It's me by force of habit.
This was the page A1, above-the-fold, righthand-corner lead:
"Vaccinating children has become new front in fight against coronavirus; Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is 100 percent effective for kids 12 to 15" By Robert Weisman Globe Staff, April 1, 2021
Vaccinating children emerged as a promising new frontier in the war against COVID-19 on Wednesday as Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech reported their vaccine fully protected teenagers in a closely watched US clinical trial.
So how high did the stock price rise after the $elf-$erving announcement, huh?
The findings could pave the way for regulators to clear the vaccine for adolescent use in the coming months, allowing many high school and middle school students to be inoculated before they head back to school this fall. Vaccine makers have also begun testing their shots in children 11 and younger, but even if vaccines are authorized for children, a lot of skeptical parents will have to be convinced they’re safe.
These f**kers are ab$olute mon$ters.
In a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll being published Thursday, more than a third of the Massachusetts residents who responded said they don’t plan to give children in their households shots. More than 53 percent told pollsters they would vaccinate children, while just over 35 percent said they would not and nearly 11 percent were undecided.
“We should see how kids who are a little older do with the vaccine before we give it to younger children,” said Giselle Cabrera, the owner of a Chicopee hair salon who has a 10-year-old son studying remotely and a 3-year-old daughter......
They shouldn't need it at all given the fatality figures and the fact the INFECTIONS are RISING in PLACES that are VACCINATING!
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Btw, that was where the turn-in was and I was so appalled I didn't read anymore, sorry.
Right below it and stranding the fold I'm told the next stage of the vaccine drive is persuading the hesitant, and that "a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll suggests an increasing number of people like Gerald are warming to the COVID-19 vaccines after initial anxieties. The survey of 500 state residents found that more than 78 percent have either already been vaccinated or intend to be as soon as possible. That’s a big jump from December — before the vaccines were widely available — when a similar poll found that just over half of people would take the shot as soon as possible, and nearly a third said they would delay vaccination, [and] public health specialists hope that the next phase in the high-stakes global vaccination drive after weeks of managing the intense demand for a scarce supply of vaccine, [will be] to soon face a new and potentially greater test: persuading the holdouts that they too should get a shot."
Never, you bastards.
You are going to have to kill me and I hope I exact my pound of flesh when the time comes.
Good luck.
Of course, their poll is complete, agenda-pushing $hit as well.
They called 500 people out of 6.8 billion, huh?
Who did they call?
Time for a line change because it is the same old, same old, as the Globe hides the pregnancy and Yaoza!
Speaking of ancient hot air:
"Biden announces huge infrastructure plan to ‘win the future’" by Jonathan Lemire, Kevin Freking and Zeke Miller the Associated Press, March 31, 2021
PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday outlined a $2.3 trillion plan to reengineer the nation’s infrastructure over the next eight years in what he billed as “a once in a generation investment in America” that would undo his predecessor’s signature legislative achievement of giant tax cuts for corporations in the process.
He's already "won" a second term, 'eh?
Speaking at a carpenters union training center in Pittsburgh, Biden drew comparisons between his hard-hatted proposed transformation of the U.S. economy and the space race — and promised results as grand in scale as the New Deal or Great Society programs that shaped the 20th century.
“It’s not a plan that tinkers around the edges," Biden said. "It’s a once-in-a-generation investment in America unlike anything we’ve seen or done since we built the interstate highway system and the space race decades ago. In fact, it’s the largest American jobs investment since World War II. It will create millions of jobs, good-paying jobs.”
White House officials say the spending would generate those jobs as the country shifts away from fossil fuels and combats the perils of climate change. It is also an effort to compete with the technology and public investments made by China, which has the world’s second-largest economy and is fast gaining on the United States’ dominant position.
“I’m convinced that if we act now, in 50 years people are going to look back and say this is the moment when America won the future,” Biden said.
After the Great Cull and Re$et, right, Joe?
Only problem is, America will no longer exist.
The Democratic president's infrastructure projects would be financed by higher corporate taxes — a trade-off that could lead to fierce resistance from the business community and thwart attempts to work with Republicans lawmakers. Biden hopes to pass an infrastructure plan by summer, which could mean relying solely on the slim Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
So what?
They wanted Trump gone and he is gone.
Be careful what you wi$h for, you just might get it.
Funding for the infrastructure projects would come from a hike on corporate taxes that would aim to raise the necessary piles of money over 15 years and then reduce the deficit going forward. In doing so, Biden would undo the action by Trump and congressional Republicans to lift the corporate tax rate to 28% from the 21% rate set in a 2017 overhaul.
