"Free food, free speech and free of police: inside Seattle’s ‘Autonomous Zone’" by Mike Baker New York Times, June 13, 2020
For how long?
How long will the food last?
How much can you grow in a six-block city radius?
SEATTLE — In a neighborhood that is the heart of the city’s art and culture — threatened these days as rising tech wealth brings in gentrification — protesters seized the moment. They reversed the barricades to shield the liberated streets. The entire area was now a homeland for racial justice — and, depending on the protester one talked to, perhaps something more.
What has emerged is an experiment in life without the police — part street festival, part commune. Hundreds have gathered to hear speeches, poetry, and music. On Tuesday night, dozens of people sat in the middle of an intersection to watch “13th,” the Ava DuVernay film about the criminal justice system’s effect on Blacks. On Wednesday, children made chalk drawings in the street.
All singing Kumbaya, huh?
So when is the NYT moving its offices there, and I would love to see NYC without a police force! Better barricade up, NYT!
One block had a designated smoking area. Another had a medic station. At the “No Cop Co-op,” people could pick up a free LaCroix sparkling water or a snack. No currency was accepted, but across the street, in a nod to capitalism, a bustling stand was selling $6 hot dogs. It was dealing in US dollars.
One would think utopia would be non-smoking (I sure hope it is not pot), and how long will the medicine last? Or is $omeone making $ure they are $upplied, hmmm?
On Wednesday night, President Trump tried to portray the scenes in the city as something more sinister. Mayor Jenny Durkan responded with a tweet of her own.
Which it is, $ini$ter and frightening, and the BLM is calling for her resignation!
The lesson there is never appease a tyrant.
Carmen Best, the police chief, said in a video message on Thursday that the decision to leave the police station was not hers and that she was angry about how it developed. She also shared, without evidence, concerns about problems in the area, such as businesses being asked to pay money in exchange for protection.
That was quick flip for the New York Times! They now no longer believe official authority when it comes to the police! Cut 'em loose!
Best said later in the day that nobody had made a formal report and that those issues were just circulating on places like social media. The Capitol Hill Business Alliance said it had been reaching out to businesses in the area and found no reports of any such problems.
Oh, she had to retract the truth, huh?
Lot of that going on these days!
No official reports means it never happened because you can't believe social media.
Well, only CERTAIN SOCIAL MEDIA!
Other social media, no matter how staged and contrived, is totally believable!
A list of three demands was posted prominently on a wall: One, defund the Police Department; two, fund community health; and three, drop all criminal charges against protesters, but on a nearby fence, there was a list of five demands. Online was a list of 30.
Where will those funds come from?
The destruction that has been meted out?
Yeah, give the rioters and looters amnesty, that's a great precedent.
Utopia just ahead!
Get behind your local warlord, 'er, mobster, 'er.....
While Floyd’s death in Minneapolis drove most of the energy in the streets toward ending police violence and racial injustice, some of those here in recent days have pushed for a wider focus. Some of the messages mirror the 2011 Occupy movement and seemed aimed at targeting corporate America for its role in social inequities.
Good thing corporate is on their side now(!!!), and that f**king thing flamed out because it was nothing but an Obama op to hurt Romney (btw, the same organizer was behind Charlottesville, too). Every four years we get the inequality argument for political purposes, and then it's back to bu$ine$$ as u$ual.
What the above shows is that at this point in history, nearly all pre$$-promoted protests are controlled opposition. The globalists set the conditions by controlling both poles and everything in between. It's all staged and scripted propaganda for your consumption, folks.
“The more we encourage and focus on the race thing, the greater our attention is not focusing on the fact that this is class warfare,” said a 28-year-old protester and self-described anarchist who identified himself only by his first name, Fredrix, but some of those who mobilized here over race and policing have begun to worry that broader priorities could cloud the agenda at a time when vital progress for Blacks seemed within reach.
Yeah, don't focus on the billionaires funding your movement or the stacks and stacks of brown and black corpses in the wars based on lies!
Related: US billionaires get richer during coronavirus pandemic, combined wealth soar by half a trillion
That's my focus, and I'm $melling the $tench of a COVID-19 FRAUD!
“We should focus on just this one thing first,” said Moe’Neyah Dene Holland, 19, a Black Lives Matter activist. “The other things can follow suit. Because honestly, Black men are dying and this is the thing we should be focusing on.”
To the exclusion of all else (like the CHAZ), and then nothing else follows.
The protesters also had differing opinions about how long the autonomous zone would last. Some wondered if the Police Department would try to reclaim the territory. Others said they expected the barriers to be up for weeks, until state and city leaders had done enough to meet their demands.....
Inslee is going to negotiate with terrorists?
Oh, he knows nothing of it, huh?
F**king LIAR!
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One notices there was NOT ONE MENTION of COVID in the entire article, and it almost brings a tear to your eye does the corruption of the courts:
Even if convicted, Chauvin could collect a pension
Another New York Times pick-up (what a surprise), and that should blow up the protests again. Minneapolis will soon look like Mogadishu.
Good luck, Minny!
Meanwhile, Atlanta proved overnight that they are not a utopia:
Crowds of protesters flood the streets, set fire to Wendy’s restaurant
That means even more hungry people.
Who the hell are you working for, BLM, and why do you want us to go full-blown Bolshevik?
Completely get rid of whitey?
Then the Joo will turn on you!
"Along historic Richmond street, residents grapple with Confederate legacy" by Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider Washington Post, June 13, 2020
RICHMOND, Va. — No state has more statues to Southern leaders than Virginia, home to the former capital of the Confederacy, and no city faces a more tortured reckoning with them than Richmond, that capital, where its most famous monuments are not tucked away in parks here and there, but showcased on a National Historic Landmark street built for that very purpose.
The monuments have long been a source of disagreement along the avenue, where some residents regard them as priceless historical artifacts, others as racially charged relics. Those tensions are higher now than ever, with the city newly empowered to remove its four statues, Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, vowing to move the one the state owns, and some demonstrators taking matters into their own hands.
Glad to see Northam have that blackface whitewashed, aren't you?
The $tench of $cam and hypocrisy is OVERWHELMING!
Dueling neighborhood groups and Facebook pages have sprung up. The Monument Avenue Preservation Society’s board came out for removal Friday and apologized for allowing “the grandeur of the architecture to blind us to the insult of glorifying men for their roles in fighting to perpetuate the inhumanity of slavery.”
