"Should you send your child back to school? The expert consensus leans toward ‘yes,’ with caveats" by Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff, September 13, 2020
That is the best argument against sending them: expert advice in an above-the-fold, front-page feature.
Is it safe to send children back into the classroom?
Amid ever-changing data about the still mysterious coronavirus, the decision becomes achingly personal, informed by a family’s tolerance for risk, faith in the school system, and such circumstances as whether a vulnerable person lives in the home.
WHAT?
Our lives were destroyed and altered forever based on ever-changing data about a still mysterious virus?
How stupid does the Globe think its readership is?
“There’s no handbook for how parents are supposed to do this,” said Dr. Joshua A. Barocas, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center and father of two young children. “For all of the parental handbooks we received, there wasn’t one that said, ‘What do you do with your kid during a pandemic?’”
What did they do with kids during all the other pandemics, seeing as the human race is here and thriving (to much consternation in certain circles)?
Btw, there is a handbook for all this. It's was written by the Rockefeller Foundation ten years ago and events are unfolding in LOCKSTEP with what they wrote.
That's how the Globe leads off its instruction. With deception and ill will.
Despite the uncertainty, experts consulted by the Globe say the latest scientific evidence skews strongly in favor of sending children to school — provided two conditions are met: Transmission of the virus should be low in the surrounding community, as is the case in most Massachusetts cities and towns; and the school system should be wholeheartedly adopting safety measures such as mandatory mask wearing, physical distancing, and opened windows or outdoor classrooms when feasible.
The latest evidence must be the two-month old study in Scandinavia as well as the recent German report, and think of the insanity of all that as cool weather comes. Leave the window open, kid gets a cold, 'er, COVID. This is deviously evil.
“There are these horror stories coming from parts of the country that are still having high transmission [of coronavirus],” said Dr. Silvia S. Chiang, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Rhode Island Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School. “I’m afraid people will look at those and say, ‘Oh no, we can’t reopen schools until we have a vaccine,’” but in fact, Chiang said, “If the community transmission of the virus is controlled, you can reopen schools safely. You should do it with precautions.”
Despite the evidence, the Wa$hington Compo$t is SCREAMING that TEACHERS are DYING (most of them had serious underlying health problems and were declared COVID positive by a faulty tests that produces false positives, etc, etc, but that's all erased from the proverbial pre$$ chalkboard).
Related: "The president of North Georgia Technical College, a public two-year college in Clarkesville, Ga., with about 2,700 students, has died “after losing his battle with COVID-19,” the school announced on Sunday. Mark Ivester, who was 57 and had served as the college’s president since 2016, had been hospitalized since Aug. 16, according to The Northeast Georgian, a local newspaper. The paper also reported that Amy Hulsey, the college’s vice president of community relations, said last week during a prayer vigil for Dr. Ivester that he was on continuous dialysis at North Georgia Medical Center in Braselton. A New York Times survey found that in just the past week, American colleges and universities have recorded more than 36,000 virus cases, not all of them new, bringing the total of campus infections to 88,000 since the pandemic began. Only about 60 of the campus cases have resulted in death, mostly in the spring and among college employees, not students. It was not immediately clear where or how Dr. Iverson contracted the virus....."
Maybe he never did because I'm told “he was always so cautious and wore a mask as much as possible, and although he was in ICU for 4 weeks, [they] are all still in shock over his passing.”
Yeah,
When children do get COVID-19, studies show they are more likely to get it from an adult than from another child. The frightening syndrome associated with COVID-19 that can affect children — Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children — has so far proven exceedingly rare.
Do they mean the Japanese flu or something new?
One tough fact remains: The COVID-19 risk can never be brought to zero, but Barocas said the conversation has neglected the considerable risk to children’s mental and physical well-being, as well as their education, if they stay home. “My kids are probably at higher risk for depression than they are for COVID right now,” he said.
No it hasn't, the "crazy conspiracy citizens" were saying it from the start as the pre$$ promoted the planned $camdemic for the u$ual rea$ons. Now there seems to be some sort of backtrack, or more evil ahead?
Barocas and his wife have decided to send their children, ages 3½ and 7, to public schools in their Roslindale neighborhood next month when in-person learning is scheduled to begin. They weighed the relatively low transmission rates in the area, their children’s willingness to wash their hands and wear masks (“They live with an infectious diseases doc”), and the fact that both parents work and have limited time to oversee home schooling.
The fact that he should know better means he is either lying, or he's violated his oath by promoting something that will harm the kids -- all based on an overhyped threat if not damnable lie.
Of course, the deliberate release of a far more deadly pathogen and bioweapon per WHO exercise protocol would certainly advance the agenda a lot further after say, a couple of months after the election is past.
They concluded that the risk of their children getting sick or transmitting the virus to others was significantly lower than the risks associated with “sitting at home alone on the computer all day,” but Barocas said it would be “not unreasonable” for another family to make the opposite decision.
The risk-benefit balance is especially stark for children younger than 10: Based on the evidence so far, these youngsters are the least likely to get sick from the coronavirus or to transmit it to others, and they have the most to lose if isolated from their peers at home.
“The harm of keeping children out of school is enormous,” said Dr. Cody Meissner, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Tufts Medical Center. “It’s not only education — it’s socialization, starting at a very young age. Pre-K children learn how to interact appropriately with each other. If they don’t learn early on, it’s going to be a big problem.”
