The only problem is it is the only game in town:
"Tech stocks tank and take the rest of the market with them" by Larry Edelman Globe Staff, September 3, 2020
It made perfect sense when the stock market plunged 34 percent in just 23 trading days in February and March. That’s when the coronavirus expanded from a Chinese domestic crisis into a sprawling pandemic, creating economic entropy around the globe, but the furious surge by stocks to new records since prices bottomed out at the tail end of March? Bonkers.
We’ve had a bull market fueled by virtually free money from the Fed, a handful of tech monopolies, and a truckload of wishful thinking about a V-shaped recovery and a vaccine delivered in record time. Forget that the Labor Department said Thursday that another 881,000 Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, adding to the 29.2 million people who were receiving them in mid-August, or that the economy contracted at a 33 percent annual pace in the second quarter, a record reported by the Commerce Department last week.
So it’s really no surprise that after climbing to a new peak on Wednesday, the Standard & Poor’s 500 tumbled 3.5 percent Thursday, its biggest one-day drop since June 11.
At least the “last couple of weeks have felt very exuberant,” and I'm sure fortunes were made.
Stock prices have soared because investors have no where else to go.
Money market funds? Managers have been forced to waive fees to keep interest rates from falling below zero. Government bonds? The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury is 0.6 percent, which isn’t even enough to keep up with inflation, not to mention save enough for college or retirement.
It’s called TINA — there is no alternative. Stocks are the only game in town, and they’ve been a great game since March 23.
That’s when the Federal Reserve said it would do whatever was necessary to stabilize markets and make sure there was enough money available to keep businesses and consumers afloat.
Which businesses and which consumers 'cuz..... !!!!!!!
The last six months have been the greate$t hei$t in world hi$tory, and they are not done yet.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell essentially told investors, “Don’t worry. We got this,” and they took him at his word.
Thursday’s blowout nicked some of the market’s gains, but the scorecard is still impressive.
O, the $corecard is impre$$ive.
There was no one event that precipitated Thursday’s decline. The new jobless claims figures continued a downward trend, but one at levels not seen in generations. The economy has a long way to go before recouping this spring’s losses.
Investors have been growing increasingly concerned, however, that the big tech stocks driving the rally — the so-called FAANG stocks, for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google ― had risen too far, too fast.
Apple soared 134 percent from March 23 through Wednesday. Facebook was up 104 percent. And Amazon had gained 86 percent. On Thursday, Apple shed 8 percent, while Facebook lost 3.7 percent, and Amazon fell 4.6 percent, but that’s nothing compared with Tesla. After a gravity-defying ascent of 590 percent from its March low through Monday, the stock has shed nearly one-fifth its value, including 9 percent on Thursday. Investors started selling on news that the company’s largest shareholder, after chief executive Elon Musk, had reduced its stake, and that Tesla planned to sell $5 billion of new shares.
To get a sense of how narrow the rally has been, consider this: The S&P 500, an index whose members are weighted by their market value, has advanced 6.9 percent this year, driven by gains among high market-cap stocks such as Apple, but when all the companies in the index are weighted equally, it has lost 3.8 percent.
In other words, if all 500 stocks in the index contributed equally to its moves in either direction, the benchmark would be in the red.
Despite the tech-led takedown, the market isn’t headed for a dot-com-like bust, said Dec Mullarkey, managing director at SLC Management in Wellesley.
The FAANGs and other established tech companies have “fortress balance sheets and sustainable cash flow,” Mullarkey said. “They are not as mis-priced as most headlines suggest.”
Still, Mullarkey and other market analysts cited four key factors that may determine the course of the market through the end of the year and beyond.
STILL!
1. Whether Congress and the White House can agree on a new financial rescue package.
Not unless Wall Street wants one.
2. Can the country get the coronavirus under control and roll out a vaccine?
Already has seeing as 90% of the cases are non-infectious false positives and deaths are only 6% of what has been reported, and we don't need one for a mild flu that has a 99.99% survival rate at this point.
Of course, we are all waiting with baited breath for BG's Pandemic 11, the deliberate release of a highly infectious and more fatal bioweapon to be blamed on whatever target group is most dangerous right now or whatever group most advances the agenda (my bet is right-wing patriot patsies at this point. OKC redux or something).
3. The direction of US-China trade relations.
As long as there isn't an actual war and conflict between military forces, I'm okay with that. I don't like imitating the CCP when it comes to domestic affairs.
4. The November election. Despite President Trump’s claims to the contrary, investors won’t bail out of the stock market if former vice president Joe Biden defeats him. Rather, their concern is an election marred by foreign meddling and claims of voter fraud.
The last thing is the most important, of course, and it really makes one laugh at this point as the pre$$ screams Russian meddling, Russian meddling, while also assuring us the mail-in ballots (notice the eagle in the background that makes him look like a Roman emperor?) are safe and secure, no fraud. Gotta keep counting those ballots until the right person wins.
Wall Street has survived many crises since traders first gathered under a buttonwood tree in Lower Manhattan to buy and sell stocks in 1792, and it will be tested again this fall.....
UH-OH!
Looks like an EPIC COLLAPSE is coming if that ominous statement has any credence!
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Thus he says from his quiet quarantine, and you kids better find a room quick:
"Boston’s hotel industry has been hit harder than all but two other metro areas; The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the local hospitality market" by Andy Rosen Globe Staff, September 3, 2020
Boston’s hotel industry has cratered this year, with revenue and consumer demand falling even more dramatically than in other big cities, as the region has suffered declines in travel for tourism, business, education, and medical care.
Did you know it would be that bad, Globe, when you threw in on all this?
My $en$e is they did, for they are pushing the agenda full time, full $team.
Of course, given the employment mix in Massachusetts, the state’s economy will be less hard hit than many other states, although a factor in the state’s big loss of jobs is its reliance on industries especially hard-hit by the shutdown, including health care, education, and travel-related business such as restaurants and hotels.
The crisis for Boston has been worse than in all but a few other US markets, according to a report released this week by the American Hotel and Lodging Association. Additional research provided by the hospitality data company STR showed that revenue per available room, a key industry metric, declined in August across the Boston metropolitan area by about 76 percent compared with the same period in 2019.
Only Seattle and Oahu in Hawaii (which includes Honolulu) showed greater declines in that metric. The numbers for Greater Boston continue a trend that has seen hotels lose out on their crucial summer season, with many remaining closed altogether.
There won't be any coming back, either, so it will be rich man's playground and paradise once the parasite rabble is cleared out by inoculation.
No city’s hotels have prospered during the pandemic, but Chip Rogers, chief executive of the lodging and hotel association, said Boston has not reaped even the minor benefits of some other markets. Many hotel guests fly to Boston, rather than drive, he said, and areas with a lot of car visitation have seen some relief.
Who would want to go there when everything is closed and you can't do anything?
Aren't you in quarantine for the first 14 days?
Meanwhile, the metropolitan area has not been able to draw sufficient travelers for outdoor activities, which are more attractive than indoor activities during the pandemic. “The areas that are doing comparatively better — no one’s doing really well — are the beach locations,” Rogers said.
That's where local and state officials seem to focus their concerns this summer, too.
Meanwhile, some of Boston’s most important drivers of summer hotel bookings, which include conventions, colleges, and medicine, have been upended by the pandemic.
One bright spot is that there have been few permanent closures, so you can $pare them the $ympathy.
The crisis has been particularly hard for the workforce of the hotel industry. Carlos Aramayo, president of the union UNITE HERE Local 26, which represents about 5,000 hotel workers around Boston, said the hotel industry needs public assistance to survive the crisis, and that he hopes that support will benefit the workers who are suffering.
The taxpayers have to bail them out as another unemployment program is created!?
“It’s important that if there is that kind of support forthcoming, that it doesn’t just go to the service of debt on these properties, but to the men and women who do the work day in and day out,” he said.
Despite the difficult conditions, many hotels have continued to operate, serving the few travelers who are still coming. Some have shifted their business models, functioning as dormitories for socially distanced college students, and some that have been closed are reopening, hopeful that fall and winter will give way to a better 2021.
I'm sure the landlords and business owners are fine with that, until the property is seized entirely.
So much your life's work and dream, but it was always a gamble anyway.
The Royal Sonesta Boston in Cambridge reopened this week in hopes of seeing a decent turnout for Labor Day weekend and building on that momentum.
“The idea is, get open now, survive, provide the level of service, and focus on cleanliness . . . and then ride the wave as, hopefully, travel opens back up,” said Mark Sherwin, executive vice president of operations at the hotel’s parent company.
Well, it is next to Godliness and can you eat hope?
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I find it interesting that the above was an article tucked inside the $ports section on page C8 while this feel-great feature was broadcast above the fold on the front page:
"When your dorm room is at the W, student housing offers a dose of the high life; Colleges are renting out entire floors of hotels to provide socially distanced housing" by Dugan Arnett and Steve Annear Globe Staff, September 3, 2020
When she arrived back at school recently to find her current assignment — an elegantly appointed eighth-floor room at the swanky W Hotel downtown, complete with a king-size bed and a housekeeper who stops in weekly to change the sheets and clean her private bathroom — she experienced something approaching awe.
As the pandemic has forced area colleges to get creative in their efforts to mitigate the on-campus impact of COVID-19, some have turned to an unusual arrangement: renting out entire floors of hotels for the coming school year as a way to supplement on-campus housing and ensure students remain socially distant.
The arrangement is mutually beneficial. Schools, in many cases, are able to limit rooms to one student apiece, while hotels — reeling from a lack of summer travel — receive guaranteed occupancy through at least November, but the biggest beneficiaries, without question, have been the students, who suddenly find themselves enjoying the kind of luxurious existence previously unthinkable in undergraduate living.
For students, certainly, the unexpected luxury has helped quell the disappointing prospect of a socially distant semester.
Look at how hard the Globe is working to $hine this turd of tyranny!
“I haven’t heard any complaints saying the beds are uncomfortable,” joked Shigeo Iwamiya, director of residence life and housing services at Suffolk University, which is housing around 280 students at the Wyndham in Beacon Hill, the DoubleTree near Tufts Medical Center, and The Boxer in the West End.
It is; however, there is nothing funny about it at all.
Indeed, outside the W Hotel’s luxurious entrance on Thursday afternoon, one backpacked guest after another gushed about their current living situation. Not unexpectedly, the rooms have been a hit on social media in a series of widely viewed videos on TikTok.
Good thing they are not going to school in the South!
That's your first lesson, kids. Authority (and its media mouthpieces) lie. They lie right to your face.
There are some downfalls, of course, to permanent hotel living.
Why spoil the good time and fun, Globe?
At the W, laundry can get a little dicey, with nearly 200 students forced to share just a few washers and dryers, and unlike dorm rooms, students are prohibited from hanging their own decorations, meaning they’re left to endure the personal stylings of a hotel decorator.
“There’s Edgar Allan Poe paintings on the walls,” said Jenna Triest, 19, a sophomore journalism student “and the glass table is a Ouija board,” but it was a small price to pay, Triest said, for her current setup.
What evil and twisted sick f**ks put that $hit in there?
As Triest put it, “I don’t know how I’m ever going to go back to normal housing.”
Don't worry, you won't be.
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I would have kept the kid home:
"With the first day of school approaching, parents and students share dueling anxieties" by Naomi Martin Globe Staff, September 3, 2020
As the first day of school approaches, anxieties are mounting among parents and children about education in the COVID-19 era.
That paragraph makes me sick.
“I honestly don’t think we should go back to school until all this is really over,” said Jay’dha Rackard, an incoming seventh grader at Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy in Boston who fears she or her family could get sick, but going to school with coronavirus restrictions in place, she added, could be awful.
“It is cruel and mean to think that students should be in a room at their seats, not moving for hours,” she said. “Social time with friends in our grade and outside our grade is very important.”
What if it is never over, because that is the plan.
Rackard was among the speakers at a virtual news conference Thursday held by the Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance, including parents, students, and educators, who largely spoke about wanting to improve remote learning.
The conference came a day after another group of parents, Bring Kids Back, wrote an open letter to state and education leaders urging them to offer children in-person learning “now and for as long as community‐level data shows it can be done safely.”
“Our children’s academic, social and emotional well‐being hinges on the immediate adoption of a data‐driven approach designed to safely get children back in the classroom,” the letter said.
What, the silly color-coded map not good enough?
Parents with that group accused leaders of letting fear, not data, drive the decision-making. They said remote learning causes worse physical and mental health issues caused by too much screen time, disrupted routines, and a lack of in-person interaction with peers and teachers.
They are, of course, 100% right regarding our criminal leaders and the damage that has been done to kids, but our elite $cum don't care and why would they? Most are pedos.
About 70 percent of school districts in Massachusetts have chosen either to bring students back to buildings or a hybrid plan that mixes remote and in-person instruction. Governor Charlie Baker has urged districts to safely return as many students to in-person classes as possible.
The group advocating against returning to school buildings acknowledged remote learning was still far from perfect, but they said the focus should be on improving the experience until the pandemic ends or is under far better control.
Well, it should be over because 90% of the cases were reported by the New York Times to be false positives and only 6% of the cited deaths are COVID specific, so....
"Danish toymaker Lego A/S said it saw solid sales growth in the first half after demand for its iconic colored building blocks soared. Sales rose 7% from a year earlier to 15.7 billion kroner ($2.5 billion), feeding an 11% gain in operating profit, the company said on Wednesday. Lego also said its share of its biggest markets grew faster than the industry overall. Chief Executive Officer Niels B. Christiansen said the company was able to deliver “an extraordinary” performance during the pandemic. He said that Lego was able to reap the benefits of previous investments in areas such as online sales....."
