Sorry for keeping you so late today.
"After-school programs suffer school reopening whiplash" by Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff,Updated March 28, 2021
Six months after scrambling to rent gyms and church basements to care for children whose schools didn’t open, community groups are again dashing to accommodate the whiplash changes to school schedules as districts shift back to in-person learning, and many after-school programs are struggling to retain employees who can’t tolerate wild shifts in hours and pay: Aides who are losing hours or being laid off as schools reopen will be needed back full time in just a few weeks for April vacation.
“They’ve staffed up to provide full-day support and care,” said Ardith Wieworka, chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership. “Now, all of a sudden, ‘We don’t need you anymore.’ How do you run a business when the rules of the road keep changing?”
Maybe you would like to further discuss that over lunch at a restaurant?
The rules changed three weeks ago when Massachusetts Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley gained authority to order districts back to school, but as with all things COVID, schools have been inconsistent in their approaches.
“Some people had — not to say a good experience with COVID — but they’ve made some lifestyle changes,” said Beth Hughes, owner and director of Abington Imagine Nation Academy morning and after-school program. “All of a sudden you’re able to look back and say, ‘I really can cut back on my hours at work and afford it. I really enjoy being with my kids more.’ ”
The scaled-back needs of some parents, though, create problems for others.....
That's why QCARE is there as I ask to be excused to go to the rest room.
"Boston hotels, among hardest hit in the country, could take years to recover" by Katie Johnston Globe Staff, March 28, 2021
Normally at this time of year at the Omni Parker House, anticipation is in the air. Wedding banquets are being planned, graduation dinners are being booked, and tourists are snapping up rooms at the elegant property, a fixture in downtown Boston since 1855.
This year, however, is anything but normal.
Even as the pandemic starts to ease its grip, the return of visitors to the city —particularly those flying in from other parts of the world or traveling on business — remains in doubt, which could stall what otherwise appears to be a promising recovery, and nowhere is the impact more evident than at the area’s struggling hotels.
This year, local hotels are projected to hit 42percent occupancy, half of what it was in 2019, and hotel revenues aren’t expected to get back to pre-pandemic levels until 2025.
An estimated 8,000 hotel employees are still out of work around Boston, and some jobs may not return for years, if ever.
I'm going to stop here and ask the reader how should I feel about this report and its source?
On the one hand, they are reporting it as if they care. On the other, they have actively assisted in the devastation by pushing the big lie and are in fact on board with the whole Great Re$et agenda all the way down the line. That makes them mass-murdering monsters to me.
Anyway, I wonder what all the illegals, 'er, undocumented will do when they arrive.
The Parker House, where Charles Dickens first recited “A Christmas Carol” in the United States and Senator John F. Kennedy proposed to his future wife, shut down at the end of March last year and didn’t reopen until just after Labor Day, dropping down to four nights a week through the winter. The hotel fully reopened on Wednesday, but still has no food or beverage service. Bookings have been flickering back to life, but international guests, who typically make up about a fifth of the hotel’s business, are nonexistent; corporate travel, which accounts for roughly half, has also dried up.
Related:
"A second summer lost to the coronavirus crisis would likely trigger a spate of airline failures and bankruptcy filings, alongside a repeat of 2020’s bailouts, job cuts, and jetliner deferrals and cancellations, according consultants IBA Group. In just the past week, the optimism that took the Bloomberg World Airlines Index to the highest since the start of the pandemic has evaporated....."
Neither are expected to bounce back anytime soon, and general manager John Murtha isn’t sure when he’ll get back to the full staff of 350 he employed before the pandemic.
If ever?
“The devastation in Boston was significantly more severe than it was in the rest of the country,” said Adam Kamins, a director of economic research at Moody’s Analytics......
That's when I checked out.
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How much you want to bet the rooms fill up awfully fast with?
"Family groups crossing border in soaring numbers point to next phase of migration surge" by Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti The Washington Post, March 28, 2021
The Biden administration’s attention along the Mexico border has been consumed for the past several weeks by the record numbers of migrant teenagers and children crossing into the United States without their parents, at a rate that far exceeds the government’s ability to care for them, but as they race to add shelter capacity for these minors, Department of Homeland Security officials are privately warning about what they see as the next phase of a migration surge that could be the largest in two decades, driven by a much greater number of families.
