I don't know how much longer I will be delivering Bo$ton Globe blogs to you, readers. I suppose I will keep going out until Baker issues the order. After that, I will blog from the lockdown. Let you know what I see and hear for as long as the psychopathic, misanthropic PTB allow. May God Bless each and everyone one of you.
Anyway, I'm going to start with the B-section again and today's sectional lead:
"Second Mass. person dies of coronavirus, state says; Number of cases in state jumps to 525; second death announced" by Laura Crimaldi and John Hilliard Globe Staff, March 21, 2020
A woman in her 50s from Middlesex County became the second person to die in Massachusetts from COVID-19, the state Department of Public Health announced Saturday night.
The woman, who was not identified, “had a pre-existing condition predisposing her to more severe disease,” the state said in a statement.
There you go. They are lumping her in as a COVID death.
The announcement came one day after the state announced an 87-year-old Winthrop man was the first in Massachusetts to die after testing positive for the illness.
I was just going to say, not an 87-year-old veteran who had cancer (how did he get that, btw? Where did he serve? Why did the Globe leave that out?) so BE VERY AFRAID NOW!
The disclosure of the state’s second death came hours after Governor Charlie Baker announced the state has begun talking with the US Army Corps of Engineers about identifying sites that could be repurposed as medical facilities to treat the expected surge in patients suffering from the coronavirus as Massachusetts experienced a jump in the number of confirmed cases.
This is beginning to reach absolutely frightening levels, and if it isn't stopped soon it will be too late. Maybe already is. Tell the people most important people to you that you love them, dear readers.
Speaking before new figures showed the number of people suffering from COVID-19 had ballooned to 525, an increase of 112 cases, Baker said at a State House news conference that college dorms, large venues, and recently-closed nursing homes are being considered as makeshift medical units.
That's a good word for it since they are conflating any illness to inflate the figures. I wonder how many doctors are being bribed to diagnose coronavirus.
He didn’t name specific locations, but said decisions will likely be based on whether a site’s plumbing and electrical systems could handle the demand of a medical facility. National Guard members would help the state outfit the alternative sites with equipment and supplies.
It's not hard to think where. What places have been emptied? Empty colleges. Empty malls (with store cages). Perfect places to set up a death camp, 'er FEMA site, 'er, medical clinic, cough.
Baker became the latest US governor to highlight possible scenarios to relieve hospitals if they become overburdened by an influx of patients. Also on Saturday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that Manhattan’s Javits Center tops his list of locations to be turned into field hospitals to test and possibly treat those suffering from the virus.
Yup, you tested positive -- or so we say -- and there is an easy way out. Just takes this vaccine we whipped up and you are all set!
The region’s major hospitals continued to see more infected patients.
So I'm told, and yet I'm also told people are being told to stay away.
Your moats and alligators, gates and security goons won't save your asses. Not from the Final Judgement, anyway -- and I will be waiting in Hell to disembowel and digest their innards. Looking forward to it.
The number of COVID-19 positive patients at Massachusetts General Hospital doubled Saturday from the day before to 18, one-third of whom were being treated in the intensive care unit. In a more positive development, the number of patients awaiting testing results fell from 122 to 117.
Tufts Medical Center in Boston and Beth Israel Lahey Health, a 12-hospital system, also reported more admitted patients with the virus, but a dip in patients waiting to learn if they tested positive for COVID-19.
Two patients at Tufts Medical Center tested positive for the virus on Saturday, making them the first cases at the hospital. The number of patients awaiting test results fell to four, from 15 on Friday. Twelve Tufts employees have tested positive for the virus, up from 10 the day before.
The number of confirmed inpatient cases at Beth Israel Lahey Health rose — from 17 to 21 on Saturday. The number of patients waiting on test results dropped from 257 to 236.
Boston Medical Center still had one admitted patient positive for COVID-19 and 70 suspected patients awaiting test results, up from 66 on Friday. Two employees there have tested positive for the virus.
Look at the numbers, and then ask yourself if the damn panic is proportional. Something else going on, something far more evil with alleged coronavirus the cover for the devilish and devious plans.
Facilities reserved for older people are also seeing more cases. Four patients at the Buckley HealthCare Center in Greenfield have tested positive, according to a statement from the facility’s parent company. On Friday, the company that operates The Branches in North Attleborough said two residents had tested positive for the virus and nine others had been quarantined.
So it has finally hit home. It's in the city. I don't know what the mayor says, but I suspect I might. It's looking like a cull of all the useless eaters, folks. That is sure in hell what it looks like. They are going to kill our aged beloveds. EVIL!
The state has been ramping up testing, offering a clearer picture of how far COVID-19 has spread.
F*** them and their flawed tests and lies!
Between Wednesday and Friday, the number of COVID-19 tests completed in one day increased from 520 to 962, a boost of about 85 percent, Baker said Saturday. The state is getting closer to its goal of processing 3,500 tests daily. As of Friday, Baker said the state had the capacity to conduct 1,144 tests daily, up from just under 700 days earlier.
An urgent care clinic has been added to the list of testing sites. On Saturday, AFC Urgent Care Waltham became the first facility of its kind to offer a drive-through testing service to prescreened patients, Baker said. A drive-through testing service for health care workers and first responders at CVS in Shrewsbury opened on Wednesday.
It sure as hell looks like Doomsday to me as they are shooting their staged and scripted public relations film while glad-handing it all around. EVIL!
Amid the updates Baker provided at the news conference, he reflected on the emotional toll the pandemic is taking as people avoid close contact. He recounted his visit Friday evening to Temple Emanuel in Newton, where he stood in an empty sanctuary and addressed worshipers via live stream.
“Having a chance to speak at an empty temple on a Friday night that normally would have been packed from one end to the other with people practicing their faith reminded me in a very personal and specific way of some of the things that we need to find a way to preserve despite social distancing,” he said.
Even this $cumbag has to go bow down before the Jew.
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Related:
A family celebrated a loved one during a small graveside service at Ohavi Sedeck Cemetery in West Roxbury on Wednesday. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)
Take a real close look at the gravestone; what do jou see?
Also see:
"The world may be upside down. Many may be living in mortal fear. Millions of us may be losing our livelihoods, and our minds, but, even as so much else falls away, some American values endure: Self-interest, ignorance, cruelty, racism....."
