"Tech's Sudden Sell-Off Continues" by Stan Choe and Alex Veiga, Associated Press | September 9, 2020
Big technology stocks tumbled again on Tuesday, continuing the Icarus-like flight path for companies that just a week ago were the high-flyers carrying Wall Street to record heights.
Tech stocks had been the darlings of Wall Street on expectations that they can continue to deliver strong profit growth almost regardless of the economy and global health. Amazon has rocketed 70.5 percent, even when unemployment remains high and much of the economy is limping ahead.
Like a thief in the night.
Analysts say a flurry of activity for stock options of Big Tech companies goosed the gains even further recently. With certain kinds of options, investors can make huge profits on a stock, without having to pay for its full share price, as long as the stock's price keeps rising. If enough of these kinds of stock options are getting sold, it can create a buying frenzy for the stock that accelerates the gains even more, but all that activity can unwind quickly and send prices tumbling if momentum turns, which is what happened last week.
The problem is it's the only game in town now.
Critics have long been saying that big technology stocks had shot too high, even after accounting for their strong profit growth. Such high-growth stocks have been trouncing the performance of stocks that look like better bargains, which are called "value stocks" by investors, by margins wide enough to raise eyebrows along Wall Street. "The growth versus value outperformance was at an unheard of extreme at the end of August," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA.
That gap began to narrow on Thursday, when tech stocks began cracking and the Dow fell more than 800 points, and that "showed investors that tech stocks and growth stocks can fall just as easily as they rise," Stovall said.
Is the COVID exercise finally coming to an end?
Tesla has been one of the brightest examples of Big Tech's wild movements, and it surged 74.1 percent in August alone. It slumped 21.1 percent Tuesday, its worst loss since it began trading a decade ago, amid disappointment that it won't be joining the S&P 500 anytime soon.
The company behind the S&P 500 announced the inclusion of several companies in the benchmark index, including Etsy. Some investors thought Tesla would be among them, which can create huge bouts of buying as index funds automatically fold the stock into their portfolios.
The big question for the stock market is whether the losses can stay mostly confined to the tech area.
"How resilient can the stocks beneath the surface be?" said Delwiche. "If they hold up, that would fit with a healthy correction," which is what traders call a drop of 10 percent for the market and can mark a short-term breather for stocks in the midst of an upward run. "If they don't, then it could be something more significant."
Pessimism is rising that Democrats and Republicans in Washington will be able to find a deal to send more aid to unemployed workers and an economy still struggling amid the pandemic. Investors have been largely assuming that a deal would eventually pass, but recent talks between government leaders have yielded no progress.
President Donald Trump is also talking about "decoupling" the U.S. economy from China, as the presidential campaign heats up. The relationship between the world's two largest economies has been on edge for years, and all the uncertainty threatens to exacerbate the global economy's already shaky standing.
Energy stocks had some of Wall Street's sharpest drops as the price of oil tumbled, but the market's losses were widespread, with nearly 90 percent of the stocks in the S&P 500 lower. Among the few gainers was General Motors. It rose 7.9 percent after it said it's taking an ownership stake in electric-vehicle company Nikola, which itself surged 40.8 percent.....
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You thought thi$ would be the $urpri$e, right?
"AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine study paused after one illness" by Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press, September 8, 2020
Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate are on temporary hold while the company investigates whether a recipient’s “potentially unexplained” illness is a side effect of the shot.
In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the company said its “standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow review of safety data.”
It's a false hope that the vaccines will be pulled back, when this is merely more mind manipulation with the narrative being that the indemnified vaccine companies are overly concerned with safety.
I mean, this whole thing has been blown out of the water with the CDC reports regarding COVID exclusive deaths and the NYT report that 90% of the tests return non-infectious false positives that do not even detect COVID-19.
Somehow, those reports have fallen into a black hole as the $hamele$$ media advances the evil and diabolical vaccine and Great Re$et agenda.
Oh, yeah, we also have herd immunity but the pre$$ and the authorities for which they from won't tell us that, either. Need to keep the agenda ball rolling with distortion and lies.
AstraZeneca didn’t reveal any information about the possible side effect except to call it “a potentially unexplained illness.” The health news site STAT first reported the pause in testing, saying the possible side effect occurred in the United Kingdom.
An AstraZeneca spokesperson confirmed the pause in vaccinations covers studies in the U.S. and other countries. Late last month, AstraZeneca began recruiting 30,000 people in the U.S. for its largest study of the vaccine. It also is testing the vaccine, developed by Oxford University, in thousands of people in Britain, and in smaller studies in Brazil and South Africa.
