"Betsy DeVos again calls for school districts to open fully for 2020-21" by Valerie Strauss Washington Post, July 12, 2020
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made it clear on Sunday she wants schools to reopen fully for most students for the 2020-21 academic year, even as COVID-19 infection rates are soaring in some parts of the country and some superintendents say it is impossible for them to do that.
DeVos made her latest statement about what schools should do as the United States grapples with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, with Florida hitting a grim milestone Sunday setting the record for a state’s largest single-day increase in new cases. Florida reported that 15,299 people tested positive, for a total of 269,811 cases. California had the previous record of daily positive cases — 11,694, set on Wednesday.
The death rates must be dropping like free-falling WTC towers.
Two of the Trump administration’s top health officials acknowledged Sunday that the country is facing a serious situation with the onslaught of rising cases in several states, striking a far more sober tone than President Trump — or DeVos — at this stage of the pandemic in the United States.
In an interview on CNN’s ‘‘State of the Union’’ with journalist Dana Bash, DeVos doubled down on calls she made last week for schools to reopen.
‘‘Kids need to be in school,’’ she said. ‘‘They need to be learning, they need to be moving ahead, and we can’t — we cannot be paralyzed and not allow that or not be intent on that happening.’’
It makes sense from a child development angle, but I don't know. They flip the switch and its dead kids in school (ma$$ media will make it something else, too, either COVID or gun violence).
DeVos said nothing, however, about what school superintendents have been saying they need to reopen: billions of dollars in additional federal funding to cover the costs of changes they have to make and personal protective equipment they need to buy. In fact, DeVos last week threatened to withhold federal funding from districts that didn’t do what she wanted, even though she can’t unilaterally stop funding approved by Congress.
The PPE situation will make you sick, and why do we have to practice distancing?
How many people are you spending more than 15 minutes around in a given day, especially shopping?
School district leaders nationwide have been working for months to figure out how to plan for various contingencies for 2020-21, though some districts are planning to reopen in a few weeks, it is still unclear exactly how most of them will do so with COVID-19 rates skyrocketing in several states. Health specialists have warned that surges are likely to continue into the fall, which could complicate reopening plans of any kind.
They will not be reopening come fall. It will be a real gut pinch after all the hope and hype, same as with the $ports that are not coming back despite the buildup. If they do comeback, and it's like what little I've seen so far, it will be insulting and surreal as the athletes have no masks and are clustering.
On Sunday, Admiral Brett Giroir, an assistant secretary with the Health and Human Services Department, and Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general, both emphasized their concern about surging outbreaks, many of them in areas where people have not followed recommended public health guidelines to contain the spread of the virus. Their remarks were in sharp contrast to Trump’s contention last week that 99 percent of the cases were “totally harmless” and his boast of the country’s low death rate from the virus.
“We’re all very concerned about the rise in cases, no doubt about that,” Giroir, the official who has been in charge of the administration’s coronavirus testing response, said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“We do expect deaths to go up,” he said. “If you have more cases, more hospitalizations, we do expect to see that over the next two or three weeks before this turns around.”
Giroir and Adams offered up a few optimistic notes.
Oh, nice, like a torturer would!
WTF is an ADMIRAL doing over at HHS anyway?
The country is already a militaristic state, kids.
They steered clear of recommending widespread lockdowns in states where hospitals are becoming overwhelmed. Instead, they said, those cities and states should consider closing bars and curtailing mass social gatherings, and they strongly urged the vast majority of people in those hard-hit areas to wear masks.
Masks have become a flashpoint in some areas of the country, especially among members of Trump’s political base. The president resisted wearing a mask for months, mocked some people who did, and only wore a mask in public for the first time Saturday during a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Well, that debate is over after he took a knee and submitted.
“It’s really essential to wear masks,” Giroir said. “We have to have like 90 percent of people wearing the masks in public in the hot spot areas. If we don’t have that, we will not get control of the virus.”
Adams wore a mask during his entire interview on the CBS program “Face the Nation” even though he was being interviewed remotely from Indiana. He said measures like wearing face coverings were “critically important.”
I agree, so why don't you guys muzzle yourselves.
