"How Journalists Are Destroying Their Own Jobs" by Martin Armstrong, Armstrong Economics: April 14, 2020
This is clearly political. The numbers just do not support this panic they are less than the annual flu. Granted, they are rising now, but that is because of the massive fraud going on thanks to the American Medical Association. You would think the death rate is 50% like the Black Plague. Every news outlet that has been against Trump are preaching in unison we must stay locked down until we get a vaccine, that Gates controls and will not be available until AFTER the Elections. The same is happening in Germany. There it is the AFD. They gave Gates an unprecedented 9-minute interview without a single challenge to what he is saying. Again, preaching his vaccine as the savior of the world.
Gates openly said that he wants to vaccinate all people in the entire world! The search for the vaccine will approximately take up to 18 months. Meanwhile, there it is IMPOSSIBLE to return to normalization to the previous condition. He achieving world dominance and nobody is standing up. God help us! The man is a megalomaniac who wants to hold the world hostage to his vaccine! That makes no sense. This is not the only disease. So what about every other disease? We stay locked down for life?
Either he is completely insane or there MUST be a hidden agenda. You cannot imprison the world population until they accept his vaccine. That seems to be political – not medical! John Stuart Mill published On Liberty in 1859. There is NO justification for any government to exert such power over the people as to imprison them even under the pretense it is for their own benefit. Thomas Paine also consulted in his Common Sense which inspired the American Revolution, that governments confuse themselves as being the object of civilization when it is the people. This is the greatest danger of socialism, the survival of the state comes before the people.
The numbers concerning this COVID-19 just do not support this action of shutting down the world economy. The damage is beyond repair. The number of small businesses filing for bankruptcy in the Netherlands, France, and Germany is at historic highs. The destruction inflicted that is permanently wiping out jobs will only come back as civil unrest. The youth in Southern Europe were already suffering from the loss of jobs with unemployment rates which hit as high as 60% in some areas. The future is being systematically destroyed because they cannot possibly meet their obligations with all the social programs they promised. The Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank were trapped with negative interest rates. They cannot continue to buy government bonds. We are looking at the justification of ended the financial system as we knew it. What will that mean to bonds?
The number of jobs and pensions lost far outways everything they have done under the pretense of protecting our lives. This begs someone in the press to defend civilization. These journalists are helping to destroy their own livelihood. Perhaps that is the only way to get real news – when the advertising revenue comes to a halt and they will wake up and say – Oh Shit! I never thought of that! If they really think this is worth getting rid of Trump and it will all be back to normal, they are sublime fools. There is no coming back from this tragedy. They are destroying their own future and that of their children. Most journalists are no longer on our side. They care not about the people, all they see is a political agenda and even that they have no idea what they are cheering for by advocating the overthrow of Trump. They are stooges for a secret agenda of totalitarianism.
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I say goodbye and good riddance despite what Jefferson said. The pre$$ was different in his day. We are living in a Soviet-style system now where it is enough to know that government and the pre$$ lie all the time, about everything.
Let it never be said I didn't give the Globe time for rebuttal:
After 56 years of marriage, couple are robbed by virus of precious moments together
The article by Hanna Krueger of the Globe Staff (one of a number of prominent female reporters the Globe employs) that tells me as Chuck Lowell battles the coronavirus in the dementia unit at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, his childhood sweetheart Alice can only watch from a distance.
That is what they are doing with the old folks homes as well. Holyoke is a special case because of the deaths of soldiers there, allegedly due to COVID-19, and now Baker, the state AG, and the U.S. DA's office is now investigating. That means a massive cover up is in place and voices are to be silenced in more ways than one.
US governors, at center of coronavirus response, weigh what it will take to reopen states
When I saw the article was by Julie Bosman (sigh) of the New York Times (sigh), I decided to skip it.
Right below that was this:
"CDC, FEMA have created a plan to reopen America. Here’s what it says" by Lena H. Sun, Josh Dawsey and William Wan The Washington Post, April 14, 2020
President Donald Trump flanked by Director of the CDC Dr. Robert Redfield, left, US Vice President Mike Pence, FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor, and US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, right, at the White House March 22 (ERIC BARADAT/AFP via Getty Images)."
The first thing one asks is WHERE is the GODDAMN SOCIAL DISTANCING!!?
WASHINGTON - A team of government officials - led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - has created a public health strategy to combat the coronavirus and reopen parts of the country.
From the bowels of the Deep $tate comes a plan, yaaaay! FEMA camps, COVID camps, call them what you want. The CDC is a vaccine factory more than anything else (Globe appendage corrects him on that)!
Their strategy, obtained by The Washington Post, is part of a larger White House effort to draft a national plan to get Americans out of their homes and back to work. It gives guidance to state and local governments on how they can ease mitigation efforts, moving from drastic restrictions such as stay-at-home orders in a phased way to support a safe reopening.
You guys can f***ing shove it!
Damage done, a$$holes!
CDC and FEMA officials have worked on the public health response for at least the past week, and the resulting document by the two agencies has been discussed at the White House including by members of the coronavirus task force, according to two administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
President Donald Trump wants a final detailed plan on reopening the country ready within days so he can issue suggestions for some states to reopen May 1, officials said.
Is that when the "live exercise" is ending?
"The plans to reopen the country are close to being finalized," Trump said at a White House briefing Tuesday.
Trump said he planned to speak with all 50 governors "very shortly" and would then begin authorizing individual governors to implement "a very powerful reopening plan" at a specific time and date for each state.
He said about 20 states have avoided the outbreaks that have affected others, and he hinted that some could begin restarting their economies even before May 1.
"We think we're going to be able to get them open very quickly," Trump said.
He added: "We will hold the governors accountable, but again, we're going to be working with them to make sure it works very well."
He's f***ing nuts!
If he thinks those governors out to get him and destroy his presidency and legacy are going to reopen, he has a big surprise waiting for him. Even if they do, it's damage done. There isn't going to be a bounce back with all the totalitarian social distancing and the rest. Trumpvilles will replace Hoovervilles in the AmeriKan lexicon, and Trump will be the most reviled president in all history. The man who did NOT make America Great Again, but the man who DESTROYED AMERICA!
On the other hand, if everything does magically come to life you can suspect one of two things: COVID was never real to begin with, orr the population is being set up for a sudden outbreak and a quick return to lockdown! They have already told us they plan to do a yo-yo mind f*** on us all for the next 18 months, so f*** them. They wouldn't be kicking you a Chump change check if this thing were going to snap back. Perhaps it snaps back for the ruling cla$$ elite and their minions. In either case, we are absent from the scene in the minds of the elite, be out physically or mentally.
Other agencies and White House officials have drafted similar planning documents, a White House aide said. The version obtained by The Post appears to be an early draft by FEMA and contains granular instructions for a phased reopening of institutions such as schools, child-care facilities, summer camps, parks, faith-based organizations and restaurants.
When the WaComPo says they obtained something, they mean it was leaked to them.
Within the White House, one senior administration official said, Trump has been so insistent on the reopening that some officials worry only a narrow window exists to provide information to change the president's mind or to ensure that the effort to reopen does not significantly add to the country's still rising number of infections and deaths. The president has not committed to following the guidelines delineated in the draft.
"Beneath the bluster of the president saying May 1, and he's in charge, and all the other things, there are real efforts to figure out how we could safely and actually do this," that official said.
Who is that, Kushner?
How come Anonymous just faded away?
A federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss evolving plans said the overall planning document has eight parts; the public health response obtained by The Post represents only two of those parts.
What is in those other six pages, martial law and COVID camps?
The public health response portion of "A Framework for Re-Opening America" is dated April 10. It runs 36 pages. An 11-page executive summary called "Focus on the Future - Going to Work for America" was the subject of discussions last week by FEMA and CDC officials, among others.
"It's a road map for if they want to do it gradually," said one participant in the planning who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plan has not been made official.
The plan lays out three-phases: Preparing the nation to reopen with a national communication campaign and community readiness assessment until May 1. Then, the effort, through May 15, would involve ramping up manufacturing of testing kits and personal protective equipment and increasing emergency funding. Then staged reopenings would begin, depending on local conditions. The plan does not give specific dates for reopenings but specified "not before May 1."
Some evil shit going down!
The first priority, according to the CDC response document, is to "reopen community settings where children are cared for, including K-12 schools, day cares, and locally attended summer camps, to allow the workforce to return to work. Other community settings will follow with careful monitoring for increased transmission that exceeds the public health and health care systems."
Who is going to want to go to summer camp now?
The elite who send their kids there so they can go to Europe, that's who.
The document also says that during phased reopenings, it is critical to strictly follow recommendations on hand-washing and wearing face coverings in group settings.
Yeah, yeah.
The plan also carries this warning: "Models indicate 30-day shelter in place followed by 180 day lifting of all mitigation results in large rebound curve - some level of mitigation will be needed until vaccines or broad community immunity is achieved for recovering communities."
It is going to be one long jerk-job the next 18 months, and by that time we will have have gotten used to it because “people are actually quite adaptable and doing a thing that’s unpleasant day in and day out gets easier over time, and gets easier when we see that everyone else is doing it.”
The document says re-opening communities in this phased approach "will entail a significant risk of resurgence of the virus."
Then KEEP IT SHUT!
Any reopening must meet four conditions:
- Incidence of infection is "genuinely low."
- A "well functioning" monitoring system capable of "promptly detecting any increase in incidence" of infection.
- A public health system that is "reacting robustly" to all cases of covid-19 and has surge capacity to react to an increase in cases.
- A health system that has enough inpatient beds and staffing to rapidly scale up and deal with a surge in cases.
Oh, they wonder be dancing in the halls and eating candy?
The plan describes the conditions under which it is reasonable to lift some community mitigation measures, the phased steps to reduce those measures and indicators to monitor the impact of transmission on public health and health system capacities.
Communities where it is necessary to maintain only "low mitigation" are places where the virus never spread significantly, and those locations can reopen soon, according to the document. Moderate mitigation is called for in former hot spots entering "controlled recovery." Significant mitigation is recommended in current or emerging hot spots, or moderate mitigation communities showing signs of strained capacity.
Yeah, and everything will go back to the way it was. The economy will pick up right where it left off. That's why we needed $10 trillion in bailout loot to banks and corporations.
In a community following the moderate mitigation track, the report says, schools could remain open with enhanced distancing measures, such as no assemblies, no sporting events and staggered scheduling.
How will football replenish its diminishing ranks?
Maybe we should just BAN FOOTBALL altogether, huh?
The document calls for the CDC to establish a Covid-19 Response Corps to help state and local health departments with key public health functions, including contact tracing, which involves locating people who may have had contact with someone infected with the coronavirus.
Yeah, the reopen is going to come with full, flat-out tyranny that is being stepped up.
Health experts in recent days have called for federal and state officials to help expand capacity throughout the country for the labor-intensive work of tracing people who have come into contacted with infected patients, because local health departments lack the necessary staff, money and training. The plan also says that solutions for "app-based case and contact investigations will be necessary for augmenting the actions of public health workers and for greatly increasing the important role of slowing covid-19 transmission in the community."
COVID-19 being used to promote total surveillance!
Tech experts and companies such as Google and Apple are developing software that uses cellphones and apps to track people's movements. Once someone is confirmed as infected with the coronavirus, public health workers could go back and trace people the infected person has come into contact with, but the invasive nature of cellphone tracking and apps have raised sharp concerns about civil liberties.
Not until the end of the second-to-last paragraph of the WaComPo piece, and thus the civil liberties are really of no concern at all to the CIA's newspaper.
The document calls for a workforce of 670 to support communities to do contact tracing as part of a surge staff, not nearly large enough based on plans from other groups.
EVIL!
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Evil is descending upon us and what does Trump do?
Coming to your $1,200 relief check: Donald J. Trump’s name
Lisa Rein of the Washington Compost says the Treasury Department has ordered President Donald Trump's name be printed on stimulus checks the Internal Revenue Service is rushing to send to tens of millions of Americans, a process that is expected to slow their delivery by several days, senior agency officials said.
He slowed down the checks that won't arrive until September anyway because he needed his name on them, huh?
That's pure narcissism. Too bad the guy is going to be judged as the worst president ever. He presided over the destruction of America at the hands of the Deep State. I suppose he did the best that he could. It's too big for one man.
29-year veteran of Boston Police Department dies after contracting coronavirus
He died at Boston Medical Center because of complications from COVID-19 as they inflate the coronavirus death toll.
One response to coronavirus anxiety in Mass.: try to buy a gun for the first time
Hell, yeah!
The police are not going to protect you in a police state, citizen.
Wake up!
Turns out Trump isn't the only one who is deluded:
"Globe Magazine: Top spots to live in Greater Boston in 2020; The 24 communities seeing the biggest leaps in house prices north, south, and west of Boston, plus in the city itself" by Jon Gorey Globe Correspondent, April 14, 2020
As if nothing has changed!
In January, temperatures topped 70 degrees in Boston and home buyers pressed past one another into crowded open houses. They squeezed shoulder to shoulder through doorways and down staircases; they shook hands with eager real estate agents and picked at complimentary cookies. A combination of low interest rates and warm winter weather had set off an early start to the 2020 real estate season, and realtors were readying for a feverish spring.
Look at him push the discredited global warming $cam, another modeling cri$i$ foisted on you by the pre$$.
That's right. Your lives have been ruined and your livelihoods destroyed over what some computer models predicted!
Then a very different fever hit. By the middle of March, such a scene had become unthinkable as the nation hunkered down to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. In a matter of days, open houses all but vanished. Sellers pulled or postponed listings. Buyers grew cautious as layoffs mounted and stocks fell harder and faster than they had since the worst week of the 2008 financial crisis.
“So many listings have been temporarily withdrawn or canceled,” says Kiernan Middleman, an agent with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Warren Residential in Boston. “We’ve also seen many listings that were under agreement come back on the market. At best, people are getting cold feet a few days into a deal, and at worst, they are losing their jobs just before closing.”
I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. The Globe certainly i$n't.
It’s hard to say just how big of an impact the extended, near-total pause on civilian life will have on the real estate market. “This is uncharted territory,” says Jeff Tucker, an economist at Zillow. “It’s very hard to predict where prices will be when we come out the other side of this.”
The pau$e has only just begun, and what the Globe is doing here is promoting FALSE HOPE!
