Starting at the bottom of page B1:
"State Republican official was hospitalized with COVID-19 after attending White House Hanukkah party" by Ivy Scott Globe Correspondent, December 26, 2020
The vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee is battling COVID-19 after attending what he described as a largely maskless holiday party at the White House earlier this month.
“I didn’t listen to the warnings of my own family, and now I’m paying the price,” MassGOP vice chairman Tom Mountain said in a phone interview Saturday.
Mountain, 60, who was hospitalized twice in recent weeks, said he likely contracted the coronavirus at the annual White House Hanukkah party. The event took place amid the worst surge in COVID-19 this country has seen since the pandemic began.
“No one can ever say for sure exactly where they got it, but I’ll say this: Before the party, I was in perfectly good health,” he said. “Three days later, I was in the hospital with COVID, and it was all downhill from there.”
Mountain, who also chairs the Newton Republican City Committee, said he attended the first of two Hanukkah parties hosted on Wednesday, Dec. 9, in the White House’s East Wing. The event was split in half to reduce the size of the gathering, but the list of attendees was still well over 100.
Though everyone was required to wear masks in the line to enter the event, Mountain said, there were no temperature checks or other prevention protocols in place, and once inside, “hardly anyone was wearing masks,” he said. “People were eating, it was a big banquet.”
In order to comply with state testing laws, Mountain took a COVID test after returning to Massachusetts. He received his results that Friday evening: He was positive — and hardly surprised.
Found positive with a "test" that nether detects COVID-19 or infection, meaning this is all part of the script.
“I was deteriorating rapidly anyway,” said Mountain, who added that he’d already started showing symptoms before his test on Friday. The next morning, he was in the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he spent the day before being discharged; however, his condition worsened yet again the following week, and he returned to the hospital on Dec. 19.
“It’s not fun,” he said.” I came very close — not once but twice — to them hooking me up to a ventilator.”
How lucky for him, and this in and out of the hospital bit fools no one.
He caught a cold or the flu, folks!
Mountain was released for the second time that Saturday after approximately eight hours in the hospital, and remains in recovery at his home in Newton with moderate symptoms.
“There are good days and bad days, but today I’m having a bad day,” he said. “I have horrible coughing fits, sweating profusely. … I couldn’t even talk on the phone last week, but it’s getting a bit better.”
Mountain admitted that his wife cautioned him strongly against going to the party, refusing to go herself, but he said he felt it was his duty to represent the state’s Republican party at the event as both the party’s vice chairman and vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Jewish Committee.
“I thought it was the right thing to do,” said Mountain, adding that he was the only person from Massachusetts at the event.
Mountain explained that there was a lot of movement at the indoor banquet, with everyone mingling, eating, and taking photographs. Attendees at his event were disappointed that President Trump never arrived; instead, the president made an appearance at the second of two Hanukkah events that night.
Mountain said that he would never have attended the party had he known someone there was spreading the virus, and said that he wishes he had heeded his family’s advice.
“I was one of those people who thought I would never be a statistic,” he said, “but any large gathering like that where you have people from all over the country, somebody’s bound to have it.”
Now, his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and mother-in-law have also all tested positive for the virus, he said.
“I have to admit I wasn’t the most careful about wearing the face masks,” Mountain said, “but now I’m zealous about it. I have no doubt about their necessity.”
Uh-huh.
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I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time getting over the blatant propaganda and lies dolloped with Jewi$h $upremaci$m that passes as a Bo$ton Globe these days (apparent heart attack caused by COVID). The agenda-pushing garbage has reached its limits with me, and I only post this to show you, the reader, what drivel is delivered to my newsstand today. The only reason I picked one up is because I was there for coffee.
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They are angry at Trump, but at least they will be bountiful in vaccines, according to another Globe skank:
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I found the party chatter on page A14:
"Trump’s fraud claims died in court, but the myth of stolen elections lives on" by Jim Rutenberg, Nick Corasaniti and Alan Feuer New York Times, December 26, 2020
President Trump’s baseless and desperate claims of a stolen election over the last seven weeks — the most aggressive promotion of “voter fraud” in American history — failed to get any traction in courts across seven states, or come anywhere close to reversing the loss he suffered to Joe Biden, but the effort has led to at least one unexpected and profoundly different result: A thorough debunking of the sorts of voter fraud claims that Republicans have used to roll back voting rights for the better part of the young century.
Just because compromised and corrupt judges refuse to hear the cases doesn't make it true, nor do New York Times claims.
In making their case in real courts and the court of public opinion, Trump and his allies have trotted out a series of tropes and canards similar to those Republicans have pushed to justify laws that in many cases made voting disproportionately harder for Blacks and Hispanics, who largely support Democrats.
