“We’re living through an amazing global social experiment that is forcing governments, businesses, and consumers to rethink their operating models and norms for social interactions. We have a world in which there is less contact. People’s habits are changing as we speak.”
They LITERALLY think of us as LAB RATS as the coronavirus scare is nothing but a mass social experiment that is to result in a great global re$et that benefits a $elect few, and here is one component among many:
"Our cash-free future is getting closer" by Liz Alderman New York Times, July 6, 2020
You $aw it, right?
PARIS — On a typical Sunday, patrons at Julien Cornu’s cheese shop used to load up on Camembert and chèvre for the week, with about half the customers digging into their pockets for euro notes and coins, but in the era of the coronavirus, cash is no longer à la mode at La Fromagerie, as social distancing requirements and concerns over hygiene prompt nearly everyone who walks through his door to pay with plastic.
While cash is still accepted, even older shoppers — his toughest clientele when it comes to adopting digital habits — are voluntarily making the switch.
Cash was already being edged out in many countries as urban consumers paid increasingly with apps and cards for even the smallest purchases, but the coronavirus is accelerating a shift toward a cashless future, raising new calculations for merchants and enriching the digital payments industry.
The virus is, at bottom, accelerating a lot of agendas that should have nothing to do with it and who benefits?
Fears over transmission of the disease have compelled consumers to rethink how they shop and pay. Retailers and restaurants are favoring clicks over cash to reduce exposure for employees. China’s central bank sterilized bank notes in regions affected by the virus, and governments from India to Kenya to Sweden, as well as the United Nations, are promoting cashless payments in the name of public health.
It is IRRATIONAL and UNJUSTIFIED FEAR peddling by a lying pre$$ and governmental authority the world over. God help us.
“Time to swap your coins for payment cards — safer for containing coronavirus,” Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission vice president for financial services, wrote on Twitter as Europe imposed quarantines.
Cash is certainly not dead. Before the pandemic, bills and coins were used for 80 percent of the transactions in Europe, and there are few signs that the pandemic is about to wipe it out, yet for a growing number of people sensitized by COVID-19 quarantines, cash is a fading routine.
Then I will clutch mine tightly.
“We’re living through an amazing global social experiment that is forcing governments, businesses, and consumers to rethink their operating models and norms for social interactions,” said Morten Jorgensen, director of RBR, based in London, a consulting firm specializing in banking technology, cards, and payments.
“We have a world in which there is less contact,” he said. “People’s habits are changing as we speak.”
Well, now you know who said it, and the next paragraph tells you why this post carries the title it does.
Those dynamics are creating a golden moment for credit card companies, banks, and digital platforms, which are capitalizing on the crisis to advance the cashless revolution by encouraging consumers and retailers to use cards and smartphone apps that yield lucrative fees.
Hmmm.
Payment and processing companies such as PayPal (whose stock is up about 55 percent this year) and Adyen, based in the Netherlands (up 72 percent), also stand to gain. So do data analytics and fraud prevention companies, and businesses that enable merchants to accept card payments.
Who founded and owns PayPal anyway?
Propelling the trend is a surge in online shopping as homebound consumers turn to digital tools for basic items. In the United States, 40 million customers went online for groceries in April. In Italy, where cash is king, the volume of e-commerce transactions has surged more than 80 percent, according to McKinsey & Co.
I keep saying they want us all locked in our homes, and there it is again.
The Guard will drop off your gruel, no complaints!
Credit card issuers are keeping the momentum rolling by working with banks and governments to lift ceilings on contactless payments that allow shoppers to avoid touching a keypad.
Aaaaaaaaaah!
Card companies do not divulge fee earnings, but Jorgensen at RBR said issuers were probably raking in a handsome profit.
Probably a hand$ome profit, hmmm?
Now time to get your hands dirty!
There is no medical evidence that cash transmits the virus. Nonetheless, “perceptions that cash could spread pathogens may change payment behavior by users and firms,” the Bank for International Settlements said in a recent study on the effect of COVID-19 on cash use.
Yes, "in spite of" the FACT, let the illusion and imagery of PERCEPTION dictate how you pay so CERTAIN $ELF-INTERE$TS can BENEFIT while HOOKING YOU UP to the TOTAL CONTROL GRID!
How DI$INGENUOU$LY EVIL!
