A COVID-19 Coup

He will not be resigning after all and will be lucky to escape with his life:

Wall Street takes Trump’s COVID news in stride as investors assess impact on election, economy 

He is a DEAD MAN WALKING, folks.

Related:

"Wall Street’s major stock indexes fell on Friday after President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, but the losses ended up milder than investors braced for early in the morning. The S&P 500 slumped 1.7% as soon as trading began, only to churn through another turbulent session. By the end of the day, it had trimmed its loss to 1%, down 32.38 points at 3,348.42. Despite the drop, most of the stocks in the index were higher, and the S&P 500 still managed to close out its first winning week in the last five. The paring of losses came as optimism rose that Washington may be able to get past its partisanship to deliver more support for the economy. Analysts said some of the market’s movements could be explained by investors building up expectations for a Joe Biden victory of the White House, with Election Day a little more than a month away. That could mean higher tax rates and tighter regulations on companies, which would limit profits and hurt stock prices, though it could also raise the odds of more stimulus for the economy.

That confirms it. Trump is finished.

“To say this potentially could be a big deal is an understatement,” Rabobank said in a commentary. “Anyway, everything now takes a backseat to the latest incredible twist in this US election campaign.” Trump’s positive COVID-19 test also highlights the continued spread of the pandemic. The potential for a further ramp up in virus infections as the weather turns colder is raising worries that governments may put some more restrictions on businesses. Also stirring up the market’s movements Friday was the latest report on U.S. jobs growth, which is usually the headline economic data of each month but almost became an afterthought. Employers added fewer jobs last month than economists expected, the third straight month of slower hiring. The slowdown is yet another sign that the recovery is trailing off, said Mike Zigmont, director of trading and research at Harvest Volatility Management. The numbers don’t inspire bullishness, but they could be a brighter signal for more help from Congress. “If the conclusion is that the economic data disappoints, Wall Street may say that’s added incentive for the next stimulus deal to eventually go through and more quickly,” he said. All the uncertainty is making an already shaky market even more so. Stocks have been swinging recently amid a raft of open questions for investors: Who will win the election, and what will it mean for the economy? Will the relationship between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, keep worsening? Did stocks get too expensive after their 60% surge to record heights through the summer, Big Tech in particular? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a wider rescue package for the economy, one that investors have long been agitating for, could also perhaps be on the way. In recent days, the dominant question has been whether Washington will be able to get past its partisanship to deliver more aid to the economy....."

Yes, the wider rescue package that will be presented as gift to the American worker is only going through now because Wall Street needs more trillions to prop it up for a few more weeks.

It is far past time that the American people woke up to the hoax of COVID and the Great Re$et that is literally destroying their lives, as well as the endless lies pushed by the pre$$ (as they ignore the few kernels of truth they have reported).

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Now for the saturated front page of the Globe and their diagnosis of the situation:

President Trump is ‘doing very well,’ has started taking Remdesivir

The article is an update piece of scitte from the New York Times, as my print copy came from Globe wire services, and NBC is reporting worsening symptoms for the president.

"President Trump is ‘doing very well,’ has started taking Remdesivir, White House doctor says" y Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, October 3, 2020

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was hospitalized Friday after learning he had the coronavirus and experiencing what aides called coughing, congestion and fever, throwing the nation’s leadership into uncertainty and destabilizing an already volatile campaign only 32 days before the election.

Trump was flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after being given an experimental antibody treatment as the White House rushed to cope with a commander in chief infected by a virus that has killed more than 208,000 people in the United States. Officials said he would remain in the hospital for several days and canceled upcoming campaign events.

I'm going to stop right there as ALARM BELLS GO OFF! 

The PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES is being given an EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT?

HOLY SHIT!

See: Trump in danger—the test, the experimental drugs

No lone gunman needed!

Where is Dr. Scott Atlas when you need him?

The White House shrouded Trump’s condition in secrecy, saying little more than that he had “mild symptoms,” and officials characterized the hospital stay as a precautionary measure, but the normally voluble president remained almost entirely out of public view, skipped a telephone call with governors at the last minute and uncharacteristically stayed off Twitter nearly all day while people close to the situation said his fever and other symptoms worsened as the hours wore on.

“I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support,” Trump, wearing a suit and tie but appearing unusually pale and lethargic, said in an 18-second video taped just before getting on the Marine One helicopter and then posted on Twitter in his first public comment of the day. “I’m going to Walter Reed hospital. I think I’m doing very well, but we’re going to make sure that things work out.”

Trump donned a black face mask and emerged from the White House shortly after 6 p.m., giving a perfunctory thumbs-up to reporters without stopping to speak as he walked unassisted to the helicopter. He was accompanied by Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, who was also wearing a mask.

The hospital trip was an abrupt change in plans after Vice President Mike Pence had told governors earlier in the day that the president would remain at the White House. One administration official said it would be better for Trump to leave on his own while he still could rather than risk getting sicker and having the image of being taken out of the White House with assistance. If he gets better, the official said, the Walter Reed stay will have been inconsequential politically.

Dr. Sean Conley, the White House physician, said in a statement that Trump, while still at the White House, received a single 8-gram dose of polyclonal antibody combination drug while also taking zinc, vitamin D, melatonin, aspirin and famotidine, a heartburn medicine, but Walter Reed has equipment that would allow better monitoring of his condition and a quick response if he has trouble breathing or experiences other symptoms.

Okay, so he is taking bunch of stuff that we have been told doesn't work and is the product of conspiracy theorists when the ma$$ media says only a vaccine will solve the crisis, and yet he is being denied H#Q.

Hours later, shortly before midnight, Conley said in a new statement that Trump was “doing very well” and “not requiring any supplemental oxygen,” but was put on remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has hastened the recovery of some coronavirus patients.

Around the same time, Trump, in his first tweet of the day other than the video, which may have been posted by his staff on his account, wrote, “Going well, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!!”

The president’s illness touched off a cascade of concern, suspicion, calculation and recrimination in response to a president hospitalized with a potentially life-threatening health condition for the first time in nearly 40 years. The White House was left in a state of shock while the capital pondered what-if scenarios in case the situation worsens.

The sudden development could have unforeseen consequences. It could on the one hand complicate Trump’s drive to confirm a new Supreme Court justice before the election Nov. 3 while giving new impetus to long-stalled talks for another round of coronavirus relief spending, according to officials.

Why would it have anything to do with the nomination? 

With all due respect, this latest false-positive outbreak and it's timing sure does stink and the pre$$ pushing of it only adds to the stench.

The first lady, Melania Trump, and the president’s close adviser Hope Hicks were also infected, as was Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, who was last with Trump a week ago on Sept. 25, and Bill Stepien, the president’s campaign manager, who was with him at Tuesday’s debate, but the rest of Trump’s family tested negative, as did Pence, Meadows, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Attorney General William Barr and other senior officials who are regularly in proximity to the president.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the president’s Democratic challenger who was on a debate stage with Trump on Tuesday, tested negative Friday. Biden said he sent his prayers for a speedy recovery while also implicitly faulting the president for a casual and even reckless approach to the virus.

“This is not a matter of politics,” Biden said at a gathering in Grand Rapids, Michigan, while wearing a mask. “It is a bracing reminder for all of us that we must take this virus seriously. It is not going away. We must all do our part to be responsible. That means following the science, listening to experts.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmm!

Trump by his own admission has played down the severity of the virus, repeatedly declaring that it would vanish on its own; pressuring schools, businesses and sports leagues to reopen; disputing the warnings of his own public health experts; and questioning the effectiveness of face masks. He defied health guidelines by hosting campaign rallies and other events crowded with supporters who mostly did not wear masks or maintain social distance. Only hours before his own positive test, Trump insisted in a speech that “the end of the pandemic is in sight.”

And he will NEVER DO IT AGAIN! 

Goodbye, Mr. President.

No one could say for sure when the president was infected, but the White House medical unit was focused on his ceremony in the Rose Garden last Saturday where he announced his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court, an event where many officials and guests mingled without masks and without keeping distance.

Several guests and reporters who were present or traveled with the president on Air Force One later that evening tested positive, including Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah; Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; the Rev. John I. Jenkins, president of University of Notre Dame; Kellyanne Conway, the president’s former counselor; and Michael Shear, a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Barrett had previously recovered from the coronavirus.

Trump is the latest world leader to become infected. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain was so sick that he had to be hospitalized before later recovering. Prince Charles likewise contracted the virus, as have the leaders of Brazil, Honduras, Guatemala and Bolivia, but Trump has repeatedly brushed off concerns about his health, telling advisers that the coronavirus is a roll of the dice.

CRAPS -- and HE LOST!

While the virus is much deadlier than the ordinary flu, the vast majority of people infected by it recover, especially if there is no underlying condition, but the threat climbs with age. At 74, Trump is in the most vulnerable category, with the risk increased because of his weight, which is categorized as obese. Eight out of every 10 deaths attributed to the virus in the United States have been among those 65 and older.

