First Question [podcast] Belle Gunness short show notes

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Born as Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth

Belle Gunness, nee Paulsen was born in Christiania, Norway, on November 11, 1859. Her father was Peter Paulsen.

Classification: Serial killer

Characteristics: Her apparent motives involved collecting life insurance, cash, and other valuables, and eliminating witnesses

Number of victims: 13 - 42

Date of murder: 1880's - 1908

Date of birth: November 22, 1859

Victims profile: Men and children (She killed most of her suitors and boyfriends, and her two daughters, Myrtle and Lucy. She may also have killed both of her husbands and all of her children, on different occasions)

Method of murder: Poisoning (strychnine) / Bludgeoning

Location: Illinois/Indiana, USA

Status: On April 28, 1908, the bodies of Gunness' children were found in the home's wreckage, but the headless adult female corpse found with them was never positively identified. She was never tracked down and her death has never been confirmed.

 

Belle was 6’ tall and was a minimum weight of 200lbs, at a minimum--some even report that she was between 220-280lbs.

Belle was a sturdy child and a sturdy woman, with dark, frizzy hair and features that sat oddly on her face.

When Belle was a child, she participated in the exhibitions by dancing on the tight-rope.

Belle grew up poor and would grow into an adult who would never feel that she had enough money.

Gunness' origins are a matter of some debate. Most of her biographers state that she was born on November 11, 1859, near the lake of Selbu, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway, and christened Brynhild Paulsdatter Størset. Her parents were Paul Pedersen Størset (a stonemason) and Berit Olsdatter. She was the youngest of their eight children. They lived at Størsetgjerdet, a very small cotter's farm in Innbygda, 60 km southeast of Trondheim, the largest city in central Norway (Trøndelag).

 

First victim: Belle’s Husband, Mads Ditlev Anton Sorenson, whom she met in 1884, married, then opened a candy shop with.

 

The shop doesn’t do very well

 

 When the business was not successful; within a year the shop mysteriously burned down. They collected the insurance, which paid for another home.

Though some researchers assert that the Sorenson union produced no offspring, other investigators report that the couple had four children: Caroline, Axel, Myrtle, and Lucy. Caroline and Axel died in infancy, allegedly of acute colitis. The symptoms of acute colitis — nausea, fever, diarrhea, and lower abdominal pain and cramping — are also symptoms of many forms of poisoning. Both Caroline's and Axel's lives were reportedly insured, and the insurance company paid out.

 

 

 

 

Sources:

*Murderpedia: https://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle.htm

*Biography: https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/belle-gunness

*Historical Crime Detective: https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/belle-gunness-story/

The Hazard In Your Garage: Golf Carts&Other Rechargeable Items

Did you know that an improperly charging golf cart can lead to asphyxiation, explosion, fire, and even death? I didn't either, until one of the residents in my building insisted on charging his in our shared garage, with improper (read NO) ventilation.  

 I walked into our shared garage in my mixed use apartment and condo building one evening, to take my dog outside. I noticed an odor of something like overheated plastic, and I heard a thrumming sound over by the garage door. It was storming like crazy outside that night, and I heard a high pitched whine just barely audible above the sound of thunder.

 I walked over to check it out, and I found a golf cart plugged into a hydrogen battery, overcharging and having set off some sort of alarm on the gauge measuring the charge. The keys were inside the golf cart, and the cart was turned on--battery only, WHILE charging. 

 I found out later that my neighbor had left his golf cart on and charging in our barely ventilated garage while he went on a weekend long vacation, leaving us to slowly asphyxiate or deal with any potential fires or explosions which might occur from his plugged in, turned on golf cart.

 Now, I have a decent knowledge of basic chemistry, dear reader, so I could see the writing on the wall. I knew what whispy gases like hydrogen sulfide could do, and how they would behave, once released, so I simply unplugged the hydrogen battery from the wall, and I let the neighbor know that this was a dangerous practice, and that while it might seem like not the biggest deal, it could seriously harm all of us.

 Think I'm kidding? Being dramatic? Being over the top? I'm probably just being a nosey Karen, right?    

 Think again...

