That is the only conclusion I can draw when this ad appeared after these two stories:
"‘We want to be educated, not indoctrinated,’ say Trump voters wary of COVID shots" by Dan Diamond Washington Post, March 15, 2021
I don't need either, thank you very much.
Be honest that scientists don’t have all the answers. Tout the number of people who got the vaccines in trials, and don’t show pro-vaccine ads with politicians — not even ones with Donald Trump.
That’s what a focus group of vaccine-hesitant Trump voters insisted to politicians and pollsters this weekend, as public health leaders rush to win over the tens of millions of Republicans who say they don’t plan to get a coronavirus shot. If those voters follow through, it would imperil efforts to achieve the high levels of immunity needed to stop the virus’s spread in the United States, experts fear.
I need to stop here after severe convulsions from vomiting, and note a couple of things.
The first is the setting of the stage to blame those who will not take their genocidal goo as preventing normalcy, and the advancement of this agenda by anyone is criminally historic.
The second thing is the turning of it into a POLITICAL ISSUE!
If that doesn't put the fear of God into you, nothing will. The f**king commies are coming, they are serious, and death is nearer than you think. We are dealing with genocidal psychopaths and their evil minions, and only a miracle can save us now.
They have turned to the ma$ter of all buzzwords as well, so be near a toilet as you read more.
“These people represent 30 million Americans, and without these people, you’re not getting herd immunity,” said Frank Luntz, the longtime GOP pollster who convened Saturday’s focus group over Zoom. The group followed what Luntz characterized as a remarkable arc: By the end of the two-hour-plus session, all 19 participants (one dropped out early) said they were more likely to get vaccinated, and Luntz said he had begun nationwide polling to see which messages resonated with a broader population.
That's odd, because if all the uncounted cases and variant spread is added into to their phony numbers that are dropping due to lower cycles we have reached NATURAL herd immunity a long time ago. These mad f**kers need to keep the $cam going with the collaboration of the mouthpiece pre$$. Now if you will excuse me, I need to go wretch again. It's dry heaves now.
“I think by Wednesday next week, we’ll have tested messages that folks can use to help Republicans become more vaccine-confident,” said Brian Castrucci, CEO of the Bethesda, Md.-based de Beaumont Foundation, the public health organization that funded the ongoing effort.
The members of Luntz’s focus group were identified only by their first name and state, although many participants shared biographical details across the session — which featured GOP politicians and Tom Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, attempting to calm their fears about the vaccines.
Why do we need to be so propagandizes when it should be so self-evident?
It doesn't makes sense, none of this does, and it carries with it the rotten stench of pure demonic evil, I'm sorry.
Participants were adamant: They all believed the coronavirus threat was real, with many having contracted it themselves or aware of critically ill friends and family, and they didn’t want to be condemned as “anti-vaxxers” who opposed all vaccines.
I will proudly where your tar when it comes to that.
It means I'm a sentient human being with a mind of my own that has critical-thinking skills and for some reason seems to be not only immune to the endless propaganda and lies, but now viscerally revolted by them.
Instead, they blamed their hesitation on factors like the unknown long-term effects of new vaccines, even though scientists have stressed their confidence in the products. They also accused politicians and government scientists of repeatedly misleading them this past year — often echoing Trump’s charges that Democrats used the virus as an election-year weapon and overhyped its dangers. Several said that recent political appeals to get the shot were only hardening their opposition.
“We want to be educated, not indoctrinated,” said a man identified as Adam from New York, who praised the vaccines as a “miracle, albeit suspicious.”
Suspicious as hell if you ask me, and the short-term effects have been disastrous all across the world.
A woman identified as Sue from Iowa said she feared political “manipulation” of the vaccines, even though she had been a pharmacist for Merck, one of the drug companies helping to produce a vaccine. “I know their vaccines are good products, I trust them,” Sue added. “What I don’t trust is the government telling me what I need to do when they haven’t led us down the right road.”
Well, that's a start anyway.
As for Merck, they cut their losses on vaxxeens (what inside knowledge did they have) and have teamed up with General Motors and Walmart in pledging $100 million in an effort to hire 1 million Black workers during the next decade with General Motors teaming up with Microsoft to accelerate its rollout of electric self-driving cars after being rebuffed at the Supreme Court over a patent for a hepatitis C treatment while ModeRNA is testing their booster shots on children even though it is "premature to read too much into the study one way or the other, because it was small and the emergence of new strains comes as no surprise to scientists who study viruses."
Oh, yeah, the share price rose more than 12 percent that day. That was one of the $ide effects of emergency u$e authorization. That's all you need to know about the side effects from the coronavirus vaccine, according to Dr. Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and adjunct professor of immunology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who said, “We don’t know what side effects might arise as more and more people get vaccinated, but the side effects that showed up in the original trials weren’t all that concerning. It was the usual vaccine stuff. Nothing extraordinary” so don't be alarmed by reports of health care workers having a severe allergic reaction after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because all have apparently recovered and the FDA is closely monitoring the situation.
