You will want to vomit by the end of it:
"Health insurers to study disparities in telehealth access" by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff, December 2, 2020
Massachusetts health insurers have commissioned a research project to study inequities in the delivery of telehealth, which has boomed this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The insurers will share claims data for 3 million members with researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, a department of Harvard Medical School, to identify gaps in access to telehealth based on race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic factors.
Access to telehealth depends on many factors, including whether people have an electronic device and high-speed Internet, and whether their doctors offer virtual visits. They also may face language barriers.
“We’ll really drill down to understand where the inequities are,” said Lora Pellegrini, president of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, a trade group representing insurance companies. “If telehealth is here to stay, as we all think it is, we need to be able to track the usage.”
Health insurers could use the results of the study to inform what benefits they provide or how they pay for telehealth services, she added.
Telehealth — which refers to virtual medical visits by phone and video — has been around for years, but it took off this spring as the pandemic hit. In Massachusetts, the use of telehealth among people with private health coverage in March was up 19 percent from March 2019; in April, that soared to an 87 percent increase over the previous year, according to the data from health insurers.
While many appointments returned to in-person visits during the summer and fall, telehealth usage remains higher than it was before the pandemic, Pellegrini said.
The 18-month study will draw from a range of data, as well as interviews with health plan members, providers, and officials in communities with low rates of telehealth use.
Dr. Alon Peltz, a researcher at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School who is leading the project, said he hopes the study will help identify opportunities for improving access to care. “How do we build meaningful bridges and connections to groups that have historically experienced disproportionate access?” he said.
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The goal, of course, is to hook everyone up and thereby further the technological dystopia as sketched out by Schwab of the WEF and to the pleasing of Billy-boy by way of the fake COVID crisis and health equality of acce$$.
"Doctors have message for patients: Don’t skip non-urgent appointments" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, November 30, 2020
They have got to be kidding after having collaborated on the lies and fear porn.
Health leaders, even as they confront a tidal wave of COVID-19 infections, are urging anxious patients not to defer critical screenings and appointments as they did during and in the weeks after the spring surge of the virus.
I'm sorry, but the bonds of trust have been broken.
Across the country, non-urgent surgeries and other medical appointments were halted in March to free up health care workers to treat COVID-19 patients and to conserve precious protective equipment like masks and gowns, but when the surge ebbed in May, droves of patients still shied away from doctors’ offices and outpatient hospital visits for such things as childhood vaccines and cardiac care, fearful of being infected with the virus by other patients or caregivers.
Some of those delays led to serious complications and more preventable illnesses. Doctors are hoping to avoid a repeat this time.
“A hospital environment is, in many ways, safer than walking around town or going to a store,” said Dr. Richard Nesto, chief medical officer of Beth Israel Lahey Health, which includes 13 hospitals in Eastern Massachusetts, yet fears persist.
And they wonder why we don't believe them?
Dr. Joe Kimura, chief medical officer at Atrius Health, is worried about how to reshape COVID-19 outpatient testing, once again, post-Thanksgiving. Doctors expect infections to surge still higher after family gatherings and travel.
“It’s getting harder and harder, as the prevalence of COVID is kicking up in the community, should we be expanding that criteria?” Kimura asked. “That is an active conversation with our infectious disease team about how much should we do.”
Kimura said ideally they would have unlimited supplies available to test outpatients more broadly, but they are still plagued by shortages of testing swabs.
“We all have PTSD from the spring,” he said, when they would tighten or ease testing protocols seemingly weekly, based on supplies.
”We are all very spooked,” Kimura said “Do we have enough, as we head into the second wave?”
But come on in for your appointment!
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Aren't you so glad that public health experts like him are keeping a close watch on the COVID-19 rates as Thanksgiving travelers return home?
Incredibly, after telling us the hospitals were safe on yesterday's front page, the Globe followed it up with this front-page article from today:
"Hospitals work to reduce risk of COVID spread among employees; As the pandemic intensifies and fatigue grows, officials are enforcing new protocols for staff" by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff, December 3, 2020
This is what health care worker safeguards look like during the second surge of COVID-19. In the spring, hospitals were focused on treating patients with the virus and protecting their workers from infectious ones. Now it’s evident that employees also can spread COVID to each other — especially when they remove their face masks to eat and drink — and hospitals are working to reduce that risk as the pandemic reintensifies.
