"With pressure growing, global race for a vaccine intensifies" by David E. Sanger, David D. Kirkpatrick, Carl Zimmer, Katie Thomas and Sui-Lee Wee New York Times, May 2, 2020
WASHINGTON — Four months after a mysterious new virus began its deadly march around the globe, the search for a vaccine has taken on an intensity never before seen in medical research, with huge implications for public health, the world economy, and politics.
Seven of the roughly 90 projects being pursued by governments, pharmaceutical makers, biotech innovators, and academic laboratories have reached the stage of clinical trials. With political leaders — not least President Trump — increasingly pressing for progress, and with big potential profits at stake for the industry, drugmakers and researchers have signaled that they are moving ahead at unheard-of speeds, but the whole enterprise remains dogged by uncertainty about whether any coronavirus vaccine will prove effective, how fast it could be made available to millions or billions of people, and whether the rush — compressing a process that can take 10 years into 10 months — will sacrifice safety.
I'm reminded of the $wine flu $cam back in 1976.
Some experts say the more immediately promising field might be the development of treatments to speed recovery from COVID-19, an approach that has generated some optimism in the last week through initially encouraging research results on remdesivir, an antiviral drug previously tried in fighting Ebola.
It was resurrected.
In an era of intense nationalism, the geopolitics of the vaccine race are growing as complex as the medicine. The months of mutual vilification between the United States and China over the origins of the virus have poisoned most efforts at cooperation between them. The US government is already warning that American innovations must be protected from theft — chiefly from Beijing.
“Biomedical research has long been a focus of theft, especially by the Chinese government, and vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus are today’s holy grail,” John Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, said Friday. “Putting aside the commercial value, there would be great geopolitical significance to being the first to develop a treatment or vaccine. We will use all the tools we have to safeguard American research.”
What we are seeing is an attempt to frame China. Then the U.S can argue reparations and welch on the treasuries China holds and leave them holding a debilitating bag moving forward into the 21st century -- thus, the move would likely result in war for the Chinese are not going to give up their hard fought gains. This will all be taking place in the context of a continuing global lockdown. We are in for a very rough ride.
I would also like to take the time to say I'm no longer interested in where the alleged COVID-19 Certification of Vaccination ID 2019 virus, if it even exists and if it does its awfully weak, came from. I know what is the propaganda machine I see every morning, and I make some judgements based on that -- much like a Soviet citizen reading Pravda -- but beyond that, the reader will have to decide for themself and do their own research. I can bring you some things, but it is incumbent on the other party to sift through it all as well. I don't want to do your thinking for you.
What I am concerned about now is the way forward, and it looks grim and dark indeed. Other than a few unintended consequences (I think, I could be wrong), the Rockefeller/Gates/JHU/WHO plan is going exactly according to plan. Governments the world over are in their pocket.
The intensity of the global research effort is such that governments and companies are building production lines before they have anything to produce.
“We are going to start ramping up production with the companies involved,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the federal government’s top expert on infectious diseases, said this past week. “You don’t wait until you get an answer before you start manufacturing.”
I don't want to be linking the mass volume of stuff where this career bureaucrat at an obscure agency is into the vaccine bu$ine$$ up to his elbows with ties to Wuhan as well as being a front-man for Bill Gates et al.
With the demand for a vaccine so intense, there are escalating calls for “human-challenge trials” to speed the process: tests in which volunteers are injected with a potential vaccine and then deliberately exposed to the coronavirus.
Is the demand inten$e, and where would that be anyway, and how about the second half of that monstrous evil there? Chilled to the bone.
Because the approach involves exposing participants to a potentially deadly disease, challenge trials are ethically fraught, but they could be faster than simply inoculating human subjects and waiting for them to be exposed.
Even when promising solutions are found, there are big challenges to scaling up production and distribution. Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder whose foundation is spending $250 million to help spur vaccine development, has warned about a critical shortage of a mundane but vital component: medical glass.
They sanitized for that monster right there, but I want to go back to the previous paragraph. Ethically fraught, BUT! Means they aren't worried about the ethics of this thing. The medical establishment and military gave VD to black people, released all sorts of bacteria in the cities during the 60's, fed retarded kids radioactive milk with their cereal, have used chemical and biological weapons in war in Vietnam, South America, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia, and on and on. The idea that they would have qualms about any program of this sort, whatever will be in the damn tube, is ludicrous.
The second part of that is maybe even more insidious. We are SUBJECTS (shudder, V for Vendetta) to these evil monsters and their pre$$titutes! If and when the day comes, I intend to stare into their eyes with hate!
Without sufficient supplies of the glass, there will be too few vials to transport the billions of doses that will ultimately be needed.
The scale of the problem and the demand for a quick solution are bound to create tensions between the profit motives of the pharmaceutical industry, which typically fights hard to wring the most out of their investments in new drugs, and the public’s need for quick action to get any effective vaccines to as many people as possible.
We do NOT NEED THAT POISON in US, dammit!
Given the proliferation of vaccine projects, the best outcome may be none of them emerging as a clear winner.
“Let’s say we get one vaccine quickly but we can only get 2 million doses of it at the end of next year,” said Anita Zaidi, who directs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s vaccine development program, “and another vaccine, just as effective, comes three months later but we can make a billion doses. Who won that race?”
The answer, she said, “is we will need many different vaccines to cross the finish line.”
SEE: Bill Gates Partners With DARPA & Department of Defense For New DNA Nanotech COVID19 Vaccine!
That was also over at Activist Post somewhere, while the Globe, of course, is all up with MIT and the rest. Read and copy my last 2 monthly rolls or pick and patch below if you like. It's all there. Who knows for how much longer.
It is one thing to design a vaccine in record time. It is an entirely different challenge to manufacture and distribute one on a scale never before attempted — billions of doses, transported at below-zero temperatures to nearly every corner of the world.