They f**king brought all this about and didn't send up against it, and now they are spewing this crap?
DO NOT TRUST THEM, parents!
KEEP YOUR KID HOME!
School closings are especially harmful to less affluent families, Meissner said. Because transmission from child to adult appears to be rare, he said, “The risk to teachers is very, very low. The risk that a teacher is going to become infected with COVID-19 is higher when she’s in a supermarket buying groceries than it is while she’s in the classroom."
Well, THAT SURE IS NOW and WOAH, WOAH, WOAH!
Now the VITAL GROCERY STORE is where TRANSMISSION OCCURS?
What is with these bastards?
Are they MAKING IT ALL UP as they GO ALONG because it SURE LOOKS THAT WAY!
Btw, what is with the SEXIST REMARK?!
Why does he assume the teacher is a SHE?
Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union, disagreed. She pointed out that — unlike many schools — grocery stores don’t suffer from decades of deferred maintenance and don’t have documented air quality issues. Also teachers don’t work just with young children but also with special needs students up to age 22, with whom social distancing can be impossible, she said.
(Blog author raising hand)
Could you please explain why the dilapidated schools have suffered decades upon decades of neglect and where all the money went? I thought it was all under the $teward$hip of those who only mean us kids well, I mean, that's what we have been told for decades and decades.
Teachers, Tang said, want to go back to school but worry about their safety. In the United States, the school season is still new, and the health consequences of school openings have not been carefully tracked, but lessons can be drawn from experiences elsewhere in the world.
Take Israel.
Of course!
In May, the country seemed to have the coronavirus under control and decided to open all schools at once. Other parts of the Israeli economy also opened at the same time, increasing the likelihood that the virus would get around.
Small classrooms were packed with as many as 38 students, and then a heat wave hit. Sweltering students were allowed to remove their masks, and soon windows were closed to enable air conditioning to work. Within days, an outbreak started at a Jerusalem high school, spreading to homes and eventually other schools and neighborhoods, and forcing hundreds of schools to close, The New York Times reported.
The Wa$hington Compo$t reported it this way:
"Israel will head into a second coronavirus lockdown, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a televised news conference Sunday night, following a sharp escalation in the number of new COVID-19 infections in the country in recent weeks. The lockdown, which requires schools, stores, malls and hotels to close and reinstates restrictions on people’s movements for at least three weeks starting Friday, marks an attempt to halt the trajectory that saw more than 4,000 new cases in a single day last week in a country of some 9 million. Data published by the Health Ministry on Sunday showed that since the start of the crisis, 153,759 people in Israel have caught the virus, with 114,635 recovering, 38,008 cases active and 1,108 dead. Israel began reopening in early May, even sending children back to school before the summer vacation to allow parents to return to work. Now, Netanyahu said, the worrying trend of recent weeks has caused the “health services to raise a red flag” and forced the government to adopt the recommendations of recently appointed coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu, who had pushed for a full lockdown. Although the number of critical cases appears low, medical centers in Israel have said they are approaching full capacity and fear that the number of sick will increase dramatically as Israel heads into winter and begins a month of Jewish holy festivals starting Friday. Some members of the ultra-Orthodox community have also threatened to ignore the lockdown if it restricts their ability to worship over the High Holy Days — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. On Sunday, as the government debated the impending measures, Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman, who is ultra-Orthodox, announced his resignation from the government because of the expected restrictions on communal prayer....."
First the math. A second, bone-causing lockdown by a criminal tyrant based on a death rate of 0.0123?
That means it is about something other than COVID, and I stayed until the end of the service:
"..... “Our economy is still in good shape,” Netanyahu assured the public Sunday, pointing out that Israel’s rising numbers mirrored what was happening in many other countries and reflected the challenge of reopening society and the economy after the first lockdown in March and April. Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with secular Israeli officials over coronavirus measures. “We are preparing in advance, closing down, so we can get out ahead of the virus,” said Netanyahu, who was due to leave the country shortly after the news conference for a peace summit with Arab leaders and President Trump in Washington. Details about how the new restrictions will affect places of worship have yet to be approved, but he warned: “It will be a different kind of holiday this year. We will not be able to celebrate like we usually do with our families,” but there are doubts that the public will be as attentive to the government restrictions and rules this time around.
Now THAT is CHUTZPAH!
He locks the place down and issues a DARK and SPOOKY WARNING for the HOLIDAYS that are MONTHS AWAY and then LEAVES for WASHINGTON D.C. for a PEACE SUMMIT!
Fortunately, some Israelis are not falling for this $hit:
Some business owners told Israeli news outlets ahead of the announcement that they did not plan to close, even if the government ordered them to do so. Many have already been hit hard by the economic fallout from the pandemic, and mass protests have taken place in Jerusalem every week for the past two and a half months. In a letter to Netanyahu, he decried the fact that the lockdown would prevent worshipers, including tens of thousands of Jews who don’t usually attend synagogue, from joining prayers in the most important and well-attended Jewish services of the year."
Oh, PROTESTS for about 75 DAYS in ISRAEL, huh?
Funny, it's the first I heard of it as their left-wing goons literally burn down America, and how ironic is it that I am whole-heartedly in support of the extremist Orthodox Jew in their quest for freedom from tyranny!
