That's about when I stopped reading today's Globe:
"Vaccinating educators is a start, but more challenges ahead on reopening schools" by James Vaznis Globe Staff, March 3, 2021
Many educators around Massachusetts were elated after Governor Charlie Baker announced on Wednesday that they will soon be eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations, but they say many other challenges remain unresolved before full-time in-person learning can resume at many schools.
Inoculating the state’s approximately 400,000 educators, school employees, and child care workers could take more than a month as they compete for limited appointments with hundreds of thousands of other eligible residents, and even with school staff getting vaccinated — if they choose to do so — students won’t be eligible for some time, a divide that will require schools to continue with social distancing, which in many cases greatly diminishes classroom capacity. Other factors that could complicate reopening schools include incomplete ventilation upgrades, union negotiations over safety measures, and potential increases in infection rates.
“The vaccine is a big piece of the puzzle, but it’s not the only piece,” said Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union. “Teachers would like nothing more [than] to have their students back in the classroom, but it has to be done safely with the right protocols in place to ensure there is no school or community transmission.”
Tang said students are still at risk of catching the virus from each other and bringing it back to their homes and communities.
The mass quarantines and kidnappings will follow.
The CDC in its updated guidance last month said in-person learning in schools has not been associated with substantial community transmission.
The question of how to safely reopen schools could take on greater urgency Friday. The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education abruptly moved its monthly meeting ahead three weeks to consider a request from Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley to give him the authority to force districts to fully open their classrooms.
If the board approves Riley’s request, the move is expected to renew emotional debates over whether schools should strictly enforce the standard guideline of 6 feet of social distancing or go with a shorter distance. While CDC guidelines stress that 6 feet is preferable when feasible, Massachusetts guidelines allow districts to provide as little as 3 feet, a standard that a growing number of medical professionals are endorsing over the objections of many teachers. Parents have been split on the issue.
The 3-foot standard is based on recommendations from the World Health Organization last summer and an analysis published by The Lancet that examined 44 studies on distancing measures. The analysis found that a little more than 3 feet of distancing — plus masks and goggles — provided a good degree of protection from the coronavirus, although 6 feet was better.
Research is underway in Massachusetts to determine if there is any difference in protection between 3 and 6 feet in classrooms.
OMG, OMG, OMG!!
What a FUCKING FRAUD is ALL THIS!!
Now you can cut the distance in half, with dystopian tyranny off course, it's all good!
The JIG is UP, hey!
“There are a lot of hard choices ahead,” said Judy Evans, superintendent of Winchester schools, where an enrollment boom in recent years has led to crowded classrooms. “Even at 3 feet we cannot fit all students in many rooms.”
Vaccinating teachers, she said, will be a big help in alleviating concerns about the virus.....
I guess that was about halfway through the rubbish that passes as journali$m from the Globe.
Related:
The photograph is a rather frightening scene in more ways than one, and I am troubled by the push to get the children in school and into the pool testing program (taxpayer-funded, of cour$e) for a nonexistent virus that an astronomical number of children survive without even knowing they had it based on a technique and procedure that wasn't designed to diagnose infection.
That's the Globe's blueprint for how to reopen Boston schools in an equitable and collaborative fashion and with the pressure on.
That brings us to the next front-page article in the trio of swill:
"Fewer getting tested for COVID-19, which is a problem, experts say" by Dasia Moore and Laura Krantz Globe Staff, March 3, 2021
After a winter of long lines, frustrated test-takers, and extended wait times for results, some COVID-19 testing centers in the Boston area say they are now experiencing an eerie quiet.
“We have seen a recent dramatic decrease in patients looking for outpatient COVID-19 testing,” said Nick Duncan, director of emergency management at Tufts Medical Center, describing a phenomenon seen across the country. The large downtown testing site, which once saw lines that stretched to the end of the block, has recently reduced its hours.
The declining testing numbers threaten the progress the state and country have made in curbing the virus’s spread this winter, experts and officials said. Fewer people being tested means an increased chance that emerging outbreaks will go undetected, infected people will spread the virus to others, and the key metrics policy-makers rely on for reopening decisions will be skewed, experts and officials said.
More tests means more "positives."
Are you sick of the fear-mongering lies from the pre$$ and authority yet, because I sure am!
“The better the job we do with testing, the more certainty we have in what’s going on, and the more certainty we can have in what actions we need to take — whether that’s relaxing [public health] measures or increasing measures,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist.