I'm sure that makes those folks eager to take the shot, and I'll bet there are way more adverse reactions than JUST ONE!
Btw, the funding for all these vaccines comes from BG.
Two other vaccines are in huge, final-stage tests in the United States, one made by Moderna Inc. and the other by Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech. Those two vaccines work differently than AstraZeneca’s, and temporary holds of large medical studies aren't unusual, and investigating any serious or unexpected reaction is a mandatory part of safety testing. AstraZeneca pointed out that it's possible the problem could be a coincidence; illnesses of all sorts could arise in studies of thousands of people.
Right, no cause and effect here!
Also not being mentioned is the RNA factor in the race for a vaccine, nor is there any mention Russia having developed one already.
“We are working to expedite the review of the single event to minimize any potential impact on the trial timeline,” the company statement said.
Yeah, they gotta get back on the fa$t track!
The development came the same day that AstraZeneca and eight other drugmakers issued an unusual pledge, vowing to uphold the highest ethical and scientific standards in developing their vaccines.
Their ad made page A3 of my Globe. Now pass the salt shaker.
The announcement follows worries that President Donald Trump will pressure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine before it’s proven to be safe and effective.
The U.S. has invested billions of dollars in efforts to quickly develop multiple vaccines against COVID-19, but public fears that a vaccine is unsafe or ineffective could be disastrous, derailing the effort to vaccinate millions of Americans.
Let's hope so before they alter our DNA and we become something other than human.
It’s likely the unexplained illness was serious enough to require hospitalization and not a mild side effect such as fever or muscle pain, said Deborah Fuller, a University of Washington researcher who is working on a different COVID-19 vaccine that has not yet started human testing. “This is not something to be alarmed about,” Fuller said. Instead, it’s reassuring that the company is pausing the study to figure out what’s happening and carefully monitoring the health of study participants.
It's what I said at the beginning on the article; it's more mind-manipulating propaganda $erving the agenda.
Dr. Ashish Jha of Brown University said via Twitter that the significance of the interruption was unclear but that he was “still optimistic” that an effective vaccine will be found in the coming months, “but optimism isn’t evidence,” he wrote. “Let’s let science drive this process.”
Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York, tweeted that the illness may be unrelated to the vaccine, "but the important part is that this is why we do trials before rolling out a vaccine to the general public.”
Look at how hard they are working to convince us to take their poison.
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Paging the Globe, STAT:
"Pharma drew a line in the sand over Covid-19 vaccine readiness — because someone had to" by Ed Silverman, STAT | September 7, 2020
Talk about a rebuke.
President Trump may want a Covid-19 vaccine to ship in time to boost his reelection chances, but the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t appear ready to cooperate — at least, not on his terms.
I believe they don't want him around, and this fits in with what I said regarding the previous article.
This is PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERFERENCE from the PRE$$ in favor of the VACCINE COMPANIES!
In a highly unusual turn of events, nine vaccine makers — including some of the world’s biggest companies — on Tuesday issued their own public pledge not to seek government approval without extensive safety and effectiveness data. This follows a fairly similar open letter the BIO trade group released last week warning any vaccine or therapy should only become available with the same sort of “rigorously considered” data.
These are only words, but right now, these are the words that Trump needs to hear.
After Trump has brazenly and transparently bullied members of his own team — most notably, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn — someone has to draw a line in the sand and push back against him.
After jabbing this agenda at us for six months, they are now howling in protest!
There’s good reason. As we move closer to Nov. 3, vaccine makers are still testing their shots, yet at a Friday press conference, Trump said a vaccine might be ready “maybe even before Nov. 1” or “sometime in the month of October.”
Wouldn’t that be convenient?
The vaccine makers that signed this pledge — Pfizer, Merck, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Novavax — are rushing to complete clinical trials, but only Pfizer has indicated it may have late-stage results in October, and that’s not a given, yet any move by the FDA to greenlight a Covid-19 vaccine without late-stage results will be interpreted as an effort to boost Trump — and rightly so.
Consider Trump’s erratic and selfish remarks.
That's when I couldn't take anymore of sickening Silverman!
Let’s be clear, though. These public pronunciations are not simply altruistic attempts to take the moral high ground. With each tweet and off-the-cuff remark about the vaccine timeline, Trump is eroding whatever confidence the public may have in vaccine makers, which is already questionable as far as some people are concerned.
