It's just talk now, but you know how things work with the mass mind manipulation and predictive programming of the propaganda that calls itself the pre$$.
Before beginning I'm going to eat some breakfast:
"People have been captivated this week by the tale of a Los Angeles-based comedian who claims he found what appeared to be bits of shrimp shells and other mysterious items — like a piece of string — inside a large box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. Miles McAlpin was no exception. As the saga unfurled on Twitter, leaving cereal fans gagging, the Cambridge-based artist seized the viral moment. The fake Cinnamon Toast Crunch box was done in the same fashion, but he made it in record time, eager to seize the cultural moment....."
It can LITERALLY be said the New York Times is fake news, and I was also taught not to talk with food in my mouth so..... SURPRISE!
It's another year of COVID now open your card and gift:
"Olive Garden’s parent company is raising pay to hold onto its workers as bars and restaurants across the country embark on a hiring spree ahead of the pandemic’s final phase....."
They are betting big on it and up comes the breakfa$t.
"TUI scaled back its summer holiday schedule to reflect new coronavirus restrictions in Europe, while saying it’s confident that vaccine rollouts will spur bookings later in the year....."
We have all been cut loose at sea, but look on the bright side: you can always vacation in Washington D.C. if you have $ufficient funding and know the code so hop into a Porsche that will take you to the airport. You can read the Investor’s Business Daily on the way there as the driver revs up the engine.
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Speaking of engines being revved, the right-hand corner, above-the-fold, page A1 lead:
"As many workers resist COVID-19 vaccines, calls grow for state to make shots mandatory; Globe survey shows vaccine resistance among police, firefighters, EMTs" by Matt Stout and Robert Weisman Globe Staff, March 25, 2021
Calls from whom?
Large pockets of first responders, front-line health workers, and other public-facing employees are so far refusing COVID-19 vaccination by the thousands in Massachusetts, prompting calls for state government and private employers to make getting shots a condition of hiring.
Yes, they won't mandate the vaccinations exactly; however, without the pass and clean bill of health from the tyrants you will be an outcast before extermination -- for the greater good, of cour$e.
Already, the president of one of the largest senior care operators in the state, Hebrew SeniorLife, has said its facilities plan to require COVID vaccines for new employees later this spring when shots are more widely available, and Attorney General Maura Healey earlier this week suggested that public safety employees, such as State Police and prison workers, should be expected to get the shots.
What they are finding is a really large chunk of the population doesn't want their poison that is not needed and one that is also sick of the god-damn lie-based fear that has been rolling since goddamn 9/11 if not before.
This campaign of terrorism and extortion to get people to take something they don't need for whatever nefarious reason has reached the level of culpable criminality when it comes to government and the pre$$ and they need outcast from society.
”[If] you’re going to sign up for public work, and receive a paycheck from the taxpayers of this state who have sacrificed and lost so much . . . [and] you can’t get a vaccination? It’s irresponsible,” Healey said on GBH’s Boston Public Radio, while acknowledging that some may have health conditions that prevent them from getting the shots.
Though public attention has focused on the stampede of people trying to schedule vaccine appointments, there are also significant numbers of vaccine holdouts, including people whose jobs bring them into close contact with the public and potentially the virus.
I could potentially sprout wheels and become a bicycle, right?
That is how weasel-like the pre$$ journali$ts are -- with profuse apologies and a nod of respect to weasels for the denigrating comparison. Sorry.
A Globe survey of nearly two dozen of the state’s largest police, fire, and emergency medical departments shows swaths of others declining to get the shots through their employers. Roughly 54 percent of Boston police employees booked vaccinations through the department, though its medical staff estimates another 20 percent sought doses at other clinics, based on an informal department survey.
Some public safety officials said they understood why employees may be reluctant to get vaccinated.
Boston police Detective Jeffrey Lopes, president of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers, who has received a vaccine, said a mandate may be well-intentioned, “but I don’t know if it’s doable.”
Lou Woolf, president of Hebrew SeniorLife, said the numbers are worrisome enough that his facilities make it clear to new employees that they are expected to get vaccinated. It’s voluntary now, but Woolf expects to make vaccination a requirement soon.
“It is the right thing to do,” he said. “We need to be doing everything we can . . . to protect our residents, our families, and our staffs.”
Are YOU SICK of the $CAM and TYRANNY YET because I sure as hell am.
The reasons people choose not to be vaccinated can run the gamut from distrust of its safety or the government, to a desire not to rush to be among the first to receive it. Some may also have medical conditions or religious beliefs that prevent them from being inoculated.