Individuals should continue to test regularly if they experience symptoms, are exposed to someone with the virus, or interact with people outside their household without proper social distancing, experts and health officials said, but they worried that vaccine distribution and falling cases and deaths have lulled the region and nation into a false sense of security.
Michelle Nadow, president and CEO of DotHouse Health in Dorchester, said weekly numbers have dropped to less than half what they were in November and December. Even as people get vaccinated, the need for testing remains strong, she said. “We really see [testing] as critical to the response,” Nadow said. “We are still trying to keep up the vigilance.”
Scarpino, the Northeastern epidemiologist, said expanding the pool of people being tested is crucial, Scarpino said: “The more accurately we know what’s going on with COVID, the more quickly we can be confident in our return to something that’s more of a normal life.”
Something that's more normal, i.e., NOT NORMAL!
They only want to increase their fraudulent test procedure so keep this colossal criminal fraud against the world going!
Demand for testing tends to peak when cases are surging, because a larger number of people are experiencing symptoms and because the general public is more concerned about the virus. Since cases and deaths have fallen steadily for the past several weeks across the state and country, some people may believe that COVID-19 is no longer a threat, despite the fact that tens of thousands in the United States still test positive each day.
Yup, cases fell just like they would have with seasonal cold and flu.
Individuals who limited their travel and social circle after the winter holidays and subsequent surge might also feel safe, experts said. Still others may have let their guard down after receiving their first vaccine dose, or even after hearing news they are eligible. Officials are working to combat that sense of complacency. The pandemic is ongoing, they said, and so is the need for testing.
For the rest of time!
Oh, btw, that negative isn't really a negative (blog editor's eyes roll towards ceiling) as the indu$try is forming.
“We want to make sure that people continue to get tested if they’ve been exposed, or they’re around others, or they have symptoms,” said Marty Martinez, Boston’s chief of health and human services.
So it is no longer even infection, it's "exposure."
That message applies even to people who have been partially vaccinated, Martinez said, and even fully vaccinated people should continue being cautious to help protect others. Martinez said he understands many people are feeling COVID fatigue, but he urged the public to remain alert.
“Getting tested helps to slow the spread. It helps to protect people individually and to protect those they care about or might live with,” he said. “Even when we’re ready for it to be over with, we still need to make sure we use one of the most important weapons that we’ve got.”
The fraudulent test doesn't slow anything. It is a "weapon" that actually infects you to keep the case count up!
When will people WAKE UP!?
The WORLD is ON TO YOU!
Related:
There is a “lot of hope because case counts have been coming down in a lot of places and the vaccine roll-out is picking up steam across the country,” says Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, director of Boston College’s global public health program who formerly worked at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but, he is “concerned that some people may be letting down their guard and relaxing prematurely.”
Also see:
Right, the tyranny makes politics more transparent (blog editor shakes head in disgust) and will some one call a cop?
Wait, never mind, this is Ma$$achu$etts.
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This was my World/Nation, page A2, upper co-lead:
It's a joke (Democrats have no ethics) were it not the codification of one-party, communist rule.
The lower co-lead that picks up where yesterday left off:
"Guard commander details breakdowns that delayed troops as Capitol was attacked" by Luke Broadwater and Michael S. Schmidt New York Times, March 3, 2021
Military and federal security officials on Wednesday detailed further security breakdowns that failed to stop the Jan. 6 pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol, including that the head of the D.C. National Guard did not receive approval to mobilize troops until more than three hours after he requested it, outlining a longer delay than previously known and emphasizing bureaucratic restrictions that hindered efforts to quell the violence.
Are they making this up as they go along because it sure looks that way.
The Guard commander, Major General William J. Walker, got word that Pentagon officials had authorized his request at 5:08 p.m. — more than three hours after he received a desperate plea for help from the then-chief of the Capitol Police, Walker said.
“We already had guardsmen on buses ready to move to the Capitol,” he said, testifying alongside officials from the FBI and Departments of Homeland Security and Defense about security and intelligence failures ahead of the deadly rampage.
The Pentagon had removed his authority to quickly deploy his troops, which also slowed the response to the riot, he said. Once he had the approval, the Guard arrived at the building in less than 20 minutes and helped reestablish the security perimeter on the east side of the Capitol. Military officials had authorized Guard troop deployment at 3:04 p.m., according to the Pentagon, an approval that was itself delayed as officials there debated concerns about the optics of sending troops into the Capitol.