DeVos hadn’t said much in recent months about schools reopening — until last week, after President Trump tweeted that all schools should open five days a week for all students. He also threatened to withhold funding from those that don’t do so.
The New York Times last week published internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documents warning that opening K-12 schools and institutions of higher education in the way Trump and DeVos want — fully — would pose the ‘‘highest risk’’ for the spread of COVID-19.....
That's it, Times, scare the shit out of the kids.
F**king pre$$ is evil!
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"As September looms, the gap between 3 feet and 6 feet is feeling hard to bridge for schools" by James Vaznis Globe Staff, July 12, 2020
When Governor Charlie Baker released guidelines for reopening schools, one measure seemed to come out of left field: In an effort to get as many students as possible back into their classrooms this fall, he would allow schools to practice only 3 feet of social distancing instead of the standard 6 feet, sparking a passionate debate across the state.
Teacher unions adamantly oppose the idea, calling it “a path of disaster.” Many parents are up in arms, and some districts, such as Boston and Lexington, have already rejected the lower standard.
“It’s really anxiety-provoking,” said Sharita Fauche, a co-director of the Collaborative Parent Leadership Action Network, whose children attend Brooke Charter School in Mattapan. “For parents who have really abided by the shelter-in-place advisory, you are now exposing your kids to other kids by sending them to school, and you don’t know what the safety practices of those other kids are in their homes.”
Yeah, the other kid could be a killer even though hardly any kids have died from COVID.
President Trump stepped into the fray last week.
Well, they want to keep everything closed to hurt him, that's obvious.
Meanwhile, a growing number of infectious disease experts and pediatricians support Massachusetts’ lower social-distancing standard because it is combined with other safety measures, such as requiring masks and having all desks face forward. They argue that the risk of children getting the coronavirus is low, while the academic, social, and emotional harm they would incur by staying out of school is far greater.
Don't let logic and rational thought get in the way, even as they scare the kids with slave masks and face front!!
The swirling debate over social distancing exemplifies how difficult it will be for local districts to reopen school buildings after the pandemic forced their closure in March, especially in convincing a nervous public that everyone will be safe. A Suffolk University poll recently found almost half of white parents and 60 percent of Black and Latino parents doubted schools would have adequate safety measures.
There’s good reason for the concern. Schools are notoriously germy. Many school buildings statewide were constructed decades ago and lack adequate ventilation, and budget cuts have winnowed custodians and left some schools, particularly in Boston, short on soap, paper towels, and hand sanitizers.
Why have the schools been neglected so long by the people who care so much about our kids' health, huh?
WTF?!!!!
Although state officials prefer at least 6 feet of social distancing in schools, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges, they recognized many schools are tight on space. The 3-foot cutoff is based on recommendations from the World Health Organization and an analysis published by The Lancet that examined 44 studies on distancing measures. The analysis found that a little more than 3 feet of social distancing — plus masks and goggles — provided a good degree of protection from the coronavirus, although 6 feet was better.
I'm sorry, will one of you kids please empty the garbage because it stinks!
This whole f**king distance thing has been a FARCE from the START!
Jeffrey Riley, state education commissioner, defended the lower standard, noting that the Massachusetts chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the guidelines.
“Given the data we have at this time in Massachusetts, and given the medical parameters we put in [the guidelines], we believe we have offered districts a path to get as many students as possible into school this fall,” he said, but with infection rates rising in other states, many educators and parents worry that Massachusetts’ rate will spike again. Increasing their concern: The WHO, under pressure from more than 200 scientists worldwide, updated its guidance last week to acknowledge that coronavirus particles can linger in the air in poorly ventilated and crowded indoor spaces.
Does the disassembling and lying hurt with all the contradictory crap coming from authority, and what is with the never-ending f**king ear-porn from the pre$$?
Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health, who signed the WHO letter, said the updated guidance shouldn’t be used broadly as a reason to keep school buildings closed. Loosening social-distancing standards in classrooms should be OK if other measures, such as masks and good air ventilation, are part of the strategy, said Allen, who supports the state guidelines.
I'm sick of the Globe turning to the same elite, agenda-pushing liars, 'er, sources, aren't you?
