"Mass. transportation chief sees work-from-home as key to coronavirus recovery; Officials also suggested communities adopt more bus-only lanes on local roads to provide faster service" by Adam Vaccaro Globe Staff, May 7, 2020
With the coronavirus unlikely to go away anytime soon, the state’s top transportation official on Thursday pushed work-from-home policies as a crucial strategy to keep commuting safe even once the economy begins to reopen.
“There’s a lot of good reasons that maintaining work from home well into the reopening and recovery of the economy may make sense,” Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack told an audience of business leaders on a Zoom call hosted by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
I guess we know who is collecting the data then.
The Chamber recently released its own memo about the economic reopening, which said work-from-home practices would likely continue, but “can’t be the solution,” in part because small lunchtime businesses and coffee shops in Boston’s downtown would wither from the lack of customers.
Those days are over.
Aren't you paying attention?
They aren't letting us out, and all this hope and garbage charade in the paper day after day is becoming so, so sickeningly tiresome.
Of course, the Bo$ton CoC is retooling to support business communities during this "crisis," as Salem rallies to fight pandemic by drawing on its near 400-year history and East Bridgewater takes steps to ease restrictions.
Pollack is a member of the advisory board developing a plan for the economic reopening, and her comments may hint at strategies the panel is considering. She described a “Goldilocks" dilemma for the transportation system: too many people on the MBTA may make commuting unsafe; too few may suggest people are turning to driving and creating traffic problems.
(Blog editor just barfed)
I wouldn't worry about the traffic with all the people permanently out of work and all the small businesses going bankrupt because they are unable to make their rent, and the MBTA is now running all routes even as the cars are empty.
Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack believes work-from-home policies will be an important factor of the state's economic recovery. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)
Where is her face covering, and why does she even have a job given the deplorable state of transportation in this state?
Above it all, huh?
No date on photo?
WTF?
I guess pre$$ accountability has gone completely out the window, huh?
Some one page Orwell, fast!
Policies such as remote work, as well as staggered shifts or even weekend hours, could help solve the T find the ‘just-right’ balance — enough transit capacity “for the people who really need to use transit, who can’t work from home, who go to workplaces where you have to be physically present,” Pollack said.
She noted recent survey data, including a Suffolk University/Boston Globe/WGBH poll, indicating that much of the public is worried about riding transit before a vaccine is available, even if a strong treatment to the virus is developed.
I no longer believe agenda-pu$hing polls from the pharma-promoting paper, sorry.
The MBTA has been running on a reduced schedule since March, but is preparing a budget that features a return to normal weekday service, even while anticipating low ridership. The goal is to limit crowding.
The increase in service will come as ridership returns, with Pollack willing to “hazard a guess” that full service will return by the fall.
The SECOND WAVE of the PLANNED $CAMDEMIC will stop that in its tracks.
“We’ve got the financial wherewithal to do it sooner if the ridership justifies it,” she said. “There’s not going to be a giant plan that the T is going to release that is going to tell you exactly how much service they’re going to have ... every month for the next 12 months.”
She suggested some service with more riders may return to normal frequencies sooner than others. Commuter rail in particular might take much longer to see ridership return, Pollack suggested, because many riders on that service own cars and work in jobs that can be done remotely, whereas the bus has a higher rate of low-income commuters in service jobs.
The T may need to find ways to run more bus service, added MBTA general manager Steve Poftak, who joined Pollack in the videoconference. Bus ridership is down nearly 80 percent during the pandemic. If it rebounds to even half of normal ridership, that would mean that about 9 percent of bus trips will have more people on them than is deemed safe by the T’s pandemic standards, he said.....
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Here's Pappa Bear's porridge:
"Obama warns that dropped charges against Flynn put ‘rule of law’ at risk" by Glenn Thrush and Michael Crowley New York Times, May 9 2020
WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama launched a far-ranging attack on the Trump administration in an address to former aides Friday, warning that the “rule of law” was endangered by the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and criticizing the White House response to the coronavirus pandemic as “chaotic.”
“There is no precedent that anybody can find for somebody who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free,” Obama told hundreds of members of the Obama Alumni Association during an online discussion moderated by his friend and former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Obama’s comments were first reported by Yahoo News and confirmed by several people who heard his speech, including one who described the former president as being in “quite the mood.”