That's the plan(?) and they can't all stay in tents.
DHS expects roughly 500,000 to 800,000 members of family groups to arrive during the 2021 fiscal year that ends in September, a quantity that would equal or exceed the record numbers who entered in 2019, according to government data reviewed by The Washington Post.
The estimate is based on what has already been a vertiginous increase since President Biden took office Jan. 20. Groups of families — sometimes collectively numbering as many as 400 — have been showing up this month along the riverbanks in South Texas, straining the Customs and Border Protection's ability to transport, process, and care for so many parents and children without leaving other sections of the border unsupervised.
He had the gall to blame Trump!
Hundreds of parents and children have been spending hours at an outdoor processing station next to the Rio Grande, some sleeping on the ground while they wait for agents to formally take them into custody.
Before going further, I just want to say how sick I am of the Zioni$t War Pre$$ waving women and children at me to further their agenda, be it wars or anything else.
Roy Villareal, who retired last year after 33 years in the Border Patrol, said roughly 40 percent of those taken into CBP custody now are children and families, but they consume 60 to 70 percent of agents’ time, attention and paperwork.
“Border security drops tremendously because of this,” he said, noting that drug traffickers often choreograph the crossings of large groups of families to tie up agents in one area while moving narcotics in another.
While the Biden administration says its policy is to “expel” families to Mexico under a pandemic health order, the most recent CBP data shows that only about 10 to 20 percent are being turned back. The rest are typically released into the United States with a notice to appear in court, even though Biden told reporters last week the families “should all be going back.”
They then disappear into whatever ether is out there for them, some drug gangs, others rapists and murders that have slipped through.
In late January, just days into Biden’s term, Mexican authorities stopped accepting some families rejected by US agents, primarily in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, citing a new child protection law that has limited their shelter capacity. The Biden administration has placed some families arriving to South Texas on flights to other sectors of the border, including El Paso, then returning them to Mexico from there, but there appears to be no formal determination as to who is allowed into the United States and who is selected for the expulsion, sowing confusion and anguish among the families unlucky to be turned away.
Biden sent top diplomats to Mexico last week in an effort to get President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to accept the return of more expelled Central American families, following an agreement that will send millions of surplus AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine doses to Mexico from US stockpiles.
Okay, first off, why would they want that toxic poison that is the new diplomacy(?) -- especially when the change in policy is an obvious snub to the new regime?
As a point of reference, Obrador knows all about getting ripped off by fraud so his stance makes sense here. Stolen elections and coups do indeed have consequences.
There has been no formal announcement about expanded Mexican shelter capacity, however, and the extraordinary volume of people arriving to South Texas has often left US agents too overwhelmed to complete the paperwork. They have started handing some families blank forms and asking them to report to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement later, a practice CBP officials say they have never engaged in on a large scale.
"Our policy remains that families are expelled, and in situations where expulsion is not possible due to Mexico's inability to receive the families, they are placed into removal proceedings," said Sarah Peck, a DHS spokeswoman, referring to the deportation process.
Although the Biden administration is expelling some families, it is allowing nearly all unaccompanied minors to stay, so some parents are choosing to send their sons and daughters across the border alone. As more families are allowed to stay, more parents are expected to arrive with their children, instead of splitting up.
I find it hard to believe, no matter how bad conditions are, that parents would abandoned their children to a dangerous journey and unknown fate.
What kind of parent does that?
After the Obama administration faced a spike in family migration in 2014, it opened large "residential centers" for parents and children that were designed to resemble dormitories rather than detention facilities, but courts have limited the amount of time minors are allowed to spend at those sites, and the government has struggled for years to rule quickly enough on their claims for humanitarian protection.
During the Trump time they told us they were torture centers.
