That pretty much cinches confirmation of this outright fraud. COVID has now joined the ranks of the Holoco$t™ and Global Warming as the screeching from the pre$$ surpasses the conspiracy theorist slur. You know you have struck oil when they start hollering denier, but more on the death totals later.
For now, it's off to the friendly confines of Fenway Park and the local nine. The earned run average is looking good, but why has the Bubba Wallace story stalled?
Otherwise, the party has been cancelled, with the Globe calling for a somber reflection for America’s birthday that is shadowed and subdued by the coronavirus, staggering unemployment, searing questions of America’s commitment to racial justice, and state tyranny.
Nevertheless, you flip above the fold and find the flags still flying as emblems of resolve against a pandemic but not violence in the city:
"Trauma compounded on trauma: Boston suffers violent week ahead of July Fourth" by Felicia Gans and Diti Kohli Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, July 3, 2020
A week of deadly violence and unrelenting trauma has shaken city neighborhoods and communities already shouldering a disproportionate burden of grief.
The coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately hit communities of color, taking lives and erasing jobs. Black Americans have been killed by police, spurring on Black Lives Matter protests and renewing calls to end systemic racism, and now, some Boston residents have faced yet more echoing tragedy. From June 26 through Friday afternoon, the city saw four homicides, 13 nonfatal shootings, and at least 10 nonfatal stabbings — days of violence in communities already wrestling with grief.
Even the virus is racist these days. Hard to square with the pre$$ narrative of virus running rampant through white gatherings while black and gay protests remain untouched, but whatever.
“It is yet another illustration of how much pain our community is in,” said Boston City Council President Kim Janey. “The violence is a symptom of that pain, and that begets more trauma, and this is on top of COVID. It’s on top of nonstop fireworks. It’s on top of our Black Lives Matter movement and the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and countless others.”
What a HYPOCRITE!
Yeah, some violence is excused while other violence is condemned.
His death was the fourth homicide in Boston this week — the third in just 24 hours.....
What a sh!thole Bo$ton has become.
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You flip the paper open to find this:
President Trump’s Mount Rushmore event criticized as virus surges
It's a Washington Compost report, and I watched about 2 minutes of it and he sounded awful. Peddling meaningless platitudes and baloney.
Of course, this is right below it:
"The US headed into the Fourth of July weekend with many parades and fireworks displays canceled, beaches and bars closed, and health authorities warning that this will be a crucial test of Americans’ self-control that could determine the trajectory of the surging coronavirus outbreak. Health experts agree this will be a pivotal moment in determining whether the nation slides into a deeper mess. The fear is that a weekend of crowded pool parties, picnics, and parades will fuel the surge....."
Yeah, that act has gotten so old and so played the people instinctively know it is BS now.
"Federal and military investigators say a soldier missing since April was killed and dismembered by a fellow soldier stationed at the same Texas base. The revelation followed demands for the Army to release details about its investigation of the disappearance....."
Trial details were directly below.
"Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain says his government will introduce White House-style televised media briefings, in a shake-up to the traditional system of political communication. For years, political journalists have been briefed off-camera but on the record by the prime minister’s official spokespeople, who are civil servants rather than political appointees. The briefings usually take place twice a day, though during the UK’s coronavirus lockdown they have been held once a day by conference call. The government said Friday that it plans to replace the afternoon briefing with a televised event hosted by a professional broadcaster...."
Look on the bright side, at least the propaganda will be pure.
"An online video and messages purportedly claiming responsibility for a fire that analysts say damaged a centrifuge assembly plant at Iran’s underground Natanz nuclear site deepened the mystery Friday around the incident. The multiple, different claims by a self-described group called the “Cheetahs of the Homeland” included language used by several exiled Iranian opposition organizations. The disparate messages, as well as the fact that Iran experts have never heard of the group before, raised questions about whether Natanz again had faced sabotage by a foreign nation as it had during the Stuxnet computer virus outbreak believed to have been engineered by the US and Israel. Tehran’s reaction so far shows Iranian officials are increasingly taking the possibility seriously. “If it is proven that our country has been attacked by cyberattacks, we will respond,” warned General Gholam Reza Jalali, the head of Iran’s military unit in charge of combating sabotage. Iranian officials have sought to downplay the fire, which erupted early on Thursday, calling it only an “incident” that affected an “industrial shed,” however, a released photo and video of the site broadcast by Iranian state televisions suggested an explosion accompanied the blaze......"
It was no doubt sabotage, but what government can admit it is vulnerable?
The above report has all the hallmarks of a CIA effort and I'm surprised the pre$$ mentioned Student, although not really. I'm sure getting the word virus out there and setting up the Iranians for blame for a cyberattack are part of the plan.
Of course, you know who they will be in cahoots with if the Washington Post is to be believed, as Germany confronts ‘the enemy within’ (neo-Nazis are seeding the military ranks, according to the Jew York Times).
Also see:
England to end quarantine for 50 countries, not US
Thai officials urge caution as holiday weekend starts
Pakistan’s foreign minister tests positive for virus
Serbia marks its highest daily death toll
South African cases continue to increase
They are unwilling to be test subjects, unlike Brazilians, who eagerly gussy up to be guinea pigs -- or so I was told.
"After a woman in Rockland County, N.Y., admitted to throwing her daughter a party while showing coronavirus symptoms, contact tracers sprung into action. They phoned dozens of guests, hoping to get the partygoers tested and isolated and stop an emerging coronavirus cluster in its tracks, but many of the attendees hung up, handed the calls to their parents, or flat-out lied, saying they never made it to the event on June 17. Others never picked up at all. So this week, county health officials tried a much more drastic approach. They issued subpoenas to eight of the partygoers, ordering them to speak up to the disease detectives or face a fine of up to $2,000 a day — and it worked. ‘‘It’s amazing how smart some people got,’’ Ed Day, the county executive, told CNN on Thursday. ‘‘Everybody is complying and helping us, which is all that we’re trying to have happen . . . We’re not looking to be punitive here.’’
Yeah, they GOT THEIR MIND RIGHT after the MEDICAL FASCISTS (how could you not trust her?) came after them!!