That was a secondary issue for both sides, but the North won so it is their version off history that prevails. Lincoln emancipated no slaves with his proclamation, but it gave his unpopular war effort the sheen of fighting for a moral cause -- even though Lincoln was a strict white supremacist and segregationist.
The real battle was keeping the Union together so the northern textile mills could have access to cheap cotton. That's why the Union went to war. They wanted the cheap cotton, and had the audacity to to criticize the way Southerners provided it. Typical Yankee assholeism.
For the South, the war was about that exploitation and the increasing admission of free states that would dilute and destroy their political power in the U.S. Senate. Who sits back and allows their political power to be destroyed other than kneeling Democrat mayors and governors? Hey, wait, those long ago rebels were Democrats! They stood on their feet and threatened to secede -- something they had every legal right to, the very route the colonies took to form this nation! Thus it was, in fact, a WAR of NORTHERN AGGRESSION! Your history book is wrong, as it so often is about everything.
The above is not a defense of slavery, far from it. It is simply an honest appraisal of the political and economic factors at work 150 years ago, devoid of pride or prejudice. My ancestors were back in Poland eating dirt at that time.
The unrelated Monument Avenue Preservation Group has been trumpeting a lawsuit to stop one statue from coming down. Some residents have handed out snacks to marchers and plastered Black Lives Matter signs on their doors, while others, feeling physically threatened, have begged police to clear the streets.
It was like that in Germany during the 1930s.
It’s no wonder reactions have been mixed. The demonstrations began May 30 with three nights of vandalism, looting, and arson, but after that, they settled into peaceful marches led by a handful of young people preaching nonviolence.
Too late. First impressions matter most.
They celebrated on June 3 when word spread that Northam would cart off the monument to Robert E. Lee and that Mayor Levar Stoney would back removal of the rest, but a court ruling on Monday, temporarily blocking Northam from removing the Lee statue, set off a spree of statue topplings. Before striking Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, vandals knocked down Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham in one city park and Christopher Columbus, the explorer now reviled for mistreatment of indigenous peoples, in another.
Rather than "unlearn" history, why not face up to it and learn from the mistakes?
I agree on Colombus; however, as my college history professor said, don't judge him too harshly. He "discovered" the New World -- never mind that it was already there with flourishing cultures) -- by risking his life and fortune, and made possible the lives we have today, you ungrateful fucks.
Navy Commander Bryan Pinckney, 40, was raised on Monument Avenue. His ancestors were blue-blooded slaveholders in South Carolina and Virginia, and Pinckney said he never questioned the Southern heritage all around him. As a youth, he laid a wreath at Lee’s statue in the state Capitol, but college and the Navy opened his eyes, he said. Now he has full sympathy for marchers outside his family home.
Until they destroy it, right?
“If you had asked me [about the statues] in the early ’90s or late ’80s, I probably would have said they were part of history. Now I would say there’s no question; we need to bring them down,” Pinckney said.
Since the newly Democratic General Assembly passed a law this year allowing localities to remove war memorials, many avenue residents have been resigned that ‘‘Jeff Davis may go away,’’ said council member Kim Gray, who represents Monument Avenue. Then came the marches and, with them, she said, an acceptance that all of the monuments need to go.
The marches — protesting police brutality against Blacks and racial injustice more broadly — have changed the way some avenue residents see their street’s namesake statues.....
The war is over then.
The Confederacy is truly dead.
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Will have to pick up the battle somewhere else:
"Far-right groups push back as protesters rally in Europe" by Iliana Magra, Elian Peltier and Constant Méheut New York Times, June 13, 2020
LONDON — Thousands of people rallied against police brutality and racism in European cities Saturday, punctuating a week of protests across the continent, but far-right demonstrators also emerged in large groups for the first time — particularly in London — leading to sometimes violent confrontations that included attacks on police officers.
Yeah, it is now the far-right controlled opposition attacking the police, sure.
Does the Communi$t pre$$ know no $hame or what?
The antiracism marches and rallies in Europe, energized by demonstrations in the United States in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, have led to the destruction of statues linked to slavery and demands for a reckoning with racial discrimination. European protesters have denounced the bigotry within their own countries and demanded that authorities address it, but Saturday was the first day when far-right groups and protesters, most of them white, fiercely pushed back. The situation grew especially tense in London, where crowds of white male counterprotesters clashed repeatedly with police.
Ah, the hell with it, YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
At least SOMEONE is pushing back against the masked leftist blackshirts and thugs!
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, who just a day earlier had criticized the antiracism demonstrations and exhorted Britons to avoid them, denounced the far-right attacks on police as “racist thuggery.” Johnson said the protest marches had been subverted by violence and declared that “racism has no place in the UK.”
Nor does any further lockdown or social distancing, huh, BoJo?
The protest and counterprotest came to an explosive head in Trafalgar Square, when small numbers of Black Lives Matter supporters and their antagonists threw bottles and booming fireworks against one another while police tried to separate them.
What would the Beatles do?
Parliament Square, where thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters had gathered just a week ago, was filled Saturday with hundreds of overwhelmingly white male counterdemonstrators. Many said they had assembled to prevent attacks targeting the statues in the square, especially that of Winston Churchill.
I'm all for knocking down the blood-soaked, war-mongering, racist Churchill, so I guess I'm not part of their group.
“People are defacing my history and my culture,” said Dave Allen, a 30-year-old lawyer from London who had joined the counterprotest. “That’s why these people are here, because we feel we’re getting attacked.”
Can't help but feel that way if white because it is the truth.
Wake up, whitey!
Videos shared on social media showed mounted police officers standing guard in Parliament Square in front of boarded-up statues, repelling far-right protesters who threatened and punched them.
The confrontations in London came days after racism protesters tore down a statue of Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader, in Bristol, and others scrawled “racist” on a Churchill statue in Parliament Square.
In Paris, some 15,000 people rallied to demand justice for Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old who died in 2016 after police had arrested him. Amid the overwhelmingly young crowds, demonstrators waved signs reading “No justice, no peace” and “Black Lives Matter,” less than two weeks after 20,000 protesters had assembled in front of a Paris court for Traoré.
They had to go back that far?
Why not ask for justice for a Yellow Vest instead?
As in London, the atmosphere in Paris had grown tense earlier in the afternoon when far-right activists unfurled a large red banner reading “White Lives Matter” on the roof of a building of the plaza. The crowd below chanted, “No justice, no peace,” in response and later cheered residents who tore down the lower part of the banner with chisels and knives.