This is CRAP, kids!
Having schools open, he said, is critical because students could incur more academic and emotional harm if they remain at home, particularly in households where food insecurity and neglect are problems, but he added that more attention must be paid to improving air quality in schools, Allen recently cowrote the book, “Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity,” which highlighted data that showed most schools don’t meet the minimum standards for air ventilation. “We talk about essential workers and essential services, but where are schools in this priority?” he said.
PFFFFT!
Sorry, but where was he when there was lead in the water fountains?
So sickening to see the Globe turn to a guy hawking a f**king book!
Given the uncertainty surrounding the virus, the state’s three largest teachers unions are pushing for a phased-in return to school and 6 feet of social distancing.
“We are heading down a path of disaster, and the lives of the children and adults in the buildings are at stake,” said Merrie Najimy, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, but some students, fed up with online learning, say they have no problem with loosening social distancing.
The teachers are putting their radical, country-destroying, left-wing indoctrination and inculcation lesson plans out of business and themselves out of work with their attitude, and good riddance.
Alejandra De La Cruz, an incoming senior at Muñiz Academy in Jamaica Plain, said she is OK with 3 feet, especially if all students can return; however, she described the state’s mask requirement as impractical. “Students are not going to wear a mask for nine hours,” she said. “As soon as kids hit the school building, they will take them off. It’s hard to breathe in a mask.”
NOOOOOOO!
Out of the mouths of babes, #GeorgeFloyd!
Some superintendents say they like the flexibility on social distancing, noting classroom sizes vary and science labs often have fixed work stations.
In Haverhill, the social-distancing guidelines have created controversy. For other superintendents, less than 6 feet is a nonstarter. The Boston Public Schools, after consulting with the city’s Public Health Commission, is moving forward with plans to mark its floors with 6-feet indicators, even as it scours the city for additional classroom space. Officials don’t know if they will reopen full-scale.
“We are sticking with the 6 feet of distance,” said Jonathan Palumbo, a school spokesman. “Six feet between students. Six feet between students and teachers. Six feet between staff. Six feet while traveling through hallways.”
Who would want to go to those schools?
At least one study has raised questions about reopening schools fully after running a computational modeling of disease spread in schools to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies to prevent coronavirus infections.
PFFFFFFT!
Their CRAP MODELS are how we got into this mess!
The study — performed by Mathematica, a research and consulting group in Princeton, N.J. — found that dividing students into groups and alternating them between in-person and remote learning may be substantially safer than bringing all students back simultaneously. The model assumed 6 feet of social distancing and anticipated that students wouldn’t be fully compliant with masks.
”You can have more confidence that you can reduce infection spread if kids are not there every day, but it’s a tough trade-off,” said Brian Gill, a senior fellow and director at Mathematica’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory. “Having kids in school less than five days a week is extremely demanding on families and may not be educationally great.”
They have been driving progress in education for a while.
Terri Sabol, an assistant professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University, warned that school systems will also need to consider how social distancing will alter in-person learning and perhaps diminish the benefits of a full-scale return.
Schools have moved significantly away from desk-bound learning, she said, and now bustle with activity.
Back in your seats!
“I think the real challenge for schools is how do you provide developmentally appropriate, high-quality learning experiences while maintaining safety of students and staff,” said Sabol, a former elementary school teacher. “You walk into any high-quality classroom, it’s active.”
Not anymore, and good luck keeping the squirmers in their seats and slamming down natural and innocent rebellion.
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I was for the kids going back to school until I read the comments, but not now.
Stay out of the schools, kids.
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Time for Politics and History:
Trump’s drop in polls has confident Democrats sensing ‘a tsunami coming’
The Washington Compost says presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden enjoys a commanding position, the Democrats will gain control of the Senate for the first time in six years, and Democrats will pick up seats and expand their majority in the House.
It will likely be a lot closer than that, so go vote so we can get the war going.
Smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego on Sunday after an explosion and fire (Denis Poroy/Associated Press/FR59680 AP via AP)
Another Pearl Harbor?