How is he doing that?
His is promoting them at War $peed!
The Globe has become so obsessed with Trump hatred they will now turn themselves into pretzels to distort reality in opposition.
It's NOT TRUMP who is eroding confidence in the toxic tubers, it is the agenda-$hoving of the pre$$ along with creepy spokespeople like BG.
“The companies are aware that, on a good day, they have trouble selling vaccines to 25% of the country that is suspicious about safety. So the last thing they need is to have Trump pull a stunt and push through a vaccine ahead of its time,” said Ira Loss of Washington Analysis, who tracks pharmaceutical regulatory and legislative matters for investors. “In many ways, the industry is doing a defensive move to ensure they’re not going to have to defend any approval because the president is doing a dance.”
Now those willing to take their poisonous potions is down to 25%, but I'm sure it's Trump's fault!
The pharmaceutical industry is keenly aware that its reputation is also at stake as the pandemic becomes more and more politicized, and simply put, that’s not good for business.....
Oh, it was another $elf-$erving maneuver as $uspected!
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Related:
"Moderna Inc. fell 13% on Tuesday after regulators and top drugmakers promised the COVID-19 vaccine approval process would be immune from political pressure and the biotech company drew its first sell rating since going public in 2018. Moderna’s vaccine is one of three leading candidates Wall Street expects may win an emergency use authorization near-term, but pledges from the Food and Drug Administration and industry leaders have cast a pall over the prospects of a vaccine being approved before the U.S. election. The public letter signed by nine chief executive officers may not shift study schedules “all that meaningfully,” but it does “help to suggest that the companies will not allow the White House to push vaccines forward that are not ready for public consumption,” Jared Holz a Jefferies health-care trading strategist, wrote in a note to clients. Meanwhile....."
"China's top leader, Xi Jinping, declared on Tuesday that the country's success in suppressing its coronavirus outbreak was a vindication of Communist Party rule. Xi spoke during a televised ceremony to honor doctors, nurses, local officials and others who party officials said had made an outstanding contribution in fighting the virus. He said that the crisis had ignited a patriotic surge that bolstered the party. Xi's triumphant account would probably have drawn much wider skepticism in China earlier this year, when many people were angered by officials who understated the the spread of the infections in Wuhan, where the epidemic began, but the public mood shifted as China emerged from the crisis far more smoothly than the United States and other advanced economies did. Near the start of Tuesday's meeting, the thousands in the hall observed a minute or so of silence to mourn the thousands who died in China from the virus, including many medical workers, but online, Chinese people lamented they lack of mention of Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who was chastised by police for alerting his colleagues to the then little-understood virus, and later died from COVID-19. China is now trying to turn attention to economic recovery, and the government has chosen an unusual set of volunteers to test a coronavirus vaccine: its trade negotiators, who are more likely than most Chinese to interact with potentially infected foreigners. China's vaccine makers have been turning to Chinese citizens who travel overseas, and to countries such as Brazil and Indonesia, in their search for people with whom to test whether the products work...."
Their vaccine is plant-based, and they just might win the XPRIZE:
"A $5 Million Prize Spurs Competition for Covid-19 Rapid Test" by Olivia Raimonde and Janet Wu, Bloomberg News | September 8, 2020
As countries race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, just determining who’s infected remains a major challenge.
Especially when the PCR tests are fiddled with to provide 90% false positives.
Large-scale testing is a crucial element in containing the virus, experts say, because many who contract it exhibit little to no symptoms. Without widespread testing, it’s a daunting task to identify contagious individuals and isolate them.
To continue promoting the agenda based on flat-out lies is disgusting, although I expect it from Bloomberg.
To help meet that challenge, the XPRIZE Foundation, which aims to spur technological and industry advancements, is offering a $5 million prize to develop a new Covid-19 rapid test. Competitors can enter until midnight Tuesday. Since July, 699 teams from 70 countries have registered.
Currently, test results for the novel coronavirus can take up to two weeks, creating headaches for medical professionals, public-health experts and elected officials. Without the ability to test people often and with speedy results, many cases may go undetected, which can lead to new clusters of infections.
Or they can not, right?
Depends on what you are doing. If it's church services, a funeral, or a bar or restaurant, maybe, but city-sacking protests are immune.
“We have, like everyone else around the globe, seen the impact this has had on mental health, physical health, bringing the wheels off of the economy,” said Anousheh Ansari, chief executive officer of the XPRIZE Foundation. “We always look at innovation to solve grand challenges.”
