"More than 1.5 billion globally told to stay home to avoid virus" by Adam Gellerand Lori Hinnant Associated Press, March 23, 2020
NEW YORK — With masks, ventilators, and political good will in desperately short supply, more than one-fifth of the world’s population was ordered or urged to stay in their homes Monday at the start of what could be a pivotal week in the battle to contain the coronavirus in the United States and Europe.
Once again, hope leaps to the fore. Is this a possible signal that "They Know?"
Partisan divisions stalled efforts to pass a colossal aid package in Congress, and stocks fell again on Wall Street even after the Federal Reserve said it will lend to small and large businesses and local governments to help them through the crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 580 points, or 3 percent.
Warning that the outbreak continues to accelerate, the head of the World Health Organization called on countries to take strong, coordinated action. “We are not helpless bystanders,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
That guy is an Ethiopian war criminal. Look it up. Now the genocidal maniac is in charge of the worlds' health.
The scramble to marshal public health and political resources intensified in New York, where a statewide lockdown took effect amid worries the city of 8.4 million is becoming one of the world’s biggest hot spots. More than 12,000 people have tested positive in the city, and almost 100 have died.
I often wonder whether we would not be better off without New York City.
The governor announced plans to convert a mammoth New York City convention center into a hospital with 1,000 beds. Meanwhile, the mayor warned that the city’s hospitals are just 10 days away from shortages in basic supplies needed to protect health care workers and patients alike.
“This is going to get much worse before it gets better. We are still in the relative calm before the storm,” Governor Andrew Cuomo said at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
You don't have to convince me, and that hope just extinguished.
In Italy, the hardest-hit country of all, declines in both new cases and deaths for a second consecutive day provided a faint glimmer of hope, though it is too soon to say whether the crisis is leveling off.
I'm tired of getting jerked around, too.
Italian officials said Monday that the virus had claimed just more than 600 more lives, down from 793 two days earlier. All told, the outbreak has killed more than 6,000 Italians, the highest death toll of any country, and pushed the health system to the breaking point there and in Spain.
And ours is already broken!
The risk to doctors, nurses, and others on the front lines has become plain: British health workers pleaded for more gear, saying they felt like “cannon fodder.” In France, doctors scrounged masks from construction workers, factory floors, and an architect.
“There’s a wild race to get surgical masks,” François Blanchecott, a biologist on the front lines of testing, told France Inter radio. “We’re asking mayors’ offices, industries, any enterprises that might have a store of masks.”
You will eventually be required to have one to exit your home in free France.
The way US officials respond to the severe pressure on hospitals — and people’s willingness to keep their distance from others — will prove critical in coming days, public health specialists said.
“Actions taken right now will have a huge impact on the course of this epidemic in the US,” said Josh Michaud, associate director of global health policy with the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington. “It’s an important moment.’’
I'm getting the feeling they are setting the groundwork for pulling the plug!
Let them declares themselves heroes, that's fine. We know what evil lurks behind their facades.
The crisis continued to ease in China. The city of Wuhan, where the outbreak first emerged late last year, said it is allowing residents limited movement as its lockdown is gradually relaxed. China is now sending planeloads of protective gear and doctors to Europe.
“The US is completely wasting the precious time that China has won for the world,” said Geng Shuang, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman.
WWIII is OVER!
China has ALREADY SUPPLANTED US as the world's benevolent force!
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the US government’s top infectious-disease expert, promised that medical supplies are about to start pouring in and will be “clearly directed to those hot spots that need it most.”
You will never guess where they are coming from.
Worldwide, more than 350,000 people have been infected and 15,000 have died from the virus, according to a running tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. More than 1.5 billion people around the globe have been instructed to stay in their homes.
After just a few weeks, the United States has more than 35,000 cases and more than 400 deaths, by Johns Hopkins’s count. Indiana, Michigan, and West Virginia joined states including California, Illinois, and New York in asking or ordering their residents to stay home and keep businesses closed — directives that now cover more than one-third of the US population.
Holy fuck!
Industries big and small continued to shut down. Boeing announced it is suspending production in the Seattle area, where it has two mammoth aircraft plants employing about 42,000 people.
Maybe they should stop making planes.
Also see: Boeing to shut some operations after employee death
You would have to have a lot of gall to stand in the way of their bailout now!
Maybe they can apply for a job at GE and fly Air Canada.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate cease-fire in conflicts around the world to tackle the pandemic.
OH GOD!
Will aid be allowed into Gaza?
“It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives,” he said.
OH GOD!
Former Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein tested positive at the prison in New York where he is serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault, the head of the guards union said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel tested negative after putting herself in quarantine, according to a spokesman. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, the former presidential candidate, disclosed that her husband has been hospitalized with the virus.....
Harvey will have to be let out of jail, HA!
Related: Ex-Scottish leader acquitted on all sex crimes charges
The frame up failed! Good thing King Boris banned juries!
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Yeah, all those richers and celebrities claiming they caught it! All part of the staged and scripted production of the live exercise!
Here is the A2 flip side, dear and beloved readers:
"US, Emirati troops hold major exercise amid virus, Iran tensions" by Jon Gambrell Associated Press, March 23, 2020
(Blog editor's head just exploded. So much for the coronavirus stopping any invasion!)
AL-HAMRA MILITARY BASE, United Arab Emirates — US Marines and Emirati forces held a major military exercise Monday that saw forces seize a sprawling model Mideast city, a drill conducted amid tensions with Iran and despite the new coronavirus pandemic.
Yeah, let's invade a sick country and put our soldiers even more at risk!! Great idea!
Troops raced over the dunes of the Al-Hamra Military Base to take the model city, complete with multistory buildings, an airport control tower, an oil refinery, and a central mosque. Controlled explosions rang out as Emirati troops rappelled from hovering helicopters and Marines searched narrow streets on the Persian Gulf for “enemy” forces.