Or they don't trust the evil jabbing it at us, including elite a$$holes like Gates and Schwab, government puppets like Baker, et al, or their megaphone pre$$ here pushing the genocidal agenda when vaccines are not even needed at this point and won't be despite their endless narrative pushing and lies.
That's why this all carries with it a whiff of desperation as their plan completely falls apart and we are sick of them.
Governor Charlie Baker, in an interview last week, said he wouldn’t rule out a state vaccination mandate at a later time, but he expressed little enthusiasm for it, saying he would prefer to “nudge” reluctant residents to get shots. He also said a mandate would require a new law, “and several people on my team have questioned the constitutionality of it,” Baker said, later adding: “I think the biggest opportunity here is to get people to do it because they want to to protect themselves and their friends and their families, and I think that strategy, in the end, will bear fruit based on everything we see.”
What he is worried about is lawsuits that will cause the mandates to be rescinded, although that is far from certain when it comes to the future as they continue to jab at us.
Baker said vaccine-averse residents, especially people of color who’ve faced historic health care discrimination, “have legitimate reasons” for being wary, “and I’d much rather try to nudge them into it at some point because their church leader or their doc or their neighbor or their sister or their brother gets vaccinated” than have the state try to force them.
More than 1.1 million Massachusetts residents are fully vaccinated, and another 900,000 have received first doses in two-shot vaccine regimens, state data show. The state’s goal is to immunize about 4.1 million residents by July 4.
That would be the entire adult population -- and they will call it independence, the New Independence Day!
Healey said she thinks public-facing employees at the State Police and prison workers should be required to get shots, but she noted that she wasn’t giving a legal opinion.
Gerard Mahoney, Cambridge’s acting fire chief, said he agrees that those in public safety should be vaccinated, though he questioned whether collective bargaining could hinder any mandate.
“I can’t understand why someone working in public safety wouldn’t take advantage of the vaccine,” said Mahoney, whose department’s vaccination rate of 87 percent was the highest of 23 agencies surveyed by the Globe.
I can, and don't worry, the Communi$t Democrats will dissolve all unions and make them one under state control as with any one-party rule.
Woolf at Hebrew SeniorLife would like the Baker administration to institute a state mandate covering all long-term-care workers. Otherwise, he fears nursing homes, rehab hospitals, affordable housing, and retirement communities that impose mandates on their own could lose employees to other facilities.
That many don't want it, 'eh?
The possibility of a mandate has been raised with state Department of Public Health officials during meetings of a vaccine advisory committee, but officials haven’t committed to it.
One obstacle some have cited is that unlike flu shots, which have been required in the past, COVID-19 vaccines have yet to win full approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The drug agency cleared the vaccines only for emergency use until it reviews more data. Once that happens, possibly in the coming weeks, the push for a state mandate could intensify.
For a tube of toxins and product you don't need.
Nationally, while small numbers of physician practices and other employers have issued vaccination mandates, most are encouraging employees to get shots voluntarily, at least for now, said Michelle Strowhiro, a Los Angeles-based partner in the employment law practice at McDermott Will & Emery, who heads the firm’s COVID-19 task force.
Strowhiro said federal law doesn’t prevent employers from imposing mandates if a vaccine is available through FDA emergency use authorization, but she said federal antidiscrimination law requires employers to make exceptions to mandates for workers with certain health conditions, disabilities, or religious beliefs. That could require human resources and legal staff to deal with compliance.
Another factor is that dozens of states, though not Massachusetts, are considering legislation that would prohibit employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated, and Strowhiro said an employer could face a difficult challenge trying to enforce a vaccine mandate.
“The reality may be that a significant portion of a workforce doesn’t want the vaccine. Are they really going to lay off 40 percent of employees if they won’t get it?” she said.
They are just waking up to that "complicated" reality; however, it is very interesting.
The myopic psychopaths who designed this whole fraud and plan thought we would all be running into their arms screaming save us, save us.
A century-old US Supreme Court case, known as Jacobson v. Massachusetts, offers some precedent for a state vaccine mandate. In 1905, the court ruled that it was within the power of a state “to enact a compulsory vaccination law,” and that individual liberties could be restricted to protect the overall public health.
Courts today would likely apply a higher legal bar to any vaccination mandates, requiring that a state government have a compelling interest to impose one, said Kent Greenfield, a Boston College law professor, but, he said, achieving herd immunity against a pandemic that’s upended life worldwide is likely compelling enough.
