Starting at the top of page A4 with this rank-rot from the New York Times:
"Advisers, experts all sounded alarms on virus threat, but Trump remained slow to respond" by Michael D. Shear New York Times, April 12, 2020
WASHINGTON — Top White House advisers as well as specialists deep in the Cabinet departments and intelligence agencies all sounded alarms and urged aggressive action to counter the threat from the coronavirus, but President Trump remained slow to respond, a detailed examination of the government’s response found.
Trump’s views were colored by long-running disputes inside the administration over how to deal with China and his own suspicion of the motivations of officials inside what he viewed as the “Deep State,” and recommendations from public health officials often competed with economic and political considerations in internal debates, slowing the path toward belated decisions.
Related: New York Times Admits Deep State Exists
They cite a bunch of them for another in a long line of smear jobs on the president. That doesn't mean he is some sort of saint or anything. He is on board as well. It's a false dichotomy set for you by the lead agenda-pusher in America, a Deep $tate organ if there ever was one.
Interviews with dozens of current and former officials and a review of e-mails and other documents reveal the key turning points as the Trump administration struggled to get ahead of the virus, rather than just chase it, and the debates that presented Trump with stark choices along the way.
What did I just type?
National Security Council officials received warnings in early January about the potential dangers from a new virus in Wuhan, China.
Peter Navarro, the president’s top trade adviser, wrote a searing memo at the end of January arguing that a pandemic caused by the virus could cost the United States dearly, producing as many as a half-million deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses.
The memo, in which Navarro argued in favor of limits on travel from China, says that in a worst-case scenario, 30 percent of the population in the United States would be infected with the virus, leading to deaths “on the order of a half a million American souls.”
They revised it down to 60,000 after the scare tactics, and never mention how seasonal flu deaths have bottomed out, all classified as COVID-19 now.
(Btw, NTS pointed out that COVID-19 actually stands for: "Certification Of Vaccination Identification 2019")
In recent days, Trump has denied that he saw the memo at the time, but the Times report reveals that aides raised it with him at the time and that he was unhappy Navarro had put his ideas in writing.
The Times tells me Trump lied, okay. Takes one to know one.
By the third week in February, the administration’s top public health officials had concluded that it was time to begin shifting to a more aggressive strategy to mitigate the spread of the virus, including social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and school closures, but they never got the chance to present the plan to the president. An official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went public with dire warnings too soon, sending stocks tumbling and angering Trump, who pushed aside Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar II and put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the response.
I love New York Times fiction.
It would be three more weeks before Trump finally recommended aggressive social distancing guidelines, a period when the virus spread largely unimpeded and the task force was trying to avoid alarmist messages like the one that had angered the president.
Throughout January and February, a group of academics, government physicians, and infectious diseases doctors — including Trump administration officials — expressed alarm at the ferocity of the coronavirus in a lengthy e-mail chain.
That's when the web version went off script, and I will pick up that email chain(!) afterward.
Suggestions that he moved too slowly have angered the president, who unleashed a barrage of tweets Sunday. In one, he signaled his frustration with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the federal government’s top infectious disease expert, after the doctor said Sunday morning more lives could have been saved if the country had been shut down earlier.
Trump reposted a Twitter message that said “Time to #FireFauci” as he rejected criticism of his slow initial response. The president privately has been irritated at times with Fauci, but the Twitter post was the most explicit he has been in letting that show publicly.
The message Trump retweeted came from a former Republican congressional candidate. “Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could’ve saved more lives,” said the tweet by DeAnna Lorraine, who got less than 2 percent of the vote in an open primary against Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month. “Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US at large. Time to #Fire Fauci.”
Fauci and other public health experts were initially skeptical that China travel restrictions would be useful when the president was first considering them, but then changed their minds and told Azar on the morning of Jan. 30 that they supported them.
Trump has repeatedly pointed back to those travel limits to defend his handling of the pandemic, but experts have said the limits were useful mainly to buy time that the administration did not then use to ramp up widespread testing and impose social distancing policies before infections could begin growing exponentially.....
--more--"
Print script (not verbatim!):
"A week after the first coronavirus case had been identified in the United States, and six long weeks before President Trump finally took aggressive action to confront the danger the nation was facing — a pandemic that is now forecast to take tens of thousands of American lives — Dr. Mecher was urging the upper ranks of the nation’s public health bureaucracy to wake up and prepare for the possibility of far more drastic action.
“You guys made fun of me screaming to close the schools,” he wrote to the group, which called itself “Red Dawn,” an inside joke based on the 1984 movie about a band of Americans trying to save the country after a foreign invasion. “Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.”
Oh, I read that this morning and the top of my head blew off!
The COVID-19 scare is a DEEP $TATE INSIDE JOKE -- an INSIDE JOB that they are throwing in our face!
His was hardly a lone voice. Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action.
Some have called it a CORONAVIRUS COUP, and it sure looks like it now! The president is just as much a hostage as we are, except he is going along. Can't beat 'em, join 'em, right?
As February gave way to March, the president continued to be surrounded by divided factions even as it became clearer that avoiding more aggressive steps was not tenable.
Like Caesar, and that's when Bezos and Congre$$ unloaded their stocks!
Trump had agreed to give an Oval Office address on the evening of March 11 announcing restrictions on travel from Europe, where the virus was ravaging Italy, but responding to the views of his business friends and others, he continued to resist calls for social distancing, school closures and other steps that would imperil the economy.
Always attuned to anything that could trigger a stock market decline or an economic slowdown that could hamper his re-election effort, Mr. Trump also reached out to prominent investors like Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone Group, a private equity firm.
But he's working for you, Middle America!
In a tense Oval Office meeting, when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin again stressed that the economy would be ravaged, Mr. O’Brien, the national security adviser, who had been worried about the virus for weeks, sounded exasperated as he told Mr. Mnuchin that the economy would be destroyed regardless if officials did nothing.
So Mnuchin knows! He's a fabulous liar on those Sunday talk shows then. He had me at ease after Chris Wallace interviewed him. Wow.
“Everybody questioned it for a while, not everybody, but a good portion questioned it,” Mr. Trump said earlier this month. “They said, let’s keep it open. Let’s ride it.”
Yeah, "let it ride!"
OH, GOD!
--more--"
The rest of that lengthy piece if crap is nothing more than stenography for the Deep State, for lack of a better term, as Fauci stands there through five presidents, and it's not the first time the New York Times has shoveled such rubbish.
Same page, lower righthand quadrant:
"They watch Trump’s virus briefings daily. Here’s what they have to say" by Annie Karni and Nate Schweber New York Times, April 12, 2020
Another New York Times piece of rubbish.
WASHINGTON — For some supporters, President Trump’s daily appearances with his coronavirus task force are a reassuring ritual during a time of crisis, consumed from the folds of a leather sectional, snacks and beverages within reach.
“If anybody is going to give us the most answers, it’s the White House,” said August Gernentz, 19, a construction worker from Red Wing, Minn., as he settled into his bedroom Thursday night with potato chips and a Dr Pepper to stream the briefing on his big-screen television.
His soda and his chips and his big screen TV! Stinks of a Walmart!
Enjoy it while it lasts, fella, because it won't for long. He and the rest of America are in for a rude awakening soon.
For the president’s opponents, the news conference has become a daily hate-watch, a blaring infomercial in which Trump claims credit, demands gratitude, spreads false information, and attacks the press.
I was told liberals and Democrats don't hate.
“He’s not qualified to answer that! What does he know?” Irma Sindicic, 50, a second-grade teacher who lives in New York, yelled at her computer screen the same night as she listened to Trump deliver a vague answer about the availability of tests while she cooked pork chops. “Where’s Fauci? I want Fauci,” she said, referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the leading health experts on the president’s coronavirus task force.
You want Fauci, you got Fauci:
Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that restarting the economy with be gradual, with risks of cornonavirus reemerging. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press/Associated Press)
Woah, evil incarnate!
He is saying “by July or August we could be back in the same situation we are now,” and you can take that to the bank:
"Without an effective therapy or a vaccine for the coronavirus, the US economy could face 18 months of rolling shutdowns as the outbreak recedes and flares up again, said the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari. ‘‘We’re looking around the world. As they relax the economic controls, the virus flares back up again,’’ Kashkari said Sunday on CBS’s ‘‘Face the Nation.’’ Kashkari is a voter in 2020 on the Fed’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee. ‘‘We could have these waves of flareups, controls, flareups, and controls until we actually get a therapy or a vaccine. I think we should all be focusing on an 18-month strategy for our health care system and our economy.’’ Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday on CNN’s ‘‘State of the Union’’ that a partial reopening of the economy could possibly begin in May, but he cautioned that the outbreak could flare up again in the fall. ‘‘It’s hard for me to see a V-shaped recovery under that scenario,’’ Kashkari said, referring to a graph showing a sharp decline followed by a sharp recovery (BLOOMBERG NEWS)."
Have you noticed the banking sector is the only one NOT HIT by the COVID-19?
Weird, huh?
They are benefiting the most from the $ickne$$ while maintaining immunity, and they are not even practicing social distancing!
So it's the bankers, Big Pharma, and the $limy politicians that are the ones behind this, along with creatures like Bill Gates. That's where we are.
The briefings make her blood boil, but Sindicic said she continues to tune in, night after night. “You need a debrief from the briefing because you have to weigh what is fact and what is fiction,” she said, “but I find if I want to be informed in the world, I have to have it on. It’s hard.”
I never do, in fact, I have quit watching any cable or network news at all along with most television, and that last part about being informed made me laugh!
Then there are less partisan daily viewers like Tim Bray, 49, a schoolteacher from Austin, Texas, who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 but is willing to give credit to the president when he thinks it is deserved.
“It was a good performance,” he said of Trump’s Thursday evening news conference, which the president kept to just 20 minutes.
Like, a role or part in a play or movie even!
Those opinions were among the reactions from almost two dozen regular viewers of Trump’s appearances interviewed before, during, and after Thursday’s briefing and in follow-ups after Friday’s.
The group included men and women of different ethnicities, ages 19 to 88. They were from the South, the Midwest, and the East and West Coasts, and their opinions of Trump varied from strong support to deep disdain.
Democrats and Republicans alike in the group described watching Trump as something close to a civic duty, even while they agreed that he was probably appearing at the briefings to help him in a reelection year.
This is all being reported by the New York Times, and it beggars belief!
For Americans such as these, many stuck in their homes and trying to make sense of simultaneous health and economic crises they could not have imagined only a few months ago, Trump’s nightly news conferences have helped give structure to what they described as a series of Groundhog Days spent in quarantine.
Oh, look, ANOTHE FILM REFERENCE!
It's funny, because tending this blog has been exactly that kind of experience. I am writing the same things I have said innumerable times over and over and over!
They are part of an audience of millions who have watched since Trump first made a surprise appearance at a briefing hosted by Vice President Mike Pence on March 14.
In interviews, Democrats and Republicans alike conceded that the president appeared to be in over his head in dealing with the coronavirus and that Fauci and Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House’s coronavirus coordinator, were the more reliable voices.
This is sickening, that this two eugenicists, part of the whole cabal, would be considered "reliable." Deep $tate a$$ets, if you will.
Supporters of the president viewed the crisis as so overwhelming that they were willing to forgive Trump if he was foundering, because who wouldn’t be, they said. His opponents by and large said they couldn’t think of a person less suited to the moment.
No, too late for forgiveness. I feel sorry for him.