As Israel goes, so goes the U.S. (shudder) and now back the the Globe's cla$$room:
Brandon L. Guthrie, assistant professor of global health and epidemiology at the University of Washington, has been tracking school openings around the world. “If you are going to reopen schools,” he told the Globe, “you need to have plans for how you’re going to limit the scope of spread, and you need to stick to those plans.”
In Europe, Guthrie said, schools reopened just as community lockdowns ended. “As you have more people interacting and going about their normal lives, there is still potential transmission,” he said, and once there’s community transmission, cases will show up in schools. “That doesn’t mean you have transmission in the school,” Guthrie said. It remains an open question the extent to which schools contribute to the spread of coronavirus outside their walls, he said.
Still, the experience in Europe provides encouraging insights.
In the United Kingdom, when schools and preschools reopened for “mini” summer term in June after the height of the pandemic, very few cases occurred.
Then why did BoJo just institute a rule-of six tyranny?
Related: "One day before England and Wales introduce tighter restrictions, Britain has recorded 3,330 new infections, making it the third consecutive day of new case counts surpassing 3,000. Infections in Britain have reached levels not seen since May, leading a member of the government’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group to warn that the country will have to act fast. “I think everyone is in agreement that we really need to act very quickly now in order to prevent this from growing exponentially,” the adviser, Professor Peter Openshaw, told Sky News. He warned that failure would send the country “right back in hard lockdown in short order.” In an effort to curtail the virus’s spread, the British government dropped the limit on the number of people allowed to meet to six from 30, as of Monday. Despite various costly mistakes made in rolling out testing systems and contact tracing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has at various points in the pandemic boasted of Britain’s performance. Recently, Mr. Johnson introduced “Operation Moonshot,” a plan for mass testing that aims to carry out 10 million tests a day — enough to test each individual in the country once a week — by early next year, at a cost of $130 billion, but the current testing rate falls far below that. The government says it has processed about 200,000 coronavirus tests each day in the past week, and officials claim testing capacity is the highest to date; however, people all over England have reported that they cannot obtain tests in their local areas or have been asked to travel hundreds of miles to be tested. A spokeswoman from the Department of Health acknowledged in a statement that there was significant demand for tests....."
You don't want to be tested, and where is Cromwell when you need him?
In an Aug. 6 report, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that coronavirus transmission within schools is uncommon and found little evidence that schools drive transmission within a community.
With precautionary measures in place, Denmark did not see major school outbreaks or an increase in disease transmission when schools reopened. In Sweden, where schools stayed open throughout the pandemic, teachers were at no higher risk of getting infected than people in other occupations.
In the United States, some lessons can be drawn from other types of gatherings for children.
Adequate precautions were not taken at an overnight camp in Georgia last June, where maskless campers in unventilated cabins engaged in “vigorous singing and cheering.” Nearly half the 597 adults and children who attended tested positive for COVID-19.
By contrast, only three cases were reported among 1,022 people who attended four overnight camps in Maine where there was testing, isolation, and other precautions.
Of course, by the Grace of God if it were a wedding in Maine it would be a superspreader.
Last week, the Massachusetts Medical Society said it supported “the safe and equitable return of as many students, teachers, and support staff as possible to in-person school settings.”
Still, parents will find no clear lines or black-and-white answers. Even the best safety efforts are bound to be fallible, said Barocas, the Boston father and doctor.
“These are kids,” he said. “They’re going to pull their mask down, they’re going to wipe their noses with their hand.” Accepting that the risk can never be zero, he said, the best anyone can do is reduce the likelihood of disease transmission as much as possible.....
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Alice Rey, a second-grade teacher, sanitized students’ desks at South Boston Catholic Academy, where classes were underway last week (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff).
Why is she not wearing protective gloves?
Amare Resto and his classmates learned Zoom etiquette rules from teacher Julie Fitzgerald at Woodland Elementary School (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff)
The Globe takes the high road before stashing their books under the desk:
"‘I don’t know if I made friends’: Kids reflect on the first day of school" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, September 13, 2020
MILFORD — Witnessing the fourth-graders eat lunch at Woodland Elementary School is a bit like viewing a surgical room filled with tiny doctors operating on sterilized tables. The children all wear masks unless they are currently, at that moment, eating a pizza bagel. There is ample space between each child.
In a nearby classroom, each third-grader sits next to an empty desk, as if haunted by the ghosts of Cohort A. It’s extremely hard to whisper or pass notes from 6 feet away, so the classroom is spectacularly quiet. Bright green tape indicates which direction to walk through the hallways.
The Milford Public Schools opened for hybrid learning on Thursday, a few days before most schools in the state. Finally, after months of agonized planning by adults, kids were back in classrooms, ready to provide insight on in-person learning (thrilling), Zoom (boring), masks (complicated), recess (still pretty great) — and everything else about a school year that will be unlike any before.
“I don’t know if I made friends, but I think I did,” said Ana Viera, who is 8, reflecting on her first day back at Woodland. She was on the playground, surrounded by a group of girls with whom she had been gleefully playing a few minutes before. She said the confusion had arisen because she would typically ask someone to be friends, but this year, she hadn’t.
“Probably because of the corona, you can’t really talk to people,” another girl, who, to an outsider, appeared to be Ana’s friend, offered.