Well, f**k him and his moods!
The reason he has risen up from the sewer is because his administration has been exposed. It spied on an opposing presidential campaign using false information from the Clinton campaign and it went all the way to the top. Flynn knows all about the Clinton emails and corruption. That is why he was taken down by the FBI, who set him up and then lied about him lying. That's the Comey/McCabe/Strzok cabal's work.
Obama, who last month endorsed Joe Biden, his former vice president and the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, has signaled to people around him that he is eager to engage more directly and pointedly with President Trump in an attempt to rally Democrats around Biden — and to vanquish a man who has set out to dismantle his legacy.
I'm sick of not only the intra-mural wrestling match, but the New York Times spin on all this.
The news of Attorney General William Barr’s decision to drop the criminal case against Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, has been “somewhat downplayed” in the media, Obama said, during his talk with Jarrett. Obama said that such action only added to the urgency of electing Biden.
Yeah, because they know where it leads. They are protecting you, asshole.
Flynn admitted that he had lied in a January 2017 interview with the FBI about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to Washington during the presidential transition. The FBI was investigating whether members of Trump’s campaign might have colluded with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 presidential election.
It was during the transition, something common during changes of administration. It was Rice and Power that unmasked the good general.
Career prosecutors and criminal law specialists were stunned by the Justice Department’s decision to drop the case; they called it highly unusual and questioned its legal grounding. The move was recommended to Barr by a US attorney in Missouri who had been tasked with reviewing Flynn’s case, after years of Trump and his allies arguing that Flynn had been treated unfairly.
Trump has called the case against Flynn a sham and part of an FBI-led “coup” to remove him from the presidency. After being consumed for months by the coronavirus, Trump returned with a vengeance this past week to his grievances over the Russia investigation, saying it was an act of treason engineered by “human scum.”
This is not an endorsement of the president in any way; however, he is right.
Obama has publicly adopted a studied posture of muted disapproval during his post-presidency but privately has been caustic in his assessment of Trump’s overall performance. That was especially clear during his discussion of the administration’s response to the pandemic.
In a brief audio excerpt posted online by Yahoo, Obama said the challenge was greater than Trump.
“This election that’s coming up on every level is so important because what we’re going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party,” Obama said. “What we’re fighting against is these long-term trends where being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy. That has become a stronger impulse in American life, and by the way we’re seeing that internationally as well.”
They say that every two years, and after it is over it's bu$ine$$ as u$ual for the ruling cla$$ so f**k him, and we will get to the tribe members momentarily.
“It’s part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty,” Obama continued. “It would have been bad even with the best of governments. It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mind-set — of ‘What’s in it for me?’ and ‘To heck with everybody else’ — when that mind-set is operationalized in our government.”
Obama, who campaigned vigorously for Democratic candidates in 2018 and barnstormed for Hillary Clinton four years ago, has told friends he is deeply concerned that Trump, despite his recent stumbles, will be able to successfully leverage the bully pulpit of the presidency at a time when Biden is confined to campaigning from his home in Delaware.
Did he barnstorm for her, because the history up until this point has been that he didn't do enough for many reasons (didn't want to overshadow, etc) and has a hand in her loss (could have done more in retrospect)?
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Have you seen the new Netflix documentary ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama?
I have not, and we are f**ked either way regarding who wins the November election (if there even is one and as if it mattered).
Also see:
Congratulations President Trump: You’re the worst!
Cohen says he is even worse than George W. Bush, and I say no way, not yet, but he's getting there and Cohen will be cheering him on later!
Photo, top of page B4:
"GIVING ONE FOR THE TEAM -- The arrival of a New England Patriots tractor trailer drew the applause (above) from people who waited outside in Chelsea for the food packages being delivered that would supply more than 84,000 meals to those in need. The donation was made possible by the Robert Kraft family and the Massachusetts Military Support Foundation (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)."
Also see:
Patriots truck delivers 84,000 meals to Chelsea residents during coronavirus crisis
84,000 Meals Delivered To Chelsea By New England Patriots Truck
The Globe must have cut that from the script, and what a frightening development: Zionist Jewry combined with the military.
That didn't work out very well in the Soviet Union about 100 years ago, and that is something I will never forget.
