"HubSpot to acquire business media company The Hustle" by Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent, February 3, 2021
Cambridge marketing software firm HubSpot said on Wednesday that it will acquire The Hustle, a media company focused on business news and insights, to enhance the type of content it offers.
Kieran Flanagan, the senior vice president of marketing at HubSpot, said in a press release that HubSpot’s clients have been seeking new mediums for consuming information.
The Hustle is known for its “old school, inbox-cluttering freakin’ ” e-mail newsletter, which delivers catchy business news to young professionals. The newsletter reaches more than 1.5 million readers daily. The company was founded in 2014 in San Francisco.
“More recently, our customers have started to seek out news and trends-based content across new forms of media like podcasts, newsletters, and research,” Flanagan said. “By acquiring The Hustle, we’ll be able to better meet the needs of these scaling companies by delivering educational, business, and tech trend content in their preferred formats.”
The Hustle also produces a podcast and publishes reports on industry insights, called Trends, which according to its website covers the “up and coming market opportunities you need to know about.”
HubSpot was not immediately reachable for comment.....
That's strange because I'm sure they are not far away at all.
Going to pass some gas now and quickly hustle along:
Not only are the commercial fishermen getting $crewed, possibly leading to food shortages, but the scenic vista will be destroyed forever -- not that it will matter after the Great Cull.
"Keith Gill, the Massachusetts resident whose use of social media helped fuel the frenzy in GameStop’s stock, has been asked to appear before a congressional panel looking into the trading phenomenon. In an interview on the Cheddar News Channel, House Financial Services chair Maxine Waters said, “I want him here,” when asked about calling Gill to testify at the hearing scheduled for Feb. 18. Gill, a 34-year-old former employee of Springfield-based MassMutual, has been pounding the table on behalf of the beleaguered video game retailer since 2019 on the Internet chat site Reddit and through YouTube videos. Known by the YouTube moniker Roaring Kitty, Gill kicked-off a stampede of Reddit users and other individual investors who started buying GameStop shares, largely via the app Robinhood, briefly sending the price into the stratosphere and triggering huge losses among veteran hedge fund investors who had shorted the stock....."
They couldn't reach Gill for comment, and the New York Times also reported that Massachusetts securities regulator William F. Galvin is investigating whether Gill broke any rules because he was working at MassMutual -- meaning the Times out hustled the Globe in their own backyard?
"Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will meet with U.S. financial regulators on Thursday to discuss recent volatility in financial markets, making her first public effort to address the tumult involving GameStop Corp. shares and broker-dealer Robinhood Markets Inc. The episode has raised questions about whether broader risks for the financial system are brewing. As Treasury secretary, Yellen is chair of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which was set up in the wake of the global financial crisis to monitor systemic risks. Thursday’s meeting about GameStop is not a formal FSOC session, but more of an ad hoc gathering of top financial regulators....."
Bloomberg doesn't tell you about her conflict of interest that was waived.
The whole event is reeking of a controlled demolition by the u$ual $u$pects:
"With Mayor Martin J. Walsh poised to join the Biden administration, city officials have suspended fund-raising for the Boston Racial Equity Fund and shifted most of its money to a privately-run statewide effort with similar goals. City officials on Wednesday said they are directing $670,000 of the $735,000 they have raised so far to the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund, an initiative launched last summer by local Black and brown business executives to address racial inequity. The city will use the remaining funds on a racial-equity research collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston....."
Yup, those are the $tring-pullers and I'll bet that loot now disappears.
Also see:
"Wall Street capped a choppy day of trading with modest gains Wednesday, as investors focused on some strong earnings reports from Big Tech companies while remaining cautiously optimistic that Washington will deliver more economic stimulus. Shares of Amazon dropped 2% even though the company reported a huge rise in quarterly profits. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, jumped 7.3% after reporting a blowout quarter as its digital advertising machine regained momentum....."
Everything is back to "normal" despite the union.
"US companies added more jobs than forecast in January, a sign that the labor market may be gradually improving as COVID-19 infections begin to ebb. Company payrolls increased by 174,000 during the month, according to ADP Research Institute data released Wednesday. The median projection in a Bloomberg survey of economists called for an increase of 70,000. The prior month was revised up to a 78,000 decline."
As Biden and the Democrats take over, what a coincidence!
There is a lot more to talk about there, BUT (ha-ha, and I'm allowed. I'm an interpreter, not a journalist$t) I would rather focus on the next-generation of vaccines that will be crucial in the continued fight against Covid-19, including CureVac’s mRNA vaccine, the same type of vaccine made by Pfizer and Moderna, which use bits of genetic code to entice cells to make the protein on the exterior of the SARS-2 virus, known as the spike protein. That, in turn, provokes the immune system to develop antibodies and other immunity weapons with which to combat the virus.
Sure looks like they are INFECTING and GENETICALLY MODIFYING YOU with the "virus" when the vaccine is not even needed and will allegedly not prevent infection and transmission.
