I write in astonishment.
They may be impossibly bull-headed sometimes and extreme in a fundamentalist way; however, they are also in the boat of humanity that opposes the billionaire globe-kicker's technological and pharmacological dystopia that is being built under the cover of COVID. Not only that, they are without a doubt fighting back harder than anyone and it is welcome.
I recognize their extreme exclusion and wish to exist in their separatist enclaves, but you have to give their props as well as prayers and support on this one. I know the Palestinian issue is a thorn in all this but it will have to be back-burnered since they are also in the boat of humanity. The existential threat of evil is in front of us all and dare I say treading down the path of religious prophecy no matter what you believe.
Strange days indeed, folks, strange days indeed!
Take a bite of this Apple if you dare:
"NYC seeks to reinstate virus restrictions in some spots" by Karen Matthew, Associated Press | Oct. 4, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s mayor said Sunday that he has asked the state for permission to close schools and reinstate restrictions on nonessential businesses in several neighborhoods because of a resurgence of the coronavirus.
I do get sick and tired of repeating myself regarding the flawed and faulty tests and the distorted caseload crisis for other purposes, mostly to advance the Great Re$et notion that is destroying the beauty of life.
The action, if approved, would mark a disheartening retreat for a city that enjoyed a summer with less spread of the virus than most other parts of the country. Indoor dining, which just resumed a few days ago, would be suspended. Outdoor restaurant dining would shut down in the affected neighborhoods as well, and gyms would close.
As soon you could get inside, shutdown again!
The mayor, a Democrat, said he was taking the action in an attempt to stop the virus from spreading deeper into the city and becoming a “second wave,” like the one that killed more than 24,000 New Yorkers in the spring.
“We’ve learned over and over from this disease that it is important to act aggressively, and when the data tells us it’s time for even the toughest and most rigorous actions we follow the data, we follow the science,” de Blasio said.
They are doing nothing of the sort, they are ignoring the science in favor of the WEF/WHO playbook and his statement reminds me of the vacuousness of "Support the Troops."
Over the past two weeks, the number of new cases of the virus has been rising in pockets of the city, predominantly in neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens that are home to the city’s large Orthodox Jewish population.
Telling us no one of faith is immune from the totalitarian tyrants that worship upon the later of $atanic global government and its adherents.
Nearly 1,100 people have tested positive in Brooklyn in just the last four days, according to state figures.
De Blasio made the announcement shortly after Gov. Andrew Cuomo complained that local governments with coronavirus hot spots had “not done an effective job” of enforcing social distancing rules. “If a local jurisdiction cannot or will not perform effective enforcement of violating entities, notify the state and we will close all business activity in the hot spots where the local governments cannot do compliance,” Cuomo said.
More on that mob boss and his dictatorial tendencies later.
De Blasio said the lockdown could be lifted in 14 days or 28 days if the percentage of people testing positive for COVID-19 declines.
Like that carrot out in front of you?
The coronavirus was estimated to have hit between 1 and 2 million people in New York City, mostly in the spring before testing was widely available. Thousands of people fell ill each day. By the summer’s end, the city appeared to have the virus partly in check, averaging fewer than 240 new cases per day citywide as recently as Sept. 7.
Overall, the city’s infection rate remains relatively low, with around 420 new cases a day over the past few days, but those have been concentrated in a handful of neighborhoods. The nine ZIP codes singled out by the mayor have been responsible for more than 20% of all new infections in the city over the past four weeks, though they represent only 7% of the population.
Hmmmmmmm.
This cannot bring up happy collective memories for the crowds we are talking about, and I don't blame 'em! They have been through this before and it did not end well no matter what you think happened or how many actually died!
De Blasio had said in the past that public schools were largely unaffected by the rise in virus infections in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, but he said Sunday that public schools in the hot spot neighborhoods would be closed “out of an abundance of caution.”
That last quote is the the new tag line to explain further tyrannical measures!
