His loss has left a hole in the heart of New England, and the article continued on page C10 but I broke off the route and now he's mad.
"Massachusetts’ latest coronavirus figures continued their downward trend Saturday, according to state data, but public health experts are warning that Super Bowl parties Sunday could spark an increase in new cases. The timing of this year’s Super Bowl, nearly a year into the pandemic, comes as the state is expected to ease some capacity restrictions for many businesses starting Monday. There were 58,768 people estimated to have active cases of the potentially deadly virus, and the latest figures are down from historic highs set last month in Massachusetts after thousands attended large holiday gatherings against the advice of health experts. Dr. David Hamer, a physician at Boston Medical Center and a Boston University epidemiologist, said typical Super Bowl gatherings — with lots of cheering fans eating and drinking in close quarters — increase the risk of transmission, particularly if those in attendance don’t wear masks, he said. “There is a definite risk of a post-Super Bowl surge, or at least a rise in cases,” Hamer said. Hamer said he hoped that any impact on new infections from Sunday gatherings will not reverse the downward trend in cases in Massachusetts, or elsewhere in the country. “It may be a spike in the curve, and then hopefully will get back under control, and as the spring comes on and more vaccines are distributed, we will be doing well,” Hamer speculated. Other public health experts also warned of the risk posed by game-day festivities....."
The others they cite was FRAUDCI, and don't worry I won't even be watching this year -- the first Super Bowl I've missed in 48 years!
"In 2016, Von Miller forced two fumbles to set up Denver’s two touchdowns and the Broncos’ defense frustrated Cam Newton the entire game to carry Peyton Manning to his second NFL championship with a 24-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50."
I remember.
"In 2020, hundreds more Americans who were evacuated from the virus-stricken zone in China began arriving in the US, where they would be quarantined on military bases for two weeks. Japan confirmed 41 new cases of the virus on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, adding to 20 people who were escorted off the ship earlier."
Fortunately, the NFL learned a lot in a year:
"The NFL did it, playing all 269 regular-season and postseason games amid the worst global health crisis in a century. The season was equal parts football and science experiment, and the NFL learned a lot about COVID-19, some of which can be applied to the general public. Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, said “unequivocally yes, masks work, and they are probably the most important risk mitigation strategy,” Sills said, and as further evidence that masks and social distancing work, Sills said, “we had almost no influenza cases this year, and that’s not true just in the NFL, that’s in medicine in general, and that’s a result of many of these mitigation strategies.”
I'm also told the NFL also plans to be vocal in encouraging the public to get vaccinated this offseason, so forget football forever, and in theory, the flu virus could be taking a year off, and that’s a relief!
"The worst of the current wave of coronavirus infections seems to be behind us, even while US cases broadly are trending downward, some parts of the country are still reporting new cases at a rate higher than during the worst peak they experienced last year. For some states that saw surges early in the pandemic when widespread testing was not yet available, these early peaks may be understated. It remains to be seen whether the new variants of the coronavirus circulating in parts of the country will trigger another surge in cases. While both vaccines currently approved in the United States require two shots, studies show that even one dose offers strong protection against the virus......"
I would bet on it, and no fly-over today:
A member of the National Guard injected a man with the coronavirus vaccine in the parking lot of Six Flags on Saturday in Bowie, Maryland (Sarah Silbiger/Getty)
They are encouraging you to drive through to your death.
Btw, I have no prediction for the outcome of the game.
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You can take a picture when you are done:
"Is Your Vaccine Card Selfie a Gift for Scammers? Maybe" by Christine Hauser New York Times, Feb. 6, 2021
So you finally got a Covid-19 vaccine. Relieved, you take a photograph of your vaccination card, showing your name and birth date and which vaccine you had, and publish it on social media, but some experts are warning that the information on the celebratory photo might make you vulnerable to identity theft or scams.
The reality is, they already have all that.
Scammers can sometimes figure out most digits of your Social Security number by knowing your date and place of birth, and can open new accounts in your name, claim your tax refund for themselves, and engage in other identity theft, said Maneesha Mithal, associate director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.
“Identity theft is like a puzzle, made up of pieces of personal information,” Mithal said. “You don’t want to hand over to identity thieves the pieces they need to complete the picture. One of those pieces is your date of birth,” but even as experts warn to hold off on sharing your card, if you’ve noted your birthday anywhere else online — which most people probably have — it’s likely that the information you’re giving up has already been made available through other means.
