"Health experts warn of coronavirus risks at Trump’s upcoming rally" by Derek Hawkins and Paul Schemm Washington Post, June 14, 2020
Someone in the newsroom must have said that is a bad optic after inciting riots the last two weeks, let's change it to this.
Demonstrators observed a moment of silent on Sunday outside the Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta where Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot by a police officer on Friday night (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
No masks, no distance, but oh well!
It's not a Trump rally so it's okay!
WASHINGTON — Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious-disease specialist, warned that waves of infection could come ‘‘back and forth’’ for months.
Fauci said in an interview published Sunday that the coronavirus will linger in the country for months and that it will be about a year before things return to normal.
Fauci also told the British Telegraph newspaper it probably will be months before travelers from Britain and the European Union are allowed in the country and the real end of the crisis will only come with the development of a vaccine.
Fauci was, however, optimistic about the development of the vaccine, with several good candidates under development that could be ready by the end of the year.
‘‘We have potential vaccines making significant progress. We have maybe four or five,’’ he said. ‘‘You can never guarantee success with a vaccine; that’s foolish to do so, there’s so many possibilities of things going wrong. [But] everything we have seen from early results, it’s conceivable we get two or three vaccines that are successful.’’
Why has this lying, sick f**k not been removed from his post yet?
Related:
The First Coronavirus Vaccines May Not Prevent You From Getting Covid-19
The investigator at that site has drawn on the very interview and report that the WaCompo is citing. The post really is a piece of work and deserves two looks.
The indoor venues and large crowds anticipated for Trump’s rally Saturday and the Republican National Convention in August could put attendees and others at risk, infectious-disease specialist Michael T. Osterholm told Fox News.
Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said in an interview with Chris Wallace on ‘‘Fox News Sunday’’ that chanting and shouting can help aerosolize the virus, exposing the thousands expected to attend both events. ‘‘Would I want my loved ones in a setting like that? Absolutely not,’’ Osterholm said, ‘‘and it wouldn’t matter about politics, I wouldn’t want them there.’’
It's okay if it is outside, though, huh?
Still right next to you.
Osterholm said he also anticipated that the nationwide protests in the past few weeks over police brutality could increase the risk of transmission of the coronavirus, especially with police using tear gas and detained protesters being held in cramped jails. Several National Guard members in Washington and Nebraska have tested positive, but Osterholm warned that what happens in the next two weeks will be ‘‘telling,’’ especially as many states also are reopening.
Osterholm added that it is nearly impossible to predict the impact of these large gatherings and reopenings. ‘‘We’re not driving this tiger, we’re riding it,’’ he said.
The hell you are not driving this garbage narrative!
Osterholm said the virus won’t slow its spread until it has infected 60 percent to 70 percent of the country. He estimated that the coronavirus has infected about 5 percent.
Then the LOCKDOWN was the EXACT WRONG THING TO DO!
It PREVENTED HERD IMMUNITY and has LEFT US VULNERABLE!
All the leaders who locked people down are CRIMINALS!
They quarantined healthy people, thus CREATING the VERY PROBLEM they claim they were PROTECTING US FROM!
They are EVIL!
Other specialists have also estimated that, without a vaccine, about 70 percent of the population will need to be infected and develop immunity in order to stop the virus’s spread, a concept called herd immunity. The number of confirmed US cases now exceeds 2 million, less than 1 percent of the population, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Joseph Fair, a virologist who recently recovered from a serious bout of COVID-19, echoed that view on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Once it gets so ingrained in the population, there’s not a point where we can come back from that other than having a vaccine in place,” said Fair, who is a medical contributor to NBC News.
Even if it doesn't even prevent infection and only, maybe, might mitigate symptoms for an alleged disease that allegedly has so many asymptomatic carriers (didn't even know you were sick and no one dies except elderly nursing homes and other captive populations along with crisis actors and fictional portrayals in the paper).
The CDC recently projected that by July 4, US coronavirus deaths will probably jump from the current level of about 115,000 to somewhere between 124,000 and 140,000.
And if they don't, they will just lie about them like they have been all along, inflating the COVID death toll by presuming all died of COVID!
As he cheered the reopening of the economy during an appearance on CNN, Larry Kudlow encouraged people to keep being smart about venturing out into the world.
‘‘Social distancing guidelines must be observed,’’ Kudlow, the president’s top economic adviser, said Sunday. ‘‘Face-covering in key places must be observed,’’ but when asked whether that meant that Trump’s supporters should don face masks at his upcoming rally, Kudlow demurred. ‘‘Probably so,’’ he said.
On Sunday, Senator James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma, was asked on the same CNN program whether he would wear a mask to the rally. He said he ‘‘hadn’t decided on that.’’
‘‘You see actually very few masks in Oklahoma now,’’ Lankford said. He added that his state was ‘‘far ahead of the rest of the country’’ in terms of having controlled the threat of the virus, even though cases in Tulsa and across the state have spiked in the past week.
Go Sooners!
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Just below that:
"Defund the police makes some Democrats uncomfortable. That’s the point, activists say" by Jess Bidgood Globe Staff, June 14, 2020
WASHINGTON — As protesters have spilled into the streets of American cities and suburbs, calls for such police reforms as body cameras or deescalation training have given way to a more sweeping call — defund the police — that has revealed a chasm between activists like Tawanda Jones, a preschool teacher from Baltimore, and Democrats in Washington who have promised to help them fight systemic racism.
Last week, as President Trump seized on the slogan in an attempt to scare voters, congressional Democrats scrambled to explain that the marquee reform bill they unveiled, the Justice in Policing Act, does nothing to take funding away from America’s police departments, amid worries that a national debate over dismantling them could imperil the party’s chances in a crucial election year, but for activists, discomfort is precisely the point.
It wasn't Trump who scared me, it was the rioters lighting fires, destroying buildings, and looting.