That is a NEW YORK TIMES LIE because the CDC's numbers show that the fatality rate from COVID is lower than the flu, and never mind all the false positives either!

Trump is aware of those numbers and long said that older Americans were more at risk. For all his public dismissal of the coronavirus, advisers said Trump has been haunted by the death of a New York friend from his business days, Stanley Chera, 78, who went into the hospital with the coronavirus and never came out.

The NIGHTMARE is COMING TRUE, you damn fool!

Dr. David Nace, a geriatrics expert and director of medical affairs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s network of 35 nursing facilities, said in an interview Friday that people who do not wear masks are exposed to higher concentrations of the virus, which can worsen the course of the disease.

About 5% to 15% of men in their mid-70s die from the virus, Nace said, although Trump will obviously benefit from excellent medical care and from the increased knowledge about how to treat patients. “My big fear is that he probably had a greater exposure,” Nace said. “Right now, he’s doing fine, but we’re early in this, and if that’s the case, we really have to watch him in the next two weeks.”

Even assuming Trump recovers quickly, it could be weeks before he is able to return to a full public life, calling into question the future of his already-faltering campaign for a second term. Trailing Biden by a significant margin in most polls, the president had been trying to change the subject from the pandemic, a goal that may now prove even more elusive.

Yup, this benefits Biden and he is at the mercy of the Deep State doctors and being held hostage by the military. The choice is now death or a jail cell. 

Goodbye, Mr. President.

At the White House, staff members were in various stages of shock and disbelief Friday, unsure how to respond to a situation that may have been predictable but that many of them had never taken seriously. Some aides stayed home Friday, and others who for months have generally gone without masks in the West Wing in deference to a president who scorned them almost universally covered their faces.

There was rising frustration on the part of some aides late in the day that so little information was being released about the president’s health, in part because they worried it would stoke fears beyond the known facts. Some staff members described a rush for tests for themselves, with some told they could not get them.

Conley, the president’s physician, did not explain why Trump was taken to the hospital. White House officials likewise did not explain why Trump went ahead with a fundraising trip to New Jersey on Thursday even after learning that Hicks had tested positive for the virus. Meadows told reporters that the president’s entourage learned about her test result even as Marine One was lifting off from the White House to begin the trip to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and decided to leave some aides behind, but did not say why the trip was not canceled. “It was deemed safe,” said Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary.

The experimental antibody treatment developed by Regeneron and administered to the president is one of the most promising candidates for a treatment. Initial test results indicate it can reduce the virus in the body and possibly shorten hospital stays. Although it has not been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration, the president’s medical staff reached out to Regeneron for permission to use it, and the FDA cleared it.

There is a long history of presidents falling seriously ill while in office, including some afflicted during epidemics. George Washington was feared close to death amid an influenza epidemic during his second year, while Woodrow Wilson became sick during Paris peace talks after World War I with what some specialists and historians believe was the influenza that ravaged the world from 1918 through 1920.

Did they SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY THEN?

Four presidents have died in office of natural causes: William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding and Franklin D. Roosevelt, while Wilson endured a debilitating stroke, and Dwight D. Eisenhower had a heart attack in his first term and a stroke in his second. Four others were assassinated in office: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy, but such health crises in the White House have been rarer in recent times. Since Reagan was shot in 1981, no president has been known to confront a life-threatening condition while in office..... 

Until now.

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Related: Kellyanne Conway and Trump’s campaign manager test positive for COVID-19

Wasn't she resigning her position anyway?

The Globe also disapproves of her.

"What’s behind Trump’s hospitalization?" by Felice J. Freyer and Hanna Krueger Globe Staff, October 2, 2020

It's called many names but we know who and what it is.

At 74 years old and overweight, President Trump fits the profile of someone at higher risk of complications from COVID-19, but the decision to send him to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday night could reflect a number of possibilities, doctors say.

It could be a precautionary move, as the White House said in announcing the hospitalization. News reports said the president had a low-grade fever, a cough, and nasal congestion.

Alternatively, said Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious diseases specialist at Boston Medical Center, it could mean that the president is still feeling relatively well but results of tests conducted at the White House indicate concerning trends. A third possibility, he said, is that the president has gotten sicker, too sick to be cared for at the White House.

He will be dead by Monday.

Dr. Daniel R. Kuritzkes, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said the trip to the hospital doesn’t necessarily mean the president’s health has taken a turn for the worse. There are at least two other, less troubling reasons, he said.

One would be a desire to monitor him closely “to see which way his clinical condition is going and to be able to intervene rapidly and more aggressively if needed ... rather than having to transport him from the White House on an emergent basis," Kuritzkes said.

Another possibility, he said, is that doctors want to watch for reactions to an experimental drug they have given him.

He is a guinea pig, just as the rest of us will be after Operation Warp Speed is brought to fruition.

On Friday, Trump received a single dose of an “antibody cocktail” made by Regeneron. The drug isn’t available outside of medical studies and its effectiveness remains unproven, but White House doctor Sean Conley, like other doctors treating COVID-19 outside the hospital, had little at his disposal to offer outpatients, since the medications developed so far are intended for hospital patients.

OMFG!

HIS LIFE is LITERALLY IN DANGER, the idiot!

Regeneron stirred some optimism this week with a press release saying that, in a small study, outpatients who took the drug saw their viral levels decrease more rapidly than in those who took a placebo.

Regeneron is one of several companies studying monoclonal antibodies, which are manufactured copies of the antibodies that fight off disease, taken from people who recovered, Kuritzkes said. The Regeneron drug combines two antibodies.

These antibodies have been shown to kill the virus in laboratory dishes, and generally monoclonal antibodies are thought to be safe, Kuritzkes said, but, he said, “We really don’t know if there’s a clinical benefit.” Large-scale studies are only just beginning.

This is the basis for which they are EXPERIMENTING on the PRESIDENT?

What makes you think they give a DAMN about US?!!!

The president’s doctor may have been eager to try an experimental treatment because Trump’s age and weight put him at high risk for complications from COVID-19.

Goodbye, Mr. President.

“Given his age and obesity, the next few days are going to be really key," Dr. David Hamer, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, said Friday morning, before the president’s hospital visit was announced.

To illustrate the insidious nature of the virus, Hamer pointed to the experience of another world leader. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, 55, was hospitalized 10 days after testing positive in April and spent three days in the ICU battling the disease. Johnson’s symptoms were very mild to start.

Experts have long warned the virus that causes COVID-19 is a particular threat to those in their 70s or older, as well as those with preexisting health conditions, and people who do not exercise.

In June, the White House released limited results from Trump’s annual physical, which noted he weighed 244 pounds and showed he has a body mass index of 30.5, meaning he is technically obese, although at 6 foot 3 inches, just barely.

Excess weight tends to go hand in hand with other medical conditions, like high blood pressure and diabetes, which may by themselves make it harder to fight COVID-19.

In their thoroughness to bury the guy they expose the COVID lie and hoax, folks.

In a report published in late August, researchers found that infected people with obesity were more than twice as likely to end up in the hospital and nearly 50 percent more likely to die of COVID-19. Another study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, showed that among nearly 17,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the United States, more than 77 percent had excess weight or obesity.

Goodbye, Mr. President.

Meanwhile, Trump’s age and gender also make him susceptible to severe disease. An estimated 5.4 percent of people over the age of 70 who are infected die from COVID-19. People who test positive for COVID-19 between ages 65 and 74 are five times more likely to be hospitalized and 90 times more likely to die, compared with patients between 18 and 29, according to the CDC, but the vast majority of elderly people who get COVID-19 do survive. Consider a recent study of British people, which showed that 3.1 percent of infected people in their 60s died, while the death rate nearly quadrupled to 11.6 percent in those age 75 or older, but looked another way, that means more than 88 percent of very old people survived. 

I'm sorry, WHAT? 

The PLAGUE of COVID is NOT AS FATAL as ADVERTISED by the PRE$$?!! 

YOU FUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!

Men and women are about equally likely to be infected with the coronavirus, but researchers have observed that men often experience more debilitating and deadly symptoms. In Italy, men in nearly every age group were twice as likely as women to die of the disease. That pattern has repeated itself around the globe. The gender gap could be attributed to both behavioral and biological differences. 

How dare they prescribe gender identity to COVID!

Men are more likely to be smokers, which makes patients more susceptible to the worst effects of COVID-19. Trump does not smoke, nor drink alcohol, but experiments in mice also suggest that estrogen protects females from the worst effects of the coronaviruses that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. The same may apply to the coronavirus. Some scientists also suspect that male hormones called androgens, such as testosterone, may be to blame for men’s poorer outcomes.

Who new the COVID virus, in addition to liking to party and hating protests, hated men more than women (whatever those designations mean)?

Btw, are you as SICK of all the QUALIFIERS in the BS reporting as I am, dear reader?

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"Biden and Democrats try to strike a balance between compassion and criticism of Trump on coronavirus" by Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff, October 2, 2020

HA!