Of course, they DID NOT ASK if you ATTENDED a RACE RIOT PROTEST per the orders of the mayor!
The police state is getting harder!
"The Texas Republican Party is moving ahead with a three-day convention in Houston, one of the nation’s coronavirus hot spots, over opposition from doctors and some local party activists. Party leaders voted Thursday night to stick with an in-person gathering starting July 16. The event is typically one of the largest political conventions in America, drawing thousands of attendees, and some supporters suggested that changing plans is not what President Trump would want. The vote came hours after Republican Governor Greg Abbott issued a statewide mask order as COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas set another high Thursday. Hospitals in Houston have warned they are becoming stretched and the Texas Medical Association has called for canceling the convention, saying now was not the time to pack thousands of people indoors. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a Democrat, has left the decisions about the convention up to the GOP. Abbott has also not taken a position on whether his party should go forward with meeting in person."
I would still avoid that a$$hole, and the hypocrisy bleeds out of every damn page.
"An increasing number of US COVID-19 patients are surviving after they are placed on mechanical ventilators, a last-resort measure that was perceived as a signal of impending death during the terrifying early days of the pandemic. Early reports out of Wuhan, China, and Italy cemented the impression that the vast majority of patients who required the breathing devices ultimately succumbed to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, but as the pandemic has continued, US hospitals are reporting much lower mortality rates, results on par with death rates for patients with similar severe lung problems caused by other diseases....."
The above report looks like back fill cover for the mass murdering practice of putting patients on ventilators in the first place, and confirms a drop in fatality rates that I keep mentioning.
Also see:
Kansas cases keep rising; mask mandate kicks in
Arizona hospitalizations spike; ICUs nearly full
Onslaught of cases continues in Florida as hospitals fill
They lied the first time, so what makes you think they are not lying now?
The Globe claims to believe in America, saying the self-evident truths need to be interrogated by a new generation (the choice of terminology shows you how much they hate the document), but their full-page ad on page A5 belies the claim as Cohen takes stock of our problems on the Fourth of July.
It's clear now that the Globe is firmly with the left-wing mob that wants to tear down this country. They should be charged with sedition and treason for what is in their pages on a daily basis.
The race riots now a back-page item as well as absent the Globe's website:
"A couple have been charged with felonious assault after widely circulated videos showed a white woman pointing a gun at a Black woman in a parking lot in Michigan, the authorities said on Thursday. In the videos, the Black woman and her teenage daughter confront a white man and woman outside a Chipotle restaurant in Orion Township, Mich., on Wednesday. The exchange quickly escalates from an argument about an apology into accusations of racism, with a gun held only a few feet from the Black woman as she filmed with her cellphone. The episode began when the two parties bumped into each other outside of the Chipotle, Sheriff Bouchard said. “One person said they didn’t realize they had bumped the other person with the food bag, and the other person felt they needed to get an apology,” he said. “Then it escalated from there.”
The Wuestenberg's are the couple, and I'm sorry, but this event is stinking of staged BS.
More and more, that is what is reported in my pre$$: staged and scripted fiction.
Oklahoma officers charged with murder after using Tasers more than 50 times in man’s death
Why now?
What took so long?
Judge who issued injunction blocking removal of Richmond’s Lee statue appears to recuse himself from case
He is also moving to India to get away from the mob:
"Thousands gathered in this river city in 1940 to dedicate a new bridge in honor of white supremacist Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and reputed Ku Klux Klan leader. Just 25 years later, the bridge became a global landmark when civil rights marchers were beaten at its base. Today, with thousands protesting nationwide against racial injustice, a years-old push is gaining steam to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of Rep. John Lewis, who led the 1965 marchers on “Bloody Sunday,” but the idea is drawing opposition in Selma, including from some who marched with Lewis that day. Pettus’ name has ironically come to also symbolize Black freedom and shouldn’t be painted over, some say. Others oppose the move because Lewis was an outsider who followed in the footsteps of locals who had worked to end segregation for years before he arrived. Still, others fear a change would hurt tourism in a poor town with little going for it other than its civil rights history. Lynda Lowery, who was 14 and received 35 stitches in her head on Bloody Sunday, doesn’t want the bridge renamed for anyone. She said the span over the muddy Alabama River “isn’t a monument, it’s a part of history. They need to leave my bridge alone,” said Lowery, 70. Lowery’s younger sister Jo Ann Bland, who also was among the estimated 600 marchers on March 7, 1965, long opposed renaming the bridge, but amid widespread demonstrations since the police killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, she now tentatively supports renaming the span for local “foot soldiers,” not Lewis. “John Lewis is my hero; he’s been my hero since I was a child,” said Bland. “I followed him up on that Edmund Pettus Bridge, but I and John were not the only ones there.” Lewis, a native of southeast Alabama, was at the front of the long column and was badly injured. Hospitalized briefly, he went on to a career in politics and has represented Atlanta in Congress since 1987. In 2015, Lewis and Democratic U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, the lone African American in Alabama’s congressional delegation, co-authored an opinion piece opposing any change to the bridge’s name. “Changing the name of the Bridge would compromise the historical integrity of the voting rights movement,” they said."
"But much has changed since then. Lewis was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in December, and the drive to eradicate Confederate symbols gained momentum after Floyd’s death; multiple rebel monuments have come down since. The bridge was named for Pettus, who fought for the Confederacy and was a reputed KKK grand wizard who served in the U.S. Senate at a time when Jim Crow laws gave white people near-total control in Alabama. He died in 1907. On the day of the 1940 bridge dedication, which some 7,000 attended, a parade included a float depicting slaves. The town newspaper printed a laudatory biography which said Pettus was “devoted wholly to the upbuilding of our state and the bringing of order out of the chaos of carpetbaggery and negro dominance” after the Civil War. Online petitions to rename the bridge have been around since at least 2015, the year then-President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush visited Selma to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when state troopers beat voting rights marchers as they crossed the bridge on the way to Montgomery, the capital....."
No offense, but I'm burning that bridge of an article after crossing it.