Avivah Litan, a senior analyst at the research firm Gartner, said many Americans were vulnerable because of multiple data breaches.
“Basically the criminals already have pretty much everybody’s last name, first name and date of birth,” Litan said. “There have been so many hacks over the past 10 years. If all they are looking for is my name and birthday, they have it.”
While a name and date of birth is not all an identity thief would need in most cases to steal your identity, putting those details in plain sight makes it easier.
Curtis W. Dukes, an executive vice president of the Center for Internet Security, said a scammer could exploit the anxiety over vaccine shortages or a slow distribution process by masquerading as a government official claiming to need a credit-card number to reserve another dose or booster.
Exuberant teenagers publish images of their drivers licenses or learning permits. Vacationers post photographs of their travels.
The vaccination cards are now another way “we share these milestones in our lives,” said Nita A. Farahany, a professor of law and philosophy at Duke University School of Law, but she said one concern was that the cards could be forged or replicated if vaccinated status starts to function as a commodity that gives people access to jobs, restaurants or events.
Oh that is the point of this piece that is ostensibly about protecting your privacy. They don't want fake vaccination papers as a black market.
Someone who is not yet vaccinated or does not want to be could be “tempted to forge a copy from these photographs,” she said. “Or why wouldn’t an entrepreneurial scammer use the photographs to create counterfeits to sell to those who want them?”
I hope so, because I will need one.
Cassie Christensen, an adviser at SecZetta, which works with organizations to manage identity risk, said people who had posted their vaccination card could open themselves up to a scammer posing as an official demanding to check their identity to inform them of medical concerns about, for example, supposed new side effects.
The scam could involve requests for more information that would help them gain access to someone’s accounts, such as a mother’s maiden name or an address.....
The bigge$t $cam going is CV-19!!
The Globe is also of the opinion that you need to cool it with the vaccine selfies for a while, and they know Facebook is garbage, but it’s a lifeline in the face of pandemic isolation.
Maybe you kids can pass this test:
"Calls grow for US to rely on rapid tests to fight pandemic" by Matthew Perrone The Associated Press, February 6, 2021
WASHINGTON — When a Halloween party sparked a COVID-19 outbreak at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, school officials conducted rapid screening on more than 1,000 students in a week, including many who didn’t have symptoms.
If you don't have symptoms, you are neither sick or infectious!
Although such asymptomatic screening isn’t approved by regulators and the 15-minute tests aren’t as sensitive as the genetic one that can take days to yield results, the testing director at the historically Black college credits the approach with quickly containing the infections and allowing the campus to remain open.
“Within the span of a week, we had crushed the spread. If we had had to stick with the PCR test, we would have been dead in the water,” said Dr. Robert Doolittle, referring to the polymerase chain reaction test that is considered the gold standard by many doctors and Food and Drug Administration regulators.
Yeah, I've heard about the "gold standard" of tests that isn't a test at all and can't detect infectiousness -- especially from a nonexistent virus that has never been isolated!
With President Biden vowing to get elementary and middle school students back to the classroom by spring and the country’s testing system still unable to keep pace with the spread of COVID-19, some experts see an opportunity to refocus U.S. testing less on medical precision than on mass screening that they believe could save hundreds of thousands of lives. As vaccines slowly roll out, they say the nation could suppress the outbreak and reopen much of the economy by easing regulatory hurdles to allow millions more rapid tests that, while technically less accurate, may actually be better at identifying sick people when they are most contagious.
I guess there is no amount of rubbish they expect us to believe, or they just don't care.
The less accurate tests will be better at identifying sick people, uh-huh.
Methinks the mass screening is meant to INFECT EVERYONE!
“Our whole testing approach, which has failed, has tried to tackle this pandemic as though it’s a bunch of little medical problems,” said Dr. Michael Mina, a Harvard University testing specialist. “Instead, we need to take a big step back and say, ‘Wait, this isn’t a lot of medical problems, it’s an epidemic, and if we resolve the epidemic, we resolve the medical problems.’”
The U.S. reports about 2 million tests per day, the vast majority of which are the slower, PCR variety. The initial tests developed to detect COVID-19 all used the cutting-edge technique, which quickly became the standard at U.S. hospitals and labs. It also became the benchmark for accuracy at the FDA, which has greenlighted more than 230 PCR tests but only about a dozen rapid tests. Priced as low as $5, the quick tests look for viral proteins, which are generally considered a less rigorous measure of infection.
