"Baker says indoor dining can resume at restaurants Monday. Some owners and customers are wary" by Travis Andersen, Janelle Nanos, Anissa Gardizy and Steve Annear Globe Staff, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, June 19, 2020
Governor Charlie Baker said Friday that restaurants in Massachusetts can begin offering indoor dining on Monday as the state’s gradual reopening continues amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The reaction from restaurant owners and diners was a mix of relief, surprise, and concern about health and safety issues. Even after Baker’s latest move to ease restrictions, it is clear that dining out will not see a return to normal any time soon.
Not if they have anything to say about it. The citizenry has to all out revolt and stop with the stupid submissions regarding masks and social distance, and I don't see us up to it. Too much divi$ivene$$ being driven by evil, nefarious string-pullers.
Baker said restaurant tables indoors will have to be at least 6 feet apart, though there won’t be a capacity limit. Party sizes will be limited to six people, and bar seating will be prohibited, he said at his regular State House briefing.
No more bars?
I weep for the youth, and talk about a motivation for protest! No more partying when you are likely to suffer asymptomatically as a result of infection, thus providing you with a lifetime of defense and immunity. The same people who saddled you with odious student loan debt now want to take away your fun after putting you out of work!
“We’re moving in the right direction as we continue our gradual reopening,” Baker said. He urged all residents to continue social distancing, wearing masks in public, practicing good hygiene, and monitoring for symptoms. “We should keep in mind that COVID doesn’t take the summer off.”
Enjoy the summer psy-op, my fellow citizens.
For Bob Luz, president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, indoor dining could not have come soon enough. “We have had the entire spring season to lay out our dining rooms — people knew it was going to look different,” he said. Luz said the biggest hurdle to reopening will be restocking kitchens. “All of the suppliers lost millions and millions of dollars when we shut down with two days of notice — we have to resupply that,” Luz said.
After all that food was wasted, too.
Brighter days ahead, right?
Not a dark winter or anything.
Employees at Ariana Restaurant, a family-owned Afghani eatery in Brighton, began preparing the space for indoor dining as soon as they heard the news from the governor on Friday. Co-owner Baheja Rostami said, “Some are really eager to come back, and some say they are not coming until we get a [vaccine], which I get.”
I don't want that selection off the menu.
Baker’s announcement on Friday was a surprise for some restaurant owners. Tony Maws, chef-owner of Craigie on Main in Cambridge, is not planning to reopen yet for outdoor or indoor dining and will continue to do takeout orders until “there’s a lot more clarity from a health standpoint, safety standpoint, and from a financial standpoint,” he said.
Maws said for many restaurant owners, the “math doesn’t work” to reopen indoors right now at reduced capacity, as they’d need to pay the capital costs to reconfigure tables or install plexiglass, and then account for all the additional protective equipment needed for their staff.
For others, it is the only math that does work:
"The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out roughly one quarter of the state’s restaurants, according to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. Bob Luz, the president and chief executive of the restaurant group, has said this number could climb higher as the pandemic continues to take a toll on the food industry. On Friday, Governor Charlie Baker announced the state’s restaurants can begin offering indoor dining, with certain restrictions, on Monday, June 22, and while revenues have fallen, the bills keep coming — Luz has said that 50 percent of the restaurants he’s surveyed said they did not get a break on their rent. Luz said the closures will likely impact downtown Boston at a higher rate than other communities around the state because of the high restaurant density and lack of normal customer-traffic drivers, including business travel, colleges, sports, and tourism. “I think you are going to see some restaurants not even try to reopen because they realize they would lose money,” he said, “and once we reopen, how many restaurants will try to get going, but then can’t?” The coronavirus pandemic has already caused some restaurants to close their doors. This week, Harvard Square’s Café Pamplona closed after 62 years, due largely to the absence of students who make up nearly 90 percent of its customer base. Jamaica Plain’s Bella Luna & The Milky Way will close because of the effects of COVID-19, too. “These are people that have put their heart and soul into their communities, businesses, and employees,” Luz said. “They are not able to survive this pandemic and it is heartbreaking.”
I led with that yesterday in what became an extremely lengthy post as I clean up the drafts, and the above links are why I'm angry. Baker and Walsh took more than livelihoods and fun away from us; they destroyed dreams in the service of sick psychopaths so they could destroy the middle-class lifeblood of this country and turn us into the 21st-century Soviet Union. May God damn them all to hell where I once thought I would be waiting for them to digest their innards, but now I am not so sure. Will resisting the mark on the beast guarantee your entry to heaven? is that what the rapture might be, a blood-filled orgy of mass-murder conducted by corrupted politicians and the genocidal control-freaks for which they front?
Found the Luz article way back in the bu$ine$$ $ection, and I will get to the supermarket later in this post. Time to clear the table.
Maws has been lobbying Baker to provide more financial assistance to restaurants through the Massachusetts Restaurants United group, and many would-be patrons also expressed hesitation at the thought of dining indoors.
They didn't get a PPP bailout, and who does the Globe talk to? Thomas Levenson, a 61-year-old Brookline resident and an author and professor of science writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Of course, he was the only one in the place after they scanned him in so.....
