The New Hysteria

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: We now hear that wearing masks is not a safety issue but a control issue imposed on us to take away our liberty.  https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/27/mandatory-masks-arent-about-safety-theyre-about-social-control/?utm_campaign=ACTENGAGE 
How likely is it that every state, local, and federal health official, every state governor, every government in the world is involved in a control conspiracy?  How can countries locked in intense conflict against one another be united in a control conspiracy? Can we really imagine Washington in league with Iran, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Russia? It is amazing to me how far off real concerns all of this has become.  It has become more of a hysteria than the virus itself.
The emotional and liberty issues are made up.  Everyone was demanding masks, the general population as well as doctors and nurses.  The criticism of the authorities was the lack of masks.  The lack of N-95 or higher masks was the leading sign of the unpreparedness of the Western governments.
The flip-flopping of public health officials on masks is likely explained by the initial unavailability of masks even for those treating infected patients as well as for the public.

China Double Dares Trump, Boris, Etc. To Go For It - Approves Homogenous Chinese Law For Hong Kong

Beijing will initiate a far-reaching 'crackdown' to impose standard Chinese law on privileged Hong Kong once it takes effect in September.
By Tyler Durden: One day after the US declared that Hong Kong is no longer "autonomous" from Beijing, China's Politburo Standing Committee on Thursday officially wove a controversial new "National Security" resolution that was approved during last week's National Party Congress into Hong Kong's 'Basic Law' - the de facto constitution left by the British - in defiance of President Trump, and a broader backlash across the West, which has repeatedly stood up to defend Hong Kong's freedoms.
According to the Jew York Times, Beijing will probably initiate a far-reaching 'crackdown' to impose the new law on Hong Kong once it takes effect in September.

Laundering Feudalism

Max and Stacy examine the abundance of circumstantial evidence that the entire economy has become a money laundering operation. From the ‘unicorns’ of Silicon Valley where losses are rising exponentially, to fracking plays where losses mount every year for the past decade to the entire business model of private equity where companies are loaded up with massive piles of debt... who exactly is profiting from so many money losing enterprises?

Like Some Sweeteners The Best Leading COVID Indicator Might Literally Be Shit...

Here Is The Best Advance Indicator If A Second Wave Of Coronavirus Is Coming

By Tyler Durden: As public health officials and investors search for reliable leading indicators for the 'second wave' of infections that Dr. Fauci and the WHO insist is right around the corner, one team of researchers has determined that the answers might be found under the ground...

To wit, a team of researchers from Yale University in New Haven, Conn. published a paper earlier this month on their studies of SARS-CoV-2 concentrations in the sewage in the Greater New Haven area. In the abstract of their report, the team determined that "when adjusted for the time lag, the virus RNA concentrations were highly correlated with the COVID-19 epidemiological curve (R2 =0.99) and local hospital admissions (R2 =0.99). SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations were a seven-day leading indicator ahead of compiled COVID-19 testing data and led local hospital admissions data by three days."