I mean once COVID-19 began spreading, and Moderna decided to develop a vaccine, Moderna cofounder and company chairman Noubar Afeyan, who runs Cambridge-based venture capital firm Flagship Pioneering, said, the company’s atmosphere was transformed into “almost a war-like environment. You see these movies where the military moves in, and sets up tents and bridges — it was like that, and while vaccines were once considered a backwater undertaking, “now we know that rapid vaccine development can literally save civilization,” said biotech entrepreneur and former Biogen research executive Michael Gilman. “When the spotlight found [Moderna], they were ready,” and Moderna chief executive Stephane Bancel said he was proud of the company’s scientific achievement.
Of cour$e, Moderna expects $18.4b in COVID-19 vaccine revenue this year and why would anyone ever want to $hut off that revenue $tream even if the genetic reprogramming jangles the nerves with it's mRNA therapy that is a real shot to the knees. You need to read the fine print regarding the mixed reactions and anger regarding the emergency authorization of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine and not be bouyed by the glitches in the rollout because allergic reactions to the Moderna vaccine are rare after about 9 in 10 Americans who received mRNA vaccines between mid-December and mid-February have completed their immunizations, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
It's even being called the People’s Vaccine by Abby Maxman and Vanessa Kerry (beat the DUI charge like Bruce) despite the imminent fallout in the days ahead because CNN said don’t be alarmed’ if people start dying after taking the vaccine -- and they have.
Of course, the Globe isn't asking (or answering) questions and you will still need the mask as the next-generation vaccines will be crucial in the continued fight with GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi already ahead of the pack with artificial intelligence deciding who will face the music. It's enough to literally drive you crazy.
The focus group’s concerns echoed pollsters’ findings about Trump voters’ significant vaccine hesitancy. A CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday found that 33 percent of Republicans said they would not get a shot, and another 20 percent said they were undecided. In contrast, just 10 percent of Democrats said they were opposed to getting vaccinated, and another 19 percent were undecided.
During the Zoom session, Republican politicians including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and Representative Brad Wenstrup of Ohio, chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus, took turns trying to persuade the hesitant voters to get vaccinated, but the lawmakers’ pitches largely fell flat, and in some cases, the politically tinged rhetoric seemed to inspire more doubts. For instance, McCarthy said he understood the Trump voters’ hesitation because pharmaceutical companies waited until after Trump lost the election to announce their promising vaccine results — a comment that sparked participants to share their own resentments, but the focus group applauded Frieden — an appointee of President Obama a detail that went unmentioned — particularly after he rattled off “five facts” about the virus and the vaccines, such as the overwhelming share of doctors who have chosen to get vaccinated. Participants praised the former CDC chief for his apolitical bent and repeatedly cited arguments they said had changed their minds, like the tens of thousands of people who participated in coronavirus vaccine trials last year.
That is when the article totally lost any semblance of credibility and clearly became the piece of shit propaganda to enable persecution and genocide.
Yes, TRUMP VOTER, they REALLY ARE COMING FOR YOU!
“The single fact that swayed me the most was Dr. Frieden’s comment … the long-term impacts of COVID could be, [or] are worse than the impacts of the vaccine,” said a man identified as Peter from Missouri. Peter added that he went from “80 percent” opposed to the shot to “probably 75 percent” in favor after the session.
“His first points were, it’s been 20 years of research [to develop the vaccine]. It’s not just out of the blue,” added a man called Chad from Minnesota, who also praised Frieden for acknowledging that the long-term risks of the vaccines aren’t yet known. “He’s just honest with us and telling us, nothing is 100 percent here, people.”
Meaning the dissenters are going to be BROWBEATEN INTO SUBMISSION or COVID CAMPS!
Many other proposed or actual messengers fell flat: The group panned a public service announcement released last week, for instance, featuring former presidents Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. One attendee called the ad “propaganda,” and another said the former presidents were “bad actors.”
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
No one believes the lying, war criminal ex-presidents.
HA!
What a shock!
The group also condemned Anthony Fauci — the government infectious-disease specialist relentlessly attacked by Trump and conservative media for the past year — as a “liar,” “flip-flopper” and “opportunistic.”
Fauci, whom multiple participants also blamed for Trump’s missteps on the virus, told “Fox News Sunday” that Trump should make his own public service announcement, but the focus group of Trump voters didn’t warm to that idea, with attendees universally saying that their spouse or doctor would be more influential on their decision than hearing from the former president.....
They are back on the warpath so beware.