All lives matter, but some matter more than others, and the stacks and stacks of brown and Black corpses from the wars based on lies are lives that BLM does not care about.
Some threw fireworks at the far-right activists, who were later chased off the roof by a handful of protesters.
Far-left thuggery is approved of in France!
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Once again, COVID-19 of NO CONCERN THERE!
Meanwhile, there has been an explosion of cases in China:
"Beijing shuts down seafood market after dozens test positive for coronavirus" by Vivian Wang and Elaine Yu New York Times, June 13, 2020
Beijing authorities shut down a major seafood and produce market and locked down several residential complexes Saturday after 53 people in the city tested positive for the coronavirus, renewing fears that China’s grip on the pandemic is not yet secure.
The places that have supposedly stopped it and that were the first to reopen are now seeing spikes in cases and deaths, or so we are told.
Nearly everyone who tested positive had worked or shopped at the Xinfadi market, a wholesale market on the city’s south side that sells seafood, fruit, and vegetables, according to the Beijing health commission.
More than 10,000 people work at the market, which supplies 90 percent of Beijing’s fruits and vegetables, according to the state media. The virus was reportedly detected on cutting boards for imported salmon.
As per the f**king script.
The developments prompted the authorities to temporarily shut down the market, to partly or completely close five others in the capital, and to lock down 11 nearby residential communities and nine schools that had reopened after lockdown measures put in place to curb the virus. State media outlets described the effort as a “wartime mechanism.”
Related:
"The dining experience figures to look markedly different. According to the new measures, tables must remain six feet apart or separated by walls or six-foot-high plexiglass dividers, according to Baker’s guidelines. Parties will be capped at six people, and diners will not be allowed to sit at the bar. Menus must be disposed of after each use or otherwise be put on display or be accessible on customers’ phones. Tables and chairs must also be sanitized after each party, and utensils should be rolled or packaged. Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito said that while employees will have to wear face coverings and patrons will have to do the same when moving about restaurants, customers while seated “don’t need to wear their face covering” and they can “enjoy the experience of dining out.” Restaurants also should get diners’ contact information, whether they make a reservation or walk-in for a table, according to the guidelines. That’s similar to rules the Baker administration has imposed on other industries to track who comes and goes from their businesses. In the event of a presumptive or actual positive COVID-19 case of a worker, patron, or vendor, the restaurant must immediately shut down for 24 hours and be cleaned and disinfected before reopening. The guidelines come as many states are attempting to determine how best to reintroduce restaurant dining to their communities....."
There won't even be a ball game on the TV, and who will want to patronize a place that is suddenly shut down after it opens?
Beijing is also tightening traffic controls into and out of the city, barring interprovincial tour groups, and suspending sporting events, according to official announcements and local news reports. Officials had already said Friday that they would suspend plans for students in first, second, and third grade throughout the city to return to school Monday.
There isn't going to be school in the fall or any sports this summer, Americans. It's all talk and distraction as the evil and nefarious New World Order plans are advanced.
The stakes for the city and the country are high. A renewed outbreak in Beijing could undermine not only China’s public health but also its geopolitical ambitions. China was the site of the first major coronavirus outbreak, but as the pandemic has ravaged the rest of the world, authorities in China have loudly promoted their apparent success in controlling its spread as proof of the superiority of their top-down political system.
Why are they reading Trump's script?
They have taken aggressive steps to prevent a second wave, including testing almost all of the 11 million residents of Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the outbreak began. The authorities appear to be especially wary of an outbreak in the capital city; even after other cities began welcoming domestic travelers, Beijing for a time maintained stricter requirements for new arrivals.
It STILL wasn't enough if this flop is to be believed.
Before the new cluster of cases, Beijing had not reported any new locally transmitted cases for eight weeks. China’s wet markets — where vendors sell fresh meat, seafood, and produce — have come under scrutiny in recent months, because many of the first reported cases in Wuhan were tied to a seafood market there that has since been permanently closed. Epidemiologists have not arrived at a consensus on whether the market was the source of the virus.
If you believe that crap I have a bridge to sell you, and no consensus yet because if this weak-ass virus even exists it has all the hallmarks of a US bio-lab creation.
Seven of the 53 people who tested positive over the previous three days had shown symptoms, while 46 were asymptomatic, according to Beijing health officials. Of the seven people with symptoms, six had not left Beijing in the previous two weeks, officials said.
Here we go again, asymptomatic carriers!
If so, the lethality of the thing should be called into question as well as the possibility that herd immunity has already been reached. In that case, we should be let out and not have our immune systems weakened further by a lockdown. It's like GOVERNMENTS WANT to KEEP US SICK and VULNERABLE!
Oh, btw, if you think I ma buying the bullshit, contaminated with coronavirus, false positive, doesn't detect COVID but only any coronavirus flu, which means all of them, tests and authority telling me I'm positive, you haven't been paying attention.
The Beijing health commission said that at least three of the seven were employees of the Xinfadi market, including a 50-year-old purchaser for the market who was in serious condition and a 35-year-old salesman. Another three had visited the market, according to the state media. Officials did not announce any connection for the seventh person.
The asymptomatic cases were all market employees, with the exception of one who had been in close contact with a Xinfadi worker. They were discovered after health officials tested hundreds of workers en masse after the first cases were reported.
We are becoming more like China by the minute over here!
Officials also collected environmental samples and tested meat and seafood from the market, some of which came back positive, suggesting that workers could have been infected either through contact with an infected person or simply by visiting the market, said Pang Xinghuo, the deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Did they test a goat, piece of fruit, and motor oil like in Africa?
I mean, good-f**king Christ, readers!!!
The FOOD tested positive, huh?
Will have to CULL that population as well, you bastards!
After the virus was detected on cutting boards for imported salmon, supermarket chains throughout the city discarded their stocks of salmon, according to the local news media.
PFFFFT!
Officials said they would set up temporary open-air trading posts to maintain the availability of fruit and vegetables.
Like dining outside in the road, right?
It's a requirement for work here in the U.S.S.A.
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Speak of the devil:
"Too close for comfort, and the virus, in Russia’s communal apartments" by Andrew E. Kramer New York Times, June 13, 2020
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Through the thin wall separating her from her neighbors, Dr. Anzhela Kirilova began to hear the rasping cough associated with COVID-19 sometime in May. That was hardly a surprise, as a few weeks earlier her neighbors had heard the same cough coming from her room.
Kirilova, who works in a COVID-19 ward at a hospital, said she had tried to warn the single man and the young family with whom she shares the four-room apartment, suggesting they wear masks in the kitchen.
