"Baker issues strict new rules on people traveling to Mass., including possible $500-per-day fine for violators" by Matt Stout, Martin Finucane and Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff, July 24, 2020
Travelers entering Massachusetts from most other states must quarantine for 14 days or face a $500-a-day fine, under a tough new order that Governor Charlie Baker issued Friday in the hope of keeping at bay the coronavirus pandemic raging through much of the country.
The rules, which take effect Aug. 1, apply to vacationers, students returning to local colleges, and Massachusetts residents returning from out-of-state trips, but travelers from states deemed low-risk — currently most of the Northeast, plus Hawaii — and those who can document a negative COVID-19 test within the previous three days are exempt from the quarantine requirement.
All week long the Globe has been running articles regarding how long the wait is to get one back, and this is taking to YOUR PAPERZ, PLEEZ!
The regulations represent a sharp escalation of efforts to maintain the low rates of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations that Massachusetts has achieved. Once one of the hardest-hit states during the pandemic, Massachusetts now reports that only 1.8 percent of coronavirus tests come back positive, according to the most recent seven-day average.
“Since March, the people of Massachusetts have made great sacrifice and shown great discipline,” Baker said at a State House news conference, “and as a result, our state has made great progress to control COVID-19.”
We also now lack herd immunity for something that is minimally fatal for most of the population, and the lockdown is getting even tighter despite that. Go figure.
Now, he said, “Many people are traveling to and from Massachusetts for vacation or in some cases getting ready to come back to school. … Every traveler coming to Massachusetts, no matter where they’re from, has a responsibility to help keep COVID-19 out of the Commonwealth,” but enforcement will largely lean on the honor system, according to Baker, who said he expects that “the vast majority of people” will adhere to the new order.
This is a total a$$hole, and for those that don't "adhere" to the "new order", there are plenty of empty colleges, malls, and the rest to warehouse you -- for the protection of your own health, of course, by taxpayer-funded monsters not touched by any decisions they make on our behalf.
This isn't about COVID, this is about shutting down movement like in China and the former Soviet Union. This is the Great Reset!
Dr. Thomas Tsai, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, called Baker’s executive order “absolutely the right approach.” Although he did not know of studies showing the effectiveness of such travel restrictions, Tsai said, “It makes epidemiological sense. It makes intuitive sense.”
But has no basis in science because he didn't say it made scientific sense.
This is so Soviet Union it is frightening. It's bizarre, and it's in total contradiction to what is reason and common sense. The Party Line propaganda is to be used as a cudgel against all who will not comply, as it was decades ago.
Other states in the region have taken similar measures. New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey require travelers from states experiencing significant community spread of coronavirus to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival, and New York and Connecticut’s advisories come with fines of $2,000 and $1,000 respectively.
Since March, Baker had issued only travel “guidance,” with no threats of a fine, urging people to quarantine if they traveled from other states, but he and Stephanie Pollack, the state’s transportation secretary, said state data showed travel picking up on the state’s roads and at Logan International Airport. More than 50 flights arrive each day from Texas, California, and Florida, where the virus has flared to dangerous levels and forced officials to pull back on their reopening plans.
“Our goal is to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as out-of-state travel increases,” said Pollack. “All such travelers have a responsibility to help the Commonwealth keep transmission levels as low as possible.”
One of the state's untouchables.
Before arrival in the state, visitors must fill out and submit online a “Massachusetts Travel Form.”
I would find somewhere else to go.
Local boards of health, or the state contact tracing collaborative, will monitor those in quarantine. Residents can report suspected violators to the board of health, which will levy any fines.
Hotels and Airbnb hosts will be responsible for notifying visitors of the rules.
“The goal here is to rely on what we’ve relied on from the beginning, which is that people, generally speaking, follow the rules,” Baker said.
Be a good East German.
Currently, people from these “lower-risk” states are exempt from the quarantine requirement: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Hawaii.
Sure looks like the Hunger Games to me. That's our district.
Should have seceded, fellow citizens.
Visitors from other states can skip the quarantine if they can provide, upon request, proof of a negative coronavirus test administered within 72 hours of arrival in Massachusetts.
Your papers, soon to be injected digital ID.
Eligible tests involve obtaining a sample collected from someone’s nose, either a PCR or antigen test. However, a negative antigen test result will need to be confirmed by a PCR. Antibody tests, which are done on a blood sample, are not acceptable. The Department of Public Health advises people planning on traveling into Massachusetts to seek advice from their health care provider on the correct type of test.
That means a nose swab, and why would that be?
Exemptions are also allowed for people passing through the state, commuting across state lines for work, traveling to Massachusetts for medical treatment, or complying with military orders.
Ah, EXEMPTIONS for PARTY MEMBERS like in DC!