United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew praised the decision. “This is the right decision, one that helps protect our schools, our neighborhoods, and ultimately our city,” Mulgrew said Sunday.
Cuomo allowed New York City restaurants to resume indoor dining starting on Sept. 30, but at only 25% of their seating capacity. Several friends in the restaurant business said Sunday that shutting down for a while might be better.
“It’s going to be a hard winter,” said Alejandra Benitez, who owns Beco Bar in a Brooklyn ZIP code affected by de Blasio’s shutdown proposal, “but it’s almost cheaper to close. It’s just that people don’t want to risk it.”
Mike Sternfield, who was dining with Benitez and other friends outside L&B Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn, agreed with her. “As a bartender, I don’t think we should be going inside to eat and drink at all,” Sternfield said, “but operating at 25% capacity isn’t going to help anyone anyway.”
Then most will not be reopening and closed for good.
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"Orthodox Jewish and other religious leaders lashed out at Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday over new coronavirus restrictions on schools, businesses and houses of worship as protests broke out in Brooklyn, leading to scenes of chaos and attacks on at least two people over two nights. The frustration was reflected on the street, where video shared widely on social media showed hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men, most of them without masks, gathering after midnight and setting fires and burning masks along 13th Avenue in the Borough Park neighborhood. The anger was also evident from Orthodox Jewish leaders and lawmakers, a group of whom condemned the governor in a statement released on Tuesday night. The new restrictions, announced by Cuomo on Tuesday, are intended to combat worrisome outbreaks of the coronavirus in Brooklyn, Queens and New York City’s northern suburbs, including several areas with large Orthodox populations. Cuomo seemed to be specifically targeting Orthodox synagogues that have become scenes of large gatherings of worshipers clustered together, with many not wearing face coverings. The governor has used photos of packed crowds of Orthodox Jews this week to make the case for imposing restrictions in certain areas. On Wednesday, Cuomo defended the new rules, noting that the virus test positivity rate in the state’s hot spots was about 5 percent, compared to 1 percent in the rest of the state. “To the extent there are communities that are upset, that’s because they haven’t been following the original rules,” he said. “That’s why the infection spread, because they weren’t following the rules and the rules weren’t being enforced.” The number of people hospitalized for the virus jumped on Wednesday to 748, up from 705 a day before, Cuomo said during a call with reporters. As he has before, the governor, a third-term Democrat, blamed the uptick in cases on local governments that had failed to enforce public health guidelines.
That's the same lie we were told in spring, and this guy REALLY IS a HITLER if he is TARGETING SYNAGOGUES!
WOW!
Don't look to the mayor for help:
"Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday that the restrictions would be enforced on Thursday by New York City police officers, who would also respond to any large gatherings in restricted areas and address any acts of violence. The mayor reminded New Yorkers that they could face fines of up to $15,000 for organizing a mass gathering and $1,000 for not wearing a face mask. He said people could protest peacefully, but “there will be no tolerance for assaults” and setting fires. He also defended the restrictions on houses of worship as necessary and said he believed they would hold up in court. “The governor’s plan is the right one,” the mayor told reporters at his daily news briefing. Religious leaders said they were not consulted before the governor announced the new rules, and tensions boiled over on the streets of Borough Park late Tuesday, when traditional outdoor festivities for the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkot took an angry turn. A mob swarmed a photographer before midnight, and later beat a Hasidic man who attackers said they believed to be disloyal to the community. Both incidents were captured on video shared widely on social media. “Snitch!” one man can be heard yelling in English in one video, as the crowd beat the Hasidic man. He was identified as Berish Getz by a relative, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear for their safety, and was treated overnight at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. The Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
I need to stop and comment there because the mayor is acting like a Chaim Rumkowski, and you can't help but admire the solidarity and protectiveness they show their community. I am literally sheepishly embarrassed at myself and my own.