Meanwhile, Will Gilson, owner of Puritan & Co., said establishing trust will be key to attracting and retaining customers for in-person dining. “We want to make sure when we pour a draft beer or shake a cocktail over ice, that when it gets to the table, the guests don’t think twice about taking a sip,” he said.....
I just poured the rest of it out, sorry, and the youth seem to have no problem with that even as they are excoriated far and wide by authority and ma$$ media.
Children and adults gathered on a crowded Salisbury Beach on Friday (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)
No masks, and I don't blame them. The tan line would make you look stupid!
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How about the still shot for the video at the end.
I know see why the reporters stopped criticizing him and maybe I should bite my tongue.
Holy shit!
Our death toll, the nursing homes, oooooooooh.
Directly below that right-hand corner lead was this:
"In reopening debate, economics prevails over science, but we risk another big hit to businesses if we don't protect public health" by Larry Edelman Globe Staff, June 19, 2020
Yeah, forget about the lead in the water, the chemical poisons in the consumer products, the chemtrails in the air, the befoulment
The photos were something of a shock: people crowding outside bars and restaurants and in parks, ignoring social distancing rules, many not wearing masks.
I just spoke of the self-appointed social police devils.
This wasn’t Georgia or Lake of the Ozarks, places where folks aggressively led the charge to reopen the economy. This was New York, where the coronavirus has exacted its most deadly toll, and the message was as clear as the uncovered faces in the photos: The great tug-of-war between science and economics was over. The country — not just red states where skepticism about the danger of coronavirus runs high — is going back to work and back to socializing, even at the risk of fueling a pandemic that is still not under control.
$ince f**king when?
Yes, when money talks, epidemiology takes a walk, even in hard-hit Massachusetts, but in reality we’re in the first phase of a high-stakes clinical trial with nearly 330 million test subjects. Many — including Black and Hispanic Americans, people over 65, and those with preexisting health conditions — are especially vulnerable during this experiment.
Baker failed -- or succeeded spectacularly per his role!
Btw, the Globe has no connection to reality given that is has openly come out as an agenda-pushing piece of propaganda and nothing more. The current crises have exposed their hand as such.
So far the results are inconclusive. We need to proceed with caution.
The end of stay-at-home orders and other restrictions has given the economy a modest boost. As businesses reopen, furloughed and laid-off employees are returning to work, while others are finding new jobs. Consumer spending has bounced partially back from the lows reached in April.
New jobs?
Where, and if so, why so many millions filing for unemployment every week?
In Massachusetts, employers added 58,600 jobs last month, led by gains in construction, hospitality and leisure, and health and education, according to federal data released Friday.
Oh, great news!
Of course, we are climbing out of a giant hole. The improvement here is modest compared with some states that opened up much earlier than Massachusetts, including Alabama, Arizona, and Georgia. These states have something else in common: COVID-19 infections are on the rise in each of them, but others, including Indiana, Kentucky, and Mississippi, have resumed more normal routines without seeing a spike.
We will be lucky to get another couple of weeks of freedom at this rate. They will shut it all down again after we celebrate freedom on the 4th of July (oh, the irony. Maybe we should change the National Day of Independence to May Day instead. After all, with the monuments coming down and history being erased from the cultural and collective consciousness, that should be scrapped, too).
Massachusetts, at least the eastern half, is a lot different than those more rural states. More of us live in densely packed housing and neighborhoods, ride subways and commuter rail, and come into contact with more tourists and business travelers. That makes everything harder.
AWWW!
Poor city dweller!
“The economic toll of the virus is closely tied to how successfully we can get the public health pandemic under control,” Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in the text of a speech to a virtual meeting Friday of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce.
Have you noticed that the only sector that wasn't hit with infection was the banking $ector?
“If there are significant flare-ups in states that have aggressively reopened, the reduction in social distancing that contributes to stronger economic performance in such states now may translate to more depressed economic activity and increased public health issues in those states in the future,” he said.
Rosengren’s takeaway: “Given the death toll of the virus even with the economic lockdown, I see a substantial risk in reopening too fast and relaxing social distancing too much.” A return to work is good news only if done “safely and on a sustained basis,” he said.
That is so they have time to re$et everything, the evil f**ks.
As if on cue, Apple said a few hours later that it will close its stores in Arizona, as well as in Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina, after watching the number of infections there rise.
As if on cue(!), Apple closes stores as infection rates soar in certain regions and even the Carolinas have also experienced an uptick, based on the John Hopkins data.
Did you notice that ALL the states where CASES are RISING are REPUBLICAN when it comes to the electoral college?
Wake up, Mr. President!
On Thursday, California, which was the first state to impose a stay-at-home order, reported more than 4,000 new COVID-19 cases, a daily record. Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the use of masks in most indoor and some outdoor settings. Meanwhile, China has put millions of people in lockdown in Beijing after a resurgence there.
You better get out of California as quick as you can, and China has once again won the battle.
The economy won’t gain even a semblance of normalcy until enough people believe it’s safe to go back out into the world. Everyone should make their own decisions, but they need to be informed decisions.
Hugging the gun will help.
The facts we need to make those decision won’t be forthcoming from restaurants, retailers, airlines, vacation resorts, and everyone else desperate to get back to business.
No, for that we need the scientists.....
Of cour$e, he means the $cienti$ts in the employ of the genocidal globali$t mon$ters pushing all this.