Ansari and her family poured millions into funding the first XPRIZE in 2004 that launched the commercial space race. That $10 million prize brought in about $100 million of investment to the teams that competed, helping fuel what is now a more than $100 billion industry.
Ansari’s hope is that the Covid prize will seed a similar investment boom to fight a virus that has infected more than 27.3 million people and killed more than 892,000 worldwide.
We all know those numbers are $hit now, so what is 6% of 892,000 and what is 10% of 27.3 million? Those are your "real" numbers.
The competition for a rapid Covid test has few requirements except accuracy and speed. The test must return results within minutes or hours, not days, and it must be affordable, costing no more than $12 each, according to Ansari. Ease of administration is key as well, so people can test themselves, she said.
Last month, Abbott Laboratories announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had given emergency authorization for its rapid $5 Covid-19 test. The antigen test involves a nasal swab, and is based on the same technology as a flu test. Abbott introduced one of the first such tests in March. The XPRIZE competition is proceeding because multiple tests are still needed.
Because it is nothing more than a mild flu -- if it even exists at all because it has never been specifically isolated from any other coronavirus.
Unlike past competitions, organizers expect multiple winners. The prize purse can be split up to five ways. Tech behemoths Amazon.com Inc and Google are helping to back the award. Anthem Inc. and six other Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans are contributing more than $4 million. Venture capital firms also have joined the initiative, attracted by the opportunity to scale the winning tests. RA Capital in Boston is investing millions in a non-profit consortium of scientists and investors that, in turn, is investing in the rapid-test prize.
Everyone gets a medal, and look at the corporate goliaths behind this.
Cui bono?
The opportunity of scaling the technology is why venture firms like RA Capital are putting up money, not just for the prize, but a $50 million investment fund that winners can tap.
Damn vultures!
“We are able to take the technologies that we identify and ultimately pull together the various innovators,” said Peter Kolchinsky, managing partner at RA Capital. “Pull them together into one grand effort, and create a sustainable business model here, and if we come up with one, then there is a return for those investors who risked their capital to help bring it about. The challenge for us is unlike anything else we’ve faced,” RA Capital’s Kolchinsky said. “It may be that this ends up being just the starting point for a better way of screening and testing for other diseases.”
Of course, the $u$tainable bu$ine$$ model di$appears if the COVID fraud is called out, and the need for the further medical tyranny he is promoting vanishes as well.
At the very least, the competition can help bring society another step closer to taming the pandemic, Ansari said. “Testing is an important part of a permanent solution, not just for this pandemic, but in the future,” she said.....
They will be prodding and poking you for the rest of your miserable lives if you let this go through, Americans.
Woe to the children!
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Still waiting for the results in Massachusetts:
"In Massachusetts, many people want more hard facts on where COVID-19 is popping up" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, September 8, 2020
Deb Ternove, a 64-year-old Upton resident and former human resources director who now runs a pet-sitting service, an occupation she deems relatively safe because of few people interactions, inhales information about the coronavirus, religiously looking to the state’s daily updates for clues about how to safely negotiate the changed world, but more than six months into the pandemic, those answers remain elusive for Ternove and others. While some states have been adding more concrete and easy-to-digest information about the most common places and ways in which their residents are getting infected, Massachusetts has yet to provide such accessible information.
This crap is maddening!
The pre$$ reports what they put out as gospel without question, and the case numbers and fancy graphs are all over the place, and yet it's all based on no information at all!
The leaders of this state are goddamn criminals for what they have done!
Weddings, large parties, and campus gatherings regularly burst into the news as super-spreader events, for example, yet every day, people are getting infected in mundane ways, but where and how?
Well, seeing as she LEFT OUT the PROTESTS we know those are immune to COVID!
Imagine that!
Some state health departments, such as Louisiana, are sharing reports from their contact-tracing programs that specify the businesses, schools, or other facilities where outbreaks are occurring. Others, such as Vermont and Colorado, post the occupations, industries, or settings — such as bars, casinos, or food processing plants — with the highest number or percentages of infections in their states.
That's scary for so many reasons.
Massachusetts, which has teamed up with the Boston-based nonprofit Partners in Health to conduct contact tracing, is not publicly releasing information from that effort that would more clearly pinpoint where and how infections are spreading. A Partners in Health spokesman said the data they collect is turned over to the state health department.
That's even more frightening.