Opponents of sitting presidents have traditionally attacked them for any attempt at a “Rose Garden strategy” exploiting the advantages of incumbency in running for reelection. Democrats say Trump is running his campaign from the White House briefing room and have urged TV executives not to carry his appearances.
The other guy went off script anyway.
The partisan split on trusting the information Trump delivers has been striking. A new poll by Politico and Morning Consult found that 79 percent of Republicans were satisfied with the quality of the information about the pandemic that they were getting from Trump, while only 16 percent of Democrats said they were.
What does that even mean anymore?
--more--"
Honestly, reader, I find myself caring not one wit who is president or any of the politics. That whole cla$$ is irredeemably corrupt and evil.
Now GET IN LINE:
"It’s ‘people, people, people’ as lines stretch across America" by Jack Healy New York Times, April 12, 2020
Again, the New York Times, now standing in front of me.
DENVER — Standing in line used to be an American pastime, whether it was lining up for Broadway shows, camping outside movie theaters before a “Star Wars” premiere, or shivering outside big-box stores to be the first inside on Black Friday.
Those days are gone forever -- until Bill Gates and company clear you and you get your certificates of immunity from the White House.
The coronavirus has changed all that. Now, millions of people across the country are risking their health to wait in tense, sometimes desperate, new lines for basic needs as the economic toll of the virus grips the country.
Think about that. If true, we are two weeks into lockdown and already the lines are massive. Wait until the planned food shortages that are coming with the National Guard tanks right behind them. Soon, the box of food will be dropped at your door.
Oh, you have dietary specifications?
Too f***ing bad! Deal with it (thump of box as vehicle moves on).
In cars and on foot, they are snapping on masks and waiting for hours to stock up on groceries, file for unemployment assistance, cast their ballots, and pick up boxes of donated food. The lines stretch around blocks and clog two-lane highways.
In western Pennsylvania, cars stacked up for miles last Monday as hundreds of people waited to collect a week’s worth of groceries from the Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
At least nature gets to breath easier.
Outside Miami, some of the 16 million Americans who have lost their jobs over the past few weeks snaked around a library Tuesday, waiting to pick up a paper application for unemployment benefits, and in Milwaukee, Catherine Graham, who has a bad heart and asthma, slapped on a homemade face mask and left her apartment Tuesday for the first time since early March to spend two hours waiting in line to vote at one of the five polling locations in the city that remained open for the Wisconsin primary election.
“It was people, people, people,” Graham, 78, said. “I was afraid.
Voters lined up to vote in Wisconsin's primary on Tuesday in Milwaukee. (Sara Stathas/For The Washington Post).
Voters lined up outside of a polling station in Milwaukee, Wis., on April 7. In cars and on foot, Americans are snapping on masks and waiting for hours to stock up on groceries, file for unemployment assistance, cast their ballots and pick up boxes of donated food. (Lauren Justice/NYT).
It was even scarier inside:
Elections Chief Inspector Mary Magdalen Moser runs a polling location in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in full hazmat gear as the Wisconsin primary kicks off despite the coronavirus pandemics on April 7, 2020. (DEREK R. HENKLE/AFP via Getty Images)
One resident of Graham’s senior-apartment complex has already died of the coronavirus, and Graham said she nearly turned back when she saw the line, but, determined to vote, she perched on her walker as the line inched ahead and prayed with her daughter, asking God to keep them safe. Every day since, she has been scrutinizing her blood pressure, oxygen levels, and other vital signs on a home machine.
The scenes are especially jarring at a moment when freeways are empty and city centers are deserted, and public-health experts are urging people to slow the transmission of the coronavirus by avoiding each other.
Don't worry, I will stay away from you, and you better stay away from me.
“It’s worrisome,” said Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington who studies pandemics. “It’s setting up unnecessary opportunities for transmission.”
Even as supermarkets line up shoppers outside and put stickers 6 feet apart on their floors marking where customers should wait to check out, some scientists and policy experts warn that businesses and government agencies are still not doing enough to keep people apart in public or to prevent them from having to line up altogether.
The ULTIMATE GOAL is to have you SEALED INSIDE FOREVER!
In normal times, the unwritten rules of standing in line are clear, said David Gibson, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame who has studied line behavior: Don’t cut. Don’t stand creepily close. Keep it moving, but Gibson said little about lines is clear anymore. Is 6 feet of distance really enough to avoid infection? What is the best way to face? Should lines be first-come-first-serve, or should older, more vulnerable people be allowed to skip ahead — which is now the policy at some grocery stores?
“It’s not ‘Lord of the Flies’ yet,” Gibson said. “We haven’t dispensed with etiquette and rules and procedures.”
Another ivory tower $cumbag, and now he cites ANOTHER FILM!
They made us read the book in school, and the point was how savage humans become when civilization is stripped away from them, and he didn't;t just casually use that as an analogy. He means THAT is WHERE we are HEADED -- and a LOT SOONER than you THINK!
--more--"
Getting there, though:
"Volunteer shortages, surging demand: Mass. food banks say this is unlike any other point in history
By Janelle Nanos and Victoria McGrane Globe Staff, April 12, 2020
Volunteers packed up bags of bagels to be distributed to Waltham residents. (Erin Clark/Globe Staff).
They “ran out of food in 45 minutes,” and at least the sunshine will help disinfect you!
Grinding the economy to a halt, the coronavirus pandemic has thrown hundreds of thousands of people out of work in Massachusetts, and millions more throughout the country. The staggering pace of layoffs and furloughs has led to a surge in demand for the services of food banks, pantries, and food rescue organizations, who are rushing to serve those newly in need while also navigating the challenges of distributing food safely amid a deadly pandemic.
The demand has escalated so high, so fast, that many in the industry say it’s unlike any other point in history, and the need is growing throughout the Commonwealth.
It will only get worse. Supply lines will be drying up soon. Nothing is being imported, folks. Soon it will be a box of GMO cornbread and hormone-fed pork.
“We’ve been seeing a rapid increase in demand,” said Christina Maxwell, director of programs for the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. She said the group, which serves a network of 175 antihunger programs in the state’s four westernmost counties, distributed 29 percent more food — or the equivalent of more than 187,000 meals — in March over the same period a year earlier, “and that wasn’t even a whole month of the pandemic,” she noted. Some pantries they work with have seen demand surge by as much as 800 percent, she said.
One of the food bank’s partners, Oasis Food Pantry in Springfield, had its weekly Friday evening distribution shut down by police several weeks ago because so many people showed up that their cars blocked traffic. The group relocated distribution to a high school parking lot, and the next week roughly 2,000 cars lined up, he said. John Foley, who runs the Oasis pantry, estimated that overall demand for food from the pantry is at least triple what it typically is. “I’m giving away in one week what I used to give away in a month,” he said.
That works for now, but soon they will not want you leaving at all.
With more people needing food, the coronavirus has also complicated operations for these groups. Pantries that used to allow people to choose items are now pre-packing bags of food to reduce human contact, and most have moved to distributing food outside their buildings. Others have switched to a drive-through model where volunteers place food directly in people’s trunks. Groups that prepare meals are packing them up to go, rather than letting anyone eat on site.
That is the way it will be for all of us soon.
Healthy Waltham has adopted a hybrid. On Saturday, volunteers deposited bags of food directly into cars that pulled up on one side of St. Mary’s Parish parking lot, while a line of people on foot stretched four blocks long on the other side. Various local public officials, including Waltham’s mayor, packed and handed out paper bags full of bagels, bananas, potatoes, and other foods to about 500 people.
Oh, the local looter getting a photo-op! Never let a good crisis go to waste!
People lined up for food donations organized by Healthy Waltham. (Erin Clark/Globe Staff)
Social distancing?
Many hunger relief organizations tend to rely on volunteers to help sort food and distribute products, and those are hard to come by as corporate and school groups are no longer taking part. The Greater Boston Food Bank typically has more than 500 volunteers a week, said Catherine Drennan, spokeswoman for the Greater Boston Food Bank, which serves 57 million meals a year across 190 cities and towns in Eastern Massachusetts, but that has been winnowed down to just 90. So now, warehouse staffers have been working longer hours, starting their days at 4 a.m., she said.
“The pace at which we’re going right now, I’m not sure it’s sustainable,” she said. “We’re raising record numbers of money, which is great, but we probably need double what we’ve raised to get through the next six months or so.”
UH-OH!
So how long we got?
Meanwhile, the virus is straining the pantries’ ability to get the food.
Maxwell, from the Food Bank of Western Mass., said that although food deliveries from the state and federal government are still arriving on time, donations from area grocery stores “have bottomed out” as those stores have seen record sales, with people stocking up to sustain themselves and limiting shopping trips. “There’s nothing left for them to give.”
Who wants out-of-date government garbage?
Remember the pink slime scandal under Obummer?
In response, the food bank is having to purchase more food than usual, and although they’ve also seen an uptick in monetary donations, “it’s not enough for us to keep up with the food demand that we’re going to have,” said Maxwell, predicting that job losses would continue to mount and economic hardship linger well after social distancing ends.
Uh, I have news for her. Social distancing isn't ending -- unless you get your shot and certificate!
The economic rescue package passed by Congress in late March includes some money for hunger relief organizations, but Maxwell said she doesn’t think her food bank will see that money until the summer.
Same as the checks they cut for Americans; meanwhile, Wall Street banks have already gotten all their loot and are waiting to spend it.
Drennan said the four food banks across Massachusetts are fortunate in that they get more than $20 million in annual funding from the state.
A mere pittance when you think of that $40 billion dollar boondoggle filled with patronage and cronyism.
“We’re uniquely positioned because we have a food acquisition purchasing team, and lots of other food banks across the country aren’t accustomed to purchasing,” she said. “Most are more reliant on USDA products or local donations.”
GBFB’s acquisition team usually buys about $75,000 worth of food a month; they’re now planning to spent $750,000 a month through June at a minimum, she said. The organization has $1.7 million worth of food purchases set to arrive between now and June, and they’ve set aside at least $2.2 million for additional food purchases, Drennan said, “but the cost of food is increasing, as are ancillary costs like freight,” she added.
Why would freight costs be increasing when gasoline and fuel prices are down?
Get used to cost increases when it comes to food, because prices are going to zoom like COVID-19 deaths.
Three weeks ago, they could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. ”Today they are $3 a dozen. It is a supply-and-demand reality, at least for the next two to four months while manufacturers increase products to feed that demand.”
I'm glad we are still living by that!?
Ashley Stanley, the executive director of Lovin’ Spoonfuls, a food rescue organization that serves Central and Eastern Massachusetts, said her group hasn’t seen the amount of food donated by grocery stores drop off much: She is now seeing about 75,000 to 77,000 pounds donated weekly, whereas she typically distributes about 80,000 pounds of food donated from supermarkets each week.
The shift, she said, is in who has been asking for it.
Several of her partner organizations have shuttered for the time being while others are scrambling to ramp up services to handle a surge in demand, and since the shutdown started, the organization has only one driver in each van making deliveries, which makes meeting the emergency needs of groups as the crisis unfolds that much more challenging.
How is hunger not an emergency?
If you are hungry you are hungry!
Earlier this month, as the city of Boston rehoused a number of homeless people who might have been exposed to the virus in a new facility, the organization was able to route a truck to get them prepared sandwiches and fruit.
“Our team basically has shifted from what was set schedule and predictable routes to what is now completely unpredictable,” said the organization’s chief operating officer, Lauren Palumbo. ”We have to call everyone the day before and ask, are you open tomorrow, can we come tomorrow? Nothing is really certain anymore.”
$ome things are damn certain.