.... as for the kids, homeschool them until this madness ends and defend them with your lives.
“In the spring, I felt like we didn’t learn anything,” said Araceli Flores, 16, a student at Everett High School, and for the fall also, she said, “my fear is I won’t be able to learn.” She has no confidence, she said, that her school could keep her and her classmates safe with masks and cleaning supplies, because before the pandemic the school couldn’t afford general materials.
Victoria Stutto, 17, a rising senior at Chelsea High School, said her father died shortly after remote learning started, and she struggled to cope, especially without her friends. She found schoolwork, especially on a screen, impossible to focus on. Some teachers were helpful, but others told her there were “no exceptions,” she said.
“Remote learning probably came at the worst possible time in my life and it didn’t help that it wasn’t very organized and my teachers weren’t very understanding,” she said.
I find that impossible to believe.
She and her classmate, Katy Ochoa, recommended that each school have a designated person students could contact about personal situations to help form solutions on a case-by-case basis.
Amid rising rents and an economic crisis, Ochoa said, many “students feel they have to choose between their education and supporting their families.” She said she found herself in that position, having to balance her own studies and helping her sister pass her coursework.
There really is no choice.
Stutto said she would not feel safe returning to Chelsea High until the number of COVID-19 cases fell significantly in Chelsea, one of the hardest-hit cities in Massachusetts, and the school or government provided masks, hand sanitizer, and other protective supplies for free, so everyone would have them.
Only 1 in 10 are actually infectious, and it's with a mild flu or cold they don't even know they have according to the narrative. The pre$$ acts like the reports I cited don't exist.
Luz Adriana Gamba, a Colombian immigrant with three children in Lowell, said she hoped the schools would better communicate this semester. Her 16-year-old son, who is learning English, didn’t understand his assignments last spring and ended up failing some classes, she said.
Suleika Soto, a mother of two Boston students, said she chose the hybrid plan for her children, but felt conflicted about it. She had COVID-19 last spring and didn’t work, but now her unemployment benefits are ending and she needs to return to work.
“There is really no child care out there, so school’s my next best option,” Soto said. “I know this is high-risk, but I’m kind of stuck.”
She also hopes her kids’ time with other students and teachers helps their mental well-being, but not at the expense of their physical health. She’d feel a lot better if everyone entering their schools had to show a negative COVID-19 test first.
Pushing the COVI-passport tyranny on the kids, I see!
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So how come there is no spread amongst students in Europe?
Some parents are still in the dark as Trump rolls out the rapid tests:
"Spotty broadband challenges Western Mass. schools" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, September 2, 2020
With its forests and fields, farmhouses and cabins, Sandisfield in far western Massachusetts looks like a Norman Rockwell image of old New England, and it might as well be, as far as Internet access is concerned, but in a time of pandemic, the lack of reliable high-speed broadband access in Sandisfield and other small western Massachusetts towns has become a serious challenge, especially for families with school-age children forced to fall back on remote learning.
Yeah, to the Great Global Re$et and the total global surveillance grid being constructed by BG and the like.
After Monument Valley Regional Middle School shut its classrooms last spring, Sandisfield resident Vanessa Tarasuk’s three sons were often absent from their virtual classrooms, because the family’s sluggish DSL Internet connection kept collapsing under the load. It got so bad that the school asked local police to check on the family.
“We were truants, I guess,” Tarasuk said. “We couldn’t get on Zoom. We couldn’t get on Google Classroom . . . it was just so overwhelming that I gave up.”
Get your call from DCF yet?
Parents around here need to wake up before they never see their kid again.
Six years after the state completed a $90 million data network to serve the region, thousands of Western Massachusetts families and small businesses still do not have access to reliable high-speed Internet service. While hundreds of municipal buildings have hooked up to the broadband backbone, including public schools that are now resuming online-only instruction, some 32,000 residents in 32 western towns cannot get that connection into their homes, according to the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI)
On goes the 5G, down go the kids on the playground.
Ben Doren, principal of the school in Great Barrington that the Tarasuks attend, declined to comment on the family specifically, but he did acknowledge the school asked police or the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families to check on students who weren’t attending remote classes, and Dillon said the school district may continue to request wellness checks on children who don’t log into remote classes, and may even make its own visits to families. The district will try to arrange alternative broadband access, and if that’s not possible, students may be forced to rely entirely on printed handouts.
Who knew fascist jackboots existed in Western Mass., huh?
“It’s a last resort because they would be less interactive and engaging,” said Peter Dillon, superintendent of the Berkshire Hills Regional School District, which serves the Tarasuk family.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The broadband network to bring high-speed service to the region was finished in 2014, but the “last mile” connections that bring fast Internet into homes and businesses remain incomplete. The state-funded MBI has provided $55 million in grants to 53 underserved towns as of 2016, but so far, fewer than half — 21 — have been fully wired.
Better off without it.
By contrast, virtually every home in Boston has access to high-speed broadband, through Comcast Corp., Verizon Communications, or RCN Corp. Paying for the service is a problem for many low-income households, but the service is there.
Another reason to avoid that city.
They flip the switch, you can't breathe.
In an emergency response to the school shutdowns forced by COVID-19, the MBI has deployed high-capacity wireless Internet hot spots in over two dozen public buildings throughout Western Massachusetts, but it’s hardly an ideal way for students to attend classes or complete homework, as it requires users to position themselves in or near buildings where the devices are installed.
Did that while we were under lockdown and restriction, huh?
So we couldn't see them doing it, huh?
The Berkshire school district has also provided families with mobile hot spots that connect to cellular data networks, but that, too, has a major shortcoming. “Lots of our communities have terrible cell service,” said Dillon.....
“There’s no one to blame,” and for some households, the last resort is a satellite dish.
Vanessa Tarasuk is still trying to figure out what to do as school resumes. Her sons received “incomplete” grades for last year, but were still promoted, and even before the pandemic, Tarasuk said, the lack of Internet access had put her children at a disadvantage.
“We’re already behind, because schools rely on the fact that everyone has access to the Internet,” she said. “So we’ve always been behind. We’re always going to be behind. So we’ll just roll with it, I guess.”
In this upside down world in which we now live, it's best to be last.
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The total $urveillance $y$tem is $old to you as one of inclusion even as they paint us into a corner.
Now play ball!
See:
"A letter from state officials to the Maine Principals’ Association is dimming hopes for a quick resolution to fall high school sports. Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew and Education Commissioner Pender Makin urged the organization to delay the season until safety guidelines can be reviewed further. In the letter, they said their concerns go beyond the students participating in sports to the communities. “If the schools had the resources like professional and some collegiate sports leagues to conduct frequent team testing and house teams separately to protect other students, school staff, and their families, it might be possible to return to interscholastic competition safely. Without that, such a return poses a risk of spreading COVID-19 across the state, within schools, and to vulnerable people within communities,” the letter stated. The letter criticized the association for hastily voting to advance all fall sports Aug. 27 before the state could review the guidelines. Concerns were also raised with volleyball and football, leaving those sports in jeopardy, the Morning Sentinel reported. Soccer, meanwhile, was moved from high to medium risk, leaving open the possibility it can be played in some capacity this fall."
No goals this year as the tyrant Mills extended the civil emergency order for the 6th time.
"A total of 13 people associated with a youth hockey camp in New Hampshire have tested positive for COVID-19. As of Tuesday, players plus four adults associated with the camp, which took place in Nashua, had contracted the virus, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette confirmed the news in a press conference on Tuesday. “We were able to identify all of the close contacts for the people that participated in that camp, so a combination of kids or youth that participated, and the staff,” she said. Shibinette noted that participants included people from outside of New Hampshire. The state was able to use contact tracing to identify everyone exposed. “We haven’t done any public notification,” she said, “but we can confirm that there is a cluster of illness associated with it.” When asked about the camp and all youth sports camps over the summer, Gov. Chris Sununu said that the state wants to make sure people understand the guidelines, and if they are “intentionally ignored,” enforcement may come; however, he said there are no changes to the guidelines for sports right now, and state authorities are monitoring them. “We always want to work collaboratively with folks,” he said."
That puts youth sports on ice for now, but at least you can still go swimming:
"A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile swim by reaching a sandy beach in France after darkness fell. Vera Rivard, of Springfield, left Dover in the United Kingdom around 9:30 a.m. and arrived on a beach near Calais, France, just before midnight on Tuesday. The swim took her more than 14 hours, and she is the second American to cross the channel this year, the Valley News reported. “As she leaves the beach in England for her English Channel attempt, I will be the proudest parent ever! Not if she finishes, not how fast she swims, but that she was brave enough to start,” Rivard’s mother, Darcie DeBlois-Rivard, wrote beforehand on Facebook. Rivard’s swim cost her family around $15,000, about a third of which was covered by donations and sponsorships, the Valley News reported. Rivard and her family quarantined for two weeks before her swim in Dover. She completed a long-distance swim around Manhattan island in July and hopes to swim a third major open water course to Santa Catalina Island off California — the third in a “triple crown” of long distance swims — at some point in the future....."
Your vaccination will be waiting for you when you get home:
"Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said Thursday it’s unrealistic to believe a coronavirus vaccine will be available by Nov. 1 — but that New Hampshire will be prepared to distribute it if it is. Federal health officials last week instructed states to be ready to begin distribution by Nov. 1, two days before the presidential election. The timing raised suspicion among public health experts about whether the Trump administration intends to rush approval for political gain. Sununu disagreed. “I don’t see it being politicized at all. They’re just trying to make sure we’re prepared,” he said. The letter sent to governors from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked them to expedite licensing and permitting for vaccine distribution. New Hampshire likely won’t need to do that, Sununu said, because it would use its existing public health network. “If it comes in early November, we will be ready,” he said. “My sense is, good management would dictate that if they say it’s going to come in the December-January time frame, you’d make sure everyone’s ready on Nov. 1 in case we get lucky,” he said....."
Are all these guys on the same damn script?
".... Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette said planning began in June for all the various options without yet knowing whether the vaccine would come directly from manufacturers or from the national strategic stockpile. “We created a system for every option,” she said. “We’re in a good place when it comes to system development for mass vaccination.” That doesn’t mean all residents would be able to get vaccinated at once, she cautioned. “It is not vaccinating 1.3 million people in 30 days. This is going to take multiple months,” she said....."
Friday, September 4, 2020
Thursday, September 3, 2020
UPDATED: This Is It, Time is Almost Up
UPDATE:
TIME is OUT because I went to bed last night and when I woke up this morning, the VIDEO was GONE!
"MUST WATCH: This Is It, Time is Almost Up.
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Then there is the case of an old man in a chair in England, who receives more or less the same treatment.
Not long before they get rid of us all, in more ways than one.
TIME is OUT because I went to bed last night and when I woke up this morning, the VIDEO was GONE!
"MUST WATCH: This Is It, Time is Almost Up.
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Then there is the case of an old man in a chair in England, who receives more or less the same treatment.
Not long before they get rid of us all, in more ways than one.
In the $hort Term
Federal budget deficit to hit record $3.3 trillion due to COVID-19 costs, recession
AP says the economy shut down in the spring so people could be in isolation, in a failed national attempt to defeat the pandemic.
They make it seem like some esoteric thing that happened on it's own, not evil criminal leaders who shut things down, put us in isolations and destroyed lives and livelihoods, although they do admit the policies failed so one wonders why we are still in shutdowns with social distancing in masks when it's a 90% false positives regarding their flawed tests with a much lower fatality rate.
The pre$$ is now acting as if those reports do not exist, and it's reminiscent of the Afghan Papers. They fail, although I'm sure they have an engineered bioweapon (funded by the usual suspects so keep your distance) ready for release per WHO simulation protocol, perhaps on the 19th anniversary of 9/11 as the winter weather will herald a dark future if the past is any indication.
"U.S. government debt will nearly equal the size of the entire economy for first time since World War II, CBO finds; Report comes after huge increase in the deficit this year as government attempted to limit coronavirus fallout" by Jeff Stein, Washington Post | September 2, 2020
For the first time since World War II, the U.S. government’s debt will roughly equal the size of the entire American economy by the end of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
The rapid change is largely due to the surge in new spending that the government authorized as it tried to control the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
By the end of 2020, the amount of debt owed by the United States will amount to 98 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, the CBO said. That is up from 79 percent last year. Total government debt will surpass the U.S. economy’s size next year, the CBO said.
We are $crewed. We will soon be Greece from a few years ago, and under the lash of the bank$ters like a third world country in Africa.
That's why I'm not into the politics and all the other shit around here when it means nothing. The pre$$ is mostly divisive distraction other than the constant agenda-pushing surrounding COVID and the endless jabbing of the vaccine agenda. It's quite sickening at this point.
Fueling this rise is a big jump in the government’s annual budget deficit, which is projected to widen to $3.3 trillion by the end of this fiscal year, more than triple its level in 2019. The deficit was already on track to be elevated because of recent tax cuts and spending increases, but the government’s response to the pandemic expanded that gap dramatically.
The government typically spends more than $4 trillion a year on programs and services, but Congress has approved more than $3 trillion in emergency funding since March to combat the outbreak and subsequent economic downturn. That included hundreds of billions of dollars in aid for businesses and the unemployed.
During the Obama administration, many Republicans campaigned aggressively on promises to shrink — or even eliminate — the budget deficit, but President Trump has shown little interest in such an approach. Before the coronavirus pandemic, he told aides he would seek to address the budget deficit in a second term, but in recent months he has called for additional spending and more tax cuts, but members of his party have become cooler to the idea of additional spending. The rising deficit has already affected negotiations over whether to approve additional stimulus spending. Many Republican members of Congress, and some White House officials, have balked at the idea of approving an additional $2 trillion in spending to deal with the weak economy, though Democrats have said such aid is necessary to help the jobless, cities and states.