“They said, ‘We don’t care, and we’ll do what we want,’ ” she said with a shrug.
The Russian version of flipping them the bird.
For residents of Russia’s communal apartments — a relic of the Soviet Union but still home to hundreds of thousands of people, most of them in St. Petersburg — self-isolation to fend off the coronavirus is hardly an option.
From a half-dozen to more than 20 people live in separate rooms within a single apartment, typically one to a family, while sharing a kitchen and bathroom in one large, usually unhappy, household. In St. Petersburg, about 500,000 people live in communal apartments, constituting 10 percent of the city’s population.
Life in communal apartments has always bordered on intolerable. Rules for close-quarters living among people who may despise one another are delicate.
“Because of a lack of privacy, people become very suspicious,” said Ilya Utekhin, a professor of anthropology at the European University of St. Petersburg and author of “Essays on Communal Life.”
It's a good thing we don't have that in AmeriKa!
Even in the best of times, which, to be honest, there have not been many for the communal apartment residents of this city, “they believe their neighbors want to inflict all kinds of damage,” he said. “They become afraid. They are sure that in their absence, their neighbors are looking at or touching their things.”
The people have been weaponized again$t each other!
Some families keep their own toilet seat, usually hanging on a nail in the bathroom, which they swap out for the common seat. In another arrangement, several families that get along share a seat among themselves, but not with others. This is called a “toilet seat circle.”
This is literally turning into another piece of New York Times shit that should be flushed.
The tensions have been compounded by the threat of the new coronavirus. Russia, with more than 500,000 reported cases, has the third-highest number of infected people after the United States and Brazil.
It's ravaging the place as Putin prevaricates from his bunker.
What happened to him?
It's like a body double has been substituted in his place.
Health authorities have not released statistics on infections in communal apartments in St. Petersburg, but the slow burn of infection has served to heighten tensions between residents, shedding light on the lingering poverty and shabby living arrangements.
The idea of communal apartments sprang up right after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In a process they called “creating density,” the communists divided up the palaces and apartments of the rich, the noblemen, and various lords and vassals of the czarist court and moved in thousands of poor families.
They wanted to create a utopia, and they failed (how about that mustache!).
That is WHERE WE ARE HEADED, America!
WAKE the FUCK UP!
The resulting communal apartments, of which about 69,000 remain today, accounting for as much as 40 percent of the residential real estate in central St. Petersburg, became a blend of architectural opulence and everyday penury.
Millions of people in the Soviet Union lived in communal apartments. Most are now gone outside of St. Petersburg, where they remain because of the vast number of historic buildings that had been converted to communal apartments. On floors once walked by Russian aristocrats, residents argue over noise, unwashed dishes, demented or alcoholic neighbors, guests, and germs.
Out on the streets, St. Petersburg remains, as ever, a magnificent tableau of palaces and beauty, now bathed in the eerie, round-the-clock light known as the White Nights, but inside the communal apartments is a world of dank spaces with dangling wires, sepia-colored sinks, peeling wallpaper, and strange smells, but sporting high ceilings and original 19th-century moldings, brass fixtures, and parquet floors.
In the complex social calculus of their world, inquiring about coughs or sneezes — no matter how vital during the pandemic — is still seen as violating a cardinal rule by intruding on what shreds of privacy remain.
Better choke it down and suffocate yourself, and one can only wonder.....
(AHEM)
When the coughing started in the next room, for example, Kirilova did not ask if her cohabitants had the virus, she said, lest she create what is known as a “scandal” by interfering in personal affairs.
“It’s not comfortable for me to barge in on their business,” she said, and Ekaterina Melnika, who lives in a room near Kirilova, said in a separate interview in the apartment kitchen that she could not recall the doctor warning neighbors about her work in a COVID-19 ward but added that maybe “I didn’t understand.” She said she was upset, but, in a sign of how tightly residents guard their privacy, Melnika said she had not felt it was her place to ask why the couple next door, with whom she shares a kitchen and bathroom, spent two weeks or so in bed. “Sometimes a person is just at home, but I don’t know why,” she said, adding that her husband coughed not because of the virus but because he is a heavy smoker.
Unlike the U.S., where we have busybodies all over the f**king place!
Russian cities began reopening after lockdowns last week, although reported new infections have plateaued at about 9,000 a day. The city has set up 1,580 cots at convention centers for residents of communal apartments if needed, but few seemed aware of the option.
Don't trust their government?!
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Russians must remember the GULAGS!
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Also see:
In every corner of Bangkok, spirits need a home and maybe a strawberry Fanta
Praying to God in Thailand gets you a soda!
I can't help but wonder why he is not hearing our prayers?
Why is he waiting so long?
Is he not there?
We need help now, right now!
Why must this burden fall on us alone?
Why has he forsaken us?
Despite risks, Greek islands keen to reopen to tourists
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
You made your own beds, now f**king lie in it!
"Coronavirus cases spike across Sun Belt as economy lurches into motion" by Julie Bosman and Mitch Smith New York Times, June 13, 2020
CHICAGO — The warning has echoed ominously for weeks from epidemiologists, small-town mayors, and county health officials: Once states begin to reopen, a surge in coronavirus cases will follow.
That scenario is now playing out in states across the country, particularly in the Sun Belt and the West, as thousands of Americans have been sickened by the virus in new and alarming outbreaks.
Should have NEVER REOPENED!!
Sorry, Steve!
Hospitals in Arizona have been urged to activate emergency plans to cope with a flood of coronavirus patients. On Saturday, Florida saw its largest single-day count of cases since the pandemic began. Oregon has failed to contain the spread of the virus in many places, leading the governor Thursday to pause what had been a gradual reopening, and in Texas, cases are rising swiftly around the largest cities, including Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas.
“I’m very concerned about it,” said Mayor Eric Johnson of Dallas, noting that after months of warnings and isolation, many residents had stopped wearing masks and maintaining social distance out of sheer fatigue. “They’ve been asked for quite some time to not be around people they love, and that they want to spend time with. Wearing a mask is not pleasant, and I think people are tired.”
And angry, you Joo cuck!
Mayor Eric Johnson speaks during a news conference at City Hall to discuss the coronavirus crisis in Dallas, on Wednesday, April 22 (Tony Gutierrez/AP)
Do jou see what I see?
He says the reopen is the likely reason the state saw a jump in coronavirus cases, and what timing by the mayor of Dallas!