Did she ever nail it when it comes to the tribe, but why did she only pick on Burr?
As for living in mortal fear and losing my mind, speak for yourself. I don't feel that way at all. I can see what is going, know the truth of the absolute evil behind it, and am prepared to meet my maker and wait until I can feast upon innards at his right hand side.
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The next major change to daily life prompted by the virus outbreak takes effect Monday when most child care centers and preschools will close. Health care workers and other essential staff, like grocery store employees, will be eligible to send their children to an emergency drop-in child care site. More than 300 sites are expected to open Monday, Baker said. Families must apply for care through the state.
At least you got a raise!
“We know that child care is an especially critical piece of emergency service," Baker said. “There are times when our families are on the front lines and don’t have another option for their children.”
Five states plus parts of Idaho, Louisiana, Colorado, Maine, and Georgia have implemented shelter-in-place orders, but Baker has so far resisted taking that step. Some cities like Lawrence and Holyoke have ordered the closure of businesses offering personal services, like nail salons and massage parlors.
A group of 40 state lawmakers and elected city officials from around Greater Boston, however, are urging Baker to reverse course and use his emergency powers to order residents to stay home. State Representative Mike Connolly, a Cambridge Democrat leading the effort, said he worries the Massachusetts health care system could collapse as it did in Italy.
“People need to understand this is not the flu — this can impact anyone,” Connolly said.
I'm giving him about 48 hours to reverse course, the loath$ome creature of the health $y$tem who undoubtedly is in on all this.
New cases of COVID-19 reported on Saturday for the first time included an inmate in the state’s prison system, escalating pleas from advocates worried about the virus’s potential to spread quickly behind bars.
Why can't they shelter in place like the rest of us?
Think of that for a minute. They are going to let the criminals out of prison at the same time they are ordering you to be imprisoned in your home (up is down, black is white, war is peace). That's RECIPE for SOCIETAL DISASTER and INTENTIONAL!! If I can see it coming, so can our glorious genocidal leaders. That's why they are calling out the Guard.
EVIL!!
The patient is an inmate at the Massachusetts Treatment Center, a medium-security prison in Bridgewater reserved for sex offenders who are serving criminal sentences or have been civilly committed to the facility under the state’s sexually dangerous person law.
Oh, yeah, let the SEX PERVERTS OUT -- as if the CHILDREN didn't have enough to worry about, what with their CHILDHOOD being STOLEN by this EVIL PROPAGANDA EFFORT by the PTB!!
The sickened inmate and his roommate were quarantined from the prison’s general population on Thursday, and on Friday prison officials learned he tested positive for the virus. The man’s name wasn’t released, but the Department of Correction said he is serving a life sentence.
Put him to death then. It is the compassionate thing to do and will save money.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders said staff who had contact with the man were sent home and are being tested for COVID-19.
The facility housed 571 inmates as of January with an average age of 50, state figures show. No other inmates have tested positive for the virus, according to the prison system.
Whatever. That presupposes that we believe anything they say. I no longer do, and never will again. Too many lies for far too long. Sorry.
Rachel Scotch, a public defender who represents clients at the treatment center, said many men civilly committed there have underlying health issues like diabetes, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Oh, no, it's another conflation inflation!
“This is a largely elderly population with a lot of the risk factors in their health,” said Scotch. “It’s a small community. There’s a lot of contact.”
Elizabeth Matos, the executive director of Prisoners’ Legal Services, said Baker should begin releasing ill inmates who would likely die if they developed COVID-19.
“The treatment center, sadly, will not be the last case," she said.
They are the ones who are f***ing ill -- in the head!
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Also see:
Stranded abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic, Americans struggle to get home
You are better off staying where you are.
Oh, they are deporting you?!!
Ironic, isn't it?
For some reason, the Globe Local section was also included in my B-section. Better fill up.
Fortunately, the front-page contains signs of progress:
"When will the coronavirus pandemic end? What scientists can say about life returning to normal; Scientists are watching for signs of progress in the pandemic" by Naomi Martin Globe Staff, March 21, 2020
People are losing their jobs, way of life, and grip on their sanity over the drastic social distancing measures ordered to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, yet the number of cases and deaths are on the rise, and infectious disease specialists warn that the worst is yet to come, creating a public health crisis that could overwhelm the medical system.
At the moment, signs of progress are hard to see, perhaps because there may not be any just yet, but in the weeks and months to come, as measures to curb the pandemic take hold, exacting untold economic and social harm, what will progress look like? What milestones will experts use to measure gains, however incremental, and to ever-so-warily hypothesize when we might return to some semblance of normalcy?
I suppose the elite will eventually return to normal once all this is over. That's who she is writing for.
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The fundamental re$tructuring is going to result in the End of Civilization as we know it:
"What coronavirus has wrought in a single Boston neighborhood" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, March 21, 2020
The aftershocks, one after another, have trembled through the Dorchester neighborhood of Fields Corner.
The coronavirus pandemic has ricocheted across the globe, shutting down borders and terrifying governments; it has also crept into every neighborhood, trailing fear, loneliness, and the threat of financial ruin.
F*** you!
The scenes of solitude, wary neighborliness, and trepidation unfolding across Fields Corner, home to 20,000 Bostonians of every age, profession, and nationality, offer a glimpse of just how intimate it has become. The people who live and work here are grappling with realities they’d never imagined a week before, and wondering — like the rest of us — how much worse things will get, and how long this all might last.
Some sick f***s were imagining it back in October, and voila!
The neighborhood, centered around the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Adams Street, has already undergone a profound transformation.
“It was such a bustling and busy area," said Wendy Issokson, who owns the ice cream shop Chill on Park. “Now it’s almost like when you walk by people, nobody will look at you."
That makes me think of the people who are so weak and pathetic that she hates them, so I feel sorry for jou in the city. The exact opposite has been occurring out here in bumpkinville. I find myself going out of my way to be nice and interact with people and listen to what they say. I guess we are better than jou.
Robinson Paul is no longer driving; he does not want to risk spreading the virus to his wife, who has lupus, or his children, three of whom have asthma.
How they get lupus, a vaccine? The asthma from air pollution?
On Thursday, the couple had 55 cents in their bank account, not even enough to buy more pull-ups for Aleczander, who was about to run out.