I'm just wondering where exactly all this loot is to come from, and if it is the whirring of Fed printing pre$$es there will need to be a World War to keep the increasingly worthless dollar as a reserve currency. If the world dumps it, we become Zimbabwe (halfway there now judging by the cities).
Few policy experts believe Congress is likely to do something to reduce the deficit in the short term, particularly while unemployment remains near 10 percent. Interest rates are low, which makes it less costly for the federal government to borrow, and inflation — one of the principal concerns about higher deficit spending — has remained largely in check.
They underestimated the unemployed while acting like all is normal regarding rates. The calm before the storm.
The annual federal deficit in 2020 is expected to equal roughly 16 percent of the nation’s GDP, which would be the largest amount since 1945. Policymakers have often tried to bring the deficit down below 3 percent, though Republicans have said in the past that they would seek to eliminate the deficit altogether by slashing spending.
We are at WWII levels of yearly debt while owing trillions in principle.
The war has been lo$t and you didn't even know it.
No wonder they had to foist the COVID fraud upon us to cover for the collapsing house-of-cards economy -- and they looted it all on the way down.
As the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. economy earlier this year, tax revenue fell as business activity slowed down and many Americans lost their jobs. In an attempt to give households and businesses financial relief, the Trump administration and Congress delayed payment of numerous tax obligations. Individual income taxes dropped by about $200 billion, according to the CBO’s projections, while corporate income taxes fell by about $80 billion.
The bigger change came on the spending side. The U.S. government is on pace to spend roughly $6.6 trillion in the fiscal year that concludes at the end of this month, an approximately $2.2 trillion increase from the year before, the CBO said. The largest new spending obligations came from the Cares Act, which was approved by Congress in March. The measure directed more than $500 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program, aimed at small businesses, as well as hundreds of billions in pandemic unemployment compensation and $1,200 stimulus payments to tens of millions of American households.
All that loot is gone, other than what the banks and inve$ting cla$$ are $itting on, and more aid will only be delivered if the loot is needed to prop up fortunes. The rest of us are getting the $haft.
The deficit has not yet emerged as a major issue in the 2020 presidential election. The imbalance is likely to be a major factor in debates over the proper size of government next year, however, as policymakers try to balance the rising deficit with sustaining an economic recovery. The deficit could continue to grow if Congress approves another round of emergency spending, such as sending new stimulus checks to households.....
I doubt the deficit will emerge as an issue in the staged illusion and imagery known as the 2020 presidential election.
That would make both parties look real bad, and $poil all the fun. It will be the traditional wedge issues or race and gender, with maybe some Islamic terrorism tossed in on the 19th anniversary of 9/11 (that's when they hit, not an ordinary anniversary that would have good meaning behind it; it's just the kind of numerology mind-f**k for which the psychopathic controllers are known)?
--more--"
Related:
"Encouraging economic data as broad swaths of the economy have reopened this summer have helped stoke investor optimism about a recovery. The question is whether that’s going to be enough to keep the market moving higher when so much uncertainty remains about the pandemic’s lasting impact...."
The market is still in motion:
"Wall Street kicked off September with another set of milestones Tuesday, as an afternoon rally carried the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite to all-time highs....."
I'm told "investors are right to take a “glass half full” view, as Apple is up more than 82% this year, while, Zoom Video Communications soared 40.8%, a day after the now-ubiquitous video conferencing service reported another quarter of explosive growth. Another recent high-flyer, Tesla, fell 4.7% after the electric car maker said it would sell up to $5 billion in stock, but Tesla has risen more than five-fold this year and did a five-for-one stock split on Monday while Walmart was among the biggest gainers."
They are trying to compete with Amazon, if that is possible.
Also see:
"A Zoom call has become an integral part of daily life during the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, Wall Street acknowledged as much by boosting the videoconferencing company’s market value above that of more established companies such as Citigroup, Boeing and Starbucks. Zoom shares rose 40.8% to $457.69, pushing its market value to more than $129 billion, after the company reported explosive growth during the second quarter as more people paid for subscriptions, giving them more control over virtual meetings. Zoom’s revenue more than quadrupled from the same time last year to $663.5 million and profits blew past Wall Street forecasts. At the current level, Zoom’s market value exceeds the combined value of two storied automakers, General Motors and Ford....."
Speaking of those $talled-out dino$aurs:
"General Motors says it has finished making 30,000 medical breathing machines for the U.S. government to help treat coronavirus patients. The Department of Health and Human Services contracted with GM to build the ventilators at a converted auto electronics plant in Kokomo, Indiana, at a cost of $489.4 million. The machines were designed by Ventec Life Systems of the Seattle area, and GM ramped up production in about a month when it appeared the U.S. and other countries would run short of ventilators. Earlier Ford announced it has finished making 50,000 ventilators for the government at a cost of $336 million. A portion of a factory near Detroit was converted to make the machines. It will now go back to producing auto parts....."
The ventilators ended up killing people, and could the return to manufacturing auto parts mean the plannedemic is moving along with scapegoat riding shotgun?
"The rally in global stocks has pushed major indexes to record highs as traders bet that a flood of liquidity unleashed by central banks will make its way to equity markets. The rotation away from the tech titans that have led gains this year -- with Apple, Tesla and Zoom Video all slumping Wednesday -- could signal confidence in a broader economic recovery from the pandemic and a possible vaccine....."
Thought for moment COVID was over, but some Fortunes need to be made from the vaccine for those who can see the future:
Fed Survey Finds Widespread Pessimism
At least the Australian economy will most likely bounce back after Covid-19 is tamed, according to the New York Times. They say it will be ready to give birth to the Great Re$et by then.
"U.S. companies added jobs at a modest pace last month, a private survey found, a sign that while hiring continues, it is only soaking up a relatively small proportion of the unemployed. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that businesses added 428,000 jobs in August, a figure that before the pandemic would have represented a healthy gain, but the increase represents a small slice of the 12 million jobs that have been lost to the spread of the coronavirus. ADP said the bulk of the gains were at large companies, which added 298,000 jobs. Small businesses with less than 50 employees gained just 52,000 positions, while medium-sized firms — with between 50 and 499 employees — added 79,000 jobs. ADP’s figures do not include government workers and frequently diverge from the Labor Department’s official jobs report. The August jobs report from the government will be released Friday. ADP revised up its July job gain to 212,000, but that is still far below the 1.8 million additional jobs that month reported by the federal government....."
You can always borrow more, right?
"Subprime borrowers, who rely more on credit cards than any other group, are seeing their limits cut the most as banks reduce exposure during the coronavirus pandemic. The risk-management strategy shows a squeeze is coming for households with the most precarious finances as the U.S. government pares assistance for people who have lost their jobs amid the Covid-19 crisis. Not only are many losing income, they’re also losing access to credit. Banks cut overall borrowing limits for subprime borrowers by about 19% during the second quarter, according to data provided to Bloomberg by credit-reporting firm TransUnion. That compares with an average reduction of just 1.2% across all card accounts during the same period....."
Maybe you can apply for a CapitalOne card, then go on a spending spree:
"Macy’s got more people to shop on its website and app, but it wasn’t enough to make up for plummeting sales inside its department stores. Online sales were up 53%, and the company said it attracted 4 million new online customers, but sales sunk 61% inside its stores, which reopened in June after being temporarily closed due to the pandemic. Macy’s is the country’s largest department store operator, offering a glimpse into what America's are buying. With people spending more time at home, shoppers bought fewer dresses, luggage and men's suits, but they spent more on comfy athletic wear, as well as decor to spruce up their homes. The virus is also forcing Macy's to rethink how it will hold its annual holiday events, like Christmas tree lightings, holiday window decorations and its annual Thanksgiving Day parade, but the company didn't provide any details on changes it plans to make....."
The holidays seem so far away and not worth celebrating since the mandated vaccines will be here before Halloween.
We will all be lucky to be alive after Christmas. Or not.
Better shop till you drop:
"..... Macy's said luxury goods did surprisingly well, too, such as high-priced mattresses, perfumes and diamond jewelry. The New York company also owns Bloomingdale’s and the Bluemercury makeup and cosmetic chain. Many of its department stores are at malls, which have struggled to attract shoppers even before COVID-19. Some of its mall-based rivals have gone bankrupt, including J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus and Stage Stores. Over the next two years, Macy's said it plans to open smaller Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores that are not attached to a mall. For the holiday season, it will spread out discounts over a longer period to avoid overcrowding at its stores and continue to push shoppers to buy online and pick up at the curb....."
What a $hock!
They then flew out of the country with a prepaid ticket purchased by the government:
"Virgin Atlantic’s $1.6 billion restructuring plan was approved Wednesday by the High Court in London, allowing the international airline to continue rebuilding its operations after the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The deal, which has already been approved by creditors, must now be confirmed in the U.S. courts. The airline announced the refinancing package in July to ensure its survival after passenger numbers dropped 98% in the second quarter. It includes 600 million pounds of support from the airline’s owners, Virgin Group and Delta Airlines, 450 million pounds of deferred payments to creditors and 170 million pounds of financing from U.S.-based Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP. Virgin Atlantic, founded in 1984 by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, has already cut 3,550 jobs, shuttered operations at London’s Gatwick Airport and announced plans to retire 11 aircraft as it seeks to weather the slowdown in air travel. The airline says it doesn’t expect passenger volume to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2023....."
Even if they all stay United:
"United Airlines said Wednesday it plans to furlough 16,370 employees in October, a smaller number than the airline predicted in July because thousands of workers agreed to leave with the travel industry facing a slow recovery from the pandemic....."
They should have retired rather than quit, for it would have put them on sold ground:
"Ford Motor Co. will offer early retirement incentives with hopes of cutting its U.S. white-collar workforce by 1,400 more positions. Kumar Galhotra, the company’s president of the Americas, told employees about the offers Wednesday morning. The company says they’re part of an $11 billion restructuring plan that started more than a year ago. Most of the reductions would take place in the area of Dearborn, Michigan, where Ford has its headquarters and large product development and engineering operations. Ford has about 30,000 white-collar workers in the U.S....."
Restructuring before COVID them a big $hove, huh?
Look who had a $eat on the plane:
"Attorneys for The Weinstein Co. presented a Delaware judge Wednesday with a revised bankruptcy plan that would provide about $35 million for creditors, including victims of sexual misconduct by disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. The settlement amount is $11.5 million less than under a previous plan, which was scrapped after a federal judge in New York refused to approve a proposed $19 million settlement between Weinstein and some of his accusers. The settlement in the purported class-action lawsuit was a key component of the initial bankruptcy plan. Attorneys for the company told Judge Mary Walrath the reduction is due primarily to the fact that the plan no longer includes contributions from insurers for the resolution of certain “Miramax era” claims that arose prior to Harvey Weinstein leaving that company and forming the Weinstein Co....."
He is not even in prison anymore, ladies, and #MeToo is a distant memory -- proving it was for political purposes all along.
Makes you want to curl up and go into a ball, doesn't it?
"The inability to work from the relative safety of home is one reason Black and Hispanic people have higher COVID-19 infection rates than white people, but even here, in my quiet quarantine, it’s clear that the pandemic is exacerbating the inequities that divide the country: inequities in wealth, in health, in the luxury to work unshaven and in gym clothes....."
Welcome to Bloggerworld!
There is still hope:
Experimental drug for ALS, dreamed up in a dorm room, offers patients glimmer of hope
They dreamed it up how?
"By the time Pete Frates tried medical marijuana, he and his family felt as if they had run out of options for treating his anxiety....."
His wife says it was ‘almost like a magic potion,’ and you can throw cold water on that idea given the evil that flows from drug profits.
This blog is at crossroads, folks.
I'm increasingly disinterested in the flop that is in the Bo$ton Globe and find myself increasingly unenthusiastic about taking the time to continuously refute their garbage while running in circles.
I'm sure this will all be forgotten by tomorrow, for that is the first thing to go.
AP says the economy shut down in the spring so people could be in isolation, in a failed national attempt to defeat the pandemic.
They make it seem like some esoteric thing that happened on it's own, not evil criminal leaders who shut things down, put us in isolations and destroyed lives and livelihoods, although they do admit the policies failed so one wonders why we are still in shutdowns with social distancing in masks when it's a 90% false positives regarding their flawed tests with a much lower fatality rate.
The pre$$ is now acting as if those reports do not exist, and it's reminiscent of the Afghan Papers. They fail, although I'm sure they have an engineered bioweapon (funded by the usual suspects so keep your distance) ready for release per WHO simulation protocol, perhaps on the 19th anniversary of 9/11 as the winter weather will herald a dark future if the past is any indication.
"U.S. government debt will nearly equal the size of the entire economy for first time since World War II, CBO finds; Report comes after huge increase in the deficit this year as government attempted to limit coronavirus fallout" by Jeff Stein, Washington Post | September 2, 2020
For the first time since World War II, the U.S. government’s debt will roughly equal the size of the entire American economy by the end of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
The rapid change is largely due to the surge in new spending that the government authorized as it tried to control the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
By the end of 2020, the amount of debt owed by the United States will amount to 98 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, the CBO said. That is up from 79 percent last year. Total government debt will surpass the U.S. economy’s size next year, the CBO said.
We are $crewed. We will soon be Greece from a few years ago, and under the lash of the bank$ters like a third world country in Africa.
That's why I'm not into the politics and all the other shit around here when it means nothing. The pre$$ is mostly divisive distraction other than the constant agenda-pushing surrounding COVID and the endless jabbing of the vaccine agenda. It's quite sickening at this point.