“Ninety-one Fortune 500 Companies, including Amazon, pay not a single solitary penny in income tax,” Biden said.
Why haven't they, and why is it not a topic of the daily drumbeat of $hit I read in my pre$$?
As for reducing the deficit, HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
They TRULY THINK we are FOOLS!
Wednesday's announcement will be followed in coming weeks by Biden pushing a companion bill of roughly equal size for investments in child care, family tax credits and other domestic programs. That nearly $2 trillion package would be paid for by tax hikes on wealthy individuals and families.
“Wall Street didn’t build this country," Biden said. "You, the great middle class, built this country, and unions built the middle class.”
Of course, Wall $treet OWNS THIS COUNTRY!
Otherwise, there wouldn't be industry after industry and institution after institution that is immolating itself while taking bribe money from the globali$t $hit-kickers.
Btw, Joe, BLACK SLAVES BUILT THIS COUNTRY or haven't you been paying attention?
Biden's choice of Pittsburgh for unveiling the plan carried important economic and political resonance. He not only won Pittsburgh and its surrounding county to help secure the presidency, but he launched his campaign there in 2019. The city famed for steel mills that powered America’s industrial rise has steadily pivoted toward technology and health care, drawing in college graduates in a sign of how economies can change.
The White House says the largest chunk of the proposal includes $621 billion for roads, bridges, public transit, electric vehicle charging stations and other transportation infrastructure. The spending would push the country away from internal combustion engines that the auto industry views as an increasingly antiquated technology.
Yeah, it all $ounds good.
An additional $111 billion would go to replace lead water pipes and upgrade sewers. Broadband internet would blanket the country for $100 billion. Separately, $100 billion would upgrade the power grid to deliver clean electricity. Homes would get retrofitted, schools modernized, workers trained and hospitals renovated under the plan, which also seeks to strengthen U.S. manufacturing.
The new construction could keep the economy running hot, coming on the heels of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. Economists already estimate it could push growth above 6% this year.
As the money becomes increasingly worthless and a crash awaits.
To keep companies from shifting profits overseas to avoid taxation, a 21% global minimum tax would be imposed. The tax code would also be updated so that companies could not merge with a foreign business and avoid taxes by moving their headquarters to a tax haven, and among other provisions, it would increase IRS audits of corporations.
WOA!
Is that what CORPORATE BU$INE$$ VOTED FOR?
Biden appealed for Republicans and the business community to join him in negotiations on the bill, but the legislative prospects for Biden's twin proposals already appear to hinge on Democrats coming up with the votes on their own through the budget reconciliation process, which requires just a simple majority in the 50-50 Senate.
“I’m going to bring Republicans into the Oval Office, listen to them, what they have to say and be open to other ideas," Biden said. "We’ll have a good faith negotiation. Any Republican who wants to help get this done, but we have to get it done.”
So much for "unity" and all that shit from the Communi$t Demorats.
Unity, in their eyes, means COMPLETE and UTTER SUBMISSION!
Democratic leaders embraced Biden’s plan on Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said it would create millions of jobs, but the business community favors updating U.S. infrastructure but dislikes higher tax rates. U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President and Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley, said in a statement that “we applaud the Biden administration for making infrastructure a top priority; however, we believe the proposal is dangerously misguided when it comes to how to pay for infrastructure.” The Business Roundtable, a group of CEOs, would rather have infrastructure funded with user fees such as tolls.....
They would rather taxpayers pay for it all and they pay nothing, like u$ual, and the Chamber of Commerce is obviously under the heel of the banks like the rest of us.
The rest of the article was just pouring SALT in wound, so....
The Wa$hington Compo$t, the mouthpiece of Bezos, Amazon, and the CIA, even calls it a purge that will help restore the role of $cience at the agency and reduce the heavy influence of industry over environmental regulations while adding the influence of political dogma.
It $ure looks like bu$ine$$ is having buyer's remorse about Bden even as the Globe says he is bring us back to roaring '80s and is of the opinion that the tax increases are a good thing (according to the university professor at Columbia University and former chief economist of the World Bank).
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After wiping away the tears I saw this:
"The Pentagon on Wednesday swept away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition. The new regulations allow transgender people who meet military standards to enlist and serve openly in their self-identified gender, and they will be able to get medically necessary transition-related care authorized by law, chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters during a briefing. The changes come after a two-month Pentagon review aimed at developing guidelines for the new policy, which was announced by President Biden days after he took office Jan. 20. Biden’s executive order overturned the Trump policy and immediately prohibited any service member from being forced out of the military on the basis of gender identity. The new rules also prohibit discrimination based on gender identity, and their release coincided with the International Transgender Day of Visibility. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has also called for a reexamination of the records of service members who were discharged or denied reenlistment because of gender-identity issues. Stephanie Miller, director of military accession policy, told reporters there are no data yet on how many people that may be....."