As for the activists, I suggest you watch this powerhouse video now:
National Guard Alpha Co. 1-19th Special Forces (UW specialists) 40 Miles from Seattle
He is mainly focused on the Unconventional Warfare Pocket Guide (see page 11 for what he is talking about); however, he mentions one of the activists who got this op-ed published this weekend:
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
The piece is by a Ms. Mariame Kaba, an organizer against criminalization.
So a week after the editorial page editor resigned, the New York Times publishes her.
No wonder they think Seattle is a utopia.
Some, such as Jones, live in cities where Democratic leadership has never delivered effective police reform. Many are eager to push a party, as well as a presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in Joe Biden, associated with tough-on-crime measures in the 1990s and cozy relationships with police unions out of its comfort zone, and now, for the first time in decades they see an opening to reframe the country’s criminal justice debate.
So much for the Kushner crime bill, and the irony of what is reported above.
It's the Democratic leadership that hasn't delivered, huh?
“Defund the police is a bold demand — it’s meant to disrupt the narrative that we all have that more policing equals more safety,” said Scott Roberts, of the racial justice organization Color of Change. “When I see even some Democratic leaders who obviously want to do something in this moment around policing uncomfortable hearing the call to defund police, I think that’s a good thing.”
To some protesters, defund the police is a demand to eventually abolish police officers; to others, it is a call to reduce police budgets and reallocate those resources to community services such as education, mental health, and other forms of violence prevention. To many, the slogan is a reaction to the fact that Obama-era police reforms have not ended the killing.
I mean, the lunacy of all this. Obama didn't get the job done, and no allocation of funds from the endless wars of empire. Rioters have not a clue on that one, which exposes their controlled-opposition, destabilization function. Bravo!
“Police officers don’t keep them or us safe,” said Tiffany Cabán, a former public defender who narrowly lost her progressive bid for Queens district attorney last summer and is now the national political organizer for the Working Families Party.
Thank God the Rollins of NYC lost!
Six in ten Americans oppose reallocating police budgets, according to a poll from ABC News released Friday, although a majority of black voters and Democrats support defunding the police, but, at the same time, polls are showing overwhelming support for the protests, numerous police reforms, and broad agreement that the killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, by a white police officer is indicative of broader problems in policing — evidence of a rapid shift in public opinion.
The propaganda is so thick these days you are f**king paralyzed by it!
“What you see is, in real time, the ground shifting underneath politicians,” said Julián Castro, the former Housing and Urban Development secretary who made criminal justice reform a major focus of his Democratic campaign for president last winter. “That often leaves people in office a little bit shaky, but I think that’s a good thing here because I think what it’s unleashing is creativity and boldness.”
OMFG!!!
See: A Shocking Eye-Witness Account Of What's Really Happening During The Seattle Riots
Sunday Globe Utopia
Related:
Seattle’s Capital Hill Autonomous Zone is Going Full Lord of the Flies Idiocracy
Meanwhile, just down the road:
Portland protesters topple statue of Thomas Jefferson, father of the Declaration of Independence, as culture war heats up (VIDEO)
Good God, the writer of the Declaration of Independence has been blacklisted!
Activists have already notched local victories. Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles has pledged to cut up to $150 million from the city’s police budget, although that falls well short of deeper cuts proposed by Black Lives Matter activists there. In Boston, Mayor Martin J. Walsh has called for diverting 20 percent of the police overtime budget to other city services, and the Minneapolis City Council has gone furthest, pledging to vote to dismantle and reimagine its own police department in the aftermath of Floyd’s killing.
Good God, the writer of the Declaration of Independence has been blacklisted!
Activists have already notched local victories. Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles has pledged to cut up to $150 million from the city’s police budget, although that falls well short of deeper cuts proposed by Black Lives Matter activists there. In Boston, Mayor Martin J. Walsh has called for diverting 20 percent of the police overtime budget to other city services, and the Minneapolis City Council has gone furthest, pledging to vote to dismantle and reimagine its own police department in the aftermath of Floyd’s killing.
“It’s really about moving to take what we’re looking at, pull it apart, and put something new together,” said Phillipe Cunningham, a city councilor in Minneapolis.
Top Democrats have been hesitant to embrace the idea, and Biden said last week that he does not support defunding the police. He has called for an additional $300 million for community policing, but activists intend to keep the pressure on, especially when it comes to Biden. “We Democrats are saying, we must vote Donald Trump out of office, but that does not come at the exclusion of valid criticism of the person who is our presumptive nominee,” said Cabán. “Joe Biden is not where he needs to be on this, so it is our job to push him to get closer to where he needs to be.”
Looks like Biden has a Black problem.
Raumesh Akbari, a state senator from Tennessee who is part of a “unity task force” advising Biden on criminal justice, acknowledged that much has changed since the former vice president put out his campaign’s criminal justice policy last year.
Activists have also said the Democrats’ Justice in Policing bill falls far short of the kind of change they are demanding. “We are calling for an end to investment in institutions that criminalize, harm, kill, and fail to protect us,” said Gina Clayton-Johnson, of the Movement for Black Lives leadership team, in a statement.
What will you Democrats do when it is your head on the slab?
Representative Katherine Clark, the Melrose Democrat and a member of House leadership, described the legislation as “a beginning, not an end.” Although the bill does not defund policing, she said it is worth exploring “how we allocate our resources to move police from being a culture of being warriors to being guardians.”
Oh, I see, more appeasement. That never works, and she never once connects what she says to the foreign wars based on lies.
Ariel White, an assistant professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, compared activists calling for dramatic changes to those fighting for gay rights in previous decades. “Public opinion was not on their side and yet people had a very clear vision that they ultimately pulled the public along with,” White said.
Stop commingling every single agenda item into everything! It is wrecking your already no0n-existent credibility on everything.
In Minneapolis, the activists who wanted to change the police department had to make political changes first. Such groups as Reclaim the Block and Black Visions Collective had been organizing around the issue for years, and many activists there were galvanized by the police killings of Jamar Clark in 2015 and Philando Castile in nearby St. Anthony the following year.