The order also strongly discourages employers from allowing business-related travel outside of the lower-risk states, and requires them to ensure employees comply with the quarantine if they do such traveling.
The travel rules are likely to have the biggest effect on the tourism industry and higher education, but faced little pushback from either group.
That's it then.
The sources from those industries that the Globe talked to then proceeded to lecture the rest of the country about how much better we did and are compared to them. Forget the death totals, of course.
At the news conference, Baker criticized the crowding at M Street Beach in Boston last weekend, saying that if people can’t distance from each other and wear face coverings, “we’ll have to limit the number of people who can be there.”
Currently, the state limits indoor gatherings to 25 people and gatherings in enclosed spaces outdoors to 100 people.
And they called it Freedom!
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Better check your luggage, and here is the 21st-century face of Longshanks:
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Governor Charlie Baker issued new rules on people traveling to Massachusetts (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)
I can see why reporters are shrinking in the glare of his lambasting; he looks more like a mob boss more than anything else. Wow. What a slap in the face.
It's Trump to the rescue, right?
"Trump’s federal law-and-order troops are ‘not welcome here,' city and state officials say" by Tonya Alanez Globe Staff, July 24, 2020
If President Trump decided to send federal troops to patrol city streets in Boston, as he has in Portland, Ore.; Chicago; Kansas City, Mo.; and now Seattle, what recourse would local officials have?
Massachusetts politicians have made clear they would not welcome armed federal agents, but legal scholars say their options — at least in the short term — would be limited.
“Physically, there is nothing to do,” said Lawrence Friedman, a law professor and constitutional expert at New England Law Boston. “You need a court to say it’s illegal, or you need Congress passing a law to say you can’t do that,” but the danger, according to constitutional scholars, would extend beyond any physical clash between residents and federal officers.
“If it goes unchecked, then it’s an invitation to this, or a future administration, to deploy federal officers beyond the limits of their constitutional authority,” said Noah Feldman, a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, who testified before Congress last year about Trump’s impeachment, “and in the end, that makes us all less free, less safe, and less protected.”
He was the lead $cholar arguing for impeachment scholar, but is silent when it comes to the massive constitutional violations of COVID that have made us less free, safe, and protected.
Friedman and Feldman, huh?
Trump’s deployment of a secret paramilitary force in Portland, purportedly to protect against vandalism of a federal complex, has triggered growing clashes in a city with a reputation for activism. Portland’s mayor was among those tear gassed earlier this week in a scene he described as “urban warfare.”
Always questioning his motives is Pravda, 'er, the Globe.
Trump said this week that he intends to send federal agents to Chicago and Albuquerque, N.M. ― part of a “law and order” campaign that he says was in response, not to street protests, but to violent crime. It expands upon a similar effort in Kansas City. There is no indication he wishes to send agents to Boston.
To the surprise of Washington Governor Jay Inslee, federal troops were deployed to his state after the Trump administration assured him there would be no “surge of additional personnel to Seattle,” Inslee said in a series of tweets late Thursday.
He said he feared the federal presence would “aggravate the situation” and urged them to stand down unless summoned.
“It is critical that the administration only provide what is needed by state and local officials, and do not engage unless asked,” Inslee said.
The sight of him sickens me.
Not only is the deployment of a secret federal force unconstitutional — federal forces are not allowed to move in and take over as street crime fighters — but it also turns the whole notion of federalism upside down, Feldman said. It pits states against the federal government, upsetting and undermining the delicate balance between the two.
Something he was not at all worried about during the Obama regime's overriding of states rights.
These f**king hypocrite a$$holes are disgusting, and don't look to the Supreme Court for salvation (Roberts has been compromised)
To be sure, federal agents have been used to quell unrest in American cities in the past, but that has generally come at the direct request of local officials who were unable to keep the peace — or in cases when local authorities were defying federal rule, such as in the case of desegregating schools.
TO BE SURE, BUT!
The scene in Portland, scholars say, is dramatically different.
They point to assaults and aggression against protesters by camouflaged and un-badged federal forces and to what the critics say are illegal detentions of people swept off the streets.
Becoming more like China and the former Soviet Union by the day.
“They can’t just come over and take over a domestic law enforcement agency and say, ‘We’re running things right now,’” said Victor Hansen, a law professor and expert in military policing and justice at New England Law Boston. “This seems very unprecedented and very extreme,” he said.
That is not the famous one.
“Arbitrarily grabbing people because of their dress, or because of the way that they left the area, or that they ran away from the police … seems to be shaky legal grounds at best on detaining somebody,” Friedman said.
“We’ve never had a domestic security service in the United States and there’s a reason for that,” Friedman said. “Because of the dangers to civil liberties.”
OMG!
I am in agreement on this particular issue since the tactics described above a quintessentially un-American; however, his bleating sounds hollow when he has been so quiet regarding the massive violation of our civil rights due to COVID lockdowns.