Okay, they have grounded the cargo flights but the war planes are still flying.
Un-effin-be-liev-a-ble!!!!
The biennial exercise, called Native Fury, shows the close ties between American forces and the UAE, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula home to Abu Dhabi, the capital, and Dubai, its financial heart.
It also comes after the United States killed Iran’s most prominent general in a drone strike in January, and Tehran retaliated with a ballistic missile attack on American forces in Iraq. While acknowledging the tensions, US officials dismissed the idea of Tehran viewing such an exercise with suspicion, only some 185 miles from its shores.
“Provocative? I don’t know,’’ said Brigadier General Thomas Savage of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, the ranking US commander at the event. “We’re about stability in the region. So if they view it as provocative, well, that’s up to them. This is just a normal training exercise for us.”
Pass me that grain of sand, I mean, salt.
The exercise saw 4,000 US troops from the Army, Marines, and Navy position armored vehicles and other equipment from Kuwait and the island of Diego Garcia in al-Hamra using a portable pier system. The barren desert, some 125 miles southwest of Abu Dhabi, is home to the UAE’s vast oil reserves as well as its new Barakah nuclear power plant.
???????
The combined US forces and the Emirati troops then stormed the imaginary city of al-Hamra, whose blocks of standalone houses, hotels, and apartment complexes include an unfinished gas station with a sign for the fast-food chicken restaurant Popeyes on it.
While the gunplay included mostly blanks, the practice remains deadly serious for the UAE, which has spent billions on its military — including the Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters that circled overhead, the armored carriers that splashed into the city’s canals and the facility itself.
It was simply GUNPLAY!
I have to tell you, these whoreporate reporters are MONSTERS with their INSULTINGLY ELITIST and MISANTHROPIC WORD CHOICES!
Oh, btw, you can be sure the Iranians won't be shooting back blanks!
Maybe it would be best for us all if they did take the next step. The faster we would be rid of the cretins behind all of this.
The UAE deployed forces into Afghanistan after the 2001 US invasion targeting Al Qaeda following the 9/11 attacks. Its day-to-day ruler, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sought to project Emirati military power in the Mideast and into East Africa as well. Former US defense secretary Jim Mattis famously proclaimed the Emirates “little Sparta” for its posture.
Afghanistan is coming up just below, and the pre$$ never misses an opportunity to flog that BS cover story regarding that fateful day.
That military push has included taking part in the longrunning Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has seen sexual abuse at a UAE-controlled prison and the Emirates paying off members of Al Qaeda’s local branch there. The UAE since has pulled its troops out of Yemen, calling for a political settlement to end a conflict between the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels there and its Saudi-backed, internationally recognized government.
First time in a long time I've even seen the word Yemen in the Globe.
Emirati military officials at the base in al-Hamra on Monday declined to speak to Associated Press journalists. US Ambassador John Rakolta Jr., on hand for the event, praised the UAE.
“Partnerships are based on many aspects, many fundamentals, and this happens just one of them,’’ he said when asked about Yemen. “Trust is a huge, huge factor. Transparency, common values all work into a partnership.”
Rakolta also described the exercise as “defensive in nature” when asked about Iran.
And if you believe that......
“I don’t believe that they’re intended to demonstrate a provocative act to the Iranians to say we’re coming,” he said. ‘‘Rather, we’re protecting ourselves and we want to sit down at the conference table and negotiate a lasting peace settlement.”
PFFFFFFFFFT!
There was no immediate reaction in Iranian state media to the exercise. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Yes, there was:
"Ayatollah Khamenei called US officials deceitful, saying they were lying as he touched on speculations that the United States has manufactured the extremely contagious disease. "Americans have said several times that 'we are ready to help with treatment and medicine; just ask us and we will help'. This is one of the weirdest things which they tell us to ask them," the Leader said. "Firstly, you have a shortage yourself and this is what American officials say. Secondly, you are accused of producing the virus. I do not know how true this accusation is, but when such an accusation is made, which wise person will ask for your help?" he added. Ayatollah Khamenei said, "American officials are mendacious, deceitful, shameless and greedy. They are all kinds of charlatans who speak like charlatans. They are cruel, merciless, and terrorist.""
I can see why my Jewi$h War Pre$$ wanted to censor that! A WISE MAN INDEED!
Also a concern is the ongoing outbreak of the new coronavirus. Rakolta said no US diplomat in the UAE had contracted the virus. Savage said those US forces involved had had little contact with the outside world after shipping out for the event and none had tested positive since. However, he said the military remained vigilant in terms of sanitation while living at the desert base.
But it DIDN'T PREVENT the WAR GAMES from going FORWARD!
No SHELTER-IN-PLACE order there!
‘‘This has been an incredible training opportunity for us to go through this and practice how we would do something if, God forbid, we are forced to go fight in this region again,” Savage said.
Yeah, GOD FORBID!
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Related:
Video chat with Taliban keeps Afghan peace deal on life support
As soon as I saw the New York Times byline I stopped reading, and I'm glad I wasn't holding my breath waiting for something I knew would never come, and am actually glad the soldiers are over there and not over here; however, do you see anything strange here, dear readers?
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center right) and Afghan national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib (center left) walked past an honor guard at the Presidential Palace in Kabul Monday. (Afghan Presidential Palace via AP)
Mike, where is the social distancing?!!
No need during a live exercise, huh?
It's a f**Ing fraud, folks! It's a CORONAVIRUS COUP!
