Already running late after working the night shift:
"All signs are pointing to a record summer on the Cape and Islands, a welcome burst of business after a year of pandemic dreariness. There’s just one problem: Hotels and restaurants are having trouble finding enough employees to handle the surge. Hiring seasonal workers to make beds and wash dishes has long been a challenge, even in the best of times, but with the arrival of a crucial foreign workforce potentially delayed due to just-lifted visa restrictions, and locals content to keep collecting enhanced unemployment checks as COVID keeps spreading — including a current spike in positive cases on the Cape — business owners are struggling more than usual to get their staffs in place, and the prospect of being overwhelmed by a stampede of vacation-starved tourists is putting some of them on edge....."
Commenter noted this article is carbon copy of what they always run at this time, and he's right. Change the dates and it reads the same, and I gue$$ it's a good thing the illegals are pouring across the border.
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"In Malden and statewide, mixed emotions as elementary schools resume full-time in-person learning" by Jenna Russell Globe Staff, April 5, 2021
The goal was a return to normalcy, as most elementary schools in Massachusetts resumed full-time in-person learning Monday, but for many parents and teachers statewide — and in one midsized, diverse city north of Boston — the day felt anything but normal.
The result was a stressful scramble for compliance, said officials, as school leaders fast-tracked plans to safely manage pickups, dropoffs, class changes, and lunchtimes at the city’s five large K-8 schools, four of which have more than 800 students. They also had to seek replacements for teachers out on leave, and communicate a slew of last-minute changes to the families of 6,000 students, more than half of whom spoke another language before learning English.
An estimated 90 percent of districts are now back to offering full-time in-person elementary school, though it’s harder to say how many students are attending, since individual families can still opt for remote learning.
Keep your kid home then because it is a damned if you do, damned if you don't decision.
While social isolation is damaging, tell the kid the truth. The government and the pre$$ are pathological liars, and throwing the kid into the CVD te$ting pool risks losing them to quarantine.
In Malden and statewide, some parents applauded the state’s aggressive action to get students back in schools, while others lamented the loss of local control — and the larger numbers of students in classrooms at a time when COVID-19 cases are increasing, and reaching new highs among students. The state requires three-foot spacing between students in classrooms, in keeping with the latest CDC guidelines, but many districts had favored a higher six-foot standard.
“It’s such a personal issue for each and every family, and it gets really treacherous,” said Malden School Committee member Michelle Luong, who lost a member of her own family to COVID-19. “This was a decision for our district to make.”
Better check the kid at home before sending them away:
"A year into the pandemic, DCF workers visiting only about half of children in-person" by Matt Stout Globe Staff, April 5, 2021
Workers in Massachusetts’ child welfare agency are seeing only about half of the children under their watch in-person each month, state data show, illustrating the state’s heavy reliance on remote check-ins during the pandemic even as schools, day cares, and others have returned mostly to face-to-face interactions.
Amazing how they have scads of data for some things, sometimes, and other times not.
The October death of David Almond, an intellectually disabled teen from Fall River, underscored the potential risks in relying solely on virtual visits, particularly as other safeguards fail. The 14-year-old’s father and his father’s girlfriend — now charged with murder in his death — routinely staged his video meetings with social workers from the Department of Children and Families to hide his abuse, state investigators found.
DCF staff never visited the family in person for the seven months before Almond was found unresponsive in a cramped one-bedroom apartment, the culmination of what a state probe last week called a “multi-system failure” between DCF, Fall River schools, and other agencies to protect or monitor him.
Since August, DCF has relied on a policy of alternating in-person and video visits each month for many of the nearly 42,000 children for which the agency cares or supervises, though it has continued to conduct emergency visits in person throughout the pandemic, but in shifting how it monitors vulnerable children, DCF has never issued statewide guidance to social workers on what constitutes an “effective” virtual visit or virtual interview of children or parents, according to the Office of the Child Advocate’s investigation of Almond’s death.
Those findings, detailed in the independent agency’s 107-page report released last week, highlighted the potential gaps in what’s been the department’s slow return to widespread in-person checks, which DCF itself considers the gold standard for child protection.
Let me tell you, the fear ripples through parents when they show up to "protect" your child -- the same people insisting you and your child take an unnecessary tube of toxins and poisons that will likely kill you.