WASHINGTON — On a day that rattled the country and the race for the White House, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tried to strike a delicate balance as he appeared at a Michigan campaign stop wearing a blue surgical face mask.

After noting he was delayed by two coronavirus tests — both negative — he offered his prayers and hopes for a quick recovery to President Trump and the first lady, whose latest tests, the nation learned Friday morning, were positive. 

Notice how Democrats never test positive? 

Only those that question this massive fraud do!

“This is not a matter of politics,” Biden told about 50 socially distanced reporters and union members at a union hall in Grand Rapids, Mich. “It’s a bracing reminder to all of us, that we have to take this virus, seriously,” but with a little over a month before Election Day, politics was hard to avoid for Biden and other Democrats reacting to the stunning news about Trump.

Yeah, and CUI BONO?

Democrats, anti-Trump political action committees, and independent strategists spent Friday working through the implications — and the potential traps — of their response, attempting to strike a delicate balance between offering prayers and well wishes to the president and his family while reminding voters of Trump’s frequent dismissive comments and actions downplaying the threat of the virus.

“This is tragic. It’s very sad,” Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC, “but ... going into crowds, unmasked and all the rest was sort of a brazen invitation for something like this to happen. Sad that it did, but nonetheless, hopeful that it will be a transition to a saner approach to what this virus is all about.”

Yeah, we are getting the message loud and clear!

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s words carried a sharper edge, even as she said her thoughts were with the Trumps and other White House staff members who tested positive — and the “millions of other Americans who have survived COVID-19 or are still sick.”

“The President spent months undermining the work of our doctors and scientists, while he failed to help states and communities contain the outbreak,” Warren said in a statement. “He mocked people for wearing masks and held super-spreader events that disregarded the health of thousands.”

But burning down cities was fine, huh, Liz?

“It didn’t have to be this way,” Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley said, taking a more subtle stab at the president’s pandemic response in her own statement wishing the Trumps and anyone infected on the White House staff a full recovery.

Well, there are a few words that would describe those detestable creatures but I will refrain from using them. They can't contain their wickedness.

Democrats tried to use Trump’s positive test to highlight the need for more coronavirus aid as negotiations continued with the White House over the cost of a legislative package, and they sought to use the concern that the virus might have spread at the event last Saturday in which Trump announced the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to call for a delay in upcoming hearings designed to get her confirmed before the election.

None of this is political, though.

Some believed the news would simply speak for itself.

“We could not have cut an ad more powerful to drive home the impact of how serious this is and how unserious the president has been taking it than the president’s Tweet last night announcing that he has tested positive,” said Mike Madrid, a cofounder of the Lincoln Project, a PAC of anti-Trump Republicans that has been flooding battleground states with ads highlighting the Trump administration’s slow federal response to the pandemic.

Yeah, CUI BONO!?

The coronavirus outbreak all but froze the 2020 presidential campaign in March, forcing Biden, 77, and Trump, now 74, to go digital in an effort to avoid the large gatherings that public health officials warned would become hot spots for contagion and could endanger the candidates' own health.

Trump resumed in-person rallies in June, as his campaign mocked Biden’s “basement strategy" of continuing until recently to address voters from his home through virtual events, but Biden’s cautious approach, which since Labor Day has included small, socially distanced, in-person events in battleground states, appeared to be vindicated as the campaign heads into its final month. While Trump’s campaign canceled a Florida rally scheduled for Friday night and upcoming live events for the foreseeable future, Biden was in crucial Michigan to meet with working families in Grand Rapids.

"He was never running a ‘basement strategy,'” said Malcom Kenyatta, a Pennsylvania state representative and Biden surrogate. “He was running a science-based strategy. He was listening to the experts.”

I'm sorry, but this WHOLE F**KING THING is OBVIOUSLY POLITICAL and GARBAGE!

It’s unclear how the Trump hospitalization could affect Biden’s campaigning approach. Staffers and volunteers at Biden events have already gone to great lengths to consider safety precautions. Just Thursday, Biden’s campaign announced it had changed course on sending volunteers to knock on voters doors — a traditional tactic the Trump team has been doing for months — and planned a targeted program with coronavirus safety precautions to send hundreds of volunteers to canvass voters in battleground states who they had not been able to reach by phone.

In Michigan on Friday, the Biden campaign was holding union phone banks with callers reaching out to fellow union members.

At the gathering at the local union office, Biden touted his economic recovery plans and his roots in Scranton, Pa., which he said allowed him to understand the essential workers on the front lines of the pandemic, many of whom have been left behind by “the most unequal economic recovery in modern history.”

“We can get this pandemic under control,” he said. “So we can get our economy working again for everyone, but this cannot be a partisan moment.”

In the coming days, Biden staffers might need to assess their own safety measures, but Democratic analyst Jamal Simmons warned now was not the time to slow down.

“American politics has been in uncharted territory for a long time,” he said. “The Biden campaign is going to have to suss this out, but the former vice president has to keep pressing the case.”

Still, in a sign of respect, the Biden campaign reportedly called a halt on Friday to its negative campaign ads about Trump.

Congressional Democrats tried to jab Trump’s often cavalier attitude toward the virus while not appearing insensitive.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer began a statement on the news by saying, “I join the nation in praying for the first family’s health and safety,” but then he launched into criticism.

“When you ignore the science, you don’t wear a mask, and you don’t follow social distancing guidelines, it puts you and everyone around you at risk,” he said. “Following science is a must.”

In a fund-raising appeal off the news for his political action committee, People First Future, former US housing secretary Julián Castro said he wouldn’t wish the virus on anyone.

“I hope for a speedy recovery for the president and first lady,” he said, “but I also hope this is a wake up call that America needs a plan to get us out of this pandemic and recession, not more divisive and dangerous rhetoric.”

Others were more blunt. Democratic consultant Chuck Rocha, a top presidential adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders and founder of the progressive Nuestro PAC, spent the summer conducting focus groups with Latino voters in battleground states across the country, and just weeks ago mailed out copies of Biden’s recovery plan with photos of him donning a mask.

“I am already putting together mailer pieces to send to Latino voters in Florida that say, ‘Donald Trump can’t protect himself from the virus, how can he protect the American people?’” Rocha said.

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Related: 

"If Trump ends up dead, and there's an "over the top funeral" where the left is weeping and wailing, it means they murdered him because they always do that when they murder people. One good example was Michael Jackson. They hated him. They got rid of him. And as cover, the funeral was shocking, they all played his music and FAKE MOURNED HIM. The fake mourning phase is something they do to make people believe they could not possibly have murdered him. If Trump ends up gone and there's a giant commemoration phase from the left after all these years they tried to destroy him, it's fake, they murdered him. Also, if they are all now suddenly concerned and sad, rather than celebrating, they know this is a setup to murder him. They will not flip their behavior overnight for any other reason." -- Jim Stone

Also see:

"Obviously I could be wrong, but I am worried that this might actually be it. Hopefully I am wrong, but I'll refuse to eat crow if I am because I am saying this for a good reason. They murdered Trump. They injected him with 8 grams of godforsaken sh*t that is not for any virus at all, developed by the most despicable scamming people ON EARTH that want him dead. They did it under the cover of a fake pandemic with a failed virus that has likely killed no one. Now they are pushing the lock down mask rhetoric and yelling "See, WE TOLD YOU SO!". Can anyone guess what the outcome will be? Do I have to guess that for you? They are going to kill ALL their opposition at this time if they can get away with it, I do indeed believe it is OVER. We are watching a live slow motion assassination RIGHT NOW, after which they will come for US. If they kill Trump you can kiss it away, you might as well start shooting before the election even happens because without Trump we have NO ONE. There. I said it. I put that out there for whatever it is worth. Maybe I can sleep now. But I won't bet on it. If I am right, you had better start gathering family to whatever extent you can to share last few moments of "normalcy" you'll ever have again." -- Jim Stone

Back to the Globe's front-page campaign:

"Analysis: Trump’s positive COVID-19 test throws uncertainty into the presidential race, but here are three things we do know" by James Pindell Globe Staff, October 2, 2020

It’s not media hype to suggest President Trump’s positive test for the coronavirus thrust the presidential campaign into deep uncertainty.

Everything — literally everything — in the race for the foreseeable future will depend on the health of the president. COVID-19 can be a very serious disease especially for those who are elderly and obese, as the president is. Whether he can continue to campaign at all depends on his health.

Complicating matters is the fact that his administration has been the least transparent White House in decades about the president’s health. For now, the good news is that Trump staffers say he is only feeling mild symptoms. That said, Vice President Mike Pence reportedly stood in for the president on a call with governors Friday.

Questions pressing the administration about the exact and current state of the president’s health cannot happen often enough in the coming hours and days and the answers couldn’t be more important, not just for the presidential race, but in terms of national security as well.