From an article in the Palm Beach County Post: 

 Don't Lose Everything: Your Guide To Staying Safe Online

 By: Dominique Miller

First Question Episode Show Notes: QAnon and the Satanic Panic

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“The idea of the cabal persisted above all: the Jews of England taking part in these ritual mutilations of children’s bodies, the secret meeting of rabbis, a shadowy group of elders. The blood was distributed among Jews; it was eaten in bread; it was drunk in a demonic inversion of the sacrament. The children—found in wells, in fields—were victims and, post mortem, were given the crown of sainthood, as the Jews were given the stain of devilry.”

--Source: The New Republic

Sounds a lot like something that might have been posted on 4Chan a couple of years ago, right? Well, it's not. This text is an example of blood libel mythos from over a thousand years ago, and it's religious propaganda meant to keep curious people from practicing the Jewish faith or “consorting” with Jews. This clear and clearly false propaganda has become known to historians as “Blood Libel,” and it didn't stop then and it won't stop now. 
 Cut to today:

 Whispers of secret nighttime rituals, clandestine meetings where “elites” (read: anyone whom the reactive group du jour doesn't agree with) drink the blood of children, extracting some sort of magical essence from them as they cower in fear, waiting to be devoured. 

 But back to the 1980s. 

In a small town in Canada, an RCMP officer’s life is upended when

accusations arise that seem to pit him and other “elites” against the
innocent children in their community. Charges arise. Parents begin coaching
their children as court dates are scheduled. Meanwhile the officer in
question worries that he will lose his kids and his family, and eventually
collapses in panic in the courtroom while the children testifying recount
wild tales of him and other adults flying, dressing up in horrific costumes
and abusing them. Nobody lends a hand to help. Nobody so much as leaves
their chair. Heads turn back to the courtroom proceedings. The suffering man
is left to lie on the floor without aid. 

Now let's take another trip through time, back to February of 1692, when my ancestor, 81 year old George Jacobs, a wealthy, crotchety older man, full of personality and owner of much land and one of the finest homes in his town of Salem, Massachusetts lived with his wife Mary, on their sizeable farm, Northfields. Mary and George took in their 17 year old granddaughter and lived comfortably...until…

 During what became a village-wide panic, later documented in the only partly fictional 1953 Arthur Miller play, where children accused adults of wild and imaginative abuses and the accused adults in turn pointed the finger at others in order to divert blame, the Jacobs’ fell prey to the spreading wildfire of panic, when their 25 year old maid, Sarah Churchill accused George Jacobs, his grandson and granddaughter of witchcraft, in order to avoid harsh punishments herself. 

 To give you an idea of how ridiculous the whole thing was and how wild the group paranoia had become, I’ll share with you this excerpt from the Salem Witch Museum: “Thomas Putnam’s servant Mercy Lewis accused Jacobs Sr.’s specter of beating her with his sticks and Mary Warren, who worked for the Proctors, said she’d witnessed Jacobs Sr.’s specter beating Churchill at Ingersoll’s ordinary. Neighbor Mary Walcott also claimed she’d been beaten by Jacobs’s specter.”

Because yeah. Of course an old man literally climbed out of his body to beat young women with his walking stick. Makes perfect sense. 

But like it or not, our laws and our culture here in the United States evolved from puritanical, religious “morals” of the day. We struggle with this as a country, and if we’re not vigilant and if we don't learn from history, it might just prove to be our undoing. 

As for George Jacobs, well, he was killed horribly and painfully. This 81 year old man who kept to himself, took care of his family, and managed his land was pressed to death. 

Now let’s flash forward again to the 1980’s, this time right here in the United States.

• McMartin Preschool: Manhattan Beach, California:

• From Investigation Discovery: MANHATTAN BEACH, CA — In 1983, the mother of a two-year-old student at the McMartin Preschool alleged that a teacher there had sodomized her son. Eventually, hundreds of children reportedly described being abused, often in fantastical situations involving human sacrifice, child pornography, and Satanic rituals. As news of the McMartin case spread, a multitude of similarly bizarre ritual abuse claims reportedly arose against other teachers, childcare workers, and parents nationwide. Since then, many analysts have attributed a number of those incidents to a cultural phenomenon that’s come to be called the “1980s Satanic Panic.” More than three years of pretrial investigations into the McMartin Preschool allegations were followed by multiple trials between 1987 and 1990, reportedly at a cost of $15 million — the most expensive such process in American history at that point. Ultimately, no criminal convictions were obtained and, in 1990, the state dropped all charges against the defendants.