The choice of terminology is so blatantly biased it is offensive, and Trump won historic percentages of those groups yet Biden somehow was victorious.
Their allegations that thousands of people “double voted” by assuming other identities at polling booths echoed those that have previously been cited as a reason to impose strict new voter identification laws.
Their assertion that large numbers of noncitizens cast illegal votes for Biden matched claims Republicans have made to argue for harsh new “proof of citizenship” requirements for voter registration, and their tales about large numbers of cheaters casting ballots in the name of “dead voters” were akin to those several states have used to conduct aggressive “purges” of voting lists that wrongfully slated tens of thousands of registrations for termination.
After bringing some 60 lawsuits, and even offering financial incentive for information about fraud, Trump and his allies have failed to prove definitively any case of illegal voting on behalf of their opponent in court — not a single case of an undocumented immigrant casting a ballot, a citizen double voting, nor any credible evidence that legions of the voting dead gave Biden a victory that wasn’t his.
“It really should put a death knell in this narrative that has been peddled around claims of vote fraud that just have never been substantiated,” said Kristen Clarke, president of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonprofit legal group, and a former Justice Department attorney whose work included voting cases. “They put themselves on trial, and they failed,” yet there are no signs that those defeats in the courts will change the trajectory of the ongoing efforts to restrict voting that have been core to conservative politics since the disputed 2000 election, which coincided with heightened party concerns that demographic shifts would favor Democrats in the popular vote.
The false notions have lived on in Trump’s Twitter and Facebook feeds; on the television programming of Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network; and in statehouse hearings where Republican leaders have contemplated more restrictive voting laws based on the rejected allegations. If anything, Trump has given the movement to limit ballot access new momentum while becoming the singular, charismatic leader it never had.
After declaring outright that high levels of voting are bad for Republicans, he persuaded his base that the election system is rotten with fraud, and to view that fiction as a bedrock party principle. Several recent polls have shown that majorities of Republicans think the election was fraudulent, even as election officials across the country report that it went surprisingly smoothly even in a pandemic, with exceptionally high turnout and no evidence of fraud aside from the usual smattering of lone wolf bad actors or mistakes by well-intentioned voters.
I stopped reading this outrage at that point.
That is coming from the paper that has been hollering Russian election interference for four years and right up until voting day, then, whoops, cleanest election ever.
What it proves is the New York Times is not only a bald-faced liar and total piece of partisan $hit, it has absolutely no respect for the people of this country.
Republicans in Congress have promoted them, too, as Trump pushes senators and House members to reject the Electoral College results at what is supposed to be a procedural vote to affirm Biden’s clear victory over the president on Jan. 6.....
We are being told by the Q crowd that Pence will discount the contested swing states and send the result into the House where Republicans have the one-state, one-vote, advantage; however, I will believe it when I see it and don't expect to see it.
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Page A10:
Katherine J. Wu of the New York Times says many people will soon live in a home divided by the splinter-thin prick of a needle — one person vaccinated, others not.
Page A6:
"Federal agents converged Saturday on the home of a possible person of interest in the explosion that rocked downtown Nashville as investigators scoured hundreds of tips and leads in the blast that damaged dozens of buildings on Christmas morning. More than 24 hours after the explosion, a motive remained elusive as investigators worked round-the-clock to resolve unanswered questions about a recreational vehicle that blew up on a mostly deserted street on a sleepy holiday morning and was prefaced by a recorded warning advising those nearby to evacuate. Still, there were other signs of progress in the investigation, as the FBI revealed that it was looking at a number of individuals who may be connected to it. Officials also said no additional explosive devices have been found — indicating no active threat to the area. Investigators have received around 500 tips and leads....."
Nothing is ever as it appears or is reported in my cover-story pre$$ as the explosion in downtown Nashville caused widespread communication outages.
The things stinks of a false flag and fortunately several citizen journalists are turning over Stone and the entire event looks like a civil war within the Deep $tate between the CIA, tied more to Soros, colour revolutions etc, and the NSA, more Likud / Netanyahu / Trump.
Some choice we Americans have, huh?
Page A5:
Isabella Kwai of the New York Times reports that a huge truck jam at the Port of Dover in England eased further Saturday, days after France lifted a border blockade imposed over fears of a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus that has already been transmitted to continental Europe and Japan.
Looks like Gill Bates was right after all, 'eh?
A4:
Elisabetta Povoledo of the New York Times says excavations this month at the Pompeii archaeological site unearthed food and drink residue, including wine and a soupy concoction of snails, sheep, and fish, and the discovery of earthenware vessels in a thermopolium — a snack bar serving street food popular in the ancient city — is expected to provide fresh clues about the Romans’ culinary tastes.
Articles like that are what we call filler because they are really of no import to anyone at this point.