Arianna Nason of MPD150, a group that calls for the eventual abolition of the Minneapolis Police Department, said they organized to replace City Council incumbents with candidates like Cunningham. Earlier this month, nine of the 13 members pledged to vote to dismantle the department — a move activists hail as a victory, even though it was only the first step in what will be a long and complicated road to any significant change.
“The fact that we’re able to get a supermajority of nine of 13 seats supporting us, that is a really big deal,” Nason said. “Democrats should be squirming, because they’ve failed us again and again.”
Both parties have failed us because they are captives to corporations, the MIC, genocidal globalists, and Israel. They stopped serving the people long ago, if they ever did.
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With some remote learning likely for the fall, schools agonize over how much Zoom time to impose
I was told they were going to be back in class this fall, but "with very little time — or training — educators across Massachusetts tried to move their teaching online, and many took one of two opposite approaches, each with drawbacks: Offering very limited real-time interaction with teachers; or striving to replicate the normal school schedule online" as we approach an even Greater Divide.
I feel so sorry for today's children who will be growing up in Gates' vaccinated technological dystopia.
Sorry for belching such spew, readers:
"Effort to keep state’s largest power plant open fuels concern about climate, public health" by David Abel Globe Staff, June 14, 2020
EVERETT — The towering smokestacks of the state’s largest power plant have loomed for decades over the Boston area, spewing pollutants that produce smog, warm the planet, and exacerbate asthma and other respiratory illnesses, such as the coronavirus.
One of the region’s few remaining fossil fuel plants to continue operating in such a densely populated place, the Mystic Generating Station was slated to be closed two years ago, when Exelon Corp., its Chicago-based owner, said it was no longer profitable, but then the operator of the regional power grid threw the Mystic plant a lifeline. Executives of ISO New England worried they needed the plant in order to keep the area’s lights on. So they awarded the company a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars — subsidized by New England ratepayers — to continue operating Mystic through 2024.
Now, with the plant’s oil and gas turbines belching millions of tons of noxious pollutants every year, Exelon is seeking to continue operating the 2,000-megawatt plant beyond the next four years. The move has sparked outrage throughout the surrounding communities, where a disproportionate number of residents have long suffered elevated levels of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.....
Wait until the lights go off and then see how they feel.
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Oh, look, we have a KING after all, KING CHARLES!
How sad for the birthplace of Liberty!
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COVID-19 changed how we vote. It could also change who votes
I won't be voting in any instance. What's the point?
Trump’s halting walk down ramp raises new health questions
The New York Times noticed that the president also appeared to have trouble raising a glass of water to his mouth during a speech at West Point a day before he turned 74, the oldest a president has been in his first term.
My first thought was being slowly poisoned, is he?
Once I watched the video I realized it was nothing. The ramp was steep and that is exactly the way a 74-year-old person would walk it, and it proves the pre$$ is looking for any reason at all to oust him. He hasn't taken the bait on Iran, COVID, and the race riots, or anything they have tried to goad him into doing.
Related: A View From Afar
Among other things, the Auslander says: "Make no mistake, this is an organized, violent and bloody coup d’etat against the sitting President of the United States of America. President Trump is being artfully hemmed in by ever increasing and ever more violent events and is to the point, if one listens to the ever patriotic media, damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. Case in point, the little area in Seattle which is now ‘liberated territory’."
That's the Sunday Globe Utopia, and in regard to the racial matters within:
The report says the "unintended tragedy summed up the irresponsible thoughtlessness of their actions, felling and pushing a large stone figure onto a man who was standing underneath it, seriously injuring him and reportedly leaving him in a coma, as the unfortunate guy standing underneath the statue as it fell" had his head split open down to the skull, according to eyewitnesses.
I SAW it happen LIVE, readers, and CRIMINAL SKANKS that did it were covering mouths in horror while waving people away and pulling up their pants!
Matthew McConaughey: 'White People' Need to Ask How They Can 'Do Better'
The answer is take your benzos, watch your porn, whitey -- from a guy who worked with Weinstein!
SF Mayor Breed: I’m a black woman before a mayor; we need allies, not slave owners
I thought the oath of office meant you represented all the people, so I guess we are not of like mind.
The answer is take your benzos, watch your porn, whitey -- from a guy who worked with Weinstein!
SF Mayor Breed: I’m a black woman before a mayor; we need allies, not slave owners
I thought the oath of office meant you represented all the people, so I guess we are not of like mind.
Armed Patriots in Kentucky Declare ‘This is Our Battle Line’ as They Defend Confederate Statue From Mob
That is some Big League stuff there, and leads to the question of which side committed treason in the Civil War (I was right yesterday, readers).
What it really comes down to is are you an free individual or a member of the collectivist Borg?
Speaking of freaks:
"Single-sex homeless shelters could choose to accommodate only people whose biological sex matches that of those they serve, under a rule to be proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the coming weeks. The proposed rule would scrap the Obama administration’s 2016 guidance requiring such shelters to accept transgender people but retains its 2012 rule barring federal housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The agency had been working on the regulation since spring 2019. The proposed rule, being circulated among lawmakers on Capitol Hill, is the latest effort by the Trump administration to rewrite federal rules on how government programs provide for transgender people. The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule Friday that also emphasizes biological sex over how a person identifies....."
Also see:
What it really comes down to is are you an free individual or a member of the collectivist Borg?
Speaking of freaks:
"Single-sex homeless shelters could choose to accommodate only people whose biological sex matches that of those they serve, under a rule to be proposed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the coming weeks. The proposed rule would scrap the Obama administration’s 2016 guidance requiring such shelters to accept transgender people but retains its 2012 rule barring federal housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The agency had been working on the regulation since spring 2019. The proposed rule, being circulated among lawmakers on Capitol Hill, is the latest effort by the Trump administration to rewrite federal rules on how government programs provide for transgender people. The Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule Friday that also emphasizes biological sex over how a person identifies....."
