"For many Americans, Labor Day is a goodbye to summer before children go back to school and cold weather arrives, but public health experts worry that in the midst of a pandemic, the holiday could result in disaster in the fall. After the Memorial Day and Fourth of July weekends, cases of COVID-19 surged around the United States after people held family gatherings or congregated in large groups. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, said he wanted people to enjoy Labor Day weekend but urged precautions. “You don't want to tell people on a holiday weekend that even outdoors is bad — they will get completely discouraged,” Dr. Fauci said. “What we try to say is enjoy outdoors, but you can do it with safe spacing. You can be on a beach, and you don't have to be falling all over each other. You can be 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 feet apart. You can go on a hike. You can go on a run. You can go on a picnic with a few people. You don't have to be in a crowd with 30, 40 or 50 people all breathing on each other.” In terms of daily case counts, the United States over all was in worse shape going into Labor Day weekend than it was for Memorial Day weekend. The nation is now averaging about 40,000 new confirmed cases per day, up from about 22,000 per day ahead of Memorial Day weekend. Fauc said that a spike in infections following Labor Day would make it far harder to control the virus's spread in the fall, when cooler temperatures force more people indoors....."
The guy has become such a fraud it would be funny had our entire way-of-life been altered and our livelihoods destroyed, and we know it doesn't apply to state-approved protests no matter what the cause.
Can't go to church, a wedding, or the bar though:
"An Iowa judge has refused to allowed some Des Moines area bars to reopen while their lawsuit challenging Gov. Kim Reynolds’ new round of bar closures makes its way through the courts. The Des Moines Register reports that Polk County Judge William Kelly emphasized the importance of public health Friday in his explanation of the ruling denying a temporary injunction to the bar owners in Polk and Dallas county. Attorney Billy Mallory, who is representing the bar owners, said he will appeal the denial while continuing to prepare for trial, where he will seek a permanent injunction. The suit alleges that the closure of bars in Dallas and Polk counties is unconstitutional and unfairly targets some businesses, while others, like restaurants and coffee shops, may continue operating. In Reynolds’ Aug. 27 order, she also required the closing of bars in Black Hawk, Johnson, Linn and Story counties. Those counties, along with Polk and Dallas, are considered hot spots for COVID-19 infections. Statewide, the number of new cases rose Saturday by 1,024 to 69,006. The state also confirmed 23 new COVID-19 deaths to bring the total to 1,160, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health....."
It's a fine line she's walking, like the Jewish(!?) mayor of Mexico City who may become president(!!) as cases and deaths are cited.
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday announced overnight curfews on some 40 cities and towns hit hard by the coronavirus, but backed away from reported recommendations for full lockdowns after an uproar by politically powerful religious politicians. The measures were announced late Sunday after hours of consultations with decision-makers. The government has been forced to take new action after failing to contain an outbreak that has claimed more than 1,000 lives and remains at record levels of new infections. The curfews will go into effect Monday night at 7 p.m. and will last until 5 a.m. It was not known how long they will remain in place. The announcement came less than two weeks before the Jewish New Year. Overall, Israel has recorded nearly 130,000 cases of the virus, with more than 26,000 still active. It recently has been reporting some 3,000 new cases each day....."
Cases, cases, cases, and does that ever carry the stench of opportunistic totalitarianism or what?
COVID is being used by that criminal to repress his political opposition as people will not be allowed to venture more than 500 meters from their homes and nonessential businesses will have to close, but ultra-Orthodox leaders have strongly resisted calls for lockdowns and threatened not to obey new orders.
Strange days indeed when I find myself aligned with the ultra-Orthodox Jews, but it just goes to show all of humanity is in the same boat.
Also see:
India adds 90,632 new virus patients
Another day, another record based on faulty and misleading tests!
UK records 2,988 new coronavirus cases, highest since May
Then the tyrannical lockdowns failed and it's time to go in the other direction, like Sweden.
I'm also told the Italian leader Berlusconi is in “delicate” phase of his virus treatment.