What do they want, a GoPhuckMe page?
“We’ll just go back to the wild. We’ve been watching ‘The Good Dinosaur’ and he didn’t have pull-ups," Gwendolyn joked. “I’ll just be following him with a spray bottle."
Yeah, the eliti$t pre$$ advancing the ZJ agenda are literally laughing in our faces as we cower in fear.
The world inside the apartment has changed almost as much as the world outside.....
It's like the Hotel California!
You know what happens when they drop the plastic curtain over the place, right?
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Maybe you could build a kids’ koronavirus kwasi-kwarantine klubhouse with them. Just don't hug them.
Related:
Experts suggest limiting travel as much as possible, even reducing trips to the grocery store (AP/Associated Press)
Look at all the junk food!
“I understand this is scary for many people,” said Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, a global health physician and vice chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s global health committee, but don’t panic. “People are driving themselves nuts thinking about things I don’t even think about,” she said, adding: “And I think about this all the time.” She noted that people needed to follow county recommendations and wash their hands before touching their faces, and no matter what: “I wouldn’t get in the car with anyone who’s sick.”
That's good advice, no?
I certainly wouldn't want to share a car ride with her, even if she was the last person on Earth. Who wants to ride shotgun next to a mon$ter?
At least there is a place of refuge for them:
"Those were the days. The COVID-19 outbreak was worrying, but seemed manageable; people were washing and sanitizing and keeping their distance but, however carefully, carrying on. This was, incredibly, just over a week ago, a reality so distant now that it hardly seems real....."
Yeah, "where were you when the world ended?" The sickos are going to put up a virus mu$eum and monument to their evil after we are all gone.
As for things that no longer seem real:
"Amid coronavirus fears, the presidential campaigns of three septuagenarian candidates go digital" by Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff, March 21, 2020
WASHINGTON — When historians sift through the strangest Internet moments of the coronavirus pandemic, there will be images of professional wrestlers taunting each other in empty arenas, self-recorded videos of celebrities warning people to stay home — and Joe Biden’s “Illinois Virtual Town Hall.”
Let's hope we are all here to bandy it back and forth.
Town hall forums, rallies and fund-raisers have shifted to online platforms. Campaign war room strategy sessions are taking place through video conferencing, and field workers are conducting their training and voter outreach efforts via texts and calls, Zoom meetings, and Google Hangouts. Political analysts and campaign strategists said they have had to rethink every aspect of their trade, improvising and experimenting in real time.
Ah, the $cumbag politicians are now part of a trade!
This slop is more virulent than the virus.
Fernand Amandi, a Democratic political consultant in Miami, calls it uncharted territory, a measure of what a throwback traditional campaigning remains. The late spring months before a general presidential election are usually when the party’s presumptive nominees step out of public view before the summer conventions as their teams regroup, hire new staffers, and train armies of volunteers for the general election.
Corona gives them a perfect excuse to hide the demented pervert Biden or even run a body double out there to make him seem coherent and cognizant. Jesus!
Instead, in this new era of social distancing, campaign aides have had to put plans on hold or alter the raft of things best accomplished through in-person meetings. With more people at home, volunteers say they have had more time to make calls, and voters have been more likely to take them, but conversations over the phone or through video chat have made it harder to persuade donors, both large and small, to open their wallets, particularly with the economy reeling and unemployment skyrocketing.
Oh, I will take their call -- and then I will give them an earful and more!
Meanwhile, many people have tuned out from the political knife fight altogether as they deal with their own disrupted lives.....
That's the BEST IDEA I have SEEN YET in the Globe!
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Time to go to sleep if you can find a bed:
"As virus spreads, growing need for hospital beds, supplies" by Amy Forliti and Frances D’Emilio Associated Press, March 21, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS — The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday in the United States and Europe, producing staggering caseloads in New York and Italy and setting off a desperate scramble to set up thousands of additional hospital beds as the disease notched another grim advance.
Italy, at the heart of Europe’s rampaging outbreak, announced nearly 800 new deaths and 6,600 new cases — its biggest day-to-day increase yet. In New York, state officials sought out desperately needed medical supplies and hospital beds as confirmed coronavirus cases soared above 10,000 statewide, with 56 deaths.
If any one dies, it was coronavirus. That's the rule of thumb now.
Across the world, streets, squares, and highways in major cities were deserted as curfews and lockdowns multiplied to try to stop the spread of COVID-19. In the United States, New Jersey and St. Louis were added to a growing list of areas where residents were ordered to stay home.
In the farming community of Vidalia, Ga., Dr. Robert Wagner said, “There’s definitely this underlying fear in the community. You can see it.”
And while you were fearing?
In Washington, negotiators from Congress and the White House resumed top-level talks on a ballooning $1 trillion-plus economic rescue package, urged by President Trump to strike a deal to steady a nation thoroughly upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Trump continued to strike a confident tone about the nation’s ability to defeat the pandemic soon, even as health leaders nationwide acknowledged that the United States is nowhere near the peak for the outbreak. “We are going to be celebrating a great victory in the not too distant future,” he said.
Good God, maybe he is delusional -- or just a fabulous liar, like his last four predecessors at least.
Related: “A $1,000 check, or even a $2,000 one, won’t pay the rent in New York City, and I suspect it would run out pretty quickly in most parts of the country,” said Beth Ann Bovino, chief US economist at S&P Global. “It’s nice and it’s needed, but it’s just a Band-Aid.”
I told you it was Chump change, and I am really tired of repeating myself but you ain't gettin' no stinking' cheque -- and now the "Re$cue Deal" is teetering on the brink of collapse (they “continuing to talk,” according to Schumer.
The contagion is starting to be felt in United States cities far from major metropolitan areas, including places that have resisted drastic shutdown measures. New hot spots are surfacing by the day. Among the new concerns: an outbreak at a nursing home in Ohio, an outbreak in New Orleans that alarmed state leaders, and two new deaths in Kansas, where a top health official said the supply of testing kits won’t last through the weekend.
Debbie Velarde is self-isolated at her home in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, Co., after learning last week that a woman she trained during a work trip in Phoenix in early March had tested positive and was hospitalized on a respirator. Velarde then came down with a fever and cough and lost her job, and is still waiting to hear back if she tested positive for COVID-19.