Baker approves one-year extension for MBTA board amid pandemic, financial challenges
In addition, the MBTA is sharing crowding information during the pandemic, allowing riders to decide if there’s enough room to safely board and observe social distancing.
Sure, the service is still $h!t and the equipment dilapidated and neglected, but at least you have an app telling you where are the threats.
Colleges unite to help community newspapers
Training the next band of whoreporate pre$$titutes and state propagandists.
I'm told there are many reasons why Joe Biden shouldn’t pick Elizabeth Warren as VP, and yet...
WHO F**KING CARES?!
Globe says we need a NEW NEW DEAL!
Here is one more reason to stay inside:
"Massachusetts health officials are reminding residents to wear bug spray after eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, was detected in a sample of mosquitoes for the first time this year. EEE was found in a mosquito sample collected Wednesday from Orange in Franklin County, according to a statement released by the state Department of Public Health on Friday. No cases have been reported in humans or other animals. Both Orange and neighboring Athol are now listed as being at moderate risk for EEE. “We have been preparing for EEE activity this year,” said Public Health commissioner Monica Bharel said in a statement. “It is early in the year for the first evidence of EEE, therefore, continued mosquito surveillance over the next several weeks will help us understand more about how quickly the virus might emerge this year.” Health officials describe EEE as a “rare but serious and potentially fatal disease” that humans can get through the bite of a mosquito. In 2019, 12 people in Massachusetts contracted EEE, six of whom died. Nine domestic animals contracted it. To avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes, health officials recommend that people use insect repellent, wear long sleeves and long pants, install screens on doors and windows to keep mosquitoes out of homes, and drain any standing water. People should also be aware of peak biting hours for mosquitoes, which are from dusk to dawn. “People have been spending time indoors due to COVID-19 and now, as we venture out, we want to remind people about the need to protect themselves and their loved ones from illnesses caused by mosquitoes,” said state epidemiologist Catherine Brown in a statement. “We are also asking people to remain aware of the level of virus activity in areas where they live, work, and play.”
So what viruses will Bill Gates' GMO mosquitos be carrying?
Flu kills more than COVID, malaria more than EEE, yet once again we have the pre$$ making mountains out of molehills and vice-versa. That's why they are no longer believed.
"A Bourne man faces charges after allegedly coughing on people and refusing to wear a mask. Edward McGuire, 59, a patron Monday night at the British Beer Company in Plymouth, was requested by staff to wear a mask. McGuire began yelling at employees, prompting them to ask him to leave the establishment. McGuire then walked up to a table of customers, allegedly coughed directly in their faces, and said, “I hope you catch COVID,” restaurant staffers told police. He then entered his vehicle and allegedly did doughnuts in the parking lot. The manager of the restaurant reported the incident to Plymouth police Tuesday morning. McGuire turned himself in at the police station the same day. Captain Kevin Manuel of the Plymouth Police Department said McGuire was charged with threatening to commit a crime (murder), two counts of assault, a single count of negligent driving, and disturbing the peace as a subsequent offense. McGuire also faces a charge of threatening to bomb or hijack. Captain Manuel said that charge was for spreading harmful substances by coughing in the faces of customers. McGuire was initially released on bail Thursday, then arrested again later that day on violation of a probation warrant for previous offenses. Captain Manuel said it is not known whether McGuire is COVID-positive."
Why was he not given a breathalyzer?
As for the other charges, when did he threaten to bomb or hijack and why was he on the loose?
This once again has the stench of a contrived event by someone who is compromised and a captive of the state, with purpose being the shutdown of bars and institution of a second lockdown -- unless you want to protest the correct things. That's okay.
That's when the police will come under further scrutiny:
"Newburyport officials say they are conducting an administrative review of the Police Department after witnesses said an officer was slow to react when a woman at a Black Lives Matter protest was allegedly assaulted in Market Square June 26. Donn Pollard, 63, of Newburyport, is facing charges of assault and battery and disorderly conduct, officials said. He was released from custody and will be arraigned in Newburyport District Court on July 17, according to Carrie Kimball, spokeswoman for the Essex County district attorney’s office. A video taken right after the alleged assault shows outraged protesters pleading for a Newburyport police officer to quickly take action after the alleged assault. The video was posted on the Anti-Racists of Newburyport Facebook page last Friday. “He literally just assaulted her!” one of the protesters is heard yelling in the video as the officer walks toward his cruiser. “Why are you a cop if you’re not going to do your job?” The City of Newburyport has contracted a veteran criminal justice expert to conduct an administrative review of the incident and the Police Department’s response, according to a joint statement from Mayor Donna D. Holaday and City Marshal Mark Murray Thursday. “As a public safety agency, our priority is at all times to ensure the safety and security of everyone in our community, and following this incident, we joined the Mayor’s office to seek an expert who would be able to facilitate a comprehensive review of the facts surrounding what took place so that we can better understand the situation,” Murray said in the statement. The expert contracted by the city will produce a report to city officials in July, which will be shared with the public, Murray said. The report will include recommendations for the Police Department to improve on existing policies, procedures, or training opportunities for the staff."
Does anyone see the IRONY there?
The same mob that wants police abolished is screaming at them for protection.
What a bunch of frauds, and $peak of the devil:
"Liquor stores, restaurants battle on Beacon Hill over expanding booze sales; Packie owners worry that cocktails-to-go legislation could evolve into a permanent shift" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, July 3, 2020
Efforts on Beacon Hill to pass a new relief package for beleaguered restaurateurs have run into an unexpected foe: the package store industry.
When legislators crafted a bill early in the COVID-19 pandemic to let restaurants sell beer and wine for off-premises consumption during the pandemic, the Massachusetts Package Stores Association was supportive, but then the House of Representatives passed a broader bill in early June that would, among other things, allow restaurants to offer cocktails to go with meal purchases through the end of February 2021, or the end of the state of emergency, whichever comes later.
Did you SEE THAT?
The STATE of EMERGENCY is to last until AT LEAST NEXT FEBRUARY and probably LONGER!
That means at least SEVEN MORE MONTHS of this INSANE TORTURE!
This restaurant rescue package sparked a firestorm of lobbying this week, as members of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association e-mailed and called their senators urging support, while package store association members tried to put a cork in it.