“There is a way to do this work in a pandemic,” said Jane Lyons, the executive director of Friends of Children, an advocacy organization, “but COVID has served as an amplifier of a system that was already not operating well prior to the pandemic.”
Yeah, I know.
As far as the Globe investigating, they say it was a ‘multi-system failure’ yet again and once again, no one is held accountable with the endless excuses and buck passing in that piece, so much so it's sickening.
So not only is the DCF a murder outfit, it is something even worse and only a damn fool can't see it.
Good to go now:
"The nation’s top health agency is no longer recommending daily disinfection of schools to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance Monday, saying disinfecting chemicals like ammonia and bleach need be used only within 24 hours after an infected person has been there. Last summer, the agency recommended strong disinfecting chemicals be used daily to prevent the spread of the virus in classrooms. Earlier this year, the CDC posted documents meant to de-emphasize disinfection on such a regular schedule, but Monday’s guidance more clearly erased the daily recommendation....."
What a mind-f**k this whole thing has been!
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Time for first period geography:
"Defendant number one or next prime minister? Netanyahu divides Israel" by Isabel Kershner New York Times, April 5, 2021
JERUSALEM — It was a split-screen spectacle that encapsulated the confounding condition of Israel and its democracy.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in a Jerusalem court Monday for the opening of the key, evidentiary phase of his corruption trial. Simultaneously, just 2 miles across town, representatives of his party were entreating the country’s president to task him with forming Israel’s next government.
For many here, the extraordinary convergence of events was an illustration of a political and constitutional malaise afflicting the nation that gets worse from year to year.
Finally, some truth from the New York Times!
After four inconclusive elections in two years, Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, who is charged with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, and who denies wrongdoing, remains the most polarizing figure on the political stage, but he is also the leader of Israel’s largest party, which took the most seats in national elections last month.
With Netanyahu’s future on the line, analysts say his best bet for overcoming his legal troubles is to remain in power and gain some kind of immunity, but with neither the pro-Netanyahu bloc of parties or the grouping opposing him able to muster a coalition that could command a viable parliamentary majority, Israel appears stuck, unable to fully condone him or to remove him from the scene.
Now, experts said, the country’s democratic system is in the dock.....
Well, you know what that leads to if history is any indication.
I'm also told it is what an “attempted administrative coup looks like,” and the end result can be seen in AmeriKa and its new regime.
Related:
"While the country remains split along the fault lines of secular and religious, right-wing and left-wing, and Jewish and Arab, the main rupture has increasingly revolved around the polarizing figure of Netanyahu himself. Netanyahu now has 28 days to try to assemble a coalition that could command a majority of at least 61 in the 120-seat parliament, with the possibility of a 14-day extension. If he fails, President Reuven Rivlin could task another candidate or refer the choice to parliament....."
How Trump-like, and 28 days, huh?
The poor Israelis could do without the drama, and it turns out "the Jews" is somewhat of a canard when they are being hung out to dry be their diabolical leaders just as much as the rest of us and were used as pawns back in the day of the big H and the globe-kickers of their day, and speaking of (A$hke)Nazis:
"A top commander in Hitler’s secret police, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, was shielded by US and German authorities after World War II and later joined West Germany’s foreign intelligence service, which knew about his wartime role, newly disclosed records reveal. By the war’s end the official, Franz Josef Huber — who also held a general-level rank in the SS, the Nazi paramilitary organization — led one of the Gestapo’s largest sections, stretching across Austria and with roles out to the east. In Vienna after the Nazi takeover, his forces worked closely with Adolf Eichmann on deportations to concentration and extermination camps. Eichmann would eventually be executed for his role in coordinating the murder of millions of Jews. Next Sunday is the 60th anniversary of the opening of his trial in Jerusalem, but Huber never had to hide or to escape abroad, as many other top Third Reich commanders did. He spent the final decades of his life based in his hometown, Munich, with his family, under his own name, and the explanation for this strange immunity appears to lie in his usefulness in the spying conflicts of the Cold War. US intelligence documents show that there was strong interest in drawing on Huber’s wartime network to recruit agents in the Soviet bloc, even as Austria was seeking to have him tried for war crimes. Newly disclosed US and German intelligence records reveal that both countries made efforts to conceal Huber’s role in the crimes of the Third Reich and to prevent him from facing trial. German public broadcaster ARD obtained the records and shared them with The New York Times. They will be presented in a “Munich Report” investigative documentary scheduled to be broadcast in Germany on Tuesday....."