Despite that, the evil ModeRNA is now planning to experiment and cull your children:
"One of the potential challenges facing recruiters may be the fact that most adolescents infected with the coronavirus suffer only mild illnesses or show no symptoms. As of Monday, less than 12 percent of cases in the United States occurred in people under the age of 18, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 0.2 percent of deaths involved people under that age, but nonetheless, adolescents can become seriously ill from COVID-19. Indeed, the CDC is investigating a rare but serious medical condition associated with cases in children called “multisystem inflammatory syndrome.” The condition is marked by inflammation in multiple organs and can be deadly if not treated promptly, but immunizing children is vital for reasons that go beyond their own health. Adolescents, even if asymptomatic, can infect older people and others who have underlying conditions that make them especially vulnerable, and young people have shouldered a heavy burden during the pandemic, with many having to switch to online learning and give up extracurricular activities. Dr. Gary Berman, principal investigator of Moderna’s study of the vaccine in adolescents at Clinical Research Institute in Minneapolis, said adolescent volunteers have tolerated the vaccine well, with only some mild side effects, including soreness at the injection site or a low-grade fever that passes quickly, and Moderna is planning another study for children between the ages of 6 months and 11 years old....."
That last bit is absolutely horrifying and the above article is so offensive and evil on so many levels I'm glad I hustled through it.
The fatality rate is actually 0.003% (one wonders why profe$$ional and big-time college $ports have not yet been cancelled), and there is no scientific evidence for asymptomatic spread.
They go one to cry crocodile tears for the children they have helped ruin (an aiding and abetting pre$$) while using such weasel wording regarding the adverse effects on kids.
They have "tolerated" the poison with "some mild side effects" and a "fever that passes quickly."
It's the same kind of flop one sees here:
"The state’s alarming second surge, which began in the fall, appears to be subsiding. The DPH said 64,431 people were estimated to have active cases of the potentially deadly virus, and 1,635 confirmed coronavirus patients were in the hospital. Cases, hospitalizations, deaths, test positivity, and other metrics have been heading downward, but public health officials are concerned about a possible resurgence due to new coronavirus variants, and they’re asking people to continue taking precautions and to get vaccinated when it’s their turn....."
People were "estimated to have an active case" of the "potentially deadly virus?"
And here:
"Health care workers have been heading to some unlikely places to distribute COVID-19 vaccines in Massachusetts: a shopping mall, a hotel, an indoor track, a football stadium. Now, thanks to travel website operator Tripadvisor, they can add a corporate headquarters to the list. Tripadvisor is making space available for free to Mass General Brigham, at least through the end of June. Vaccines will be administered in a downstairs conference room, and patients will then wait in a nearby pub area to ensure there are no significant side effects. The six-story, 280,000-square-foot headquarters complex has been vacant since Tripadvisor’s 650 employees in the building left it last March to work remotely. Tripadvisor’s business, like all travel-related companies, has taken a significant hit because of pandemic-related shutdowns and restrictions. Company officials say this move is about helping their community, not the company’s financial prospects; however, chief executive Steve Kaufer has said that an equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines will be crucial to the global travel industry’s recovery....."
Define "significant," and no one is going anywhere anyway, and certainly not without a vaccine passport.
I would say it is time to head for the hills, BUT....
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The ostensible A1 lead should be filed in the you-can't-make-this-up department:
"Walsh places new police commissioner on leave after past domestic violence allegation surfaces; The move follows Globe inquiries into allegations that the commissioner pushed and threatened to shoot his former wife" by Andrew Ryan and Dugan Arnett Globe Staff, February 3, 2021
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh placed newly appointed Police Commissioner Dennis White on leave Wednesday night and said the city would hire an outside group to conduct an investigation following Globe inquiries about the handling of a 1999 allegation of domestic violence involving White.
The announcement came just two days after White, a veteran officer little known outside the department, was sworn in as the 43rd commissioner of the country’s oldest police force, replacing William Gross, who abruptly retired last Friday.
In a statement Wednesday night, Walsh said he appointed Superintendent-in-Chief Gregory Long to serve as acting commissioner while the city hires an outside lawyer “to conduct a full and impartial investigation” into allegations that White pushed and threatened to shoot his then-wife, also a Boston police officer, and was later ordered to stay away from his family.
“These disturbing issues were not known to me or my staff, but should have been at the forefront,” said Walsh, who was in Washington, D.C., for his Thursday nomination hearing to become President Biden’s labor secretary. “Upon learning of these serious allegations, I immediately acted.”
The Globe first pressed the Police Department last week about White’s work history, including three internal affairs cases, just hours after Walsh announced he would name him commissioner. White had served as Gross’s chief of staff. The department provided some basic information, but declined to provide internal affairs cases.
The Walsh administration responded Wednesday after a Globe reporter presented the city with the domestic violence allegations that were outlined in court documents.....
No fresh start for him?
I'm told White’s abrupt suspension raises a number of questions about what vetting, if any, was done before Walsh last Thursday appointed White to one of the city’s most prominent positions, and Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a statement that her office was not aware of the allegations against White and could not comment on them.
It's called passing the buck before getting out of Dodge.
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Must have fallen asleep on the job, har-har.
I wish I was making this up, and just skip the election and install a new dictator who will battle the enemy and put out the fire before things come to trial when the evidence will show he also pushed her out of a wheelchair.