“Probably because I’m shy too,” Ana said. Then the group called her back to the playground’s spinning wheel and she was off, racing to spin it as the girls sitting on it shrieked with joy.
Artwesty Tacuri, 9, was “so happy” to return to Woodland — he had missed his friends and his teachers and his math class, where he likes “adding the numbers” — but he had concerns of his own.
“When I got off at my school, I was so scared," said Artwesty, who was wearing an adult surgical mask with the ear bands twisted to make it fit. “I didn’t know if people were going to recognize me, cause I was with a mask.”
Artwesty’s anxieties turned out to be only fleetingly justified.
“I said hi to my friend four times,” he said. The friend did not respond. Finally, when they went on a mask break, “he recognized me,” Artwesty said, grinning.
How did the reporter know he was grinning?
Because they now have MASK BREAKS?
The children used to be able to play on all the playground equipment, but this year, each class is assigned to a certain section for a few weeks at a time. Artwesty and his friend spent part of their recess looking longingly at an orange rope structure in a different section. They hoped to get to it in the next rotation.
“Next Thursday,” Artwesty said, with optimism. A few minutes later, he and his friend were scrambling up a plastic plank together on the assigned play structure, the orange one momentarily forgotten.
They once had the freedom to play, and now is constrained and restricted over this damnable lie and its promoters in the pre$$. Damn them all to hell.
Much of the first two days of class were spent reviewing the technology that will be central to the school year. Cohort A had started remotely, and will be in school on Mondays and Tuesdays, while Cohort B will learn at home on those days. Wednesdays are all-remote, so the school can be cleaned.
All this over an alleged virus that currently has a 99.99% of survival.
Remember when it was all about 15 days and flattening the curve?
Now it is about cases based on faulty tests and potential transmission!
It's called a BAIT and SWITCH, and the American fell for it face first.
Want to play some hide-and-seek?
In a third-grade classroom, Alex Ohannesian led 11 students through some community-building exercises. Ohannesian was attempting to build a cohesive classroom across two different sections, where the students might never see one another in person.
“There are some kids here that you probably don’t know, because they’re not here today or yesterday. . . when will we see those other kids?" Ohannesian asked the class.
“On Zoom,” a student said.
“That’s why our first Zoom is going to be pretty cool,” Ohannesian said.
That's the "teacher," huh?
They deserved to be replaced by AI.
After the first day of school, Laraine and Francesca Veo contemplated the experience in their garage, surrounded by the detritus of summer — bikes, Barbies, plastic shovels. The day had gone well, the sisters agreed, though it was certainly strange.
Related: “I don’t know how to describe it,” said Mitchell Trubisky, using words including “weird” and “eerie” as he attempted to sum up the atmosphere. The Lions are not allowing fans to attend their first two home games due to state restrictions on the size of crowds during the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a large expanse of empty seats and very little noise. To fill some seats at fan-free Ford Field and raise money for charities, cutouts were sold for $150 and about 500 of them filled some seats beyond an end zone. Sound was piped into the indoor stadium, but it was much more dull than a roar because the NFL is limiting how loud artificial noise can be during games....."
Was as quiet as the dead of night after the Lions choked again.
Laraine had entered seventh grade at Stacy Middle School; she had stayed up the night before wondering what the day would bring.
“I feel like everyone was kind of nervous," she said. She had been given a schedule that almost looked like a prank: Thursdays and Fridays were filled out with grids for Spanish, English Language Arts, and Pre-Algebra, while Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays were entirely blank. (She’ll get a remote schedule for those days when she has her first Zoom meeting.)
“Since we haven’t been to school in so long, I really wanted to see my teachers,” she said.
They had spent the day going over logistics, beginning in social studies, where the students learned what to do in the case of a crisis that occurred in the midst of the current crisis.
If there was a lockdown, the students should shut the window and shut the door, Laraine said.
That reminds me, have you noticed there have been no mass-casualty events since COVID began?
Kids have a more immediate and invisible threat now!
“We would go to a spot, but it [would be] kind of hard because we would have to be social distanced," she said.
Francesca, who goes by Frankie and is in fourth grade at Woodland, had long wanted to be in the same class as her best friend, and she finally was, but in a cruel twist of fate, her friend wound up in the opposite cohort, and so Frankie is now in the same class as her friend’s empty desk.
:(
I can't take it anymore. I no longer care about myself, but what these evil, genocidal, agenda-pushing psychopaths are doing to the kids is an abomination.
Indeed, that captured a lot of what it was like to go back to school during the pandemic — you were tantalizingly close to being with your friends but still removed from them.
Like torture!
Still, Frankie was thrilled to be back.
“First day is probably my favorite day of the school year,” she said. “You get to get dressed up and meet your teacher.”
For some kids, this year, at least that hadn’t changed.
Yeah, at least some things are still normal!
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The rest of the front row looked like this:
"The choking smoke cast a dark pall over the skies and created a vision of climate-change disaster that made worst-case scenarios for the future a terrifying reality for the present....."
That's all the New York Times fart spew I could inhale, sorry.
