The undercard is the real choice for president since Trump will soon be dispatched before Uncle Joe fails and resigns:
Mike Pence and Kamala Harris face off
I'm supposed to rely on the Globe for the reporting, fact-checking, and analysis.
HA-HA-HA-HA!
Related: Haunted House
Pindell said "the story was a classic October surprise [and] it was a month from election day," and what a deja vu!
They still have more cards to play as the Globe is already declaring Trump incapable of nerving because of COVID:
"Trump’s Twitter storm raises some concerns among doctors about possible risks of powerful steroid" by David Abel and Kay Lazar Globe Staff, October 7, 2020
Just days after being prescribed a powerful cocktail of drugs to treat his coronavirus infection, President Trump returned to the Oval Office on Wednesday as he delivered a barrage of incendiary tweets that referred to a “treasonous plot” and “coup” against him.
Trump’s behavior appeared erratic even by his standards and raised questions among some medical professionals about the effect of the treatment on his mental state and whether it impacted his ability to govern.
That was front page, below-the-belt, 'er, fold stuff, folks.
Among the drugs Trump was prescribed is a potent steroid known as dexamethasone, which has shown benefits in patients with severe cases of COVID-19. While the drug helps reduce inflammation, it has a variety of possible side effects, such as blurred vision, headaches, and “psychic derangements,” including insomnia, mood swings, and “frank psychotic manifestations,” according to the drug’s label.
He is not only now a prisoner in the White House, he is likely no longer in charge.
Similar drugs, known as corticosteroids, have also been linked to a wide range of other psychiatric symptoms, including anxiety, depression, and various cognitive difficulties, said Dr. Jacob Appel, a psychiatrist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, but such treatment would not “automatically disqualify an individual from carrying out the duties of the presidency," he added.
“The president’s own doctors would be wise to monitor all of his actions, public and private, including Twitter postings, to determine whether there is a possibility of psychosis,” he said. “If they have any significant concerns, then direct evaluation by an independent psychiatrist would certainly be appropriate.”
Wise to monitor?
Why did they put him on it in the first place?
In a letter released Wednesday by the White House, Dr. Sean Conley, the president’s personal physician, wrote that Trump’s oxygen saturation and respiratory rate “remain stable and in a normal range.”
Then we can all breathe a little easier this day.
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Groton racist and sexist, now run along.
The Globe goes on to unmask him and smear him further as they wish him ill.
"How Much Would Trump’s Coronavirus Treatment Cost Most Americans?; Even for those with insurance, surprise bills for things not covered can add up fast" by Sarah Kliff, New York Times | Oct. 7, 2020
President Trump spent three days in the hospital. He arrived and left by helicopter, and he received multiple coronavirus tests, oxygen, steroids and an experimental antibody treatment.
For someone who isn’t president, that would cost more than $100,000 in the American health system. Patients could face significant surprise bills and medical debt even after health insurance paid its share.
The biggest financial risks would come not from the hospital stay but from the services provided elsewhere, including helicopter transit and repeated coronavirus testing.
Trump has praised the high quality of care he received at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and has played down the risk of the virus. Across the country, patients have struggled with both the long-term health and financial effects of contracting coronavirus. Nearly half a million have been hospitalized. Routine tests can result in thousands of dollars in uncovered charges; hospitalized patients have received bills upward of $400,000.
Trump did not have to worry about the costs of his care, which are covered by the federal government. Most Americans, including many who carry health coverage, do worry about receiving medical care they cannot afford.
I waited to comment on this shameless piece of Trump-hating shit. The NYT is attempting to inflame hatred of a sick president as if he is getting by on you and receiving something you are not. Just when you think they can't go any lower.
First of all, I want the president, any president, getting the best health care no matter what the cost and no matter what $hit state plan I have.
Secondly, I never saw the NYT run an article regarding the lavish tax-payer-funded plans of which Congre$$ has their pick. They instead go after a sick president like some kind of thuggish bully.
For some Americans, the bills could start mounting with frequent tests. Insurers are generally required to pay for those tests when physicians order them, but not when employers do.