• But as the satanic panic took off in full force across the United States, there were many other charges against many other people, which weren't dropped. 

The beginnings of the Satanic Panic in the 1980’s: 

• From NPR: “One of the earliest bellwethers of the Satanic Panic came in 1980 with the publication of Michelle Remembers, a memoir co-written by Canadian psychologist Lawrence Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith. The book graphically details abuse that Smith claimed to have suffered as a child at the hands of a satanic cult — abuse that she had allegedly forgotten but eventually recovered through her work with Pazder. The book was a bestseller, and Pazder became the leading academic voice warning about the dangers of "ritual abuse." He also began to consult with prosecutors in criminal trials, including the case that would spread fears of satanic abuse even farther around the country: the McMartin Pre-School trial.”

• People all over the world started reporting cases of supposed recovered memories of ritual satanic abuse. This was shortly thereafter found to be false. 

• Re the McMartin Case, courtesy of NPR: “I thought it was the case of our times," says Danny Davis, attorney for defendant Ray Buckey. Buckey, a teacher at Virginia McMartin's preschool in Manhattan Beach, Calif., was accused of abusing one of his students in 1983. By the following spring, the accusations had grown to include hundreds of children, and rumors swirled that the students had been abused in satanic rituals at cemeteries and in tunnels underneath the school. "Whatever it was that happened was social contagion, and it's that simple," says Davis. Davis decided to study historical examples of witch hunts and allegations of satanic behavior in order to prepare his defense. "I saw clearly there's a process on a timeline that starts with some sort of scandal or change in the society that develops a very forceful, agreed-upon accusation against a target or scapegoat. And the scapegoat is then quickly destroyed," he says.”

• At the time, the McMartin preschool case was the longest in history and one of the most expensive. 

• But it didn't end there. In May of 1993, three boys went missing in West Memphis, Arkansas. When their bodies were found, three young men who favored a goth lifestyle and style of dress were immediately charged with their murders and left in jail until 2010, when they were released only after having entered Alford pleas and being sentenced to time served. 

November 2017: conspiracies posted by 4Chan anons give birth to QAnon

• “Q” ‘moves’ to 8Chan, and the rest is history

• QAnon is now a broad disinformation conspiracy movement, which influences millions of people and US elections

• QAnon more or less focuses on Hillary Clinton, citing dubious claims about emails exchanged on the wrong server, interpreting the content of those emails to be more nefarious than they were, and giving rise to conspiracies like pizzagate--a debunked urban myth revolving around popular local pizza joint Comet Ping Pong having a secret child torturing dungeon in their nonexistent basement. Q adherent Edgar Maddison Welch found this out the hard way when we went to “storm” comet ping pong with guns a blazing, and found out that it indeed did not have a basement, and that the only closed door on the premises was a disused storage closet. 

• But QAnon didn't stop there, nor did it's adherents stop believing in the mis and disinformation being spread through Q. Since then, offshoots of QAnon have cropped up left right and center, including alleged death cult, Negative48, which centers its beliefs around the idea that, among other things, John F. Kennedy, Sr. and John F. Kennedy, Jr. are both alive and will soon show up at Dealey Plaza, this site of JFK’s assassination, to usher in a new era, with Donald J Trump as forever President of the United States Of America. 

• You can see the similarities here between the various ideological movements which make up the broader qanon conspiracy theory, and the fear based ideas which got innocent folks prosecuted locked up, and killed in the 80’s and early 90’s. In fact, I believe that QAnon is just another manifestation of the same moral panic that caused Christians to spread the myth of blood libel a thousand years ago, and that which caused the Salem Witch Trials in the 1600’s (and the witch trials across England and Europe), and the satanic panic in the 80’s. 

Sources:

• npr: America’s Satanic Panic Returns: click here to read

• New Republic September 28, 2020: click here to read

• Satanic Panic: a CBC podcast: click here to read

• Salem Witch Trials: click here to read

• ID website piece on McMartin:click here to read

• Vox: The Satanic Panic and Why It Never Really Ended: click here to read

• NPR: click here to read

12 Simple Tips For Dealing With Sociopaths and Narcissists When Avoidance Isn't An Option

 12 Simple Tips For Dealing With Sociopaths and Narcissists When Avoidance Isn't An Option

1. Operate with an eventual goal in mind. If you don't set one, they will. 

Coronavirus: Is It Just An Overblown Cold?

