"Biden would push for less US reliance on nukes for defense" by Robert Burns, Associated Press | September 20, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden leaves little doubt that if elected he would try to scale back President Donald Trump’s buildup in nuclear weapons spending, and although the former vice president has not fully detailed his nuclear priorities, he says he would make the U.S. less reliant on the world’s deadliest weapons.
The two candidates’ views on nuclear weapons policy and strategy carry unusual significance in this election because the United States is at a turning point in deciding the future of its weapons arsenal and because of growing debate about the threat posed by Chinese and Russian nuclear advances.
China, whose relatively small nuclear force is growing in sophistication, is cited by the Pentagon’s top nuclear commander as a leading reason why the United States should go all out on nuclear modernization.
“We are going into a very different world,” Adm. Charles Richard, the head of U.S. Strategic Command, said Sept. 14. “We are on a trajectory, for the first time in our nation’s history, to face two peer nuclear-capable competitors.” He was referring to Russia, which has long been a nuclear peer, and China, whose leaders Richard says have put a strategic nuclear buildup “next on their to-do list.”
Days later, Richard said China could become a peer “by the end of the decade, if not sooner,” but other estimates suggest a slower pace. The Pentagon recently said Beijing may double its nuclear stockpile over the next 10 years, which would still leave it far behind the U.S.
Trump entered the White House in 2017 with little to say on the subject of nuclear weapons, but his administration produced a policy document a year later that the Pentagon portrayed as largely tracking the path of the Obama administration. Trump did, however, add two weapon types and beef up the budget for a years-long overhaul of the nuclear arsenal — an overhaul that Biden sees as excessive.
It's all a big show, folks. The political playbook is left for the next guy.
What a nightmare, huh?
So which wing of Zioni$t Joory do you want ruling over you?
“Our nuclear now is in the best shape it’s been in decades,” the president said this month, although the military says the arsenal’s main components are so old they are long past due for replacement. He has boasted in broad, sometimes cryptic, terms of U.S. nuclear advances, telling journalist Bob Woodward in 2019 that he had built a secret nuclear weapon that neither Russian nor China knew about.
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Does Congre$$ know?
If reelected, Trump would be expected to stay on his path of modernizing the nuclear arsenal, which has bipartisan support in Congress despite growing budget pressures. Less clear is how Trump would approach nuclear arms control, including the problem of North Korea’s unconstrained arsenal. His administration has walked away from one arms control deal with Russia and balked at extending an Obama-era strategic nuclear treaty with Russia that Biden says he would keep in place.
Just days before Trump entered the White House, then-Vice President Biden cautioned against abandoning Obama’s approach.
“If future budgets reverse the choices we’ve made, and pour additional money into a nuclear buildup, it hearkens back to the Cold War and will do nothing to increase the day-to-day security of the United States or our allies,” Biden said in a Jan. 11, 2017, speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
James Acton, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment, says Biden’s instincts on nuclear weapons are more liberal than those of much of the Democratic Party’s defense establishment, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he would fundamentally change U.S. nuclear policy.
“In practice, there are often pressures to continue the status quo,” Acton said in an interview.
In the middle of the Great Reset?
I am about to explode at all this, and have you noticed there is now no longer any mention of Beirut in my jew$paper?
Biden embraces the notion that nuclear weapons should play a smaller role in defense strategy and that the ultimate goal should be a nuclear-free world. He has not spelled out how he would pursue this, but he has dropped clues.
Only if it is verified beyond a doubt that Israel doesn't have any and strict monitoring is in place afterward. We are already being hold hostage by the Samson Option.
Until then, we keep our quiver. Can reduce it, but never empty it.
He has said, for example, that he opposes the Trump administration’s decision to develop and deploy two types of missiles armed with less-powerful “low-yield” nuclear warheads. One is a sea-launched cruise missile that is some years from being fielded; the other is a long-range ballistic missile that the Navy began deploying aboard submarines nearly a year ago.
Now why did BEIRUT just spring to mind?!
“Bad idea,” Biden said in July 2019. Having these makes the U.S. “more inclined to use them,” he added.
There has never been a weapon invented that wasn't used.
During the campaign, Biden also has embraced what nuclear strategists call a “no first use” policy. In simplest terms, that means not initiating a nuclear war — not being the first to pull the trigger, so that in a nuclear crisis, the U.S. president might opt to unleash a retaliatory strike but not a preemptive one. Longstanding U.S. policy has been to reserve the option of striking first, arguing that this makes war less likely.
Obama considered but rejected a shift to “no first use.”
I'm sorry, what was that last thing there?
The image doesn't match the reality with that guy, and in past years this might have inclined me to vote Biden -- but now we have COVID-19 so f**k him!
The Biden campaign has made few pronouncements on U.S. nuclear weapons policy or strategy and it declined to make an adviser available for an interview. The campaign website says Biden believes “the sole purpose of the U.S. nuclear arsenal should be deterring — and if necessary, retaliating against — a nuclear attack. As president, he will work to put that belief into practice, in consultation with our allies and military.”
In a questionnaire last year by the Council for a Living World in which Biden and other candidates were asked whether the U.S. should review its policy reserving the option of using nuclear weapons first, Biden said yes but did not elaborate. He also agreed that modernizing the U.S. arsenal could be done for less than the currently projected $1.2 trillion.....
Why can't that money go to impoverished Americans so they can save their lifelong dreams and livelihoods?
Btw, the Council for a Living World is headed by disgraced congre$$man John Tierney, whose transgression was questioning a certain prime minister.
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There are six things Biden needs to do to win, with everything from character to climate on the ballot.
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"Bahrain said Monday it broke up a plot by militants backed by Iran earlier this year to launch attacks on diplomats and foreigners in the island nation home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet. The announcement came hours after Saudi state television and a Bahraini local newspaper implied the plot was new in their reporting Sunday night, just days after the island kingdom normalized relations with Israel. Bahraini government officials, who routinely claim breaking up plots by militants backed by Iran, did not respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press over the confusion. The details of the plot became public as tensions between Iran and the US remain high....."
That phony bulloney stinks to high heaven coming from the perception management propagandists in the pre$$, as a deadly airstrike in Afghanistan killed at least 10 civilians despite ongoing peace talks(pffft).