The New York Times is citing a CIA memo from 1953 that confirms what has been known for decades via Operation Paperclip and the the Org, and why is he not being treated as a hero?
Speaking of 1953, they are also hiding Operation Ajax under their trench coat:
"Iran and US agree on path back to nuclear deal; A Russian diplomat involved in indirect talks between Washington and Tehran in Vienna cautioned that restoration of the deal ‘will not happen immediately’" by Steven Erlanger New York Times, April 6, 2021
BRUSSELS — The United States and Iran agreed through intermediaries on Tuesday to establish two working groups to try to get both countries back into compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
In a meeting of the current members of the deal in Vienna, all parties agreed to establish one working group to focus on how to get the United States back to the deal by lifting harsh economic sanctions imposed or reimposed after President Trump pulled out of the accord in May 2018.
The other working group will focus on how to get Iran back into compliance with the accord’s limitations on nuclear enrichment and stockpiles of enriched uranium.
The two groups have already begun their efforts, according to Mikhail Ulyanov, the Russian representative who is ambassador to international organizations in Vienna.
Ulyanov called Tuesday’s meeting of the joint commission on the Iran deal an initial success, but in a Twitter message, he cautioned that restoration of the deal “will not happen immediately. It will take some time. How long? Nobody knows.”
The new working groups are intended to create a road map for a synchronized return of both countries to compliance, but even if there is agreement, verification will take some time given the technical complications and the absence of trust on both sides.
For instance, companies that want to do business with Iran, and that were burned badly when Trump reimposed powerful American sanctions, will want to be sure that a new administration won’t reimpose sanctions. Iran will want to see economic benefits, not just the promise of them, and the United States will want the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that Iran has returned to compliance and is not cheating, as it has done in the past.....
I had to stop reading it there because a) the New York Times lies about Iran's "cheating," and b) what do you mean the previous deal only promised Iran benefits without actually provided them?
Expect a BIG BOOM HERE SOON, by the usual suspects to be blamed on the usual suspects, and awaaaaaaaaaay we go!
I'm sure Britain and Australia will again be on our side, and at least the camel toe fork in the road made the prince smile.
I pray to God I am wrong about everything I write, and the truth is it will take a miracle to save us now.
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I wouldn't send the kid back to college, either:
"Selective colleges see surge in applications from first-generation students" by Laura Krantz Globe Staff, April 5, 2021
Large, selective private colleges are seeing a dramatic rise in the number of first-generation and low-income applicants, as well as applicants of color this year, following the decision by most schools to make standardized tests optional.
The shift away from testing was a necessity because of the pandemic, but also part of an ongoing reconsideration of their use in admissions. This trend is one piece of encouraging news after a year that has seen low-income students disproportionately affected by the virus and remote learning. As acceptance letters and deposits continue to trickle in over the coming weeks, a clearer picture should emerge of the way that the pandemic has reshaped the college-going population.
This increase in applications from chronically underrepresented groups of students comes after months of data that showed these students were applying to college at drastically lower rates during the pandemic than in the years prior. Concerned about that downturn, institutions over the past two months extended application deadlines and found new ways to reach out to these groups, and rates have improved.
Jenny Rickard, president and chief executive of the Common Application, hopes one silver-lining of this challenging year will be that these chronically underserved groups of students will have more opportunities in education, but despite the uptick in applications in the early months of 2021, many colleges had already locked in early decision students last fall.....
Related:
"An attorney for a group of white and Asian American families challenging the constitutionality of a temporary admission policy for Boston’s exam schools told a judge on Tuesday that “racial considerations” were “the predominant reason” for a system he said would unfairly crowd out prospective white and Asian American students, but a lawyer representing city school officials vehemently disagreed, saying it is “just false” that the policy was constructed for the purpose of “ensuring racial balancing.”
That's the plan if you hang around cla$$:
"After years of struggle at Becker College, the pandemic was one hurdle too many" by Laura Krantz Globe Staff, April 5, 2021
When Mount Ida College in Newton closed in a cloud of chaos in spring 2018, it sent shivers through the rest of the higher education universe, a warning of what could lie in store for other small, increasingly vulnerable private institutions.