"Two police officers were fatally shot by a man who later killed himself after they responded to a domestic disturbance call in McAllen, Texas, authorities said....."
At least they had on their masks.
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that President Trump has “crossed a bridge” by wearing a face mask during a visit to a military hospital. Pelosi told CNN’s “State of the Union” that she hopes it means the president “will change his attitude, which will be helpful in stopping the spread of the coronavirus.”
Yeah, no turning back for him now as that bridge has been burnt as Pelosi said she is "so glad he obeyed the rules" -- even as she flaunts them!
His funeral:
"A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “COVID party” died after being infected with the virus, according to a Texas hospital. The man had attended a gathering with an infected person to test whether the coronavirus was real, said Dr. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, where the man died. She did not say when the party took place, how many people attended, or how long after the event was the man hospitalized with COVID-19. The premise of such parties is to test whether the virus exists or to intentionally expose people to the coronavirus in an attempt to gain immunity. Appleby said the man had told his nurse that he attended a COVID party. Just before he died, she said the patient told his nurse: “I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.”"
Going to inter him in Rhode Island, for obvious reasons, and as one commentator noted this is the most retarded fake news I’ve heard, well today at least!
Speaking of fake news:
"President Trump’s advisers undercut the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, over the weekend, anonymously providing details to various news outlets about statements he had made early in the coronavirus outbreak that they said were inaccurate. The move to treat Fauci, who has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for decades, as if he were a warring political rival came as he has grown increasingly vocal in his concerns about the national surge in coronavirus cases, as well as his lack of access to Trump over the past several weeks. It has been accompanied by more measured public criticism from administration officials, including the president, and it came just days after the White House called school reopening guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention overly restrictive, part of a pattern of the administration trying to sideline recommendations that could slow the reopening of the economy, which Trump views as vital to his flailing reelection effort. Aides to Trump first released to The Washington Post what the paper called a “lengthy list” of remarks that Fauci had made about the virus when it was in its early stages. That list featured several comments from Fauci that White House aides had privately complained about for months, including one in February in which he minimized the chance of asymptomatic spread and said people did not need to make big changes to their lives. An official told The Post that several other officials were concerned about how often Fauci had been wrong. For example, White House officials pointed to a statement by Fauci in a Feb. 29 interview that “at this moment, there is no need to change anything that you’re doing on a day-by-day basis,” but they omitted a warning he delivered right after. “Right now the risk is still low, but this could change,” he said in the interview, conducted by NBC News. “When you start to see community spread, this could change and force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread.” In the same interview, Fauci also warned that the coronavirus could become “a major outbreak.” The list of statements, laid out in the style of a campaign’s opposition research document, was later released to several news outlets. It was an extraordinary move for the White House to provide news organizations with such a document about a health official who works for the administration and retains a high level of public trust....."
Fauci declined to comment to the New York Times, and why haven't they fired that Deep State creature that ruined his presidency?
"Florida reports largest, single-day increase in COVID cases" by Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura and Rick Rojas New York Times, July 12, 2020
TAMPA — Florida on Sunday reported the highest single-day total of new coronavirus cases by any state since the start of the pandemic, with more than 15,000 new infections, eclipsing the previous high of 12,274, recorded in New York on April 4 amid the worst of its outbreak.
The number reflects both increased testing and a surge in transmission of the virus that has strained hospitals, led to shortages of a key antiviral drug, and amplified fears about the pace at which the state lifted restrictions on movement and commerce, and it is a new red mark on the nation’s foundering efforts to combat the virus.
F**k this piece of NYT s**t!
“It has just been horrifically busy,” John Toney, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of South Florida, said of hospitals, where patients were flooding in and doctors and nurses were growing overwhelmed and exhausted. “It’s reminiscent of what everyone dealt with in New York,” Toney said. “It’s certainly putting a strain on a lot of the systems, even though hospitals are trying to accommodate.”
No time to make dance videos this time?
This is a rerun of the simulated lies from the spring, folks!
They really think we will fall for this crap again!
Or maybe it is just to reenforce their lying narrative.