Come to think of it, why isn't antifa burning money instead of stores and buildings and toppling statues?
Authorities that manage the world’s currencies say the dangers of going fully cashless are rife. In tech-forward Sweden, cash has been disappearing so fast that parliament and the central bank asked commercial banks to keep bills and coins circulating while they figure out what a cash-free future would mean.
Gotta boil the frog before collecting more coin!
Consumer groups warn that vulnerable people risk being marginalized.
Like they care about us te$t $ubjects!
Many low-income earners and retirees, as well as some immigrants and people with disabilities, have little or no access to electronic payments and are increasingly shut out as banks cut back on ATMs and customer service.
The COVID vaccine will take care of those useless eaters.
Central banks are looking at whether electronic currencies can replace physical cash. The Swedish Riksbank is testing a pilot version of a digital krona, or e-krona, that could keep the functions of a currency backed by the state.
That means you, sucker, 'er, taxpayers, and what banks want, banks get!
“In certain economies, there is still a role for cash, because it continues to provide a benefit and a utility,” said John Velissarios of Accenture, which is helping to manage the Riksbank’s test. “That’s where the concept of things like digital central bank money is interesting.”
Did you know that Accenture is an arm of the defense intelligence community with links to DARPA?
While virtual euros and dollars are still a ways off, the shift in attitudes toward real cash brought on by the pandemic is unlikely to be reversed.
“Cash is not going to disappear,” Jorgensen said, “but it will continue to decline, and COVID is accelerating that trend.”
A lot of "trends" being accelerated these days!
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"Uber has widened its reach in the fiercely competitive delivery market by acquiring Postmates in a $2.65 billion all-stock deal, the company said Monday. The acquisition enables the ride-hailing giant to increase its delivery offerings at a time when the global pandemic has suppressed customers’ desire for rides while boosting home delivery needs. While Uber’s meal delivery business, Uber Eats, has mostly focused on restaurants, Postmates delivers a wider array of goods including groceries, pharmacy items, alcoholic drinks, and party supplies. “The vision for us is to become an everyday service,” said Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, in a conference call with investors Monday....."
For as long as the food lasts, or are we to be plowed under by then?
Phone call for you:
"The US Supreme Court has upheld the federal ban on robocalls to mobile phones, rejecting a bid to topple the law on free speech grounds. As part of the splintered ruling, the court broadened the 1991 measure, tossing out a 2015 exception for calls made to collect debts owed to the federal government. The ruling is a defeat for political groups that had sought a new avenue for campaign activity in the months leading up to the November election. The challengers, which included the Oregon Democratic Party and Washington State Democratic Central Committee, sought to overturn the entire robocall ban, but writing the court’s lead opinion, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the court could strip out the government exception without tossing the ban in its entirety. “Constitutional litigation is not a game of gotcha against Congress, where litigants can ride a discrete constitutional flaw in a statute to take down the whole, otherwise constitutional statute,” Kavanaugh wrote for himself, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justice Samuel Alito. The ruling upholds the decision of a federal appeals court. President Trump’s administration defended the ban, along with the government exception....."
The calls still come through, but complainers are simply being ungrateful:
"Big Tech saved the day. We still don’t trust them" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, July 6, 2020
Later this month, the chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google will pay a visit to Washington. They won’t be getting medals, though they might deserve them. Instead, they will be grilled by members of the House Judiciary Committee who think their companies are a public menace.
That’s gratitude for you.
Try to imagine the COVID-19 shutdown without smartphones and social media, streaming video, virtual meetings, and online shopping. By enabling millions of us to work from home, US tech titans have helped rescue our crippled economy from total collapse, but these companies still possess massive and almost unregulated power. They control vast stores of sensitive data about billions of people, and can use it however they wish. They’re capable of smothering or swallowing competitors, censoring unwelcome viewpoints — perhaps even turning the tide of an election, and so, despite all of the good these companies have done, few people trust them.
Or you, sir.
They haven't saved us from anything. Main Street has been and is being destroyed and our saviors are the ones profiting mightily off it.
He's Braying di$ingenuou$ne$$.
There’s something to be said for an antitrust crackdown, but other proposed changes could have ugly consequences. For instance, there is one plan that could undermine the security of our private data in the name of law and order. Another would fight the tech companies’ perceived left-wing bias by gutting the 1996 law that protects free online speech for everybody.