A second Borough Park protest against the restrictions on Wednesday night began peacefully. Videos posted on Twitter showed groups of men — many wearing masks, but many not — dancing as several people in the crowd waved Trump campaign flags, but things again turned ugly around 10:30, when Jacob Kornbluh, a reporter for Jewish Insider, arrived. A video posted by Jake Offenhartz of Gothamist showed a horde of men, egged on by Heshy Tischler, a local activist, surrounding Kornbluh, pinning him to a wall and calling him a snitch before chasing him off. “I was just brutally assaulted, hit in the head, and kicked at by an angry crowd of hundreds of community members of the Boro Park protest,” Kornbluh wrote on Twitter shortly after escaping the harrowing scene. In a second message he said that he planned to pursue criminal charges against Mr. Tischler “for incitement and physical assault” as well as “against any individual who hit me.” A Police Department spokesman confirmed that a complaint was being filed in connection with the incident. The anger over the restrictions was not limited to the Orthodox Jewish community. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, which has 1.5 million followers and 210 churches in Brooklyn and Queens, said it had been taken by surprise by the governor’s announcement. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn condemned the new rules as “outrageous” in a statement on Tuesday night....."
Oh, the religions of the world uniting even if leadership of the groups is secular or corrupt.
Hallelujah!
As the devils perform their work, God unites his faithful!
I would ordinarily not condone the violence; however, didn't Solzhenitsyn say something about that?
"In a statement on Wednesday, Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox umbrella organization, called the order to limit worship to 10 people “appalling to all people of religion and good faith” and “deeply offensive,” but it seemed to suggest the community should comply with at least some of the measures. “We cannot let our — perhaps justifiable — anger at government to imperil our neighbors’ health,” it said. In a letter posted online on Tuesday, four Orthodox Jewish lawmakers — State Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein and State Senator Simcha Felder, and City Council members Kalman Yeger and Chaim Deutsch — accused Cuomo of lying to community leaders about the scope of his lockdown plan during a conference call earlier on Tuesday. They denounced it as “a duplicitous bait-and-switch.” The lawmakers also criticized the governor for “irresponsible and pejorative” rhetoric, including the use of a photograph from more than 10 years ago during a news conference earlier this week that showed a Hasidic crowd gathering for a funeral. The photo was replaced during the news conference with a recent one also showing a crowded gathering. At the protests earlier Wednesday, Yeger spoke against the plan, telling gatherers in Brooklyn that the state was interfering with their right to practice religion. “We are not going to be deprived of the right that we have in America, like everybody else in America, to observe our religion,” Yeger said, according to video posted online by Boro Park News, an Orthodox Jewish news organization. “I don’t care who in government thinks that they can stop us. They are wrong. Let them try.” Yeger was joined by Tischler, who has spent recent days decrying the recent rise in cases as a hoax. At one point on Tuesday night, Tischler made inflammatory and derogatory remarks about Chirlane McCray, the wife of Mayor de Blasio. At another point, as a police officer looked on, Tischler addressed the crowd on a bullhorn. “You are my soldiers! We are at war!” he said. “We are going to show them that our schools are open and we are going to respect our police officers!”
All I can say there is NO DOUBT that WE -- and by that I mean all humanity -- are AT WAR, and I wholeheartedly endorse their unalienable First Amendment rights!
"Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York refused on Monday to allow New York City to close nonessential businesses in nine hot spots in Brooklyn and Queens where the coronavirus has spiked, pre-empting a plan announced the day before by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The governor suggested that the ZIP codes that were being used to identify hot spots were too imprecise to guide shutdowns. The more pressing problem, he said, lay in schools and houses of worship, including many that cater to Orthodox Jews, rather than businesses that “are not large spreaders.” The dissonance in messages from the state’s two most prominent politicians created confusion for residents, business owners and parents in the affected areas and drew scrutiny to the conflict between city and state over how to tackle early signs of a second wave of the virus in its onetime epicenter. The governor’s announcement also seemed to be yet another manifestation of his long feud with Mr. de Blasio. Mr. Cuomo has frequently second-guessed or overruled the mayor, who is also a Democrat, during their tenures. Those clashes were cast in sharp relief during the early days of the pandemic, with the city and state at odds over the timing of shutting down the city’s businesses and its schools, among other issues....."