Massachusetts hit a daily record for new cases on Thursday, and while local hospitals still have enough capacity, more than 1,300 patients with the virus are hospitalized across the state — a figure that has been rising steadily since the end of summer. The nation hit a milestone with more than 100,000 people in hospitals on Wednesday, including more than 19,000 in ICUs, according to the COVID Tracking Project, and experts fear the worst is yet to come.
Then the LOCKDOWNS, MASKS, and DISTANCING has FAILED and it is TIME TO COMPLETELY OPEN UP and REALLY RETURN to NORMAL!
So WHEN is the BIOWEAPON due for RELEASE, because that's the only way this fraud gets worse other than more lying spew from the u$ual $u$pects.
Hospitals are trying to keep their workers safe with constant reminders against congregating in groups. They’ve removed truckloads of furniture from cafeterias, break rooms, and conference rooms. They’ve scattered small dining tables throughout their sprawling campuses. They’ve erected heated tents. They’re also asking staff to stagger their breaks so that small break rooms don’t fill up, and they’re constantly reminding their employees to stay 6 feet away from others — even close friends — when they need to unmask.
What a total mind f**k, and they need to rebel against this or they are criminal collaborators.
These are not just precautions; COVID outbreaks have been traced back to hospital employees who ate together without maintaining at least 6 feet of distance, at Mass. General, Brigham and Women’s, and many other hospitals.
But go to your appointment, etc.
“If you’re having your break, that could be 30 minutes that you’re face to face with someone, talking, laughing, chatting — and exchanging respiratory droplets and other particles,” said Dr. Erica S. Shenoy, associate chief of infection control at Mass. General.
(Blog author just shakes his head)
Hospitals are more focused on the risk now as the cold weather sets in, making it more difficult to take breaks outside. Meanwhile, health care workers are weary from fighting the pandemic and from covering their faces all day, every day.
Like so many daily rituals in 2020, the employee lunch break has been reimagined....
They set up a tent outside but it will be heated for the winter (never mind the unnecessary greenhouse gases spewed to maintain this fraud), and “it is what it is, and you just have to do it.”
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Now roll up that sleeve as the Globe answers all your questions about the vaccines:
"What we know about COVID-19 vaccines in Mass. — and what we don’t; Who gets it first? What are the side effects? What should I do if I’m pregnant? Your questions about the new vaccines, answered" by Deanna Pan and Robert Weisman Globe Staff, December 3, 2020
Sometime this month, the first Massachusetts residents could begin to get vaccinated against COVID-19, hopefully signaling the start of the end of the grueling pandemic, but the record-time arrival of these vaccines raises a host of questions from a wary and beleaguered public: How bad are the side effects? How long will immunity last? Will I have to keep wearing a mask after my shots?
Why should we have to wear a mask afterwards?
The Globe reached out to public health authorities in Boston and across the country to tell readers what the experts do — and don’t — know about the vaccines that hundreds of thousands of us will be receiving in the coming months.
Who will get the vaccine first?
Health care personnel — including doctors, nurses, cleaning staff, clerical workers, and food service employees — will have access to the vaccines first, along with residents and staff of long-term-care facilities. Governor Charlie Baker made his priorities clear in a press conference Thursday at the Worcester field hospital, saying, “Health care workers and long-term-care folks are absolutely going to be up near the top of the list.” The state has until Friday to submit its vaccine distribution plan to federal authorities. Baker said more details about the plan would come Monday.
The health workers will get the safe saline solution because they are $pecial people.
How many people will get the vaccine in the first phase?
If Pfizer’s application for emergency use is approved next week, Massachusetts expects to receive an initial shipment of 60,000 doses, and up to 300,000 doses by the end of the year or first week of January, once Moderna’s emergency-use authorization is granted, said Dr. Paul Biddinger, director of emergency preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital and chairman of Baker’s vaccine advisory group. (The numbers represent the first doses of the two-dose regimen. The government’s federal allocation system will automatically deliver the second dose, according to Biddinger.)
Even Baker predicts the rollout “will probably be a little lumpy” as distribution gets up and running. “Because there are definitely more than 60,000 health care workers and residents of long-term-care facilities in Massachusetts, I think there’s going to have to be a degree of subprioritization,” Biddinger said, “both potentially at the state level and potentially at the hospital level, just because there won’t be enough vaccine for everyone on day 1.”