The Trump administration made that clear in June, when it issued guidance stating that insurers do not have to pay for “testing conducted to screen for general workplace health and safety.” Instead, patients need to pay for that type of testing themselves. Some might be able to get free tests at public sites, and some employers may voluntarily cover the costs. Others could face significant medical debt from tests delivered at hospitals or urgent care centers.
Covid tests can be expensive. The bills for the typical American would continue at the hospital, with the routine monitoring that any patient would receive and the drugs provided in the course of care.
So who has the contract to provide all the tests, and why is the boondoggle being used to test only certain classes of people on a constant basis, huh?
That assumes the test are accurate or reliable (they are not), so what we are looking at here is more COVID corruption to the benefit of the usual $u$pects.
Remdesivir, a new coronavirus treatment created by Gilead, costs $3,120 when purchased by private insurers and $2,340 with public programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
The much-derided H#Q costs cents on the dollar, which is why it is denied. The entire medical e$tabli$hment has been taken captive by the pharmaceutical and vaccine companies and those who fund them.
Trump also received an experimental antibody treatment from Regeneron. It’s currently available to clinical trial participants or to those granted a “compassionate use” exemption. In either situation, the drug would typically be provided to the patient at no charge. This will most likely change, however, when the treatment finishes trials and hits the commercial market. These types of drugs are hard to manufacture, and other monoclonal antibodies cost thousands of dollars.....
That is where the print ended as the Times tells us "health economists are only starting to understand the full costs of coronavirus treatment just as scientists are mapping out how the disease works and spreads."
Related:
Trump Is Described as Symptom-Free
Experts are questioning the significance of antibody test results, with Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunologist at the University of Arizona saying, “it doesn’t give us a lot of information, and it doesn’t make much sense.”
I don't know what paper he is reading, and all off a sudden the tests are not accurate so which is it?
It's always a false negative, never a false positive what the turn is they are all false positives because this thing is a f**king scam.
Trump Calls Contracting the Virus ‘a Blessing From God’
The pre$$ is now compelling because he is hailing an unproven drug as ‘a cure.’
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Life insurance is getting costlier for men 55 and older who smoke. That demographic saw the biggest increases for life insurance policies from September to October, with average premiums rising between $6.12 and $12.56 a month, according to an index from Policygenius. Prices are based on actuarial rate tables for 11 life insurance carriers offering policies through the online brokerage. The increase is likely due to the higher risk those individuals face from COVID-19, the company said Wednesday. Rates fell slightly for healthy applicants, and Policygenius said that overall pricing “has yet to be significantly impacted” by the pandemic."
Then Trump just saved you money, America, for he doesn't smoke or drink!
What business is it of theirs?
Also see:
Manhattan DA can obtain Trump’s tax returns,
The New York Times says the dispute is now likely to head to the Supreme Court for a second time.
Barrett Lived in House Owned by Co-Founders of Faith Group
She lived in a house owned by co-founders of a religious community, People of Praise, that teaches men are divinely ordained as the “heads” of both family and faith, and HOW DARE SHE endorse toxic masculinity?!
The day is not long until being a member of the Republican Party will mean being part of a criminal group.
Better hedge your bets. It's going to get mighty cold around here this winter as the sharks pour in to devour us (the storm in Mexico is literally invisible to the eye).
"Biden Leads Trump in Nevada and the Two Are Tied in Ohio, Polls Show" y Reid J. Epstein and Isabella Grullón Paz, New York Times Oct. 7, 2020
Joseph R. Biden Jr. maintains a steady lead over President Trump in Nevada and the two are virtually tied in Ohio, as voters continue to express dissatisfaction with the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to new polls by The New York Times and Siena College released on Wednesday.
Where is that trash can?
Biden leads 48 percent to 42 percent among likely voters in Nevada and 45 to 44 percent in Ohio, the polls found. Six percent of Nevada voters and 7 percent of Ohioans said they remain undecided. The polls were taken after Trump announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus, and most of the survey took place before Trump returned to the White House on Monday night from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
As the two campaigns spar this week over safety precautions for next week’s debate, voters in both states, including about 20 percent of Trump’s supporters, said by wide margins the president did not take adequate precautions to protect himself from the virus.