Americans went through the day Friday with a lot of questions that simply cannot be answered right now, but here are three things we do know in terms of the race between Trump and former vice president Joe Biden:

1. Nearly everything stops

2. COVID takes center stage

3. The vice presidential debate just got more important

Goodbye, Mr. President, if you are not already dead.

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Even in death, he will be unable to avoid indictment:

"Trump’s diagnosis is an indictment of his COVID-19 response, experts say. Is it also a teachable moment?" by Kay Lazar, Dasia Moore and Martin Finucane Globe Staff, October 2, 2020

President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis reveals just how far short the federal pandemic response has fallen, local public health leaders said Friday, showing that it has failed to protect even the commander-in-chief, but experts said that failure need not be the end of the story. In the president’s diagnosis, some saw an opportunity for him to course-correct after months of diminishing the virus’s threat, even as it killed more than 207,000 people in the United States and more than 1 million around the world. The question, they said, is whether Trump will see his illness as a way to change his own narrative.

“Because of the partisan nature around what should be about science and public health, no coherent message has evolved,” said Dr. Sandro Galea, a physician and dean of the Boston University School of Public Health. “Depending on what [President Trump] says, it will really make a difference on whether this is a teachable moment or not.” 

The partisanship and misinformation comes most from the pre$$!

The president’s case “is exemplary of our failure at the federal level," said Dr. Michael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

“If the president of the United States can’t figure out how to keep himself from getting COVID, it shows how challenging this virus is to prevent, but this is also a direct reflection of his policies and directly reflects on his rhetoric," Mina said. “It’s a shame that this is happening right now. It’s shameful that this is even a conversation.”

If he can get sick, then any of us can and we should all be LET OUT NOW!

It is TIME for this FUCKING FRAUD to be OVER!

The president has drawn criticism both at home and abroad for his tendency to downplay the virus. News of his illness came just days after the first 2020 presidential election debate, in which Trump mocked former vice president Joe Biden’s adherence to mask-wearing.

During Tuesday’s debate, Trump, when asked by moderator Chris Wallace why he typically appears in public without a mask, said, “I put a mask on, you know, when I think I need it.”

Now, news of the president’s illness “underlines where we are in this pandemic," said Samuel Scarpino, a mathematical epidemiologist at Northeastern University. “There should be no way that the president of the United States gets COVID."

“We know that individuals in a pandemic like coronavirus get the disease partly because of their own behavior, but mostly because of how people around them behave and how the public health system is functioning," Scarpino said. In this case, Trump doesn’t wear a mask, the people around him don’t wear masks, and the public health system hasn’t been given enough resources to keep the virus under control, he said.

It is JUST as STONE SAID!

First lady Melania Trump and top Trump aide Hope Hicks also tested positive this week, and other White House staffers have previously contracted the virus, a fact that experts said could be of concern to workers across the country who generally do not have access to regular, rapid testing and other resources available to White House staff.

If so, why are not essential workplaces raging factories of COVID?

I mean, there is so much bull$hit coming from the Bo$ton Globe and the pre$$ that it is absolutely maddening at this point.

The White House outbreak exemplifies the need to communicate and follow strict measures, such as mask wearing and social distancing, in the workplace, Galea said.

Just a Stone said!

The president’s and White House’s lack of adherence to public health guidance has likely affected many more than those close to the president, Mina said. “Hundreds of thousands of people have probably gotten COVID because they have followed his lead,” he said.

He's also responsible for smelly elevators and post-nasal drip!

Successful public health campaigns, including antismoking efforts that began in the 1960s, have often relied on celebrities to nudge the public toward making healthier choices. Now that Trump, perhaps the world’s best known celebrity, has COVID-19, public health leaders wondered whether his diagnosis could be a golden opportunity for the White House to promote masks and social distancing.

This whole f**king thing is a CROCK of $HIT!!!

It's all about PUSHING THE GOD-FORSAKEN AGENDA!

Several experts noted that even British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, known for a cavalier attitude toward coronavirus protections before he was hospitalized with COVID six months ago, emerged from his illness thanking the country’s National Health Service for saving his life.

“It certainly seems to have had a lasting effect on [Johnson],” said Dr. William Hanage, a professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School. “He became less bombastic.”

So what kind of lobotomy have they given Trump, and when are the British people going to give BoJo the Charles the First treatment?

If Trump similarly undergoes a “really severe illness, he may have a greater sense of what the consequences are and so might the public,” Hanage said, but the president’s change of heart is hardly a foregone conclusion, experts said.

When Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and Trump supporter who pointedly refused to wear a mask, died in July after contracting the virus, it didn’t appear to change the party’s or president’s messaging, said Shan Soe-Lin, managing director of Pharos Global Health Advisors, a Boston nonprofit focused on global health matters. Cain attended an indoor Trump rally in Tulsa, Okla., where few were wearing masks or distancing, less than two weeks before he was hospitalized.

“I hope Trump will recover quickly, but if he does, I don’t know what lessons will be learned here,” Soe-Lin said, echoing other experts' concerns that a speedy recovery could actually help reinforce the president’s rhetoric minimizing the virus, “but if he has something that is more severe I would hope the silver lining for him and his group is that this is a real virus, it’s not a hoax.”

That is how the print left it, and that is how desperate these f**kers are!

This WHOLE STORY is a HOAX, folks!

Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the T.H. Chan School, said he was skeptical that Trump would change course. “I don’t have a lot of hope that his messaging will change. From the beginning, it’s been consistently misleading," he said, but Allen and others held out hope that the public will learn from the president’s illness, regardless of the White House’s messaging.

Of course, the majority of Covid misinformation is conveyed by the media without question or correction.

“It illustrates that fighting the pandemic is something that we’re all involved in," Hanage said. “There’s no us and them. It’s us and the virus.”

Dr. Philip Landrigan, director of the Global Public Health & Common Good program at Boston College, said there was a lesson in Trump’s illness for everyone. “It’s just a reminder to all of us that nobody is immune from this disease," he said. “We all have to take precautions, young or old, humble or exalted.”

This has become such of crock of shit is literally unbelievable and just a Stone said. The entire event is an opportunity for the lying, agenda-pu$hing media to say told you so.

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More proof of what Stone said is true:

"Trump’s positive COVID-19 test shatters his illusion of pandemic recovery" by Liz Goodwin and Jess Bidgood Globe Staff, October 2, 2020

WASHINGTON — The spiky surface of the coronavirus may have already been invading President Trump’s cells on Tuesday night when he began to mock Joe Biden for wearing a mask while campaigning.

Three days later, it was no longer something to joke about.

It never was, despite the hoax. It's always been deadly serious regarding other agendas being promoted under its mythical cover.

Trump, who has spent much of the last eight months downplaying the threat of COVID-19, had tested positive for the virus, was flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and took an experimental drug cocktail as he fought fatigue on Friday, according to his doctors.

His very life is in danger at this point. 

An EXPERIMENTAL DRUG COCKTAIL?

Further jolting a political landscape that was already in overdrive, the diagnosis raised urgent questions about how the 74-year-old commander in chief would fare against the disease. It also ruptured the illusion of normalcy and recovery Trump has desperately tried to project during the pandemic in an effort to bolster his reelection prospects.

“He promised he would make it go away and now not only could he not protect us, he couldn’t even protect himself,” said Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist who worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

Yup, this is TOTALLY POLITICAL and HE IS FINISHED, one way or another!

Aides rushed in front of TV cameras to say Trump was in “good spirits” and was still giving orders, but the president remained silent most of Friday, canceling a conference call and going dark on Twitter, even as some allies publicly pushed him to address the nation.

Trump briefly waved to reporters from the South Lawn as he walked, while wearing a mask, to Marine One to be transported to the hospital on Friday evening. “I think I’m doing very well,” he said in a video message he released later in the evening.

It was the LAST TIME you will EVER SEE HIM ALIVE!

The diagnosis is replete with political problems in addition to the obvious health risks. It has quashed the heavy travel schedule the president hoped would bolster him in swing states, and, perhaps more worrisome for Trump, it may remind voters about his frequent disdain for masks and make clearer than ever that his cheery message on the coronavirus, which he sometimes predicts will simply “disappear,” is a mirage.

And there will be no red mirage on election, either.

“Unfortunately in the past, the administration has downplayed the importance of these interventions, and undercut top public health agencies and top scientists, and that can’t happen any more,” said Dr. Howard Koh, the former assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Obama administration.

Then voting for him won't matter anyway.

Trump’s illness puts coronavirus back at the very center of the presidential race, but it’s far from clear exactly what the political implications will be. It could prompt an outpouring of sympathy for the president, but it also renews focus on his handling of the virus, which is politically perilous for Trump, with voters giving him poor marks in polls on that account.

Yeah, funny how that works out!

“It’s the strongest reason to vote against him,” said Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, who said COVID-19 looms large in his focus groups with people who voted for Trump four years ago, particularly for women. “It’s a huge health care crisis that he’s just lost control over.”

As if anyone needed any more, right? 