"The newly formed U.S. Space Force is deploying troops to a vast new frontier: the Arabian Peninsula. Space Force now has a squadron of 20 airmen stationed at Qatar’s Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment. Future wars may be waged in outer space, but the Arabian Desert already saw what military experts dub the world’s first “space war” — the 1991 Desert Storm operation to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Today, the U.S. faces new threats in the region from Iran’s missile program and efforts to jam, hack and blind satellites. “We’re starting to see other nations that are extremely aggressive in preparing to extend conflict into space,” Col. Todd Benson, director of Space Force troops at Al-Udeid, told The Associated Press. “We have to be able to compete and defend and protect all of our national interests.”
SIGH!
Looks like war with Iran AFTER the election and Trump's October $urpri$e:
"Stocks slide in broad sell-off; Dow closes down more than 500 points" by Hamza Shaban, Hannah Denham, Washington Post | September 22, 2020
Stock markets fell sharply, then rebounded somewhat, Monday as rattled investors weighed how the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the search for her successor could overshadow coronavirus stimulus talks, and the implications of a blockbuster report on global banks
Financial stocks tumbled after an investigation by BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reported over the weekend that major Western banks knowingly facilitated suspicious transactions tied to terrorism and illicit drugs.
That is nothing new!
Optimism dimmed on word that a vaccine was not likely to be available to most of Americans until mid-2021, said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco, but investors also are wary of the contentious political environment domestically, as well as an uptick in coronavirus cases abroad.
By that time we will have herd immunity, so stick it!
"Given that election season has gone into high gear and covid-19 infections are rising in a number of countries around the world, we should all be fastening our seat belts as volatility is likely to increase from here," she said.
Why is COVID now in LOWER CASE LETTERS?
Is the FRAUD finally coming to an END?
Michael Farr, president of Farr, Miller & Washington, said a covid resurgence in Europe has the United Kingdom considering another shutdown, triggering a sell-off in airline, cruise line, and hotel stocks - which all lose when business and recreational travel is stymied, and the political battle over the next Supreme Court justice "kills the chances of passing an additional stimulus bill prior to the November election," he said.
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"Demonstrators took the streets of London, Tel Aviv and other cities on Saturday to protest coronavirus restrictions, decrying how the measures have affected daily life even with infection rates rising in many places and the global death toll approaching 1 million. In the U.K., the latest official estimates released Friday showed that new infections and coronavirus hospital admissions have been doubling every seven to eight days. Britain has Europe’s highest death toll since the start of the pandemic, with 41,821 confirmed virus-related deaths. The government recently banned social gatherings of more than six people in the hopes that it would help reverse a steep rise in COVID-19 cases and suggested that tougher restrictions could be coming. Saturday’s protest in Trafalgar Square, which was themed “Resist and Act for Freedom,” ended in clashes between demonstrators and London police, as officers tried to disperse hundreds of people holding banners and placards scrawled with anti-restriction messages such as “This is now Tyranny.” London Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that the city may add curfews, force pubs to close earlier and ban household visits to try to limit the city’s sharp rise in new cases. “I am extremely concerned by the latest evidence I’ve seen today from public health experts about the accelerating speed at which COVID-19 is now spreading here in London,” Khan said Friday. “It is increasingly likely that, in London, additional measures will soon be required to slow the spread of the virus.”
Okay.
The blog author is apoplectic because they are basing it all on distorted data and lies, as well as discredited models that predicted 500,000 dead in Britain by now.
This proves that the pre$$ is a collaborative criminal in the entire enterprise.
In Israel, meanwhile, authorities ordered a full lockdown that began Friday and coincided with the Jewish High Holidays, which are typically celebrated with family gatherings and large prayer services. Demonstrators in swimsuits gathered on a beach in Tel Aviv and waved black and pink flags connoting various protest movements.
As soon as Netanyahu did that he flew to Washington for this photo.
In your face, Israelis!
In Australia, about 100 protesters gathered in the Melbourne beachside suburb of Elwood on Saturday before being scattered by police. Police in the region have tried to dissuade lockdown opponents from protesting, but the rallies have become routine. The Victoria police said in a news release that “the behaviour of these selfish few who choose to blatantly ignore the directions will not be tolerated.” In Romania’s capital city, Bucharest, several hundred people protested against virus restrictions, including the mandatory use of masks in schools. About 2.8 million children in Romania began the school year Monday and schools took various precautions to try and prevent outbreaks. Romania is among the countries that has had a new spike in confirmed cases, including a national daily record of 1,713 cases earlier in the week and 1,333 more on Saturday. In all, Romania has had 111,550 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 4,402 deaths from the disease since the start of the pandemic....."
I'm going to avoid all the distorted case numbers and deaths and ask if the RALLIES are ROUTINE why is there HARDLY ANY PRE$$ COVERAGE?
All they see is BLM -- until they don't!
Back to England:
"As the U.S. closed in on 200,000 coronavirus deaths Monday, the coronavirus crisis deteriorated across Europe, with Britain working to draw up new restrictions, Spain clamping down again in Madrid and the Czech Republic replacing its health minister with an epidemiologist because of a surge of infections. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a round of restrictions Tuesday to slow the spread of the disease. British Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty warned that cases are doubling every seven days and could lead to a rise in deaths in the coming weeks. The chief medical officers of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland raised the nation’s COVID-19 alert Monday from three to four, the second-highest level. More than 4,300 new infections were reported on Monday, a level not seen since early May.
Are you sick of these lying fuckers yet?
In France, where infections reached a record high over the weekend with more than 13,000 new cases in 24 hours, health authorities opened new testing centers in the Paris region to reduce lines and delays. Italy added Paris and other parts of France to its COVID-19 blacklist, requiring travelers from those regions to show proof of a negative test or undergo testing on arrival, and the Norwegian capital of Oslo banned gatherings of more than 10 people in private homes after a spike in cases and strongly urged people to wear face masks when traveling on public transportation amid a strike by bus drivers that forced many commuters to take the tram. Police in the Spanish capital of Madrid and its surrounding towns began stopping people going in and out of working-class neighborhoods that have been partially locked down to combat Europe’s fastest coronavirus spread. Authorities said that starting on Wednesday, an estimated 860,000 residents must be able to show that their trips out of their neighborhoods are justified for work, study or medical reasons or face fines. Parks are closed and shops and restaurants in the affected zones are limited to 50% occupancy.
