"Technology and health care companies helped drive stocks to more gains Tuesday, leading to more milestones on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index rose 0.3%, eclipsing the all-time high it set on Friday. The Nasdaq composite and Russell 2000 index of small company stocks also set record highs. The likelihood that one or more coronavirus vaccines could begin to be distributed in the U.S. in coming weeks has kept investors in a buying mood, boosting their optimism for an economic recovery next year. The gains, which came after a shaky start for the market, came as the U.K. became the first Western country to start a mass vaccination program. On Tuesday, U.S. health regulators issued a positive initial review of that vaccine and a decision to allow its use is expected within days, though wide distribution is likely months away. “The vaccine news and the focus on that is the most important thing for the market at the moment,” said Stephanie Roth, portfolio macro analyst, J.P. Morgan Private Bank. “At this point, the excitement is for the post-vaccine world.”
No wonder the rush to stick us all with liquid gold, and GE is already seeing cash pour into the balance sheet!
That was the last brief that I read.
We now turn to the front-page headlines:
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"Baker rolls back Mass. reopening, aiming to ‘build ourselves a bridge to the vaccine’" by Victoria McGrane Globe Staff, December 8, 2020
Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday announced a series of incremental steps to curb the surge of COVID-19 infections, issuing new restrictions on a range of business activities as part of an effort to “build ourselves a bridge to the vaccine,” but stopping short of more forceful mandates.
The frightening trends in the march of the virus — underscored by the 3,627 new cases and 40 additional deaths that were announced Tuesday — mean the state cannot “simply wait for the vaccine to get here,” Baker said. “We have to do more.”
The rollback begins Sunday, returning the state to an earlier iteration of restrictions, while also adding new rules on a range of sectors. Restaurants, in particular, will face several new requirements designed to further slow the spread of the virus indoors, including a 90-minute time limit on dining and fewer people per table — mandates that drew a mixed reaction from the hospitality industry and epidemiologists.
Better wolf your meal down (and cause yourself health problems), and there will be hell to pay if you have to wait long!
Public health experts lauded the governor for stepping up restrictions, but said that new measures still stop far short of what is needed to blunt the rapid rise in infection and limit the strain on the health care system.
“I applaud the governor. I think it’s a step in the right direction,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, who over the weekend urged Baker to take more aggressive public health measures, but, Jha said, “from a pure public health point of view, is this going to be enough to curtail the exponential growth we’re seeing in Massachusetts? Not even close, no.”
As does the Globe because it's "not worth it."
Nor is purchasing or reading a Globe when it is constantly filled with lies and garbage like this.
This isn't about a virus or disease anymore, this is about the changing of the way of life in service to the Davos crowd that wants the Great Reset with endless vaccinations, tests, tacking, and the rest, and Baker is simply a lieutenant taking orders.
Jha is complaining and baker took less than 48 hours to completely capitulate in their good-cop, bad-cop routine.
Baker’s order will return every city and town in Massachusetts to Phase 3 Step 1 in the state’s four-phase reopening plan, and will mean the closure of certain businesses such as theaters and other indoor performance venues and some high-contact indoor recreational facilities.
Baker’s announcement also will ratchet back capacity to 40 percent for virtually every other type of business, including retail outlets, gyms, libraries, museums, houses of worship, and movie theaters. Outdoor gatherings will be capped at 50 people, down from 100 currently, and anyone who plans to host more than 25 people at an outdoor event will be required to alert their local board of health.
For those businesses that must close, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito said she hopes shutdown will be temporary, and said the closures would be reversed when hospitalization rates and other public health data stabilize. Neither she nor Baker indicated how long that might take.
Are you tired of the false promises and lies yet, fellow citizens?
Of course, none of these orders are effecting the tyrants of government. They are still getting paid at your expense.
Patrons at restaurants and other places that offer sit-down dining can only linger over meals for an hour and half under the new rules, and must keep masks on at all times when they are not actively eating or drinking. That’s a change from current rules, in which diners can remove masks as soon as they sit at their table.
I just threw up into the mask!
In addition, restaurants can only seat six people per table, down from 10, and the administration is urging residents to dine only with people in their own household to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus.
The new restaurant limits drew mixed reactions. Bob Luz, the president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, praised Baker for continuing to defend the industry and its track record for COVID-related compliance. He placed the blame for the surge in cases elsewhere.
“It’s unfortunate that residents continue to ignore travel warnings and to gather unregulated in their homes causing further economic restrictions,” he said.
He just insulted the clientele that would frequent the establishments he represents, and what does Baker have on everyone to the point where no one challenges him at all.
Luz indicated that the new limitations are challenging, but he hopes they will not deter people from dining out.
That's his job, according to past Globe reporting, to be an optimistic fool!
[The] Massachusetts Restaurants United, which represents independent restaurants, called the rollbacks “another blow to struggling restaurants at a precarious moment.”
The group said it has pleaded for months with the Baker administration for “targeted support” to help them survive, and they “are deeply disappointed that Governor Baker’s announcement did not come with any emergency relief measures.”
Under the new restrictions, gyms must require patrons to use masks at all times — a measure that could pose health risks, said Robin Krane, the owner of Fitness Within studio in Reading.
“Have you ever worked out with a mask on? Some people will pass out,” she said. “We do high-intensity . . . classes. This is not your typical Jane Fonda workout.”
Krane said that she and the other 128 gyms in the Massachusetts Independent Fitness Operators group are looking into whether they can push back on the restrictions.
“We don’t spread the virus,” she said.
Because there is no virus to spread except the fear promulgated by the pre$$ and evil officials (they no longer have authority, and perhaps never did).
Tuesday’s announcement is the latest step Baker has taken since cases started to surge again in the state. In early November, the governor issued a stay-at-home advisory, encouraging people to stay put at night, and an updated mask order requiring everyone over age 5 to wear face coverings in public. That was an escalation of a prior order that had only required masks in public places where social distancing wasn’t possible.
Well, I don't do that and will not. I'm outside, off it comes.
Baker announced Monday that hospitals will temporarily curtail inpatient elective surgeries to make room for a further influx of patients with COVID-19, but beyond new government regulations, Baker continued to appeal to residents to take personal responsibility.
“We are going to continue to be as aggressive as we can in fighting the virus, but actually there is nothing more powerful than people playing their part and understanding their role,” Baker said.
Some public health experts would prefer the governor take more aggressive action.
Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist, said the steps announced Tuesday, on their own, are “unlikely to have a strong effect.”