Related:
"In remarks at the White House Monday, President Biden said the United States will reach two milestones in the next 10 days: the administration of 100 million coronavirus vaccine shots and the distribution of 100 million stimulus checks, but he also cautioned that the $1.9 trillion relief package, which he signed into law last week, will require careful oversight by his administration. That effort, Biden confirmed, will be led by Gene Sperling, the longtime Democratic economy policy expert whose appointment The Washington Post reported earlier Monday. “It’s one thing to pass a historic piece of legislation like the American Rescue Plan, and it’s quite another to implement it,” Biden said, “and the devil is in the details. It requires fastidious oversight to make sure the relief arrives quickly, equitably and efficiently with no waste or fraud in your bank account, in your mailbox, to the local business in your community and to your child’s school.” Biden dismissed the suggestion that it would be helpful to have former president Donald Trump out advocating for his supporters to get vaccinated, saying his focus is on engaging local doctors and others in communities where people might be skeptical. Biden said he had talked to his team about the role Trump might play and they told him, “the thing that has more impact than anything Trump would say to the MAGA folks is what the local doctor, what the local preachers, what the local people in the community say.” Earlier, White House press secretary Jen Psaki gave a similar answer when a reporter asked her to reflect on a comment made by top federal infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci that Trump encouraging his supporters to get vaccinated would be a “game changer.” “Well, if former president Trump woke up tomorrow and wanted to be more vocal about the safety and efficacy of the of the vaccine, certainly we’d support that,” Psaki said, “but also, I think what’s important to note is that, as I noted, 81 percent of Republicans said they would trust their own doctor or health-care provider and that’s an important place to invest.”
The oversight can start with the Mass. MBTA as Biden confronts vaccine hesitancy among Republicans that is a particular challenge and even though there are degrees of opposition to vaccination for the coronavirus among a number of groups, including African Americans and anti-vaccine activists, polling suggests that opinions in this case are breaking substantially along partisan lines, according to the most partisan "news" organization that ever existed, the New York Times, and Annie Karni and Zolan Kanno-Youngs -- as they overlook high vaccination rates in Mississippi and West Virginia (can't get any redder than those and we are number four).
Beyond that Biden is touting “shots in arms and money in pockets” in a guns-and-butter argument.
Also see:
Latinos are dead last (just above white still) and the Globe asks who is advocating for them.
Well, I am. They can have my doses of toxic gene-altering therapy without a shred of envy (time to go wretch again).
As an aside, a certain A1 segment must be Republican as well:
"Thirty percent of the Massachusetts State Police, totaling nearly 850 members in all, have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 at department-run clinics, reflecting a potential hesitancy that has lingered even among front-line law enforcement who interact with the public. The data among some State Police personnel stands in contrast to the acceptance of vaccines among the Massachusetts public, where shot-seekers have faced fierce competition as they join the state’s eligibility pool. Police, firefighters, and other emergency personnel were among the first to be made eligible, getting clearance to be vaccinated two months ago. Educators and school staff became eligible Thursday. Although the Baker administration has rejected calls for teacher-specific clinics, arguing it could divert doses from other needy populations amid a tight supply, the state created three State Police vaccination sites for troopers and other first responders during the earlier stage of the rollout. State officials cautioned that some of the 845 others could have sought vaccinations at other off-site facilities for first responders or declined to be vaccinated because of medical conditions, though it was unclear how many have. David Procopio, a State Police spokesman, said department officials “know that some” were vaccinated elsewhere, but he said he didn’t have an exact number. “Police officers in general, particularly today with all the scrutiny on them, I think they’re very skeptical of just about everything,” said Dennis Galvin, a retired State Police major and president of the Massachusetts Association for Professional Law Enforcement, a group of current and retired law enforcement and criminal justice advocates. Galvin said he is personally scheduled to receive his first dose Tuesday. “These are divided times — politically, socially. This is a place to take a measure of how many people have faith and confidence,” he said of the vaccine. “I think the State Police are reflecting that. They reflect a general concern and hesitancy about it.”
That explains the PURGES of the armed forces and law enforcement and sets the stage for more!
The PLAN for GENOCIDE and CONTROL is REAL; otherwise, they would not be relentlessly jabbing a vaxxeen at you for no rea$on.
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The latest variant on the "virus" narrative:
"Virus variants likely evolved inside people with weak immune systems" by Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, March 15, 2021
The point being you are dying of the mythical CVD despite all the co-morbities and conditions.
The New York Times has become criminal at this stage for pushing this garbage, and the Globe along with them.
May they rot in hell forever, and may I be there to feast on their innards.
The version of the coronavirus that surfaced in Britain late last year was shocking for many reasons. It came just as vaccines had offered a glimpse of the end of the pandemic, threatening to dash those hopes. It was far more contagious than earlier variants, leading to a swift increase in hospitalizations, and perhaps most surprising to scientists: It had amassed a large constellation of mutations seemingly overnight.
That and recalcitrant Republicans, wooo!
This has reached such a level of absurdity and evil it truly is sickening, folks. It's rotting the soul of all who consume and I'm sorry for going into the belly of the beast.
A coronavirus typically gains mutations on a slow-but-steady pace of about two per month, but this variant, called B.1.1.7, had acquired 23 mutations that were not on the virus first identified in China, and 17 of those had developed all at once, sometime after it diverged from its most recent ancestor.