A2:
Elisabetta Povoledo of New York Times is keeping busy!
In the age of anthropological global warming?
Surely they jest!
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Finally, the summit that is the front page of the Globe:
They just sort of showed up says Colin Nickerson, Globe Correspondent.
The Globe has been throwing a $potlight on the issue of death while encouraging you to kill yourself.
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Just what we need in corrupt Ma$$achu$etts as Speaker Robert A. DeLeo discloses he is in talks for a job at Northeastern, and $omething is up if that $cum is deserting the $inking $hip like the rat he is (with all due apologies to rats) after f**king the kids.
Today's lead feature:
The $elf-$erving adulation from Shirley Leung is literally $ickening:
"Massachusetts is having a moment. Ours is a story not about one company and one vaccine, but rather of countless doctors and doctorates at dozens of labs and companies that have risen to the occasion to vanquish a virus. The world is witnessing what we’ve known all along: the Massachusetts Miracle is alive and well. It has been centuries in the making. A common enemy — COVID-19 — has spawned uncommon collaboration, and life sciences may never be the same, and in that, perhaps the world will again appreciate today’s Massachusetts Miracle: not flashy, but no less indispensable. As Mike Volpe, chief executive of Boston travel management company Lola.com and founding employee of HubSpot, put on Twitter a month ago: “Silicon Valley gives us social media apps. Massachusetts gives us a 94.5% effective Covid vaccine.”
I'm having a moment as well (found on page A8 after turn-in):
"The highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus first detected in England had by Saturday been documented in several European countries, as well as Canada, Japan, Australia and Lebanon, despite efforts to curb its spread through massive global disruptions in travel and movement. Fears over the fast-spreading form of the virus that causes covid-19 come in sharp contrast to a wave of hope sweeping some countries and communities as vaccination programs begin to be rolled out. Scientists do not think the British variant is more deadly or resistant to the current coronavirus vaccines. The variant has also been detected in France, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy. In Canada, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer announced Saturday that they had confirmed two cases, the first detection of the variant in North America. The patient, a couple, had no known travel history, meaning it was likely a case of community spread. While the United States has not yet reported a case, experts say it is probably due to the nation's very low rate of genetic sequencing of the virus to check for such changes, despite Americans leading the world in coronavirus infections and deaths. Beginning Monday, the U.S. government will require all travelers flying in from Britain to show proof of a negative coronavirus test taken within 72 hours of the plane's departure....."
The scientists can't know that at this early stage as they completely discredit themselves and what is with the Globe's ad service, huh?
Related:
Felicia Gans of the Globe Staff reports that:
Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh’s reaction appears to be the first known case related to the Moderna vaccine, and that a handful of allergic reactions related to the similar Pfizer vaccine have also been reported in the United States. Sadrzadeh, who has a severe shellfish allergy, said that within moments of being vaccinated at the hospital on Thursday afternoon, his heart began racing. At first, he figured it was just stress or anxiety....."
That was to be found in the upper-right corner of yesterday's printed paper, page B4, and was not carried by the web version.
Btw, Bo$ton is having a moment of its own:
"Forget the suddenly mediocre football team in Foxborough. Or the latest failed bid for the White House by a Massachusetts pol. The region has quietly suffered an even bigger dent to its standing. For the first time in decades, if not all of US history, Greater Boston has lost its perch among the top 10 largest US metro areas. Knocked aside by the booming Phoenix metro area. So much for Hub of the Universe....."
Already have.
The Globe forgot to put these articles in print:
It’s a contagious attitude, says Jan Hoffman of the New York Times, who claims that surveys have shown that attitudes have shifted and a clear majority of Americans is now eager to get vaccinated -- when I have seen the exact opposite (only 25 to 60 percent of nursing home workers say they will take it, according to the Globe)!
That is not the only thing at which they have failed.
I'm told to "believe in science" as doctors, nurses, and the elderly rolled up their sleeves across the European Union to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine Sunday in a symbolic show of unity and moment of hope for a continent confronting its worst health care crisis in a century.
Also see:
Doesn't fit their agenda-pushing narrative.
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After a brief stop, time to get moving again:
"Capacity limits, taking effect just after Christmas, scramble shoppers’ plans" by Caroline Enos Globe Correspondent, December 26, 2020
Customers lined up in the cold outside some Massachusetts supermarkets Saturday — the first day the state’s new capacity limit on businesses went into effect.
When you come down with a cold they will tell you it is COVID!
The new limit requires most businesses in the state to allow only 25 percent customer capacity for at least two weeks, the lowest level since many businesses reopened this summer. That meant fewer shoppers could be let inside to buy groceries at the same time.
It doesn't look crowded in there.
