Meaning the lockdown will continue as they throw jailing you inside your own home in your face.
Related:
Rhode Island’s Reopen
Dying to Reopen in New Hampshire
Our turn tomorrow:
"Baker will announce details of state plan to loosen lockdown today" by Andy Rosen, Larry Edelman and Anissa Gardizy Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, May 17, 2020
Massachusetts on Monday will take a tentative step toward restoring some aspects of normal life after a two-month lockdown, when Governor Charlie Baker presents a plan to gradually reopen the economy amid a COVID-19 pandemic that is still claiming close to 100 lives in the state every day.
The manufacturing and construction industries, as well as houses of worship, will be allowed to resume operations as soon as Monday, according to an e-mail sent to local government officials over the weekend and obtained by the Globe. All businesses that reopen will have to follow public health guidelines specific to their sector, according to the e-mail.
Some business owners said they were working over the weekend to do something ― anything ― that might help them be ready whenever they get the green light.
The stakes for Baker’s decision are life-and-death. On Sunday, state officials said 92 more deaths in Massachusetts had been attributed to COVID-19, increasing the toll to 5,797. The state Department of Public Health reported 1,077 new cases of the viral illness Sunday, bringing the total to 86,010.
Not literally in his case!
The seven-day rolling average of new cases stayed relatively steady at 1,174 after a slight uptick Saturday, amid a general trend of declines that began in late April.
Shut it down again.
In a sign of cautious optimism, Massachusetts General Hospital is beginning to return some staff and hospital space to normal functions after they had been devoted to the pandemic response.
They are $uppo$ed to be Partnering on that, and it was less than a week ago that I was told that nationally, 1.4 million health care workers lost their jobs last month and that hospital fortunes are tied to the fate of the virus and how well it can be controlled through testing, treatment, and ultimately, a vaccine, but there is the fear of a second wave of illness in the fall and winter could mean hospitals ramp up their normal operations only to cut back again a few months later.
Ann Prestipino, a senior vice president at MGH who has been overseeing the hospital’s response to the novel coronavirus, said the hospital is currently caring for about 200 patients with the virus. At its height, that number was higher than 400. “This is not over yet,” Prestipino said. “We’re still seeing new COVID patients come in, although the rates have slowed.”
Anyone expecting a permanent, definitive thaw in the restrictions before there is a proven vaccine will likely be disappointed, according to Andrew A. Lover, an epidemiologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He predicts that the state will relax the restrictions as much as possible, but that new waves of infection are all but certain to follow — potentially leading to new measures.
Umm, what NEW MEASURES, sicko?
All because he "loves" us.
“This is going to be a very long-term, slow, and deliberate process,” Lover said, “and there won’t be a magical get-out-of-jail-free card where we can all stop everything we’re doing. I suspect that’s what the message will be.”
We all start disobeying, you're f**ked.
These guys are doubling down on busted models, 'er, flushes.
I know they are going to release a real one next time, but for now it's been outed.
Of course, now that we know what is coming.....
A poll in early May by Suffolk University, The Boston Globe, and WGBH News found that more than seven in 10 residents said they won’t be comfortable engaging in those activities when government restrictions and recommendations are lifted.
I feel it incumbent upon me to mention that the Globe polls also said Clinton would beat Trump and that Martha Coakley would beat Scott Brown by 15 points!
Independent child-care providers are particularly anxious, he said, and some are trying to figure out if it’s worth reopening their doors.
“Their home is their business,” he said. “They’re really nervous about: Are they going to have the capacity to keep themselves safe, keep the kids safe, have the supplies they need to make sure everything’s clean?”
Elected officials in Massachusetts are preparing as though the economic damage from the coronavirus crisis will linger. Baker on Sunday announced that his administration had made available $56 million to pay for programs to help people who are struggling to afford food in Massachusetts.
For some reason, some print has been removed from the web version, including a comment by a Mr. Dan Roma of the Nature Springs Water Company, who said the two-month lockdown is a "little bit of overkill. People need to get to work. People are going to go stir crazy," and I could not agree more!
Exhibit A (below the fold):
"Before a former top surgeon at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center was accused by authorities over the weekend of killing his wife, she told police he had repeatedly abused her during their months-long marriage. Dr. Ingolf Tuerk, of Dover, was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Dedham District Court for the killing of Kathleen McLean, according to the Norfolk district attorney’s office. The two had married in December, after being together for more than two years. The allegations against Tuerk, 58, formerly the hospital’s head of urology and a former Olympic star in his native East Germany, stand in contrast to his public reputation as a pioneering physician at the top of his field......"
The Globe, of course, doesn't tie it to COVID like it does all the other deaths around here (retirement was in her future, so she was probably bought off and is now living in Florida) and that is just plain evil. They are burying the surge in domestic violence, and for a paper that is loaded with young female reporters, run by John Henry's wife, and which unabashedly promotes the elite feminist agenda (did she know Judith Rosen?) under the banner of diversity, they should be f**king ashamed of themselves.
As of Sunday evening, Baker was planning to announce that offices would be permitted to open May 25 at 25 percent capacity, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named in order to discuss nonpublic information.