While they fight you are shuffled off to a camp.
"On Monday, that disconnect continued, as Mr. Cuomo accelerated the mayor’s plan to close schools in newly hard-hit areas, moving the closure date up a day to Tuesday, and forcing parents in those areas to again rejigger their schedules to accommodate changes in their children’s routines. Mr. Cuomo said he spoke with Mr. de Blasio and Michael Mulgrew, the president of the city’s teachers’ union, among other local officials, on Monday morning and added that all were in agreement on the need for additional data on cases at specific schools. Mr. Cuomo did not rule out closing nonessential businesses or public spaces in the near future, and top aides suggested a state plan could be unveiled as soon as Tuesday. Mr. Cuomo said his administration was reviewing how best to do it without relying on geographic delineations from ZIP codes, which he said were arbitrary and might not accurately capture the areas where new cases are going up. Cuomo administration officials later suggested that the boundaries for business closures could even exceed the ZIP codes where the increases are now occurring. On Monday afternoon, not long after the governor’s news conference, Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference of his own that he still planned to close nonessential businesses in the nine ZIP codes. He added later that “we obviously will follow state law, and if the state does not authorize restrictions we’re not going to act, but I find that very unlikely at this point.” Mr. Cuomo had also announced that the state would take over supervision of enforcement of mask and social-distancing rules in the hot spot clusters, presumably putting the State Police in charge of New York City Police Department officers. He added that local governments would need to provide personnel. The mayor said that he did not believe that the state could seize control of enforcement from local governments but that he agreed with Mr. Cuomo on the need for aggressive enforcement and “stronger restrictions that will allow us to turn the tide.”"
"The union representing New York City’s principals said on Sunday that it had lost confidence in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to reopen schools and called on the state to seize control of the school system from the mayor — a drastic move that raised new obstacles to the city’s fraught reopening effort. The mayor has twice delayed the start of in-person classes, and the vast majority of the city’s 1.1 million students have already started the school year remotely. Hundreds of thousands of students are set to report back to classrooms this week, with elementary schoolchildren expected to start in-person classes on Tuesday, followed by middle and high school students on Thursday, but Mark Cannizzaro, the president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, said the city still does not have enough teachers to staff its schools, and that last-minute deals hammered out between the teachers’ union and the city had further undermined principals’ trust in the mayor and their confidence in the reopening plan. The union’s executive board cast a unanimous vote of no confidence against Mr. de Blasio and the schools chancellor, Richard A. Carranza, on Sunday. Emily DeSantis, a spokeswoman for the State Education Department, said the department was “aware of the situation” and was “monitoring New York City’s reopening.”
"..... The announcement on Sunday thrust long-simmering tensions between the city’s principals’ and teachers’ unions into the spotlight. Mr. de Blasio’s effort to reopen schools in New York City, which has one of the lowest virus positivity rates of any big city in America, has been plagued by political opposition and bureaucratic mismanagement. The city’s principals, who rarely wade into major political fights, have been publicly and privately raising alarms about reopening for months, but the mayor largely brushed their concerns aside for many weeks, even as hundreds of principals said they could not fully staff their schools and that they could not answer urgent questions from their teachers, parents and students about the reopening effort. Mr. de Blasio has added thousands of educators to city schools in recent weeks, largely substitutes and educators from a pool of teachers who are still on city payroll but no longer have full-time teaching positions, but if classrooms do reopen as scheduled this week, it is also still unclear how long they can stay open. Mr. de Blasio has said the school system will automatically close if the city’s average test positivity rate reaches 3 percent. If virus clusters in parts of Brooklyn in particular continue to grow, the city could reach that threshold in only a matter of weeks, public health experts have said. For now, average positivity is hovering around 1 percent....."