“I think the state could meet that,” Greenfield said.
That would be the argument at the compromised U$$C, ugh!
Baker has said he would like to see federal guidance on the issue of mandates, but so far, the Biden administration has taken an encourage-but-don’t-mandate posture.....
Postures can change like that, especially with chimeric variants roaming about!
Related:
"From Governor Charlie Baker on Thursday, the news came in multiple helpings: Four hard-hit cities will receive $100 million in additional aid, and more vaccine doses are headed to Massachusetts from the federal government. Speaking at a State House press conference, Baker said the administration will supplement funding to Chelsea, Everett, Randolph, and Methuen, which received far less than their peers in the latest federal COVID-19 relief bill, and the constrained federal supply of vaccine is expected to grow, though it will still not be enough for all residents who want a dose to get one, Baker said. In part due to antiquated federal funding formulas that depend on a population threshold of 50,000 people, the four communities singled out Thursday received far less in direct aid than some of their neighbors, despite suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic more than almost any other cities and towns in Massachusetts. The news came on a day when Massachusetts recorded 2,274 new COVID-19 cases — the most since early February. The state reported 39 new confirmed deaths, bringing the total to 16,671. On the vaccine supply front, Baker said that next week he anticipates the state will get an additional one-time allocation of 40,800 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, as well as 20,000 Pfizer first doses, on top of the state’s regular allocation. Baker called it “great news . . . We’re starting to see an increase in doses provided by the federal government, which has allowed us to continue opening up our eligibility categories.” Still, he warned that the state will continue to “see a constrained supply” compared with how many people want to be vaccinated. Baker also announced the state is launching a program next week to bring vaccines to homebound residents......"
Chelsea is the original epicenter of the crisis and I view the "aid programs" as bribes at this point, as the Globe prepares you for the house call.
See you in court:
"A year after the pandemic upended the state’s court system, creating a backlog of cases that could take years to address, jury trials will soon resume in some unconventional settings. An elegant wedding venue in Randolph, where a nightclub has been outfitted with portable cells. A former movie theater in Springfield, a Holiday Inn in Pittsfield. Function rooms at a Cape Cod resort that features a water park. With many courthouses lacking adequate space or ventilation to meet coronavirus guidelines, court officials are scrambling to find locations where trials can be held safely in the coming months, with space for social distancing taking clear priority over ambience....."
The world is being transformed while you are locked down and restricted, and when they finally let us out it will be far too late.
"President Joe Biden said Thursday that Republican efforts to limit voting rights were “sick” and “un-American,” vowing to prevent states from taking what he called “despicable” actions that undermine democracy by making it harder for people to cast ballots. Speaking to reporters in the East Room of the White House for his first formal news conference, Biden said he would do “everything in my power” to pass voting rights legislation now under consideration in the Senate. But when asked about ending the Senate rule that requires 60 votes to approve most legislation — one of the biggest obstacles to the voting rights bill and much of the rest of his agenda — the president was more cautious, suggesting he was open to change but not committing himself to it, but he also signaled more directly than he has previously that he might eventually back more far-reaching proposals to limit or abolish the filibuster if doing so turned out to be essential for passage of a voting rights measure and other key elements of his agenda. He insisted, sometimes emotionally, that officials in his government were doing everything they could to treat migrant children humanely, and he repeatedly blamed former President Donald Trump for the overcrowding in border facilities....."
Proving he is a dowering old fool, liar, or both!
Speaking of liars, get this accounting of the pre$$er:
"The news conference was Biden’s first extended grilling by journalists since taking office more than two months ago. Since then, his advisers have carefully controlled his interactions with the news media, which have included one-on-one interviews and some limited opportunities for reporters to ask questions during brief appearances. A veteran politician with a long history of verbal gaffes during unscripted moments, Biden has entered the presidency with more than his usual amount of discipline about his message, but his decision to finally face reporters in a more formal way — a White House tradition for decades — was a test of his ability to maintain that discipline under pressure. Standing in front of American flags in the stately East Room, the president offered detailed answers across a range of topics. He rambled through some of his answers — demonstrating a former senator’s ability to filibuster — and displayed annoyance with some of his inquisitors as well as flashes of humor, He used his opening remarks to celebrate what he cast as encouraging signs for the economy, citing new forecasts that show economic growth for the year could reach 6%, but Biden’s appearance came at a moment of national mourning over mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia, and just hours after North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast — both of which serve as reminders that a president’s agenda can often be derailed or shifted by national or global events. Biden had previously signaled that it was unlikely that the United States would withdraw its 2,500 remaining troops from Afghanistan by the May 1 deadline mandated in an agreement that Trump reached with the Taliban, but he had left open the question of whether the troops would remain indefinitely, as many in the Pentagon have argued is necessary. On the mass shootings over the past two weeks, the president played down the urgency of quickly passing gun safety legislation. Biden’s pledge to double the number of vaccinations during his first 100 days was in keeping with the president’s pattern: aim low, and when it is clear the initial target will be exceeded, adjust upward to another attainable goal. The nation is already on track to meet the 200 million figure. As of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a total of 130 million shots had been administered since December and that 14% of the American population was fully vaccinated....."