The next thing they will be doing is closing the Post Offices:
"Mail delivery requires a healthy workforce, and postal workers have been falling sick across the country — Miami; Manhattan; Seattle; Portland, Ore. On Thursday, 13 postal workers had tested positive; by Friday, that number was 20. Sean Craig, said he’s continuing to report for work but is worried about his infant son and his 82-year-old mother. “The concern is there just wasn’t a plan in place,” Craig said. “It was fly by the seat of your pants, which made me very angry.”
He will still get paid, right?
"Orders by the governors of Texas and Ohio to stop all non-essential surgeries in those states have unleashed a new battle over access to abortions during the coronavirus pandemic. A spokesperson for Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Clinics in Ohio received letters from Republican Attorney General Dave Yost on Friday ordering them to cease all "non-essential" surgical abortions. Yost wrote that the procedures violate a March 17 order issued by the state health director. Clinics, abortion rights groups and some state lawmakers pushed back, saying abortions are both essential and time-sensitive. "During an emergency, there is always a chance of government overreach under the guise of `security' or adherence to `law and order,'" the Ohio Democratic Women's Legislative Caucus said in a statement. "In times of national crisis, we have seen egregious acts that have circumvented our freedoms before, and make no mistake - we are seeing them today....."
OMG, tell it to Bill Barr!
What is wrong with the nutty left? They still want abortions performed during this time of infection, they want old people to be killed (looks like he might be coming around), and the Dems block the checks to average Americans last night.
This is bullshit coming from fucking GENOCIDAL, MISANTHROPIC MANIACS!!
Related:
Assisted-living patient from Jamaica Plain who died tests positive for coronavirus
One staffer tested positive, and another resident is in quarantine.
"No visits. They know it’s necessary. They trust the caregivers to keep their loved ones safe, but for families of residents at Boston-area senior living communities, all of which have barred visitors for more than a week now to keep the coronavirus at bay, the separation feels cruel and painful. Nursing homes and assisted-living facilities have embraced federal and state health guidance that keeps adult sons and daughters, grandchildren, and friends outside closed doors for the foreseeable future to protect a population deemed at highest risk for COVID-19, the potentially deadly respiratory ailment caused by the coronavirus......"
We are sorry, your loved one died of coronavirus.
Director of Nurses Lea Poulin danced outside of The Leonard Florence Center for Living with residents and other staff members when a band performed outside so residents could listen from their windows and balconies. (Erin Clark/Globe Staff)
The evil is so in your face! They are literally dancing in the streets at your deaths!
Related:
"Braemoor Health Center is a modest nursing home in Brockton, licensed to care for 120 residents, but Larry Lipschutz, who owns the property, was able to wring $1.8 million in pay out of it last year, according to state records. His son, Avi “Zisha” Lipschutz, who holds the state license to run the nursing home, extracted nearly $900,000 from Braemoor as payments to a realty company and four management firms he owns. As the owners were taking hundreds of thousands of dollars out of Braemoor, the nursing home racked up three and a half times as many health and safety problems as the state average, federal documents show. Over the past year, a portrait has emerged of substandard care in many of the nursing homes run by Braemoor’s owner, Synergy Health Centers. Poor treatment of patients’ festering pressure sores. Medication errors. Inadequate staff training. Now, a Globe investigation shows that as father and son were paying themselves handsomely, Synergy apparently provided false information when applying for nursing home licenses. Synergy’s cofounders, through their public relations firm, declined to respond to a detailed list of questions about the company’s operations and owners. Requests for interviews made in person at the company’s New Jersey headquarters and with a company lawyer went unanswered. Three former Synergy employees describe Zisha Lipschutz as an ardent New England Patriots fan and high-energy boss. One former employee and one current worker said Lipschutz would rally his managers during meetings by quoting or showing scenes from “Mad Men,” a TV series about a 1960s-era Madison Avenue advertising firm. The former employees and the current employee declined to be identified because they still work in the nursing home industry and said they feared that being identified could affect their careers. The related management and realty companies associated with the nursing homes Zisha Lipschutz and Newmark co-own took in more than $7 million in 2014, according to a review of financial records Synergy filed with Massachusetts regulators. Both men received bachelor’s degrees in Talmudic law, according to resumes included in their state nursing home licensing application and verified by the Globe. Two other former staffers described coveted Patriots playoff tickets Synergy bought in January 2013 — one month after acquiring its first facility in Sunderland. The company spent roughly $25,000 on a suite at Gillette Stadium and invited local doctors and nurses to help woo more business for its new facility, the staffers said. “It really offended me because I had to do battle to get basic nursing supplies,” said one of the former staffers who still works in the industry and asked to remain anonymous. In the months following that playoff game, the company cut back on the quality of adult diapers and fresh fruit at its Sunderland facility, according to a former volunteer state ombudsman and government records, and was cited by state investigators for more than a dozen violations......"
That's who is running the nursing homes and taking care of your beloved old folks.
Do you trust them?
Who remembers granny now, huh?
How to protect the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic
There is going to be a "surge in homelessness as evictions and foreclosures pick up speed."
It's 2008 all over again, and can't the banks forgive the loans after getting all the bailout loot they will be getting? WTF?
For the record, I refuse to call it the COVID-19 pandemic. That's a genocidal ma$$ media term. COVID-19 looks like code for COVert ID (vaccines)-19 (an agenda on par with 9/11, yet even greater than)
Texas, Ohio orders on surgeries prompt new abortion fight
For some reason, that article has been replaced in the Boston Globe by this:
"An estimated 13,500 Americans abroad have asked the State Department for help returning to the United States as the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in closed borders and suspended commercial flights, two senior officials said Monday. About 5,700 additional US citizens and legal residents have already been brought back on flights organized by the State Department. From Peru to Morocco to Japan, stranded Americans have pleaded for help getting home as the pandemic has spread. Over the next five days, the State Department will charter 16 flights around the world to bring home another 1,600 people, said one of the officials, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity because of department protocols on briefing the news media. About 10 million US citizens live abroad, officials said, but the officials urged Americans who have homes overseas to consider hunkering down, underscoring that the travel assistance was designed for tourists and temporary expatriates, like students. There was still room on some of the flights this week for additional passengers, said the official, who urged Americans to register at the department’s travel enrollment system for information. On Sunday, Global Guardian, an international security firm, evacuated 144 Americans who were stranded in Honduras. “I cannot begin to express my gratitude to the entire Global Guardian team for getting my husband and I home safely to our families and lives here in Boston,” Annie Perlick, a nurse at Boston’s Children Hospital, said in a statement."