If GREENBERG(!) can't convince you this is ENTIRELY POLITICAL, nothing will!

It also raised urgent questions about whether, in seeking to project normalcy and to convince voters that the country is bouncing back, the president and his closest advisers have held events and engaged in personal conduct that turned them into vectors of a deadly disease they insist they are trying to control.

Not city-destroying protests, though!

They held a packed event at the White House on Saturday where the president nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Since then, at least six attendees of that event — Trump, Melania Trump, Senator Mike Lee of Utah, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Kellyanne Conway, a former adviser to the president, and the Rev. John I. Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame — have tested positive.

In recent weeks, Trump has also returned to the campaign trail, alarming local public health officials by convening his supporters elbow to elbow.

At his most recent rally in Duluth, Minn., on Wednesday, it was difficult to tell there was a pandemic at all. Trump emerged from Air Force One without a mask on, and the vast majority of supporters who came to see him were not wearing them either. Voters squeezed into shuttle buses and security lines with no social distancing, and shouted their approval as the president took the stage.

“On Nov. 3, Minnesota will decide whether we end this pandemic, defeat the virus, and return to record prosperity,” Trump told the crowd of 3,000, but that same evening, a top aide who was traveling with him, Hope Hicks, was beginning to feel ill. The next day, she tested positive for the disease.

The timeline raises questions about whether Trump or his top staffers knowingly put some of his own supporters in harm’s way. 

Who could ever vote for him now? 

Put his own supporters in harm's way!

On Thursday, he traveled to a fund-raising event in Bedminster, N.J., after Hicks had already received a positive test. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has warned attendees — who reportedly paid up to $250,000 to go to the roundtable — to quarantine immediately.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that “White House operations” had decided it was safe for Trump to travel to New Jersey even after Hicks received a positive test.

That perception of carelessness was reinforced when Trump’s family members refused to wear masks during the debate in Cleveland on Tuesday night, breaking the site’s rules. Biden’s family and guests all wore masks.

“The first family and the protective aspect around the president is a different situation than the rest of us because of the protocols around the first family,” said Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services secretary, under questioning at a House coronavirus subcommittee hearing on Friday morning.

Or NOT!

The president’s allies are reckoning with the fact that those protocols weren’t enough to stop the virus as they wait to see if they are also infected. The campaign and White House rely on frequent rapid testing of those in Trump’s orbit, but they are often seen standing near each other without masks on.

Will need tighter protocols and lockdowns, right? 

That's what this evil propaganda put forth by the Globe is leading.

Corey Lewandowski, a campaign aide who traveled to Duluth with the president on Wednesday, said the campaign requires supporters to wear masks at the president’s events — although such a mandate was clearly not enforced on Wednesday. He said he did not know whether the president was aware of Hicks’s diagnosis when he went to Bedminster.

“You can always play woulda, coulda, shoulda, but again, I don’t know what the timeframe was on that,” Lewandowski said.

To public health experts, the event shows the virus’s power to worm its way into any protective bubble — especially one that includes interaction with a wide range of people and inconsistent mask usage. “The real lesson here is it’s not that hard to catch,” said Dr. Robert Horsburgh, an epidemiologist at Boston University. “It’s kind of obvious that the president needed to be more careful.”

Then LET US OUT since we already have herd immunity and the rest, you damn bastards. 

I mean really, this has gone on long enough!

You will never believe who the Globe dug up to comment, either:

Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former aide to Trump, said she is praying for Trump’s health but hopes the diagnosis will lead Trump and his team to rethink their approach to the disease.

“I would hope that the president would use this as an opportunity to stop undermining the medical and scientific communities and be more responsible as he leads this country through this crisis,” Newman said..... 

OMFG!

Btw, the never produced the tape she said she had and the pre$$ spent two weeks on her garbage.

The illness also eats into core components of Trump’s self-projected persona: infallible strength and macho stamina. It’s an image he often uses to contrast himself with Biden, whom he paints as “slow” and “sleepy.” His Republican allies attempted to assure the public that the president’s energy would carry him through the disease, which has killed more than 200,000 Americans so far.

“He’s stronger than 10 acres of garlic,” said Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, “and I’ll tell you what, I don’t see him taking a day off or even a play off.”

A speedy recovery could fire up Trump’s fans and bolster his image among them as a tough fighter.

“His whole thing is about strength,” said Doug Heye, a Republican political strategist, “and so if he emerges from this in good health very quickly you can see him with a big 'S' on his shirt and the campaign selling T-shirts that say that.”

Yeah, right, this whole thing is some con to make him look like Superman. 

PFFFFFFT!

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The Globe's Nation/World page lead with these stories:

Judge says census count must continue through October

That's so Democrats can mailing in ballots.

Police say they identified themselves before shooting of Taylor 

The police did knock and identify themselves, but the pre$$ has let it linger that the situation was a no-knock kick in of the door. 

Why would they do that?

Armenia ready to discuss cease-fire amid Azerbaijan clashes

EU sanctions Belarus over election, gets in-kind response 

Oh, yeah, war with Russia is on deck. 

Enjoy!

"The House voted overwhelmingly Friday to condemn the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory as the online movement identified as a potential domestic terrorist threat by the FBI has gained traction with some in the Republican Party. The vote was 371 to 18 for the resolution sponsored by Reps. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) and Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) and came days after Malinowski said he received death threats from QAnon supporters after a false GOP ad accused him of lobbying “to protect sexual predators.” Seventeen Republicans and one independent voted against the resoultion condemning QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory that has been a central vector of misinformation about the coronavirus, on the same day the president said he and his wife had tested positive for the virus. Adherents of QAnon believe President Trump is battling a cabal of “deep state” saboteurs who worship Satan and traffic children for sex. In August, Trump gave a major boost to the baseless theory, saying that he appreciated the support of its followers, calling them “people that love our country.” QAnon, which took root on anonymous message boards in 2017, has been identified by the FBI as among the extremist views “very likely” to motivate violence. 

One can be excused for asking WHY the HOUSE is WASTING TIME CONDEMNING the "conspiracy theorists" when the nation is burning to the ground in more ways than one.

The only reason they would be doing that is because there is SOMETHING TO IT, and as the vote indicates, MOST of the POLITICAL CLASS is COMPROMISED!

The Satanist pedophile angle has actually proven to be true, as unbelievable and abhorrent as it is, but Trump is not fighting it. Had he been fighting it they would have been exposed and jailed. The fact that he didn't do that is now rebounding to his detriment and has him in the situation he now finds himself.

 "Its adherents, according to law enforcement, have been arrested in numerous incidents, including two murders, a kidnapping, vandalism of a church and a heavily armed standoff near the Hoover Dam. “This dangerous ideology is radicalizing violence at an alarming rate – yet, for far too long, Republicans have refused to denounce QAnon and its conspiracy theories,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a statement after the vote “At the same time, social media platforms that have facilitated the rise of QAnon must be held accountable.” Malinowski said he has faced attacks online from QAnon supporters and received threats after the National Republican Congressional Committee ran an ad that falsely said Malinowski tried to block a provision in a 2006 crime bill that would have expanded registration requirements for sex offenders. Malinowski, a freshman who worked on national security issues in the Clinton and Obama administrations, was the director of Human Rights Watch from 2001 to 2013. “If you’ve seen extra vitriol on my social media, here’s why: the ‘Q’ persona dropped a statement targeting me, citing the discredited NRCC (GOP SuperPAC) attacks on me & my resolution condemning QAnon. My office has gotten 6 death threats since yesterday,” Malinowski tweeted this week. 

No sympathy for you, and I gave up on Juman Rights Watch a long time ago. It turns out they doubled as child sex trafficker as well. 

Speaking on the House floor Friday, Malinowski warned of the threat of QAnon. “Conspiracy theories, just like this one, have fueled prejudice, terrorism, even genocide and today, social media is fanning the flames,” he said. The resolution “condemns QAnon and rejects the conspiracy theories it promotes,” while encouraging the FBI and law enforcement to focus on preventing violence, threats and harassment by extremists motivated by fringe political conspiracy theories. The measure also outlines a vision unlikely to be fulfilled — urging Americans, regardless of their political leanings, to seek information from authoritative sources and debate from a “common factual foundation.” 

Folks, the CAT is OUT of the BAG and they are LOSING the INFORMATION WAR -- thus the reason for the INCREASING COVID TYRANNY based on LIES! 

In his remarks, Malinowski alluded to the political gains of QAnon adherents. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has endorsed the baseless theory and made several other racist remarks on video, won a GOP primary runoff in Georgia’s heavily Republican 14th Congressional District in August and has a clear path to becoming QAnon’s first devotee in Congress. Last month, her Democratic rival in the GOP-leaning district dropped out of the race, citing personal reasons. Malinowski condemned other conspiracy theories. He added, “Only one of these threats is considered a terrorist threat by the FBI. Only one is winning elections.” The 17 Republicans who rejected the resolution came from 12 states. They included Reps. Rob Bishop (Utah), Steve King (Iowa), Paul A. Gosar (Ariz.), Daniel Webster (Fla.), and Scott Perry (Pa.). Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) was the independent who voted against the resolution. Rep. Andy Harris (Md.), also a Republican, voted present."