Businesses that are set to get the green light from the state to open their doors May 25 as part of the first of four reopening phases include barbershops, hair salons, and recreational marijuana shops, the person said. Retailers would be able to provide curbside pickup and hospitals will be cleared to resume elective procedures, but restaurants won’t open during the first phase and the MBTA will remain on a reduced schedule. The governor has said that the first businesses to open will have minimal contact with customers and will be places where social distancing is relatively easy.
According to safety standards included in the e-mail from the Massachusetts Municipal Association, houses of worship must limit occupancy to 40 percent of the building’s maximum capacity, including both staff and attendees. Masks are required while inside the establishment, and non-family members must stay at least 6 feet apart. Staff members must alert the local board of health if they learn that a person who has tested positive has entered the place of worship.
Municipalities are going to be f**ked, and what you are going to see -- no doubt part of the Rockefeller/Gates/MIT, et al, plan -- is more centralized authority taking over. The state will take over the locality, a regional grouping will overtake the state, with the federal tyranny reinforcing and supporting it where needed.
It's Hunger Games, folks. and this is about way more than a virus. This is about control, extermination, and establishing a GLOBAL PLANTATION!
Safety guidelines for manufacturing and construction workers also require workers to wear masks and stay 6 feet apart, unless the distance makes work unsafe. Cafeterias can serve packaged food only, and break times should be staggered. Mandatory standards for all three sectors require administrators to make sure frequently-touched surfaces are cleaned and that employees have access to hand-washing facilities.
What are they are asking -- and it is asking, no law has been signed. It's all dictatorial edits from the governor) is damn near impossible!
State Representative Shawn Dooley said he hopes the final version of the order issued on Monday will be more comprehensive. The current plan neglects small business owners, who already have trouble competing with large corporations, Dooley said. "It's a double standard," he said. "I would venture a guess that my local small business can do a better job of policing social distancing and sanitizing their spaces than the mega stores."
Never got a loan, either.
The Republican representative of the Ninth Norfolk District said government officials should be setting standards that can be applied to all businesses, rather than “picking winners and losers.” The current guidelines offer no clues about when and how mom-and-pop stores should prepare for reopening. “I think the uncertainty is driving a lot of the animosity and angst in the public,” he said. “We’re afraid as a society that this is going to go on forever,” but there are also reasons to doubt that people will be enthusiastic to begin resuming activities such as going to the movies, riding public transportation, and attending sporting events.
You are damn right we are afraid it is going to go on forever because the sick, control-freak psychopaths that drew it up and are implementing it have planned for that very thing.
If he were truly a public servant, he would be calling for the jailing of our alleged leaders and those whose bidding they are doing.
In Boston, however, workers won’t be allowed to return to their buildings until June 1, the person said, and the capacity limit will be smaller, perhaps 10 percent in the first week and rising periodically thereafter.....
Walsh has basically closed them for the summer, so no sense going there.
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"The pandemic is wreaking havoc on municipal finances, with more pain to come" by Matt Stout Globe Staff, May 15, 2020
Parking inspectors and librarians are among the nearly 200 employees furloughed in Brookline. Natick school cafeteria workers are, for now, out of work. Plymouth’s leaders say dozens of layoffs may be coming.
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown city and town budgets into chaos, forcing cuts that have hit senior centers, schools, and police departments in municipalities big and small across Massachusetts, but while everyone hopes the reductions are temporary, local officials are preparing for more drastic action that could cut even deeper into essential services, from public safety to parks to education — moves that were unimaginable just months ago, when tax revenues were flowing in and many schools were preparing for a new windfall of state aid.
That's why they dumped all the health workers in the middle of crisis(??), huh?
COVID becomes a CONVENIENT COVER for a MULTITUDE of EVILS!
The scale of the fiscal carnage is expected to be massive at the local level, and depending on the city or town, that could mean a return to the harsh times of the 2008 recession, when libraries closed, police and fire departments shed positions, and teachers lucky to keep their jobs were left juggling swelling class sizes.
Oh, it is going to be, much, much wor$e.
“It’s scary for the employees,” said Melissa Arrighi, town manager of Plymouth, where about three dozen workers have been furloughed and officials have temporarily delayed taking on eight new police recruits.
There is no sympathy for government blood$uckers at this point, and that might even be a good thing. Less police state enforcement.
At the same time, Arrighi said, local leaders are considering slashing $5.6 million from the town and school budgets for next fiscal year should its state aid be cut — decisions that could translate into roughly 30 layoffs in town offices and a still-to-be-determined number in the schools. “We’re trying to project based on the last recession,” Arrighi said of potential cuts. “It’s sobering."
Times the last one by 10 and leave it in $ta$i$. That is what we are looking at.
As for the schools, the kids will be telelearning from here on out, or haven't you heard?
Money saved!
Fear of municipal budget struggles has been widespread since the COVID-19 crisis upended the country’s financial picture, leaving tens of millions of Americans to seek unemployment benefits.
Roughly 2,100 cities said last month they expected to see a revenue shortfall this year, according to a survey conducted by the League of Cities and United States Conference of Mayors. More than half said they expected budget cuts to hit police and other public safety departments.
Cities and towns find themselves in an especially delicate position. While they can lean on property taxes to underwrite their finances, local officials across Massachusetts are expecting state officials to cut — perhaps drastically — another main source of revenue: the direct aid from Beacon Hill that helps pay for schools and municipal services.