Momma Bear's porridge:
"Israel cracks down on banks over payments to Palestinian inmates" by Adam Rasgon and Mohammed Najib New York Times, May 9, 2020
I just want to say that after an initial excitement regarding the article since the coverage of Palestinians is sparse in my jew$paper, but I'm already turned off to it based on the byline.
JERUSALEM — Even as Israel is collaborating with West Bank officials to fight the coronavirus, a new Israeli military order taking effect Saturday forbids banks in the occupied territory from processing payments that the Palestinian Authority distributes to the families of thousands of Palestinians who have spent time in Israeli jails.
The Palestinians defend the funds as vital welfare to compensate for an unfair military-run justice system, provide income for families who have lost their primary breadwinners, and enable released prisoners to reintegrate into society, but the Israelis denounce the practice as rewarding terrorism.
The decree apparently also bans financial institutions from dealing with stipends that the PLO gives to the families of slain assailants, referred to as “martyrs” by the Palestinians.
The order threatens imprisonment for bank workers who refuse to comply and prompted at least three banks to require recipients of the payments to close their accounts last week, prompting intense outrage.
Did the Palestinians ever get tax loot Israel was holding back?
The Cairo Amman Bank, which is based in Jordan, was the focus of anger Friday because of the new directive. Shots were fired at a branch in the West Bank city of Jenin and a Molotov cocktail hurled at another in Jericho, another West Bank city. In Ramallah, signs were posted outside a branch demanding that the bank reverse its “disgraceful decision.”
The violence prompted a statement from the Palestinian prime minister, Muhammad Shtayyeh, who said Friday that families should be allowed to reactivate their accounts while officials weighed how to respond to the Israeli decree.
“We will find solutions that preserve the rights of the prisoners and martyrs and protect the banks from the occupation’s tyranny and any legal measures,” he said.
The Palestinian Authority, which governs parts of the West Bank under the Oslo accords, sends stipends each month to as many as 12,000 families of current and former prisoners, some of whom have been convicted of killing Israelis. More than an estimated 750,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel during the 53 years of the occupation, according to the PLO’s negotiation affairs department. Many Palestinians revere the current and former inmates as national heroes, but Israel has constantly attacked the payouts, which its officials argue act as an incentive and reward for violence against Israelis.
Nasr Jabreel, 61, a former prisoner from the Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah, said he visited his bank Wednesday to collect the monthly stipend, but the ATM instructed him to see the manager, who told him he had to close his account.
Jabreel, a father of six, said he had spent 10 years in Israeli custody for participating in clashes with soldiers. “I already paid a price,” he said, noting he received $713 every month. “Why is Israel always looking for another way to make us pay again?”
That's just the way they are.
The order is the latest example of tensions erupting between the Israelis and the Palestinians even as they work together to confront the coronavirus.
Over the past several months, the two sides reached agreements to facilitate the movement of Palestinian laborers between Israel and the West Bank and support the Palestinian Authority’s budget. But they have also butted heads over the workers and many other issues, including Israeli raids on Palestinian cities and the looming possibility of Israel annexing parts of the West Bank in the coming months.
I'm shocked they used the word annex, for were it Russia and the Crimea it would have been used 6 or 7 times by now.
Israeli authorities first informed the Palestinians about the new order three months ago, when they communicated its contents to Hussein al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian official in charge of liaising with Israel, according to Qadri Abu Bakr, the head of the Prisoners Affairs Commission of the Palestinian Authority.
The decree specifically states that “a soldier or authorized party” can seize anything that is suspected of “being given as payment or a reward for carrying out an offense.” It also outlines punishments, including imprisonment, for “transactions” aimed at “rewarding” the execution of a long list of security offenses.
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We will all be Palestinians soon -- a lot sooner than you think.
Baby bear:
"Reopenings bring new cases in S. Korea, virus fears in Italy" by Nicole Winfield, Vanessa Gera and Amy Forliti Associated Press, May 9, 2020
ROME — South Korea’s capital closed down more than 2,100 bars and other nightspots Saturday because of a new cluster of coronavirus infections, Germany scrambled to contain fresh outbreaks at slaughterhouses, and Italian authorities worried that people were getting too friendly at cocktail hour during the country’s first weekend of eased restrictions.