You can have mine.
I’ve heard the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines require two doses. Do I really need both shots?
Indeed, both Moderna’s and Pfizer’s vaccines require two shots, administered 21 and 28 days apart, respectively. Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, noted this two-dose regimen is not uncommon for vaccines. The hepatitis A vaccine, for example, is given in two shots, spaced at least six months apart. Some young children need two doses of the seasonal flu shot, and yes, you need both doses to develop enough antibodies to fight off infection.
Only problem is, the injections are to never end.
“We know from the early phase studies of these [COVID-19] vaccines that you get some antibodies made after the first vaccine, but you don’t really get the high titers of antibodies that we think are necessary to be protective until after the second shot,” Kuritzkes explained.
The downside to the two-dose regimen, of course, is that some people may not get both shots. Crucially, doctors and pharmacists will have to educate people on the need to return for their second dose, said Dr. William Schaffner, a preventive medicine and infectious diseases professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Otherwise, he said, “they won’t be optimally protected.”
I already had COVID-19. Do I still need to get vaccinated?
“Probably yes,” said Dr. David Hamer, an infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center. We still don’t know how long immunity to the coronavirus lasts, either from natural infection or vaccination. “There have been a few cases of reinfection,” Hamer noted, “but it seems to be a rare event.”
You f**king liar!
The immunity last decades, according to a New York Times report!
Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, director of Boston College’s global public health program, said “there’s no downside” to getting vaccinated even if you’ve recovered from COVID-19, but the vaccines initially will be in limited supply, he said, so there’s no need to rush to the front of the line. Dr. Karen Tashima, director of clinical trials in the Immunology Center at Miriam Hospital in Providence, agreed.
Right, no adverse side effects!
And you wonder why we don't want to go see you?
“Maybe people had COVID in the last six months and don’t need [the vaccine],” she said, “but they might need it if their antibodies [eventually] go away.”
After I get vaccinated, do I still need to wear a mask and social distance?
Then F**KING FORGET IT, and that just proves this is NOT about the MYTHICAL COVID but about CONTROL of the POPULATION!
Yes, and for many reasons, according to public health experts. For one, we don’t know whether the vaccines will prevent infection and transmission of the virus. All we know is that they should keep you from getting sick.
UN-FLIPPING-REAL!
Oh, yeah, if you get sick, you may not even know it so..... what do you need a vaccine for?
This is F**KING EVIL and CRIMINAL, folks!
“It takes two weeks after your second shot to get good immunity, but there’ll still be a lot of infection going around. After you get the vaccine, you’ll still have a 5 percent chance of getting the virus,” Tashima said, “and the studies haven’t shown yet that you can’t spread the virus asymptomatically after you’ve been vaccinated.”
PFFFFFFFFFFT!
All for a "disease" that has a 99.98% survival rate, and probably higher given the exploding cases that point to already-attained herd immunity!
Masking and social distancing will continue, said Kuritzkes, “at least until we see substantial reduction in community prevalence and incidence of COVID-19.” Plus, following public health guidelines is good manners.
PFFFFFFFFT!
Yeah, HARM YOURSELF and MAKE YOURSELF SICK for the sake of politeness!
What SICKENING SCUM "experts" the Globe under such rocks!
“What you really want is to have sufficient solidarity,” said Bill Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, “so even once you’ve received the vaccine, you’re gonna be wearing a mask, so that other people can feel comfortable wearing a mask around you.”
I think Polly had something to say about that, and maybe instead of trying to PLEASE the FEARFUL, maybe you should get on the side of the people fighting for you and you're freedom.
What are possible side effects to these vaccines?
Oh, they finally got around to that, huh?
Don’t be surprised if you experience unpleasant side effects. Fatigue, soreness at the injection site, muscle aches, and low-grade fever are the most common reported side effects in the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines. Those are signs of the body’s immune response and should resolve after one or two days, experts said.
Some have been paralyzed and even died in the past, and those vaccines weren't rushed like these poisonous connections for ulterior motives.
Clinical trials showed the reactions are usually stronger after the second dose, and worse for younger people, according to Schaffner, due to their robust immune systems.
“It’s short-lived, but you might feel crummy the next day,” Tashima said. “After the second shot, you might consider not going to work the next day.”