Related:
Massachusetts Contact Tracing NGO part of Clinton Pedophile Ring in Haiti
Yeah, the good governor is one of them, and that's the same Partners in Health that is funded by George Soros and Bill Gates, with Chelsea Clinton on the Board of Trustees.
Now we know why they don't want to release the information that is being used for other purposes!
When asked about such expansive data, the Baker administration said in a statement: “The Commonwealth’s contact tracing program has found that spread and clusters are typically formed when people let their guard down, as we are seeing transmission mostly in settings where people socialize and congregate, including households, informal gatherings, parties, and sporting events.”
But not city-destroying protests.
These people are FRAUDS, folks, and belong in jail!
The health department has significantly increased the amount of data it shares in daily and weekly online reports. It recently added charts and a color-coded map illustrating the hot spot communities, and those that have relatively lower rates of transmission, and the magnitude of local and state contact-tracing efforts.
Oh, they are doing better then as she undercuts her thesis!
The state also releases reams of raw data in dense spreadsheets that includes testing results across roughly 50 occupations, although about two-thirds of the results are missing from recent data and critics say the information is difficult to find on the state’s website and is hard to follow for the average person.
That is the whole point, isn't it?
If it were easy to follow the jig would be so up and we would have already dispatched Baker and the rest.
That's why the "authorities" are hiding it and making it hard to find, and why the pre$$ is backtracking in the face of government.
Ternove and other residents aren’t the only ones wishing for more accessible data. Local public health officials, who are on the front lines of the epidemic, say they, too, often lack a clear sense of where infections may be percolating.
Un-fu*king-real!!!!
“The governor keeps saying [infections are] coming from big social events, but . . . where are the numbers to show that,” said Sigalle Reiss, president of the Massachusetts Health Officers Association and Norwood’s health director. “I only see a small slice of the big picture. What are the trends statewide? Is it workplace? Is it social gatherings?”
Is it PROTESTS?
Reiss recently had to briefly close one store and two fast-food restaurants in Norwood for cleaning after workers at the three businesses tested positive. Still, she said she’s finding it hard to know whether those cases signal a larger trend because “it’s hard to see the trends while you’re in the midst of it.”
Reiss said the state’s central database, which local health departments can access, does not allow the departments to easily run reports that might help them better pinpoint trends.
“It’s really hard [for residents] to have an accurate understanding of where the risk is,” said Carlene Pavlos, executive director of the Massachusetts Public Health Association.
Arrrrrrrrggggghhhhh!
If the epidemic has largely been fueled by partying and lax behavior, as Baker suggests, then the state’s data would not so often show some of the highest numbers of infections in communities that have dense housing and high concentrations of poverty, she said.
“If quality data can be collected, analyzed, and reported, we will learn something more about why these communities are experiencing higher rates,” and they can develop strategies to address it, Pavlos said.
IF, IF??!!
The ongoing destruction of our livelihoods continued with no end in sight, along with the stupid masks and silly social distancing -- all based on an IF, IF!!
WHAT the FUC*?!!?
By contrast, in Vermont, the state health department in August added a new section, “How are people getting COVID-19,” to its weekly online report. State epidemiologist Veronica Fialkowski said the department wanted to help residents understand what health officials there know about the source of infections, and also to help residents make informed choices. The section includes data culled from cases in which contact tracers could discern a known source of outbreaks, such as in nursing homes or workplaces, or from types of relationships, such as transmission through a family member, co-worker, or neighbor.
Did they hire the same Clinton-connected pedos, and if the states really wanted to help their residents they never would have gone along with this evil fraud.
For cases in which the source of infection is unknown, the state shows the percentage of infections among each occupation. The highest percentages have been among workers in the hospitality, grocery, retail, and travel industries.
“We are all learning as we go,” Fialkowski said. “There is a lot of responsibility about how to share, for health privacy reasons. We are trying our best to provide data that is useful and interpretable.”
I'm ready to hit the roof!!
If I didn't know better I would say they are making it all up as they go!
Crystal Watson, who specializes in risk assessment at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, said many states are collecting data on where residents are thought to have been infected but few are doing a good job sharing that information publicly.
“Health departments are running on fumes and people are exhausted,” Watson said. “They don’t have the resources to do the things they have to do and this may be a bonus in their minds.”
Watson said state-level data may not not be able to help residents know whether one specific restaurant, for instance, is more dangerous than another for coronavirus transmission, but it may illuminate whether certain types of businesses or places are linked to more infections.
JHU is one of the lead criminals in this entire exercise, and no longer a credible source (if they ever were one).