It was more like a slow sauté as Biden shows that the word of the US government means nothing, and look at how full of themselves is the $hit media.
They are inquisitors who were outdone by the sharp-as-a-tack Biden!
That was my takeaway from President Biden’s first formal news conference anyway; I'm sure the Glob had their own.
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I must be crazy to open up the pos, but here goes:
Time to get moving:
"Buttigieg tells congressional panel that inaction on infrastructure needs threatens US future" by Hope Yen and Kevin Freking Associated Press, March 25, 2021
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told a divided House panel Thursday that the country’s infrastructure needs exceed $1 trillion and improvements to roads, bridges, and highways can no longer ignore the reality of climate change, calling inaction “a threat to our collective future.”
Buttigieg appeared before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in an opening gambit to sell Congress on President Biden’s infrastructure plan. Instead, the hearing exposed deep fault lines by party, testing Biden’s campaign promise to reach across the political aisle to address national problems.
Congress just passed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, but Buttigieg told lawmakers that a broader economic recovery will require a national commitment to fix and transform America’s infrastructure.
It is the Great Re$et on $teroids, and woe to us all.
Addressing wary Republicans balking on spending trillions more for Biden’s biggest policy initiative, Buttigieg called the coming months “the best chance in any of our lifetimes to make a generational investment in infrastructure” and emphasized new investments to curb climate change.
“Climate change is real,” he said.
So is the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus, or so I was told.
The panel’s top Republican, however, immediately drew a firm line in the sand, suggesting any Biden plan that includes broad green initiatives will be a nonstarter.
“A transportation bill needs to be a transportation bill — not the Green New Deal,” said Missouri Representative Sam Graves.
Republicans tried to get more details on how the Biden administration plans to pay for infrastructure improvements, but Buttigieg was noncommittal, saying he understands that cooperation from Congress will be needed to “arrive at a healthy balance of how this can be at least partially paid for.”
Partially paid for?
C'mon, Pete!
Republicans are balking at the size and scope. Some Democrats have privately told the administration they will probably have to bypass Republicans and use their narrow party majorities in the House and Senate to pass infrastructure plans......
Get used to it, you powerless and impotent opposition who think politics still matter.
Related:
"In a decision that marked an important victory for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change agenda, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that the federal government’s imposition of carbon taxes in provinces that oppose them was constitutional. Citing Parliament’s power to legislate on matters related to “peace, order and good government,” the court said that fighting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions was a matter of “national concern” protected under the Constitution. “This matter is critical to our response to an existential threat to human life in Canada and around the world,” the court wrote in a 6-to-3 decision. “Climate change is real. It is caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities and it poses a grave threat to humanity’s future.” The concept of carbon pricing has been widely endorsed by economists, and according to the World Bank, some form of it has been carried out or is in development in 64 countries, either through direct taxes on fossil fuels or through cap-and-trade programs....."
So THAT is how they are going to pay for it!
What a $CAM!
All for your own protection, of course, as they amass all the wealth in the world while your standard of living craters.
"Riders are abandoning buses and trains. That’s a problem for climate change; A year into the coronavirus pandemic, a relatively simple way to lower greenhouse gas emissions is barely viable in many cities around the world" by Somini Sengupta, Geneva Abdul, Manuela Andreoni and Veronica Penney New York Times, March 25, 2021
A year into the coronavirus pandemic, public transit is hanging by a thread in many cities around the world. Riders remain at home or they remain fearful of boarding buses and trains, and without their fares, public transit revenues have fallen off a cliff. In some places service has been cut. In others, fares have gone up and transit workers are facing the prospect of layoffs.
That’s a disaster for the world’s ability to address that other global crisis: climate change. Public transit offers a relatively simple way for cities to lower their greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention a way to improve air quality, noise, and congestion, but act how?
They keep telegraphing it without saying it, but it's get rid of the people!