Don't send your kids to school no matter what. Only bad things can happen to them, and you may never see them again.
"After months of promising signs in its fight against the coronavirus, New York reported a spike in its rate of new cases on Monday, including a rise in New York City and in its northern suburbs. The rate of positive test results in the city reached 1.93 percent, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday, an increase from the 1.5 percent rate reported by the city a week before, as officials continued to warn about dangerous behavior in several communities. The increase in the city, the one-time epicenter of the pandemic, contributed to the statewide rate of approximately 1.58 percent — a jump from results reported on Sunday and in prior weeks. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a third-term Democrat, said on Monday that the increase was primarily because of clusters in Brooklyn, as well as in Rockland and Orange Counties, in the Hudson Valley, saying there was “significant action” in those areas. Officials are particularly concerned about eight neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, some with large Orthodox Jewish communities, that have accounted for about one-fourth of New York City’s new cases in the past two weeks, despite representing about 7 percent of the city’s population. On Friday, New York City health officials began carrying out emergency inspections at private religious schools in some of those neighborhoods and threatened to limit gatherings or force closings of businesses or schools if there was not better compliance with social-distancing requirements. The communities are celebrating Jewish high holidays through mid-October, which are marked by religious and family gatherings. A continued rise could affect a closely watched plan to reopen the city’s schools. The mayor has said that he will automatically shut down classrooms — which are all slated to be open by Thursday — if the test positivity rate exceeds 3 percent over a seven-day rolling average....."
Alarm bells started ring for me, and you better put on that mask:
"Wisconsin health officials announced Wednesday that a field hospital will open next week at the state fairgrounds near Milwaukee as a surge in COVID-19 cases threatens to overwhelm hospitals. Wisconsin has become a hot spot for the disease over the last month, ranking third nationwide this week in new cases per capita over the last two weeks. Health experts have attributed the spike to the reopening of colleges and K-12 schools as well as general fatigue over wearing masks and socially distancing. The move also came as a state judge was considering a lawsuit seeking to strike down Evers’ mandate that masks be worn in enclosed public spaces. The governor on Tuesday issued new restrictions on the size of indoor public gatherings through Nov. 6.
Amazing how the surge coincidentally comes after a court case against the governor's tyrannical mask mandate!
Only 16% of the state’s 11,452 hospital beds were available as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the DHS. The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had grown to 853, it’s highest during the pandemic according to the COVID Tracking Project. Results of COVID-19 tests on an additional 262 in-patients in Wisconsin were pending. The southeastern region of the state had 250 COVID-19 patients, the most of any of the state’s seven hospital regions. Nationwide, about 30,000 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, the COVID Tracking Project reported. The DHS reported 2,319 new confirmed cases on Wednesday and 16 more deaths. The state has now seen 138,698 cases and 1,415 deaths since the pandemic began. Virus spread is particularly rampant in northeastern Wisconsin. The Green Bay Packers announced this week that no home fans would be admitted to home games until the situation improved, and head coach Matt LaFleur asked area residents to wear masks and practice social distancing. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a 530-bed field hospital on the state fairgrounds in West Allis just outside Milwaukee in April at the request of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration. Local leaders had warned about the possibility of area hospitals being overwhelmed, but hospitalizations never reached the point where the hospital was needed until now.
We were told the field hospitals we shuttered up and closed, but now find that they never were!
The hospital will accept patients from across Wisconsin but is designed to provide low-level care, and it will accept only patients who have already been hospitalized elsewhere for at least 24 to 48 hours, according to the state Department of Administration. Patients who qualify will be transported to the facility by ambulance. The facility will not accept walk-ins. State Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm told reporters during a video conference that the facility will open on Oct. 14, “We hoped this day wouldn’t come, but unfortunately, Wisconsin is in a much different, more dire place today and our healthcare systems are beginning to become overwhelmed by the surge of COVID-19 cases,” Evers said in a statement. said the facility will be ready to accept 50 patients on its first day. “The goal of this facility is to transition COVID-19 patients who are less ill out of hospitals and reserve hospital beds for patients who are more ill and in need of hospital-level care,” Evers’ office said. The hospital will be staffed by volunteers, state workers and National Guard members, DOA officials said. Patients will not be allowed to have visitors....."