Fueling this rise is a big jump in the government’s annual budget deficit, which is projected to widen to $3.3 trillion by the end of this fiscal year, more than triple its level in 2019. The deficit was already on track to be elevated because of recent tax cuts and spending increases, but the government’s response to the pandemic expanded that gap dramatically.
The government typically spends more than $4 trillion a year on programs and services, but Congress has approved more than $3 trillion in emergency funding since March to combat the outbreak and subsequent economic downturn. That included hundreds of billions of dollars in aid for businesses and the unemployed.
During the Obama administration, many Republicans campaigned aggressively on promises to shrink — or even eliminate — the budget deficit, but President Trump has shown little interest in such an approach. Before the coronavirus pandemic, he told aides he would seek to address the budget deficit in a second term, but in recent months he has called for additional spending and more tax cuts, but members of his party have become cooler to the idea of additional spending. The rising deficit has already affected negotiations over whether to approve additional stimulus spending. Many Republican members of Congress, and some White House officials, have balked at the idea of approving an additional $2 trillion in spending to deal with the weak economy, though Democrats have said such aid is necessary to help the jobless, cities and states.
I'm just wondering where exactly all this loot is to come from, and if it is the whirring of Fed printing pre$$es there will need to be a World War to keep the increasingly worthless dollar as a reserve currency. If the world dumps it, we become Zimbabwe (halfway there now judging by the cities).
Few policy experts believe Congress is likely to do something to reduce the deficit in the short term, particularly while unemployment remains near 10 percent. Interest rates are low, which makes it less costly for the federal government to borrow, and inflation — one of the principal concerns about higher deficit spending — has remained largely in check.
They underestimated the unemployed while acting like all is normal regarding rates. The calm before the storm.
The annual federal deficit in 2020 is expected to equal roughly 16 percent of the nation’s GDP, which would be the largest amount since 1945. Policymakers have often tried to bring the deficit down below 3 percent, though Republicans have said in the past that they would seek to eliminate the deficit altogether by slashing spending.
We are at WWII levels of yearly debt while owing trillions in principle.
The war has been lo$t and you didn't even know it.
No wonder they had to foist the COVID fraud upon us to cover for the collapsing house-of-cards economy -- and they looted it all on the way down.
As the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. economy earlier this year, tax revenue fell as business activity slowed down and many Americans lost their jobs. In an attempt to give households and businesses financial relief, the Trump administration and Congress delayed payment of numerous tax obligations. Individual income taxes dropped by about $200 billion, according to the CBO’s projections, while corporate income taxes fell by about $80 billion.
The bigger change came on the spending side. The U.S. government is on pace to spend roughly $6.6 trillion in the fiscal year that concludes at the end of this month, an approximately $2.2 trillion increase from the year before, the CBO said. The largest new spending obligations came from the Cares Act, which was approved by Congress in March. The measure directed more than $500 billion to the Paycheck Protection Program, aimed at small businesses, as well as hundreds of billions in pandemic unemployment compensation and $1,200 stimulus payments to tens of millions of American households.
All that loot is gone, other than what the banks and inve$ting cla$$ are $itting on, and more aid will only be delivered if the loot is needed to prop up fortunes. The rest of us are getting the $haft.
The deficit has not yet emerged as a major issue in the 2020 presidential election. The imbalance is likely to be a major factor in debates over the proper size of government next year, however, as policymakers try to balance the rising deficit with sustaining an economic recovery. The deficit could continue to grow if Congress approves another round of emergency spending, such as sending new stimulus checks to households.....
I doubt the deficit will emerge as an issue in the staged illusion and imagery known as the 2020 presidential election.
That would make both parties look real bad, and $poil all the fun. It will be the traditional wedge issues or race and gender, with maybe some Islamic terrorism tossed in on the 19th anniversary of 9/11 (that's when they hit, not an ordinary anniversary that would have good meaning behind it; it's just the kind of numerology mind-f**k for which the psychopathic controllers are known)?
--more--"
Related:
"Encouraging economic data as broad swaths of the economy have reopened this summer have helped stoke investor optimism about a recovery. The question is whether that’s going to be enough to keep the market moving higher when so much uncertainty remains about the pandemic’s lasting impact...."
The market is still in motion:
"Wall Street kicked off September with another set of milestones Tuesday, as an afternoon rally carried the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite to all-time highs....."
I'm told "investors are right to take a “glass half full” view, as Apple is up more than 82% this year, while, Zoom Video Communications soared 40.8%, a day after the now-ubiquitous video conferencing service reported another quarter of explosive growth. Another recent high-flyer, Tesla, fell 4.7% after the electric car maker said it would sell up to $5 billion in stock, but Tesla has risen more than five-fold this year and did a five-for-one stock split on Monday while Walmart was among the biggest gainers."
They are trying to compete with Amazon, if that is possible.
Also see:
"A Zoom call has become an integral part of daily life during the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, Wall Street acknowledged as much by boosting the videoconferencing company’s market value above that of more established companies such as Citigroup, Boeing and Starbucks. Zoom shares rose 40.8% to $457.69, pushing its market value to more than $129 billion, after the company reported explosive growth during the second quarter as more people paid for subscriptions, giving them more control over virtual meetings. Zoom’s revenue more than quadrupled from the same time last year to $663.5 million and profits blew past Wall Street forecasts. At the current level, Zoom’s market value exceeds the combined value of two storied automakers, General Motors and Ford....."
Speaking of those $talled-out dino$aurs:
"General Motors says it has finished making 30,000 medical breathing machines for the U.S. government to help treat coronavirus patients. The Department of Health and Human Services contracted with GM to build the ventilators at a converted auto electronics plant in Kokomo, Indiana, at a cost of $489.4 million. The machines were designed by Ventec Life Systems of the Seattle area, and GM ramped up production in about a month when it appeared the U.S. and other countries would run short of ventilators. Earlier Ford announced it has finished making 50,000 ventilators for the government at a cost of $336 million. A portion of a factory near Detroit was converted to make the machines. It will now go back to producing auto parts....."
The ventilators ended up killing people, and could the return to manufacturing auto parts mean the plannedemic is moving along with scapegoat riding shotgun?
"The rally in global stocks has pushed major indexes to record highs as traders bet that a flood of liquidity unleashed by central banks will make its way to equity markets. The rotation away from the tech titans that have led gains this year -- with Apple, Tesla and Zoom Video all slumping Wednesday -- could signal confidence in a broader economic recovery from the pandemic and a possible vaccine....."
Thought for moment COVID was over, but some Fortunes need to be made from the vaccine for those who can see the future:
Fed Survey Finds Widespread Pessimism
At least the Australian economy will most likely bounce back after Covid-19 is tamed, according to the New York Times. They say it will be ready to give birth to the Great Re$et by then.
"U.S. companies added jobs at a modest pace last month, a private survey found, a sign that while hiring continues, it is only soaking up a relatively small proportion of the unemployed. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday that businesses added 428,000 jobs in August, a figure that before the pandemic would have represented a healthy gain, but the increase represents a small slice of the 12 million jobs that have been lost to the spread of the coronavirus. ADP said the bulk of the gains were at large companies, which added 298,000 jobs. Small businesses with less than 50 employees gained just 52,000 positions, while medium-sized firms — with between 50 and 499 employees — added 79,000 jobs. ADP’s figures do not include government workers and frequently diverge from the Labor Department’s official jobs report. The August jobs report from the government will be released Friday. ADP revised up its July job gain to 212,000, but that is still far below the 1.8 million additional jobs that month reported by the federal government....."
You can always borrow more, right?
"Subprime borrowers, who rely more on credit cards than any other group, are seeing their limits cut the most as banks reduce exposure during the coronavirus pandemic. The risk-management strategy shows a squeeze is coming for households with the most precarious finances as the U.S. government pares assistance for people who have lost their jobs amid the Covid-19 crisis. Not only are many losing income, they’re also losing access to credit. Banks cut overall borrowing limits for subprime borrowers by about 19% during the second quarter, according to data provided to Bloomberg by credit-reporting firm TransUnion. That compares with an average reduction of just 1.2% across all card accounts during the same period....."
Maybe you can apply for a CapitalOne card, then go on a spending spree:
"Macy’s got more people to shop on its website and app, but it wasn’t enough to make up for plummeting sales inside its department stores. Online sales were up 53%, and the company said it attracted 4 million new online customers, but sales sunk 61% inside its stores, which reopened in June after being temporarily closed due to the pandemic. Macy’s is the country’s largest department store operator, offering a glimpse into what America's are buying. With people spending more time at home, shoppers bought fewer dresses, luggage and men's suits, but they spent more on comfy athletic wear, as well as decor to spruce up their homes. The virus is also forcing Macy's to rethink how it will hold its annual holiday events, like Christmas tree lightings, holiday window decorations and its annual Thanksgiving Day parade, but the company didn't provide any details on changes it plans to make....."
The holidays seem so far away and not worth celebrating since the mandated vaccines will be here before Halloween.
We will all be lucky to be alive after Christmas. Or not.
Better shop till you drop:
"..... Macy's said luxury goods did surprisingly well, too, such as high-priced mattresses, perfumes and diamond jewelry. The New York company also owns Bloomingdale’s and the Bluemercury makeup and cosmetic chain. Many of its department stores are at malls, which have struggled to attract shoppers even before COVID-19. Some of its mall-based rivals have gone bankrupt, including J.C. Penney, Neiman Marcus and Stage Stores. Over the next two years, Macy's said it plans to open smaller Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s stores that are not attached to a mall. For the holiday season, it will spread out discounts over a longer period to avoid overcrowding at its stores and continue to push shoppers to buy online and pick up at the curb....."
What a $hock!
They then flew out of the country with a prepaid ticket purchased by the government:
"Virgin Atlantic’s $1.6 billion restructuring plan was approved Wednesday by the High Court in London, allowing the international airline to continue rebuilding its operations after the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The deal, which has already been approved by creditors, must now be confirmed in the U.S. courts. The airline announced the refinancing package in July to ensure its survival after passenger numbers dropped 98% in the second quarter. It includes 600 million pounds of support from the airline’s owners, Virgin Group and Delta Airlines, 450 million pounds of deferred payments to creditors and 170 million pounds of financing from U.S.-based Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP. Virgin Atlantic, founded in 1984 by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, has already cut 3,550 jobs, shuttered operations at London’s Gatwick Airport and announced plans to retire 11 aircraft as it seeks to weather the slowdown in air travel. The airline says it doesn’t expect passenger volume to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2023....."
Even if they all stay United:
"United Airlines said Wednesday it plans to furlough 16,370 employees in October, a smaller number than the airline predicted in July because thousands of workers agreed to leave with the travel industry facing a slow recovery from the pandemic....."
They should have retired rather than quit, for it would have put them on sold ground:
"Ford Motor Co. will offer early retirement incentives with hopes of cutting its U.S. white-collar workforce by 1,400 more positions. Kumar Galhotra, the company’s president of the Americas, told employees about the offers Wednesday morning. The company says they’re part of an $11 billion restructuring plan that started more than a year ago. Most of the reductions would take place in the area of Dearborn, Michigan, where Ford has its headquarters and large product development and engineering operations. Ford has about 30,000 white-collar workers in the U.S....."
Restructuring before COVID them a big $hove, huh?
Look who had a $eat on the plane:
"Attorneys for The Weinstein Co. presented a Delaware judge Wednesday with a revised bankruptcy plan that would provide about $35 million for creditors, including victims of sexual misconduct by disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. The settlement amount is $11.5 million less than under a previous plan, which was scrapped after a federal judge in New York refused to approve a proposed $19 million settlement between Weinstein and some of his accusers. The settlement in the purported class-action lawsuit was a key component of the initial bankruptcy plan. Attorneys for the company told Judge Mary Walrath the reduction is due primarily to the fact that the plan no longer includes contributions from insurers for the resolution of certain “Miramax era” claims that arose prior to Harvey Weinstein leaving that company and forming the Weinstein Co....."
He is not even in prison anymore, ladies, and #MeToo is a distant memory -- proving it was for political purposes all along.
Makes you want to curl up and go into a ball, doesn't it?
"The inability to work from the relative safety of home is one reason Black and Hispanic people have higher COVID-19 infection rates than white people, but even here, in my quiet quarantine, it’s clear that the pandemic is exacerbating the inequities that divide the country: inequities in wealth, in health, in the luxury to work unshaven and in gym clothes....."
Welcome to Bloggerworld!
There is still hope:
Experimental drug for ALS, dreamed up in a dorm room, offers patients glimmer of hope
They dreamed it up how?
"By the time Pete Frates tried medical marijuana, he and his family felt as if they had run out of options for treating his anxiety....."
His wife says it was ‘almost like a magic potion,’ and you can throw cold water on that idea given the evil that flows from drug profits.
This blog is at crossroads, folks.
I'm increasingly disinterested in the flop that is in the Bo$ton Globe and find myself increasingly unenthusiastic about taking the time to continuously refute their garbage while running in circles.
I'm sure this will all be forgotten by tomorrow, for that is the first thing to go.
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
In For the Long Haul
Not me since I'm making short work of this:
"For some, COVID-19 symptoms linger for months; Known as “long-haulers,” these patients call for more research, especially in the Boston area" by Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
At least four days a week, Kate Porter feels the heat rising within her, the inevitable return of the fevers that have plagued her for months. Merely walking from one room to another in her Beverly home can set her heart pattering at 140 beats per minute. Mounting a flight of stairs leaves her breathless.
Porter, 35, was healthy and active until mid-March, when she came down with COVID-19.
“So many people think it’s just life or death,” she said, but Porter, and others like her, are stuck in between — alive but unable to return to their previous lives.
No one knows how many people there are like Porter, but many thousands have gathered in social media groups, often conducting their own research.