They are raising expectations so they can be dashed, and that is a lot more EVIL than any virus for it is a calculated mind-manipulating psy-op!
The number of houses under agreement across the state was actually 2 percent higher this March than in March 2019, according to the Massachusetts Association of Realtors, but condo sales pulled back 18 percent, probably an early indicator of a recent National Association of Realtors survey that found a majority of its members expect buyers and sellers to delay plans for a couple of months; however, Tucker says the conditions that defined the real estate market on the cusp of a pandemic in February may still be in place when the crisis fades: a severe shortage of inventory and new home construction, coupled with millions of millennials who are reaching their early- to mid-30s — the most common age range of first-time home buyers. “While that process might get put on hold due to the pandemic, I’d expect a lot of that demand to come rushing back once this is over,” he says.
OMFG, what the hell is he talking about?
This is a generation that is loaded with college debt, living back with their parents, were mostly employed as gig workers in restaurants and bars, and yet the Globe pre$$titute is pimping them as home-buyers!
There are going to be SO MANY FORECLOSURES coming, but the Globe doesn't $ee that! It only reports about the "reality" of the rich ruling cla$$ of Bo$ton and beyond.
And while there’s no perfect point of historical comparison, a Zillow study found that home prices mostly held steady in Hong Kong during the 2003 SARS outbreak and even in the United States amid the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, despite short but sharp economic downturns. What dropped dramatically in both cases was sales activity. “One reason is there are many parts of the real estate purchase process that we’ve traditionally had to do in person,” Tucker says.
Don't these reporters know you are not supposed to start a sentence with And? I know they have been doing it since I first started this, but the most basic COMP101 college course will tell you not to do that, or use but in report at all. The word cast doubt on what you have already stated. I guess that's the kind of $tyli$tic $lop that comes with American journali$m.
So what they are saying is the real estate prices will be artificially propped up because so much of the stock market valuations come from real estate prices.
Realtors, though, are aggressively adapting to the new landscape. In the last week of March, the number of 3-D home tours available on Zillow had jumped 408 percent nationwide compared with a typical week before the pandemic, and real estate attorneys have pushed the state of Massachusetts to accept remote notarizations on legal documents.
Team Harborside, of Sagan Harborside Sotheby’s International in Marblehead, stopped all open houses in mid-March, says broker Matt Dolan. Instead, they began leaning more on video tours and other technology. While most people are unlikely to buy a house without ever setting foot in it, Dolan says, options like a live FaceTime showing “can at least help keep things moving forward,” filling some gaps to help buyers process their decisions. Because pandemic or not, people need a place to live, and life doesn’t always wait until it’s a good time, he adds. “If someone’s getting a divorce, that’s happening, they’re going to need to move.”
These people are so out-of-touch with reality it is.... I don't even have a word for it.
So who is going to get the kid?
Yeah, somehow “generalized fear is not enough” to warrant a change in a parenting agreement, but it does warrant a lockdown and suspension of constitutional rights and the destruction of an economy!
The hope — and Dolan acknowledges it may be mere optimism — is that a suddenly silent spring will simply shift sales activity into the typically slower summer months. “I’m sort of planning that my summer’s going to get ‘ruined,’ which will hopefully be a good problem to have,” Dolan says.
I $uppo$e it will be given the cho$en crowd he is working.
Even if COVID-19 tips us into a prolonged recession, home prices should be able to weather it, predicts Timothy Warren, CEO of The Warren Group. “Not all crashes are the same kind of depth,” he says. “We haven’t had the kind of bubble building in recent years that would lead to the 20 percent drop we saw [during the 2008 financial crisis].”
What are these guys smoking, and where are they getting it?
One thing is certain: Like confused winter buds bitten by a March frost, this year’s housing market will be a late bloomer. We don’t yet know when, but it will spring back to life, and if, after weeks quarantined inside your home, you’re darn well sick of the place and ready for something new, we’ve compiled our annual list of the top spots to live in Greater Boston to guide you.
As if the damn COVID-19 never happened!
How f***ing goddamn sickening!!!!!!
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I hate to ruin the party, but right next to the above article was this:
"Harvard researchers say some distancing may be needed into 2022, unless vaccines or more effective treatment are developed" by John Tozzi Bloomberg, April 14, 2020
Evil Bloomberg pushing the vaccines!
Raw f***ing EVIL!!
(Bloomberg) -- People around the world might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022 to stop Covid-19 from surging anew and overwhelming hospital systems, a group of Harvard disease researchers said Tuesday.
F*** off, you $hitbags!!!
Lifting social-distancing measures all at once could risk simply delaying the epidemic’s peak and potentially making it more severe, the scientists warned in an article published Tuesday in the journal Science.
Related: Some social distancing may be needed into 2022 to keep coronavirus in check, new study says
That is a Globe appendage, just in case you missed it.
The course of the pandemic will depend on questions not yet answered: Will the virus’s spread change with the seasons? What immunity will people have after they’re infected? And does exposure to coronaviruses that cause mild illnesses confer any protection against the pathogen that causes Covid-19?
Will the government and ma$$ media ever stop lying?
Those questions are being weighed by government leaders who have seen economies around the globe come to a standstill because of the social-distancing measures. With millions of people out of work and staying home, pressure is growing to loosen restrictions in the U.S. and elsewhere. Doing so, experts have said, will depend on having in place measures to control the disease, such as widespread testing.
F*** you evil a$$holes!
I thought it was the virus that brought things to a standstill, not the social-distancing in response.
Get your f**king stories straight, dammit!!!!!!
The Harvard researchers used computer models to simulate how the pandemic might play out. One possibility is that strict social distancing followed by intensive public-health detective work could chase down and eradicate the virus. That’s what happened with SARS-CoV-1, which caused a 2003 outbreak, but with confirmed cases of the new pathogen approaching 2 million globally, that outcome is seen as increasingly unlikely, the researchers wrote.
You f***ing sickening, genocidal eugenicists and your goddamn f***ing models!
Seasonal Illness
More likely is that the virus is here to stay like influenza, traveling the globe seasonally. In one model, 20 weeks of measures to limit spread were followed by an epidemic peak that was as great as an uncontrolled spread.
Yeah, it -- of it exists at all -- is VERY USEFUL to TYRANTS!
“The social distancing was so effective that virtually no population immunity was built,” the researchers said of that scenario. If the virus is more transmissible in colder months, delaying the peak into the autumn could exacerbate the strain on health-care systems, they wrote.
In other words, they KEEP the VIRUS ALIVE with their SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES!
HOW F***ING EVIL can you GET?
Herd immunity is the only way this ends, which is why the "experts" are demanding these totalitarian measures! They want to keep this thing alive perpetually, to test, and test, and test, until the entire world is vaccinated and tracked. They are psychopathic control freaks the likes of which the world has never seen. EVIL!
To avoid such outcomes, on-and-off social distancing measures might be needed until 2022, unless hospital capacity is increased, or effective vaccines or treatments are developed.
The authors don’t endorse a particular path forward but said they sought “to identify likely trajectories of the epidemic under alternative approaches.”
EVIL!!
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Related:
"‘Presumed Covid-19’: NYC corona-deaths suddenly soar past 10,000 after over 3,700 victims added to list on PROBABLE grounds" by 14 Apr, 2020
Coronavirus deaths in New York City have spiked by over 3,700 after officials tacked on a group of victims merely suspected of having the virus. The city joins a growing list of sites counting “probable” cases as infected.
The additional deaths – 3,778, to be exact – include people who are “presumed to have been infected because of their symptoms and medical history,” according to two sources cited by the New York Times, which reported the deaths on Tuesday. These “probables” bring the total number of casualties for New York City to 10,367 and raise the nation’s total death toll by a whopping 17 percent. Over 26,000 people are now considered to have died with the coronavirus in the US, according to the Times.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had initially declined to include the “probables” as coronavirus deaths but reportedly changed his mind after a weekend briefing, the sources said, adding that most of the presumed deaths took place in hospitals. While New York has tested more people per capita for coronavirus than anywhere else in the US, it joins several other sites – city health commissioner Oxiris Barbot named Connecticut, Ohio, Maryland, and Delaware – that began reporting “probable” cases as coronavirus deaths this week. Other sites, including California and Seattle, have limited their casualty counts to those that can be confirmed by testing.
Disagreements between local and regional health authorities over the number of coronavirus deaths have also been blamed on the use of “different data systems.” New York City authorities have complained that the state has dragged its feet sharing data from hospitals and nursing homes.
A similar decision to classify cases that haven’t tested positive as coronavirus was reported by the Times earlier this month. The oddly-worded piece claimed “experts said” that “a vast majority of people visiting emergency rooms with flu-like symptoms probably have the coronavirus.” Some city hospitals were no longer even bothering to test for influenza, instead assuming that everyone with flu-like symptoms was a coronavirus patient, an infectious disease specialist told the outlet.
The classification has raised more than a few eyebrows among medical professionals and laypeople alike. Minnesota state senator and physician Dr. Scott Jensen slammed as “ridiculous” the Centers for Disease Control guidelines advising doctors to list cause of death as coronavirus even in the absence of a test. “We are going to undermine the public trust,” he told Fox News last week, warning that the public’s “trust in politicians is already wearing thin.”
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It's RT, so what?
They are quoting the New York Times, after all, and what this tells you is all the pre$$ numbers being tossed around like confetti are inflated figures with causes other than COVID-19 and it casts doubt into whether COVID-19 exists at all. They are liars through and through, myopically-obsessed, agenda-pushing liars.
Of course, pointing out such things means you are insane, right?
UPDATE:
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When I think it through further, Globe will get bailout and become the $tate media they already are.
"New York City, already an epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, sharply increased its death toll by more than 3,700 on Tuesday, after officials said they were now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died because of it. The new figures, released by the city’s Health Department, drove up the number of people killed in New York City to more than 10,000 and appeared to increase the overall United States fatality rate by 17 percent, to more than 26,000. The numbers brought into clearer focus the staggering toll the virus has already taken on the largest city in the United States, where deserted streets are haunted by the near-constant howl of ambulance sirens. Far more people have died in New York City on a per-capita basis than in Italy, the European country with the most deaths (New York Times)."
That follows up on the RT report above, and proves that the authorities and medical people are flat out lying. They are inflating the death tolls with PRESUMED cases of COVID-19!
"People around the world might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022 to stop COVID-19 from surging anew and overwhelming hospital systems, a group of Harvard disease researchers said Tuesday. Lifting social-distancing measures all at once could risk simply delaying the epidemic’s peak and potentially making it more severe, the scientists warned in an article published Tuesday in the journal Science. The course of the pandemic will depend on questions not yet answered: Will the virus’s spread change with the seasons? What immunity will people have after they’re infected? And does exposure to coronaviruses that cause mild illnesses confer any protection against the pathogen that causes COVID-19? Those questions are being weighed by government leaders who have seen economies around the globe come to a standstill because of the social-distancing measures. With millions of people out of work and staying home, pressure is growing to loosen restrictions in the United States and elsewhere. Doing so, experts have said, will depend on having in place measures to control the disease, such as widespread testing. The Harvard researchers used computer models to simulate how the pandemic might play out. One possibility is that strict social distancing followed by intensive public-health detective work could chase down and eradicate the virus. That’s what happened with SARS-CoV-1, which caused a 2003 outbreak. But with confirmed cases of the new pathogen approaching 2 million globally, that outcome is seen as increasingly unlikely, the researchers wrote (Bloomberg News)."
I covered that above earlier this morning.
"Americans, it turns out, are excellent at following social-distance and stay-at-home orders. It’s an unexpected finding. When the coronavirus outbreak picked up steam in Wuhan in January, the Chinese government cracked down, forcing residents to stay in their homes. At the time, it was hard to envision independence-loving Americans would ever agree to behave with similar compliance. Skeptics said it would never happen. They were wrong. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Americans responded quickly and thoroughly to directions from federal, state, and local leaders, doing everything from carefully washing their hands, cleaning high-touch areas, avoiding the workplace, and, in many cases, giving up much-needed income to stay at home. Those measures now appear to be paying off by slowing the spread of the disease. Some early models of the US outbreak suggested that up to 2 million Americans could die from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The success of social distancing cut those estimates repeatedly, with models now suggesting fewer than 70,000 Americans will die. “That’s remarkable,’’ said CDC director Robert Redfield. “The American public listened to that message: Protect the vulnerable.’’ The models underestimated the extent to which Americans would embrace the recommendations and engage in social distancing, Redfield said in an interview last week. Original estimates for compliance were put at around 5 percent, but in the end, “compliance to the message has been in excess of 90 percent,” Redield said (Bloomberg News)."
Yeah, never mind the protests in Ohio!
That piece of $hit article from Bloomberg(!) is the CDC giving Americans a nice little pat on the head like you would do to a lapdog! That is what the insulting elitists think of us for obeying. They must be laughing at the alleged 90% compliance rate, and it looks like they are setting the stage to pull the plug on this drill! They know that we know, and it's time to call it off! They know! Damage done!
Of course, social distancing doesn't work, it keeps the virus -- if it even exists, which I am becoming more skeptical by the day that it does due to this rank-rot pre$$ -- alive, but don't let that interfere with the $hit pre$$ narrative.
Time to hit the other coast:
"California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday unveiled an outline for what it will take to lift coronavirus restrictions in the nation’s most populous state, asking more questions than answering them as he seeks to temper the expectations of a restless, isolating public. Newsom said he won’t loosen the state’s mandatory, stay-at-home order until hospitalizations, particularly those in intensive care units, “flatten and start to decline,’’ and he says the state will need more testing, treatments, and the ability for businesses, schools, and child-care facilities to continue the physical distancing that has come to dominate public life, but he cautioned that when things reopen, they won’t be the same. Restaurants will have fewer tables and waiters will wear gloves and masks. Thermometers will be common in public spaces, as will masks and other protective gear. Schools could stagger arrival times of students to enforce physical distancing, and large gatherings — like sporting events, concerts, and fairs — are “not in the cards,’’ he said. “This is not about going back to where we were before. It’s about going forward in ways that are healthy for all of us, but it won’t look the same,” said Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the California Department of Public Health. Newsom said that ICU hospitalizations were mostly flat, declining 0.1 percent on Monday, but the state reported 71 deaths, the highest single day total since the outbreak began. California has been under a mandatory, stay-at-home order since March 19, but the virus has been disrupting the state since January, when people from all over the world were first sent to quarantine at California military bases. In February, California had the first confirmed case in the country of someone who had not traveled internationally or been in contact with someone who had, an unofficial announcement that the outbreak had reached US soil (Associated Press)."