As for a domestic security service, what the hell does he think the FBI is?
Boston has not been named by Trump in his statements this week. The city is not plagued by violent crime, and the street protests here sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have been largely peaceful, but Democratic city and state officials came out in force this week to vow that such “outrageous behavior” would not happen here.
“What we’re seeing in Portland should deeply upset every American,” Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said in a statement. “Watching masked, rogue federal agents terrify residents and round them up in unmarked vans without a warning or a warrant is scary, dangerous, and illegal.”
Until it is done in the name of COVID.
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh voiced similar concern. “That behavior and that type of so-called help is not welcome here in the city of Boston,” he said outside City Hall.
Boston Police Commissioner William Gross was not available for comment and deferred to Walsh’s statement, a police spokesman said Friday.
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins on Friday vowed to take legal action, criminal or civil, to protect against a “president and attorney general who are terrorizing the very people they should be protecting.”
“No individual, even a member of law enforcement, is above the law,” Rollins said in a statement, “and no federal agency is, either.”
Did she saw that with a straight face, because the statement itself is laughable!
Republican Governor Charlie Baker was more tempered in tone, yet said from his experience, the best practice is not to lend a hand unless asked. “We don’t go where we’re not invited,” he said.
No one is invited here given the new travel restrictions!
In Oregon, pushback by state and local authorities has been vehement. Healey said she stands in solidarity with Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who is seeking a restraining order against the federal government. Rosenblum is also suing in federal court on grounds that it is illegal for undercover federal agents to stop and forcibly grab protesters off the street, put them into unmarked vehicles, and detain them without providing a reason.
Healey said she also will join a separate federal lawsuit in support of Oregon.
There she goes grandstanding again!
“These actions are meant to suppress freedom of speech and intimidate anyone who opposes Donald Trump’s agenda,” she said. “We won’t allow that to happen here in Massachusetts.”
It's the exact opposite here!
These people are unreal. Total hypocrites.
Tyranny under the cloak of Freedom!
Walsh joined other mayors in sending a letter to the departments of justice and homeland security, urging that they “withdraw these forces and end this strategy immediately.” A second letter, he said, went to Congress, requesting public hearings and assurance that no public money would be spent on these deployments.
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that an inspector general will investigate the federal response.
Legal scholars see political cynicism in Trump’s actions — diverting the public’s attention from the pandemic and collapsed economy, but, they note, it could also backfire.
“He’s taking a huge gamble,” Feldman said. “Many of Trump’s supporters believe in states’ rights, or they say they do.”
There he goes again!
It's the North Dallas Forty argument with him: every time we say it's a business, he calls it a game, and every time we call it a game, he calls it a business.
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Related:
"The tense standoff between demonstrators and federal police dispatched to Portland, Oregon, dragged on Thursday after the city’s mayor was tear-gassed by US government agents as he made an appearance outside a federal courthouse during raucous protests. Federal agents appeared to deploy tear gas early Friday to force thousands of demonstrators from crowding around the federal courthouse. Protesters had projected lasers on the building and attempted to take down a security fence that had been reinforced to keep demonstrators at a distance. The protesters moved away as clouds of gas rose from the area and flash grenades could be heard. Late Thursday a federal judge specifically blocked federal agents from arresting or using physical force against journalists and legal observers at the ongoing Portland protests. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. US Judge Michael Simon previously ruled that journalists and legal observers are exempt from police orders requiring protesters to disperse once an unlawful assembly has been declared. Federal lawyers had said that journalists should have to leave when ordered. “This order is a victory for the rule of law,” Jann Carson, ACLU of Oregon’s interim executive director, said in a statement....."
It's the exact opposite.
"..... A freelance photographer covering the protests for The Associated Press submitted an affidavit that he was beaten with batons, chemical irritants and hit with rubber bullets this week. The ACLU lawsuit is one of several filed in response to law enforcement actions during the protests. The state of Oregon is seeking an order limiting federal agents’ arrest powers during the demonstrations. On Wednesday night Wheeler, a Democrat, appeared slightly dazed and coughed and said it was the first time he’d been tear-gassed. He put on a pair of goggles someone handed him and drank water but did not leave his spot at the front of the raging demonstration — with protesters lighting a large fire between protective fencing and the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse amid the pop-pop-pop sounds of the federal agents deploying tear gas and stun grenades into the crowd. It wasn’t immediately clear if the agents knew Wheeler, a 57-year-old sixth-generation Oregonian and longtime politician, was among those in crowd when they used the tear gas. Earlier in the night, Wheeler was mostly jeered by protesters as he tried to rally the demonstrators who have clashed nightly with federal agents, but they briefly applauded when he shouted “Black Lives Matter” and pumped his fist in the air. Wheeler has opposed federal agents’ presence in Oregon’s largest city but has also faced harsh criticism from the protesters, who yelled and swore at him. Ignoring the pushback, Wheeler told those out gathered outside the courthouse that he wanted to ‘'thank the thousands of you who have come out to oppose the Trump administration’s occupation of this city.” Wheeler has been accused by critics including city council members of not reining in local police who used tear gas multiple times on protesters before federal agents arrived early this month in response to nearly two months of nightly protests since George Floyd was killed, and city business leaders have condemned Wheeler for not bringing the situation under control before the agents showed up.
