Now word from the $ponsors:
"Canned meat is having a moment. Demand is booming across the globe. In the United States, sales surged more than 70 percent in the 15 weeks ended June 13. In the UK, consumption of canned corned beef has taken off. Even in South Korea, where Spam is an old favorite, sales are expanding at the fastest pace in years. At first, people were loading up on pantry staples with a long shelf life during lockdown conditions. Then, shortages of some fresh meat supplies, especially in the US, also helped to drive sales. Now, the economic downturn is underpinning demand."
So am I, which is why I am going to keep the commentary brief and lacking in profanity over this dead meat. I was going to take the day off entirely simply because this whole endeavor has become maddening and I've crescendoed on the strident swearing that I abhor. Better stock up is all I have to say, or go vegetarian like that guy from Germany.
Here is a $lice of Apple for you:
"Apple previews new iPhone software, changes to Mac chips" by Michael Liedtke Associated Press, June 22, 2020
Apple on Monday provided a glimpse at upcoming software changes designed to make the iPhone even easier to use and announced underlying hardware changes to its line of Mac computers.
The preview of the next version of the iPhone’s operating system, known as iOS 14, highlighted Apple’s annual conference for computer programmers and mobile app makers. The event, which was delayed for three weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic, took place in virtual form via a webcast from the company’s Cupertino, California, headquarters.
In recognition of the pandemic, Apple’s next iPhone operating system will include an option to put a face mask on a personalized emoji. Upgraded software for the Apple Watch will detect when wearers wash their hands.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook kicked off the session with remarks that acknowledged the nationwide protests triggered by George Floyd’s death last month at the hands of police, as well as the social and business challenges posed by the worst pandemic in a century, but most of the presentation revolved around an array of micro-sized features that, for instance, could help iPhone users manage their apps better, find new ones, and use their phones to unlock and start their cars remotely. Apple promised an upgraded version of its digital assistant Siri intended to make it smarter and less cumbersome to fend off rival voice-activated concierges made by Google and Amazon.
The company gave no indication whether the pandemic-driven disruptions in work in the factories that make parts of the iPhone will delay the release of the next model. The company typically unveils its next iPhones just after Labor Day and then starts selling them in late September. Analysts believe the release of the iPhone 12 will be delayed by at least several weeks, but are expecting it still will be on sale well before the pivotal holiday shopping season.
OH, GOD!
Who can even think about the holiday $ea$on and dark winter ahead, never mind where the money is going to come from to purchase the products?
I swear to God, the elite $ychopaths ate the top of the pyramid are delu$ionaly in$ane. It's the only explanation for their irrational behavior. Either that or they are fabulous liars bent on mass-murder, and that's not human. That is some sort of warped evil in their souls.
Apple is expected to roll out as many as four different iPhone 12 models this year, including its first version that will be able to work on the next generation of ultrafast wireless networks known as 5G.
AH!
Avoid the 5G at all costs.
Investors are betting heavily on that Apple could emerge even stronger from the pandemic and the associated recession. Company shares hit a new all-time high Monday and have so far surged 22 percent this year to give the company a market value of $1.5 trillion.
That dulls the pain of permanent unemployment, doe$n't it?
Apple also said its Mac computers will begin shifting to the company’s own processor chips and away from the Intel chips that have powered those computers for 15 years. Some Macs will have the Apple chips before the end of the year, but the full transition away from Intel chips won’t be completed until 2022.....
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Time to check the $tock price:
"A rally in technology companies helped stocks overcome a shaky start Monday, extending Wall Street’s solid gains from last week. The S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent after initially sliding 0.6 percent following weakness in overseas markets as the global tally of coronavirus infections approaches 9 million. Investors are weighing the risks that rising coronavirus cases could pose to hopes for an economic recovery. That’s led traders to bid up stocks in technology companies that offer services online, a thriving conduit of commerce through the outbreak. Investors are also favoring companies that are poised to do well now that more businesses have been given the go-ahead to reopen. Retailers like Gap, Best Buy, and other companies that rely on consumer spending rose Monday, outweighing losses in health care, financial and other sectors. Airlines and cruise line operators were among the biggest decliners. Traders continued to hedge their bets by snapping up traditionally less risky assets, such as government bonds and gold. Encouraging economic data, including retail sales and hiring, have helped stoke optimism among investors that the reopening of businesses in the US and other countries will pull the economy out of its recession relatively quickly, but a rise in new coronavirus cases is clouding the prospects for an economic recovery. On Friday, stocks sold off after Apple said it would be temporarily closing 11 stores again in four states, citing a surge in new virus cases. The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the previous 24 hours. The UN health agency said Sunday that Brazil led the way with 54,771 cases and the United States next at 36,617. India confirmed 15,400 new cases. The United States also reported more than 30,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday and Saturday, with the daily totals their highest since May 1. A large share of the cases are in the South, West, and Midwest, where hospitals in some areas are becoming overwhelmed. Case numbers in South Korea and China, meanwhile, have appeared to be moderating after recent outbreaks centered in their capitals.