“If you want to give a vaccine to a billion people, it better be very safe and very effective,” said Dr. Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer of Johnson & Johnson, “but you also need to know how to make it in amounts we’ve never really seen before.”
I would just like to point out, ladies, that J&J is the company that new talc powder was causing ovarian cancer for over 40 years and they never bothered to tell the women. I'm sure their motives are altrui$tic here, though, now roll up your $leeve because we are first to roll out a vaccine! The US government is actually collaborating with them, so I'm sure you ladies are in good hands.
So the race is on to get ahead of the enormous logistical issues, from basic manufacturing capacity to the shortages of medical glass and stoppers that Gates and others have warned of.
Even as the world waits for a vaccine, a potential treatment for coronavirus could be on the way.
Are you not on the edge of your $eat for it?
Studies of drugs tend to move more quickly than vaccine trials. Vaccines are given to millions of people who are not yet ill, so they must be extremely safe, but in sicker people, that calculus changes, and side effects might be an acceptable risk, and because drugs are tested in people who are already sick, results can be seen more quickly than in vaccine trials, where researchers must wait to see who gets infected.
Look at them! The vaccines must be extremely safe! They never are, but the pimping pre$$ wants to poke you with the perception that there is nothing wrong in the tube (did I mention autism yet? That is one cause and effect that pisses them off).
“Almost nothing is 100 percent, especially when you are dealing with a virus that really creates a lot of havoc in the body,” said Dr. Luciana Borio, former director of medical and biodefense preparedness for the National Security Council.
This whole program is being run under a military, not health, jurisdiction. That's means it is actually a medical martial law we are already living under. Were it up to some of the doctors, they would be letting us out and unmasking us.
Print copy ended there.
Public health experts have cautioned there will likely be no magic pill. Rather, they are hoping for incremental advances that make COVID-19 less deadly. Many in the medical community are closely watching the development of antibody drugs that could act to neutralize the virus, either once someone is already sick or as a way of blocking the infection in the first place.
Even without a vaccine, Borio said, a handful of early treatments could make a difference. “If you can protect people that are vulnerable and you can treat people that come down with the disease effectively,” she said, “then I think it will change the trajectory of this pandemic.”
Boatload of money to be made for some people, huh (Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have as much money as the bottom half of all American households)?
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That article really took the enthusiasm out of me as far as reading what came after. Below the article were ads for necklaces for 50 brave and selfless moms from DePrisco, diamond jewelers since 1948, and for Glama Furs because it is storage time. The woman in the Glama ad is not wearing a mask.
Thus I am at a crossroads with this post. Do I go forward with the superficial scanning since I'm sick of reading shit? Or do I put it in reverse and head back and put up what I had managed to read before arriving at the Holy Grail(!)?
(Blog editor makes U-turn)
The companion article of page A5 is another New York Times piece titled Food lines a mile long in America’s second-wealthiest state. The state is New Jersey, heart of the Jewi$h mafia in America, and I'm told it's a “stigma-free service for them to get food for their families in a safe, grab-and-go way.”
Is there a stigma attached to the padding of death statistics? The state is now going back and reclassifying earlier deaths as coronavirus, and are labeling every single death as COVID. The turning of truth on its head by the pre$$ proves they are evil collaborators in this diabolical operation.
The lower half of page A4 was a $elf-$erving ad from the Globe, buying food for the front line health care workers who are dancing away in empty, quiet hospitals. The monied effort for our
"heroes" is bribe money to keep any recalcitrants from blowing the whistle as the medical e$tabli$hment. Another pitch will be made below, but before that I would like to clear up something from yesterday regarding the disemboweling and digestion of certain innards, and I most certainly meant it metaphorically. I am not interested in eating my neighbors, and I would like to thank the videographer for providing me with a very much, very much needed gut-busting laugh.
The upper-half of page A4 contains two articles, one regarding moderates abandoning Trump (who cares? We know who controls him as well as Larry Summers and the other pervert) and a rip job on the protests against tyranny, a "visual of armed protesters, mostly white men, occupying a government building to a measured response by law enforcement is a jarring one for many Black Americans who “systemically, Blackness is treated like a more dangerous weapon than a white man’s gun ever will, while whiteness is the greatest shield of safety,” said Brittany Packnett, a prominent national activist who protested in Ferguson, and she added that the Michigan demonstrators “are what happens when people of racial privilege confuse oppression with inconvenience. No one is treading on their rights. We’re all just trying to live.”
One can't help but notice that Black is capitalized and White is not. The paper of Jewi$h supremacists sees whites as sub-human. That's the danger we are in, and shame on the black activist for promoting racial division when freedom and liberty for all are at stake. More on that below.
Page A3 as a full-page ad for Bo$on Children's Hospital, "where the world comes for answers." (I think some would object to that statement). More on them below as well.
The flip backwards continues on page A2 where the Globe is doing some bird-watching to pass the time before sending us back to our cells.
"International restlessness: Sun draws many out in US, Europe; Russia virus numbers grow" by David Porter, Jeffrey Collins and Joseph Wilson Associated Press, May 2, 2020
The warm sunshine offered a reprieve from thoughts of coronavirus in Bo$ton, too.
NEW YORK — Gorgeous spring weather across the United States and Europe on Saturday drew people cooped up inside for weeks outside to soak in the sun, even as additional coronavirus hot spots in Russia and Pakistan emerged.
Though grateful to be outdoors, people were still wary — masks were worn everywhere, even on southern US beaches and by some joggers in Spain. A New York City farmer’s market enforced the familiar 6 feet of space between people waiting to buy spring flowers. Mothers in Central Park reminded their kids to give people space, and small groups of picnickers kept their safe distances, while joggers moved past each other without a glance.
Retired New York attorney Stan Neustadter pulled down his mask to say it’s been important to his spirit to get out. “Why live like a rabbit? Plus I’m approaching 78, I’ve had a great run,” Neustadter said.