Stay the f**k out of France, and who knew that Germany won World War II?
The German city of Munich, with one of the country’s highest infection rates, will allow only up to five people or members of two households to meet, and will restrict private indoor gatherings such as birthday parties, weddings or funerals to no more than 25 people.
The rulers of the world and their political puppets are TRULY SATANIC as they attempt to remove all joy of life.
Time to invade Czachoslovakia:
The Czech Republic also faces the possibility of new restrictions after the government appointed epidemiologist Roman Prymula as health minister. In the spring, the country recorded a relatively low number of COVID-19 cases and deaths compared with hard-hit Western European countries such as Italy, Spain and Britain, but after the government lifted most of its restrictions over the summer, confirmed cases began making a comeback and reached a record high last week. On Thursday, the day-to-day increase of new cases was higher than 3,000, almost the same number it was in the entire month of March. The push to reimpose tough measures in Europe to beat back a scourge that had seemingly been brought under control in the spring contributed to a drop on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed nearly 510 points, or 1.8%, and the S&P 500 fell 1.2%. Elsewhere, the U.S. was on the verge of hitting 200,000 deaths, with health authorities deeply worried about the resumption of school and college and the onset of cold weather, which will force more people indoors. A widely cited model from the University of Washington predicts the U.S. death toll will double to 400,000 by the end of the year, but there were glimmers of good news....."
You can stick your f**king glimmers of good news along with the piece of $hit models, and what scourge?
99.99% of people survive and recover, and many don't even know they had such a fatal disease.
Here is the silver lining:
"Prime Minister Boris Johnson has always looked for the silver lining in Britain’s response to the pandemic. Last spring, he promised to “send coronavirus packing” in 12 weeks. In the summer, he cajoled people to return to their offices and restaurants, even offering to subsidize their meals. On Tuesday, however, an uncharacteristically somber Johnson offered no sweeteners as he announced a raft of new restrictions on British society to try to keep the second wave of infections now hitting the country from getting far worse through the fall and winter. Pubs and restaurants will close at 10 p.m., people are now urged to work from home and fines on those who break the rules on the size of gatherings or wearing face masks will be doubled to 200 pounds ($255) for first-time offenders. The restrictions, he said, could stay in place for the next six months. “We always knew that while we might have driven the virus into retreat, the prospect of a second wave was real,” Johnson said to a socially distanced chamber in the House of Commons. “I’m sorry to say that, as in Spain and France and many other countries, we’ve reached a perilous turning point.” Britain reported nearly 5,000 cases on Tuesday — the highest figure since early May, and more than eight times the daily average in early July — with a rate of hospitalization that is doubling every seven to eight days. While the daily death toll and the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients are still quite low, the government’s scientific and medical advisers said that, unchecked, the virus could spread exponentially, to 50,000 new cases a day by next month and 200 deaths a day by November.
What an ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC PIECE OF SHIT and TOTAL TOOL running that country.
He makes Trump look like a coffered gentleman!
For Johnson, that grim arithmetic has forced him to reverse course on upbeat initiatives, like restoring spectators to sports events, getting workers to fill up empty office towers, or reviving the restaurant and bar trade, but unlike previous reversals, Johnson’s latest pirouette drew little criticism. The pitched debate among scientists and politicians about how best to handle the pandemic has been largely settled in Britain. People on both sides generally agree that the best course is one that tries to curb the spread of the virus through social-distancing measures while at the same time aiming for a degree of normalcy, with schools, shops and even pubs open, though with an earlier curfew.
Related: Boris Johnson (and other so called 'leaders') must urgently rethink harmful Covid strategy
Well, the DEBATE is FAR FROM SETTLED as my PRE$$ LIES ITS F**KING A$$ OFF!
SIGH!
Johnson, desperate to avoid a return to full lockdown, cast these moves as a “stitch in time to save nine” — a well-timed, targeted effort that would avert more blunt-force restrictions down the road. It was a rather modest slogan for a swaggering politician who once promised the public that Britain would “squash the sombrero” by imposing a strict lockdown that would suppress the bulge in cases in the first wave of the pandemic in March. Britain did avoid the deluge of patients that left Italy’s hospitals in near collapse, but it still ran up the largest death toll of any country in Europe, delayed in taking preventive steps, failed to organize an effective testing and contact tracing program, and sowed confusion with its public messages, which experts said hampered acceptance of simple measures like wearing face masks. “To be fair, the government has moved,” said Devi Sridhar, director of the global health governance program at the University of Edinburgh, “but the messaging has been really poor. ‘Eat to help out’ directly subsidized the most dangerous places to spread the virus,” she said, referring to the summer restaurant campaign of government-subsidized meals. Sridhar said the new restrictions might help safeguard one of Johnson’s cardinal goals: keeping schools open. In the past, some experts had said the choice might come down to closing schools or closing pubs. By closing pubs earlier — and avoiding the late-night drinking that the prime minister said was particularly risky for spreading the virus — he hopes to keep both open. “It’s going to be a struggle going into the winter because of a combination of weather and fatigue,” Sridhar said. Johnson emphasized enforcement of the new rules, with the heavier fines and what he said would be more zealous policing. He even said that the army might be deployed to support the police, although Downing Street later insisted that the military would only be used in support functions. For all his gravity, Johnson allowed himself one typically sunny moment. Referring to advances in treatments and a potential vaccine, he said, “All the medical guidance I have is that by next spring things will be vastly, vastly improved.”
Be all vaxxed up by then, even as a SECOND PATIENT developed a crippling reaction to the Oxford vaccine -- something my paper omitted.
Time to BEHEAD BOJO the tyrant, Englanders, or send him to Australia along with the rest of the dog shit!