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Located below that was this:
"Five words from Phillies managing partner John Middleton at the end of a press release announcing that five of his players and three staff members had tested positive for COVID-19 underscored that there are no guarantees for the return of professional sports in the United States in 2020....."
He says it’s too early to know and there’s still no clear path for conducting a season, so I'm glad I wasn't expecting any return of $ports. It's all talk and distraction for the summer with a gut punch for the fall. The above article continues on page C2, and that is how I'm going to reward myself after this post. Reading the $ports.
So what, pray tell, are the pre$$titute $cienti$ts saying today?
"Coronavirus infections continue to surge in Florida, where health officials Friday reported another single-day record in confirmed cases. According to the Florida Department of Health, 3,822 more people have tested positive for the virus, bringing the state’s total number of infections close to 90,000 as of Friday afternoon. Florida’s seven-day average in new cases was up 59 percent over the previous seven days. More than 3,100 Floridians have died in the pandemic. The new figures amplify concerns that Florida could become a new epicenter for COVID-19 as it spreads in areas that were largely spared in the early months of the outbreak. Florida has posted multiple record daily highs in new cases in the past week, including Thursday, when the state reported 3,207 new infections. Governor Ron DeSantis has attributed the spike in new cases to an expansion of testing, though health experts have said this alone probably does not fully explain such a sharp increase. The governor has also blamed the rise in part on outbreaks among migrant workers, an assertion that some officials have called inaccurate. In a news conference Friday, DeSantis and hospital officials said hospitals were prepared to handle a potential influx of patients. The governor also stressed that the state had seen a “dramatic decline” in the average age of coronavirus patients."
Look at the deceptive language and qualifiers loaded into the "news report." Even the good governor wants to get you kids back inside.
"Arizona’s count of confirmed COVID-19 cases has surged again, setting the third record in four days for daily high numbers of new cases. The state Department of Health Services reported 3,246 additional cases on Friday, increasing the statewide total to 46,689. Arizona has also reported 1,312 deaths from the virus, including 41 reported on Friday. The state has become a national coronavirus hot spot since Governor Doug Ducey lifted stay-home orders last month. Ducey on Wednesday reversed himself and allowed local governments to mandate use of face masks in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Tucson and Flagstaff are among cities that have imposed mandates, and the Phoenix City Council planned Friday to consider imposing one."
This is so the lying $cientists can claim the heat isn't cooking away a coronavirus like it always has. That's when I was really alerted to the depth of deception by certain doctors and health officials in my pre$$. The governor there caved, so Arizona is no sanctuary. You will have to move to Brazil, Belarus, or Sweden, I gue$$.
Speak of the devils:
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that the US death toll from the novel coronavirus could rise to as high as 145,000 by July 11, meaning as many as 26,000 Americans could die in the next few weeks. This latest forecast was made from 21 individual predictions across the country, according to the CDC. The forecast suggests the death toll could be between 129,000 and 145,000. In some states, the number of deaths over the next four weeks are predicted to rise, including in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, South Carolina, and Utah, the CDC said. In other states, the death rate is predicted to remain flat or slightly decrease. As of Friday, at least 116,000 US residents who contracted COVID-19 have died."
Amidst all that, the idiot and criminal governor of New York is throwing the doors open:
"For 111 consecutive days, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has directly addressed the residents of his state — and people around the country — about the threat of the novel coronavirus, the strain on health-care systems and the economy, and the toll the disease has taken on American lives. On Friday, Cuomo delivered his final daily briefing and announced formally that New York City, once the pandemic’s epicenter, would enter Phase 2 of its reopening plan on Monday. “Over the past three months we have done the impossible,” Cuomo said. “We are controlling the virus better than any state in the country, and any nation on the globe.… I am so incredibly proud of what we all did together and as a community. We reopened the economy and we saved lives — because it was never a choice between one or the other. It was always right to do both, but COVID isn’t over,” Cuomo said. “We have to watch out for a second wave.” As the state slowly reopens, the governor said officials are watching out for the possibility of infections coming from other states."
Can the Democratic nomination be far behind?
He didn't save lives! He ordered nursing homes to take COVID patients and started a brush fire!
Disney cancels Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party in 2020
One can only wonder why they are cancelling events so far in advance.
The 'Crow must be right:
"..... At this juncture in time I cannot see any salvation on the horizon. The hammer will fall next Fall. They've told us it will. When the hammer falls, hopefully some of the younger generation will finally wake up...in time to preserve some tiny pocket of free humanity somewhere on this planet. A new "Eden". That's about all we can hope for....."
I strongly recommend starting at the top and winding your way through the scenario she sketches out. So much of it seems bizarre and "out there,"yet, it makes perfect sense, for if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains - however improbable - must be the truth.
One thing we do know, that is not what you will find below in these reports:
[Before continuing, I would just like to provide anecdotal story regarding a brief excursion into the outside world that I made at this point in the post before coming back. In a nutshell, the onerous oppression and regulations are already being ramped up again from what I saw. One way aisle signs where there were none a week ago. Make are mandatory for store entry everywhere. This mind-fuck nightmare is never going to end. On the flip side, I did see a crowd of teenage girls parking their car to go somewhere, swimming I presumed from the look of them, and they were no masks and no distance. Gotta love 'em. They are the saviors of us all, if we are to be saved.]
