Why am I doing this to myself?
Maybe so the world can see my anguished cries as they rake us with infernal lies and propaganda day after day after day until I'm dead.
"More of Mass. is reopening with Phase 3, but its economy might soon have to retreat a bit; Business is beginning to come back as the state hits Phase 3, but the explosion of the virus in other states may undermine that" by Larry Edelman and Shirley Leung Globe Staff and Globe Columnist, July 5, 2020
The Massachusetts economy is taking another step forward as casinos, gyms, and movie theaters prepare to open Monday, but some business leaders fear that the surge of coronavirus infections across the country could disrupt the state’s fragile recovery.
The reimposition of some restrictions in California, Texas, and elsewhere has executives and business owners from the Back Bay to the Berkshires on edge, despite Governor Charlie Baker’s assertion last week that it was safe to begin Phase 3 of his reopening plan. Will economic progress be thwarted as a second wave of the pandemic crashes over the state? Will we have to shut down again?
“You really have to be a Pollyanna to think we are going to remain on an island onto our own,” said Gabrielle Gould, executive director of the Amherst Business Improvement District, which represents about 140 businesses in the Western Massachusetts college town. She said the mood among the small-business people she speaks with has shifted from optimism in mid-May, when Phase 1 took effect, to a nagging fear that the reversals elsewhere portend trouble here if people let down their guard and stop taking the virus seriously.
“We’ve become more reserved,” Gould said. “When you look at the national headlines, the reality is that this is not going away.”
It should be now -- if it ever existed in the first place, this overly contagious invisible enemy killing everyone in its path -- but even the Trump administration has caved. He no longer cares about his presidency, and will not run come November. It's a "live exercise," as Pompeo put it months ago, that never ends or ends with, you know.
That is where the turn-in to page C3 is, so let's leave that for later and move below the fold on the same side:
"Phase 3 of the coronavirus recovery starts today, but some businesses will wait" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, July 5, 2020
The state allows gyms, movie theaters, museums, and casinos to reopen Monday, but some businesses said Sunday that they are taking it slowly and signaled that customers shouldn’t expect a quick return to business as usual before the pandemic.
Despite the beginning of Phase 3 of Massachusetts’ economic recovery effort, many businesses will delay opening so they can better prepare for new health regulations — which can include capacity limits, the installation of physical barriers, plus requirements for workers and customers to wear masks and practice social distancing indoors.
Governor Charlie Baker has urged residents not to be complacent for fear that the state’s progress in tamping down the virus will be reversed.
Such fears should be taken seriously, said Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center who has studied the coronavirus. Barocas said Sunday that Phase 3 presents a real risk of increasing the number of COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts.
“We’re going to have to be incredibly diligent with hand hygiene, with masks, and with surface cleaning,” he said. “We don’t have much room for a margin of error.”
I haven't been color-coding much or commenting yet because I'm trying not to submit to the torture by screaming out is all. This entire procedure is making me sick on a daily basis.
Barocas, who is also an assistant professor at Boston University’s School of Medicine, said the state should focus on encouraging people to learn to practice good behaviors to help slow the spread of the virus.
“We’re going to be stuck with this pandemic, this virus, for a while. We really need to be practicing social distancing, practicing wearing a mask . . . in order to change our behavior,” he said.
They intend all to be with us forever, or have you not been paying attention?
The move to reopen in Massachusetts comes as most of the country faces a surge of new cases, including in California, Florida, Texas, and Arizona. As of Sunday, nearly 130,000 people across the country had died from the coronavirus, while about 2.8 million cases had been reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In Massachusetts, a day before Phase 3 went into effect, the state reported 11 new deaths due to the coronavirus, along with 136 new cases.
That brought the state’s death toll as a result of the coronavirus to 8,183, up from 8,172 a day earlier. The state also had a total of 109,974 cases of the disease, up from 109,838 on Saturday, the state reported. Those figures include both confirmed and probable cases.
Probable?
They are ginning the numbers and lying about this, folks -- probably!
Even with the latest phase of the state’s reopening, many businesses people said they would take more time before welcoming customers back, including casino operators.
Indoor venues like museums and aquariums will restrict the number of people allowed inside. State rules limit them to 40 percentof permitted capacity, or eight people per 1,000 square feet.
Movie theaters, which on Monday are allowed to open up at 40 percent capacity of their screening rooms, with a 25-person cap in any single indoor space, are also taking it slowly.....
Who wants to risk their life just to see one of Hollywood's ceaseless pieces of filth?
Never again.
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Time to check the books:
"‘A one-two punch:' Bookkeeper accused of stealing from restaurants, bakers, and other small businesses already hurting from COVID shutdown; Clients called Patricia Lindau the "nicest person" -- until she disappeared" by Andrea Estes Globe Staff, July 5, 2020
For years, small-business owners from Maine to Cape Cod knew Patricia Lindau as the nice woman who handled their payroll and made sure they paid their state and federal taxes on time. Her clients, mostly mom and pop restaurants and shops, were like family and she chatted with them over the phone for hours, asking about their lives and their kids and telling stories about her cat.
When she disappeared in May — her website gone, her phone disconnected — some feared something terrible had happened to the Newburyport businesswoman.
“I was so concerned when I couldn’t reach her, I sent an e-mail,” said Bill Cushing, owner of Christopher’s Restaurant in Reading. “I was afraid it was the virus.”
In reality, Cushing and many other clients of Lindau’s Northeast Abacus Inc. were the real victims. It turns out Lindau had failed to make tax payments on behalf of her clients, sometimes for years. Now, more than 20 New England businesses owners, most already reeling from the economic crisis, are learning they owe huge amounts to the Internal Revenue Service, and the state. Cushing alone owes more than $60,000 in back taxes.
Some business owners remembered receiving periodic overdue tax payment notices, but they said Lindau always assured them the notices were mistakes and she provided “documentation” to prove it. They believed her.
It’s unclear how much Lindau’s clients owe in unpaid taxes overall, but Lindau and her husband filed for bankruptcy late last month, listing debts of $1.3 million to their 20 biggest creditors, but that may be an understatement. One client, Jimmy’s Pizza Too of Chelmsford, has sued Lindau and her husband, saying she failed to pay $159,000 in taxes the company owed — 60 percent more than the amount Lindau listed in the bankruptcy filing.
“It’s absolutely disgusting,” said George Lambos, the owner of Fresco’s Roast Beef & Seafood in Malden, who has also sued to recover at least $130,000 he says he owes the state and federal government. “You stole from innocent hard-working people, and with all that’s going on? It’s hard to sleep at night.”
Many of the business owners contacted local police or state and federal law enforcement authorities, they said, but most fear they’ll never recoup their money, though the judge in Jimmy’s lawsuit has forbidden the Lindaus from selling any assets without court approval, and the business owners who have spoken to IRS agents about their debt were told none of it — except perhaps penalties — would be forgiven. They all have to pay. The IRS and the state Department of Revenue say they have no discretion, by law, to forgive tax debts.
Since when?
TV ads say firms will cut a deal with them for pennies on the dollar, and they have been known to cut deals for corporations and richers.
Yeah, this government killed your business for your own health but pay up.