That made people mad, but not for the rea$on you think.
That same spring, administrators at Becker College, a small private institution in Worcester, gathered their worried staff in an auditorium to reassure them that their school would not meet a similar end. A slide deck presented at that meeting, employees recalled, showed Mount Ida’s finances in red and Becker’s in green.
“We are not Mount Ida,” the college’s new president, Nancy Crimmin, said, her current and former employees recalled.
That phrase became a sort of refrain in the ensuing months and years, even as the school underwent budget cuts, rounds of layoffs and furloughs, and other increasingly desperate attempts to save money — until last week, when Becker announced, with near equal abruptness, that it would also shut its doors forever.
“They were constantly telling people everything was ok,” said one former employee. “Everything was not ok.”
The pandemic was the last straw for Becker, but the college also suffered from longstanding challenges that weakened its financial health — difficulties it, and other small private colleges, have been struggling to overcome for years; problems like declining enrollment, lackluster fund-raising and a failure to capitalize on its best programs.
“This is not just COVID, this was a very fragile situation pre-COVID,” said Neil Lefkowitz, a Washington, D.C., attorney who specializes in higher education closures and mergers.
For many small, tuition-dependent colleges, a return to normal this fall looks increasingly likely, despite early predictions that the pandemic could doom these institutions, which offer liberal arts degrees for a relatively high price, but a combination of federal stimulus money and hasty budget trimming has prevented all but a handful of small private schools from going under, but Becker’s struggle remains a cautionary tale: Even though the worst appears to be over, many of these institutions will enter next year with tapped-out reserves, depleted staffs, and students who are increasingly unable and unwilling to pay hefty tuition.
Well, not everyone and you can only go back if you have been "immunized against COVID-19" before they can return to campus in the fall even though it won't prevent infection or transmission -- and there will be no refund without it!
So how is the law$uit going?
“The effects of COVID-19 are going to be felt for a long time,” said Robert Kelchen, a Seton Hall professor who studies higher education finance.
The loss of a college is a blow to any community. Becker has more than 400 employees, including around 200 teaching staff.
The students caught amid Becker’s collapse primarily come from the surrounding region. The student body was mostly white and 40 percent low income, with more than three-quarters of students taking out federal student loans to afford the $46,000 cost; most students, however, did not pay full price.
There were signs that the college, which admitted 70 percent of applicants, was not serving its students well: Just 37 percent of full-time students graduated within four years, according to federal data reported by the college. After graduation, about 7.5 percent of its students defaulted on their student loans, which is below the national average but still relatively high.
WHAT?
“The higher education community in Worcester is very close-knit, and working together through the COVID-19 pandemic has made that even more so,” said David Fithian, president of nearby Clark University, which will take over Becker’s interactive media program, including a number of its staff and the Becker facility and name, with support from several local Worcester foundations.
Fithian said Clark, which has about 2,300 students, spent an extra $11 million last year on COVID-19 testing and other precautions to bring students back to campus. Becker didn’t have that kind of cash. Its endowment was $4.5 million, a tiny fraction of Clark’s $418 million.
“It was extremely challenging. Like Becker and every other college, we had to take on quite significant unexpected costs,” Fithian said.
Last summer Becker had also planned to allow students to return to campus in the fall, but faced with the cost of routine testing and other precautions, leaders changed course just weeks before the semester began and announced the school would continue completely online. Enrollment plummeted, and financial paralysis set in, but long before the pandemic, and even before Mount Ida closed, Becker knew it needed to make deep structural changes.
In the fall of 2017, higher education consultants from the firm Ellucian visited the school and produced a detailed report that identified a central problem: The school had lost its direction. Without a clear purpose, it was suffering from stagnant enrollment and low graduation rates.
“The vision needs to be clarified,” the report said.
They paid $$$ for that?
Yeah, they need their vi$ion checked for a $elf-$erving $cam!
The report also detailed more specific problems: dilapidated facilities, confusion about various centers on campus, unsophisticated marketing and recruitment, and a failure to realize the potential of its well-known programs in veterinary science, nursing, and video game design.