I wish they had eaten him alive.
On Thursday, City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, the first Black woman elected to that role, said the arrival of federal agents had reignited protests that had been starting to die down after weeks. Hardesty also apologized for saying Wednesday that she believed police officers were setting fires to justify violence against protesters.
What is she, some sort of conspiracy kook?
Earlier, protesters held signs saying “Tear Gas Ted” in a reference to Wheeler and his leadership of the Portland Police Bureau, which used the substance on protesters before federal agents arrived in the city in early July. As Wheeler left the protest zone about 12:40 a.m. Thursday, one person shouted that he should be there “every single night.” Less than an hour later, police said the crowd threw Molotov cocktails, lit fires in a park and in trash cans and released hundreds of gallons of water from fire hydrants.
Yeah, that's peaceful protest all right -- and the mayor supports it!
The police bureau in response declared that there was a riot at the site and threatened to use tear gas but officers never did and made no arrests. Wheeler’s appearance in the protest zone came hours after state attorneys for Oregon urged a judge to issue a restraining order against agents deployed to tamp down on the protests. A protester fell to the ground as federal officers, seen in background, use chemical irritants to disperse Black Lives Matter demonstrators on Friday in Portland, Ore. The arguments came in a lawsuit filed by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, who accused federal agents of arresting protesters without probable cause, whisking them away in unmarked cars and using excessive force. Federal authorities have disputed those allegations. The lawsuit is part of the growing criticism of Trump’s order that sent the federal agents to Portland and pending orders for them to head to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, to fight rising crime. The court hearing focused on the actions of the more than 100 federal agents responding to protests outside the Portland courthouse. The motion asks US District Judge Michael Mosman to command agents from the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, Federal Protective Service and US Marshals Service to immediately stop detaining protesters without probable cause, identify themselves and their agency before arresting anyone, and explain why an arrest is taking place....."
Once again, we can se that everything is about removing that man from that office.
Also see:
"In Portland, the protesters who demonstrate every night have set fires just outside a federal courthouse and torn down a protective fence. Federal agents have repeatedly used tear gas to drive the crowds away from the building and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was tear-gassed Wednesday night as he stood in solidarity with the protesters. Oregon's attorney general is seeking a court order restraining the actions of federal agents in the city during the demonstrations, which have occurred nightly since George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis. Oregon officials have said federal agents in unmarked cars wrongly detained Portland residents during the demonstrations."
Now let's head up to Seattle:
"More federal agents have been dispatched to Seattle to protect federal property amid lingering unrest in the city following the shutdown of a protest zone where demonstrators camped for weeks during George Floyd protests. The agents are with a special response team of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said she felt she was misled by Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, whom she said told her that the U.S. government had no plans to send federal agents to Seattle. “I don’t want to say I was lied to, but I think there was maybe semantics that weren’t forthcoming,” Durkan said Friday. Durkan urged people to protest peacefully over the weekend at planned rallies that are likely to be large. She also said she hoped to avoid what is happening in Portland, which has seen ongoing clashes between demonstrators and federal police. “I cannot overstate it enough, what is happening is frightening to me,” Durkan said. “It is frightening that you would use federal agents for political purposes.” The agents sent to Seattle are on standby to help other federal law enforcement officials protect federal facilities in the city, according to two law enforcement officials with knowledge of the plans who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to discuss the operation publicly. The agents arrived after businesses in Seattle were vandalized in the downtown area and in the nearby Capitol Hill neighborhood. A small section of Capitol Hill was occupied last month by the protesters and turned into the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest Zone. Demonstrators took over the several block area for about two weeks until authorities returned in force and cleared out the area on July 1 after two fatal shootings. King County Executive Dow Constantine tweeted Thursday that a federal plane landed at an airport in Seattle that evening and that “more than a dozen personnel drove off to an unknown destination.” President Donald Trump's administration has also announced that agents would be sent to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Constantine said people in the Seattle area reject "Trump’s unconstitutional use of federal force. It is a transparent attempt to intimidate, but we will not be intimidated.”
So much for the summer of love she claimed was happening, and she can join the rest of us regarding being misled and lied to since it has been happening to us for, well, forever, and she isn't frightened when those agents are used for causes in which she agrees.