Ranked-choice voting would transform Massachusetts elections
It would allow them to stuff the ballot box, so to speak:
"Corporate America is having a get-out-the-vote moment. To some extent, the seeds for this movement were planted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and the calls for racial justice that followed George Floyd’s death in May; however, those events galvanized executives to help workers become more civically involved, in part reflecting an increasing interest among employees. poll-worker effort alliance is recruiting from the business community on behalf of another like-minded organization, Power the Polls, which helps connect people to polling places in need of workers. So far, at least 80 companies have agreed to assist them....."
Corporate CEOs finally looking out for workers, Hail Mary, and here is a quick peek at the scoreboard:
Tom Brady threw two interceptions in the loss to the Saints (Brett Duke/Associated Press)
The Bucs are the new Bohemians?
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"The state’s formula for funding public schools has changed in ways that pump extra money into wealthier districts while shortchanging low-income areas, according to a report scheduled to be released Monday by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. The analysis found that many wealthier districts receive more money from the state than what the funding formula determines they need, because multiple funding levers added by state legislators over time do not take a community’s financial need into account. “This research and analysis shows that there’s a massive scale of inequity that’s baked into the current state aid formula,” Ed Lambert, executive director of the business alliance, said in a phone interview....."
The above is nothing new, it's been known about for a long time, and new legislation was supposed to deal with it but that was before COVID reared its ugly head.
"If anyone still believed that justice is blind in Massachusetts, their faith has been officially upended. A report commissioned by Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants and released last week confirmed what many observers had long suspected: that Black and Latino defendants are punished more often, and more harshly, than their white counterparts. They found, in other words, that the court system is fundamentally racist in its treatment of Black and brown defendants....."
That is what they are teaching in the schools.
Related:
14-year-old boy arrested for firearm possession in Dorchester
Innocent!
Two arrested after police recover loaded gun in South Boston
Innocent!
Also see:
"A small number of protesters carrying signs and shouting into megaphones blocked at least two buses chartered by the NBA from briefly from entering the Walt Disney World campus on Saturday night, with the group saying it wanted LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and other top players to take notice. The group blocked charter buses carrying members of the news media and some NBA staff, but no players or team personnel. Among their chants: “Black Lives Matter” and “LeBron can you help us?” Some also carried signs with messages such as “Russell Stand With Us.” The protesters assembled near one of the entrances and were not inside the so-called bubble, where teams, NBA staff and other have been for more than two months in some cases for the resumption of the season. They appeared to have gathered on a road that is open to the public, then stopped buses on an access road near a primary entrance to the resort. All entrances to the bubble are secured by law enforcement, security officers or both. It was not known if the protesters were able to be seen by any players....."
So the BUBBLE is like a PRISON for the mostly Black NBA players?
Time for a walk in the country:
"In the tiny rural town of Clinton, nestled against the vast Wachusett Reservoir, two scenic landmarks, both more than 100 years old, sit across the street from each other. With their views and historical intrigue, the Wachusett Dam, once the largest in the world, and the now-abandoned Clinton Tunnel attract hikers and families out strolling....."
It's a long trail so watch your step:
Massachusetts man hiking in New Hampshire dies
That was despite the helicopter effort, and no toasts allowed:
"Lincoln-Sudbury delays in-person school after large party involving dozens of students; Towns contend with parties involving young people" by Lucas Phillips Globe Correspondent, September 13, 2020
The state announced Sunday that the death count from the coronavirus pandemic had crossed 9,000 as two communities responded to large parties of young people they fear could threaten their control of the virus’s spread.
Now what is 6% of that?
In Sudbury, a large party involving 50 to 60 Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School students broken up by police Saturday night prompted officials to delay in-person learning at the school, according to Bill Murphy, the town’s director of public health.
Although no COVID-19 cases have yet been linked to the gathering, police reported that students were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing, and he said the potential impacts of the party are unclear because many of the students fled when police arrived and some provided false names.
Turns out the kids are not that dumb after all!
“Due to lack of information of who attended the event and the inability to consult directly with those students, the risk to the school community cannot be adequately assessed,” he said, bringing officials to delay a plan to return all students on Tuesday.
The school district did not respond to requests for comment Sunday, and it was not immediately clear when in-person classes would begin.
They did you kids a favor, and too bad you were not out wrecking cities. Then there would be no worry of potential spread!
In Dedham, two parties involving young people, one involving high schoolers, were blamed for an uptick of COVID-19 cases there last week, and the town also delayed the start of in-person learning. The increased rate of infections brought state officials to dub the community “high risk” and deployed a free mobile testing site, which was operating over the weekend and will be available through Thursday.
“We are urging as many people as possible to get tested at the site this week, and hope that the additional hours added on Wednesday and Thursday will ensure that more people will come to get tested,” said Town Manager Leon Goodwin in a statement Sunday.
Flawed tests keep the fear and tyranny going.
No backtracking around here.
The Massachusetts death toll from the virus rose to 9,001 after the state reported 14 new confirmed deaths Sunday. The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 reportedly grew by 267 to reach 122,904.
However, the three-day average of hospitalized coronavirus patients and the number of hospitals operating at surge capacity both declined slightly over the weekend, with the average number of patients at 325 and only one hospital operating at a surge level, according to public health officials.