No data yet?
??????
Stephanie Miller, head of accession policy at the Pentagon, and Defense Department spokesman John Kirby outlined the new policies Wednesday (Susan Walsh/Associated Press).
Looks like the military is going down, not rising.
I'm sure the Iranians, Russians, and Chinese will be shitting their pants seeing the transgender troops coming.
At least we will be able to beat them in women's basketball, and with everything going on from the CVD genocide project being pushed along with more foreign wars and $tock market cra$h, I really don't care about the future $tatu$ of $tudent-athletes -- just as I no longer care what lying slop is presented by the Globe on a daily basis, can you tell?
Thus the purge by hypocrites of the permanent minority as a House panel sets vote on D.C. statehood.
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Black is beautiful in Britain as women call out the ‘rape culture’ in schools -- something that is de rigueur in France.
Yes, the costs of segregation are enormous and it is time for state lawmakers to act on school integration as "one year in, it’s a truism. This pandemic has fallen with shameful unevenness upon us, dividing us into those for whom life became inconvenient and those for whom it became nearly impossible, and then there are the kids."
Her solution?
Call the buck-passing DCF!
Of course, a clear majority of parents want their kids back in school (forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do), except “how are my kids going to be protected from those parents who have other beliefs, who believe that it’s nothing, coronavirus is a hoax” as the Globe sets the stage for persecution of those who don't want to take the toxic tube of poison -- which the medical profe$$ion is pushing because of the MONEY:
"Massachusetts health care providers can now be paid more than $45 per COVID-19 shot" by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff, March 31, 2021
After garnering national attention for its decision to pay unusually high rates to health care providers for administering COVID vaccines, Massachusetts is no longer an outlier.
Governor Charlie Baker’s administration in January decided to reimburse providers about $90 for each two-dose vaccination they gave to people covered by MassHealth, the state Medicaid program for low-income individuals. It also required private insurers to pay at least that amount — which was twice what federal officials were paying for vaccines in the national Medicare program, but in March, federal officials significantly raised Medicare payments to almost the same high rate Massachusetts had set. Baker administration officials then tweaked their own rates to match the updated national payments.
It's called a RIP-OFF, folks!
This is Biden, et al, are getting the health care providers to $ell into the fraud after locking us down and not allowing standard medical checkups.
They are BRIBING THEM to administer the POISONS NO ONE WANTS!
As of Thursday, hospitals, health centers, pharmacies, and other health care providers in Massachusetts are set to receive the same amount for every shot of COVID vaccine they administer to people covered by Medicare, MassHealth, and private insurers.
“Massachusetts was the first state to establish a comprehensive provider reimbursement rate for the COVID-19 vaccine to ensure that cost was not a barrier to broad vaccination, and in recognition of the complexity of the two dose vaccine, storage, and distribution,” said Brooke Karanovich, spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. She said the new federal and state reimbursement rates “will continue to support providers administering the vaccine in communities across the Commonwealth.”
Somehow paying twice as much for something that cost vaccine companies pennies on the dollar is a GOOD THING!
COVID vaccines are free to people getting shots, and the federal government is covering the cost of the vaccines themselves, but insurers pay health care providers a fee for putting shots in arms. Such administration fees are common, but they typically amount to much less for common vaccines such as the flu shot, which are more routine and less complicated to deliver.
Looks like a CONFLICT of INTERE$T!
When the Baker administration set its COVID vaccine payment rates in January, the decision to pay twice the Medicare rate came as a surprise. Hospitals had been asking for higher payments and applauded the move, while insurers quietly grumbled. Some critics wondered whether the payments really needed to be so high.
Baker administration officials justified the rates by saying they would encourage health care providers to vaccinate large numbers of people quickly.
What MONSTERS, as fifty percent of health workers don't want the shot themselves!
Federal officials apparently feel the same way. On March 15, they said they increased Medicare rates after learning “new information about the costs involved in administering the vaccine,” including the expenses of establishing vaccination clinics and educating patients.
Biden administration officials said they are “supporting provider efforts to expand capacity and ensure that all Americans can be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible.”
Yeah, pay 'em more and they will push the jab harder.
How evil can you fucking get?
The boost in payments reflects the unanticipated challenges of the unprecedented mission to vaccinate millions of people against the coronavirus in a matter of months.