Now that I have returned, I will continue:
"The coronavirus pandemic is interrupting immunization against diseases including measles, polio, and cholera that could put the lives of nearly 80 million children under the age of 1 at risk, according to a new analysis from the World Health Organization. In a new report issued on Friday, health officials warned that more than half of 129 countries where immunization data were available reported moderate, severe, or total suspensions of vaccination services during March and April. UNICEF reported a significant delay in planned vaccine deliveries due to lockdown measures and a dramatic reduction in the number of available flights. More than 40 of Africa’s 54 nations have closed their borders, though some allow cargo and emergency transport. Officials also noted that 46 campaigns to vaccinate children against polio have been suspended in 38 countries, mostly in Africa, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Measles campaigns have been suspended in 27 countries."
Going to make a hut call, and it looks like the Africans have finally caught on as the death toll rises because of the easing of lockdowns. I'm told there is no leader, no plan, but we know that isn't true. They have shown their hand and it was filled with billions before the virus tracing and vaccine testing began.
Now GET THIS: On April 23, 2020, the New York Times declared that governments had gotten lucky because the coronavirus had quieted global protest movements!
I guess that was then and this is now, so maybe we should all get our information from some other source, and not official authorities or their agent provocateurs.
"The World Health Organization is changing its recommendations for the use of masks during the coronavirus pandemic and is now recommending that in areas where there is widespread transmission, people should wear masks when social distancing is not possible, such as on public transport and in shops. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said people over age 60 or those with underlying medical conditions should wear a medical mask in situations where social distancing cannot be maintained. WHO has previously recommended that only health care workers, those sickened by COVID-19, and their caregivers wear masks. Tedros emphasized that “masks on their own will not protect you from COVID-19” and emphasized the importance of hand-washing, social distancing, and other measures. He added that health workers in areas with widespread transmission should now wear medical masks in all areas of health facilities and not just those with confirmed COVID-19 patients, saying that doctors working in cardiology or other wards, for example, should continue to wear a medical mask even if there are no known coronavirus patients."
The mask is now about more than COVID-19 and infection; it is now a SIGN of COMPLETE SUBMISSION to the NEW COVID ORDER!
"The head of the World Health Organization warned that the coronavirus pandemic is worsening globally, even as the situation in Europe is improving. At a press briefing on Monday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that about 75 percent of cases reported to the United Nations health agency on Sunday came from 10 countries in the Americas and South Asia. He noted that more than 100,000 cases have been reported on nine of the past 10 days — and that the 136,000 cases reported Sunday was the biggest number so far. Tedros said most countries in Africa are still seeing an increase in cases, including in new geographic areas even though most countries on the continent have fewer than 1,000 cases. “At the same time, we’re encouraged that several countries around the world are seeing positive signs,” Tedros said. “In these countries, the biggest threat now is complacency.”
And hunger, as the UN is now warning that 1 in 8 people could die of starvation during the 2020-2021 fall and winter period.
Someone better call the Red Cross:
"The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross said it has recorded 208 COVID-19-related attacks against health workers and installations in 13 countries since March, a striking contrast to the cheers and clapping in gratitude for their work in many nations. Peter Maurer said health workers are being attacked and abused and health systems are being targeted at a time when they are most needed. “The COVID-19 crisis is fast threatening to become a protection crisis,’’ he told the UN Security Council. Maurer told reporters the Red Cross compiled data from 13 countries in the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, the Americas, and Africa where it operates, and it’s “likely the actual numbers are much higher than what we calculated.”
They didn't like the dance videos or mocking of the Last Supper?
"The head of the World Health Organization said the coronavirus pandemic is “accelerating” and that more than 150,000 cases were reported yesterday, the highest single-day number so far. In a media briefing on Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly half of the newly reported cases were from the Americas, with significant numbers from South Asia and the Middle East. “We are in a new and dangerous phase,” he said, warning that restrictive measures are still needed to stop the pandemic. “Many people are understandably fed up with being at home (and) countries are understandably eager to open up their societies,” but Tedros warned that the virus is still “spreading fast” and that measures like social distancing, mask wearing, and hand-washing are still critical. He noted that the toll would be especially great on refugees, of whom more than 80 percent live in mostly developing nations."
Being anti-migrant has become a self-fulfilling prison. You can't get out now, and yet the migrants keep coming.
Here is the flip side of Tedros:
"United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic has exposed how fragile societies are but that if governments work together on common challenges, including global warming, it can be an opportunity to “rebuild our world for the better.” Speaking at a two-day international meeting on climate change, the UN chief said the only effective response to the worldwide health emergency is ‘‘brave, visionary, and collaborative leadership.” He urged the European Union to show “global leadership” by presenting updated emissions reduction plans by the end of the year that would put Europe on course to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, but Guterres added that other big emitters also have to come on board, noting that the Group of 20 major developed and emerging economies together account for more than 80 percent of global emissions. “The Paris Agreement was largely made possible by the engagement of the United States and China,” he said, referring to a 2015 climate accord. “Without the contribution of the big emitters, all our efforts will be doomed.” Under President Trump, the United States has moved to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which commits to keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) by the end of the century. “These are dark days, but they are not without hope,” Guterres said. “We have a rare and short window of opportunity to rebuild our world for the better.”