Without more detailed information, Ternove, the Upton pet sitter, is analyzing every activity and measuring it against her own barometer for what seems safe. Going to the hairdresser still seems too risky, but given her aching joints, she has been to her massage therapist. She’s still trying to get food delivered as much as possible, because she’s unsure about grocery shopping.
Well, going to the hairdresser isn't to risky for the Speaker of the House!
“It’s these calculated risks that we are taking and you want that validation: Am I being overly cautious or am I being just about right,” Ternove said. “If you don’t have any information, you are settling into an adjective of being paranoid or nonchalant and you are doing it in a vacuum.”
That would mean freedom and completely going back to where we were before all this shutdown, lockdown madness.
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So how many of the 168 new coronavirus cases are false positives?
If the SJC rules Baker's actions were unlawful, I will have a heart attack and immediately seek a divorce.
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You can $ay goodbye to Bo$ton:
"Will big cities bounce back, or fade away? “You could see tech workers relocating to the Berkshires or Maine, and some modest moving to places in the Heartland,” one researcher said of the Boston-area workforce" by Scott Kirsner Globe Correspondent, September 8, 2020
There is a debate brewing about the future of cities, fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. On one side is the “quick rebound” crew, and on the other, the “rise of the rest” adherents.
The first group suggests we are going to see a temporary dip in urban vitality, followed by a rebound once the pandemic abates. The second believes that business shutdowns and the growing prevalence of work-from-home policies could gut cities like Boston, New York, and San Francisco, giving people an opportunity to decamp for places that are cheaper, cleaner, quieter — and perhaps with better schools, to boot.
We don't want you here!
That could spur what investor Steve Case, the cofounder of AOL, has dubbed the “rise of the rest,” a reinvigoration of smaller cities that haven’t seen spinning studios, latte dispensaries, and Google campuses spring up over the last decade, and the anecdotes are starting to accumulate: People who have become unmoored from their urban offices are opting to relocate.....
Can you leave that $hit behind if you are coming this way?
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The Globe then took a walk around the block:
"There’s a block at the heart of Boylston Street that’s now almost entirely empty. Here’s why" by Jaclyn Reiss Globe Staff, September 8, 2020
On a typical weekend night before the pandemic, it wasn’t unusual to see each place packed with patrons or lines snaking down the block, but as bars without food service remain shuttered under Massachusetts COVID-19 reopening guidelines, all four of the popular spots — beloved among college students, working professionals, bar-hoppers, and out-of-towners alike — have announced they are closing or changing hands.
The bars on Boylston Street are encountering a phenomenon felt in other shopping and tourist meccas around the city: How do you keep up with paying the bills in a pricey neighborhood when state closure orders and decreased foot traffic have slowed business to a crawl?
Restaurant closures might not be a surprise in the pandemic: Nearly one-fifth of eateries in the state reportedly have not reopened since the nonessential business closure order given in March, but the loss of the four busy nightlife spots has generated a number of posts on social media lamenting the ghost town feel of what was Back Bay’s most heavily-trafficked bar block; however, Charles M. Talanian, owner of C. Talanian Realty Co., noted that the pandemic was “definitely to blame for the closures” and said that the current economic climate sped along his development plans.....
Only problem is, there is no place to eat, and the blame falls upon the politicians who did all this based on faulty models and no information.
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Related:
"The Celtics, a franchise that drafted the first Black player in the NBA and also hired the first Black coach, made another unprecedented move Tuesday with the announcement of a $25 million commitment over the next 10 years to fight racial injustice and focus on social issues in the Black community of Greater Boston. It is the first significant move by an NBA team since the league announced in August a $300 million plan to develop economic growth in Black communities. That plan called for every NBA team to donate $1 million per year for 10 years. This Celtics plan, which includes a $20 million cash commitment and another $5 million in media assets and marketing....."
Just shut up and play ball without fouling!
"The ranks of people speaking up about injustice are growing in the era of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, and employees of companies that serve the public — particularly young, social-media-savvy workers adept at spreading a message far and wide — have a built-in audience who can help push companies to make systemic changes. Like the Cambridge workers suing Whole Foods for not letting them wear Black Lives Matter face masks, the Brookline Trader Joe’s employees assumed theirs wasn’t the only store where workers were experiencing the same thing, and they appear to be right. “We want change,” said Charlotte Jamar, a co-worker who quit in protest when no action was taken, and “There is a real desire among young people to be part of change and to be part of making the world a better place. It does tend to result in a little bit of piling on in social media platforms,” said Diana Pisciotta, president of the Boston public relations agency Denterlein....."