--more--"
What do you mean you are still hungry?
Right below that on page A12 is a full-page ad for the Bo$ton $peakers $eries, which are thought-provoking evenings of diverse opinions and world perspectives:
How about that wonderful fella with the nice smile on the far left there?
He's speaking in October during the second wave of this sh.... sigh.
Sorry, your cash is no good here:
"What’s in your wallet? Coronavirus is the latest threat to cash; A Massachusetts law requires retailers to accept cash. Some would rather not" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, April 12, 2020
“I would think people would be more nervous about using cash because of the germs on it," said Kenneth Rogoff, author of “The Curse of Cash" and an economics professor at Harvard University. “I do think this will deepen the move toward people using credit cards and debit cards.”
This is a guy who has been advocating a cashless society for years before coronavirus ever showed up.
That shift has long been underway as forms of electronic money have multiplied in recent years. In 2019, US consumers used cash in 26 percent of transactions, down from 30 percent two years earlier, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the virus has only given consumers and retailers another incentive to shy away from cash.
To be sure, it’s unclear whether handling money is likely to spread the virus.
To be sure, yeah!
To be sure is used to concede the truth of something that conflicts with another point that one wishes to make; in other words, forget facts and truth, there is a larger agenda to be pushed.
Ellen Foxman, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine, considers the risk minimal, citing a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine that found the COVID-19 virus survived on cardboard surfaces for no more than 24 hours.
If that, and they found a Jew at Yale to vouch for money.
“In my opinion this is not a major threat, especially if you are washing hands frequently,” Foxman said. “Theoretically, if you touch any object just after the same object has been handled by someone who is shedding virus, you could get virus on your hands — this applies to doorknobs, elevator buttons, money, and many other items; however, the virus doesn’t last too long on these surfaces,” but a 2014 study by French and Saudi scientists published in the journal Future Microbiology that studied how long viruses can survive on paper money found that influenza can remain active on currency for up to eight days.
I'm sick of $hit $cience!
Several countries are taking no chances. The central banks in China and South Korea have treated cash with heat, microwaves, or pathogen-killing ultraviolet light, while the US Federal Reserve is quarantining currency shipments from Asian and European countries for periods of seven to 10 days, to give time for any virus particles to become inactive.
For retailers in Massachusetts, playing it safe by refusing cash altogether may put them in legal jeopardy. State law requires stores to accept US currency, a law that seeks to protect people with low incomes who may lack bank accounts and credit cards. Attorney General Maura Healey underscored this in an April 1 Tweet.
“I understand that essential businesses need to take extra precautions right now,” Healey said, “but not everyone has a credit card, and consumers should not face economic barriers to accessing necessary goods and services.”
Well, that law will have to be changed and the government will have to get us all one, right
When informed of the Massachusetts law by the Globe, a Micro Center official said the Ohio-based retailer would change its policy to accept cash, while urging customers to use credit or debit cards instead. Hannaford also reversed course when contacted by the Globe, but retailers in much of the United States are free to abolish cash payments. Ryan Fiala, owner of a D.P. Dough Calzones restaurant in Normal, Ill., is providing delivery and takeout service only during the lockdown, for customers who pay online or with plastic. Fiala said he adopted the policy because worried employees were walking off the job rather than risk infection. “I reached the point where I could ill afford to lose any additional staff," Fiala wrote in an e-mail.
Why?
I'm sure there are plenty of workers to take their place!
In the United States, cash is heavily used in small-value transactions. Last year, for instance, 42 percent of all purchases costing $25 or less were made with paper money, according to the San Francisco Fed, but this might change if more US retailers and consumers move to smartphone-based payment options such as Apple Pay and Google Pay, which let customers make small purchases with a wave of their phones; however, according to a study by the management consulting firm Bain & Co., fewer than 10 percent of Americans used phone-based payment systems in 2018, compared to 80 percent of Chinese consumers.
Let's hope your phone doesn't get hacked with all your money in it, and let's be more like the Chinese, huh? I'm confused now. I'm supposed to hate them because of all the evil they do to us, but I'm supposed to want to be like them.
Sick f***ing bastards here.
Other potential rivals to cash are the “contactless” credit cards common in Europe. With one, a consumer can make small purchases by merely waving a card over a terminal, without having to enter a PIN number.
What makes them think consumers are going to have all this free cash with the economy destroyed?
WTF are they talking about other than a society of elites after we are all gone?
Most US retailers don’t accept contactless card payments, though many of them have the necessary card readers.
"In the US we’re behind the curve in terms of payment technology,” said Aaron Press, research director of worldwide payment strategies at IDC Corp. He thinks the virus scare might goad the United States toward contactless payments. “My sense is that it will increase awareness of it and increase use of it,” he said.
Mine, too.
Still, nobody is predicting that paper money will ever go away. Indeed, there’s some evidence the COVID crisis may have caused a momentary spurt in demand for hard cash. Rogoff cited a March report in The New York Times that customers of some Manhattan banks were withdrawing large quantities of $100 bills, just as news of the epidemic was causing huge losses on the stock markets.
He just spent an entire article pushing that exact agenda, so WTF?
“People have been predicting the death of cash for years," added Press, "just as they’ve predicted the death of checks, but they just grimly hang on.”
Yeah, how will politicians accept bribes, 'er campaign contributions if they do away with cash?
--more--"
Related:
Millions of taxpaying immigrants who lack legal status won’t get stimulus checks
The pre$$ cares more about undocumented illegals than they do you, citizen!
Here’s what you need to know if you missed a mortgage payment, or might
The banks still want their payments, and starve to death you will:
"What’s in your wallet? Coronavirus is the latest threat to cash; A Massachusetts law requires retailers to accept cash. Some would rather not" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, April 12, 2020
“I would think people would be more nervous about using cash because of the germs on it," said Kenneth Rogoff, author of “The Curse of Cash" and an economics professor at Harvard University. “I do think this will deepen the move toward people using credit cards and debit cards.”
This is a guy who has been advocating a cashless society for years before coronavirus ever showed up.
That shift has long been underway as forms of electronic money have multiplied in recent years. In 2019, US consumers used cash in 26 percent of transactions, down from 30 percent two years earlier, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the virus has only given consumers and retailers another incentive to shy away from cash.
To be sure, it’s unclear whether handling money is likely to spread the virus.
To be sure, yeah!
To be sure is used to concede the truth of something that conflicts with another point that one wishes to make; in other words, forget facts and truth, there is a larger agenda to be pushed.
Ellen Foxman, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine, considers the risk minimal, citing a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine that found the COVID-19 virus survived on cardboard surfaces for no more than 24 hours.
If that, and they found a Jew at Yale to vouch for money.
“In my opinion this is not a major threat, especially if you are washing hands frequently,” Foxman said. “Theoretically, if you touch any object just after the same object has been handled by someone who is shedding virus, you could get virus on your hands — this applies to doorknobs, elevator buttons, money, and many other items; however, the virus doesn’t last too long on these surfaces,” but a 2014 study by French and Saudi scientists published in the journal Future Microbiology that studied how long viruses can survive on paper money found that influenza can remain active on currency for up to eight days.
I'm sick of $hit $cience!
Several countries are taking no chances. The central banks in China and South Korea have treated cash with heat, microwaves, or pathogen-killing ultraviolet light, while the US Federal Reserve is quarantining currency shipments from Asian and European countries for periods of seven to 10 days, to give time for any virus particles to become inactive.
For retailers in Massachusetts, playing it safe by refusing cash altogether may put them in legal jeopardy. State law requires stores to accept US currency, a law that seeks to protect people with low incomes who may lack bank accounts and credit cards. Attorney General Maura Healey underscored this in an April 1 Tweet.
“I understand that essential businesses need to take extra precautions right now,” Healey said, “but not everyone has a credit card, and consumers should not face economic barriers to accessing necessary goods and services.”
Well, that law will have to be changed and the government will have to get us all one, right
When informed of the Massachusetts law by the Globe, a Micro Center official said the Ohio-based retailer would change its policy to accept cash, while urging customers to use credit or debit cards instead. Hannaford also reversed course when contacted by the Globe, but retailers in much of the United States are free to abolish cash payments. Ryan Fiala, owner of a D.P. Dough Calzones restaurant in Normal, Ill., is providing delivery and takeout service only during the lockdown, for customers who pay online or with plastic. Fiala said he adopted the policy because worried employees were walking off the job rather than risk infection. “I reached the point where I could ill afford to lose any additional staff," Fiala wrote in an e-mail.
Why?
I'm sure there are plenty of workers to take their place!
In the United States, cash is heavily used in small-value transactions. Last year, for instance, 42 percent of all purchases costing $25 or less were made with paper money, according to the San Francisco Fed, but this might change if more US retailers and consumers move to smartphone-based payment options such as Apple Pay and Google Pay, which let customers make small purchases with a wave of their phones; however, according to a study by the management consulting firm Bain & Co., fewer than 10 percent of Americans used phone-based payment systems in 2018, compared to 80 percent of Chinese consumers.
Let's hope your phone doesn't get hacked with all your money in it, and let's be more like the Chinese, huh? I'm confused now. I'm supposed to hate them because of all the evil they do to us, but I'm supposed to want to be like them.
Sick f***ing bastards here.
Other potential rivals to cash are the “contactless” credit cards common in Europe. With one, a consumer can make small purchases by merely waving a card over a terminal, without having to enter a PIN number.
What makes them think consumers are going to have all this free cash with the economy destroyed?
WTF are they talking about other than a society of elites after we are all gone?
Most US retailers don’t accept contactless card payments, though many of them have the necessary card readers.
"In the US we’re behind the curve in terms of payment technology,” said Aaron Press, research director of worldwide payment strategies at IDC Corp. He thinks the virus scare might goad the United States toward contactless payments. “My sense is that it will increase awareness of it and increase use of it,” he said.
Mine, too.
Still, nobody is predicting that paper money will ever go away. Indeed, there’s some evidence the COVID crisis may have caused a momentary spurt in demand for hard cash. Rogoff cited a March report in The New York Times that customers of some Manhattan banks were withdrawing large quantities of $100 bills, just as news of the epidemic was causing huge losses on the stock markets.
He just spent an entire article pushing that exact agenda, so WTF?
“People have been predicting the death of cash for years," added Press, "just as they’ve predicted the death of checks, but they just grimly hang on.”
Yeah, how will politicians accept bribes, 'er campaign contributions if they do away with cash?
--more--"
Related:
Millions of taxpaying immigrants who lack legal status won’t get stimulus checks
The pre$$ cares more about undocumented illegals than they do you, citizen!
Here’s what you need to know if you missed a mortgage payment, or might
The banks still want their payments, and starve to death you will:
"More people are writing wills during the coronavirus outbreak" by Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff, April 12, 2020
Jennifer Nadelson and her husband had planned to update their 2005 will last summer, but there was never a rush.
Then COVID-19 struck. The rising death rate and growing fear that even the most mundane tasks, such as grocery shopping, could be life-altering kicked Nadelson into gear.
Nadelson, huh?
Sigh!
Nadelson, huh?
Sigh!
For the past few weeks, the 52-year-old Brookline mother of two has exchanged a rapid volley of e-mails with her estate lawyer. The Nadelsons also have talked to their 17-year-old daughter about the responsibilities of becoming a guardian to her 14-year-old brother and e-mailed nearby friends to act as alternative guardians and executors.
“In this scenario of a scary pandemic, where two adults could die at the same time. ... It prompted us to think about it," Nadelson said. "I don’t think I’m overwhelmingly anxious, but I’d like to be prepared.”