I have never heard of them before, and instead of Romney chides Mormons who gathered at airport, I get this slop:
"With President Trump providing daily televised briefings and governors like Andrew Cuomo emerging as national leaders during the coronavirus pandemic, former vice president Joe Biden is still grappling with how to position himself as a prominent voice. Biden has been confined over the last week to an unusually small role for the likely — though not yet completely certain — nominee of a major political party. His public comments have been sparing and, for the most part, restrained. He has begun to ramp up a public schedule, beginning with an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday, and his aides said he would now offer remarks on camera in some fashion each day, but Democratic strategists have said that Biden needs to be more visible at a time when Americans are looking for leadership. The challenge for Biden, they say, is to find ways to draw sharp contrasts in leadership style with Trump while showing sensitivity to the severity of the crisis. On Monday, Biden gave a speech that was streamed live from his home in Delaware in which he criticized Trump’s response to the virus as too slow and insufficient, and pressed him to act like the “wartime president” he says he is. Neither CNN, Fox News, nor MSNBC aired his speech, instead showing a briefing by Cuomo of New York. “Let me be clear: Donald Trump is not to blame for the coronavirus, but he does bear responsibility for our response,” Biden said. “And I, along with every American, hope he steps up and starts to get this right.”
(Blog editor is astonished at the level of crap that is consistently troweled out by my pre$$. Judging by Trump's meteoric rise in approval, it looks like Americans have found leadership. In any event, I will take an alleged jerk-asshole with all his wits about him than a perverted predator who is demented)
Why not just coronate Joe now?
"Planners for the Democratic National Convention are looking at “contingency options” in case the mid-July gathering in Milwaukee can’t take place because of the coronavirus, officials said Monday for the first time. One person with knowledge of the discussions said Monday that “intensive scenario-planning” was taking place among officials from the Democratic National Committee, the convention committee and the Milwaukee host committee, who were all determining what to do about the convention, which is scheduled July 13-16 at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. Among the complicating factors are the uncertain nature of the professional basketball season and how the party’s delegates will be selected. Delegates in most states are elected to the national convention from state conventions, but many state conventions, scheduled for late spring and early summer, are also being postponed."
You actually think they will be returning to the court anytime soon? Really? That will be the final tell on the plug-pulling, but it won't be in time for all those high-school and college athletes who have had their senior seasons ruined.
Btw, all the hyperbole around here about Trump being a dictator when a REAL ONE has surfaced in jolly ole England:
"Facing a growing storm of criticism about his laissez-faire response to the fast-spreading coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday that he would place Britain under a virtual lockdown, closing all nonessential shops, banning meetings of more than two people and requiring people to stay in their homes, except for trips for food or medicine. People who flout the new restrictions, the prime minister said, will be fined by the police. The steps, which Johnson outlined in a televised address to the nation, bring him into alignment with European leaders such as President Emmanuel Macron of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who have all but quarantined their countries in a desperate bid to slow the outbreak. The prime minister said people also could leave their houses for exercise, either alone or with family members, and he did not close parks in London, which became a symbol of Britain’s nonchalant response this weekend when they were thronged by people. The number of confirmed cases in Britain rose to 6,650 on Monday, up from 5,683 a day earlier, while the death toll jumped by 54, to 335. British officials warn that the country is about two weeks behind Italy in the spread of the virus, suggesting that those numbers are about to balloon."
We are social creatures and the RESISTANCE is ALIVE and WELL!! I applaud the British people!
Oh, btw, there will be NO BREXIT NOW!
As for England's former colonies:
India halts its crucial train network to try to stop virus
Thank God Gandhi ran them out of there, although his heart would be exploding where he to see what India has become today.
"South Africa, Africa’s most industrialized economy and a nation of 57 million people, will to go into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days starting Thursday to try to contain the spread of the new coronavirus, the president said Monday. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the measures in response to the increase of COVID-19 cases to 402. South Africa will be the third country in Africa to close down all but essential economic activity, after Rwanda and Tunisia. South Africa’s coronavirus cases jumped 47 percent on Monday from the day before with 128 new cases, increasing worries of exponential growth and making it the country with the most cases in Africa, taking over from Egypt."
They should have done that long before the virus hit. That country is in shambles, but at least they are better off than the people of Bo$ton which, pardon the expression, is a sh!thole.
"Trump considers reopening economy, over health experts’ objections" by Jim Tankersley, Maggie Haberman and Roni Caryn Rabin New York Times, March 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — As the United States entered Week 2 of trying to contain the spread of the coronavirus by shuttering large swaths of the economy, President Trump, Wall Street executives, and many conservative economists began questioning whether the government had gone too far and should instead lift restrictions that are already inflicting deep pain on workers and businesses.
Public health officials warn that relaxing those restrictions could significantly increase the death toll from the virus, which has already infected more than 30,000 people in the United States, but Trump and a chorus of conservative voices have begun to suggest that the shock to the economy could hurt the country more than deaths from the virus.
I'm starting to hear a draining $ound!
On Monday, Trump said his administration would reassess whether to keep the economy shuttered after the initial 15-day period ends next Monday, saying it could extend another week and that certain parts of the country could reopen sooner than others, depending on the extent of infections.