Also see:
Family’s dog mauls 6-week-old South Dakota boy
The dog smelled COVID so it killed him.
"Three attacks by Islamic extremists, including an assault on Monguno, a military garrison town, have killed more than 40 people in Nigeria’s notheastern Borno state. The extremists from the Islamic State West Africa Province on Saturday attacked Monguno, where there are an estimated 150,000 displaced civilians, a United Nations office, and a military base. “The well-armed attackers came in large numbers from three directions and took over the town for some hours before the military fought them back with the help of fighter planes,” said Mohammed Ibrahim, a member of Monguno’s community safety force. Many of the attackers appeared to have come from neighboring Chad and Niger, Ibrahim said. At least three civilians and an unspecified number of soldiers were killed, he said. The attackers came in 13 vehicles, including heavily armed trucks, a witness said....."
Somehow, CIVID didn't stop the terrorists or wars.
Tanker truck blast on China highway kills 19
French leader rejects racism but colonial statues to remain
Thousands form chain in Berlin against racism
Japan, New Zealand march to mourn Floyd, seek change
Rugby fans pack stadium in virus-free New Zealand
"Black Lives Matter Plaza was turned into a church Sunday morning, with thousands of mostly Black churchgoers praying, protesting, and dancing near the White House after marching from the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The prayer march, vigil, and rally were organized by regional NAACP branches and Alexandria’s historic Alfred Street Baptist Church, which has roots in the time of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. It was one of the largest faith-based events in the more than two weeks of protests that have consumed the nation’s capital since George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer in May, and it was the first big public event organized by Black clergy. Organizers said that was due to extra caution in the Black community, which has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Demonstrators were spaced out in rows, and organizers frequently paused the flow of marchers to keep buffers between them. People bunched up in places, but for the most part wore masks, including many with African-style patterns....."
At least seven Minneapolis police officers have quit and another seven are in the process of resigning.
You are on your own, Minneapolis!
"As poor countries around the world struggle to beat back the coronavirus, they are unintentionally contributing to fresh explosions of illness and death from other diseases — ones that are readily prevented by vaccines. This spring, after the World Health Organization and UNICEF warned that the pandemic could spread swiftly when children gathered for shots, many countries suspended their inoculation programs. Even in countries that tried to keep them going, cargo flights with vaccine supplies were halted by the pandemic and health workers diverted to fight it. Now, diphtheria is appearing in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Cholera is in South Sudan, Cameroon, Mozambique, Yemen, and Bangladesh. A mutated strain of poliovirus has been reported in more than 30 countries, and measles is flaring around the globe, including in Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan. Of 29 countries that have suspended measles campaigns because of the pandemic, 18 are reporting outbreaks. An additional 13 countries are considering postponement. According to the Measles and Rubella Initiative, 178 million people are at risk of missing measles shots in 2020. The risk now is “an epidemic in a few months’ time that will kill more children than COVID,” said Chibuzo Okonta, president of Doctors Without Borders in West and Central Africa. As the pandemic lingers, the WHO and other international public health groups are now urging countries to carefully resume vaccination while contending with the coronavirus. At stake is the future of a hard-fought, 20-year collaboration that has prevented 35 million deaths in 98 countries from vaccine-preventable diseases, and reduced mortality from them in children by 44 percent, according to a 2019 study by the Vaccine Impact Modeling Consortium, a group of public health scholars. “Immunization is one of the most powerful and fundamental disease prevention tools in the history of public health,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, in a statement. “Disruption to immunization programs from the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to unwind decades of progress against vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.”
The more they push the vaccines, the more they expose their evilne$$, and one can only wonder what other bugs they are releasing from the bio lab (I sure hope the polio mutation wasn't from one of Gates' contaminated African kits).
I hope they haven't planned any trips to Europe:
The more they push the vaccines, the more they expose their evilne$$, and one can only wonder what other bugs they are releasing from the bio lab (I sure hope the polio mutation wasn't from one of Gates' contaminated African kits).
I hope they haven't planned any trips to Europe:
The world is seeing more than 100,000 newly confirmed cases every day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
"Archbishop Carlos Castillo on Sunday looked out over a cathedral full of faces — none of them now alive. The cleric had his church filled with more than 5,000 portraits of those who have died in the pandemic that is burning across Peru and South America as a whole, using his broadcast homily to criticize a health system he said “is based on egotism and on business and not on mercy and solidarity with the people.” COVID-19 has taken at least 6,400 lives in the nation of some 32 million people — a toll second only to that of Brazil within South America. Hundreds of them have died without receiving help from the health system, and many families have faced financial ruin due to the cost of trying to care for the ill. The nation as a whole faces a projected economic contraction of 12 percent this year, and Castillo called for solidarity with the poor. “An even harder moment is coming,’’ he said. “It would be terrible if in the times to come we have thousands of these photos — but dead of hunger.” Church workers spent days filling the pews with images of coronavirus victims, and when the 84 pews were filled, the archbishop ordered thousands of photos more attached to the base of the columns that rise to the arched ceiling. There were images of doctors, police, firemen, and street sweepers, even an infant. Some hugged their grandchildren. A woman danced with her son."
FLASHBACK:
"When tourists from Mexico, China, and Britain became the first COVID-19 fatalities in Cusco, Peru, it seemed as if the onetime capital of the Inca Empire might be headed for a significant outbreak. Nestled in a picturesque Andean valley, the high-altitude city of 420,000 residents, the gateway to the cloud forest citadel of Machu Picchu, receives more than 3 million international visitors per year — many from pandemic hot spots, including the United States, Italy, and Spain. Yet since those three deaths, between March 23 and April 3, at the start of Peru’s national lockdown, there has not been another COVID-19 fatality in the entire Cusco region, even as the disease has claimed more than 4,000 lives nationally. Infections have also remained low. Just 916 of Peru’s 141,000 cases come from the Cusco region, meaning its contagion rate is more than 80 percent below the national average. The relative dearth of cases and deaths in the internationally connected but high-elevation region has prompted speculation here that the coronavirus gets soroche, the Quechua word for altitude sickness. Similar results have been seen elsewhere in the Andes, and in Tibet. Scientists warn that the apparent pattern might not last, but the as-yet-unexplained phenomenon has them intrigued. Researchers are starting to investigate a possible relationship between the coronavirus and altitude. In one peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, researchers from Australia, Bolivia, Canada, and Switzerland looking at epidemiological data from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Tibet found populations living above 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) reported significantly lower levels of confirmed infections than their lowland counterparts. They found that Tibet’s infection rate was ‘‘drastically’’ lower than that of lowland China, three times lower in the Bolivian Andes than in the rest of the country, and four times lower in the Ecuadoran Andes."