Rob Mellion, executive director of the package store group, sent a two-page letter to senators on June 30, saying the “cocktails-to-go” provision isn’t only a temporary lifeline for restaurants. He wrote that it’s also “opening Pandora’s box to making the privilege permanent.”
Related: Opening Pandora's Box
You will want to open that so you know what is driving all this, as evil as it is.
“This is about preserving mom-and-pop, brick-and-mortar retailers,” Mellion said, referring to his group’s resistance to the House’s restaurant rescue bill. “They have a right to fight for their existence. … We were told this was going to be a bridge to help restaurants from closing down. It became something else.”
Gotta rename that bridge.
Bob Luz, chief executive of the restaurant association, would disagree. Luz and Mellion worked cooperatively on the bill for beer-and-wine sales, which Governor Charlie Baker signed into law on April 3, but now that the sequel is here, they find themselves in opposing camps. While package stores were allowed to stay open during the pandemic, restaurants were limited to takeout and delivery for a long stretch.
“We’re just trying to give small lifelines to an industry that was closed for 100 days,” Luz said.
Time is of the essence in this lo$t $ummer.
Luz said the restaurant industry is generating minuscule amounts of revenue from the beer and wine deliveries allowed under the first bill.
Mellion, though, said groups such as the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, aka DISCUS, are trying to take advantage of the pandemic to get controversial bills passed that loosen restrictions on alcohol, under the guise of helping restaurants. “We want restaurants to get relief,” Mellion said. “[But] we know there are bad actors that intend to abuse this.”
You mean, like Alexion, who payed $21 million for failing to record bribes paid to doctors in other countries, or the teachers union?
Wouldn't be those benefitting, of course.
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Sorry for shutting down the serial entrepreneur in the Boston tech scene who believes humility is in short supply as we Faceup to cen$or$hip:
"Facebook is working to persuade advertisers to abandon their boycott. So far, they aren’t impressed" by Elizabeth Dwoskin and Taylor Telford Washington Post, July 3, 2020
Facebook has spent the past few days in round-the-clock conversations with advertisers, trying to persuade them to come back to the platform with the promise of modest changes to address concerns that the social network profits from hate and outrage, but advertisers and the agencies they work with say they are still negotiating, and they say they are so far unimpressed with promises to better police hate speech, including labeling some politicians’ posts when they break the company’s policies.
On Tuesday, when the civil rights groups that organized the efforts expect to sit down with chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, they plan to push for changes, including adding a C-suite-level executive dedicated to ensuring that the company’s policies don’t contribute to racism and radicalization.
More than 750 companies, including Coca-Cola, Hershey, and Unilever, have already temporarily paused their advertising on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. More companies have joined the movement every day, with recent additions including Walgreens, Best Buy, Ford, and Adidas. More than 200 advertisers joined between Thursday and Friday.
Kerri Pollard, senior vice president of the membership platform Patreon, which is pulling all of its ads from Facebook and Instagram, said that the recent string of concessions still did little to address the company’s core concern: Zuckerberg’s characterization of free speech. The Facebook CEO has said he believes that social platforms should not fact-check politicians.
You are only in favor of free speech if it is speech you disagree with. That means putting up with the propaganda pre$$ and its rank-rot journali$m.
‘‘Until he softens that, which would affect that entire business internally and externally, we’re not going to feel comfortable returning to the platform,’’ Pollard said, but fact-checking politicians could have wide-ranging consequences, too. Facebook’s business model depends on engagement: The more time people spend viewing content on the platform, and the more they click and interact with others, the more they are exposed to advertising in Facebook’s scrolling news feed. Critics have argued that divisive and emotional content spreads more rapidly, particularly in like-minded private Facebook groups. That outrage is built into Facebook’s ability to profit.
Then why is it no longer working for new$papers?
The boycott is the largest flare-up in a long-simmering battle between advertisers and social platforms over who gets to control what content the ads pop up next to. The campaign, which was triggered by Facebook’s allowing content that organizers said could incite violence against protesters, represents the most substantive effort to date to sanction the social network, which commands the second-largest share of the US digital ad market behind Google.
As we saw above, certain violence is okay to incite. It's just a symptom of pain.
Facebook spokeswoman Ruchika Budhraja said in a statement that it invests billions every year to keep users safe and works with outside experts to update its policies.
‘‘We’ve opened ourselves up to a civil rights audit, and we have banned 250 white supremacist organizations from Facebook and Instagram,’’ she said. ‘‘We know we have more work to do, and we’ll continue to work with civil rights groups, [the Global Alliance for Responsible Media], and other experts to develop even more tools, technology, and policies to continue this fight.’’
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The bad side of the censorship of Facebook is the loss of communication -- which is the likely goal here!
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Time to start pulling down the curtain:
"As cases spike in California, a warning for Massachusetts; With Phase 3 reopening set to begin here, the explosion in infections in the Golden State suggests the Bay State should not act as if the disease has been conquered" by Dasia Moore Globe Staff, July 4, 2020
A state that was once considered a road map for fighting COVID-19 now looks more like a warning sign.
HIT the BRAKES!
Just one month ago, California seemed to have the coronavirus pandemic under control. Its cities were among the first in the country to implement strict lockdowns, and the state escaped the worst of COVID-19 in the spring, but in recent weeks, a dramatic surge in cases has torn through the state, from the beaches of San Diego to the streets of San Francisco.
That's the repetitive rote crap we are getting now. No context or anything.
For other states that now seem to have their outbreaks under control — Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey among them — California’s seeming reversal of fortune raises a troubling question: Is success sure to be fleeting?
F**k this.
As Massachusetts proceeds with its reopening plan, embarking on Phase 3 beginning Monday, scientists say California’s turn for the worse holds crucial lessons for states that seem to have tamped down major outbreaks. Politicians and the public alike cannot afford to race back to normalcy, they say, rushing reopening plans and abandoning the strategies that have proven effective, including masks and social distancing.
They want those last two things permanent do the sick f**king $cienti$ts cited in my pre$$!