Also see:
"With trust in government at a historic low, it’s not enough to conduct a thorough investigation into any officers who may have participated in the D.C. event; it is imperative that any city employee who participated in the insurrection should be fired....."
Yeah, trust, once lost, is hard to restore as the police are purged of any "insurrectionists."
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Time for a reality check (from the reality czars!):
"Women edged out of workforce eye promise of Biden stimulus package" by Stephanie Ebbert and Katie Johnston Globe Staff, February 3, 2021
President Biden’s sweeping stimulus proposal, his most ambitious plan to turn the country around, puts an extraordinary focus on getting women back to work, acknowledging the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on working mothers.
Don't be fooled, it's so they can kidnap the kids under the cover of a COVID positive test.
COVID-19 targeted the industries where women dominated — travel, leisure, hospitality, service. At the same time, it kept children home from schools and child-care centers, forcing parents — often mothers — to multitask. By the end of 2020, 4.3 million fewer women were working than had been in February, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Nearly half of those women — 2.1 million — have given up looking for work, compared to about 1.7 million men.
Biden’s $1.9 trillion proposal specifically aims to help women reenter the workforce by steering unprecedented resources to the child-care system. It also features a national vaccination program and a massive expansion of COVID testing for schools. The expensive proposal’s odds are uncertain in a fractured Congress — Republicans have put forward a much cheaper counterproposal — but it signals a paradigm shift long sought by advocates for women and early education.
I rest my case.
“The president isn’t describing this as some individual problem,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. “He’s understanding that it is key to the recovery, addressing this care crisis.”
The “invisible burden” of caregiving was made glaringly obvious by the conditions caused by the pandemic.
When schools shut down last March, Jessica, a 32-year-old single mom in Boston, had to quit her job at Target, where she had just been promoted from cashier to supervisor.
“I didn’t want to lose that position,” she said, but with no one to watch her children, she had no choice. Jessica, who asked to be identified only by her first name, hasn’t been able to work since.
Jessica has a 7-year-old son now attending a suburban school in person through the Metco program, but her 4-year-old daughter’s kindergarten classes are remote, which means Jessica is stuck at home.
Before the pandemic, Jessica had been saving money to buy a house with a backyard where her kids could play. Now she’s getting by on unemployment and food stamps; she turned to HomeStart for help paying rent, and Cradles to Crayons for clothes. At Christmas, she put off paying her cellphone bill to buy toys and relied on donations from Boston Community Pediatrics.
She’s hopeful Target will hire her back, even if it’s in her previous role as a cashier. Only then will she be able to dream of the future again.
“The only barrier that I have,” she said, “is school not being open.”
Good news!
They will be reopening with new safety measures, and did you know that Target is the latest big US retailer to show that it’s prospering during the pandemic?
The game is OVER!
The inconsistency of school days is the “deciding factor” keeping many women out of work, said C. Nicole Mason, president and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
“They can’t even plan long term ‘cause they don’t even know, are schools closed for the rest of the year? Will they reopen next month?” she said. “It’s really unpredictable.”
I hate to say it because the kids are suffering, but DO NOT SEND the KIDS to SCHOOL!
This WHOLE THING STINKS!
They are going to mandate reopening as variants spread, and you can see the end result: kidnappings under the cover of COVID.
Pandemic conditions dealt a surprising reality check to modern perceptions of gender equality: It’s still often the mother who retreats from work to supervise children at home, in part because men tend to have higher salaries.....
Sadly, women are the biggest believers of government and this fraud.
Not all women, but more so than men. I know part of it is the maternal instinct thing, but c'mon ladies!
Related:
"Miguel A. Cardona, President Biden’s nominee for education secretary, sailed through his confirmation hearing Wednesday, signaling his support for an urgent but flexible approach to helping the nation’s schools reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. If he is confirmed, one of the most pressing tasks for Cardona — one of the few state education chiefs who pushed for schools to reopen for in-person learning last year — will be fulfilling Biden’s goal of reopening most of the country’s K-8 schools in 100 days. Cardona, who is Connecticut’s state education commissioner, credited his state’s success in reopening most districts there to the clear guidance provided on how districts could reopen with mitigation strategies, while understanding that every community was different. He also strongly endorsed Biden’s proposal to send billions more in relief funding to schools, saying that the first round Congress sent to Connecticut “has really helped us keep the lights on,” and helped pay for things like personal protective equipment and extra custodial support. He said more funding would be crucial for the recovery phase of the pandemic, when schools will need more counselors to deal with returning students’ social-emotional needs, and will need to boost academic support, including summer school and extended days; however, Cardona largely sidestepped a question of whether he would grant waivers from federal testing mandates this year, a requirement that is currently weighing on education leaders across the country. Waiving that requirement was among the first measures the Trump administration took to help districts navigate remote learning, and has divided the education community over whether schools need scores as an equity metric this year. “I don’t think we need to be bringing students in just to test them on a standardized test — I don’t think that makes any sense,” Cardona said. “I do feel that if we don’t assess where our students are and their level of performance, it’s going to be difficult for us to provide targeted support and resource allocation in the matter that can best support the closing of the gaps that have been exacerbated during this pandemic.”
