Where is Tim Conway when we need him? A Special Announcement
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These are my own conclusions from what I have read, listened to and thought about.
By restricting everyone at some point are we diminishing the immunity of even healthy people and that will make them more, not less, susceptible. So I suspect Ga's Governor might be ahead of the government's phase one but I also suspect, as we increase testing and opening up our economy, we will see higher statistics relating to those who have or had the virus. Not all deaths classified Coronavirus related are correct because there are underlying health factors that have been associated with many deaths incorrectly attributed to the Coronavirus. https://youtu.be/NjjybyJ59Lw
I fear by allowing the destruction of the middle class' independent shop owners, while allowing larger corporations to survive, we have begun a trend anathema/dangerous to America's freedoms.
From a fiscal standpoint, we have laid the foundation for the ultimate bankruptcy of our nation.
Allowing states that have been corrupt in fiscal management of their affairs to be funded, bailed out by the federal government simply validates fiscal irresponsibility and McConnell is correct. Let these states bankrupt.
Many of these states have allowed mismanagement of pensions to balloon for the purpose of re-circulating money for political campaigns.
The election of the far left, which is basically what the Democrat Party is about, would be a political pandemic on top of a medical/viral one.
The virus episode may have been an accident but once it was known and China chose to hide this fact and engaged in other nefarious activities, like buying up medical equipment etc. and possibly manipulating The WHO, it became a purposeful act of bio sabotage and Chine must be made to pay.
I would make them pay in various ways:
a) Throw them out of the U.N. They have the right of a Security Council veto so make them exercise it.
b) Bring law suits in The World Court for reparations and damages.
c) Throw them out of The World Trade Organization
d) Begin a co-ordinated withdrawal of manufacturing facilities and trade
China is a pariah nation and must be treated accordingly.
If the free nations of the world are incapable of coming together in a co-ordinated manner then China will be allowed to win.
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These are questions one should ponder according to a dear friend and fellow memo reader who sent them to me:
1. If you have sex with a prostitute against her will, is it considered assault or shoplifting?
2. Why do you have to “put your two cents in”... but it’s only a “penny for your thoughts”? Where’s that extra penny going?
3. Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
4. What disease did cured ham actually have?
5. How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
6. If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
7. Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
8. Why do doctors leave the room while you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway.
9. Why is “bra” singular and “panties” plural?
10. Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?
11. Why do they call it an asteroid when it’s outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it’s in your ass?
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Coronavirus isolation could mean death for America’s opioid addicts
By Salena Zito
WASHINGTON COUNTY, PA. — It is two days before Brian McCarthy is supposed to celebrate a very important occasion in his life: 11 years of sobriety. This kind of moment is typically shared joyfully with friends and fellow members of the recovery community.
Instead, McCarthy will be isolated, like most of us, away from the spread of the coronavirus. Currently holed up in his suburban two-story home with his wife and two children in Peters Township, a half-hour’s drive from Pittsburgh, he says this type of isolation is his biggest fear.
“It is usually such a time of celebration and reflection. It’s a really big deal because the clean time you achieve is so important. Heck, it has been as important if not more important than my birthday,” he said.
”Ironically enough, I was supposed to be celebrating my anniversary in the pen and I’m not even going to be able to do that this year and it sucks, if you want to know the truth,” he says of the monthly recovery group he leads at a super-max state penitentiary in nearby Greene County. “It sucks.”
Once, McCarthy used everything, including opioids. But his drug of choice, he said, was simple: more.
“I’ve seen this whole isolating thing and it is just, it’s toxic for us,” he said of his fellow former addicts. “I’m not going to get high over it. At least not today.
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Good news Israel edited:
In Israel, as Israel's 72nd birthday approaches, the first shoots of recovery are now starting to blossom. Schools and businesses are re-opening and airlines are renewing services to Israel. On the coronavirus front, more Israelis are recovering than being infected. Israel is sowing the seeds for future health with new vaccines and treatments. Meanwhile, Israeli innovations to test, detect and prevent the spread of the virus are already bearing fruit.Best regards
Michael
Michael
In the 26th Apr 20 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
- Another Israeli COVID-19 vaccine and a life-saving treatment are in development.