Lindau, who left Newburyport for a house she and her husband own in Newburgh, Maine, didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment. She e-mailed the Globe with a phone number, but the number had been disconnected.
Ha-ha-ha-ha.
She fled to Maine, huh?
She must be in quarantine then!
Lindau’s lawyer said in a court filing that the couple planned to liquidate assets, including their house in Maine, in hopes of paying off creditors within three to five years. The lawyer, James Molleur, called that “a worthy goal in any reorganization bankruptcy case.”
The magnitude of Lindau’s debts is laid out in a court document Lindau and her husband, Kjell, filed this past week in Maine, where they are seeking bankruptcy protection. Her top 20 creditors, listed in the filing, include Cushing, as well as two bakeries, an electrician, 18 small-restaurant owners and a newsstand operator. There are another 40 or so named creditors, though the amounts they are owed are not listed and not all of them appear to be clients. The court filings say she owes between $1 million and $10 million to all of her creditors.
Neither Lindau nor her attorney have explained how she came to owe her clients so much money or why she failed to pay their taxes.
Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett wants answers; a spokesman confirmed that Blodgett’s office has opened an investigation into Northeast Abacus. Separately, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Maura Healey said the office received two complaints about Lindau’s business, which were forwarded to the state Department of Revenue.
That would be Heffernan's office, right (wow, do I ever look prescient)?
Spokespeople for the US Attorney’s office in Boston as well as the IRS declined to comment.
Lindau’s clients said they were shocked when they received an e-mail in May telling them that she could no longer provide payroll services “due to unforeseen circumstances.“ There was no explanation and their calls and e-mails went unanswered.
Allyson Dawkins, who runs an electrical contracting business with her husband, Douglas, was astounded when she found out she and her husband owe the state and federal government around $54,000 in taxes.
“Never in a million years did I think this could happen,” she said. “We had her for almost eight years. She was very personable, always asking about the family and how we were doing. She was the nicest person I have ever spoken to. Honestly, I’m baffled.
“Because of COVID, it’s like a one-two punch,” Dawkins said.
Prepare for more.
Lambos said that when he first asked Lindau what had happened, she blamed some employees, whom she said had been terminated. After trying unsuccessfully to reach her several more times, Lambos said, he was contacted by a lawyer representing her who said she would “square everything away and make everyone whole.” That was before she and her husband filed for bankruptcy on June 25.
Lindau the liar, and too bad women don't run the world, 'eh?
Cushing said he had to furlough most of his employees when his restaurant was forced to close because of the coronavirus. Last week, for the first time, he’s been able to seat some guests inside.
“It’s been financially difficult without finding this out,” Cushing, who had done business with Lindau for more than a decade.
John Damroth, who owns Planet Records in Cambridge, also got the e-mail saying the company could no longer process his payroll. He had done business with Lindau for more than 30 years.
He e-mailed back, “Are you guys okay?”
“Because it was corona time and there was no response. I kept trying. I tried calling and e-mails — nothing,” he said.
He hired another payroll company, which discovered that Lindau had failed to pay his state taxes in the first quarter of 2020.
“Oh God, then the sickness in the stomach,” he said. “I felt like I’d been stabbed in the heart.''
Then, like a detective, he went to various agencies to find out how bad it was. He learned he owes about $16,000 to $18,000, though he’s not yet been able to confirm the amounts with state and federal agencies.
Lambos said the alleged theft hurts not only him, but his 25 employees as well. Lambos had been planning to pay them bonuses for sticking with him throughout the pandemic. He kept them on the payroll and was going to reward them for their loyalty. Now, he said, he can’t afford to.
Nor can he afford to open a second restaurant, as he had planned.
“The money is huge,” he said. “Something like this freezes everything.”
The one creditor in a good position to recover some losses to Lindau is Camden National Bank, which had given Lindau several loans, including a federal payroll protection loan that was supposed to help businesses keep their workers employed during the COVID-19 crisis. In bankruptcy court, the bank said that Lindau’s company faces multiple claims of unauthorized withdrawals from clients’ accounts, charges that “certainly sound ... analogous to fraud and other dishonest conduct.” The couple have denied the charges.
Who do you think this $y$tem has been $erving anyway?
The bank plans to auction off two commercial buildings the couple own in Eastport, Maine, later this month, though the bankruptcy filing could complicate the sale. The bank said the Lindaus filed for bankruptcy primarily to stop the auction of their property.
It is not the first time a payroll processing company has been accused of stealing clients’ money. In March, an Indiana payroll company owner was sentenced to six years in federal prison and ordered to repay nearly $9 million to customers he bilked, and in September 2019, the FBI announced it was investigating the sudden shutdown of a payroll processing company in upstate New York and the disappearance of up to $35 million.
They crept out while everyone was distracted by the COVID $camdemic.
That month, the company, MyPayrollHR, sent a message to its clients, similar to the one Lindau sent to her clients, saying it would no longer be able to process payroll transactions.
The message blamed “unforeseen circumstances” and advised companies to “find alternative methods for processing your payrolls.”
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Related:
"The United States dipped below 50,000 new daily infections for the first time in four days, a Johns Hopkins University tally shows, but specialists fear celebrations for the July 4th weekend will be like rocket fuel for the surging coronavirus outbreak. Johns Hopkins on Sunday counted 45,300 new infections reported Saturday after three days in which the daily count reached as high as 54,500. The lower figure does not mean the situation is improving; it could be due to reduced reporting on a national holiday. The United States has the most infections and virus-related deaths in the world, with 2.8 million cases and nearly 130,000 dead. Worldwide, nearly 11.3 million people have been infected and over 531,000 have died, with outbreaks surging in India, South Africa, Pakistan, Brazil, and several other Latin American countries."
The virus discriminates by race did you know that?
It's the exact opposite of what the pre$$ claims, too!
Now on to the torture of the President of the United States:
"The Food and Drug Administration’s commissioner is declining to back up President Trump’s assertion that 99 percent of coronavirus cases are harmless. Dr. Stephen Hahn told CNN and ABC he’s “not going to get into who is right and who is wrong,” but that government data clearly show “this is a serious problem.” He said “any case is tragic” and that to stem the surge of cases people should practice social distancing and wear masks. Trump said the United States was testing too much and falsely asserted that “by so doing, we show cases, 99 percent of which are totally harmless.” The World Health Organization has said about 20 percent of those diagnosed with COVID-19 progress to severe disease, including pneumonia and respiratory failure. Those with mild or no symptoms can spread the virus to others. Mayor Steve Adler of Austin, Texas, where COVID-19 cases are surging, called Trump’s remarks “dangerous” and “wrong.” He urged people to listen to local officials for public safety guidance rather than the “ambiguous message coming out of Washington.”
The insubordination to the President of the United States is like a pandemic, and why would anyone believe in government data after all the lies?
Also see:
Texas, Fla., and Ariz. say early reopening fueled surge
Hutchinson will insist on masks if Trump rallies in Arkansas
Gonna be a blowout come November!