The FDA said in a statement it supports “innovation in testing” and “has not hesitated” to make rapid tests available, but most experts agree that the current U.S. system, which relies heavily on lab testing, is still incapable of containing the virus that is killing more than 3,000 Americans per day and has pushed the country’s death toll to nearly 460,000.
This is not only not super, it SUCKS!
Reading the outright lies in service the agenda is sickening.
Compounding the problem is that an estimated 40% of people infected don’t develop symptoms. It’s among these silent spreaders that Mina says rapid tests have the clear advantage over lab tests. With its medical precision, he argues that the PCR test continues to detect COVID-19 in many people who have already fought off the virus and are no longer contagious. The rapid test, while less sensitive, is better at quickly catching the virus during the critical early days of infection when it can spread explosively through communities. “This isn’t a clinical test — it’s a public health screening test,” Mina said.
Oh, now you are NON-INFECTIOUS from the FALSE POSITIVE the PCR test gave you!!
That is what "conspiracy bloggers" have been saying for months, and even Fauci and the WHO said asymptomatic spread is rare before they retracted under pressure, so.... SIGH!
This is an OUTRAGE, folks!
One area where consensus may be emerging is in public schools, where many parents and districts are eager for a return to in-person instruction. Biden has proposed spending $50 billion to vastly expand rapid testing as part of his push to return most K-8 students to classes within his first 100 days.
It's a plot to kidnap kids.
One of his first executive orders called for using the Defense Production Act to scale up supplies needed for rapid tests, and key members of his administration, including the new surgeon general and head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vigorously support a revamped testing strategy focused on such screening. This week, the White House said it enlisted six manufacturers to mass produce the tests, with the goal of providing 60 million by the end of the summer.
Why would you need to do that if it was going to eventually go away?
Biden’s team has been in discussions with the nonprofit Rockefeller Foundation, which has outlined a plan to use 300 million tests per month to return most U.S. students to the classroom beginning in March.
Test the WHOLE POPULATION are they?
That is where the PRINT ENDED, and THERE IT IS!
The Biden administration is a tool of the Great Re$et crowd, and the plan that was envisioned 10 years ago is operating to perfection!
The initial results from a new pilot study in six city school systems give an early glimpse of the potential opportunity and pitfalls. Weekly screening of teachers, students and staff appeared to reduce infections by 50%, according to the study commissioned by the foundation, which is coordinating the effort. That's a bigger impact than requiring students and teachers to wear masks when not eating but less effective than enforcing social distancing, the study found.
It also flagged major logistical challenges, including schools that faced difficulty providing the staff, technical expertise and community outreach needed to roll out their testing programs. “People are doing it and it’s possible, but it’s not easy,” said Andrew Sweet, a managing director with the foundation.
The case for widescale rapid testing is getting a boost from universities and school systems that have used the approach to stay open through the latest waves of the pandemic, and proponents point to apparent success stories like the small European nation of Slovakia, which saw infections drop after screening two-thirds of its roughly 5 million people with the tests, but many lab specialists worry about vastly expanding the use of rapid tests, which are more prone to false results, and have never been used at the massive scale being proposed.
Who cares?
We are all CV-19 positive, right?!!!!!!!
“There’s a lot of people trying to portray things as black and white, and there’s a lot of gray here, unfortunately,” says Susan Butler-Wu, of the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine. She points out that testing campaigns in Slovakia, the U.K. and elsewhere have been paired with strict lockdown orders. Without such measures in the U.S., critics say there is no way to predict whether people who test positive will self-isolate.
That’s a particular worry with proposals from Mina and others to blanket the U.S. in millions of rapid, home tests that would allow people to regularly screen themselves without medical supervision. “I want to believe in people making good decisions when left to their own devices,” said Butler-Wu, “but the fact that we are where we are right now really shows you people don’t make good decisions when left to their own devices.”
I'm sorry, but THAT is called FREEDOM, you FA$CI$T, so f**k off!!
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Time to take a head count:
"Calendar quirk means virus deaths won’t be seen in census" by Mike Schneider The Associated Press, February 6, 2021
The human loss from the coronavirus will not be reflected in the 2020 census because of a matter of timing, which could save a congressional seat for New York but cost Alabama one.
Because the start of the pandemic in the U.S. and the April 1 reference date used for the census fell so close to each other last year, the deaths that began in mid-March will not show up in the state population figures that determine political representation in Congress.
The timing will paper over the losses from the virus.
OMG!
They should put a bag over their head!