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought they meant the bogus PCR tests that the entire fraud is based upon, and it just struck me that being from Connecticut, this guy will fight to the death tom preserve the staged and scripted narrative of Sandy Hook and will have a real problem with the unions given that they are urging a switch to all-remote learning.
Meanwhile, Michael S. Regan, President Biden’s nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, vowed during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday to “move with a sense of urgency” in reducing planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, while facing tough questions about his role in an administration crowded with high-profile climate czars, yet Regan sought to allay Republican fears that the EPA was poised to enact onerous new rules intended to hurt the fossil fuel industries that bring jobs to many of their states. “I have also learned that we can’t simply regulate our way out of every problem we face,” Regan told lawmakers, pledging to be “collaborative” with states and to “work transparently with responsible industries eager to establish clear, consistent rules of the road.” Regan will also be charged with rebuilding the agency, which lost nearly 5,000 employees during the Trump era and saw the morale of career employees plummet......"
The fossil fuel industry is participating in its own destruction, so forget them.
Of course, the Globe buried all accusations of sexual harassment against Biden and made you women look like fools, BUT at least the "Left" is happy:
"Biden gaining trust with left by holding firm on COVID-19 aid proposal" by Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, February 3, 2021
WASHINGTON — As President Biden huddled with 10 Republican senators in a marathon Oval Office meeting Monday night, liberals across the nation held their breath.
On the campaign trail, Biden often touted his ability to cut deals with Republicans, and progressives worried this was the moment when the new president would begin hacking away at his sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal in the name of bipartisanship, but what happened next has — for the most part — heartened progressives and built some fledgling trust in Biden among a wing of the party that’s long been suspicious of him.
After Biden listened to the Republicans’ proposal for a bill that’s just a third the size of his own, Democrats pushed forward the next day with legislation to fast-track the much larger aid package they favor — showing a willingness to pass it with or without Republican support.
“We are not going to dilute, dither, or delay,” said Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer.
Biden told Democratic lawmakers to “go big” with the package in meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, emphasizing that he believes a smaller aid package could lead to lingering negative economic effects, particularly high unemployment.
Despite all the back slapping with Republicans, Biden didn’t appear to blink.
Someone checked to see if he was still of this earth!!
“He will do his best, but unity doesn’t mean unanimity and unity doesn’t mean letting the minority party block progress in the Senate,” Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, said Wednesday after emerging from a White House meeting with Biden.
Nor does it let you select the committees on which they will serve.
I'm having a deja vu, and you imagine the hypocritical stench that will be coming from those hearing rooms?
Biden’s defense of the scope of the bill, in addition to some early nominations of progressive favorites in his administration and aggressive executive actions on climate change, have some in his party’s left wing feeling cautiously optimistic about a president who they feared would resist being bold.
Representative Ilhan Omar, a member of “The Squad” of liberal lawmakers, tweeted last week that the Biden administration “has acted on many of progressives’ top asks” in its first week.
“Putting a $1.9 trillion proposal on the table and then sticking to that proposal despite pressure were pieces of really good news for progressives and really all Americans,” said Adam Green, the cofounder of the liberal group Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
Where is Ilhan on the domestic terrorism bill, and if she supports it, shame on her.
Biden’s bill includes $160 billion for vaccines, testing, and hospitals, $170 billion for schools, and $350 billion for states and local government to keep police, firefighters, and other public employees on the job. Additional funds would go to shoring up unemployment and sending direct checks of up to $1,400 to many Americans. The Republicans’ more modest proposal only fully overlaps with Biden’s on the $160 billion in COVID funding.
The pressure on Biden to compromise is real. Some Republicans are already attacking him for not working harder to gain their support, saying he won the election as a moderate unifier.
“Writing a bill and then demanding the other side support it is not anyone’s idea of bipartisanship,” Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday.
Senator Mitt Romney of Utah predicted that not a single Republican would vote for Biden’s plan if he doesn’t significantly change it, particularly due to the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated to local governments, which Republicans believe is too much.
“President Biden has been preaching unity, unity, unity,” said Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa, urging him to focus the bill solely on COVID-19. “We really need to come together.”
On Wednesday, the White House signaled it would be open to compromise on one point: lowering the income threshold for Americans who would receive the $1,400 checks. In Biden’s proposal, individuals who make $75,000 a year and under, based on their last tax return, qualify for cash. Republicans want that threshold lower, closer to $40,000, but neither Biden nor Democrats have shown a willingness to significantly lower the price tag of the overall bill to fit in with what the 10 Republicans have proposed.....
Biden is striking a very different posture from 2009, and progressives now have hope that Biden appears to have learned his lesson, got the message, and seen the sunrise, 'er, light.
John Paul Mejia, spokesman for the Sunrise Movement, a liberal group that pushes for legislation to address climate change, said, “So far I think that it’s great that he held off on watering anything down,” Mejia said. “Nonetheless the real test is going to come from what he delivers and from what the rest of his party delivers.”
The Globe says Biden is right to go big on COVID-19 relief, even if he has to take creative steps to do it.