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Thus, "as the summer of 2020 approaches its traditional finish line, it’s clear that Cape Cod — like tourist meccas from Boston to Seattle — has never endured a season quite like this. Those kids are wearing masks. Beach chairs sit at a safe distance from one another. There is salt in the air — and danger in the dunes," according to the Globe postcard sent by Farragher.
Of course, it's a far cry from what they were saying on Saturday, but certainly you have forgotten that by now:
"On Labor Day weekend, signs that COVID-19 remains a threat" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, September 6, 2020
As people across Massachusetts celebrated Labor Day weekend amid warnings from officials about parties or other gatherings, the state reported 10 new deaths due to COVID-19 Sunday, along with 370 new cases of the disease.
The latest figures bring the confirmed coronavirus death toll here to 8,917, while 120,824 cases have been reported since the spring.
Health officials have called on people to take the pandemic seriously, avoid crowds, and curtail many of the festivities that mark traditional end-of-summer celebrations, such as barbecues and beach parties.
No need to worry, the shark spoiled the beach party and the Lobster Claw is closed.
Those officials, including Governor Charlie Baker and experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci, have warned that not following rules about wearing masks and practicing distancing could lead to a surge of new cases in the fall.
Not one word to say to the rioters, 'er, protesters, exposing them as frauds!
Despite calls for caution, many couldn’t remain indoors as the weekend marked summer’s end with glorious weather: sunny skies, plus temperatures in the 70s across Greater Boston.
Visitors flocked to Cape Cod to fit in one last summer weekend at the beach or take in a stroll in a seaside town, but the pandemic continued to have an impact as a server at the Chatham Bars Inn tested positive for COVID-19.....
I'm sick of not only the lies from the pre$$, but the totalitarian actions of these f**kers.
Time to do some hard work and dump their asses this fall!
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Related:
"Labor organizers are planning to hold a series of socially distanced rallies across Massachusetts on Monday to mark Labor Day in response to the coronavirus instead of the movement’s typical Labor Day breakfasts. The main Labor Day event in Boston is a rally with those attending remaining in their cars at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center parking lot. Boston Mayor Walsh will deliver a keynote address. Other speakers scheduled to attend the rally include Darlene Lombos of the Greater Boston Labor Council and Steven Tolman of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. Gates open at 10 a.m., with the program scheduled to start at 11 a.m. The program will also feature the premiere of a short Massachusetts labor film and will end with the screening of the family film, “Chicken Run.” Other socially distanced labor rallies are planned Monday at New Bedford High School in New Bedford and outside Springfield City Hall in Springfield....."
"Protesters on Sunday again flooded into the capital of Belarus and towns across the country, signaling the depth of popular anger at President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, an iron-fisted leader who, fortified by strong support from Russia, has shown no sign of bending. The Belarus protests have mobilized large numbers of people for nearly a month, since a disputed presidential election, and have been dominated by calls for Lukashenko to resign. They have struggled, though, to bend the will of an authoritarian leader who has rejected all compromise and scorned his critics....."
What a profile in courage!
Stay firm, sir!
"Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot by a police officer in Kenosha, Wis., in late August, spoke from a hospital bed, describing his physical pain and appealing to others to “change y’all lives” in an emotional video released by his lawyer Saturday night. Saturday night’s video showed Blake as a patient, not a defendant. Wearing a loosefitting hospital gown, Blake talked about the fragility of life and implored others to focus on what they could accomplish collectively. The Aug. 23 shooting touched off waves of protests that put Wisconsin at the epicenter of the national debate over policing and racial justice. In the days following the incident, dozens of fires were set and some Kenosha businesses destroyed. By Aug. 25, the demonstrations turned deadly. Prosecutors say Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Illinois who was patrolling the streets with a rifle, shot and killed two demonstrators. His attorneys say the teenager was acting in self-defense. President Trump visited Kenosha earlier this week, even after local officials urged him to stay away, and delivered a law and order message in the wake of the protests. At a roundtable on community safety, he blamed left-wing radicals and the antifa movement for the violence, and praised local police officers. Protests have since subsided in Kenosha, where fencing remains in place around the government buildings that surround Civic Center Park but the National Guard presence has disappeared. BLAK, the local group that has led protests since the shooting, has concentrated its efforts on less confrontational forms of activism, hosting community cookouts over the weekend....."