Keeping that lie going, and where are my dance videos from inside?
Anyway, if you are looking for love when this pandemic is over, commentator Louise advises her to "fill the void" until then with a virtual affair (you better read it twice, I gue$$).
Well, back to the office.... or not:
"New Yorkers can now go back to offices, but many won’t" by Michael Gold and Troy Closson New York Times, June 22, 2020
NEW YORK — With the coronavirus still a threat and businesses required to limit their capacity and ensure distance between workers, sidewalks that would typically be crammed were fairly empty. Subway cars also had relatively few riders for the start of the workweek, and parks in business districts were sparsely populated during the usual lunch rush.
“I’m really surprised this is still this empty still,” said Jason Blankenship, an optometrist, as he looked around a quiet Bryant Park.
At the same time, many of those who returned to once-dormant offices and stores were eager to make any step, however symbolic, toward the prepandemic status quo.
“It’s nice to get back to kind of normal, even though it’s not 100 percent normal,” said Kiki Boyzuick, 45, who works in human resources in midtown Manhattan.
It was hardly back to normal in Bo$ton, too.
More than 100 days ago, buildings across New York City shut their doors, and companies sent workers home. As the pandemic swept across the city, lockdown orders left offices dormant, stores shuttered and streets and sidewalks all but abandoned.
More than 100 cases of COVID-19 are still being reported each day in New York, according to city data. A contact-tracing program that is supposed to help track the spread of the virus as the city reopens has gotten off to a slow start.
They are going to quicken the pace by showing up at your door, and don't worry, they won't be asking if you took part in a Floyd protest.
Worried about a surge of cases in states that moved more quickly to reopen, New York officials are requiring that strict social distancing guidelines remain in place.
Husein Sonara, chief operating officer at the Sapir Organization, which manages two properties in midtown Manhattan, said his company had put markers on sidewalks outside its buildings, in the hallways inside and in elevators so workers can maintain social distancing.
Ken Fisher, a partner at Fisher Brothers, said his buildings would use thermal scanners to check the temperatures of everyone who entered. Hand sanitizer would be placed in all communal areas, and only four people would be allowed in each elevator at a time.....
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The gist of the article is that “people need to understand that we’re not getting back to any sense of normalcy.”
Related:
Valentino wants out of pricey Fifth Avenue
At least you can take a belt of whiskey while they leave.
Get your unemployment check yet?
"Attorney General Maura Healey on Monday blasted the Baker administration for not sharing with the public more details about how many people are going weeks without badly needed unemployment benefits as a result of a nationwide fraud scheme. That scheme prompted the state Department of Unemployment Assistance last month to interrupt weekly payments to some claimants and to block the initial filings of others as it investigated, but the Baker administration has refused to say how many people have been affected and what it is doing to fix the problem, even as hundreds of people have complained to Healey’s office. “The Baker administration has given little information for people to understand what’s going on,” Healey said in an interview, “and clear and transparent information is vital to the public.” “It’s a failure to serve the people of this state,” she said. “What they are doing is not good enough. Government needs to do better.”
Better watch it, lady!
Also see:
Mass., Calif. ranked as most innovative states
They can all pat them$elves on the back!
Minority coalition urges Mass. business leaders to commit $1 billion to fighting racial inequity
We used to call that extortion, 'er, a $hakedown, 'er, a payoff.
Tripadvisor says traffic and sales are improving
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the travel industry like nothing else in modern history, so it’s blessed relief after a rough spring.
Got your gear stored?
"The outdoor gear company Patagonia is the latest company to announce an advertising boycott of Facebook and its Instagram app for the month of July — or longer — saying the social media giant has “failed to take steps to stop the spread of hateful lies and dangerous propaganda on its platform.” Patagonia joins The North Face and the outdoor gear company REI, which have announced similar boycotts in recent days. It is not clear how much the boycotts will affect Facebook’s advertising revenue, which was nearly $70 billion in 2019, making up nearly all of its total revenue for the year."
What do you mean you put it back in the clo$et and want to play video games?
"Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox unit will shut down its Mixer video-game streaming service after failing to attract a large global user base and will recommend players and audiences shift to Facebook Inc.’s streaming site....."