Massachusetts estate attorneys say that since the pandemic hit they have seen a surge in new clients interested in drawing up their final wishes and families and existing clients who want to update health care proxies or finalize documents that they’ve procrastinated signing for months and sometimes years. Lawyers said they are getting calls from all corners, young and old, doctors, nurses, and other front-line workers, and people stuck at home contemplating their own mortality.
“People are home doing jigsaw puzzles and thinking, ‘Oh no, I’ve never done my will,’” said Carole LoConte Tedesco, a Winchester attorney. “I think people are really freaked out. Most of us don’t contemplate our mortality day to day. Now you contemplate your mortality every time you go to the grocery store.”
I don't want to go there and will avoid it as long as possible.
I don't want to go there and will avoid it as long as possible.
In Massachusetts, wills must be notarized and witnessed by at least two independent people who are not the beneficiaries. Wills can be valid without the notarization and witnesses, but that can be more cumbersome for family members to finalize after the person’s death, because they must seek a judge’s determination, attorneys said.
This means that lawyers have either delayed signings or found creative ways to address public health concerns.
LoConte Tedesco, for example, isn’t finalizing wills because a retiree she usually counts on to serve as a witness is undergoing cancer treatment and she is afraid he may get infected with the coronavirus, and her part-time employee, the other witness, is home taking care of her own children.
Other lawyers said they have done will signings in parking garages, with their clients sitting in the car, or in driveways with two tables set 6 feet apart.
Ken Goldstein, a Brookline attorney, scheduled a carefully choreographed will-signing on Friday.....
They have been “going through a lot of pens” rewriting the choreography!!
"As coronavirus cases rise, some healthcare workers urge Mass. to change ventilator guidelines; With a predicted surge in cases looming, a group of health care workers is urging the state to revise guidelines that will help decide who gets a ventilator" by Andy Rosen Globe Staff, April 12, 2020
State guidelines to help hospitals decide who would get a ventilator if the medical system becomes overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients could disproportionately leave people from already disadvantaged groups to die, according to a letter from hundreds of front-line health care workers.
Would if?
The letter by the workers, who said they had the support of more than 250 doctors, nurses, and other professionals, urged Governor Charlie Baker and the state’s Department of Public Health to revisit the recommendations for what medical facilities should do if they no longer have enough resources to care for all patients in critical need.
The letter arrives as the state braces for a predicted surge in cases that could strain medical facilities, though hospital officials say they are cautiously optimistic about their ability to handle the crisis.
Given all the citizen journalist videos showing quiet hospitals, this is beginning to look more and more like a goddamn drill.
Given all the citizen journalist videos showing quiet hospitals, this is beginning to look more and more like a goddamn drill.
As the coronavirus pandemic plays out in Massachusetts, the health care system has so far managed to stay ahead of the growing need, but with the number of cases escalating toward a peak that could come within about a week, providers are thinking about how they would make choices that could determine who lives or dies.
As the plannedemic PLAYS OUT even! We have a good performance with choreography and as things play out!
They are allegedly talking life and death here!
They are allegedly talking life and death here!
High-risk conditions for COVID-19 patients include asthma, diabetes, lung disease, heart conditions, and obesity, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but critics say the use of the criteria would ensure that longstanding systemic bias will play a major role.
There are your underlying conditions that would be tagged as a COVID death.
There are your underlying conditions that would be tagged as a COVID death.
Dr. Lana Habash, a family medicine physician who has been working in Boston for more than two decades and is one of the organizers of the letter, said, “This is obviously an unprecedented moment in our community, and I think we have to be really, really mindful of making sure we are being responsible and ethical in our crisis response.”
Meanwhile, numbers released by the city of Boston last week showed stark disparities in infection rates between the city’s Black and white residents.
Notice how Black is capitalized, but white is not!
You are subhuman in the Globe's eyes, white person.
You are subhuman in the Globe's eyes, white person.
Also Sunday, Massachusetts first lady Lauren Baker said a fund to help support communities affected by the virus had been raising money steadily. She told NBC10 Boston that the Massachusetts COVID-19 Relief Fund had brought in $4 million in its first week, bringing its total to about $17 million. The fund was launched with $13 million in gifts, mostly from philanthropists.
She had a hot idea with Jacobson to start this hush money $lu$h fund, with gifts from "philanthropists" like Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg, et al.
We are looking at PURE EVIL, folks!
We are looking at PURE EVIL, folks!
State Senate President Karen E. Spilka said Sunday during a WBZ-TV interview her biggest concern about the virus is that hospitals and community health centers will become overwhelmed.
Though she remains hopeful the state will weather the storm, she criticized the Trump administration’s performance in delivering needed supplies: “Unfortunately, states are on their own.”
“I don’t know what they’re doing, but clearly I believe they’re not doing enough,” Spilka added....
PFFFT!
State Senate President Karen E. Spilka is among the leaders in the state Legislature who will see three pay increases in 2019 (Lane Turner/Globe Staff/File).
State Senate President Karen E. Spilka is among the leaders in the state Legislature who will see three pay increases in 2019 (Lane Turner/Globe Staff/File).
That's what is known as a $hit-eating grin!
--more--"
"Trump wants to reopen the economy May 1. What’s the plan for Massachusetts?; Business leaders and economists urge caution in face of uncertainties" by Tim Logan, Larry Edelman and Shirley Leung Globe Staff and Globe Columnist, April 12, 2020
--more--"
"Trump wants to reopen the economy May 1. What’s the plan for Massachusetts?; Business leaders and economists urge caution in face of uncertainties" by Tim Logan, Larry Edelman and Shirley Leung Globe Staff and Globe Columnist, April 12, 2020
President Trump is eager to reopen the economy ASAP, raising the stakes in what amounts to a colossal race against time: Can the deadly coronavirus be contained fast enough to spare businesses and workers irreparable financial damage?
He may be eager, but even when it is, it is too late.
He may be eager, but even when it is, it is too late.
As Massachusetts approaches its peak of the pandemic, it’s hard to see a scenario anytime soon in which stay-at-home orders are relaxed and commerce comes roaring back, according to business owners, economists, and public officials, and they say it would be folly to circle any date on the calendar — Trump is aiming for May 1 — before the virus shows signs of subsiding, and some national coordination is broadly agreed upon.
“You don’t need a date. You need a plan,” said Harvard economist Jason Furman, who served as a top economic adviser to President Obama. “There is no plan right now.”
It's an oppo$ition new$paper.
It's an oppo$ition new$paper.
As much as the White House would like to think it calls the shots on jump-starting the economy, the real decisions about when — and how — will be driven by the very people who first closed schools and shuttered businesses: governors and mayors.
All the people who want to hurt Trump politically and who are working for guys like Gates!
All the people who want to hurt Trump politically and who are working for guys like Gates!
While Massachusetts was among the first wave of states to implement strict social-distancing measures nearly a month ago, Governor Charlie Baker has bristled at questions about when to restart the economy, which has suffered record job losses. He insists his focus is on managing an unprecedented health crisis that has sickened more than 25,000 people statewide, taken at least 756 lives, and is expected to get worse before it gets better.
“I don’t want people to get ahead of themselves on this one, OK?” he said Friday. “We are about to have a very difficult couple of weeks here in Massachusetts.”
He knows how to stay on script!
The administration, though, has taken the lead on so-called contact tracing, teaming up with the Boston-area nonprofit Partners in Health to hire 1,000 workers to track down people who’ve come in contact with a confirmed COVID-19 carrier. Once found, those people can quarantine, potentially reducing the spread of the disease.
This is f***ing sick!
This is f***ing sick!
That, along with widespread testing, is what economists, business owners, and epidemiologists say is needed so people can resume the daily rhythms of life, such as taking public transportation or eating in a restaurant, without fear of infection. Knowing who has COVID-19 and who’s immune will be essential, at least until a vaccine is available.
There they go again pushing the f***ing needle into your arm!
There they go again pushing the f***ing needle into your arm!
While tests are underway in Massachusetts, it’s unclear how broadly they can be rolled out. Opening up the economy too soon, when consumers and companies don’t feel comfortable, makes little financial sense and may lead to a resurgence of the virus.
“We have only one chance to boot up,” said Simon Johnson, an economist at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Do you think he knows Gideon Lichfield?
Jay Ash, head of the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and Baker’s former top economic development aide, said his members — some of the state’s largest companies — are closely monitoring their operations in China and Europe for clues on how reopening might work here.
We are becoming more like them everyday, except our government is a merciless war-monger.
Still, Ash said, it’s premature to plan a restart of the economy here with so much uncertainty about testing, tracking, and the effectiveness of the federal government’s trillions of dollars in rescue funding.
I don't want it to ever come back.
F*** you guys!
I don't want it to ever come back.
F*** you guys!
Wuhan, the Chinese city of 11 million where the coronavirus first emerged in December, only last weekended a travel ban that had been in place for more than 10 weeks. Officials made the move after just a handful of new COVID-19 cases emerged over the previous three weeks.
However, some restrictions remain in force. While shops and other businesses are reopening, Wuhan’s schools are closed, and residents stay in their homes as much as possible. People must present proof that they are healthy to travel around the country.
Do they?
Do they?
In Europe, governments running the continent’s biggest economies are debating how and when to reopen. On Saturday, Spain said construction and factory workers could return to their jobs after the Easter holiday. Still, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the country, which has seen the second-most COVID-19 deaths in Europe, will not lift its broader lockdown.
Italy remains under a national lockdown, even though COVID-19 cases peaked on March 20, according to a Johns Hopkins database. Some 18,500 people have died in Italy, second only to the United States. Last week, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte rejected a plea from businesses to resume operations, saying scientists have told him restrictions need to remain in place.
Right wing, left wing, doesn't matter.
Right wing, left wing, doesn't matter.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, said Sunday that the economy in parts of the country could be allowed to reopen as early as next month. He told CNN’s ‘‘State of the Union’’ that “rolling re-entry” will be required, based on the status of the pandemic in various parts of the country.
F*** him!
F*** him!
When the local economy does reopen, some parts will bounce back faster than others. Many professional services firms and technology companies, for example, have kept busy because they can do a lot of work remotely.
“Tax season is normally a whole craziness unto itself,” said Norman Posner, whose accounting firm, Samet & Co., has offices in Chestnut Hill and Brewster. Now, the firm is also helping clients sort through government loan programs and the new realities of the economy.
We are NEVER GOING BACK then!
The hospitality industry, however, faces a long road back. With travel restricted and major conventions canceled through June, many Boston hotels have closed, laying off or furloughing thousands of workers. While Baker’s order that shuttered nonessential businesses expires May 4, some hotels don’t plan to reopen until June or July, reflecting how business will be slow to return and how difficult it might be to ramp up staffing and prepare properties.
Who wants to go on a trip or do anything like that, especially in Bo$ton?
Who wants to go on a trip or do anything like that, especially in Bo$ton?
Martha Sheridan, CEO of the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, does not anticipate a normal summer of tourism. She expects air travel to remain depressed; Logan Airport reported a nearly 97 percent year-over-year drop in departing passengers for the week ended April 5. The visitors bureau instead will focus its marketing on tourists who can arrive by car.
I don't want them in my town!
I don't want them in my town!
While Sheridan wants to see her industry in full swing again, she said there are risks to jumping the gun. “I can’t imagine getting rolling again, getting these massive hotels open, and getting these flights up again, and then all of a sudden stopping,” she said. “It has to be managed with continued growth without any backpedaling.”