“I couldn’t go back to work even if I was well because the mall where my shop is has since closed,” said Velarde. “We were told to apply for unemployment.”
The shortage of medical equipment and protective gear was a concern in major cities too.
Maybe they can craft themselves one.
Related: "When people realize that the virus is in their community, "the anxiety kicks in, and they are rushing to the emergency room,” Integris spokeswoman Brooke Cayot said. “It’s the emergency rooms that are feeling overrun at the moment (by) people who are frightened and understandably so.”"
John Hopkins reports there have been about 13,000 deaths globally. The United States has seen more than 280 deaths so far. Italy, which has Europe’s largest outbreak, now has at least 4,825 dead.
For most people, the new virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority recover, but the virus is spreading at a rapid rate, jolting the global economy and starting to max out the health care system in several cities.
I'm sorry, say again?
Spain now has the third-highest number of infections worldwide, followed by the United States.
Related: "Dr. Olga Mediano, who treated victims of a 2004 jihadi bomb attack in Madrid that killed nearly 200 people and wounded many more, said nothing prepared her for the national health tragedy Spain is now enduring. “This cannot be withstood much longer,” Mediano said from Guadalajara....."
Spain hasn't won a war in over 500 years, so.... grain of salt, please.
In Germany’s southern state of Bavaria, town squares were empty. Pigeons outnumbered people in London’s usually bustling Trafalgar Square and Leicester Square, and the British government told up to 1.5 million sick and vulnerable people to stay home for at least 12 weeks, but shoppers still flocked to street markets in both countries, in a sign that restrictions were being interpreted in a patchwork fashion.
Why cut and scrubbed everywhere?
In any event, GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE!
Britain still lags behind other countries in the spread of the virus, but its overstretched health system is creaking. Britain has already asked 65,000 retired nurses and doctors to return to work
Web version adders:
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global pandemic was first detected, went a fourth consecutive day on Sunday without reporting any new or suspected cases of the virus. Wuhan must go 14 straight days without a new case for draconian travel restrictions to be lifted.
In Italy, local authorities in the hard-hit northern regions have been pleading with the national government to enact stricter measures. Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte told the nation he was tightening a lockdown and shutting down all production facilities except those providing essential goods and services. He cautioned citizens to be calm and patient, saying there is no alternative.
Pleading for fascism is nothing new for Italy, although with all due respect -- and as Mussolini knew -- the fascism of the past is more aptly described as a radical nationalism. The label has been attached to draw attention away from the real fasci$ts in our mid$t today.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said it was ready to fly mobile medical teams and disinfection equipment to Italy, and a plane delivered more than 100 tons of supplies from China to the Czech Republic as part of a NATO program.
Amazing. China and Russia are taking the role of global leadership from the rank, fetid, hulking carcass that is AmeriKa.
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, tested negative for the coronavirus, his press secretary tweeted. They were tested after a member of his staff tested positive.....
Wow, what a relief! I'm glad God didn't strike him!
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Workers were setting up a field hospital with up to 5,500 beds for coronavirus patients in Madrid (Comunidad de Madrid via Getty Images/Getty Images).
Look at the FUCKING EMPTY WAREHOUSE that is going to be used as an internment camp!
Related(?):
"The captured people had been sorted, loaded onto trucks to be stamped with an identification number, and sent to the Bureau’s storage system, and the helicopter was back out hounding the hills for more. All over the West, similar scenes have played out as the federal government fights to control the number of people roaming public spaces. Once they are caught, they have to be fed and cared for......"
Oh, sorry for the “bait and switch.”
Almost forgot this invisible ink:
"The Palestinian Health Ministry announced the first two cases of the coronavirus in the Gaza Strip, adding fears of a potential outbreak in the crowded enclave with an overstretched health system following years of an Israeli-Egyptian blockade and Palestinian political division."
I wouldn't put it past Israel to have loosed it on them. there is no more vulnerable population in the world, and they want that land!
"Coronavirus recession looms, its course ‘unrecognizable’" by Nelson D. Schwartz New York Times, March 21, 2020
The US economy is facing a plunge into uncharted waters.
$igh.
What has the last week been, treading water?
We are closer to the sea floor and still sinking, you f***!
How anyone could believe the New York Times version of anything these days is beyond me.
What a pos.
Economists say there is little doubt that the nation is headed into a recession because of the coronavirus pandemic, with businesses shutting down and Americans being shut in, but it is harder to foresee the bottom and how long it will take to climb back.
That's the cover for the looting criminality as they engage in a controlled deflation of the bubble.
The abruptness of the descent — and the near-lockdown of major cities — is unheard of in advanced economies, more akin to wartime privation than to the downturn that accompanied the financial crisis more than a decade ago or even the Great Depression.
In other words, the ruling cla$$ and their pre$$titutes have declared war on us and the abruptness of the descent being unheard of reminds me of three towers collapsing at free fall speed due to jet fuel fires, in contravention to the immutable laws of physics.
“This will probably be the world’s first recession that starts in the service sector,” said Gabriel Mathy, an assistant professor at American University whose specialty is economic history. “We can see employment falling much faster than GDP. The spike in unemployment claims could be eye-popping.”
Good thing we will all be under lockdown, right? No rioting, looting, etc. If so, got the Guard there. This is nothing to do with a virus at all, readers.
Historically, recessions began in goods-producing areas of the economy, according to Mathy. Some manufacturers build up inventories that can be sold when conditions improve, but at restaurants and barbershops, things have ground to a halt without warning, and that business is lost forever, and what if the outbreak doesn’t run its course in 2020? Were it to become a recurring threat in the United States, like a supercharged flu, killing 236,000 a year, the economists estimated that the virus would trim annual output by 1.5 percent into the future.....
Meaning the "epidemic" could last longer than a year and leave millions dead.
The Amurkn Dream of Entrepreneurship has become the AmeriKan Nightmare.
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It's now a WAR ECONOMY, dear readers:
"Factories pivot to fight coronavirus, but challenges abound" by Tom Krisher Associated Press, March 21, 2020
DETROIT — Factories that crank out cars and trucks are looking into making much-needed ventilators. Distilleries intended for whiskey and rum will instead turn out hand sanitizers and disinfectants, and an electronics maker that builds display screens is repurposed for surgical masks.