After a positive meeting with Biden, his uncle said "My brother doesn't like a lot of people, but he liked Joe Biden."
That's the hero who is being portrayed as an angel and catalyst for destruction, and the pre$$ conveniently omits that the cops were there on a domestic violence call because he had violated a restraining order and was armed with a knife while threatening a minor female. When the police arrived, he fought them and had one in a headlock before he attempted to flee the scene.
I suppose the cops should have just let him go, huh?
"More than a dozen demonstrators were released from jail in Florida’s capital city, hours after being arrested during a protest over the exoneration of police by a grand jury in the deaths of three Black suspects in separate incidents earlier this year. Saturday’s protest drew an unusually high number of law enforcement officers clad in riot gear, despite months of mostly peaceful demonstrations by groups bringing attention to the use of deadly force by police, particularly against Black people. “It was like stormtroopers rushing across the street. I was in disbelief of what I was seeing,” said Trish Brown, a founder of the Tallahassee Community Action Committee and among the first to be arrested Saturday. Police said protest organizers did not have permits for a Saturday afternoon march that drew dozens and that turned raucous after police began arresting demonstrators near the state Capitol. Police said they arrested 15 people, although organizers said it was actually 14. Leon County jail records showed most were taken into custody for resisting officers and assembling unlawfully. Nearly all were released from custody after posting bond. Tallahassee police did not immediately respond to phone calls requesting comment. Mayor John Dailey also could not be reached....."
Get used to the sight because it is only going to get worse from here.
"Hundreds of people gathered for rallies and marches against police violence and racial injustice Saturday night in Portland, Oregon, as often violent nightly demonstrations that have happened for 100 days since George Floyd was killed showed no signs of ceasing. Molotov cocktails thrown in the street during a march sparked a large fire and prompted police to declare a riot. Video posted online appeared to show tear gas being deployed to clear protesters from what police said was an unpermitted demonstration. Police confirmed that tear gas was deployed to defend themselves and said 59 people were arrested, ranging in age from 15 to 50. At least one community member was injured, authorities said. A person’s shoes caught fire after flames broke out in the street, video showed. People were “engaging in tumultuous and violent conduct thereby intentionally or recklessly creating a grave risk of causing public alarm,” the department tweeted. “Fire bombs were thrown at officers.” A sergeant was struck by a commercial grade firework, which burned through his glove and injured his hand, and several officers and state troopers were hit by rocks, police said. Protesters, most wearing black, had gathered around sunset Saturday at a grassy park in the city. Wooden shields were placed on the grass for protesters to use as protection. Demonstrations in Portland started in late May after the police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis. During the clashes, some have broken windows, set small fires and pelted police with rocks and other objects. On the 100th day of protests in Portland, demonstrators vowed to keep coming into the streets. Tupac Leahy, a 23-year-old Black man from Portland, said he had probably been out to protests for about 70 of the 100 days of demonstrations. Leahy said he wanted to see a significant reduction to the local police budget, with the money directed to other community needs. He said the demonstrations would continue for some time. “I think it’s going to keep going on until the election,” Leahy said. “I don’t see it slowing down.”
We know it is ALL POLITICAL, and watch the dude cut footloose for a great laugh!
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Let's keep the jam $e$$ion going:
"Operators of Maine music clubs and music industry professionals have formed a grassroots alliance and launched a $500,000 fundraising campaign to help local venues survive the pandemic. The Maine Music Alliance will coordinate the fundraising campaign and serve as an advocate for the music industry in Maine, Scott Mohler, its president, told the Portland Press Herald. “I think we’ve all had a fair amount of optimism there would be some kind of government assistance coming down through the Save Our Stages Act or something similar, but the urgency has increased,” he said. “We’ve worked too hard to build the scene up, we can’t just wave the white flag.” The Save Our Stages Act would provide six months of financial support to keep music venues and theaters open and pay employees....."