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"Israelis were bracing for more coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday, days after the start of a second countrywide lockdown, as health officials sounded the alarm over a feared deluge of new patients and hospitals were ordered to open additional COVID-19 wards. Israeli Cabinet ministers were meeting to discuss tightening already severe restrictions that have shut down much of the country, which is facing one of the world's worst outbreaks, adjusted for its population of 9 million. Schools, malls and hotels, among other sectors of the economy, have been ordered closed for three weeks, with strict restrictions on movement and gatherings, albeit with some exceptions. With the daily rate of new cases skyrocketing, officials fear those restrictions won't do enough to bring numbers down. Israel is now seeing around 5,000 new infections per day, with a total of more than 600 seriously ill patients. Hospitals have been instructed to cancel elective or non-urgent surgeries and treatments.
It's a repeat of the spring and they think we will fall for it again!
It's what is coming to you, America, after the election.
WAKE UP!
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Now back to bu$ine$$:
The tech giants that had stoked Wall Street's astonishing comeback in the spring and early summer continued to slide, with Facebook sheding 1.7%, and Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix have tumbled since their all-time highs in early September. Farr also noted deep declines in the financial sector.
The banking giants were rocked by news coverage, based on more than 2,100 documents known as suspicious activity reports or SARs. Banks are legally required to file them when they see transactions that have the traits of financial misconduct or money laundering, such as large transactions in round numbers, or payments between two companies that have no observable business relationship.
BuzzFeed shared these reports with the ICIJ and more than 100 news organizations across 88 countries. The news outlets mapped more than $2 trillion in transactions from 1999 to 2017. Though the major banks that file SARs could have halted nearly any of the flagged financial activity, BuzzFeed reported, they allowed the transactions to go through and continued to collect their fees.
The documents, according to the news organizations, "expose the hollowness of banking safeguards, and the ease with which criminals have exploited them. Profits from deadly drug wars, fortunes embezzled from developing countries, and hard-earned savings stolen in a Ponzi scheme were all allowed to flow into and out of these financial institutions, despite warnings from the banks' own employees."
Going to need a globalist world authority to over$ee 'em, right?
A ca$hle$$ $ociety, too!
That's why this f**king report is out!
The Treasury Department, in its response, did not directly address detailed questions posed by the investigation, BuzzFeed reported. Instead, the agency said it was "aware that various media outlets intend to publish a series of articles based on unlawfully disclosed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs)." The agency went on to say that "the unauthorized disclosure of SARs is a crime," and that it was referring the matter to the Department of Justice and its own Inspector General's office.
Not the whistleblowers they had in mind.
Time to drop the subject and change the issue to something else!
Investors also are tracking the escalation in tensions between the U.S. and China, said Nicole Tanenbaum of Chequers Financial Management.
In recent weeks, the Chinese government unveiled new global data security standards intended to counter a rival U.S. initiative; the American ambassador to China quit his post in Beijing; and President Trump vowed publicly "to end our reliance on China once and for all."
That's a pretty strong message, and would it include nuclear weapons?
Over the weekend, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction halting the Trump administration's planned ban of the Chinese app WeChat, a popular tool for Chinese speakers in the U.S. to communicate with friends and relatives in China, where most Western messaging apps, including Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, are banned.
The remarkable decline on Wall Street follows a dramatic rise of almost uninterrupted gains, culminating in multiple shattered records of individual stocks and closely watched indexes. Less than three weeks ago, the S&P 500 recorded its highest level ever, at 3,580, but it has since shed nearly 8.4%. The benchmark index is down about 6.3% for the month.
Every sector in the S&P fell Monday, and nearly every company in the Dow lost ground. Oil prices slipped 5% and even safe haven assets like gold were beaten down. The steep losses echoed the market turbulence so common in the early days of the pandemic.....
They are crashing the economy again because Mueller, impeachment, the first controlled demolition of the economy, and COVID, have failed to dislodge Trump.
That's the October $urpri$e that awaits him and us all.
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It is nice to $ee that Fed is coming to the rescue of the middle cla$$ even as an criminal CEO picks up a $3.5 million bonus.
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"Americans’ household wealth rebounded last quarter to a record high as the stock market quickly recovered from a pandemic-induced plunge in March, yet the gains flowed mainly to the most affluent households even as tens of millions of people endured job losses and shrunken incomes. The Federal Reserve said Monday that American households’ net worth jumped nearly 7% in the April-June quarter to $119 trillion. That figure had sunk to $111.3 trillion in the first quarter, when the coronavirus battered the economy and sent stock prices tumbling."
As planned, folks, and is going to get worse before it gets better:
"Democrats face quandary on vaccine support as election nears" by Steve Peoples AP National Political Writer, September 19, 2020
NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump is escalating his promise for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day, but across America, Democrats, independents and even some Republicans do not trust his administration to produce a safe and effective vaccine on such an aggressive timeline. Such hesitancy threatens to exacerbate the public health risk for millions of Americans whenever a vaccine is released.
They were racing for it until he opened his mouth.
With the Nov. 3 election fast approaching, Democratic officials face a delicate political challenge.
Should they attack Trump's vaccine claims too aggressively, Democrats risk further undermining public confidence in a possible lifesaving medicine while looking as though they are rooting against a potential cure, but if they don't push back, it makes it easier for Trump to use the real or imagined prospect of a vaccine to boost his reelection campaign.
Is obsession a disease you vaccinate away?
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee demonstrated the Democrats' balancing act on Friday when asked whether he would be willing to take a vaccine released by the administration before the election.
“If all the protocols had been followed and the evidence is in, of course, I’d follow science. It doesn’t matter when it happens,” Inslee told The Associated Press, "but I would have to look at the science, not Donald Trump. There isn’t one single thing I would ever trust from Donald Trump to be true.”
Nobody trusts you, governor.
The focus on a speedy vaccine could be overshadowed by a sudden fight over the future of the Supreme Court in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death on Friday, but Inslee's comments are in line with a growing consensus of Democrats in leadership positions, including the party's presidential nominee, Joe Biden.
Time to pack it in.
They have repeatedly cast doubt on Trump's promises but pledged to follow the guidance of scientists and health care experts such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease specialist.
Screw his hot air!
That lying f**k should be in jail!