- An Israeli has co-developed the first entirely new antibiotic for 3 decades.
- Israeli-Arab support for Israel has surged during the pandemic.
- Two Israeli innovations to filter virus-contaminated air.
- Israelis use radar and thermal cameras to detect coronavirus infection.
- Economy gets A+ rating as Israel emerges from lockdown.
- Israel’s vaccine development gets a $12 million investment boost.
- Israel marks Yom HaShoah, Earth Day, San Remo and looks forward to Independence Day
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Another potential coronavirus treatment. Israeli biotech Redhill has announced that another of its pipeline medicines RHB-107 (upamostat) is to be tested by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) against SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19. (Redhill’s Opaganib is already saving lives.)
https://www.redhillbio.com/
US patent for coronavirus vaccine. (TY Richard) Tel Aviv University Professor Jonathan Gershoni has been granted a US patent for technology to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. The vaccine targets the coronavirus’s Achilles’ heel, its Receptor Binding Motif (RBM), which the virus uses to bind to and infect a target cell.
https://english.tau.ac.il/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Giving coronavirus patients a LIFT. Scientists from Israel’s Technion Institute have developed Liquid Foam Therapy (LIFT). It improves the distribution across the lungs of surfactant, the liquid that coats the surface of alveoli in the lungs,. COVID-19 kills the cells that secrete surfactant, making it harder to breathe.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Protecting intubated patients. (TY Hazel) Israel’s Hospitech produces the AnapnoGuard (reported here previously) which seals the trachea of intubated patients and protects them against Ventilator Associated Pneumonia. It was in use in China before the coronavirus outbreak and is now in use in 5 Israeli hospitals.
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-
Recovered from Covid-19. A 45-year-old coronavirus patient at Jerusalem’s Wolfson hospital woke up from a 29-day coma. A 22-year-old regained consciousness after a three-week coma. A 94-year-old Jerusalem woman has recovered from Covid-19. And Eli Beer, CEO of United Hatzalah returned home to Israel after his recovery.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
https://www.jewishpress.com/
The first new antibiotic in 3 decades. Israel’s Regina Barzilay co-led an MIT team that used artificial intelligence to discover Halicin - the first entirely new antibiotic molecule in 30 years. It kills two of the most dangerous and durable bacteria which (unlike with other antibiotics) were unable to develop resistance to it.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
The meaning of life. As the cell’s protein factory, the ribosome is the only natural machine that manufactures its own parts and is key to explaining how life develops. Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute are now able to demonstrate the self-synthesis and assembly of the small subunit of a ribosome on a surface of a chip.
https://wis-wander.weizmann.
https://advances.sciencemag.
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
4 faiths combine for prayer. The leaders of the four leading religions in Israel – Judaism, Islam, Christianity and the Druze faith – convened in Jerusalem for an unprecedented communal interfaith prayer for the end of the corona epidemic. Following the prayer, the leaders each offered their personal thoughts.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
Israeli-Arab doctor makes coronavirus educational cartoons. Dr. Momen Abbasi, a resident of internal medicine at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, illustrates the fight against corona using his skills as a cartoon artist. The cartoons serve as a useful educational tool and producing them helps reduce Dr Abbasi’s stress level.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Israeli-Arab praise for Israeli pandemic support. Professor Fahed Hakim, medical director of Nazareth Hospital, the largest medical facility in the Arab sector, praised Israel’s Health Ministry for funding 3 coronavirus wards. He also thanked The IDF for providing ventilators and other equipment.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-
Huge change in Arab-Israeli perception. The Jewish People Policy Institute's (JPPI) 2020 survey of Israel’s minorities finds that 23% define themselves as primarily “Israeli” (5% in 2019). 65% agreed with the phrase "I feel like a real Israeli" and 33% somewhat agreed. https://www.jpost.com/arab-
Arab-Israeli MK honors Holocaust victims. History was made on Yom HaShoah when Member of Knesset Mansour Abbas, who heads the religious United Arab List party eulogized victims of the Holocaust at the Knesset. He also recited a prayer from the Quran in memory of those killed in the Holocaust.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/
Advanced testing machine for Gaza hospital. The IDF has delivered an advanced PCR medical device used for the detection of Coronavirus (COVID-19) to the Gaza strip. It will be used at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, doubling the current rate of Corona tests in Gaza.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
Free training in lung ultrasounds. Israel-based Simbionix has launched a special project to train medical staff worldwide for free in performing and analyzing lung ultrasounds. Lung-ultrasound has proven to be one of the key factors in the effective diagnosis of people infected with the coronavirus. https://simbionix.com/
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
An Earth Day like no other. Some of the wildest scenes have been circulating on the Internet on World Earth Day 22nd Apr 2020. They include wild boar roaming the streets of Haifa, jackals in Tel Aviv’s HaYarkon Park, foxes in Ashkelon and on Highway 1. And ibex still wander around Eilat.