He noted that the rate of people getting tested for the first time who are positive for COVID-19 is at the same rate it was when the state began Phase 1 of reopening back in May. Case numbers and average daily deaths are also similar to metrics seen at that point, and hospitalizations will likely match or exceed late May levels in the next two weeks, Scarpino said, but new restrictions could have a ripple effect on residents’ behaviors, Scarpino continued. “It may be that they do spur people into deciding not to go to dinner, or businesses to stop having people go into work — and that would have an effect,” he said.
Asked about criticism from health specialists and others, Baker pointed to the difficult trade-offs involved in deciding to close businesses, especially for low-wage workers.
Yes, the costs must be weighed against the benefits with the cure not being worse than the disease, right?
He also suggested that the lack of additional unemployment and other relief money from Congress is complicating the decision-making around shutting down economic activity. On Monday, Baker and three other Republican governors issued a joint statement pushing Congress to pass a relief package this month, calling it “essential” to their constituents’ survival.
That's right, pa$$ the buck!
Was good politics for Pelosi, although not really since they weren't able to steal any seats and lost some.
The shutdown in the spring “had a calamitous impact on people who didn’t have MBAs or MPHs or the ability to do their job from home, or were white-collar workers who worked in finance or accounting or law,” Baker said. “The people who really got creamed by that are the people who actually have to get up and go to work somewhere.”
Decisions regarding virus prevention, Baker said, “might seem easy to some people who don’t have to live with them, but don’t feel that easy to the people that do.”
Bugger off, butthead.
We are living with the decisions you are making, jerk!
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The Globe also paid a visit to the boozy new Taco Bell Cantina so you know what she's having with her bundt cake.
Here’s what must close, and what can remain open when Mass. rolls back to Phase 3, Step 1, according to the Globe, and here is a graphic I came across describing our relationship with government during the lockdowns:
"Stark inequities persist in COVID-19 testing" by Kay Lazar and Laura Krantz Globe Staff, December 8, 2020
Nine months into the pandemic, the landscape for COVID-19 testing has shifted dramatically, but it continues to lay bare stark inequities.
Back in March, it seemed only those with power or prestige had access to timely tests. Today across Massachusetts, there are at least 350 public testing sites, but they have a dizzying array of rules about price, hours, and whether an appointment is required.
Nothing has changed, and you can shove your crummy and inaccurate tests.
For many residents without COVID symptoms, who don’t have access to free testing, the $80 to $160 price per test is out of reach, and wait times at many state-run and community health centers, both for securing an appointment and for results, are stretching ever longer — often well past the period a person is most infectious — as cases surge.
Cases built upon the PCR test lie, which turns you up as positive even if you are non-infectious because of the cycle counts that magnify the material. It's a $cam and it's a crime!
“Solving the equity problem also solves the COVID problem,” said Sam Scarpino, an assistant professor of network science who heads Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab. “If we had nearly ubiquitous, free, asymptomatic testing that came back in 36 hours, it’s not only equitable, it gets us out of this pandemic way before most of us get this vaccine.”
It's always the same old $hithead "experts" in the Globe.
With the virus raging across the state and reports of testing turnaround times nearing a week in some cities and towns, Governor Charlie Baker on Monday announced several new free testing sites in areas that had been relative deserts, in Western Massachusetts and on Cape Cod. He also pledged to supply over the next month up to 150,000 rapid tests for community health centers and community hospitals that have been besieged with requests. The Abbot BinaxNOW tests return results in 15 minutes.
Of course, the more you te$t the more "cases" they "find," and the sheeple will gladly get in line!
At Family Health Center of Worcester, where about 29 percent of tests have been coming back positive and some residents were waiting up to six days for results, the promise of up to 1,000 rapid tests to get through the holidays is welcome news.
“It creates a little pressure release,” said president Lou Brady, but it’s not clear whether the state will disburse another cache after Jan. 10.
Stay as far the f**k away from there as you can.
At DotHouse in Dorchester, many who line up are living paycheck to paycheck and rely on the free tests and simple eligibility rules, said Dr. Huy Nguyen, the health center’s chief medical officer. Patients tell him the rules in many places are just too confusing.
I swear to God, the people of Massachusetts would eat dog$hit if it was free.
“There are great state and local lists of testing centers, but you have to scroll through and try to understand what’s their eligibility and payment structure,” Nguyen said, “and it’s much harder if you have language needs, or if you have lower literacy, or you don’t have access to a computer or the Internet or a mobile phone or data on your phone.”
On a recent frigid morning, as winds whipped down Dorchester Avenue, about 100 people waited as long as an hour and a half to be handed a paper slip that told them what time to return to the health center later that day for their test.
So much for the hottest November ever.
Andy Deng, 31, of Quincy, came around 8:30 a.m. with his two co-workers because their employer, Rainbow Adult Day Health Center in Dorchester, requires weekly testing but does not provide it.
Deng and his co-workers got tickets to return to DotHouse at 10:40 a.m. for their tests. He said the results usually come in three days, by e-mail. It’s time-consuming to come every week for a test, but he understands it’s necessary.
“During this pandemic, everyone is in the same boat,” Deng said. “You have to sacrifice,” yet for thousands of students who attend private colleges in Massachusetts, testing is simple and results are quick thanks to large-scale partnerships between their schools and the Broad Institute in Cambridge.
I agree there, even if some of them are strange bedfellows!
Boston University and Northeastern University developed their own testing labs, but more than 100 other schools in the region rely on the Broad’s lab to process nasal swabs weekly and return results in about 24 hours. The frequent testing has helped keep infection levels low on campuses and enabled them to avoid closures.
It's a painful process when others are available, so WTF are they really doing?
Some say infecting you, some say DNA collection, others say brain damage.
Why take the chance?
The cost to the schools is discounted but not insignificant. The Broad collects samples from the schools and processes each test for $25. That’s compared to the $35 to $50 the institute regularly charges.
No wonder the schools need to charge you full tuition for a less-than-full experience.
Colleges that have not been able to afford the cost of testing have been limited in their ability to fully reopen their campuses.
Now some wealthier communities are also turning to weekly testing to keep their K-12 classrooms open as education becomes the epicenter of COVID testing equity.
Oh, the epicenter of testing equity!
It's enough to make one reach for an airsick bag.
In mid-October, Wellesley’s public schools launched weekly saliva testing for middle- and high-school students and all staff throughout the district, paid through private donations from the local education foundation.
??????
Who might they be?
The district negotiated a steep discount to roughly $10 per test because the samples, sent overnight to a lab in New York, are pooled in batches of 24. If a batch comes back positive, they’re broken down into smaller batches until positive cases are pinpointed.
It’s an exhausting process. Part of the discounted price requires Wellesley to package, with help from its school bus drivers, 3,000 test kits each week for students and staff to take home, and then have school nurses repackage them for processing in New York, but officials say the effort is paying off. The testing already identified a small cluster in mid-November at the high school, prompting a two-week closure to prevent further transmission, said Superintendent David Lussier.