The increase of 15,300 cases has come as Disney World has let tourists back onto its rides, the Republican National Convention is set to begin in Jacksonville in August, and Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered that public schools reopen for five days a week when classes resume next month. “If you can do Home Depot, if you can do Walmart, if you can do these things,” the governor said, “we absolutely can do the schools.”
The bad news is the Magic Kingdom is no more because of COVID.
The surge in Florida reflects how the spread of the virus has escalated in much of the country, particularly in Southern states where governors following President Trump’s lead have pushed aggressively to ease restrictions and encourage businesses to reopen. Now some states are trying to add mask mandates and other protective measures and seeing renewed tension between governors and mayors as they disagree over how much to pull back on the reopening.
In some ways, the situation in Florida differs from the worst days of the pandemic in New York.
Some of the increase in cases reflects the dramatic increase in testing; Florida is testing several times the number of people that New York was at the height of its crisis. The spread of the disease under the Florida sun does not play out with the same dread as it did in crowded city streets in New York. Hospitals are better supplied and somewhat more prepared to treat patients than they were in March and April, and while the daily death toll in Florida climbed to a high last week, it remains far below the levels that New York suffered, at least for now.
“It was very difficult to figure out how to test. Now it’s a little easier,” DeSantis, a Republican, told reporters Saturday, adding that concerns about equipment and supplies had eased, as well.
“These are now tools in the toolbox,” he added. “If somebody comes in, they can be treated for this.”
Huh?
On the other hand, there is something demoralizing, if sadly predictable, in seeing the virus make a comeback both in communities that had expected it to fade and began easing restrictions, and others that had tried to maintain safety measures only for residents to ignore them.
That is what we are being told anyway.
“We expected this to happen,” said Jay Wolfson, a professor of public health and medicine at the University of South Florida. “The calculus for this disease is proximity, congestion and time,” he added. “You had people going to parties. You had restaurants open up. You had bars open up. You had beaches open up. You had graduation parties for students.”
You had race riot protests. Forgot that one.
Even with the dramatic spike in cases and sickness in the state, many Floridians remain blasé about the virus and averse to the simple act of wearing a mask to prevent its spread.
They won't submit with a slave mask?
Good for them!
On Clearwater Beach, on Florida’s Gulf Coast, Jason Dormois, 17, part of a crew handling sun lounges, said he was not worried. “I’m out in the sun; I’m a healthy young man,” he said. He said he had been out of his job for two months and stuck at home, and “people need the money.”
Others were appalled people were not taking the virus more seriously.
“It’s asinine, the way people are acting. Look at the beach — not one mask,” said Anthony Babcock, 47, who had worked in music publishing, “and those who say it’s a free country — it’s not about being a free country. It’s about being smart. We’ll see what happens in two weeks.”
F**king totalitarian!
From the start, the response to the virus has been defined by a tug of war as officials have had to balance taking aggressive steps to inhibit its spread with limiting the array of economic and social consequences those measures unleashed.
They fell and failed then if this is the result!
Denied us herd immunity -- if the f**king thing even exists!
Now that balance is being calibrated yet again as the outbreak is growing across 37 states, and eight states — all but one in the South or Southwest — set single-day death records over the last week: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Tennessee.
They forgot Arkansas.
The states seeing the record increases were often among those where officials had delayed implementing stay-at-home orders in the spring and moved quickly to ease the restrictions they did put in place.
Now many officials are preaching caution. In Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves, a Republican, betrayed his frustration as he urged residents to wear masks and follow social distancing measures. “Nothing is going to work unless people will just follow the rules that are in place,” he said in a recent news conference. “I know I sound like a broken record.”
YUP!!
Masks will be required in Louisiana starting Monday, as the virus has intensified in a state that had been one of the early hot spots.
“If you don’t like the mask mandate, then don’t like it,” said Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, “but wear your mask anyway if you’re going to be out in public.”
F**K OFF!
In the Houston area, one of the hardest hit, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have remained extremely high. The Texas health department reported 1,747 positive coronavirus tests Saturday in Greater Houston, more than triple the April peak; a seven-day trend line in new cases has held fairly steady since late June. Last week, more than 11 percent of coronavirus tests were positive, compared with 16 percent the previous week and nearly 7 percent in late April. Medical centers have been creating new coronavirus intensive care units, including in post-surgical recovery rooms and previously shuttered wards.