“Our country wasn’t built to be shut down,” Trump said during a briefing at the White House. “America will, again, and soon, be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. Lot sooner. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”
Now that he knows this is a LIVE EXERCISE -- yeah, you should have let us know -- he is trying to take the appropriate measures. This should boost his approval even higher as Democrats shoot themselves in the foot and reveal they care only about hurting the President of the United States, no matter what the cost.
Btw, it was at this point that I realized this web article is an ENTIRE REWRITE from what is in print.
What did the New York Times have to censor and hide, readers?
President Trump on Sunday night said that the government would reassess the recommended period for keeping businesses shut and millions of workers at home after this week, amid millions of job losses caused by the efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. Mr. Trump tweeted in all capital letters shortly before midnight.
Does the guy ever sleep?
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he is on watch.
Officials have said that the initial 15-day period for social distancing — limiting close contact between people by banning gatherings, closing schools and offices, encouraging remote work and urging people to maintain a six-foot distance from one another — is vital to slowing the spread of the virus, for which more than 30,000 people in the United States have tested positive. The 15-day period would end Monday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious diseases expert and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, has said in interviews that he believed that it would take several more weeks until people can start going about their lives in a more normal fashion. Other infectious disease experts suggest even harsher measures than social distancing are required to truly beat back the outbreaks in the United States.
That gets us caught up, and nothing will ever be normal again. WOKE!
Similar views are emanating from parts of corporate America, where companies are struggling with a shutdown that has emptied hotels, airplanes, malls, and restaurants and sent the stock market tumbling so fast that automatic circuit breakers to halt trading have been tripped repeatedly. Stocks have collapsed about 34 percent since the coronavirus spread globally — the steepest plunge in decades — erasing three years of gains under Trump.
When Corporate America talks, people li$ten!
But at the White House, in recent days, there has been a growing sentiment that medical experts were allowed to set policy that has hurt the economy, and there has been a push to find ways to let people start returning to work. Some Republican lawmakers have also pleaded with the White House to find ways to restart the economy, as financial markets continue to slide and job losses for April could be in the millions.
More like SICK MAD SCIENTISTS, and I hate it when they start a sentence with But because that is verboten in your Writing 101 college course, readers. In fact, BUT is not even supposed to be used in a report since it undercuts the entire thesis.
Lloyd Blankfein, the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs, wrote on Twitter that “crushing the economy” had downsides and suggested that “within a very few weeks let those with a lower risk to the disease return to work.”
Look who the New York Times quotes on the matter. Must be true.
Vice President Mike Pence indicated on Sunday at a White House briefing about the virus that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would issue new guidelines on Monday, allowing some people who have been exposed to the coronavirus to resume working outside their homes if they wear masks.
Any push to loosen the new limits on commerce and movement would contradict the consensus advice of public health officials, risking a surge in infections and deaths from the virus. Many economists warn that abruptly reopening the economy could backfire, overwhelming an already stressed health care system, sowing uncertainty among consumers, and ultimately dealing deeper, longer-lasting damage to growth.
The article has been ENTIRELY REWRITTEN and is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they printed!
This is DISGUSTING PROPAGANDA the likes of which I HAVE NEVER SEEN!
The move could set the stage for states with relatively low numbers of cases to begin to unfreeze their economies, while large states like California and New York — where there are more cases and where state officials have ordered nonessential businesses to close for the time being — could continue remaining in a holding pattern.
I have no problem with letting the traitorous, Deep State Democrats wallow in the sick sheets of their own making. Only problem is....:
"Professor Arthur Reingold, head of epidemiology and biostatistics at University of California Berkeley’s School of Public Health, said staying at home could be an incredibly effective strategy for reducing transmission of COVID-19, but its success depends on how many people comply. “The theory is sound but the practice, however, is variable, Reingold said. "So how well it will work in practice, whether in Boston, San Francisco, New York, or Wuhan, obviously depends to a large extent on how well people actually carry it out.” He noted that people are still going to beaches in Miami and many are congregating in parks. People need to get food and walk their dogs. “The question is can they minimize their person-to-person exposure while meeting those essential needs," he said....."
We are social creatures, you sick fuck!
Yeah, New York and California are the model for Democrats and the ma$$ media.
Fucking totalitarians!!
While some business owners are eager to end the more draconian measures that have been put in place, others would rather endure the pain at once rather than face repeated, disruptive orders to stop activities.
Mr. Trump’s tweet cast doubt on his confidence in the path to fighting the virus that he so reluctantly approved. For two months he largely dismissed the warnings that the virus would reach American shores, for fear of causing economic disruption, predicting that cases would go down from a handful to “zero” in a few days.
I think this will be the last time I read NYT swill.
Only when the disruption came anyway, in the form of a historic stock market sell-off, was he convinced to act, but there could be consequences to ending the measures too quickly.
It's surging upward today in anticipation of bailout deal, no thanks to the Fed.
The recent rise of cases in Hong Kong, after there had been an easing of the spread of the virus, is something of an object lesson about how ending strict measures too soon can have dangerous consequences.
Finally, a SENTENCE that is VERBATIM!
Yet places like China, which took the idea of lockdown to the extreme, have managed to flatten the curve. “You can’t call off the best weapon we have, which is social isolation, even out of economic desperation, unless you’re willing to be responsible for a mountain of deaths,” said Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.
Why don't you lead by example and isolate yourself forever, you sick fuck!!?
In a tweet on Monday morning, Thomas Bossert, the former homeland security adviser who for weeks has been vocal about the need for the U.S. government to take stricter measures, said, “Sadly, the numbers now suggest the U.S. is poised to take the lead in #coronavirus cases. It’s reasonable to plan for the US to top the list of countries with the most cases in approximately 1 week. This does NOT make social intervention futile. It makes it imperative!”