Experts said there is only one good hypothesis for how this happened: At some point the virus must have infected someone with a weak immune system, allowing it to adapt and evolve for months inside the person’s body before being transmitted to others. “It appears to be the most likely explanation,” said Dr. Ravindra Gupta, a virus expert at the University of Cambridge.
You mean THEORY, right?
What is NOT THEORY is the VAXXEEN DESTROYING YOUR INTERNAL ORGANS!
That is why PEOPLE are DROPPING DEAD ALL OVER THE PLANET -- not something I will ever see in the criminal Globe!
If true, the idea has implications for vaccination programs, particularly in countries that have not yet begun to immunize their populations. People with compromised immune systems — such as cancer patients — should be among the first to be vaccinated, said Dr. Adam Lauring, a virus expert and infectious disease physician at the University of Michigan. The faster that group is protected, the lower the risk that their bodies turn into incubators for the world’s next supercharged mutant.
If true?
IF TRUE?
Like Iraqi WMD, that kind of IF TRUE?
Good Christ!
They want to MURDER the CANCER PATIENTS like they MURDERED the OLD FOLKS in the nursing homes!
Just waiting on that SUPERCHARGED MUTANT, too, huh?
This is FUCKING EVIL and GROSS, sorry!
May God damn them for all eternity!
“We should give the best shot we can, both literally and figuratively, to protect this population,” Lauring said.
That might be complicated, he added. For the same reason that these people don’t mount a strong immune response to the virus, vaccines might not work well in them. So they may need to be treated with cocktails of monoclonal antibodies as well, he said.
(Blog editor wretches and shakes head)
Like other viruses, the coronavirus collects mutations every time it replicates. The overwhelming majority of those genetic glitches are insignificant and transient. In most people, an active infection lasts only about a week, not long enough for the virus to acquire more than one noteworthy mutation, if any.
If any?
IF ANY?
This is what passes for "journali$m" and "reporting" in my press.
(Blog editor leans from chair and heaves into bucket)
Mutations that make the coronavirus more contagious or enable it to dodge the immune system are extremely rare, researchers reported in a study published last week in the journal Science, “but if they do occur, and if they can get transmitted, then it’s open season,” said Katrina Lythgoe, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford who led the study.
Over a period of months to years, the virus may string together several such mutations. Scientists can observe this slow evolution using a molecular “clock” that captures the changes over time, but in a person with a weak immune system, this timeline can be greatly accelerated.
Multiple studies have shown that in some people who are immunocompromised, the virus can persist for more than eight months, ample time and opportunity to keep evolving.
Like the script behind this f**king criminal war crime and fraud!
“If we look at several time points through that course of infection, and we look at the virus population in that patient, we see — every time — different variants popping up with a large turnover rate,” said Vincent Munster, a virus expert at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who led one of the studies.
If one of these variants that has gained important mutations is transmitted to someone else, it may spread quickly through the population and seem to have emerged out of nowhere — as in the case of the variant that walloped Britain, and perhaps others identified in South Africa and Brazil. “That’s a pretty decent hypothesis that they’ve come from people with persistent infection,” Lythgoe said of the variants. “By keeping infection rates low, you’re going to reduce the number of immunocompromised people who are infected and reduce the chance that they occur.”
May and may not, huh?
It emerged out of nowhere because that's what is, nothing.
This whole f**king thing is a scare of seasonal cold and flu for the most evil purposes imaginable.
Some people with weak immune systems have been known to transmit other viruses over long periods, Lauring noted. “We’ve been dealing with this for a long time,” he said, “but just like everything with COVID, we’re dealing with it on a big scale.”
They are now here, readers, in the form of page B1 BS:
"Number of British coronavirus variant cases reported in Mass. more than triples, rising to 371" by Martin Finucane Globe Staff, March 15, 2021
The number of reported cases of the British coronavirus variant in Massachusetts more than tripled in recent days, as experts continue to keep a watchful eye out for surges associated with the variants.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Sunday evening that the number of Massachusetts cases caused by the variant that first emerged in the United Kingdom had risen to 371 on Sunday from 106 on Thursday, the last day numbers were reported. The CDC also reported that the number of cases here caused by a virus that emerged in South Africa had risen to 10 on Sunday from 5 on Thursday.
The CDC said the numbers are based on just a sampling of specimens and do not represent the total number of cases that may be circulating. The agency said on its website it is “ramping up” its ability to test for different strains of the virus.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, said Monday at a news conference that the agency believes the British variant accounts for a quarter of cases in Florida and California. CDC models project the variant will become the dominant strain in the United States by the end of this month or early April, she said.
We are being held hostage by $elf-$erving models that are nothing but piles of shit, sorry, and thanks for the warning you evil creature.
The British variant has sparked worries because it spreads more easily and quickly. Some studies have suggested it is also more deadly, but more research is needed, the CDC has said. Scientists are concerned the variants might fuel a new coronavirus wave in the United States even as the country recovers from a deadly winter and is in the midst of a massive vaccination campaign.
The VIRUS is IN the VACCINES, and they will call it a VARIANT!
