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The coronavirus epidemic in the UK will last until next spring and could lead to 7.9 million people being hospitalised, a secret Public Health England (PHE) briefing for senior NHS officials reveals.

The document, seen by the Guardian, is the first time health chiefs tackling the virus have admitted that they expect it to circulate for 12 more months and lead to huge extra strain on an already overstretched NHS.

It also suggests that health chiefs are braced for as many as 80% of Britons becoming infected with the coronavirus over that time.

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• California, New York and Washington saw gun sales surge due to coronavirus  
• Shoppers seek to ‘protect their families’ should supplies run out due to the bug
• Others fear government’s emergency powers could restrict right to buy a gun 
• Some Asian-Americans buying weapons to protect themselves from potential racist attacks

Americans are starting to panic-buy guns with sales rocketing across the country and shoppers lining up around the block outside hunting shops amid coronavirus fears.

California, New York and Washington – the states hardest hit by the deadly bug – all saw a massive surge in gun sales.

Some buyers sought to ‘protect their families’ from looters should food and supplies run out due to coronavirus panic. 

It comes as thousands of Americans flocked to supermarkets to stockpile essential goods as panic about the coronavirus, which has killed 69 and infected 3,774 in the US alone, takes hold. 

Huge lines stretched along the sidewalk outside the Martin B. Retting gun store in Culver City, California.

Another stretch of shoppers was seen outside Gun World in Burbank. 

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The Fed has slashed rates to zero, and announced $700 billion in formal “QE” — on top of the crazy amount they’ve already done.

Here’s the problem — this isn’t a bank or market liquidity problem.

It is a bankruptcy problem that is being produced by zero revenue coming in the door while expenses continue and for small businesses that have no revenue rate cuts do nothing.

What this will do is let the banks screw the small business borrowers with impunity.  Which they will.

This deserves — but won’t get — a flat-out political revolt.

Anyone who still believes the government gives a wet **** about common people or small business has rocks in their head.

PS: The Futures are down HARD on this.  We’re open and down over 100 handles on the /ES futures in the first minute.

Powell blew his own brains out.

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Take if for what it’s worth, but thought I’d pass along some information that was shared with me.

Went to the local gun store to pad the preps a little.

Told me it was a good thing I was also getting some 9mm. It’s all being allocated to the Government. Coming from a trusted friend, my jaw hit the floor.

Looks like certain ammo is about to become hard to come by.

Something is up.

Wes

Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog,

So here we are. Right on the cusp of that SHTF event that we’ve been prepping for all these years.

A global pandemic.

A breakdown in the supply chain.

Shoppers who are already becoming agitated and even violent.

We’re watching it all unfold in our hometowns and across our nation right now.

Yet, somehow, it still doesn’t feel real to me. Is it just me who finds this hard to fathom? Am I the only one who still thinks doubtful thoughts? Like “No way. It’s going to be okay. You’re overreacting. It’s a little scare, just like Ebola and MERS and SARS.”

I’ve researched and written about this stuff for years. I always knew it could happen. I was whole-heartedly convinced of these possibilities and yet when this situation began to move irrevocably toward disaster, I find myself, somehow, shocked.

I can’t be the only one who has prepared for this yet still feels stuck in normalcy bias, thinking “this isn’t going to get as bad as you think” even as I watch the events unfold around us pretty much like we in the survival community always predicted. There’s still that doubtful voice in my head, making me wonder about spending even more money on another “last” shopping trip.

Heck, maybe this makes me a bad prepper. A fake survivalist. A fraud.

Or maybe it’s only natural to think that life will keep moving on pretty much like it always has.

Will Covid-19 really be the thing that brings us down? Will the nation devolve into chaos? I’d like to say no with firm conviction. After all, there have been close calls before. But the rational part of me won’t allow that firm conviction, despite the part that says, don’t be silly, everything will be just fine after a brief blip.

I believe it’s okay to feel this way as long as you don’t allow it to get in the way of your preparations or of your acceptance of the disaster when it actually unfolds in all its shocking reality.

Maybe I’m oversharing here and a whole bunch of folks will unsubscribe. I don’t know. But if others are feeling the same way, I want you to know that you aren’t alone.

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