I'm short of breath from the altitude so I better get tested:
I'm short of breath from the altitude so I better get tested:
"How accurate are the coronavirus tests used in the United States? Months into the outbreak, no one really knows how well many of the screening tests work, and specialists at top medical centers say it is time to do the studies to find out. When the new virus began spreading, the Food and Drug Administration used its emergency powers to OK scores of quickly devised tests, based mainly on a small number of lab studies showing they could successfully detect the virus. That’s very different from the large patient studies that can take weeks or months, which specialists say are needed to provide a true sense of testing accuracy. The FDA’s speedy response came after it was initially criticized for delaying the launch of new tests during a crisis and after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stumbled in getting its own test out to states, but with the US outbreak nearly certain to stretch on for months or even years, some specialists want the FDA to demand better evidence of the tests’ accuracy so doctors know how many infections might be missed. There have been more than 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States and more than 115,000 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Cases in nearly half of US states are rising. In recent weeks, preliminary findings have flagged potential problems with some COVID-19 tests, including one used daily at the White House. Faulty tests could leave many thousands of Americans with the incorrect assumption that they are virus-free, contributing to new flare-ups of the disease as communities reopen. “In the beginning, the FDA was under a lot of pressure to get these tests onto the marketplace,” said Dr. Steven Woloshin of Dartmouth College, who wrote about the issue in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, “but now that there are plenty of tests out there, it’s time for them to raise the bar.” The FDA said in a statement that it has already asked multiple test makers to do follow-up accuracy studies, although it didn’t say for how many of the more than 110 authorized screening tests. The agency also said it is tracking reports of problems. Accuracy has also been an issue with blood tests that look for signs of past infections."
Where does one begin?
F**king liars! The problems are with the 80% false positives. Anything claimed to be true in the pre$$ usually means the exact opposite is true. It's happened so often one hardly knows where to begin. Their tests are shit!
Of course, that is what the lockdown and threat of second lockdown are based.
They DESTROYED OUR WAY of LIFE and ECONOMY over some FAULTY FU*KING TESTS!
Must be why it was on the BACK PAGE!
One can only wonder if the medical Profession become as corrupted as all the other careers as public health officials are facing political pressure, threats and armed protests as states push to reopen (according to CNBC) while a report claims that 85% Of Independent Restaurants Could Go Out Of Business By The End Of 2020.
"Upset by “rampant” violations of New York’s pandemic-fighting restrictions, Governor Andrew Cuomo threatened Sunday to reinstate closings in areas where local governments fail to enforce the rules. Manhattan and Long Island’s tony Hamptons were singled out as problem areas by Cuomo, who cited 25,000 complaints statewide of reopening violations. The large gatherings, social-distancing violations, and lax face-covering enforcement endanger the state’s fragile progress in the fight against the coronavirus, Cuomo said, adding that many complaints involve bars and restaurants. “We are not kidding around with this. You’re talking about jeopardizing people’s lives,” Cuomo said at his daily briefing. The warning comes a day after the Democratic governor reacted sternly to a short Twitter video from New York City of young people enjoying a warm day packed tightly on a city street, many without masks. New York officials are trying to avoid the fate of states seeing a surge in new cases after reopening. New York’s coronavirus-related hospitalizations are declining and the state recorded 23 deaths Saturday, the lowest one-day coronavirus death toll since the early days of the crisis. New York is loosening restrictions slowly, often phased in by region. In the latest move, Cuomo said Sunday that “low-risk” youth sports like baseball, softball, field hockey, and gymnastics can begin on July 6 in regions in Phase 3 of reopening. There can be two spectators per child, but Cuomo warned the ongoing reopenings could be “rolled back” in areas where police fail to enforce social distancing and other pandemic-related rules."
Related: Thousands of 'Black Trans Lives Matter' protesters gather at Brooklyn Museum as Gov. Cuomo threatens partiers in the Hamptons 'violating social distancing'
What a CRIMINAL A$$HOLE is CUOMO!
Poor New Yorkers!
Should move up to Connecticut:
"Drivers heading down state roads leading to Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut are greeted by flashing warnings: “Avoid Large Crowds” and “Don’t Gamble With COVID.” Despite having authority to shutter thousands of businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has been constrained when dealing with the sovereign tribal nations that own two of the world’s largest casinos. After pleading with tribal leaders to not reopen and even raising the possibility of pulling their state-issued liquor licenses, he ultimately settled for ordering state transportation workers to put up signs. Connecticut’s two federally recognized tribes, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe are not alone in reopening doors early as the nation reemerges from the shutdown — though both say they are being careful about reopening. Facing pressure to bring back employees and generate revenue, tribes in Washington, Oregon, California, Florida, North Carolina, New York, and elsewhere have decided to welcome back gamblers even though states haven’t allowed large gatherings. Other businesses have bristled at shutdown orders and restrictions, and some have pushed the limits, but the tribes that run the casinos are different because the US government recognizes them as sovereign nations with full authority within their reservations — so state and local leaders have no say in reopening their casinos."
Lamont took a dive onto their $pear, huh?
This whole black-white race thing must make the Native Americans see red!