What makes them think we will be able to pay the property taxes, and I guess that means the property will have to be seized, huh?
CUI BONO?
That process is laced with uncertainty. With the new fiscal year less than seven weeks away, neither the Massachusetts House nor the Senate have released budget proposals as lawmakers stare down the potential of losing billions in tax revenues, which have already begun to plummet.
They are not exactly deft in the be$t of times, so one can only imagine the hours passed by telesession (mandating vaccines no doubt).
There’s also little clarity about when, or to what degree, Washington could provide help to plug the holes. Governor Charlie Baker said Thursday night that the state had up to $500 million from the federal Coronavirus Relief Fund to distribute to municipalities, but it’s tabbed specifically for costs related to COVID-19 and can’t be used to simply replace lost revenue, and while the Democratic-led US House on Friday approved a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill that included $1 trillion in aid to state and local governments, it was all but dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate.
“We wait for the state to move, and the state is waiting for the federal government to move,” said New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell, president of the Massachusetts Mayors’ Association, “but there will come a point where if the federal government hasn’t done anything, the state will be forced to make some tough decisions — and that will be passed down to cities and towns.”
UH-OH.
In Boston, Mayor Martin J. Walsh has said that city officials “as of now” aren’t considering furloughs or layoffs among the 18,000-person workforce, and Justin Sterritt, Boston’s budget director, said they’re not anticipating any in the fiscal year that starts in July, but the city is likely to recast its spending expectations next month after initially budgeting for a 4 percent increase. The city, too, is bracing for a drop in state aid, which is its second-largest revenue source.
Sterritt said the city is in a good position, however, to weather the inevitable downturn, in part because of its reliance on property taxes, an oft-stable source that accounts for 72 percent of city revenues, but it also leans on meal and hotel taxes, both of which have taken a hit and are expected to keep struggling. “This is an unprecedented pandemic, and we certainly don’t have a crystal ball,” Sterritt said.
I will be placing a companion piece article immediately below this one regarding that.
Temporary cuts elsewhere, however, have been unavoidable as buildings shutter to slow the disease’s spread, local officials say. With schools closed the rest of the academic year, crossing guards no longer have children to shuttle across busy roads. Librarians don’t have desks to staff. Recreation departments don’t have programs to run.
In Newton, 91 part-time municipal workers were furloughed, with the majority being in the Parks, Recreation and Culture Department. Brookline officials have done two rounds, furloughing 196 full- or part-time workers. Other temporary cuts have hit towns from Great Barrington in the Berkshires to Rockland south of Boston.
I would peddle away from there as fast as I could.
In New Bedford, Mitchell announced a citywide hiring freeze, affecting virtually all 30 departments and ensuring that some 50 open positions remain unfilled. City officials also scaled back capital plans, tabling millions in spending.
Even Cambridge, with its deep commercial tax base, has delayed until next spring nearly three dozen hires in transportation, housing, and other programs, with the potential that they will never materialize. “Of all the budgets I’ve worked on in 40 years, this is probably the one that has the most uncertainty,” said City Manager Louis A. DePasquale.
The dramatic turn of financial fortunes may be most acute for public schools. Just six months ago, state and local officials were celebrating the signing of a sweeping education bill that overhauled the school funding formula and promised to inject $1.5 billion in extra money into local school districts over seven years, but it came with no dedicated funding source, and while lawmakers haven’t backed away from better funding for schools, “we have heard them say that it may be deferred, delayed, or adjusted," said Tom Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. “People want to know, ‘Just tell me what I should be planning for,' " Scott said. “We’re all in the dark right now.”
Some of us have $een the light.
That unpredictability has, in some cases, stopped officials from temporarily laying off employees who could quickly return should events again begin dotting the calendar or buildings reopen, said Geoff Beckwith, director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, which represents the state’s 351 cities and towns, but he said he expects they’ll begin proliferating across local governments as Baker’s plan for reopening the state’s economy becomes clear. Absent a dramatic injection of federal aid, those cuts are likely to turn into more permanent ones rivaling, or even surpassing, what was weathered more than a decade ago.
“Take what we went through with the Great Recession," Beckwith warned, “and look at it through a magnifying glass.”
Or plexiglass, as may be the case.
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You will have to wipe it off to see clearly:
"Walsh: no plans to furlough, layoff city workers’" by Danny McDonald Globe Staff, May 4, 2020
No plans!
In the middle of Boston’s annual budget process and facing a number of economic questions posed by the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Martin J. Walsh said Monday that neither furloughs nor layoffs are on the immediate horizon for city employees.
Now not on the immediate horizon.
Speaking at a Monday news conference at City Hall, Walsh said “As of now, we are not considering furloughs or layoffs for city workers.”
As of now!!
That could change a minute after he said it, but as of now.....
Doesn't that make you feel secure in your job as is he?
He noted that the city entered the pandemic in a strong fiscal position and that local authorities will continue to monitor the financial realities of the public health crisis and make budget adjustments if necessary. The city employs more than 18,000 people across 60-plus departments.
The pandemic is battering the economy, with millions of Americans filing for jobless aid in what has been called the worst string of US layoffs on record. On Monday, Walsh said Boston is “not at the point where we can begin to reopen.”
Last month, Walsh proposed a $3.65 billion budget for the next fiscal year, calling for a 4.4 percent budgetary bump that will include increased funding for education, housing, and public health.