At least Seattle is in better shape than Chicago (the city is being shout up under COVID tyranny while she is working for the New World Order and tearing shit down)!
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Trump is also taking the fight to the pharmaceuticals even has he warp speeds their toxic potion in a tube:
"Trump signs executive orders Friday aimed at lowering drug prices" by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey Washington Post, July 24, 2020
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed four executive orders on Friday aimed at lowering drug prices in an effort to shore up support among seniors ahead of the November election where he has been losing support in part because of his handling of the coronavirus crisis, but his remarks are also likely to antagonize an industry he is relying on to develop treatments and vaccines to help end the coronavirus pandemic.
More $hell game hucksterism from the political con man.
Trump has regularly complained to advisers that drug prices are too high, and some of his political advisers see health care as a key vulnerability in 2020. Several polls have shown that voters trust Democrats more on health care; however, the moves are largely symbolic because the orders are unlikely to take effect soon, if they do so at all, since the power to implement drug pricing policy through executive order is limited. Voters will not see an impact before the November elections, and the drug industry is sure to challenge them in court.
I'm so f**king sick of political $ymboli$m!
Trump said he plans to meet with drug company executives on Tuesday to discuss their ideas for lowering prices, after they requested the meeting.
They are going to GIVE HIM A DRE$$ING DOWN, huh?
I imagine that!
They "request" a meeting and the president submits!
Didn't JFK tell the steel guys to fuck off?
White House aides spent much of Thursday fielding calls from executives expressing frustration the administration is pushing the orders even as it pushes the industry — including awarding companies billions of dollars — to develop and manufacture vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, according to a senior administration official and a Republican lobbyist.
I wonder how hard they had to pu$h them!
What pos paper printed this story?
Trump praised the administration’s work in pushing for the development of coronavirus treatments and a vaccine on a historically ambitious timeline, but did not laud the companies doing most of the research and development.
Took all the credit for himself, which is good because we now know where to apply blame.
One of the orders would speed up the timeline for a proposal the administration introduced late last year to allow states, drug wholesalers, and pharmacies to import certain drugs from Canada. Drug companies have pushed back fiercely on that proposal, arguing there is ‘‘no way to guarantee the safety of drugs that come into the country from outside the United States’ gold-standard supply chain.” The Canadian government also opposes the measure, warning that the drug supply for Canada’s 37 million residents cannot possibly fulfill the demands of the much larger US market.
Another nothing-burger.
The political nature of Friday’s event was evidenced by the fact that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, Trump allies, were in the audience.
The executive orders were panned as an empty political gesture by at least one advocacy group.
That's all Trump has left in terms of power these days.
“These executive orders are not about policy, they’re about politics,” said Margarida Jorge, campaign director for Lower Drug Prices Now. “The only reason for President Trump’s rekindled interest in lowering drug prices is his dwindling poll numbers, and realization that our country’s senior citizens are abandoning him thanks to his bungled handling of the coronavirus crisis.”
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Time to chart a new vision for the GOP.
Related:
"In recent days, President Trump has said it can be “patriotic” to wear masks, and others in his administration have lauded him for setting a good example when he has worn one, but at a White House event Friday, neither Trump nor any of the roughly 30 other people gathered in close quarters in the Blue Room appeared to be wearing one. A pool reporter covering the event on-site said that none of the roughly 30 people in attendance appeared to be wearing masks, while reporters and White House staff members were wearing them. Asked for an explanation, White House spokesman Judd Deere noted that everyone in the audience had been tested for the coronavirus and pointed to recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
This whole f**king thing is a HOAX, and THEY KNOW IT!
"Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said states hit hard by the coronavirus in recent weeks need to halt or walk back their reopenings as they grapple with surges of infections. “You don’t necessarily have to go all the way back to a complete shutdown, but you certainly have to call a pause and maybe even a backing up a bit,” he said in a live interview Friday with The Washington Post. He suggested some states with rising cases, especially those in the South, go back to earlier phases of reopenings and strictly follow guidelines that would allow them to lift pandemic restrictions one step at a time. “The issue is that some of the states . . . have essentially skipped over some of those checkpoints,” he said, without naming individual states. “. . . I think we can control the surging that we’re seeing in those states.” He also urged other states where outbreaks are more contained to look at hard-hit states as cautionary examples of “what happens when you open too quickly.” He reiterated the importance of wearing masks, practicing physical distancing, and avoiding crowds. In another interview Friday with CNN’s “The Axe File” Fauci said he and his family have been targeted with hate mail and death threats. “It’s really a magnitude different now,” Fauci said, seeming somewhat bewildered by the level of vitriol. “Serious threats against me, against my family . . . my daughters, my wife — I mean, really? Is this the United States of America?”