Related:
"The National Institutes of Health said on Monday that a public relations staffer who had been using a pseudonym on a conservative website to attack Dr. Anthony Fauci, who runs the agency, and discount the seriousness of the coronavirus will retire. The Daily Beast first identified and reported that William B. Crews was also the managing editor of right-leaning website RedState where, under the fake name “streiff,” derided the government’s work against the coronavirus outbreak, calling it "massive fraud." The articles directly contradict and demean the agency's recommendations about COVID-19. They also trash Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, calling him a "mask nazi," among other insults. The Daily Beast reported the posts became increasingly conspiratorial as the pandemic continued. In June, he wrote, "I think we’re at the point where it is safe to say that the entire Wuhan virus scare was nothing more or less than a massive fraud perpetrated upon the American people by 'experts' who were determined to fundamentally change the way the country lives and is organized and governed." Another of his posts implied that “government officials responsible for the pandemic response should be executed.”
He's right!
Trump restates his promise of an imminent vaccine almost daily.
Trump on Friday promised that 100 million doses of a still-unknown vaccine would be produced by the end of the year and there would be enough vaccines for all Americans by April.
“Three vaccines are already in the final stage,” Trump said at a briefing.
“Joe Biden’s anti-vaccine theories are putting a lot of lives at stake, and they’re only doing it for political reasons," the president said from a White House podium. "It’s part of their war to discredit the vaccine now that they know we essentially have it. We’ll be announcing it fairly soon.”
Yeah, he is moving ahead even faster when none of his base or voters want it!
The first case of COVID-19 was reported in the United States just eight months ago. Health experts, including the administration's own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief, — believe a vaccine will require at least 12 months to 18 months to create because of the extensive testing required to ensure it's safe and effective.
The politics of the coronavirus vaccine are complicated.
Not really!
It's all about getting one man out of the way for the Great Reset!
It is so damn obvious now it is not even funny!
Trump has suffered politically from the pandemic, which has devastated the global economy and killed nearly 200,000 Americans, more than triple the number of deaths he predicted in April, but six weeks before the Nov. 3 election, there is a broadening sense from voters that things have begun to move in the right direction — at least a little — even as experts warn that it's too soon to believe the worst is over.
Four in 10 people now say the “worst is behind us” — the same number of people who say “the worst is yet to come,” according to a poll released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation. That was the most optimistic outlook reported by the think tank since the pandemic began. Three in 4 believed the “worst is yet to come” back in early April.
Time to start hanging them all from lampposts, including the pre$$.
At the same time, most Americans worry that the political pressure from the administration will lead the Food and Drug Administration to rush to approve a coronavirus vaccine without making sure it's safe and effective. That includes 85% of Democrats, 61% of independents and 35% of Republicans, according to Kaiser.
“At this point, nobody actually believes it will be ready before the election,” said Mollyann Brodie, who oversees public opinion research at Kaiser.
The politicization of such an important health issue has “huge impacts,” she said, pointing to the extraordinary challenges ahead for public health officials to persuade as many Americans as possible to take the vaccine whenever it's released.
Who did that?
Democrats facing difficult elections this fall are working to navigate the delicate issue.
California Rep. Ami Bera, one of three Democratic physicians serving in the House of Representatives, said the modest drop in infections from the summer peak does not mean the nation has turned the corner, as Trump has suggested.
He said a vaccine is critically important and welcomed one as soon as possible, as long as it's deemed safe by science.
“I don't have any vaccine hesitancy. I know the immense power of vaccines. We are going to need a vaccine. I have no issue with taking a vaccine,” Bera said, but he offered a warning: “Trust the scientists. Trust the doctors. Don’t trust the politicians."
That includes him, and I DO NOT TRUST ANY OF THEM AFTER THIS!
You guys BLEW IT!
On Capitol Hill, Democrats are sticking with a simple, consistent message pushing for a vaccine as soon as possible, but not a moment earlier. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Friday praised the FDA scientists and researchers helming the vaccine initiative, but she has been highly critical of the Trump-appointed FDA commissioner.
“We all hope and pray for a vaccine, and that will make a tremendous difference,” Pelosi said. “We don’t want it one day sooner than it is ready, from a safety a
What a band of disgusting hypocrites.
Still, it's far from certain that all Americans will take the vaccine when it's available.
Only about half of Americans say they would definitely or probably get a vaccine if it were available to them today, according to a poll released by the Pew Research Center this past week.
Actually, the number is down to 21% now, but anyway.
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Why not just get the vaccine from Russia?
"Russia is slow to administer COVID-19 vaccine despite Kremlin’s approval" by Andrew E. Kramer New York Times, September 20, 2020
MOSCOW — More than a month after becoming the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine, Russia has yet to administer it to a large population outside a clinical trial, health officials and outside experts say.
The approval, which came with much fanfare, occurred before Russia had tested the vaccine in late-stage trials for possible side effects and for its disease-fighting ability. It was seen as a political gesture by President Vladimir Putin to assert victory in the global race for a vaccine.
Look at the New York Times sticking him.
HA-HA!
It is not clear whether the slow start to the vaccination campaign is a result of limited production capacity or second thoughts about inoculating the population with an unproven product.
The Times has become a pot-hollering-kettle FARCE!
The Russian vaccine is one of nine candidates around the world now in the late-stage clinical trials that are the only sure means to determine whether a vaccine is effective and find possible side effects.
A vaccine is considered the only way to halt the spread of the coronavirus, which has sickened more than 30 million people globally and slowed economies around the world since it first appeared in China late last year.
That's bullshit.
We all probably have heard immunity based on the distorted caseloads anyway!
In one example of the limited scope of distribution, the company financing the vaccine pointed to a shipment sent this past week to the Crimean Peninsula. The delivery contained doses for 21 people in a region with 2 million.
The Russian Ministry of Health has not said how many people have been vaccinated in all of Russia. The minister, Mikhail Murashko, said last weekend that the first small shipments were being delivered this past week to the Russian provinces.
He did not say how many doses were shipped, describing the shipments only as “small amounts,” and also did not say when they would become available. He said the area around St. Petersburg, the Leningrad region, would be among the first to receive what he called “samples” of the vaccine.
Putin has said that one of his two adult daughters took the vaccine.
“Unfortunately, we have very little information,” said Dr. Vasily Vlassov, a professor of epidemiology and vice president of the Russian Association for Evidence-Based Medicine. His organization had opposed approval of the vaccine before testing it.
Oh, so it is like the state government of Massachusetts then.
“We cannot understand how much is PR and how much is a violation of medical ethics,” he said of the announcement that the vaccine had been approved for use outside a clinical trial. If few Russians are receiving the vaccine, the early approval appears less troubling, he said.