Those "officials" would be Pelosi and McConnell, and this limited hangout only confirms the staged quality of the event.
The reason for the delay in conveying the message of eventual approval to Walker was not immediately clear, but during those hours, video and interviews have shown, the Capitol Police and supporting forces were overwhelmed in trying to fight off the mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
Walker said he could have had 150 troops at the Capitol in 20 minutes. He also said that he believed that Pentagon officials’ concerns about optics were misguided and that forces needed to be quickly sent to the Capitol to help repel the rioters. “Seconds mattered,” Walker added. “Minutes mattered. They made a difference.”
Walker said that Pentagon officials placed restrictions before Jan. 6 on his ability to deploy troops and called it “unusual.” He noted that military officials had not raised concerns about optics in the summer, when the National Guard was deployed in Washington to help quell violence that erupted as racial justice protests were underway across the country.
Really says it all, doesn't it?
Meanwhile, Capitol Police say they have uncovered intelligence of a “possible plot” by a militia group to breach the US Capitol on Thursday.
PFFFFFFFFFFFFT!
As a result of the threat, the House called off a session scheduled for Thursday and planned to complete its work for the week on Wednesday night.
The threat appears to be connected to a far-right conspiracy theory, mainly promoted by supporters of QAnon, that Trump will rise again to power on March 4, the presidential inauguration day until 1933.
Several QAnon groups still operating on the social media messaging platform Telegram warned followers to stay away from any events on March 4, claiming it was a setup for Trump supporters.
Yeah, I have heard that ridiculous $hit from several sources and I'm set in Stone regarding his "return."
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security also sent a joint intelligence bulletin to local law enforcement officials Tuesday warning that a group of militia extremists had discussed trying to take control of the Capitol on March 4 and encouraging thousands of people to come to D.C. to try to remove Democrats from power.
There has been a noticeable decline in online activity on some social media platforms surrounding efforts on March 4, and there was already considerably less online chatter than during the lead-up to Jan. 6, a day that Trump repeatedly had promoted for a his rally and encouraged thousands to come to the nation’s capital.....
Sadly, Q is a government psyop to keep the citizenry passive and maybe that is why the chatter is down. Cat's out of the bag.
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IMPEACH, then, right, Globe?!
Funny how a fence and wall are good for Washington D.C., but not for the country.
The New York Times says it was a heart attack that was covered under the ACA.
The evil pervert is on a hike, huh?
Maybe he will mention the Israeli war crimes in the occupied territories and the mowing down of protesters in Myanmar as they both get away with murder.
Somebody call a doctor:
"Watchdog finds GOP congressman harassed staff, drank while serving as White House physician
By Catie Edmondson New York Times, March 3, 2021
The Department of Defense inspector general concluded in a report that Republican Representative Ronny Jackson of Texas, “disparaged” his subordinates, including pounding on the door of a woman who worked for him in the middle of the night during a presidential trip, and engaged in problematic drinking while working as the top White House physician.
The report, which was obtained by The New York Times and released Wednesday, shed light on a number of rumors that had dogged Jackson beginning in 2018, after former president Donald Trump nominated him to lead the Veterans Affairs Department. After allegations emerged that Jackson had improperly distributed prescription drugs, created a hostile work environment, and had problems with drinking, the White House withdrew his nomination.
The rumors in D.C. at the time in the Obummer White House was if you needed a pill, go see Dr. Danny.
Jackson went on to win a crowded Republican primary race to represent a district in northeastern Texas and was elected to Congress in 2020.
In a lengthy statement, Jackson accused the inspector general of resurrecting “false allegations” because “I have refused to turn my back on President Trump.”
“I flat out reject any allegation that I consumed alcohol while on duty,” Jackson said. “I also categorically deny any implication that I was in any way sexually inappropriate at work, outside of work, or anywhere with any member of my staff or anyone else. That is not me and what is alleged did not happen.”
In a fact sheet also provided to reporters, Jackson’s office noted thatformer president Barack Obama promoted him to rear admiral “after the alleged events” outlined in the report and that the then-president had profusely praised him for his work.