That's what the vaccines are for!
Transit agencies that have been bailed out by the government are wondering how long the generosity will last, and almost everywhere, transportation experts are scrambling to figure out how to better adapt public transit to the needs of riders as cities begin to emerge from the pandemic.
Why?
I was told it is in its final phase.
For now, people simply are not moving around much. In some places, fear of the virus has driven people into cars. The worry about the future is twofold. Most importantly, there are a few outliers, but the picture is grim in many more cities.
F**k the cities.
One of the busiest metro systems in the world, the London Underground, which normally clocks around 4 million journeys every weekday, is currently operating at around 20 percent of its normal capacity. Buses are a bit more populated, running around 40 percent of normal. The city transit agency, which had once projected a budget surplus for 2020, has instead been relying on government bailouts since the pandemic hit. It expects it will take at least two years to see public transit usage return to prepandemic levels.
“It’s been pretty devastating, to be perfectly honest,” said Alex Williams, director of city planning for Transport for London.
They have NO ONE TO BLAME but THEMSELVES for GOING ALONG with the PLANNEDEMIC!
London is one of a handful of cities around the world with a congestion tax designed to reduce car traffic in the city center. Both London and Paris sought to use lockdowns to expand bike lanes.
In the Indian capital, New Delhi, the subway reopened in September after a suspension of many months.
Lucky are those agencies, as in India and across Europe, that are subsidized by their governments.....
Or what, the trains without any people would stop?
City officials said they hope to use the crisis as an opportunity because “it’s not just an environmental issue, but a public health issue,” and the bigger challenge is to fix their public transit systems so that passengers will return because it is “about perception in the end.”
"Scientists boost an idea long thought outlandish: Reflecting the sun’s rays" by Christopher Flavelle New York Times, March 25, 2021
Bill Gates wants to chalk up the sky and the chemtrail cooling has been going on for years. The purpose of this article is to see how you react as they lay the groundwork for weather weapons and control that exist only in the minds of "conspiracy theorists."
WASHINGTON — The idea of artificially cooling the planet to blunt climate change — in effect, blocking sunlight before it can warm the atmosphere — got a boost on Thursday when an influential scientific body urged the United States government to spend at least $100 million to research the technology.
That technology, often called solar geoengineering, entails reflecting more of the sun’s energy back into space through techniques that include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere. In a new report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said that governments urgently need to know whether solar geoengineering could work and what the side effects might be.
Another $olution for a nonexistent problem, and what if the "side effects" can't be fixed?
“Solar geoengineering is not a substitute for decarbonizing,” said Chris Field, director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanf rd University and head of the committee that produced the report, referring to the need to emit less carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Still, he said, technology to reflect sunlight “deserves substantial funding, and it should be researched as rapidly and effectively as possible.”
Then SHUT DOWN the U.S. WAR MACHINE!
The report acknowledged the risks that have made geoengineering one of the most contentious issues in climate policy. Those risks include upsetting regional weather patterns in potentially devastating ways, for example by changing the behavior of the monsoon in South Asia; relaxing public pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and even creating an “unacceptable risk of catastrophically rapid warming” if governments started reflecting sunlight for a period of time, and then later stopped, but the authors argue that greenhouse gas emissions are not falling quickly enough to avoid dangerous levels of global warming, which means the world must begin to examine other options. Evidence for or against solar geoengineering, they found, “could have profound value” in guiding decisions about whether to deploy it.
That includes evidence about what the authors called the social risks.....
Since when does that factor in after CVD?
I wonder what such spraying will do the the birds?
"The bald eagle population in the lower 48 states has quadrupled since 2009, researchers said this week, underscoring decades of efforts to protect a species that was once on the brink of extinction. The numbers are particularly remarkable given that the species was nearly driven to extinction in the last century, but through protection and conservation efforts and the banning of DDT in 1972, the population was able to recover over the years. The bald eagle was removed from Endangered Species Act protection in 2007. While many celebrated the increase in numbers, bald eagles in recent years have become a nuisance for poultry farmers hoping to raise a full, healthy stock....."
“The bald eagle has always been considered a sacred species to American Indian people,” and deserves a spot inside the tent even if you starve.
Also see:
Must be why the pre$$ has forgotten all about Cuomo.