Related:
"Senate Democrats will take control of the chamber’s committees under a new power-sharing agreement with Republicans after weeks of negotiations over how to manage the Senate that is divided 50-50. Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the new majority leader, said he and Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the new minority leader, had reached an agreement that would allow Democrats to assume the chairmanships of Senate committees that had remained under Republican leadership despite Democratic election victories. The lack of an agreement, during the first month of the new Congress, created a bizarre situation that had slowed consideration of some of President Biden’s nominees, including a hearing for Judge Merrick B. Garland, the nominee for attorney general. “I’m confident our members are ready to hit the ground running on the most important issues that face our country,” Schumer said on Wednesday. The Senate’s so-called organizing resolution was initially slowed by McConnell’s demand that Senate Democrats pledge to preserve the filibuster for the next two years. Schumer did not accede to the demand, but McConnell dropped his insistence after two Senate Democrats said they would not back eliminating the filibuster, meaning the votes did not exist to overturn it under the current alignment. The new Senate arrangement is based on an agreement reached during 2001, when the Senate was last equally divided. It will allow equal party representation on committees but in the cases of tie votes, legislation or nominees will still advance to the floor for consideration. Though the Senate is split 50-50, Democrats are in control by virtue of the power of Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaking vote. The formal organizing resolution is expected to be considered later Wednesday (New York Times)."
Looks like a white flag of surrender to me, although I'm sure the Demonrats would never go back on their word even with the threats of a scorched-earth Senate (where are the calls to remove HIM for incitement, huh?).
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Meanwhile, the Globe keeps jabbing at us:
"State officials redirecting unused COVID-19 vaccines to older residents, high-risk communities; Baker said he and his team will “bust their butt” to fix problems with rollout" by Robert Weisman and Travis Andersen Globe Staff, February 3, 2021
Disappointed with the state’s COVID-19 vaccination drive so far, Governor Charlie Baker on Wednesday said officials are redirecting large quantities of unused doses now sitting in freezers to doctors and pharmacies, including many in communities hardest hit by the coronavirus.
They’re also designating specific days for local residents, especially people of color, to get shots at the new mass vaccination site at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury, following reports that many who booked initial appointments there were white people from surrounding communities.
The steps come as the Baker administration moves into a new phase of its vaccine rollout in which many more people will qualify for shots, starting with about 450,000 residents age 75 and over, but complaints have been mounting about the difficulty booking appointments and the relatively small percentage of people of color who have been vaccinated.
“Look, I’m not happy with where we are,” Baker said after touring the mass vaccination site that opened at Fenway Park this week. “I know a lot of other people aren’t either. We have work to do and we know that, but one of the best things a good manager does is recognizes and understands that they have a problem and then busts their butt to figure out how to fix it.”
A manager, yup.
State officials are improving their registration portal, Baker said, enabling residents to search for injection sites by ZIP code, and later this week will launch a call center to book appointments.
Baker was more blunt in acknowledging shortcomings than he has been in the past, but he also defended a decision that he admits has slowed the vaccine program: giving first priority to front-line health workers and vulnerable residents in congregate care settings.
“I get how unhappy many people are with the rollout,” he said. “There are some reasons for that unhappiness that have to do with the decisions we made out of the gate, which I do not apologize for.”
Like other states, Massachusetts has a large share of the doses it’s received so far still sitting in freezers at hospitals and pharmacy warehouses even as thousands of residents clamor for shots. As of Monday night, Baker said, only 654,104 of the more than 1 million doses shipped to providers in the state had been used.
Clamoring for shots, huh?
Some of the unused doses have been set aside for health care workers or long-term-care residents who’ve received their first shots in the two-dose vaccine regimen and are required to get their second shot three to four weeks later, but state officials concede that a distressingly large share of high-risk residents are unwilling to be vaccinated. So hospitals and the pharmacies that run vaccine clinics at senior sites have been left with more doses than they’re able to use.
“One of our big issues here in Massachusetts is [the federal government] gave us way more vaccine . . . than there were actually arms available to vaccinate,” the governor said.
Thanks for the gaslighting, governor!
No wonder the criminal tyrant is getting testy.
It's all falling apart as the pandemic has so depleted our emotional reserves that even small things are sending people over the edge and US health officials say they plan to stick with two-dose coronavirus regimen after being rebuked by the FDA.
Because of that, Baker said health systems with excess doses have begun contacting some patients over 75 in their physicians networks to let them know vaccine is available.
Meanwhile, CVS and Walgreens, the pharmacies that received bulk vaccine shipments for nursing homes and other senior sites, will be redistributing them to their retail outlets across Massachusetts, including 30 retail pharmacies that will be opening for shots starting next week.
At least eight of those pharmacies are in high-risk neighborhoods, such as Roxbury, Mattapan, and Dorchester, and communities, such as Chelsea, Revere, and Everett, that have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic. Vaccines will also soon be available at about 50 community health centers statewide and in cities such as Brockton, where an injection site will be run by the board of health.
CVS Health said it will start offering vaccines at 18 more retail pharmacies in Massachusetts on Feb. 11, initially using 21,600 doses that had been earmarked for long-term-care sites.
The company said eligible residents will have to sign up in advance through the CVS website.