That system was quickly overwhelmed during the 2019 surge, and so many families arrived at once that the Trump administration had to quickly free them into the United States, a practice it derided as “catch and release.” Their numbers fell again after President Trump expanded the “Remain in Mexico” program, which required families seeking asylum to wait outside US territory, often in grim camps and dangerous border cities where they were vulnerable to kidnappers and extortionists.
Your honor!?!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced this month that it will expand its capacity to hold families near the US-Mexico border to more than 3,700 beds in coming weeks, including 2,500 beds at a pair of existing family residential centers in South Texas, records show. ICE has also converted its two largest family detention sites into rapid-processing hubs to facilitate the release of parents with children within 72 hours.....
Never mind that Mexico’s real COVID-19 death toll now stands at over 321,000 and the flood of migrants are not being tested before being released.
The world is in the hands of a dozen people who will decide the fate of us all as this place turns into Mozambique or Indonesia without a change of leadership -- and I don't mean a new president or the return of the last for they apparently kill anyone who stands against them:
"Russia’s Putin pumps up the swagger in swipes at Biden" by Robyn Dixon The Washington Post, March 28, 2021
MOSCOW — The most cutting blow lately against Russian President Vladimir Putin was not President Biden’s recent “killer” epithet, but the taunt from jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny calling him “grandpa in his bunker.”
Shut off from the public and surrounded by security services, Putin has been largely holed up in his country retreat, protected by a special disinfection chamber for visitors. Navalny's repeated use of the barb stung because it flipped Putin's image: no longer a Russian bear, but a cowering senior.
Before continuing, I would like to note that the hypocritical pre$$ had no problem when Biden was in a spider hole this past summer and last fall, and also ask how Navalny got a message out the Russian gulag.
This whole story stinks and is nothing but pure insult and rather juvenile.
That is how far the Compo$t has sunk under Bezos.
Cue a state propaganda blitz with 68-year-old Putin portrayed as a dynamic leader with years ahead of him and 78-year-old Biden as a doddering has-been.
Putin, who has never debated a domestic political opponent in his life, challenged Biden to a live debate earlier this month (as if live debates between world leaders are a thing), but then Putin headed off to the Siberian taiga as he began to clamber out of his reclusion.
The Kremlin is highly sensitive about how Putin looks.
You turn everything on its head and then you have the truth as the WaCompo projects.
Meanwhile, Russia was hit with new sanctions from the United States and the European Union over the Russian security service's attempted assassination of Navalny in August with a banned chemical nerve agent, with the possibility of more sanctions to come.
Navalny’s jailing in January on his return to Russia — and a raft of Draconian laws to crush dissent — sparked protests in more than 100 Russian cities and ignited anger among young Russians, many of whom see Putin as staid, repressive, and distinctly uncool, but Putin has recently burst back into the public eye. He filled Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium full of cheering people on the anniversary of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
For the last time, they didn't annex it. After the 2014 Obama-coup in Ukraine, the Crimea's voted to secede from the Ukraine and then petitioned the Russian Federation for membership. They accepted.
If the WaCompo is going to repeat that lie ad nauseam what other lies are being repeated day after day, hmmmm?
Hmmmmm?
So did they have a 1/6 insurrection like us?
Putin then took Kremlin pool journalists to Tuva in Siberia, where he drove through a snowy forest in a hulking all-terrain vehicle and sipped tea at a rustic outdoor table. The event was planned well before Biden’s “killer” comment, but it delivered Putin the chance to pose as a simple “muzhik,” or a real man, who loves nature.
Joe does more, so take that!
Putin on Thursday promised a slew of new trips, following his recent secretive vaccination.
Trumps was, too, but not a whimper from the pre$$.
In Siberia, Putin wore a quaint sheepskin jacket and pants, matching with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Headlines in pro-Kremlin media were even more over-the-top than usual. Independent pollster the Levada Center reported that support for Putin’s party has dropped to an eight-year low, with just 27 percent willing to vote for it if elections were held this month.
Talk about over-the-top headlines that are usual.
I can't read this shit anymore.
It's total garbage.
Opposition to Putin staying in power beyond 2024, when his current term expires, reached an all-time high of 41 percent in a February Levada poll, compared with 48 percent who would like him to stay in power.