There is no crime of love so it's a moot point:
"A trio of lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation that would ban federal funds from being used to install permanent fencing around the US Capitol and its office buildings, amid a debate over how best to secure the complex in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection by a pro-Trump mob. Meanwhile, almost three months after the insurrection raised questions about Capitol safety and security, the House is making all doors surrounding the chamber bulletproof. A House Democratic leadership aide confirmed the change, which was first reported by Axios, but noted that the project was planned long before the deadly attack. The fencing measure, called the “No Fencing at the United States Capitol Complex Act,” was introduced by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat and the District’s nonvoting representative in Congress....."
Why does the Capitol still look like North Korea, and what is going on over at the Naval Yard?
Maybe one day she will be allowed to vote:
"Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, has offered his support for many provisions of the Democrats’ voting rights legislation but cautioned that the Senate shouldn’t pursue it without Republican support. “Pushing through legislation of this magnitude on a partisan basis may garner short-term benefits, but will inevitably only exacerbate the distrust that millions of Americans harbor against the US government,” Manchin said in a statement. “We can and we must reform our federal elections together — not as Democrats and Republicans, but as Americans to restore the faith and trust in our democracy.” Manchin is the only Democrat not signed on as a co-sponsor of the For the People Act....."
The most powerful Republican senator is a DEMOCRAT!
Off with their heads!
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So after a year of high anxiety, months of unnerving trepidation, and weeks of sweaty anticipation, the Globe columnist is finally going to shower?
I'm sorry, but there is no way to wash away certain stains.
So HOW ODD is it that CASES are RISING where VACCINATIONS are HIGH, 'eh?
"As Mass. vaccinates older residents, positive cases increase among younger people, Baker says
By Amanda Kaufman and Jeremy C. Fox Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, March 25, 2021
Massachusetts is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases among people under 30, Governor Charlie Baker said Thursday, a rise that epidemiologists said was predictable as warm weather and the lifting of restrictions drive more people out of their homes.
Based on a faulty technique that doesn't detect infection from a non existent virus, and the warm weather will kill it anyway like it does all seasonal colds and flu.
Meanwhile, the state vaccination campaign continues to prioritize older residents. “While these residents are far less likely to be hospitalized, it remains critically important for all residents, and especially young people, to continue to practice prevention strategies and not let down their guard,” Baker said, but younger people were less likely to require major medical care.
It's called a cull of unproductive and useless eaters.
State education officials also reported an uptick among public school students and school staff members on Thursday.
As predicted here after they FORCED the SCHOOLS OPEN!
The increase worries at least one health expert, who said the state’s reopening and variants of the virus could be major factors.
You sick of this script yet because I am!!
“Absolutely, we should be concerned,” said Northeastern University epidemiologist Sam Scarpino.
Across age groups, test positivity rates have been edging upward, and in the past few days hospitalizations have followed suit.
Scarpino attributed the case increases both to the arrival of coronavirus variants and to people letting down their guard as Governor Charlie Baker has loosened coronavirus restrictions.
“This is exactly the reason that so many of us were saying it was too soon to be relaxing measures,” he said.
The UK variant of the virus “is widespread in Massachusetts and is circulating within communities,” the state said Thursday, and variants first discovered in Brazil and South Africa are also present in the state.
No one is dying from it and the hospitals are quiet, but you know.
Increases have also been seen in a number of other states. Experts are worried an alarming spike in Michigan might be a sign of trouble ahead.
FUCK OFF!
Meanwhile, the pace of coronavirus vaccinations in Massachusetts stopped climbing and has wavered up and down in the past two weeks.
“Vaccines are here and that’s a great thing, but we’re still in a race against time,” Baker said.....
Oh, THAT is why we get the JERK JOB and TALK of MANDATES!
You know, a year into the pandemic the Rhode Island’s Medical Reserve Corps has been the ‘Swiss army knife of public health’ and a vital and largely unknown resource helping to facilitate testing and vaccine distribution, backfilling nursing homes, and collecting personal protection equipment, after a massive influx of volunteers as advocates call for mass vaccination weekend for people of color and as Massachusetts is in the midst of a high-stakes campaign to vaccinate 4.1 million adults in an effort to bring an end to a pandemic that has wracked the state for more than a year and as researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital have discovered a possible way to make COVID-19 vaccines more effective against variants.
Of course, some viruses can't be fought with vaccines.
That's the 800-pound gorilla in the new habitat that will cost $8.1 million, collected via anonymous donors before the onset of the pandemic last year.
"Advocates want NIH to use its Moderna vaccine patent to push for global access" by Christopher Rowland Washington Post, March 25, 2021
WASHINGTON — When Moderna sprinted to create a coronavirus vaccine last year, it had help from its scientific partners in the government. A year later, the collaboration is at the heart of a call by a group of public health advocates and academics who want the government to forcefully exert patent rights over the Moderna vaccine.