You are not in Kansas anymore, Mr. President:
"The governor of Kansas called on a Republican county chairman to remove a cartoon from his newspaper’s Facebook page that invokes the Holocaust to criticize her order requiring Kansans to wear masks. The cartoon, on the Facebook page of The Anderson County Review, shows the Democratic governor, Laura Kelly, wearing a mask emblazoned with the Star of David against a backdrop of people being loaded onto a cattle car. “Lockdown Laura says: Put on your mask . . . and step onto the cattle car,” reads a caption on the cartoon. The Review is owned by Dane Hicks, chairman of the Anderson County Republican Party. He defended the cartoon, which he said he had made himself and planned to publish in the newspaper Tuesday. “The topic here is the governmental overreach which has been the hallmark of Governor Kelly’s administration.”
Stick to your guns, sir!
"The World Health Organization has long held that the coronavirus is spread primarily by large respiratory droplets that, once expelled by infected people in coughs and sneezes, fall quickly to the floor, but in an open letter to the WHO, 239 scientists in 32 countries have outlined the evidence showing that smaller particles can infect people and are calling for the agency to revise its recommendations. They plan to publish their letter in a scientific journal. Even in its latest update, released June 29, the WHO said airborne transmission of the virus is possible only after medical procedures that produce aerosols, or droplets smaller than 5 microns. (A micron is equal to 1 millionth of a meter.) Proper ventilation and N95 masks are of concern only in those circumstances, according to the WHO. Instead, its infection control guidance, before and during this pandemic, has heavily promoted the importance of hand-washing as a primary prevention strategy, even though there is limited evidence for transmission of the virus from surfaces. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says surfaces are likely to play only a minor role. Dr. Benedetta Allegranzi, the WHO’s technical lead on infection control, said the evidence for the virus spreading by air was unconvincing, but interviews with nearly 20 scientists — including a dozen WHO consultants and several members of the committee that crafted the guidance — and internal e-mails paint a picture of an organization that, despite good intentions, is out of step with science. Whether carried aloft by large droplets that zoom through the air after a sneeze, or by much smaller exhaled droplets that may glide the length of a room, these specialists said, the coronavirus is borne through air and can infect people when inhaled."
I'm sorry, but I'm don't believed a word coming from that Gates-controlled, criminal organization. You speak the truth over there and they slam you down quick.
"Mexico topped 30,000 COVID-19 deaths Saturday, overtaking France as the country with the fifth-highest death toll since the coronavirus outbreak began. Officials reported 523 more confirmed coronavirus deaths for the day, bringing the nation’s total to 30,366 for the pandemic. Mexico’s total confirmed infections rose by almost 6,000 to 251,165, about on par with Spain, the eighth-highest caseload. The latest data were released as some 200 street vendors briefly blocked several major avenues in downtown Mexico City to demand they be allowed to sell again amid the pandemic. The sidewalks of the colonial-era downtown are usually crowded with vendors who lay out their wares on wire racks or blankets, but since March, the city has banned such informal commerce and closed most established businesses in the district to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Vendors carried signs and chanted slogans declaring they could no longer bear the lockdown. Most have no unemployment insurance, and after three months of not selling many are growing desperate."
Americans should be embarrassed.
The Mexicans have more guts than they do, and so do the Iranians:
"Iran on Sunday instituted mandatory mask-wearing as fears mount over newly spiking reported deaths from the coronavirus, even as its public increasingly shrugs off the danger of the COVID-19 illness it causes. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicized an image of himself in a mask in recent days, urging both public officials and the Islamic Republic’s 80 million people to wear them to stop the virus’s spread, but public opinion polling and a walk through any of the streets of Tehran show the widespread apathy felt over a pandemic that saw Iran in February among the first countries struck after China. Whether rooted in fatigue, dismissal, or fatalism, that indifference has scared Iranian public health officials into issuing increasingly dire warnings."
Well, there ain't going to be war with Iran seeing as all world governments are on the same page (save a handful of recalcitrants like Belarus and Sweden) even as Lebanon bucks the trend:
"For the first time ever, Lebanon on Sunday hosted its annual music festival in the ancient northeastern city of Baalbek without an audience, a move organizers dubbed “an act of cultural resilience” to the global pandemic as well as the country’s unprecedented economic crisis. Held amid soaring Roman columns, the Baalbek International Festival was founded in 1956. This year, it’s being broadcast on local and regional TV stations and live-streamed on social media in an effort to spread “unity and hope.’’ The dramatic setting — a massive Roman forum — was always part of the festival’s magic. Sunday’s concert was held at the Bacchus Temple, which stands in front of six columns that remain from the Temple of Jupiter. The ruins date back to the second and third centuries."
Time to plant a tree:
"More than 2 million people gathered Sunday at river banks, farmlands, and government buildings in northern India while trying to practice social distancing to plant 250 million trees as part of a government plan to tackle climate change. Officials in Uttar Pradesh distributed millions of saplings to be planted across the state to help India’s efforts to increase its forest cover. India has pledged to keep a third of its total land area under forest and tree cover, but a growing population and increasing demand for industrial projects are placing greater stress on the land. Those who gathered for the tree planting on Sunday included lawmakers, government officials, and volunteers from nonprofit organizations. With India fourth in the world in coronavirus cases, those who gathered kept their distance from each other. India reported 24,850 new cases on Sunday — another 24-hour record for the country — raising its total to 673,165, including 19,268 deaths."
What's the fatality rate there?
Almost 20,000 dead in a nation of over a billion people?
That comes out to 0.0015 percent, or slightly more than 1 in 100,000.
For that, they shut down a society.
Were better off under English rule:
"People across the UK joined in a round of applause on Sunday to mark the 72nd anniversary of the free-to-use National Health Service, one of the country’s most cherished institutions. The reverence with which it is held has been bolstered this year during what has been Europe’s deadliest coronavirus outbreaks. Though the UK as a whole has a confirmed virus death toll of 44,220, the third-highest in the world, behind the United States and Brazil, the health service and everyone who works within it have been lauded for their work and care. Created by the Labour government after World War II in 1948 by bringing together the nation’s disparate health institutions, the service’s founding principles have never changed. Funded by everyone through the tax system, it provides free health care to any UK resident when needed. Prince Charles said that the service has been through the “most testing time” in its history and that it was right for the whole country to come together to pay tribute to everyone who works within it. “Our remarkably selfless nurses, doctors, paramedics, and countless other staff have made costly sacrifices to provide treatment for more than 100,000 patients with coronavirus and thousands more,’’ he said."
The printed Globe included this photograph with the article.
Who knew the nurses in England were Freemasons, or are they just worshipping them as they carry out their diabolical orders?
The top of the Metro section brings us back to that time:
"Faneuil Hall Marketplace “reopened” last week, but in a different city than the one it has helped to define since 1976. Businesses were open, but customers were few. That’s what happens in a tourist-driven destination in the days of coronavirus — a time of little travel, limited tourism, and lingering fear of public spaces, but the landlord — New York-based Ashkenazy Acquisition Company — still wants its money. That has set the stage for an increasingly intense battle between the real estate giant that controls the property, the city agency that owns it, and the merchants fighting to stay afloat. Here’s the problem: Even though the stores and shops are back, the customers are not, and no one knows when the marketplace will return to anything like normal. “Normal? I’d say give us at least a year, or a year and a half,” said Sara Youngelson, who owns three shops in the marketplace. “It’s going to be very hard to say things are normal until a vaccine is out.”