“Maybe nothing scary is happening in reality and only the announcement was scary,” he said.
The entire operation has been PR and a violation of medical ethics!
Svetlana Zavidova, director of a pharmaceutical trade group, the Association of Clinical Trial Organizations, which also opposed the hasty approval, said the limited use was encouraging news, even as its reasons are unclear.
“Is it a question of limited production or more of a political decision?” she said. Either way, “of course, from my point of view, it is better they limit their activity to only clinical trials, as we said from the beginning.”
The trial in Russia began Sept. 9, and Russian officials have said they expect early results before the end of the year, though the Gamaleya Institute, the scientific body that developed the vaccine, has scheduled the trial to continue until May.
That timeline is similar to the testing schedules announced by the three pharmaceutical companies testing potential vaccines in the United States: AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer.
AstraZeneca paused its trial this month after a test subject experienced symptoms of a neurological disease, transverse myelitis, as a possible side effect. The trial has since resumed in Britain but not the United States.
Putin and senior health officials announced the approval of the Russian vaccine, called Sputnik V in reference to the satellite that won the space race, for emergency use on Aug. 11. China had earlier begun vaccinations outside trials starting with members of its army and has approved four vaccines for limited use.
The Russians and Chinese are out front?
On Sept. 14, the United Arab Emirates gave emergency approval for one Chinese vaccine, made by Sinopharm, for use on health workers.
How does the peace deal with Israel fit into that?
Btw, the Kosovo deal is a mirage.
Russia’s health minister said on Aug. 11 that people at high risk of infection, like doctors and teachers, would be vaccinated, and the Russian financial company sponsoring the vaccine said doses would be available in August, but the rollout proved slower.
Murashko, the minister, said the delays were partly because of a need to test the distribution system for a vaccine that must be stored in a deep freeze, and also to train medical personnel. The delays have persisted even as the virus infects more than 5,000 people a day in Russia.
The Russian late-stage, or phase three, clinical trial is being carried out entirely in Moscow, where 30,000 people will receive the vaccine and 10,000 will get a placebo.
Yevgenia Zubova, a spokesperson for the Moscow city health department, said in an interview that the vaccine was available only to trial participants. The Health Ministry did not reply to written questions about the use of the Sputnik V vaccine outside clinical trials; nonetheless, Kirill Dmitriev, director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the company sponsoring the vaccine, has been cheering on officials in other countries who advocate early vaccine approvals.
“It has now been accepted that Russia’s approach is the correct one,” he said in a statement after reports emerged that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration might provide an emergency use approval for a vaccine, an idea promoted by President Donald Trump.
Russia’s health authorities have a history of approving medicines after limited testing. It is a legacy of the Soviet-era regulatory system, in which an oversight committee often deferred to the judgment of drug researchers, who were not motivated by profit, said Vlassov.
Regulators have, for example, approved a bestselling cold medicine in Russia, Arbidol, though the clinical trial to prove its efficacy was canceled, but when medicines are tested, Russia has an exceptionally good track record on managing clinical trials, according to a database of U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspections of clinical trials around the world. The FDA found a lower percentage of trials with problems in Russia than in any other European country or the United States.
Now the New York Times loves 'em!
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$peaking of those motivated by profit:
"Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor" by Aaron Gregg and Yeganeh Torbati, Washington Post | September 22, 2020
A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build up the country’s supplies of medical equipment has instead been mostly funneled to defense contractors and used to make things such as jet engine parts, body armor and dress uniforms.
If THAT doesn't convince you of the $CAM HOAX, nothing will!
The change illustrates how one taxpayer-backed effort to battle the novel coronavirus, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans, was instead diverted toward patching up long-standing perceived gaps in military supplies.
The Cares Act, which Congress passed earlier this year, gave the Pentagon money to “prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus,” but a few weeks later, the Defense Department began reshaping how it would award the money in a way that represented a major departure from Congress’s intent.
They know this is all a crock of $hit!
The payments were made even though U.S. health officials think major funding gaps in pandemic response still remain. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in Senate testimony last week that states desperately need $6 billion to distribute vaccines to Americans early next year. Many U.S. hospitals still face a severe shortage of N95 masks. These are the types of problems that the money was originally intended to address.
“This is part and parcel of whether we have budget priorities that actually serve our public safety or whether we have a government that is captured by special interests,” said Mandy Smithberger, a defense analyst at the Project on Government Oversight, a watchdog group.
It has been for a long, long time.
The $1 billion fund is just a fraction of the $3 trillion in emergency spending that Congress approved earlier this year to deal with the pandemic, but it shows how the blizzard of bailout cash was — in some cases — redirected to firms that weren’t originally targeted for assistance. It also shows how difficult it has been for officials to track how money is spent and — in the case of Congress — intervene when changes are made. The Trump administration has done little to limit the defense firms from accessing multiple bailout funds at once and is not requiring the companies to refrain from layoffs as a condition of receiving the awards.
Why did the word THEFT just come to mind?
Some defense contractors received the Pentagon money even though they had already dipped into another pot of bailout funding, the Paycheck Protection Program.
OMFG!
Congress, at President Trump’s urging, is debating whether to pass another massive stimulus package, and the Pentagon and defense contractors have called for an additional $11 billion to be directed toward their programs.
Like war pigs at the trough, with profuse apologies directed at pigs for the comparison.
The $1 billion fund was allocated under the Defense Production Act, which allows Trump to compel U.S. companies to manufacture products in the nation’s interest.
Trump has described the law as a “tremendous hammer” and boasted in August that he has “used the DPA more comprehensively than any president in history.” His administration was under intense pressure this spring to use the law to address dire shortages in medical-grade masks and other supplies, but in the months after the stimulus package was passed, the Pentagon changed how the money would be used. It decided to give defense contractors hundreds of millions of dollars from the fund, mostly for projects that have little to do with the coronavirus response. Defense Department lawyers quickly determined that the money could be used for defense production, a conclusion that Congress later disputed.
Gotta get ready for WWIII after the election!