Police and park officials were spread out across New York City, which sent out 1,000 officers to enforce social distancing on the warmest day since mid-March, but they were more likely to break up large groups, leaving the nuisances of social distancing and hanging out safely outside to New Yorkers themselves.
“Go for a walk, but respect the social distancing and wear a mask,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
With gigs drying up at clubs and concert halls, German native Julia Banholzer, a saxophonist, said she has taken to playing al fresco in Central Park for whoever happens by. On Saturday that was a steady stream of folks, most wearing masks, who left tips for her trio as they worked their way through a set of jazz standards.
“It’s great to have an audience after all these weeks.” she said. “All my dates have been canceled through September, and I don’t know if any will come back this year. New York is a tough place, but this is just another tough period we need to get through.”
I would also like to address the German question from yesterday as well. Turns out, history has been turned on its head (the host is kind of a geek and his guest would be considered fringe; however, the documentation is there and it shatters the received wisdom from the chosen tribe) and I am struggling to grapple it.
Meanwhile, fighter jets from the US Navy Blue Angels and US Air Force Thunderbirds drew people outside as they flew over Atlanta, Baltimore, and Washington in honor of health care workers. In Atlanta, motorists stopped on a major highway while other people found open places to look to the sky on rooftops or in cemeteries.
I know we are swimming in oil and everything, but is that really necessary what with the climate change and all? I mean, it's taxpayer-funded, and we have all taken a major hit. Couldn't the money have been used in a better way?
Also see:
U.S. Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly over the Philadelphia skyline to honor first responders, doctors and nurses on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.
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Is it just me, or does the damn WTC 1 tower look like a F**KING SYRINGE?
Well, JetBlue is the first major US airline to require masks for passengers as Delta wants to halt flights to, from Worcester and SAS is to cut as many as 5,000 jobs as travel collapses. Even TripAdvisor is cutting 900 jobs as it reduces workforce by 25 percent and closes Boston office.
Well, JetBlue is the first major US airline to require masks for passengers as Delta wants to halt flights to, from Worcester and SAS is to cut as many as 5,000 jobs as travel collapses. Even TripAdvisor is cutting 900 jobs as it reduces workforce by 25 percent and closes Boston office.
That has led to Southwest cutting its nunber of new planes and Boeing splitting the roles of CEO and chairman as Airbus chief Guillaume Faury warns employees that the planemaker is ‘‘bleeding cash’’ and needs to quickly cut costs to adapt to a radically shrinking industry and American Airlines loses $2.24b in the first quarter.
Neverthele$$, "airlines are carrying only a fraction of the passengers they did before the coronavirus pandemic struck, but thousands of airline catering workers are still on the job, preparing meals, packaging snack boxes, filling carts with drinks — and loading them on planes flying all over the world."
How is flying nearly-empty planes helping with the carbon emissions, Globe?
Can't ride your motorcycle, either!
Elsewhere in the world, the pandemic’s danger was still evident. Russia and Pakistan reported their biggest one-day spikes in new infections.
Overall, Russia has reported around 125,000 cases and more than 1,200 deaths. True numbers are believed to be much higher because not everyone is tested. In the far northeast, 3,000 of 10,000 workers at a vast natural gas field tested positive, Russian news agencies reported.
Moscow’s mayor said this week that officials are considering establishing temporary hospitals at sports complexes and shopping malls to deal with the influx of patients. Infection cases have reached the highest levels of government, with both the prime minister and the construction minister contracting the virus.
Yeah, Putin has really f**ked up there, and now the prime minister has tested positive after cancelling the May Day Parades.
Pakistan appears to be joining Russia with rapidly increasing case counts. On Saturday, Pakistan announced nearly 1,300 new cases, raising the total in the country of 220 million people to about 18,000.
Well, Pakistan is in hot water because they are a linchpin on the One Belt, One Road initiative as well as lining up on their side in the upcoming WWIII along with Russia.
Newspaper photos showed large numbers of the faithful at Pakistani mosques and only some practicing social distancing. Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government said it might ease controls, but doctors have pleaded for stricter lockdowns, warning an explosion of infections would overwhelm hospitals with only 3,000 intensive care beds nationwide.
Related (page A14):
"A Pakistani journalist forced into exile in Sweden after covering violence, crime, and a simmering insurgency in his home country was found dead on Friday in a river north of Stockholm, the Swedish police said. A spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office said an autopsy did not point strongly to foul play in the death of the journalist, Sajid Hussain, 39, but journalism groups expressed skepticism and concern. Reporters Without Borders suggested in a statement that Hussain’s death could have followed an abduction “at the behest of a Pakistani intelligence agency.” Taliban and Islamic State militants also operate in Hussain’s home province in Pakistan, as do criminal groups. Pakistan has long been a dangerous country for journalists, who regularly face threats, intimidation, and attacks from a vast array of forces, ranging from the country’s powerful intelligence agencies to its militant groups. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented more than 60 instances in which Pakistani journalists have been killed in direct relation to their work over the past three decades. Hussain was granted asylum in Sweden in 2019, after leaving Pakistan seven years earlier while facing threats over his critical reporting. From exile, he served as editor in chief of The Balochistan Times, an online news site that chronicled organized crime, drug smuggling, and the decadeslong insurgency in Baluchistan province. The largest of the country’s four provinces in area, Baluchistan is characterized by rugged, mountainous, and largely uninhabited terrain filled with huge reservoirs of natural gas and minerals. Baluch nationalists have long demanded a greater share of the wealth generated from the province, and for decades separatists have taken up armed resistance. The police in Sweden said they found Hussain’s body in a river near Uppsala, a city 35 miles north of Stockholm. Hussain, who was also studying and conducting research in Sweden, disappeared about two months ago while in the process of moving from Stockholm to Uppsala....."