City Councilor Kenzie Bok, who chairs the council’s Ways and Means Committee, meanwhile, said Monday she did not expect to see revenue reductions that would cause layoffs or furloughs in the next year. “We’re in a moment where we need our city workforce more than ever,” she said.
????????
WHY?
Bok said that while there are a number of budget questions, including how far certain revenues, such as taxes on restaurant meals and hotel stays, will fall and what state funding for the city will look like, the fact that the city relies heavily on property taxes currently offers Boston some fiscal insulation from the ongoing economic troubles for fiscal 2021, which starts July 1.
WHAT?
We are going to have to bail out Bo$ton?
F**K THAT!
The current downturn, however, could have a “really big effect” on the budget for fiscal 2022, she said. That places even more importance on ensuring this year’s budget is a responsible one, according to Bok.
The council is in the middle of the budget process, with Ways and Means Committee meetings scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week.
The city has already received $120 million from a federal coronavirus relief fund and the City Council is expected to formally accept that funding later this week. The funding is to be used for necessary expenses brought on by the emergency that were not in the previous budget, said Bok.
“It has to be new and it has to be necessary,” said Bok of what the funding can be used for.
Walsh, meanwhile, pushed for more federal funding to states and cities to help dull the economic blow of coronavirus.
“It will allow cities across the country, including Boston, to continue our robust response on the ground to COVID-19,” he said.
Boston topped 10,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday, a figure that includes 442 deaths.
He de$troyed a city of over 4 million over that?
That is a fatality rate of 0.0102576 -- meaning approximately 1 out of every 10,000 people in Bo$ton dies of COVID-19.
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Related: Councilor Wu says she tested positive for coronavirus
Table for one?
"To reopen, restaurants will need to completely reinvent themselves; “We don’t want to be taking people’s temperature. We’re in the business of hospitality," said chef-owner Jody Adams" by Janelle Nanos Globe Staff, May 17, 2020
When dining out resumes in Massachusetts, expect to be asked for contact tracing info when you reserve a table. After you arrive at your seat, which won’t have silverware laid out on it for fear of contamination, you might summon your server from your mobile phone, then grab your dishes from a cart that is wheeled through the room.
(Blog editor shakes his head. Who would want to go out to eat ever again?)
As restaurants contemplate reopening amid the coronavirus crisis, they face an entirely new challenge: how to serve guests and make them feel welcome while also doing everything they can to make them feel safe.
PFFFFT!
Over the past several weeks, as they’ve been pivoting to takeout orders and advocating for more federal funds, restaurant owners have also been meeting with architects, weighing new technology, and getting barraged with e-mails pitching plexiglass barriers. Few are optimistic that phase one of Governor Baker’s reopening plan will include restaurants, and so in the absence of any official guidelines, many have been scouring the Web to see what other countries have been doing to allow patrons back in to dine.
How would you like to dine out in a fucking test tube?
In mid-April, Will Gilson, the chef-owner of Puritan & Company in Cambridge, said he spotted a tweet from David Chang, the restaurateur whose Momofuku empire includes Fuku in the Seaport, asking what recovery looked like in Southeast Asia. Gilson said he’s using the links and photos in the responses as the basis of his reopening plan. “We created an entire playbook based on what places in Hong Kong and Seoul and Singapore are doing,” he said.
Well, Seoul just shutdown one day after reopening, so think again.
“Two months into this issue, there are still really big pieces of the puzzle that have yet to come into place,” said Shore Gregory, the owner of Row 34 and Island Creek Oyster Bar. Gregory, like many others interviewed, said it was extremely difficult to create a reopening plan without knowing what social distancing guidelines or capacity restrictions will need to be in place, but he was certain of one thing: "Lowering occupancy by 50 percent creates an incredible strain on our business model.”
I wouldn't worry about overflow capacity if I were you.
So, owners are trying to reconfigure floor plans to make things as contact-free as possible, based on their own best assumptions.
Why not outfit all of us in hazmat suits wrapped in a condom?
That should allow life to return to normal!
Restaurateurs Jody Adams, of Porto, and Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer, of Little Donkey, have been participating in a case study by the Mass Design Group, an architecture and design collective that has worked with Partners in Health to create safe, sanitary spaces during infectious disease outbreaks in places like Haiti and Liberia.
That's the same Partners in Health that is funded by George Soros and Bill Gates, with Chelsea Clinton on the Board of Trustees. That is who the Globe is working for, and they even make it sound Communist!
Now Mass Design is bringing its expertise home to Boston, and has released a set of open source documents offering spatial distancing guidelines for restaurant owners. The goal, said the group’s executive director, Michael Murphy, is to sort out how “restaurants can reclaim their role in the public realm,” and that doesn’t simply involve moving tables apart. “I think it’s really important for us to recognize that six feet of social distancing is basically a nail in the coffin of the restaurant,” Murphy said. Very few have the room to reopen at full capacity, he added, and "very few can survive at a quarter to 50 percent capacity.”
They are not meant to survive, and nor are we.
Then it will be easy for the elite ruling cla$$ to eat out.