Then we will soon run out of booze, and if you think things are crazy now, just wait until Americans can't get drunk.
All are answering the call of duty amid a pandemic that has so far claimed more than 11,000 lives and sickened 260,000 people globally, but redirecting plants to make completely different products will take a long time and a huge effort — possibly too long for some companies to help with medical gear shortages that are becoming more acute every day.
Wasn't long enough for the Japanese.
“When you are repurposing a factory, it really depends on how similar the new product is to the existing products in your product line,” said Kaitlin Wowak, a professor at the University of Notre Dame who focuses on industrial supply chains. “It’s going to be a substantial pivot to start producing an entirely different item.”
On Friday, President Trump said he invoked the Korean War-era Defense Production Act, which allows the government to marshal the private sector to fight COVID-19, but he did not give examples as to how he was using it.
I thought Nancy and Chuck cared about the sacredness of our Constitution, the disingenuous and duplicitous $cum. Not even a meek bleat of protest from them.
During World War II, automakers were more easily able to shift to making tanks and planes because they are close relatives to cars and trucks, Alvarado said. Auto factory equipment such as robots and assembly lines aren’t really compatible with smaller items such as ventilators, he said.
Going to have to reimagine the line of production.
Other industries may be better equipped to help with the virus. Rum producer Bacardi, for example, said its distillery in Puerto Rico has shifted to making ethanol needed to produce hand sanitizer. Small US distilleries such as Eight Oaks Farm in Pennsylvania are converting operations to make alcohol-based disinfectant. It will charge whatever people want to donate.
Puerto Rico is still in shambles after the hurricane a few years ago and is sinking in debt, but, you know. Do they even have electrical power down there, or is that just for corporations.
Electronics maker Sharp Corp. said it will start making surgical masks using a plant in central Japan that usually makes displays.....
They aren't even going to make them in AmeriKa?
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Many companies are exploring whether they are able to help produce needed items, including hand sanitizer and masks, that are in short supply now as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe (AFP via Getty Images)
Wow, they do good work.
"Used to meeting challenges with bluster and force, Trump confronts a crisis unlike any before" by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman New York Times, March 21, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Trump is no stranger to crisis. He has spent a lifetime grappling with bankruptcy, fending off creditors, evading tax collectors, defending lawsuits, deflecting regulators, spinning reporters, and dueling with estranged wives, usually coming out ahead, at least as he defines it, but these were crises of his own creation involving human adversaries he knew how to confront. Nothing in his background in business, entertainment, or multiple marriages prepared him for the coronavirus pandemic now threatening America’s health and wealth.
It's the same with the rulling cla$$ and all these false-flag, problem-reaction-solution, mind f***s. They don't know how to respond to a real crisis, only those they manufacture with agenda at the ready.
Trump’s performance on the national stage in recent weeks has put on display the traits that Democrats and some Republicans consider so jarring: the profound need for personal praise, the propensity to blame others, the lack of human empathy, the penchant for rewriting history, the disregard for expertise, the distortion of facts, the impatience with scrutiny or criticism. For years, skeptics expressed concern about how he would handle a genuine crisis threatening the nation, and now they know.
Consider the f***ing source of this slop as they project their foibles on the orange ogre.
Related: "On May 21, 2000, the New York Times reported that, as a child, Bush and his friends used to torture animals for pleasure, "`We were terrible to animals,' recalled [Bush's boyhood friend Terry] Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush borne turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. `Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,' Throckmorton said. `Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.'" "
Talk about a lack of empathy.
Now you know why he turned into a mass-murderer of millions and authorizer of torture (one need not wonder where they come up with that stuff?
“When he’s faced a problem, he has sought to somehow cheat or fix the outcome ahead of time so that he could construct a narrative that showed him to be the winner,” said Michael D’Antonio, a Trump biographer, “and when it was all about feuds with other celebrities or contests over ratings or hotel branding, he could do that, and no one cared enough to really check, and the bluster and bragging worked, but in this case,” D’Antonio added, “he tried that in the beginning, and you can’t brag or bluster your way out of people dying, and I think more than the suffering, the human suffering, it’s been the inexorable quality of the data that’s forced him to change.”
WhoTF is this guy?
Yeah, he's telling us the truth about Chump, right, and Mike is in charge of the task force, huh?
As for the braggadocio and bluster, it worked for the war criminal George W. Bush.
Only after viral projections grew more dire and markets began to tank did Trump shift tone and appear to take the threat more seriously, finally adopting a more aggressive set of policies to compel Americans to stay away from one another while trying to mitigate the economic damage.
Some in the public seem to have responded. Fifty-five percent of Americans approved of his handling of the crisis in a poll by ABC News and Ipsos released Friday, up from 43 percent the previous week. A Reuters poll, also conducted with Ipsos, put approval of his handling of the pandemic at 48 percent, up from 38 percent a couple weeks earlier, while surveys by The Economist and YouGov showed a smaller rise, from 41 percent to 45 percent, but even as he has seemed to take the crisis more seriously, Trump has continued to make statements that conflicted with the government’s own public health experts and focused energy on blaming China, quarreling with reporters, claiming he knew that the coronavirus would be a pandemic even when he was minimizing its threat only a few weeks ago, and congratulating himself for how he has managed a crisis he only recently acknowledged.
He grew irritated when Peter Alexander of NBC News asked if he was giving Americans a “false sense of hope” by promising immediate delivery of a drug that experts said is not proven. Trump said he disagreed with them.
Trump’s defensiveness over the pandemic has become a central dynamic inside the White House as officials wrestle with difficult policy choices. Aides have long understood that Trump needs to hear support for his decisions, preferably described in superlatives.
That is where the printed pos ended it, and I don't blame Chump for being irritated by these pre$$ hatchet men and women and their fake news. This is standard NYT tripe that has been regurgitated ad nauseam for the last three years. It's filler.
He often second-guesses himself, prompting advisers to ask allies to tell him he made the right call or go on Fox News to make that point in case he might be watching.
Over the past week, as Trump has faced ever more draconian and expensive options, Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser, sought to coax him into action by using bits of praise in news coverage or from other officials as a motivator, according to people familiar with the discussions.
OMG, a PRESIDENT JARED SIGHTING!