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Related:
"A small liberal arts college in Maine is implementing a "study-in-place" program after detecting nine cases of COVID-19 on campus, the college president says. Saint Joseph's College of Maine in Standish will deliver all classes remotely and students will be required to stay in their rooms as much as possible for two weeks, President Jim Dlugos said in a statement Saturday. Contract tracing had linked most of the cases to one residence hall, he said. All students who tested positive are in quarantine. The school has about 2,000 students. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday reported 29 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus and one additional death. Maine has now had nearly 4,400 confirmed cases and 136 fatalities. The latest death was a woman in her 80s from Somerset County, the agency said."mm
Her husband died from COVID shortly thereafter, and not even GE or AI with the U.S. military and Google in tow could keep him from seeing the light.
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"Inconsistencies and problems with data collection in Texas have clouded the picture of the pandemic’s trajectory in that state, the latest of many examples of how states’ reporting of data in real time has complicated efforts to understand the virus. Texas has overlooked thousands of coronavirus cases, only to report them weeks after infection. It has made major adjustments to its case and death counts, defining them one way and then another, sometimes suddenly reporting figures for some counties that were vastly different from those posted by the local health department. Other states have also grappled with data challenges, including glitches and backlogs in California and a debate over transparency in Florida, but Texas has been troubled by multiple issues. Public health officials and researchers place the blame for the state’s data problems on Texas’ antiquated data systems and a reliance on faxed test results, which limit the state’s ability to track every infection and death in many of its 254 counties. They also say that the state’s decentralized structure — with many local governments, some of them tiny, running their own public health operations — is ill suited to coping with the crush of COVID-19....."
They have been inflating the numbers from the beginning, and the excuse for the deceit is a “colossal undertaking that is happening in real time, so mistakes are inevitable.”
For this they destroyed dreams, ruined livelihoods, and are in the process of completely altering not only our way of life but very makeup with their RNA poison.
Time for a good old-fashioned Texas barbecue.
"Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said it’s “likely” the U.S. will deploy a COVID-19 vaccine to the public before year-end and that the company is prepared for that scenario, pushing back against more tepid expectations shared by health authorities. Bourla said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he’s “quite comfortable” that the vaccine the company is developing in partnership with BioNTech SE is safe and that it could be available to Americans before 2021, contingent on an approval from U.S. regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “I cannot say what the FDA will do,” Bourla said, “but I think it’s a likely scenario, and we are preparing for it.” New York-based Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech are seen as frontrunners in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, alongside Moderna Inc. and AstraZeneca Plc. Bourla said Pfizer and its partner have a 60% chance of knowing the efficacy of its still experimental vaccine by the end of October. The timing of clinical trial results depends on enough people in the study getting Covid-19 to make a calculation, but positive results could clear the way for approval, he said. Pfizer and BioNTech have expanded the number of clinical trial participants they’re seeking in order to include more people with diverse backgrounds. They expect to enroll the 30,000 patients they originally sought for its final-phase clinical trial this week. They are also expanding that target to 44,000 participants to include people as young as 16, and to allow those with HIV and Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Bourla said on CBS that they will also focus on recruiting more people of color. He said the study participants are currently 60% White and 40% people of color, and that older volunteers make up 44% of the cohort....."
The race has been slowed lately because someone pulled ahead.
They have been inflating the numbers from the beginning, and the excuse for the deceit is a “colossal undertaking that is happening in real time, so mistakes are inevitable.”
For this they destroyed dreams, ruined livelihoods, and are in the process of completely altering not only our way of life but very makeup with their RNA poison.
Time for a good old-fashioned Texas barbecue.
"Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said it’s “likely” the U.S. will deploy a COVID-19 vaccine to the public before year-end and that the company is prepared for that scenario, pushing back against more tepid expectations shared by health authorities. Bourla said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he’s “quite comfortable” that the vaccine the company is developing in partnership with BioNTech SE is safe and that it could be available to Americans before 2021, contingent on an approval from U.S. regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “I cannot say what the FDA will do,” Bourla said, “but I think it’s a likely scenario, and we are preparing for it.” New York-based Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech are seen as frontrunners in the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, alongside Moderna Inc. and AstraZeneca Plc. Bourla said Pfizer and its partner have a 60% chance of knowing the efficacy of its still experimental vaccine by the end of October. The timing of clinical trial results depends on enough people in the study getting Covid-19 to make a calculation, but positive results could clear the way for approval, he said. Pfizer and BioNTech have expanded the number of clinical trial participants they’re seeking in order to include more people with diverse backgrounds. They expect to enroll the 30,000 patients they originally sought for its final-phase clinical trial this week. They are also expanding that target to 44,000 participants to include people as young as 16, and to allow those with HIV and Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Bourla said on CBS that they will also focus on recruiting more people of color. He said the study participants are currently 60% White and 40% people of color, and that older volunteers make up 44% of the cohort....."
The race has been slowed lately because someone pulled ahead.
"Independent scientists and public health experts are criticizing vaccine companies for a lack of public transparency, and particularly their refusal to release their criteria for deciding whether to stop a trial for safety concerns. The outcry grew after news that AstraZeneca’s chief executive had disclosed the reason his company recently halted its vaccine trial — a subject given the vaccine experienced serious neurological symptoms — at a closed meeting organized by J.P. Morgan, the investment bank. AstraZeneca said on Saturday that an outside panel had cleared its trial in Britain to begin again, but the company still has not given any details about the test subject’s medical condition, and it has not released a transcript of the executive’s remarks to investors, which were reported by the news outlet STAT and later confirmed by an analyst for J.P. Morgan. Another front-runner in the vaccine race, Pfizer, made a similarly terse announcement on Saturday: The company wants to expand its clinical trial to include thousands more participants, but it gave few other details about its plan. Critics say American taxpayers are entitled to know more since the federal government has committed billions of dollars to vaccine research and to buying the vaccines once they’re approved. Greater transparency could also help bolster faltering public confidence in vaccines at a time when a growing number of Americans fear President Trump will pressure federal regulators to approve a vaccine before it is proved safe and effective....."