That is what we are in for according to Fauci and the banker, so say goodbye to your industry (unless it serves wealth).
That is what we are in for according to Fauci and the banker, so say goodbye to your industry (unless it serves wealth).
Other industries may rebound faster, even if they don’t quite look like they did before.
Construction — currently paused in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville — could come back if big contractors figure out a way to ensure workers will be safe, but projects are likely to take longer to complete, as safety measures make job sites less efficient.
I'm so sick of could be, ifs,. maybe, still, but, and all the other qualifiers in my pre$$ reports.
What SLOP!
I'm so sick of could be, ifs,. maybe, still, but, and all the other qualifiers in my pre$$ reports.
What SLOP!
Office workers could return to their buildings, too, but to new setups.
“The idea of packing as many people as possible into office space may not be so popular,” said Aaron Jodka, head of research at the Boston real estate firm Colliers. “People could be in bigger cubes and workstations where you can’t just reach out and touch your neighbor.”
The f***ing sick elite f***s don't even want us TOUCHING EACH OTHER anymore!
The f***ing sick elite f***s don't even want us TOUCHING EACH OTHER anymore!
Other industries might thrive in a world where coronavirus remains an ever-looming threat.
Rick Faulk, CEO at the warehouse robot-maker Locus Robotics, said he plans to hire about 70 people to supplement his current staff of 110. The disastrous slump in brick-and-mortar retail has been accompanied by a boom in e-commerce (see Amazon). That means more robots to help ship the goods, Faulk said, and the people needed to design and build them.
They would be e$$ential workers working on robots to replace you, who will then pick the goods and deliver
“There’s a tremendous amount of hiring going on in the logistics space,” he said, and there are some industries — big ones in Boston — in which it’s just too soon to know what the toll might be.
Colleges and universities quickly sent students home as the outbreak emerged last month, but with tuition already in hand, most have been able to keep their payrolls largely intact through this academic year; however, if students cannot return to campuses en masse in the fall and instead continue with remote learning only, that could lead to drastic cuts.
They better get ready for cuts then.
They better get ready for cuts then.
That scenario could also ripple through the Boston economy, which counts on college students as consumers. Think of the bars, restaurants, shops, and landlords of apartment buildings in student-heavy neighborhoods.
Those are not coming back, either, so forget it.
Those are not coming back, either, so forget it.
“If we don’t bring students back, it’s going to be a much more painful recovery,” said Jason Gell, president of the Greater Boston Association of Realtors.
Thanks for the warning.
--more--"
Related:
"The guardians of the world economy will come together this week to survey a global picture turned on its head by the coronavirus. The International Monetary Fund’s spring meeting — held virtually because of the pandemic — will give officials a chance to update their outlook to reflect the new reality of shuttered economies, collapsing trade, and mounting unemployment. They have said they see the global economy suffering its worst recession since the Great Depression this year. (BLOOMBERG NEWS)."
It is going to be worse than the Great Depression, it will be the Grand Depression and what makes one sick is Bloomberg's description as the guardians of the world economy; however, I suppose that is true. The austerity that they level at those who take loans are to guard the spoils for the elite ruling cla$$. $ick a$$holes!
Speaking of sick assholes:
"In 2010, world leaders concluded a 47-nation nuclear security conference in Washington, endorsing President Obama’s call for securing all of the globe’s vulnerable nuclear materials within four years, but offering few specifics for achieving that goal."
Such a quaint goal, and five years later Gates would pooh-pooh such things in the faceof a pandemic that he apparently predicted. Hmmm.
Related:
"The guardians of the world economy will come together this week to survey a global picture turned on its head by the coronavirus. The International Monetary Fund’s spring meeting — held virtually because of the pandemic — will give officials a chance to update their outlook to reflect the new reality of shuttered economies, collapsing trade, and mounting unemployment. They have said they see the global economy suffering its worst recession since the Great Depression this year. (BLOOMBERG NEWS)."
It is going to be worse than the Great Depression, it will be the Grand Depression and what makes one sick is Bloomberg's description as the guardians of the world economy; however, I suppose that is true. The austerity that they level at those who take loans are to guard the spoils for the elite ruling cla$$. $ick a$$holes!
Speaking of sick assholes:
"In 2010, world leaders concluded a 47-nation nuclear security conference in Washington, endorsing President Obama’s call for securing all of the globe’s vulnerable nuclear materials within four years, but offering few specifics for achieving that goal."
Such a quaint goal, and five years later Gates would pooh-pooh such things in the faceof a pandemic that he apparently predicted. Hmmm.
"Coronavirus crisis brings shortages of asthma drugs, sedatives for ventilator patients" by Christopher Rowland and Joanna Slater Washington Post, April 12, 2020
WASHINGTON — Hospitals in regions experiencing a surge of coronavirus patients are struggling to maintain supplies of antibiotics, antivirals, sedatives required for patients on ventilators, and other drugs produced in countries where the coronavirus has shuttered or curbed manufacturing.
I'm getting sick of this script.
Although the public is focused on shortages of ventilators and personal protective equipment, hospitals are increasingly concerned about future shortages of lifesaving drugs as authorities in India and other countries producing the drugs try to guarantee supplies for their own people.
This $y$tem is falling apart so fast, why would anyone in the world want to copy it or have American freedom and democracy brought to them?
New York has experienced spikes in demands for fentanyl and other sedatives needed for patients experiencing respiratory failure who are placed on ventilators. The Food and Drug Administration placed another sedative called midazolam on an official drug shortage list last month.
‘‘Everyone has been discussing the requirements for more vents, but no one is discussing the needs for patients when they are on the vents, the sedatives, anesthetics and paralytic agents,’’ said Onisis Stefas, chief pharmacy officer at Northwell Health, a 23-hospital system in New York, which has experienced the highest spikes in coronavirus patients in the United States.
Why are they sedating people who are already having trouble breathing?
WTF is going on there?
Other drug shortages have emerged as unintended consequences of the coronavirus. When doctors avoided nebulizers for patients with respiratory trouble, hoping to prevent the coronavirus from getting airborne inside their facilities, they inadvertently created shortages of everyday albuterol asthma inhalers in hospitals and retail pharmacies.
The shortages highlight heavy US dependence on bulk drug ingredients and finished medicines manufactured in China, India, and Europe, medical experts say, but also the FDA’s limited ability to monitor global supply chains. If supply conditions worsen, a lack of sedative and paralytic drugs needed to safely intubate patients with severe respiratory failure could prove just as critical as a lack of ventilators, said specialists.
‘‘The pharmacy supply chain is really not built for this,’’ Stefas said. ‘‘They make their product and release it based on historical data. It makes situations like this, that are not expected, very difficult to manage.’’
The globali$t JIT $y$tem $ucks?
Hospitals require large, 50-milliliter vials of fentanyl to treat ventilated patients humanely, but suppliers quickly ran out and had only 2-ml vials in warehouses, which do not provide enough of the drug to administer efficiently to patients, Stefas said. Northwell worked with the FDA and Drug Enforcement Administration to win permission for manufacturers to fill more 50-milliliter vials, he said.
Wasn't fentanyl responsible for many opioid deaths?
They addict in the hospital, huh?
This is f***ing EVIL!
The DEA announced Tuesday that it was broadly boosting production quotas for a handful of key sedatives used for ventilator patients, including fentanyl and midazolam. Fentanyl was widely abused in America’s opioid addiction epidemic, and the DEA in September proposed reducing quotas of the drugs. The agency made clear the increase is temporary during the COVID-19 crisis.
That must be Quigley's Quest, and how did they get on to the street?
Yeah, forget about the overprescription of statins or the foisting of opioids on the public; the pharmaceuticals now care only about saving and protecting you -- while making a pile of money!
GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Ventolin inhalers, said it has ramped up production to 24 hours, seven days a week at plants in France and North Carolina. It said it chartered jets to fly in emergency supplies from its French facilities.
I should be calling this the Pharma Pre$$ at this point, and ain't globali$m grand!?
Drugstores also are seeking emergency permission from states to allow pharmacists to swap in equivalent therapies to albuterol inhalers without having to call a physician to get another prescription. ‘‘The physician doesn’t want to be bothered when he’s trying to save a COVID-19 patient,’’ said Kathleen Jaeger, senior vice president at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
I hope they don't become addicted.
Last month featured an explosion of purchasing of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine by hospitals, doctors, and consumers responding to President Trump’s exhortations that the decades-old anti-malarials can treat COVID-19, a White House claim that remains unproven by rigorous clinical trials. The runs and hoarding of the drugs nearly wiped out the US supply in a matter of weeks.
Now they care about rigorous trials, blah, blah.
Generic drugs account for about 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in the United States. About 87 percent of the factories making raw pharmaceutical ingredients used in generics are overseas, with 48 percent in India and China, according to industry estimates. China shut down drug manufacturing facilities during its coronavirus lockdown, but some are expected to come back on line in coming weeks and months.
PFFFT!
Whose idea was it to outsource all this shit?
Oh, right, the same people now screaming about COVID-19!
The shortages show how a lack of basic information is hurting US planning and readiness for a variety of disasters, said Stephen Schondelmeyer, a professor of pharmaceutical economics at the University of Minnesota.
WTF?
‘‘What we are living through now are some of the worst-case-scenarios of what could occur,’’ he said. ‘‘We should be concerned about the safety and resilience of our drug supply in terms of market concentration, foreign dependence, and a lack of transparency of where these drugs are coming from.’’
Oh, he's reading from the script.
The White House is citing shortages as it pushes to bring more drug manufacturing to the United States. Trade adviser Peter Navarro, an advocate of protectionist trade policies, said one option would be to require federal agencies and Medicare and Medicaid to “buy American’’ for essential drugs. The government also could offer tax incentives and government loans.
He warned Trump, but Trump wouldn't listen.
--more--"
WASHINGTON — Hospitals in regions experiencing a surge of coronavirus patients are struggling to maintain supplies of antibiotics, antivirals, sedatives required for patients on ventilators, and other drugs produced in countries where the coronavirus has shuttered or curbed manufacturing.
I'm getting sick of this script.
Although the public is focused on shortages of ventilators and personal protective equipment, hospitals are increasingly concerned about future shortages of lifesaving drugs as authorities in India and other countries producing the drugs try to guarantee supplies for their own people.
This $y$tem is falling apart so fast, why would anyone in the world want to copy it or have American freedom and democracy brought to them?
New York has experienced spikes in demands for fentanyl and other sedatives needed for patients experiencing respiratory failure who are placed on ventilators. The Food and Drug Administration placed another sedative called midazolam on an official drug shortage list last month.
‘‘Everyone has been discussing the requirements for more vents, but no one is discussing the needs for patients when they are on the vents, the sedatives, anesthetics and paralytic agents,’’ said Onisis Stefas, chief pharmacy officer at Northwell Health, a 23-hospital system in New York, which has experienced the highest spikes in coronavirus patients in the United States.
Why are they sedating people who are already having trouble breathing?
WTF is going on there?
Other drug shortages have emerged as unintended consequences of the coronavirus. When doctors avoided nebulizers for patients with respiratory trouble, hoping to prevent the coronavirus from getting airborne inside their facilities, they inadvertently created shortages of everyday albuterol asthma inhalers in hospitals and retail pharmacies.
The shortages highlight heavy US dependence on bulk drug ingredients and finished medicines manufactured in China, India, and Europe, medical experts say, but also the FDA’s limited ability to monitor global supply chains. If supply conditions worsen, a lack of sedative and paralytic drugs needed to safely intubate patients with severe respiratory failure could prove just as critical as a lack of ventilators, said specialists.