For close to a month, much of the United States has looked like a nation open or beginning to open, and increasingly unfettered by restrictions meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus. With many government limits removed and people left to make individual choices about precautions, Americans have gone back to salons and restaurants, crowded into public parks, and, in dozens of cities, joined large public demonstrations protesting police misconduct.
As if "normal" with no tyranny or onerous restrictions on life.
Overall, daily coronavirus cases across the US are essentially steady, stuck on a plateau. More than 2 million people have now contracted the virus in this country, according to a New York Times database, and every day, about 21,100 new known cases are reported, not much lower than the numbers from a month ago. About 800 people die from it each day. Those figures have both dropped significantly since peaking in April, but as of Saturday, the daily number of new coronavirus cases was climbing in 22 states, shifting course from what had been downward trajectories in many of those places.
According to a NYT database.
HA!
The spikes in cases bring leaders in these states to a new crossroads: Accept the continued rise in infections as an expected cost of reopening economies or consider slowing the lifting of restrictions aimed at stopping the spread or even imposing a new set of limits.
LOCK IT ALL BACK UP!!!
As testing capacity has increased, so has the number of cases being counted, and officials in places like Arizona and Florida say the increase in cases may be explained, partly, by the growing availability of tests.
Yeah, that is what we have been saying, which is why tests have lagged, and now we don't trust the damn tests or the evil psychopaths behind all this.
Speak of the devil again!
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, said Friday in an interview with ABC News that it was important to look both at case numbers and the percentage of positive tests to understand whether upticks in cases reflected broader transmission in American cities.
“If you test more, you will likely pick up more infections,” Fauci said. He added, “Once you see that the percentage is higher, then you’ve really got to be careful, because then you really are seeing additional infections that you weren’t seeing before,” but epidemiologists said that even taking into account a rise in testing, the increase in confirmed cases in Sun Belt states suggested increased transmissions.
I'm so sick of you f**king liars and your SUGGESTIONS!
If more tests had been conducted earlier, the death rate would have been lowered (like now) and herd immunity, even if the asymptomatic BS is to be believed and not the crap tests that are contaminated and faulty. Think I trust them telling me I'm positive. F**k that! Not in the PHARMA-controlled health $y$tem.
Despite the uptick in cases in some states, there are also states that have been reopened for weeks where the number of new known virus cases has slowed. Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Colorado — which all began reopening in late April or early May — have seen hopeful signs.
It is possible that the full effect of reopening may be hidden from view. Certain states and counties are testing less than others, and reopening has looked different in different places, partly depending on varying habits of residents.....
Save that for last, yeah!
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If you want a belt, there was a full-page Total Wine ad when I turned the page, with "Pours with High Scores."
Related:
Idaho community mourns after remains of 2 kids found
They presumably died of COVID and the mother tried to hide that fact by covering it up, 'er, burying them.
Thousands march against racism as protests continue around the region
Only scores of people who turned out to protest police brutality and racial inequalities in an event that culminated with a march through the neighborhood?
You a good whitey or a bad whitey?
Shame makes a comeback
The Jewi$h columnists says "it only took scores of Black bodies piling up for years, a pandemic, an economic collapse, and the jarring images of smashing store windows to make it happen."
There is, of course, no shame in the foreign wars based on lies that were promoted by her employer.
Some members push back as Mass. Asian American Commission head stands firm on Black Lives Matter statement
Have at it, they got a point.
So which side you on, Yellow man?
Coronavirus ebbs in Mass., but surges elsewhere could threaten progress
The liars can fuck off with their out-of-context numbers that they throw at us everyday, and better LOCK IT BACK UP, Chuck! Like NOW!
"The Middlesex district attorney’s office continues to investigate the discovery Friday of the body of a 62-year-old missing man in the stairwell of a Bedford Veterans Administration building. On Saturday, Meghan Kelly, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office, said in an e-mail that the body was wearing the same clothes the man had on when he went missing more than a month ago. Kelly did not release any further information. The man, who was not identified, was last seen May 8 at the Bedford VA Medical Center, the district attorney’s office said. A resident at the campus found his body Friday, according to the district attorney. Caritas Communities, which owns the veterans’ housing where the man lived, reported the man missing May 13, the company said in a statement on Saturday. The building the man was found in was not owned by Caritas, the company said in the statement. “On May 13, we filed a missing persons report and have been working with the VA and the Bedford police to ascertain the whereabouts of this resident," the statement said. "The stairwell where the deceased man was found was outside the lease premises of Caritas Communities.” Bedford Veterans Quarters, Caritas said, is an independent living residential facility where residents are free to come as go as they please."
Look at them all pass the f**king buck and wash their hands of responsibility!!
"Students and alumni are asking Dartmouth College to take down a campus weather vane that critics say includes a racist depiction of a Native American. The copper weather vane, which sits atop the school’s main library, depicts college founder Eleazar Wheelock sitting before a Native American who is smoking a long pipe. Behind Wheelock is a pine tree and a barrel that some believe represents a keg of rum. The Valley News reports that a Native American student group at Dartmouth called the fixture racist and demeaning, saying it’s a “patronizing and stereotypical depiction of Native peoples.” The group, Native Americans at Dartmouth, said removal of the weather vane “would be a welcome and long overdue change.” A petition started by a Dartmouth alumnus urges the college to take down the weather vane, calling it “a sad reference to the plight alcoholism and drug addiction played in the stealing of native lands to found Dartmouth College.” About 200 people had signed the petition as of Saturday. Dartmouth spokeswoman Diana Lawrence told The Valley News that officials understand and respect the community’s position. “After some consultation and additional consideration, we will determine what is the most appropriate action,” Lawrence said in a statement."
There does seem to be a hierarchy in the Globe, huh?
Jews come first, then Blacks, then Asians, then the Red Man, with women last.
"Vermont has been awarded nearly $800,000 in federal funds to buy four more electric public transit vehicles. Governor Phil Scott and the Agency of Transportation said this week that the funding from the Federal Transit Administration will cover 80 percent of the cost of the four vehicles, bringing the state’s total to 12. Green Mountain Express in Bennington and Rural Community Transportation in Lyndonville will each get two vehicles, which are smaller than buses and more like large vans."
The "green" conversion is part of the nefarious WEF project, and I'm so glad the government could waste money on that agenda-pushing crap while only sending you a $1200 Chump change check.