Better go withdraw some more money from the bank:
"German payment service provider Wirecard said Monday it has concluded that 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) which were supposed to be held in two accounts in Philippine banks probably don’t exist, deepening troubles that last week prompted the resignation of its chief executive. Wirecard AG was once regarded as a star of the growing financial technology sector, but its shares have fallen sharply after the company became the subject of multiple Financial Times reports about accounting irregularities in its Asian operations."
What do you mean China stole it?
"China and the United States are locked in a contest to develop the world’s most powerful computers. Now a massive machine in Japan has topped them both. A long-awaited supercomputer dubbed Fugaku, installed in the city of Kobe by the government-sponsored institute Riken, took first place in a twice-yearly speed ranking released Monday. The Japanese machine carried out 2.8 times more calculations per second than an IBM system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which Fugaku bumped to second place in the so-called Top 500 list."
Sneaky Japanese once again doing a Pearl Harbor kamikaze.
Should have sat that war out.
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Time to relax to the $oothing $ounds of the Globe in its ComfortZone:
Hot Stove Cool Music adds Steven Tyler to its all-star lineup
Not a fan, sorry, due to a long-ago summer seen through a child’s eyes (he couldn't sing because he was wasted that night) that didn't lift the roof, as they say.
Actually, just relaying the tale leaves me with weird COVID dreams that quickly fade away in the har$h light of woke reality:
"Winchester man allegedly sought more than $13m in fraudulent loans from coronavirus relief program" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, June 22, 2020
A Winchester man was arrested Monday for allegedly filing fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $13 million from the federal program set up to help small businesses devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to legal filings.
Well, it doe$ look like he is in bu$ine$$ for himself.
Elijah Majak Buoi, 38, made his initial appearance via video conference Monday in US District Court in Worcester on a wire fraud charge, court records show. He did not enter a plea, and bond was set at $50,000, to be secured by $15,000 cash, records show. Buoi’s next hearing is July 6.
Oh, Boui!
Elijah, huh?
A lawyer for Buoi didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment. Voice and e-mail messages sent to Buoi weren’t returned.
In a statement, US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling’s office said alleged Buoi sought more than $13 million in forgivable loans under the Payroll Protection Program and managed to get $2 million under false pretenses. Bank of America has frozen two accounts holding the $2 million.
Buoi allegedly lied in the applications by vastly overstating the number of employees his company had, among other falsehoods.
“The defendant tried to defraud an emergency program designed to help businesses, and their employees, survive the most difficult economic crisis since the Great Depression,” Lelling said in the statement. “This behavior is reprehensible, and my office is committed to rooting out and prosecuting this kind of fraud wherever we find it.”
Lelling’s words were echoed by Joseph R. Bonavolonta, the FBI special agent in charge of the bureau’s Boston office.
“It’s outrageous anyone would try to steal from a program that was set up to be a lifeline to businesses struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic, but we believe that’s exactly what Elijah Buoi did,” Bonavolonta said in the statement.....
Is it?
Is he trying to $hame the corporate conglomerates that got it all, or is this $how trial a $mall-fry $capegoat for appearances $ake?
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Related:
"Boston police are asking the public for information about the death of a woman whose body was discovered in a wooded area of Dorchester June 14, officials said Monday. Officers said they found the woman’s body near 17 Jewish War Veterans Drive. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has not yet determined how the woman died. Police said anyone residents with information about the case should call homicide detectives....."
I do not dox nor post telephone #s, sorry, and they found her where?
Maybe she was attacked by an animal with malice in its heart:
"Authorities are searching for a bear that injured a man during an “unprovoked” attack in New Hampshire Friday night, officials said. “Never in my career have I dealt with a bear incident like this,” Lieutenant Jim Kneeland of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said. The incident happened outside of a home in the area of Ballpark Road off of Route 4 in Canaan, N.H.., around 9 p.m., Kneeland said. A man who lived on the property was taking an air conditioning unit out of his pick-up truck when the bear suddenly came up behind him. Before he could get away, the 80 to 120 pound bear suddenly clawed into his back. “The [man] started yelling and screaming, which startled the bear and made it run off,” Kneeland said. The man, who has not been identified, was treated for deep cuts he sustained during the incident, Kneeland said. He was back to work Monday and is feeling good. Kneeland said the attack was very uncommon. “What you usually see during attacks is that a bear feels cornered, trapped, or surprised, like it gets cornered in the garage and you didn’t know it was there,” Kneeland said. “I’ve never seen one that was unprovoked.” No one has seen the bear since the incident, and a bear trap has been left in the area for three nights. Kneeland said the hot weather is likely keeping the bear from moving around the area. If officials do find the bear, which is about two or three years old, Kneeland said they will euthanize it. “We don’t tolerate this kind of action,” he said. “We don’t know why it happened, but we don’t want it to happen to an unsuspecting person again.” Anyone who sees a bear in the area of the incident should call Wildlife Services and the N.H. Fish and Game Department’s joint phone line....."