California’s path suggests that a false sense of security that comes with improving public health metrics can affect governments and individuals alike.
Oh, I don't have that. I will kill anyone I don't allow to violate my space.
Preemptive self-defense, of course. That person could have COVID.
Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, leads a UCLA project that tests front-line health care workers in Los Angeles. She said the reality of the pandemic there changed rapidly due to a range of factors — with a false sense of security among them.
“It’s easy to get overconfident when you look at how we did flattening the curve in early days here. So I think it’s possible” that played a role in the virus’s resurgence, Rimoin said. “I think the lesson for California — or from California — is that it doesn’t matter where you are in the curve, or in flattening the curve,” Rimoin said, “if you do not continue to be consistent.”
Notice how they have CHANGED the GOAL POSTS with their goddamn $hell game?
It was first all about flattening the curve, then it became about cases, and now it is not about any of those things!!
We are being told the tests are coming back 1% positives and such, so WTF?
Either we don't have it and it is not even a pandemic, or its being undercounted and we thus have heard immunity. The fatality rate is plunging in the wake of all the positive case surges, but that isn't mentioned anywhere here. It's just the same old agenda being flogged ad nauseam.
Disease experts in California said this rapid reopening coincided with events that only amplified the risk of people gathering in crowds and contracting the virus: Memorial Day, Father’s Day, and protests against police brutality and racism that swept the country.
“Reopening created new opportunities for people to be exposed,” said Michael Cousineau, professor of clinical preventive medicine in the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. “The case rate had gone down quite significantly in the beginning of April and into May. So we began to lift the stay at home orders,” he explained, but he said early success in containing infections might have led Californians to let their guard down.
Cousineau described eerily conflicting scenes playing out in and around Los Angeles in recent days: unmasked crowds lounging on beaches while people filed into long lines at COVID-19 testing centers just miles away. “It seems that the lesson from California and from the South is that we’re not done here,” Cousineau said. “We’ve got to continue to really protect people.”
What an absolute load of crap!
Experts who spoke with the Globe agreed that this message applied even to states such as Massachusetts, which they said could risk losing hard-won gains against COVID-19.
Oh, most assuredly. That's the agenda-pushing pre$$ narrative moving forward and this is the preprogramming phase I'm reading.
In a way, I'm glad. We will eat Baker alive after this.
“It’s great news that the number of fatalities have come down. It’s an important indicator that the sacrifices we all made worked, at least in the sense of bringing the outbreak back under control,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University professor who specializes in infectious disease, “but I think [the rise in infections in California and other states] tells us that we need to continue to take this very, very seriously,” Scarpino continued. “We should celebrate the fact that we have brought this back under control, but we also should not give up all of the sacrifices that we made by relaxing too quickly.”
“We still know that there’s still a lot of COVID in Boston and in Massachusetts, and a huge amount of COVID in the United States,” he said.
That looks like a liar right there, with the embellished Chicken Little hyperbole.
California is far from the only state seeing a surge in cases. Outbreaks in Texas, Arizona, Florida, and several other Sun Belt states have threatened to overwhelm medical resources and forced officials to pause or reverse reopening bars, beaches, indoor dining, and venues deemed high-risk. Even locations that have seemingly stamped out deadly outbreaks are considering delays.
Yeah, funny how the "virus" is running rampant in the swing states and base states Trump needs to hold.
I mean, it can't be any more obvious what is going on here, folks.
It's a COVID coup!
Just two days before New Jersey was set to allow indoor dining, Governor Phil Murphy announced he would postpone that plan indefinitely in light of alarming spikes around the country. New York City, the epicenter of the outbreak earlier this year, abruptly canceled plans this past week to allow indoor dining to resume.
Massachusetts, meanwhile, has continued to press forward with reopening. By Friday, the state’s key public health statistics still appeared to be on an encouraging trend. The latest rolling average of the rate of positive tests — a metric widely seen as key — remained below 2 percent.
So why are we still not free?
Even got a pat of the head from Fauci, and at least someone else also notices that "this reporting stinks and that the Globe is going so downhill because almost all the articles are from the Post or the NYT."
Scientists told The Globe that for reopening to progress relatively safely, officials have to invest heavily in public health infrastructure and be selective about which restrictions to lift. They cautioned that indoor gatherings and large crowds should be especially limited.
“You can reopen, but if you reopen without adequate testing, tracing, capacity to isolate people who are sick and quarantine people who are exposed … it leaves a lot of opportunity for the virus to start spreading again,” Rimoin said.
Well, that is just the chance free people will have to take. The rest of you can hide in a f**king hole for all I care.
Responsibility for limiting the virus’s spread falls to everyone, experts said. Mask-wearing is especially important, along with good hand hygiene and continued avoidance of crowds.
There is the guilt trip to get you to submit to tyranny.
Of course, it's only certain crowds that are at risk!
“I think we have to view this with a longer time horizon and recognize that we can control this epidemic. It’s been done in other countries, and it’s been done in certain places here in this country, but it really will rely on adherence to some basic principles,” said Dr. Paul Simon, a physician and chief science officer with the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health.
Scarpino said he hopes Massachusetts will remain vigilant about observing safety measures, even as outbreaks worsen around the country, because residents have already seen how destructive COVID-19 can be. That knowledge, he said, is something worth holding on to.
You never end a sentence with a preposition, but that's the kind of slop reporting and editing you get over there at the Globe.
“From a societal perspective, we have a lot more collective wisdom about how serious this disease can be, and we’ve all had to learn and adapt our lives as best as possible to dealing with those kinds of restrictions,” he said.
Sorry, but collective wisdom is often wrong, you evil f**k.
“There’s probably almost none of us that want to go back to that lockdown scenario, and so I think all of those things contribute to state and local leaders taking the public health measures more seriously.”
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Once back in lockdown you can flip below the fold and watch the political ads on television:
"‘They’re absolutely devastating:‘ Anti-Trump ads by Republican Lincoln Project catch Democrats’ attention" by Liz Goodwin Globe Staff, July 4, 2020
WASHINGTON — George Conway, a prominent conservative critic of President Trump and the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, had a wild theory that he could singlehandedly get Donald Trump to “trash” Jesus Christ.