That hit a $our note with me as the rest of us $uffer.
Now to add in$ult to injury:
"Boston distributes $815,000 to arts organizations from COVID-19 fund" September 6, 2020
Last week, the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture awarded $815,000 worth of grants to 146 nonprofits, to help them adapt their operating models and boost virtual programming in the midst of the enduring pandemic.
Now it is an "enduring panic," even as it fades away to nothing with the bogus death and case counts.
How $hamele$$!
Btw, "nonprofits provide new ways for corporations and individuals to influence" things -- as if they didn't have enough already and are not driving this madness$$!
The money comes from a subset of Boston’s federal CARES Act funding, officially called the Arts and Culture COVID-19 Fund. It was set aside in early summer to help support local small- and mid-sized arts groups, according to a press release.
“Supporting the organizations that bring transformative arts programming to every neighborhood in our city is imperative during this unprecedented time,” said Mayor Marty Walsh in a statement.
For some institutions, the money is a saving grace. Live venues must remain closed until the state enters Phase 4 of its reopening plan, which will occur when there is an effective virus treatment or vaccine, and thousands of artists, theater groups, and museums have struggled to make ends meet during the crisis.
Yup, gotta wait for the f**king vaccines!
Someone turn over that record please!
In addition to the grant announcements, the City of Boston allotted $490,000 for 146 organizations through the Boston Cultural Council in early August. Local government also partnered with the Boston Center for the Arts in June to give mini-grants to more than 500 artists adversely affected by the pandemic.....
They get you a check to make rent, reader?
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Looks like part of the Great Re$et to me, as your tax loot is used to set up the whole globalist $y$tem as we are treated like $hit.
Related:
Black girls in Mass. nearly 4 times more likely to face school discipline than white girls
Think of it as the Ru$$ell Rule, as the New York Times alerts us that suspicious packages are turning up at universities all across the country while warning about Labor Day parties!
Could the "suspicious packages" be the much-awaited WHO second simulation scheduled for September?
Whatever the case, the "release of the deal airborne pathogen" will certainly not occur on September 11th, since that is a Friday -- or will it?
Could be HUGE NEWS by MONDAY MORNING and the fearful sheeple will see the need to lock up tight with the hope that the rest of us sentient recalcitrants and doubters will climb aboard!
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Ready for a cookout?
"Hot Dogs, Like Crowds, May Be Missing From This Year’s Labor Day" by Nic Querolo and Michael Hirtzer, Bloomberg News | September 4, 2020
As Americans fill their carts for socially distanced Labor Day barbecues, they may be missing one key ingredient: hot dogs.
Some grocery stores across the country are struggling to keep the product on shelves, due to both soaring demand and continued supply constraints after meatpacking-plant shutdowns crippled the industry earlier this year.
We are not in full famine mode yet; that is for after the election and the depths of winter.
“We’re still seeing some shortages from the packaged side, hot dogs and things like that,” said Vivek Sankaran, chief executive officer of Albertsons Cos., which runs regional grocery chains including Safeway and Acme. The constraints started in March, he said, and the supply issues haven’t fully abated. “I’m sure they’ll get up to speed; it’s not there yet. There’s still some holes.”
What if they don't?
Franks tend to do well when the economy sours, and they are a simple meal option for working parents facing the prospect of virtual schooling for the foreseeable future. Add to that a surge in demand ahead of one of the nation’s biggest cookout holidays, and the BBQ favorite is flying off the shelves -- when it even gets there in the first place.
Kids are supposed to be eating healthy and yet they are being filled full of hot dogs because of the $camdemic?
This whole COVID-19 agenda is GODDAMN EVIL, folks.