What, no trial for the bear? They don't "tolerate" that kind of action? So he/she is going to be extrajudicial killed by an alleged higher authority?
I mean, that game official sure makes it sound like he had some sort of motivation as if he/she were human. It's an animal, buddy! It doesn't think like we do (thank God). This is like 15th-century stuff when they used to charge animals with crimes.
I sit here speechlessly apoplectic, readers. The world has gone mad because sick, genocidal $ychopaths are calling the shots and their politic puppets are pushing the most absurd stuff with the mouthpiece pre$$ reporting it all with a straight face.
Anyway, the answer is always the same with authority: kill it. Really reassures one about taking the damn vaccine they will be rolling out, huh?
Last they knew he was headed for the Maine woods:
"Two Gloucester residents were arrested Saturday after they allegedly tried to burglarize a home in Maine and were detained by the property owner at gunpoint, Maine State Police said. State troopers responded to a report of a disturbance at an abandoned home off Route 4 in Turner, Maine, State Police said. Upon arriving at the scene, troopers found Corey Francis, 47, and Erika Lane, 39, both of Gloucester, being held at gunpoint by the property owner behind the house, State Police said. The owner told police he had seen a black 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV with Massachusetts license plates parked in a field on his property. When the owner walked around to the back of the home, he found a door that had been forced open and a lock that had been torn off, authorities said. He pulled out a pistol when he allegedly saw Francis and Lane carrying items out of the home, and kept them from leaving the property until officials arrived at the scene, State Police said....."
Yeah, bury that brief and minimize it because it conflicts with the gun-control agenda. Good job, Globe.
He's lucky they didn't burn the place down:
"A five-alarm fire tore though a Clinton mill-style building early Monday, officials said. Jennifer Mieth, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Fire Services, said via e-mail that the blaze on Main Street started in a “multi-use commercial” structure that’s an old “mill style brick building.” Mieth said there were no known injuries and that a Fire Services investigator “responded to assist local fire and police with the origin and cause investigation.” The cause remains under review. She said a state hazardous materials team responded around 8 a.m. to assess the scene and left around 10 a.m....."
Was antifa in the area at the time?
Or maybe it was more like a Reichstag event:
"A $1,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person who spray painted Nazi swastikas on a Muslim woman’s car in Revere. Officials with the Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced the reward Monday and said that the vandalism was discovered in the early morning hours of June 11. The Nazi swastikas were painted on all four sides of the woman’s car, and the words “white power” were spray painted on the street, officials said. This is the fourth time that her car has been vandalized, according to the press release. “CAIR-MA condemns this appalling act of hatred,” CAIR-MA Civil Rights Director Barbara J. Dougan said in a press release. “The perpetrator made his views clear with a can of spray paint, but we know that many residents of Revere are outraged by such a blatant hate crime and are raising their voices to send their own message: this kind of behavior will not be tolerated.” Officials said the Muslim woman who owns the car wants to remain anonymous out of concern for her safety, but had some words to share with the perpetrator. “You may not like me because I wear hijab, but you don’t even know me. I use my car for my job, delivering medical supplies for sick people,” she said in the press release. “You hurt me with your hate, but you also hurt the sick people I am trying to take care of. If you are from Revere, you hurt your entire community.” Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Revere Police Department....."
Oh, I'm so, so tired of the endless false flags. In this case, CAIR is no better than the Jews. It's playing into the victimhood for money bit. If CAIR really cared, they would be ripping open 9/11 and exposing the official lie that has led to the alleged hatred (terrorist in airplanes indeed).
Btw, why is the focus of the alleged haters and protesters on past injustices and greivances, and not those of today like say, Palestine, for example, or Afghanistan and Iraq, where the US war has ground down those nations and left them in rubble? How about Yemen? Somalia? I could go on and on, but you get the point. No protests against the war machine -- or the billionaires, for that matter.
Okay, back to work. Should be easy to get a front-row seat after the transit officer resigned while under investigation for excessive force. He was really ticked off because the SJC ruled that people found dangerous can be held in jail for longer despite coronavirus -- after they let the cons out and before our cities were sacked, burned, and looted. Could be a connection there, no?
Protesters march in Boston for racial justice
Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they are doing.