The team has been working with Porto and Little Donkey to re-envision spaces, accounting for things like the traffic patterns of cooks and waitstaff, and finding separate entry points for delivery and takeout orders. Murphy has been discussing extending barriers between booths to reach up to the ceiling, and also thinking about walling off the open kitchens we’ve all become accustomed to seeing.
I would actually like to see my food prepared in front of me now if I went out to eat, and this isn't something you do on the fly after six weeks, readers!
This is PLANNED IN ADVANCE, and what is that stench coming from the restrooms?
Air flow, Murphy said, will also be a “fundamental issue” for restaurants as they resume operations, citing a recent research paper out of China that found that nine people were infected with COVID-19 after a restaurant’s air conditioning system circulated virus-laden droplets around the room. Ensuring ventilation systems can circulate air properly will be essential to a restaurant’s ability to keep its staff and patrons safe, he said, and many owners may opt to move a kitchen entirely offsite to make space for a dining room, or have tables spill out onto the street.
Some are taking cues from the Chinese now?
Chris Osgood, Boston’s chief of the streets, said the city is looking to Europe and other US cities for ideas on how to offer more outdoor dining. Possible solutions include “moving parking away from the curb into the travel lanes, and using the space for restaurants to flow out into the streets," he said.
Wouldn't you have to close off streets and evict people?
Adams, the chef-owner of Porto, said, “We don’t want to be taking people’s temperature. We’re in the business of hospitality and opening our arms and doors to people with a big hug,” she said. The challenge now is how to translate that to this new reality.
The "new normal" and "new reality" eventually become "normal," so f**k off!
In addition to the physical layouts, restaurateurs will also need to make adjustments that will signal to customers that they’re safe, said Siobhan Barry, the design director at the Gensler architecture firm, which is working to open the High Street Place food hall with social distancing measures in mind. Those include outlining linear flows for people to move safely through the space, strategically placing furniture to avoid crowding, and placing an emphasis on mobile ordering.
Can you guarantee that 100%?
If not, I'll do some home cooking.
As they reopen, restaurants may choose to ditch the romantic lighting for brighter air-filled spaces, and tables may need to be bolted down for a while to ensure people don’t cluster. “We need to know the guardrails are there,” she said.
Who is going to be in the mood for that wearing masks?
Soon sex will not be allowed.
Didn't some other regime from the past try to regulate sexual relations?
What happened with that anyway?
Barry and others point out that restaurants are uniquely prepared to handle the challenges of managing a sanitary, socially distanced space. Restaurants are among the businesses that have the highest level of inspection and food safety practices, after all.
PFFFFFFT!
I've worked restaurants, and that's a joke!
They tell you they are coming, or the first one inspected tips off the others.
“I think one of my fears with plexiglass is that it’s a quick fix, which is great, but it starts to turn your dining room, that you spent time and money curating, into a zoo or lab space,” Gilson said. So he’s thinking about wooden partitions that match his restaurant’s aesthetic, and has already ordered custom-designed masks for his staff to wear. Now he’s looking at ordering wheeled carts to bring dishes to tables.
The gloves and mask are going to make me lose my appetite, and that's why they want us apart. Surveillance identification doesn't happen if we are close to each other.
“I’m going to approach cleanliness as if I’m trying to scrub in as a doctor,” said Gilson. “The crazy thing is, restaurants for the past decade have been getting smaller and table spacing closer. Being in a place that’s vibrant and crowded is the sign of a good busy establishment. Now we have to go back to what restaurants were like in the ’80s. Dining was spread out, tons of space, and everything was delivered by a cart to your table.”
NO MORE FUN, and how long can you tread water?!
Adding to the complexity, many said, is that they’re also contemplating new technology to make the process easier. Local restaurant-payment software firms Paytronix and Toast are reportedly building new apps to allow for mobile ordering and payment from tables.
On the way to a ca$hle$$ $ociety, and they are Toa$t in more ways than one.
Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins said the Newton-based company just launched a curbside ordering tool for its customers, and will soon unveil an app where customers can scan a QR code from their table, allowing them to access a menu and pay for their food all through their phone. He also hopes to expand the service so that someone looking to dine at a restaurant can pre-order their food and have it waiting for them when they arrive.
That will be your digital certificate and immunity pass that Fauci and Gates want you to have, and it is the philanthropi$ts that are the virus.
A researcher in New York collected a woman's blood for an antibody test. (Seth Wenig/Associated Press).
It's just a little prick, no problem, now they have your DNA and can say whatever they want about COVID.
Related:
"Thirteen sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier have tested positive for COVID-19 after recovering from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Politico reports. The Navy initially said Saturday afternoon five sailors had tested positive a second time, but Politico, citing two unnamed defense officials, reported later another eight sailors had been diagnosed again. An outbreak on the ship began in March, forcing the Roosevelt to divert to Guam, where sailors spent weeks in isolation or quarantine. In total, the military has reported more than 1,000 confirmed cases among the crew of 4,800. The five sailors who initially tested positive a second time had gone through at least two weeks of isolation and tested negative twice in a row before they were allowed back on the ship. Once they returned to the ship, they developed flu-like symptoms before they tested positive a second time. Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Friday that treating the virus was ‘‘a learning process.’’ ‘‘It shows us what we’ve known for a long time — that this is a very stubborn infectious disease,’’ Hoffman said during a news briefing. A Navy spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
I smell total bullshit, and it wouldn't be the first time coming from the Pentagon (or Politico).