It's a New York Times piece and everything is falling apart for the ma$$ media.
Beyond that, it is interesting to note this happening in Sweden when they are one of the few who have avoided an official lockdown and that the area in Pakistan is Baluchistan, for that has long been infiltrated by the CIA to destabilize both the Pakistani government and Iran. That the finger of blame in my pre$$ is being pointed at Pakistan suggest they are being scapegoated.
The virus has killed more than 243,000 people worldwide, including more than 65,000 in the United States and more than 24,000 each in Italy, Britain, France and Spain, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Health experts warn a second wave of infections could hit unless testing is expanded dramatically.
I'm sick of the JHU models being cited chapter and verse along with padded state death totals.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially older adults and those with health problems, it can cause severe illness such as pneumonia, or death.
There are economic factors to consider as well. In some areas of the United States, reopening is being urged to ease the shutdown of businesses that plunged the global economy into its deepest slump since the 1930s and wiped out millions of jobs. Business owners have also been left wondering if customers will return.
It's too late for our economy.
In Spain, where COVID-19 has caused more than 25,100 deaths, people ventured out Saturday for the first time since a March 14 lockdown.
“I feel good, but tired. You sure notice that it has been a month and I am not in shape,” 36-year-old Cristina Palomeque said in Barcelona. “Some people think it may be too early, as I do, but it is also important to do exercise for health reasons.”
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spaniards deserved relief after weeks of confinement, but he asked citizens to remain vigilant.
“Until we have a vaccine, we are going to see more outbreaks,” Sánchez said. “What we need to guarantee is that these outbreaks do not put our national health system in danger.”
All world leaders across the board are on board, with the exception of a handful of brave souls.
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That gets us to the front page:
"After the surge: Hospitals prep to bring back regular patients while virus cases linger; Thousands has procedures pushed back because of COVID-19. Now hospitals have to make it safe for them to return" by Liz Kowalczyk Globe Staff, May 2, 2020
There never was a surge.
Even as they struggle to keep pace with a pandemic at its peak, hospitals are preparing for something almost as challenging: what comes next.
It is a delicate phase of the coronavirus crisis, the need soon to bring back hundreds of patients whose procedures and appointments were canceled or postponed to make room for those with COVID-19 — and assuring those patients it’s safe to return.
Yeah, right.
The eventual shift will require hospitals to screen more — and perhaps all — patients for the coronavirus, so as to safeguard the right staff with special protective equipment. It will require, for a time, prioritizing certain procedures and medical appointments over others, itself a fraught exercise, and it will likely require some redesign of the hospitals themselves, creating separate entrances and pathways through the institution for infected outpatients, a hospital within a hospital, in other words.
Health care providers will have to do all this knowing that they will be treating COVID-19 patients for many months to come — or at least until there is a vaccine — and will
HOSPITALS, Page A8
I will pick the piece up later, and before continuing on to the companion article above the fold, I just want to say the Globe is always pushing the vaccine.
"A coronavirus test for everyone? Check the fine print" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, May 2, 2020
When the mayor of Los Angeles announced this week that the city would be making COVID-19 testing available to all its residents, regardless of whether they were symptomatic, the announcement left some in Boston scratching their heads. Why could a sprawling city of roughly 4 million people offer universal testing, while Boston cannot?
As scientists have learned more about asymptomatic carriers who spread the coronavirus even when they don’t know they have it, widespread testing and subsequent isolation of people who test positive has been touted as essential to containing and ending this crisis, but most cities in Massachusetts and around the country allow testing only for people who show symptoms. This week, Somerville became the first city in the state to promise free testing with an appointment to all its residents.
“As we are asking how to open up, I can’t stress three
TESTING, Page A9
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"Questions of leadership, as warnings met tragic truth at Holyoke Soldiers’ Home" by Brian MacQuarrie and Hanna Krueger Globe Staff, May 2, 2020
The first day Bennett Walsh reported to work as superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in May 2016, the retired Marine lieutenant colonel wore his uniform to the largest nursing home for veterans in New England.
Richard Connor of the Disabled American Veterans, an advocacy group, left his office inside the Holyoke facility to welcome Walsh and introduce himself. The pleasantries didn’t last long, though, before Walsh questioned why Connor’s group, which helps connect veterans with benefits and services, had been given space in the building.
Four years later, amid a coronavirus outbreak that has killed at least 71 residents of the state-run home, Connor remains startled by the exchange. To Connor and others, the episode betrayed a dismissive mind-set that seemed ill-suited for running a large nursing home, particularly in a time of crisis.
"If you’ve got to ask that question, you’re in the wrong business,” Connor said.
SOLDIERS' HOME, Page A10
"So much for banker’s hours. These lenders haven’t become night owls by choice. Instead, they have figured out that to outwit the US government’s achingly slow system that provides “emergency” loans to small businesses, they’re better off working in the middle of the night....."
The usurious vultures are working the graveyard shift to keep ailing businesses alive, in what is a poor choice for a headline unless you want to be offensive and insult someone. Unfortunately, the money has already dried up and “you’re not supposed to keep that payment. We’re checking the databases, but there could be a scenario where we missed something, and yes, the heirs should be returning that money,” and now she has to return two checks and that’s exactly what she did.
The entire left hand column, above and below the fold, is a Globe promotion of a webcast that is a fictional novella through Boston, Harvard, and the Encore casino as a diversion from the doom-and-gloom that becomes a full spread on both pages A6-A7 (after I discovered the Holy Grail). I won't be typing my profane reply.
That gets me to page A8 and the pick-up:
HOSPITALS Continued from Page A1
need to allay public fears about entering buildings consumed by the pandemic over the past two months.
Too late. I never want to set foot near a clinic or hospital ever again. I would rather die first, and I'm sure that pleases the sick genocidal bastards.