"Secretary General Antonio Guterres is recommending that the annual gathering of world leaders in late September, which was supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, be dramatically scaled back because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Guterres suggested in a letter to the president of the General Assembly that heads of state and government deliver prerecorded messages instead, with only one New York-based diplomat from each of the 193 UN member nations present in the General Assembly Hall. Assembly President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande has said a decision on the annual gathering will be made after consultations with UN member states. The meeting of world leaders usually brings thousands of government officials, diplomats, and civil society representatives to New York for over a week of speeches, dinners, receptions, one-on-one meetings, and hundreds of side events. This year was expected to bring an especially large number of leaders to UN headquarters to celebrate the founding of the UN in 1945 on the ashes of World War II, but New York has been an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic with more than 190,000 cases and nearly 16,000 confirmed deaths."
We will be deep into the second wave by then. That is what they are telegraphing there, per simulation script.
"UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged governments, civil society, and health authorities to urgently address mental health needs arising from the pandemic, warning that psychological suffering is increasing. The UN chief said in a video message launching a policy briefing that “after decades of neglect and under-investment in mental health services, the COVID-19 pandemic is now hitting families and communities with additional mental stress.” Guterres said those most at risk and in need of help are front-line health care workers, older people, adolescents, young people, those with preexisting mental health conditions, and those caught up in conflict and crisis. The 17-page UN briefing cited widespread psychological distress from the immediate health aspects of the virus, the consequences of physical isolation, fear of infection, dying, and losing family members, physical distancing from loved ones and peers, and economic turmoil. “Frequent misinformation and rumors about the virus and deep uncertainty about the future are common sources of distress,” it said."
Who could be ham$tringing them?
"The WHO’s operations have been crippled since late last year as a result of actions by the Trump administration, and the pandemic “is the worst shock to global trade that has happened in our lifetimes,” said Josh Lipsky, director of the global business and economics program at the Atlantic Council, a research organization in Washington....."
I was just wondering who is the Atlantic Council?
Is there a Pacific Council, too?
"Meanwhile, the European Union on Saturday urged President Trump to rethink his decision to terminate the US relationship with the World Health Organization as spiking infection rates in India and elsewhere reinforced that the pandemic is far from contained. Trump on Friday charged that the WHO didn’t respond adequately to the pandemic and accused the UN agency of being under China’s “total control.” The United States is the largest source of financial support for the WHO, and its exit is expected to significantly weaken the organization....."
We funds for ourselves, no, and as usual Trump backed down.
"As coronavirus cases surge in states across the South and West of the United States, health experts in countries with falling case numbers are watching with a growing sense of alarm and disbelief, with many wondering why virus-stricken US states continue to reopen and why the advice of scientists is often ignored. ‘‘It really does feel like the US has given up,’’ said Siouxsie Wiles, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand — a country that has confirmed only three new cases over the last three weeks and where citizens have now largely returned to their pre-coronavirus routines. Meanwhile, President Trump maintains that the United States will not shut down a second time, although a surge in cases has persuaded governors to walk back their opposition to mandatory face coverings in public. Commentators and experts in Europe, where cases have continued to decline, voiced concerns over the state of the US response. A headline on the website of Germany’s public broadcaster read: ‘‘Has the US given up its fight against coronavirus?’’ Switzerland’s conservative Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper concluded, ‘‘US increasingly accepts rising COVID-19 numbers.’’
At least we will reach herd immunity, and did you know the leader of New Zealand is a Sith?
King Charles once said South Korea was the model:
"South Korea has reported 49 cases of COVID-19 as the virus continues to spread in the densely populated capital area where half of the country’s 51 million people live. Figures released by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday brought the national caseload to 12,306 infections, including 280 deaths. It said 26 of the new cases came from capital, Seoul, and the nearby port city of Incheon. Seventeen of the new cases were linked to international arrivals. South Korea has been reporting around 30 to 50 new cases per day since late May, inspiring second-guessing on whether officials were too quick to ease social distancing guidelines in April after the country’s first wave of infections waned. Health authorities have been scrambling to stem transmissions in the greater capital area where cases have been linked to things like leisure and religious activities."
Well, he may have to back down there.
"A study by Italy’s National Institute of Health has found that the new coronavirus was in circulation in wastewater in the northern cities of Milan and Turin in December 2019, at least two months before the virus was confirmed to have spread locally in the population. The study, released Thursday, was based on 40 water samples collected as part of regular checks from sewage treatment plants in northern Italy from October 2019 to February 2020. It showed the virus that causes COVID-19 in Dec. 18 samples from Milan and Turin, while earlier samples were negative. The research has so far not linked any confirmed cases to the virus’ earlier presence, but researchers have proposed using the system to monitor the presence of the new coronavirus in water systems in a bid to help identify any possible new outbreaks."
What is the significance of a pre$$ article that buries the science with vague and inconclusive language?
It would appear that Covid infections were falling BEFORE the lockdowns!
That is why that particular brief was buried in the link.
Time to tear into this:
"A meat processing plant in West Yorkshire has been shut down amid a localized outbreak of COVID-19, the third such site to shut down in the United Kingdom in recent days. The shutdown of the Yorkshire plant follows further outbreaks in food processing sites in Anglesey and Wrexham in North Wales. Doctors and local officials in the community have expressed frustration at the announcement because they say they first learned about it when Health Secretary Matt Hancock mentioned “as cluster of cases’’ in the Kirklees area during the daily Downing Street news conference on Thursday."