Steve King lost his primary, and at least you know the reps who are not compromised by sexual scandal.

I'm sure QAnon will come up later so time to flip the page:

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Trump disregarded public health advice before testing positive 

Teo Armus is a reporter for The Washington Post's Morning Mix team, and my Globe headline was "Diagnosis a 'damning indictment," and Trump will be removed one way or another:

"Often cited during Trump presidency, 25th Amendment reemerges with president’s coronavirus diagnosis" by Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff, October 2, 2020

It’s the constitutional amendment invoked during the resignations of former vice president Spiro Agnew and president Richard Nixon during the 1970s, and twice by former president George W. Bush during two colonoscopies.

Now, following Friday’s announcement that President Trump and his wife, Melania, tested positive for COVID-19, the nation faces the possibility of seeing the 25th Amendment — which outlines what happens to the presidency if the president dies, resigns, or cannot perform their duties — invoked for the first time since 2007.

“You don’t want there to ever be a time when there’s not a president,” said Jeremy Paul, a professor and former dean at Northeastern University School of Law.

On Friday evening, the White House said Trump would be admitted to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and remain for a few days on the advice of doctors. The visit is precautionary, the White House said, and Trump will work from the hospital’s presidential suite, which is equipped to allow him to continue his official duties, but should that change, under the 25th Amendment, Trump could temporarily turn power over to the vice president, who would become acting president. Legal experts said Trump could pursue this option if his condition worsens, prompting doctors to sedate him and put him on a ventilator.

If they put him on a ventilator, it's all over. 

They will LITERALLY KILL HIM!

“That would be appropriate if the president suddenly became incapacitated and remained alive,” said Jack M. Beermann, a professor at Boston University School of Law.

If Trump’s condition worsened before he had a chance to delegate power, another provision of the 25th Amendment gives his Cabinet and Pence the authority to install the vice president as acting president, though that provision has never been used. 

I get the feeling the Globe is hoping and wishing!

Earlier Friday, the White House said Trump was “fatigued” and had been injected with an experimental antibody drug combination for the virus, which has killed more than 205,000 Americans.

(Blog author simply shakes head)

His wife, Melania, wrote on Twitter that she had “mild symptoms but overall feeling good.” Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the virus on Friday morning and “remains in good health,” his spokesman said.

Trump’s challenger, former vice president Joe Biden, a Democrat who shared the debate stage with the president on Tuesday, and his wife, Jill, have both tested negative for the coronavirus, according to his campaign; however, health experts have said coronavirus tests produce more accurate results a few days after patients have been infected or developed symptoms. 

F**k you and your faulty tests!

Prior to Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, the 25th Amendment figured prominently into public debate about Trump’s fitness for office.

The states ratified the 25th Amendment in 1967, 126 years after constitutional confusion over succession began when William Henry Harrison became the first commander-in-chief to die in office. Seven more presidents died in office before the amendment was certified, including James Garfield who lived for 78 days after being struck by an assassin’s bullet in 1881.

I think we are looking at a 21st-century assassination attempt right now. 

Lone gunmen will no longer be believed, and for good reason. 

They is all patsies!

Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower experienced debilitating illnesses while in the White House, but lived out their terms and never relinquished power, according to a 2018 article by Joel K. Goldstein, an emeritus professor at Saint Louis University School of Law.

Wilson had a stroke in 1919; Eisenhower had a heart attack in 1955, surgery in 1956, and a stroke in 1957, Goldstein wrote.

“There was just really no mechanism for handling succession,” said Renée M. Landers, a professor at Suffolk University Law School. “Most of that time, they were just winging it.”

Kent Greenfield, a professor at Boston College Law School, said the Constitution is now prepared to handle Trump’s illness, and the election and Inauguration Day as well.

If Trump were to become incapacitated before Election Day, the Republican National Committee has the authority to name another candidate, but if Trump emerges disabled from his diagnosis but still wins a second term, the landscape becomes more complex, Greenfield said.

“That’s when the constitutional puzzles will kick in,” he said.

Oh, he may well win and still be kicked out of office, huh?

That, my friends, is called a COUP and all because he "caught" COVID!

Goodbye, Mr. President.

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See you in court (maybe):

"Three Republican senators test positive for COVID-19, adding to uncertainty surrounding Supreme Court pick" by Victoria McGrane Globe Staff, October 2, 2020

Man, did the Democrats and the Deep State ever take you imbeciles to the cleaners. 

The coronavirus outbreak gripping the White House spread to Capitol Hill on Friday morning, raising the prospect that the virus could disrupt Republicans' plans to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court before the November election.

Two Republican members of the Senate Judiciary committee — Mike Lee of Utah, and Thom Tillis of North Carolina - revealed Friday that they have tested positive for the potentially deadly disease.

Their positive diagnoses raised concerns that the virus had spread at a Saturday Rose Garden ceremony, at which Trump announced he was nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

On Saturday morning, Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said he has tested positive for COVID-19. His office said he is not experiencing symptoms.

The senators are among six people who attended the event, which featured few masks and little social distancing, who have since tested positive for the virus. 

They should have protested in the streets instead!

Trump, the first lady, and top Trump aide Hope Hicks all attended the event and subsequently tested positive, showing symptoms in the expected five- to seven-day window following the event. Also Friday, the president of the University of Notre Dame, the Rev. John Jenkins, announced he, too, had tested positive for COVID-19. Jenkins attended the Saturday Rose Garden ceremony.

Earlier in the week, Jenkins sent a letter to university students and staff apologizing for not wearing a mask during Saturday’s Rose Garden ceremony for Barrett, who is a Notre Dame graduate and law professor. 

Meanwhile, the kids at his college are imprisoned in their dorms!

Video of the event also shows Lee unmasked and hugging other attendees.

Both Lee and Tillis said they would isolate for 10 days. Lee vowed in a statement that he would “be back to work in time to join my Judiciary Committee colleagues in advancing the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett.”

While the Centers for Disease Control recommend those who test positive should isolate for at least 10 days after their symptoms appear, the agency said doctors may recommend longer isolation periods depending on the severity of the disease. 

She isn't going to be confirmed.

Guidelines issued by the CDC dictate that Barrett should quarantine for 14 days, because she met with Lee in person (and without masks) a few days ago.

Barrett was diagnosed with the virus over the summer but has since recovered, The Washington Post reported Friday — information that had not previously been made public. The science on immunity following recovery is unsettled. Though public health experts generally believe recovery from COVID-19 confers some immunity and the World Health Organization has said repeated infections are not common, researchers in Hong Kong recently reported evidence that a second infection is possible. 

That is a crock of shit that goes against all known science for coronaviruses.

This is the kind of crap we are dealing with. Unabashed lies.

Since receiving the Supreme Court nomination, Barrett is being tested for the virus daily and had a negative result Friday morning, according to the White House. She visited Capitol Hill several times over the past week, meeting with roughly 30 senators in one-on-one meetings to discuss her nomination, according to the Post. 

Being a women helps her if what I read above is correct, right?

Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted that he planned to proceed with Barrett’s nomination on Oct. 12 as scheduled. It was not immediately clear how the committee would proceed if either Lee’s or Tillis’s isolation extends beyond 10 days.

Republicans enjoy a two-seat majority on the Judiciary Committee, which means Republicans could afford to have one but not both of the COVID-positive senators miss the committee vote to approve it and send it to the Senate floor for a final vote.

Republicans, who hold a three-seat majority in the Senate, also can’t afford to have many members out sick for a final confirmation vote, given that two of their members — Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — have indicated they won’t support Barrett if the vote comes before Election Day.

She won't be making it out of the Senate, I don't care what they say.

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell "is working with particularly slim majorities. If Collins and Murkowski vote against cloture and if Mike Lee still out, that leaves the vote at 50-50 with VP breaking the tie. Republicans can’t afford to have another senator miss the floor votes,” Sarah Binder, a congressional expert with the Brookings Institution, said before the news broke that Tillis had also contracted the virus.

So when are some Democrats start going to test positive, huh? 

Doesn't this STINK to YOU?

Earlier in the day, before Lee’s announcement, McConnell vowed Senate Republicans would continue “full steam ahead” on Barrett’s nomination, but pushback to that idea started to mount Friday, and further positive tests on Capitol Hill could increase the pressure on Republicans to delay.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the judiciary panel, called it “premature” for Graham to continue with the hearing schedule as planned before the full extent of potential coronavirus exposure from the White House outbreak is known.

“The unfortunate news about the infection of our colleague Senator Mike Lee makes even more clear that health and safety must guide the schedule for all Senate activities, including hearings,” the Democrats said.

They signaled that Democrats would not consent to a “virtual” hearing for such a consequential nomination, saying that it is not an “appropriate substitute.”