This is TRULY SICK, folks!
Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s lead medical adviser on the pandemic, said Sunday on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press” he was concerned that “we’ll have what’s called variant increases, where you may have another surge.” In Massachusetts, the number of coronavirus cases has declined precipitously from a peak reached around the beginning of the year. The decline has slowed in the past three weeks, but there has been no major upward movement. Experts have said the next few weeks could be key in determining if the variants will drive up cases.
The mean to have us on the hamster wheel forever!
“We expected this variant to increase as a proportion of overall case numbers, which has happened,” Dr. Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Mass General Brigham, said Monday in an e-mail, but, Sax said, case numbers at the same time are dropping due to factors such as seasonality of the virus, “some degree of population-level immunity (from natural infection and increasingly vaccines), and behavior change.”
He said the arrival of the variants underscores the need to get people vaccinated. The “strongest message we should give is how important the vaccines are for preventing this variant from exploding here, which is what happened in Britain, Portugal, Ireland, etc.,” he said.
Did you know he speaks Yiddish?
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former director of the Food and Drug Administration, said Sunday on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation.” “I think the combination of a lot of prior infection and the fact that we’re vaccinating aggressively now is enough to keep up with [the British variant] and hopefully get ahead of it.” Gottlieb noted, however, that there could still be “pockets of outbreaks.”
Other variants that are causing concern include a variant that emerged in Brazil and one that emerged in New York.
Noting increased air travel and reports of spring break partying without masks in the United States, as well as surges that are happening in European countries, Walensky urged people to continue to take precautions recommended by the CDC such as wearing masks and socially distancing, while the vaccination campaign continues.
“I’m pleading with you for the sake of our nation’s health,” she said. “Cases climbed last spring, they climbed again in the summer, they will climb now if we stop taking precautions.”
“We are just starting to turn the corner. The data are moving in the right direction, but where this goes is dependent on whether we all do what must be done to protect ourselves and others,” she said.
I'm sorry, I was in the toilet. What she say?
Meanwhile, for the umpteenth time I'm told 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 as Marty Walsh says 13% of Boston residents are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before skipping town.
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Time to get out of Dodge:
"2 key US Cabinet members visit Japan for China-focused talks" by Mari Yamaguchi Associated Press, March 15, 2021
TOKYO — Shared concerns about China’s growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region will take center stage when President Biden’s defense chief and secretary of state visit Japan for their first in-person talks with their Japanese counterparts.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tokyo on Monday for meetings meant to reaffirm America’s commitment to the region and to the two nations’ alliance following former president Donald Trump’s more confrontational approach.
The United States will lead with diplomacy, maintain America’s military might, “and renew our alliances and ensure they’re fit for purpose to address the threats and opportunities of our time,’' Blinken and Austin wrote. Together they can hold China accountable for its human rights abuses and other problems in Xinjiang and Tibet, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan, they said.
Japan and the United States are also expected to reaffirm the importance of their three-way alliance with South Korea and may touch on the strained relations between Tokyo and Seoul over wartime compensation issues.
In a move meant to signal his intention for the United States to return to more engagement in the Asia-Pacific region, Biden on Friday held a first summit of the leaders from Australia, Japan, India, and the United States known as the “Quad” virtually and emphasized Washington’s commitment to the region.
Are you ready for a war?
Japan is in a delicate diplomatic situation because its economy, like those of other countries in the region, heavily depends on China, but it also considers China’s growing presence in the region a security threat. Beijing has built militarized manmade islands in the South China Sea and is pressing its claim to virtually all of the sea’s key fisheries and waterways. Japan is concerned about China’s claim to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea and its increased activity in the disputed area.
China has denied it is expansionist and said it is only defending its territorial rights.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Monday that concerns about Chinese influence were rooted in “outdated Cold War mentality and ideological prejudices.”
“For some time, individual countries have been eager to hype and incite the so-called China challenge and drive a wedge between regional countries, especially with China,” Zhao said at a daily briefing, “but what they are doing ... is not welcome and will never succeed.’'
On the Biden administration’s first Cabinet-level trip abroad, Blinken and Austin are also expected to discuss the coronavirus pandemic and climate change, as well as the nuclear threat posed by North Korea and the situation in Myanmar.....
Another snub, God bless him:
"President Joe Biden’s administration has reached out to North Korea’s government in order to revive diplomatic efforts around the country’s nuclear program but hasn’t received a response. “I can confirm that we have reached out,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday in a briefing. “Diplomacy is always our goal. Our goal is to reduce the risk of escalation, but to date we have not received any response.” Former President Donald Trump held three meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to reach a deal to eliminate the country’s nuclear arsenal, without success. Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to step inside Kim’s nation when he crossed the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea during a meeting in June 2019, but relations deteriorated afterward. It wasn’t clear how Biden’s team reached out to North Korea, which often doesn’t respond to diplomatic entreaties for months at a time. The U.S. in the past has used a communications channel at the United Nations to discuss hostage issues, while Sweden has also served as a go-between for talks since it has an embassy in Pyongyang. Psaki said Biden’s team is “also focused on consulting with many former government officials who have been involved in North Korea policy, including from several prior administrations.” North Korea could be one focus of talks scheduled late this week between Chinese and U.S. diplomats, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken....."