The trial project runs through December, but Lussier said that after that, they will likely dig into their school budget to keep it going.
Oooooh. The schools are falling apart, they kids are under this dysfunctional remote model because of lies, and now these tin-pot school tyrants are going to dig into the budget to keep the tyrannical testing going despite no evidence of widespread transmission from kids.
It's the medical tyranny of the Great Reset and NWO, kids, and they are conditioning you to it as they construct it all around us.
Lord who art in Heaven, please act. Please stop this abomination.
“We are fortunate to be in a community that has these resources,” Lussier said, “but we want to advocate for the communities that don’t.”
Wellesley formed a consortium with several other communities, including Watertown, Somerville, Brookline, Revere, and Chelsea, to trade ideas and to talk to state education and other government leaders about the need for testing equity across all school districts.
“Frankly,” Lussier said, “we need a state approach.”
Then a federal approach, then a global approach.
US Representative-elect Jake Auchincloss, a Democrat in the Fourth Congressional District, said he’s been helping bring state and local officials into the Wellesley consortium along with testing experts and vendors who can offer group discounts.
COVID te$ting is BIG BIDNE$$ NOW!
“We need to figure out what we can do to ensure our response is not only efficient but equitable — that kids in Attleboro, Fall River, and Taunton have the same access to COVID testing as kids in Wellesley, Newton, and Brookline,” he said.
Somerville, a member of the consortium, plans to start a pooled testing program aimed at reopening schools next semester. The district has been fully remote since the spring. The district would test staff twice a week and students weekly, with tests processed at the Broad Institute and a goal turnaround time of 24 hours.
Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone said he’s fortunate to partner with Tufts University, which offered its services to help start the testing program and cover part of the cost. Tufts’s program uses the Broad as well.
Curtatone said he unsuccessfully lobbied the state to fund a proactive approach — testing all asymptomatic students and staff.
“We were left on our own to figure this out,” Curtatone said. “It is frustrating that our state leaders, to me personally and others, have completely dismissed us.”
A spokeswoman for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said no public health institution has recommended that type of large-scale, repeated testing as a precondition to reopen schools.
The state recently rolled out a rapid-test program for school districts, including Somerville, she said. That initiative only offers testing to students and staff after they show COVID-19 symptoms.
Even as attention is shifting to the rollout of vaccines, health experts warn that testing will remain a key to equity, to keeping schools and the economy open.
“The vaccine is great,” said Iain MacLeod, an infectious disease research associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ,“but for the next six to nine months, I strongly believe our only way out of the pandemic is to test as much as possible and never stop testing.”
There you go, and what they are really doing is collecting your DNA for the biological cataloguing and profiling. This whole overreaction to their self-predicated lying about and the omission of the CDC's own numbers as well as the absolute uselessness of the test by which they are undergirding this horrible, never-ending narrative is proving this to be way beyond COVID and something much more sinister given the urgency of these fuckers and their blatant plan with which the Globe ends the article.
I'll see you fuckers in hell.
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"How often is COVID-19 spreading in Massachusetts schools?" by Naomi Martin and Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff, December 8, 2020
Actually, it is clear all across the world and the kids aren't catching or spreading it, so..... (angry grumble).
When Governor Charlie Baker urged superintendents to keep classrooms open, he left a gut-wrenching question unanswered: How often is coronavirus spreading in schools?
Baker says most schools should only close if they have seen in-school transmission, which he suggests is rare — an assumption seemingly bolstered by national reports of low rates of infection among those who have returned to school, yet superintendents have publicly reported spread within their schools. Skeptical teachers’ unions have created a database to self-report cases across the state, and school employees have been sharing harrowing hospital stories. The state epidemiologist acknowledges that while the exact rate is unclear, in-school transmission is, in fact, occurring.
“There’s no question there is, and has been, in-school transmission,” said Dr. Catherine Brown, state epidemiologist for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. “There is so much COVID out here in the communities that people are getting exposed and they’re bringing COVID without knowing it into the school settings.”
In the pitched debate over how to get students back to school, given the mounting consensus that remote learning is harming kids’ academic and social emotional growth, nuance is often lost. Teachers’ unions seem to suggest aging school buildings are dangerous unless proven otherwise. Politicians and some public health specialists promote schools as if they are safety zones from a pandemic.
“It’s not a magic bubble location,” said Emily Oster, a Brown University economist who has built one of the country’s most comprehensive databases of school COVID cases and found surprisingly little spread.
“People are craving certainty,” Oster acknowledged. “When we say schools are very safe, [people] want to read it as ‘schools are totally safe with no transmission.’ "
As with all things COVID, the accumulating data present a more complicated risk-benefit analysis.
It’s unclear precisely how many people have been infected in schools, but state officials believe they know the maximum number possible, and they see no cause for alarm.
As they scream for shutdowns and cancelling Christmas!!
C'mon, people, WAKE THE FUCK UP!!
This school year, they have identified 75 clusters in Massachusetts schools — defined as two or more cases between unrelated people without another clear source of infection, but they think only about half of those clusters could have been linked to in-school transmission, given the timing of infections.
A "cluster" is TWO PEOPLE, and they "think" only half are linked to schools?
They think we are f**king stupid out here!
Even if all 208 cases associated with those clusters were caused by in-school spread, however, they would make up just a sliver of the nearly 3,000 COVID cases among students and staffers reported this year. That means the vast majority of infected kids and teachers contracted the virus at home or in the community, not at school.
Oh, EVEN IF, HOWEVER!
Good Lord, save them from themselves!
At this point I wrote at the top of the page wake up, wake up, wondering when my fellow citizens are going to wake up, and it is other places but not here in brain-dead Massachusetts, the Globe's over-the-top, one-sided reporting notwithstanding.
State officials say they’re also reassured that the rate of infection among students and staff attending schools in person is only one-quarter of the infection rate in the community statewide.
For any individual student, the data shows that the risk of in-school transmission is vanishingly small, Baker’s health secretary, Marylou Sudders, said. Just 0.02 percent of the estimated 450,000 students who have been in schools at some point this year have been part of a suspected cluster.
The numbers game is not much comfort to teachers, though, or to parents worried about their children’s risk of contracting COVID at school.
“Our members who have the highest risk factors or live with family members with risk factors are terrified,” said Merrie Najimy, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. “They feel like sacrificial lambs.”
Teachers don’t trust the state or national data denying many outbreaks being linked to schools, Najimy said, in part because many places don’t have widespread testing available in schools or communities, so there is no way to know the true rates of COVID including asymptomatic cases, which are more common in children.