You don't want you or the kid taking it, sorry.
OK, so I got vaccinated. Will I have to get vaccinated again next year?
Let me gue$$, the an$wer will be YE$!
We just don’t know yet because we don’t have any long-term studies. “People might need a booster shot in six months, a year, three years. We do not yet have any data on how long the efficacy of the vaccine will last,” said Dr. Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
PFFFFFFFT!
I’m pregnant and/or breastfeeding. Can I get the vaccine?
There’s no easy answer here. The clinical trials so far have excluded pregnant and breastfeeding individuals, so we don’t have any relevant safety data yet. Kuritzkes said pregnant and nursing women should consult with their obstetricians.
They have been excluded because the vaccines contain -- not surprisingly given the genocidal inclination of Gatesey regarding world population -- elements that will sterilize females and cause rapid miscarriages, something that would prove the vaccines as harmful.
Can my kids get the vaccine?
Yes, but not anytime soon, according to Kuritzkes. “I don’t think the vaccine will be made available to children until there are other data about safety and immunogenicity,” he said.
Pfizer began testing the vaccine it developed with the German biotech BioNTech in children as young as 12 in October. Cambridge-based Moderna confirmed Wednesday that it plans to start doing the same with its experimental vaccine. Moderna’s study, which will involve an estimated 3,000 adolescents, was posted Wednesday on clinicaltrials.gov but has not begun recruiting volunteers.
“The hope is that children will be able to be vaccinated in 2021 before the next school year starts,” Barouch said.
We’re about to start vaccinating hundreds of thousands. Are people worried things could go wrong?
Managing the logistics will be formidable, and many details of the state’s plan have not yet been made public, but Biddinger, of Baker’s advisory group, hinted at some of the complexities officials are wrestling with.
Health care systems will have to stagger how they immunize their employees because some may experience the vaccines’ side effects. Then there are the vaccines themselves: Pfizer’s have specific storage directives only larger hospitals may be able to handle. The vaccines, which must be kept at minus-70 degrees Celsius, are packed in dry ice and shipped in 1,000-dose trays known colloquially as “pizza boxes.” Pfizer’s specialized shipping containers can temporarily store the vaccine trays for up to 15 days when replenished with dry ice.
What's in those things that they need to be frozen in stasis?
”Small community health centers or individual practices or even smaller hospitals might not necessarily be able to use 1,000 doses right away as effectively,” Biddinger said, “so there probably will be different products sent to different entities based on their size and their capabilities.”
How many people need to be vaccinated to achieve herd immunity?
Vaccines don't confer herd immunity, even if 95% effective. They said that above!
To quash the pandemic, infectious disease experts believe between 60 and 70 percent of the population must become immune, either through vaccination or natural infection. Even then, according to Hamer, the virus won’t vanish. “It will probably never completely disappear,” he said. “It will just be under better control.”
This is so outrageous it's getting to be beyond comment.
Barouch said there’s no “specific magic number” to achieve herd, or population, immunity, “but the more of the population is vaccinated, the faster we’ll see the pandemic resolve,” he said. “I personally would like to see at least three-quarters of the population with immunity.”
That’s a lofty goal, but achievable, according to Barouch, through vaccine education campaigns, starting now and continuing through 2021.
You mean a propaganda campaign?
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And CUI BONO?
"Despite development slowdown, the state’s life science industry keeps on building; Labs, manufacturing plants, and offices remain in high demand, and not just in Boston and Cambridge" by Tim Logan Globe Staff, December 3, 2020
The years-long building boom that has reshaped much of Greater Boston has taken a bit of a pause during the pandemic, except for one sector: life sciences.
Because such an "indu$try" is part and parcel of the Great Re$et and future medical and technological dystopia the $ick globali$t fa$ci$ts have planned.
It's being constructed around you as criminal politicians keep you shut down and locked down.
The business of financing, building, and filling lab space, drug manufacturing facilities ― and even apartment buildings to house people who work in the industry ― has barely skipped a beat in recent months. Unlike office projects and high-end housing, which have largely gone into hibernation, the life science real estate market is moving full speed ahead, with developers signing leases, celebrating groundbreakings, and lining up billions of dollars in new funding for more building.
How many state $ub$idies and tax breaks are they getting?