"Hugs from Mickey Mouse are out at Walt Disney World. So is bunching up at Six Flags to snag a front-seat roller coaster ride, but the season won’t be completely lost for thrill-seekers. Carefree days of sharing cotton candy on crowded midways will give way this year to temperature scans at the gates, mandatory masks at many parks, hand-sanitizing stations at ride entrances, and constant reminders to stay 6 feet apart. Amusement parks of all sizes are adjusting everything from selling tickets to serving meals while trying to reassure the public and government leaders that they’re safe to visit amid the coronavirus crisis. While a handful of small US amusement parks have been open since Memorial Day weekend, most are looking to restart their seasons either later this month or by mid-July. Universal Orlando became the first of Florida’s major theme park resorts to reopen in early June. Disney’s nearby parks will wait until next month, but there won’t be any parades, firework shows, or character greetings. Disneyland in California said this past week it will welcome back visitors on July 17 if it gets government approval. Theme parks in many states have been among the last businesses allowed to reopen because of worries over crowds. Ohio’s two biggest amusement parks filed a lawsuit last week challenging the government’s authority to shut them down. Park operators insist they’re better suited to handle crowds — albeit smaller ones — than ballparks and museums because they have more space to spread out and can better control the movements of their customers, but there is also a lot more to consider in order to reopen safely."
Too bad you guys threw in with the fraud. Now your indu$try is dead.
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When it comes to reinventing the Boston police, how far will Walsh really go?
The Globe says it's unclear how Walsh's slew of positive-sounding police reforms can actually make Boston police more accountable for bad behavior.
The Globe has turned on you, guys.
At least Ed Markey is looking out for us:
A monthly check would provide economic relief during the coronavirus crisis
He says "working families — and those forced out of their jobs by the coronavirus — must be able to trust that their government will support them through this economic downturn."
Given the Globe's coverage lately, it looks like they are endorsing Markey (must be all the print ads he is running).
Ready for that monthly UBI, komrade?
Stockton has been testing a universal basic income since 2019
The $500 a month program funded exclusively through donations is working!
How to live off $125 a week is beyond my means!
Universal Basic Income comes with a mammoth price tag
Who cares, it is our kids who will be paying for the "New Deal."
Time to abort:
Coronavirus created an obstacle course for safe abortions
The fact that abortion clinics were still open during COVID-19 pretty much tells you the entire thing is a f**king fraud.
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Protests, vigils continue across the region Sunday
I'm told “evil forces want to maintain racial division, and they will destroy this nation to do it, as COVID-19 and 1619 are meeting them in this park,” and WHY IS SHE NOT WEARING A MASK in the photograph?
As social justice movement grows, Chinatown takes stock
They want to know why they are number 3 on the list (about 12 minutes in).
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"How a scrappy team of school nurses hunted the coronavirus in Revere" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, June 10, 2020
They were used to working with children: administering inhalers, checking blood sugar, mending scrapes and bruises. They were not infectious disease experts. They had never traced a virus, but then the schools closed, and the children went home, and when the first confirmed case of the coronavirus landed in Revere, in mid-March, the school nurses were suddenly drafted into an ambitious plan: to track the virus and, they hoped, to loosen its deadly grip.
“It was like a personal mission,” said Adrienne Sacco-Maguire, a pediatric nurse at Beachmont Veterans Memorial School and SeaCoast High School in Revere who helped lead the effort. “It really literally consumed your whole life.”
Adrienne Sacco-Maguire, school nurse, sat at her computer in her kitchen. She helped to lead the effort tracking the coronavirus as it spread through Revere (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff).
A trans?
As local boards of health struggled to contain the virus, school nurses across the state became part of a vast experiment, transformed into public health tracers and tasked with calling the sick, inquiring about their recent contacts, and seeking out those contacts to warn them before they exposed others.
FA$CI$T!
With the nurses’ help, Revere began its contact tracing program on March 16, about a month before the state launched its own. The city remains a hot spot for the disease — it has about 2,700 cases per 100,000 people, but without the team’s early action, it could have been much worse, city officials say. The data collected by the nurses prompted the city to impose capacity limits at grocery stores and directives to limit the spread at senior homes.
“If we hadn’t taken those measures, we would be in a much more dire situation," said the city’s mayor, Brian Arrigo.
They have no way of proving that, and in the process they have denied us herd immunity and made us more vulnerable.
EVIL!
Contact tracing is essential to try to contain or mitigate a virus, and starting early is crucial, said Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center.
Baker has hired Partners in Health to do it, and they are funded by George Soros and Bill Gates, with Chelsea Clinton on the Board of Trustees.
“You want to identify every single case by testing widely, and with every case you identify, you want to identify every exposed person by contact tracing,” Doron said. Such efforts have been hampered in the United States partly because there was not widespread testing at a national level; instead, a patchwork of state and local agencies did the best they could.
F**K off, FA$CI$T!
The Revere nurses started the semester with very different plans.
The state launched its own contact tracing program in mid-April, with a virtual call center of 1,500 tracers — a much bigger, and more sustainable, operation than the 13 nurses racing to track the virus in Revere. Now the case load has dropped significantly in the city. The school nurses, who don’t typically work during the summer, aren’t getting many more new cases, though they are continuing to track the associations connected to their earlier ones.
Turns out the transmission rate from asymptomatics is nearly zero!
The nurses responded with a mixture of frustration and relief when the state stepped in.
“It would have been nice if contract tracing was started from the very beginning when this whole pandemic broke out, not a month in,” said Marina Stasio, a school nurse at Abraham Lincoln elementary school, about the state’s program, called the COVID-19 Community Tracing Collaborative, but she was also glad that the state joined.
Even though they were working from home, the contact tracing took its toll on the nurses. Sacco-Maguire had begun walking along the beach by her house before dawn to ground herself, as well as practicing meditation twice a day to ease her thoughts.
At least they have jobs -- unlike the thousands and thousands laid off and fired during the panic(?).