That sickening slavish f*** to Bill Gates and his globalist masters!
No more team $ports, that's for sure.
Whatever happened to sex scandal anyway?
Who is going to protect you from him?
"The Navy has removed 126 medical staff members from its hospital ship docked off Los Angeles after seven of them tested positive for COVID-19, an official said Tuesday. The personnel from the USNS Mercy were taken to a nearby base and remain under quarantine. None so far has needed hospitalization, said Lieutenant Rochelle Rieger of the Third Fleet. It’s unclear where or how the sailors became infected, Rieger said. The ship left San Diego on March 23 when all were screened before they boarded, Rieger said. It arrived to Los Angeles four days later to provide relief to the city amid the pandemic by accepting patients from hospitals who were not infected with the virus. None of the more than 1,000 personnel aboard were allowed to leave the ship once it departed San Diego (Associated Press)."
Meanwhile, a Florida judge has one request for attorneys showing up for court hearings via Zoom: Get out of bed and put on some clothes!
No worries about the data-collecting trapdoor they built into the app that was ready to go for the panic, Zoom!
The Latest: 2 large drug companies work together on vaccine
WTF?
That headline item was absent the article along with scrubbed photo of nurses not practicing social distancing and applauding two guys who don't look like nurses regarding a certain event out on Long Island.
Yeah, it is as if they are trying to piss us off.
"Two of the world’s biggest vaccine makers are joining forces to tackle the coronavirus as the number of confirmed infections approaches 2 million worldwide. Sanofi will combine its experimental coronavirus vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline’s adjuvant technology, which may allow more doses of a shot to be produced, the companies said Tuesday. The drugmakers said they plan to start human trials in the second half of this year, with the goal of having a vaccine available by the second half of 2021 if the studies are successful. The collaboration brings together a pair of pharmaceutical giants with manufacturing might in the race to deliver a Covid-19 vaccine. Dozens of companies from Moderna Inc. to Johnson & Johnson, along with universities, are pursuing a shot to halt the rapidly spreading pathogen. Even if developers can meet a target of having a vaccine available in 12 to 18 months, there are concerns about whether they will be able to make enough doses (Bloomberg News)."
Oh, they literally buried that story back in the business talking points!
Yeah, the whole coronavirus panic has been good for banks and Big Pharma!
"The Trump administration has reached an agreement in principle with major airline companies over the terms of a $25 billion bailout to prop up an industry that has been hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed on Tuesday. The Treasury Department said that Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines, SkyWest Airlines, and Southwest Airlines will be participating in the payroll support program, which was created as part of the economic stabilization package that Congress passed last month. The administration has been haggling with the airlines over the terms of the bailout, with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin pushing the airlines to agree to repay 30 percent of the money over a period of five years. The Treasury Department also has been seeking warrants to purchase stock in the companies that take money. Airlines have complained that Treasury was effectively turning the grants into loans by requiring repayment (New York Times)."
They didn't want to release the agreement because they didn't want you getting upset that Trump, the free-market capitalist, has now gone and nationalized the airlines so that the taxpayers who have been thrown out of work and had their businesses destroyed can now take the losses for the airlines that will only be serving the wealthy now -- and still they complain!
EVIL.
I wish Trump had let them die and not given them a damn dime!
Speaking of evil:
That follows up on the RT report above, and proves that the authorities and medical people are flat out lying. They are inflating the death tolls with PRESUMED cases of COVID-19!
"People around the world might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022 to stop COVID-19 from surging anew and overwhelming hospital systems, a group of Harvard disease researchers said Tuesday. Lifting social-distancing measures all at once could risk simply delaying the epidemic’s peak and potentially making it more severe, the scientists warned in an article published Tuesday in the journal Science. The course of the pandemic will depend on questions not yet answered: Will the virus’s spread change with the seasons? What immunity will people have after they’re infected? And does exposure to coronaviruses that cause mild illnesses confer any protection against the pathogen that causes COVID-19? Those questions are being weighed by government leaders who have seen economies around the globe come to a standstill because of the social-distancing measures. With millions of people out of work and staying home, pressure is growing to loosen restrictions in the United States and elsewhere. Doing so, experts have said, will depend on having in place measures to control the disease, such as widespread testing. The Harvard researchers used computer models to simulate how the pandemic might play out. One possibility is that strict social distancing followed by intensive public-health detective work could chase down and eradicate the virus. That’s what happened with SARS-CoV-1, which caused a 2003 outbreak. But with confirmed cases of the new pathogen approaching 2 million globally, that outcome is seen as increasingly unlikely, the researchers wrote (Bloomberg News)."
I covered that above earlier this morning.
"Americans, it turns out, are excellent at following social-distance and stay-at-home orders. It’s an unexpected finding. When the coronavirus outbreak picked up steam in Wuhan in January, the Chinese government cracked down, forcing residents to stay in their homes. At the time, it was hard to envision independence-loving Americans would ever agree to behave with similar compliance. Skeptics said it would never happen. They were wrong. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Americans responded quickly and thoroughly to directions from federal, state, and local leaders, doing everything from carefully washing their hands, cleaning high-touch areas, avoiding the workplace, and, in many cases, giving up much-needed income to stay at home. Those measures now appear to be paying off by slowing the spread of the disease. Some early models of the US outbreak suggested that up to 2 million Americans could die from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The success of social distancing cut those estimates repeatedly, with models now suggesting fewer than 70,000 Americans will die. “That’s remarkable,’’ said CDC director Robert Redfield. “The American public listened to that message: Protect the vulnerable.’’ The models underestimated the extent to which Americans would embrace the recommendations and engage in social distancing, Redfield said in an interview last week. Original estimates for compliance were put at around 5 percent, but in the end, “compliance to the message has been in excess of 90 percent,” Redield said (Bloomberg News)."
Yeah, never mind the protests in Ohio!
That piece of $hit article from Bloomberg(!) is the CDC giving Americans a nice little pat on the head like you would do to a lapdog! That is what the insulting elitists think of us for obeying. They must be laughing at the alleged 90% compliance rate, and it looks like they are setting the stage to pull the plug on this drill! They know that we know, and it's time to call it off! They know! Damage done!
Of course, social distancing doesn't work, it keeps the virus -- if it even exists, which I am becoming more skeptical by the day that it does due to this rank-rot pre$$ -- alive, but don't let that interfere with the $hit pre$$ narrative.
Time to hit the other coast:
"California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday unveiled an outline for what it will take to lift coronavirus restrictions in the nation’s most populous state, asking more questions than answering them as he seeks to temper the expectations of a restless, isolating public. Newsom said he won’t loosen the state’s mandatory, stay-at-home order until hospitalizations, particularly those in intensive care units, “flatten and start to decline,’’ and he says the state will need more testing, treatments, and the ability for businesses, schools, and child-care facilities to continue the physical distancing that has come to dominate public life, but he cautioned that when things reopen, they won’t be the same. Restaurants will have fewer tables and waiters will wear gloves and masks. Thermometers will be common in public spaces, as will masks and other protective gear. Schools could stagger arrival times of students to enforce physical distancing, and large gatherings — like sporting events, concerts, and fairs — are “not in the cards,’’ he said. “This is not about going back to where we were before. It’s about going forward in ways that are healthy for all of us, but it won’t look the same,” said Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the California Department of Public Health. Newsom said that ICU hospitalizations were mostly flat, declining 0.1 percent on Monday, but the state reported 71 deaths, the highest single day total since the outbreak began. California has been under a mandatory, stay-at-home order since March 19, but the virus has been disrupting the state since January, when people from all over the world were first sent to quarantine at California military bases. In February, California had the first confirmed case in the country of someone who had not traveled internationally or been in contact with someone who had, an unofficial announcement that the outbreak had reached US soil (Associated Press)."
That sickening slavish f*** to Bill Gates and his globalist masters!
No more team $ports, that's for sure.
Whatever happened to sex scandal anyway?
Who is going to protect you from him?
"The Navy has removed 126 medical staff members from its hospital ship docked off Los Angeles after seven of them tested positive for COVID-19, an official said Tuesday. The personnel from the USNS Mercy were taken to a nearby base and remain under quarantine. None so far has needed hospitalization, said Lieutenant Rochelle Rieger of the Third Fleet. It’s unclear where or how the sailors became infected, Rieger said. The ship left San Diego on March 23 when all were screened before they boarded, Rieger said. It arrived to Los Angeles four days later to provide relief to the city amid the pandemic by accepting patients from hospitals who were not infected with the virus. None of the more than 1,000 personnel aboard were allowed to leave the ship once it departed San Diego (Associated Press)."
Meanwhile, a Florida judge has one request for attorneys showing up for court hearings via Zoom: Get out of bed and put on some clothes!
No worries about the data-collecting trapdoor they built into the app that was ready to go for the panic, Zoom!
The Latest: 2 large drug companies work together on vaccine
WTF?
That headline item was absent the article along with scrubbed photo of nurses not practicing social distancing and applauding two guys who don't look like nurses regarding a certain event out on Long Island.
Yeah, it is as if they are trying to piss us off.
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"Two of the world’s biggest vaccine makers are joining forces to tackle the coronavirus as the number of confirmed infections approaches 2 million worldwide. Sanofi will combine its experimental coronavirus vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline’s adjuvant technology, which may allow more doses of a shot to be produced, the companies said Tuesday. The drugmakers said they plan to start human trials in the second half of this year, with the goal of having a vaccine available by the second half of 2021 if the studies are successful. The collaboration brings together a pair of pharmaceutical giants with manufacturing might in the race to deliver a Covid-19 vaccine. Dozens of companies from Moderna Inc. to Johnson & Johnson, along with universities, are pursuing a shot to halt the rapidly spreading pathogen. Even if developers can meet a target of having a vaccine available in 12 to 18 months, there are concerns about whether they will be able to make enough doses (Bloomberg News)."
Oh, they literally buried that story back in the business talking points!
Yeah, the whole coronavirus panic has been good for banks and Big Pharma!
"The Trump administration has reached an agreement in principle with major airline companies over the terms of a $25 billion bailout to prop up an industry that has been hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed on Tuesday. The Treasury Department said that Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines, SkyWest Airlines, and Southwest Airlines will be participating in the payroll support program, which was created as part of the economic stabilization package that Congress passed last month. The administration has been haggling with the airlines over the terms of the bailout, with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin pushing the airlines to agree to repay 30 percent of the money over a period of five years. The Treasury Department also has been seeking warrants to purchase stock in the companies that take money. Airlines have complained that Treasury was effectively turning the grants into loans by requiring repayment (New York Times)."
They didn't want to release the agreement because they didn't want you getting upset that Trump, the free-market capitalist, has now gone and nationalized the airlines so that the taxpayers who have been thrown out of work and had their businesses destroyed can now take the losses for the airlines that will only be serving the wealthy now -- and still they complain!
EVIL.
I wish Trump had let them die and not given them a damn dime!
Speaking of evil:
"Amazon.com Inc. is hitting back at activists within its own ranks, terminating three employees who had criticized working conditions in its warehouses. The retailer confirmed on Tuesday that it had fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa for violating company policy. The two employees, who worked at Seattle headquarters, had taken to Twitter recently to voice concerns about the treatment of workers during the coronavirus pandemic; they’ve also long been involved in an employee campaign urging Amazon to do more to fight climate change. A third employee, Bashir Mohamed, who worked in a warehouse in Minnesota, was also fired. The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News reported earlier on the firings, which took place last week (Bloomberg News).
Yeah, that would Bezos, wouldn't it, the owner of the Washington Compost with all the CIA data contracts, and what does it matter?
These "e$$ential" workers will soon be replaced by robots and AI. They wouldn't have crashed this thing if it wasn't ready to go.
Related:
"Amazon.com Inc. says it will expand its hiring spree by an additional 75,000 workers as the online retailer shores up its logistics operation to meet demand from people hunkered down at home because of the coronavirus pandemic. The company said on Monday that it had filled the 100,000 temporary and full-time positions it previously announced and that Amazon planned to bring on another 75,000 people. The company said the hiring spree and a temporary $2-an-hour wage boost would likely cost more than $500 million, up from a prior estimate of $350 million. Online shopping has surged, particularly for staples like toilet paper and groceries."
That was just yesterday, and they are hiring on the spot because of the strike. Your pay stub will make you sick because it's not enough to fill up a grocery cart no matter what is on the list.
Better get running, reader:
"Sports apparel and shoe company Adidas says it has been approved by the German government for a 3 billion-euro ( $3.3 billion) emergency loan to help the company get through a period of lost business due to the virus outbreak. The company based in Herzogenaurach, Germany, said Tuesday that it was suspending dividends, share buybacks, and 2020 executive bonuses as a condition of getting the loan “to bridge this unprecedented situation.”
What good is a sneaker with nowhere to run to?
"Johnson & Johnson, anticipating significant impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, slashed its 2020 sales forecast by billions of dollars and also cut its profit expectations. It’s one of the first major US corporations to report first-quarter earnings and likely a harbinger of things to come as the outbreak disrupts the global economy. The world’s biggest health products maker on Tuesday said it now expects 2020 revenue of $77.5 billion to $80.5 billion, down from its January forecast of $85.4 billion to $86.2 billion. It also forecast adjusted earnings per share of $7.50 to $7.90, down from the January forecast of $9 to $9.15 per share. J&J faces both the prospect of lower sales as much of the world stays home to avoid infection, and higher costs as it races to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus (Associated Press)."
I just want to remind the readers that J&J is the same company that covered up the fact that their talc powder caused uterine cancer for more than four decades. Their excuse is that they "relied on the experts" -- as we are doing now during the COIVID-19 $cam!
Of course, now they are teaming up with the government(!!) on a vaccine to protect you ladies!
"Despite eliminating thousands of positions in the last six months, WeWork plans to keep cutting. The company will make further headcount reductions by the end of next month, Sandeep Mathrani, the chief executive officer, said at a staff meeting Tuesday. He didn’t specify the size of the cuts but said he hoped this would be the last round, according to audio from the meeting reviewed by Bloomberg. WeWork cut about 2,400 employees after an attempt to go public failed in spectacular fashion (Bloomberg News)."