Now you know who is leaking to the New York Times!
Officials have learned that the president craves a constant diet of flattery, which they serve up during daily televised briefings. Vice President Mike Pence makes a point of repeating it day after day, sometimes repeatedly in the course of a single briefing. “Mr. President, from early on, you took decisive action,” he said during one.
“Thank you, Mr. President, for gathering your public health experts here today and for your strong leadership in keeping America safe,” Alex Azar, secretary of health and human services, told him at one point. “I want to thank you for your leadership during this coronavirus outbreak,” Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, told him at another.
Even Dr. Anthony Fauci, the veteran infectious diseas es expert known for his just-the-facts style, has sometimes joined in praise of the president, at one point referring to Trump’s “proactive, leaning-forward, aggressive, trying to stay ahead of the curve” approach. While Fauci does not hesitate to correct the president’s facts, as he did Friday over the unproven drug, he does so politely, careful to maintain his viability within a political team. Still, many noticed that he put his hand to his face in seeming disbelief when Trump referred to his diplomats as the “Deep State Department.”
Does he suck his c**k, too?
Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, said Trump had been unfairly criticized for his handling of the virus.
“The media virtually ignore the president’s massive effort mobilizing the federal government, our industrial base, and the scientific and medical community to combat this pandemic, rivaling FDR’s arsenal of democracy,” he said.
King said that Trump was working with Democrats but the news media “prefer to dwell on initial failure of CDC test kits and low inventory of masks and ventilators going back two administrations.” Still, he said of Trump, “He too often takes the bait.”
He sure has changed his tune over two years.
FLASHBACK:
"A Republican Congressman has let loose and expressed his true feelings about President Donald Trump to Erick Erickson, a far right wing pundit. Erickson is a former Fox News contributor and was the editor of RedState. He will not identify the GOP lawmaker who is from a "very Republican" district for obvious reasons, writing the Congressman "is happy to be quoted, so long as I don’t name him." "If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker," the unnamed Republican Congressman we’ll call "Rep. X," supposedly said to Erickson. Erickson says Rep. X continued his rant, saying, "dammit he’s taking us all down with him. We are well and truly f**ked in November. Kevin [McCarthy] is already circling like a green fly circling sh*t trying to take Paul’s [Ryan] job because nobody thinks he’s sticking around for Nancy [Pelosi]. She’s going to f**k up the cafeteria again too. [Lord’s name in vain], at least I’ll probably lose too and won’t have to put up with that sh*t." (Speaker Ryan announced today he is retiring at the end of his term.) "It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump. He can’t help himself. He’s just a f**king idiot who thinks he’s winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention. I hate Forrest Gump." The House Judiciary Committee "just might pull the trigger if the President fires Mueller," Rep. X supposedly said. "The sh*t will hit the fan if that happens and I’d vote to impeach him myself. Most of us would, I think. Hell, all the Democrats would and you only need a majority in the House. If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker. Take him out with us and let Mike [Pence] take over. At least then we could sleep well at night." Rep. X calls Vice President Pence "competent." "I say a lot of shit on TV defending him, even over this," Rep. X tells Erickson. Erickson describes the Congressman as someone who defends Trump on Fox News and in public but obviously has a different personal opinion. The media and Democrats on Capitol Hill often say many Republican lawmakers oppose Trump in private, but won’t in public. (There are several words for that.) "But honestly, I wish the motherf*cker would just go away. We’re going to lose the House, lose the Senate, and lose a bunch of states because of him. All his supporters will blame us for what we have or have not done, but he hasn’t led. He wakes up in the morning, sh*ts all over Twitter, sh*ts all over us, sh*ts all over his staff, then hits golf balls. F*ck him. Of course, I can’t say that in public or I’d get run out of town." Of course."
That was #160 in your program.
He's the face of evil, folks.
None of which comes as a surprise to those who have dealt with Trump or studied his life before he became president. In real estate, he found he could overcome crises by bluffing his way past regulators, bullying the bankers, and bamboozling the tabloids.
When banks came after him for overdue loans, he pushed back, arguing that it was in their interest that his brand not be harmed by calling him out. When contractors demanded to be paid, he found complaints about their work and refused, leading in part to more than 3,500 lawsuits. When his first two marriages fell apart, he took a scorched-earth approach against his wives, leaking to New York’s gossip columnists even if it meant his children watched ugly divorces play out in public.
“The typical modus operandi from him is to bluff, is to fake, is to deny,” said Jack O’Donnell, former president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City.
When Trump prepared to open the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City in 1990 and ran into trouble with authorities, he summoned O’Donnell.
“He told them I was an expert in operations and I could fix this,” O’Donnell recalled. “And they believed him. I was dumbfounded. He was completely bluffing them.”
To Trump, most of his crises were about paper and money, not people. The self-described “king of debt” treated loan repayments almost as if they were optional and made it a mantra never to back down.
“I figured it was the bank’s problem, not mine,” he wrote in one of his books. “What the hell did I care? I actually told one bank, ‘I told you, you shouldn’t have loaned me that money.’ ”
I wish flip the finger to all the creditors now.
“I actually think he handled that situation about as well as you could expect from him,” O’Donnell said. “It was such a shock to him. It was the first time I heard fear in his voice. It was the first time I saw empathy, that I saw emotion from him, because he realized the human loss there.”
That totally contradicts the hatchet job from above!
Even then, Trump could not help inserting himself into the story, suggesting falsely that he almost boarded the helicopter himself, and within months, with his Taj project flailing, Trump began publicly attributing problems to the dead executives. In a crisis, “he always was more focused on who he could blame versus fixing the problem,” said O’Donnell, who quit in disgust.
Pot, kettle.
Nor did Trump exhibit much empathy for the workers who lost their jobs when his casinos went bust. Instead, when asked about his failed Atlantic City ventures, he emphasizes his own ability to escape unharmed. “The money I took out of there was incredible,” he once told The New York Times.
The closest analog to the current situation may be the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, another national trauma. Trump tried to thrust himself into the news coverage, telling an interviewer by phone that day that with the destruction of the World Trade Center he now had the tallest building in New York City, a claim that was not even true. He also has said he spent extensive time around the site trying to help the cleanup, a claim that has never been verified.