If only the teachers and cops would come over to our side. That would put pressure on the sell-out medical profession to 'fess up.
That’s a valid concern, said Dr. Leanna Wen, the former Baltimore health commissioner and a public health professor at George Washington University.
“There has been a failure of national policy and we have not done right by our children for sure in this pandemic,” Wen said, “but why should the effect of that and the failures of our society all be on the shoulders of the people who work in the schools?”
OMFG!
Is that what they are teaching them, no personal responsibility?
Rather than wait for a confirmed outbreak to close schools, Wen said, leaders should require schools to demonstrate they have proper preventative safety measures in place, including the ability to socially distance everyone by 6 feet and proper air filtration and ventilation, before being allowed to open.
Many schools have found ways to keep teachers safe — and if all measures have been adhered to, teachers should not have reason to worry if someone in their class tests positive, said Erin Bromage, an immunology professor at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who has advised school leaders in Rhode Island, Boston, Westport, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven. Small adjustments — like resisting the instinct to walk the aisles of the classroom to help students side-by-side — can make in-person instruction safer.
I guess Rhode Island is a real mess now and at least it takes the spotlight off the rampant $exual abuse (I'm sure Matthew Goldstein of the New York Times is getting to the bottom of that rabbit hole).
Public health officials are confident that schools aren’t super-spreaders, even as they acknowledge they are not likely detecting all cases of in-school spread. When a student or staffer tests positive, investigators try to identify any “close contacts,” people who came within 6 feet of the person for 15 minutes or longer while they were likely infectious. Health authorities order those close contacts to quarantine and seek testing, using the results to determine whether they believe transmission occurred in school. Given schools’ distancing measures, many school cases have yielded few “close contacts,” if any, though some situations arise where distancing is difficult such as in hallways, sports, buses, and special education.
Only Trump rallies and non-approved actions are!
In Norwood, for example, no close contacts of school cases so far have tested positive, leading officials there to conclude they haven’t had in-school transmission.
“Can I say for sure that there is in-school transmission or not in my community? No, but at this point, I don’t believe so,” said Sigalle Reiss, director of Norwood’s board of health and president of the Massachusetts Health Officers Association. “There’s never 100 percent [certainty] — we deal with probability a lot.”
And for that, the lives and livelihoods of parents were totally destroyed.
The state’s mobile rapid response testing unit has at least 15 times responded to school concerns about outbreaks by offering tests to a larger group of possibly exposed students and staffers in schools including Braintree, Malden, and Billerica. (All 221 people tested in Billerica were negative, indicating no in-school spread.)
Public health or school nurses looking for causes of school infections often find the likely source of transmission at home. For instance, in Westport, a small South Coast district of 1,355 students, nurses have been tracking reports whenever students call out sick or quarantine due to relatives’ diagnoses, “so we’ve been able to identify all of our cases so far,” said Diane Daponte, one of two lead nurses for the district.
If so, then COVID would have running rampant through families way before now. It either wasn't, or if it was, we all have herd immunity. This would be ridiculous were it not so damn evil.
More than two dozen cases of COVID have been reported in Westport schools since the primary and elementary schools opened full time this fall, but in-school transmission was only suspected once, because two students from the same classroom tested positive, within days and had no obvious sources of infection outside school. As a result, the classroom was closed for deep-cleaning and a two-week quarantine.
Frikkin' jerk job mind-f**k.
Oster said that more detailed information about in-school transmission would help identify and avert specific risks — for instance, if outbreaks are occurring in faculty lounges or locker rooms — thereby putting workers’ minds at ease and preventing wholesale closures.
Yeah, all the lockdowns and shutdowns is being done based on no information. It's sickening.
Teachers are also suspicious of the state’s numbers, as many COVID cases they learn about aren’t publicly reported. The unions launched an online database in mid-November to crowd-source reports of COVID cases, in-school spread, and other safety issues, amid the governor’s assertions that they should be back in school.
“It makes me very angry,” said one Milton Public Schools educator who is “1,000 percent” sure she contracted coronavirus in school in October, when she was identified as a “close contact” of a co-worker. They were the first ones in their families to contract the virus, at about the same time as four other employees and one student in school tested positive.
Her co-worker, who has since recovered, had initially gone to the emergency room to be screened for pneumonia, only to be whisked away by nurses warding off passer-by by warning “positive COVID.”
After three nights in the hospital and a course of remdesivir, she recovered, and returned to work at school, further humbled by a virus that she had tried to guard against with a mask and a plexiglass cube around her desk.
I hate to say it but when it comes to remdesivir, according to a large study led by the World Health Organization, it did not help hospitalized COVID-19 patients, in contrast to an earlier study that made the medicine a standard of care in the United States and many other countries (cost a lot more than the far more effective H*Q, though), and the three day recovery bit reeks of Trump fraud.
“It’s no joke,” she said.
It isn't, except it is because the evil, genocidal globalists running this whole show and their mouthpiece pre$$ here have pulled it on the entire world and must be laughing their heads off.
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Looks like you will have to cut the cruise cut short.
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"COVID vaccines could reach senior care sites this month, but daunting logistical challenges lie ahead; Biggest fear is high numbers of residents and staff suffering side effects at the same time" by Robert Weisman Globe Staff, December 8, 2020
Nursing home residents and staff could start getting COVID-19 shots as soon as Christmas week, good news for a population that was ravaged by the pandemic last spring, but already administrators are wrestling with daunting logistical challenges as they try to protect their people.
Their biggest fear: A compressed vaccination schedule, mandated by federal guidelines, could mean many staff and residents get their shots on the same days, leading to lots of people suffering vaccine side effects. That could mean nurses and aides calling in sick with side effects such as fatigue and low-grade fever just when old and frail residents with the same side effects need attention, say medical directors at the state’s skilled nursing facilities and other long-term care sites.
“That would be a dire situation,” warned Dr. Asif Merchant, a geriatrician at Newton-Wellesley Hospital who serves as medical director for four suburban Boston nursing homes.
Merchant, who sits on the state’s vaccine advisory committee, said he and colleagues have raised the issue with Massachusetts health officials, but the vaccine schedule was set by the pharmacy companies that will deliver and administer the vaccines at senior sites based on guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It's the CDC that is actually in charge of this country, serving as an agent of the pharmaceuticals. Wow.
Memories of the first COVID-19 surge remain fresh for the 50,000 residents and more than 65,000 employees of the state’s nursing homes, rest homes, and assisted living facilities. Many of them grappled with staff shortages even before the pandemic, and the shortages have intensified this year, making it crucial for them to have enough caregivers in the coming weeks.
Yes, I remember.