It's not him we fear, it is the $ickening pharmaceutical cabal exemplified by BG where the “trust is in short supply.”
It's not him we fear, it is the $ickening pharmaceutical cabal exemplified by BG where the “trust is in short supply.”
It's enough to make one run hot:
"Since the beginning of the pandemic, the practice of checking for fever in public spaces has become increasingly common, causing a surge in sales of infrared contact-free thermometers and body temperature scanners — even as scientific evidence indicating that they are of little value has solidified. Gatekeepers with thermometer guns have appeared at the entrances of U.S. hospitals, office buildings and manufacturing plants to screen out people with fevers who may carry the virus, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York last week called for checking patrons’ temperatures as one of several ground rules for resuming indoor dining in restaurants, but while health officials have endorsed masks and social distancing as effective measures for curbing the spread of the virus, some experts scoff at fever checks. They say that taking temperatures at entry points is a gesture that is unlikely to screen out many infected people and offers little more than an illusion of safety. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a fever as a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, but some reports have questioned the accuracy of thermometer guns, and while temperature checks may identify people who are seriously ill, those people are unlikely to be socializing much or going out for meals. A growing body of evidence also suggests that many of those who are driving transmission are silent carriers — people who have been infected but feel fine and don’t have a fever or other symptoms. Last week, the C.D.C. — which in May told employers to consider checking workers daily for symptoms like fever, but appeared to reverse itself in July — said it would stop requiring airport health screenings beginning Sept. 14 for international passengers from countries like Brazil, China and Iran because the checks do not identify silent carriers. Temperature checks are akin to “getting the oil checked before you go on a long car trip,” said Dr. David Thomas, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “It makes you feel better, but it’s not going to keep you from wrecking the car or prevent the tires from falling off. It’s something you can do, and it makes you feel like you’re doing something,” he said, “but it won’t catch most people who are spreading COVID.”
So WHAT HARM are they doing to us BECAUSE IT IS THE same with MASKS!?
The above looks and feels like a backtrack; however, it still supports the lying narrative of asymptomatic transmissions and testing.
"Since the beginning of the pandemic, the practice of checking for fever in public spaces has become increasingly common, causing a surge in sales of infrared contact-free thermometers and body temperature scanners — even as scientific evidence indicating that they are of little value has solidified. Gatekeepers with thermometer guns have appeared at the entrances of U.S. hospitals, office buildings and manufacturing plants to screen out people with fevers who may carry the virus, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York last week called for checking patrons’ temperatures as one of several ground rules for resuming indoor dining in restaurants, but while health officials have endorsed masks and social distancing as effective measures for curbing the spread of the virus, some experts scoff at fever checks. They say that taking temperatures at entry points is a gesture that is unlikely to screen out many infected people and offers little more than an illusion of safety. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines a fever as a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, but some reports have questioned the accuracy of thermometer guns, and while temperature checks may identify people who are seriously ill, those people are unlikely to be socializing much or going out for meals. A growing body of evidence also suggests that many of those who are driving transmission are silent carriers — people who have been infected but feel fine and don’t have a fever or other symptoms. Last week, the C.D.C. — which in May told employers to consider checking workers daily for symptoms like fever, but appeared to reverse itself in July — said it would stop requiring airport health screenings beginning Sept. 14 for international passengers from countries like Brazil, China and Iran because the checks do not identify silent carriers. Temperature checks are akin to “getting the oil checked before you go on a long car trip,” said Dr. David Thomas, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “It makes you feel better, but it’s not going to keep you from wrecking the car or prevent the tires from falling off. It’s something you can do, and it makes you feel like you’re doing something,” he said, “but it won’t catch most people who are spreading COVID.”
So WHAT HARM are they doing to us BECAUSE IT IS THE same with MASKS!?
The above looks and feels like a backtrack; however, it still supports the lying narrative of asymptomatic transmissions and testing.
"Gilead Sciences Inc. is close to finalizing a deal to buy Immunomedics Inc. and its Trodelvy breast-cancer drug for more than $20 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. A deal could be announced by Monday, if the talks don’t fall apart or a rival bid emerge, the report said. Morris Plains, New Jersey-based Immunomedics has a market value of $9.8 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and its share price has almost doubled this year. Gilead was valued at $82.2 billion as of Friday. Pharmaceutical companies have been coveting Immunomedics since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly accelerated approval for Trodelvy in April. Approval came after a study showed the drug beat back triple negative breast cancer for nearly four months longer than chemotherapy in patients getting the medication as a third line of therapy. The hard-to-treat disease doesn’t respond to many of the current treatment regimens. Immunomedics plans to file for full approval of the medicine later this year. Gilead’s hepatitis C franchise, which helped make the Foster City, California-based firm a pharmaceutical giant, has struggled in recent years....."
The nipple got hard ju$t in time!