Maybe they can get another loan from Soft Bank?
"Companies across the United States have noticed that we’re all hunting for hand sanitizer and have started producing more, yet it’s still proving difficult to find and availability is unlikely to improve anytime soon. According to the companies making the alcohol-based hand cleaner, higher production isn’t translating into more supply in part because there aren’t enough of the plastic bottles to package it. A key compound used in the process is also in short supply. Additionally, the retail squeeze is exacerbated by the fact that health care organizations on the front lines of the pandemic are getting their shipments first. Consumers get to pick from whatever inventory is left over, and it hasn’t been enough to go around. Data from market research firm Nielsen shows that US sales jumped 239 percent from a year earlier in the four weeks ending March 28 (Bloomberg News)."
I need it after handling a printed copy of the Bo$ton Globe, and I want to know which government agency is hoarding it.
Yeah, you are last on the list for everything, citizen, just like the former Soviet Union!
"Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 550,000 pickup trucks and SUVs worldwide because the windshield wiper arms can come loose and stop the wipers from working properly. The recall covers certain 2019 and 2020 Ram 1500 pickups, 1500 Classic pickups, and Jeep Compass SUVs. Documents posted Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration say loose wiper arms can reduce a driver’s visibility. Owners will be notified later this month and dealers will tighten the wiper nuts to fix the problem. Customers whose wipers don’t clear the windshield or return to the rest position after being turned off should contact dealers."
Is there not one car company bout there anymore that doesn't make a pice of $hit (not that we will be needing many cars going forward)?
Maybe you can sweat it out at the wheel:
"The owner of the New York Sports Clubs chain is considering a bankruptcy filing as gyms across the country remain closed to stop the spread of coronavirus. Town Sports International Holdings Inc. has been in talks with advisers and lenders to get ahead of its nearly $200 million loan maturity in November, according to people with knowledge of the matter. It’s weighing a Chapter 11 filing as it seeks financial support from creditors, but the talks could also result in an out-of-court solution, the people said (Bloomberg News)."
That indu$try is finished.
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Looks like the ma$ters of the universe may soon be finished:
"United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced a UN campaign to flood the Internet with facts and science to counter what he called “a poison” that is putting lives at risk. "UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the world is facing “a dangerous epidemic of misinformation” about COVID-19 and announced a UN campaign to flood the Internet with facts and science to counter what he called “a poison” that is putting lives at risk. Guterres decried what he described as a global “misinfo-demic” that is spreading harmful health advice, “snake-oil solutions,” falsehoods, and wild conspiracy theories. He urged social media organizations to do more to counter the misinformation and to “root out hate and harmful assertions about COVID-19.” “Hatred is going viral, stigmatizing and vilifying people and groups,” he said in a video statement. “Mutual respect and upholding human rights must be our compass in navigating this crisis.” The UN chief said people around the world “are scared” and want to know what to do and where to turn for advice, and they need science. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the United Nations “will be in touch with various social media companies,” adding that quite a few of them are actively trying to root out disinformation and suspending accounts of people pushing out information “that is plain wrong and dangerous.”
If he feels that way, tell it to f***ing Israel first!
They know we know and know they have been found out. It's shrill panic! Shut it down!
It's also a warning. All us truth bloggers will be disappeared from the Internet before we are disappeared for good.
Of course, the lying, war-promoting,
"Forced apart by the coronavirus pandemic, Southeast Asian leaders linked up by video Tuesday to plot a strategy to overcome a crisis that has threatened their economies and kept millions of people in their homes under lockdowns. The 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations held further talks later in the day, also through video conferencing, with their counterparts from China, Japan, and South Korea, who expressed support in helping ASEAN fight the coronavirus. Vietnam, ASEAN’s leader this year, has postponed an in-person gathering tentatively to June. Founded in 1967 in the Cold War era, ASEAN — a diverse bloc representing more than 640 million people — has held annual summits of its leaders and top diplomats with ceremonies steeped in tradition, protocol, and photo-ops. Derided as a talk shop by critics, the bloc is known largely for photographs of its leaders locking arms at annual meetings in a show of unity despite often-thorny differences. Diplomats say that unity is now crucial as the region battles COVID-19 (Associated Press)."
Yeah, they are all on board.
"United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced a UN campaign to flood the Internet with facts and science to counter what he called “a poison” that is putting lives at risk. "UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the world is facing “a dangerous epidemic of misinformation” about COVID-19 and announced a UN campaign to flood the Internet with facts and science to counter what he called “a poison” that is putting lives at risk. Guterres decried what he described as a global “misinfo-demic” that is spreading harmful health advice, “snake-oil solutions,” falsehoods, and wild conspiracy theories. He urged social media organizations to do more to counter the misinformation and to “root out hate and harmful assertions about COVID-19.” “Hatred is going viral, stigmatizing and vilifying people and groups,” he said in a video statement. “Mutual respect and upholding human rights must be our compass in navigating this crisis.” The UN chief said people around the world “are scared” and want to know what to do and where to turn for advice, and they need science. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the United Nations “will be in touch with various social media companies,” adding that quite a few of them are actively trying to root out disinformation and suspending accounts of people pushing out information “that is plain wrong and dangerous.”
If he feels that way, tell it to f***ing Israel first!
They know we know and know they have been found out. It's shrill panic! Shut it down!
It's also a warning. All us truth bloggers will be disappeared from the Internet before we are disappeared for good.
Of course, the lying, war-promoting,
"Forced apart by the coronavirus pandemic, Southeast Asian leaders linked up by video Tuesday to plot a strategy to overcome a crisis that has threatened their economies and kept millions of people in their homes under lockdowns. The 10 leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations held further talks later in the day, also through video conferencing, with their counterparts from China, Japan, and South Korea, who expressed support in helping ASEAN fight the coronavirus. Vietnam, ASEAN’s leader this year, has postponed an in-person gathering tentatively to June. Founded in 1967 in the Cold War era, ASEAN — a diverse bloc representing more than 640 million people — has held annual summits of its leaders and top diplomats with ceremonies steeped in tradition, protocol, and photo-ops. Derided as a talk shop by critics, the bloc is known largely for photographs of its leaders locking arms at annual meetings in a show of unity despite often-thorny differences. Diplomats say that unity is now crucial as the region battles COVID-19 (Associated Press)."
Yeah, they are all on board.
"Singapore has reported its biggest daily jump in new coronavirus infections, most of them linked to foreign workers living in crowded dormitories. Foreigners account for more than a third of Singapore’s workforce, many of them people from poorer Asian countries working in construction, shipping, and maintenance jobs that support Singapore’s trade-reliant economy. The 386 newly confirmed cases raise Singapore’s tally to 2,918. Health authorities also reported a ninth death in a statement late Monday. The tiny city state of nearly 6 million people has shut down nonessential businesses and schools until May 4 in a partial lockdown. Tens of thousands of foreign workers are quarantined in their dorms, and some were moved elsewhere to reduce crowding. Meanwhile, the world’s largest lockdown has been extended to May 3. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said restrictions may be eased after one week to help daily wage earners and those working in agriculture. In his address to the nation, Modi said the lockdown will be eased only in areas where the virus situation doesn’t deteriorate. In Japan, the health ministry reported 390 new cases of infection, for a total of 7,645. The country was put under a state of emergency last week, but many people were still seen queuing up at grocery stores and crowding shopping arcades in parts of downtown Tokyo to stock up on necessities. South Korea reported 27 fresh cases as infections continued to wane in the worst-hit city of Daegu and nearby towns. South Korea’s totals are 10,564 infections and 222 virus-related deaths. China reported 89 new virus cases, 86 of them among travelers arriving from abroad, but no new deaths. It has confirmed 3,341 deaths out of 82,249 official cases of infections (Associated Press)."
They must be lying, or is that what the simulated model says?
"Leading British charities said the new coronavirus is causing “devastation” in the country’s nursing homes, as official statistics showed Tuesday that hundreds more people with COVID-19 have died than are recorded in the UK government’s daily tally. The Office for National Statistics said 5,979 deaths that occurred in England up to April 3 involved COVID-19, 15 percent more than the 5,186 deaths announced by the National Health Service for the same period. As of Tuesday the government had reported 12,107 deaths in the UK of people with the virus. That total, updated daily, only includes people who died in hospitals. The higher figure, published weekly by the statistics office, includes deaths in all settings including nursing homes, and cases where coronavirus was suspected but not tested for. The true toll in nursing homes may not be clear for weeks. France, which has approximately the same population as Britain, has included nursing home deaths since early this month. Of its official tally of 14,000 coronavirus deaths, more than 5,000 are in nursing homes or long-term care facilities for the disabled (Associated Press)."
They are the same as NY goosing the totals, and I'm tired of garbage lies coming from the UK. Go look up a guy named Neil Ferguson. He is the one who kicked the whole thing off!
"Sweden just passed a grim milestone, as Scandinavia’s biggest economy reported more than 1,000 deaths from COVID-19. The development adds to controversy surrounding Sweden’s decision to ignore the lockdowns being imposed elsewhere, and instead leave schools, bars, cafes, and restaurants open to the public. Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has said that stricter measures may be needed going forward. In all, 1,033 Swedes have died from COVID-19, official figures showed on Tuesday. Though still well below fatality rates in Italy and the UK, it’s far worse than in any of the Nordic countries with which Sweden usually compares itself. The Swedish mortality rate is almost 10 times higher than in Finland, more than four times higher than in Norway, and twice Denmark’s. The latest development has prompted 22 academics to entreat the government to alter its course (Bloomberg News)."
Well, Sweden was warned for being and outlier, and who believes Bloomberg anyway?
Maybe they should all move to Denmark:
"Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says her government’s efforts to fight COVID-19 have been so successful that the country may now be facing a broader rollback of its lockdown than originally planned. Frederiksen said Tuesday her Social Democrat administration will start talks in parliament immediately to decide how much more of Denmark’s economy can be opened. On Wednesday, Denmark will release its youngest citizens from a monthlong lockdown in a move that has already fueled considerable controversy. Babies will return to daycare centers, kindergartens will open their doors, and primary schools will resume in-class lessons for children up to the age of 13. The government says the move, which follows signs that Denmark’s early COVID-19 restrictions paid off, will let parents focus on their jobs and keep the economy going, but the model has drawn a good deal of criticism. A Facebook group of parents quickly got more than 40,000 supporters with the rubric, ‘‘My child won’t be a lab rat!’’ They say there are too many unknowns about COVID-19 for it to be safe to expose their children to the risk of contagion. Many parents have threatened to boycott the government’s plan. Denmark is adopting a different approach to Austria, which on Tuesday became the first European Union nation to roll back its lockdown by opening some shops, while leaving its schools closed. The different models across countries show how little agreement there is on how best to handle the ongoing crisis (Bloomberg News)."
I'll bet those same f***ing parents, if they exist at all, are all in favor of rolling up the kid's sleeve for tens of shots, though!
With each and every article, this thing stinks of a damn drill!
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Are you ready for a WAR?
"Armed men seize, release tanker off Iran by Strait of Hormuz" by Jon Gambrell Associated Press, April 14, 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Armed men boarded a Hong Kong-flagged tanker ship Tuesday off the coast of Iran near the crucial Strait of Hormuz, holding the ship for a short time before releasing it amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the United States, authorities said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the seizure, though suspicion fell on Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. Iranian officials and state media did not immediately acknowledge the incident and the US Navy’s Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet did not respond to a request for comment.
Sigh.
Here we go again!
Another Gulf of f***ing Tonkin provocation!
This thing SO STINKS of a goddamn FALSE FLAG PROVOCATION it is NAUSEATING!
The event, if it happened at all, is telegraphing the terror that Trump will use for national lockdown!
The whole story is nuts! Why would Iran attack a Chinese ship (flying a Hong Kong flag?)
The Chinese are one of the few buying their oil in defiance of US sanctions!
Why would they do this?
Answer: they wouldn't, but some is itching for a war with Iran.
Who could that be?
Who would want to draw attention away from a pre-planned collapse of the economy with a plannedemic used for cover?
The incident comes after a private maritime intelligence firm warned of suspicious incidents in recent days near the strait, through which a fifth of all oil is traded. Oil tankers previously have been a target during the tensions.
This is pure propaganda, folks. They think this shit still works!
The incident happened near Iran’s Ras al-Kuh coast. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations organization said in an alert that the vessel “had been boarded by armed men while at anchor.’’
The UK organization later said the ship had been released and was underway under its captain’s control, without elaborating.
The web version did:
Dryad Global, the private maritime intelligence firm that issued the first warnings about suspicious incidents, identified the ship as the Hong Kong-flagged SC Taipei bound for Saudi Arabia. It said the 22 crew members aboard were Chinese. It did not say how it knew the information.
The crapola meter just exploded on this one.
The SC Taipei’s satellite tracking beacon showed it off the coast of Iran in the general vicinity of the warning, according to data from the website MarineTraffic.com. The ship’s owners could not be immediately reached, though a United Nations database listed a mail-forwarding address for the owners associated with Shanghai-based Aoxing Ship Management. In March, the US State Department sanctioned Aoxing Ship Management for “knowingly engaging in a significant transaction for the purchase, acquisition, sale, transport, or marketing of petrochemical products from Iran” despite American sanctions.
OMFG, this story stinks!
That area of Iran is near the country’s restive Sistan and Baluchistan province, where Islamic militant attacks have happened in the past; however, they are not known to have previously attacked shipping. The ship’s tracking data suggested the armed men took the vessel to Bandar Jask, which the Guard did last year when it took custody of crew members from a Norwegian-owned oil tanker hit by an explosion the United States blamed on an Iranian mine.
This fiction gets better and better with each paragraph.
The tracking data just "suggested," huh?
Wasn't precise or verified, huh?
Now it is ISIS terrorists™ behind it skimming around in a boat in Iranian waters -- as if the Revolutionary Guard wouldn't noticed! That makes much more sense.
I'm on the verge of laughter if this continues.
Next paragraph, please.
The quick release of the ship suggests Iran realized only after the fact it had seized a Chinese vessel, rather than a Western one as in previous incidents. Iran has increasingly relied on China amid US sanctions over its nuclear program. “At a time when China still buys Iranian oil, and Iran has few international friends, such a move would be highly irregular and would not further Iran’s interests,” Dryad Global said.