They didn't know the rent was due, and it's almost as if we are being held hostage, as Scotty points out, and he raises a great point. Why does BLM not care about the vaccine victims in Brazil of Africa? Why are they not protesting the grossness that is Bill and Melinda Gates?
He's right, the body language exposes them as evil!
Meanwhile, King Baker or his bureaucracy cancelled summer camp:
"With summer camps in financial free fall, advocates say state has left them in a bad spot; Overnight camps were nixed from Phase 3 reopening without warning, they say" by Lucas Phillips Globe Correspondent, July 5, 2020
Just days before some overnight camps had planned to open, the state changed its Phase 3 guidelines to exclude them, building on months of frustration of feeling left in the dark, according to the Massachusetts Camping Association.
Makes you wonder how Baker is so popular because his government never really tells us anything. Information has to be dragged out of them, and they do all sorts of things like this in the dark.
The organization, which represents day and overnight camps, said that while the industry has been financially decimated by the virus, the Baker administration and Department of Public Health have only compounded their difficulties by failing to consult with them on guidelines or communicate in a timely way.
Devastated by the lockdown when child death rate from COVID is a big fat zero. These evil, inoculate you bastards are taking play and fun away from children. That is the kind of evil we are dealing with here.
“We really tried to reach out to them many, many, many times, and we were met with silence,” said Scott Brody, chair of the board for the American Camp Association, who is involved with the Massachusetts Camping Association and runs two day camps in Massachusetts.
Like "repre$entative" government here in Ma$$achu$etts have been my entire life. Thank the Lord some things are still normal around here! Aren't you glad they are protecting your health while destroying your livelihood?
The 13 overnight camps that had planned to reopen found out they could not open when the director of the American Camping Association’s New England branch discovered Thursday that the guidelines for Phase 3 had been altered on the state’s website. Toward the bottom of the lengthy “Reopening: When can my business reopen” page, which includes information for dozens of businesses, one of many sources of COVID-19 information on the site, the state included one brief line: “Phase 4 – overnight camps (Summer 2021).”
They didn't even have the decency to break it to them face to socially distanced face.
“That was a punch to the face for all of us,” said Matt Scholl, president of the state camping association and a director of two camps. “It came as a total shock to us. We didn’t even get an e-mail or a phone call about it.”
Why am I not at all surprised?
I'll bet if the pharmaceuticals or Bill Gates or a bank had called, Baker would have listened.
Just the day before, Brody said, he had spoken with officials in Baker’s office and at the Department of Public Health who made no mention of the change, even when Brody said he discussed the 13 overnight camps.
John Szablowski, the director at Hume New England Christian Camps in Monterey said the camp had spent “tens of thousands” of dollars to prepare for its June 13 reopening. Early meal preparations had begun, lawns had been mowed, sets were being built, and lifeguard training was underway. Some camp staffers were on an airplane flying in when Szablowski got the news that his camp could not open.
“It caught us off guard . . . We didn’t expect to just be stopped in our tracks, and that is what happened” he said Saturday.
Well, I can see why they would want to shut down the Christian camps, and reading the above preparations before the rug was pulled out from under them is heartbreaking.
A Baker administration spokesman did not respond directly to questions about the last-minute change, but sent a statement on Saturday that said: “The list of businesses and activities is subject to revision based on the latest public health data and the issuance of sector-specific guidance that details the protocols and practices necessary for the safe resumption and to reduce the risk of the public’s exposure to COVID-19.”
What a f**king crock of crap!
Look, I didn't even like summer camp. My memories are not good ones; however, that doesn't mean kids should be robbed of a learning and growing experience.
Responding to an e-mail from the organizations inquiring about the change on Friday, Commissioner Jana Ferguson of the DPH said rising numbers of cases of the virus in other states may have prompted the decision.
“While we were planning and progressing with the hope that overnight camps would be a safe option for youth this summer, my understanding is that the data, especially from other states within the last week or so, made overnight camps with children and staff that may be coming from all over the country untenable,” she said in the e-mail, which was provided to the Globe on Saturday.
Then WHY are they proceeding with the rest of "Phase 3?"
This is tantamount to TORTURE of OUR CHILDREN!
“I truly regret that we were unable to communicate this decision in advance. It was ultimately decided based on very recent data and was included in the information about the changes in the upcoming phase to provide immediate notice,” she said.
They put out the lying narrative and then act on it, just like Cheney and the lead-up to Iraq. F**king pre$$ is criminal!
Whatever the reason, Scholl said, the impact on the camps is significant, as most will be facing the challenge of reopening next summer after 22 months with no revenue. Many may not survive, he said.
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That is the whole point. Summer camps will be under state control, if and when they ever are allowed again. I think not.
According to his organization, at least a third of camps and as many as two-thirds may never reopen. Overall, camps in the state stand to lose about $450 million this summer, Scholl said.
The late notice to those remaining overnight camps — 90 percent of them had already thrown in the towel and decided not to reopen this summer — only means further losses, he said.
“It’s a heavy burden right now, a heavy load,” said Szablowski, who does not know if his year-round camp will be able to reopen if Phase 4 comes before the summer, given the language on the state website. “Especially when you move all the way to the starting line, and then at the last minute you find out there’s not going to be a game. That was disappointing.”
Time to stop listening to this government. All of us. Expose them for the liars and criminals they are.
Sheryl Moore, executive director of Camp Marshall in Spencer, had planned to open her overnight camp on Monday, and the news hit her hard when she found out Thursday night. “I’m still a little bit in disbelief. It did come so far out of left field,” she said.
She should have expected it.
With no mention of the change at Baker’s press conference and the website update appearing after his office had closed for the holiday weekend, she said she felt “hoodwinked.”
It was like a “swept-under-the-rug, last-minute change,” said Moore, who also said she expects a financial loss from the decision. “I think being far more forthcoming would have been a lot more fair to our industry.”
You expect fairness from the state government of Ma$$achu$etts?
You have to love the innocent naiveté.
The lack of communication from officials has been causing difficulties for the state’s camps since the spring, Scholl said. Many camps gave up waiting and announced closures before the state first issued its guidance in early June, which had to be altered soon after because parts were unworkable, he said.
As of Sunday, no new guidance had been issued to prepare day camps for Phase 3, which begins Monday, Brody said.
According to Brody, Massachusetts has not only been one of the most conservative states in the country in regulating camps during the pandemic — most states have reopened overnight camps, he said — but it has also been unusually slow to release decisions.
He's kidding, right?
New Hampshire and Connecticut made announcements regarding overnight camps at least a month before Massachusetts did; New York announced that sleep-away camps would remain closed for the season weeks ago. Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire had already reopened overnight camps, he said.
“This is a really challenging environment and we can never blame our public health officials for putting the health of the public first,” Brody said. “I assume it was with the best of intentions; however, the timing has exacerbated this situation so badly for camps, and we feel very disappointed about that.”