The Globe buried this on page B7:
"Pawtucket teacher, two women charged with vandalizing Columbus monument in Providence; Memorial had been fenced off following wave of attacks on Columbus statues in other cities" by Amanda Milkovits and Edward Fitzpatrick Globe Staff, June 13, 2020
PROVIDENCE — A teacher at Joseph Jenks Junior High School in Pawtucket, R.I., and two women are accused of trying to vandalize a Christopher Columbus statue in Columbus Square early Saturday.
The monument was recently boarded up and fenced off in an attempt to protect it, following attacks on Columbus statues in other cities, but the giant wooden box encasing it still became a target, said Providence police Major David Lapatin.
Derrick W. Garforth, 34, a social studies teacher at Jenks, and Charlotte Whittingham, 28, both of Providence, were arrested just after 1:30 a.m., after detectives in the area saw them run up and lob containers of paint at the boxed statue, according to police. The paint splattered on plywood and fencing surrounding the statue.
Derrick W. Garforth, 34, of Providence (Courtesy Providence Police Department)
Why does he look afraid?
Charlotte Whittingham, 28, of Providence (Courtesy Providence Police Department)
She looks like she is on drugs.
Garforth and Whittingham appeared to have been dropped off by Mackenzie Innis, 26, of Peabody, Mass., who was arrested when she looped back to pick them up. Detectives reported finding open containers of paint, masks, and gloves in her car.
MacKenzie Innis, 26, of ProvidenceCourtesy Providence Police Department
Oh, she is stoic and tough, huh?
Chained heat!
Garforth and Whittingham were charged with desecration of a grave, a felony, and all three were charged with conspiracy. They were due to be arraigned later Saturday at the Providence Public Safety Complex.
Garforth did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment Saturday morning.
What will the children think?
The Columbus statue, a cast of a sculpture by Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, has been the target of vandals multiple times over the years, each time forcing a debate over the legacy of the Italian explorer.
Raymond Two Hawks Watson, chief executive officer and founder of the Providence Cultural Equity Initiative, said Saturday that the attempted vandalism wasn’t a surprise, given that the monument has been defaced repeatedly in the past and that the Columbus statue in Boston was recently beheaded by protesters. (Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said his city’s statue will be placed in storage.)
If they excuse it I'm going to get angry.
Watson said the Columbus statue is located on land in Providence that was home to his Mashapaug Narragansett Tribe, and he said, “You have large populations of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans nearby in Providence, and that is who Columbus colonized.”
Watson called for moving the statue to a safe indoor location, and for a community discussion about Columbus and his legacy — including the viewpoints of the Italian community, the Native American community, and others.
“Let’s be intentional about it,” Watson said. “I can’t justify the statue given my people’s history of colonization, but I want to respect and give space for other communities in the relationship they have to the statue.”
Cuck!
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Looks like a great example for the kids, and there is something called this day in history right next to the article.
Gotta be comic irony, right?
The section ends with a photograph and caption that is nowhere to be found:
"WARM WELCOME -- Nicole Miranda spread her arms wide out in the sunshine while she and her friend Tatiana Lopez tested the water off Quincy Shore Drive."
Neither one is wearing masks or distanced.
So are you ready for the sequel to lockdown, and why is her face not covered?!!!
Better blow her a kiss as she ages well with the question of bodily consent in the age of COVID-19 hangs over us all.
Now that the white anti-racist movement has arrived and the police data belongs to the people, the statue-toppling, right and wrong, can continue in the new era of racist violence and white resentment that, as a Black mother-to-be, is full of heartache whose unborn son will be viewed as a threat (can always abort like Sanger wanted, and how do you defend something like that?).
Now that the white anti-racist movement has arrived and the police data belongs to the people, the statue-toppling, right and wrong, can continue in the new era of racist violence and white resentment that, as a Black mother-to-be, is full of heartache whose unborn son will be viewed as a threat (can always abort like Sanger wanted, and how do you defend something like that?).
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Today's top story and concern in the Bo$ton Globe:
"Will 2020 crises permanently derail community college students’ educations?" by Laura Krantz Globe Staff, June 13, 2020
Even before the coronavirus crisis, the economic collapse, the protests over racial injustice, life had been upended for Richard Brea, a 33-year-old student at Bunker Hill Community College.
Brea, of Lynn, had taken the spring semester off after a stressful fall juggling a draining job and coursework. Then the pandemic hit. Soon he was furloughed from work; then he caught the coronavirus. His father contracted the virus, too, and within weeks had passed away alone in the hospital.
Now, Brea is fixated on the Black Lives Matter protests unfurling across the country and the calls for equality and acceptance that he, as a Latino, has been pushing for long before police killed George Floyd.
“It kind of made school the last thing on my mind,” Brea said.
Brea is one of 12,000 students at Bunker Hill Community College whose lives and educations have been shaken by their campus’s sudden closure in March and the continuing tumult of 2020. More so even than at other schools, the repercussions of the pandemic have reverberated deeply at community colleges, which serve primarily part-time students who juggle families and jobs, and even in normal times struggle with basic needs like food, housing, child care, and transportation.
Bunker Hill, whose student body is more than two-thirds students of color and a quarter Black, has for years grappled with state budget cuts that have forced a growing share of the cost onto students who can least afford it, making it that much harder for them to achieve the social mobility that education promises. Over the past 20 years, the school has gone from being mostly funded by the state to mostly funded by students.
While most students at the many private, four-year colleges in Greater Boston will resume their studies this fall in one form or the other, that is not a guarantee at Bunker Hill, the largest community college in the state. Like Brea, many have lost jobs, family members, or housing as a result of the pandemic. Others lack a quiet place to study or a laptop and Wi-Fi. If circumstances become too difficult, they might never return.
“I worry about losing a generation ... of the students who might have climbed up to a different socioeconomic level,” said Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College.
Eddinger, who has led Bunker Hill for seven years, said the rapid and chaotic shift to online education this semester reminded her of two things she already knew well. The first is that a community college is a social hub that — in normal times — connects students not only with education but with social services to help them break out of cycles of racial and socioeconomic inequality.
It's obviously not working then, right?
Now take a knee!
The second: “The rest of higher education really doesn’t understand who community colleges students are.”
No future then.
The president, herself an immigrant to the United States.....
That is when I walked out of the classroom.
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Here is your loudest leader, kids:
Amel Viaud, 21, pictured in front of a mural near her Mattapan home Friday, helped draw thousands to a peaceful protest. The mural depicts Toussaint L’Overture (left) and Marcus Garvey, Black leaders she admires (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff)
The last guy was a Black supremacist and segregationist if my history books are correct, and I didn't hear a word she said even if she has been to the mountain top and seen the promised land.