Yeah, HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
So jhose interest would it serve?
Even as both face the same invisible enemy in the coronavirus pandemic, Iran and the United States remain locked in retaliatory pressure campaigns that now view the outbreak as just the latest battleground.
Oh, this stuff is coming from the disgusting, psychopathic neo-con war-mongering scumbags!
Yup, the good old U.S.A. is still stepping on people even as we allegedly suffer from COVID here at home!
No wonder the world is telling us to f*** off!
Online video and Iranian media reports suggest Iran has deployed Fajr-5 missile batteries on beaches along the Strait of Hormuz. Dryad Global previously reported maritime incidents in and around the strait. On March 27, two boats with a raised ladder approached a US-flagged container ship, while Revolutionary Guard vessels approached a ship on April 2, the firm said.
“The detention of a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz would fit comfortably within previous Iranian intent and capability . . . and would provide an opportune ‘opening salvo’ in an Iranian attempt to release the pressures the country currently faces,” Dryad said Tuesday night.
Yeah, someone was trying to set them up.
Now who could that be?
Jou?
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Also see:
EPA won’t tighten pollution rule despite evidence of link between soot, COVID-19
Another limited hangout from the New York Times for when they have to walk back all the presumptions.
(COUGH)
"For weeks, public health officials have surmised a link between dirty air and death or serious illness from COVID-19, which is caused by the coronavirus. The Harvard analysis is the first nationwide study to show a statistical link, revealing a “large overlap” between COVID-19 deaths and other diseases associated with long-term exposure to fine particulate matter. “The results of this paper suggest that long-term exposure to air pollution increases vulnerability to experiencing the most severe COVID-19 outcomes,” the authors wrote. Overall, the research could have significant implications for how public health officials choose to allocate resources like ventilators and respirators as the coronavirus spreads. It found that just a slight increase in long-term pollution exposure could have serious coronavirus-related consequences, even accounting for other factors like smoking rates and population density. The study is part of a small but growing body of research, mostly still out of Europe, that offers a view into how a lifetime of breathing dirtier air can make people more susceptible to the coronavirus, which has already killed more than 10,000 people in the United States and 74,000 worldwide....."
I would say that cloud is a limited hangout to deflect attention from 5G and other tech-com $y$tems, and provides the scientists and government a way out of the morass with revised causes of death after the panic has subsided somewhat. Let's hope you don't relapse and need a ventilator.
I'm told Israel has reported more than 11,800 cases and at least 117 deaths from the outbreak, which has paralyzed the economy, shuttered Israelis in their homes, and driven unemployment to record highs, and why do Gantz and Netanyahu both look the same?
Another limited hangout from the New York Times for when they have to walk back all the presumptions.
(COUGH)
"For weeks, public health officials have surmised a link between dirty air and death or serious illness from COVID-19, which is caused by the coronavirus. The Harvard analysis is the first nationwide study to show a statistical link, revealing a “large overlap” between COVID-19 deaths and other diseases associated with long-term exposure to fine particulate matter. “The results of this paper suggest that long-term exposure to air pollution increases vulnerability to experiencing the most severe COVID-19 outcomes,” the authors wrote. Overall, the research could have significant implications for how public health officials choose to allocate resources like ventilators and respirators as the coronavirus spreads. It found that just a slight increase in long-term pollution exposure could have serious coronavirus-related consequences, even accounting for other factors like smoking rates and population density. The study is part of a small but growing body of research, mostly still out of Europe, that offers a view into how a lifetime of breathing dirtier air can make people more susceptible to the coronavirus, which has already killed more than 10,000 people in the United States and 74,000 worldwide....."
I would say that cloud is a limited hangout to deflect attention from 5G and other tech-com $y$tems, and provides the scientists and government a way out of the morass with revised causes of death after the panic has subsided somewhat. Let's hope you don't relapse and need a ventilator.
Australian cardinal links corruption to child abuse charges
Given the current circumstances in the world, just put him to death.
Given the current circumstances in the world, just put him to death.
I'm told Israel has reported more than 11,800 cases and at least 117 deaths from the outbreak, which has paralyzed the economy, shuttered Israelis in their homes, and driven unemployment to record highs, and why do Gantz and Netanyahu both look the same?
North Korea fires missiles as South’s elections loom
The photograph that comes with the New York Times slop shows people watched a television news broadcast at a railway station in Seoul on Tuesday showing file footage of a North Korean missile test.
It's 1984 over there!
Did the North even fire a missile?
The photograph that comes with the New York Times slop shows people watched a television news broadcast at a railway station in Seoul on Tuesday showing file footage of a North Korean missile test.
It's 1984 over there!
Did the North even fire a missile?
Court allows medication abortions in Texas during pandemic
What didn't make print was the death toll from tornado rising to at least 34
What didn't make print was the death toll from tornado rising to at least 34
{@@##$$%%^^&&}
Time to get to the bottom of things:
Trump, governors at odds on authority over coronavirus recovery path
The scummy little weasel (with due apologies to all weasels) who passes himself off as the governor of Ohio said at a Tuesday news conference, ‘‘This monster is still going to be with us at least until we get a vaccine.’’
The race to save lives
Why do I feel like that is fiction given the quiet hospitals all across this country?
Why do I feel like that is fiction given the quiet hospitals all across this country?
Amid pandemic, state’s nursing home workers will get extra pay
Laura Krantz of the Globe Staff, says state officials on Tuesday said they will soon grant the facilities permission to pay workers an additional 25 percent amid the COVID-19 pandemic to keep their mouths shut regarding the drill, and despite promises, some low-paid nursing home workers are still waiting for wage increases from 5 years ago!
You can always get a gig job, right?
Laura Krantz of the Globe Staff, says state officials on Tuesday said they will soon grant the facilities permission to pay workers an additional 25 percent amid the COVID-19 pandemic to keep their mouths shut regarding the drill, and despite promises, some low-paid nursing home workers are still waiting for wage increases from 5 years ago!
You can always get a gig job, right?
"Coronavirus pandemic shines a light on gig workers’ scant protections" by Katie Johnston Globe Staff, April 14, 2020
I'm sure they will all be looking to buy homes soon if what is above is any indication.
Derek Henderson spends 11 hours a day, five or six days a week, picking up groceries and takeout orders and delivering them to people hunkered down at home as they try to avoid being infected by the highly contagious coronavirus.
Henderson, 46, doesn’t have that luxury. He needs to make a living, and like other gig workers still on the job, he works for platforms — Instacart, DoorDash, and Grubhub — that don’t provide basic employee benefits. Protective equipment was scarce early on, though gig companies have started providing workers with hand sanitizer, gloves, and face masks, but the workers still face great risk.
I really don't want to hear it because at least they have a goddamn job!
For Henderson, of North Reading, gig work is a family affair. He shops with his 19-year-old daughter, a University of Massachusetts Boston student, and his wife, who recently lost her job as a dental assistant, to fill orders faster, even though he knows this puts them all at higher risk of contracting the virus, which has killed more than 21,000 people across the country.
Not part of the script.
"My main concern is feeding my family," Henderson said. "Not many people want to go out right now, obviously, so I"m willing to take that chance in order to profit from it."
Is he profiting?
Like others in the gig economy, Henderson is considered an essential worker, but because he is an independent contractor, he is far more vulnerable than the health care providers, bus drivers, and grocery store workers beside him on the front lines. He took off about 10 days, all unpaid, when he came down with a high fever over a month ago, which he suspects may have been COVID-19. (Most gig companies are offering paid sick leave for workers who are under quarantine or test positive.) And he’s not getting hazard pay — unless you count the generous tips he’s been receiving lately.
EXCUSE ME?
Shouldn't he have ben tested and locked down?
How many people did he spread it to?
This is who the Globe skank decide to go on a ride with?
As New Bedford DoorDash driver John Gregorio put it, “You’re a subcontractor, you’re nothing.”
But you are "e$$ential," and a lot of us are NOT!
As the pandemic cuts a swath through the economy, separating the essential workers from the nonessential, it has revealed just how much our economy has come to rely on gig workers — and just how vulnerable these workers are.
You can $hove your goddamn f***ing evil eliti$m!
Yup, the ma$ters want to SEGREGATE US into an "e$$ential" cla$$ of $laves and a "non-essential" class of useless eaters!
I have to admit, it is a BRILLIANT STRATEGY by our psychopathic ruling cla$$. It's DIVIDE and CONQUER, for how long are unemployed and out of work Americans going to celebrate the fraudulent heroes of the simulated drill that brought them misery and tyranny?
More and more, most Americans are going to come to RESENT "e$$ential" workers when they are told their lives and families are NON-ESSENTIAL! I already do.
So what Operation Gladio strategy of tension events do the ma$ters have planned going forward?
Blacks and Latinos make up nearly 42 percent of gig workers, despite constituting less than 29 percent of the workforce, according to the National Employment Law Project, and among independent contractors overall, a third are 55 or older, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in 2017. Eight out of 10 deaths from COVID-19 are among people age 65 or older.
Now the pre$$ screens racism when we are all in the same sinking raft!
Man, am I ever sick of Jewi$h and elite $upremaci$m passing itself off as news.
The federal government has stepped in to offer these workers unemployment insurance for the first time, giving them the extra $600 a week that other workers are getting, on top of benefits that they can get through the state system for the first time. They are also entitled to two weeks of paid sick time, but these temporary protections come with complications.
Too bad the state unemployment $y$tem is in snarls and running out of money.
Good luck getting to where you need to be.
Massachusetts doesn’t expect to start processing unemployment claims for the self-employed until the end of April, and the eligibility requirements don’t include several key groups, including older workers who choose not to work because they are in a higher risk category or drivers who don’t go out because there are so few passengers, and the sick leave provision isn’t really paid sick leave at all. Those who take advantage of it don’t get money right away, but instead must calculate their average daily income and then claim the amount they take as a tax credit.
They are really making things easy for all us out here, huh?
Hoops galore, as if they planned it to be sloppy and chaotic!
I mean, the BANKS got their TRILLIONS dropped off to them no problem!
Passing these temporary measures "in the midst of battle" shows just how flimsy the system is, said David Weil, a former administrator in the US Department of Labor who has studied independent contractors and is now a dean at Brandeis University.
"It has shown in bright light that our social safety nets in the workplace have huge holes in them," he said.
So much so that they DON'T EVEN EXIST!
That is the what the GREATEST ECONOMIC $Y$TEM EVER DEVISED and THE GOVERNMENT have brought you!
Yet some worker advocates say measures granted during the pandemic could pave the way for future benefits. Drivers in the midst of lawsuits against Uber and Lyft over their status as independent contractors have asked courts in Massachusetts and California to issue injunctions ordering the companies to grant them state-mandated paid sick leave now. If the injunctions are granted, it would be a major step forward in the fight to have gig workers classified as employees, said Shannon Liss-Riordan, the Boston lawyer representing the drivers.
Starting a paragraph with YET!
SIGH!
The idea that the plannedemic is going to pave the way for future benefits is hogwash, too.
Driverless cars are on the way!
"This crisis is showing how essential these workers are," she said. "The need for these employee protections are more stark than ever before."
That is going to start backfiring as they tell others they are non-essential.
HOW EVIL!
Before it started providing sanitizing products at the end of March, Uber sent several suggestions to drivers about how to stay safe, including “consider rolling down the windows to improve ventilation."
So that is why there are none on the shelves.
Uber notes that it has provided more than $3 million to drivers and delivery workers who have been diagnosed or quarantined.
Ride-hail drivers in particular have taken a major hit during the pandemic. At the beginning, many had close contact with potentially infected passengers, turning the back seats of their cars into breeding grounds for the possible spread of COVID-19. At least one local driver reported transporting executives who had attended the Biogen conference, which has been linked to around 100 positive cases, as well as college students returning from Italy, which has been hit hard by the virus. The driver developed a few symptoms but was unable to get tested, and continued driving.
WHAT was that LAST PART AGAIN?
At least the virus will keep the driver out of the back seat, girls.
Several Uber drivers have died, including a 31-year-old Boston-area man who worked in human resources and drove occasionally for the ride-hail company.
So we are told, I presume!
As the situation grew more dire and business dropped sharply, many drivers stopped working. Business was down 80 percent or more for a majority of drivers surveyed by the ride-hail information site Ridester. Julie Pratt, a 54-year-old former Lyft driver, is now shopping for Instacart, despite having a fractured ankle. “I ride around the stores in a scooter,” she said. “I have bills to pay. I have rent. I need food.”
I hope you are keeping your social distancing because it's a big deal in there now!
Those who are still transporting passengers are “scared and desperate,” said Henry DeGroot, executive director of the Boston Independent Drivers Guild, an association of Uber and Lyft drivers that organized a recent protest. They are being counted on to transport other essential workers who don’t want to risk taking much-reduced public transportation, but they are on their own when it comes to safety, he said. “If we were employees and they were the employer, they would have a responsibility,” he said.
That reminds, the decrepit and defunct MBTA just got a cool $840 million out of the $timuloot!
Does that make you want to honk your horn?
US Senator Elizabeth Warren joined the ride-hail protest in Boston via Zoom, outlining her support for giving drivers employee protections. Earlier this month, Warren wrote a letter to food delivery companies with similar demands.
She comes up later, and has been exposed as nothing but a hanger-on who goes with the winners and whichever way the wind blows.
What a disappointment!
Aquent, a Boston staffing agency, has started giving its 10,000 contractors a week of paid sick leave, and John Chuang, its chief executive, urged Uber and the other major gig companies to do the same instead of getting a “free pass [from the government] to continue profiting off the mistreatment of their workers."
Yeah, you guys are real saints!
This comes at a time when several companies are seeing demand rise so much that they have embarked on major hiring sprees. Instacart, for instance, plans to hire 300,000 new shoppers, and as the ranks of the unemployed swell — 16.8 million in the first few weeks alone — the competition for these jobs could become fierce. Workers hustling to line up more gigs could cut corners and risk contracting COVID-19 just by filling up their tank with gas, said Weil, the Brandeis dean.
Look at where the tyranny is going. It is just what I have been saying for weeks and weeks now.
They are going to dispense with any reason for you to leave the house.
Food and medicine?
We will deliver.
Mail?
We will pick up and drop off.
Pretty soon, there will be no reason to leave your home at all and it will be a crime to do so!