The senators said that it is “critical that Chairman Graham put the health of senators, the nominee, and staff first — and ensure a full and fair hearing that is not rushed, not truncated, and not virtual. Otherwise this already illegitimate process will become a dangerous one.”

With every paragraph and every page, the political nature of this hoax and scam becomes even more clear. 

Goodbye, Mr. President.

Christopher Kang, chief counsel at Demand Justice, a liberal group focused on judicial reform that opposes Barrett’s nomination, said the positive coronavirus tests and the uncertainty of who else may have been exposed means senators need to adhere to public health guidelines.

"Chairman Graham barreling ahead with an already rushed process at this point could jeopardize the safety of not only Senators and the nominee but also of support staff and people they come into contact with, and it would set a terrible example for people dealing with the virus across the country.”

Uh-huh.

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Related: 

"The Supreme Court will consider letting the Federal Communications Commission ease limits on the ownership of local media outlets, agreeing to hear appeals from the broadcast industry and President Donald Trump’s administration in a fight that dates back almost two decades. The justices will review a federal appeals court decision that blocked the changes and told the FCC to study the impact they would have on female and minority ownership in the media industry. Relaxing the rules could mean a wave of consolidation affecting TV stations nationwide. The development is “great news,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who was chosen by Trump to lead the agency. Critics of media consolidation expressed dismay......"

The critic would be Gigi Sohn, a former Democratic FCC aide, and I think it is safe to say Coney Barrett won't be hearing that case.

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The Globe editorial board tells you what we can learn from the president’s infection: there’s a lesson in the fact that Trump has tested positive for COVID-19, and it’s that denying scientific evidence of harm does not offer immunity to it, whether it’s the pandemic or the warming planet -- as they conflate those two issues that have nothing to do with each other save for the $cience.

They are of the opinion that Trump’s positive COVID-19 test may be a political October surprise, but it’s not all that shocking after all the front-line fatigue.

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The Globe's Dugan Arnett article about Qanon and conspiracies has been completely scrubbed from existence -- probably after the Globe realized bring more attention to it would be counterproductive and cause people to investigate.

Gave 'em a shudder:

"Trump tests positive for COVID-19, and the world shudders" by Mark Landler and Mike Ives New York Times, October 2, 2020

LONDON — President Trump’s disclosure that he had been infected by the coronavirus sent a shudder around the world on Friday, drawing sympathy from leaders who have grappled with the pandemic in their own countries and more pointed responses from critics who noted Trump’s own cavalier handling of the threat.

Trump is not the first world leader to be infected. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain and President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil both tested positive. Johnson ended up in an intensive care unit where, he said later, “things could have gone either way,” but Trump, 74, is older and at higher risk than either of those men, and the news of an American president contracting a potentially lethal virus carried global repercussions beyond that of any other world leader.

Expressions of concern and good wishes for Trump’s speedy recovery — as well as that of first lady Melania Trump, who also was infected — poured in from officials in India, Britain, and other countries.

Including Putin of Russia.

Some commentators noted that it was a grim reminder of a virus that does not distinguish between rich and poor, weak and powerful. 

Although it does discriminate between Trump crowds and Democrats as well as Antifa protesters and college students partying.

I'm apoplectic reading this crap, readers.

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction tweeted, “Nobody is immune from #COVID19.”

Wang Huiyao, the founder and president of the Center for China and Globalization, an influential research group in Beijing, said, “When the president of the United States, the most powerful person in the world, can catch this, the virus has no boundaries.”

Others suggested a degree of justice in his diagnosis, given Trump’s record of diminishing the threat of the virus, refusing simple precautions like wearing a mask, and running risks like holding campaign rallies with little to no social distancing. During the presidential debate Tuesday, he mocked former vice president Joe Biden for wearing a mask. 

Yup, HE DESERVES what he GETS!

Goodbye, Mr. President.

My nest post will be regarding the death of the President.

For allies and adversaries alike, as they woke up Friday to the news of Trump’s infection, the immediate concerns involved security as the world’s most powerful nation confronted the potential incapacitation of its commander-in-chief.

Britain’s experience shows that even in a country with a well-organized political system, a leader’s sudden illness can be deeply unsettling. When Johnson contracted the virus in March, the government was adrift for several days while he struggled to keep leading the response to the pandemic, via Zoom calls, from isolation in his official residence on Downing Street.

When Johnson, 56, was admitted to the hospital and then to intensive care, he deputized the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to act in his absence, but that did little to dispel the uncertainty, especially since unlike in the United States, there is no legal line of succession if a prime minister dies in office or is permanently incapacitated.

The government issued upbeat but unrevealing reports of Johnson’s health, and after he was released from the hospital on Easter Sunday, he disclosed that his condition had been more grave than was reported. 

Uh-huh. 

No one believed Johnson was really sick, although it came just after he suggested staying open and allowing herd immunity. 

Hmmm.

In Brazil, Bolsonaro’s bout with the virus was less serious. He said he suffered only mild fever and body aches before testing positive July 7. After quarantining on the grounds of the presidential residence in Brasília, he pronounced himself recovered July 25, posting a photo of himself smiling and giving a thumbs up.

Bolsonaro, 65, who has adopted Trump’s approach of playing down the virus and promoting miracle cures, appeared to brandish a box of hydroxychloroquine pills, the anti-malaria medicine. Despite claims by Trump, there is growing scientific consensus that the drug is not effective in treating COVID-19. 

Bolsonaro, on the other hand, has consistently spoken up against this massive fraud and hoax perpetrated on the world. 

He has been a hero, one of the few!

Inevitably, given Trump’s history of playing down the virus, there was an element of “I told you so” in some of the reactions abroad.

In China, which Trump has blamed as the source of the virus, the news set off an online firestorm and within an hour had rocketed to the top of the most-searched topics on Sina Weibo, a popular though heavily censored social media platform.

Isn't it the source, and if not.... ????

“The whole world rejoices!” read one comment on Sina Weibo that was liked 55,000 times in the hour after it was posted.

Hu Xijin, the chief editor of The Global Times, a nationalist Chinese state-owned tabloid, put it in brash terms.

“President Trump and the first lady have paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19. The news shows the severity of the US' pandemic situation,” Hu tweeted. 

We all know they are for Biden but not interfering in the election.

Others took the opportunity to ridicule Trump.

The commentary reflected a mix of sympathy, disbelief, and even celebration from some who saw the development as just retribution for Trump, who is widely seen in China as having spearheaded the recent downward spiral in relations between the United States and China.

“Covid, stand back and stand by,” Raphael Bob-Waksberg, an American comedian, wrote in a viral tweet, referring to comments made by the president about a far-right militant group.

Not funny, nor is any stand-up comedy (a creation of Jews!).

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Related:

As the coronavirus has spread, world leaders have not been spared.

The New York Times runs down the list of play-actors fulfilling their role, and not one of them has died! 

How about that?

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The page B1 Metro lead:

Embattled Holyoke Soldiers’ Home head resigns

The scapegoat is Baker's man, or was.

Group marches to Copley Square to call for protection of Black women

No COVID concerns there!

Demonstrators marched from Nubian Square to Copley Square past diners sitting outside along Columbus Avenue Friday evening (Barry Chin/Globe Staff).

That is the photograph the Globe decided to feature, and look at the racist fold his arms and look away while his skank companion sips wine and laughs!

Indicted Reading police officer took 'unnecessary risk’ in fatal shooting

In Mass. schools, 63 students and 34 staff members have tested positive for coronavirus

The state tells us all the cases are isolated in the face of scolding regarding parties!

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Boston mayor, police officials hold first community ‘peace walk’ of the year 

It's not an antiwar march and BLM is nowhere in sight as the Globe tells us “it’s a better neighborhood [and] better city too” -- even with the empty streets and economic destruction or COVID!

Time a brief walk:

Woman charged in fatal hit-and-run

Man arrested for crash near Public Garden

Man arrested in theft of city water truck

Man charged with murder of grandmother 

He had been living in her home since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, so add that death to the COVID rolls, too!

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Live events workers march for extended unemployment assistance 

More than 100 Boston-area theater employees turned out for the 3 p.m. march, and those careers are over.

Mass. reports 753 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 10 new deaths

Whatever your lying narrative says. I'm convinced they are simply making the numbers up at this point in service to greater goals. It's so damn obvious at this point.

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The Globe then buried this pedophile, pervert, and rapist on page B5: 

"Bill Clinton, Harvard Med. School student among speakers at upcoming diversity summit" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, October 1, 2020

Harvard Medical School student LaShyra Nolen will join former President Bill Clinton, his daughter Chelsea Clinton and a host of other luminaries for a “virtual event” Oct. 8 to discuss strategies for building “a more inclusive future” through entrepreneurship, innovation, and recruiting a diverse workforce, the Clinton Foundation said Thursday.

Why has no one brought charges against the pay-for-play extortion racket and slush fund, huh?