Families of senior care residents believe state officials were slow to recognize the vulnerability of the elderly as outbreaks of the fast-spreading virus overwhelmed dozens of nursing homes last spring. To date, residents of long-term care facilities have accounted for 6,920, or about 62.5 percent, of the 11,076 probable or confirmed coronavirus deaths in Massachusetts, a higher share than in almost any other state.
It was active neglect and mass murder, sorry, and what do you mean probable deaths?
WTF?
Operators at senior care sites have been waiting for the state’s vaccine distribution plan for weeks as Food and Drug Administration officials get ready to approve the first COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use as early as Thursday. Governor Charlie Baker last week promised details on Monday, but on Monday said they would now be coming on Wednesday.
Most long-term care facilities already have enrolled in a federal pharmacy partnership program that, in Massachusetts, is using CVS and Walgreens as suppliers for both the Pfizer vaccine and a second vaccine, from Cambridge-based Moderna, that is expected to be approved next week.
The pharmacies have told senior facilities that, under federal guidelines, they will be making three visits to each site, bringing the vaccines and setting up clinics to administer injections. Each resident and staffer will need to receive two doses, four weeks apart for the Pfizer vaccine and three weeks apart for the Moderna vaccine.
Medical personnel say more visits should have been scheduled so they could stagger inoculations, making sure there are enough healthy staffers on the job to help residents struggling with side effects.
“It’s another example of people making decisions who know nothing about our operations,” said Dr. Larissa Lucas of the North Shore Physicians Group, who serves as medical director for nursing homes in Peabody, Lynn, and Marblehead. “What we’re worried about is that there’s going to be a bulk of people sick at the same time when we need them.”
Same ones who destroyed livelihoods with lockdowns because the goal is much larger than curing the mythical COVID.
Some patients in Pfizer and Moderna’s clinical trials have suffered mostly mild and moderate side effects, including headaches, muscle aches, and soreness as well as fever and tiredness in some cases, the companies report. While most side effects resolved in a day or two, and could be treated by rest and Tylenol, long-term care clinicians say their residents are especially vulnerable.
Well, a SIX DIED but the vaccine-pushing pre$$ isn't reporting that, and if the side effects can be treated with this why not COVID itself since it is nothing more than that?
They say they will work to educate staffers and residents about the vaccine, telling them that any side effects they may feel do not mean they have the coronavirus.
Except they will because the vaccine creates the COVID spike protein inside you in order to get the body to allegedly create antibodies to it.
The medical directors are anticipating the arrival of the long-awaited vaccine with excitement, seeing it as the beginning of the end of the nightmare they’ve been battling for the past nine months. “It was on top of my Christmas list,” Lucas said. “Hopefully, Santa will deliver,” but the out-sick calls are only one of the logistical hurdles they’re confronting from the compressed vaccination schedule.
They are no different than Wall Street, and I think I am going to vomit again.
Long-term care staffers typically work throughout the day and night in eight-hour shifts, so it will be necessary to bring everyone in — and keep them spaced safely apart — during the limited hours of the vaccination clinics.
If staffers are off during the clinics, if some staffers and residents decline to get the first shot, or if some residents are newly admitted for rehab services after the first shots have been given, the schedule leaves little room to adapt.
“There could be 100, 200, or more staffers who would need to be vaccinated in one day” at some Massachusetts long-term care sites, said Dr. Mark Yurkofsky, medical director at Spaulding Nursing and Therapy Center in Brighton. “It will be a logistical challenge, and we would like to have more flexibility.”
A representative from the US Department of Health and Human Services, which has been handling queries about the vaccine rollout, didn’t respond to questions about why federal regulators recommend only three visits per facility.
CVS, which will administer vaccines at more than 1,800 long-term care sites in Massachusetts “plans to follow the [federal] guidance based on data that three clinics per site is sufficient for staggering purposes,” a spokesman for the pharmacy said in an e-mail. “If a facility requests more, we will assess that on a case-by-case basis.”
A Walgreen spokeswoman wrote in an email that “at least three clinics will be scheduled with each long-term care site,” leaving open the possibility the pharmacy could add visits to some sites.
The timing of vaccinations is emerging as a pressing issue beyond the world of long-term care. Community health clinics, too, are hoping they’ll get multiple chances to give their front-line employees injections over the coming weeks.
“You have a workforce of 100 people and you were to give them all the vaccine at the same time, people would start calling in sick and that could create an inability to respond to the health care needs of the community as well as the surge we’re dealing with,” said Michael Curry, president of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, who also sits on the state’s vaccine advisory group.
Thank God for telehealth.
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"CVS, Walgreens hiring thousands of workers in advance of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout; The pharmacy giants will eventually play a key role in its distribution" by Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent, December 8, 2020
To prepare for the nationwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, Rhode Island-based CVS Health Corp. and Illinois-based Walgreens are hiring workers by the thousands.
Good thing a lot of people are out of work, hmmmmm?
In an e-mail to some customers over the weekend, CVS said it is “urgently” looking to bolster its workforce so it can distribute vaccines to the public when they are available. A page on its website details the hiring push for what it calls the “COVID-19 Vaccine Support Team,” comprised of pharmacists, nurses and pharmacy technicians that will help administer “millions of vaccines in 2021.”
If a vaccine candidate is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, both CVS and Walgreens will help with the initial distribution of vaccines to people living and working in long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes. Later on, the companies will also help to vaccinate the general public.
I used to trust the local pharmacy.
Not anymore.
Jeff Lackey, vice president of talent acquisition at CVS, said the company planned to hire 15,000 workers across the United States in the fourth quarter, including 10,000 pharmacy technicians — at first to help administer a wave of flu shots, but soon to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. As of Tuesday, CVS has hired more than 9,000 pharmacy techs ahead of the expected vaccine rollout, and it plans to hire more.
That will goose the employment numbers!
In addition to giving patients the vaccine injection, pharmacy technicians also handle administrative work, he said.
In Massachusetts, CVS still wants hire 240 pharmacy technicians — 220 of whom will be based in the Boston area — and more than 2,500 retail workers as part of the effort. Lackey said CVS will offer additional money — called “Hero Pay” — to workers that help to administer the vaccine in long-term care facilities, because of the added risk and effort.
Paid to murder.
In addition to hiring full- and part-time positions, CVS will also bring on temporary employees. CVS has nearly 10,000 retail locations across the United States, including 413 in Massachusetts, where it employs about 14,000 people.
“With approximately 70 percent of the US population living within three miles of a CVS Pharmacy, we’ll be easy to reach when a vaccine is authorized by the FDA and becomes available in retail settings,” said Troyen Brennan, the chief medical officer for CVS Health in a November press release.