The results illustrate the shifting political dynamics in a pair of states each party has been hoping to flip from its 2016 results. When The Times polled Nevada last month, Biden held a four-point lead, and Ohio, a state critical to Trump’s Electoral College prospects, appears to be a tossup after Republicans and many Democrats had assumed the state’s demographics made it virtually certain to remain in Mr. Trump’s column.....
I'm told Biden’s strength is powered by women even after Democrats have fretted for months about the Nevada’s large population of unionized casino workers being put out of work because of the pandemic, and prepare for major unrest if Trump wins as he should.
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Time to get back to work:
"Workers sound off on virus, uncertainty about economic aid" by Katie Johnston and Anissa Gardizy Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, October 7, 2020
The Globe says they ‘fell for what Trump was saying.’
With President Trump calling for a new economic stimulus package to be put off until after the election, millions of unemployed Americans and hard-hit businesses may have to wait until after Election Day, or possibly next year, to find out if their rapidly dwindling benefits will be extended.
Although the president backtracked via Twitter on Tuesday night, seeming to support another round of stimulus checks and aid for small businesses and airlines, his message wasn’t reassuring, and the uncertainty around a new economic stimulus bill comes at the worst of times: COVID-19 cases in Boston are increasing, raising fears of another shutdown, and the state’s ban on evictions is set to end late next week.
Related:
The banks will soon own all the properties after the defaults on loans, and if not, then Communi$m is much closer than you thought.
That’s on top of the fact that layoffs continue to pummel the job market, forgivable loans for small businesses under the Paycheck Protection Program have run out, and more than 20 million Americans are no longer receiving enhanced unemployment benefits.
It’s a perfect storm hitting everyday workers who are trying to keep their lives afloat.
Truck driver Derrick Beauvais used to deliver paper products to 40 Boston-area restaurants every day, but since the pandemic hit, he’s lucky if he has half that. His paychecks are down by half, as well. An extra $200 a week in unemployment benefits has helped, and he is counting on another stimulus package to get by.
“My wife doesn’t work because I always made enough money where she could stay home and take care of our son,” he said, adding that he recently decided to get an emergency credit card because he doesn’t have any savings.
He said he looks back on the $1,200 stimulus check and $600 enhanced unemployment benefits of earlier in the year, wishing he would have planned ahead, maybe not buying his 8-year-old son extra back-to-school clothes.
“I didn’t exactly save like I probably should have,” he said. “I fell for what Trump was saying . . . ‘When the weather gets nicer the virus is going to go away’. . . and here we are, almost in November.”
Yup, in a world of illusion and imagery promoting and reinforced by a lying, agenda-pushing pre$$.
May, a housekeeper at the still-closed Sheraton Boston Hotel who asked that her last name not be used, has been using her unemployment checks to pay her mortgage and raise her 7-year-old daughter in Quincy, but with no reopening date in sight, and jobless benefits coming to an end, she doesn’t know what she’s going to do.
“I can’t imagine this,” said May, speaking in Cantonsese through a translator. “Now it’s OK but . . . I’m really worried about later.”
Several unemployed workers in the Boston area said they felt like pawns in a political chess game being played by the president as his stance on economic stimulus shifts.
Not Bill Gates or the WEF.
David Bookbinder, 55, a self-employed computer technician in Peabody, said he thinks the president is trying to use unemployment as a “bargaining chip for his election,” but former vice president Joe Biden would pass a new stimulus bill, too.
“It’s not like [Trump’s] going to be the savior if he wins,” he said. “I don’t know what kind of carrot he’s trying to put out there.”
Whatever it was, Pelosi shoved it up his ass for months before extracting it because it was costing the Democrats. That's the way the American people see this situation despite what the Globe says. Democrats blocked aid and checks for political reasons. Everyone knows it, and now it is boomeranging on them.
Bookbinder, whose income has dropped sharply during the pandemic, doesn’t think much of Trump’s pledge to send out another round of $1,200 stimulus checks, either.
"He wants to sign a check to everybody again like last time so he can say, ‘Look, I sent you a check for $1,200,’ " Bookbinder said. “That’s enough to placate his followers and make them think he did something special for them.”