Hasn't he been reading his own paper, or is he also in a COVID bubble?
The Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and a horde of state attorneys general are conducting multiple antitrust investigations targeting Google and Facebook. A lawsuit might be filed against Google this summer, according to The New York Times. Dozens of states, including Massachusetts, have launched their own joint investigation of Google’s business practices. Apple is coming under Justice Department scrutiny for the way it runs its lucrative App Store, and some US states are investigating Amazon for its treatment of independent retailers that sell through Amazon’s online marketplace, and that’s just in the United States. The European Union’s antitrust authorities are expected to sue Amazon for anti-competitive practices in the coming months. The EU has also launched an investigation into the way Apple runs its App Store, but crafting effective remedies won’t be easy. You can’t break up a Google or a Facebook; their sheer size is what makes them so useful. You could force them to spin off their giant auxiliaries, such as Google’s YouTube business or Facebook’s WhatsApp mesaging service, but then you’ve just got four tech giants instead of two.
As for Amazon and Apple, maybe they do abuse their market power, but neither company is a true monopoly. Apple holds about 45 percent of the US smartphone market, while Amazon gets just 5.9 percent of all US retail dollars (as of last year). So by traditional antitrust standards, they may be untouchable.
That was all pre-COVID, bozo.
Indeed, some in Congress think the United States will need new laws specifically designed to rein in the technology companies, and last week, the EU said it’s starting to draft new regulations, but enacting laws won’t happen overnight, and even if the companies are sued under existing law, antitrust suits rarely end quickly. The Microsoft case from the early 2000s, for instance, scraped along for five years. So any benefit for consumers is a long way off.
Oh, he glosses over the ruthless Bill Gates case in which Gates basically proprietorized software code that was open to all, which led to his billions that now control world health policy.
Antitrust action isn’t Big Tech’s only worry. A lot of powerful people want to set tougher limits on what can be said online. There’s an aggressive private-sector campaign to force social media companies to clamp down on false information and hateful speech. Hundreds of companies, including giants like Coca-Cola, Ford, and Honda, have stopped buying ads on various social media outlets, including Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, but attempts to limit speech are always scarier when government’s doing it.....
If they want to shut you up they will have to EARN IT with a PACT ACT!
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"Stocks rallied worldwide on Monday as investors bet that the economy can continue its dramatic turnaround despite all the challenges ahead. Stocks of the biggest companies once again led the way, and strength for Apple, Amazon, and other tech-oriented titans helped lift the Nasdaq Composite to a record high. Investors are focusing more on recent improvements in the economy and all the stimulus that central banks and governments are supplying than on how much pain still remains. Investors are also continuing to sidestep the mounting number of known coronavirus infections, at least for now. “The economic damage isn’t going to be as dire and severe as was initially predicted,” said Peter Essele, head of portfolio management for Commonwealth Financial Network. “That helps explain the rebound.”
Amazon's was through the roof:
"Amazon.com rallied again Monday, with its stock extending a recent advance into record territory and topping $3,000 for the first time. The shares ended the day up 5.8 percent at 3,057.04 for their fourth straight daily gain. The stock has climbed about 80 percent since a March low, resulting in a market capitalization of $1.5 trillion. Amazon has seen accelerating demand for its e-commerce and cloud-computing services during the pandemic, which has closed brick-and-mortar rivals and led more people to work remotely. Many analysts expect these trends to outlast the pandemic. Amazon remains a consensus favorite on Wall Street. Only one firm tracked by Bloomberg recommends selling the stock, compared with the 52 that advocate buying it. Four have the equivalent of a hold rating."
There is that word again, and COVID is enriching Bezos beyond his wildest dreams after he dumped his stock so why aren't they protesting that? They muzzled?
"Facebook will temporarily stop processing Hong Kong government requests for user data as the company reviews a sweeping national security law that has chilled political expression in the city....."
We are looking more like China every day!
"Activity in the US services sector rebounded strongly last month, but those gains are now being threatened by the resurgence of coronavirus cases in many parts of the country. The reading for the services index was better than expected — but amid concerns about what rising virus cases could do to efforts by restaurants, bars, and other businesses to stay open....."