Yup, going to have to get the vaxx even if you have been infected and now have antibody immunity, and of course you would test positive (btw, there is no test to specifically diagnose COVID-19. It's any of a number of past and present coronaviruses that come up positive. We have been so had by these liars)!
That is the LAST STRAW on their DAMN FRAUD!
“I expect technology to play a much bigger role in people’s dining experience,” said Gregory, who said he has been considering tech options, but also worries that it may mean fewer touchpoints with diners.
Restaurateurs say that even as they prepare to reopen, they’re simultaneously rolling out amped-up takeout operations, adding beer and wine, produce boxes, and other add-ons to help bring in revenue while capacity is scaled back for in-person dining, but perhaps most important for many restaurant owners is the underlying question: What if they reopen only to end up operating at a loss?
Rent is still due.
“One of the challenges that the restaurant community faces right now is that we are waiting on guidance from the federal government on whether PPP loans are going to be amended, and from the states in terms of dates of reopening or the specific contact tracing [protocols],” said Gregory. More funding from federal and state governments is needed to help restaurants cover expenses while they’re expected to operate under limited capacity, he said.
Last I read, the PPP worked perfectly and is now closed.
“There’s been an outpouring of support for the industry,” he said, “however, I still think there is a lack of nuanced understanding of how challenging the landscape is for retail and the restaurant community.”
It'll be $low for a while.
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I wonder how the nonprofits will do, and be sure to finish your plate:
"Massachusetts researchers are on front lines of coronavirus antibody testing; Such tests could be key in plans for the Commonwealth to safely, fully reopen" by Rebecca Ostriker Globe Staff, May 3, 2020
Scientists and doctors across Massachusetts are mobilizing to address two of the most baffling questions of this pandemic: How widely has the coronavirus spread — and if you’ve been infected, do you have lasting immunity?
Pentagon says no, Dr. Rand Paul says yes.
The answers lie in the antibody test — a pinprick of blood that captures the body’s immune response. Researchers say such testing is the foundation upon which policymakers can determine when the Commonwealth can safely, fully reopen.
As pilot antibody testing projects launch across the country, Massachusetts is seeing a surge of energy in the front lines of the field — and key results could be just a few months away. One project at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is ramping up to run thousands of antibody tests per day. Other local researchers are examining long-term immunity by testing people’s antibody responses after infection and following them over time to see if they get reinfected.
Much attention has been focused on the urgent need for more coronavirus tests, but viral tests, which typically use a nasal or throat swab to capture a sample, produce results only when the virus is active in the body.
Antibody testing, also known as serology testing, can reveal if someone was infected in the past, even if they recovered or never felt significant symptoms. That’s because antibodies may linger for months or years. So serology testing is vital for both measuring the pandemic’s reach and potentially providing information about immunity.
I don't trust them or the damn tests!
“The importance of antibody testing can’t be stressed enough,” said Dr. Bruce Walker, director of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, during a recent symposium on advances in antibody research hosted by the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness.
Look at the ince$tou$ cro$$-$ection of mon$trou$ evil there.
Dr. Michael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health, is among those advising Governor Charlie Baker on the crisis, but it’s hard to make concrete plans, Mina said, without knowing how pervasive the coronavirus is.
WTF?
You killed an economy and destroyed lives over it!!!
For example, Mina posed, has it infected 1 percent or 15 percent of residents? Knowing that, he explained, would tell us how deadly it is, how at-risk some populations may be, and how much herd immunity we potentially have.
“Right now, we’re really flying blind," Mina said. ”We still don’t know, are we seeing just the tip of an iceberg? Or are we seeing a third of the iceberg?”
(Blog editor is f**king incredulous!)
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Also involved in the effort are Dr. Larry Madoff, medical director of the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences at the DPH; Dr. John Iafrate, vice chairman of Massachusetts General Hospital’s pathology department, who led an eye-opening antibody study that found nearly a third of Chelsea residents in a recent sample tested positive; and University of Massachusetts Amherst, Andrew Lover, an assistant professor of epidemiology, is preparing a serological study of UMass students, faculty, staff, and others from participants’ households.
They all have connections to the Ragon Institute and the World Health Organization, and David R. Walt, a professor of biologically inspired engineering at Harvard Medical School, said, “I think this is if not the center of the universe for this, it’s close to the center of the universe, but it requires more than innovation and brainpower. It requires the ability to engage with the commercial sector to be able to scale these things. That, too, I think is a big advantage of Massachusetts, in that we’ve got a bunch of life science companies in Cambridge and Boston that really can help bring some of this to the next phase.”
What a frightening band of characters, and it turns out COVID-19 is much more widespread than previously known, despite the small sample size.
Related:
Legislative committee approves bill allowing safe injection sites in Mass.
The incredulity continues!
The closest they come to mentioning COVID is the 19-member committee (I have also noticed a lot of charity ads on TV -- vets, Shriners, child runaways -- ask for $19/month, and have started to ask myself why not 20? What is it about those two numbers, huh?) and infectious disease only in the context of being an “opportunity to demonstrate what has been shown all across the globe — that safe injection sites save lives, reduce infectious disease, and reduce the amount of drug-related crime and detritus in the neighborhoods that host them.”