Rina Shah, group vice president of pharmacy operations at Walgreens, said in a statement that the company has about 25,000 open positions, including between 8,000 and 9,000 jobs dedicated to supporting COVID-19 vaccine administration and testing.
Walgreens operates more than 9,000 stores in the US. The company said it would make COVID-19 vaccines available at all of its stores, which it says are located within 5 miles of 80 percent of the US population. Walgreens also said it is also prepared to use “different models of delivery to reach underserved areas, including mobile clinics.”
Yes, they will COME TO YOUR DOOR!
I hope they are ready to die when they do.
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If these polls are right (and not propaganda, which they most assuredly are), then it hopeless when it comes to my fellow citizens:
"Majority of Mass. residents are open to vaccine, new poll shows. Black and Latino residents are most hesitant" by Laura Krantz and Kay Lazar Globe Staff, December 8, 2020
The majority of Massachusetts residents plan to get a coronavirus vaccine when it’s available, but Black and Latino residents are more hesitant because of longstanding distrust of the government on health care issues, a new poll has found.
It's not just them, believe me!
Republicans and regular churchgoers are also among those least eager to be first in line for a vaccine, partly due to skepticism over whether the vaccine has been thoroughly tested.
Why do they have to sit in the back of the Globe bus?
The survey, conducted late last month by MassINC and commissioned by the Museum of Science Boston and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, highlighted a need for more communication around vaccine safety and the importance of showing people getting vaccinated successfully.
This WHOLE F**KING THING is a GODDAMN SALES JOB!
The survey also suggested that the reluctance of several groups will result in an uneven rollout of the vaccine, and further exacerbate racial and socioeconomic inequities laid bare by the pandemic.
“The people who are the most hesitant about taking the vaccine right now are the ones who are probably the most vulnerable, and I think as a society we have to do something about that,” said Tim Ritchie, president of the Museum of Science.
$crew your guilt trip, and COVID is an excuse for everything!
Black Americans are dying from COVID-19 at nearly 2½ times the rate of white people nationwide, according to the COVID Tracking Project, and despite representing roughly 13 percent of the population, they have accounted for 22 percent of coronavirus deaths in cases in which race and ethnicity are known. At the same time, surveys have consistently shown that Black Americans are less willing than other racial and ethnic groups to accept a coronavirus vaccine.
While noting the inherent hurdles ahead, the health experts who commissioned the MassINC poll said they found optimism within the responses. While many people of color said they did not want to be among the first to receive the new drug, they were open to taking it with enough reassurance that it is safe and effective.
There isn't enough of that in the world for me, sorry. The pre$$ and lying government blew it.
“Black and brown folks have hesitancy with this vaccine, and we can speak to them and they are willing to take it if we message them in the right way,” said Michael Curry, incoming CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, which have played a key role this year in testing and treatment of the virus.
It's a PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN, folks!
Curry said it is imperative that the health care community speak with patients in culturally and ethnically proficient ways and be honest about systemic inequity and mistreatment of people of color by the health care system and government. Vaccinating people of color will be one step toward curbing those inequities, he said.
“If we do not get [communities of color] vaccines in a timely way, then we are likely to see those inequities play out even more,” he said.
People’s own doctors are the most trusted authorities around these concerns, the poll found, while religious and political leaders are less trusted, as are friends and family.
PFFFFFFT!
I trust family and friends more than any doctor!
The findings for Black and Latino residents surprised the Rev. Liz Walker, pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church and a member of Governor Charlie Baker’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group. She expected a more dire disparity in light of the conversations she’s had in the community.
“We still have challenges but it seems doable in terms of reaching people,” she said of the vaccination process.
She is “a little surprised that so many people in [her] community don’t trust this vaccine."
The poll results released Tuesday were based on a survey conducted in English and Spanish that reached 1,180 Massachusetts residents, and included oversamples of Black and Latino residents.
Overall, the poll found that 71 percent of respondents are at least somewhat likely to take the vaccine. Just 7 percent of respondents said they plan to never take it. It also found that 38 percent of white respondents will take the vaccine “as soon as possible” compared to 28 percent of Black respondents and 22 percent of Latino respondents.
Those who said they will take the vaccine sooner also include respondents with advanced degrees, those who identify as Democrats, people who earn more than $100,000, and people over 60. Those who prefer to take the vaccine later include those with only a high school diploma and Republicans.
Community organizations that work with people of color are already working on strategies to educate their communities about the vaccine.
Eva Millona, executive director of the MIRA Coalition, an immigrant and refugee rights group, said those communities are reluctant to trust the government after they endured trauma under the Trump administration.
Try having lived here all your life.
Her organization is working with Boston city officials to hire immigrants who are trained doctors and health care professionals, but not licensed to practice in this country. Those people will serve as outreach workers to their communities and speak with people in their native languages about health care, including the vaccine, during the pandemic.
“There are fears and insecurities, there is this lack of being heard and recognized,” she said. “What the pandemic has discovered is that you cannot recover or deal with these issues if everyone who lives here, regardless of where they were born, is not a part of the solution.”
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Incredibly, Massachusetts citizens are willingly embracing the life-destroying tyranny:
"Survey suggests support for more restrictions in Mass." by Nick Stoico Globe Correspondent, December 8, 2020
A new survey examining the public’s sentiment toward restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 suggests that a majority of Massachusetts residents favor such measures, even if it means being stuck at home.
The results suggest that there is not only political support for more restrictions to be implemented but also a public desire for more to be done, one of the researchers wrote in an e-mail.
You can't help people who don't want to help themselves, and I am disgusted at my fellow citizens.
Makes you wonder how we have a surge when everyone is obedient, yet no one is obedient and that is what is causing the surge.
“The biggest single conclusion is that there is a lot of public support for the governor to be more aggressive in his response to COVID-19,” said David Lazer, a Northeastern University professor and researcher with the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, which sponsored the survey. The effort also included researchers from Harvard, Northwestern University, and Rutgers University.
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Just because they say it doesn't make it true, and he isn't popular out here at all so.....
Lazer said that with cases, deaths, and other key metrics on an upward trend recently, the public appears to be in line with public health experts’ view that “a lot more has to be done to ‘break the wave.’”
The study, released Tuesday morning, found that 88 percent of 919 respondents surveyed as part of an online panel between Oct. 1 and Nov. 28 support restrictions to keep people at home and avoid gatherings, and 89 percent support restricting international travel to the US.
To hell with you all then, you damn fools.
Respondents were less supportive of closing businesses, yet still more than half — about 63 percent — said they would support shutting businesses down to help curb the virus’s spread.
Just not their own!
The study found that 82 percent of respondents support canceling major sports and entertainment events; 76 percent support restricting travel within the US; 79 percent support limiting restaurants to carry-out only; and 71 percent support prohibiting in-person learning in K-12 schools.