Yeah, a "viru$" you never even knew you had except for a ginned-up test and one which you stand a 99.97% chance of surviving.
In Massachusetts, health care providers have been reaching out to patients, sometimes in different languages, to help them schedule vaccination appointments. They’ve opened scores of vaccination clinics, and in some cases, they’re bringing vaccines to patients’ neighborhoods or even their homes.
Health systems and health care providers have become critical to the state’s vaccination effort.
Well, he will be getting an earful from me next time if he tries to push that $hit on me.
I have questions written down for him after which I can politely decline the offer, and they better not dare show up at my house.
Health insurers are not fighting the reimbursement rates but warn that the costs of vaccination will become part of future health care premiums.
“The vaccine administration fees will add to premium increases for employers and consumers,” said Lora Pellegrini, president of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans.....
Oh, so EVERYONE will be MAKING MONEY of the vaxxeen you don't need for a "viru$" that doesn't exist.
The corruption is so deep it is almost unfathomable as the consolidation leads to communi$m with a smile!
Related:
"Massachusetts is set to receive more than 100,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine next week, Governor Charlie Baker said Wednesday, hours before federal officials announced that about 15 million doses of the vaccine had been unintentionally ruined. A spokeswoman for the state’s COVID-19 command center said that Massachusetts public health officials had not received any notice from the federal government that the vaccine shipment would be delayed. “This news does not impact current appointments or allocations for any sites statewide and we remain prepared to work collaboratively with the federal government to avoid any disruption in vaccine shipments,” Kate Reilly said in a statement. Millions of vaccine doses were made unusable several weeks ago when workers at two Baltimore factories accidentally conflated ingredients used to make the vaccine, US officials said Wednesday....."
Unintentionally, huh?
I'm sure they just got a BAD BATCH that was mixed wrong as Massachusetts reported 2,252 new confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday, with the seven-day average edging up to 2,022 from 1,967 the day befor, and with concern growing about the possibility of another surge, the Department of Public Health also reported that the high-stakes campaign to vaccinate people got another 71,434 shots into people’s arms.
That is the only $coreboard that is important!
I'd rather get outside, clean the house, and listen to music as they literally wave the insults in our faces:
"States have given out billions in unemployment benefit overpayments during pandemic, watchdog reports" by Yeganeh Torbati Washington Post, March 31, 2021
The government made $6.2 billion in overpayments across two unemployment insurance programs during the first year of the pandemic, according to a watchdog report released Tuesday.
Millions of Americans lost their jobs as the coronavirus slammed the economy in spring 2020, forcing many to rely on jobless benefits and straining state unemployment systems. In March 2020, Congress passed legislation that boosted and supplemented regular unemployment benefits, including a new program called Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which extended help to workers left out of their state’s systems.
The report by the Government Accountability Office said the Labor Department reported that ’'states had identified more than $3.6 billion in PUA overpayments from March 2020 through February 2021.’' In addition, states identified $2.6 billion in regular unemployment insurance overpayments in the last three quarters of 2020.
The report noted that ’'overpayments are not necessarily a result of fraud, though some may be.’' States generally must require people to repay overpayments, but they can also waive that requirement if they find an individual was ’'without fault.’' For instance, in October the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment forgave $1.4 million in PUA overpayments to 9,000 Coloradans after acknowledging that confusing forms for gig workers may have led some people to overestimate their incomes.
The numbers reported by the GAO represent a much higher overpayment amount than was previously known. When the GAO addressed the issue in a January report, it found that Labor Department data showed $1.1 billion in PUA overpayments between March and December 2020, and it recommended that the agency collect the data from states.
The GAO’s January report also repeated and elaborated on concerns about fraud in an emergency relief program run by the Small Business Administration (SBA), called the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program, which offers up to $10,000 to businesses and nonprofit organizations. By the end of December, the SBA had approved 3.6 million low-interest loans worth $197 billion.....
Look, I'm not approving corruption of any kind but all I ever get in my pre$$ is penny ante $hit.
They never go after the $y$temic corruption and perver$ions since that would collapse the $y$tem and their golden goo$es.
Rather than investigating billions(!) in alleged unemployment fraud (that's why your check is being held up), why not investigate the TRILLIONS in LOOTING by Wall Street, etc, 'eh?
Aaaah, you will forget all about it after Biden's economy stars roaring:
"US hiring surge expected for March with more growth ahead" by Olivia Rockeman and Reade Pickert Bloomberg, March 31, 2021
US employment probably swelled in March by the most in five months as millions of COVID-19 vaccinations and a more open economy helped invigorate hiring, including at businesses hit hardest by the pandemic.