He has the look of evil, too!
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Time to unmask:
"Israeli police clashed with hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews overnight as they sought to enforce restrictions on public gatherings during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown, the police said Wednesday. Footage released by police showed huge crowds of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem chanting and hurling stones and metal bars at police officers. The police said 17 people were arrested. Clashes also erupted in Modiin Ilit, an ultra-Orthodox settlement in the West Bank. Police said they ordered people to leave a synagogue before being attacked with stones and fireworks, Four police officers were wounded and seven people were arrested, police said. Segments of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community have defied restrictions on religious gatherings intended to contain the country’s coronavirus outbreak, even as the insular community has seen its own cases soar. Protesters have been holding regular demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for months, calling on him to resign over his trial on corruption charges and criticizing his government’s handling of the pandemic. Netanyahu and his supporters say the restrictions on protests are needed to prevent virus transmission, while critics accuse him of trying to muzzle dissent. Ultra-Orthodox leaders, who are key political allies of Netanyahu, had earlier accused the government of singling out their community by limiting religious gatherings while allowing the outdoor protests to continue. Protesters held dozens of small demonstrations across the country late Tuesday, apparently while complying with requirements to stay close to home. Demonstrators scuffled with police during a larger demonstration in Tel Aviv when they tried to stage a march through the city....."
I see Israel has it's COVID-immune protests as well!
"Alongside a strip of candy-colored houses on London’s Portobello Road, a freshly scrawled message blared out from the older graffiti on a garage door: “Take off your mask!” The sentiment echoed that of thousands of unmasked protesters who packed Trafalgar Square in the center of the city on Saturday, and a week earlier, rallying against Britain’s coronavirus restrictions, with many calling the pandemic a hoax. “No more lies, no more masks, no more lockdown,” one sign read. In Berlin, Brussels, Dublin and Paris, similar gatherings have gone ahead in recent weeks as coronavirus cases are again rising across much of Europe, but with health experts warning that a second wave has already arrived in some places and with many governments moving to reintroduce restrictions, the ranks of those dismissing the dangers of the virus and others calling it a government-led hoax have swelled. In France, where infections have skyrocketed with a daily average of 12,000 new cases reported over the past week, critics have questioned the effectiveness of masks and new measures to control the spread, while others have urged people to ignore the government’s guidance entirely. An estimated 50,000 people attended a protest in Berlin last month, among them some far-right extremists and QAnon conspiracy theorists, yet the group that organized the event, Querdenken-711, tends to be more moderate, for the most part claiming that the severity of the virus is overblown, although some call it a hoax. A more extreme variant is being pushed by a growing and vocal number of German QAnon supporters, who contend that powerful players behind the scenes are using the virus to control the masses. Slovakia, which on Friday recorded its highest number of new daily cases for a third day in a row, has also struggled to deal with conspiracy theories. The country’s Ministry of Health this summer appointed a specialist to fight disinformation about the pandemic....."
Oh, Lord, the WORLD IS WAKING UP with EUROPEANS once again in the LEAD!
There is HOPE YET for a RENAISSANCE!
"A letter circulating on social media claiming to be from the office of Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and abolishing the statewide mask mandate is fake, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency officials said Sunday. “The letter is a FAKE,” the agency wrote on its Facebook page, adding that all of the governor’s executive orders can be found on the Secretary of State’s website. “Any major changes will be addressed in a press conference and an updated executive order.” Mississippi’s statewide mask mandate has been in place since Aug. 4 to stem the spread of the coronavirus. It is set to expire at 5 p.m. Wednesday unless the governor extends it. He has chosen to extend the mandate several times already. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Malary White said Monday that she saw the fake letter circulating on Facebook and wanted to debunk it....."