New York still is projected to lose at least one seat, but the quirk in the calendar should ensure that the state gets the last of the 435 congressional seats by a margin of more than 20,000 people, and that would save it from losing a second congressional seat, said Kimball Brace, a redistricting expert at Election Data Services.
The once-a-decade headcount of every U.S. resident determines the number of congressional seats, and Electoral College votes, each state gets. Redistricting experts estimate that 10 congressional seats will shift among 17 states when the Census Bureau releases apportionment numbers by April 30.
The division of congressional seats is sometimes decided by relatively small numbers — just thousands or even hundreds of people. Brace drew the conclusions using population estimates released in December.
Brace cautions that those scenarios are tempered by the accuracy of the December estimates and the 2020 census, which took place amid the pandemic and natural disasters. The count was also dogged by concerns that the participation of immigrants and Latinos could be suppressed by the Trump administration's failed efforts to exclude people who are in the country illegally from the process of allocating congressional seats.
Both Brace and William Frey of the Brookings Institution predict that Texas will gain three seats, Florida two seats, and an extra seat each will go to Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon.
On the flip side, Alabama, California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia each stand to lose a congressional seat, according to Frey and Brace, though Brace estimates that New York could lose up to two seats.....
I really couldn't care less about representation in Congre$$ given that elections now mean nothing, and meet the REAL president:
"Biden wants Kamala Harris to have a major role. What it will be hasn’t yet been defined" by Katie Rogers and Michael D. Shear New York Times, February 6, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden was rattling off a list of his priorities for a coronavirus relief bill in one of his first meetings with reporters as commander in chief when he stopped midsentence to correct himself.
Those items, Biden said, are what “we think the priorities are,” putting the emphasis on the pronoun. Then, turning to face Vice President Kamala Harris, standing a few socially distanced feet behind him, he apologized.
She is the one who told him to just sign the EO when he said he didn't know what he was signing.
It was a rare slip for the president, who has worked to include Harris in nearly all his public appearances, and stress that she is a full partner in the decisions he makes. Those recurring scenes are the most tangible result of Biden’s efforts — and a presidential directive — to treat Harris, the first woman and Black vice president, as an equal stakeholder as he works to knit together the nation’s political rifts, address racial inequalities and bring the coronavirus pandemic to heel.
“The president has given us clear instructions,” Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff, said in an interview. “Our goal is to get her out there as much as we can.”
For she WILL be president soon.
Harris’ relationship with the president was forged by the bare-knuckle politics of the Democratic primary campaign, when she emerged as one of Biden’s most vocal opponents. A surprising chemistry with Biden made them running mates and now that relationship will be crucial in enabling Harris to define herself.
“She went from this failed campaign to getting the golden ticket, as the chief surrogate for a guy who appreciates the role of vice president, and is going to put her out there in this historic role,” said Gil Duran, a former aide to Harris when she served as California attorney general. “So the question is: What does she do with this reset?”
The answer is a work in progress.
Even the terminology they choose is insulting and alludes to other agendas.
The vice president has already made her presence known, most recently Friday morning, when she traveled to Capitol Hill before sunrise to cast a tiebreaking vote in the Senate, clearing the way for Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package to move forward without Republican support, and as the barrier-breaking part of the partnership, Harris has assumed the burden of living up to the expectations of voters, especially people of color, who helped put Biden in the Oval Office. It is a burden Klain says she has borne “with grace” even as it weighs heavily on her. Others say it will take time for her to chart her own course.
For a model, Harris needs to look no further than Biden. In eight years as vice president, he carved out his own role beside President Barack Obama, but not before overcoming a relationship that was, at first, stiff and formal.
Biden and Harris are off to a faster start. They have spent far more time together than their predecessors — usually four to five hours a day in the White House, aides say — in part because the coronavirus pandemic has limited their travel.
What a benefit to Biden.
Harris and Biden usually begin the day receiving the President’s Daily Brief together in the Oval Office, a tradition reinstated since the departure of President Donald Trump, who had little interest in it. They also quickly embraced the idea of a weekly lunch in the White House as a private opportunity to build trust and share thoughts.
In building her own staff, Harris selected people who she knew had good relationships with the president and his team. She chose Tina Flournoy, who has close ties to Klain, to run her office. Ashley Etienne, a former adviser to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is her communications director. Harris also knew that the president held Symone Sanders, who worked as press secretary to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign before joining the Biden campaign, in high regard. Symone Sanders is now her press secretary.