Bossert is one of the Deep State saboteurs of a duly-elected President, and a traitor!
For the last four days, some White House officials, including those working for Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the coronavirus task force, have been raising questions about when the government should start easing restrictions. Among the options being discussed are narrowing restrictions on economic activity to target specific age groups or locations, as well as increasing the numbers of people who can be together in groups, said one official, who cautioned that the discussions were preliminary.
Whatever the president chooses to do, there will be businesses still fearful to reopen — and employees fearful of going to work — as new cases of people infected with the virus are still being diagnosed by the thousands each day, and the president is facing potential pushback from the public health experts in his administration.
Yeah, cower if fear because the world's most fabulous liars say you should. Nice!
Health officials inside the administration have mostly opposed that idea, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, an infectious diseases expert and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, who has said in interviews that he believes it will take several more weeks until people can start going about their lives in a more normal fashion.
Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said the United States had learned from other countries like China and South Korea, which were able to control the spread of the virus through strict measures and widespread testing. “Those were eight- to 10-week curves,” she said Monday.
That evil bitch!!
Do you even know who she is?
After being slow to publicly react to the spread of the virus, the Trump administration swung in the other direction at the end of February, entrusting the health experts whose counsel had not been heeded in the preceding weeks and letting them help set the policies that hundreds of millions of people would be urged to follow, but Mr. Trump has become frustrated with Dr. Fauci’s blunt approach at the briefing lectern, which often contradicts things the president has just said, according to two people familiar with the dynamic.
Hey, they should have let us know!
Other advisers, including members of Trump’s economic team, have said repeatedly in recent months that the virus does not itself pose an extraordinary threat to Americans’ lives or the economy, likening it to a common flu season. Some advisers believe the White House overreacted to criticism of Trump’s muted actions to deal with the emerging pandemic and gave health experts too large a sway in policy making.
That very well may be what it is, a complete hoax. That is not to say people are not dying or being killed.
Mr. Trump knows that Dr. Fauci is seen as credible with a large swath of the public and with journalists, and so he has given him more leeway to contradict him than he has other officials, but the president has also resisted portraying the virus as an existential threat in a way that the public health experts have.
It isn't. Most recover, or so it has been reported. It's something being blown out of proportion for more nefarious and evil goals.
Related: In order to save Dr. Fauci, we must destroy him
Looks like another fictitious story by Cullen then (shouldn't making up stories get him fired?).
On Monday, Trump echoed those concerns, saying that things like the flu or car accidents posed as much of a threat to Americans as the coronavirus and that the response to those was far less draconian.
In an interview with Science Magazine that was posted online on Sunday evening, Dr. Fauci responded to a question about how he had managed not to get fired by saying that, to Mr. Trump’s “credit, even though we disagree on some things, he listens.”
OMFG!
“We have a very active flu season, more active than most. It’s looking like it’s heading to 50,000 or more deaths,” he said, adding: “That’s a lot. And you look at automobile accidents, which are far greater than any numbers we’re talking about. That doesn’t mean we’re going to tell everybody no more driving of cars. So we have to do things to get our country open.”
And NO PANIC!
Hell, there are MORE OPIOID DEATHS (CDC website!), the death rate is FAR WORSE, and there is no concern from on high at all!
STINK!!!
In an interview with Fox Business Network, the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, stressed that the U.S. economy was still functioning.
Dr. Tom Inglesby, the director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, pointed to the experience of countries like Italy, which did not institute aggressive measures to stop the spread of the virus and saw infection rates and deaths soar as a result.
SICK FUCK!
The president’s interest in potentially easing some of the social behavior guidelines met with pushback from one of his close allies, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.
The Khazars are blackmailing Lindsey because he's gay.
The United States will need “a couple weeks” to see positive effects from its measures, Inglesby said, and abandoning them would mean “patients will get sick in extraordinary numbers all over the country, far beyond what the US health care system will bear.”
Did he just press the fear button again?
You guys had better control when most were partying and ignorant. Another colossal overreach by the PTB!
“President Trump’s best decision was stopping travel from China early on,” Mr. Graham tweeted on Monday. “I hope we will not undercut that decision by suggesting we back off aggressive containment policies within the United States.”
Keep your distance, Senator!!!
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They didn't include the picture of the President that my printed paper did!
I will tell you this: he stands up there and takes all their insulting questions and doesn't look a bit demented. That is why he is under never-ending attack.
The sad thing is, were he to declare a national emergency and take full power on behalf of the American people, the Deep State will kill him. He will become "infected." The guy is really between a rock and a hard place; however, to anyone reading this anywhere, he should know the American people stand with him during this time of coup, I mean, crisis. I salute you, Mr. President!
Supreme Court last chance for Trump to block Twitter critics
Fuck the obsessed, hate-filled critics and their appeals.
Now about that $timulus:
"Democrats again block key vote on $2 trillion coronavirus bill as Senate erupts with partisan anger" by Erica Werner and Paul Kane Washington Post, March 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — Democrats on Monday blocked a $2 trillion coronavirus rescue bill for the second day in a row as near-pandemonium erupted on the Senate floor, with lawmakers venting fury about their failed efforts to address the pandemic’s impact on the US economy.
That's a bad word choice, WaComPo.
Ahead of the vote, senators clashed angrily over delays that had bogged down the giant bill, reflecting uncertainty about whether Congress would be able to reach a deal in the coming hours or days. Some lawmakers had hoped to reach an agreement three days ago, but talks kept breaking down even as they negotiated throughout the weekend.
Meanwhile the nation is reeling from the health consequences and economic pain inflicted by the virus as hope for a swift response from Congress appeared to drain away.
They why is the stock market shooting through the roof?