They are closing those down as I type and "the worry is that if the pandemic keeps worsening, with hot spots stretching across the US South and West, it could scare shoppers and businesses away from spending. The worst-case scenario for markets is that governments resume lockdowns implemented during the spring and choke off the budding economic recovery. Either way, many economists expect the global economy to take years before returning to its output from before the pandemic. The huge spending efforts to resuscitate the economy could also lead to a reckoning in the future. “We have now mortgaged our entire future to try and withstand this downturn,” Essele said. At some point, the buildup in debt for the US government could lead to higher taxes and interest rates, but markets generally see that as a potential problem for another day. For now, the trend is still upward. A report released Monday morning showed that US services industries snapped back to growth in June. The results were much stronger than economists expected. They also followed reports from last week that showed US employers added more workers than they cut for the second straight month and that US manufacturing returned to growth in June. Big tech-oriented companies also continued their dominance amid expectations their growth can roll on almost regardless of the economy’s performance. Apple gained 2.7 percent, Microsoft rose 2.2 percent, and Amazon climbed 5.8 percent to top $3,000 per share. The immense size of these companies also gives their stocks’ movements much larger sway over market indexes. Some dealmaking also helped to lift markets. Berkshire Hathaway, led by famed bargain hunter Warren Buffett, has agreed to buy Dominion Energy’s operations for moving and storing natural gas. Berkshire Hathaway, which has a reputation for waiting until prices reach attractive lows before pouncing, will pay roughly $4 billion in cash under the deal, as well as assume $5.7 billion in debt. Berkshire Hathaway’s Class B shares rose 2.2 percent. Dominion Energy fell 11 percent. While announcing the sale, it also said that it and Duke Energy were canceling a controversial $8 billion natural-gas pipeline project. Uber rose 6 percent after it said it will buy food-delivery business Postmates for $2.65 billion in stock. The deal would fold Postmates in with Uber’s Uber Eats unit....."
That's where I was dropped off, and the number$ are mind-numbing as the American people suffer. Everyone knows it is a rigged market that is effectively dead and will enrich only a few. That's another component of this diabolical plan.
"COVID-19 has upended the economy, but biotechs with promising medical treatments are still attracting venture capital. Take Vor Biopharma. The Cambridge startup cofounded by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, the oncologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, said Tuesday it has raised $110 million in new funding that it hopes to use to start clinical trials of a new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. The company raised $42 million in February of last year. “The pandemic certainly provided a set of challenges, and it’s unusual to raise money when you cannot shake hands with investors . . . before parting with their hard-earned funds,” said Dr. Robert Ang, Vor’s chief executive. That Vor raised as much as it did, he said, “is testament to the novelty of our science and the quality of the company.”
Plenty of money out there if you are servicing the Great Global Reset and coming techno-bio Borg dystopia. At least you know where some of the printed trillions are going.
Now back to the dead economy and who will suffer most from it:
"Data released Monday by the Trump administration showed that businesses in big states like California and Texas received the most in loans from the government’s small business relief program, with health care, professional services, and construction among the sectors that have tapped the largest amount of funding....."
No names?
"Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report. The lobbyists identified Monday by the watchdog group Public Citizen either worked in the Trump executive branch, served on his campaign, were part of the committee that raised money for inaugural festivities or were part of his presidential transition. Many are donors to Trump’s campaigns, and some are prolific fundraisers for his reelection. While the money is intended as a lifeline to a nation whose economy has been upended by the pandemic, it also jump-started a familiar lobbying bonanza. “The swamp is alive and well in Washington, D.C.,” said Mike Tanglis, one of the report’s authors....."
So that is the stench that is coming from my Bo$ton Globe!
Time to count the electors:
"States may curb ‘faithless electors,’ Supreme Court rules" by Adam Liptak New York Times, July 7, 2020
WASHINGTON — States can require members of the Electoral College to cast their votes for the presidential candidates they had pledged to support, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday, curbing the independence of electors and limiting one potential source of uncertainty in the 2020 presidential election.
Election law scholars welcomed the ruling.
“The court’s decision strikes a blow for legal and political stability and sanity,” said Richard H. Pildes, a law professor at New York University. “Every American understands themselves to be voting for the persons running for president, not for members of the Electoral College, and it is now clear that states can enforce that understanding.”
Members of the Electoral College cast the actual votes for president four weeks after Election Day. Among the states and the District of Columbia that have laws requiring electors to vote as they had promised, 15 states back up their requirements by either removing rogue electors or subjecting them to financial penalties.