It's $till a Dark $pring ahead, but drug companies control nearly all the intellectual property and stand to make fortunes off the vaccines.
The advocates are asking NIH to negotiate aggressively with Moderna for patent licensing terms that would speed vaccinations to the developing world by requiring the company to cooperate in a plan to dramatically increase production and reduce the price.
When it comes to developing and patenting drugs, the US government has almost never played hardball with its partners in the private sector. One exception came in 2019, when the Justice Department sued drugmaker Gilead for patent infringement over sales of its costly drug Truvada as a prevention for HIV, after an article in The Washington Post and a hearing in Congress. That lawsuit is pending.
Now nonprofit advocacy groups PrEP4All, Public Citizen, and others contend that the pandemic has presented another moment requiring government action to ensure a key NIH invention is leveraged to stem infections around the world.
“It seems to me like a golden opportunity to do what’s right,’' said Wafaa El-Sadr, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University who leads an initiative to fight HIV, tuberculosis, and other diseases overseas.
Then it is WRONG!
The groups cite the danger of continued coronavirus outbreaks overseas, which probably will generate variants that could become resistant to vaccines everywhere, including in the United States.
PFFFT!
The vaxxeen doesn't prevent infection and transmission as it is now, so bugger off!
“This really is an NIH/Moderna vaccine. For NIH to not have ensured global access is a dereliction of their duty to protect the public health of the United States,” said James Krellenstein, executive director and cofounder of PrEP4All, which advocates for broader access to HIV drugs. ’'These patents reflect one of the last opportunities NIH has to exert leverage.’'
Moderna has also has been criticized for not yet signing up to supply Covax, a program designed by the World Health Organization to ensure more equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines.
Moderna, which has predicted $18.5 billion in coronavirus vaccine sales in 2021, did not respond to a request for comment. The NIH arm that worked on the project, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also did not respond to a request for comment. The groups sent their letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, as well as NIH director Francis Collins and NIAID director Anthony Fauci.
You don't want that drying up, do you?
Last year in response to questions from the Post, NIAID said it took a nonexclusive approach to licensing its coronavirus spike protein to multiple companies. It said that licensing arrangements typically take the form of royalty payments to the government.
To the organization Fraudci heads, and it sure looks like a conflict of intere$t!
Vaccine companies have opted against technology-sharing programs hosted by the WHO and opposed waivers of international patent protections. The industry says proprietary know-how and intellectual property — which protect profitable monopolies on its products — are the backbone for innovation and production deals with preferred contract manufacturers, but current estimates are that many countries in the developing world may not get substantial amounts of coronavirus vaccine until 2023.
The spike protein from NIH mimics the coronavirus in the human body, which teaches the immune system to attack the real virus. Other companies used NIH’s spike protein design in their coronavirus vaccines, including Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.
The public interest groups said they singled out Moderna because the company has an extra degree of partnership with the NIAID, which had worked for several years with Moderna on vaccine development for Middle East respiratory syndrome. The NIAID also conducted the first clinical trials on Moderna’s vaccine.
When compared with the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines, which are based on a more common viral vector technology, the mRNA vaccines have demonstrated greater effectiveness at preventing infection, although it is difficult to accurately compare performance because of different times and locations of clinical trials.
The mRNA system also can be more rapidly modified to fight variants, and production times are being driven down as manufacturers gain expertise. The mRNA vaccines could go further, faster, toward eliminating the coronavirus and preventing resistant variants from evolving and spreading......
All this bull$hit takes us back to the top and the mandates, for that is what this pile is going to be used for after the "nudging" fails.
Also see:
"U.S. equities gained amid progress in distributing vaccines and as investors weighed the outlook for economic growth and inflation. Oil tumbled after a rally spurred by the blockage of the Suez Canal. Banks and transportation companies led gains on the S&P 500 Index, and Boeing Co.’s plan to resume delivery of its 787 Dreamliners this week lifted the planemaker. U.S. equities are churning just below record highs as investors assess the latest progress and setbacks in the fight against Covid-19 amid concerns that a surge in economic growth could fuel inflation....."