I don't believe the self-serving false flag meme he is promoting at the end there, and the hypocrite couldn't be more exposed after the ballgame.
"Green Bay, Wis., police are investigating threats made against city officials over a new mandate requiring face coverings in public buildings because of the coronavirus. Alderman Randy Scannell, who first proposed the mask ordinance, says one e-mail calls him a traitor and the sender would make sure Scannell would die. He says it appears multiple people are sending threatening e-mails to council members and city officials, including the mayor. Police Chief Andrew Smith says all 12 council members, regardless of how they voted on the ordinance, received at least one of the threats. Smith e-mailed all city officials, telling them to be vigilant, WLUK-TV reported. The council spent close to six hours taking public comments and deliberating the ordinance before it passed 7-5 on Tuesday night."
Honestly, the fakery and false flags regarding the narrative pushing in the attempt to demonize those of us with reason and common sense who wish not to deprive ourselves of oxygen and toe the occult line on slave masks is sickening and I don't believe a word of it.
The perps should be easy to track down due to email, and I'll bet we never see another word about this in print. It's self-serving false flags that are in all likelihood fiction.
"Vermont Governor Phil Scott on Friday issued an order requiring people in the state to wear masks in public as part of an ongoing effort to reduce the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. Speaking at his regular virus briefing, Scott said the outbreaks hitting the South and West may be spreading back toward the Northeast and Vermont. “We are still in very good shape, but it is time to prepare,” the Republican said, noting it’s better to take precautions than have to roll back the reopening as has happened in a number of hard-hit states. Under the order that takes effect Aug. 1, all public and private businesses must display signs saying masks are required for anyone over age 2. Businesses are allowed to refuse service to people not wearing a mask. There are a number of exemptions, including people who are eating or drinking, engaged in strenuous exercise, or those who have a medical exemption. People who do not wear a mask are not required to produce evidence of their condition. The order comes with no fine or enforcement mechanism, although that could change as circumstances warrant. (AP)"
Vermont has been the least affected state of all, so you know this is about WAY MORE than COVID! The mask requirement is unconstitutional, and what reopening?
"The sole hospital in a remote South Texas county has become so overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients that officials could soon start sending home those least likely to survive the disease caused by the coronavirus. A health board in Starr County debated Thursday whether to authorize critical care guidelines to help workers at Starr County Memorial Hospital make painstaking decisions about how to allocate beds and other dwindling resources as infections soar. Patients with little chance of recovering will be told , said Jose Vasquez, the top health official in the county of 61,000. “The situation is desperate,” Vasquez said. “We cannot continue functioning in the Starr County Memorial Hospital nor in our county in the way that things are going. The numbers are staggering.” The explosion of coronavirus cases in Texas over the past month has strained resources at health care systems across the state, and the announcement from Starr County highlights how hospitals in small, rural areas — many of them scarcely affected by the virus in the pandemic’s early stages — are especially unprepared to deal with the surge of sick people."
I think they are making this up, and several citizen journalists have exposed the overflowing hospitals narrative as lies.
They are sending people home to die rather than treat them, and maybe that is for the best. I'd rather die there than in a hospital or care home.
Time to press the alarm button:
Coronavirus cases are on the rise in Quincy for the first time since the height of the pandemic, with the majority of new cases in younger residents and at least five linked to a neighborhood bar that has since shut down temporarily.
Who knew that the COVID virus was a PROHIBITIONIST, huh?
Yup, positive tests are under 2% here and visitors are banned from coming here, but the bar is a problem!
Now GO OUT and JOIN a SOCIAL JUSTICE PROTEST!
On July 8, the city was down to eight active coronavirus cases, with one or two being reported each day. As of Thursday, there were 47 active cases with six or seven being reported each day. The town is not treating it as a spike, but rather an uptick that could be cause for concern.
It's the excuse being used to LOCK YOU DOWN TIGHT!
At the pandemic’s peak in April, Quincy was seeing 30 new cases a day on a weekly average. With 43 new cases over the past week, the daily average over a week is six or seven cases.
Ruth Jones, the Quincy health commissioner, said that most cases were among those in their 20s and 30s, rather than among older people in a long-term care facility, a population disproportionately ravaged by the virus nationwide.
Uh-huh, and they didn't even know they had it, right?
Five of the COVID-19 cases have been linked to staff or patrons of the Hofbrau Cafe on Sea Street, which announced Tuesday it would close for two weeks for a professional cleaning. An employee of Manet Lunch, also on Sea Street, has tested positive as well, the city said. Another infected person is a member of a recreational baseball league, but Jones said no one else related to the league has tested positive. Several of the other cases involve those in the same household, such as a couple or roommates who were all infected.
COVID id being used to shut down all congregations like Communist Russia, and the above paragraph shows you how they are really going to systematically ensnare all of us in the contact noose.