The consultants advised Becker to take advantage of its valuable assets: An on-site vet clinic, top-ranked interactive media design program, unique equine program, mental health clinic, mock crime lab and Division III athletics on its tight-knit campus.
In the end, the consultants were optimistic. The school had valuable assets and if it could solve its identity crisis, they said, it could begin to achieve its goal of becoming a nationally recognized institution.
Well, they are now for the wrong rea$on.
The warnings, however, failed to propel administrators to action, according to five current and former employees. The school was never able to narrow its focus, they said, and continued to flail as leaders tried one new idea after another.
Most recently, the administration had pursued a deal with TCS Education System, a Chicago company that operates a system of colleges across the country. When that possibility fell through several months ago, leaders faced few options, and elected to close. In early March, Crimmin announced that the school had stopped recruiting new students.
Becker’s closure has been somewhat of a test of a set of new state regulations passed in the wake of Mount Ida’s demise, with the goal of preventing another equally chaotic, last-minute closure.
The new rules stipulate that colleges must post three years of audited financial statements on their website. State officials also established a process for screening and flagging schools with concerning finances, and they require schools to notify their students if they are flagged.
Higher Education Commissioner Carlos Santiago noted in an interview that the school posted notice a month ago that it was considering closure and, unlike Mount Ida, has already forged agreements with other colleges where students can finish their degrees.
“The things we had control over and where we had responsibility went quite well,” he said.
Chris Gabrieli, chairman of the state Board of Higher Education, said it is crucial to give students as much warning as possible when a college closes.
“It’s great that folks at Becker, at the Department of Higher Education and at other colleges have scrambled to offer alternatives, but it should have happened earlier,” he said.
After Mount Ida closed, Becker and other colleges rushed to attract its students. Some of them transferred to Becker and now find themselves navigating a second closure.
Bryan Bastos was a freshman at Mount Ida when the college closed during his second semester.
First he transferred to Lesley University, in Cambridge, then came to Becker because of its well-known digital media program.
“Becker gave me the chance to meet new people, and then it was just kind of another slap in the face,” said Bastos, 21, of East Boston.
Prepare for another one $oon.
Bastos is not sure now whether he will stay in school. He has spent tens of thousands on a degree that he still does not have. He might move to the West Coast or get a full-time job.
“I kind of just ran out my resources,” he said. “It’s just been a waste of money for a while now. I feel like I’m cursed and I need to get blessed or something.”
It's been tough times for small colleges around New England, and too bad they don't have a Bloomberg to look after them.
Related:
"Despite its shaky finances, the school’s top officials have continued to earn typical salaries for the industry. In 2018, Crimmin was paid $355,000 plus a $36,000 housing allowance. The school’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, David Ellis, received $369,000. The institution employs 200 professors and 200 staff members....."
How about that $lap in the face, huh?
Crimmin is a criminal, but they care so much about the kids:
"Law firm concludes sexual assault allegations made against prominent BC theology professor were false" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, April 5, 2021
An independent investigation has cleared a prominent Boston College theology professor of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman when they were both graduate students at Notre Dame in the late 1980s, BC said Monday.
The college said the inquiry by an outside law firm found that the allegations were false. In a statement, BC said the professor, theology chair Richard Gaillardetz, would resume his duties when the department gathers for its final meeting of the academic year on April 28.
You only believe the woman in certain cases.
Last month, Gaillardetz had voluntarily stepped away from his teaching and administrative duties while the outside firm, DeMoura Smith LLP, conducted its review of the allegations, which Gaillardetz had denied.
The allegations initially surfaced in late January and early February when theologian Laura Grimes had accused Gaillardetz, in a series of YouTube videos, of sexually assaulting her on two occasions in 1987. Gaillardetz released a statement in early March denying the allegations and calling them “reckless.”
According to the BC statement Monday, DeMoura Smith “considered the totality of the evidence gathered, assessed the credibility of witnesses, and applied a preponderance of the evidence standard to its work. The firm’s professional opinion and judgment is that Dr. Grimes’ allegations, ‘are not only not credible but are also false.’”
The BC statement also included what it said was an excerpt from the firm’s report, which said in part, “We confirm that our investigation was independent and free from any external influence or interference by the college or anyone acting on its behalf. The conclusions we reached are the result of our independent professional analysis and judgment concerning the matter and based upon a significant evidentiary record.”