Hey you!

Yes...

You...

The person I just shared this link with.

That’s right.

I wrote this entire blog post for you, in the hopes that perhaps you’d take a gander.

 If I sent this link to you, it’s because I care about you, and, because I care about you, I am going to try and address some of the misinformation I may have seen you post, heard you say, or seen you “like,” share, or retweet on social media.

 Firstly, I’d like to start by saying thank you.

 Thank you for taking the time to read this.

 Thank you for understanding that I genuinely care about you as a human being, and, thank you for being the type of person who considers points of view which, let’s be honest, are probably different than your own.

 You’re the type of person I know cares—about yourself, and about others.

 Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother to reach out to you.

 I took the time to write this, because I do care about you, I do respect you, and I probably like you.

 Heck, I may love you.

 You may even be someone close to me—a friend, a family member, or a colleague.

Sharin
 That’s why I’m sharing this data with you.

 That’s why I’ve taken the time to put this together in a way I hope you’ll understand.

 Let’s get the negatives out of the way first.

 You may not even bother to read this.

 You may read a sentence or two, and then discard

The sad fact is, that  I can’t make you look at it.

 But, and here comes the hopefulness—the potential for some real positivity here...

 I hope that you will.

 I hope that you will look over the data I’m sharing. I hope that you will look at the original source material I have painstakingly researched and shared, right here.

 Okay...

 Let’s  talk. 


 Let’s start with what COVID-19 isn’t.

 COVID-19 is not a “bad cold.” It’s not “a flu.” It’s not fake. It’s not planned. And it’s not overblown.

 I know, I know. This is exactly what you THOUGHT I’d say.

 Typical, right?

 What else can you expect from a stubborn know it all with a science degree? Ugh.

 And I agree. I can be very stubborn. And it would be 100% understandable if, given the sheer volume of data and information I’ve been sharing on COVID-19, and on science in general, you called me a know-it-all.

 Point taken.

 But that doesn’t make it wrong...

 While colds are DIFFERENT coronaviruses, this coronavirus is SARS COV-2, which is nothing like the common cold, and the various and ever-changing strains of seasonal influenza are not caused by coronaviruses at all.

 COVID-19, which is caused by a virus called SARS COV-2, is something totally different.

 SARS COV-2 is an rna transcription virus, which causes lifelong complications in those who have it, and kills many outright.

 It weakens the lungs and the immune system. We haven’t seen anything like it before.

 It spreads via respiratory droplets, which can spread up to 6 feet and hang around for up to three days, on surfaces and in the air.

 Its most common means of transmission is through talking—the louder you talk and the closer you stand, the more likely the disease is to be spread.

 The spike proteins bond with the ASE-2 proteins within the cells inside of your body, which triggers mutations in your cells, which causes your body to signal your own immune system to have an extreme reaction, causing the tissue in the lower part of the lungs to become inflamed and prevent oxygen from entering your lungs and reaching your bloodstream and brain properly.

 This, coupled with the severe inflammation and constriction of blood vessels often causes strokes and heart attacks, and if you’re lucky when you get it (oxymoron, right?), and it doesn’t cause either of those potentially fatal complications, it often causes pneumonia, which has killed many COVID-19 patients, and has been directly brought on by COVID-19 ie those who get secondary pneumonia weren’t just going to get pneumonia anyway.

 They didn’t pick it up from a secondary source. It developed directly because they had COVID-19.

 The inflammation in the lungs often causes this characteristic secondary pneumonia infection, which often ends up being the cause of death in COVID-19 patients.

 The origination of this particular mutation of the SARS virus happens to be bats.

 SARS COV-2 mutated from this reservoir species to be able to be transmitted to humans.

 This is what viruses do.

 SARS and MERS are NOT the common cold. They are not the flu.

 They are extremely contagious, horrifically painful, deadly diseases.

 After initial infection with this virus, scar tissue forms in the lungs, often times reducing lung capacity and efficacious transmission of necessary oxygen to the blood and brain for the rest of your life, causing complications you may not even be aware of until later on—though if you’re like many COVID-19 patients, you may find out upfront when you experience hypoxia, and pneumonia.