He knew it had to be a controlled demolition, and the citing of that event is damn near confirmation regarding the false flag mind fuck which we are undergoing right now.
I suppose if he spent time around the site he would have cancer by now.
With the airports closed at the time, Trump was asked to provide his private plane to fly Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki to Washington for President George W. Bush’s address to Congress. Trump agreed — but in return asked for help getting permission to travel from Washington to another destination when others were grounded.
By his own account, Trump never imagined that he would be facing a pandemic, an invisible killer immune to bluster.
“In every previous occasion, he was facing a human being or groups of human beings,” said Gwenda Blair, author of a biography of the Trump family. “And obviously, the coronavirus — it’s not a person — can’t be bullied.”
So Trump, with his recent descriptions of a war to be won over a “foreign enemy,” is seeking a dynamic that he is familiar with, personifying the virus as an opponent to be beaten, framing it as the kind of crisis he knows how to tackle.
“He’s trying to make it into a win-lose situation,” she said. “That’s how he sees the world — winners, him; losers, everybody else. He’s trying to make the coronavirus into a loser and himself the winner.”
You have to give the New York Times credit. Just when you think they can't put out any worse shit, the swirl a steaming pile at you.
I don't even care about Chump. This was nothing but a gratuitous hatchet job that would make Caesar's killers blush.
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Time to take away their megaphone so they can no longer spread misinformation about the coronavirus, and it makes you wonder how some countries are beating back the coronavirus.
Also see:
The hardest questions doctors may face: Who will be saved? Who won’t?
Death panels are a conspiracy, folks, as they play God.
FDA authorizes first rapid 'point-of-care' test for coronavirus
They are rushing it out so fast you are right to doubt it!
Medical TV shows donate real hospital gear
It's one big production, folks! Staged and scripted to the last detail!
Holiday lights go back on in a dark hour
Thanks for wasting electricity and contributing the the existential threat of climate change, a$$holes!!
Toilet paper takes center stage amid coronavirus outbreak. Be thankful we no longer use corncobs and rope ends
That is about the only thing the Washington ComPost is good for, readers.
Then comes a full-page $elf-promotion of the Globe's office skank:
"Is it true love? Time to sleep together? Or time to leave? Find out in Season 3 of the Love Letters podcast as Meridith Goldstein takes on the universal question: How do you know?"
I wonder if she dated Seinfeld.
Their college year upended, Gen Z journalists keep breaking news on coronavirus
The self-serving, self-aggrandizing, self-adulation makes one sick.
I have no Idea why the coronavirus vaccine will take so long.
Either way, don't take the shot. It's a wake-up call from the future.
The Globe says the census should be delayed because it is critical for securing economic benefits and democracy— and because home isn’t the safest place to be right now (she isn't bothered by the emptying of the jails, though) -- as the coronavirus epidemic, like those before it, will alter the course of history in ways we can’t imagine. It's the new dark ages because of a live exercise (holy fuck, it is ALL FAKE! It's a SIMULATION! My paper is FULL of SH!T, and they ARE OUT to DESTROY CHUMP)!
Gee, Dr. Ron Paul speaks out against the hoax and the next thing you know, his son who stands with him is sick. Huh! The cops are testing positive, too, as are the health workers. That is what you are being told, anyway, during this "live exercise."
{@@##$$%%^^&&}
Finally, some OTHER NEWS:
"Al Qaeda branch in Somalia threatens Americans in East Africa — and even the US" by Eric Schmitt and Abdi Latif Dahir New York Times, March 21, 2020
Just when we were leaving, too (more like protecting and allowing the "terrorists" to grow).
Good! Keep 'em there! You sure as hell don't want them coming home now!
Al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia, the terrorist group’s largest and most active global affiliate, has issued specific new threats against Americans in East Africa and even the United States, US commandos, counterterrorism officials, and intelligence analysts say.
Several ominous signs indicate that the Al Qaeda affiliate, Al Shabab, is seeking to expand its lethal mayhem well beyond its home base, and attack Americans wherever it can — threats that have prompted a recent flurry of US drone strikes in Somalia to snuff out the plotters.
Also known as Al-CIA-Bob (pronounced Al-Sha-Bob).
In recent months, two Al Shabab operatives have been arrested while taking flying lessons — one last summer in the Philippines and another more recently in an African country, intelligence officials say. Those arrests carried eerie echoes of the original Sept. 11 plotters, who trained to fly jetliners. Al Shabab fighters are seeking to acquire Chinese-made, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, which could pose a deadly new risk to US helicopters and other aircraft in Somalia.
Well, they are TELEGRAPHING ANOTHER 9/11, a SEQUEL, dear fellow Americans, -- with the CHINESE HELPING THEM, how f***ing convenient -- so BE MINDFUL!
So now we are going to have what, a mushroom could over Chicago on top of the medical martial law being implemented now? A real 1-2 punch to the public gut, 'eh?
Good thing the airlines are more or less grounded. Less planes in the air.
American commanders are hardening defenses at bases in the region after an Al Shabab attack in January at Manda Bay, Kenya, killed three Americans and revealed serious security vulnerabilities. That attack came about a week after an explosives-laden truck blew up at a busy intersection in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, killing 82 people. Al Shabab also claimed responsibility for that attack.
F**k you and the false flag touchstones of propaganda.
They cite it, it's likely a CIA operation.
The strike in Kenya came two months after Al Shabab released a 52-minute video narrated by the group’s leader, Abu Ubaidah, in which he called for attacks against Americans wherever they are, saying the American public is a legitimate target. The statement mirrored Osama bin Laden’s declaration of war against the United States in 1996.
Obviously, the brainwashing and mass mind fuck of coronavirus is not working. Going to have to do another 9/11!!
GOOD F***ING LUCK!
“Shabab is a very real threat to Somalia, the region, the international community, and even the US homeland,” General Stephen J. Townsend, the head of the military’s Africa Command, told a House committee in Washington this month.
YOU GOT THAT?!!!!!
Al Shabab controls large parts of Somalia and raises considerable funds through local taxation and extortion. Despite intensified US airstrikes and a long-running offensive against the African Union, the group has carried out deadly attacks not only in Somalia but also in neighboring Kenya and Uganda.
Yeah, somehow, despite the endless wars the "terrorists" come back greater than ever.