The event is a partnership between Clinton Global Initiative University, or CGI U, an arm of the foundation, and Morehouse College, a historically Black college founded in 1867 in Atlanta, the statement said.

In addition to Simmons, the Harvard Medical School student council president for the Class of 2023, and the Clintons, other speakers include Morehouse President David A. Thomas, a former Harvard professor and administrator; La June Montgomery Tabron, president of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; and Rose Stuckey Kirk, chief corporate responsibility officer at Verizon, according to the statement.

The message is Democrats are immune from not only COVID, but their sexual crimes and transgressions as well -- and the pre$$ APPLAUDS and HONORS them!

“Morehouse College is honored to partner with President Clinton and CGI U in this important conversation that will challenge students to be the change agents that this nation needs to build a healthy economy that promotes diversity, innovation, and entrepreneurship,” Thomas said in the statement.

I think I've caught COVID because I am going to be sick!

President Clinton said in the release that 2020 has brought racial inequities to the forefront of American discourse.

“This year it’s become clearer than ever how much more work we have to do to achieve an equal and just society. America can’t succeed unless all people have the chance to succeed,” Clinton said. “Through CGI U, we’re helping students identify ways they can take action and address major challenges like inequality and health disparities."

The guy is absolutely disgusting and probably drinking children's blood given the look of him.

Nolen, of Harvard Medical School, will join the second panel discussion of the day entitled “Health Equity in the Midst of COVID-19.” The discussion, moderated by Chelsea Clinton, will explore “what it takes to eliminate health disparities in communities of color that have been exacerbated by the pandemic,” the statement said.

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Time to look at the Bu$ine$$ section through ro$e-colored gla$$e$:

Warby Parker funds scholarships for Black students at Back Bay optometry college 

It's Black people are dramatically underrepresented in the field of optometry, with roughly 3 percent of those in US optometry schools Black students, and even fewer are practicing optometrists, according to Warby Parker co-CEOs Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal.

I think I will stick with the Foster Grants.

Women are leaving the workforce in droves

You will never guess why, and COVID makes a Handmaid's Tale all the more a reality.

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"Airbnb Inc. is aiming to raise about $3 billion in an initial public offering targeted for December, Reuters reported Friday. The home-sharing startup is one of the most highly anticipated IPOs of the year and it almost didn’t happen after the Covid-19 pandemic sapped global travel, but San Francisco-based Airbnb has bounced back quicker than it expected, as people sought long-term, rural rentals to escape pandemic hot spots and take advantage of work-from-home regulations. Airbnb took the first step toward a market listing in August when it filed initial paperwork confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company plans to make its filing publicly available in November after the U.S presidential election and is targeting an IPO in December, Reuters reported Friday, citing unnamed people familiar with the plans. The timing could change, depending on market conditions, and particularly volatility around the election, Reuters said. Airbnb declined to comment. The rebound in Airbnb’s fortunes could also help boost its public valuation....."

Who is going to invest in rentals when the country is under shutdowns?

The IPO looks like it is about getting stimuloot into the hands of certain chosen people is all.

Related:

"Congressional leaders who oversaw an 18-month investigation into design and oversight problems with the Boeing 737 Max on Thursday called on the Federal Aviation Administration to publicly release the documentation and data the agency is using to determine whether the plane is safe to fly again. Two 737 Max jets crashed in a five-month span, killing 346 people, and the plane has been grounded since March 2019. FAA administrator Steve Dickson said Wednesday after flying the updated plane that the agency is in the “home stretch” in its safety evaluations. Boeing said it made comprehensive fixes to the plane’s software. In their letter, Rep. Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.), chair of the House Transportation Committee, and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) called on the FAA “to publicly release all documents related to design revisions or evaluations related to the aircraft’s safe return to service.”

Who would ever trust their pieces of crap again, even if it were safe to fly?

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We end where we started, folks:

"US unemployment drops to 7.9 percent but hiring slows pre-election" by CHRISTOPHER RUGABER The Associated Press, October 2, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US unemployment rate dropped to 7.9 percent in September, but hiring is slowing and many Americans have given up looking for work, the government said Friday in the final jobs report before the voters decide whether to give President Donald Trump another term.

Because there is no work to look for.

With a month to go before Election Day, the Labor Department said employers added just 661,000 jobs in September amid the coronavirus outbreak, down from 1.5 million in August and 1.8 million in July.

Unemployment fell from 8.4 percent in August, but that mainly reflected a decline in the number of people seeking work, rather than a surge in hiring. The government doesn’t count people as unemployed if they aren’t actively looking for a job.

Goodbye, Mr. President. 

That was the one thing you had going for you until now.

“There seems to be a worrisome loss of momentum,” said Drew Matus, an economist at MetLife Investment Management. “There’s a lot of caution on the part of employers.”

With September’s hiring gain, the economy has recovered slightly more than half the 22 million jobs wiped out by the coronavirus, which has now killed over 200,000 Americans and infected more than 7 million. With many businesses and customers plagued by fear and uncertainty, some economists say it could take as long as late 2023 for the job market fully recover.

That's the sign of an economy in transition to the Great Re$et, and it was policy made by politicians that wiped out the jobs.

This week, moreover, brought a new wave of layoff announcements reflecting the continuing slump in travel and tourism: Disney is cutting 28,000 jobs, Allstate will shed 3,800, and US airlines said as many as 40,000 employees are losing their jobs this month as federal aid to the industry expires.

There is a slump in travel and tourism but Airbnb is back!

In another problematic sign in Friday’s report, the number of laid-off workers who say their jobs are gone for good rose from 3.4 million to 3.8 million.

What will they do with all the excess, non-essential people, huh?

While unemployment has tumbled from April, when it topped out at 14.7 percent, a rate unseen since the Depression in the 1930s, it is still high by historical standards, and it is a far cry from where it was in February, before the outbreak took hold in the United States: 3.5 percent, a more than 50-year low.

Yeah, Trump had a great economy and people were partying. That's all been ruined by COVID.

Friday’s numbers offered voters a final look at the most important barometer of the economy before the Nov. 3 presidential election — an election whose outcome was thrown into deeper uncertainty by the announcement Friday that Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Still-high unemployment is a potential political liability for Trump, yet President Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012 even with unemployment at 7.8 percent on the eve of the election, and even as the economy has struggled to sustain a recovery, it has remained one of the few bright spots in Trump’s otherwise weak political standing. Roughly half of voters approve of his performance on the economy.

That nearly proves Obama stole the 2012 election, and once again we find the entire $camdemic is a POLITICAL TOOL!

The economy is under pressure on a number of fronts, including the expiration of federal aid programs that had fueled rehiring and sustained the economy — from a $600-a-week benefit for the unemployed to $500 billion in forgivable short-term loans to small businesses.

The September jobs report showed that women in their prime working years are quitting their jobs and leaving the workforce at much higher rates than men, a sign that many women are staying home to help their children with remote schooling.

“Women continue to bear the brunt of this recession,” said Julia Pollak, a labor economist at ZipRecruiter. “They are supervising at-home schooling.”

Yeah, COVID is “putting women in a pretty impossible situation.” 

This is the first US recession in which service-sector jobs have been hardest hit, instead of goods-producing industries like manufacturing, and women make up a greater share of the workforce in service industries like retail and health.

Many in-person service providers, such as gyms, movie theaters, and restaurants are still employing far fewer people than before the outbreak.

Charlie Cassara, who owns two gyms on New York’s Long Island, said he has brought back only one of his 20 employees since gyms were allowed to reopen at 33 percent capacity in late August. He said many of his clients have stayed away out of fear of the virus.

He has been unable to pay full rent and expects he will have to close one gym by the end of the year unless things change.

“Everybody is pretty much hanging on now with the hope that maybe they are going to have a chance if they can survive the winter, but the outlook is not good,” said Cassara, president of the New York Fitness Coalition, which has sued New York City to allow indoor fitness group classes.

They have as much of a chance of serving as Trump's presidency.

The unemployment rate for Black workers fell sharply last month but is still much higher than it is for whites..... 

Look at them turn it into a race issue after playing the gender card!

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Right next to that article I noticed an ad for Season 4 of Love Letters where Meredith Goldstein asks what does love mean at different ages?(!!!!!)

I'm told that on Season 4 of Love Letters, host Meredith Goldstein explores love at every age — from the first stirrings of teenage infatuation to the hard-won lessons of the golden years. One of here sessions was even called Balls to the Wall!

I wrote GROSS in the space for the ad, and the Globe is borderline when it comes to promoting sex trafficking, although in her case it is more likely a pathetic skank who is just bored and lonely.

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Late Breaking $ports news: 

Cam Newton reportedly tests positive for COVID-19

He is going to miss the big game against the Chiefs, and given the rise of the COVID plague in football this past week expect the REST of the SEASON to SOON BE CANCELLED due to COVID!

On a more somber note, Bob Gibson, the Hall of Fame pitcher who beat Impossible Dream Red Sox, passed away due to COVID.