Among the awards: $183 million to firms including Rolls-Royce and ArcelorMittal to maintain the shipbuilding industry; tens of millions of dollars for satellite, drone and space surveillance technology; $80 million to a Kansas aircraft parts business suffering from the Boeing 737 Max grounding and the global slowdown in air travel; and $2 million for a domestic manufacturer of Army dress uniform fabric.
DOD officials contend that they have sought to strike a balance between boosting American medical production and supporting the defense industry, whose health they consider critical to national security.....
The CORRUPTION and LOOTING is all about THEIR HEALTH, not yours!
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"The pandemic funding “became an opportunity for the Department to take what is almost a windfall and use it to try and fill what are some very critical industrial base needs … but that are only tangentially related to COVID,” said Bill Greenwalt, a visiting fellow with the conservative American Enterprise Institute who oversaw defense acquisitions in the George W. Bush administration. The virus-related funding came at a time when U.S. military spending was already near all-time highs. Defense industry groups argue that the DOD awards are crucial to ensuring that important niche manufacturers don’t wither away during the economic shock caused by the pandemic. hundreds of millions of dollars also flowed to several large, established companies, such as GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric, which received two awards worth $75 million in June. A subsidiary of Rolls-Royce received $22 million to upgrade a Mississippi plant. Critics say it’s unclear why the defense industry should have gotten what amounts to a dedicated bailout fund when few other sectors of the economy got the same treatment and government data shows that at least 10 of the approximately 30 companies known to have received the Defense Department DPA funds also received loans through the Paycheck Protection Program, another relief package created by the Cares Act. That program, overseen by the Small Business Administration, offered millions of firms forgivable loans if they used the lion’s share on payroll....."
Gotta feed that war machine!
Guns with no butter!
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Formerly homeless vets are moving into Brighton Marine’s new 25-unit building
That was after home prices soared 14 percent last month.
They should clear out the U.N. and turn it into affordable housing:
"UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the U.N.'s first-ever virtual meeting of global leaders Tuesday that the world is facing an "epochal" health crisis, the biggest economic calamity and job losses since the Great Depression, threats to human rights — and the risk of a new Cold War between the U.S. and China.
That's the last thing on my mind with the COVID needle coming at warp speed with the Great Reset behind it.
Before vacating the U.N. building hang this fucker from the Empire State building.
In his bleak state of the world speech to the U.N. General Assembly's annual high-level meeting, the U.N. chief said that the coronavirus that "brought the world to its knees" was but "a dress rehearsal for the world of challenges to come."
How OMINOUS!
He called for global unity, first and foremost to fight the pandemic, and sharply criticized populism and nationalism for failing to contain the virus, and for often making things worse, but the U.N. chief delivered his speech in the vast General Assembly Hall, where only one mask-wearing diplomat from each of the U.N.'s 193 member nations was allowed, spread out in the chamber. "In a world turned upside down, this General Assembly Hall is among the strangest sights of all," Guterres said. "The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our annual meeting beyond recognition, but it has made it more important than ever."
That guy is a f**king joke, and this guy is a hero:
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, whose country by tradition is the first speaker, trumpeted his focus on the economy in dealing with the pandemic, lambasting "segments of the Brazilian media" for "spreading panic" by encouraging stay-at-home orders and prioritizing public health over the economy.
Bolsonaro lambasted “segments of the Brazilian media” for “spreading panic” by encouraging stay-at-home orders and prioritizing public health over the economy. He's downplayed the severity of the coronavirus and repeatedly said shutting down the economy would inflict worse hardship on people. Brazil has reported the second-highest coronavirus death toll after the United States, with over 136,000 dead, according to statistics collected by Johns Hopkins University.
In a fiery speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, whose country is facing the worst COVID-19 crisis in the Middle East. He lashed out at U.S. sanctions but declared that his country will not submit to U.S. pressure.
He said the United States can’t impose negotiations or war on Iran, stressing that his country is “not a bargaining chip in U.S. elections and domestic policy.” He used the May death of Black American George Floyd under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer as a metaphor for Iran’s “own experience” with the United States.....
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"Born out of World War II’s devastation to save succeeding generations from the scourge of conflict, the United Nations officially marked its 75th anniversary Monday with an appeal from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to preserve the longest period in modern history without a military confrontation between the world’s most powerful nations. The U.N. chief told the mainly virtual commemoration that “it took two world wars, millions of deaths and the horrors of the Holocaust for world leaders to commit to international cooperation and the rule of law,” and that commitment produced results. “A Third World War — which so many had feared — has been avoided,” Guterres said. “This is a major achievement of which member states can be proud — and which we must all strive to preserve.” His appeal came at an inflection point in history, as the United Nations navigates a polarized world facing a pandemic, regional conflicts, a shrinking economy and growing inequality, and escalating U.S.-China tensions. President Trump was on the speaker list for the commemoration, but he did not speak in a snub to the United Nations....."
This must be the populism and nationalism of which he spoke:
"Dutch officials demanded answers from Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, on Tuesday in light of reports that the Trump appointee had hosted a private event for a rising right-wing political party and its donors at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague this month. On Monday, Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer published a detailed description of the Sept. 10 gathering, attended by a large group of Forum for Democracy (FvD) members and supporters in the business community, bringing it to widespread attention. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. U.S. officials told the Dutch media that the proceeding was nothing out of the ordinary, but lawmakers said it blurred the line between a typical embassy event and a fundraising gathering for the FvD - a potential breach of international law, which prohibits interference in domestic politics....."
The laugh riot at that is accompanied with the virulent language and comparisons echoed that of conservative protesters at rallies in dozens of U.S. cities earlier in the pandemic, including some who successfully pressured governors and local officials into lifting restrictions on businesses and social activities.
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"Pope Francis is urging political leaders make sure coronavirus vaccines are available to the poorest nations. He says in many parts of the world, there is a “pharmacological marginalization” of those without access to health care. Francis met Saturday with members of an Italian aid group that collects donated medicines from pharmaceutical companies and distributes them to clinics and centers helping the neediest. Francis says far too many people die in parts of the world for lack of drugs widely available elsewhere, and political leaders must take their plight into account. “I repeat, it would be sad if in distributing the vaccine, priority was given to the wealthiest, or if a vaccine becomes the property of this or that nation and not for everyone,” the pope said. Francis has previously called for universal access to the vaccine."