His plan? Run an ad on cable news networks in Washington, D.C., that said, “‘Jesus says love thy neighbor, but Donald Trump doesn’t.”
“You could see Trump coming out and saying, ‘Well, Jesus never had to put up with the abuse I have!’” Conway joked in a recent podcast interview with the other founders of his super PAC.
It must be hell living in that house, and I often wonder if she doesn't just go to her half.
What is up with this guy anyway?
More Matalin and Carville crap?
If so, why hasn't she been fired?
Or is it all just a big game, an illusion of opposition and that's all?
It was out of this instinct to troll the president — and Conway’s knowledge that Trump, as an eager consumer of cable news, would be tantalizingly easy to reach — that the Lincoln Project was born. The super PAC, which was founded in December by Conway and prominent “NeverTrump” current and former Republican political strategists including Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt, and Jennifer Horn, didn’t take long to hit its mark.
The Lincoln project?
They gotta change the name right now!
Now, Democrats have also begun paying attention to the Lincoln Project’s relentlessly negative election-year assault on the president, and the way in which the super PAC rapidly creates ads that are designed to enrage and distract Trump and hyper-targets them onto his TV screen.
“These are the best ads on television. They’re absolutely devastating,” said former presidential candidate and Vermont governor Howard Dean, who complimented the group’s founders on the “controlled rage” that fuels their spots.
The Lincoln Project hasn’t pursued the Jesus ad prank, but whether they’re making fun of Trump for bungling the nation’s coronavirus response, or even for the size of his hands. The Lincoln Project is willing to go places that Democratic groups haven’t, and that is drawing attention — and even money — from liberals.
“I am thrilled by the Lincoln Project’s impact, their substance and also their messaging, which is so compelling,” said Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic National Committee member and fund-raiser, who said he’s heard other Democrats say they’re donating to the group. “Quite frankly, Democrats, activists, and patriots should be grateful for their involvement and there shouldn’t be any competition.”
I'm smelling $wamp, how about you?
The Lincoln Project’s “Mourning in America” ad, which prompted Trump’s angry tweets, featured images of worried-looking Americans in hospital wards or waiting in long lines paired with somber violin music. A narrator warns that Trump has made America “weaker and sicker and poorer” as the slickly produced ad contrasts Trump’s performance on coronavirus to Ronald Reagan’s hopeful “Morning in America” reelection slogan.
Trump is no Reagan even though this is "1984." Reagan had a real recovery on his hands, not the free-falling collapse Trump does.
More recently, the group has bought ads that stalk Trump as he travels around the country.
Oh, they are STALKING HIM, 'eh?
Better alert the Secret Service!
Of course, Trump will be airing his own powerful ads as Biden lets the phone ring.
The Lincoln Project is the most high-profile of several Republican anti-Trump groups vowing to spend money to defeat him. Its founders, who also include Reed Galen, Ron Steslow, Mike Madrid, and John Weaver, bring extensive political pedigrees to the task. Schmidt worked on the presidential campaigns of Senator John McCain and George W. Bush and was integral in pushing McCain to pick Sarah Palin as his running mate. Wilson was a veteran of George H.W. Bush’s campaign and later became a Republican ad maker. Weaver also worked on McCain’s presidential bid. Horn is the former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party.
The blood-soaked war-criminal consultants don't like Trump?
I can't imagine a better endorsement for the man!
The group’s founders have their share of critics: Republican operatives who see them as traitors, the president who has ranted about them, and Democrats who question whether their trolling of Trump and thus-far limited budget will really influence voters in the handful of swing states that decide elections.
So far, the Lincoln Project’s ad buys have paled in comparison to those of big Democratic super PACs and the campaigns themselves. Unite the Country, which supports Biden, announced a $10 million ad buy in May, for example, but the Lincoln Project’s relatively modest output so far, including some ads that seemed solely aimed at an audience of one, is racking up millions of views on social media, their reach amplified by the subsequent response from the president and related news coverage.
Nice to $ee the political $y$tem functioning normally as Americans are out of work, under lockdown, and suffering.
Where is Biden's compa$$ion for the $uffering American people?
“When he started going after us directly, it highlighted and magnified his incompetence,” said Horn. “A president who is awake at 1 o’clock in the morning using a teenager’s medium to go after political operatives for saying something that he perceived to be mean about him? It is such a reflection of him being weak.”
I must be strong because I no longer blog at those hours. It's a 6am to noon operation now, come hell or high water.
There’s also an aspect of psychological warfare at play, as the strategists hope the more the president engages with their ads, the less he has time to focus on a reelection message. Wilson has a running gag on Twitter that he and Conway are living “rent free” in Trump’s head.
“It throws him off the message that he should have been on … and it also shows how nuts he is,” Conway said on the podcast.
Who wouldn't be when TORTURE is being applied to him!
I mean, is that not what is PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE?
Given these circumstances, I think the President of the United States is handling a lot better than most. Not even he is immune to the COLLECTIVE TORTURE of the GENOCIDAL GLOBALISTS and their mouthpiece media!
The Lincoln Project also constantly needles Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, in what appears to be an attempt to destabilize his campaign operation. The Trump campaign recently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the solidly Democratic Washington, D.C., market to advertise, which some see as a response to the president’s anger at the Lincoln Project ads.
It's only interference if the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, Koreans, who have you, are accused.
The DIRTY POLITICS of the DEMOCRATS CONTINUES!
They are WORSE than was NIXON!
Sam Nunberg, a former top aide to Trump, said the GOP campaign’s recent $400,000 ad buy in D.C. was a “waste of money.”
Nonetheless, he disparaged the Lincoln Project’s efforts as inconsequential.
“These are troll ads, that’s all they are,” Nunberg said. “It’s consultant inside baseball nobody cares about.”
The Lincoln Project has made other enemies in the Republican Party. Galen said on the group’s podcast that the GOP had “fundamentally changed” and that Trump’s “enablers” in the Senate need to be “washed out of the system as well.”
I just shuddered at that type of totalitarian Communi$t talk.
Gotta be CLEANSED, huh?