This FUCKING DAMN EVIL!
“I’m not pressing the alarm button yet, but I want to make sure you all understand the numbers are going up a little bit and we have to be really vigilant about how we operate,” said Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch in a video Tuesday.
Jones said it is taking much longer to receive results from PCR tests — a cumbersome, but the most accurate, method of identifying active infections. In June, Quincy residents could learn their results within 24 to 48 hours, but now the same process takes an average of eight days, which, troublingly, mirrors a nationwide trend in delays largely driven by a backlog at laboratories.
That first sentence is a LIE!
The test have been shown to be wholly inaccurate and generating 80% false positives while failing to specifically diagnose COVID-19. It comes back positive if you had a cold!
It never ends!
Infectious disease experts see this delay in results as a consequential factor of how small individual upticks could lead to an eventual statewide resurgence in cases.
This was about the time that I lost interest in reading the article, and it never was statewide.
“Essentially, after two-plus days of delay, individuals will go through a big chunk of their infectious period before they’re warned about being positive, and we know that individuals often can’t or are less likely to self-isolate until they are confirmed positive,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University disease tracker.
Somebody isolate him, please.
The town of Chatham has also seen a recent uptick in cases after at least 10 people who were at a party attended by area restaurant workers earlier this month became infected, prompting some local eateries to temporarily close or scale back service.
They were even under the gathering limit and still got infected?
Officials were told between 30 and 50 people may have attended the party. Contact tracing is underway, but state Senator Julian Cyr, a Democrat who represents the Cape and Islands, said Thursday by phone that officials were concerned that some party attendees may not be responding to contact tracer calls, possibly over concerns regarding underage drinking.
Good, although that means they will be showing up at your home.
“People abiding by the rules have had a tremendously positive impact on the growth and the spread of the virus, but they need to keep doing that, and the incident in respect to Chatham is a great example of what happens when they don’t,” said Governor Charlie Baker in a press conference Friday.
He also made a point to note that the state is not experiencing the “astonishing” surge in cases among younger persons occurring in the Southern and Western states in the country.
“Our young people, for the most part, appear to be doing all the same things that the 30-to-60 folks and the 60-and-over folks are doing. They’re not driving trends and they’ve done a really good job of reducing their overall positive test rate,” Baker said.
And yet the bars are still closing, you disingenuous rat bastard.
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Here are the jiggered and fake numbers:
"Mass. reports 214 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 14 new deaths; Governor Baker also announces new quarantine restrictions on visitors to the state" by Jeremy C. Fox and Christina Prignano Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, July 24, 2020
The coronavirus death toll in Massachusetts rose by 14 to 8,279, state officials said Friday. The number of confirmed cases climbed by 214, bringing the total to 107,897, as the governor announced new quarantine restrictions on visitors from other areas.
The state reported no new probable-case deaths, keeping that total at 219. There were 124 new probable cases for a total of 7,088.
The data was released just hours after Governor Charlie Baker announced a new order requiring visitors to the state to complete a “Massachusetts Travel Form” and quarantine for 14 days or produce a negative COVID-19 test.
Friday’s report was posted online more than three hours behind schedule, after a delay of more than five hours Thursday that state officials said was caused by a change in the federal government’s reporting requirements.
State Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders said Friday that federal officials gave hospitals little notice about the new requirements, which included a change to how some of the state’s key metrics are measured. Because of those changes, Sudders said, some data, including hospital surge capacity, was not updated Thursday.
“We did not update the hospital surge data yesterday because the federal government has redefined what surge capacity means,” Sudders said during Baker’s press conference.
WTF?
She said the reporting changes were partially responsible for a surprising drop in coronavirus hospitalizations, and state officials spent time verifying the data before it was released.
“It just was so different than what we’ve been seeing,” she said.
Massachusetts saw mixed results Friday in four key public health indicators, including the two excluded from Thursday’s reporting.....
The truth is they are LITERALLY MAKING UP the NUMBERS in this TRAUMA-BASED MIND CONTROL EVENT!
That is how EVIL they are!
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Digging their own graves, are they?
Where is this all leading, readers?
"Facing backlash from workers over alleged discrimination, Tatte founder stepping down as CEO" by Janelle Nanos Globe Staff, July 24, 2020
Since launching Tatte Bakery out of her kitchen in 2007, founder Tzurit Or has built a chain of 14 local storefronts with an aesthetic that makes Instagrammers swoon: black-and-white floor tiles with cheeky inspirational quotes, woven Parisian bistro chairs, piles of flaky pastries, and shakshuka skillets studded with silky poached eggs, but the social unrest in the wake of protests over George Floyd’s death has revealed simmering frustrations among the cafe chain’s workforce that have disrupted its otherwise placid facade. Over the past several weeks, current, former, and furloughed Tatte staff have begun speaking out against Or’s leadership, saying she created a culture at the cafes that has enabled “discriminatory hiring practices and maltreatment of Black and Brown employees in entry-level positions,” according to an open letter published by the group last week.