Jon Hurst, the president of the state’s retail association, said it is vital that consumers receive more stimulus money and small businesses receive another round of Paycheck Protection Program money. He blames both political parties for inaction, and he said elected officials seem to think the upcoming vote is “more important than the future of Main Street businesses.”
They do and the Great Re$et the Globe is promoting and advancing doesn't care about Main Street.
Bob Luz, president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, said nearly 25 percent of restaurants in the state have closed, and he predicts the number will rise “quickly and steeply” without additional aid.
Vanna Vu, owner of the nail salon Treasured Hands in the Back Bay, said the last round of PPP has helped her business survive the past three months, so she will apply again if she is able to. She expects the loans to cover the next three to four months, in addition to her own “rainy-day savings,” but added that business is still down about 60 percent amid COVID-19 safety restrictions.
More "free" money from the Fed printing pre$$es isn't going to save you. Only a revealing and complete evisceration of this COVID-19 hoax will do that.
For many, congressional action on another stimulus bill could come too late. One in five small businesses that received PPP loans said they expect to lay off employees in the next six months, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.
“While these business owners are trying hard to stay afloat, keep their employees, and support their communities, about half of small businesses nationally say they will need further relief in the next six months to survive,” the NFIB’s state director, Christopher Carlozzi, wrote in an e-mail. “That increasing economic uncertainty means they don’t have much time to wait.”
You will NOT $URVIVE the GREAT RE$ET!
Katie Sweeney, 35, was working as an event manager for Marriott in Omaha, Neb., when she was furloughed March 13. She has since relocated back to Massachusetts and picked up a part-time waitressing job at Loco Taqueria & Oyster Bar in South Boston while she tries to find a position in the decimated events industry.
She said calling off the stimulus talks “feels like a total manipulation of the American people. We are all doing our best to stay resilient through this crisis, but this move by President Trump makes me feel that he is forgetting that there are real people with lives and jobs and children affected by this decision.”
Tell it to our dictator governor because he is too blame, not Trump, and I just had breakfast in Omaha.
Amid all the turmoil, some are still optimistic about a relief package.
Dave Kimball was set to resume his restaurant job as a cook in Haverhill around Memorial Day when he came down with the flu and asked to delay his start date — and never heard from the restaurant again. He’s down to $277 a week in unemployment benefits but is confident that, despite the president’s actions, more relief is on the way.
Is he sure it wasn't COVID?
Good f***king Christ, Globe!
“There’s no way it’s not going to come, because people are just going to get fed up and then the revolt starts,” said Kimball, 43. “What kind of holiday season is it going to be if you can’t put food on the table for your family or you can’t buy your kids the simplest gift?”
Not if COVID is still around and people must be isolated in quarantine facilities and camps (hmmmm), so it looks like a TERRIBLE and HORRIBLE CHRISTMAS coming because our leaders and their string-pullers don't care about us!
If the did, NONE of this would be HAPPENING!
Doug Bacon used PPP money to reopen five of the eight restaurants he owns in Boston — in addition to the Kenmore, which he just closed again due to the lack of students and Red Sox fans in Kenmore Square, but those funds are nearly gone. About 70 of his 196 employees are back on the job, and he doesn’t know what will happen without more stimulus money, especially as the weather gets colder and patios close.
“I’m completely and totally disenchanted with the inconsistency of President Trump, and the poor leadership, and the insensitivity,” he said. “I’m completely — I don’t even know what to say — disgusted, and I’m a Republican.”
PFFFT!
Globe managed to find him, huh?
Yeah, Trump is to blame for everything even if it has nothing to do with him, like sports.
You want to blame someone, blame the governor who ordered this.
Bacon voted for Trump in 2016 but said he’s “sure as hell not” voting for him this time. He’s hopeful that more stimulus will come, but he’s not counting on Trump: “It might have to wait for President Biden.”
Speak of the devils:
"Fed policy makers cite risks to US economy if Congress fails to provide more aid" by Globe Wire Services October 7, 2020
Federal Reserve officials expressed concern at their most recent meeting that the US economic recovery could falter if Congress fails to approve another round of pandemic relief.