This kind of talk — and the super PAC’s spending against vulnerable Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and Cory Gardner of Colorado — have caused great animus among other Republican operatives, even those who have been critical of Trump.
“They’re not just going after Trump, they’re going after Republican senators,” said Ryan Williams, a former top aide to Mitt Romney during his 2012 presidential run. “These aren’t Republicans disaffected with the president. They’re just Democrats now.”
So is your former bo$$ as Senate Republicans are at risk of being aborted, and after the Republican Convention the Trump presidency will come crashing down to its death.
Privately, Democratic strategists and donors have wondered what’s driving the Lincoln Project to campaign against Republicans more broadly. Are they planning on rebranding as centrist Democratic operatives if presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins the White House, given some of the founders, including Schmidt, have already left the party? Or do they genuinely hold out hope the Republican Party will be transformed if Trump loses, and that future Republican candidates will want to hire the operatives who helped defeat him?
“These guys helped enable this, they helped create this over years,” Ian Russell, the former head of the House Democrats’ campaign arm, said of the Lincoln Project operatives. “The Republican Party has flirted more and more with the outright crazy we’re seeing right now. Trump just broke the wall down,” but the Lincoln Project’s founders say they were driven by conscience to do whatever they can to deny Trump a second term, after witnessing what they said is his disrespect for the rule of law. At the group’s launch event in February, Wilson said he’d watched former colleagues and bosses “abase themselves and abandon their principles” and could not stand by any longer.
That is what it is all about, from Mueller to Ukraine to impeachment to COVID!
Occasionally, the Lincoln Project appears to alienate some liberals who follow them on social media, underscoring the still shaky alliance between centrist “Never Trump” Republicans and the left. “Dick Cheney … welcome to the resistance,” the group tweeted last week, featuring a photo of the former vice president, who is reviled by liberals for his role in the Iraq War, wearing a coronavirus face mask. “This tweet should have never been sent,” replied one Democrat.
Yeah, you pwogwe$$ives need to put the mask on instead (including BLM)!
In the meantime, an uneasy peace reigns, as Democrats welcome anyone who can help them defeat Trump in 2020. The Lincoln Project recently released a pro-Biden ad that will be airing in Midwestern swing states. It portrayed Biden speaking inspirationally along with clips of other presidents comforting the nation at times of crisis, juxtaposed with Trump’s comments showing a lack of empathy for people protesting racism and police brutality. Barack Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe called the ad “stirring.” Future spots will focus on persuading Republicans to abandon Trump, the strategists say.
All the above paragraph proves is that Democrats have no principles at all, none, except the drive for as much power as they can get.
“I appreciate the success that we’ve achieved so far, but honestly we have barely begun,” said Horn. “Donald Trump should not expect a good night’s sleep in the White House ever again. If he was upset with us at 1 a.m. — then just wait.”
Sure looks like a THREAT to the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, does it not?
Maybe the Secret Service should pay that Horn-blower a visit!
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Let's hope he isn't rushed to the hospital in the dead of night:
"More than 11,000 people have been hospitalized in Massachusetts with severe COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Most have been discharged, amid song and applause, but it’s likely that few have fully resumed their previous lives. Many linger in rehab facilities and long-term-care hospitals; others are home, trying to get back on their feet despite the persistent aftereffects of a prolonged hospital stay. Even among COVID-19 patients who didn’t need hospital care, recent reports indicate that some continue to experience symptoms for weeks, and may develop a chronic illness. Together these survivors form an undercurrent of struggle and disability that will challenge the health care system and the economy — even before a possible second wave of COVID-19 crashes in, and COVID-19 adds confounding new challenges, said Dr. Ross Zafonte, Spaulding’s senior vice president of medical affairs, research, and education. “There are some unique and individual features of COVID that we don’t understand,” he said. “I suspect we’re going to have a group of people who are going to remain impaired.”
The chronic illness will then be diagnosed as COVID.
Now go put on your mask, and here is the man of the moment in Bo$ton.
Related:
As monuments fall, Confederate mountain carving has size on its side
They suggest blowing it up like the Taliban did to the Buddhist monks (which they did because the UN wanted to come in and spend millions repairing the carving while millions of Afghans were starving. Priorities, doncha know?).
Southern neighborhoods have been named ‘plantations’ for decades. That could be changing.
The Washington Compost mentions the elite gathering site of Hilton Head, South Carolina, as being one of the major offenders.
Much of US scales back on holiday, but Trump plans to go big
Public health officials are still pleading with Americans to avoid large crowds and stay an elbow's length apart.
A Fourth of July tradition lives on
It's the New York Times celebrating unhealthy gluttony and greed amidst plexiglass and piles of hot dogs that has nothing to do with the Fourth of July!
They rushed some of the contestants to the hospital after they got sick:
"More than six months into the pandemic, the coronavirus has infected more than 11 million people worldwide, killing more than 525,000, but despite the increasing toll, scientists still do not have a definitive answer to one of the most fundamental questions about the virus: How deadly is it? The question became even more complex last month, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data suggesting that for every documented infection in the United States, there were 10 other cases on average that had gone unrecorded, probably because they were very mild or asymptomatic. If there are many more asymptomatic infections than once thought, then the virus may be less deadly than it has appeared, but even that calculation is a difficult one. On Thursday, after the World Health Organization held a two-day online meeting of 1,300 scientists from around the world, the agency’s chief scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, said the consensus for now was that the infection fatality rate is about 0.6 percent — which means that the risk of death is less than 1 percent. Although she did not note this, 0.6 percent of the world’s population is 47 million people, and 0.6 percent of the US population is 2 million people. The virus remains a major threat, according to data gathered by The New York Times....."
That's when I hit the FULL STOP!
Oh what a deadly web we weave when we report to deceive!
Meanwhile, according to pathologists in Europe, “no one has died from the coronavirus.” The government is once again fudging the numbers as the numbers include confirmed and probable deaths due to the coronavirus as the Globe glosses over the mass-murder of our beloved elderly.