You know what they say about good intentions as he backs down in the face of evil authority.
You know, if you won't stand up for yourself, why should i stand up for you?
“The challenge of this is just astronomical,” and the state’s lack of partnership, he said, has made it “exponentially worse.”
Brody and Scholl said they are just looking for the state to communicate with them as it had before the pandemic.
“I think that the key is we absolutely need the state to work with us for the future,” Scholl said. “What’s a stake is hundreds of thousands of places for kids in the summer.”
Better off staying home, kids.
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Bo$ton Globe House Call
The odd thing that is not being reported is in addition too the lack of vaccinations, the child death rate has plummeted. Imagine that.
The $harks are circling:
"Boston hotels make a push to bring back indoor gatherings in Phase 3" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, July 6, 2020
Several Boston hotels are finally turning the lights on again as they awake from their slumbers this spring, but some of the biggest ones will stay dark, with no sign of indoor events returning.
So the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau went to Governor Charlie Baker’s administration last week with an ambitious request: bring back the meetings and events business.
Who wants to gather with dozens of strangers in a conference room right now, with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging? It wasn’t that long ago, after all, that a big hotel in Boston was the site of the state’s first serious outbreak of COVID-19. No one would blame you for staying home; however, restoring these events could be crucial for some hotels’ survival.
Who f**king cares?
Let them go bust. Serves them right for throwing in with this $cam.
Before the hotels can test the market, they will need the government’s permission. Toward that end, the tourism bureau submitted a proposal, signed by several prominent Boston hoteliers, to allow private meetings and indoor events to be held during Phase 3 of the state’s reopening plan.
This isn't America anymore, not when business needs to ask permission from government if they can open. This is the stuff of the former Soviet Union!
There would be restrictions, the hoteliers acknowledge: Meetings could not exceed 40 percent of the allowed occupancy of a particular function room, up to a maximum of 100 guests, according to the proposal. The limit would rise to 60 percent, with a 250-person cap, at some unspecified later part of Phase 3, assuming the numbers on COVID-19 cases improve.
I wouldn't bet on an economic recovery anytime soon, Mr. President.
The organization sent the proposal on Thursday morning to the Baker administration, knowing the next phase of reopening was imminent.
By that afternoon, Baker had given the green light for Phase 3 to start on Monday for nearly the entire state, with Boston being told to wait another week.
The events business? A much longer wait.
Baker capped indoor event attendance at 25 people in Phase 3, rather than 100. Outdoor venues with enclosed perimeters can host crowds of that size, though, and tourist attractions such as museums and boat rides can reopen, albeit at a reduced capacity.
Martha Sheridan, the tourism bureau’s chief executive, hasn’t given up on the events push. She knows that Phase 4 — a.k.a. “the new normal” — might not come until next year. Sheridan believes a case can be made for a safe, methodical expansion of event sizes in Phase 3, even though the door is shut for now, yet the proposal comes amid serious COVID-19 conflagrations elsewhere in the United States that have caused other government officials to delay their reopening plans, particularly those involving indoor activities, or even roll them back in some places.
Baker is tempting fate, but that is part of the plan. Second shutdown coming, and much more severe.
Sheridan said her group’s venue safety guidelines for sanitizing, social distancing, and staggered staffing mitigate the risks, and she wouldn’t expect the state to expand the size of gatherings until certain COVID-19 metrics are met here. (The Centers for Disease Control ranks these types of meetings — medium-size gatherings of attendees from outside the local area, remaining spaced at least 6 feet apart — as “higher risk,” but not “highest risk.”)
Better hope they don't change the guidelines a day before you open like the summer camps, and f**k the CDC!
Officials in the Baker administration wouldn’t say much about the request on Friday, other than to note that the state Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development is meeting with various industry leaders to develop rules that allow for the safest possible reopening.
Obviously, the$e intere$ts are more important than our beloved children., What an EVIL state government!
Safety has been the top priority for Unite Here Local 26, the dominant union for hospitality workers in the city. Unite Here local president Carlos Aramayo said he is working with hotel managers to hammer out rules for cleaning, COVID-19 tests for workers, and exemptions for at-risk employees.
The one silver lining for the industry could come this fall from universities whose dorms are too crowded for good social distancing practices. Aramayo said several schools have already started discussing the possibility.
So they are going to be put in hotels -- assuming they open?
College sucks now. Better off joining the mob.
Despite the hoteliers’ assertions, Aramayo said he doesn’t think the industry is quite ready to throw open the ballroom doors just yet. His members are eager to get back to work, but he would like to see the hotels prove they can be run safely first, before adding the variables associated with indoor gatherings. The recent surges of COVID-19 in places such as Las Vegas that reopened more quickly just underscore the risks.
I hope they lose their jobs like so many other Americans. Plenty of other people will take their place.
As with many of his colleagues, the Biogen outbreak in late February at the Long Wharf Marriott remains fresh in Aramayo’s mind. He doesn’t see indoor events returning to Boston until 2021 — a more pessimistic view than the one held by the tourism bureau.
The two sides might disagree on the timing, but they agree on this: No one wants another Biogen-style flare-up in Boston. Everyone loses if the governor is forced to shut down the industry again.....
Everyone loses?
Everyone?
That's not what the a$$hole wrote three days ago.
Yeah, not everybody is lo$ing to the lockdowns.
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Related (and right next to the above pos):
"GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, partners developing a potential coronavirus vaccine, are discussing a 500 million pound ($620 million) deal to supply the UK government with the shot, assuming it’s successful, said a person familiar with the matter. The companies plan to supply Britain with 60 million doses, according to the person, who asked not to be identified. The pending accord was first reported by the Sunday Times. Sanofi and Glaxo are among dozens of companies and institutions sprinting to deliver a vaccine to help end the pandemic, as governments worldwide seek to secure doses in advance. The partners are following a number of others like the University of Oxford, working with AstraZeneca, Moderna, and China’s CanSino Biologics that have started testing their shots in humans. Glaxo declined to comment, while Sanofi said discussions with various countries were ongoing. The UK government said it’s engaging with a wide range of companies to negotiate access to vaccines. Sanofi, based in Paris, and Glaxo, the British pharma giant, plan to start a study compressing the early and middle stages of clinical tests in September. Sanofi said in June that it’s targeting approval in the first half of 2021, earlier than it previously expected."
How many does Bill Gates have his bloody fingers in?
Fly away from Europe as fast as you can:
"Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury has called on the European Union to coordinate the resumption of international air travel, saying chaotic decision-making on flight bans by member countries at the start of the pandemic revealed weaknesses in the way the region works. “We need one decision-making center, and we don’t have one. We see Europe’s weaknesses in this type of situation,” he said at the Aix-en-Seine economics conference in Paris Sunday. “The flight bans and halts weren’t coordinated and were very national.” Lockdowns to contain the coronavirus led to the widespread grounding of planes and delayed jet orders. Airbus plans to cut 15,000 jobs in its commercial aircraft division to get through the crisis, while customers like Air France-KLM and Deutsche Lufthansa are also shedding thousands of staff. International air traffic is at about 5 percent of normal, according to Faury. The planemaker’s forecast that deliveries this year and next will drop 40 percent is underpinned by domestic traffic coming back quite quickly to “a reasonable level” of more than 50 percent this summer or by the end of the year, and international traffic recovering by next summer, he said."