Better get to $chool, kiddo:
"As Beacon Hill grapples with billions of dollars in revenue lost to the coronavirus pandemic, city officials across Massachusetts are calling on top leaders to preserve a long fought for increase in school funding, arguing the loss of money could have a catastrophic impact on the state’s most vulnerable students. Meanwhile, the pandemic, which has forced a statewide closure of schools since mid-March, is exacerbating already tight finances in these cities, causing local revenue to drop while increasing the costs of schooling in a COVID-19 environment. Should in-person instruction resume in the fall, schools will be practicing social distancing and other safety measures, which will dramatically reduce class sizes and the number of students riding a school bus and create new expenses, such as purchasing masks for students and staff....."
You kids will not be heading back to class, so I hope you said goodbye to all your friends and teachers for you shan't see them again.
Bowdoin College in Maine will limit students on campus to mostly freshmen
Hmmmmm!
Will you ever see the kid again after they test positive for COVID-19?
The whole experience has been ruined anyway. What you loved about college, the football Saturdays, will be no more. Even the players are concerned about starting the season.
Meanwhile, France’s students have returned to school (with obligatory masks, of course), and if the outbreak continues to abate in France, the government says nightclubs should be allowed to reopen in September along with trade fairs and international cruises.
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Look who is now an open book:
"In interview, Bolton calls Trump a ‘danger for the republic’" by Allyson Chiu Washington Post, June 22, 2020
Former national security adviser John Bolton, a self-described ‘‘lifelong conservative,’’ said he will not vote for President Trump in November, calling Trump a ‘‘danger for the republic’’ during a televised interview with ABC News that aired Sunday night.
‘‘I hope [history] will remember him as a one-term president who didn’t plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we can’t recall from,’’ Bolton told ABC News’s Martha Raddatz. ‘‘We can get over one term. I have absolute confidence. . . . Two terms, I’m more troubled about.’’
Yup, a one-term president who let a pandemic destroy an economy where people were at least having fun. His legacy will be presiding over the destruction of the United States. Hoover-like, if you will.
Bolton’s public excoriation of his former boss comes as part of a media tour to promote his new book, ‘‘The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.” The damning 592-page account of Bolton’s 17 months in the White House, decried by Trump as a ‘‘compilation of lies and made up stories,’’ is set to be released Tuesday.
In Sunday’s interview, Bolton expanded on revelations in the book, which he argued supports his claims that Trump is ‘‘unfit for office’’ and lacks the ‘‘competence to carry out the job.’’ Describing the president as ‘‘erratic and impulsive,’’ Bolton slammed Trump’s handling of US foreign policy, accusing him of prioritizing reelection and personal relationships over the country’s national security — highlighting his dealings with North Korea, Russia, China, and Ukraine as examples.
Thank God Trump didn't listen to him; otherwise, we would be at war with Iran, Korea, Russia, and China by now.
Related:
"President Trump backtracked Monday from comments made in an interview over the weekend in which he refused to rule out meeting with Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, a move that would be at odds with his administration’s hard-line policy toward the dictator and after a backlash from Democrats and some Republicans....."
Nice try, Mr. President. Just way too late is all.
Bolton painted an unflattering portrait of Trump’s relationships with other leaders, namely Russian President Vladimir Putin — who Bolton said thinks he can play Trump ‘‘like a fiddle’’ — and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. He appeared particularly irked by Trump and Kim’s historic 2018 summit, which marked the first meeting between leaders from the United States and North Korea.
The North Koreans have already shredded their advance copies.
Bolton said that while he doesn’t want Trump to win reelection, he is ‘‘certainly not going to vote for Joe Biden either.’’
Still gave money to him.
According to Bolton, the upcoming election is a large part of why he wrote the book.....
To interfere in it?
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This photograph came with the article:
John R. Bolton, then national security adviser, listened as President Trump meets with Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte in the Oval Office at the White House in July of 2019 (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post).
Bolton's look is what we used to call GRAPES!
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That's much better, and he can fill you in personally then!
Trump did win one small victory yesterday that was kept rather quiet:
"The US Supreme Court left intact President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on imported steel products, rejecting an industry trade group challenge that sought to strip the president of a powerful legal tool for imposing duties. The rebuff marks the second time the Supreme Court justices have turned away the American Institute for International Steel on Trump’s tariffs. The court made no comment in refusing to hear the group’s appeal."
You can judge the justices for yourself as whites are waking up:
"Police in Seattle say one person has been wounded in the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours. The shooting happened late Sunday night in the area near Seattle’s downtown area known as CHOP, for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.” A predawn shooting Saturday had left a 19-year-old man dead and another person critically injured. No arrests in that shooting had been made as of Sunday....."
That life doesn't matter except to parents, and CHOP's warlord and his lieutenants don't need no stinking badges.
At least it isn't North Carolina!
Also see:
Mourners pay respects to Rayshard Brooks at Ebenezer viewing
D.C. police and protesters square off near White House
Watchdog eyes violent June 1 routing of protesters
The Saudis wouldn't have handled it that way.
