Having discontinued Coronavirus Central, allow me to invite you to listen to my new and ongoing work every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with a weekend mailbag episode for your questions at Free Atlantic Radio. For sixty to seventy minutes, we look into questions of how to restructure our society in the post-Covid world covering all areas ranging from politics to economy and from culture to scholarship.  Feel free to listen.Episodes are available on iTunes and Google Play, but also at...

Episode 87 will be the final episode of Coronavirus Central in light of the other challenges America faces and my desire to cover them more fully including a wider focus of topics and a more regional impact.  Allow me to say thank you to you all.  Today's episode starts by looking at a viral outbreak reaching new heights with an emphasis in the South and West, a bizarre and deadly means of transmission between cells by viral tentacles, and cases of delirium being caused by this still poorly...

In this eighty-sixth episode, the question becomes who do you trust?  We see rising numbers throughout the south and west as Texas, California, and Florida lead the way with many new cases, expected after their reopening.  But as we ask what sources are there to guide our search, we share how the CDC lied about masks, the Lancet and New England Journal used fake data, and how Chinese lab reports are compromised.  So we're forced to look beyond at bigger agendas, and as we see the racial...

The eighty-fifth episode of Coronavirus Central looks at the escalation of the culture war between police and activists.  Call offs in Atlanta and a future planned event in New York hint that the events of Seattle and Minneapolis are driving a nationwide wedge.  We look at the frustrations of officers, the mentality of combatants, the question of how public officials manage these struggles, and both sides of the equation. From blacks fearing harm to whites trapped in now unsafe cities, what...

Episode 84 looks at the scene around the world to follow up on two trends predicted by this show.  Firstly, we see hints of a major new outbreak happening in Beijing and begin questioning what is happening in China as border clashes with India leave three dead with more injured as 54 scientists are discovered by the NIH to be on their payroll.  North Korea also literally blew up their connection to the South.  So we ask how that fits into the American chaos, looking at the strengths and...

For the 83rd Episode, we start with three medical pieces showing how Covid has a distinctly neurological character, how it can be corrosive over time, and look at how the nervous system could represent the perfect hiding spot.  As we examine that, we see the predicted rise in cases beginning to more fully manifest in the Sun Belt and early opening states, with promises that rallies and protests will add fuel to this toxic fire.  The virus remains even as our regard slips, and we look at New...

Episode 82 looks at our economy and reveals the house of cards that has been built upon the increasingly shaky foundation of corporate debt.  Counting on businesses to stay afloat, the shock of the coronavirus pandemic and all it has wrought has put retail out of business in huge numbers, threatening commercial mortgage defaults.  The Fed intervened and changed the rules to ensure corporate debt would remain liquid, which led to corporations acting like banks to buy their own debt with money...

Episode 81 explores an interesting premise.  When one power so dominates the world as America has done since the end of the Cold War, what happens when it becomes proxy for global conflicts between peoples, powers, and principles, that its own domestic sphere becomes the battlefield for a larger international contest?  We go big to understand small, looking at China, Asia, and the shifting arrangements.  Post-Covid world has nations making goods at home, so China, most impacted is absorbing...

Our eightieth episode looks at the two pressing issues of our time in concert:  The ongoing though too readily ignored coronavirus pandemic and the mass demonstrations, seeking to connect the two.  It starts with a compelling piece from the people who run the Doomsday Clock about the probability Covid is man-made, bolstered by research from Norway and England that is quietly being released while attention is elsewhere.  Against that, we see America diving once more into the mess, as...

To celebrate our return to timely posting to podcast land, a special extended episode to include 78 and 79 is shared here as a story of two nations.  It was the time of protests; the time of riots, the revolution for the people, the threat of incipient anarchy; the government would kill us, the government will save us, the good guys seizing power from the bad, the bad guys trying to steal power from the good, and amidst this all, a Dickensian struggle to paint the narrative in a way that...

Episode 77 sees America in trouble. Protests over police brutality have developed into national riots in several dozen cities, with fingers pointing in all directions with mass anger. As those issues are contested, a fertile breeding ground for now and the future is promised for Covid, and when we look at this conflict more closely, we see those deeper actors most responsible for the problems remain, as usual, least impacted. Keep safe and be smart as this tumultuous scenario unfolds. Join...

In Episode 76, we see how multiple conflicts are coming together to cause a cascade failure in certainly America, but potentially far beyond. As race riots emerge with widespread looting in response to police brutality, politics is driving a discordant response. With a background of mass evictions, unemployment, and economic insecurity throughout the nation, the promise of more protests and anger on all sides seems likely. The pandemic will have even more opportunity to spread, and as we...