https://www.
Italian startups complete Eilat accelerator. The first seven Italian startups in Eilat’s Acceleration program (see here) have just graduated. They are now negotiating deals valued at NIS 40 million, mostly with Israeli institutions and companies, including health institutions, industrial and real estate companies.
https://www.new-techeurope.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
COVID-19 decision support for doctors. Israeli startup Kahun uses Artificial Intelligence to retrieve vital data for medical professionals on the coronavirus. Kahun’s algorithm mimics the diagnosis process in searching over 2,500 research papers to help physicians make fast vital decisions. Also open to the public. https://kahun.com/
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Glass chamber to see coronavirus patients. (TY UWI) Steve Walz, international spokesperson, Sheba Medical Center spoke on ILTV about Sheba’s solution for enabling interaction between covid-19 victims and their families. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Filtering out the virus. Israel’s Aura Smart Air (reported here previously) has launched a test of its air purification system at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center. Aura Air is in the final approval stage for European Union funding. The EU is seeking solutions for closed-space infections, with a special emphasis on the coronavirus.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Self-sterilizing air filters. Scientists at Ben-Gurion University are developing a new type of air-filter that self-sterilizes and decontaminates. The nanotechnology is based on laser-induced graphene (LIG) water filters that eliminate viruses and bacteria in water. Potential applications include face masks and ventilation systems.
https://medicalxpress.com/
Disinfectant from tap water kills coronavirus. (TY UWI) Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have developed powerful and environmentally friendly disinfectants using just tap water. They used electrolysis to bind chlorine hydrogen and oxygen – producing hypo chloric acid. In tests it killed microbes, fungi and corona-type viruses.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Radar to detect coronavirus carriers. (TY Hazel) Israel Aerospace Industries and Israel’s Elbit Systems have converted radar and electro-optic (camera) sensors into high-sensitivity sensors. These can measure pulse, temperature, and respiratory rate, to indicate a likely coronavirus infection.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-
Thermal cameras check for infection. Israeli startup Iron-Drone has developed ThermoGate to test the temperature of people entering shops and workplaces as per Israeli government regulations. Meanwhile Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has built and installed its own temperature checkers at two Israeli hospitals.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Home coronavirus test. Researchers from Israel’s Technion Institute have developed a process that they say can be made into a simple, inexpensive, fast and accurate home test for the coronavirus. Dip a swab of saliva into a test tube of chemical reagents and then into hot water. If the reagent color changes, the saliva is infected.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
Millions of 3D-printed swabs for US. In response to the pressing need for more COVID-19 testing, Israel’s Stratasys and Origin of the US have signed an agreement in which Stratasys will market and promote Origin 3D-printed nasopharyngeal (NP) swabs to healthcare providers and other testing centers in the U.S.