The UN chief said we should be following the South Korea model, so.... it's over. They are not going to be letting us out, there isn't going to be any reopen, no sports, no freedom, nothing but medical tyranny ordered by psychopaths.
The new flareups — and fears of a second wave of contagion — underscored the dilemma authorities face as they try to reopen their economies. Around the world, the United States and other hard-hit countries are wrestling with how to ease curbs on business and public activity without causing the virus to come surging back.
F**k the authorities then, and finally some good news!
Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the virus.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading member of the task force, has become nationally known for his simple and direct explanations to the public about the coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes. Also quarantining are Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Stephen Hahn.
Redfield had a relapse, and Fauci is an evil f**k with $elf-$erving interes$ts at $take. Sorry.
In New York, the deadliest hot spot in the US, Governor Andrew Cuomo said three children died from a possible complication of the coronavirus involving swollen blood vessels and heart problems. At least 73 children in the state have been diagnosed with symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease — a rare inflammatory condition — and toxic shock syndrome, but there is no proof the mysterious syndrome is caused by the virus.
Then why even mention it if it's not connected to the coronavirus, were those kids vaxxed, and if so, with what and how often?
A Cuomo spokesman said the governor was extending stay-at-home restrictions to June 7, but another top aide later clarified that that was not so; the May 15 expiration date for the restrictions remains in place “until further notice,” Melissa DeRosa said in an evening statement.
The federal government said it is delivering supplies of remdesivir, the first drug shown to speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients, to six more states. Seven states were sent cases of the medicine earlier in the week.
Meanwhile, US regulators approved a new type of coronavirus test that administration officials have promoted as a key to opening the country.
The FDA on Saturday announced emergency authorization for antigen tests developed by Quidel Corp. of San Diego. The test can rapidly detect fragments of virus proteins in samples collected from swabs swiped inside the nasal cavity, the FDA said in a statement.
No thanks! Not a nasal swab!
The antigen test is the third type of test to be authorized by the FDA. Antigen tests can diagnose active infections by detecting the earliest toxic traces of the virus rather than the genetic code of the virus itself.
OMFG, the "conspiracy bloggers" were RIGHT!
The tests are shit! They are not only contaminated with the virus, but come back false positives in more than 80% of the cases, and the viruses they are detecting are NOT COVID 19! That is what that paragraph is saying!
Currently, the only way to diagnose active COVID-19 is to test a patient’s nasal swab for the genetic material of the virus. While considered highly accurate, the tests can take hours and require expensive, specialized equipment.
What if the alleged cure is wor$e than the di$ea$e?
Businesses in the United States continue to struggle as more employers are realizing their laid-off employees might not return to work anytime soon. US health officials are watching for a second wave of infections, roughly two weeks after states began gradually reopening with Georgia largely leading the way.
Watch this half-hour video now:
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Yes, there is a global health mafia, dear readers, and a second wave is part of the "simulation?"
Could this all be based on lies?
Some malls have opened up in Georgia and Texas, while Nevada restaurants, hair salons, and other businesses were able to have limited reopenings Saturday or once again allow customers inside their establishments after nearly two months of restrictions. Meanwhile some national parks have started testing out public access.
Italy saw people return to the streets for their traditional aperitivos and revel in fine weather as restrictions there were eased, alarming some public officials. In Rome, the Campo dei Fiori flower and vegetable market was bustling Saturday morning, the first weekend Italians were allowed outside for more than just work and necessities.
Public officials alarmed that we are humans who want to interact and socialize!
Why don't they all go somewhere and keep their distance from us forever?
Elsewhere, Belarus, which has not locked down despite increasing case numbers, saw tens of thousands of people turn out to mark Victory Day, the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in 1945. That was in contrast to Russia, which skipped the usual grand military parade in Red Square.
They are one of the handful of countries that has scoffed at the lockdowns, God Bless Them. and shame on Russia for casting their lot in with the globalists.
Worldwide, 4 million people have been confirmed infected by the virus, and more than 275,000 have died, including over 78,000 in the United States, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. Spain, France, Italy, and Britain have reported around 26,000 to 32,000 deaths each.
That's what the Event 201 simulation called for, anyway.