What next, pointy hoods to be required?
May God also bless the governor and people of Florida as well:
"As the summer coronavirus spike in Sunbelt states subsides, Florida has gone the furthest in lifting restrictions, especially on restaurants where the burden of ensuring safety has shifted to business owners and residents — raising concerns of a resurgence. In his drive to return the state to normalcy, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted limits on indoor seating at restaurants, saying they can operate at 100% in cities and counties with no restrictions and that other local governments with some restrictions can't limit indoor seating by more than 50%. In some of Florida’s touristy neighborhoods, patrons have since been flocking to bars and restaurants, filling terraces, defying mask orders — drawing mixed reactions from business owners and other customers. “We’re generally concerned that we’re going to find ourselves on the other side of an inverted curve and erasing all the progress we’ve made,” said Albert Garcia, chairman of the Wynwood Business improvement district, which represents 50 blocks of restaurants and bars in Miami’s trendy arts district. Other Sunbelt states that have been COVID-19 hot spots over the summer haven't gone as far.
Thank God Desantis squeaked by Gillum, 'eh?
Can you imagine the mess that state would be in?
Though Florida’s governor generally wears a mask when arriving at public appearances and has allowed municipalities to impose mask rules, he has declined to impose a statewide mandate, and on Sept. 25, as the state entered a Phase 3 reopening, he barred municipalities from collecting fines for mask violations. DeSantis says contact tracing has not shown restaurants to be substantial sources of spread.
I wish he were my governor.
Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious disease specialist at the Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, said that loosening restrictions in Florida is a “mistake” that could increase community transmission at a time when teachers are being summoned back to school. “It really sends the message either implicitly or explicitly that it’s OK. It’s back to normal now, and it’s not the case. We are still in a very serious situation,” Dr. Hotez told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus this week. In South Florida, Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said Friday that he was concerned over a slight uptick in county hospitalizations in recent days and warned people not to let their guard down, using President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis as an example that the virus is highly contagious.
Based on flawed and faulty tests and they are ignoring the the dwindling death rates based on all the discovered cases.
It's a SCAM, folks!
Gimenez has been consulting with attorneys and staff on what rules local governments could continue to enforce without violating new state orders. The county plans to limit many restaurants to 50% indoor capacity and continue requiring masks in public. An 11 p.m. curfew is keeping a lid on nightlife, and the county even restricts loud music at venues so people don't have to shout, which is believed to spread the virus more easily. “I think there’s a lot of confusion because people thought that was it — everything is open,” Gimenez told reporters. “We are still not out of the woods.” Omer Horev co-owns Pura Vida, a Miami chain of coffee shops with locations in iconic South Beach, the Design District near downtown and at the University of Miami. Horev said he isn't relaxing any rules at his businesses. Store managers told him some customers have been defying their mask rules after DeSantis’ new order and he hasn’t seen any local enforcement in the past week. In Tallahassee, Denise Barber, a 65-year-old retired state worker, used to dine out almost every day before the pandemic. She’s now comfortable dining out again, but only at places being more cautious than required....."
The Globe says not so fast on indoor gatherings because public health — not political partisanship — must take the lead in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign with a COVID-19 vaccine that is safe and effective and one that has been adequately tested.