"The stakes have gone up," he said. "Every time we walk out in the world, we're exposed to more things, and the nature of these jobs, that's magnified."
That's life, isn't it?
And here this EVIL GOVERNMENT and its ma$ters have TAKEN IT ALL AWAY based on faulty models and outright lies!
The stakes also include restaurant delivery drivers’ inability to access restrooms now that eateries are takeout only.
Pee in a coffee cup or beer bottle then, and if it is a #2, stop by the side of the road and drop trough.
It's not like there is a lot of traffic or people that are going to see.
If that's not good enough, hold it until the end of your shift!
A Waltham social worker who drives for Uber Eats said some restaurants no longer let drivers inside, while others have blocked off their bathrooms with furniture. Same with gas stations.
“They have tables and chairs physically barricading the bathrooms,” said the driver, who asked not to be identified. “A lot of drivers won’t admit this because it’s very degrading, but we are having to use the streets in many cases.”
At least you HAVE a JOB!
Oh, I feel degraded, boo-hoo-hoo!
F*** off, $nowflake!
Why would they want to let in sick drivers who are carriers of COVID-19?
The driver, who has a chronic lung disease, putting her in a high-risk category if she contracts the virus, said she was so desperate to use the bathroom recently that she pulled over in an alley behind a movie theater in Cambridge. She happened to have baby wipes and toilet paper in her car, but not being able to properly wash her hands made her even more anxious than she was before. “Every delivery we’re risking our lives," she said.
Then QUIT YOUR DAMN JOB!!!!
Plenty of other people need them!
Food is generally dropped off on doorsteps now, but getting it there means handling packaging and sometimes interacting with restaurant employees.
Loralyn Geggatt likes to think about the people she’s helping when she goes out on her Instacart runs to Shaw’s or CVS in Falmouth. Geggatt, 45, who lives with her grandmother and two sons, works “just enough to keep food coming in the house.”
“I never thought that I would be considered an essential, important person,” she said. “If I do five deliveries a day, that’s five people who didn’t have to go to the store . . . It’s five people who could have gotten sick.”
What if one day the word "e$$ential" no longer applies to you, you dumb beaach?
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Related:
"The precise, nationally coordinated campaigns of Covid-19 testing and contact isolation that helped South Korea and Singapore avoid broad lockdowns are conspicuously absent in the United States. The federal government has not been able to rapidly and effectively institute Covid-19 testing, from actively blocking early efforts to providing false reassurance on testing availability. In the absence of national leadership, states and counties are left to their own judgments, to procure their own essential supplies, and to set their own policies, making large-scale coordinated testing even more challenging, and the county-level public health institutions we defer to for policymaking do not control the financial or health care delivery resources required to implement the testing and contact tracing we need today and the vaccinations we will need tomorrow. I believe that American employers will be our fastest path to establishing the framework for, or alternative to, the national public health system we do not have....."
Here is a "non-e$$ential" in$titution if there ever was one:
"IMF sees ‘Great Lockdown’ recession as worst since depression" by Eric Martin Bloomberg News, April 14, 2020
The International Monetary Fund predicted the “Great Lockdown” recession would be the steepest in almost a century and warned the world economy’s contraction and recovery would be worse than anticipated if the coronavirus lingers or returns.
In its first World Economic Outlook report since the spread of the coronavirus and subsequent freezing of major economies, the IMF estimated on Tuesday that global gross domestic product will shrink 3 percent this year. That would also dwarf the 0.1 percent contraction of 2009 amid the financial crisis.
While the fund anticipated growth of 5.8 percent next year, which would be the strongest in records dating back to 1980, it cautioned risks are tilted to the downside. Much depends on the longevity of the pandemic, its effect on activity, and related stresses in financial and commodity markets, it said.
Even if the IMF’s forecast proves accurate, it said output in both advanced and emerging markets would undershoot their pre-virus trends through 2021, seemingly dashing any lingering hopes of a V-shaped economic rebound from the health emergency. The cummulative loss in global GDP this year and next could be about $9 trillion — bigger than the economies of Japan and Germany combined, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath said.
These goddamn globe-kickers!
“This is a crisis like no other, which means there is substantial uncertainty on the impact it will have on people’s lives and livelihoods,” Gopinath said in an online briefing. In a Bloomberg TV interview, she said that a worse-than-expected impact in emerging markets is a major downside risk to the IMF’s baseline scenario.
The impact on people's lives and livelihoods.
That is what I have been saying since the lockdown!
In its forecasts, the IMF assumes that countries experiencing severe epidemics will lose about 8 percent of working days this year during containment efforts and the loosening of restrictions.
In a further sign of pessimism, the IMF sketched out three alternative scenarios in which the virus lasted longer than expected, returned in 2021, or both. As with the virus’s reach, the economic hit is sweeping. In the United States, GDP is expected to contract 5.9 percent, compared with a 2 percent expansion in the fund’s last global outlook in January. It may grow 4.7 percent next year, the IMF said. The euro area will probably shrink 7.5 percent in 2020 and expand 4.7 percent in 2021, it said.
Maybe, probably.
What f***ing good is any of this $lop?
The fund sees advanced economies shrinking the most.
The days of the pampered western worker are over, something the globalists and banksters have been wanting for a long time. Talk like that goes back to the early 1990s!
They celebrate the "e$$ential" worker now, and that is evil! For how long will you be essential with AI coming online?
The grim projections are a stark reversal from the IMF’s outlook less than two months ago. On Feb. 19, the fund told Group of 20 finance chiefs that “global growth appears to be bottoming out.” Three days later, managing director Kristalina Georgieva predicted the virus would likely cut just 0.1 percentage point from the fund’s global growth forecast for this year, although she acknowledged “more dire scenarios” were being studied. The IMF’s baseline scenario assumes that the pandemic fades in the second half of this year and that containment measures can be gradually wound down.
They either haven't been paying attention or haven't been reading the Globe.
That is NOT HAPPENING!
In a separate report, the IMF warned that the coronavirus crisis also “presents a very serious threat to the stability of the global financial system.”
The manufactured "crisis" is being used to ditch it and replace it with a one-world global government and currency.
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They are the "guardians of the world economy," did you know that?
Related:
"Technology companies led stocks higher on Wall Street Tuesday as investors focused on how and when authorities may begin to ease business shutdowns and limits on people’s movements imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Big companies also started reporting their first-quarter earnings, giving investors an early peek into how the outbreak was affecting them. Traders will be poring over companies’ quarterly report cards over the next few weeks to learn how the outbreak has affected corporate America’s prospects for profit growth this year. “Wall Street is encouraged simply by the conversation of a reopening of the economy,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist, CFRA. Tentative optimism that the outbreak has begun to plateau in some areas, plus unprecedented infusions of support from the Federal Reserve and the government, have helped drive stocks higher this month, but given how big and unprecedented the coronavirus shock to the economy has been, analysts are struggling to guess how bad corporate earnings will get hit. It’s going to be a tough couple of quarters for corporate America as the economy will likely take “two steps forward and one step back” as it recovers, said Jeff Buchbinder, equity strategist for LPL Financial. “We know this is going to be one of the most severe recessions we have ever seen.” There are more than 1.94 million confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, led by the United States with more than 583,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Oil prices fell sharply, despite an agreement reached over the weekend by OPEC, Russia, and other oil-producing nations to cut output....."
If it is going to be a couple of tough quarters Trump is finished, and that happened to his oil deal?
If it is going to be a tough couple of quarters for corporate America, with trillions upon trillions being lavished on them, how hard is going to be for you, non-essential worker?
The International Monetary Fund predicted the “Great Lockdown” recession would be the steepest in almost a century and warned the world economy’s contraction and recovery would be worse than anticipated if the coronavirus lingers or returns.
In its first World Economic Outlook report since the spread of the coronavirus and subsequent freezing of major economies, the IMF estimated on Tuesday that global gross domestic product will shrink 3 percent this year. That would also dwarf the 0.1 percent contraction of 2009 amid the financial crisis.
While the fund anticipated growth of 5.8 percent next year, which would be the strongest in records dating back to 1980, it cautioned risks are tilted to the downside. Much depends on the longevity of the pandemic, its effect on activity, and related stresses in financial and commodity markets, it said.
Even if the IMF’s forecast proves accurate, it said output in both advanced and emerging markets would undershoot their pre-virus trends through 2021, seemingly dashing any lingering hopes of a V-shaped economic rebound from the health emergency. The cummulative loss in global GDP this year and next could be about $9 trillion — bigger than the economies of Japan and Germany combined, IMF chief economist Gita Gopinath said.
These goddamn globe-kickers!
“This is a crisis like no other, which means there is substantial uncertainty on the impact it will have on people’s lives and livelihoods,” Gopinath said in an online briefing. In a Bloomberg TV interview, she said that a worse-than-expected impact in emerging markets is a major downside risk to the IMF’s baseline scenario.
The impact on people's lives and livelihoods.
That is what I have been saying since the lockdown!
In its forecasts, the IMF assumes that countries experiencing severe epidemics will lose about 8 percent of working days this year during containment efforts and the loosening of restrictions.
In a further sign of pessimism, the IMF sketched out three alternative scenarios in which the virus lasted longer than expected, returned in 2021, or both. As with the virus’s reach, the economic hit is sweeping. In the United States, GDP is expected to contract 5.9 percent, compared with a 2 percent expansion in the fund’s last global outlook in January. It may grow 4.7 percent next year, the IMF said. The euro area will probably shrink 7.5 percent in 2020 and expand 4.7 percent in 2021, it said.
Maybe, probably.
What f***ing good is any of this $lop?
The fund sees advanced economies shrinking the most.
The days of the pampered western worker are over, something the globalists and banksters have been wanting for a long time. Talk like that goes back to the early 1990s!
They celebrate the "e$$ential" worker now, and that is evil! For how long will you be essential with AI coming online?
The grim projections are a stark reversal from the IMF’s outlook less than two months ago. On Feb. 19, the fund told Group of 20 finance chiefs that “global growth appears to be bottoming out.” Three days later, managing director Kristalina Georgieva predicted the virus would likely cut just 0.1 percentage point from the fund’s global growth forecast for this year, although she acknowledged “more dire scenarios” were being studied. The IMF’s baseline scenario assumes that the pandemic fades in the second half of this year and that containment measures can be gradually wound down.
They either haven't been paying attention or haven't been reading the Globe.
That is NOT HAPPENING!
In a separate report, the IMF warned that the coronavirus crisis also “presents a very serious threat to the stability of the global financial system.”
The manufactured "crisis" is being used to ditch it and replace it with a one-world global government and currency.
--more--"
They are the "guardians of the world economy," did you know that?
Related:
"Technology companies led stocks higher on Wall Street Tuesday as investors focused on how and when authorities may begin to ease business shutdowns and limits on people’s movements imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Big companies also started reporting their first-quarter earnings, giving investors an early peek into how the outbreak was affecting them. Traders will be poring over companies’ quarterly report cards over the next few weeks to learn how the outbreak has affected corporate America’s prospects for profit growth this year. “Wall Street is encouraged simply by the conversation of a reopening of the economy,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist, CFRA. Tentative optimism that the outbreak has begun to plateau in some areas, plus unprecedented infusions of support from the Federal Reserve and the government, have helped drive stocks higher this month, but given how big and unprecedented the coronavirus shock to the economy has been, analysts are struggling to guess how bad corporate earnings will get hit. It’s going to be a tough couple of quarters for corporate America as the economy will likely take “two steps forward and one step back” as it recovers, said Jeff Buchbinder, equity strategist for LPL Financial. “We know this is going to be one of the most severe recessions we have ever seen.” There are more than 1.94 million confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, led by the United States with more than 583,000, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Oil prices fell sharply, despite an agreement reached over the weekend by OPEC, Russia, and other oil-producing nations to cut output....."
If it is going to be a couple of tough quarters Trump is finished, and that happened to his oil deal?
If it is going to be a tough couple of quarters for corporate America, with trillions upon trillions being lavished on them, how hard is going to be for you, non-essential worker?
Maura Healey says car insurers should slash premiums while people stay at home due to the coronavirus
She brings me closest to using a word I have never used, and why doesn't she stay at home, too?
Waltham startup TScan signs $30m deal with Swiss drug giant Novartis
What one realizes about the Globe is it is PHARMA PAPER!
Just go to their web$ite and look at all the "sponsored content."
She brings me closest to using a word I have never used, and why doesn't she stay at home, too?
Waltham startup TScan signs $30m deal with Swiss drug giant Novartis
What one realizes about the Globe is it is PHARMA PAPER!
Just go to their web$ite and look at all the "sponsored content."
We have already been $cammed to the tune of TRILLIONS, jerk!
And here is another one:
Hospitality industry looks to government for help through crisis
Chesto tells us "a Massachusetts marketing push, aimed at drawing visitors within driving distance, is in the works. Local tourism, restaurant, and hotel leaders are brainstorming ways to keep the fire going — to help the industry bounce back once the public health crisis subsides. A Massachusetts marketing push, aimed at drawing visitors within driving distance, is in the works. Regional tourism agencies plan to pool their limited resources, but they may need more money from the state government to be effective. In fact, the hard-hit industry will turn to government at all levels — state, federal and local — for assistance as it tries to recover from this disaster.
Chesto tells us "a Massachusetts marketing push, aimed at drawing visitors within driving distance, is in the works. Local tourism, restaurant, and hotel leaders are brainstorming ways to keep the fire going — to help the industry bounce back once the public health crisis subsides. A Massachusetts marketing push, aimed at drawing visitors within driving distance, is in the works. Regional tourism agencies plan to pool their limited resources, but they may need more money from the state government to be effective. In fact, the hard-hit industry will turn to government at all levels — state, federal and local — for assistance as it tries to recover from this disaster.
Looks like another nationalization scheme in the works, and this goddamn state is going to spend money on tourism when we are in the throws of a pandemic?
Are you f***ing kidding?!
WTF is WRONG with them!?
Btw, it was/is a man-made disaster by tinpot governors who think they are kings
"Experts predict plummeting state revenues will put Mass. in dire straits" by Matt Stout Globe Staff, April 14, 2020
Unemployment rates inching toward 18 percent. Tax revenues dropping by more than $4 billion. A recovery that takes years, not months, and that’s the more optimistic version.