“We have all gone from predicting the peak to predicting when we will be able to do other work that has been deferred. In all scenarios, there will be COVID,'' said Dr. Alastair Bell, chief operating officer at Boston Medical Center. "We are going to be managing in a dual world for some period of time, even for a long time.''
As they develop plans for this next phase, several of the state’s large hospital systems said they will test for the coronavirus among all patients who they expect to admit to the hospital, even if they don’t have symptoms. The results will guide decisions on how to protect staff and where to locate patients. Massachusetts General, Brigham and Women’s, and 10 other hospitals in the Partners HealthCare System began testing all patients Monday.
Patients coming for outpatient appointments can expect to be isolated if they have the coronavirus or are at risk for it — even required to use separate parking areas, entrances, and elevators from uninfected patients — to help keep the virus from spreading.
This is a Nazi or Soviet style people grab!
Hospital leaders across the state are now prioritizing which patients have the most urgent needs and will be brought back first. Surgery to remove cancerous tumors, cardiac procedures to clear severely blocked arteries, and operations to relieve serious pain, such as kidney stone removal, are at the top of the list. Another priority is in-person visits, including blood tests and electrocardiograms, for high-risk patients such as those with diabetes and heart failure.
For certain patients, ''we have to start moving on them now,'' said Ann Prestipino, a senior vice president and incident commander at Mass. General. "They are becoming urgent or emergency cases that we have to start doing.''
They could have been doing these all along rather than sitting around in empty hospitals doing dances and portraits to the Last Supper.
A big unknown is how quickly hospitals can schedule these patients, although coronavirus modeling provides clues.
They are still going with the goddamn, discredited models!
This has reached the point of CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE by the MEDICAL E$TABLI$HMENT!
Dr. Peter Dunn, a vice president overseeing inpatient capacity management at Mass. General, expects the number of coronavirus patients in the hospital to gradually decline over the next 16 weeks — about three times as long as it took for the pandemic to hit its peak, an estimate based in large part on the experience of hospitals in hard-hit Italy. Dunn said it’s hard to know ''the floor'' — but Dunn, whose team is also helping map "recovery plans'' for all Partners hospitals, said coronavirus cases will probably not fall to zero anytime soon. Treating the disease will become part of the new normal in health care.
I'm trapped in the Partner's $y$tem, and I'm so, so f**king sick of seeing that phrase in my pre$$.
Planning for the "surge was much easier,'' he said. "We had a single focus: making room. This is much more complex. People have a view of what they knew pre-pandemic life to be and they want to get back to that as soon as possible. I hope we can get as close to that as possible, as we have an understanding that it’s not going to be same. COVID is not going to go away.''
Yeah, we know.
Before hospitals can schedule non-urgent surgeries, they will need clearance from Governor Charlie Baker, who ordered medical centers to cancel "nonessential elective procedures'' on March 15. Hospitals have seen declines of at least 50 percent in admitted patients and even steeper drops in outpatient appointments.
We got a real live dictator over here in Ma$$achu$etts!
There are financial considerations, too — hospitals can go without these patients, a critical source of revenue, only for so long before they have to make deep cuts, but even when the state allows routine medical to care to resume, hospitals are likely to open back up to patients at different rates, depending on when their coronavirus surge in cases occurred.
That's the problem with the American health $y$tem. We are a wallet, a $ubject, and not a human being to them, and will be even less so with tele-medi¢ine.
“There is still a fair bit of uncertainty about when we will reach the peak,'' Peter Shorett, chief integration officer at Beth Israel Lahey Health, a 12-hospital system in eastern Massachusetts, said Tuesday.
Since then, the number of COVID-19 patients in the system has declined, though its largest hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, still had 172 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 Friday and another 70 awaiting test results.....
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I mentioned unintended consequences up above, and I can't help but wonder if the above article is not one of them. I don't remember the Rockefeller/Gates crowd foreseeing fearful distrust of the medical $y$tem. That's how myopic and full of themselves they are, and it's what is behind the pre-planned front-line heroes media campaign. The wizards above thought we would all be falling to our knees and be gratefully accessing hospitals to save us. Now we want to stay as far away from them as possible.
Of course, they will then COME TO YOU with a house call (hope you are armed) because "parents should not forgo the arsenal of effective shots already available for other highly infectious diseases such as measles, whooping cough, and mumps."
Yeah, you read that right. The Bo$ton Globe is literally waging war on your kids with its "arsenal" of shots.
Never mind those poisonous brews that they are injecting into the kids, and is it not “very surprising that they aren’t getting super-sick with this?”
And yet they are not being allowed to play with each other.
HOW EVIL!
TESTING, Continued from Page A1
things enough: testing, testing, and more testing,’’ Mayor Joseph Curtatone of Somerville told the Globe.
This guy believes “we cannot get ahead of this virus unless everybody — and I mean everybody — is tested,” even if we do not want to be.
The answer to the puzzle of why Somerville and Los Angeles could promise testing for all comers lies in differences in the size of Boston’s outbreak compared to the ones in those cities, as well as the fine-print of so-called universal testing.
Massachusetts, like other states across the country, has a finite number of tests and resources, including the lab supplies like cotton swabs and chemical reagents needed to administer them. Mayor Martin J. Walsh of Boston has frequently stressed the need for more tests.
“Ultimately, we’re going to need a strong federal commitment to get all the supplies we need to expand testing to all of Boston’s residents,” Walsh said in a statement. Instead of aiming for universal testing, the city said it has prioritized increasing testing capacity in some of the neighborhoods, like Hyde Park, Mattapan, and Dorchester, that have been hardest hit by the pandemic. Currently, Boston has 15 free testing sites; all require pre-screening and an appointment.
The same is true in most of Massachusetts. In addition to its site in Somerville, Cambridge Health Alliance opened a testing site in Malden this week where residents from that city and Everett could get tested, regardless of symptoms, but even in Chelsea, the city that has the highest rate of coronavirus infections in the state, free testing is available only to people who have symptoms.