"Italy imposed a nationwide outdoor mask mandate Wednesday with fines of up to 1,000 euros ($1,163) for violators, as the European country where COVID-19 first hit hard scrambles to keep rebounding infections from spiraling out of control. The government passed the decree even though Italy’s overall per capita infection rate is among the lowest in Europe, but Premier Giuseppe Conte warned that a steady, nine-week rise in infections nationwide demanded new preventive measures to stave off economically-devastating closures and shutdowns. “We have to be more rigorous because we want to avoid at all cost more restrictive measures for production and social activities," Conte said. The decree was passed on the same day that Italy added 3,678 new infections and 31 deaths to its official coronavirus toll, the highest increase in new cases since the peak of the outbreak in April. Both hard-hit Lombardy and southern Campania added more than 500 cases each. Italy has over 36,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, the second-highest number in Europe after Britain. Even though the World Health Organization doesn’t specifically recommend masks outdoors for the general population, the trend has taken off in Italy, particularly as new clusters have been identified in southern regions that largely escaped the first wave of infection. The new mask mandate was contained in a government decree extending the state of emergency until Jan. 31. It requires residents to have masks on them at all times outdoors, and wear them unless they can guarantee that they can remain completely isolated from anyone other than family. That effectively makes them obligatory outdoors in all urban and semi-urban settings, with exemptions for eating in restaurants and bars. In addition, masks must now be worn indoors everywhere except private homes, but even at home, Conte urged Italians to keep their distances with relatives, given most new infections are occurring within families......
The EVIL is EVERYWHERE and they are literally coming for us all, and no one is stopping them.
"Brussels authorities on Wednesday decided that all the city’s bars, dance clubs and cafeterias will have to close for a month to counter a surge in new coronavirus cases, leaving beer lovers and revelers high and dry. The measures in the Belgian capital will come into effect Thursday. They go beyond nationwide restrictions that were announced only Tuesday, which ordered bars to close at 11 p.m., but because the pandemic is hitting the capital especially hard, the Brussels region said additional action was needed. The city hosts the European Union headquarters, which draws in people from 27 nations. Drastic action is needed because Belgian cases increased again over the week ending Oct. 3, spiking 57% compared to the previous week. The daily average over that period went from 1,570 to 2,466 new infections a day. Brussels has stood out as the main center of concern....."
We are told that "at best, bars will open again in early November," and what my pre$$ ignores is the letter from the Belgian doctors to the government that calls out the hoax and demands that the emergency measures end immediately and life go back to complete normality now.
Cheers to you, docs!
"Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday allowed bars to begin reopening in Texas for the first time since June, ending a lockdown that began during a massive coronavirus outbreak that became one of the deadliest in the nation; however, the move doesn’t allow Texas bars to fully reopen, nor everywhere. Dallas and Houston leaders quickly made clear they would still keep bars sidelined, pointing to recent upticks in cases and hospitalizations, and bars that are given local permission to open starting next week can only do so at 50% capacity. Texas this week surpassed 16,000 virus deaths and is closing in on 800,000 confirmed cases. New cases in Texas have dramatically fallen since summer and the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations has leveled off around 3,200 — three times lower than July’s grim peak, but also a patient load that has stopped falling in the last two weeks....."
My press is driving me to drink!
"Hundreds of Romanian hospitality workers protested Wednesday evening in the capital, Bucharest, accusing the government of failing to protect their industry from the pandemic's economic fallout, even as a new lockdown kicked in. The peaceful protest outside the Romanian government building came as the country reported a record daily 2,985 coronavirus infections nationwide. It also coincided with Bucharest authorities’ decision earlier in the day to once again shut down all the capital's indoor restaurants, theaters, movie cinemas, gambling and dance venues. These establishments reopened early last month after being forced to stay shut for nearly half a year. Cezar Andrei, who has been running a fish restaurant in Bucharest for the past 20 years, said he won’t be able to stay afloat for much longer if he is not allowed to work. “We are aware of the risks posed by the virus, but this is not the way to solve the problem,” Andrei said. “We can probably last for another month or so, but not much longer,” he added. On Wednesday, the total number of confirmed infections in Romania — a country of some 19 million -- stood at over 142,000, including 5,200 deaths. Almost two-thirds of the confirmed cases were reported since the end of July....."
Even AP is a LIAR, and Romanians will be peaceful for only so long. Ask Ceaușescu
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