‘‘The pharmacy supply chain is really not built for this,’’ Stefas said. ‘‘They make their product and release it based on historical data. It makes situations like this, that are not expected, very difficult to manage.’’
The globali$t JIT $y$tem $ucks?
Hospitals require large, 50-milliliter vials of fentanyl to treat ventilated patients humanely, but suppliers quickly ran out and had only 2-ml vials in warehouses, which do not provide enough of the drug to administer efficiently to patients, Stefas said. Northwell worked with the FDA and Drug Enforcement Administration to win permission for manufacturers to fill more 50-milliliter vials, he said.
Wasn't fentanyl responsible for many opioid deaths?
They addict in the hospital, huh?
This is f***ing EVIL!
The DEA announced Tuesday that it was broadly boosting production quotas for a handful of key sedatives used for ventilator patients, including fentanyl and midazolam. Fentanyl was widely abused in America’s opioid addiction epidemic, and the DEA in September proposed reducing quotas of the drugs. The agency made clear the increase is temporary during the COVID-19 crisis.
That must be Quigley's Quest, and how did they get on to the street?
Yeah, forget about the overprescription of statins or the foisting of opioids on the public; the pharmaceuticals now care only about saving and protecting you -- while making a pile of money!
GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Ventolin inhalers, said it has ramped up production to 24 hours, seven days a week at plants in France and North Carolina. It said it chartered jets to fly in emergency supplies from its French facilities.
I should be calling this the Pharma Pre$$ at this point, and ain't globali$m grand!?
Drugstores also are seeking emergency permission from states to allow pharmacists to swap in equivalent therapies to albuterol inhalers without having to call a physician to get another prescription. ‘‘The physician doesn’t want to be bothered when he’s trying to save a COVID-19 patient,’’ said Kathleen Jaeger, senior vice president at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores.
I hope they don't become addicted.
Last month featured an explosion of purchasing of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine by hospitals, doctors, and consumers responding to President Trump’s exhortations that the decades-old anti-malarials can treat COVID-19, a White House claim that remains unproven by rigorous clinical trials. The runs and hoarding of the drugs nearly wiped out the US supply in a matter of weeks.
Now they care about rigorous trials, blah, blah.
Generic drugs account for about 90 percent of all prescriptions filled in the United States. About 87 percent of the factories making raw pharmaceutical ingredients used in generics are overseas, with 48 percent in India and China, according to industry estimates. China shut down drug manufacturing facilities during its coronavirus lockdown, but some are expected to come back on line in coming weeks and months.
PFFFT!
Whose idea was it to outsource all this shit?
Oh, right, the same people now screaming about COVID-19!
The shortages show how a lack of basic information is hurting US planning and readiness for a variety of disasters, said Stephen Schondelmeyer, a professor of pharmaceutical economics at the University of Minnesota.
WTF?
‘‘What we are living through now are some of the worst-case-scenarios of what could occur,’’ he said. ‘‘We should be concerned about the safety and resilience of our drug supply in terms of market concentration, foreign dependence, and a lack of transparency of where these drugs are coming from.’’
Oh, he's reading from the script.
The White House is citing shortages as it pushes to bring more drug manufacturing to the United States. Trade adviser Peter Navarro, an advocate of protectionist trade policies, said one option would be to require federal agencies and Medicare and Medicaid to “buy American’’ for essential drugs. The government also could offer tax incentives and government loans.
He warned Trump, but Trump wouldn't listen.
--more--"
"Sanofi’s rheumatoid arthritis drug will be tested on coronavirus patients at four Mass. hospitals; Researchers hope it will ease COVID-19 breathing problems" by Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff, April 9, 2020
Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are among 64 hospitals at 51 US sites where the drug is being tested.
“We have to see the data," said Bill Sibold, head of Cambridge-based Sanofi Genzyme. “I’m hopeful in the sense that we need more solutions for COVID-19, and if this can have a positive effect on patients, that’s a wonderful thing.”
Yeah, I'm so Big Pharma is hopeful about wonderful things.
This is f***Ing sick!
The primary goal of the clinical trial is to determine if Kevzara lowers fever and then curbs the need for supplemental oxygen to help patients breathe, according to a Sanofi spokeswoman.
Don't turn on the 5G.
Scientists around the world are studying at least 95 potential treatments for the coronavirus in laboratories and hospitals, according to an online tracker by the Milken Institute, a nonprofit think tank in Santa Monica, Calif. The possible treatments include several decades-old medicines approved for diseases ranging from HIV to influenza.
The Milken Institute is connected to Michael Milken, the former Wall Street crook who was pardoned by Trump (thanks to Rudy and Shelly) and is now a philanthropist!
Kevzara was developed by Sanofi and Regeneron and approved in 2017 to treat rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder that causes the body’s immune system to mistakenly attack tissues. Researchers believe it might be useful because many patients who become critically ill with COVID-19 experience a “cytokine storm,” a runaway response in which the immune system attacks the body’s organs. Some researchers believe drugs that suppress the immune system, including monoclonal antibodies such as Kevzara, might counter that.
“It’s a really promising approach,” said Dr. Kathryn Stephenson, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-investigator in the study of Kevzara at Beth Israel.
Sure looks like a 5G problem!
A recent study in China of 21 COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress found that Actemra, a similar rheumatoid arthritis medicine made by Swiss drug giant Roche, helped suppress that overreaction.
President Trump has aggressively promoted the malaria drug as a treatment for COVID-19, although experts have warned that it has yet to be proved safe or effective for coronavirus.....
If it's not a pharmaceutical, it's no good.
--more--"
Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are among 64 hospitals at 51 US sites where the drug is being tested.
“We have to see the data," said Bill Sibold, head of Cambridge-based Sanofi Genzyme. “I’m hopeful in the sense that we need more solutions for COVID-19, and if this can have a positive effect on patients, that’s a wonderful thing.”
Yeah, I'm so Big Pharma is hopeful about wonderful things.
This is f***Ing sick!
The primary goal of the clinical trial is to determine if Kevzara lowers fever and then curbs the need for supplemental oxygen to help patients breathe, according to a Sanofi spokeswoman.
Don't turn on the 5G.
Scientists around the world are studying at least 95 potential treatments for the coronavirus in laboratories and hospitals, according to an online tracker by the Milken Institute, a nonprofit think tank in Santa Monica, Calif. The possible treatments include several decades-old medicines approved for diseases ranging from HIV to influenza.
The Milken Institute is connected to Michael Milken, the former Wall Street crook who was pardoned by Trump (thanks to Rudy and Shelly) and is now a philanthropist!
Kevzara was developed by Sanofi and Regeneron and approved in 2017 to treat rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder that causes the body’s immune system to mistakenly attack tissues. Researchers believe it might be useful because many patients who become critically ill with COVID-19 experience a “cytokine storm,” a runaway response in which the immune system attacks the body’s organs. Some researchers believe drugs that suppress the immune system, including monoclonal antibodies such as Kevzara, might counter that.
“It’s a really promising approach,” said Dr. Kathryn Stephenson, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-investigator in the study of Kevzara at Beth Israel.
Sure looks like a 5G problem!
A recent study in China of 21 COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress found that Actemra, a similar rheumatoid arthritis medicine made by Swiss drug giant Roche, helped suppress that overreaction.
President Trump has aggressively promoted the malaria drug as a treatment for COVID-19, although experts have warned that it has yet to be proved safe or effective for coronavirus.....
If it's not a pharmaceutical, it's no good.
--more--"
Related:
"More than 3,300 deaths nationwide have been linked to coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, an alarming rise in just the past two weeks, according to the latest count by the Associated Press. Because the federal government has not been releasing a count of its own, the AP has kept its own running tally based on media reports and state health departments. The latest count of at least 3,321 deaths is up from about 450 deaths just 10 days ago, but the true toll among the 1 million mostly frail and elderly people who live in such facilities is probably much higher, specialists say, because most state counts don’t include those who died without ever being tested for COVID-19. Outbreaks in just the past few weeks have included one at a nursing home in suburban Richmond that has killed 40 and infected more than 100, another at nursing home in central Indiana that has killed 24 and infected 16, and one at a veteran’s home in Holyoke, Mass., that has killed 37, infected 76, and prompted a federal investigation. This comes weeks after an outbreak at a nursing home in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland that has so far claimed 43 lives, and those are just the outbreaks we know about. Most states provide only total numbers of nursing home deaths and don’t give details of specific outbreaks. Notable among them is the nation’s leader, New York, which accounts for 1,880 nursing home deaths out of about 96,000 total residents but has so far declined to detail specific outbreaks, citing privacy concerns. Specialists say nursing home deaths may keep climbing because of chronic staffing shortages that have been made worse by the crisis, a shortage of protective supplies, and a continued lack of testing (Associated Press)."
I am so goddamn sick of their fucking script, sorry.
"People in Guam are used to a constant US military presence on the strategic Pacific island, but some are nervous as hundreds of sailors from a coronavirus-stricken Navy aircraft carrier flood into hotels for quarantine. Officials insist they have enforced strict safety measures. An outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt began in late March and has thrust the Navy into a leadership crisis after the ship’s commander distributed a letter urging faster action to protect his sailors. The carrier has been docked in the US territory for more than a week as the 4,865-person crew is tested for the virus and moved ashore. More than 580 sailors have been confirmed infected. More than 1,700 sailors who have tested negative are isolating in hotels, while the sick remain on base, the Navy said (Associated Press)."
Also see:
DeSantis lawyer ‘pressured’ law firm not to file suit
There was no effort to strong-arm the newspaper.
Now everybody out:
“I'm thanking God. Everyone ran outside in the rain, ignoring the quarantine, just trying to figure out if everyone was OK.”
That as off script.
"The desolate scene of the pope’s Mass was repeated elsewhere in the world. In South Korea, where one virus outbreak was tied to a church sect, services were largely held online....."
The desolate one!!
The Pope knows he has lost!
His flock has been destroyed!
"Italy’s coronavirus outbreak is one of the world’s deadliest, and while the doctors and nurses on the northern Italian front line have become symbols of sacrifice against an invisible enemy, priests and nuns have also joined the fight. Across Italy, the virus has killed more than 100 priests, many of them retired and especially vulnerable to a scourge that preys on older people, whether it be in nursing homes or monasteries, but some priests have also fallen in service. They offer solace through WhatsApp groups, wave from behind car windows as they bring food to the sick, lean against the door frames of infected bedrooms as they deliver last rites, and shroud themselves in personal protective equipment as they whisper prayers and encouragement at hospital bedsides. They complain they cannot get closer, that the last touch the faithful feel is a gloved one, that the last face they see is often on a screen. With a virus that separates families and spouses as it kills, priests said that they were also pained to be distanced from their flock when they were needed most..... (New York Times)."
This is another example of the New York Times lifting a discredited person and institution into beloved status because of the coronavirus!
"The Israeli government approved a tight quarantine of several areas of Jerusalem on Sunday, including the historic Old City, in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the city’s most susceptible neighborhoods. A ministerial committee approved the shutting down of movement in and out of several predominantly ultra-Orthodox areas of the city in order to contain the disease that has already resulted in more than 100 deaths in Israel and almost 6,000 around the Middle East, three quarters of them in Iran. The measure, which takes effect at noon on Sunday but had been debated for days, faced resistance from ultra-Orthodox ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government who rejected singling out their constituency. Israel’s Health Ministry has documented more than 10,000 cases of the novel coronavirus. (Associated Press)"
Here is how things are goi9ng in another supremacist state:
"In India, coronavirus fans religious hatred" by Jeffrey Gettleman and Kai Schultz New York Times, April 12, 2020
NEW DELHI — After India’s health ministry repeatedly blamed an Islamic seminary for spreading the coronavirus — and governing party officials spoke of “human bombs” and “corona jihad” — a spree of anti-Muslim attacks has broken out across the country.