Yeah, more centralization will help.
Funny thing is, that dovetails perfectly with the sick WEF project going forward.
I'm running out of energy as we approach evening:
"Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to buy Dominion Energy’s natural gas transmission and storage business in a deal with an enterprise value of $9.7 billion. According to a statement, the assets include more than 7,700 miles of natural gas transmission lines with about 20.8 billion cubic feet per day of transportation capacity. Dominion will use $3 billion of the proceeds to buy back shares. Warren Buffett’s conglomerate will also acquire 25 percent of Cove Point LNG, a natural gas company in Maryland that Dominion will continue to own half of."
Nice to know there is loads of loot out there, even if it may be a bad investment:
"Developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced Sunday that they are canceling the multi-state natural gas project. Despite a victory last month at the US Supreme Court over a critical permit, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy said “recent developments have created an unacceptable layer of uncertainty” for the $8 billion project designed to cross West Virginia and Virginia into North Carolina. “This announcement reflects the increasing legal uncertainty that overhangs large-scale energy and industrial infrastructure development in the United States. Until these issues are resolved, the ability to satisfy the country’s energy needs will be significantly challenged,” Dominion CEO Tom Farrell and Duke CEO Lynn Good said. The project had drawn opposition from landowners, activists, and environmental advocates, who said it would damage pristine landscapes and harm wildlife. They also questioned whether there was sufficient need for the gas and said the project would encourage the use of fossil fuel when climate change makes a shift to renewable energy imperative. Supporters said the pipeline would create jobs, help aid the transition away from coal, and lower costs for consumers."
What do you do when the oil and gas companies won't fight for themselves?
They are in on their own $elf de$truction.
Time to step on the gas:
"No one wants to go back to lockdown. Is there a middle ground for containing Covid-19?" by Andrew Joseph, STAT, July 1, 2020
First came the freezes.
Governors last month started to “press pause” on the next phases of their reopenings as Covid-19 cases picked back up. Now, in certain hot spots, they are starting to roll back some of the allowances they’d granted: no more elective medical procedures in some Texas counties. Bars, only reopened for a short time, are shuttered again in parts of California, and on Monday, Arizona’s governor ordered a new wave of gym, bar, and movie theater closures for at least the next month.
Yeah, don't go into the bars and why is Baker letting theaters open?
These are measured retreats — a far cry from the lockdowns that much of the country burrowed into starting in March, but leaders are desperately hoping that the incremental approach can make a dent in the spread of the virus at a time when another round of lockdowns — and their accompanying disruptions to education, the economy, and the public psyche — seems beyond unpalatable, both politically and socially.
Not to the sadistic, genocidal torturers in government and beyond.
Better pray to God, STAT!
They come as Texas, Florida, and other states are seeing record highs in daily coronavirus infections and intensive care units are teetering toward capacity, further proof that the coronavirus will run loose when given the chance. They also raise a serious question: whether such half-measures are sufficiently intensive — and were put in place in time — to have the necessary impact.
They lied about overrun hospitals four months ago, and are doing it again. They are simply repeating what they were saying four months ago. This is going to be the torturous cycle under which we will live the next year or more.
“This is a good step to getting a handle on the epidemic,” said Ana Bento, a disease ecologist at Indiana University. “It still might not be enough.”
Nothing is ever enough, neither for these genocidal bastards or the BLM crowd.
Even before states began to emerge from their lockdowns, experts were already trying to gauge which cocktail of interventions they could turn to should cases spiral again without having to rely on stay-at-home measures. They hoped more precise interventions — whether focused only on certain communities or business sectors or designed to protect the most vulnerable — could put out flare-ups of cases, a way to balance preventing the spread of Covid-19 from swamping health systems while still sustaining some semblance of society and economic activity.
HCQ works but it is too plentiful and cheap for the pre$$, and they should have been doing that at first not stuffing nursing homes full of sick patients.
Now, states are going to find out if more targeted approaches can work. If they don’t, and if people don’t embrace other basic precautions like masking and distancing, it could require governors to reinstate even more restrictions, and if communities can’t contain their outbreaks, what might be left is another stay-at-home period — a sign, experts say, that economies won’t function until local epidemics are mitigated.
You sick fuckers!
“Cutting a middle ground where people don’t change their behavior is probably not tenable,” said Barry Bloom, an infectious disease expert at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “If people don’t do it voluntarily, then I think you have to start closing things so they don’t have the option of transmitting and being transmitted to.”
I'm tired of the same old evil, agenda-pushing experts being trotted out by the evil Bo$ton Globe. Damn you all to hell!
The challenge is, it can take some time to know if interventions are working. While new steps to keep people away from each other have an immediate effect on transmission, that won’t show up in case counts for some time, given that it can take a few days for a person to start feeling sick, then a few days more to get tested, then a few more to get results. That means infections that are reported a week and half from now have already occurred, and if the new measures aren’t sufficient to reduce transmission, spread will just continue to grow in the interim — though perhaps at a slower rate.
Remember when it was all about flattening the curve to save the hospitals?
Remember that?
Somehow it was changed to cases and surges and all this shit spewing forth from the Globe!
Public health experts sometimes liken various interventions to slices of Swiss cheese. One slice — say, suspending sporting events — prevents some transmission, but the virus still has lots of holes to pass through, meaning lots of opportunities to transmit. By layering slices — promoting masks, no theater or concerts, limiting group activities, dining only outside — the idea is to stack enough strategies to cover up the holes left by any one slice and to block the amount of virus that can get through.
Something sure stinks like Swiss cheese!
Lockdowns, then, are like plopping a whole wheel of cheese on the problem. They’ve been shown around the world to dramatically cut rates of transmission, but they also introduce all sorts of economic, social, and health problems that communities want to avoid. Essentially, experts are trying to find the stack of cheese slices that can keep spread from overwhelming hospitals and minimize disease while creating the fewest disruptions to life.
Who cut the damn cheese?
The timing of imposing restrictions also matters greatly. An intervention that could have a big enough impact to bend the curve if instituted on a given day might no longer provide that drag if put into place weeks later. Once the spread balloons past a certain point, there would just be too much virus in the community for halfway measures to succeed.
God forbid we should develop herd immunity!
“I would just urge people to remember if you put in milder interventions earlier on so that you do not build up this big powder keg of infections underneath you, which are then eventually going to start flowing into the ICUs, that’s a better outcome than allowing a large outbreak, which requires a shut down,” said Harvard epidemiologist William Hanage.
If states are being more targeted with their measures, experts are pushing them to be smarter as well. They say governors should be prioritizing which institutions need to be open, and then devising strategies to accomplish that. Schools — which foster not only education and development, but provide child care and, for many, meals — are top of mind. So, experts say, the question shouldn’t be will schools open in the fall, but rather, what can we do so that they can?
Go tell it to the summer camps!