They call themselves “long-haulers”: COVID-19 patients who continue to endure symptoms weeks and months after the initial infection, despite no sign of the virus remaining in their bodies. Most were never hospitalized, so their lingering symptoms cannot be attributed to the effects of prolonged hospital stays.
The list of symptoms they report in patient-run surveys is long — longer than the government’s official list. Among the most common are fatigue, body aches, shortness of breath, and difficulty concentrating, but some people have chest pain and palpitations, or numbness and tremors in a limb, or intermittent fevers, dizziness, even hallucinations. It’s common to start to get better and then suddenly get hit with new symptoms.
Now anything is COVID (comes with a government check), and you will want to avoid the hospitals this fall.
Lauren Nichols, a 32-year-old long-hauler who has been suffering with nausea, vertigo, painful breathing, and other symptoms for more than five months, put it this way: “You trust your body. You think your body is going to bounce back because it always had. You trust the medical system, because it always had answers. Now you can’t trust either.”
Nor the pre$$ or official authority for which they front.
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Related:
Hyperventilating Over the Sunday Globe
New York Times Still Lying About COVID Deaths
New York Times Admits COVID Cases Amplified and Inflated
Despite that, they report today that "if Italy was the harbinger of the first wave of Europe's coronavirus pandemic in February, Spain is the portent of its second. France is also surging, as are parts of Eastern Europe, and cases are ticking up in Germany, Greece, Italy and Belgium, too, but in the past week, Spain has recorded the most new cases on the continent by far. Now, as other Europeans mull how to restart their economies while still protecting human life, the Spanish have become an early bellwether for how a second wave might happen, how hard it might hit, and how it could be contained."
Yeah, here we go again says the insulting headline!
"Reports of new cases have fallen significantly around the country since July; they are now flat in 26 states and falling in 15 others, but in nine states, cases are still growing, and in some setting new records — especially in the Midwest....."
They just look like flat-out f**king liars now.
"Despite being at high risk for developing COVID-19, a large number of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers may be going undiagnosed after they become infected, according to a new report released on Monday by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings raise concern that these health care workers could unknowingly spread the infection within the hospital. About 6 percent of the workers had antibody evidence of a previous coronavirus infection, the report said, and more than two-thirds of these individuals had not been previously diagnosed. Almost 30 percent were asymptomatic. The findings suggest that some infections “are undetected and unrecognized,” possibly because some workers are asymptomatic or those with symptoms are not reporting them or being tested, the researchers said."
Maybe some of you health heroes will finally start blowing the whistle on this scam seeing as they are coming after you, too.
Also see:
"After President Trump retweeted a claim that discounted the coronavirus death toll in the United States over the weekend, Twitter took down the post that spread false information. The tweet was originally posted by “Mel Q,” a follower of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, which posits that the president is battling a cabal of Satan-worshiping child sex traffickers. It was copied from a Facebook post and claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had “quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6%” of reported deaths — or about 9,000 — “actually died from Covid.” The rest were people who “had 2-3 other serious illnesses,” said the tweet, which has since been replaced with a message saying it “is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” A Twitter spokesperson said the tweet violated the company’s coronavirus misinformation policy. The claim appears to be a reference to the CDC’s Wednesday update to its death data and resources page, which noted that in 6 percent of reported deaths, covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, “was the only cause mentioned,” however, that does not mean only 6 percent of reported deaths are attributed to the virus — it means 94 percent of people had at least one additional factor contributing to their deaths."
That is Washington Compost disassembling there, making it seem like COVID was the primary cause and not something picked up by one of their damn tests!
As for the above, the reaction to those once outlandish "conspiracy theories" that are being exposed everywhere tells you a lot. First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you.
Related:
"If there’s any encouraging news in the pandemic, it’s this: Fewer than 1 in 1,000 college tests have come back positive at the Broad so far. That’s a 0.1 percent positive rate. The statewide average positive rate has recently hovered around 1 percent — closer to one in a hundred people tested. “Overall, the average rate of 1 in 1,000 is good news,” said Stacey Gabriel, senior director of the Broad’s Genomics Platform. “The goal is to detect these cases quickly before they spread.”
You don't even know you have it and are not infectious because COVID-19 is scam, and why are we not open and back to normal with the low rate of infections?
They want to detect before spread when the alleged evidence shows it is not, and even if it is the survival rate is approaching 99.99% with consequential herd immunity.
Also see:
Globe Downplays COVID-19 Overcounts
Globe Goes Over the Top on COVID-19 Undercounts
The Times, as well as the Globe are all in on this evil plot, and there is that man looking at me again.
Wake Up America, You’ve Been Conned. Only An Estimated 9,683 Covid-19 Only Deaths So Far In 2020, Not 180,000
May the power of almighty God come down on their heads:
"‘I want the people of God to enjoy liberty’: Pastor at Maine super-spreader wedding gives a defiant indoor sermon" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
The officiant of a now-infamous wedding in Millinocket gave a defiant sermon during an indoor church service on Sunday, just a day after Maine’s CDC announced it was investigating a coronavirus outbreak among those affiliated with the Sanford church.
I like fire and brimstone sermons -- because it is needed at this time!
Todd Bell, the pastor, portrayed Calvary Baptist Church, which he leads, as being on the front lines of a culture war, battling against a “socialistic platform” that mandates mask-wearing and distance learning in schools.
Not just that, for the very foundations of freedom and liberty that we have had for so long and that are now being stripped from us for a cabal of sick, genocidal globalists and their political minions.
“I’ll tell you what the world wants all the churches to do,” Bell said during one of two Sunday services, which the church posted on YouTube. “They want us to shut down, go home, and let people get used to that just long enough until we can finally stop the advancing of the Gospel.”
Bell’s comments echoed some of the political talking points that President Trump and others on the right have used to decry coronavirus restrictions. At a rally in New Hampshire on Friday night, for example, Trump lamented that Democrats “don’t believe law-abiding citizens can go to a church together. You can’t go to church anymore.”
You can, however, attend a wedding if you are a Supreme Court justice or member of the Communist Party in Portugal:
"A tweet Monday from a new bride brought the first sighting of ailing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in months — officiating at an outdoor wedding Sunday. The photo of the 87-year-old Ginsburg, who announced in July she is being treated for cancer, shows her during the wedding ceremony Sunday of Barb Solish and Danny Kazin, according to Solish’s Twitter feed. In the photo, Ginsburg is wearing her judicial robe with a decorative black-and-white embroidered collar. The justice is a close friend of one of the families and the festivities took place outdoors at a private residence, court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said....."
"Health authorities in Portugal are allowing the country’s Communist Party to let 16,500 people into its annual open-air festival next weekend -- an unusually high number for a gathering in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic. The permit has caused an outcry because officials have for months slashed the number of people allowed into other public events, forcing many of them to cancel. The event is a major source of income for the Communist Party, which has 10 seats in Portugal’s 230-seat parliament....."
They need money?
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
The time for laughing is over:
"The government in China's far northwest Xinjiang region is resorting to draconian measures to combat the coronavirus, including spraying detainees with acidic disinfectant, physically locking residents in homes, imposing strict quarantines of more than 40 days and arresting those who do not comply. Furthermore, in what experts call a breach of medical ethics, some residents are being coerced into swallowing traditional Chinese medicine despite a lack of rigorous clinical data proving it works, according to government notices, social media posts, and interviews with three people in quarantine in Xinjiang. The latest grueling lockdown, now in its 45th day, comes in response to 826 cases reported in Xinjiang since mid-July, China’s largest caseload since the initial outbreak. The lockdown is especially striking because of its severity, and because there hasn’t been a single new case of local transmission in over a week....."
At least they get you get drunk before mandating the vaccines around here, and it's time people learned that in the leftist's paradise, it is do as I say not as I do and if you dare notice the hypocrisy, away you go!
The Aug. 7 wedding at which Bell officiated in East Millinocket has been linked to 123 coronavirus cases in Maine, the largest outbreak in the state, as well as to the death of Theresa Dentremont, an 83-year-old woman who did not attend the event. Many of the participants in the wedding, including the bride and groom, went silent as the fallout grew, switching their social media accounts to private, but Bell’s sermon on Sunday, at his church 225 miles south of the scene of the wedding, was fiery and unrepentant, indicating just how politicized the coronavirus has become, even in communities that have been affected by it. At times, he seemed to delight in provocation, saying that he hoped media outlets would watch the service. He did not respond to a request from the Globe for comment.
They obviously did, and the Globe lamenting the virus (as well as other things) they have politicized makes one sick.
Churches have been political battlegrounds during the coronavirus, as well as occasional hot spots, with more than 650 cases linked to houses of worship and religious events since the pandemic began, according to a New York Times database in early July.
Churches should never be political battlegrounds in this country, and The New York Times has forfeited any credibility regarding their database.
Related: "A private party at a Vermont ski lodge in mid-August led to a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected at least 14 people in Rutland County — including attendees and people they later came into contact with, the Vermont Department of Health announced Monday. More than 40 people attended the Aug. 19 party at the Summit Lodge in Killington, and the health department’s contact tracing team has been working to reach them all, the health department said in a statement. The health department is working aggressively to contain the outbreak, it said, and it urged residents to wear face coverings, maintain social distance, and stay home if they are sick. Anyone who attended the party who has not been in touch with the health department is asked to call. Attendees are also asked to limit exposure to others because asymptomatic carriers can help spread the virus to others. There will be a pop-up testing clinic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Rutland Office of Local Health in the Asa Bloomer Building, the health department said....."
If you had all spilled out into the streets to cause mayhem and chaos that would have been okay.
Have you finally seen the light, America?
The pastor also warned his congregants that a vaccine against the coronavirus would include “aborted baby tissue,” an issue that some religious and antiabortion groups have seized upon in recent months. A number of vaccines, including those against rubella, chickenpox, and shingles, were manufactured using fetal cells from elective abortions decades ago, but the cell lines that continue to grow the vaccines are now generations removed from fetal cells.
Okay, so the Globe, in a round about way, admitted aborted fetal tissue is in the tube while trying to debunk it, and it must be connected to the RNA signaling that will alter your DNA like a GMO.
In April, a group including committee chairmen from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged the Food and Drug Administration not to develop a coronavirus vaccine using cell lines that originated from fetal cells.
Bell said that instead of trusting a vaccine, he would put his faith in God.
It's a better bet than that evil mark-of-the-beast concoction BG has financed.
The CDC said on Saturday there were at least five confirmed cases involving people who attended the church, and that anyone who had attended services or vacation Bible school at Calvary was potentially exposed. Bell said on Sunday that all five people who had tested positive were out of quarantine and doing “fairly well.”
How many times did they multiply and amplify the genetic material everyone contains if they had a cold?
“I officiated the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding,” Bell told his congregation. “Six families from our church went there. We never expected to get COVID. Nobody expected to experience the things that happened because you went to a beautiful wedding like that.”
He situated his and the church’s response firmly on political ground, saying that he had told Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, during a Zoom call on Friday that he was a “liberty lover.”
“I want the people of God to enjoy liberty,” Bell told the congregation. “If they want to wear a mask, wear a mask . . . If you want to have the liberty to have done your own research — that masks are kind of like trying to keep a mosquito out of a chain-link fence . . . if that’s what they choose, I’m a liberty lover.”
(There’s a growing body of evidence that masks are effective at preventing the spread of the coronavirus.)
The evidence is the exact opposite, masks harm us in so many ways, but at this point the reversal of reality and flat-out lies from the pre$$ is unsurprising and expected.
It’s not surprising that political affiliations have become connected to coronavirus behaviors, said Martha Lincoln, a medical anthropologist at San Francisco State University.
“Epidemics are particularly political, because unlike other kinds of health experiences in society, everyone is aware of them. By nature, they’re public events. They’re often happening very quickly and creating a lot of anxieties that bring a lot of other social, political, and economic anxieties to the surface,” Lincoln said.
They are the ones making it political. I stand on firm Constitutional ground -- if that even means anything anymore -- and neither freedom nor liberty is political, it is our God-given and human right.
Bell, in the videotaped sermon posted on YouTube, said he had received negative pushback for officiating at the wedding and used a story of hostile comments on social media to riff on Matthew 5:11-12: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven.”
(Blog author nods head at the undeniable truth)
“Men have reviled me,” the pastor told his congregation. Bell described someone on social media who had seen that he was flying to Oxford, Maine — he is a pilot — and commented that he was probably going to spread COVID at the casino there.
“Be a good place to spread it,” Bell said. A congregant cheered in the background.
“Gambling has killed more people and ruined more homes and destroyed more things in our society almost than liquor or pot or pornography,” Bell went on. “Gambling is wicked.”
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I'm ready for an Encore:
"Encore lays off 385 furloughed workers amid gradual reopening" by Andy Rosen Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
Encore Boston Harbor said Monday it would lay off 385 people who have been on furlough for months. The company concluded it is unlikely their jobs will return this year because of safety measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the casino.
Woe to ye who have taken chips from the Devil's table!
Ye shall find yourself alone and outside the Kingdom of Heaven.
The affected workers will lose their company benefits starting Sept. 1, though Encore said they could regain their seniority on the job if they are rehired within 90 days.
“With continued efforts from the state to minimize the spread of COVID-19, Encore Boston Harbor continues to operate with a significantly reduced capacity in all parts of our resort,” Encore leadership said in a statement. “As we take a look at our business during these extraordinary conditions, we do not believe that all Encore Boston Harbor jobs will return in 2020.”
The move is the latest evidence of the damage that the pandemic has done to the workforce of the casino industry, which spent millions of dollars hiring and training thousands of people in Massachusetts in recent years. Casinos were closed from March into July, and now are operating with significant restrictions on how many people they can host and which services they can offer.