https://www.origin.io/news/
https://www.origin.io/npswab
Rapid Response. Israel’s Tikkun Olam (“Healing the World”) Makers or TOM (see previous) has built a platform called Rapid Response Makers (RRM). Medical professionals and developers all over the world are encouraged to design and build medical infrastructure, products, and software to help fight the pandemic.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Drones pollinate date plantations. The coronavirus pandemic put Israel’s date industry at risk due to shortage of labor to pollinate trees between February and April. Israel’s Blue White Robotics (see here) is now deploying drones to pollinate date plantations in Israel’s Arava region and the Jordan Valley.
https://worldisraelnews.com/
An Artificial Reality studio in your pocket. Israeli startup Arti provides simple, inexpensive software for media professionals to develop Augmented Reality videos. With just a smartphone, a laptop and an internet they can make AR videos containing 2D and 3D objects, movies etc. Arti has just raised $4 million of funds.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Waze rolls out new features. With a 70% decline in road traffic, Israeli-founded mobile navigation app developer Waze has turned to building new features that help users during the coronavirus pandemic. One can identify locations with “drive-thru” and “curbside pickup”, for safe access to food and essentials.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
New Digital Health Tech Innovation Lab. The Israel Innovation Authority is launching a new tech innovation lab with NIS 32 million of funding to promote investments in the field of digital health. Companies have been invited to help operate the lab and assist Israel in the diagnosis and treatment of the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Fitch gives Israel an A+. Amazingly, Fitch Ratings has affirmed Israel's long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) at 'A+' with a stable outlook. It highlights strong external finances, a diversified high value-added economy and solid institutional strength. It projects a rebound in 2021, with GDP growing by 5%.
https://www.fitchratings.com/
Airlines renew Israel flights. Good news for Israeli nationals. British Airways and Wizz are shortly resuming their London to Tel Aviv flights. Air Canada is restarting from Toronto and Montreal and Delta is resuming from New York. United Airlines is upgrading its New York service and restarting from San Francisco.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Israeli schools to re-open. Israeli school admin staff are returning to work in advance of schools reopening. They will be subject to Health Ministry guidelines. It is a major step towards allowing parents to return to work. Special education classes have already reopened.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
A thousand ventilators for Europe. (TY Hazel) Israel’s BATM is already busy producing COVID-19 testing kits (reported here previously). Now, it has received a $31 million order from an unnamed European country, for 1000 ventilators to be delivered between June and September.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-
El Al transports medical equipment from China to Italy. El Al's cargo department has signed a deal to operate 150 cargo flights from China to Italy, carrying medical equipment to help battle coronavirus. El Al will operate two flights daily between April and October using converted 777 planes and Dreamliners.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
Israel’s response to COVID-19. Israeli global investment platform Ourcrowd held a webinar on how Israel’s Government, healthcare and technology startups are combating the coronavirus. It featured PulmOne, SightDX and MigVax. Some 1000 medical, media and investment professionals attended. And me. See the slides here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/
Israeli vaccine gains support. Israel’s Migal Galilee Research Institute is now MigVax Corp and has just received $12 million of funds, led by Ourcrowd. MigVax’s is developing a safe, oral vaccine with 3 levels of protection. It will be easy to scale up and can be adjusted for other coronavirus strains.
https://www.businesswire.com/
Emergency funds for cash-strapped startups. The Israeli Innovation Authority (IIA), the government's tech investment arm, is making available NIS 500 million for Israeli startups that have a good chance of succeeding in the long run, but are currently suffering from a shortage in funding and need immediate investment.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
More investment in Israeli startups. This week Israeli startups InnovoPro raised $15 million, Granulate raised $12 million, Orchestra raised $7.5 million, MyndYou raised $4 million, Arti raised $4 million, and Gauzy raised some $10 million.