This means WALL STREET NEEDS MORE TRILLIONS to keep it PROPPED UP!
Has nothing to do with you and your pittance, serf, and NEVER DID!
Minutes of the meeting showed that officials believe the economy was growing faster than expected, but they based their forecasts on expectations that Democrats and Republicans would resolve their differences and provide more economic aid, including expanded unemployment benefits and help for small businesses.
They are acting like "expanded unemployment benefits" is a jobs program!
The minutes said that "most forecasters were assuming that an additional pandemic-related fiscal package would be approved this year, and noted that, absent a new package, growth could decelerate at a faster-than-expected pace in the fourth quarter.”
Looks like EXTORTION to ME!
The prospects for a new package being passed before the Nov. 3 elections, however, have significantly diminished with President Trump’s decision to end negotiations with Democrats. Trump has instead proposed that Democrats approve individual rescue items, such as money for ailing airlines and another round of $1,200 checks for most adults, rather than a comprehensive aid package.
Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell warned in a speech Tuesday of potentially tragic consequences if Congress and the White House do not provide further assistance, saying “the [economic] expansion is far from complete.”
Wall Street needs the money bad!
The minutes covered the Fed’s Sept. 15-16 meeting, in which officials left their key policy rate unchanged at a record low near zero and signaled that they expected to keep rates at ultra-low levels at least through 2023.
The Fed’s statement incorporated a policy change to allow inflation to rise above its 2 percent target for a period of time. That change is seen as allowing it to keep interest rates lower for a longer period.
The September statement was approved on a 10-2 vote. The minutes recognized large problems in trying to forecast the path of the economy; meanwhile, a top researcher for the central bank wrote separately on Wednesday that the Fed’s inability to cut rates further means officials would have to massively increase their purchase of bonds and other assets in order to boost the economy.
How long can the Fed build a hou$e of cards, folks?
Michael Kiley, a senior economist and deputy director of the financial stability division, wrote that the central bank would have to purchases as much as $6.5 trillion worth of bonds to offset the impact of the Fed’s benchmark rate already being near zero. Because of the pandemic, the Fed has purchased bonds equal to about $3 trillion since March. That implies another $3.5 trillion is needed, in Kiley’s view, to make up for the monetary policy handicap of zero rates.
Makes that $1200 check and the cost of Trump's healthcare kind of puny, doesn't it?
The paper may bolster the case among policy makers for increasing the Fed’s bond purchases in coming months. The Fed currently purchases about $120 billion a month in Treasuries and mortgage-backed bonds.
Those are the things that got them in trouble 12 years ago and what led to that meltdown, and now we are on the precipice of MASSIVE EVICTIONS!
WTF?
The minutes suggested policy makers will discuss the future of the Fed’s asset-purchase program when they meet in November.
That suggest officials would be open to altering or increasing the purchases — perhaps before the end of the year — as a way to further bolster the economy’s slowing recovery by lowering borrowing costs for households and businesses.
Who can afford to borrow?
They next meet Nov. 4-5, a day after the presidential election.....
I'm sure they will have plenty to talk about.... or not.
Related:
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The head of the IRS, on the defensive over millions of Americans in danger of missing coronavirus relief payments, said Wednesday the agency is reaching out to low-income and homeless people, military personnel and veterans, and those with limited English to notify them they may be eligible for the aid. People who don’t normally file tax returns are among those being targeted, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig told a hearing by a House oversight panel. A congressional watchdog found that
millions could miss the payments of up to $1,200 per individual because of
incomplete government records. Nearly 9 million individuals who are eligible for the so-called economic impact payments hadn’t yet received them, the Government Accountability Office recently estimated. The universal payments were mandated in late March as part of Congress' unprecedented $2.6 trillion in aid to cushion the blow from the staggering recession and economic shutdowns set off by the global pandemic. Since then, Rettig testified, the IRS has delivered about 170 million payments totaling over $270 billion, mostly by direct deposit but also in paper checks or prepaid debit cards. All adults earning up to $75,000 in adjusted gross income annually are entitled to $1,200 ($2,400 for married couples filing jointly) — with those amounts steadily declining for those earning more and phasing out entirely for people earning over $99,000. There are payments of up to $500 for each qualifying child."