Encore’s decision follows a Friday announcement by MGM Resorts, owner of the MGM Springfield casino, that 1,000 people who had been laid off or furloughed for months will be officially separated from the company this week. Those workers will retain their benefits through September. About 800 people now work at the Springfield casino.
It was the death of a dream for some, but the Globe just went shopping!
Encore spokesman Eric Kraus said Monday that the people affected by the layoffs in Everett work in jobs across the resort, but they are concentrated in areas that are unlikely to return in the foreseeable future, such as the casino’s oyster bar and its high-end buffet.
Encore, owned by Wynn Resorts, paid all of its employees their full wages and tips for more than two months of its closure. It began to furlough people in June. When it reopened a month later, Encore quickly brought back thousands of people, but the remaining jobs are proving harder to restore, the resort said.....
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Where is the bar?
Was this guy heaven sent?
"President Donald Trump’s new pandemic adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas, says coronavirus infections and deaths are declining in the hardest-hit states. Appearing with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for a panel discussion on Monday, Atlas said hospitalizations, length of hospital stays and mortality are also declining. “The American public should feel cautiously optimistic here about what’s going on," Atlas said. "There is no need for fear at this point.” He also downplayed the risk of infections in young people and agreed with DeSantis that college football needs to be played this year. He described fit athletes as low-risk and said football “can be done safely” using social distancing in big stadiums. “College sports is a big part of America and it’s a big part of the economic engine,” he said. Atlas also downplayed the need to test people for the coronavirus when they don’t have symptoms. “When you start a program of testing simply to detect positive cases among asymptomatic low-risk groups, the outcome from that is to close the schools," he said, "and the goal of testing is not to close things. The goal of testing is to protect the vulnerable while we open the schools and open the economy.”
Gave that to you out of KLOVE.
Oh, I almost forgot, today is primary day and that dominated the front page of the Globe, and I'm sure it will be a clean election (got Venezuela wrong, but you know) even though the Globe is already complaining about the electoral college and laying the groundwork for further destruction.
Globe finally made a peace offer in the form of flowers, but that man is still there.
Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius listens as Mayor Marty Walsh speaks at the Salvation Army and TD Garden's Back to School Celebration on Aug. 18 (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff).
What's next for you ladies, a full-on burqa with handmaid's outfit?
That could be part of the Great Re$et when you get down to thinking about it. A Great Cull could lead to species propagation problems later!
If only they taught true history in the schools:
"Andover teachers went to work Monday but stayed outside to highlight coronavirus concerns" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
Andover teachers refused to enter school buildings on their first day of work Monday, officials said, spending a professional development day outdoors to highlight safety concerns as the district prepares to bring students back Sept. 16 for a mix of in-person and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The move drew a swift rebuke from the Andover Public Schools, whose spokeswoman called it an “illegal work stoppage” that could lead to litigation.
In a statement posted on Facebook over the weekend, the Andover Education Association, the union for teachers and other school personnel, said the decision to stay outside was a “workplace safety action.” The move came in response to the school district’s “lack of good-faith bargaining” over how to keep students and staff safe when schools reopen, the union said.
“It is simply not safe at this time for students and staff to be working together in crowded settings inside these buildings,” union president Matthew Bach said in the statement. “Members have decided they will not risk the health and safety of students, staff, or the community by walking into buildings that for decades have been underfunded, understaffed, and poorly maintained.”
Bach could not be reached for comment Monday.
District spokeswoman Nicole L. Kieser criticized the union’s action.
Kieser said the teachers’ decision was an affront to students and parents.....
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Should transfer to a school in Rhode Island:
"Raimondo says nearly all Rhode Island public schools have ’green light’ for full in-person learning; Central Falls and Providence are the only exceptions due to higher positivity rates" by Amanda Milkovits Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
PROVIDENCE — Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced Monday that all but two public school districts have the “green light” to open Sept. 14 for full in-person learning.
“It is our expectation and hope that is what you will do,” she added.
Though Sept. 14 is the first day of school, Raimondo said schools can “ease into” the full reopening during the first four weeks. Students will be required to wear masks and will not be allowed to attend if they are sick.
Might as well stay home anyway then.
Providence, the state’s largest school district, and Central Falls are the two districts that cannot fully reopen because both cities have new weekly coronavirus positive test rates of at least 100 per 100,000 residents.
In other words, 1 in 1,000 -- and those are questionable positives at best.
Providence school officials announced Monday that about 8,500 of its 24,000 students will attend school in-person on Sept. 14, with the rest participating in an all-distance-learning model or a hybrid of in-person and distance learning until at least Oct. 13.
They will face new procedures for most of the basics in school life — from how they get to school to how they travel through the halls.
“By Oct. 13, we want children in school for in-person learning,” Raimondo said, adding “if that’s what parents want.”
Not if they are going to be tortured and kept in some sort of fearful, infection-free, mind-f**k prison.
Raimondo and education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green had asked school districts for plans for three different scenarios: in-person learning, remote learning, or a hybrid of both.
Then, Raimondo, Infante-Green, and health director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott made the decision on reopening plans based on five key metrics: statewide virus data, municipal trends, testing capability, a district’s ability to acquire necessary cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment, and the operational readiness of each school.
Raimondo said the five metrics had been met for nearly all of the districts.
Rhode Island has been “comfortably” in its Phase 3 reopening plan since June 30. Fewer than 10 percent of the COVID-19 hospital beds are filled, new hospitalizations are stable, and the rate of spread is about 1, Raimondo said.
Testing readiness with results within 48 to 72 hours: The average turnaround last week was 1.8 days, with more than 45,000 tests completed in the last seven days, and the percent-positive rate was below 1 percent on several days, Raimondo said.
I'm sick of the nonsensical babble and lies.
Schools will have a separate testing system, with more than a dozen swab test sites throughout the state and 10 rapid-testing sites for students or staff who become ill at school, she said.
You don't want them doing that to your kid.
Home school is the only answer at this point.
Supplies: Raimondo said the schools have adequate supplies, and the state has provided backup: 3,000 thermometers, 600,000 masks, 5,000 gowns, and 15,000 containers of disinfectant. Last week, the state opened an education operations center to aid districts in case of any shortages.
Operational readiness: The state Department of Health and Department of Education vetted all the school plans, which include having a point person for testing and contact tracing at every school, and protocol for responding when someone tests positive.
Lower COVID-19 rates in municipalities: Cities and towns cannot have more than 100 new cases per 100,000 residents in a week.
State officials will continue watching Providence and Central Falls and determine in a month whether the rates of percent-positive cases have dropped enough to allow full in-person learning, Raimondo said.
She said the state will have teams doing “walkthroughs” to check all 306 school buildings for safety and ventilation before the start of school, and will audit the facilities during the year.
“If our team goes in there and does the walkthrough and it’s not up to snuff . . . then we will not allow that school building to reopen,” Raimondo said. “The facility will remain closed, and children can learn in another building or distance [learn] until we bring it up to code.”
That means they have fixed all the crumbling buildings that city leaders have failed to address before the panic (what, what)?
Any private school that wishes to reopen for full in-person learning is also clear to do so, Raimondo said. These schools will also receive the same testing and contact tracing.
Rhode Island is up to 21,949 positive tests so far this year, with 266 new cases since Friday and 46 overnight, according to data from the state Department of Health published Monday. Two more people have died from COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 1,048. There are 77 people hospitalized, with nine in intensive care units, and five on ventilators.
Both Raimondo and Infante-Green have long said that they prefer in-person learning, but not everyone is convinced. Eight superintendents sent a letter last week saying they will also choose distance learning if their concerns about building safety aren’t addressed.
“We’re testing more than any state in the country. We’ve dealt successfully with outbreaks. So we’re going to give this a try, and like everything we’ve done together over the past six months, if it doesn’t work, we’ll adjust,” Raimondo said. “If we have problems, we’ll deal with it, but we owe it to our children to get them back into school.”
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I'll bet they are voting Biden down there, because then they will finally be rid of her.
Meanwhile, just outside the playground a fentanyl ring was broken up, officials say.
Related:
Baker says National Guard can stand down
He says they were activated for the protests and the Globe says he did the right thing.
Of course, the right thing to do would be to ship him out, postage due, to a penal colony for continuing to perpetrate this fraud against the people of this state.
Also see:
"Some residents in Kenosha fear a planned visit by President Donald Trump after unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake may stir more emotions and cause more violence and destruction in the southeastern Wisconsin city after several days of peace. The city’s mayor, and the state’s governor, also said they believed Trump’s visit comes at a bad time, but others welcomed the president’s trip, scheduled for Tuesday, when he will tour damage and meet with law enforcement. Trump’s visit comes as demonstrators are calling for the officer who shot Blake to be fired and face attempted murder charges, and more than a week after authorities say a 17-year-old from northern Illinois shot and killed two protesters. Asked Monday whether he feared Trump’s visit could stir more violence, Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser said: “We’ll find out tomorrow, won’t we?” The tension began Aug. 23 after a video showed a Kenosha police officer shooting Blake, a Black man, in the back while responding to a call about a domestic dispute. All last week, Black Lives Matter protesters held events to call for changes to policing. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called a special session of the Legislature for Monday to take up a host of police reform measures, but Republicans took no immediate action. Authorities said they had resources in place to protect the bedroom community between Chicago and Milwaukee, including more than 1,500 National Guard members....."
Oh, my prayers will be with you, Mr. President, and please take the utmost care if you go.
I'm glad he isn't going to Portland:
"Oregon state police will patrol Portland's nightly protests with help from officers from neighboring communities, seeking to tamp down on vandalism and violence following the fatal shooting of a right-wing Trump supporter as the city approaches 100 consecutive nights of Black Lives Matter demonstrations. The plan, announced late Sunday by Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, also creates a group including Mayor Ted Wheeler and local Black leaders to help chart the path forward for Portland, a liberal city struggling to regain its footing under a national spotlight. President Donald Trump has made Portland and its Democratic leadership a frequent target and the centerpiece of his “law and order” re-election campaign theme. He demanded that local and state leaders call in the National Guard after Saturday's fatal shooting. A supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer was killed amid skirmishes between Trump supporters who led a car caravan through the city and Black Lives Matter protesters who had gathered for another night of demonstrations. Police have not made an arrest in the case....."
Can't even defend yourself anymore:
"The attorney for a white St. Louis couple charged for waving guns during a racial injustice protest outside their home said Monday that they’re anxious to prove “with absolute certainty” that they did not commit a crime. One week after Mark and Patricia McCloskey spoke on video to the Republican National Convention, they were in court briefly Monday morning and did not enter a plea. The judge continued their case until Oct. 6. The couple emerged from their Renaissance palazzo-style mansion with guns on the night of June 28 after protesters veered onto their private street. The couple said the demonstrators knocked down an iron gate and ignored a “No Trespassing” sign, and they felt threatened. Mark McCloskey, 63, came out with AR-15 rifle, according to court records, which said Patricia McCloskey, 61, displayed a semiautomatic handgun. No shots were fired. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said their actions created the risk of bloodshed during what she called an otherwise peaceful protest. She charged both with felony unlawful use of a weapon....."
"A Florida man who called himself “the Antifa hunter” as he waged an online campaign to terrorize and harass those who opposed his white supremacist ideology was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in prison. Daniel McMahon, 32, of Brandon, Florida, pleaded guilty in April to using social media to threaten a Black activist to deter the man from running for office in Charlottesville, Virginia. McMahon also admitted that he threatened to sexually assault the young autistic daughter of a North Carolina woman who protested against white nationalists. A federal judge in Virginia sentenced McMahon to three years and five months in prison. McMahon declined an opportunity to make a public statement beforehand, but he heard from his victims during the hearing, which was conducted remotely by video conference. In a written statement read aloud by a court employee, the North Carolina woman said McMahon methodically “cultivated a culture of fear and chaos” in her community of anti-racist activists....."
The country is in rebellion:
"A Confederate flag that was displayed on a Brookhaven Fire Department truck during a parade should be investigated, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said. Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri said that the truck brandishing the Confederate flag was one of nearly 50 local fire departments participated in a drive-by parade for a veteran Patchogue firefighter with cancer, Newsday reported....."
"A Republican congressional nominee in Alabama is facing criticism for a weekend social media post, which he later deleted, of a meme that appeared to support a teenager charged with killing two people, and wounding a third, during protests in Wisconsin. Barry Moore, the Republican nominee for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, posted a meme Saturday that depicted Kyle Rittenhouse carrying a rifle with the caption “fought back” and what appeared to be two other people slumped on the ground during protests with the caption, “didn’t fight back.” Moore later deleted the post and apologized for its graphic nature, saying he should have expressed his feelings “in words, not just with a meme.”
Maybe he could be made to wear some sort of monitoring device.
If only we had $port$ to bring us together like it always has, and it can only be heavenly karma that the once top-seed Bruins were quickly brushed out of the bubble while the Red Sox stink in the shortened season with empty seats in the park.
Don't even have a place to cry in your beer anymore, and according to the morning sports team over at WEEI, when it comes to the Globe, "we know nobody buys it, nobody reads it," but they ripped the resident fan troller for writing about missing his free booze with everything else going on. They meant the Bruins and their goalie abandoning them or something. I wouldn't know because I no longer pay attention to sports.
"For some, COVID-19 symptoms linger for months; Known as “long-haulers,” these patients call for more research, especially in the Boston area" by Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
At least four days a week, Kate Porter feels the heat rising within her, the inevitable return of the fevers that have plagued her for months. Merely walking from one room to another in her Beverly home can set her heart pattering at 140 beats per minute. Mounting a flight of stairs leaves her breathless.