Don't they have a Democrat mayor?
Of course, the race riot protesters came in at fewer than 3 percent, wait, it was half that.
What a f**king FRAUD this is!
Maintaining adequate staffing has been a key challenge, with hundreds of local medical professionals out sick or in quarantine. Managers are offering bonuses to nurses, attempting to hire new ones, and reassigning staff from other specialties.
Then what is with the more than a million health care workers being laid off?
You f**king LIARS!!
A color-coded designation that signals to ambulance crews which hospitals are busiest and should be avoided has lost its meaning now that most hospitals are operating well beyond their typical capacity. For emergency departments and intensive care units, “It’s pretty much been entirely reading ‘saturation’ in red for weeks now,” said Dr. David Persse, medical director of the Houston Fire Department. “Our local rule that everybody knows is that when everybody’s closed, everybody’s open.”
After the first load of BS back in March regarding overrun hospitals that never happened, f**k off!
Two public hospitals that serve as a safety net for Houston-area patients who are uninsured and those with Medicaid have been particularly hard-pressed. “The only way they’ve maintained any semblance of sanity is, we basically transfer patients as soon as we receive them” after stabilizing and assessing them, said Dr. Esmaeil Porsa, chief executive of the Harris Health System, the public system. “As soon as a bed becomes empty, someone rolls up from the emergency room.”
Florida has recorded more than 269,800 cases, with more than 4,200 total deaths, according to a New York Times database. There were also single-day records Sunday in the counties that include Florida’s largest cities, including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Fort Myers, West Palm Beach, Pensacola, and Sarasota.
The latest data show the increasing strains that hospitals are under. Some 43 intensive care units in 21 Florida counties have hit capacity and have no beds available. Doctors are working longer hours and, faced with shortages of the key drug remdesivir, doctors and nurses are having to choose between patients and even to change the remdesivir criteria to use it later in the disease.
The GREAT CULL CONTINUES!
Still, many residents continued to flout health guidelines.
In Ybor City, a popular area of Tampa lined with pirate-themed bars, tattoo parlors and cigar shops, restaurants were open. At Zydeco Brew Werks, a sign on the front door read, “City ordinance: A face mask is required to enter this establishment,” and yet no one wore a mask inside, except for the employees. There might have been fewer people compared to the days before the pandemic, yet little else about the atmosphere was different.
Kent White, who wore a bandanna that said “Make America Strong Again,” said he tried to keep his face covered, but he was still frustrated by the economic devastation caused by the virus. He said his business building gondolas had suffered because of supply chain disruptions, and he couldn’t get raw materials into the country from China.
“We can’t keep the country shut down,” White, 60, said. “It’s done so much damage to this country, and that continues to damage people.”
Well, it is shutting back down as I type so get used to it.
Bradley Wasinda, 47, who works at a restaurant, said he had tried to encourage patrons to cover their faces when in the restaurant but not eating, but the effort was futile.
“Can I be honest with you? I’ve given up on trying to enforce it,” he said, describing the fiery responses his requests incited. “I gave up,” he said. “I’m over it.”
YAAAAAAAY!
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Related:
Florida shatters national record with 15,300 new confirmed coronavirus cases in one day
"Florida shattered the national record Sunday for the largest single-day increase in positive coronavirus cases in any state since the beginning of the pandemic, adding more than 15,000 cases as its daily average death toll continued to also rise. The numbers come at the end of a grim, record-breaking week. University of Florida epidemiologist Dr. Cindy Prins, adding that the state and local health departments should ramp up their contact tracing. Prins said that she's still concerned about large crowds, gyms and some restaurants as being places of mass transmission. Reports of illegal clubs and raves in South Florida is also a worry, she said. "I really do think we could control this, and it's the human element that is so critical. It should be an effort of our country. We should be pulling together when we're in a crisis, and we're definitely not doing it," she said. "I know people want to live their lives. There have been a lot of other times, people have made those sacrifices in order to benefit our society. It's almost like a war effort. That's what we need right now."