A nurse at the Cambridge Alliance Hospital in Somerville administered coronavirus tests to patients on Tuesday. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)
You will have to line up below if you are from Chelsea.
“Universal testing is certainly a plan that I think anybody in public health would say is great if you can do that," said Laura White, an associate professor of biostatistics at Boston University, but, she said, “it’s very challenging — making sure you have enough supplies, that you have safe places to test people, that you have the lab capacity to do those tests.”
Because states have a limited number of tests, those facing a more limited outbreak have more tests to spread around to people who may not be symptomatic, said Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. That’s part of the story when comparing Los Angeles to Boston. As of Friday, Los Angeles County had reported 231 cases and 11 deaths per 100,000 people, according to data collected by The New York Times. Suffolk County, in contrast, has experienced 1,628 cases and 66 deaths per 100,000 people, a much higher rate. Somerville, too, has had a lower disease outbreak than Boston, with about 748 cases per 100,000, as opposed to 1,335 in the city of Boston.
“When you don’t have a big outbreak, it’s much, much easier to do universal testing, because you’re not using up all of your tests on people who are infected,” said Jha. In Boston, for example, "There’s so many people showing up at emergency rooms and calling up doctor’s offices with symptoms; those people are using up all the tests.”
BULL!
Another factor to consider is what exactly “universal testing” means. The reality is that both Los Angeles and Somerville don’t have enough tests for all of their residents to get tested tomorrow.....
As if anything in my paper has any connection at all to reality.
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By the time I got to page A10 I was too tired to read about the veterans at the soldier's home, but was roused a little for page A11:
"Lifting Restrictions: Across the globe, cities slowly emerging from quarantine face ‘new normal’" by Javier C. Hernández and Su-Hyun Lee New York Times, May 2, 2020
Worshipers at one of the largest Catholic churches in Seoul must refrain from singing hymns or saying “amen” for fear of spreading saliva. Priests sanitize their hands during communion. Holy water has been removed from the chapel.
“This should become the new normal from now on,” said Gong My-young, 53, who owns a tutoring school and attended Mass one night last week at Myeongdong Church in the South Korean capital. “We have to be ready for war.”
South Korea even has a name for the new practices: “everyday life quarantine.”
You mean it is NEVER COMING OFF?
I mean, the UN chief says the world should follow South Korea on COVID-19 fight so that they can ‘rebuild our world for the better.’
As cities in Asia, Australia, and elsewhere get their coronavirus outbreaks under control, churches, schools, restaurants, movie theaters, and even sporting venues are starting to open, creating a sense of normalcy for people who have spent weeks and even months in isolation, but they are returning to a world reimagined for the age of coronavirus, where social distancing, hygiene standards, and government-imposed restrictions are infused into nearly every activity — a way of life that is likely to persist until a vaccine or a treatment is found.
There they go jabbing at us again, and didn't they vanquish the virus down under?
Governments are trying keep the virus at bay while allowing enough room for economic and social activity to pick up again. Officials are testing new sanitation and social-distancing guidelines, like requiring masks on trains and buses and advising the public to avoid face-to-face interactions at work. There are mandatory temperature checks outside restaurants and malls.
Is that what they are doing by strengthening it by keeping us apart from each other and denying the population herd immunity?
The New York Times is the worst, and just when you think they can't get any worse....
Some governments are imposing limits on how many people can gather.....
Some governments?
How about MOST, assholes?!!!
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That was my last gasp as far as in-depth reading went as I flipped to page A12:
Misery of Italy’s migrants grows not from virus but lockdown
There they go again, waving women and children in your face for propaganda purposes. I never see Palestinian women or widows and orphans from the mass-murdering Wars for the Jews, so f**k off.
Right next to that article was this:
Who’s family in Italy?
The easing of the lockdown has raised questions which only the state can answer.
Page A13:
London bus drivers fear coronavirus risk
The New York Times reports that there are more than two dozen deaths of bus drivers, while the lower half of the page is an ad to keep the Arts in Bo$ton alive.
A14:
City workers, wearing protective face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, remove debris caused by a 5.4-magnitude earthquake, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Saturday, May 2, 2020. The quake hit near southern Puerto Rico, jolting many from their beds on an island where some people still remain in shelters from previous quakes earlier this year. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
They just reopened, too, and Do they even have power back from the hurricane yet, and how are they doing paying off the debts they owe to the hedge funds?
Director Shady Habash dies in custody
The Washington Post says he was jailed for making a video that mocked Egypt’s president, while the lower half of the page had an ad for this:
Peace promotion in a war paper! Has to be controlled opposition!
A15:
‘Murder hornets’ arrive in US for first time
It's New York Times buzz that completely ignores colony collapse disorder and the alleged pesticides that caused it (meaning the likely culprit is the GMOs) and instead we get a story that an Asian (Chinese) super-hornet is genociding the bees.
That gets me to page B1:
Rate of coronavirus deaths at Mass. long-term care facilities among highest in the nation
Is it COVID, naturally-occurring deaths, negligent care, or "mercy" killings?
Bristol County ICE detainees clash with guards over coronavirus testing
Yeah, let all the prisoners out to make room for no-mask and social-distancing scofflaws on page B2:
Two men arrested after gunshots fired near South Bay plaza
Boston man arrested after allegedly assaulting man with screwdriver
Man fatally shot in Chicopee, suspect arrested
Work on Cape’s Pilgrim Monument Elevator to Start in May
It's part of a historical project whose work can not be slowed by COVID-19.
Meanwhile, a line has formed in Chelsea on page B4 with landlords threatening eviction and food running short, so AG Healey helped dish things out, and the bottom half of the page was an ad by the Audubon Society to "hang in there."