Porter, 35, was healthy and active until mid-March, when she came down with COVID-19.
“So many people think it’s just life or death,” she said, but Porter, and others like her, are stuck in between — alive but unable to return to their previous lives.
No one knows how many people there are like Porter, but many thousands have gathered in social media groups, often conducting their own research.
They call themselves “long-haulers”: COVID-19 patients who continue to endure symptoms weeks and months after the initial infection, despite no sign of the virus remaining in their bodies. Most were never hospitalized, so their lingering symptoms cannot be attributed to the effects of prolonged hospital stays.
The list of symptoms they report in patient-run surveys is long — longer than the government’s official list. Among the most common are fatigue, body aches, shortness of breath, and difficulty concentrating, but some people have chest pain and palpitations, or numbness and tremors in a limb, or intermittent fevers, dizziness, even hallucinations. It’s common to start to get better and then suddenly get hit with new symptoms.
Now anything is COVID (comes with a government check), and you will want to avoid the hospitals this fall.
Lauren Nichols, a 32-year-old long-hauler who has been suffering with nausea, vertigo, painful breathing, and other symptoms for more than five months, put it this way: “You trust your body. You think your body is going to bounce back because it always had. You trust the medical system, because it always had answers. Now you can’t trust either.”
Nor the pre$$ or official authority for which they front.
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Related:
Hyperventilating Over the Sunday Globe
New York Times Still Lying About COVID Deaths
New York Times Admits COVID Cases Amplified and Inflated
Despite that, they report today that "if Italy was the harbinger of the first wave of Europe's coronavirus pandemic in February, Spain is the portent of its second. France is also surging, as are parts of Eastern Europe, and cases are ticking up in Germany, Greece, Italy and Belgium, too, but in the past week, Spain has recorded the most new cases on the continent by far. Now, as other Europeans mull how to restart their economies while still protecting human life, the Spanish have become an early bellwether for how a second wave might happen, how hard it might hit, and how it could be contained."
Yeah, here we go again says the insulting headline!
"Reports of new cases have fallen significantly around the country since July; they are now flat in 26 states and falling in 15 others, but in nine states, cases are still growing, and in some setting new records — especially in the Midwest....."
They just look like flat-out f**king liars now.
"Despite being at high risk for developing COVID-19, a large number of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers may be going undiagnosed after they become infected, according to a new report released on Monday by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings raise concern that these health care workers could unknowingly spread the infection within the hospital. About 6 percent of the workers had antibody evidence of a previous coronavirus infection, the report said, and more than two-thirds of these individuals had not been previously diagnosed. Almost 30 percent were asymptomatic. The findings suggest that some infections “are undetected and unrecognized,” possibly because some workers are asymptomatic or those with symptoms are not reporting them or being tested, the researchers said."
Maybe some of you health heroes will finally start blowing the whistle on this scam seeing as they are coming after you, too.
Also see:
"After President Trump retweeted a claim that discounted the coronavirus death toll in the United States over the weekend, Twitter took down the post that spread false information. The tweet was originally posted by “Mel Q,” a follower of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, which posits that the president is battling a cabal of Satan-worshiping child sex traffickers. It was copied from a Facebook post and claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had “quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6%” of reported deaths — or about 9,000 — “actually died from Covid.” The rest were people who “had 2-3 other serious illnesses,” said the tweet, which has since been replaced with a message saying it “is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” A Twitter spokesperson said the tweet violated the company’s coronavirus misinformation policy. The claim appears to be a reference to the CDC’s Wednesday update to its death data and resources page, which noted that in 6 percent of reported deaths, covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, “was the only cause mentioned,” however, that does not mean only 6 percent of reported deaths are attributed to the virus — it means 94 percent of people had at least one additional factor contributing to their deaths."
That is Washington Compost disassembling there, making it seem like COVID was the primary cause and not something picked up by one of their damn tests!
As for the above, the reaction to those once outlandish "conspiracy theories" that are being exposed everywhere tells you a lot. First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you.
Related:
"If there’s any encouraging news in the pandemic, it’s this: Fewer than 1 in 1,000 college tests have come back positive at the Broad so far. That’s a 0.1 percent positive rate. The statewide average positive rate has recently hovered around 1 percent — closer to one in a hundred people tested. “Overall, the average rate of 1 in 1,000 is good news,” said Stacey Gabriel, senior director of the Broad’s Genomics Platform. “The goal is to detect these cases quickly before they spread.”
You don't even know you have it and are not infectious because COVID-19 is scam, and why are we not open and back to normal with the low rate of infections?
They want to detect before spread when the alleged evidence shows it is not, and even if it is the survival rate is approaching 99.99% with consequential herd immunity.
Also see:
Globe Downplays COVID-19 Overcounts
Globe Goes Over the Top on COVID-19 Undercounts
The Times, as well as the Globe are all in on this evil plot, and there is that man looking at me again.
Wake Up America, You’ve Been Conned. Only An Estimated 9,683 Covid-19 Only Deaths So Far In 2020, Not 180,000
May the power of almighty God come down on their heads:
"‘I want the people of God to enjoy liberty’: Pastor at Maine super-spreader wedding gives a defiant indoor sermon" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
The officiant of a now-infamous wedding in Millinocket gave a defiant sermon during an indoor church service on Sunday, just a day after Maine’s CDC announced it was investigating a coronavirus outbreak among those affiliated with the Sanford church.
I like fire and brimstone sermons -- because it is needed at this time!
Todd Bell, the pastor, portrayed Calvary Baptist Church, which he leads, as being on the front lines of a culture war, battling against a “socialistic platform” that mandates mask-wearing and distance learning in schools.
Not just that, for the very foundations of freedom and liberty that we have had for so long and that are now being stripped from us for a cabal of sick, genocidal globalists and their political minions.
“I’ll tell you what the world wants all the churches to do,” Bell said during one of two Sunday services, which the church posted on YouTube. “They want us to shut down, go home, and let people get used to that just long enough until we can finally stop the advancing of the Gospel.”
Bell’s comments echoed some of the political talking points that President Trump and others on the right have used to decry coronavirus restrictions. At a rally in New Hampshire on Friday night, for example, Trump lamented that Democrats “don’t believe law-abiding citizens can go to a church together. You can’t go to church anymore.”
You can, however, attend a wedding if you are a Supreme Court justice or member of the Communist Party in Portugal:
"A tweet Monday from a new bride brought the first sighting of ailing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in months — officiating at an outdoor wedding Sunday. The photo of the 87-year-old Ginsburg, who announced in July she is being treated for cancer, shows her during the wedding ceremony Sunday of Barb Solish and Danny Kazin, according to Solish’s Twitter feed. In the photo, Ginsburg is wearing her judicial robe with a decorative black-and-white embroidered collar. The justice is a close friend of one of the families and the festivities took place outdoors at a private residence, court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said....."
"Health authorities in Portugal are allowing the country’s Communist Party to let 16,500 people into its annual open-air festival next weekend -- an unusually high number for a gathering in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic. The permit has caused an outcry because officials have for months slashed the number of people allowed into other public events, forcing many of them to cancel. The event is a major source of income for the Communist Party, which has 10 seats in Portugal’s 230-seat parliament....."
They need money?
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
The time for laughing is over:
"The government in China's far northwest Xinjiang region is resorting to draconian measures to combat the coronavirus, including spraying detainees with acidic disinfectant, physically locking residents in homes, imposing strict quarantines of more than 40 days and arresting those who do not comply. Furthermore, in what experts call a breach of medical ethics, some residents are being coerced into swallowing traditional Chinese medicine despite a lack of rigorous clinical data proving it works, according to government notices, social media posts, and interviews with three people in quarantine in Xinjiang. The latest grueling lockdown, now in its 45th day, comes in response to 826 cases reported in Xinjiang since mid-July, China’s largest caseload since the initial outbreak. The lockdown is especially striking because of its severity, and because there hasn’t been a single new case of local transmission in over a week....."
At least they get you get drunk before mandating the vaccines around here, and it's time people learned that in the leftist's paradise, it is do as I say not as I do and if you dare notice the hypocrisy, away you go!
The Aug. 7 wedding at which Bell officiated in East Millinocket has been linked to 123 coronavirus cases in Maine, the largest outbreak in the state, as well as to the death of Theresa Dentremont, an 83-year-old woman who did not attend the event. Many of the participants in the wedding, including the bride and groom, went silent as the fallout grew, switching their social media accounts to private, but Bell’s sermon on Sunday, at his church 225 miles south of the scene of the wedding, was fiery and unrepentant, indicating just how politicized the coronavirus has become, even in communities that have been affected by it. At times, he seemed to delight in provocation, saying that he hoped media outlets would watch the service. He did not respond to a request from the Globe for comment.
They obviously did, and the Globe lamenting the virus (as well as other things) they have politicized makes one sick.
Churches have been political battlegrounds during the coronavirus, as well as occasional hot spots, with more than 650 cases linked to houses of worship and religious events since the pandemic began, according to a New York Times database in early July.
Churches should never be political battlegrounds in this country, and The New York Times has forfeited any credibility regarding their database.
Related: "A private party at a Vermont ski lodge in mid-August led to a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected at least 14 people in Rutland County — including attendees and people they later came into contact with, the Vermont Department of Health announced Monday. More than 40 people attended the Aug. 19 party at the Summit Lodge in Killington, and the health department’s contact tracing team has been working to reach them all, the health department said in a statement. The health department is working aggressively to contain the outbreak, it said, and it urged residents to wear face coverings, maintain social distance, and stay home if they are sick. Anyone who attended the party who has not been in touch with the health department is asked to call. Attendees are also asked to limit exposure to others because asymptomatic carriers can help spread the virus to others. There will be a pop-up testing clinic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Rutland Office of Local Health in the Asa Bloomer Building, the health department said....."
If you had all spilled out into the streets to cause mayhem and chaos that would have been okay.
Have you finally seen the light, America?
The pastor also warned his congregants that a vaccine against the coronavirus would include “aborted baby tissue,” an issue that some religious and antiabortion groups have seized upon in recent months. A number of vaccines, including those against rubella, chickenpox, and shingles, were manufactured using fetal cells from elective abortions decades ago, but the cell lines that continue to grow the vaccines are now generations removed from fetal cells.
Okay, so the Globe, in a round about way, admitted aborted fetal tissue is in the tube while trying to debunk it, and it must be connected to the RNA signaling that will alter your DNA like a GMO.
In April, a group including committee chairmen from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged the Food and Drug Administration not to develop a coronavirus vaccine using cell lines that originated from fetal cells.
Bell said that instead of trusting a vaccine, he would put his faith in God.
It's a better bet than that evil mark-of-the-beast concoction BG has financed.
The CDC said on Saturday there were at least five confirmed cases involving people who attended the church, and that anyone who had attended services or vacation Bible school at Calvary was potentially exposed. Bell said on Sunday that all five people who had tested positive were out of quarantine and doing “fairly well.”
How many times did they multiply and amplify the genetic material everyone contains if they had a cold?
“I officiated the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding,” Bell told his congregation. “Six families from our church went there. We never expected to get COVID. Nobody expected to experience the things that happened because you went to a beautiful wedding like that.”
He situated his and the church’s response firmly on political ground, saying that he had told Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, during a Zoom call on Friday that he was a “liberty lover.”
“I want the people of God to enjoy liberty,” Bell told the congregation. “If they want to wear a mask, wear a mask . . . If you want to have the liberty to have done your own research — that masks are kind of like trying to keep a mosquito out of a chain-link fence . . . if that’s what they choose, I’m a liberty lover.”
(There’s a growing body of evidence that masks are effective at preventing the spread of the coronavirus.)
The evidence is the exact opposite, masks harm us in so many ways, but at this point the reversal of reality and flat-out lies from the pre$$ is unsurprising and expected.
It’s not surprising that political affiliations have become connected to coronavirus behaviors, said Martha Lincoln, a medical anthropologist at San Francisco State University.
“Epidemics are particularly political, because unlike other kinds of health experiences in society, everyone is aware of them. By nature, they’re public events. They’re often happening very quickly and creating a lot of anxieties that bring a lot of other social, political, and economic anxieties to the surface,” Lincoln said.
They are the ones making it political. I stand on firm Constitutional ground -- if that even means anything anymore -- and neither freedom nor liberty is political, it is our God-given and human right.
Bell, in the videotaped sermon posted on YouTube, said he had received negative pushback for officiating at the wedding and used a story of hostile comments on social media to riff on Matthew 5:11-12: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven.”
(Blog author nods head at the undeniable truth)
“Men have reviled me,” the pastor told his congregation. Bell described someone on social media who had seen that he was flying to Oxford, Maine — he is a pilot — and commented that he was probably going to spread COVID at the casino there.
“Be a good place to spread it,” Bell said. A congregant cheered in the background.
“Gambling has killed more people and ruined more homes and destroyed more things in our society almost than liquor or pot or pornography,” Bell went on. “Gambling is wicked.”
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I'm ready for an Encore:
"Encore lays off 385 furloughed workers amid gradual reopening" by Andy Rosen Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
Encore Boston Harbor said Monday it would lay off 385 people who have been on furlough for months. The company concluded it is unlikely their jobs will return this year because of safety measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the casino.
Woe to ye who have taken chips from the Devil's table!
Ye shall find yourself alone and outside the Kingdom of Heaven.
The affected workers will lose their company benefits starting Sept. 1, though Encore said they could regain their seniority on the job if they are rehired within 90 days.