Also coming to SUPERMARKETS soon -- because everybody's gotta eat!
Hospital systems will also reallocate unused doses or use doses from new allotments to run clinics in high-risk communities. Mass General Brigham, the state’s largest system, began vaccinating in Lynn this week and will staff clinics in Revere, Chelsea, and Jamaica Plain next week.
Mass General Brigham is using a lottery system to invite some eligible residents to come for shots in the coming weeks, but weighting the invitations toward patients who live in high-risk communities, said Dr. Tom Sequist, the system’s chief patient experience and equity officer. “We want to infuse equity into our strategy at every step,” he said.
Health officials recognize that many people of color are skeptical of vaccines “based on well-deserved mistrust of the health care system that’s built up over years,” Sequist said. To overcome that resistance, he said, hospitals are working with “trusted messengers,” such as physicians of color, to stress the importance of getting vaccinated.
While about 70 percent of Mass General Brigham health workers got shots over the past six weeks, only 56 percent of Hispanic workers and 42 percent of Black workers did, he said. “We’re not going to solve this [hesitancy] overnight,” Sequist said, “but we’re trying to get a little better every day.”
I thought people were clamoring for them!
Baker said Massachusetts should have 165 vaccination sites, large and small, by the middle of February, but even with the unused doses, he cited a shortage of vaccine supplies for the number of newly eligible residents and uncertainty about shipments, with federal officials still giving their state counterparts just a week’s notice on allotments.
“For people seeking appointments, everybody should understand that it may take several weeks in some cases to schedule an appointment,” the governor said.
WTF is with the DOUBLE TALK, huh?
Baker said CIC Health, the startup that’s managing vaccinations at Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium, will work with Boston and state officials to increase vaccinations to community residents at the Reggie Lewis Center.
They’ll be “setting up specific days for people from the neighborhood,” Baker said, and “talking to many of the trusted players in those communities about what they and we can do together to try to encourage people to take advantage of those days” to be inoculated at the center.
What if we don't trust any of you monsters?
What then?
Vaccinations began in the gym of the Lewis center on Tuesday. Marty Martinez, Boston’s chief of health and human services, said the city would eventually use the larger track and field house. He said the plan is to ramp up to 2,500 shots a day, but gave no timetable.
Statewide, officials said more appointment slots will open soon so that Massachusetts can be ready when the volume of shipments increases — including hoped-for shipments of a new one-shot vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson that could be authorized for emergency use later this month.
They are hoping to scale up production of the precious vaccine and get it to the American people soon.
Yes, they may soon have a third vaccine as the variants spread like wildfire.
“We just added 100,000 new appointments this week,” Baker said. “We’re going to add more next week and the week after and the week after and the week after.”
The truth is, they sound desperate to jab you so resist!
Related:
"Restoring trust to save lives; Black and brown Americans’ hesitancy over the COVID vaccine was decades in the making" by Yvonne Abraham Globe Columnist, February 3, 2021
In case you missed, oh, all of 2020, our bumpy COVID vaccine rollout is providing yet another lesson on American inequality.
So far, whether those eligible can get vaccinated comes down too often to whether they have the resources — the time, the technology, the support networks — to snag an appointment. We saw that imbalance come to life at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury this week, as those who showed up for their shots were overwhelmingly white and from more affluent parts of the city.
In Massachusetts, Black residents make up 8 percent of COVID cases, yet only 4 percent of those vaccinated so far; Hispanic residents make up a whopping 29 percent of cases, but only 5 percent of those who’ve gotten the shot as of Feb. 1, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. White residents make up 49 percent of cases and 56 percent of vaccinations so far.
This is the story of Black and Hispanic people who want the shot and can’t get it, but it’s also the story of those who can get it and don’t want it — not yet — because they don’t trust a health system that has let them down time and again.
“It’s not as simple as ‘Build it and they will come,’” said Charles Anderson, CEO of the Dimock Center, which serves Roxbury, Dorchester, JP, and Mattapan, and whose patients are 80 percent Black or Hispanic.
They have a new president and CEO, and the numbers are ABSOLUTELY PUTRID!
That doesn't look like people clamoring for a dose, and it explains all the unused product still sitting in freezers!
NO ONE WANTS THEIR POISON because it is NOT NEEDED!
You don’t have to go all the way back to the Tuskegee experiment to see why people of color have less trust in our health care system: They live its injustices right now, intimately familiar with the well-documented fact that their pain is taken less seriously, that too many of them must battle for care white patients take for granted. So of course they’re more suspicious of a vaccine that has been developed at lightning speed. Even Anderson himself was hesitant at first.
“I don’t think it helped that they called it ‘operation warp speed,’” said the CEO, who is Black. “Did they skip steps?” Of course, Anderson could do research and call up expert friends to put himself at ease. Too many of his patients and workers don’t have time for that. They’re too busy dealing with more than their share of pandemic woes, like food and housing insecurity, and they’re sitting ducks for unhinged antivaccination conspiracy theories, which spread too fast on social media for the truth to catch up: that the vaccine will alter their DNA, or that it’s part of some secret scheme to implant microchips inside them. Added to those are more reasonable fears, like whether it’s safe for pregnant women, given that little testing was done on them during trials.....