Also see:
Boston public school students graduate in online ceremony
No masks and no distance.
Must be because Blacks are immune to COVID, huh?
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Trump faces bleak polls five months before election
I take the article by Liz Goodwin of the Globe Staff with a grain of salt and all I can say is bye-bye, good riddance, you're fired, and he already has been judging by the public insubordination exhibited by Esper and Milley. He's a figurehead, a carnival clown for you to throw tomatoes at. He has no power, other than that which he is allowed. He's all bluster and phoniness and bows to any type of pressure from above.
Now meet your next president (the figure on the right, readers) as the old crew is kicked out (the Washington Post reveals in a new book), and clear the streets for the inauguration.
Time to get you to the hospital:
"New normal for hospitals: Reconfigured spaces, staggered appointments, and COVID tests for admitted patients; Health care providers try to coax back more regular patients — and reassure them that it’s safe" by Naomi Martin Globe Staff, June 13, 2020
For the first few months of the pandemic, reports from hospitals around Massachusetts were grim: medical workers in spacesuit-like protective gear scrambling to care for infected patients, many on ventilators.
Now, with the number of coronavirus cases falling and health care providers resuming routine and elective care, hospitals are trying to coax back regular patients — and reassure them that it’s safe. Hospital halls are starting to bustle and return to their pre-pandemic rhythms, losing some of the feel of lurking danger during the surge.
Really?
WHERE?
As part of the new normal, hospitals have reconfigured spaces to reduce crowding and ensure everyone entering wears face masks and is screened for symptoms. Appointments are staggered. Waiting room chairs are far apart. At many hospitals, all admitted patients are tested for COVID-19.
I would rather die in the street then.
Meanwhile, hospitals are keeping a portion of beds empty in case of a second wave of infections.
More care denied leading to how many dead?
All for a damn drill!
“We understand that some people may have concerns about safety, given what they’ve seen on the news or what they may know about COVID,” said Dr. Paul Biddinger, director of emergency preparedness for the Mass. General Brigham hospital network. “Our data show that throughout the entire pandemic, we’ve been able to safely deliver care to thousands and thousands of patients who did not have COVID.”
OMFG!
Is he reading off a f**king simulated script or what?
What do you do when the DOCTOR is a LIAR?
During the surge in COVID cases, hospitals were forced to cancel scheduled non-emergency procedures, which pay a significant chunk of their bills, to make room for infected patients. Now, they need to urgently ramp up non-coronavirus care, both for their patients’ health and for their own financial security. Many have instituted pay cuts, furloughs, and other measures as they face both diminished revenues and the increased costs of coronavirus testing and protective equipment.
The last paragraph is DAMN MADDENING!
They were "forced" to cancel non-emergency -- one could say NON-ESSENTIAL -- procedures for the surge that never came, and what were they doing cutting staff during the heat of the crisis? WTF is with that? Didn't they NEED ALL HANDS ON DECK?
As for their "ramp-up" for their "financial security," they can FUCK OFF seeing as the LOCKDOWN has RUINED OUR LIVELIHOODS!
The state’s hospitals usually generate about $30 billion in revenue a year, or $2.5 billion each month. Those earnings plummeted by $1.4 billion — more than half — in each month of the pandemic, according to the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association. Nationwide, health care revenues fell 45 percent, according to a study published Wednesday.
Oh, look, they DIDN'T EVEN LOSE THAT MUCH on a PERCENTAGE BASIS -- certainly not as much as the rest of us who have lost everything!
“We’re really facing some pretty extraordinary financial pressure,” said Dr. Kevin Tabb, CEO of Beth Israel Lahey Health, who has taken a major pay cut himself, along with other executives. The system has lost hundreds of millions of dollars, he said, and the federal stimulus dollars “haven’t anywhere near covered the staggering losses.”
OH, WELL!
That is what you get for GOING ALONG with this $CAMDEMIC FRAUD!
At Brigham and Women’s Hospital this week, the lobby resembled a socially distanced airport security line, with staffers directing people where to enter and exit, or stand in marked areas to be screened for the virus. Patients stood on navy blue circles spaced 6 feet apart that read, “We’re stronger together 2020.”
Did they have to raise their hands to go to the bathroom?
"You get to the airport four hours before your flight is scheduled to depart. When you arrive, an airport security guard checks to make sure you’re wearing a mask and that you have tickets for a flight before allowing you inside the terminal. Once inside, you’re taking the stairs or an escalator (unless you’re disabled) because it’s impossible to stay 6 feet from others in the confined space of an elevator car. In the departures hall, thermal imaging cameras are scanning the crowd to determine whether there are any individuals with abnormally high temperatures walking about. Counter agents are all behind plexiglass, and facial recognition technology is used as much as possible to keep person-to-person contact at a minimum. A dramatic transformation in air travel — with changes potentially more sweeping than those put in place after 9/11 — is well underway. Simple tweaks, such as deep cleaning planes after every flight, to more invasive ones, like spritzing passengers from head to toe with disinfectant, have begun around the world. Nearly all options, no matter how dystopian they may sound (raising your hand to use the bathroom during a flight?), are being tested or considered to slow the spread of the virus. If there is any doubt that at least some of these changes will persist past the pandemic, look no further than TSA security, where those without TSA PreCheck are still removing their shoes because, 19 years ago, a terrorist named Richard Reid attempted to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in his shoe. When touchless temperature readings at security check points are still de rigueur in 2035, we’ll think back to the spring of 2020 when air travel once again changed forever. Until universal practices are put into place, airports and airlines are trying a bit of everything, some of it practical, some scary. In Hong Kong, the airport is testing a decontamination chamber that blasts passengers with a full-body disinfectant for 40 seconds. There are also robots roaming the airport to kill germs with UV rays. At London Heathrow, thermal imaging cameras are detecting travelers with high temperatures, but not everyone is buying into the need for such seismic changes in aviation. Another place where people tend to bottleneck on planes is in the aisle while they wait to use the lavatory, so RyanAir is now requiring passengers to ask for permission to use the bathroom. In Abu Dhabi, Etihad Airways is testing self-screening kiosks that help identify medical conditions, potentially including early stages of COVID-19. The kiosks use infrared and thermal imaging to record vital signs such as heart rate, body temperature, and respiratory rate. There are many more reports and warnings about what travel in the future could look like. SimpliFlying, an aviation marketing firm, came out with a lengthy report that recommends immunity passports. It envisions an airport where passengers either show their immunity passport, or go through a “disinfection tunnel” and pass through thermal scanners. Luggage is sanitized and passengers are individually notified when they can board via text message so there is no backup on the jet bridge. In order to complete these checks and others, it recommends getting to the airport of the future four hours in advance. Many of these ideas sound outlandish and impossible to enact, but before you dismiss them entirely, would you have believed a year ago that we would be hoarding toilet paper while being quarantined in our homes for two months? This is where the mélange of innovation and adaptation begins. With no vaccine on the immediate horizon and fears of a second wave of coronavirus casting a shadow over future plans....."