To celebrate 75 shows, this special episode splits into three parts. In the first, we study new analysis from Australia demonstrating how Covid is uniquely adapted to attacking humans and a report from China how the coronavirus is erasing markers from sick cells as an ideal concealment strategy. The rising conflict between the US and China stretches from Hong Kong in protest, Taiwan becoming more concerned, and India now having issues on their Chinese border as Xi declares China must prepare...

Episode 74 is about the struggle between humanity and the coronavirus as we seek to unlock one another. As we see younger people increasingly impacted worldwide, as new receptors are indicated at risk and new mutations become clearer, we watch the precarious balance between indifference by many and frantic research by others. Brazil is getting worse, interferons are suppressed, and we see the PRRA is making Sars2 a totally novel, dangerous, and tenacious adversary. The only good news is we...

Episode 73 is a review of the quickly deteriorating United States and China relationship that is advancing across all fronts and pulling countries to different sides as the coronavirus serves as a constant drumbeat adding pressure domestically in both nations.  As a major lockdown occurs in China's Northeast with fears of a new strain with longer time to appearance, we see a feud break out at the WHO, consumers not wanting to purchase from either country, trade fraying, mistrust growing, and...

The seventy second episode features a review of the highly contentious partisan response amidst the question of how we build a functional economy that can be sustained in the face of pandemic and urgent human need.  We start by seeing how the locations where the outbreak happened shaped the public narrative and now we have a fight being set up as the false division of health versus economy.  People themselves report they want the choice for both as health should be covered and payments...

Episode 71 looks at the most recent information about viral mutation, spread, and how it connects to us.  We start with the troubling outbreak of Kawasaki Disease, a heart symptom affecting children in Italy and New York.  As we come to see not just the different mutations, but how they oddly impact the functional proteins unlike any other coronavirus, we're reminded just how distinctive Covid behaves.  We see how eyes are impacted, how cats may be carriers, and are reminded of how disjointed...

For episode 70, we travel north to Canada for a comparison against what the United States experiences.  A more robust policy response including direct aid support has helped minimize suffering for most Canadians, although a terrible failure in nursing homes, existing outside their public health system in many cases, has driven the vast majority of their deaths.  We look at Montreal having many problems including the abandonment of elderly at one nursing home.  The bank has been buying...

We take the 20,000 foot view in Episode 69 as we look at the bigger problems with the economy and how society has to restructure itself to meet the demands of people which change less amidst a virus that is making us rethink much of how we live.  We start by looking at a Fed wanting to do more, a Washington incapable of doing anything, and how the original buying in strategy is reaching beyond where private capital will go as bankruptcies rise, profits and taxes fall, and demands for bailouts...

Episode 68 was supposed to be about the divergent policy responses caused by the political polarization in the United States.  After a serious look at just how well ideology is now predicting expectations beyond science, we see such American absurdities as the Right deploying a militia to defend a barber shop in Michigan, or the Left using the virus to decry toxic masculinity in mask usage, all ignoring this deadly pandemic.  Deeper research into antibodies show more compelling evidence of...

In Episode 67, we look at the most updated numbers, modeling, and assumptions about how to work out the epidemiological response moving forward.  With many more people having experienced Covid, we still remain at just the beginning of this outbreak, with far more having kept apart, and as we begin reopening in America, the question of what launching the transmission rate, R, might mean gets tackled here.  We look at how much mobility might impact the reduction, what non-pharmaceutical...

Our sixty-sixth episode looks into the long term dangers of Covid as we reassess the symptoms in this continually evolving disease.  From fever, cough, and breathlessness, to more obscure symptoms like loss of smell and taste, discolored toes, and diarrhea, we look at what these might mean.  Furthermore, we look at what people experience after getting sick, using a new study to strengthen our autoimmune argument as we look at clotting and inflammation potentially causing a host of symptoms. ...

We close this week with our 65th Episode and see the world showing how things really work as opposed to the false delusions.  Russian oligarchs try to stop viral spread to stay afloat while Mexico struggles to keep up with the body county, Brazil's political crisis worsens, and in Africa, a slow, steady and painful burn is forecast.  We try to understand why things seem to be picking up again with hints about reinfection, sexual transmission, long lasting samples in lungs, all amidst the...

Episode 64 picks up the discussion from the finance coverage last show to the pragmatic level of the problems of business.  We start first with the startling announcement the US military is not accepting anyone who had Covid moving forward as we consider what such a world means for consumer demand as some seek to reopen.  What do we end up?  Herds that are being sold for a fraction of the cost, fishermen in port, empty restaurants in Texas, and another 3 million plus unemployed today.  Banks...

For the 63rd Episode, we begin a two part look at finance, the economy, and the response to Covid by looking at the highest level.  This challenging episode will help you rethink how money works, share why America and other countries have a strange response, and explore the relationship between funding, loans, taxation and control.  Most importantly, you'll have the context to predict and understand what might come ahead in a time of pandemic, falling oil prices, low consumption,...