Germany and South Korea have both carried out extensive testing and contact tracing and have been hailed for avoiding the mass deaths that have overwhelmed other countries, but even there, authorities have struggled to find the balance between saving lives and salvaging jobs.....
I'm sick of the apologetic pre$$ when it comes to tyranny, 'er, "authority."
Time to strip them of their authority and ignore them. They can't stop us all.
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Related:
"South Korea on Friday advised nightclubs and hostess bars to close for a month and may delay the reopening of schools after linking more than a dozen new coronavirus infections to a club patron in the capital. Schools were supposed to begin reopening next week, but the fears of a resurgence came after Friday’s disclosure of 25 new cases, South Korea’s first jump above 10 in five days....."
I hope you are ready for the real jerk-job and mind-fuck that is going to be foisted upon us.
"Baker urged the public to continue with measures including social distancing and wearing masks in public when that’s not possible, pointing to the success that South Korea and its capital city, Seoul, have had fighting the virus. South Korea, Baker said, has had virtually no new cases in May due largely to “testing, tracing, and isolation and a joint commitment on the part of the people in that city and that country to stand up against this virus” by embracing the public health measures....."
We here in Ma$$achu$etts will not be opening any time soon, if ever!
Time for another rebellion:
"Massachusetts has yet to unveil a reopening plan, even though restrictions on daily life to contain COVID-19 have so far kept hospitals from being overwhelmed. Governor Charlie Baker finds himself under growing pressure to begin releasing details so businesses can prepare. The stay-at-home advisory and ban on nonessential businesses is in effect until May 18, which is also the deadline for a board appointed by the governor to deliver recommendations on how to restart the economy. Commerce across America will look different in the wake of the pandemic: Employees and customers alike will wear masks, and social distancing measures remain in place. Restaurants in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, which have been restricted to delivery and takeout, can reopen only for outdoor dining. Office workers are likely to be among the last to return to the workplace....."
That's what a front-page reopen of the economy looks like, and that's not the way the workers are telling it regarding the hospitals.
"In recent days, signs have emerged in Massachusetts that the impact of the virus could be slowing. Hospitalizations have decreased, Baker has said, while the average number of positive tests has been trending downward since a high in mid-April. Still, Baker and local leaders like Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh leaders continue to express concerns about the coronavirus. In Boston, Walsh canceled public events this summer, including the city’s Fourth of July fireworks and Boston Pops concert at the Charles River Esplanade" as some Rhode Islanders ventured out for first time and “that we made it through the worst and hopefully that this is the start of a new beginning.”
The SECOND WAVE will take care of that, and on Friday night residents of the Summit neighborhood to bang on pots and pans and scream cheers for the health care workers at The Miriam Hospital down the hill because these moments made them feel like they were in this together, with neighbors and strangers. Saturday’s farmer’s market was smaller than usual, but it was still open, and it was a sign of better days to come because we are “in the same storm and there’s some comfort in that.”
Soon, the American people will be banging for your f**king heads!
Nightly applause is nice, but some doctors think votes would be nicer
So says Emma Goldberg of the New York Times, as the press officer at the University of Washington in Seattle is willing to put himself to the ultimate test by getting an experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
Also see:
"As Republican Georgia Governor Brian Kemp moves to reopen businesses, a new study underscores the disproportionate toll the virus has taken on the state’s Black population. Surveying eight Georgia hospitals, researchers found that in a sample of 305 COVID-19 patients, 247 were Black — more than 80 percent, and more than they expected. “It is important to continue ongoing efforts to understand the reasons for these racial disparities, including the role of socioeconomic and occupational factors in transmission,” the researchers wrote. “Public officials should consider racial differences among patients affected by COVID-19 when planning prevention activities.” While limited by time and geography, the results of the study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Wednesday echo research showing Black Americans are more likely to be infected and die of COVID-19."
I'm sick and tired of every issue being turned into a race issue when it comes the the Globe:
"Life can be cruel. Those already struggling are often the first to feel the brunt of new hardships and disparities, but the coronavirus crisis has made this ugly truth inarguable. A new type of analysis of deaths during the early weeks of the pandemic finds that the mortality rate surged higher in Massachusetts cities, towns, and ZIP codes with larger concentrations of poverty, economic segregation, people of color, and crowded housing. The investigation by Harvard epidemiologists, underpinned by public health data obtained by the Globe, offers the most comprehensive look to date at the virus’s uneven impact on communities across the state....."