Since the Constitution gives states the power to appoint electors, Justice Elena Kagan wrote for seven members of the court that power allows them to impose conditions on their appointment.
Recent court decisions had come to opposite conclusions about whether electors may disregard their pledges.
Last year, the Washington state Supreme Court upheld fines of $1,000 on three Democratic electors who had cast their electoral votes in 2016 for Colin Powell rather than for Hillary Clinton.
Kagan explained the electors’ thinking.
“The three hoped they could encourage other electors — particularly those from states Donald Trump had carried — to follow their example,” she wrote. “The idea was to deprive him of a majority of electoral votes and throw the election into the House of Representatives.”
The effort failed. “Only seven electors across the nation cast faithless votes — the most in a century, but well short of the goal,” Kagan wrote. “Candidate Trump became President Trump.”
On election night in 2016, the electoral vote was expected to be 306 for Donald Trump and 232 for Clinton. In the end, though, it was 304-227.....
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For some reason, the Globe is happy with the ruling (fix already in?), and just be careful flying, Mr. President.
Also see:
Governor joined Trump after contact with carrier of virus
Trudeau turns down White House invitation amid pandemic
Good.
I don't want his blackface in the White House.
Three questions surround Trump’s N.H. rally this Saturday
Will it be a superspreader (pfffft), why won't he act to protect American troops (as the pre$$ tortures the President of the United States), and what exactly is he gleaning from his favorite news source other than great advice?
"A Kansas county Republican Party chairman who owns a weekly newspaper apologized for a cartoon posted on the paper’s Facebook page that equated the Democratic governor’s coronavirus-inspired order for people to wear masks in public with the mass murder of Jews by Nazis during the Holocaust. Dane Hicks, owner and publisher of The Anderson County Review, said on Facebook that he was removing the cartoon after “some heartfelt and educational conversations with Jewish leaders in the U.S. and abroad.” The cartoon, posted Friday, drew dozens of critical responses and global attention. A blog post by Hicks on Saturday defending it also drew critical responses. Hicks is the GOP chairman for Anderson County in eastern Kansas. The state party chairman deemed the cartoon “inappropriate.” Governor Laura Kelly called for it to be removed, and she and others called it anti-Semitic."
Oh, man, Big Joo put the arm to him and he caved!
That's the kind of environment Trump is having to campaign in for reelection:
"Climate activists doubted Joe Biden. Can he win them over?" by Lisa Friedmanand Katie Glueck New York Times, July 6, 2020
WASHINGTON — From the earliest days of his presidential campaign, progressive climate advocates viewed Joe Biden with deep skepticism. He declined to fully endorse the Green New Deal. He opposed a total ban on fracking. Young activists were scathing in their criticism of him, and he was at times openly dismissive of their concerns, but now, less than four months before Election Day, Biden is moving urgently to unite and energize the Democratic Party around his candidacy, aware of the need to engage younger, more liberal voters — and to ensure that they turn out in November. On climate issues, there are signs that Biden’s allies and some of the party’s leading progressives have quietly started to forge new common ground.
Even if they don't we will told they did.
In recent weeks, supporters of Biden and of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, his chief rival in the Democratic presidential primary race, have met privately over Zoom, part of several joint task forces that the two established to generate policy recommendations on core domestic priorities and to facilitate party unity. After two months of those conversations, task force members representing both camps say they have finalized a set of ambitious, near-term climate targets that they hope Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will incorporate in his platform.
The Green New Deal is basically a component of the WEF's global reset, and it's effect will be total state control a la Communism. Will kill travel, etc, except for the overlord cla$$.
“I do believe we were able to make meaningful progress,” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who headed the climate panel with former secretary of state John Kerry, said last week. Representative Donald McEachin of Virginia, a Biden ally who was also on the task force, called it a “collaborative process” that developed wide-ranging policies.
Still, Ocasio-Cortez, who has clashed with Biden over his approach to combating climate change, struck a note of caution. “Now, what he does with those recommendations, ultimately, is up to him,” she said, “and we will see what that commitment looks like.”
Where else they going to got, right?
They blindly hate and despise the other guy.