The Federal Reserve announced unlimited bond purchases in an unprecedented move to lift the economy, its latest intervention, but US markets continued to skid Monday, and the Dow closed down nearly 600 points, or another 3 percent. The Dow is more than 35 percent off its all-time high of Feb. 12.
At the White House, President Trump signaled that has grown impatient with the pandemic, even though medical experts have warned that the spread has not reached its expected peak.
Trump said Monday that he wants to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months, and he claimed, without evidence, that continued closures could result in more deaths than the coronavirus pandemic.
Does the fucking WaComPo have evidence to the contrary?
NO!!!
HOW CAN THEY! It is something that is unprovable.
What scum!
‘‘We can’t have the cure be worse than the problem,’’ Trump told reporters at a press briefing, echoing a midnight Sunday tweet. “We have to open our country because that causes problems that, in my opinion, could be far bigger problems.’’
Trump acknowledged there were trade-offs, “there’s no question about that,’’ but said that, if closures stretch on for months, there would be “probably more death from that than anything that we’re talking about with respect to the virus.”
He means suicides, folks, and thank God we have a president who doesn't drink alcohol!
So when is the WaComPo going to write an article about that?
On Capitol Hill, Democrats have argued that the Senate GOP’s huge stimulus bill is disproportionately tilted toward helping companies and needs to extend more benefits to families and health care providers.
They want all their goddamn goodies in there, the stuff they can never get, and who the hell do they think companies are made of, robots? Not yet, anyway!
Republicans have countered that the bill — which would send checks to many individual Americans while creating giant loan programs for small businesses and industry — offers unprecedented financial assistance to the entire economy and needs to be passed before more people lose their jobs.
The vote Monday was 49-46, well short of the 60-vote threshold needed to advance the legislation for a final debate.....
Holy fuck, they are never going to get there.
This is totally political, Americans. The damn Demorats care more about hurting Trump than they do anything else! That is their single-minded obsession!! What SICK FUCKS!!!!!!!
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The Globe says Trump must act now to boost production of medical supplies, and they are wondering what he is waiting for -- almost as if they are trying to goad him into it.
No better at home:
"Mass. issues stay-at-home advisory, closes nonessential businesses, as coronavirus death toll rises to nine" by Matt Stout Globe Staff, March 23, 2020
In the sharpest restriction on daily life yet, Governor Charlie Baker ordered all nonessential businesses in Massachusetts to close their doors by midday Tuesday and urged the state’s nearly 7 million people to stay home in the face of the novel coronavirus’s rapidly growing, and increasingly deadly, spread.
How odd is it that as I bolded those letter the clock struck noon? No fooling.
At least nine people in the state have died due to COVID-19 as of Monday, four more than previously reported, according to state figures. The number of confirmed cases in Massachusetts spiked by 20 percent in a single day to 777 Monday.
How many from flu?
Infections are touching virtually every part of Massachusetts, and COVID-19 is reaching across generations, too: Of confirmed cases, 134 include people under the age of 30; 107 involve those 70 or older.
More propaganda. The young are more infected even thought they don't show it. F*** off!
Baker’s business closure order, which goes into effect Tuesday at noon and will remain in place until at least April 7, will not affect grocery stores, pharmacies, medical facilities, or gas stations, among a variety of other businesses that can remain open.
Meaning it can be extended ad infinitum, and what are people buying out there?
Those required to close, such as movie theaters, barber shops, and bookstores, must shutter their physical locations but, where possible, companies are encouraged to operate remotely.
That is part of this massive agenda shove because, to paraphrase PNAC, "the process of transformation is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event--like a new Pearl Harbor, and "advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool," and people work longer when they are their own slavemaster.
Of course, the virus is as invisible as the Japanese even though FDR knew they were coming and LIHOPed.
Massachusetts joins at least 12 other states with formal orders or advisories urging citizens to stay inside amid the pandemic. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered people to remain in their homes aside from getting food or medicine.
Yeah, we know about King Boris from above, and he is now the 21st-century Cromwell!
Think about it. 500 fucking years of civilization, rights, and laws down the spit sink. The Magna Carta? Gone.
Under growing pressure from some lawmakers and public health officials to ratchet up the state’s restrictions, Baker stressed that people should “limit all unnecessary activities” in Massachusetts but that he was not seeking to mandate that residents remain indoors under the stay-at-home advisory.
That's the thing. Charlie always caves (unless it's recreational pot).
“We’re asking everyone to use their common sense, think about the impact this virus is having on the sick and elderly, and to limit their interactions with other people," Baker said at a State House news conference, but, he added: “I do not believe I can or should order US citizens to keep confined to their homes for days on end. It doesn’t make sense from a public health point of view, and it’s not realistic."
Oh, I AM! That is why none of this official bullshit makes any sense!!
Travel is not barred, but people over the age of 70 or with underlying health conditions are “strongly” advised to stay home and limit interactions with others as much as possible, Baker said.
GOT IT??!!
How many of you are tired of the sickening and perverted elite a-holes lecturing us?
Jon Hurst, of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, said many of his 4,000 members fall into camps of businesses swamped by people looking to stock up on some supplies and those struggling to keep social distancing-conscious customers coming through the door. “It’s either feast or famine,” Hurst said.....
Better buy a gun while you still can, wherever you be. The hunger will be arriving this summer.
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You can still get a Big Mac in Russia as the Globe tells you what you can and can not do, and here’s the kicker:
"Although we’re now meeting miles apart, we’re learning more about our co-workers and bosses than we ever have before, and some of it isn’t pretty. Zoom is giving us unprecedented access to our colleagues’ homes and habits. Look behind Karen from marketing’s head and you can see her open concept living room. It’s like a poor man’s “House Hunters.” The voyeurism is unprecedented....."