The "sites would be required to provide a clean space for people to use drugs while being monitored by health care professionals or other trained individuals, and they would also provide sterile injection supplies, advice on avoiding illness and infections, and referrals to treatment and recovery services. Opponents have expressed fears that such sites would increase crime in the neighborhood and encourage drug use, but advocates — including many public health experts — point to evidence from Canada and other countries that debunk such fears."
Of course, people in Canada may disagree with that, and what comes to mind is DRUG-ADDLED PEOPLE are MUCH EASIER to CONTROL and INJECT (unlike the pot smokers, which is why Baker shut those down. Pot can open minds sometimes, especially when you are not smoking alone and social distancing).
Ready for the de$$ert platter?
"Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said it’s safe to reopen the country because half of the counties reporting ‘‘haven’t had a single death’’ and more than 60 percent of all COVID-19 cases are in just 2 percent of the reporting counties. ‘‘That’s why the local leaders need to lead this,’’ Azar said on CNN’s ‘‘State of the Union.’’ Azar said he was not overly concerned by images of people congregating at bars and other places without staying 6 feet apart or wearing masks. ‘‘I think in any individual instance you are going to see people doing things that are irresponsible,’’ he said. Azar emphasized, ‘‘we’ve got to get this economy open and our people out and about, working and going to school again.’’ In states such as Georgia and Ohio, where 90 percent of the economy is open, ‘‘we are not seeing a spike in cases,’’ Azar said. He stressed that surveilling people with symptoms and responding with contact tracing and isolation are key to controlling a potential spread. Azar suggested infections and death seem higher in the United States because it has done more testing and reporting, even though many experts say the country’s slow rollout of testing in the early stages helped the outbreak spread. He went on to say more Americans were at risk of dying from the virus because of demonstrably higher rates of underlying conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. ‘‘This is about simple epidemiology,’’ Azar said. California Governor Gavin Newsom said Sunday that social distancing measures are key to reopening his state, which has adopted a phased approach to lifting restrictions. He also said reopening schools will be predicated on data and science, not just observations on the ground. ‘‘I think some schools will not be [open this fall] and many schools will be,’’ Newsom, a Democrat, told Jake Tapper on CNN’s ‘‘State of the Union.’’ Seventy-five percent of California’s economy is now open, including manufacturing, warehouses, and restaurants, Newsom said. Business owners and individuals are encouraged to wear face coverings and maintain physical distance from others. Opening sports arenas, he said, is not an option at this time. Another governor, Republican Mike DeWine of Ohio, said that reopening his state’s economy was necessary but also noted that the state was still wrestling with the outbreak and the danger remains. ‘‘I’ve said to Ohioans that so much is in every individual’s control. I encourage people to wear masks when they go out in public,’’ he said on CNN. People need an extra layer to protect themselves, DeWine said. DeWine said that when he saw images of a reopened Ohio bar crowded with people, he was concerned, but he added that the people running the bar got the situation under control. ‘‘Ultimately, it’s going to come to Ohioans doing what Ohioans have done the last two months — keep their distance and wear masks.’’
The police state has gone soft, and they will pipe in the noise along with a virtual crowd.
"New Yorkers who flouted coronavirus restrictions for a weekend night on the town got the mayor’s wrath on Sunday. Mayor Bill de Blasio admonished people seen crowding outside bars, many with drinks in hand but no masks on their faces, for putting lives in danger. Officials may go so far as to shut down establishments that are violating social-distancing rules, de Blasio said, asking residents to call 311, the city’s nonemergency hot line, if they see this type of crowding. Bars and restaurants in the city have been restricted to takeout and delivery service since mid-March, when coronavirus cases started to soar, but some in Manhattan were allowing people to dine and drink inside on Saturday. “We’re not going to tolerate people starting to congregate. It’s as simple as that,” de Blasio said. “If we have to shut places down, we will.”
What a f**king DISGUSTING TOTALITARIAN in that CITY of FILTH!
He should be removed from office for violating the First Amendment, and stay out of New York even if it kills you!
From one coast to the other:
"Christine Gale Reynolds worked at the public library in Yosemite National Park before it closed in March when California Governor Gavin Newsom issued shutdown orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. So, she filled the back of her car with donated books and began her own mobile library. “I know this may not be legal, conventional, or ethically sound, and yet it has worked for many, and I feel of use,” she said. She physically distances while making her stops and sanitizes the books. Across the United States, volunteers are reporting a jump in little free libraries as readers look to pass the time. Made of wood or brick, and placed in front of parks or in the trunk of a car, the libraries have seen their small spaces overwhelmed with books Whether it’s “Love in the Time of Cholera,” by Gabriel García Márquez, or children’s books, or “Macbeth,” the libraries provide some their only interaction of the day outside of the home. Since 2009, tens of thousands of little free libraries have sprung up in the United States and more than 100 countries. The small spaces operate by donations and through volunteers. In rural areas, where broadband Internet is sparse, the little free libraries may be only place to find a Toni Morrison novel. In March, the Hudson, Wis.-based Little Free Library nonprofit group unveiled its 100,000th book-sharing box — donated to the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans in a historic Latino neighborhood in Houston. The free libraries have become so popular in recent weeks the Little Free Library group issued recommendations to stewards on helping keep the spaces clean by using disinfectant and following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. “We have definitely seen an increase in use,” said John Sweet, who helps oversee a free library in Bend, Ore. He said volunteers check their free library weekly, and the selection is always different than the week before; sometimes there are even jigsaw puzzles. Janelle Will of Akron, Mich., said her tiny farm village of 300 people doesn’t have a public library, but its free library remains busy. “I am using my stash to keep it filled and Lysol the books before placing them in the library,” she said. Only around 1,000 people live in the Yosemite Valley where entertainment options are limited and some residents say Gale Reynolds’s mobile library — and her friendly chats — offer a needed break. “I live in a rural area, so Internet is not a guarantee, so time that some people might fill with Netflix or other online streaming services is not an option for me. I turned to books to fill that gap,” said Connor Timpone, who lives in El Portal, east of Yosemite Valley. “Books have been a bright spot through these past few weeks for me.”