As a result, the statement said, BC will take no further action in the matter.
Grimes couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
Incredibly, this is the adverti$ement that came with that article and I no longer have any questions, do you?
You know, it’s been more than a year since the last jury trial was convened in Rhode Island, and at this rate, the presiding judge at the Superior Court expects that it will take a year for the trial pace to return to normal — provided there aren’t any more coronavirus surges, forcing another shutdown that kills of natives and leaves them in the dustbin of history.
Now back in your dorm:
"Bates College in Maine extending lockdown through Sunday, citing COVID-19 spike" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, April 6, 2021
Bates College in Lewiston, Maine announced Monday that it will extend a lockdown through Sunday, owing to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases among students at the liberal arts institution.
The extension of the lockdown, which took effect at 2 p.m. on April 1 and had initially been set to expire Tuesday afternoon, was confirmed in a message posted to the school’s website by Joshua G. McIntosh, Bates’s vice president for campus life and dean of students.
It wasn't a joke and it is damn criminal because it is being done over a massive lie regarding a virus that has been isolated and detected by a tests that doesn't detect it or infectiousness and which are prone too manipulation and false positives, etc, etc.
C'mon, kids, fight back!
As of Saturday, McIntosh wrote, there were 51 active student cases of COVID-19, a number that fell to 49 the following day when two recovered. Bates has a student population of roughly 2,000, according to its website.
“On Saturday, I also shared that we had 129 students in close contact quarantine, which continues to be the number of students in close contact quarantine as of this morning,” McIntosh wrote in his Monday note.
He added that medical advisers from the Mayo Clinic have informed Bates officials that “we need to extend the in-room restriction until we see a consistent downward trend (into low single digits) in positive test results and sustain this pattern over several test cycles.”
Like in Texas and Mississippi, for lockdowns have failed after a year and there can be no arguing it.
As a result, McIntosh wrote, “we will need to extend in-room restriction through Sunday, April 11, in an effort to stabilize the transmission of COVID on our campus. In addition to our concerns for student, faculty, and staff health, an unchecked surge of this kind is very challenging operationally. We want to do our best to avoid getting anywhere close to a situation that could jeopardize the remainder of the semester.”
Is the place named after Norman Bates because this is psycho.
During the restriction period, he wrote, students can only leave their dorms or off-campus apartments to attend a mandatory COVID-19 testing appointment; pick up a meal; use the restroom; exercise alone outside on campus; attend an off-campus vaccine appointment; pick up prescriptions; or visit Bates Health Services or another medical provider.
Almost as if they were IN PRISON -- except it's nicer!
“Please note that any student who violates the in-room restriction, or other public health protocols, will be in violation of the Public Health Agreement,” McIntosh wrote. “Failure to follow campus in-room restriction directives will result in immediate referral to the student conduct system, which will likely result in being removed from college housing and being switched to remote learning for the remainder of the semester.”
My guidance to parents is DON'T SEND YOUR KIDS THERE!
On the flip side, a 95-year-old World II veteran beat COVID(??!!) and then had a beer with his wife!
Now why are you kids locked down again?
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"...... How, or if, to certify vaccinations has become a more pressing concern as more Americans get vaccinated against COVID-19. Uncertainty remains about whether and when the country will reach herd immunity — the point at which a large enough percentage of people become immune that transmission of the virus peters out. The lack of clear data about how coronavirus immunity works, the emergence of new variants, and lingering reluctance among some Americans to get vaccinated are among the factors that may stand in the way of achieving herd immunity. Until then, the reality may be that Americans will have to learn how to travel, fully reopen the economy, and live with the virus before we’re able to live without it.
There is no uncertainty; we have NATURAL HERD IMMUNITY at this point.
Disingenuous attempts to politicize the idea of “vaccine passports,” similar to how masks were used as weapons in an ideological culture war, are already overshadowing the real causes for concern about them. No, there is no hypocrisy in opposing onerous ID laws for voting while also supporting a measure to help people demonstrate virus immunity when they need to, and actions like the executive order Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed Friday banning vaccine passports are counterproductive, but a host of valid problems with the idea have been flagged by an ideologically diverse group of civil rights organizations, business groups, and watchdogs. They fear that the use of vaccine passports can exacerbate inequities already revealed by the pandemic, lead to digital data breaches or fraud, or create a “show me your papers” mentality that can add fuel to existing culture wars. Others fear they may be bad for some small businesses who might struggle to meet their requirements....."