Never mind the fraud in the program due to the urgency, and I don't want their fucking money anyway.
Render unto Caesar what is Caeser's.
At least the banks will be propped up:
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Wells Fargo cut more than 700 commercial-banking jobs as it embarks on workforce reductions that could ultimately number in the tens of thousands, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The terminations affected positions across the division, the people said. The unit offers a variety of services to businesses that typically have more than $5 million in annual sales. Katie Ellis, a company spokeswoman, confirmed that at least some reductions have occurred. Wells Fargo, the US banking industry’s largest employer, became the
first major lender in the nation
to resume job cuts this year after a number of top firms said they would try to offer workers stability during the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase have since made targeted reductions. More than 30 banks around the world are behind planned staff reductions totaling about 68,000, according to figures compiled by Bloomberg. Much of that’s being driven by HSBC Holdings, which said in February it would reduce its workforce by 35,000 as part of a plan to cut $4.5 billion of costs at underperforming units in the United States and Europe. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo is under heightened pressure to spend less after slashing its dividend and reporting a quarterly loss earlier this year."
"Santander Bank cuts hundreds in recent layoff" by Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent, October 7, 2020
Santander Bank laid off roughly 200 employees last week, the Boston Business Journal reported Wednesday.
The job cuts hit the Boston-based company’s consumer and business banking divisions and, according to a filing with the state, 28 employees in Massachusetts were affected.
Santander’s head of consumer and business banking told the publication that the workforce reduction came as a result of changes within the company’s business banking operations, which generally serves smaller businesses.
After the Great Re$et, there will no longer be small businesses.
In an e-mailed statement, a company spokeswoman said the bank is continuing to advance and modernize its business model, making “adjustments to support the evolving needs of our business and our clients.”
“With our most recent changes a majority of our impacted employees will transfer to new roles, and those who will not will be fully supported through our company’s severance policy, and through outplacement assistance," she wrote.
Related:
Everything going according to Great Re$et plan!
Of course, the billionaires behind such things have seen and will their wealth astronomically increase!
Time for lunch:
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Ruby Tuesday is filing for bankruptcy protection, the latest casual restaurant chain to suffer from coronavirus-related closures and changing consumer habits. The Maryville, Tenn.-based company said on Wednesday that its restaurants will remain open throughout the bankruptcy process. Ruby Tuesday has 250 company-owned and franchised restaurants in the US, Canada, and nine other countries, including Hong Kong, Chile, and Kuwait. Ruby Tuesday is dealing with longer-term changes in the market that have hurt other casual chains. Even before the virus hit, sit-down restaurants were struggling as more consumers opted for delivery and carryout. Restaurants, still clawing their way back from the recession a decade ago, had little cash to update their aging stores. NPD Group, a data and consulting firm, said US visits to full-service restaurants plunged 47 percent at the height of the mandated dining-room closures. Visits have ticked upward since then, but without counter service or drive-through windows, sit-down chains like Ruby Tuesday simply haven’t been able to make up the lost volume."
The bankruptcy rippled across the pond in more ways than one:
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The United Kingdom will study testing arriving air passengers for COVID-19, in a move aimed at providing relief to an airline industry desperate to return to some semblance of normal traffic. The government has formed a task force to evaluate the idea along with other measures to support the travel sector, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Wednesday. The UK will also cooperate with other countries to coalesce around a global approach. Airlines have been clamoring for months to replace a blanket quarantine with a testing regime that would open up more destinations and give passengers more certainty about air travel. The UK currently mandates two weeks of self-isolation for all travelers arriving from countries that aren’t on ever-changing rosters of acceptable locations. England, Scotland, and Wales each maintain their own lists, adding to the complexity and leading many consumers to avoid planes altogether. The UK is normally the busiest country for air travel in Europe based on passengers, but has been hit hard by the drop in air travel tied to the coronavirus."
If it does it will hurt TikTok stars pay (with the CEO doing his own lip syncing), but the women will literally knock you out.