Time to toast their souls:
English pubs reopen but little normal elsewhere in the world
Not even that is normal:
Staff at BrewDog Tower Hill in London prepared for the Saturday reopening (Hollie Adams/Getty Images/Getty Images)
They then bring the drink to you outside:
A couple kissed as revellers drank in the street around them outside a London bar Saturday (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said “let’s not blow it now,” and one can't help but notice that the couple kissing is of the same-sex variety.
Speaking of blow jobs:
Caribbean, struggling in the pandemic, braces for hurricane season
Hot air from the New York Times it was.
In North Korea, coronavirus hurts like no sanctions could
When will someone sanction the New York Times?
An off-key Independence Day
For devoted fans of the annual celebration, it is just one more loss to the coronavirus.
Boston police identify 15-year-old killed in Boston during violent week
Where is BLM when you need them?
Oh, on page B3, dealing with more important matters:
More than 1,000 gather in Boston for celebration of Black women in march and rally
Demonstrators marched through the streets as they join more than 1,000 people who gathered Saturday afternoon to celebrate the lives of Black women and demand an end to police violence (Erin Clark/Globe Staff)
I'm not seeing a lot of brown and black faces there despite the masks!
"A Boston man has been charged in the shooting of a 15-year-old girl Friday afternoon at the South Shore Plaza, law enforcement officials said in a statement Saturday. Jose Rodriguez, 21, faces multiple charges including assault to murder, assault and battery by discharge of a firearm, assault and battery on a child with substantial injury, and reckless endangerment of a child, according to the statement. He is being held without bail and expected to be arraigned in Quincy District Court via video conference. A second male suspect, who was taken into custody with Rodriguez on Friday not far from the mall, has been released, but police say additional charges may still be filed, according to the statement. South Shore Plaza was put on lockdown at about 4:45 p.m. Friday, when the shooting was reported. Tactical units arrived on scene shortly after, and the mall was cleared at about 7:15 p.m., when the two suspects were arrested. Surrounding neighborhoods were also told to shelter in place until the arrests were made. Police on Saturday described the shooting as “an act of violence between two groups,” as opposed to an active shooter situation. The 15-year-old girl was a bystander, and her injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening."
"A 20-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman and exposing himself on a Red Line train, the MBTA Transit Police said Saturday. Josue Gonzalez, of Boston, allegedly followed a woman through the fare gates at the Harvard Square station and sat next to her after she boarded a train Wednesday at 7 p.m., the MBTA Transit Police said in a press release. Gonzalez allegedly made inappropriate comments and then assaulted the woman after she asked him to leave her alone, according to the release. The woman got off the train at Kendall Square, but noticed that Gonzalez was fully exposing himself to her, the release said. She then called 911 and Transit Police responded. Gonzalez is facing charges of indecent assault and battery and open and gross conduct, according to the release."
"A man who used a wheelchair died after a fire broke out at the apartment building where he lived on Mediterranean Drive early Saturday morning, officials said. He was identified as Bruce Miller, 40, the Norfolk district attorney’s office said in a statement. Firefighters responded to 150 Mediterranean Drive at 1:52 a.m., officials said. Investigators are still looking into how the fire started but are “focusing on an accidental cause,” Jennifer Mieth, a spokeswoman for the state fire marshal’s office said in an e-mail. A preliminary investigation shows no evidence of foul play, according to the DA’s office. The death remains under investigation by city police and fire officials and state troopers assigned to the fire marshal’s office and the district attorney’s office, officials said."
Arsonists getting rid of a useless eater or BLM protesters?
"More than a dozen Massachusetts charities are taking part in the Social Distance Dash 2.0, a virtual road race organized by a Woburn company over the holiday weekend. FMP Productions has organized the event to help nonprofits of all sizes raise money amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The first “dash” held in the spring drew 1,200 participants who raised over $30,000, FMP said. The “2.0” version started July 2 and concludes Sunday. Participants may run or walk any distance, from wherever they like. They have to track their distance on a workout app and send the information to fmpproductions.com. Nonprofits taking part in the holiday weekend race range from national charities such as ALS One, to regional organizations, such as Melmark New England, which runs a school for autistic children in Andover, to local groups such as Hidden Battles of Lowell, which helps veterans and public safety workers address post traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues. More than a dozen supporters have signed up to help Hidden Battles, which will use the money raised to help front-line medical workers cope with the stress of the pandemic, founder Scott Hyde said. “It’s a reason for people to get out and exercise and kind of spread their wings ... to beat the whole COVID cabin fever,” he said."
Must have been the stress of working empty hospitals as hypocrisy never goes well with hero worship promotion on false premises. These kinds of things are being done to pay the health workers off and keep them quiet, and look what was found back on page B5:
"Dozens hold July 4 rally at Old State House" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, July 4, 2020
A group of about 50 people gathered outside the Old State House in Boston Saturday for a reading of the Declaration of Independence, despite officials’ pleas to avoid crowds during the coronavirus pandemic.
The event featured speakers who delivered calls for patriotism, while some spectators carried American flags or displayed campaign signs for President Trump. Most in the gathering did not wear masks or practice social distancing.
Garret Kirkland, 36, of Haverhill and the lead organizer of Saturday’s event at the Old State House, said in a phone interview that he did not want 2020 to be the first year without an Independence Day event at the site, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, Fourth of July festivities are largely canceled across the country on the advice of public health officials, who have warned that crowds can help fuel new infections.
Well, it depends on what crowd and what is their political cause.
Kirkland, who also helped organize a 2017 free speech rally in Boston, dismissed health officials’ warnings and said the coronavirus pandemic was not a health risk for the July 4 event at the Old State House.
“These same public health officials, they will gladly come out to support BLM protests, antifa, all of these riots that go around. That’s more important than the social distancing,” Kirkland said in the phone interview. “The argument is moot at this point. If you’re going to support thousands of people marching for the other causes, then we can come together to celebrate our nation.”
Yeah, everyone can see this for what it is, and now watch, he will test positive for COVID!
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Overnight, police confiscated a cache of fireworks and incendiary devices in South Boston before they could be used to break glass and blow Bo$ton to Mars.
Have a good summer, dear readers. I hope I am still here in the fall.