"World leaders must not politicize the coronavirus pandemic but unite to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization warned Monday, reminding all that the outbreak is still accelerating and producing record increases in infections. The comments by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has faced criticism from President Trump, came as the number of reported infections soared in Brazil, Iraq, India, and a number of US states. It took more than three months for the world to see 1 million virus infections, but the last 1 million cases have come in just eight days, Tedros said during a videoconference for the Dubai-based World Government Summit. Tedros never mentioned Trump’s name or the fact that the president is determined to pull the United States out of the United Nations health agency, but he warned against “politicizing” the pandemic. “The greatest threat we face now is not the virus itself, it’s the lack of global solidarity and global leadership,” he said. “We cannot defeat this pandemic with a divided world.” Nearly 9 million people have been infected by the virus worldwide and more than 468,000 have died, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Speaking later in the conference, WHO’s special envoy on COVID-19, Dr. David Nabarro, said he believed it would be “2½ years until there will be vaccine for everybody in the world.”
There is your daily reality check, and ONLY ONE SIDE is ALLOWED TO DO THAT!
"India’s coronavirus caseload has risen to 425,282 as infections soar in rural areas to which migrant workers fleeing major cities have returned in recent weeks. India’s health ministry on Monday reported 14,821 new cases and about 300 new deaths, bringing the toll of fatalities up to more than 13,000. The coastal state of Goa reported its first COVID-19 death. India is the fourth-most affected country globally after the United States, Brazil, and Russia. India’s government planning body Niti Aayog says infections have now emerged in 98 out of 112 of the country’s poorest districts."
"Africa’s reported cases of COVID-19 have surpassed 300,000 as the spread of the disease quickens across the continent. The Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday the continent now has 306,567 confirmed cases, including 8,115 deaths and 146,212 recoveries. It took more than 90 days for Africa’s 54 countries to reach 100,000 cases, 19 days to reach 200,000, and now 12 days to go above 300,000. South Africa, with 97,302 cases, accounts for nearly a third of the continent’s cases."
Something worse than COVID is coming from Africa:
"A vast cloud of Sahara dust is blanketing the Caribbean as it heads to the United States with a size and concentration that specialists say hasn’t been seen in half a century. Air quality across most of the region fell to record hazardous levels, and specialists who nicknamed the event the “Godzilla dust cloud” warned people to stay indoors and use air filters if they have one. “This is the most significant event in the past 50 years,” said Pablo Méndez Lázaro, an environmental health specialist with the University of Puerto Rico. “Conditions are dangerous in many Caribbean islands.” Many health specialists were concerned about those battling respiratory symptoms tied to COVID-19. Lázaro, who is working with NASA to develop an alert system for the arrival of Sahara dust, said the concentration was so high that it could even have adverse effects on healthy people. Extremely hazy conditions and limited visibility were reported from Antigua down to Trinidad & Tobago, with the event expected to last until late Tuesday. Some people posted pictures of themselves on social media wearing double masks to ward off the coronarivus and the dust, while others joked that the Caribbean looked as if it had received a yellow filter movie treatment. José Alamo, a meteorologist with the US National Weather Service in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said the worst days for the US territory would be Monday and Tuesday as the plume travels toward the US southeast coast."
Aren't there locusts within the cloud?
All the respiratory conditions that result will be diagnosed as COVID, watch.
"A 100-year-old Indiana woman who has lived through World War II, survived cancer, and successfully battled her way back from a bout of pneumonia last year, learned earlier this month that she’s also a survivor of COVID-19. Leora Martin of Elkhart found out a week before her birthday on June 13 that she had tested negative for the virus after being diagnosed with COVID-19 in April — one of 76 residents at her assisted living facility to be infected. She and her twin sister, Delora Bloomingdale, who lives in California, celebrated their birthdays as centenarians and Leora’s recovery while conversing through Zoom. “It was sort of a relief,” Martin told The Elkhart Truth of her recovery."
Then crack open a beer! I'm glad she was one of the lucky ones to survive. She must not have been put on a ventilator.