Or not.
Really kicking up a storm over there, too:
"China’s worst sandstorm in a decade caused mass disruptions on Monday as swaths of the country were engulfed in a thick, orange haze of dust and sand, forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of flights, shutter roads and schools, and suspend outdoor activities. In Beijing, poor visibility paralyzed traffic as residents posted photos of skyscrapers seemingly disappearing into the fog and compared images of the eerie haze to scenes in the dystopian 1982 film “Blade Runner.”
Yeah, life is all a movie and complete fiction.
Someone page George Orwell, please:
"Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny described tight controls at his prison in a letter posted Monday, saying they include hourly checks during the night. Navalny’s note posted on his Instagram page confirmed for the first time that he arrived at a prison colony in Pokrov in the Vladimir region, 85 kilometers (53 miles) east of Moscow, which stands out among Russian penitentiary facilities for its particularly strict regime. Navalny described the prison, IK-2, as a “friendly concentration camp.” He said that he hasn’t seen “even a hint at violence” there but faced overwhelming controls that he compared to George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Well, I asked for it and I'm sure he's twirling at warp speed in his grave, and maybe the night checks are so he won't be Epsteined.
How did he manage to get a letter out of the gulag anyway?
More Orwellianism:
"Looking to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, a pair of Boston city councilors are pushing to make remote, virtual participation in public hearings and meetings a permanent fixture of city government. Councilors Lydia Edwards and Liz Breadon will introduce an ordinance at the council’s Wednesday meeting, with the proposal noting that “resident engagement in local democracy in Boston has meaningfully increased due to remote participation allowances during the pandemic.” Many cannot attend-in person meetings because of other obligations, and residents with disabilities face additional challenges in accessing in-person meetings, Edwards and Breadon said in their proposal. The councilors argued that allowing residents to participate in open meetings remotely makes government more effective and accessible......"
Yes, going remote is somehow more transparent and accessible.
If you believe that there is a bridge in Boston I would like to sell you.
Oh, btw, regarding the alleged hacking by China and Russia:
"Swiss authorities on Monday confirmed a police raid at the home of a Swiss hacker who took credit for helping to break into a US security-camera company’s online networks, part of what the hacker cited as an effort to raise awareness about the dangers of mass surveillance. The Federal Office of Justice said regional police in central Lucerne, acting on a legal assistance request from US authorities, on Friday carried out a house search involving a group of activist hackers using the name Tillie Kottmann. The group of “hacktivists’' say they were able to peer into hospitals, schools, factories, jails, and corporate offices for much of Monday and Tuesday of last week after gaining access to the systems of California startup Verkada. They said the action was aimed at raising awareness about mass surveillance."
And giving authorities additional ammunition to crack down and increase it?
WTF?
There is a lot more chatter there but it's just noise as they toy with us.
Also see:
What is surprising is not the Obummer war crime of aggression that is lost to history, it was the fart post of truth that admitted Libya was plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 that toppled and later killed long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi (remember Clinton cackling as she said we came, we saw, he died? That kind of personifies the evil we are upon against).
I would say God help us all, but, you know....
Yes, enough is enough:
If Trump had done that there would be howling from the pre$$, and Biden administration Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas actually said he was “incredibly proud of the agents of the Border Patrol, who have been working around the clock in difficult circumstances to take care of children temporarily in our care” -- who are sleeping on mats on the floor with a bleak future ahead.
Besides, authorities and the pre$$ are more worried about this:
"Unmasked spring breakers are descending on Florida. Officials are begging them to behave" by Hannah Sampson Washington Post, March 15, 2021
After the fledgling pandemic forced an early end to Florida’s annual spring break bacchanal in 2020, the state is wide open this time around and — for some — irresistible.
Walt Disney World’s four parks, operating at reduced capacity, have no more tickets available through March 25. Photos from popular beach destinations this month have shown large, occasionally raucous crowds of unmasked revelers. Over the weekend, Miami Beach police arrested 100 and pepper sprayed “unruly” spring breakers.
Flights are cheap. Travel restrictions are nonexistent, and the state reopened its economy months ago.
Public health experts point out that spring break visitors are likely to be young and unvaccinated — and participants in high-risk behavior like hanging out in bars and packed clubs.
“It’s a perfect formula for spreading the disease,” said Eric Toner, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “Even though we’re doing much better now than we were several months ago with the incidence of COVID-19, we’re still at a level nationally that last summer we would have thought was alarmingly high.”
The crowds descend as Florida has added another 31,603 coronavirus cases and 605 deaths in the past seven days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency said the state also leads the nation in reported cases caused by the variants that were first identified in the United Kingdom and Brazil.
“The state has relaxed nearly all of its restrictions and containment measures,” Toner said, “and so there’s every reason to think that there’ll be high rates of transmission.”