He is one of the most popular leaders on the planet, regularly polling 80% approval so I don't who or what did this poll but to expect me to trust a poll cited in the pre$$ is insulting!
In a meeting last month with newspaper editors, Putin spelled out his ideology, boasting of Russia's patriotism and its unique "genetic code" that distinguishes it from the West.
Russia, he said, is a young, vital nation "on the move," compared with other aging societies, but political analyst Konstantin Gaaze of the Carnegie Moscow Center said this ideology had limited appeal and that Putin's era of political invulnerability was showing signs of fatigue.
“He’s basically a Soviet man who cannot remake the Soviet Union, but he is trying his best to do so,” he said. “He thinks he is the only man up there who understands [ordinary Russians’] mind-set,” but he said Putin's talk of Russian dignity and complaints of Western insults to Russia's Sputnik vaccine did not resonate deeply, for many.
Then he is a man ahead of his time, according to the Bo$ton Globe!!
“It’s not the first or third or even the fifth thought of ordinary Russian citizens.”
Related:
"Russia has lauded with much fanfare the arrival of its homegrown vaccine, Sputnik V, in Latin America and Africa, and even in some countries in Europe, calling it a solution to shortages around the world. It has been less vocal, though, about one country that is also importing the vaccine: Russia. The Russian government has contracted out the manufacture of Sputnik V to a South Korean company that has already sent the vaccine to Russia, and plans to do the same with a company from India. While the scale of the imports is impossible to gauge because of nondisclosure agreements, they undermine some of the narrative Russia has proudly presented about its role in the pandemic as an exporter of vaccines to needy countries. The imports, which are expected to ramp up in coming weeks and months, could help Russia overcome a dismally slow vaccination rollout at home. They also illustrate that even countries whose scientists designed successful shots rely on cross-border trade for vaccine supplies. Russian officials said last fall that overseas manufacturing could partly meet demand at home but have since gone quiet about importing a product that has been held up as a triumph of the country’s scientists. Manufacturing the vaccine in Russia, however, has been a different story....."
It that way in more ways than one reading that rewritten and edited report; however, I know I'm sick of narratives and stories that come and go.
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Or those they flog on the back page, for that matter:
"Funerals become scenes of Myanmar resistance, more violence" by The Associated Press March 28, 2021
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar security forces opened fire Sunday on a crowd attending the funeral of student who was killed on the bloodiest day yet of a crackdown on protests against last month’s coup, local media reported.
The escalating violence — which took the lives of at least 114 people Saturday, including several children — has prompted a U.N. human rights expert to accuse the junta of committing “mass murder” and to criticize the international community for not doing enough to stop it.
Sure smells arbitrary and like a regime change effort, does it not?
The Security Council is likely to hold closed consultations on the escalating situation in Myanmar, U.N. diplomats said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of an official announcement. The council has condemned the violence and called for a restoration of democracy, but has not yet considered possible sanctions against the military, which would require support or an abstention by Myanmar’s neighbor and friend China.
The mounting death tolls have not stopped the demonstrations against the Feb. 1 takeover — or the violent response of the military and police to them. Myanmar Now reported that the junta’s troops shot at mourners at the funeral in the city of Bago for Thae Maung Maung, a 20-year-old killed on Saturday. He was reportedly a member of the All Burma Federation of Student Union, which has a long history of supporting pro-democracy movements in the country.
According to the report, several people attending the funeral were arrested. It did not say if anyone was hurt or killed, but at least nine people were killed elsewhere Sunday as the crackdown continued, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which has been documenting deaths during demonstrations against the coup.
WTF?
What is with the over-the-top headline then?
Some of the funerals held Sunday became themselves opportunities to demonstrate resistance to the junta.
The repeated use of the word junta is also key. It means Myanmar is giving the finger to the world-wrecking globalists.
The Feb. 1 coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government reversed years of progress toward democracy after five decades of military rule. It has again made Myanmar the focus of international scrutiny as security forces have repeatedly fired into crowds of protesters. At least 459 people have been killed since the takeover, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. The crackdown extends beyond the demonstrations: Humanitarian workers reported that the military had carried out airstrikes Sunday against guerilla fighters in the eastern part of the country.