"At U.S.A.I.D., Juggling Political Priorities and Pandemic Response; Aggressive oversight of the aid agency by political appointees at the White House and the State Department has delayed humanitarian aid when the world needs it most" by Lara Jakes and Pranshu Verma, New York Times | Sept. 13, 2020
AID = CIA, NYT.
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus was spreading around the world, and officials at the United States Agency for International Development were anxious to rush humanitarian aid to nations in need, but first, they had to settle a debate over American branding and whether it should be displayed on assistance headed to conflict zones.
Are you f**king kidding me?
Political appointees from the White House and the State Department wanted the aid agency’s logo affixed to all assistance packages to show the world how much the United States was sending abroad, even as it grappled with its own outbreak.
Career employees at U.S.A.I.D. argued that the logo and other American symbols could endanger people who delivered or received the aid in countries that are hostile to the United States and where branding exceptions are usually granted.
Why would anyone ever be hostile to U.S. help?
At the end of the debate this spring, relief workers were allowed to distribute aid without the branding in a handful of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, but the discussion, as described by a half-dozen current and former officials at the aid agency and relief workers who were briefed on it, delayed assistance for several weeks to some of the world’s most vulnerable communities as the pandemic began to peak.
And now the panic is peaking again!
It was a cautionary example of the political intervention that has roiled an agency that prides itself as leading the humanitarian response to disasters, conflict and other emergencies around the world.....
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Related:
"With increasing cases of COVID-19, Ethiopia has opened a facility to produce kits to test for the coronavirus and says its researchers are working to develop and test a vaccine. The company producing the testing kits is a joint venture with a Chinese company, called BGI Health Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has risen to nearly 64,000 causing almost 1,000 deaths, according to government figures. On Sunday, Ethiopia also opened a field hospital to hold up to 200 severely affected Covid-19 patients....."
"With increasing cases of COVID-19, Ethiopia has opened a facility to produce kits to test for the coronavirus and says its researchers are working to develop and test a vaccine. The company producing the testing kits is a joint venture with a Chinese company, called BGI Health Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has risen to nearly 64,000 causing almost 1,000 deaths, according to government figures. On Sunday, Ethiopia also opened a field hospital to hold up to 200 severely affected Covid-19 patients....."
That's why Trump took Egypt's side of the dam.
Now for some other developments around the world:
"New Zealand is likely to end coronavirus restrictions across the country on Sept. 21, with the exception of its largest city, Auckland, where an outbreak occurred last month. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that current alert levels would be maintained for another week and then lowered if case numbers stayed the same. She also said physical distancing rules on planes and other public transportation would be dropped immediately, allowing more passengers to travel at the same time, though they are still required to wear masks. New Zealand reported one new case on Monday linked to the Auckland cluster, bringing the country’s total to 1,798."
"A health official in Australia said Monday that she was under police protection because of death threats amid rising opposition to her pandemic policies. Dr. Jeannette Young, the chief health officer of Queensland, has been criticized over a requirement that travelers arriving in the state from other parts of Australia quarantine for two weeks, especially after a woman in quarantine was not allowed to attend her father’s funeral last week. Strict border controls are also in place in other parts of the country, including Tasmania and Western Australia. The criticism “has taken an enormous toll on me, but then this has taken an enormous toll on nearly every single person in our community,” Dr. Young said. On Monday, Queensland reported zero new coronavirus cases for the second day in a row. Australia as a whole reported 39 cases, its lowest one-day rise in almost three months."
"Officials in South Korea said on Sunday that social-distancing measures would be eased in metropolitan Seoul for the next two weeks, even though daily new cases remain in the triple digits. The easing includes lifting a ban on on-site dining after 9 p.m. and reopening gyms and internet cafes. Stronger measures are to return on Sept. 28, ahead of the Chuseok fall harvest holiday, during which many people travel....."
By the holy Brahma, is the $camdemic coming to an end?
"India reported 92,071 new cases on Monday, the fifth consecutive day that new cases exceeded 90,000 in the country, according to a New York Times database....."
Literal bull$hit.
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The Globe is of the opinion that as November approaches, voters must arm themselves with information about the qualifications and deadlines for early or mail-in voting in their states and DHS must address the threat of white supremacists, even if Trump won’t as Homeland Security’s mission has been compromised, and so has the safety of the American people.
How Americans vote is threatened, and officials must invest in robust information campaigns across multiple platforms that provide clear instructions to voters on deadlines, locations, and methods available to cast ballots because of Russia’s not so little election helpers, and without decades of organized efforts by a lavishly funded movement of self-proclaimed patriots, the disruptive efforts of Russians and other foreign elements would have failed (it's okay for Bloomberg to spend $100 million in Florida to help Biden, though).
The president is riding into an ambush this November as Sally threatens the Gulf Coast (I wonder if it will disappear from Globe coverage as fast as Laura did), and the Globe says the Pentagon should go full metal jacket on Trump (you know what the film Full Metal Jacket is known for, right?) so he will no longer be a concern beyond 2020!
The president is riding into an ambush this November as Sally threatens the Gulf Coast (I wonder if it will disappear from Globe coverage as fast as Laura did), and the Globe says the Pentagon should go full metal jacket on Trump (you know what the film Full Metal Jacket is known for, right?) so he will no longer be a concern beyond 2020!
