:19Z
Canadian oil companies have begun shutting down steam-driven oil sands
production projects as prices continue to fall.

The oil industry has never been in a crisis quite like this and many
producers will not survive
CNBC, 21 Apr 2020 01:24Z
The oil industry is in its worst crisis since the Depression. There's too
much oil, and nobody wants to buy any more.

ASX extends decline as US oil price turns negative, hitting Wall Street
The Australian, 21 Apr 2020 02:32Z

The Oil Price Crash in One Word: 'Inelasticity'
Bloomberg, 20 Apr 2020 19:49Z

June US oil futures rebound 7%, while May contract turns positive
CNBC, 21 Apr 2020 01:22Z
West TX Intermediate for May delivery made a turnaround into positive
territory after falling below zero for the first time in history.

Oil prices go negative - and Washington is paralyzed over what to do
POLITICO, 20 Apr 2020 20:14Z
Airlines, restaurants, retailers, farmers and a slew of other industries are
getting bns of dollars in bailouts as the US economy contracts
because of the ...

American Outdoor Brands Corp
NASDAQ:AOBC - 21 Apr, 3:14 pm GMT-4
8.94 +0.10 (1.13%) *** up 1.1% ***

Exxon Mobil Corporation
NYSE:XOM - 21 Apr, 3:15 pm GMT-4
41.50 +0.32 (0.78%) up

Kinder Morgan Inc
NYSE:KMI - 21 Apr, 3:15 pm GMT-4
14.60 -0.09 (0.61%) down

TC PIPELINES LP Common Stock
TSE:TRP COMMON - 21 Apr, 3:00 pm GMT-4
62.94 -0.50 (0.79%) down

Suncor Energy Inc.
TSE:SU - 21 Apr, 2:59 pm GMT-4
20.71 -0.17 (0.81%) down

...

General Motors Company
NYSE:GM - 21 Apr, 3:15 pm GMT-4
21.21 -1.17 (5.23%) *** down 5.2% ***

Royal Dutch Shell Plc
ETR:R6C - 21 Apr, 3:03 pm GMT+2
14.88 -0.90 (5.70%) *** down 5.7% ***

VOLKSWAGEN GROUP Common Stock
ETR:VOW3 - 21 Apr, 3:04 pm GMT+2
117.20 -7.54 (6.04%) *** down 6% ***

Tesla Inc
NASDAQ:TESLA - 21 Apr, 3:15 pm GMT-4
698.42 -47.94 (6.42%) *** down 6.4% ***

Airbus SE
EPA:AIR STOCK - 21 Apr, 3:04 pm GMT+2
51.97 -3.65 (6.56%) *** down 6.6% ***

[Bret Cahill]

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