 Because it is transmitted so easily, it is IMPERATIVE that you wear a mask when and where appropriate.

 Who should we trust for information?

 I totally understand the urge to not trust government, but in this case, we really must trust our governors, who are making decisions which are in our best interests, based on the input they are getting from scientists who study the spread of viruses.

 These folks are known as virologists or epidemiologists, and they follow the scientific method, to gain important knowledge and insight into viruses, and their effects on humans and animals.

 They specifically work on laboratory studies, including rigorous peer reviews (duplicating and attempting to disprove the research of other scientists, which is what the scientific method is about—attempting to disprove, so that what we’re left with is the truth, and continuing that process ad infinitum), as well as and initial research. These folks then publish their findings in scientific journals and journals of medicine.

 Contact tracers and data aggregators also play an important role in public health, sharing up to the minute data with open source data platforms like the two I’ve linked here, and assisting government officials in making decisions which will benefit their constituents (us).

 What can we do to protect ourselves and others?

 Well, we can listen to the experts, and check out firsthand data sources.

We can also wear masks, wash our hands, and use hand sanitizer in between washings. We can generally up our hygiene game, so as to protect ourselves and others.

 We can consider what trips are really essential during a pandemic. Do we need to go to the bar? The clothing store (I shop online right now)? To parties where appropriate personal protection and social distancing may not be observed? On vacation?

 In short, the social and societal aspects of this pandemic will show us what kinds of people we really are, and whether we’re capable of working together for the good of all, or if we will end up acting selfishly and impulsively. For the most part, I’m seeing people acting like decent human beings, and that gives me some hope, but when I see people clinging to misinformation, in order to support their own comfort and privilege, it concerns me, because, like it or not, we truly are all in this together (no hate—that’s how the human brain is designed to work, and, thankfully, we happen to be capable of overcoming that, with some good old higher thought and executive function).

 But back to protection. I know there has been a lot of concern about wearing masks. So, why masks? Are they really that important?

 Masks prevent against ingress AND egress. In other words, they protect you from picking up or spreading the illness. Asymptomatic spread is an issue, and even picking up and transmitting the virus without actually becoming ill yourself is an issue. There is no herd immunity against SARS COV-2. None. SARS-COV-2 evolves and changes so fast, that even if there were herd immunity, it wouldn’t last for long.

But aren’t there treatments?

What we really need, and are currently working toward, is a vaccine.

 A vaccine will be the best way to eradicate SARS-COV-2, and the subsequent COVID-19  illness, that it causes.

 But what about some of the medications we’re hearing about?

  Hydroxychloroquinine and zinc, two of the much hyped supposed preventative/treatment options for COVID-19, have been found, after PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH, not only not to be effective treatments or cures for COVID-19, but hydroxychloroquinine has been found to be dangerous, and even fatal to those who take it.

 Zinc, on the other hand, while not an effective means of treatment or prevention of SARS COV-2 (again, that’s the name of the virus which causes the illness known as COVID-19), although it *MAY* help to prevent you getting COVID-19, if you come into contact with SARS COV-2 viral particles.

 It does not in any way prevent you, however, from spreading the illness to others. Incubation period is between 5-14 days, so even if someone is infected with the SARS COV-2 virus, they may not develop any symptoms until 5-14 days have passed. Please—if this is difficult to understand or seems confusing, ask an expert, or heck, ask me.

 I’ll point you toward www.gisaid.org, https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data or any of the other trustworthy open source data platforms, where up to the minute statistical and scientific data can be found.

 This is very serious.

 Normally, when a pandemic strikes, there are three waves. The first hits quickly, the second is larger, numbers wise, and the third is sort of the dying gasp of the pandemic. But if we do not take appropriate action, this pandemic will last for longer, sicken more people, and kill more people. I know it’s hard to consider that a simple virus could hurt of kill or permanently damage you or someone you love, and I know that because of how it’s wired, the human brain will automatically turn to emotional defensive like confirmation bias (I haven’t died yet; this must be blown out of proportion; it couldn’t REALLY be this bad; the media must just be trying to scare us; law of attraction will keep this illness away; but I eat right, but I exercise; but I take supplements, and so on and so forth), but I assure you that this virus doesn’t discriminate.