Aides to the vice president repeatedly stressed that all of her public events and messages were closely coordinated with members of Biden’s team. A visit by Harris last week to the National Institutes of Health to thank scientists and receive her second dose of the coronavirus vaccine was paired with a speech later in the day by Biden in which he announced the acquisition of 200 million additional doses of the vaccine.
That appearance made a lasting impression in the district of Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. In an interview, Beatty said that her phone lit up with calls from constituents who were newly curious about getting the vaccine themselves after photos of Harris receiving the shot hit the internet.
Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to die from the coronavirus than white Americans, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but white Americans are more likely to receive the vaccine, in part because of systemic racism present in health care institutions. The sight of a Black woman receiving the vaccine, Beatty said, “gave people hope and gave people education.”
Apparently, younger Black adults are far more hesitant to get the vaccine than their elders, according to the new survey of 1,340 respondents released by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, even after coronavirus infections surged around the country in early November, but —now, three months later, the picture is very different and a growing number of people around the world say they are willing to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to a survey of global vaccine confidence, but while confidence in coronavirus vaccines has risen since November, skepticism surrounding the vaccine and potential side effects remained high -- but another country — Israel — offers hope.
Those moments, in which Harris connects with people around the country, are critical to any future she might have beyond the administration, but they are also in line with the messages that Biden hopes his vice president — as a woman, a minority and a generation younger — can deliver on behalf of his agenda, but, as Biden well knows, the more opportunities there are to carve out a separate identity as vice president, the more chances there are to make a mess. As vice president, Biden’s loquaciousness frequently caught the tightly scripted Obama White House off guard. At times, including in 2012 when he voiced support for gay marriage before Obama did, Biden would toss the script completely.
Harris has also faced questions about members of her family profiting from their relationships with her. Reports that Harris’ stepdaughter received a modeling contract a week after Inauguration Day raised eyebrows even among the president’s allies, and a business run by Harris’ niece that sells Harris-themed merchandise has been an ethical issue for Biden’s aides since the campaign.
First I have seen of it!
That has not diminished the president’s view of Harris. White House officials said Biden was eager to put her to work, much the way Obama put him in charge of the economic recovery program in early 2009, but the fact that the president does not intend to assign her a specific portfolio immediately inevitably elicited some questions about her role in the administration.
Biden has instead handed Harris a flurry of high-profile tasks in their first two weeks in office. Just hours after the president announced on Inauguration Day that the United States planned to rejoin the World Health Organization, the vice president was on the phone with Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the group, reaffirming the new administration’s support after Trump’s sustained attacks on the premier global health institution.
The call sent an early message that she speaks for Biden on some of his most critical priorities, but Harris has not been shy about pressing Biden on her own. In the past weeks, aides to the president and vice president said she had repeatedly pushed for more focus on how the administration’s policies would affect less advantaged people in urban and rural communities that are often overlooked.
During an Oval Office meeting with Biden and his advisers on their first Monday in the White House, Harris pressed Jeffrey D. Zients, the coronavirus response coordinator, to provide more detail about the use of mobile vaccination centers to ensure that poor people living in remote areas would be able to be protected against the virus.
They are COMING FOR YOU no matter what!
That kind of persistence has left a deep impression on Biden, his aides say.
Hey, that is Liz Warren's schtick! WARREN!!!
Related:
"President Biden gave a pep talk to a California woman who was laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, during a conversation the White House said is part of an effort to help him engage more consistently with regular Americans. The White House on Saturday released a two-and-a-half-minute video of Biden’s long-distance telephone conversation with a woman identified only as Michele. After losing her job at a startup clothing company in July, she wrote Biden a letter. He read it, then called her. The Roseville, Calif., woman told Biden “it’s been a tough time’' trying to find work. Biden, who spoke from his Oval Office desk, replied that his father used to say a job is about dignity and respect as much as it is about a paycheck. He described his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan, which calls for $1,400 payments to people like Michele, and other economic aid for individuals and small businesses. There’s also money to help distribute coronavirus vaccines. “I’ve been saying a long time, the idea that we think we can keep businesses open and moving and thriving without dealing with this pandemic is just a nonstarter,” Biden said. The conversation is part of an effort to help Biden, who has largely limited his travel because of the pandemic, communicate directly with Americans, the White House said. Biden did fly to Wilmington, Del., on Friday to spend the weekend at home with his family."
