Covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the elected officials that have had the response ability to make very tough decisions with limited and highly imperfe
Leaders, young people in lebanon tell us they are losing hope that the french president can bring change. Months after the coronavirus was first discovered in the chinese city of wuhan, almost one Million People are confirmed to have died from the illness. He sobering figure highlights the need for concerted global action, as the World Health Organization warms the official figure is likely to underestimate the true toll. We collect information on confirmed cases of covid19. Count excess mortality in those numbers you see every day. If anything, the numbers that are currently reported probably represent an underestimate of those individuals who have either contracted covid19 or have died as a cause of it. Host 33 million infections have been read worldwide. The u. S. , india, and brazil are the hardest it, with 17 million cases between them. Infections are once again accelerating across europe after a summer of lucent resurgence. Tighter measures are being imposed in parts of spain, fr
Issues. Is this picture on the left a real picture of you . Yes. Not the week . Not a week spirit when was that taken . I would guess 71. Not quite positive. What were your politics 1971 . I think a martian left would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a left winger, but it didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist are trotskyite or anything like that. Went to the transformation occur. When did the transformation occur . I just wrote about this. There is a book coming out from the Hoover Institution is backing this, called why i turned right, and its the story of a bunch of us and why we became right. It is a long store and i wont tell it but ill give the short version of it. I was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in america. I got a job. I got a job paying 150 a week. I was a messenger in new york when it appeared he dont the week is a lot of money is forced i was concerned. I was living doubt on the Lower East Side and i was v
It was. What we are politics and 71 . I think a martian left would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger but it didnt make sense to be a communist. Went to the transformational kerr . It was gradual. It took place, in fact i just wrote about this. There is a book coming out from the Hoover Institute of why i turned right and its a story of a bunch of us. And it is a long story and i wont tell you but i will give the short version. I was a radical leftist in a search of marxist socialist thing in america and i got a job i got a job paying 150 a week. I was the messenger in new york. That was a lot of money as far as i was concerned. I was very broke and i was paid every two weeks. I was really looking forward to that 300 and so was my landlord. And my drug dealer. [laughter] and other people. I got my first paycheck it was 178. It was supposed to be 300 but after taxes and Social Security and Health Care Retirement fund i said wait. I have been advocating socialism marxism
All report Record Numbers of daily deaths. We are getting set for samsung results. We will find out how the pandemic has hit south korea smartphone makers later in the show. A look at how we are shaping up this thursday session. We will start with u. S. Futures. All eyes really looking at the fed, looking at jay powell. He said this is particularly the biggest economic shock in memory for the u. S. Prospects for further monetary stimulus, just incremental progress when it comes to negotiations, more fiscal stimulus, i should say. Chicago nikkei futures looking unchanged. It is a massive earnings day in japan, expecting results from hitachi, panasonic, as well as waiting on japanese retail sales. Retail sales coming out of hong kong later on. That is expected to be another grim picture. The yen, wonderful 97 is where we are. Steady below that one of five handle, the dollar coming under pressure from that super dovish fed and the dovish comment from fed chair powell. 41. 37, getting that