PROBABLY?
Friday’s monthly jobs report will show 650,000 people were added to payrolls and the unemployment rate dropped to 6 percent, according to the median forecasts of economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Some are projecting an increase of 1 million or more, which would be the sharpest gain since August.
As if anyone believed that $elf-$erving piece of $hit this government puts out, and that included the Trump time.
The rate of coronavirus vaccinations rose above 2 million per day in March and dozens of states eased pandemic-related business restrictions or lifted them altogether. That likely boosted hiring in sectors most depressed by the health crisis, such as leisure and hospitality, which have been slow to rebound because of limits on capacity and in-person activities.
“We know that the sector is still running pretty lean for jobs relative to pre-COVID levels, so there’s room for a nice bounce in job creation in that sector,” said Michelle Meyer, head of US economics at Bank of America.
Yeah, right, as the criminals in charge scream variants and call for another lockdown!
Some industries like food services may also step up hiring in anticipation of stronger sales in coming months, she said.
Are you $ick of the fal$e promi$es and bull$hit yet?
ADP Research Institute data on Wednesday showed companies in March added the most jobs in six months, led by a big pickup in hiring at leisure and hospitality businesses. Total private payrolls increased 517,000 during the month and February employment was revised up to a 176,000 gain.
They "revi$ed" the numbers up, huh?
If you believe any of this, you are a fool!
Meanwhile, President Biden signed a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill on March 11 that included direct relief payments, an extension of unemployment benefits, aid for restaurants, and funding for vaccinations and testing. That should spur further employment growth in the coming months as more money circulates through the economy.
In addition, Biden on Wednesday unveiled a $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan — paid for by steep tax hikes on businesses. The proposal aims to create new jobs through programs such as a new Civilian Climate Corps, construction of affordable housing, and efforts to clean up abandoned mines and capping old oil and gas wells.
“Well-designed public investment can spur innovation and can spur productivity and it can spur job growth all around America,” Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, said on Bloomberg Television Wednesday. “This is about public sector investments that we know will actually generate job growth.”
UH-HUH!
Someone better ask the Chamber of Commerce!
What is there left to talk about, really?
"The executives at Framingham retail giant TJX Cos. aren’t just worried about the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on store closures and public health. They’re also worried about the long-term effect that the pandemic, which accelerated a broad shift to e-commerce, will have on consumer habits. The parent company of the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls chains updated the risk factors it provides to investors in its annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. A year ago, the company had warned that the temporary closings of stores, warehouses, and offices could pose a risk to shareholders. This year, TJX is still warning about pandemic-related expenses, as well as related staffing concerns, but the company also notes that customers’ willingness to shop in stores and the levels of consumer spending and sentiment could be affected by the pandemic. TJX warned that declines in customer traffic and sales could continue or accelerate through the pandemic, and after it is over."
Won't have to drive your car to the mall anymore:
"Emboldened by signs the COVID-19 crisis may be waning and fearful of potential vehicle shortages, consumers snapped up new autos at pre-pandemic rates in the first quarter as the US car market’s recovery likely gained momentum. US auto sales surged by more than 8 percent in the first three months of the year, according to analysts’ estimates. The projected gain was powered by higher demand in anticipation of a return to offices and everyday travel as vaccination rates exceeded one-quarter of the population. Greater confidence in the economy spurred purchases as did fear of lower supplies of cars due to chip shortages."
I'm exhausted by the endless $pew of bull$hit.
Time to throw the confetti despite the faulty fuel pumps, and what's with the muffler as companies quietly back away from criticizing China over human rights?
So who wants the middle seat?
"Wall Street closed out March with a mostly higher finish for U.S. stock indexes and the market’s fourth straight quarterly gain. Tech stocks powered much of S&P 500’s latest gains, even though more stocks in the index fell than rose. Solid gains by Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia, and companies that rely on consumer spending, outweighed a pullback in financial, energy and materials stocks. Stocks of smaller companies once again posted a strong showing. The stocks have outpaced the broader market on rising expectations for the economy. Vaccinations and massive spending plans by Washington have raised expectations for supercharged economic growth and a possible rise in inflation....."
Thankfully, and just in time for April Fools' Day is a bevy of viewing options and new shows that you’d be a fool to ignore -- one of which is Opening Day at the ballpark.
On a final note, I found it odd that I was not presented with any racy ads at all today. The closest they came was this.
Looks like someone is paying attention and I would be a fool to continue this blog.