Don't look to him for salvation from the vaccine.
No sanctuary there!
Stay as far the fuck from them as you can.
"The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, a figure unimaginable eight months ago when the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation with its sparkling laboratories, top-flight scientists and stockpiles of medicines and emergency supplies. “It is completely unfathomable that we’ve reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins University public health researcher. The bleak milestone, by far the highest confirmed death toll from the virus in the world, was reported by Johns Hopkins, based on figures supplied by state health authorities, but the real toll is thought to be much higher, in part because many COVID-19 deaths were probably ascribed to other causes, especially early on, before widespread testing. The number of dead in the U.S. is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 67 days. It is roughly equal to the population of Salt Lake City or Huntsville, Alabama, and it is still climbing. Deaths are running at close to 770 a day on average, and a widely cited model from the University of Washington predicts the overall U.S. toll will double to 400,000 by the end of the year as schools and colleges reopen and cold weather sets in. A vaccine is unlikely to become widely available until 2021. “The idea of 200,000 deaths is really very sobering, in some respects stunning,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert, said on CNN.
What a DISGUSTING PIECE of REVISIONIST JOURNALI$M!
The "unimaginable figure" is FAR BELOW the 2 MILLION FIGURE that the SHUTDOWNS were based on, and the FRAUD FAUCI KNOWS IT!
The REAL TOLL is actually FAR LOWER as reported by the CDC, proving the pre$$ are incorrigible liars!
Also see: COVID is a data-driven operation, but suppose the data are wrong?
Then they TERRORIZE US with 9/11 comparisons to induce more trauma from their fear porn before going back to DISCREDITED MODELS!
Time to HANG THEM ALL HIGH!
The U.S. hit the threshold six weeks before a presidential election that is certain to be in part a referendum on President Donald Trump’s handling of the crisis. For five months, America has led the world by far in sheer numbers of confirmed infections and deaths. For the U.S., it wasn’t supposed to go this way. When the year began, the U.S. had recently garnered recognition for its readiness for a pandemic, but the stealthy coronavirus slipped into the U.S. and spread undetected. Monitoring at airports was loose. Travel bans came too late. Only later did health officials realize the virus could spread before symptoms show up, rendering screening imperfect.
What an absolute load of crap since Trump was criticized for shutting the border and banning air flights, with insult added to injury regarding the stealthy virus slipping in.
This stuff is ROT, folks.
The virus swept into nursing homes, where infection control measures were already poor, claiming more than 78,000 lives. It also exploited inequalities in the United States: Nearly 30 million people in the country are uninsured, and there are stark health differences among racial and ethnic groups. At the same time, gaps in leadership led to shortages of testing supplies. Internal warnings to ramp up production of masks were ignored, leaving states to compete for protective gear. Governors led their states in different directions, adding to public confusion. Trump downplayed the threat early on, advanced unfounded notions about the behavior of the virus, promoted unproven or dangerous treatments, complained that too much testing was making the U.S. look bad, and disdained masks, turning face coverings into a political issue....."
Un-fucking-real!
The virus didn't sweep in, it was placed there by criminal, mass-murdering governors before the pre$$ turns it into a race issue!
Where to go for guidance as the holidays approach:
"New guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the upcoming holiday season warns that hosts and attendees at holiday celebrations will need to take steps to limit the risk of contracting and spreading the novel coronavirus. Virtual gatherings or those that involve one's immediate household are low-risk, the agency said in a posting Monday. If people do gather in person for Christmas and other holidays, the CDC recommends doing so outdoors, keeping groups small, using measures like mask-wearing and social distancing, and considering local virus conditions as well as where attendees are coming from. Instead of communal, potluck-style food, hosts can ask attendees to bring their own, the CDC said. Cutting down on shared items by having one person serve, and getting single-use plates and condiments, are also recommended, according to the CDC. Traditional celebrations like Halloween trick-or-treating, large indoor Día de los Muertos gatherings, crowded Thanksgiving parades and Black Friday shopping sprees could spread the virus and should be avoided, according to the guidance.
That will kill the few middle class business that have held on.
Trick-or-treating can also be modified to reduce risk, the agency said. It recommends a "scavenger hunt-style trick-or-treat search" with members of one's immediate household as a lower-risk option. Another possibility, though it carries moderate risk, is "one-way" trick-or-treating, with separately wrapped treats picked up by families at a safe distance, like at the edge of a driveway or yard. The National Confectioners Association, a trade group that represents candy-makers, said in a statement that the new CDC guidance "reinforces that Halloween is happening and provides inspiration for creative and safe approaches to celebrating the holiday." The organization also provided a statement from Stephen Ostroff, a former CDC and Food and Drug Administration official who has been working with the industry group "to help Americans take the guesswork out of Halloween. Halloween is traditionally an outdoor holiday and the one time of the year when kids want to wear a mask," Ostroff said. "This is fully consistent with the CDC safety guidelines, and with the appropriate physical distancing, trick-or-treating can safely happen." Those with a confirmed covid-19 case or for whom illness is suspected shouldn’t host or attend holiday gatherings, while people who are at-risk should avoid in-person gatherings or try to mitigate risk at those events, the agency said....."
I feel sorry for the kids; however, fuck the candy companies and their unhealthy shit.
The Satanic creatures want to destroy the high holy days and celebration of life, love, and peace.
Yeah, celebrate Christmas outdoors so people will get sick and it can be called COVID!
There is a storm coming this fall that will lead to a lot of dead elephants:
"Months after hundreds of elephants were found dead in a concentrated area near Botswana's famed Okavango swamps, raising fears that they had been intentionally poisoned, the southern African country's government said test results on samples collected from the carcasses pointed instead to a naturally occurring toxin called cyanobacteria. The official death toll stands at 330, with the fatalities occurring between late April and June. Botswana has the world’s largest population of elephants, around 130,000. Their growing numbers have been lauded by conservationists, and Bostwana has become a mecca for tourists seeking to witness and photograph wildlife. Popular sentiment in parts of the country has turned against elephants, however, as many blame them for the destruction of cropland. President Mokgweetsi Masisi campaigned and won reelection partly on promises to keep elephants more in check, and his government has reintroduced a small number of elephant hunting licenses, which were banned under his predecessor....."