Oh, I'm well aware that war is being waged on the people of this planet by authority and the sick clique of characters like Bill Gates, lady.
Meanwhile, it’s Trump’s call on what the GOP convention will look like, and “people are ready to roll, and get back to a little bit of normalcy,” back in Bo$ton where there are $unny days ahead!
Trump rips private Texas wall built by his supporters
He has no f**king clue what is going on!
Congress must bail out federal immigration processing agency
The Globe argues that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services faces a significant budget shortfall, and without congressional help, hundreds of thousands of immigrants could be stuck in limbo as they try to keep America safe for democracy because the president's assertion of executive power poses a threat to the November elections.
They never once worried about it during the Obama regime.
Graham to call Mueller to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee
Has to be one of the biggest who gives a damn of all times.
"Joe Biden won the Democratic presidential primary in Puerto Rico on Sunday. Biden faced seven other candidates on the ballot, though all the others have dropped out of the race. Biden has already locked up enough delegates to become the party’s nominee. The primary was scheduled for March but was delayed until Sunday because of the coronavirus pandemic."
Who knew there was a primary, and why have at all?
Has the place even been fixed up yet?
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Police failing a major test
The flipped a coin on the true and false questions:
"Encore Boston Harbor, which had been shuttered since March when the state ordered business closures because of the coronavirus pandemic, reopened Sunday to a steady trickle of guests, excited to don masks and slather on hand sanitizer for a chance to get back on the floor. The casino looked in many ways the same as it has — bright lights, colorful video slot machines, and people milling about, trying to find a lucky spot, but reminders of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has left more than 8,000 people dead in Massachusetts since March, are everywhere. All employees and guests had to wear protective face coverings. When a gambler left a slot machine, a staff member swooped in with cleaning supplies. The goal is “fun done safely,” said Eric Kraus, Encore’s head of public affairs. As guests left the parking lot Sunday morning to enter the casino, they saw a large sign by the elevators to the casino floor reminding them not to enter if they feel sick or have recently come into contact with someone who had contracted the virus. Staff checking IDs at the entrance asked them to briefly lower their face masks and scanned them for high fevers. There were the newly installed plexiglass barriers between video slot machines and similar barriers keeping dealers and gamblers separated at tables. It was not yet business as usual: Poker isn’t available. Neither are roulette and craps. Gamblers at table games are not touching the cards....."
I fold, and don't put your house up as collateral:
"When homeless people in Boston set up campsites to shelter themselves, how is the city supposed to respond? Eight months after the mayor’s office released its first draft protocol on dealing with encampments, the policy has yet to be finalized, setting the city up for potential legal risks and leaving unsheltered homeless people on edge about when and how they might be forced to move. Dealing with homeless people who set up camp outside took on urgency in March when federal officials issued a warning to cities to pause clearing out homeless encampments to stem the further spread of COVID-19. Boston is among several of Massachusetts’ largest cities receiving federal money to fight homelessness that so far lack any formal definition of what constitutes an encampment....."
They are being called hotels now, and what ungrateful ba$tards!
Two men killed in separate shootings early Sunday morning in Boston
The B3 placement leads me to believe those lives do not matter.
Virgin Mary statue in Dorchester burned in alleged arson
Never mind the churches burned to the ground.
Leaders of Black and Latino police groups oppose limiting officers’ qualified immunity
They don't want to tear down the police and society, thus they are a page B3 occupant that is treated as subhuman.
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The back of the book teaches the mo$t le$$ons:
"Ruth Lehmann has headed the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge for barely two weeks, but she’s already proving to be an outspoken critic of President Trump, skewering his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and his treatment of foreigners who work and study in the United States. Lehmann, a German native who became director of the MIT-affiliated institute after 24 years as a prominent cell biologist at New York University, said Trump has displayed “ridiculous” behavior by eschewing a mask to slow the spread of the coronavirus. She contrasted him with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a former research scientist, who has won praise for containing the illness in that country. “You see Merkel wearing a mask,” said Lehmann, 64, whose nonprofit institute has about 20 scientists in five laboratories studying the virus that causes COVID-19. “You lead by example.” Merkel recently started making official appearances wearing a mask after being questioned for never being pictured wearing one despite it being part of the government’s official guidance in the fight against the virus....."