THE JEWISH STATE
Young Israelis volunteer in droves. Lev Echad (One Heart) is an Israeli NGO that activates whenever there’s a crisis. It currently has thousands of young adults providing childcare for staff at 16 medical centers, shopping for quarantined and elderly citizens and standing in for charities that have had to close their services.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Innovating Holocaust education. To mark Yom HaShoah, the University of Haifa’s Weiss-Livnat Innovation Hub for Holocaust Education and Commemoration has launched a one-year post-graduate program. Its aim is to encourage students to create an innovative project that educates the public about the Holocaust.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-
https://www.jns.org/haifa-
IDF protects Holocaust survivors. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Yom HaShoah, “The current reality (corona) does not allow us to meet with the survivors, to support them and be inspired by them. At this time, our mission is to protect them.”
https://www.israelhayom.com/
Volunteers 3D-print visors for medics. (TY Hazel) Hundreds of Israeli volunteers from an online community called COVID-19 Open Source are using their own 3D printers to produce protective visors for healthcare workers. Other volunteers take the equipment direct to needy hospital departments across the country.
https://www.ynetnews.com/
100th anniversary of San Remo. On 25th Apr 1920, the San Remo Conference of the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers signed the treaty that established the international right of the Jewish people to a national home. It was enshrined in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate and the 1945 UN Charter.
- live broadcast from Jerusalem on Sunday 26 April at 15.00 CET 14:00 GMT www.sanremo100.org
https://www.jpost.com/middle-
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A thousand ventilators for Europe. (TY Hazel) Israel’s BATM is already busy producing COVID-19 testing kits (reported here previously). Now, it has received a $31 million order from an unnamed European country, for 1000 ventilators to be delivered between June and September.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-
El Al transports medical equipment from China to Italy. El Al's cargo department has signed a deal to operate 150 cargo flights from China to Italy, carrying medical equipment to help battle coronavirus. El Al will operate two flights daily between April and October using converted 777 planes and Dreamliners.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
Israel’s response to COVID-19. Israeli global investment platform Ourcrowd held a webinar on how Israel’s Government, healthcare and technology startups are combating the coronavirus. It featured PulmOne, SightDX and MigVax. Some 1000 medical, media and investment professionals attended. And me. See the slides here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/
Israeli vaccine gains support. Israel’s Migal Galilee Research Institute is now MigVax Corp and has just received $12 million of funds, led by Ourcrowd. MigVax’s is developing a safe, oral vaccine with 3 levels of protection. It will be easy to scale up and can be adjusted for other coronavirus strains.
https://www.businesswire.com/
Emergency funds for cash-strapped startups. The Israeli Innovation Authority (IIA), the government's tech investment arm, is making available NIS 500 million for Israeli startups that have a good chance of succeeding in the long run, but are currently suffering from a shortage in funding and need immediate investment.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
More investment in Israeli startups. This week Israeli startups InnovoPro raised $15 million, Granulate raised $12 million, Orchestra raised $7.5 million, MyndYou raised $4 million, Arti raised $4 million, and Gauzy raised some $10 million.
THE JEWISH STATE
Young Israelis volunteer in droves. Lev Echad (One Heart) is an Israeli NGO that activates whenever there’s a crisis. It currently has thousands of young adults providing childcare for staff at 16 medical centers, shopping for quarantined and elderly citizens and standing in for charities that have had to close their services.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Innovating Holocaust education. To mark Yom HaShoah, the University of Haifa’s Weiss-Livnat Innovation Hub for Holocaust Education and Commemoration has launched a one-year post-graduate program. Its aim is to encourage students to create an innovative project that educates the public about the Holocaust.
https://www.jns.org/israeli-
https://www.jns.org/haifa-
IDF protects Holocaust survivors. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Yom HaShoah, “The current reality (corona) does not allow us to meet with the survivors, to support them and be inspired by them. At this time, our mission is to protect them.”
https://www.israelhayom.com/
Volunteers 3D-print visors for medics. (TY Hazel) Hundreds of Israeli volunteers from an online community called COVID-19 Open Source are using their own 3D printers to produce protective visors for healthcare workers. Other volunteers take the equipment direct to needy hospital departments across the country.
https://www.ynetnews.com/
100th anniversary of San Remo. On 25th Apr 1920, the San Remo Conference of the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers signed the treaty that established the international right of the Jewish people to a national home. It was enshrined in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate and the 1945 UN Charter.
- live broadcast from Jerusalem on Sunday 26 April at 15.00 CET 14:00 GMT www.sanremo100.org
https://www.jpost.com/middle-
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