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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/29/google-t...anies.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/28/the-top-...-2020.html

Shot: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0771-4

Chaser: https://www.pnas.org/content/102/39/14040

OK.. So Nature is out with a study that identifies SARS-CoV-2 as coming from Horseshoe Bats. Three methods were used to come to same conclusion.
To me, that's not even the most interesting thing I found today.

When Googling Horseshoe Bat, I came to the chaser link. It's a 2005 study that was aiming to identify the source of the original SARS virus.  Turns out researchers looking for SARS, actually found "a SARS-like" virus that wasn't exactly it, in Horseshoe Bats. So way back in 2005, researchers found what we now call SARS-CoV-2 living in these Horseshoe Bats, but nobody thought much of it because it wasn't the actual SARS virus being sought out at the time.  

All these people coming up with wild conspiracy theories about it being made in a lab because it is new, when the reality is it was found 15 years ago, but nobody thought anything of it because it wasn't the virus infecting humans at the time, makes me smile. Truth: Those who said SARS-CoV-2 had to be lab made because it is different from all known viruses, were simply ignorant to the fact it had in fact first been found 15 years ago.

The pandemic-induced economic decline in April meant a 34.8% annualized drop in GDP for Q2, 2020.  By way of comparison, the worst drop on record was 10% in 1958 -- during a global flu pandemic.  Consumer spending collapsed as Americans sheltered in place. And here's an oddity: net government spending will actually decline. Federal outlays jumped like crazy, but state and local government spending shrank due to collapsing tax bases.

Q3 is expected to increase by 16.7%, according to a Wells Fargo survey of economists, so not quite a "V" shaped recovery. Our management doesn't expect the economy to fully recover until 2022, assuming all goes reasonably well. The new stimulus will help. More spending, less unemployment help:
https://reason.com/2020/07/28/the-next-c...ut-to-eat/

https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-ec...r-recorded





BTW, the Q3 results will come out right before the presidential election. And there are indications that Biden is expected to win:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/vot...n-chances/

77-year old Biden will make his VP selection next week.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-vice-presid...13551.html

Biden's VP choice will be critical. Most people understand that the VP has an increased likelihood of being elected president. How does President Kamala Harris sound?
https://apnews.com/d3fc8b88cde56bac9f1e7b5e494fb019

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-th...e-n1235028

A couple who insisted on having 100 guests for their wedding have contracted coronavirus, alongside eight of their friends. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...40996.html

Quote:Seventeen Anesthesiologist Residents, Fellow At University Hospital System Contract Virus After Private Party.

https://www.mlb.com/giants/ballpark/dist...-422070520

The Giants (with Flemming narrating) put together a few lessons geared at elementary school students.  Good stuff.

BC

Should we start a pool for when the brakes are slammed on the season?

I think this week. Maybe Thursday.

Experts who sounded the alarm to Trump administration officials about the gathering coronavirus crisis break their silence, offering a searing assessment of how the federal government blundered through the critical first months of the outbreak. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/coronaviru...itter_abcn

In this professor's view, the drug is a valuable treatment resource ignored for political reasons.

I don't have the expertise to evaluate this opinion, other than to note that the writer is highly credentialed and apparently with no axe to grind. 

It is fair to say that these oscillations in professional opinion, all delivered with emphasis and certitude, go a long way toward making the public cynical.