That comes on top of the shutdown of Germany's largest slaughterhouse, so the famine looks like it will be worldwide and Nostradamus will be proven right (cannibalism is coming), but forget that, focus on race as we will all starve together later (you can eat your fellow human being because that's where we are soon headed).
Speaking of tho$e who devour:
"The Bank of England has apologized for the links some of its past governors had with slavery, as a global anti-racism movement sparked by the death of George Floyd forces many British institutions to confront uncomfortable truths about their pasts. The central bank called the trade in human beings “an unacceptable part of English history,” and pledged not to display any images of former leaders who had any involvement. The decision comes after two British companies on Thursday promised to financially support projects assisting minorities after being called out for past roles in the slave trade....."
$tarting to tran$ition away from the $cienti$ts as we whi$tle pa$t the graveyard:
"British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came out Friday in favor of England rugby fans singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” at a time when the historical context of the song is being reviewed. The song is believed to have its roots in American slavery, with its credited author being Wallace Willis — a freed slave from Oklahoma. Johnson, who is a rugby fan, was asked about the song during a visit to a school north of London....."
Why erase their own suffering and a great song?
So when do we start reviewing the Holoco$t™, hmmm?
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You skip across the pond and you land on our shores:
"New data released Friday by the Baker administration reveal the stark racial divide in Massachusetts surrounding illnesses and deaths from COVID-19, providing in more granular details just how significantly and disproportionately the virus has hit Black and Hispanic communities. Overall, the state data show, the rate of positive cases among Black and brown residents is more than three times that of white residents, but despite a state mandate in April that required labs and health care providers to report racial and ethnic information when testing residents, the latest state data show that crucial information is still missing on 35 percent of cases. The state’s COVID-19 Health Equity Advisory Group on Friday released recommendations to address the vast disparities....."
Oh, the $tate has new data!
Now where is that trash barrel?
(flip to below fold)
"Across Boston Friday, Juneteenth celebrations attracted crowds of celebrants and protesters demanding racial justice amid a pandemic that has staggered communities of color and a global uprising against police killings of Black Americans. Joy was in the air as crowds gathered to celebrate the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. At Ronan Park in Dorchester, the gathering had the feeling of a music festival, as the crowd listened to live performances and speakers. Two recently graduated MassArt students handed out block-printed patches emblazoned with the rallying cries “Defund the Police” and “#BLM.” Also on Friday, Boston Globe Editorial Page editor Bina Venkataraman interviewed Ibram Kendi, author of “The Black Campus Movement” and “How to Be an Antiracist,” about how to build an antiracist movement and his appointment to lead a new antiracism research center at Boston University....."
COVID-19 is a RACIST VIRUS with the $TENCH of HYPOCRI$Y!
Flipping the paper open you are met with the National lead:
"The Oklahoma Supreme Court Friday rejected an appeal of a lawsuit attempting to block President Trump from holding an indoor campaign rally here Saturday that many fear could worsen the spread of coronavirus, paving the way for the event to go on as planned. At least 359 new cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, were reported on Friday. That comes after Thursday’s report of a state-record 450 new cases, according to statistics on the Oklahoma State Department of Health website. Meanwhile, about a mile from the arena, thousands of people gathered Friday for the Juneteeth celebration in Greenwood, once known as Black Wall Street, where an estimated 300 Black residents were killed by a white mob in 1921. Celebrants painted ‘‘Black Lives Matter’’ on the street in yellow paint....."
He has a window of opportunity before it is quickly slammed shut:
"Veterans of the recent, fierce battles over immigration have expressed skepticism that the deeply divided lawmakers could reach consensus on broad immigration legislation in the months before the fall elections, and some Republicans were not optimistic. “Comprehensive immigration reform has never worked, at least not in the time I’ve been here,” Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, told reporters on Thursday. “So I think what we need to do is figure out how to take it in bite-size pieces and deal with it incrementally.”
$tatu$ quo benefits who?
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Across the country this week, supporters of the DACA program cheered the Supreme Court's ruling upholding it (SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images).
Across the country this week, supporters of the DACA program cheered the Supreme Court's ruling upholding it (SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images).
You can judge for yourself.
Trump let loose with some tweets:
"Twitter on Thursday evening took the rare step of appending a warning label to one of President Trump’s tweets after the company determined it violated its policies on manipulated media. The president tweeted a doctored version of a popular video that went viral in 2019 that showed two toddlers, one black and one white, hugging. The label is the latest flash point in a contentious debate over tech companies’ responsibility to police falsehoods and hoaxes spread by politicians on their platforms....."
He then went to the public airwaves:
"President Trump said Friday that the biggest risk to his re-election efforts is mail-in voting, which he claims is rife with fraud that could cost him a win in November. In an interview with Politico, Trump asserted that expanded absentee voting would hurt his candidacy. Democrats are pushing for more mail-in voting in response to the coronavirus, and in April, the president’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee launched a multimillion-dollar legal effort aimed at stopping them from altering voting laws across several states. “My biggest risk is that we don’t win lawsuits,” Trump told Politico. “We have many lawsuits going all over, and if we don’t win those lawsuits, I think — I think it puts the election at risk.” The coronavirus pandemic has upended the 2020 election, and Trump's criticism has raised questions about whether he would leave the office willingly if he loses....."