The Globe's Local section started on page B9 and treated me to these gems:
Grand opening interrupted
For new businesses during pandemic, the road ahead is steep.
Newton mayor furloughs 91 part-time municipal employees
Not only that, the halt in construction has put them out of their homes.
Nonprofit hopes to turn two former Salem Catholic schools into housing
That's the Catholics preparing for war!
Trustees offer online ordering at four Greater Boston farms
Here is where they delivered it:
Feed the Fight Boston supports front-line workers, local restaurants
Health care workers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston thanked Feed the Fight Boston after receiving a delivery from Judith's Kitchen in Newton. (CAROLINE MOORE)
I thought that was the most offensive thing I'd seen in the Globe today, until I turned the page to B14 and say a FULL-PAGE ad for this:
Unbelievably, it's for the Bo$ton $peakers $eries, which are thought-provoking evenings of diverse opinions and world perspectives, and how about that wonderful genocidal fella with the nice smile on the far left there? He's appearing in October when everything will be back to "normal."
The first eight pages of the C-section are occupied by $ports, before the obituaries star and run for 24 pages worth of obituaries.
That takes me to the K-section:
"Bernie Sanders crashed, but his revolution will live on — if his supporters get real; Compromising would make the Left a more effective force in American politics" by David Scharfenberg Globe Staff
Yeah, get behind the guy and wing of the party who robbed him of the nomination twice.
"More colleges are making the SAT optional during the pandemic. Will it stick?" by Linda K.
Wertheimer
"Kamala Harris is Biden’s best choice for vice president; She’s a polished and effective campaigner who could credibly become president" by Michael A. Cohen Globe Columnist
Three-for-three so far.
"The dangerous new consensus: blame China; Why has the presidential campaign turned into a debate over which candidate is more virulently opposed to Beijing?" by Stephen Kinzer Contributor
"A beloved teacher dies from coronavirus. Unconscious bias in health care may have hastened her death" by Renée Graham Globe Columnist
She claims the failure to test is an indictment of this nation’s typical indifference to Black lives while senior White House staff are tested for the virus at least once a week.
Coronavirus could revitalize local democracy
The editorial says towns and cities have been forced to connect with the public in new ways and should learn from the experience, and if anything the lack of human contact is hurting democracy.
"Keep politicians’ names off relief checks, and everything else; Officials shouldn’t get to brand anything financed with public dollars" by Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist
He agrees with Nader, and I can't believe Trump thinks his name on the check is going to be good for him. He will be seen as the cause of their misery! Hoover-like! His response will be blame the governors, but the American people are going to look at that Chump-change pos and say "The governor's name is not on here, your's is. We will get him/her next time."
Alan Khazei is co-founder of the national service nonprofit City Year and a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Massachusetts’ 4th District, while John Bridgeland is CEO of Civic and former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and both are cofounders of Service Year Alliance along with General Stanley McChrystal and Shirley Sagawa and are simply accentuating the po$itive.
Something big is missing from the coronavirus bailouts: profit for taxpayers" by Scott Newsome
Scott Newsome is a Ph.D. candidate in politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A version of this article originally appeared on The Conversation
A celebration of life amid death by Sarah Parcak
The article has something to do with the ancient Egyptians, and Sarah Parcak is the author of “Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past.”
I'm wishing I could go back in time right about now.
What era, you say?
Any one but this one we are living in right now!
LATE AFTERNOON UPDATE:
Speaking of ancient history, this demonic cretin crawled out from his rock today:
"George W. Bush calls for end to pandemic partisanship" by Peter Baker New York Times, May 3, 2020
Former President George W. Bush called on Americans on Saturday to put aside partisan differences, heed the guidance of medical professionals and show empathy for those stricken by the coronavirus and the resulting economic devastation.
(It's a palm-to-forehead moment at warp speed, ladies and gentlemen. That lying, blood-soaked sack of shit calling for empathy for those stricken.)
In a three-minute video message, Bush, who rarely speaks out on current events, struck a tone of unity that contrasted with the more combative approach taken at times by President Donald Trump as the former president evoked the sense of national solidarity in the wake of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
You talk about making someone sick and wanting to puke!
“Let us remember how small our differences are in the face of this shared threat,” Bush said in the professionally produced video set against music and photographs of medical workers helping victims of the virus and of ordinary Americans wearing masks. “In the final analysis, we are not partisan combatants. We are human beings, equally vulnerable and equally wonderful in the sight of God. We rise or fall together and we are determined to rise.”
George W. Bush Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
What you are reading and seeing there is pure, Satanic evil.
Bush’s message was part of a series of videos aired online as part of a 24-hour live-streamed project, “The Call to Unite,” that also featured Oprah Winfrey, Tim Shriver, Julia Roberts, Martin Luther King III, Sean Combs, Quincy Jones, Naomi Judd, Andrew Yang and others.
The jig is up!
Look at all the elites in the same tub!
F**k them!
Former President Bill Clinton also delivered a message, speaking into a camera in what looked like a video chat from his home. “We need each other, and we do better when we work together,” he said. “That’s never been more clear to me as I have seen the courage and dignity of the first responders, the health care workers, all the people who are helping them to provide our food, our transportation, our basic services to the other essential workers.”
Is the server still in the basement, rapist?!!
Where is #MeToo when you really, really need them?
Related:
"Biden’s team remains unconcerned about any significant political blowback from Tara Reade’s accusation. Top Biden aides are telling allies that they do not see the allegation resonating with voters in a measurable way, these people say. They’re confident that the allegation will not shake voters’ perceptions of Biden’s character as a devoted father and husband, with family ties forged through deep tragedies. They also believe that voters will view the allegation with great skepticism....."
Yeah, Joe Biden for president — even if accused of sexual assault.
I think we all know who the nominee is going to be, don't you?
Things will go from horrible to even worse.