 It doesn’t care if you don’t believe it could hurt or kill you or someone you love. It doesn’t care if you practice law of attraction. It doesn’t care if you’ve never been faced with something like this before and you don’t know how to handle it. Viruses are equalizers. They don’t care who you are or what you believe. They just enact the programming they are designed to enact, and do so in a deadly efficient fashion. Please—me disagreeing with you about this is NOT a personal attack. It’s the opposite. I don’t want you to die, to become ill, or to inadvertently cause harm to someone else. I hope you’ll choose to turn a critical eye toward the data I am sharing here. It may save your life.

 Still don’t believe me?

 Please feel free to leave any questions below, and I will do my best to research them and provide answers to them, in as analytical a manner as is possible.

 I would respectfully ask anyone who has read the verifiable, firsthand data and subsequent information that I, and others, have shared, whether, after weighing the facts and the actual data, outside of the personal feelings and positions of those who may be sharing it with you, and outside of their and your own personal biases (which we all have), if your disagreement is truly with the data, or whether it is at least POSSIBLE that your brain is simply doing what human brains are built to do, and protecting you from information which could leave you feeling vulnerable.

 If you’ve asked yourself that question, and your answer is no, then your brain is doing it’s job, and enacting one of it’s many defense mechanisms.

 It’s so tough to step outside that, especially when your brain is telling you not to, but that’s what critical thinking is. I’d like to invite you to engage in some critical thinking with me.

 What specific data points do you disagree with, and why?

 Is there any possibility that you may WANT what you’ve read/heard/watched to be true? If so, is it at least possible that you may want the things you’ve read, heard or watched to be true, because it seems kind of big, frightening, and unfathomable that the data and scientific interpretations of same which I am sharing with you to be true?

 I get it. It’s so scary. It’s unfathomable to some, that something like this could happen in today’s world, and believing that it’s a hoax, a conspiracy, or not really all that bad is super comforting, and is a super convenient and emotionally satisfying explanation, that your mind may literally beg you not to do any further consideration on the matter, because if you did, you might have to consider that some of the things you’ve been living your life believing—wanting—BEING might not be true, and that would be too much.

 Again, that’s what human brains do. They protect our emotions, our sense of safety, and our sense of self, at the risk of causing us physical, mental and emotional harm later. They protect our worldview and our privilege (yes—we all have it) at the expense of ours and others’ safety. This becomes more prominent when we actively seek forms of mental and emotional refuge, in order to keep from accepting shared reality.

 A gap like this between personal and shared reality, however, is both harmful and unsustainable.

 It’s harmful to ourselves and to others. Gaps between our personal reality and shared reality are often tied up in things like privilege, the instinct to either fight or run away from uncomfortable or i convenient truths. Gaps like these, between personal and shared reality are responsible for all manner of wrongs in this world—from racism, to sexism, to classism, to various and sundry forms of tyranny and oppression, both systemic and individual.

 These gaps are responsible for conspiracy theories, whitewashing, gaslighting and avoidance. I would like to invite you to step outside of that paradigm with me. If I can do it, so can you. We are all capable of that. It’s a daily struggle for myself and for everyone else, and it won’t be easy, but it WILL do you and those you love, and pretty much everyone else good on a level so large-scale, it is almost impossible to consider—just as staying in these comfortable mental shackles will cause irreparable harm—even death to many, possibly us—possibly right now.

 If what you’re taking away from this is “Dominique thinks she is better than me, smarter than me, or superior to me,” I want to assure you that, flawed and entirely imperfect individual that I am, that is not my intent. My only intention is to try and help in some small way, by enumerating processes taking place in our brains and in our bodies on a daily basis, that some people may not be aware of. I am far from the final authority on this, or any other matter.

 The beauty of the scientific method is that you don’t have to trust me. You don’t even have to like or respect me. It’s not about the source; it’s about the information.

 Thank you for taking the time to read this. Be well.

 Source material: here you will find data, with no bias and no spin:

https://www.gisaid.org/

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data

https://weather.com/health/coronavirus

https://datascience.nih.gov/covid-19-open-access-resources

https://github.blog/2020-03-23-open-collaboration-on-covid-19/

https://data.humdata.org/m/dataset/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-cases