Young Muslim men who were passing out food to the poor were assaulted with cricket bats. Other Muslims have been beaten up, nearly lynched, run out of their neighborhoods, or attacked in mosques, branded as virus spreaders. In Punjab state, loudspeakers at Sikh temples broadcast messages telling people not to buy milk from Muslim dairy farmers because it was infected with coronavirus.
Hateful messages have bloomed online, and a wave of apparently fake videos has popped up telling Muslims not to wear masks, not to practice social distancing, not to worry about the virus at all, as if the makers of the videos wanted Muslims to get sick.
I'm sure it is the New York Times citing agenda-pushing propaganda there.
In a global pandemic, there is always the hunt for blame. President Trump has done it, insisting for a time on calling the coronavirus a “Chinese virus.’’ All over the world people are pointing fingers, driven by their fears and anxieties to go after The Other.
Here in India, no other group has been demonized more than the country’s 200 million Muslims, minorities in a Hindu-dominated land of 1.3 billion people.
From the crackdown on Kashmir, a Muslim majority area, to a new citizenship law that blatantly discriminates against Muslims, this past year has been one low point after another for Indian Muslims living under an increasingly bold Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and propelled by majoritarian policies.
Related: "Tensions between India and Pakistan flared again in disputed Kashmir on Sunday as the two armies barraged each other with heavy artillery fire, killing at least three civilians, Indian police said. Each side accused the other of starting the shelling and targeting civilian areas in violation of the 2003 cease-fire accord along the so-called Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan have a long history of bitter relations over Kashmir, with both claiming it in its entirety. They have fought two of their three wars since 1947 over their competing claims to the Himalayan region. Since Friday, Pakistan’s military has charged India with repeated violations of the cease-fire along the frontier. A Pakistani army statement said heavy artillery fire by India “deliberately targeted civilians.”
The AP talks to an Indian police officer before Kashmir is again dispatched down the memory hole.
In this case, what’s making things worse is that there’s an element of truth behind the government’s claims. A single Muslim religious movement has been identified as being responsible for a large share of India’s 8,000-plus coronavirus cases. Indian officials estimated last week that more than a third of the country’s cases were connected to the group, Tablighi Jamaat, which held a huge gathering of preachers in India in March. Similar meetings in Malaysia and Pakistan also led to outbreaks.
Yeah, blame the Muslims.
Man, am I ever sick of that meme.
“The government was compelled to call out this congregation,” said Vikas Swarup, a senior official at India’s foreign ministry.
He said that the gathering in March “had a significant impact on the containment methods” but denied that the government’s frequent blaming of the group had “anything to do with a particular community.”
Tablighi Jamaat is a multinational Muslim missionary movement. A tall, white, modern building towering over the Nizamuddin West neighborhood of Delhi serves as its global headquarters. The group is one of the world’s largest faith-based organizations, with tens of millions of members.
The Indian government has been racing to track down anyone from Tablighi’s seminary and quarantine congregants. Masked police officers have sealed the headquarters on all sides; the other morning, they patrolled the area with their fingers on the triggers of assault rifles.
The neighborhood resembles one near a bus depot or a port; the seminary was the center of the economy, and all around it stand money changers, guesthouses, travel agencies, and gift shops, catering to Muslim missionaries.
All closed, and that was when the web version went off script:
The virus and the new wave of hatred have changed everything. Mohammed Haider, who runs a milk stall, one of the few businesses allowed to stay open under India’s coronavirus lockdown, said, “Fear is staring at us, from everywhere. People need only a small reason to beat us or to lynch us,’’ he said. “Because of corona.’’
Tahir Iqbal, a recent university graduate from Kashmir, was among the 4,000 or so gathered at the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in early March for missionary training. He said people slept, ate, and prayed in close quarters, with little fear of the coronavirus. “We didn’t take it seriously at the time,” he said.
I didn't when it first started. That was my mistake, and gave the evil a leg up.
On March 16, the Delhi government banned gatherings of more than 50 people. Several days later, Modi announced a nationwide lockdown, but instead of dispersing, more than 1,000 people stayed put at the center. During a March 19 sermon, Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, a Tablighi Jamaat leader, told followers that coronavirus was “God’s punishment’’ and not to fear it.
About a week later, health inspectors found around 1,300 people still sheltering at the center without masks or other protective gear. Many Muslim leaders criticized the group’s center for not closing down, but by that point, hundreds of congregants had already left. They wended their way across India by car, bus, train, and plane, spreading the coronavirus to more than half of India’s states, from beach towns in the Andaman Islands to the hot, farming cities in the country’s northern plains.
On March 31, Delhi authorities filed a criminal case against Maulana Kandhalvi for “deliberately, willfully, negligently, and malignantly” putting the public’s health at risk. Tablighi Jamaat’s center was sealed. The maulana, a title for a Muslim scholar, disappeared.
Indian authorities have been tightening the lockdown on hot spots across the country, shutting down all movement in areas where coronavirus cases have been detected. Though the nationwide total remains relatively low, many fear the highly contagious virus could rip through crowded urban areas, overwhelming India’s already beleaguered public hospitals.
Indian authorities have used cellphone data to track Tablighi Jamaat congregants and intercepted Malaysian missionaries at an airport before they could board an evacuation flight out of India.
At a public briefing last week, Lav Agarwal, a health ministry spokesman, said that the number of days it would have taken India’s coronavirus cases to double would have been 7.4 — not the more alarming 4.1 days it hit this past week — had the gathering not happened.
Since then, more than 25,000 people who came in contact with Tablighi members have been quarantined. Some nurses have complained that Tablighi members who were put in isolation wards acted lewdly. One Muslim man who tested positive for the coronavirus slit his throat in a central Indian hospital Saturday.
Chalk another death up to COVID!
Some Hindu nationalist politicians and their supporters seized on the situation, eagerly piling on the anti-Muslim sentiments that have been building in recent years under Modi’s government.
Sensing the backlash against Muslims, India’s health ministry has stopped blaming Tablighi Jamaat at public briefings. “Certain communities and areas are being labeled purely based on false reports,” the health ministry said in a statement a few days ago. “There is an urgent need to counter such prejudices.”
Too f***ing late, asshole!!!
--more--"
Related:
“Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism. Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans. Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India ‘s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines......"
Why isn't my pre$$ telling me that?
"Sri Lanka has been under curfew for most of the past three weeks. The Church is planning a private ceremony on April 21 — the anniversary of the 2019 attacks — to remember the dead....."
Who knew, who cares?
Also see:
Boris Johnson leaves UK hospital after coronavirus treatment
He claims he got top notch care, which I'm sure he did if he was even sick, when he wants to privatize health service!
All part of the script:
Structuring the next COVID-19 stimulus
They are talking what a FOURTH STIMULOOT PACKAGE should contain.
If this were going to end soon and the economy bouncing back strong like they are saying, they wouldn't need another!
The baby boomers like Cohen are toast now that some wretched virus threatens to shatter the illusion -- unless it isn’t just an illusion, and we actually are the resilient and smart old coots we’ve pretended to be.
11 dead after testing positive for virus at facilities run by Chelsea Jewish Lifecare
It's a Jewish agenda at bottom.
Littleton nurse who died after getting coronavirus remembered as a hero
Boston police captain thankful after surviving coronavirus
In empty halls and crowded parking lots, churches mark Easter Sunday
The article is written by Gal Tziperman Lotan of the Globe Staff, and the last person I want my Easter marked by it's a Jew.
As coronavirus fight progresses, a focus on first responders’ mental health
Another article by Gal Tziperman Lotan of the Globe Staff, this one regarding the $lu$h fund to help keep guilt-ridden health workers mouths shut as "the Boston-based Ruderman Family Foundation last week announced a $100,000 grant for mental health services to medical professionals at Massachusetts General Hospital. They also contributed $10,000 to the Boston Police Foundation, which will open more clinician hours for police officers who want to talk — confidentially — to a mental health professional."
GoF**kMe:
"One of the world’s most famous independent booksellers, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, cofounded in 1953 by the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was in dire financial shape because of the coronavirus outbreak and asked for help. Help quickly arrived. Within days of starting a GoFundMe campaign last week seeking $300,000, the store received more than $400,000, from nearly 9,000 contributors. ‘‘Knowing that City Lights is beloved is one thing, but to have that love manifest itself with such momentum and indomitable power, well, that’s something I don’t quite know how to find words for,’’ CEO Elaine Katzenberger wrote on the store’s website. City Lights and its publishing arm were essential in the careers of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other Beat writers."
That is where all the money is going, to chosen members of concern.
"Smithfield Foods will idle its Sioux Falls, S.D., pork-processing plant indefinitely, the latest disruption in the US food supply chain as manufacturers close facilities to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The plant is one of the largest US pork-processing facilities, accounting for at least 4 percent of production, the Virginia-based company said. It will reopen the plant when it receives further direction from local, state, and federal authorities. The plant was the site of an outbreak of COVID-19 cases. The Associated Press on April 10 quoted Governor Kristi Noem as saying there were 190 cases tied to an outbreak at the site. The facility’s 3,700 employees will receive pay for at least two weeks during the shutdown, the company said (BLOOMBERG NEWS)."
What will the Chinese do for pork?
"A leading defense lawyer who specializes in death penalty cases has been chosen to represent one of the five men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks before a military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, overcoming a key obstacle to the war crimes trial, but the national crisis over the coronavirus pandemic and the sudden, recent resignation of the military judge overseeing the trial still remain as hurdles to moving ahead in the complex conspiracy case....."
How complex can it be, NYT? They have the official story. It's not complex at all, right? WTF?
The guy he got represented Roof and Tsarnaev, so he's like the Washington Generals.
I am so goddamn sick of their fucking script, sorry.
"People in Guam are used to a constant US military presence on the strategic Pacific island, but some are nervous as hundreds of sailors from a coronavirus-stricken Navy aircraft carrier flood into hotels for quarantine. Officials insist they have enforced strict safety measures. An outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt began in late March and has thrust the Navy into a leadership crisis after the ship’s commander distributed a letter urging faster action to protect his sailors. The carrier has been docked in the US territory for more than a week as the 4,865-person crew is tested for the virus and moved ashore. More than 580 sailors have been confirmed infected. More than 1,700 sailors who have tested negative are isolating in hotels, while the sick remain on base, the Navy said (Associated Press)."
Also see:
DeSantis lawyer ‘pressured’ law firm not to file suit
There was no effort to strong-arm the newspaper.
Now everybody out:
“I'm thanking God. Everyone ran outside in the rain, ignoring the quarantine, just trying to figure out if everyone was OK.”
That as off script.
"The desolate scene of the pope’s Mass was repeated elsewhere in the world. In South Korea, where one virus outbreak was tied to a church sect, services were largely held online....."
The desolate one!!
The Pope knows he has lost!
His flock has been destroyed!