Are you as sick of the weasel wording as I am (with all due respect to weasels, who are much more honorable than him)
For Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, that all adds up to a “challenging” situation.
“People are coming here, I think, with the view that anything goes and that they haven’t been able to let loose in a year,” he said. “So why not come to the famous Miami Beach? It’s just not gonna work if that’s what they’re coming for.”
Across the state — a permissive place with no testing or quarantine requirements for visitors, no state mask mandate, and only some local restrictions on bars and restaurants — leaders in popular destinations are preparing for visitors with extra police, COVID safety reminders, and a smattering of new rules. While tourist numbers aren’t expected to reach pre-pandemic levels, especially since many universities have canceled spring break, destinations are still expecting a busy few weeks.
Panama City Beach is restricting crowds to 125 people for events on the beach in March and closing a section of the sand at night in April, according to the Panama City News Herald. A Fort Lauderdale bar is limiting out-of-state visitors to age 23 and older this month. Miami Beach is putting capacity limits on some beaches and banning coolers, inflatable devices, and tents on the sand.
Cities don’t have much of a choice beyond relying on visitors to do the right thing. Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has blocked city and county leaders from enforcing their own mask mandates. The state lifted capacity restrictions for restaurants, bars, clubs, entertainment venues, and other businesses in September, and said public beaches should remain open.
Last year on March 19, the governor said in an interview with Fox & Friends that “the party’s over in Florida.”
That message would be unthinkable for a second year in a row, said Bob Rountree, cofounder of Florida Rambler, a site that covers outdoor recreation.
“It’s not possible. There would be a march on the Capitol in Tallahassee,” he said. “The economy of Florida is tourism.”
Indeed, in a recent news conference, DeSantis reiterated his welcoming stance.
“Florida’s open,” he said, “and people can make decisions based on information.”
It's not as much of an oasis as you might think and the web version laid out on the beach a while longer:
Gelber said Friday that the city has “goodwill ambassadors” handing out masks, and police have made hundreds of arrests this past month. Officials have been closing businesses that violate noise orders. Over the weekend, police body-slammed a man and shot pepper balls and pepper spray into a crowd that had formed around officers who were making an arrest; two officers were taken to the hospital. The city’s message for visitors is “vacation responsibly or be arrested.”
Stay the f**k out of South Beach, wow!
“I’m definitely not the mayor in Jaws,” Gelber said. “I have to be honest with the community because it is a health and safety issue. I don’t want our city to be a super-spreader. I don’t want our residents to have to worry and I don’t want other communities to have to worry,” and in the St. Pete/Clearwater area on the Gulf Coast, tourism promoters are trying to encourage safe behavior by dangling potential rewards. They are asking travelers to sign a pledge to wear a mask, keep a safe distance, wash their hands, and be patient and kind to hotel and restaurant workers, with the chance of winning a beach getaway. In popular tourist spots, “Sunshine Stewards” are handing out $25 gift cards to local businesses when they spot people following safety precautions.
The Super Bowl in Tampa somehow wasn't a spreader, but whatever $cum, I wouldn't sign!
Even Miami is full-blown Marxist these days under Gelber(?!!?).
Steve Hayes, the chief executive of Visit St. Pete/Clearwater, said the goal is to protect the local community while also reassuring visitors that they would be safe on vacation. “Let’s help people understand what we’re doing here and what things are in place ... so that it can be safe for everybody — and then appeal to their sense of personal responsibility to make that happen,” he said.
You get your wish because I will just stay home then.
F**k Florida.
Time to spoil the party:
"Germany, France, and Italy on Monday became the latest countries to suspend use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine over reports of dangerous blood clots in some recipients, though the company and European regulators have said there is no evidence the shot is to blame. AstraZeneca said on its website that there is no evidence the vaccine carries an increased risk of clots. In fact, it said the incidence of clots is much lower than would be expected to occur naturally in a general population of this size and is similar to that of other licensed COVID-19 vaccines. The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization have also said that the data does not suggest the vaccine caused the clots and that people should continue to be immunized. The AstraZeneca shot has become a key tool in European countries’ efforts to vaccinate their citizens against COVID-19, but Pfizer’s and Moderna’s vaccines are also used on the continent, and Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine has been authorized but not yet delivered. In the United States, which relies on the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, AstraZeneca is expected to apply any day now for authorization. Denmark last week became the first country to temporarily halt use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in recent days to investigate. It said one person developed clots and died 10 days after receiving at least one dose. The other countries include Ireland, Thailand, the Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Congo, and Bulgaria. Last week, Germany and France were among the nations that stuck by the shot, while Italy suspended only a specific batch of the vaccine. Britain is standing by AstraZeneca’s vaccine for now....."
How many must die before they move on it, and how can they know there is no evidence when the phenomenon allegedly just started?
It's f**king knee-jerk denial to cover their criminal complicity is all, and the real problem is it has thrown Europe’s vaccine rollout into deep disarray, according to Jason Horowitz of the New York Times.