Kroger Co. and Walmart Inc., the country’s biggest grocer, didn’t reply to requests for comment.
Since the pandemic began in the U.S., hot dog sales have been higher than last year every single week except one, according to IRI. To put it another way, the country’s grocers had already sold 83% of the total 2019 volume of hot dogs before this year was even two-thirds over, said Eric Mittenthal, president of the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council.
On the supply side, some plants have been focusing on larger meat cuts and fewer processed products amid worker absenteeism, contributing to the shortages of specific products. Pepperoni, likewise, has been getting more expensive and increasingly difficult to obtain amid production snags at meat plants and high demand for pizza.
Pizzas are selling out, too, huh?
Nice diet, and they just touched a nerve. It has been months since I have ordered a real pizza from a local pizza house, and likely never will again.
What if a chef full of COVID coughs in my pizza?
I can't take that chance in the age of COVID.
Mittenthal says he hasn’t heard anything about supply shortages recently, and the plants that produce the meat are again running near capacity. To him, any constraint are more on the demand side, and it’s been booming....
Let's hope that keeps up, and I'm sure it won't affect the Coney Island gluttony, a quintessentially American event.
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Who saw that coming, and time to get back to work:
"Factory Owners Hiking Pay to Lure Workers Even With Jobless Rate' by Michael Sasso, Bloomberg News | September 6, 2020
As the economy picks up, America’s warehouse and factory owners increasingly find they can’t fill jobs without boosting meager wages.
E-commerce is driving a surge of orders, with U.S. manufacturing expanding in August at its fastest pace since late 2018. That has employers racing to bulk up staff to keep production rolling and satisfy demand.
“Ultimately it’s going to be a permanent change that these lower-end workers are going to get more money,” said Mike Skordeles, an economist with SunTrust Banks Inc. People won’t relocate or travel great distances for a low-paid job, so wages will have to rise, he said.
Believe me, you do not want to.
Jobs numbers released Friday, ahead of the long Labor Day weekend to celebrate American workers, showed that while the unemployment rate dropped more than expected -- to 8.4% -- millions are still without work.
Pay increases are surfacing against a bleak backdrop.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” said Richard Wahlquist, chief executive of the trade group American Staffing Association. “It’s an employment market like no one in our industry has ever seen.”
The labor-shortage paradox comes even as manufacturing employment is still down around 720,000 workers since before the pandemic started in February, said Chad Moutray, chief economist at the National Association of Manufacturers.
It suggests the ample supply of available labor hasn’t necessarily cured the nation’s skills gap, where workers don’t have the qualifications employers need, and the pandemic probably will speed up the use of robotics that’s already under way, Moutray said.
Amazing how COVID advances agendas across all spectrums, as if it were part of some sort of Great Re$et.
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Bloomberg says employers have “every temp agency on speed dial and no one shows up, but still, some workers stand ready to sign on if the money is right” because they have finally $een the light:
"Office bots: A rolling UV machine is disinfecting workplaces; Drone maker Corvus’s robot with UV lamps destroys coronavirus automatically" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, September 7, 2020
Corvus Robotics made a name for itself with drones that buzz around inside warehouses, scanning the shelves and updating inventory records, but the COVID-19 crisis has inspired a surge of down-to-earth innovation by the Boston company: rolling robots that use ultraviolet light to sterilize warehouses, offices, and stores.
The robot is a white machine with a boxy base that houses batteries, a computer, and drive motors. Above is a column-like light fixture that emits ultraviolet light at very short wavelengths. This type of light, called UVC, damages the DNA of bacteria and viruses, destroying their ability to reproduce.
The office will look like a disco.
At $25,000, the purchase price may sound steep, but with a single COVID sanitation treatment from a commercial cleaning service running hundreds or even thousands of dollars, Corvus cofounder and chief executive Jackie Wu said the robot is more cost-effective over time.
“This is something that robots can do just as well, and significantly cheaper,” said Wu, who also offers a subscription service that provides unlimited use of a robot for $1,500 a month.