The fact that $ports continue at all and the talking heads on ESPN don't mask and act like all is right with the world is the surest sign of this f**king $cam!
Over the weekend, school leaders in Cambridge and Framingham announced classes would all be remote beginning this week as virus cases climbed in both cities. Meanwhile, Boston Public Schools announced on Monday that it would open reopen 28 schools and allow 1,700 more students to return to the classroom.
They turned out the lights at school?
The data is further broken down by political party affiliation, race, age, parental status, and wealth. The study found that nonwhite Massachusetts residents are more supportive than white residents of all six restrictions. It also concluded that women are more supportive of the measures than men.
Parents of school-age children were more supportive of most restrictions than people without school-age kids, the study found. The biggest difference was over the closing of businesses, which garnered support from 81 percent of respondents who were parents of school-age children, compared to 62 percent support from their counterparts without school-age children. Parents looked slightly less favorably upon restricting international travel.
The study also found that opinions on restrictions differ greatly depending on political party affiliation: While 81 percent of Democrats surveyed said they support closing most businesses, only 47 percent of Republicans agreed.
The closest they come to agreeing was on international travel restrictions, which were supported by 87 percent of Republicans who participated and 92 percent of Democrats.
Matthew Baum, a professor of global communications at the Harvard Kennedy School and lead author on the study, said the results show that the public is far more supportive of restrictive measures than “our elite political debates suggest.”
What "elite political debate?"
“Very nearly a majority of Republicans in Massachusetts support the least popular of the measures we surveyed: closing most businesses,” he wrote in an e-mail, “and considering that Independents form an important part of Governor Baker’s support coalition, it’s worth noting that almost 60 percent of those voters support closing most businesses, while higher percentages support all of the other measures.”
He added, ”The implication is, again, that if our leaders are willing to take bolder actions to contain the spread of the virus, the citizens of Massachusetts appear to be ready to support them in doing so.”
Then they are all complicit in this criminal fraud.
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Related:
"The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Massachusetts rose by 3,627 Tuesday, bringing the state’s total to 253,649, the state announced. The latest numbers come as the state is in the midst of an alarming second surge. In the summer, the state appeared to have wrestled the virus under control, but case counts began to gradually rise as the summer wore on. In late October, case count growth accelerated. Since Thanksgiving, it has skyrocketed, even though some experts say the effects of Thanksgiving gatherings haven’t been felt yet. Citing unsustainable increases and concern over the strain on the health care system, Governor Charlie Baker on Tuesday announced he was tightening some coronavirus restrictions....."
To take a deeper dive into the state’s coronavirus statistics click here.
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Btw, Trump no longer makes the front page:
White House offers $916 billion stimulus proposal as talks intensify
That piece of New York Times flop was my page A2 lead.
Supreme Court denies Trump allies’ bid to overturn Pennsylvania election results
Not one justice stood with him, according to the Wa$hington Compo$t, so it's over.
The world knows it, too, if these briefs are to be believed:
"A Saudi court sentenced a prominent Saudi-American doctor to six years in prison on Tuesday despite pressure from the Trump administration to drop the charges against him and allow him and his family to travel. The doctor, Walid Fitaihi, was convicted on charges that included obtaining American citizenship without permission and criticizing other Arab states in Twitter posts — charges that U.S. officials have privately dismissed as politically motivated. Fitaihi, who completed his medical training in the Boston area, ran a private hospital in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah and had become a household name in the kingdom as a motivational religious speaker. The Saudi authorities detained him in November 2017 amid an arrest campaign that saw hundreds of the kingdom’s richest princes and businessmen locked in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton hotel on allegations of corruption. Fitaihi later told relatives that he had been tortured in detention with electric shocks and was whipped so badly that he could not sleep on his back for a number of days. He was released last year, but the kingdom barred him, his wife and six of his children — all American citizens — from leaving the country while his case made its way through the courts. A Saudi court convicted him of affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Islamist group that Saudi Arabia considers a terrorist organization but the United States does not, and of damaging relations with other Arab countries through his posts on Twitter, among other acts that prosecutors said were aimed at destabilizing the kingdom, according to court documents. In October, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had discussed the case with the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and asked that the travel ban against the doctor and his family be lifted....."
Pompeo was also there to talk about Iran, who are proving all governments are in service to the Great Reset crowd.
The Saudis take his head off and the Chinese are brought to their knees laughing:
"The United States imposed travel bans and other sanctions on 14 high-level Chinese officials over the continuing crackdown on the opposition in Hong Kong, as the police in the Chinese territory arrested more pro-democracy figures on Tuesday. The U.S. State Department took aim at members of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress, citing the officials’ role last month in authorizing the Hong Kong government to disqualify four opposition lawmakers from the city’s legislature. The ousting of the lawmakers prompted the rest of the city’s pro-democracy camp to resign from the legislature in protest. The sanctions targeted 14 vice chairs of the top legislative body, including Wang Chen, a prominent backer of the national security law Beijing imposed on Hong Kong this summer, and Cao Jianming, China’s former top prosecutor. But they did not target its chairman, Li Zhanshu, the country’s No. 3 leader. The Trump administration has already imposed sanctions on several officials in Hong Kong, including its top leader, Carrie Lam; the security and justice secretaries; and the current and former police chiefs. China has denounced the U.S. sanctions as interference in its internal affairs, and some Chinese officials have previously laughed off the sanctions....."
They know the next president will give relations a boost as the UAE says the Chinese vaccine is 86% effective but offered few details and say they may approve it in weeks.
We will soon be under their jurisdiction via the UN as the clock ticks away on Trump:
"A federal judge has blocked President Trump’s attempts to ban TikTok, the latest legal defeat for the administration as it tries to wrest the popular app from its Chinese owners. The Trump administration had tried to ban the short-form video app from smartphone app stores in the US and cut it off from vital technical services. TikTok sued, arguing such actions would violate free speech and due process rights. Judge Carl Nichols of the US District Court in Washington, D.C., said in a ruling Monday that the Commerce Department “likely overstepped’' its use of presidential emergency powers “and acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner by failing to consider obvious alternatives.’' Nichols is the second federal judge to fully block the Trump administration’s economic sanctions against the app as the court cases proceed....."
He's putting it on hold until the new regime takes over:
"President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected Representative Marcia L. Fudge, Democrat of Ohio, to serve as the secretary of housing and urban development in his administration, sources familiar with the transition said. Fudge joins General Lloyd J. Austin III, a retired military officer whom Mr. Biden selected to run the Pentagon, as the second African-American named to the president-elect’s cabinet this week. Picking Fudge adds strain on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose majority in the House had shrunk to a handful of seats after the elections in November. Biden’s decision to select Fudge for his cabinet means Democrats must win another special election to fill her seat or risk the party’s margin shrinking further....."