So much for the grilling:
"While vaccination efforts have gathered speed and restrictions on activities have receded in many states, the US job market is showing signs of life. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell last week to 657,000, a decrease of 100,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. It was the lowest weekly level of initial state claims since the pandemic upended the economy a year ago. Although the pace of vaccinations, as well as passage of a $1.9 trillion relief package this month, has lifted economists’ expectations for growth, the labor market has lagged behind other measures of recovery. Still, the easing of restrictions on indoor dining areas, health clubs, movie theaters, and other gathering places offers hope for the millions of workers who were let go in the past 12 months, and the $1,400 checks going to most Americans as part of the relief bill should help spending perk up in the weeks ahead. Diane Swonk, chief economist at the accounting firm Grant Thornton, said she hoped for consistent employment gains but her optimism was tempered by concern about the longer-term displacement of workers by the pandemic.“We’ve passed the point where you can just flip a switch and the lights come back on,” she added. “We need to see a sustained increase in hiring, which I think we will see, but the concern is that it won’t be so robust. It takes longer to ramp up than it does to shut down.”
Now place your bets and hope the wheel gets unstuck:
"State regulators have levied an $18,000 fine against the MGM Springfield casino, citing three recent incidents in which underage guests gambled at the facility — one of whom was also served alcohol. The incidents, cited by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, happened on Dec. 25, Dec. 31, and Jan. 20. Loretta Lillios, its director of investigations and enforcement, said noted that the widespread wearing of masks may make it more difficult for staffers to spot underage people once they are on the floor, but she noted that they should have been stopped during the required ID check at the door. This is the second time since MGM Springfield opened in 2018 that it has been penalized by the commission for how it protects against underage gambling....."
Round and round it goes.....
"Giant ship blocking Suez Canal could take ‘days, even weeks’ to free; Dozens of other vessels laden with oil and goods destined for ports around the world are stranded, and with each passing hour the economic cost of the disruption grows more consequential" by Vivian Yee New York Times,
CAIRO — As tugboats strained against the weight of the mammoth ship and dredgers worked to clear sand and mud, a salvage company working on the operation warned on Thursday that releasing the container vessel blocking traffic in the Suez Canal in Egypt could take days or even weeks.
Dozens of ships laden with oil and goods destined for ports around the world are stranded in the canal, and with each passing hour, the economic cost of the disruption grows more consequential.
The stuck ship, the Ever Given, has been wedged in the canal since running aground amid the heavy winds of a sandstorm Tuesday. Its bow is lodged in the canal’s eastern bank and its stern in the western bank.
The wind came all the way from Massachusetts, and it sure did alter the waterfront.
Eight large tugboats were attempting to push and drag the ship from its unintended berth, the Suez Canal Authority said in a statement Thursday, but at about 1,300 feet long — roughly equivalent to the height of the Empire State Building — and weighing around 200,000 metric tons, dislodging the Ever Given is proving challenging.
Peter Berdowski, chief executive of Royal Boskalis Westminster, which has been appointed by Ever Given’s owner to help move the vessel, told Dutch current affairs program Nieuwsuur on Wednesday that the operation to free the ship could take “days, even weeks.”
Berdowski, whose company has been involved in expanding the Suez Canal, said that Ever Given was stuck on both shallow sides of the V-shaped waterway. Fully loaded with 20,000 containers, the ship “is a very heavy beached whale,” he said.
Authorities had first tried to float the vessel using tugboats, a model that worked to free the CSCL Indian Ocean, a similarly sized container ship that became stuck in the Elbe River in 2016, near the port of Hamburg, Germany.
Everything depends on how deep the massive container ship is stuck. “The more deeply the ship is stuck, the harder it is to lose weight, the more time it will take to free it,” Berdowski said.
The global shipping and supply industry — already battered by the surge in orders caused by the coronavirus pandemic and recent disruptions at factories in Japan and Texas — waited to see whether the disruption from the traffic jam would amount to a couple of days’ minor inconvenience, or something worse.
The canal, from which Egypt derives much of its revenues and geopolitical significance, handles about 10% of all global trade. More than 50 ships pass through it on an average day.
Egypt opened a new lane in one section of the canal in 2015, an $8 billion expansion that the president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, heralded as a historic national accomplishment, but the Ever Given is sitting diagonally across another section of the canal, one that has only one lane.
The head of the Suez Canal Authority, Lieutenant General Osama Rabie, said in a statement Thursday that the day before, 13 ships had been expected to be able to move through the canal after the Ever Given was tugged out of the way, but the salvage operation was taking longer than hoped, forcing the ships to drop anchor in a waiting area, the authority noted in the statement.....
This was no accident.
This is another way to shut down the global economy in the "pandemic's final phase" so that the lockdowns can continue.
Time to ice this post.