"Italy’s coronavirus outbreak is one of the world’s deadliest, and while the doctors and nurses on the northern Italian front line have become symbols of sacrifice against an invisible enemy, priests and nuns have also joined the fight. Across Italy, the virus has killed more than 100 priests, many of them retired and especially vulnerable to a scourge that preys on older people, whether it be in nursing homes or monasteries, but some priests have also fallen in service. They offer solace through WhatsApp groups, wave from behind car windows as they bring food to the sick, lean against the door frames of infected bedrooms as they deliver last rites, and shroud themselves in personal protective equipment as they whisper prayers and encouragement at hospital bedsides. They complain they cannot get closer, that the last touch the faithful feel is a gloved one, that the last face they see is often on a screen. With a virus that separates families and spouses as it kills, priests said that they were also pained to be distanced from their flock when they were needed most..... (New York Times)."
This is another example of the New York Times lifting a discredited person and institution into beloved status because of the coronavirus!
"The Israeli government approved a tight quarantine of several areas of Jerusalem on Sunday, including the historic Old City, in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus in the city’s most susceptible neighborhoods. A ministerial committee approved the shutting down of movement in and out of several predominantly ultra-Orthodox areas of the city in order to contain the disease that has already resulted in more than 100 deaths in Israel and almost 6,000 around the Middle East, three quarters of them in Iran. The measure, which takes effect at noon on Sunday but had been debated for days, faced resistance from ultra-Orthodox ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government who rejected singling out their constituency. Israel’s Health Ministry has documented more than 10,000 cases of the novel coronavirus. (Associated Press)"
Here is how things are goi9ng in another supremacist state:
"In India, coronavirus fans religious hatred" by Jeffrey Gettleman and Kai Schultz New York Times, April 12, 2020
NEW DELHI — After India’s health ministry repeatedly blamed an Islamic seminary for spreading the coronavirus — and governing party officials spoke of “human bombs” and “corona jihad” — a spree of anti-Muslim attacks has broken out across the country.
Young Muslim men who were passing out food to the poor were assaulted with cricket bats. Other Muslims have been beaten up, nearly lynched, run out of their neighborhoods, or attacked in mosques, branded as virus spreaders. In Punjab state, loudspeakers at Sikh temples broadcast messages telling people not to buy milk from Muslim dairy farmers because it was infected with coronavirus.
Hateful messages have bloomed online, and a wave of apparently fake videos has popped up telling Muslims not to wear masks, not to practice social distancing, not to worry about the virus at all, as if the makers of the videos wanted Muslims to get sick.
I'm sure it is the New York Times citing agenda-pushing propaganda there.
In a global pandemic, there is always the hunt for blame. President Trump has done it, insisting for a time on calling the coronavirus a “Chinese virus.’’ All over the world people are pointing fingers, driven by their fears and anxieties to go after The Other.
Here in India, no other group has been demonized more than the country’s 200 million Muslims, minorities in a Hindu-dominated land of 1.3 billion people.
From the crackdown on Kashmir, a Muslim majority area, to a new citizenship law that blatantly discriminates against Muslims, this past year has been one low point after another for Indian Muslims living under an increasingly bold Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and propelled by majoritarian policies.
Related: "Tensions between India and Pakistan flared again in disputed Kashmir on Sunday as the two armies barraged each other with heavy artillery fire, killing at least three civilians, Indian police said. Each side accused the other of starting the shelling and targeting civilian areas in violation of the 2003 cease-fire accord along the so-called Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan have a long history of bitter relations over Kashmir, with both claiming it in its entirety. They have fought two of their three wars since 1947 over their competing claims to the Himalayan region. Since Friday, Pakistan’s military has charged India with repeated violations of the cease-fire along the frontier. A Pakistani army statement said heavy artillery fire by India “deliberately targeted civilians.”
The AP talks to an Indian police officer before Kashmir is again dispatched down the memory hole.
In this case, what’s making things worse is that there’s an element of truth behind the government’s claims. A single Muslim religious movement has been identified as being responsible for a large share of India’s 8,000-plus coronavirus cases. Indian officials estimated last week that more than a third of the country’s cases were connected to the group, Tablighi Jamaat, which held a huge gathering of preachers in India in March. Similar meetings in Malaysia and Pakistan also led to outbreaks.
Yeah, blame the Muslims.
Man, am I ever sick of that meme.
“The government was compelled to call out this congregation,” said Vikas Swarup, a senior official at India’s foreign ministry.
He said that the gathering in March “had a significant impact on the containment methods” but denied that the government’s frequent blaming of the group had “anything to do with a particular community.”
Tablighi Jamaat is a multinational Muslim missionary movement. A tall, white, modern building towering over the Nizamuddin West neighborhood of Delhi serves as its global headquarters. The group is one of the world’s largest faith-based organizations, with tens of millions of members.
The Indian government has been racing to track down anyone from Tablighi’s seminary and quarantine congregants. Masked police officers have sealed the headquarters on all sides; the other morning, they patrolled the area with their fingers on the triggers of assault rifles.
The neighborhood resembles one near a bus depot or a port; the seminary was the center of the economy, and all around it stand money changers, guesthouses, travel agencies, and gift shops, catering to Muslim missionaries.
All closed, and that was when the web version went off script:
The virus and the new wave of hatred have changed everything. Mohammed Haider, who runs a milk stall, one of the few businesses allowed to stay open under India’s coronavirus lockdown, said, “Fear is staring at us, from everywhere. People need only a small reason to beat us or to lynch us,’’ he said. “Because of corona.’’
Tahir Iqbal, a recent university graduate from Kashmir, was among the 4,000 or so gathered at the Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in early March for missionary training. He said people slept, ate, and prayed in close quarters, with little fear of the coronavirus. “We didn’t take it seriously at the time,” he said.
I didn't when it first started. That was my mistake, and gave the evil a leg up.
On March 16, the Delhi government banned gatherings of more than 50 people. Several days later, Modi announced a nationwide lockdown, but instead of dispersing, more than 1,000 people stayed put at the center. During a March 19 sermon, Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, a Tablighi Jamaat leader, told followers that coronavirus was “God’s punishment’’ and not to fear it.
About a week later, health inspectors found around 1,300 people still sheltering at the center without masks or other protective gear. Many Muslim leaders criticized the group’s center for not closing down, but by that point, hundreds of congregants had already left. They wended their way across India by car, bus, train, and plane, spreading the coronavirus to more than half of India’s states, from beach towns in the Andaman Islands to the hot, farming cities in the country’s northern plains.
On March 31, Delhi authorities filed a criminal case against Maulana Kandhalvi for “deliberately, willfully, negligently, and malignantly” putting the public’s health at risk. Tablighi Jamaat’s center was sealed. The maulana, a title for a Muslim scholar, disappeared.
Indian authorities have been tightening the lockdown on hot spots across the country, shutting down all movement in areas where coronavirus cases have been detected. Though the nationwide total remains relatively low, many fear the highly contagious virus could rip through crowded urban areas, overwhelming India’s already beleaguered public hospitals.
Indian authorities have used cellphone data to track Tablighi Jamaat congregants and intercepted Malaysian missionaries at an airport before they could board an evacuation flight out of India.
At a public briefing last week, Lav Agarwal, a health ministry spokesman, said that the number of days it would have taken India’s coronavirus cases to double would have been 7.4 — not the more alarming 4.1 days it hit this past week — had the gathering not happened.
Since then, more than 25,000 people who came in contact with Tablighi members have been quarantined. Some nurses have complained that Tablighi members who were put in isolation wards acted lewdly. One Muslim man who tested positive for the coronavirus slit his throat in a central Indian hospital Saturday.
Chalk another death up to COVID!
Some Hindu nationalist politicians and their supporters seized on the situation, eagerly piling on the anti-Muslim sentiments that have been building in recent years under Modi’s government.
Sensing the backlash against Muslims, India’s health ministry has stopped blaming Tablighi Jamaat at public briefings. “Certain communities and areas are being labeled purely based on false reports,” the health ministry said in a statement a few days ago. “There is an urgent need to counter such prejudices.”
Too f***ing late, asshole!!!
--more--"
Related:
“Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine-related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo-imperialism. Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god-like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans. Promising to eradicate Polio with $1.2 billion, Gates took control of India ‘s National Advisory Board (NAB) and mandated 50 polio vaccines (up from 5) to every child before age 5. Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017. In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously. In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program. The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines. By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines......"
Why isn't my pre$$ telling me that?
"Sri Lanka has been under curfew for most of the past three weeks. The Church is planning a private ceremony on April 21 — the anniversary of the 2019 attacks — to remember the dead....."
Who knew, who cares?
Also see:
Boris Johnson leaves UK hospital after coronavirus treatment
He claims he got top notch care, which I'm sure he did if he was even sick, when he wants to privatize health service!
All part of the script:
Structuring the next COVID-19 stimulus
They are talking what a FOURTH STIMULOOT PACKAGE should contain.
If this were going to end soon and the economy bouncing back strong like they are saying, they wouldn't need another!
The baby boomers like Cohen are toast now that some wretched virus threatens to shatter the illusion -- unless it isn’t just an illusion, and we actually are the resilient and smart old coots we’ve pretended to be.
11 dead after testing positive for virus at facilities run by Chelsea Jewish Lifecare
It's a Jewish agenda at bottom.
Littleton nurse who died after getting coronavirus remembered as a hero
Boston police captain thankful after surviving coronavirus
The article is written by Gal Tziperman Lotan of the Globe Staff, and the last person I want my Easter marked by it's a Jew.
As coronavirus fight progresses, a focus on first responders’ mental health
Another article by Gal Tziperman Lotan of the Globe Staff, this one regarding the $lu$h fund to help keep guilt-ridden health workers mouths shut as "the Boston-based Ruderman Family Foundation last week announced a $100,000 grant for mental health services to medical professionals at Massachusetts General Hospital. They also contributed $10,000 to the Boston Police Foundation, which will open more clinician hours for police officers who want to talk — confidentially — to a mental health professional."
GoF**kMe:
"One of the world’s most famous independent booksellers, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, cofounded in 1953 by the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was in dire financial shape because of the coronavirus outbreak and asked for help. Help quickly arrived. Within days of starting a GoFundMe campaign last week seeking $300,000, the store received more than $400,000, from nearly 9,000 contributors. ‘‘Knowing that City Lights is beloved is one thing, but to have that love manifest itself with such momentum and indomitable power, well, that’s something I don’t quite know how to find words for,’’ CEO Elaine Katzenberger wrote on the store’s website. City Lights and its publishing arm were essential in the careers of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and other Beat writers."
That is where all the money is going, to chosen members of concern.
"Smithfield Foods will idle its Sioux Falls, S.D., pork-processing plant indefinitely, the latest disruption in the US food supply chain as manufacturers close facilities to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The plant is one of the largest US pork-processing facilities, accounting for at least 4 percent of production, the Virginia-based company said. It will reopen the plant when it receives further direction from local, state, and federal authorities. The plant was the site of an outbreak of COVID-19 cases. The Associated Press on April 10 quoted Governor Kristi Noem as saying there were 190 cases tied to an outbreak at the site. The facility’s 3,700 employees will receive pay for at least two weeks during the shutdown, the company said (BLOOMBERG NEWS)."
What will the Chinese do for pork?
"A leading defense lawyer who specializes in death penalty cases has been chosen to represent one of the five men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks before a military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, overcoming a key obstacle to the war crimes trial, but the national crisis over the coronavirus pandemic and the sudden, recent resignation of the military judge overseeing the trial still remain as hurdles to moving ahead in the complex conspiracy case....."
How complex can it be, NYT? They have the official story. It's not complex at all, right? WTF?
The guy he got represented Roof and Tsarnaev, so he's like the Washington Generals.