"After months of lockdown in which outbreaks of the coronavirus often centered in nursing homes, prisons, and meatpacking plants, the nation is entering a new and uncertain phase of the pandemic. New COVID-19 clusters have been found in a Pentecostal church in Oregon, a strip club in Wisconsin, and in every imaginable place in between. In Baton Rouge, La., at least 100 people tested positive for the virus after visiting bars in the Tigerland nightlife district, popular among Louisiana State University students. At a Christian summer camp near Colorado Springs, at least 11 employees fell ill just before the season’s opening, leading the camp to cancel overnight stays for the first time in 63 years, and in Las Vegas, just weeks after casinos reopened, a handful of employees from casinos, restaurants, and hotels have tested positive, and frightened workers on Monday begged guests to wear masks in a news conference conducted over video. The newly emerging clusters — which vary in size from a handful of cases to hundreds and have cropped up in large cities as well as small towns — reflect the unpredictable course of the coronavirus. They also underscore risks that experts say are likely to persist as long as states try to reopen economies and Americans venture back into public without a vaccine. New known virus cases were on the rise in 23 states on Monday as the outlook worsened across much of the nation’s South and West. Hospitalizations for the coronavirus reached their highest levels yet in the pandemic in Arizona and Texas, and Missouri reported its highest single-day case totals over the weekend. Even as much of the Northeast and Midwest continued to see improvement, there were signs of new spread in Ohio, where case numbers have started trending upward after weeks of improvement, and in Pennsylvania, where several counties have had a troubling numbers of cases."
Forgive me, but it is the same f**king message and bullshit every goddamn day, and it is no longer effective at all. These fear-mongers have jumped the f**king shark and have been discredited for the rest of eternity no matter how loud they squawk.
"Demand for tests has been growing especially in underserved communities of color in Arizona, which the COVID Tracking Project says has now has a 7-day average positive test rate above 20 percent. On Saturday, dozens of people waited for as long as 13 hours in triple-digit temperatures outside a sports complex for free drive-up COVID-19 testing in the sprawling west Phoenix community of Maryvale, a predominantly working class neighborhood of Hispanic families. Tomás Leon, senior vice president for Equity Healthcare, said staff had to turn people away as night approached, after nearly 1,000 tests were administered by the private firm that focuses on equitable health care. Equity Health plans another free testing event for people without insurance at the same Maryvale site next Saturday, Leon said."
No wonder their caseload is soaring. They are making up the numbers as they go along with their $hit tests. The Hispanics will learn not to trust the government here, which should make them feel right at home.
Oklahoma urges large-event attendees to get procedure
Well, Trump isn't worried about so why should you?
Louisiana won’t further ease business restrictions
That is because the state is seeing a troubling, recent uptick in coronavirus cases due to increased testing. How astonishing!
Public health officials, facing threats and political pushback, are leaving their posts nationwide
Bye, liars.
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Here is another low blow by the Bo$ton Globe:
Trump’s COVID disconnect threatens his reelection
The article is by staffers Liz Goodwin and Jazmine Ulloa, and they report that:
"A few days before heading to what he confidently predicted would be a packed indoor rally in Tulsa, Okla., President Trump reassured his fans on Fox News that the coronavirus was already “fading away” even without a vaccine, but the disconnect between the president and his team’s rosy predictions of the virus’ disappearance and the grim reality of the disease on the ground may help explain why the crowd size-obsessed president was greeted by an expanse of empty blue seats on Saturday. A recent Fox News poll found that nearly 85 percent of voters are at least somewhat concerned about the spread of coronavirus, with 35 percent of Republicans reporting they are “very concerned” about it. “I think that his description of COVID is not how people feel,” said Republican pollster Frank Luntz. “This is something I learned at the beginning of my career: You can’t tell people that happy days are here again when it’s 1932. They won’t believe it and they won’t listen to you.”
It's 1932, huh?
You know what comes next, right?
The above-the-fold feature:
Black students, alumni go public with painful stories of racism at prestigious prep schools
Shocking.
Now for the Globe's top story:
"A number of Southern and Western states are seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases. Why aren’t their death rates rising, too?" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, June 22, 2020
A troubling and unmistakable trend is taking hold across more than a dozen other states that eased their coronavirus restrictions weeks ago.
Cases are surging across the South and West, where life has moved toward near normal, with crowds of people dining, dancing, partying, and often ignoring pleas to socially distance and wear face masks, but, even as infections increase anew, the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in some of these states, including Florida, Arizona, and Texas, is not rising. At least, not yet.
Public health experts warn that a corresponding jump in fatalities in these surging states may be around the corner, because deaths in COVID-19 have come to be known as a “lagging indicator,” following several weeks after infection.
Or may be not!
Yup, the Globe led with this crock of fear.
Massachusetts is among the states with the largest number of cases nationwide, and it has moved more slowly in reopening, but the specter of a similar spike in cases here looms.
A specter of a spike, meaning a f**king apparition, something NOT REAL!
The fear was underscored Monday by health and community advocates who warned that the Baker administration’s reopening policies and time frame have failed to protect low-wage essential workers, many of them Black and Latino, who have borne a disproportionate share of infections and deaths.