Was the lead, above-the-fold feature.
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A Mother’s Day like no other
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"Mother’s Day traditions altered by coronavirus as Mass. deaths rise, though hospitalizations continue to fall" by Tim Logan Globe Staff, May 9, 2020
Efforts to cope with the economic and social fallout of the pandemic continued.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh on Saturday announced that the Boston Resiliency Fund, a charitable effort to help social service agencies combat the crisis, has raised $30.7 million. Of that, $16.2 million has been distributed to 178 organizations across Boston. Much of the money has gone to pay for food and other basic needs, and to expand health care capacity and support health care workers in the city. In a statement, Walsh emphasized that the funds have gone to every corner of the city, and to a wide array of grantees.
“We’ve supported diverse, grass-roots organizations that are trusted in the community, employ local people, and provide direct services to residents,” he said. “Resiliency is only possible if equity is at the forefront,” and US Senator Ed Markey began stumping for more direct aid from Washington for people struggling with the economic impact of the crisis.
Too late, Ed.
Joe Kennedy is a cool head in a time of crisis and has launched a $1.2m TV ad blitz in Senate race highlighting coronavirus work and Jesse Mermell snagged Barbara Lee endorsement in race for his seat.
It is looking like your campaign is on life support so why not drop out now?
Markey, along with Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Kamala Harris of California, on Friday filed legislation that would send $2,000 a month to people who make less than $120,000 a year, plus $2,000 per child. It would be a huge — and costly — increase from the one-time $1,200 payments the federal government issued last month, but one that supporters say is more in line with the scale of a crisis that wiped out 20.5 million jobs in April and froze much of the nation’s economy.
“A single check is not sufficient for households that are struggling during this health and economic crisis,” Markey said. “Americans need more than just one payment.”
The bill’s fate in the Republican-controlled Senate is unclear, but Markey scheduled a news conference Sunday to make his case.
At the same time, mothers, and their children, planned to celebrate as best they could, given the circumstances.
The Globe says that “at this time we just need positivity, and they hope this broadcasts that.”
Meanwhile.....
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It's the New York Times that delivers you a field of tulips after an important victory that allowed flower shops to spring back to life just in time for Mother’s Day.
Here are some other Globe Ideas for this Mother's Day:
New mothers, don’t fear: You were made for times like this by Chelsea Conaboy, a writer and editor who lives in Maine. She is writing a book about the maternal brain, forthcoming from Henry Holt & Co.
Thanks to the hormonal imbalance.
Giving birth during a pandemic has particular risks for women of color by Katrina Miles a journalist, a technology consultant, and co-creator and former coordinator of the United Nations global initiative: The Partnership for Technology in Peacekeeping. She lives in New York City.
But not white women!
Hospitals are separating mothers and newborns during the coronavirus pandemic by Kate Mitchell, a doctoral candidate at the Boston University School of Public Health; Hagar Palgi Hacker, a lawyer and masters candidate at the Milken Institute School of Public Health; Tejumola Adegoke, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Boston Medical Center; and Katharine Hutchinson, a midwife at Boston Medical Center.
There is little evidence it helps slow the spread of disease.
Everett woman suffering from coronavirus gives birth to twins early
She did it while on a ventilator.
A letter to new moms by David Shribman, a former Washington bureau chief for the Globe and the current executive editor emeritus of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and scholar-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University
He says there are slender green shoots of progress.
The ‘fourth trimester’ and plight of new mothers during a pandemic
Becoming a grandparent during the coronavirus pandemic by Dave Rosenthal the managing editor of Side Effects Public Media. The collaboration is based at WFYI in Indianapolis and includes seven other public radio stations in the Midwest.
There is, however, a pandemic silver lining: Time to recreate old family recipes before viewing your Mother's Day gift (a ticket to the 2020 Women's Leadership Forum):
She will be moderating the M.A.D. Love segment, in which three Mother-And-Daughter pairs will share the stage to talk about life, love, challenges and how they have learned to see the world from each other’s perspective.