The 37-page report, first described by CNN, painted a picture of a physician who engaged in reckless and sometimes threatening behavior, creating an uncomfortable environment for subordinates. A majority of the 60 witnesses interviewed by investigators said that Jackson had created a negative work environment, and nearly all of them said they had either personally witnessed, experienced, or heard from colleagues about Jackson “screaming, cursing, or belittling subordinates.”
Investigators also found that Jackson engaged in inappropriate behavior on trips abroad with Trump and Obama.
In 2014, ahead of a trip to Manila, Philippines, witnesses said that Jackson told a male subordinate that he thought a female medical professional they were working with had a nice figure, using colorful language, and that he would “like to see more of her tattoos.”
While in Manila, witnesses said that Jackson went out on the town for a night of drinking and came back to the hotel where the medical team was staying and began yelling and pounding on the female subordinate’s hotel room door between 1 and 2 a.m. while “visibly intoxicated.” Witnesses said he created so much noise they worried it would wake Obama.
“He had kind of bloodshot eyes,” the woman recalled to investigators. “You could smell the alcohol on his breath, and he leaned into my room, and he said, ‘I need you.’ I felt really uncomfortable.”
On a separate trip to Argentina with Trump, a witness recalled that Jackson “smelled of alcohol” as he assumed his duties as the primary physician on the trip and recalled that the doctor had a beer a few hours before going on duty, in defiance of a policy preventing White House medical personnel from drinking on presidential trips. Jackson had previously recounted to witnesses that he found that rule to be stupid, investigators found.
Former subordinates interviewed by investigators additionally raised the concern that Jackson took Ambien, a powerful sleep-aid medication, to help him sleep during long overseas travel. Though it appears Jackson never was called upon to provide medical care after he had taken the drug, his subordinates worried that it could have left him incapacitated and unable to perform his duties.
My reaction to the story and charges is WHY HAVE WE NOT REALLY HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS until NOW?
Related:
"President Biden on Wednesday strongly criticized the decisions by the governors of Texas and Mississippi to lift statewide mask mandates, calling the plans “a big mistake” that reflected “Neanderthal thinking,” as his administration tries to manage the pandemic while state leaders set their own plans. The president said it was critical for public officials to follow the guidance of doctors and public health leaders as the coronavirus vaccination campaign gains momentum. “The last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything’s fine, take off your mask and forget it,” Mr. Biden told reporters at the White House. “It’s critical, critical, critical, critical that they follow the science. Wear a mask and stay socially distanced,” he added, “and I know you all know that. I wish the heck some of our elected officials knew it.” With vaccinations steadily rolling out nationwide and the worst of the pandemic appearing now to have an end date, the guidance from health experts and federal health officials has been consistent: Keep your guard up a little while longer. “Now is not the time to release all restrictions,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a White House briefing on Wednesday....."
I will believe an end when I see it, and my response to Walensky is WHEN THEN?
Just a couple more months she said, so they have already doubled up on further lockdowns within a matter of days since I was told “there is no reason we couldn’t wait for another month to be sure the reopening of the schools goes safely.”
Of course, the relaxing of restrictions really doesn't change anything, but.... federal officials have urged people to keep wearing masks, double them up, and Fauci even suggested that masks may even be needed for another year (never you mind that tent in Biden's pants).
Better to just stay in quarantine and work from home, right?
I failed to read that. Sorry.
"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 nearly 16,000 deaths in the state. Separately, UMass Memorial Health Care announced Wednesday that a field hospital it has run at the DCU Center in Worcester is slated to close this month as the number of patients hospitalized for the coronavirus declines. They plan to stop operations by mid-March and decommission the site in mid-April if hospitalizations continue to drop. The medical site helped alleviate the strain on Massachusetts hospitals during the winter surge of COVID-19, treating about 650 patients since it opened in early December. It also treated about 300 people during the first wave of COVID last spring. The DPH also reported that 102,052 more tests had been conducted for coronavirus. The total number of tests administered climbed to more than 16.4 million....."
For a population that is holding steady(??!!) at 6.8 million?!!?
They are testing the same "positive" people over and over, and where are the excess deaths due to COVID?
At least you can go home now, right?
Time to go all the way:
Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures in January committed an additional $1 billion to investing in startups that can reduce carbon emissions (Jason Alden/Bloomberg)
He's LOOKING OLD, isn't he?
I'll bet he $tinks, too.
The Globe shilling for his diabolical agenda is not surprising, and is like something out of the X Files.