How annoying are the sickening elite f***s over at the Bo$Ton Globe, huh?
At least the Zoom stock continues to soar, and as for the Globe's Beth Teitell:
"Is it petty to gossip about your husband during a pandemic? Technically, yes, but with the whole family home all day, every day, for every meal, and with some people talking very loudly on conference calls, and every day both a weekend and a workday, and restaurants closed, and the sudden mandate to home-school, many moms are so burdened they can’t help themselves. A mere few days into the great shut-in, the whispered gripes were flooding in....."
Why don't you help out the genocidal globalists pushing this and kill your kids.
What a monster is Beth Teitell and her crowd! Elite scum!! She is the one saying grandparents won’t listen to their kids’ coronavirus lectures, that they are lying about going to the grocery store and pretending they weren’t playing bridge as the original helicopter parents won’t be grounded, calling them Boomer Teenagers or Disobedient Parents or Senior Delinquents because they are proving ungovernable. She is the same one who slung such sh!t as the mask is on and don't happy, be worry (be afraid of your own children, folks, and rush them off to school as fast as you can):
"Spring is traditionally a big time for high school juniors preparing for college, with SATs to ace and transcripts to perfect, but the coronavirus pandemic has put the brakes on that momentum and brought the usually hectic spring term of junior year to an abrupt standstill....."
They have been robbed of their youth, and how many suicides will come out of this?
Can we save people like my brother from the economic impact of the coronavirus?
It's the brother of Wertheimer, and you throw the Rosenblatt kids into the mix and you can see jou is at the bottom of the agenda-pushing, no?
Confessions of a social distance resister
Go see a priest, then get into your ComfortZone (on page A10 now):
Rainbows in windows brighten a Somerville neighborhood
With Cloud Cafe series, Boston artists take to Zoom to offer ‘healing and togetherness’
This guy says there is something worth watching on Netflix. HA!
Yeah, Don't Worry, Be Happy that Yale is offering free inculcation, 'er, indoctrination, 'er, bull$hit, cla$$Es on-line!
Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal to review Boston’s emergency plans
Seriously, Bo$ton?
I thought the enemy was a virus.
Mass. DOC putting prisoners’ lives at risk amid coronavirus outbreak, advocates say
State limits GPS bracelets, US court in Springfield closes as judiciary adapts to coronavirus
Yeah, empty the jails but don't track 'em, you evil fucks. Loosing them on a vulnerable population. I hope some places fire back in defense of their homes, property, and very lives of their families as all the richers retreat behind their walls and private security.
Boston police decline to release coronavirus protective measures; Cambridge officers switch to 12-hour shifts
Yeah, calling the police won't help. Maybe you could try Gal Tziperman Lotan of Globe Staff instead.
Don't call the sheriff, either:
Plymouth Sheriff’s Department employee tests positive for COVID-19
Here's the charge for the call:
Can your cellphone track coronavirus?
The mobile tailing could prevent spread of disease and might encourage government snooping, but we all will be anonymous, right.
Moderna might seek emergency approval this fall of coronavirus vaccine for health care workers
They are still sticking to their 12- to 18-month projection for wide availability, and by then it will have been forgotten.
Cough!
"Several other businesses and industry groups said they planned to petition the Baker administration to reconsider its order for recreational shops to shut down. David Torrisi, president of the Commonwealth Dispensary Association, said in a statement that “two-thirds of customers use cannabis for management of medical conditions and symptoms.” “This loss of access would be akin to losing out on over-the counter-remedies for many,” he wrote. “For others, cannabis provides a small measure of relaxation which can help to ease the anxieties we are all facing during this time, much like a glass of wine to unwind at the end of the day.”
You can still get the booze, he left them open(??!), and good luck with the petition (oops, forgot to sign it) because supplies are running out.
CVS to hire 50,000 to deal with coronavirus fallout
Have you seen the new uniforms?
$1 a gallon gas in Kentucky as cars stay in driveways
Maybe you can drink it as you inhale the fumes.
Meanwhile, in "other news":
Scientists just discovered a massive new vulnerability in the Antarctic ice sheet
I'm so elfin' tired of one bullshit agenda after another.
Ex-field organizer sues Bloomberg campaign, alleging breach of contract
That seems so unlike mayor Mike!
At least he didn't harass her.
MBTA approves plan to consolidate stops on Green Line’s B branch
No worry about social distancing?
Police identify teen killed in Mattapan shooting; man shot in Dorchester
2 arrested after shooting leads to SWAT team response
Good thing the Guard is on the streets, 'eh?
PG&E will plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Camp Fire
The fall guys for that event in California, and that reminds me: not ONE WORD in the Globe regarding the 8 inches of SNOW that fell overnight!
Must not fit the narrative!
LATE AFTERNOON UPDATES:
382 new coronavirus cases confirmed in Mass. as state death toll rises to 11
The United States has seen nearly nearly 600 deaths due to the coronavirus. More than 17,000 people worldwide have died from it, according to Johns Hopkins University. Daily life has come to a standstill in countries around the world, and the world economy is staggering as authorities have asked or ordered people to practice “social distancing” to slow the spread of the virus. There is no cure for the virus and no vaccine.
John Hopkins helped run the Event201 simulation unfolding now, so they are untrustworthy, and in any event, the so-called death toll just rose 2,000 overnight.
Harvard president tests positive for coronavirus
He thinks we are all jackasses as he preaches that gospel, and the new leader is the son of Jewish immigrants.
Dow surges more than 2,000 points, or more than 11 percent, on hopes for coronavirus aid package
Amid coronavirus, a surge in calls to Massachusetts suicide prevention hotline
Who didn't see that coming, huh?
Be afraid to go grocerying, readers, as you change for the better.
It's enough to drive you crazy, isn't it?