Maybe I should be reading them and not the Globe.
A skateboarder wore a face mask while gliding along a closed street at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Sunday (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press/Associated Press).
Look at the idiot skateboarding with a mask on (like jogging with one) while the trio social dis5tant from him eschews the mask, and shouldn't Newsom be worried about the fire?
Back to the East Coast:
"Tropical Storm Arthur inched closer to the Atlantic seaboard on Sunday, although its impact was expected to be limited to some minor flooding and rough seas along the North Carolina coast....."
Little early in the season, ain't it?
Maybe God will send a swarm of them our way this summer and hobble the Anti-Christ in the White House even more.
As for the designated enemy and its reopening:
"Officials concerned about a virus resurgence have quarantined 8,000 people and reintroduced lockdown measures in northeastern China, even as other parts of the country further relax restrictions. Residents of Jilin, the second-largest city in Jilin Province, have been mostly barred from leaving the city, state news media reported, after a cluster of infections was reported there and in Shulan, another city under its administration. Jilin has traced nearly 700 contacts of coronavirus patients for testing and quarantine, while officials in Liaoning Province have found more than 1,000 contacts and about 6,500 people at high risk for infection. China reported five new confirmed infections on Saturday, three of them locally transmitted in Jilin Province and two from overseas. The country has reported more than 89,000 total cases and 4,634 deaths. Zhong Nanshan, a respiratory disease expert and adviser to the Chinese government, said in an interview with CNN on Saturday that although China had a relatively low number of infections it still faced a “big challenge” because most of the population had not been exposed to the coronavirus and was still susceptible to infection. “It’s not better than the foreign countries I think at the moment,” he said. Elsewhere in China, the Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control said on Sunday that it was no longer necessary to wear masks outdoors. The capital, which has reported no new infections for 30 days, is preparing for the annual session of the National People’s Congress, a major gathering that had been postponed for more than two months."
The Pentagon says you can be reinfected, so time to take the MASKS OFF and BREATHE in the GASOLINE:
"Driving in the United States and Europe is picking up a little. Refineries in China are buying more oil as that country’s economy reopens. Saudi Arabia and Russia ended their price war and slashed production, and American oil companies are decommissioning rigs and shutting wells. All those developments have helped push up oil prices modestly in recent weeks. On Monday, U.S. oil futures climbed more than 9 percent to $32 a barrel, a price that would allow some of the best oil wells in the United States to break even. That may seem like a minor miracle given that the price is more than $60 above where it was about a month ago. On April 20, the U.S. oil futures contract fell below zero for the first time as some traders paid buyers to take oil off their hands. Still, oil prices are roughly half of what they were at the beginning of the year. Energy experts warn that oil prices may dip again if there is another surge in coronavirus cases....."
I would BET ON IT if I were you!
Related:
Tesla Reopens Plant and Now Says It Has County’s Approval
Time to $top Mickey-Mou$ing around:
Disney Begins Florida Reopening
Isn't that where dreams come true?
"A judge rejected the request of convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli to be let out of prison to research a coronavirus treatment, noting that probation officials viewed that claim as the type of “delusional self-aggrandizing behavior” that led to his conviction. U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto said in a nine-page ruling Saturday that the man known as the “Pharma Bro” failed to demonstrate extraordinary and compelling factors that would require his release under home confinement rules designed to move vulnerable inmates out of institutions during the pandemic. The low-security prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, where the 37-year-old Shkreli is locked up has reported no cases of coronavirus among inmates and staff, and there’s no evidence in his medical files to suggest a childhood bout with asthma continues to pose a significant health problem, Matsumoto wrote. Shkreli’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, filed court papers last month asking federal authorities to release him for three months and allow him to live at his fiancé’s New York City apartment so he could do laboratory work “under strict supervision.” Shkreli called the pharmaceutical industry’s response to the pandemic “inadequate” and said he would be a valuable asset. Shkreli is serving a seven-year prison sentence for a 2017 conviction for lying to investors about the performance of two hedge funds he ran, withdrawing more money from those funds than he was entitled to get, and defrauding investors in a drug company, Retrophin, by hiding his ownership of some of its stock......"
It's like a deja vu.
AFTERNOON UPDATE:
Baker details plan to reopen Massachusetts
What is with the f**king flags, and you CAN'T OPEN until NEXT WEEK as we "tip-toe out of a pandemic-induced lockdown"even when a second wave of infection is possible, likely even.
$ee ya' then!