They are preying on you kids in more ways than one.
"Harvard students received a good report card Friday, not in the form of classroom grades but in an e-mail from campus housing officials announcing a small increase to the recommended number of people permitted to socialize together amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The e-mail message, first reported by the Harvard Crimson, was sent to students from Harvard College Housing. “In recognition of how seriously you are taking the socializing rules, we have good news to share,” the message said. “Later this afternoon, you’ll receive a message from Dean Khurana and Dr. Nguyen that provides permission to increase the size of small group gatherings.” The increase is modest. “Get to know your friends in groups of 2-5 people total,” the message said. “Socializing in small groups allows physical distance while still being able to hear each other and feel connected. We had previously recommended groups of only 2, but we are pleased to increase this to 2-5 given the success of our first few weeks on campus.”
That make you happy, or will you kids boycott they tyranny?
"Museum of Fine Arts to reopen in phases with COVID-19 precautions and an aim for inclusiveness" by Malcolm Gay Globe Staff, September 9, 2020
The Museum of Fine Arts will open its doors on Sept. 26, welcoming back a public buffeted by economic malaise, social unrest, and the ongoing health crisis.
The MFA has not been immune — the museum recently shed more than 100 employees — and in many respects returning visitors will find an institution still bearing down against the virus, even as it brings renewed urgency to questions of cultural primacy in an age when legacy institutions find themselves under enormous pressure to be more inclusive.
Open just five days a week, the phased reopen will feature many of the public health precautions we’ve come to expect: mandatory masks for all but the youngest, hand sanitizing stations standing sentry, social distancing floor decals, and gallery flow signage to encourage one-way traffic.
There is an art to tyranny, isn't there?
The museum will admit just 75 guests each hour, and visitors will be required to purchase timed-entry tickets in advance. Visitors will also complete a health check survey.
Once visitors are inside, many of the museum’s amenities will be off limits as well: There will be no coat check, the museum’s restaurants will remain shut (though food trucks will be stationed outside), and just one gift shop will be open for business (where visitors can buy masks inspired by the collection).
You might want to skip the lunch from the food trucks.
Director Matthew Teitelbaum said the Fenway institution is opening later than others out of concern for the health and safety of staff and visitors, but also because of the logistical challenges that come with mounting special exhibitions during a pandemic, when fabricators must practice social distancing and galleries must be altered.....
$crew the mu$eum, let's go somewhere else.
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Sometimes life imitates art:
For Walsh, Wu, the campaign trail looks close
Oh, the Bo$ton mayoral race is on as the city council wants more oversight of the BPD.
Meanwhile, the traffic pattern on a main road near Hampton Beach is returning to what it was before the coronavirus pandemic hit, but you can't go swimming.
Can go for a bike ride, though:
"The director of the Tour de France tested positive and will quarantine for a week, the race reported on Tuesday. The director, Christian Prudhomme, had not been in direct contact with any riders, the race said, and no riders tested positive. The race started as usual on Tuesday morning....."
That is when I got pedaling.
"Europe’s fears of a coronavirus resurgence are becoming reality with France hitting a new peak and infections rising in Germany and the U.K. after a summer of lax containment. Earlier lockdowns decimated European economies and authorities are resisting renewed nationwide restrictions on movement. Despite thousands of more cases, the situation is very different than in March and April. Death rates are rising more slowly, and hospitals are still able to treat the sick, easing pressure on European leaders to take drastic action -- at least for now. Confirmed cases in France rose by 4,203 on Monday. The seven-day rolling average has been rising steadily in recent weeks and surpassed 6,000 on Friday, above previous peaks in March and April. “It’s circulating, this virus, and thousands of cases a day is a lot, so necessarily from that perspective it’s worrisome,” and risks more hospitalizations and deaths in the weeks ahead, Health Minister Olivier Veran said Tuesday in an interview on France Inter radio. “The virus hasn’t magically mutated to be less nasty for people.” Germany registered 1,898 new infections in the 24 hours through Tuesday morning, the most since April, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. While that’s a far cry from the almost 7,000 daily cases recorded at the height of the pandemic, the country’s public health authority warned that the situation continued to be “dynamic and serious,” and the U.K. reported almost 3,000 cases on Monday and case numbers in recent days rose to the highest since May. The increase has largely been attributed to younger people being infected, leading Health Secretary Matt Hancock to warn of the dangers of ignoring social-distancing rules, which could widen the spread. “People have relaxed too much, now is the time for us to re-engage, and to realize that this a continuing threat to us,” Jonathan Van Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, told the BBC on Monday evening. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been urging workers to return to offices and reopened schools in an attempt to kick-start the economy after the worst recession in at least a century. The government has already moved to introduce local lockdowns in areas where the virus is spreading."