That $hill obviously doesn't read her own paper!
Btw, I'm the one lagging far behind and trying to catch up the the endless propaganda that comes from the Globe everyday. It takes up way too much of my time already.
Also see:
A large-scale public vaccination site will open Thursday in Chelsea, the early epicenter of the pandemic in Massachusetts, following persistent advocacy by local activists who feel the state has turned its back on communities of color in the vaccine rollout.
Related:
"Chelsea, one of the poorest cities in the state, is about to host a bold experiment in reimagining capitalism, one that may answer an age-old question: Can giving away money with no strings attached help people out of poverty? The trial, with $3 million in seed money and set to run for four months at first, is a version of the universal basic income concept that has long been debated, tested in small measures, but not implemented by any country. Tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang made it a plank of his brief presidential campaign. The Chelsea pilot may seem like a simple way to support families living on the brink during the pandemic, but the social experiment could have broader implications — perhaps shedding light on the argument over whether giving money away without conditions encourages poor people to quit their jobs or spend it unwisely, or empowers them to make decisions to break the cycle of poverty......"
Yup, word on the street is Chelsea is on the vanguard of the Great Re$et, and forget all about the Chelsea man accused of dragging a woman into the Boston Public Garden and raping her as police continue to investigate because it could happen to any of us (the hunger in your belly and demolishing of the economy like a house in Sandwich is all Trump's fault).
Fortunately, the moratorium on evictions in Boston has been extended as home prices soar and in case you're interested, Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation and new life (all things being equal).
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At least Trump forced the Deep $tate out into the open
It's okay when it is the playbook of Big Tech regarding the Biden coup.
Going to be a massacre the likes of which they have never seen, one comparable only to the Soviet Union or British Empire.
The Biden administration is biased against Asians and whites.
Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, a Democrat, is infamous for ignoring Weinstein accusations for campaign contributions, and he is also looking into Ken Kurson — a friend of the former president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — a former editor of the New York Observer who is also a longtime associate of Rudy Giuliani, and who faced the federal charges of cybercrime and harassment in connection with the dissolution of his marriage in 2015 after he was accused of having stalked a Manhattan doctor, her colleague, and the colleague’s spouse.
Scotland’s parliament voted Wednesday against a proposal to urge an investigation into the finances of Donald Trump’s Scottish golf courses, saying such questions should be left to police, without political pressure, but the Last Queen of Scotland said those decisions should be made by law-enforcement officials.
Maybe he can find sanctuary in Ireland instead.
"The nation’s top infectious disease expert doesn’t want the Super Bowl to turn into a super spreader. When it comes to pandemic-era Super Bowl parties, “cool it,” Dr. Anthony Fauci says. Now isn’t the time to invite people over for watch parties because of the possibility they’re infected with the coronavirus and could sicken others, he said Wednesday. Big events like Sunday’s game in Tampa between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are always a cause for concern because of the potential for virus spread, Fauci said. “You don’t want parties with people that you haven’t had much contact with,” he told NBC’s “Today” show. ’'You just don’t know if they’re infected, so, as difficult as that is, at least this time around, just lay low and cool it.” The NFL has capped game attendance at 22,000 people because of the pandemic. Meanwhile, New Jersey is relaxing its rules on indoor dining and drinking, just in time for the Super Bowl. A 10 p.m. curfew for indoor dining will be lifted starting Friday. Governor Philip D. Murphy also raised the ceiling on indoor dining to 35 percent of capacity, up from 25 percent — the first change to the state’s pandemic restrictions since indoor dining resumed in New Jersey over Labor Day weekend. The higher limits also apply to gyms and casinos. New Jersey was one of the last states to resume indoor dining. Struggling restaurant and bar owners lobbied for months for higher capacity limits. Super Bowl Sunday is typically one of the busiest days of the year for bar and restaurant owners. “We believe we can make this expansion without adding further stress on our health care system,” said Murphy, a Democrat. He imposed the 10 p.m. curfew in November, when coronavirus cases were rising sharply. He also ordered owners to eliminate all bar seating, a rule that is not yet being relaxed. (Many establishments responded by placing two-person cafe tables next to their bars.) At that time, New Jersey was reporting 2,605 virus cases a day, on average. On Wednesday, the daily average stood at 4,548, according to a New York Times database. In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that indoor dining would be allowed in New York City starting Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, at 25 percent of capacity."
The career bureaucrat doesn't have to worry. I have no interest in the game at all this year, despite the hype. I'm not even interested in the commercials.
Of course, for some the party goes on and on and $hows no $ign of ending.
So no Super Bowl party, but get back in school?
"Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, addressing more than 6,000 American teachers in a video meeting, said Thursday evening that students need to return to the classroom for the country to begin recovering. “We are not going to get back to normal until we get the children back in school, for the good of the children, the good of the parents, and the good of the community,” he said. Attending a meeting convened by the two national teachers unions, Dr. Fauci brought with him the message of the Biden administration: that all K-8 schools should aim to reopen within the next 100 days. He said they can expect support from Washington in the form of a new stimulus package to fund sanitation upgrades and other safety measures. As of last month, about one-third of American school districts were operating entirely remotely, and Dr. Fauci acknowledged that “mitigating factors” may make the 100-day goal difficult to achieve in some places. Fielding questions submitted by educators, he did not hesitate to acknowledge potential dangers. He discussed the emergence of new variants of the coronavirus that appear more contagious and more resistant to vaccines, and he said that while he expected vaccines to prevent inoculated teachers from passing the virus onto their loved ones, there was not yet concrete evidence that would be the case. As Dr. Fauci spoke, educators at the meeting posted comments — many reflecting frustration and anxiety. They complained that many states had not prioritized teachers for vaccination and said students were not able to effectively stay masked throughout the school day."
I have given up on the "teachers," sorry.
"Almost half of US states have begun allowing teachers to be vaccinated as officials decide which groups should be given priority, a New York Times survey shows. By this week, 24 states and Washington, D.C., were providing shots to teachers of kindergarten through high school students. How quickly states give shots to teachers from a growing but still limited vaccine supply has become a central point in the debate about how best to reopen schools, as more-contagious virus variants emerge and spread. In some states where many teachers are already teaching in-person classes, teachers are not yet eligible for vaccines. For many places where classes are mainly remote, vaccinating teachers has been a first step to returning children to classrooms, though not the only factor. “This discussion is not about if we return, but how we return,” Stacy Davis Gates, a leader of the Chicago Teachers Union, said recently amid a standoff in that city over whether students in elementary and middle schools — and their teachers — should return to classrooms immediately. “How we return is with the maximum amount of safety that we can obtain in an agreement,” Davis Gates said. In San Francisco, with one of the lowest rates of infection and death of any major US city, public schools have been closed for in-person learning since March. On Wednesday, officials announced an unusual move: legal action against the city’s own Board of Education to push it to reopen schools more quickly. “There’s nothing like a lawsuit to focus the mind and force things to come to a head,” said Dennis Herrera, the city attorney. He said he’d seek an injunction to mandate that the independent Board Education produce a reopening plan. San Francisco has one of the highest rates of private school enrollment in the country, a distinction that during the pandemic has created a kind of de facto segregation. About 15,000 students in private schools are attending in-person classes, while 54,000 public school students are studying online."
It's a CLA$$ segregation, not RACE!
That's why my pre$$ is minimizing it!
Their job is to turn you into little drone worker bees.... literally:
"As recently as December, the vaccine maker Novavax appeared to again be on the brink of failure. Manufacturing troubles had forced the Maryland company, which in its 34-year history had never brought a vaccine to market, to delay the US clinical trial of its COVID-19 inoculation, jeopardizing its $1.6 billion contract with the government, and two vaccines made by its competitors were already being shipped, leaving some to wonder if Novavax would ever catch up, but the picture has improved. The company said last week that its vaccine showed robust protection in a large British trial and worked, though not nearly as well, in a smaller study in South Africa against a contagious new variant, and the scarcity of the two vaccines authorized in the United States, made by Moderna and Pfizer, seems to have made it easier for Novavax to recruit volunteers. That has put it on track to report results this spring, with possible government authorization as early as April. If all goes right, that would mean an influx of 110 million vaccine doses, enough for 55 million Americans at two doses each, by June 30. If Novavax succeeds, that would have global implications. Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna shots, the Novavax vaccine can be stored and shipped at normal refrigeration temperatures. The company is setting up plants around the world to produce up to 2 billion doses per year."
The city plans to spend $1.3 billion on city schools next year, $36 million more than this year, with nearly half of the additional funds will pay for approximately 175 new social workers and family liaisons to work at schools, and more than $18 million will go toward maintaining staff and programming at schools that have lost large numbers of students.
How they will pay for it is another matter.
They only want $ome of it to be cancelled, so NO TRILLION-DOLLAR BAILOUTS for YOU!
The analysis by James Pindell of the Globe Staff asks who will be Boston’s next mayor; which state can “get back to normal” first?; what kind of Rhode Island governor will Dan McKee be?; what will New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu do? Will Senator Pat Leahy announce his retirement?
It's an open secret in Washington that Leahy is a drunk, and Vermont survived the latest virus surge thanks to restrictions that are believed to be among the toughest in the nation. It's the infamous Vermont charm that you have heard about, along with the fresh air that clears the head.
As for Rhode Island, Raimondo is on her way out of town as the overall rollout of the vaccine has been disrupted.
She's part of History now:
In 2020, addressing a nation and a Congress sharply divided over his impeachment, President Trump delivered a State of the Union address in which he hailed a “Great American Comeback” on his watch; Republican legislators chanted “Four More Years,” while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up her copy of Trump’s speech as he ended the address.
Not only was that terribly disrespectful, it was a crime. Destruction of federal property.
In 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, Calif., found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
May Simpson fry in hell someday.
In 1983, pop singer-musician Karen Carpenter died in Downey, Calif., at age 32.
I'm sure she has been looking down on us ever since, bless her.
In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.
The globalists of their day.
The Globe cleared the three feet of snow from the 2015 snowstorm, and Happy Birthday Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor.
He hustled as a player, and at some point, reader, you just have to laugh at it all.