Trump has declined to call on his predecessors to help bring the country together during the pandemic, which has claimed more than 66,000 lives in the United States and put more than 30 million people out of work. Past presidents made a point of enlisting former occupants of the White House from both parties in times of crisis to demonstrate national resolve and unity.
The mass murder of millions based on lies and the 9/11 false flag atrocity came from the devil that is W Bush is somehow forgotten, as is the financial collapse on his watch. They were able to ride it out for 10 years by endle$$ly printing money, but we are at the end of that now.
Bush recruited his father, former President George Bush, and Clinton to respond to a devastating tsunami in Asia and then to Hurricane Katrina. President Barack Obama asked the younger Bush and Clinton to respond to an earthquake in Haiti.
All the Haitians got out of the billions raised was a nice hotel for Bill Clinton on his overnight stays. The rest disappeared.
In his video message Saturday, Bush recalled the difficult days after Sept. 11. “Let us remember, we have faced times of testing before,” he said as images flashed on the screen of him comforting relatives of those killed in the attacks. “Following 9/11, I saw a great nation rise as one to honor the brave, to grieve with the grieving and to embrace unavoidable new duties, and I have no doubt, none at all, that this spirit of service and sacrifice is alive and well in America.”
BARF!
Bush also called for compassion, a trait that Trump has largely eschewed during the pandemic in favor of demonstrating what he considers strength and optimism. “Let us remember that empathy and simple kindness are essential powerful tools of national recovery,” Bush said, and he added: “Let’s remember that the suffering we experience as a nation does not fall evenly.”
What an excretable piece of shit that should burn in hell with his father.
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Related:
China hid coronavirus’ severity to hoard supplies
Yeah, that is why they are shipping them to Italy and England and that makes one wonder how Jared Kushner and Bob Kraft got a hold of such supplies. You know, one key to successful propaganda is a modicum of consistency within a relatively short time frame. These marketing wizards they have hired to write the stuff really suck.
Of course, I'm sure the lying, mass-murdering, torture-authorizing, war criminal George W. Bush will be falling in line and "supporting the troops" -- even though his lies maimed and killed thousands -- in the war against China.
Also see:
Mass. death toll from coronavirus crosses 4,000; 1,824 new cases reported
The new numbers come as Worcester says it will fine a church pastor for holding a service with more than 10 people -- a clear violation of the First Amendment.
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NEXT DAY UPDATES:
I am adding this addendum because some questions posed above were in fact answered this morning.
Picking up where we left off immediately above and working upwards, state officials are saying they are “working, as hard as we can, to effectively slow the spread and save lives,” -- and yet the numbers completely belie the strategy! We are getting worse, not better! If you believe in rot gut propaganda and bogus models, anyway. Baker and Walsh's policy of house arrest has failed if the reported numbers are to be believed!
The companion piece, an above the fold feature, is even more outrageous. They need a drop of your DNA, 'er, blood so they can test for antibodies (yeah, right). Even if you are positive from the little pin prick you are still not immune, and “right now, we’re really flying blind." You guys SHUT DOWN a WORLD and destroyed an economy over that, you criminal bastards!
I know that supposedly makes me some sort of white nationalist (I do like the signs), but consider the source: the divi$ive, $upremaci$t jew media! They specialize in misleading, and the unfortunate fact is it is the government and Zioni$t jewry that are behind the creation and funding of such extremists so they can funnel everything to the "center."
The Globe put this reprehensible creature and his collaborators up again as well. Remember the flak Ellen took, and rightfully so? Hey, it's a war criminals world, that's for sure. My printed paper gratefully buried him in a brief under the police state that he advanced greatly with the inside job, false flag atrocity on that fateful September morning (Expect more cops going off on social distancing violations, folks, as this place rapidly descends to beyond the Soviet Union (Did Trump tell him to f**k off in that?).
Not that I'm big on the President of the United States right now. He just returned from a weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland and he's looking to pick a fight with China, who "reported only two new cases and saw a surge in visitors to newly reopened tourist spots after domestic travel restrictions were loosened ahead of a five-day holiday that runs through Tuesday, with nearly 1.7 million people visited Beijing parks on the first two days of the holiday, and Shanghai’s main tourist spots welcomed more than 1 million visitors, according to Chinese media," and he's all on board with the forced vaccinations. For us, not for him and his. That's how it is going to be; Gates won't be getting on of his toxic potions, nor will any of the other ruling cla$$ members. They will have freedom of movement and some privacy; we won't, and we will all be biking like the Chinese.
While on the topic of WWIII, this is what the United States and its allies need to do RIGHT NOW (listen up Trump, Pompeo, Kushner, and the neocon globe-kickers)! First, secure Venezuelan oil. You will need the gas pump. Next, use NATO to open up a 3,000-mile front against Russia, from the Arctic to the Caspian. That will tie up the Russians and show that Hitler dude how it is done (as well as Napoleon). Then use our Middle East allies to drive into the soft underbelly that is Iran and up into Russia while at the same time driving up through Southeast Asia and landing on the beaches of North Korea. That will keep the Chinese tied up, and eventually the Russians and Chinese will be headed into Siberia where they can be safely nuked. It's a fool-proof plan, guys, but you gotta move now, right now.
I mean, what would W do?
Meanwhile, below the Globe fold, the child care people are complaining about Baker's order, and one of my questions regarding unintended consequences has been answered upon the turn-in: The emergency child-care programs are empty! The state expected to be flooded with children in need, and Governor Charlie Baker said last week it’s not clear why the centers aren’t being used.
I think it is quite clear, and as noted above, they didn't plan on parents avoided the pharmaceutical poisons they call shots and all of us avoiding the hospitals. The out-of-touch elitists thought we would be running into our own chains and slavery will heralding those that put us there.
Baker just can't figure it out, huh?
Well, let me help you, gov.
WE DON'T TRUST YOU!
That clear enough?