As the COVID-19 pandemic ransacks the economy, the Baker administration and legislative leaders are weighing several financial scenarios as they guide Massachusetts through this new thicket, each one seemingly more dire — and the recovery more painful — than the last.
A "thicket" they themselves created.
They should all be tarred, feathered, and thrown into the harbor.
What is clear, following hours of testimony officials solicited Tuesday from a panel of economists and analysts, is that Massachusetts, and the country, are staring down a recession that is unprecedented in scope.
“This is a shock on a scale that we have not seen before,” Michael Goodman, an economist from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, told the Legislature’s Ways & Means chairmen and Governor Charlie Baker’s budget secretary during Tuesday’s hearing, held via videoconferencing.
Goodman said that between falling tax revenue and more Medicaid spending, the state could be looking at a $6 billion budget shortfall over a two-year period, suggesting the economic pain from the coronavirus’s spread — and the severe restrictions officials have put in place to slow it — could be harsher than the 2008 financial crisis.
“I do not think there’s any way to get through this in a humane way without a dramatic amount of additional federal assistance to the state,” he said.
We are f***ed.
Other projections were as grim, if not more so.
Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist from Northeastern University, said as much as 20 percent of the workforce could be unemployed, furloughed, on leave, or would drop out of the labor force by June, with another 35 percent working from home.
The good thing about dropping out is you are no longer counted as unemployed!
A more accurate jobless representation is the labor participation rate, which has no plummeted to below 50%. That is worse than the Great Depression!
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business-backed budget watchdog, estimated state revenue could plunge $4.4 billion, or 14.1 percent, below past projections for next fiscal year. The state could lose 570,000 jobs by the end of June, pushing the unemployment rate to nearly 18 percent, and while many of those jobs will eventually return, employment levels won’t return to “pre-crisis” levels until 2022, said Eileen McAnneny, the foundation’s president.
(Blog editor just shakes head at the delusions of authority. Of course, they won't be suffering any ill effects at all. F***ing evil monsters!)
After Senator Michael J. Rodrigues, the chamber’s budget chair, called the predictions “sobering,” McAnneny provided another warning. “It wasn’t a worst-case scenario,” she said.
The foundation’s projections are based on an economic recovery beginning in July, she said, though that, like other assumptions, is hardly guaranteed.
More goddamn f***ing models and projections!
State officials convened the panel as it tries to craft a budget for the fiscal year beginning in July, a process that is already running behind and whose timeline remains unclear.
That is SOP.
See: Putting Together a State Budget
Make sure the patronage, cronyism, and pay raises for yourselves are funded!
Officials already have to “reboot and redo” the state’s consensus revenue figure, Rodrigues said, a reference to the baseline expectation of tax receipt growth that gives a spine to the annual budget.
In one of the few bits of good news legislators received, Dan White, the director of government consulting and fiscal policy research at Moody’s Analytics, said Massachusetts’ economy is probably in a better position than other states’ to weather the downturn, thanks to its reliance on durable sectors like health care and education, but even those don’t come without risk amid the pandemic.
That's the GOOD NEWS, huh?
What if the kids don't come back, and how much money can be spent on healthcare when there is no tax base?
Related:
Parent company of Tufts Medical Center furloughs, cuts hours for 2,000 workers
Boston Medical Center furloughs 10 percent of its workforce as part of cutbacks across the health care industry
HUH?
Goodman, the executive director of the Public Policy Center at UMass Dartmouth, said hospitals are not doing elective and other procedures during the pandemic, which could “blow a very large hole in the fiscal model.” Meanwhile, colleges that rely on room-and-board fees and a supply of international students to help fill their dorms could also face challenges.
It's more than a hole, it's a chasm!
“I think you can start to see the kind of concerns that are on the horizon for some of our largest and most stable employers," he said.
And if it is going to be tough for them?
Of cour$e, the Globe sees a bright horizon through its ro$e-colored gla$$e$.
Lawmakers had sought input from Eric S. Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Bodston, who had been slated to testify last week, when the hearing was originally planned, but it was hastily postponed because legislators were unable to get a live stream of the meeting to work.
Rosengren had a scheduling conflict Tuesday, but Rodrigues plans to stay in contact with Rosengren’s office through the budget process, a spokesman for the Westport Democrat said.
Now you know who is really running things around here.
Economists have warned for weeks the state coffers would not be spared in a recession, and while state tax collections from March held steady, officials acknowledged future revenues are unlikely to avoid the drag from scores of businesses closing and record numbers of unemployment claims.
At several points in Tuesday’s hearing, the discussion turned to an alphabet soup of recovery projections that would guide the state’s response: Could it be U-shaped (gradual) or V-shaped (quick and robust)? Even worse, could it be a W — with recovery ebbing into another recession before rebounding — or an L, marked by a steep decline and a sustained period of little to no growth?
Why not throw a dart blindfolded?
What a $HAM!
State Representative Aaron Michlewitz, the House’s budget chairman, repeatedly asked presenters about how soon signs could emerge about how that recovery could unfold. With caveats aplenty, they suggested it could be within a month, mid-summer, or later.
That helps.
“Everything is super uncertain right now,” said William Burke, director of research for the Beacon Hill Institute.
Hell it is!
The sick f***ers who have long planned this no exactly what is the plan.
Complicating matters, Michlewitz said, is that the officials themselves “purposely slowed down the economy" in an effort to beat back the public health crisis. The House normally presents and debates its budget proposal in April, but that won’t happen this year, Michlewitz said.
How is that complicating matters when we all allegedly applaud such action?
He just admitted, btw, that THEY KILLED THE ECONOMY ON PURPO$E!
“The virus is going to decide how a lot of this goes,” the North End Democrat said, “and how we control and contain the virus will give us a better determination of how we can proceed.”
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Unemployment rates inching toward 18 percent. Tax revenues dropping by more than $4 billion. A recovery that takes years, not months, and that’s the more optimistic version.
As the COVID-19 pandemic ransacks the economy, the Baker administration and legislative leaders are weighing several financial scenarios as they guide Massachusetts through this new thicket, each one seemingly more dire — and the recovery more painful — than the last.
A "thicket" they themselves created.
They should all be tarred, feathered, and thrown into the harbor.
What is clear, following hours of testimony officials solicited Tuesday from a panel of economists and analysts, is that Massachusetts, and the country, are staring down a recession that is unprecedented in scope.
“This is a shock on a scale that we have not seen before,” Michael Goodman, an economist from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, told the Legislature’s Ways & Means chairmen and Governor Charlie Baker’s budget secretary during Tuesday’s hearing, held via videoconferencing.
Goodman said that between falling tax revenue and more Medicaid spending, the state could be looking at a $6 billion budget shortfall over a two-year period, suggesting the economic pain from the coronavirus’s spread — and the severe restrictions officials have put in place to slow it — could be harsher than the 2008 financial crisis.
“I do not think there’s any way to get through this in a humane way without a dramatic amount of additional federal assistance to the state,” he said.
We are f***ed.
Other projections were as grim, if not more so.
Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist from Northeastern University, said as much as 20 percent of the workforce could be unemployed, furloughed, on leave, or would drop out of the labor force by June, with another 35 percent working from home.
The good thing about dropping out is you are no longer counted as unemployed!
A more accurate jobless representation is the labor participation rate, which has no plummeted to below 50%. That is worse than the Great Depression!
The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business-backed budget watchdog, estimated state revenue could plunge $4.4 billion, or 14.1 percent, below past projections for next fiscal year. The state could lose 570,000 jobs by the end of June, pushing the unemployment rate to nearly 18 percent, and while many of those jobs will eventually return, employment levels won’t return to “pre-crisis” levels until 2022, said Eileen McAnneny, the foundation’s president.
(Blog editor just shakes head at the delusions of authority. Of course, they won't be suffering any ill effects at all. F***ing evil monsters!)
After Senator Michael J. Rodrigues, the chamber’s budget chair, called the predictions “sobering,” McAnneny provided another warning. “It wasn’t a worst-case scenario,” she said.
The foundation’s projections are based on an economic recovery beginning in July, she said, though that, like other assumptions, is hardly guaranteed.
More goddamn f***ing models and projections!
State officials convened the panel as it tries to craft a budget for the fiscal year beginning in July, a process that is already running behind and whose timeline remains unclear.
That is SOP.
See: Putting Together a State Budget
Make sure the patronage, cronyism, and pay raises for yourselves are funded!
Officials already have to “reboot and redo” the state’s consensus revenue figure, Rodrigues said, a reference to the baseline expectation of tax receipt growth that gives a spine to the annual budget.
In one of the few bits of good news legislators received, Dan White, the director of government consulting and fiscal policy research at Moody’s Analytics, said Massachusetts’ economy is probably in a better position than other states’ to weather the downturn, thanks to its reliance on durable sectors like health care and education, but even those don’t come without risk amid the pandemic.
That's the GOOD NEWS, huh?
What if the kids don't come back, and how much money can be spent on healthcare when there is no tax base?
Related:
Parent company of Tufts Medical Center furloughs, cuts hours for 2,000 workers
Boston Medical Center furloughs 10 percent of its workforce as part of cutbacks across the health care industry
HUH?
Goodman, the executive director of the Public Policy Center at UMass Dartmouth, said hospitals are not doing elective and other procedures during the pandemic, which could “blow a very large hole in the fiscal model.” Meanwhile, colleges that rely on room-and-board fees and a supply of international students to help fill their dorms could also face challenges.
It's more than a hole, it's a chasm!
“I think you can start to see the kind of concerns that are on the horizon for some of our largest and most stable employers," he said.
And if it is going to be tough for them?
Of cour$e, the Globe sees a bright horizon through its ro$e-colored gla$$e$.
Lawmakers had sought input from Eric S. Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Bodston, who had been slated to testify last week, when the hearing was originally planned, but it was hastily postponed because legislators were unable to get a live stream of the meeting to work.
Rosengren had a scheduling conflict Tuesday, but Rodrigues plans to stay in contact with Rosengren’s office through the budget process, a spokesman for the Westport Democrat said.
Now you know who is really running things around here.
Economists have warned for weeks the state coffers would not be spared in a recession, and while state tax collections from March held steady, officials acknowledged future revenues are unlikely to avoid the drag from scores of businesses closing and record numbers of unemployment claims.
At several points in Tuesday’s hearing, the discussion turned to an alphabet soup of recovery projections that would guide the state’s response: Could it be U-shaped (gradual) or V-shaped (quick and robust)? Even worse, could it be a W — with recovery ebbing into another recession before rebounding — or an L, marked by a steep decline and a sustained period of little to no growth?
Why not throw a dart blindfolded?
What a $HAM!
State Representative Aaron Michlewitz, the House’s budget chairman, repeatedly asked presenters about how soon signs could emerge about how that recovery could unfold. With caveats aplenty, they suggested it could be within a month, mid-summer, or later.
That helps.
“Everything is super uncertain right now,” said William Burke, director of research for the Beacon Hill Institute.
Hell it is!
The sick f***ers who have long planned this no exactly what is the plan.
Complicating matters, Michlewitz said, is that the officials themselves “purposely slowed down the economy" in an effort to beat back the public health crisis. The House normally presents and debates its budget proposal in April, but that won’t happen this year, Michlewitz said.
How is that complicating matters when we all allegedly applaud such action?
He just admitted, btw, that THEY KILLED THE ECONOMY ON PURPO$E!
“The virus is going to decide how a lot of this goes,” the North End Democrat said, “and how we control and contain the virus will give us a better determination of how we can proceed.”
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Related:
With Legislature stalled, Mass. high court to tackle coronavirus ballot issue
They should also be voted off the bench after this:
"SJC justice says Hyde Park murder defendant should remain free; rejects plea from DA Rollins" by John R. Ellement and Danny McDonald Globe Staff, April 14, 2020
Oh, the irony.
Rollins is the one who wants to let people out and not prosecute so many crimes, and here even she is objecting.
With Legislature stalled, Mass. high court to tackle coronavirus ballot issue
They should also be voted off the bench after this:
"SJC justice says Hyde Park murder defendant should remain free; rejects plea from DA Rollins" by John R. Ellement and Danny McDonald Globe Staff, April 14, 2020
Oh, the irony.
Rollins is the one who wants to let people out and not prosecute so many crimes, and here even she is objecting.
A Hyde Park man accused of committing murder while he was on bail and wearing a GPS monitoring device can remain free before trial because his chronic myeloid leukemia and chemotherapy treatment for the illness make him vulnerable to a coronavirus infection if he is held in jail, a Supreme Judicial Court justice ruled Tuesday.
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins had argued that William Utley’s alleged criminal history — he was facing two separate charges when he allegedly stabbed Anthony Young to death on March 25, 2018 — made him such a threat to public safety that he should be jailed until trial.
Yeah, they won't be letting murderes or rapists out on the streets.
That's what they have told us anyway.
How f***ing EVIL can a government be?
Utley is charged with second-degree murder. At the time of the slaying, he was wearing a GPS device installed on him when he was released on bail for a 2016 shots-fired incident in Dorchester. Also while on bail for that incident, Utley was charged with his fifth operating under the influence offense, on Oct. 2, 2018, prosecutors said, but Supreme Judicial Court Justice Elspeth B. Cypher disagreed with Rollins, who in other cases has fiercely advocated for the release of detainees and inmates because of the threat to their lives posed by the community spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, inside jails and prisons.
And they let him out.
Maybe they should just let him die because he is so sick.
After all, they are basically murdering old people in their homes.
Cypher agreed with Rollins’s philosophical views on the public health risk facing detainees and inmates in correctional facilities, but disagreed with Rollins’s view that Utley should be an exception.
“Incarcerated individuals face an increased risk of COVID-19 infection,” Elspeth wrote, citing an April 3 ruling by the high court setting up procedures for release of pretrial detainees. “In addition to this recognized risk, the defendant has a severe underlying health condition that heightens his risk of infection."
“The chemotherapy medication,” she wrote, "further compromises his immune system, placing him at an even higher risk of infection.”
I hope he finds out where she lives so he can thank her in person (observing social distancing, of course).
In a statement, Rollins said she was disappointed by the ruling, citing Utley’s “lengthy default record, but more concerning is that a Suffolk County grand jury had recently returned an indictment against Mr. Utley for a murder he committed while out on $8,500 bail and GPS monitoring,” she said.
Rollins continued, “Nevertheless, the single justice agreed with the trial judge’s decision to release him, again, this time on personal recognizance ($0) with GPS monitoring.”