It's amazing to read about coups that oust elected governments when it happened here a few short months ago.
Not a peep out of the U.N. on that one, probably because Trump insulted them all in Davos saying the future belonged to patriots, not globalists.
The junta has accused some of the demonstrators of perpetrating the violence because of their sporadic use of Molotov cocktails and has said its use of force has been justified to stop what it has called rioting. While protesters have occasionally hurled firecrackers at troops and on Saturday carried bows and arrows, they remain vastly outgunned and have shown commitment to methods of nonviolent civil disobedience.
It's the BLM model taken worldwide.
“Today the junta of Myanmar has made Armed Forces Day a day of infamy with the massacre of men, women and very young children throughout country,” said Tom Andrews, the U.N.’s independent expert on human rights for Myanmar. “Words of condemnation or concern are frankly ringing hollow to the people of Myanmar while the military junta commits mass murder against them. ... It is past time for robust, coordinated action.”
Those calls were echoed by others. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was shocked by the killings of civilians, including children, and a group of defense chiefs from 12 countries also condemned the violence.
Why now?
Why not in Yemen or Palestine or anywhere else the West is bombing people into oblivion?
U.N. Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said: “The shameful, cowardly, brutal actions of the military and police – who have been filmed shooting at protesters as they flee, and who have not even spared young children – must be halted immediately.”
President Joe Biden told reporters: “It’s terrible. It’s absolutely outrageous. Based on the reporting I’ve gotten, an awful lot of people have been killed. Totally unnecessary.” Biden said his administration is working on a response but offered no details.
Let's invade and get this thing kicked off correctly.
It’s still not clear what action is possible — or how quick it could be. The U.N. Security Council has not advocated concerted action against the junta, such as a ban on selling it arms. China and Russia are both major arms suppliers to Myanmar’s military as well as politically sympathetic.
If the Security Council isn’t able to do anything, Andrews called for an emergency international summit. Human rights group Amnesty International also criticized the hesitancy to do more.
“U.N. Security Council member states’ continued refusal to meaningfully act against this never-ending horror is contemptible,” said Ming Yu Hah, the organization’s deputy regional director for campaigns.
Tell it to Israel.
In the meantime, protesters have continued to rally in Myanmar’s streets.....
I wonder who is $upporting them.
Believe it or not, the New York Times has an operative inside Myanmar’s army and they see protesters as criminal insurrectionists:
"Protests over a recent coup in Myanmar have left ordinary citizens like students, teachers, and medical workers at conflict with military forces. The minority Muslim Rohingya have long suffered persecution from Myanmar authorities, causing them to flee their homeland for neighboring Bangladesh. There, more than one million Rohingya live in overcrowded, unsanitary settlement camps near Cox’s Bazar. “It’s inhumane living in an 8 feet by 10 feet room with six people. Husband, wife, and kids are living in the same room,” said Dr. Ruhul Abid, a Brown University associate professor, cardiovascular researcher at Rhode Island Hospital, and faculty member at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at Brown’s Watson Institute......"
Related:
"Hugo Boss AG came under fire from Chinese celebrities over its stance on human rights in China, ensnaring the company in a growing boycott of western firms who won’t use cotton produced in the region of Xinjiang over concerns it’s made with forced labor by Muslim-minority Uyghurs. Li Yifeng, an actor and singer who has more than 60 million followers on his personal Weibo account, has ended all cooperation with Hugo Boss, according to a post on his agent’s Weibo account. Zhu Zhengting and Wang Linkai, both popular singers, will also stop working with the German firm, their agents said on Weibo. Reuters reported earlier on their decisions. The pressure on Hugo Boss comes after the U.S. accused China of waging a state-run social media campaign to boycott companies that refuse to use cotton from Xinjiang. The U.S. has brought sanctions against Chinese officials after accusing the government of forcibly sending more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities to “re-education” camps, allegations that Beijing denies....."