From the industry’s traditional hub in Cambridge’s Kendall Square to emerging hot spots in Fort Point and the Fenway to vast campuses in more distant locations such as the former Fort Devens, life science companies are launching a wide array of projects, fueled by investors attracted to a fast-growing industry.
This is what the uber-billionaires are doing with their cornering of loot during this planned $camdemic.
“There’s just tremendous interest in investing in these sort of projects,” said John Bonnano, chief investment officer at IQHQ, a real estate firm that’s launching two major life science developments here, and earlier this month closed on a $1.7 billion fund to finance more in Boston, San Francisco, and San Diego. “There’s an awful lot of capital out there right now.”
As the American people suffer over a crock of $hit lies!
It’s chasing a market that has only become stronger relative to other real estate sectors. There are several reasons for the seemingly insatiable demand, say Bonanno and others who watch life science development.
Yes, one is COVID-19, which has sparked a global chase to discover and manufacture vaccines and treatments, while also raising doubts about the long-term future for the downtown skyscrapers and luxury condo towers that have traditionally drawn deep-pocketed real estate investors.
“COVID itself has raised awareness of health care among investors,” said Bonanno, whose firm is getting ready to start work on the enormous Fenway Center over the Massachusetts Turnpike, which had been planned for more traditional office space and housing until IQHQ invested and converted it to a life science project. “We see now how important all this is,” but well before the pandemic, Greater Boston’s life science industry benefited from a boom in biologics, complex drugs that are more complicated to design and manufacture than traditional medicines. That’s sparking more demand for lab space, and for state-of-the-art drug factories reasonably close to those labs.
Yeah, the COVID cover story helped give the agenda a big $hove!
That’s what Steve Lynch wants to build at Devens, where his firm, King Street Properties, is starting work on a $500 million biomanufacturing complex, with five buildings across 45 acres. Unlike most drug manufacturing plants, which are custom-built by drug makers themselves, King Street is designing facilities that could be leased and occupied by almost anyone, giving smaller and midsized drug makers quicker access to factories they might not finance themselves.
The Baker administration has pushed to build more biotech manufacturing plants, betting it’s a way to spread the state’s life science boom beyond its longtime center in Cambridge and the northwest suburbs. Such plants also create good jobs that don’t quite require a PhD.
That isn't the direction I want our world going.
Economic development secretary Mike Kennealy can tick off drug-making facilities from Norwood to Andover to Worcester, where the state is helping turn the old Worcester State Hospital into a biomanufacturing park, and there are more coming, he said.
“I don’t think our pipeline has ever been stronger,” Kennealy said. “There’s a lot of conversations we’re having right now.”
They’re happening in more places, too.
Just north of Kendall Square, near the Lechmere Green Line stop, development firm DivcoWest is turning a 43-acre railyard into Cambridge Crossing, a 4.5 million-square-foot campus of office, housing, and retail space, all built based on demand from life science companies. Construction crews are framing and filling in three large lab and office buildings, mostly preleased to the likes of Sanofi Genzyme and Bristol Meyers Squibb. Next door is the new North American headquarters of Philips Healthcare, waiting for about 2,000 employees — mostly still working from home — to move in.
“It’s kind of an embarrassment of riches right now,” said Mark Roopenian, who’s leading the project for DivcoWest and planning to break ground on yet another 380,000-square-foot lab building nearby in the spring.
I'm beginning to search for the porcelain god at this point.
Further afield, projects are underway in Alewife and Watertown, the Seaport, and along Route 128, where Lincoln Property Co. and Callahan Construction broke ground this summer on a 139,000-square-foot lab building in Waltham that will open in early 2022, and a wider range of developers are getting in on the act.
Even housing developers, battered by sagging rents for high-end apartments, are finding it easier to get financing for buildings that sit close to life science jobs. That’s a big reason work is beginning on Scape North America’s 451-unit apartment building on Boylston Street near Longwood Medical Area, while some other apartment projects remain dormant.
With drug makers still in the market for millions of square feet in and around Boston, real estate analysts expect there’ll be demand to fill many of those buildings. Life science-focused developers like Lynch, however, maintain that their specialized projects are better-suited for most than converted office towers. Either way, he said, the region’s biotech boom shows no sign of slowing, regardless of what the pandemic means for other development sectors.
“Life science is the single bright spot in [investment] markets right now,” he said. “Today everyone who owns these big office portfolios is knocking on the door, trying to get into the lab business.”