Those goals, according to three people familiar with the task force’s decisions, include committing to seeing the United States’ electricity sector powered fully by renewable energy by 2035 and a rapid transition to energy-efficient buildings. They also seek a day one promise to begin developing new vehicle efficiency standards — and to include labor unions in the talks — to replace and improve upon the Obama administration measures that President Trump has weakened.
You can't run any industry or even technological firm -- what do you think powers your computer, and do you know how much energy it takes? -- and you sure as hell can't power a war machine on renewables.
The group, which convened amid economic collapse during the coronavirus pandemic and protests against racism and police brutality, was especially attuned to linking the climate crisis to jobs as well as to the struggle to help low-income communities that already face outsize health consequences from pollution, members said.
I have only one word for you: Flint.
Biden, the former vice president, last year proposed a $1.7 trillion plan aimed at achieving 100% clean energy and eliminating the country’s net carbon emissions by 2050, but how he responds to the task force’s recommendations — and whether progressives in the group walk away feeling heard — will test his campaign’s ability to navigate an issue of great importance to ascendant forces in the Democratic Party.
He might just stink up the room, huh?
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Related:
Dakota Access Pipeline to shut down pending review, federal judge rules
Bu$ine$$ then went and opened its mouth:
"A judge on Monday ordered the Dakota Access pipeline shut down for additional environmental review more than three years after it began pumping oil — a victory for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a blow to President Trump’s efforts to weaken health and environmental protections he views as obstacles to businesses. US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., wrote that he was “mindful of the disruption’’ but the pipeline must be shut down within 30 days. Energy Transfer Partners, the owner, plans to seek an expedited appeal, a spokeswoman said. Boasberg said in April that a more extensive review was necessary than what the Army Corps of Engineers had conducted. “Given the seriousness of the Corps’ NEPA [National Environmental Policy Act] error, the impossibility of a simple fix, the fact that Dakota Access did assume much of its economic risk knowingly, and the potential harm each day the pipeline operates, the Court is forced to conclude that the flow of oil must cease,” he said Monday. The pipeline was the subject of months of protests in 2016 and 2017, sometimes violent, during its construction near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on the North Dakota-South Dakota border. The $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile pipeline crosses beneath the Missouri River just north of the reservation."
How will the planes fly?
"El Al, crippled by the pandemic, has reached a bailout deal with the Israeli government that could lead to the airline’s nationalization. Since the coronavirus outbreak, El Al has suspended passenger flights indefinitely and carried out scores of layoffs. The company will receive loans of $250 million, most of which will be guaranteed by the state. It’s expected to raise an additional $150 million by selling shares that, if they aren’t sold entirely to the public, will be bought by the state. The agreement awaits a parliamentary committee’s approval. The company was previously state-owned until it was privatized more than 15 years ago. It has struggled over the years, including with the arrival in Israel of international low-cost carriers."
The Zionist cavalry is not coming over the hill to save us from Gates and Co.
Better make a swim for it:
"Two of the world’s largest cruise operators insist their ships are no more vulnerable to the spread of the coronavirus than other public places. The cruise industry has long rejected the idea that ships’ close quarters are disease-prone. Major players still maintain that position, though there have been more than 3,000 COVID-19 cases and dozens of deaths associated with ships, according to the Cruise Lines International Association. Top executives at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings and Royal Caribbean Cruises were asked Sunday to acknowledge that people are more likely to get coronavirus on a cruise ship. “No, I don’t believe [that],” said Frank Del Rio, Norwegian’s CEO, adding that “because it is a controlled environment” a ship can be “among the safest places on Earth.” The CEOs said they have formed a partnership on health protocols, the Healthy Sail Panel, led by former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb and former Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt. The Miami Herald has identified 3,644 coronavirus cases associated with cruise ships. A New York Times report, which used CDC data, said the numbers are far higher."
Then he is a COVID-denier!
Only one mode of transport left:
"When it comes to rugged vehicles that go off-road, over rocks, and into the mud, Jeep for years has cornered the US market, but Ford is reviving the Bronco brand in an effort to take a slice. It may not be easy for a brand known as O.J. Simpson’s ride in a 1994 low-speed chase by Los Angeles police, who wanted him on murder charges. Ford believes the Bronco name will evoke good memories from its off-road heritage during a three-decade run that ended in 1996. At its introduction in 1965, Ford called the Bronco a new line of sport utility vehicles....."
Who remembers him now, huh, ladies?