"A year after Italy became the first European country to impose a national lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the nation has fallen eerily quiet once again, with new restrictions imposed on Monday in an effort to stop a third wave of infections that is threatening to wash over Europe and overwhelm its halting mass inoculation program. As he explained the measures on Friday, Prime Minister Mario Draghi warned that Italy was facing a “new wave of contagion,” driven by more infectious variants of the coronavirus. Just as before, Italy was not alone. “We have clear signs: The third wave in Germany has already begun,” Lothar Wieler, head of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, said during a news conference on Friday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary predicted that this week would be the most difficult since the start of the pandemic in terms of allocating hospital beds and breathing machines, as well as mobilizing nurses and doctors. Hospitalizations in France are at their highest levels since November, prompting the authorities to consider a third national lockdown. Across Europe, cases are spiking. Supply shortages and vaccine skepticism, as well as bureaucracy and logistical obstacles, have slowed the pace of inoculations. Governments are putting exhausted populations under lockdown. Street protests are turning violent. A year after the virus began spreading in Europe, things feel unnervingly the same. In Rome, the empty streets, closed schools, shuttered restaurants, and canceled Easter holidays came as a relief to some residents after months of climbing infections, choked hospitals, and deaths. “It’s a liberation to return to lockdown, because for months, after everything that happened, people of every age were going out acting like there was no problem,” said Annarita Santini, 57, as she rode her bike in front of the Trevi Fountain, a popular site that had no visitors except for three police officers. “At least like this,” she added, “the air can be cleared and people will be scared again.”
My stomach hurts from heaving so much this morning.
I guess totalitarian fascism is in the Italian genome, 'eh?
They also bought of Nazi collaborator Hungary as well, so f**k Orban.
Beyond that, the colorful array above is so insanely absurd and insulting propaganda on so many levels it is hard to respond. Case surges based on a nonexistent virus with a flawed test that doesn't detect it, etc, etc.
It is LITERALLY SICKENING, which is why I'm rushing through things and dumping drafts.
F**k this.
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Time to Face reality, right:
"Facebook said on Monday that it planned to expand its efforts to help get people vaccinated against the coronavirus. The social network said it would roll out a new location-based tool to direct people to the clinics nearest to them that offer vaccinations, which users can find inside Facebook’s main app. The company will also have an information center for COVID-19-related questions and data inside its Instagram photo-sharing app, building on a similar effort that Facebook introduced last year, and it will keep adding automated chat bots to WhatsApp, which can text users information on where to get vaccinated....."
For an alleged virus with a 99.97% survival rate and is so deadly you didn;'t even know you had it without a "test."
This is after Facebook allegedly allowed antivaccination groups on its platform to flourish, but critics have said that false or misleading data about vaccines and the virus continues to be visible in private groups and pages on Facebook.
Look who they friended:
"Facebook, Boston Children’s Hospital offer new way to find COVID shots" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, March 15, 2021
Next time you’re searching for places to get a COVID-19 vaccination shot, don’t forget to check out Facebook. The social network on Monday announced a partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital to provide US residents with information about vaccine availability in their neighborhoods. The organizations are working to add the ability for users to make an appointment directly from the Facebook app.
John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, said that Facebook’s huge audience — over 220 million in the US and two billion worldwide — makes for an ideal way to spread the word. “That’s where people are,” Brownstein said. “We want to make sure we’re arming that platform with the best possible data on where vaccines are,” but the listings at Facebook’s COVID-19 Information Center are less comprehensive than at other websites, including the State of Massachusetts’ Vaxfinder site. For instance, the Facebook listings don’t include the state-run mass vaccination sites at places like Fenway Park. The Facebook listings mainly feature pharmacies at CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart stores; however, the new Facebook service does include a link to the Massachusetts COVID-19 information page, where users can run a more thorough search.
The Facebook site uses data from Boston Children’s Hospital’s VaccineFinder, which was created in 2009 to help people get access to vaccines against the H1N1 virus, which infected about 60 million Americans and killed about 12,000. Since then, VaccineFinder has provided information on vaccinations for influenza, measles, and other diseases.
Facebook first began working with Boston Children’s Hospital in 2019 to develop a preventive health information center inside the social network, but as COVID-19 surged, the VaccineFinder site pivoted to focus entirely on the new disease.
Brownstein said that his organization and Facebook plan to add more locations to the directory, as well as a way for users to sign up directly for vaccine shots. “You don’t want to just know if there’s vaccine,” Brownstein said. “You want to know if you can get an appointment.”
My advice to you is to keep the kid as far away from BCH as you can since it is like a jail, except nicer.
Time to put on the mask and pretend to be white.
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I only add the item because it was at the bottom of the front page.
They apparently lost an offensive lineman and replaced him with a pair of tight ends and some pass rushers, and it now looks like a good move to resign the quarterback as all the ladies gather round. Glad to see Bill regain his grip on the team with some new blood.
Now back to work!
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