Your labor is no longer needed, human.
UV light is one of those old technologies now enjoying a moment because of its application to battling COVID. Its bacteria-killing properties were discovered in 1878, and a Danish scientist won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1903 for showing how ultraviolet light could treat tubercular skin lesions.
The Globe thinks this bright idea could keep buildings coronavirus-free and zap coronavirus in schools and offices, even if it is a century-old technology.
Scientists haven’t proven that UVC light kills SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Nor has the Corvus robot been independently tested, but the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says the lights are likely to be effective, because UVC is known to destroy similar coronaviruses, including the one that causes Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome; however, extended exposure to UVC light can damage human skin and eyes and even cause cancer. So it makes sense to deploy the lights when people aren’t around.
Call those cases COVID, and what good will do without people around, people who have been sanctified as uninfected and thus the only ones allowed in the building?!
This Braying a$$ must be insane to be shining a light on this garbage!
It's a damn boondoggle! They don't have proof it kills a novel virus that is actually just like any other coronavirus from any other year!
Their damn lying narratives are tripping them up all over the place!
The Corvus robot must be trained to recognize its environment, with an operator using a remote controller to steer it through the workplace. Onboard sensors create a map of the cleaning area that can be viewed on a laptop. From there, the operator programs a series of waypoints, which on subsequent cleanings the robots follow to cover the entire workspace. From then on, it’s just a matter of turning on the robot, or programming it to start operating at a set time every day. Its battery lasts about three hours, and the robot automatically plugs itself into a charging station when it needs a boost.
Who will clean the operator's work space, and what will his carbon footprint be?
One early customer was Wanyoo eSports Center in Malden, which hosts online video games. Co-owner Zhichao Chen, who rents the robot by the month, said that before he got it, he’d do COVID cleaning by hand twice a day.
“It usually took me one to two hours to do it each time,” Chen said. “That’s four hours saved by using this robot.”
Other robotics companies have joined the COVID battle, too.
Loot to be had.
Ava Robotics, of Cambridge, which makes mobile videoconferencing robots, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build a version that bathes workspaces in ultraviolet light, just as the Corvus machine does. The Greater Boston Food Bank has used the Ava robot to sanitize its warehouse.
And they told you to stay out of the sun!
There’s also Boston Dynamics, which adapted its four-legged Spot robot for medical use. In April, doctors at Brigham & Women’s Hospital began using a Spot machine equipped with an iPad to conduct remote interviews with incoming patients. In late August, MIT announced plans for an upgraded Spot that will use onboard cameras to detect skin temperature, breathing rate, pulse rate, and blood oxygen saturation, eliminating the need for a medical worker to touch a possibly infected person.
Keep your f**king "dog" away from me, and the telehealth is forcing providers to recalibrate their very existence.
Did you medical professionals know that going along with the Great Re$et would cost you your hard-earned practices and degrees?
Corvus was founded in Chicago in 2017, and relocated to Boston last year. Its original product, Corvus One, is an aerial drone used in warehouses, where shelves are often 20 to 30 feet high. Corvus drones can buzz up and down the rows of shelves, keeping a constant watch on inventory. The drones are autonomous, capable of navigating, collecting data, and recharging themselves without human intervention.
Think of the attitude and mindset of the monster capable of writing such things.
Who wants pesky humans intervening in anything, and at least retail will undergo a revolution (cui bono?)!
Wu and cofounders Kabir Mohammed, Jonathan Sandau, and Bryan Monti figured logistics companies would want a full suite of robotic systems, including ground-based models. Corvus had been developing a rolling robot before the COVID outbreak and immediately decided to re-purpose the machine as an automatic sanitizer.
What a coincidental $troke of good fortune, 'eh?
“When COVID hit, I thought we could combine what we’re good at with the desire to help keep people safe,” Wu said.
And make loot!
Corvus is working on yet another sanitizing model that, instead of a bank of UV lights, will feature an upright nozzle to spray a disinfectant mist.
What exactly will be clinging to you?
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