She mentioned that her office must now relay more bad news to the family of Anthony Young, the man who was killed in 2018. “I will always fight for the safety of the people of Suffolk County and sincerely hope that Mr. Utley causes no further harm to our community," she said.
I don't believe what she said there; however, there will be a lot more bad news they will have to convey as the jails are emptied (to make room for who?).
Cypher wrote that no detainees at the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department were reported to have contracted COVID-19 as of April 10, but eight correctional officers and one other staffer had been diagnosed with the disease. "The defendant faces a high risk of critical illness or death if he were to contract COVID-19,'' she wrote.
Didn't he kill someone?
An eye for an eye then.
Moreover, Cypher wrote, the prosecution evidence against Utley for the murder is not very substantial. "Although the charges faced by the defendant are serious and carry long sentences, the Commonwealth’s evidence against the defendant for the firearm charge and the second degree murder charge does not appear strong,'' Cypher wrote.
I thought a jury was supposed to be the judge of that.
This is f***ing pure fa$ci$m, not the mislabeled nationalism of Germany and Italy.
Utley’s defense attorney, Michael Tumposky applauded the justice’s ruling.
"Two courts have now agreed that Mr. Utley deserves the opportunity to self-isolate in a private apartment rather than risk near certain death from COVID-19 at the Nashua Street Jail,'' he said in the statement. “Notably, the SJC also recognized that the evidence against him for the two more serious charges is weak. Mr. Utley will remain focused on his health for the duration of crisis.”
Does he?
Utley has been free from the Nashua Street jail since March 31 and living in Hyde Park while wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet. He is required to stay at home except for medical or court appearances under the bail order issued by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Christine Roach.
Like the rest of us!!!
The state’s highest court ruled earlier this month that inmates awaiting trial — except those facing violent and other serious charges — may be released to help relieve the “crisis engendered by the COVID-19 epidemic.”
Since that order, 296 inmates have been released from Massachusetts county jails, according to statistics from the state.
Holy $hit!
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Related:
One response to coronavirus anxiety in Mass.: try to buy a gun for the first time
With 296 inmates on the loose and more to follow, yeah!
With 296 inmates on the loose and more to follow, yeah!
Doing antiviolence work in a time of social distancing
Oh, the non-violent noncooperation is coming, don't worry.
Oh, the non-violent noncooperation is coming, don't worry.
For a Chelsea cop, coronavirus is omnipresent
29-year veteran of Boston Police Department dies after contracting coronavirus
So says Gal Tziperman Lotan.
So says Gal Tziperman Lotan.
Furniture icon Bernie Rubin, of Bernie and Phyl’s, dies of COVID-19
He went to “Red Sox, Patriots, and Celtics games and was just a wonderful human being.”
I wonder if he knew Zisha.
He went to “Red Sox, Patriots, and Celtics games and was just a wonderful human being.”
I wonder if he knew Zisha.
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Too late to move to South Dakota:
"Why South Dakota has become a coronavirus hotspot" by Griff Witte Washington Post, April 14, 2020
As governors across the country fell into line in recent weeks, South Dakota’s top elected leader stood firm: There would be no statewide order to stay home.
Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Governor Kristi Noem argued disparagingly, reflected a ‘‘herd mentality.’’ It was up to individuals — not government — to decide whether ‘‘to exercise their right to work, to worship, and to play, or to even stay at home,’’ and besides, the first-term Republican told reporters at a briefing this month, ‘‘South Dakota is not New York City,’’ but now South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant pork-processing plant falling ill. With the case numbers continuing to spike, the company was forced to announce the indefinite closure of the facility Sunday, threatening the US food supply.
That wouldn't be Smithfield, would it?
No more pork fried rice?
Yup, the food shortages are being set up just as the plan calls for!
By early June, the supermarkets will be increasingly empty.
Increasingly exasperated local leaders, public health experts, and front-line medical workers begged Noem to intervene Monday with a more aggressive state response.
‘‘A shelter-in-place order is needed now. It is needed today,’’ said Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, whose city is at the center of South Dakota’s outbreak and who has had to improvise with voluntary recommendations in the absence of statewide action, but the governor continued to resist. Instead, she used a press briefing Monday to announce trials of a drug that President Trump has repeatedly touted as a potential breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence.
‘‘It’s an exciting day,’’ she boasted, repeatedly citing her conversations with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Are you f***ing flipping kidding?!!!!!
The piecemeal approach to combating the coronavirus in South Dakota offers a throwback to America’s not-so-distant past, the period around a month ago when governors were still leery of using their powers to shut down restaurants and bars or to order people, for the greater good, to stay at home.
It also may offer a glimpse of the country’s near-term future, as pressure builds to reopen after a weeks-long shutdown. Trump has been eager to get the economy on its feet again by the beginning of May after record rises in unemployment claims and dramatic falls in the stock market, yet as South Dakota’s experience shows, no part of the country is immune to being ravaged by the virus, and rescinding orders that people stay at home — or declining to issue them, as in the case of South Dakota and four other states — offers plenty of peril.
Then LEAVE EVERYTHING SHUT TIGHT and SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!
SHUT IT ALL DOWN!!
It is the ONLY WAY top STAY SAFE!!!!!!!
Reopening the county by May is ‘‘not even remotely achievable,’’ said TenHaken, who, like Trump and Noem, is a Republican. ‘‘We’re in the early innings of this thing in Sioux Falls.’’
Probably go into extra innings, and that reminds me:
I MISS BASEBALL NOT ONE BIT!
It is a NON-ESSENTIAL ACTIVITY!
Already, the experience has been harrowing: As of early April, the city had relatively few cases, but over the course of last week, the numbers surged as the virus ripped through the city’s Smithfield Foods production plant, a colossus that employs 3,700 people — many of them immigrants — and churns out 18 million servings of pork product per day.
That is how you destroy a U.S. town, folks!
Why is it always the same cho$en crowd behind everything in my pre$$?
On Monday, 57 more workers were confirmed to have positive diagnoses, bringing the total well above 300 — and making it one of the country’s largest clusters. Other major clusters include Cook County Jail in Chicago and the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.
The Smithfield cases amount to more than a third of the state’s overall total, which stood at 868 on Monday, including six deaths.
Over the weekend, Smithfield said it would shutter the facility indefinitely in a bid to contain the spread — though leaders cautioned that the action could severely disrupt the nation’s food supplies.
Before the closure, workers had complained that they were not given sufficient access to protective gear, such as masks. The company said Thursday that it had taken steps to reduce the spread, including ‘‘adding extra hand sanitizing stations, boosting personal protective equipment, continuing to stress the importance of personal hygiene,’’ but workers said they were required to work so closely together that it was impossible to stay healthy.
‘‘There is no social distance,’’ said Lily, a 30-year-old Mexican immigrant who had worked at the plant for nearly 13 years but quit because she feared bringing the coronavirus home to her husband and young daughter.
Citing scientific modeling, the governor acknowledged this month that up to 70 percent of residents in her state may ultimately fall ill to coronavirus, but, she suggested, it wasn’t up to government to tell them how to behave.
‘‘The people themselves are primarily responsible for their safety,’’ she said. ‘‘They are the ones that are entrusted with expansive freedoms.’’
She is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, of course, which is why this hit job appeared on the back page of the A-section.
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Also on the back page:
As governors across the country fell into line in recent weeks, South Dakota’s top elected leader stood firm: There would be no statewide order to stay home.
Such edicts to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, Governor Kristi Noem argued disparagingly, reflected a ‘‘herd mentality.’’ It was up to individuals — not government — to decide whether ‘‘to exercise their right to work, to worship, and to play, or to even stay at home,’’ and besides, the first-term Republican told reporters at a briefing this month, ‘‘South Dakota is not New York City,’’ but now South Dakota is home to one of the largest single coronavirus clusters anywhere in the United States, with more than 300 workers at a giant pork-processing plant falling ill. With the case numbers continuing to spike, the company was forced to announce the indefinite closure of the facility Sunday, threatening the US food supply.
That wouldn't be Smithfield, would it?
No more pork fried rice?
Yup, the food shortages are being set up just as the plan calls for!
By early June, the supermarkets will be increasingly empty.
Increasingly exasperated local leaders, public health experts, and front-line medical workers begged Noem to intervene Monday with a more aggressive state response.
‘‘A shelter-in-place order is needed now. It is needed today,’’ said Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken, whose city is at the center of South Dakota’s outbreak and who has had to improvise with voluntary recommendations in the absence of statewide action, but the governor continued to resist. Instead, she used a press briefing Monday to announce trials of a drug that President Trump has repeatedly touted as a potential breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus, despite a lack of scientific evidence.
‘‘It’s an exciting day,’’ she boasted, repeatedly citing her conversations with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Are you f***ing flipping kidding?!!!!!
The piecemeal approach to combating the coronavirus in South Dakota offers a throwback to America’s not-so-distant past, the period around a month ago when governors were still leery of using their powers to shut down restaurants and bars or to order people, for the greater good, to stay at home.
It also may offer a glimpse of the country’s near-term future, as pressure builds to reopen after a weeks-long shutdown. Trump has been eager to get the economy on its feet again by the beginning of May after record rises in unemployment claims and dramatic falls in the stock market, yet as South Dakota’s experience shows, no part of the country is immune to being ravaged by the virus, and rescinding orders that people stay at home — or declining to issue them, as in the case of South Dakota and four other states — offers plenty of peril.
Then LEAVE EVERYTHING SHUT TIGHT and SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!
SHUT IT ALL DOWN!!
It is the ONLY WAY top STAY SAFE!!!!!!!
Reopening the county by May is ‘‘not even remotely achievable,’’ said TenHaken, who, like Trump and Noem, is a Republican. ‘‘We’re in the early innings of this thing in Sioux Falls.’’
Probably go into extra innings, and that reminds me:
I MISS BASEBALL NOT ONE BIT!
It is a NON-ESSENTIAL ACTIVITY!
Already, the experience has been harrowing: As of early April, the city had relatively few cases, but over the course of last week, the numbers surged as the virus ripped through the city’s Smithfield Foods production plant, a colossus that employs 3,700 people — many of them immigrants — and churns out 18 million servings of pork product per day.
That is how you destroy a U.S. town, folks!
Why is it always the same cho$en crowd behind everything in my pre$$?
On Monday, 57 more workers were confirmed to have positive diagnoses, bringing the total well above 300 — and making it one of the country’s largest clusters. Other major clusters include Cook County Jail in Chicago and the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.
The Smithfield cases amount to more than a third of the state’s overall total, which stood at 868 on Monday, including six deaths.
Over the weekend, Smithfield said it would shutter the facility indefinitely in a bid to contain the spread — though leaders cautioned that the action could severely disrupt the nation’s food supplies.
Before the closure, workers had complained that they were not given sufficient access to protective gear, such as masks. The company said Thursday that it had taken steps to reduce the spread, including ‘‘adding extra hand sanitizing stations, boosting personal protective equipment, continuing to stress the importance of personal hygiene,’’ but workers said they were required to work so closely together that it was impossible to stay healthy.
‘‘There is no social distance,’’ said Lily, a 30-year-old Mexican immigrant who had worked at the plant for nearly 13 years but quit because she feared bringing the coronavirus home to her husband and young daughter.
Citing scientific modeling, the governor acknowledged this month that up to 70 percent of residents in her state may ultimately fall ill to coronavirus, but, she suggested, it wasn’t up to government to tell them how to behave.
‘‘The people themselves are primarily responsible for their safety,’’ she said. ‘‘They are the ones that are entrusted with expansive freedoms.’’
She is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, of course, which is why this hit job appeared on the back page of the A-section.
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Also on the back page:
Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden for president
The article is by Jess Bidgood of the Globe Staff, and this adds to what I said about Warren earlier. What a front-running phony
Voters reject Trump’s pick in chaotic Wisconsin court race
I'm told the result could be a bellwether in battleground Wisconsin ahead of the November presidential election after Trump barely carried the state four years ago.
Btw, Nate Cohn of the New York Times says Wisconsin is where Trump has an advantage and is in a stronger position than he was in 2016.
Andrew Cuomo leads the rational states of America
The Globe's resident Democrat cheerleader says they now have a counterweight to Donald Trump’s rushed plans to reopen the nation.
The Globe's resident Democrat cheerleader says they now have a counterweight to Donald Trump’s rushed plans to reopen the nation.
They Globe gave op space to David E. Bloom, aprofessor of economics and demography, and David Canning, a professor of population sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Trump and Fauci: It’s complicated
So says a Globe columnist.
No defense for extremists
The Globe editorial staff says Attorney General Bill Barr should be more concerned with public health than election-year posturing, while I think he should be concerned about all the convicts being released from prison and into the communities!
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Now time for your DAILY DISTRACTION:
Matt Damon is waiting out the coronavirus lockdown in Ireland, and locals are loving it
He is almost as popular as their formerly-hated leader.
I used to like some of his movies, but that was before he covered up for Weinstein.
He is almost as popular as their formerly-hated leader.
I used to like some of his movies, but that was before he covered up for Weinstein.
I guess he won't be going to any Sox games anytime soon:
If you read the obituary you will find he died of, you guessed it, COVID-19.
Golf could be the first sport to return in the United States since the coronavirus outbreak, and it is also the END of TEAM SPORTS!
The $ports $ection even has a CORONAVIRUS NOTEBOOK now, and the new Red Sox manager still thinks there will be a baseball season.
Thirty-five years ago, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns delivered one of boxing’s greatest fights
That's all we have left to watch is classic repeats, and BOXING should be BANNED going forward!
No social distancing!
If you are getting hungry now, the Globe menu has this to serve up:
Chinatown restaurateurs face financial ruin
They have ‘never seen it so quiet,’ in a neighborhood that has long caught the eye of developers.
CUI BONO, 'eh?
They have ‘never seen it so quiet,’ in a neighborhood that has long caught the eye of developers.
CUI BONO, 'eh?
Now, grocery shopping isn’t just an errand; it’s a privilege -- at least, according to some eliti$t $kank over at the Globe.
Delivered by an Uber driver who is sick?
Who can laugh at the comics anymore, and the crosswords are no longer worth it, either.
At least there is still the store circulars!
Who can laugh at the comics anymore, and the crosswords are no longer worth it, either.
At least there is still the store circulars!