Other speakers will be DeMane Davis, Producer & Director, Netflix Series: "Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker"; Deesha Dyer, Former White House Social Secretary, Activist, Community Organizer; Maura Healey, Attorney General of Massachusetts; Carol Leonnig, Pulitzer Prize-winning Reporter, The Washington Post; Author, "A Very Stable Genius"; Gina McCarthy, Former EPA Administrator; President and CEO, NRDC; Aly Raisman, Gold Medal Gymnast & Advocate; Gloria Steinem, Writer, Political Activist, Feminist; Keynote Speaker Carly Zakin & Danielle Weisberg, Co-founders and CEOs, theSkimm.
What a motley crew, and if that is not enough you can catch the The Massachusetts Conference for Women Podcast New Episode, How to Cultivate the Resilience We Need Now with Host: Celeste Headlee.
Young medical residents worry their lives are on the line as they treat coronavirus patients
Not what you thought you were signing up for?
Oh, the poetic irony.
Whistle-blower exposes infighting and animus in Trump’s coronavirus response
The New York Times says the personal animus and dysfunction revealed by Dr. Rick Bright’s allegations have shed light on the failures of the Trump administration’s coronavirus response.
In the early days of the pandemic, the US government turned down an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America
So says the Washington ComPost.
Related:
"A federal investigative office has found “reasonable grounds to believe” that the Trump administration was retaliating against a whistle-blower, Dr. Rick Bright, when he was ousted from a government research agency combating the coronavirus, and said he should be reinstated for 45 days while it investigates, his lawyers said Friday. The lawyers, Debra S. Katz and Lisa J. Banks, said in a statement that they were notified late Thursday afternoon that the Office of Special Counsel, which protects whistle-blowers, had “made a threshold determination” that the Department of Health and Human Services “violated the Whistleblower Protection Act by removing Dr. Bright from his position.”
Also see:
Trump wages a war on watchdogs as coronavirus elevates their importance
He's stuck in port with the rest of us:
Stuck on cruise ships during pandemic, crews beg to go home
Better batten down the hatches because you are going nowhere for a very long time.
Look at where they hit shore:
"Thailand remains under a state of emergency through at least the end of May, with almost no international flights in or out, but because of the country’s low confirmed caseload of virus infections — about 3,000 cases and 56 deaths, as of Saturday — certain businesses have been allowed to reopen under strict social distancing and hygiene limits....."
Related:
"Residents of Thailand’s capital enjoyed the city’s parks, booked haircuts, and stocked up on beer and other alcoholic drinks Sunday as they enjoyed their first day of eased restrictions that were imposed weeks ago to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The top perk in Bangkok, a city famous for its eateries, may have been the reopening of restaurants, but it was not clear how many were actually serving seated customers again, since strict guidelines will make it hard for many of them to turn a profit. Restaurants have to keep their customers at least 5 feet apart and practice a wide range of sanitary measures, beginning with taking the temperature of customers and staff, and circulating fresh air. Small restaurants that could fit 20 people before might be able to seat eight to 10 under the rules."
Also see:
Taiwan’s weapon against coronavirus
The New York Times says he is an epidemiologist who is also vice president, a Johns Hopkins-trained epidemiologist and an expert in viruses in Taiwan, a society where he said there was strong trust in science and respect for medical professionals who now hopes Taiwan can play a leading role in helping the world recover from the virus and restart economic growth as he is overseeing efforts to develop a vaccine and produce tools like rapid coronavirus testing kits.
Related:
Hong Kong bookstore under attack in China reopens in Taiwan
US escalates media war with new restrictions on Chinese journalists
So says Vivian Wang of the New York Times.
Mass. gun shops reopen
The ‘Second Amendment should not be suspended during a health pandemic,’ nor should any other Amendments.
Dorchester teen arrested for alleged armed robbery
What was he doing out of the house?
Crane Beach, World’s End, and more reopening May 19, the Trustees say
Some nature trails remain open, but visitors are warned to keep a safe distance.
Photo, bottom of page B16:
Snow swirled around yellow pansies in Methuen on Saturday morning and left a white frosting on the ground. (Jim Davis/Globe Staff)
The $ports $ection, such as it is, encompassed pages C1-C9 today, with the obituaries running from page C10-C32, followed up by a special Salute to Nurses section numbered S2-S24.
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