American and other Western intelligence analysts and Special Operations officers express fears that Al Shabab militants could threaten the 3,500 personnel at the Pentagon’s largest permanent base on the continent, in Djibouti, as well as international shipping in the critical Bab al Mandab waterway off the southern Yemeni coast, and last month, the US Embassy in Nairobi warned of a possible terrorist attack against a major hotel in the Kenyan capital that is popular with tourists and business travelers. The warning did not specifically mention Al Shabab, but intelligence officials said the threat bore the hallmarks of such an operation.
The FEAR is PANDEMIC, and you can shove the ground-laying for the next false flag.
We will never be fooled again!!
The Defense Intelligence Agency told the Pentagon’s inspector general in a recent report that the chances of Al Shabab attacking the United States remained relatively low, but the analysts noted that the group had made clear its intentions to kill Americans at any location.
No lights blinking or dots not connected?
We are always told there are no signals and then.... BOOM!
One threat could be home grown, from radicalized Somali-Americans living in cities like Minneapolis or Columbus, Ohio, which have large Somali-American communities, analysts said. Another could be from Al Shabab militants in East Africa, who have pilot training and might be able to slip into the United States — a much more difficult feat now than when the original Sept. 11 plotters entered the country in 2001.
If so, they will need to entirely junk the $urveillance $tate for it would have failed abysmally!!
So which CIA airline will be flying them in?
For now, Al Shabab threats against Americans remain highest in East Africa.
In September, a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives at the gate of a military airfield in Bale Dogle, Somalia, injuring one American service member. Afterward, according to the Pentagon’s inspector general report, Al Shabab and other Al Qaeda-related groups released near-simultaneous messages on social media, suggesting a coordinated media strategy among Al Qaeda branches.
Oh, AL-CIA-Duh now!
You know, once, long, long ago, I thought this steaming swirly shit was worth something. Now it is the rankest kind of propaganda you will ever find. What a stench!
“This is what we struggle with,” Brigadier General Dagvin R.M. Anderson, commander of US Special Operations forces in Africa, said in an interview last month on the sidelines of a counterterrorism exercise in Mauritania. “Their intent is clearly stated. The question is: Are they able to develop a safe haven to plan, fund, and plot these attacks against the US? What’s their timeline? How do we and our partners keep them off balance?”
When is the footage going to be presented as a real event?
It is unclear how Al Shabab might try to exploit the spread of the coronavirus pandemic on the continent, where many countries face huge challenges responding to the crisis, Anderson said Friday in a separate telephone interview from his headquarters in Germany.
You mean, like the ma$$ media over here?
The New York Times is absolutely nauseating these days. What sh!t.
There are also now about 500 US troops in Somalia. Most are Special Operations forces stationed at a small number of bases across the country. Their missions include training and advising Somali army and counterterrorism troops and conducting kill-or-capture raids of their own.
The threat from Al Shabab has increased so sharply that last November, Townsend created a Special Operations task force with about 100 troops and analysts to focus on shoring up security in Somalia and countering Al Shabab, but the weapon of choice against Al Shabab is drone strikes.
Of course. Mass murder from on high and you don't even get blood on your hands.
The United States has carried out 31 strikes against Al Shabab militants already this year, and is on pace to nearly double the previous high of 63 last year — almost all against Al Shabab militants, with a few against a branch of the Islamic State. That compares with 47 strikes against Al Shabab in 2018.
So Chump is also a blood-soaked war criminal, so f*** him.
The United States estimates that Al Shabab has about 5,000 to 7,000 fighters in Somalia, but the group’s ranks are fluid.
In recent years, Al Shabab has proved adept at transforming itself into an agile and adaptive guerrilla force that has developed fiendishly sophisticated homemade bombs, including improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
“Al Shabab is a prime lesson in the Al Qaeda movement’s stubborn resiliency,” said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The group has suffered leadership losses, loss of territory and revenue; and the attrition of its fighters, but keeps on fighting — and escalating and expanding its operations elsewhere.”
You people are the most detestable evil people on the planet!
I wonder what he (was part of the Iraq Study Group, folks, and served as a commissioner on the 9/11 Review Commission as well as being a scholar-in-residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006, so he's up to this shit to his eyeballs) would do without the "terrorists" the U.S. and its allies creates, funds, and directs. Out of work like the rest of us?
I wonder why the New York Times omitted that?
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You want a magazine for that flight?
As noted last week, the second half of the A-section is all obituaries except for the back page (for the record, I hate being right).
Kenny Rogers, who brought country music to a pop audience, dies at 81
I put that up because I found out yesterday, and was stunned (I'm surprised they are not saying he had corona).
Whether you are a country fan or not, and I am not that much of one at all even thought I like some groups and music, that is devastating news. We are talking about MORE than just a SINGER; we are talking about an AMERICAN ICON!
With everything that is happening, and now we lose him (blog editor's eyes watering up, better move along).
Refund for your MBTA pass? Try a credit instead
Someone please stop the money-grabbing thievery!
Man shot in Jamaica Plain early Saturday morning
He was infected with coronavirus.
Police identify Stoughton man who died in Randolph rollover crash
What was he doing out of the house?
Two injured, 10 displaced in Springfield apartment building fire
At least the fire killed the coronavirus.
Three arrested in Worcester fentanyl and cocaine bust
Only problem is, they act against the coronavirus.
After years of growth, Maine scallop industry hits downward trend
Hmmm. Not one mention of climate change or global warming.
Then, on page B8, in a full-page ad, I was reassured that this, too, shall pass:
I guess things will be back to "normal" when Bolton speaks in October. Whether you or I will be alive is another matter.
Time to watch some televi$ion:
"Television, like every other industry, is heading into unknown territory with the coronavirus shutdowns. More people are watching TV as a form of safe entertainment at home — but before too long, what will be available for them to watch? Sure, we can call these episodes up whenever we please, in this age of on-demand. Any “Seinfeld,” any time, but that’s not how many viewers — particularly network TV viewers — operate. They just watch what’s on the air at a given moment, and I admit that sometimes I just want to click around and land on something. In an era, thanks to on-demand and streaming, when we never really have to watch what’s being served up, sometimes it’s soothing to just sit back and be passive....."
CLICK!