“We have this viewpoint that we will just reopen everything and go back to normal, but just do everything a bit more safely,” such as by wearing masks or capping capacity, said Helen Jenkins, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Boston University’s School of Public Health, but if everything that opens again contributes some amount to overall transmission, the approach might have to be keeping things like bars and casinos closed if you really want schools to have a chance this fall, she said.
The sickos in their ivory towers, untouched by all this, want to stay closed forever.
I cannot wait to feast on their innards in the afterlife. Going to gorge myself.
Schools can open in areas with low levels of transmission, “but if everything reopens, we risk tipping things over the edge to high transmission,” Jenkins said, “and then everything has to close down, and that’s something that no one wants.”
Oh, really?
Not the impre$$ion I'm getting!
The web version continued the torture:
As they try to limit restrictions, officials have zeroed in on a particular type of establishment: bars. There, people crowd together indoors for long periods of time — factors that encourage viral spread. Last month, Idaho health officials identified a cluster of 152 cases that originated from bars and clubs around Boise and shut down all venues in the area. Texas and Florida have similarly reimposed rules on bars.
Not once has he mentioned the race riot protests, and if the indoors thing is the key, why no fans at football or baseball games?
I mean, at a certain point the inconsistencies and hypocritical hogwash start to stink!
People in their 20s and 30s are also accounting for greater proportions of new infections in Arizona, Texas, and Florida now than at other times and in other places during the U.S. epidemic, leading to speculation that young people are flouting distancing recommendations and packing unsafely into bars.
So we are being told, and I hope the youth is not buying the your sick even though you don't feel it bullshit.
This is EVIL!
The Trump administration has pointed to the cases among young people, who generally experience milder infections, as well as a nationwide daily death count far below its level in April, to say that the country is not in the same crisis it was in months ago. Administration officials have not rolled out new strategies for mitigating the recent spikes in cases in the South and West.
For some, those idiots thought the drill would be over by now when it is meant to never end.
“Younger Americans have been congregating in ways that may have disregarded the guidance that we gave on the federal level,” Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday on “Face the Nation,” but experts have raised several critiques of the administration’s arguments. Whatever the explanation for the bulk of cases among young people — perhaps it’s changes in testing patterns, perhaps older people are taking precautions to protect themselves — cases building up in a certain population won’t stay in that population. The more virus that’s out there, the likelier it is to reach vulnerable populations, like older residents. Plus, even if younger people are generally less susceptible to severe Covid-19, some will still get seriously ill, require medical care, and die.
Are you sick of the crap qualifiers, and if all that rot is so, why have the youth been lock downed for no reason?
To destroy their futures and turn them into chipped slaves?
As for deaths, clinicians have gotten better at caring for Covid-19 patients over the months, and perhaps the concentration of cases among younger people is leading to better outcomes, but experts also caution that deaths are a lagging indicator; the time from when someone contracts the virus to when their death is recorded can be weeks. With hospitalizations rising in many states, it’s likely that deaths will follow in time. “There is incredible stress on the system, and it appears that might be getting a whole lot worse over the next few weeks,” said Fred Campbell, an internist at UT Health San Antonio.
You evil bastards!
The situation in San Antonio, where Mayor Ron Nirenberg said cases are rising in “an exponential surge,” led the city to blast out an alert to residents’ phones over the weekend, urging them to stay home and wear masks on essential trips. It was one example of local officials begging for the public’s help, sometimes asking for more than what a state mandates. In Los Angeles County, Barbara Ferrer, the director of public health, said last week that officials “did not expect the increases to be this steep this quickly” about cases rising after reopening, and directed residents to “wear a face covering and keep your distance.” Utah state epidemiologist Angela Dunn on Friday called for “large-scale behavior change on the part of all Utahns to reverse” the record cases the state was seeing.
Be a sheeple!
Time to dump these f**king criminal leaders, folks.
Jail 'em all!!!
States where transmission is relatively low are also looking to what’s occurring elsewhere to guide their reopening decisions. This week, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy cited “spikes in other states driven by, in part, the return of indoor dining” to push the return of that off “indefinitely.”
Not every state that reopened early is facing an outbreak on the scale of those in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Colorado started to peek out from its shelter-in-place restrictions in late April, without a corresponding surge in cases.
Oddly enough, Colorado is a Democratic electoral state. If you haven't noticed, the surges are in Republican electoral states that Trump desperately needs to keep. Nothing political about the $camdemic, though.
It’s hard to pinpoint any one reason that explains the difference. Colorado had an initial wave of cases, so perhaps residents — who, as a whole, are among the country’s healthiest — take more precautions. The state also reopened as case counts were declining, whereas others lifted restrictions as cases were plateauing or even increasing. Its governor, Jared Polis, stressed mask-wearing starting in April, but cases in recent days have started increasing.
Perhaps I should stop reading this outrageous slop!
“We are on the razor’s edge,” said epidemiologist Elizabeth Carlton of the Colorado School of Public Health. “We have seen this steady decline in hospitalizations since the beginning of April, and that’s great news, but we are starting to see an uptick in cases.”
Then LOCK IT DOWN TIGHT!
Carlton noted that accelerating transmission in Arizona and Utah raises the possibility that cases could spill over into Colorado, where there’s not “some magic wand to protect us.” The reproduction number in the state — the average number of cases that come from each case — is about one, she said, which means that its epidemic, while not worsening, is not improving.
“Equilibrium can be good, but it can also be quite nerve-wracking,” Carlton said. “It doesn’t take much to restart the wildfire.”
Burn it all down like BLM!
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Where you will soon be shopping:
"Massachusetts moved into Phase 2 of reopening on June 8th. We managed to open our doors to the public on the 9th. We felt strongly that we had to reopen the stores, both for our customers that depend on affordable goods and for the income to support our programs. We have fitting rooms in all of our facilities that are now closed and so we’re constantly having to remind people that it’s not safe to be trying things on and putting them back on the rack. If somebody does try something on that they don’t purchase, we have to put that clothing aside in quarantine. We are giving away pens when people sign for their credit card because it's easier than sanitizing the pen. Certain items have always had to be sanitized. We’ve always had to do that for furniture, any upholstered items. Clothing is something that under normal circumstances we don’t sanitize. Most people do donate things clean. We allow all donations to rest for a period of at least 24 hours before processing. We know that on fabrics, a minimum of 24 hours is basically good enough for any contamination. The coronavirus should no longer be a risk. We do want people to know that when they shop at the Salvation Army, it’s not just making somebody rich. It’s not just supporting a business. It’s not just supporting the employees that are here, but it’s supporting life-changing programs. We have people whose lives depend on the services that we provide....."
Now for the front-page turn-in to page C3:
The state’s economy has been slowly recovering since mid-April as tough containment policies — requiring masks and social distancing, sharply limiting activities both inside and outdoors, ramping up testing and contact-tracing — flattened the curve of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths. That allowed Baker to reopen businesses in phases.
About 29,000 people filed for standard unemployment pay in the week ended June 27, the state reported Thursday, compared with an average of 143,000 during the first four weeks of the shutdown in March and April.
Job postings are 14 percent higher than they were at the start of the year, though they haven’t retaken the 2020 peak, reached in February, according to data collected by Opportunity Insights, a research organization based at Harvard University. Still, nearly 1 million people were receiving jobless benefits in mid-June.