The guy should be under Lockheed and key:
"Aerospace and defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp. said it is closing its Marion facility next year. The company is planning to move its Rotary and Mission Systems out of state in 2022 and said “a majority of employees will be offered the opportunity to relocate or, if possible, telework. In our ongoing effort to drive down costs for customers and increase efficiency and value, we are consolidating some operations in our Rotary and Mission Systems business to better align employees, technology and facilities to meet customer needs,” Lockheed said in a statement. Lockheed also said last week it was moving the same business out of Baltimore within two years, relocating 465 employees. The company issued the same statement about the facility closure to the Baltimore Sun. Lockheed did not disclose how many employees in Massachusetts would be affected by the closure in Marion....."
What is left to say, really?
Time to $ettle up:
Biden signs off on tighter income limits for stimulus checks in a concession to Democratic moderates
The pre$$ focus is on the chump change checks of $1400, which are only one element of a wide-ranging package that also includes $350 billion for state and local aid; $130 billion for schools; $160 billion for vaccinations, testing and other support of the health care system; an enhanced child tax credit’ and other provisions including rental assistance and food assistance.
Okay, so that adds up to approximately $640 billion; where is the other $1.36 TRILLION going?
(Blog editor's chin dropped to chest reading that after a whole f**king year of $camdemic)
"A married couple that ran a tech support business from their Melrose home will pay $145,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Attorney General Maura Healey that accused them of preying on seniors by charging them to fix nonexistent computer problems. Under the settlement, Shalu and Vishal Chawla, who operated Vtech Software Solutions Inc., also agreed to be barred from ever again operating any technical support companies. The couple targeted senior citizens in Massachusetts and across the country by sending deceptive pop-up ads to their computers warning seniors of viruses or other problems, and then charging them for repairs that were unnecessary, according to the lawsuit filed in 2019. “This couple ran a company that scammed elderly residents into paying money for tech support on their computers they didn’t need,” Healey said in a statement following approval of the settlement in Suffolk Superior Court....."
Hey, it was just a gig.
"Buoyed by the industry’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts drug makers raised a record-breaking $5.8 billion in venture capital last year, nearly double the sum of 2019 and surpassing the previous high of $4.8 billion in 2018, according to a new report by a trade group. As biopharma firms had three vaccines cleared for use in the US since the coronavirus emerged in December 2019 ― including one from Cambridge-based Moderna ― investors seemed eager to fund promising startups, said the report by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. “At a time when the world was struck by a global public health crisis, the biopharma industry responded swiftly and demonstrated its value by creating highly effective vaccines in record time and developing therapeutics and diagnostics to protect patients from a novel virus,” said Kendalle BurlinO’Connell, president and chief operating officer of MassBio. Twenty-one Massachusetts biopharma companies went public in 2020 and raised $3.9 billion, compared with $910 million raised in initial public offerings by the state’s sector the year before. The firms accounted for almost a third of all US-based biopharma initial public offerings by volume last year. Massachusetts’ life sciences hub is one of the world’s most robust, but it was no anomaly last year. Overall, 81 biotechnology companies debuted on the stock market, a new high-water mark, raising $13.5 billion."
That's the Great Re$et (in which Gates is a key figure) that is $napping at us like a dragon:
"A Waltham chemical manufacturer plans to significantly expand its footprint and more than double its workforce to supply drug makers with experimental medicines for clinical trials. Snapdragon Chemistry, a privately held startup founded in 2014 by two chemistry professors from MIT and Boston University, plans to open a 51,000-square-foot building at 360 Second Ave. sometime in the last three months of the year. The company’s 16,000-square-foot headquarters is located nearby at 300 Second Ave. Snapdragon has 38 employees, but will add at least 50 jobs “in the coming years,” the firm said in a news release. Massachusetts is well known as one of the world’s leading life sciences hubs, but the focus has traditionally been on research and development rather than manufacturing. Matthew Bio, CEO of Snapdragon, said it is “important for us to have manufacturing here in Massachusetts, co-located with the world’s highest concentration of pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Medicines discovered here can also be manufactured here with the goal of shortening the time it takes to get to patients,” he added. Snapdragon is working on the new building with CRB Group, which has built plants for some of the world’s biggest drug makers."
What kind of experimental medicines?
More mRNA vaccines?!!
And with that, this post is done.