You won't need one to vote though -- or will you!!??
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"..... It’s now clear. On the evidence of the following editorial from the Independent, the media are now totally in on the elite’s agenda. Of course, in the past they were subtler about it but now they are completely open and upfront.
Not only are they not questioning the severity of Covid-19 – which for the vast majority seems only marginally worse than seasonal flu – or questioning the actual number of deaths in the pandemic – which are being inflated— they are also fully supportive of plans for a vaccine passport.
Again it needs to be emphasised that the claimed death rates DO NOT reflect a “pandemic”.
Worse still, beyond supporting a “vaccine passport” for international travel, the Independent is now also suggesting we need a domestic equivalent.
In other words the ‘Independent’ is recommending that some sort of system be put in place to monitor and regulate domestic movement. In the form of travel papers or more likely today, the digital equivalent stored on a mobile phone.
In the Soviet Union the issuing of passports for international travel was strictly limited, and after 1933 an internal passport system was also implemented. Within certain regions of the USSR an internal passport became mandatory for anyone 16 and older.
Travel papers, of one sort or another, and some sort of internal passport or identification were indeed a hallmark of many 20th century totalitarian regimes. Yet here we have one of Britain’s foremost liberal outlets calling for the introduction of a similar system “as soon as possible”.
The writer must think that readers are stupid as this is ostensibly to control a condition that for most otherwise healthy people is little worse than seasonal flu.
Not only is the Independent urging the introduction of what amounts to internal travel papers, or the digital equivalent, it’s also suggesting that those who refuse domestic travel documents be held under a form of house arrest.
The headline says it all and unfortunately I suspect that this is only the beginning.
The mainstream media is totally in the hands of the ruling elite and it is used to prepare the public mentally, often subliminally, for whatever they have planned.....
Read the rest HERE
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I'll bet you kids were looking forward to going to the games, too:
"With several sports leagues planning for the return of fans, new research submitted to the scientific journal The Lancet in late March suggested that there was a link between NFL games that had large numbers of fans in the stands and an increase in the number of infections in locales near the stadiums. The study, which is being peer reviewed, is one of the most comprehensive attempts to address the potential impact of fans at NFL games. The authors used the number of positive cases not just from the counties where the 32 NFL teams play but also from surrounding counties to track the spread among fans who may have traveled to games from farther away. They found surges in infection rates in the second and third weeks following NFL games that were played with more than 5,000 fans in attendance. More than a dozen NFL teams, including the three franchises in Florida and the two in Texas, hosted games with more than 5,000 spectators during the regular season. The Dallas Cowboys led the league in attendance in 2020, averaging more than 28,000 fans at their home games."
Related:
"The NFL did it, playing all 269 regular-season and postseason games amid the worst global health crisis in a century. The season was equal parts football and science experiment, and the NFL learned a lot about COVID-19, some of which can be applied to the general public. Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, said “unequivocally yes, masks work, and they are probably the most important risk mitigation strategy,” Sills said, and as further evidence that masks and social distancing work, Sills said, “we had almost no influenza cases this year, and that’s not true just in the NFL, that’s in medicine in general, and that’s a result of many of these mitigation strategies.”
That's what the NFL's grand football experiment has taught us (ugh) and I'm also told the NFL also plans to be vocal in encouraging the public to get vaccinated this offseason so forget football forever, and in theory, the flu virus could be taking a year off, and that’s a relief!
Ironically, I was going to watch the hockey game tomorrow but that is now on ice after their best players have been ruled ineligible due to COVID exposure (I'll bet they are vaccine hesitant!).
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I will bet they are already looking forward to summer vacation:
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued long-awaited technical guidance for cruise lines on Friday, bringing them one step closer to sailing again in United States waters -- as they order the cruise industry to stay docked until November 1st to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19.”
Funny, I just asked who decides whether you can go on a cruise and they promptly answered as we go through another year of COVID.
At least the tests and certificates are free, so take a hike wearing this and rollout your sleeping bag.
Sweet dreams.