There they go, turning the virus into a race thing to get their $hare of the cut that will keep them quiet and in line with the narrative.
Health experts are learning more daily about COVID-19 transmission, treatment, and who is at greatest risk, but there are still many unanswered questions, said Dr. Howard Koh, a former Massachusetts public health commissioner who was an assistant health secretary in the Obama administration.
They KILLED an ECONOMY and YOUR LIVELIHOOD over THAT?
Koh, now a professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said there are signs of more younger people being infected now in some states compared to earlier in the pandemic, potentially a sign that older adults with underlying health conditions are heeding advice and being more cautious, while younger adults are becoming more lax.
What a crock of shit, and you young people need to fight this back now or you are doomed.
That, he said, might also partially explain the phenomenon of surging cases but lagging death counts in some states, because younger people, often with mild symptoms, can spread the disease but have not suffered high death rates in the pandemic.
Might?
“The medical world is also getting more familiar with treating very ill COVID-19 patients,” Koh said. That, along with the news last month that the drug remdesivir helped shorten recovery for hospitalized patients, may help explain why fewer people seem to be dying right now in states that are experiencing a surge, he said.
Yeah, HCQ is cheaper, more plentiful, and more effective, but the Pharma pre$$ wants you to take the pipe.
Dr. Brooke Nichols, an assistant professor of global health at Boston University’s School of Public Health said it’s too soon to say whether spikes in death will follow the surges elsewhere, but she worries about cases climbing in Massachusetts — just not immediately.
Is that supposed to impress me?
Nichols said that because Massachusetts was hit so hard by the virus, and many residents knew someone who was sickened or died, most will wear masks and be cautious, at least in the coming weeks as more businesses reopen.
Actually, most residents don't know someone. They have been told they know someone who knows someone. You know, hearsay.
“I think we will get amnesia eventually, whether in the next month or two months,“ Nichols said. “Maybe through the summer months and interacting outside, people’s [relaxed] behavior will be mitigated for a while, but I do fear people will take the liberties we have in the summer and interacting with each other now and take that behavior inside in the fall and that worries me more,” she said, but a coalition of 94 Massachusetts public health, community, and labor organizations is worried now. The Task Force on Coronavirus & Equity released a statement Monday criticizing the Baker administration for not tracking data on low-wage workers, people with disabilities, people who don’t speak English, and others who have been hard hit by the pandemic.
Yeah, HOW DARE WE take our GOD-GIVEN LIBERTIES over what government and the $ychopathic e$tabli$hment want!
As for the state and the data, nothing new there. The shovel shit #s at us is all.
On Friday, the administration released a report that found the rate of positive cases among Black and brown residents is more than three times that of white residents, but it lacked the granular data the coalition says is needed as the state reopens to know whether certain groups or occupations are being infected at higher rates than others.
Who knew that COVID-19 could distinguish race amongst humans, huh?
The task force pushed for a bill the governor eventually signed this month that will require the Baker administration to collect and report more detailed COVID-19 data, including the occupation, primary language, race, and ethnicity for all those who test positive, are hospitalized, or die from the disease, but coalition members say they are frustrated by the administration’s slow pace on this.
The profiling is all about $$$ and surveillance.
The concerns were raised as state officials reported Monday that the coronavirus death toll in Massachusetts had risen by 17 to 7,874 and that the number of people testing positive for the virus had climbed by 149 to 107,210, as key metrics lingered at low levels relative to the surge earlier this year. The data show that one of the four key metrics the administration is monitoring to determine the pace of reopening fell, while two stayed stable and one ticked up slightly.....
I'm told the seven-day weighted average of positive test rates stayed stable, the three-day average of the number of patients hospitalized for the coronavirus decreased, the number of hospitals using surge capacity stayed stable, but a fourth metric, the three-day average of COVID-19 deaths, rose slightly.
You know what you can do with your spewed #s with no context.
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Time to hit the beach:
As beaches in Florida reopen, the state is reporting record daily totals of new coronavirus cases (Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press).
Oh, the paradoxes and perils of reopening during the coronavirus pandemic amidst such glorious Sonenshine.
Related:
Researchers say UVC light could keep buildings coronavirus-free
The Globe is saying that is a BRIGHT IDEA, but if so, why they turn it off before printing?
The "idea" is OBVIOUSLY INSANE, readers, but the ADDED BENEFIT would be the CANCER it GIVES you would be diagnosed as COVID-19!
You know, between the lockdowns that weakened immune systems, this silly and detrimental mask requirements, and the f**king UVC lights, one could be excused for thinking that AUTHORITY and the RULING CLA$$ WANT US SICK!
Thank God for their un$elfi$hne$$ and altrui$m, huh?