"Two Republican House members have been fined $5,000 for bypassing the security screening that was set up outside the House chamber in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, a senior Democratic aide said Friday. The lawmakers, Representatives Louie Gohmert of Texas and Andrew Clyde of Georgia, appear to be the first members punished under a new rule approved by the House on Tuesday night. Spokespeople for Gohmert and Clyde did not respond to requests for comment, but Gohmert issued a statement Friday night, explaining that he had stepped out to use the restroom and did not know that he needed to be rescreened on his way back in. ’'Unlike in the movie The Godfather, there are no toilets with tanks where one could hide a gun, so my reentry onto the House floor should have been a non-issue,’' Gohmert said in the statement. According to the new rules, lawmakers who bypass the metal detectors that have been installed outside some doors to the House chamber will be fined $5,000 for the first offense and $10,000 for each subsequent offense. Gohmert called the policy ’'unconstitutional’' and vowed to appeal the fine, citing a portion of the Constitution known as the Speech and Debate Clause that provides lawmakers immunity from arrest for things they say or do during a speech or debate in Congress. The clause is specifically designed to protect the legislative branch from interference by the president or executive branch agencies, and to insulate members from lawsuits and prosecutions based on actions carried out as part of their official duties. It is unclear what if any bearing it would have on Capitol security policies adopted by members themselves. On Friday, Republicans on the Committee on House Administration alleged in a letter to the House sergeant at arms, the official tasked with imposing the fines, that ’'multiple members’' saw House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, enter the building without completing security screening and called on him to hit her with the $5,000 penalty. Acting sergeant at arms Timothy Blodgett responded that Capitol Police had not submitted a complaint about Pelosi violating the policy."
That was in the wake of the Wyoming GOP censuring Liz Cheney over her impeachment vote (nice!), and their execution awaits them:
"As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates were sick with COVID-19. Guards were ill. Traveling prisons staff on the execution team had the virus. So did media witnesses, who may have unknowingly infected others when they returned home because they were never told about the spreading cases. Records obtained by The Associated Press show employees at the Indiana prison complex where the 13 executions were carried out over six months had contact with inmates and other people infected with the coronavirus, but were able to refuse testing and declined to participate in contact tracing efforts and were still permitted to return to their work assignments. Other staff members, including those brought in to help with executions, also spread tips to their colleagues about how they could avoid quarantines and skirt public health guidance from the federal government and Indiana health officials. The executions at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, completed in a short window over a few weeks, likely acted as a superspreader event, according to the records reviewed by AP. It was something health experts warned could happen when the Justice Department insisted on resuming executions during a pandemic. It’s impossible to know precisely who introduced the infections and how they started to spread, in part because prisons officials didn’t consistently do contact tracing and haven’t been fully transparent about the number of cases, but medical experts say it’s likely the executioners and support staff, many of whom traveled from prisons in other states with their own virus outbreaks, triggered or contributed both in the Terre Haute penitentiary and beyond the prison walls......"
Time to end this stupid shit:
"The White House on Saturday said President Biden’s comment that his predecessor should not receive intelligence briefings was not a final decision on the matter, which will instead be resolved by intelligence officials. Biden made his views known during an appearance on “CBS Evening News” with Norah O’Donnell. Asked whether former president Donald Trump should receive the briefings, as is customary for ex-presidents, Biden said, “I think not.” “What value is giving him an intelligence briefing?” Biden said in a portion of the interview aired Friday. “What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?” Biden has the unilateral authority to deny intelligence access to anyone he chooses, and his remarks seemed to suggest he considered Trump enough of a risk to do so, but his aides said he would leave that decision to his intelligence team. A spokesman for Trump also did not respond to requests for comment. Former presidents do not receive the same classified daily briefing as a sitting commander in chief. Still, their briefings are typically delivered by current intelligence officers — partly out of respect and convention and partly to prepare them if their advice is solicited or if they’re representing the administration abroad. Explaining his reasoning for wanting to withhold the information from his predecessor, which would be without precedent, Biden said, “because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.”“The president was expressing his concern about former president Trump receiving access to sensitive intelligence, but he also has deep trust in his own intelligence team to make a determination about how to provide intelligence information if at any point the former president Trump requests a briefing,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement issued Saturday. Psaki, when earlier asked whether the Biden administration would cut off Trump’s access to the sensitive material, said the matter was “under review.” The Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond Saturday to a request for comment."
Looks like the impeachment trial will be delayed, and Harvard could find an ally in the DOJ under Biden because it is now okay to be racist against certain groups.