Like Stasio, Sacco-Maguire had grown up in Revere and she knew some of the people she reached on the other end of the phone line. The first death she entered into the system was the mother of an acquaintance; their children had played basketball and softball together.
“I lived her mother’s hospitalization, her improvements, her deterioration," Sacco-Maguire said, “and I grieved with her death.”
The work, though grueling, gave her purpose, she said.
“I’m grateful that I’m able to do this,” Sacco-Maguire said. The pings on her computers have dwindled, but she still leaves it on at night, just in case.
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Related:
Aubri Esters, an advocate for safe drug use on the streets, dies at 35
She was a "transgender woman who previously had been homeless and who was disabled to the point of needing a walker, she was candid about having used drugs, about her own sometimes uncomfortable experience in methadone treatment, and about the multiple kinds of discrimination and harassment she and others face, and she was found dead at home and how she died hasn’t been determined."
Looks like she overdosed and they don't want to say that. Would hurt the safe-injection site cause.
A century later, another epidemic’s victims are remembered and reburied
They dug them up?
I hope the virus didn't escape!
Mass. reports 208 new coronavirus cases, 48 additional deaths
That story has now been relegated to page B2, and "US Representative Seth Moulton said Sunday no one should be lulled into thinking the threat has subsided here. “The fact of the matter is this virus is not going away with the summer sun,” he said during an appearance on WCBV-TV. “We all want to go out and have the summer that we all dream of, but it’s just not going to happen this year, and we’ve got to get used to that, because we can’t afford to have fun at the expense of more people’s lives.”
Knock off the goddamn guilt trip, and we know there isn't going to be a summer or $port$!
"Boston police are investigating after a body was found in Franklin Park near the William J. Devine golf course on Sunday, a police spokesman said. Homicide detectives were on scene in the area near 17 Jewish War Veterans Drive to determine if there are suspicious circumstances surrounding the death, said Officer James Moccia. The body was reported to police about 2:45 p.m."
Not the first time it has happened, and could it be related to this:
In lieu of Pride parade, crowds visit Franklin Park vigil for Black trans lives
Penny Tentiary, center, joined several thousand demonstrators gathered together at a Transgender Resistance Vigil and March from Franklin Park Playstead to Nubian Square (Barry Chin/Globe Staff)
I guess if it isn't a reopen or Trump rally it's okay, huh?
"A Braintree man was arrested Saturday night after police say he drove his moped through an active crime scene in Dorchester and struck an officer, according to a statement from Boston police. Police say they were guarding a crime scene near 861 Washington St. where a man had suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Around 10:26 p.m., officers say a man, later identified as 19-year-old Giraldy Guerrero, approached the crime scene on his moped at an “accelerated rate of speed,” according to the statement. Police say Guerrero drove his moped through yellow police tape marking the scene and past several police cruisers with their blue lights on as officers called for him to stop, according to the statement. Guerrero continued through the crime scene, which extended from Ogden Street to Fuller Street, eventually crashing into an officer and falling to the ground, police said. Guerrero got to his feet and fled, police said. He was placed under arrest near 19 Mora St. following a foot chase and a “violent struggle," according to police. The officer who was struck was treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and was released. A police spokesperson said Guerrero was not injured. Guerrero faces charges of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a police officer, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in personal injury, resisting arrest, trespassing, reckless operation of a motor vehicle, interfering with a police officer, and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle."
I'm sure the police were at fault!
"A 19-year-old man was killed Saturday in an early-morning crash in Wilbraham, according to a police statement posted to Facebook on Sunday. Officers in Wilbraham responded to the area of Mountain and Ridge roads around 5:50 a.m. for a reported car crash. Officers found a vehicle with “significant damage” and the driver, a 19-year-old man, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the statement. The driver has not been identified, police said, citing the pending investigation. The crash is also being investigated by State Police and the Hampden district attorney’s office."
You don't need them!
#DeFund!
"A bill intended to help protect the public from Eastern Equine Encephalitis has been approved by the Massachusetts Senate. Eastern Equine Encephalitis is a mosquito-borne virus that is rare but can be fatal. Last year, Massachusetts saw a resurgence of EEE, with more than 200 communities designated as moderate to critical risk by the state Department of Public Health. The virus is spread through the bite of an infected mosquito and can harm both humans and animals. The bill authorizes the state’s mosquito control board to take actions to reduce the mosquito population if the Department of Public Health determines there may be an elevated risk of EEE. The bill now heads to the Massachusetts House. Massachusetts typically experiences outbreaks every 10 to 20 years. Each outbreak can last for two to three years. In late September 2019, the DPH confirmed three people died due to EEE in the state."
Why cut that last part for print?
Because it makes the issue look very, very minor?
So that is what the Legi$looture is up to while Baker plays King?
"The vandalism of a Black Lives Matter mural that was painted on the street in front of Vermont's statehouse is under investigation, police said. Hundreds gathered Saturday in Montpelier to paint the mural, which said "Black Lives Matter" in yellow letters, but Montpelier police say the painting was smeared with mud, dirt and oil early on Sunday, and graffiti was sprayed on the sidewalk nearby. A photo released by police shows graffiti with messages including "$400 million gone" and "Put it back call Trump." A statement from police says the graffiti "referenced government spending" but did not appear to be directed at the mural. Vermont House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, who was among those who helped with the painting, condemned the vandalism....."
What's the matter, can't take your own medicine?
Walpole residents call for school officials to drop ‘Rebels’ nickname during rally
Rebels can be anyone, not just Confederates!
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Federal stimulus money delivered via debit cards sows confusion
I didn't read the Fine Print, sorry.
‘Last month, I sold one bridal gown’
The reopening diaries, continued.
"Researchers at Dartmouth College and six other academic institutions are collaborating on a national project to make “smart home” products more secure and private. The $10 million, five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation comes as households increasingly rely on internet connected home devices ranging from refrigerators to baby monitors. David Kotz, a computer science professor and lead investigator for the project, says as home technology changes, people need to be able to feel safe from prying eyes. The project also includes teams from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, Morgan State University and Tufts University."