That's a near-cinch certainty right now (if there even is an election come November), and as for the ongoing and never-ending wars:
US troops in Afghanistan reduced to 8,600, general says
South’s unification minister resigns as Korean tensions rise
Navy upholds firing of carrier captain in virus outbreak
Judge weighs US bid to stop release of John Bolton’s book
Knock yourself out if you like good fiction, even if Bill Barr doesn't want you reading it.
"Protesters marched over the Brooklyn Bridge, chanted “We want justice now!” near St. Louis’s Gateway Arch, prayed in Atlanta, and paused for a moment of silence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, as Americans marked Juneteenth Friday with new urgency amid protests to demand racial justice. The holiday, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, is usually celebrated with parades and festivals but became a day of protest this year in the wake of nationwide demonstrations set off by George Floyd’s killing at the hands of police in Minneapolis. In addition to the traditional cookouts and readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, Americans of all backgrounds were marching and holding sit-ins or car caravan protests. Thousands of people gathered at a religious rally in Atlanta. Hundreds marched from St. Louis’s Old Courthouse, where the Dred Scott case partially played out, a pivotal one that denied citizenship to African-Americans but ended up galvanizing the antislavery movement. Protesters and revelers held signs and pushed baby strollers in Dallas, danced to a marching band in Chicago, and, in Detroit, registered people to vote and encouraged them to participate in the Census. “Now we have the attention of the world, and we are not going to let this slide,” said Charity Dean, director of Detroit’s office of Civil Rights, Inclusion and Opportunity. Events marking Juneteenth were planned in every major American city on Friday, although some were being held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic. At some events, like in Chicago and New York, participants packed together, though many wore masks; at others, masks were scarce....."
That's okay. They had permission from the $cienti$ts, which is why Cuomo didn't mention it.
Officer involved in shooting of Breonna Taylor is fired
They didn't knock before entering.
Also see:
Police foundation gives $500 bonuses to Atlanta officers
LSU removes segregationist name from campus library
Tourist commission to drop ‘Plantation Country’ slogan
Confederate obelisk removed from Georgia square amid cheers
Sob.
People will soon no longer know what a Rebel was.
I could say go back to Africa with tongue planted firmly in cheek but....
"The UN’s top human rights body agreed unanimously Friday to commission a UN report on systemic racism and discrimination against Black people while stopping short of ordering a more intensive investigation singling out the United States after the death of George Floyd sparked worldwide demonstrations. The Human Rights Council approved a consensus resolution following days of grappling over language after African nations backed away from their initial push for a commission of inquiry, the council’s most intrusive form of scrutiny, focusing more on the US. Instead, the resolution calls for a simple and more generic report to be written by the UN human rights chief’s office and outside experts. The aim is ‘‘to contribute to accountability and redress for victims’’ in the US and beyond, the resolution states. Advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the measure fell far short of the level of scrutiny sought by hundreds of civil society organizations, but nonetheless set the stage for an unprecedented look at racism and police violence in the United States — over the efforts of US officials to avoid the council’s attention — and showed even the most powerful countries could be held to account. Iran and Palestine signed on among the cosponsors for the resolution condemning “the continuing racially discriminatory and violent practices’’ by law enforcement against Africans and people of African descent “in particular which led to the death of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 in Minnesota,” it says. Any state can sign on as a resolution cosponsor. The approved text asks UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to examine governments’ responses to peaceful anti-racism protests and to report back."
The significance of the above, while not readily apparent from the confusing and vague terminology is the total loss of sovereignty regarding the U.S. court $y$tem to a higher, U.N. authority.
Do the idiot lefties out there tearing down society understand that? We are inching toward UN oversight, Americans, so WAKE UP! The language is opaque but that's what the above article means.
MAGA?
More like Make America Grovel Again. Only Israel will be immune from the U.N.
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Time to settle down in state:
Northeastern student journalists urge college to be more transparent, communicative
I have learned how $ick I am of reading $elf-$erving $hit pa$$ing it$elf of as new$.
Boston councilors propose diverting nonviolent 911 calls away from police
Let's hope the situation hasn't escalated by the time they get there. If they get there.
Ed Markey wins Cory Booker’s endorsement in race against Kennedy
Markey also looks like he has won the Globe's based on their coverage. They think Kennedy is a joke.
Either that, or that don't like the risk of another Kennedy nosing around in the Senate.
MIT researchers help discover first pattern of fast radio bursts in outer space
That's way out there, and I'm coming back down to Earth but whose Earth?
"A Boston man posed as a member of a wealthy Greek shipping family and defrauded investors out of more than $300,000, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said in a complaint filed in Boston federal court Thursday. The agency said Vassilios Trikantzopoulos has claimed to be the money manager overseeing more than $100 million of his family’s assets since at least 2015. Trikantzopoulos promised investors hefty profits if they contributed to his international real estate ventures or he’d return their money in full, the SEC said. Instead, Trikantzopoulos diverted tens of thousands of dollars for rent and other personal expenses, and failed to refund when his ventures didn’t pan out, the agency said. The SEC said Trikantzopoulos’s Boston-based businesses, Navis Ventures, also had no substantial assets or operations. The federal court case doesn’t list an attorney for Trikantzopoulos or his company, which is also not listed on Massachusetts’ corporations database. The SEC didn’t respond to an e-mail seeking more information (AP)."