The death rates are DROPPING, you liars, and the virus has weakened as it mutated over the summer and as humans achieved herd immunity.
For the agenda-pushing pre$$ to admit such a thing would be a surprise, and time to get the hell out of Jolly Old England:
"Boris Johnson’s threat to break international law over Brexit was slammed by members of his own party, who warned it will damage the U.K.’s global standing and invite mistrust in other countries....."
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First thing to do upon arrival at home is check the mail:
"A retiree in Austria says he received a U.S. government coronavirus relief check for $1,200, despite not having lived in America for over half a century. The check, with President Donald Trump’s name on it, is part of a massive federal stimulus program, but the money also has been sent to people who aren’t eligible — including deceased U.S. taxpayers. Austrian public broadcaster ORF reports the 73-year-old man from Linz, who worked as a waiter in the United States for two years in the 1960s, was able to cash the check. His wife, who never worked or lived in the United States, got one too. ORF reports banks in Austria confirm they’ve cashed dozens of checks for residents of the Alpine country. It’s unclear how many were entitled to the money."
He must have gotten mine.
Won't be able to pay for the room:
"Attorney General Maura Healey said her office is seeing a surge in scams where people advertise apartments they don’t own and rip off a month’s worth of rent, or more, from tenants who are eager to find a place but wary of touring it in person right now. She equated it to online dating, where someone posts fake pictures to lure people into sharing personal information — only in this case the victim is sharing a security deposit and first month’s rent for an apartment that doesn’t exist. “It’s sort of the equivalent of ‘catfishing,’” Healey said, using a common term for online dating scams....."
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!
Why you be doing a scam, dude?
"JPMorgan Chase & Co. says it’s probing the role of some employees who may have enabled misuse of COVID-relief funds in what it calls potentially illegal activities. The New York-based bank said it has seen “instances of customers misusing Paycheck Protection Program Loans, unemployment benefits and other government programs” and that some “employees have fallen short, too,” according to a memo to staff from the bank’s senior leaders Tuesday. The firm said the conduct doesn’t meet its principles “and may even be illegal.” JPMorgan was the biggest lender in that effort, which offered a lifeline to businesses reeling from shutdowns tied to the pandemic but has caused headaches for banks....."
Oh, if only all of us could have their headaches!
Maybe someone should do an audit of them:
"Report: Immigration detention center should release inmates" by Matthew Barakat, Associated Press | September 9, 2020
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ordered the inspection last month after several detainees filed a lawsuit with the help of legal activist groups. Brinkema faulted the detention complex in Farmville for an outbreak that affected more than 90% of the center’s nearly 300 detainees, including a 72-year-old detainee who died. Government officials fought unsuccessfully to block the inspection.
The expert, Homer Venters, inspected the site last month and filed a report made public Friday that says the center does a poor job of screening inmates for COVID-19 symptoms. He recommended that detainees at high risk for the disease be released.
As if there wasn't enough violence in the streets.
The report cites “multiple and systematic deficiencies” in the complex’s health services and concludes that to be detained there “represents a significant health risk for high-risk patients.”
A report prepared by an expert hired by the detention center reached different conclusions.
That expert, William Reese, said the biggest problem he saw was that detainees were refusing to wear masks. Given the inmates’ “lack of cooperation ... it is remarkable that the facility has had no new positive tests among Detainees in nearly a month,” Reese wrote.
They are ALREADY AMERICAN!
WELCOME!
Venters, in his report, wrote that inmates dismissed staff entreaties to wear masks because they blamed the facility for getting them sick in the first place. The inmates also told Venters that they felt the masks were unnecessary since most everyone in the facility had already contracted the virus.
Venters’ report found fault with numerous procedures at the center. In particular, he said the center’s efforts to screen inmates with COVID-19 symptoms were insufficient, and that the vast majority of detainees told him they were never asked about symptoms when they submit to daily temperature screenings.
As a result, Venters said, the center’s contention that no inmate has experienced COVID-19 symptoms since July is dubious.....
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I'm going to release you no, readers.
Thank you for taking the time to read to this point.