Will one of you kids pop that thing?
"Harvard study casts doubt on idea bankers’ bonuses bring better results" by Frances Schwartzkopff Bloomberg News, July 12, 2020
A Swedish bank may be about to change perceptions of how bonuses affect performance.
His work led Dennis Campbell, a Harvard Business School professor, to the biggest bank in Sweden, Svenska Handelsbanken AB, which he says uses a model that raises questions about bonuses.
Handelsbanken caught his attention about five years ago. Since then, he has written two case studies on the lender, and his conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom.
He says staff were highly motivated despite the absence of bonuses for all but a tiny group. What struck him was how important branch managers are. “Handelsbanken just stood out as a really interesting example because they have really unusual levels of empowerment,” Campbell said.
Which "tiny group" got them?
What’s more, the bank has “had these really unusual performance outcomes that normally don’t go along with that level of decentralization.”
Banker bonuses are a thorny subject since the financial meltdown of 2008. More recently, regulators have put pressure on the industry to show restraint on pay and instead use surplus cash for loans to businesses hit by the COVID-19 crisis. Many banks have complained that such restrictions make it hard to attract the right talent, but the link between bonuses and performance is hard to prove.....
$ince when doe$ that matter?
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Related:
"Ted Baker Plc is facing a revolt against controversial plans to increase executive pay as the company fights for survival, the Sunday Times reported. Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. recommended that investors vote down the retailer’s remuneration policy at its annual general meeting next week, the paper reported. The advisory firm says the company’s decision to increase executive salaries and bonuses is not justified. The ISS guidance follows a hugging scandal that forced out Ray Kelvin, founder and chief executive officer last year, and numerous profit warnings. Ted Baker also overstated the value of its inventory by 58 million pounds ($73 million) which led to the departure of Kelvin’s successor Lindsay Page in December. Rachel Osborne, former finance director, is now the chief executive officer."
Also see:
Primark to Reject Sunak’s $37.9 Million Payout
OPEC and Russia May Ease Oil Production Cuts
Why is the price of gas going up when there is still weak demand?
This next article explains why my pre$$ reads like it does:
"Hedge fund to buy McClatchy, publisher of The Miami Herald and other major newspapers" by Marc Tracy New York Times, July 12, 2020
NEW YORK — After years of declines in revenue and print circulation, McClatchy Co., one of the largest news publishers in the country, announced Sunday that it expected to become the property of Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey hedge fund, at the conclusion of a bankruptcy auction.
The deal, which will end 163 years of family ownership, underlines the growing influence of the financial industry on the newspaper industry.
That is who is bringing us our news!
McClatchy, publisher of The Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer, and its flagship publication, The Sacramento Bee, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February. Chatham, an investor in the company since 2009, is its largest creditor. The firm put together the bid that has been declared the winner in a US Bankruptcy Court auction.
I would say it was the lies that did it; however, McClatchy acquitted themselves quite well at the time.
Chatham is expected to become majority owner in the third quarter of the year, and the publicly traded McClatchy will become a private company. It will not be split up, the company said, with its 30 news outlets remaining intact.
New York hedge fund Brigade Capital Management, also a McClatchy creditor, was expected to be part of Chatham’s bid.
McClatchy did not comment on the financial terms of the offer. In April, it said it had received a Chatham-led bid worth more than $300 million. That offer included the debt the hedge fund and its partners had assumed in McClatchy.
In a statement, Craig Forman, McClatchy’s chief executive, said the deal would allow the company to continue as a provider of strong news coverage across the country.
“Local journalism has never been more vital, and we remain steadfast in our commitment to delivering on our mission and continuing to serve our communities,” Forman said.
(Blog editor throws hands up at journali$ts $elf-delu$ion)
Hedge fund ownership is part of a trend in the news industry, much to the chagrin of media advocates who have argued that financial firms do not make good stewards of a business built largely on holding the powerful to account.....
Cla$$ di$mi$$ed!
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Of course, newspapers are so Analog in such a digital world.