This is the cop who arrested him:
"Ralph Marino, the town’s former police chief, pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge of enticing a child younger than 16 after authorities say he tried to meet with a young boy for sex. Marino, 63, was also ordered by a judge during his arraignment by videoconference to have no contact with minors. He’s due back in Leominster District Court in September. Authorities say Marino exchanged a series of explicit messages with a person he believed to be a 14-year-old boy on a social media app and then arranged to meet with the person to engage in sexual acts in April. Marino was instead confronted by an adult male and fled in a black SUV with Massachusetts license plates. A video of the encounter was posted on the YouTube channel “Predator Poachers Massachusetts.” Police reviewing the video determined that the SUV was registered to the Stow Police Department and that the man recorded in the encounter was Marino, the department said. Prosecutors say Marino admitted to investigators he’d set up the encounter, traveled to Leominster in his police cruiser, and deleted his phone messages, call logs, and social media apps afterward. Marino, a Lancaster resident appointed chief last September, resigned on April 22. The town police department has said it is “deeply disturbed, shocked and disgusted” by the alleged actions (AP)."
He tried to escape on foot, which was the death of him (what was he doing out of the house?).
"Mandatory face coverings for students and teachers and bus stop temperature scans are part of the back-to-school guidance issued by the Vermont Agency of Education for this fall.The guidance recommends that another adult ride the bus with the driver to assist with screenings, which would be done before students board. Both adults also must wear face coverings. Students would be assigned seats on the bus. Facial coverings may be removed during outdoor activities where students and staff can maintain physical distancing and have ready access to put them back as needed when the activities are over, according to the guidance. With cafeterias closed, students should be offered school meals in their classrooms, and if that’s not possible, grab-and-go carts could be made available for students to collect meals in small groups, the guidance said. Every school district and independent school “should establish a COVID-19 coordinator to establish, review and implement health and safety protocols,” the guidance says. That person “should be a school nurse or other health professional qualified to interpret guidelines and ensure they are implemented to the best standard of practice.” (AP)."
More like a prison than ever, and that is the People's Republic of Vermont.
Time to take it all off:
"Bella Vendetta spends her days trekking to the grocery store to buy bag after bag of food and other necessities. Most of her purchases aren’t for herself — they’re for her colleagues, other exotic dancers and sex workers in Western Massachusetts whose strip clubs are closed because of COVID-19. Many were barely surviving even before the pandemic hit, she said. She collects donations to benefit these dancers. Under Governor Charlie Baker’s plan to restart the economy, strip clubs cannot reopen until Phase 4, or July 20 at the earliest. That date is ambitious, given that it’s contingent on case data, and the development of treatments or vaccines for the virus, and once clubs reopen, industry workers expect restrictions on contact and capacity that could diminish dancers’ pay....."
That reminds me. I'm going to watch V for Vendetta this weekend since it strips bare the current narrative under which we are living. Having said that, I am not advocating destruction of any kind. What I will say, in opposition to the film, is TAKE OFF the MASKS!
A customer reached for boxes of tissue while shopping at Star Market in Marshfield in March (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/The Boston Globe).
At least they had the drugs you need.
AMC Theaters reverses course on masks after backlash
I will never, ever, go to a theater again, and the last Star Wars sucked, imho. Bringing back that old fart totally dissed the sacrifice of Vader. Wasn't that what the original and prequel was all about? The redemption of the father in saving his son (how sexist)?
Google loses appeal against $56 million fine in France
Better be careful. They will put a cur$e on you:
"Wall Street careened through all the forces that have pushed and pulled it through the week, at first rising on Friday amid hope for the economy and then falling on worries about worsening coronavirus levels in some states, all before ending with modest losses. The market swung was another example of how uncertainty is the dominant force over Wall Street as investors weigh budding improvements in the economy against worsening infection levels in the South and West. Also exacerbating volatility was Friday’s simultaneous expiration of contracts for stock options and futures, an occasional occurrence that can drive bouts of buying and selling and is known as “quadruple witching day.” “You’re seeing big moves off of very weak numbers,” said Quincy Krosby, chief market strategist at Prudential Financial. “What’s happening is the data are getting less bad.” Economists at Bank of America now expect the U.S. economy to shrink 5.7% this year, a severe contraction but not as bad as their earlier forecast for an 8.1% plunge....."
BoA said the “economic data continue to point to a faster and stronger initial recovery,” due to economic activity being pulled forward from what they had expected to occur next year, and the Federal Reserve also reminded markets this week how much it’s doing to prop up the economy as the worst-case scenario for investors is that more waves of coronavirus infections lead to additional business shutdowns, but even if widespread stay-at-home orders don't happen, the fear is that scared shoppers may still shy away from stores and businesses.
That's the bed they have made for themselves, so they will have to lie in it.
Good night and Good bye, readers. Have a good summer in what is likely the last quasi-normal one. By this time next year we will have already entered the technological dystopia the sick, control-freak globalists have designed for us. May God be with you.