I was just going to say over a million unemployed as the math didn't add up while they furiously polished the turd before minimizing it with that last sentence (still, even!).
I mean, this is the sort of $hit journali$m that is being troweled out over at the Bo$ton Globe.
Oh, how far they have fallen.
The Massachusetts rebound has been less robust than in states that reopened earlier, but since the end of June, states with rising COVID-19 cases have seen a dip in economic activity, while Massachusetts continues to improve.
For example, consumer spending in Massachusetts is on the rise, while it has started to decline in Georgia and South Carolina, the Opportunity Insights data show. Small businesses here continue to reopen, while other states are seeing some new closings.
It won't be for much longer.
The setbacks in California — after an early and successful response — have the Massachusetts business community especially concerned that the state will see a relapse in Phase 3 as people mingle more at work and socially. Moreover, all-important consumer confidence could fade as the number of cases and deaths mounts nationally.
This stuff makes you laugh!
Consumer confidence in an era of onerous regulations and governmental diktats.
Btw, you can bet on the relapse and take it to the bank.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, expected infections to rise when states eased coronavirus rules, but he has been surprised by the high rates being reported.
Not me. The agenda-pushing pre$$ is shameless.
“In June, we were in the camp that our path of infections would follow Europe. We would slowly go to zero and be able to contain it through tracing and testing,” Zandi said. “That is not what is happening. We are on a whole different trajectory.”
Trump's fault.
Forecasters at IHS Market expect the US economy, which tumbled into a recession in February, to snap back sharply in the third and fourth quarters before growth levels off in 2021, but in a report last week they warned that the country could suffer another downturn if a large number of states are forced to resume restrictions and consumers retreat to their homes.
As long as the stock market doesn't suffer another downturn.
Tumbled into recession. As if!
So kind to yourselves over there.
In this scenario, gross domestic product could shrink at an 8 percent annual rate from October through December, and at 12 percent January through March, according to IHS.
Some businesses are already hitting the pause button.
Last week, McDonald’s said it had delayed the resumption of sit-down dining for three weeks. Dunkin’ is holding off setting a date on when it will reopen all of its locations for in-store eating. Like the Golden Arches, Canton-based Dunkin’ has been open for drive-through and carryout service throughout the pandemic.
“We are being extremely conscientious, and it won’t happen until we and our franchisees are ready,” Dunkin’ spokeswoman Michelle King said in a statement.
I wouldn't want to eat anything that comes out either of those places.
Gross!
Baker — whose methodical, data-driven approach to the pandemic has won praise from scientists and CEOs alike — is pushing ahead even as his like-minded counterpart in New Jersey last week delayed some of its reopening plans, and New York City reinstated a ban on indoor restaurant service, in response to the widening outbreaks elsewhere.
What data? It's all been ginned up numbers with no context and no details.
WTF, Globe?
Why are you sucking his c**k?
The coronavirus hit the Northeast earlier and harder than most of the places now under siege. While states such as Texas and Florida that took a less-aggressive approach backslide, Massachusetts is prepared to move forward — as long we avoid the false sense of security that beset California, business leaders say.
It's over, folks.
“What I am seeing walking around, everyone is taking it very seriously,” Cindy Brown, chief executive of Boston Duck Tours, said of local businesses and their use of faces covers, temperature checks, and other safety protocols. “If we all do the right things, we should be able to proceed safely.”
John Regan, chief executive of Associated Industries of Massachusetts, said the trade group’s business confidence index for June, set to be released Tuesday, will show “dramatic improvement,” but it remains in negative territory.
Although the group’s members are cautiously optimistic, Regan said, “they are resigned to the fact that they will not be truly comfortable until there is a vaccine.”
Got it, and look jwho they next talk to:
Sandy Wycoff, who owns Chatham Clothing Bar, said the potential for another government shutdown “is always in the back of my mind.” Since reopening June 8, sales at her three Cape Cod locations have been stronger than expected, but still far off from a typical summer.
“We could be closed at any moment,” Wycoff said. “We try to get the most out of every day.”
The economy’s path, here and nationally, will hinge on two factors that need to be resolved within a few months, said Zandi, the Moody’s economist.
First, the country must quell the further spread of coronavirus and drive down infection rates. Otherwise, consumer spending, which fuels more than two-thirds of the economy, will dry up.
F**k consumer spending for corporate gain, and remember when it was once about death rates?
You bastards keep moving the f**king goal post with your $hell game.
EVIL!
Second, Congress and the White House need to reach agreement on another trillion-dollar rescue package focused on jobless benefits, debt relief, and help for renters.
“The real test is coming,” Zandi said.
HOLY $HIT!
What have the last four months been then?!!!
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The above can be described as nothing else but torture, readers, as I turn to the obituaries that Teitellated me back to the front page:
"The shifts can also be as subtle as a new mindset. That’s what the pandemic has triggered for a 61-year-old Wakefield woman whose husband lives in a nursing home. “Before COVID, I was often sad and lonely and feeling left out of life,” she said, asking her name not be used, but now — especially since her husband contracted and recovered from COVID-19 — she focuses on what she has: a home, a yard, a dog, phone calls with her children and spouse. Laura Carstensen, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, sees two phenomena at work. “When people are reminded of the fragility of life, they see more clearly what’s important and what’s not,” she said. These shifting priorities are typically seen among older people, but in the six months following 9/11, younger people also felt the nearness of death, she said. That’s happening now, too. “With COVID-19, the suddenness with which our world changed is allowing us to look at the culture surrounding us, the social norms, and this lets us see things we would normally never notice,” she said. Or that we do notice — like traffic — but accept as inevitable. “I think we’re going to see a lot of change post-pandemic,” she said. “It will be an accelerator.”
To who$e benefit, and someone survived the nursing home with COVID-19, huh (blog editor simply shakes his head as the credibility of such. More mass-murdering backfill cover. The Globe spends a day on the soldiers and the nursing home scandals and then dutifully moves along)?
Anyway, for most of my life the answer to her question would have been no; however, in these last couple of months the answer has become an emphatic yes. I don't regret a "wasted life" any longer and am happy how I spent it now. I wanted to end up in hell so I could feast on the innards of war criminals, and I'm getting the feeling I'm going to be robbed off that as well just as I have been robbed of opportunity all my life for certain reasons that are not to be disclosed here.
As for the simple enjoyment of life's miraculous gifts? I don't even want to get into it since mine has been filled with an abundance of wildlife and magical events that can only be described as miraculous. Seeing a mother chipmunk rise to the surface with 5 babies and ushering them into the world stands out, as does the bear that came by and spent an evening once. Saw a coyote preying on a cat one time and scared him away as I exited the house early in the dawn. Rabbits galore, and just this past week I watched a father robin feed a fledgling for nearly the entire day before the little guy finally took wing (welling up as I type now. Life!)
Timing doesn't explain everything. Something else must be at work, and I'm glad I will be long gone before the genocidal eugenicists the Globe is pimping for utterly destroy all life on this planet and usher into their Borg-like pharmaceutical and technological dystopia. Fuck them.