“With continued efforts from the state to minimize the spread of COVID-19, Encore Boston Harbor continues to operate with a significantly reduced capacity in all parts of our resort,” Encore leadership said in a statement. “As we take a look at our business during these extraordinary conditions, we do not believe that all Encore Boston Harbor jobs will return in 2020.”
The move is the latest evidence of the damage that the pandemic has done to the workforce of the casino industry, which spent millions of dollars hiring and training thousands of people in Massachusetts in recent years. Casinos were closed from March into July, and now are operating with significant restrictions on how many people they can host and which services they can offer.
Encore’s decision follows a Friday announcement by MGM Resorts, owner of the MGM Springfield casino, that 1,000 people who had been laid off or furloughed for months will be officially separated from the company this week. Those workers will retain their benefits through September. About 800 people now work at the Springfield casino.
It was the death of a dream for some, but the Globe just went shopping!
Encore spokesman Eric Kraus said Monday that the people affected by the layoffs in Everett work in jobs across the resort, but they are concentrated in areas that are unlikely to return in the foreseeable future, such as the casino’s oyster bar and its high-end buffet.
Encore, owned by Wynn Resorts, paid all of its employees their full wages and tips for more than two months of its closure. It began to furlough people in June. When it reopened a month later, Encore quickly brought back thousands of people, but the remaining jobs are proving harder to restore, the resort said.....
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Where is the bar?
Was this guy heaven sent?
"President Donald Trump’s new pandemic adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas, says coronavirus infections and deaths are declining in the hardest-hit states. Appearing with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for a panel discussion on Monday, Atlas said hospitalizations, length of hospital stays and mortality are also declining. “The American public should feel cautiously optimistic here about what’s going on," Atlas said. "There is no need for fear at this point.” He also downplayed the risk of infections in young people and agreed with DeSantis that college football needs to be played this year. He described fit athletes as low-risk and said football “can be done safely” using social distancing in big stadiums. “College sports is a big part of America and it’s a big part of the economic engine,” he said. Atlas also downplayed the need to test people for the coronavirus when they don’t have symptoms. “When you start a program of testing simply to detect positive cases among asymptomatic low-risk groups, the outcome from that is to close the schools," he said, "and the goal of testing is not to close things. The goal of testing is to protect the vulnerable while we open the schools and open the economy.”
Gave that to you out of KLOVE.
Oh, I almost forgot, today is primary day and that dominated the front page of the Globe, and I'm sure it will be a clean election (got Venezuela wrong, but you know) even though the Globe is already complaining about the electoral college and laying the groundwork for further destruction.
Globe finally made a peace offer in the form of flowers, but that man is still there.
Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius listens as Mayor Marty Walsh speaks at the Salvation Army and TD Garden's Back to School Celebration on Aug. 18 (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff).
What's next for you ladies, a full-on burqa with handmaid's outfit?
That could be part of the Great Re$et when you get down to thinking about it. A Great Cull could lead to species propagation problems later!
If only they taught true history in the schools:
"Andover teachers went to work Monday but stayed outside to highlight coronavirus concerns" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
Andover teachers refused to enter school buildings on their first day of work Monday, officials said, spending a professional development day outdoors to highlight safety concerns as the district prepares to bring students back Sept. 16 for a mix of in-person and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The move drew a swift rebuke from the Andover Public Schools, whose spokeswoman called it an “illegal work stoppage” that could lead to litigation.
In a statement posted on Facebook over the weekend, the Andover Education Association, the union for teachers and other school personnel, said the decision to stay outside was a “workplace safety action.” The move came in response to the school district’s “lack of good-faith bargaining” over how to keep students and staff safe when schools reopen, the union said.
“It is simply not safe at this time for students and staff to be working together in crowded settings inside these buildings,” union president Matthew Bach said in the statement. “Members have decided they will not risk the health and safety of students, staff, or the community by walking into buildings that for decades have been underfunded, understaffed, and poorly maintained.”
Bach could not be reached for comment Monday.
District spokeswoman Nicole L. Kieser criticized the union’s action.
Kieser said the teachers’ decision was an affront to students and parents.....
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Should transfer to a school in Rhode Island:
"Raimondo says nearly all Rhode Island public schools have ’green light’ for full in-person learning; Central Falls and Providence are the only exceptions due to higher positivity rates" by Amanda Milkovits Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
PROVIDENCE — Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced Monday that all but two public school districts have the “green light” to open Sept. 14 for full in-person learning.
“It is our expectation and hope that is what you will do,” she added.
Though Sept. 14 is the first day of school, Raimondo said schools can “ease into” the full reopening during the first four weeks. Students will be required to wear masks and will not be allowed to attend if they are sick.
Might as well stay home anyway then.
Providence, the state’s largest school district, and Central Falls are the two districts that cannot fully reopen because both cities have new weekly coronavirus positive test rates of at least 100 per 100,000 residents.
In other words, 1 in 1,000 -- and those are questionable positives at best.
Providence school officials announced Monday that about 8,500 of its 24,000 students will attend school in-person on Sept. 14, with the rest participating in an all-distance-learning model or a hybrid of in-person and distance learning until at least Oct. 13.
They will face new procedures for most of the basics in school life — from how they get to school to how they travel through the halls.
“By Oct. 13, we want children in school for in-person learning,” Raimondo said, adding “if that’s what parents want.”
Not if they are going to be tortured and kept in some sort of fearful, infection-free, mind-f**k prison.
Raimondo and education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green had asked school districts for plans for three different scenarios: in-person learning, remote learning, or a hybrid of both.
Then, Raimondo, Infante-Green, and health director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott made the decision on reopening plans based on five key metrics: statewide virus data, municipal trends, testing capability, a district’s ability to acquire necessary cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment, and the operational readiness of each school.
Raimondo said the five metrics had been met for nearly all of the districts.
Rhode Island has been “comfortably” in its Phase 3 reopening plan since June 30. Fewer than 10 percent of the COVID-19 hospital beds are filled, new hospitalizations are stable, and the rate of spread is about 1, Raimondo said.
Testing readiness with results within 48 to 72 hours: The average turnaround last week was 1.8 days, with more than 45,000 tests completed in the last seven days, and the percent-positive rate was below 1 percent on several days, Raimondo said.
I'm sick of the nonsensical babble and lies.
Schools will have a separate testing system, with more than a dozen swab test sites throughout the state and 10 rapid-testing sites for students or staff who become ill at school, she said.
You don't want them doing that to your kid.
Home school is the only answer at this point.
Supplies: Raimondo said the schools have adequate supplies, and the state has provided backup: 3,000 thermometers, 600,000 masks, 5,000 gowns, and 15,000 containers of disinfectant. Last week, the state opened an education operations center to aid districts in case of any shortages.
Operational readiness: The state Department of Health and Department of Education vetted all the school plans, which include having a point person for testing and contact tracing at every school, and protocol for responding when someone tests positive.
Lower COVID-19 rates in municipalities: Cities and towns cannot have more than 100 new cases per 100,000 residents in a week.
State officials will continue watching Providence and Central Falls and determine in a month whether the rates of percent-positive cases have dropped enough to allow full in-person learning, Raimondo said.
She said the state will have teams doing “walkthroughs” to check all 306 school buildings for safety and ventilation before the start of school, and will audit the facilities during the year.
“If our team goes in there and does the walkthrough and it’s not up to snuff . . . then we will not allow that school building to reopen,” Raimondo said. “The facility will remain closed, and children can learn in another building or distance [learn] until we bring it up to code.”
That means they have fixed all the crumbling buildings that city leaders have failed to address before the panic (what, what)?
Any private school that wishes to reopen for full in-person learning is also clear to do so, Raimondo said. These schools will also receive the same testing and contact tracing.
Rhode Island is up to 21,949 positive tests so far this year, with 266 new cases since Friday and 46 overnight, according to data from the state Department of Health published Monday. Two more people have died from COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 1,048. There are 77 people hospitalized, with nine in intensive care units, and five on ventilators.
Both Raimondo and Infante-Green have long said that they prefer in-person learning, but not everyone is convinced. Eight superintendents sent a letter last week saying they will also choose distance learning if their concerns about building safety aren’t addressed.
“We’re testing more than any state in the country. We’ve dealt successfully with outbreaks. So we’re going to give this a try, and like everything we’ve done together over the past six months, if it doesn’t work, we’ll adjust,” Raimondo said. “If we have problems, we’ll deal with it, but we owe it to our children to get them back into school.”
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I'll bet they are voting Biden down there, because then they will finally be rid of her.
Meanwhile, just outside the playground a fentanyl ring was broken up, officials say.
Related:
Baker says National Guard can stand down
He says they were activated for the protests and the Globe says he did the right thing.
Of course, the right thing to do would be to ship him out, postage due, to a penal colony for continuing to perpetrate this fraud against the people of this state.
Also see:
"Some residents in Kenosha fear a planned visit by President Donald Trump after unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake may stir more emotions and cause more violence and destruction in the southeastern Wisconsin city after several days of peace. The city’s mayor, and the state’s governor, also said they believed Trump’s visit comes at a bad time, but others welcomed the president’s trip, scheduled for Tuesday, when he will tour damage and meet with law enforcement. Trump’s visit comes as demonstrators are calling for the officer who shot Blake to be fired and face attempted murder charges, and more than a week after authorities say a 17-year-old from northern Illinois shot and killed two protesters. Asked Monday whether he feared Trump’s visit could stir more violence, Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser said: “We’ll find out tomorrow, won’t we?” The tension began Aug. 23 after a video showed a Kenosha police officer shooting Blake, a Black man, in the back while responding to a call about a domestic dispute. All last week, Black Lives Matter protesters held events to call for changes to policing. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called a special session of the Legislature for Monday to take up a host of police reform measures, but Republicans took no immediate action. Authorities said they had resources in place to protect the bedroom community between Chicago and Milwaukee, including more than 1,500 National Guard members....."
Oh, my prayers will be with you, Mr. President, and please take the utmost care if you go.
I'm glad he isn't going to Portland:
"Oregon state police will patrol Portland's nightly protests with help from officers from neighboring communities, seeking to tamp down on vandalism and violence following the fatal shooting of a right-wing Trump supporter as the city approaches 100 consecutive nights of Black Lives Matter demonstrations. The plan, announced late Sunday by Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, also creates a group including Mayor Ted Wheeler and local Black leaders to help chart the path forward for Portland, a liberal city struggling to regain its footing under a national spotlight. President Donald Trump has made Portland and its Democratic leadership a frequent target and the centerpiece of his “law and order” re-election campaign theme. He demanded that local and state leaders call in the National Guard after Saturday's fatal shooting. A supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer was killed amid skirmishes between Trump supporters who led a car caravan through the city and Black Lives Matter protesters who had gathered for another night of demonstrations. Police have not made an arrest in the case....."
Can't even defend yourself anymore:
"The attorney for a white St. Louis couple charged for waving guns during a racial injustice protest outside their home said Monday that they’re anxious to prove “with absolute certainty” that they did not commit a crime. One week after Mark and Patricia McCloskey spoke on video to the Republican National Convention, they were in court briefly Monday morning and did not enter a plea. The judge continued their case until Oct. 6. The couple emerged from their Renaissance palazzo-style mansion with guns on the night of June 28 after protesters veered onto their private street. The couple said the demonstrators knocked down an iron gate and ignored a “No Trespassing” sign, and they felt threatened. Mark McCloskey, 63, came out with AR-15 rifle, according to court records, which said Patricia McCloskey, 61, displayed a semiautomatic handgun. No shots were fired. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said their actions created the risk of bloodshed during what she called an otherwise peaceful protest. She charged both with felony unlawful use of a weapon....."
"A Florida man who called himself “the Antifa hunter” as he waged an online campaign to terrorize and harass those who opposed his white supremacist ideology was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in prison. Daniel McMahon, 32, of Brandon, Florida, pleaded guilty in April to using social media to threaten a Black activist to deter the man from running for office in Charlottesville, Virginia. McMahon also admitted that he threatened to sexually assault the young autistic daughter of a North Carolina woman who protested against white nationalists. A federal judge in Virginia sentenced McMahon to three years and five months in prison. McMahon declined an opportunity to make a public statement beforehand, but he heard from his victims during the hearing, which was conducted remotely by video conference. In a written statement read aloud by a court employee, the North Carolina woman said McMahon methodically “cultivated a culture of fear and chaos” in her community of anti-racist activists....."
The country is in rebellion:
"A Confederate flag that was displayed on a Brookhaven Fire Department truck during a parade should be investigated, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said. Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri said that the truck brandishing the Confederate flag was one of nearly 50 local fire departments participated in a drive-by parade for a veteran Patchogue firefighter with cancer, Newsday reported....."
"A Republican congressional nominee in Alabama is facing criticism for a weekend social media post, which he later deleted, of a meme that appeared to support a teenager charged with killing two people, and wounding a third, during protests in Wisconsin. Barry Moore, the Republican nominee for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, posted a meme Saturday that depicted Kyle Rittenhouse carrying a rifle with the caption “fought back” and what appeared to be two other people slumped on the ground during protests with the caption, “didn’t fight back.” Moore later deleted the post and apologized for its graphic nature, saying he should have expressed his feelings “in words, not just with a meme.”
Maybe he could be made to wear some sort of monitoring device.
If only we had $port$ to bring us together like it always has, and it can only be heavenly karma that the once top-seed Bruins were quickly brushed out of the bubble while the Red Sox stink in the shortened season with empty seats in the park.
Don't even have a place to cry in your beer anymore, and according to the morning sports team over at WEEI, when it comes to the Globe, "we know nobody buys it, nobody reads it," but they ripped the resident fan troller for writing about missing his free booze with everything else going on. They meant the Bruins and their goalie abandoning them or something. I wouldn't know because I no longer pay attention to sports.
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