While people rushed to stock up on food on the day after Christmas, the story was different at some of the state’s shopping malls and retail outlets that typically register a busy day for returns, exchanges, and gift card purchases.
With the coronavirus keeping many in-person shoppers home even before the new capacity restrictions took effect, Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, said he wasn’t surprised when he saw fewer cars in mall parking lots Saturday morning, and while lines did form at stores like the Market Basket in Somerville, that wasn’t the case everywhere.
Still, Winthrop Marketplace owner Marc Wallerce said he expects to see more shopping delays at his grocery store in the coming weeks. Shoppers had to wait outside the store several times last week, he said, and the market had to shut down on the day after Thanksgiving for two weeks because Wallerce, his manager, and several other employees had contracted COVID-19, but there has been a silver lining. Wallerce said he and his staff, who have all recovered from the virus, are seeing more customers cook food at home and, as a result, more business than usual this year.
YAY!
Tell it to all the restaurants going out of business, a$$hole!
Capacity limits have been a double-edged sword for businesses across the state. Marian Klausner, owner of Shake the Tree gift store in Boston’s North End, said they have helped keep her community safe, but many shops are losing sales they need to stay afloat.
You might as well just fall on it.
Since January to March is the slowest season for most retailers, Hurst said some stores will close for that period to cut operating costs. That way, they will be able to open once COVID-19 cases in the state have decreased.
When the cases decrease?
When will that be?
Hurst said he hasn’t heard his members complain about the new capacity restriction. For them, the real issue now is how the pandemic has impacted shoppers.
“Just the fact that people know that there are limitations, they’re still concerned, right or wrong, about safety. They are also getting into a habit of buying online and in different ways than they were a year ago,” Hurst said.
Still concerned, right or wrong?
WTF?!!!!!
Wallerce said has mixed feelings about the new capacity limit. He said it could scare customers away, but at the same time, also help protect the people in his store.
“It’s only going to be for a few weeks,” Wallerce said. “If everybody does the right thing in those couple of weeks, we can get back to normal, if there is ever going to be a normal again, as soon as possible.”
(Blog author shakes head. Where have we heard that before, huh? Life is never going to be "normal" again unless the citizenry throws off these shackles and jails the politicians and media)
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The fraudulent case counts were below that piece of $hit, and it's time to make this post history.
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The Globe is of the idea that almost a year into America’s COVID downturn, and with roughly 800 small US businesses closing each day, politicians are trying to repair the damage that THEY CAUSED!
At least Maine can finally get out of Massachusetts’ shadow and shake off its legacy as a colony of Boston. That is the wisdom that was relearned in 2020 by Roy Hoffman and perhaps 2021 will be a time to build up as Trump and Pompeo redraw the map of North Africa with a bizarre and presumptuous tweet.
Editorial & Opinion
The world is not safe. . . if you’re a trans person who is sowing seeds of climate action in the garden:
"Between the coronavirus and the election, 2020 blurred together in a haze of stress, but for the huge number of people who took up gardening this year, the seasons did not just slip by: They were measured in inches of plant growth. In the spring, some seed companies saw sales spike up to 10 times normal. The 144-year-old company Burpee had a record year. Like weeds growing up through cracks in pavement, this trend was a reminder of all the ways life continues. This dark year is now drawing to a close. As gardeners know, the season of New Year’s resolutions is also seed catalog season. So if you missed the 2020 gardening blitz, now is the perfect time to set an intention for 2021. Your soil and our planet will thank you....."
Time to bury this post for good:
"The modifications to the game are noticeable: only four players in free throw lanes, the elimination of jump balls, and only one player at the substitution table at a time from each team. In addition, every time a player exits the floor or re-enters the game, they must stop at the scorer’s table and apply hand sanitizer. As with all MIAA sports, mask use and social distancing is mandatory for players, coaches, officials and spectators. In a pre-pandemic world, Bishop Feehan junior point guard Lydia Mordarski would have silenced the Archbishop Williams crowd, putting up 14 points in the Shamrocks’ victory, but the sounds inside the gym were not of fans cheering for their team, instead replaced by an eerie silence, broken only by the tweet of referees’ handheld electronic whistles and the squeak of sneakers on hardwood....."
Archbishop Williams's Ariana Hay (left) guards Bishop Feehan’s Meghan Rapose, both players wearing masks as part of the COVID-19 protocols for MIAA basketball this season (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe).
GOOD LORD, that is UNHEALTHFUL CHILD ABUSE, and all for an alleged fatality rate of 0.003%:
H/T/ Dennis Smith via the fabulous and remarkable Greencrow.
The high school protocols also beg the question of why profe$$ional and big-time college $ports ba$ketball players do not have to wear them.
(Sound of buzzer denoting the end of this post, and I think that is all the climbing I will do today)