Who the f**k would want to board an airplane now, and I'm told the “impact of COVID-19 is going to be more lasting and game-changing for the country’s airlines than even 9/11."
Time to say farewell in a socially distanced photo.
Clerks handed each person a surgical mask and asked whether they had recently experienced symptoms of COVID-19 such as a fever, cough, or loss of smell. One man tried to enter the wrong way, prompting an employee to shout, “Sir!”
ASSHOLE!
The employee, not the patient!
That is some webside manner!
The lack of contact has had a MENTAL EFFECT on our "HEROES!"
How dare they treat a patient that way?!
HOW DARE THEY!??!
Elsewhere in the building lay 61 patients infected with COVID, and others who were awaiting test results. It’s a juggling act that hospitals across the state are dealing with as they ramp up non-COVID care while managing a total of 1,334 COVID patients, down from nearly 4,000 in late April.
I sure hope they are not commingling the patients!
In the radiation oncology department, Kenton Fabrick, 66, of Salem, surveyed the lightly populated waiting room, where rows of chairs had vanished to leave just a few. In the month he has been coming to the Brigham for radiation treatment for prostate cancer, he said, he felt safer at the hospital than at Walmart or Target.
“This is so much better, so much more controlled; everybody’s following the rules, it’s immaculately clean,” said Fabrick, a substance abuse services manager. “To save my life, it’s been absolutely terrific.”
Just wait until they turn on the 5G!
Not all patients are so sure about setting foot in hospitals during a pandemic.
HUH?
WHAT?
During the surge, ER visits for some serious emergencies fell sharply across the state. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reported a 33 percent decline in heart attack patients and a 58 percent drop in stroke patients hospitalized in March and April.
“It is far more risky to defer your care than it is to come in and get care,” given the many safety measures in place, said Tabb, of Beth Israel.
I'll take my chances, thank you.
At Boston Medical Center, the city’s safety-net hospital, the emergency room went from seeing about 400 people per day before the pandemic, to 150 in mid-April. Now, around 250 come in daily, which means the hospital “still has a big hill to climb” in making patients feel comfortable, said Dr. Ravin Davidoff, chief medical officer.
One patient came in six days after his stroke because he feared contracting COVID, Davidoff said, making it too late for him to fully recover. He believes many patients’ fears will ease as they see BMC’s strict precautions and that they’re being “as safe as one can be.”
How can doctor's be so delusional and insane (or disingenuous)?
The strict precautions are going to increase the fears!
Count that guy as a COVID casualty, too. The hospital will get paid more from the government.
This week, Governor Charlie Baker said the state had made enough progress in reducing the risk of the virus to enter Phase 2 of reopening the economy. That allows hospitals to resume “nonessential” elective procedures such as knee replacements, colonoscopies, and hip surgeries. During the first phase, which started May 18, medical centers had been able to bring back patients with more urgent needs, such as those requiring cancer surgeries.
Those things are not elective to the "non-essentials" who need them, you criminal fuck!
For patients whose care had been delayed, that was a relief.
Now, hospitals are working to schedule a backlog of cases, and choosing who goes first based on their medical needs. Specialty departments in many cases ranked which patients’ care seemed most urgent to protect their life or to alleviate severe pain or immobility. The state urged hospitals to use telemedicine wherever possible and ensure equitable access to care for all patients, regardless of their insurance.
The doctor asked me where does it Hert, and that is not practicing medicine. It's being paid to make a f**king phone call.
Key to maintaining safety is being aware of who is infected and contagious. Some hospitals are keeping COVID patients on dedicated floors or units, while others don’t feel that’s necessary. None are sharing rooms with non-COVID patients.
Except at Elmhurst in NYC, the epicenter of the simulation, 'er, crisis.
Many hospitals are testing all admitted patients for the coronavirus, including any women giving birth and people having most other procedures.
I hope they are merciful in regards to your hormonal imbalances.
Visitors remain limited across the state, but policies vary among hospitals. Often one companion is allowed during a birth or end-of-life for non-COVID patients. Because of the need to preserve protective equipment, visitors often aren’t allowed for COVID patients.
The prospect of a second wave of infections looms as the state reopens. To ensure sufficient capacity, the state requires each hospital system to keep at least 20 percent of its beds open.
Hospitals use models to determine whether they need to keep even more regular or ICU beds open, while also juggling the need to bring back scheduled surgeries that also could take up those beds. Boston Medical Center exceeded its ICU capacity during the pandemic surge and had to transfer nine patients, Davidoff said. “It’s always anticipating what tomorrow might bring by looking at today’s information,” he said.
Them and their f**king models!
It's enough to make you fit to be tied!
Hospitals expect patient volume will remain lower for the rest of the year, but the uncertainty of how much lower affects financial planning.
Who gives a f*** about their financial woes when your livelihood has been destroyed?
In Western Massachusetts, the BayState Health hospital network expects to see a 20 percent drop in patients from its pre-COVID volume over the next year because of people’s fears of coming in and because of the convenience of telemedicine, said the system’s CEO, Dr. Mark Keroack. “I don’t know a single [hospital] CEO anywhere who thinks they’re going back to the same volume as six months ago,” Keroack said. “It’s really anybody’s guess.”
He thinks telemedicine works, and watch out for the FBI sting.
Brigham’s radiation oncology unit has actually ramped up volume, seeing about 50 percent more patients than usual, to get through its backlog of cancer treatments.
“Cancer doesn’t wait,” said Dr. Daniel Cagney, a radiation oncologist. “Initially in March and April, there were significant unknowns, but we’ve been living with this for a few months. ... I feel very confident that we will provide the best care for patients and it’s safe for them to come into the hospital.”
As a guy once said, bring it on, and just because he feels that way doesn't make it true!
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I turn the page and the 13-page obituary section begins with the last page an ad for funeral home directors wanting to discuss your death.
Goodbye, everyone.
Oh, my gosh, I forgot to read the $port$!