They will call them CVD camps over here when the time comes to sever ties and cut them off from the world economy. There will be no resistance or vote. It will simply be a case of Politics 101 with the first lesson being who not to criticize.
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"Wayland students bring hackathon online, look at ways to improve remote learning" by Breanne Kovatch Globe Correspondent, March 28, 2021
In a world where everything seems virtual, a group of Wayland students held a hackathon on over the weekend to help improve online learning, with ideas contributed from kids around the globe.
With the mission set to make remote learning easier, more than 80 high school and middle school students competed virtually in Project Reboot, which started Friday night and ended Saturday night.
It has been an absolute disaster and now they want kids to participate in their own dystopia.
How sick can you get!?
From their homes across the country and as far away as India, they built websites and apps to solve issues that they are faced with every day in school.
Well, they are not actually in school and it's the masks, plexiglass, distance, and vaxxeens that are the issues, right?
“I thought that this thing would be more relatable for a lot of students because they’re going through remote learning and I think students themselves know like, ‘Hey this is what I would like to see done differently, and you know this is what I’ll do,’” said Andrew Boyer, president of Wayland High School’s Computer Science Club, which organized the event.
More than 20 teams of students worked on projects that tackled key issues, such as scheduling classes over the Internet. Some looked at the issue of students not having their cameras turned on in class, and another even made a bot that will attend class for you — for those who tend to be tardy.
First place went to a group from Cambridge and Boston for their tool to help teachers summarize their online classes, second went to a group from California and New Jersey for their note taking software, and third went to a group from California for their interactive learning software. “Some people stayed up all night to work on it, and I mean it definitely shows with how much people got done,” said Boyer, a junior at Wayland High.
While the COVID-19 pandemic forced the event to be held online, the group has also held an in-person hackathon in 2019 that focused on developing programs and software to help people with disabilities.
This year’s participants were also given the chance to attend different workshops, such as learning new ways to use Python and JavaScript. The workshops also looked at issues and problems related to remote learning.
Because despite the promises, you will never be going back to school.
Probably a good thing anyway.
That way, the sick politicians can't kidnap and quarantine the kids for perverts based on a bullshit technique and diagnosis of a nonexistent "disease."
The "di$ea$e" is them and the pre$$ that fronts for them.
One of those talks, led by Jackie Herrera, a social worker with Family Access of Newton, looked at the social inequities of remote learning and how certain families don’t have access to the tools needed.
Boyer said her talk, which focused on Latino families, touched on how some students don’t have access to laptops for remote learning. With money left over from this year’s hackathon, the group is thinking about buying parts to build computers for families in need, Boyer said, and while the group is still trying to figure out how to meet in-person, Boyer said the group wants to continue holding hackathons and other tech events that go beyond coding. “We want to keep doing projects that help people,” he said.
How?
By turning our kids into Chinese, Russian, or Iranian hackers?
The hackathon started Friday night, with many participants working all night long. Submissions were accepted up until 5 p.m. Saturday.
Related:
"A juvenile suspect is charged with murdering a Springfield man in Adams on Thursday, the Berkshire district attorney’s office said in a statement Sunday. On Thursday evening, authorities responded to a call from a person who found a body in an apartment at 1 East Hoosac St. in Adams, the statement said. The victim, later identified as Benjamin Martinez, 34, of Springfield, was confirmed by paramedics to be dead upon arrival. On Friday evening, State Police in Springfield arrested a juvenile suspect for shooting and killing Martinez, the statement said. The juvenile, whose name was not released because of his age, is facing a first-degree murder charge and will be arraigned in Northern Berkshire District Court on Monday, the statement said....."
So that is why he wasn't in class, and if a tree falls in Townsend does it make a sound?
Thus, as the superintendent of Bo$ton's schools has a renewed vision for Boston Public Schools and a the Globe sees a path to universal pre-kindergarten, I would keep a close eye on them and make sure they get a good lunch 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 sickened hundreds of thousands and caused more than 16,000 deaths in the state, and the testing and vaccination data came as local officials raised concerns about rising infections and the appearance of virus variants on Cape Cod.
It “could be the start of the third wave” and you will soon be begging for a vaccine!