The headlight of Operation War Speed and what will be left in its wake.
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They are going to honor biotech leader Henri Termeer by naming one after him.
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NEXT DAY UPDATES:
That was today's above-the-fold, front-page lead, and they claim still have space for more, but for now, local hospitals have been able to avoid the level of crisis seen in other states as the “surge is definitely here,” and one wonders if it is not a simulation gone live like the spring.
Then why the hell we even bother when the CDC is asking you to harm yourself and mask up indoors now:
"CDC recommends people wear masks indoors when not at home" by Taylor Telford, Washington Post
Dec. 4, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging “universal mask use” indoors for the first time as the country shatters records for coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths ahead of the holiday season.
There are no excess deaths and they are not counting flu this year, so fuck off!
The CDC has for months encouraged mask-wearing in public spaces with people outside the household. The new guidance, published Friday, asks people to put on masks anywhere outside their homes.
85-90% of the country is masked upon and yet there is still a surge in infection, blah, blah, blah, f**king blah!!!!
In its weekly Morbidity and Mortality report, the CDC warned Friday that the U.S. has entered “a phase of high-level transmission” as colder weather and the ongoing holiday season push Americans indoors, and said that “consistent and correct” use of face masks is critical to taming the virus.
And making yourself sick with bacterial pneumonia so they can call it covid.
Wearing a mask isn’t just about protecting other people, the CDC says. It can help you — and might prevent lockdowns.
Fuck you and your carrot on a string in front of us
Mask use is most crucial indoors, and in outdoor spaces where social distancing cannot be maintained, the CDC said in the report. The agency recommended mask use at home when a member of the household has been infected or potentially exposed to the virus, including those with high-risk occupations such as meatpacking or agricultural processing.
We are now down to potential exposure, huh?
First it was flatten the curves, then cases, then alleged infections, and now "potential exposure" for something that has a 99.994% survival rate.
“Compelling evidence now supports the benefits of cloth face masks for both source control [to protect others],” the report said, “and to a lesser extent, protection of the wearer.”
When they just FLAT OUT LIE TO YOU, wha are you supposed to do?
Mitigation measures are particularly essential in light of recent research that suggests roughly 50 percent of transmission of the coronavirus is from asymptomatic people, the report said. It also recommended that communities make a plan for distributing masks to people who might struggle to access them.
Total crap!
A Chinese study just came out and stated there is no asymptomatic transmission because those people are not infectious.
Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, has called masks “the most important, powerful public health tool” in combating the coronavirus. A growing body of research shows widespread mask use can save scores of lives and stave off economic damage. One June analysis from Goldman Sachs estimated that a 15 percent increase in universal masking could prevent lockdowns and reduce associated losses of up to $1 trillion.
They are throwing all sorts of $hit at the wall as their whole premise for this tyranny and vaccination collapses.
On Thursday, President-elect Joe Biden said that, on his first day in office, he'd ask Americans to mask up for 100 days. "Not forever. 100 days," Biden said in an interview with CNN, "and I think we’ll see a significant reduction.”
And two weeks to flatten the curve, pfffft!
In addition to stepping up mask use, the CDC also recommended postponing travel plans.
Despite CDC warnings, experts are anticipating a holiday travel rush.
“The reality is, December and January and February are going to be rough times,” Redfield said at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation event on Wednesday. “I actually believe they’re going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation.”
Thanks for the f**ing warning.
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The guidance comes as compliance with social distancing recommendations sank to new lows in October, and as the Wacompo$t slams anti-maskers who refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.
Related:
"The health officers in five San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a new stay-at-home order Friday requiring some businesses to close and banning all gatherings, as the number of virus cases surge and hospitals fill. The changes take effect for most of the area at 10 p.m. Sunday and last through Jan. 4. Restaurants will have to close to indoor and outdoor dining, and bars and wineries must close along with hair and nail salons and playgrounds. Retail stores and shopping centers can operate with just 20% customer capacity. Gatherings of any size with people outside a household are banned. The new stay-at-home order will cut sharply into the most profitable shopping season and threaten financial ruin for businesses already struggling after 10 months of on-again, off-again restrictions and slow sales because of the pandemic....."
Yup, cancel everything as those who give the tyrannical orders literally laugh in your face out there.