Somehow, Trump's coattails came with an empty suit, and one wonders if they have been stealing seats for years!
Related:
Trump’s efforts to reverse election run into 1887 law
They had to go that far back to deny him, huh?
Texas AG sues over other states’ voting
The USSC has already made clear they don't want to hear it.
Lawyers urge investigation of Trump legal team
The persecution never ends, and I would be worried if I were them. Could be representing themselves and be sent to prison in Biden's AmeriKa.
Michigan lawmaker faces racist threats
Yeah, “someone’s going to get hurt, someone’s going to get shot, someone’s going to get killed,” in some sort of false flag while the real murder in Georgia goes unreported.
That's how the other side does business. Just ask Seth Rich.
Christopher Krebs sues Trump campaign
He defamed himself with his incompetence.
More than 100 accusers seek restitution from Epstein’s estate
I'm sure Matthew Goldstein of the New York Times will get to the bottom of it (the $$$ is more important than the women), and that is what the Globe is talking about on page C7.
"President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called for urgent action on the coronavirus pandemic as he introduced a health care team that will be tested at every turn while striving to restore the nation to normalcy. Biden laid out three COVID-19 priorities for his first 100 days in office: a call for all Americans to voluntarily mask up during those 100 days, a commitment to administer 100 million vaccines and a pledge to try to reopen a majority of the nation’s schools. He also said he would sign an executive order the day he is sworn in to require Americans to wear masks on buses and trains crossing state lines, and in federal buildings. “I know that out of our collective pain, we will find our collective purpose: to control the pandemic, to save lives, and to heal as a nation,’' Biden said.
Spoken like a died-in-the-wool Communist and dictator!
Topping the roster of picks was health secretary nominee Xavier Becerra, a Latino politician who rose from humble beginnings to serve in Congress and as California’s attorney general. Others include a businessman renowned for his crisis management skills and a quartet of medical doctors, among them Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease specialist. The usual feel-good affirmations that accompany such unveilings were overshadowed by urgency, with new cases of COVID-19 averaging more than 200,000 a day and deaths averaging above 2,200 daily as the nation struggles with uncontrolled spread. Vaccines are expected soon. Scientific advisers to the government meet Thursday to make a recommendation on the first one, a Pfizer shot already being administered in the United Kingdom. Indeed, President Trump held his own event Tuesday, to take credit for his administration’s work to speed vaccine development, but having an approved vaccine is one thing, and getting it into the arms of 330 million Americans something else altogether. Biden will be judged on how well his administration carries out the gargantuan task. On Tuesday, the president-elect warned that his team’s preliminary review of Trump administration plans for vaccinations has found shortcomings, and he called on Congress to pass legislation to finance administration of vaccines as they become more widely available next year. That would effectively close the loop, from lab to patient. The rest of Biden’s extensive health care agenda, from expanding insurance coverage to negotiating prices for prescription drugs, will likely hinge on how his administration performs in this first test of competence and credibility. Becerra, Biden’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, will be backed in the White House by businessman Jeff Zients, who will assume the role of coronavirus response coordinator. Running complex, high-risk operations is his specialty. Alongside Fauci, the other medical doctors selected include infectious disease specialist Rochelle Walensky to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vivek Murthy as surgeon general, and Yale epidemiologist Marcella Nunez-Smith to head a working group to ensure fair and equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments. Participating by video, Fauci called Biden’s 100-day plan ’'bold but doable, and essential to help the public avoid unnecessary risks and help us save lives.” Ever the straight talker, he admonished: “The road ahead will not be easy. We have got a lot of hard and demanding work ahead.”
Look at the fawning pre$$ regarding the "straight talker" who talks out of both sides of his mouth.
Related:
"As President Trump celebrated his administration’s “incredible success” in speeding the development of coronavirus vaccines Tuesday, a report prepared by the White House coronavirus task force warns that the shots will not alter the course of the pandemic in the United States until well into next year. “The current vaccine implementation will not substantially reduce viral spread, hospitalizations, or fatalities until the 100 million Americans with comorbidities can be fully immunized, which will take until the late spring,” notes the report, part of a weekly rundown of data and recommendations sent to governors and obtained by The Washington Post. Vaccines approved by the Food and Drug Administration are expected to provide robust individual protection against infection, as review documents posted Tuesday about the two-dose regimen developed by Pfizer and German firm BioNTech affirm. The note of caution from the president’s medical advisers, however, reflects the current out-of-control spread of the virus, as well as manufacturing and distribution challenges that will limit vaccine supply for a number of months. The timeline sketched out in the report was also at odds with the president’s rhetoric at a Tuesday vaccines summit at the White House, where he acclaimed “another American medical miracle” and said, “The numbers should skyrocket downward. We are the most exceptional nation in the history of the world,” he added. The report from the coronavirus task force indicates that European nations are doing a better job of slowing viral spread based on “strong public and private mitigation,” including masking and physical distancing. Complications for the government’s ability to quickly obtain more of the Pfizer vaccine came into view this week....."
He is a delusional idiot as others have said, and if you protest too little there is something is rotten with your mental state. The grinch in the White House trying to steal democracy and delegitimize Biden’s presidency before it’s even begun (sorry, but the electoral theft did that) with a frontal assault on democracy, and although Biden promised not to pardon Trump, the Globe is of the opinion that he should do so anyway because a continuation of ‘lock ‘em up’ politics (who did Trump lock up anyway?) will only make America’s poisoned public culture more dysfunctional. Thus it is time to say Good Riddance and move on from this crazy year.
Also see:
"The United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution proclaiming Dec. 27 as the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness to keep a global spotlight on the need to strengthen global measures to prevent pandemics like COVID-19. The resolution adopted Monday by consensus by the 193-member world body expresses “grave concern at the devastating impacts of major infectious diseases and epidemics, as exemplified by the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, on human lives.” Epidemics wreak havoc “on long-term social and economic development,” and create health crises that “threaten to overwhelm already overstretched health systems, disrupt global supply chains and cause disproportionate devastation of the livelihoods of people ... and the economies of the poorest and most vulnerable countries,” the resolution said. The assembly underlined the urgency of having robust health systems and expressed deep concern that without international attention “future epidemics could surpass previous outbreaks in terms of intensity and gravity.”
It's already done all that thanks to them and the day of remembrance will imprint it in the memory of all humans alive at this time, and that will become a searing or molding event that takes on transcendent’ importance and therefore retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene and into history.