Ah, the u$ual $u$pects when it comes to tyranny!
Ikea Is in Talks to Return Virus Aid in Nine Countries
More than 40,000 cruise ship workers still stranded at sea amid coronavirus pandemic
Should just sink them.
Average US gas price up 11 cents over 2 weeks
Demand is low, so WTF!?
Our money worthless now, huh?
That's the price of bailouts and your $1200 Chump change check.
Fed chairman will bring a sober message to Capitol Hill on economy
You can bet on it:
"Trading sportsbooks for brokerages, bored bettors wager on stocks" by Matt Phillips, June 14, 2020
NEW YORK — When he wasn’t coaching sports, he was playing them or watching them, and if he was watching — well, a little skin in the game always made it more interesting for Steven Young, a teacher outside Philadelphia: just small-dollar bets, mixed in with shuffling the rosters of his fantasy teams, but when the coronavirus pandemic hit, all the games he cared about sputtered to a stop. So he turned to one of the last places in town for reliable action: the stock market.
Is that a good example to set for the kids?
Young withdrew all the money from his sportsbook accounts and deposited it into Robinhood, the free stock-trading platform. When his federal stimulus check arrived, he put money from that in, too.
Forced into online lessons when his school district shut its doors, the health and physical education teacher had everything he needed to get into the market.
“Having the time and the flexibility and the opportunity — it being as low as it was — I just kind of felt it was a good time,” he said.
Young, 30, has only about $2,500 invested, making him a guppy among whales, but some Wall Street analysts see people who used to bet on sports as playing a big role in the market’s recent surge, which has largely erased its losses for the year.
“There’s zero doubt in my mind that it is a factor,” said Julian Emanuel, chief equity and derivatives strategist at the brokerage firm BTIG. “Zero doubt.”
$ports are NEVER COMING BACK, dear readers. It's ALL SUMMER TALK and DISTRACTION!
Millions of small-time investors have opened trading accounts in recent months, a flood of new buyers unlike anything the market had seen in years, just as lockdown orders halted entire sectors of the economy and sent unemployment soaring.
It’s not clear how many of the new arrivals are sports bettors, but some are behaving like aggressive gamblers. There has been a jump in small bets in the stock options market, where wagers on the direction of share prices can produce thrilling scores and gut-wrenching losses, and transactions that make little economic sense, like buying up the nearly valueless shares of bankrupt companies, are off the charts.
Related: Blogging Hertz
So did the commercials with OJ.
Even with modest investments, these newcomers can move stock prices, which are typically set by just a sliver of shareholders. On most days, the overwhelming majority of stock investors do nothing, while the buyers and sellers establish the prices. So even a small influx of hyperactive speculators can have a significant effect.
This is CRAP, readers.
“Investors are increasingly asking us about the participation of individual investors in the shares and options market,” analysts from Goldman Sachs wrote in a note published late last month. “Our data suggests that individual investors are indeed a significant proportion of daily volume.”
Losing their $hirts, are they?
Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, a financial market research firm, said gamblers were a small but important segment of those new arrivals, along with video game aficionados.
Stymied sports bettors are sitting on a substantial amount of money. Gamblers legally wagered more than $13 billion on sports last year, according to Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, a research and consulting firm, and estimates suggest illegal wagering is 10 times that figure, but betting has collapsed since the outbreak shut down the major sports leagues.
How long with that last with people out of work with no chance of return?
Sean Moore, a 23-year-old aircraft electrician living in Suisun City, Calif., with an initial investment of about $1,000, has experienced all the highs and lows of playing the market in just a few weeks.
Moore’s bets on airlines and casino companies surged roughly 60% in about a week. “I was telling everybody: ‘You got to do stocks. Sign up — it’s easy money right now,’ ” he said, but then a bet he made on casino company MGM — premised on the reopening of Las Vegas after coronavirus restrictions were lifted — went south. “It did not go positive like I thought it would,” he said. “I thought that was going to be huge with them reopening.”
Moore got into stock trading after watching Dave Portnoy, the president of the raunchy, irreverently juvenile — and wildly popular — sports and gambling website Barstool Sports. When the coronavirus shuttered Barstool’s Manhattan offices, Portnoy — who had almost no stock trading experience — reinvented himself as “Davey Day Trader.” With an initial outlay of $3 million, he started buying and selling from his apartment and streaming the results to his loyal readers. “I have a pretty good feel for when something is entertaining content for them,” said Portnoy, whose streaming sessions mix confident pronouncements with colorful profanity.
It didn’t start out so well: Portnoy lost more than $1.5 million on repeated bets that the market would fall. He put in more than $2 million more and turned into a raging stock market bull, clawing his way back to positive territory. The short-term swings make betting on stocks no different from betting on a game: “Same rush,” he said.
Not for me.
The last time Americans showed any serious appetite for stock-market speculation was the tech-stock frenzy of the late 1990s. Since then, investors have embraced safer options, like set-it-and-forget-it index funds based on the premise that trying to beat the market is a waste of time.
That frenzy resulted in the dotcom crash, remember?
That started to change in earnest last year when a brokerage price war kicked into high gear. Robinhood, fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital, had long been offering commission-free online trades. Its established competitors were forced to lower their prices until finally, in October, the giant brokerages — Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, E-Trade, Fidelity, and Vanguard — started eliminating fees, too. When share prices plummeted in the pandemic, would-be investors rushed in.
The bettors stress that they play the market as entertainment. Many have 401(k) plans filled with the plain-vanilla index funds that are the bedrock of retirement planning, and they put down only what they’re willing to lose.
That is what all problem gamblers and addicts say.
“They’re not expecting to retire off of trading stocks,” said Josh Brown, chief executive of Ritholtz Wealth Management, who has been following the growth of retail activity this year. “They’re having fun and they’re learning the market, and I think it’s great.”
Winning and losing are not important.
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All I can say after that is $port$ are dead.