On Friday, Or confirmed publicly what she said has been in the works for some time: She will be stepping down from her role as CEO of the company that employees over 700 people.
The politically-correct Marxist tyrants have drove her out!
I imagine the business was going to collapse anyway given the reimposition or restrictions.
The news comes as complaints have emerged about the management of the cafes, including allegations that Or or her managers have made discriminatory comments about the race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or physical attributes of staffers, and that Or made hiring and promotion decisions based in part on how well workers fit in with the “Tatte aesthetic.”
The group of former workers and their industry allies, which is now organized under the name Employees for Change, has launched a petition pushing for more diversity among the company’s executive team and has raised funds in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. On July 17 they issued an open letter, which has garnered over 200 signatures, urging Or to step down from her leadership role and raise wages for staff; they have planned a protest outside the Brookline storefront on Sunday.
Another $hakedown with approved protest!
Or — who sat down with the Globe for a video interview, in addition to submitting written responses to questions — said she was completely unaware of any concerns about discrimination among her staff until the petition began circulating. She denied having made racist or discriminatory statements, and said that in the past few weeks she has taken steps to address staff concerns, working closely with her investors, led by Ron Shaich, the founder and former chief executive of Panera; meeting and exceeding the demands of the petition; hiring diversity consultants and a crisis management team; and launching a formal investigation into three allegations of discrimination. She said she’s also in the midst of establishing a formal HR department and is working to launch an anonymous hot line for workers to report discrimination, but she also acknowledged that management mistakes have been made. The decision to step down from her role as CEO, she said, predated the petition, and new leadership will be announced soon. Her plan is to remain on as an adviser, executing her vision for its pastries, branding, and storefronts, but day-to-day management of Tatte will no longer be under her purview.
The reckoning has been “devastating” to her personally, she said.
“I took it really hard because I felt that all I did is give up on my personal life and everything I’ve ever had to make Tatte into a home that people feel good in,” she said. “I felt massive responsibility to really do some serious listening and learning, and go back to my team and see how are we addressing this and making that change, because clearly something is not right.”
Dreams must be sacrificed on the altar of life-altering social justice movements.
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The recent trouble started several weeks ago, after Or decided to board up her storefronts as protests around the George Floyd killing surged throughout the city. The decision rankled many people of color on her staff, who felt she was doing more to protect her stores than support the movement.
There is your MOTIVE!
This is what we used to call EXTORTION, and it WAS a CRIME ONCE!
Maybe the employees should RESIGN in PRINCIPLED PROTEST!
F** the JOB!
Frustrations mounted when Or posted on Tatte’s Instagram page in support of Black Lives Matter. Many workers expressed skepticism about Or’s outwardly supportive stance and said it didn’t match her own internal corporate practices.
Like she is what, a hypocrite?
Hodan Hashi, who worked on Tatte’s counter staff until February of this year, said that as a Black woman, she didn’t experience racism firsthand on the part of the company but she grew frustrated upon seeing Or post about Black Lives Matter on the company’s social media accounts.
“Seeing Tzurit post the black square or anything Black Lives Matter-related without seeing the tangible steps she was taking to make sure these things weren’t happening in her own company annoyed me,” she said.
Oh, so it is a PERSONAL THING, huh?
Hashi helped draft a petition asking the company to commit to diversifying its executive team, match the employee donations to organizations supporting Black Lives Matter, and donate excess food and beverages to protesters and others who support the cause. It was envisioned to push Tatte to take a more active role in challenging systemic racism, Hashi said, but then several past and current workers began posting their experiences on social media and tagging Tatte in their posts. Or waded into the comments and direct messages to respond to the complaints, but that served only to fuel the fire. She ultimately turned off commenting and tagging on Tatte’s posts after tensions boiled over. It pushed the activists to continue the conversation through their own channels.
Like I said, a MA$$IVE $HAKEDOWN and what a $kank!
“The stories were just as shocking to me as they were to everybody else,” Hashi said. “It felt like we had some form of a responsibility to make sure that the voices of the people of the company who experienced this but couldn’t speak out were heard.”
In the open letter, the writers said “it is more apparent than ever that the CEO has been using the optics of her successful business to overshadow the injustices of the company against its staff.‘‘ The letter goes on to note that “workers have made numerous complaints about mistreatment and microaggressions under the company’s name and have failed to be recognized by Tzurit herself or the corporate team she manages.‘‘
Elle Marston, a former Tatte employee and organizer for Employees for Change who is a white woman, said she feels it’s important to offer a space for people to share their experiences, and began posting them to the group’s Instagram account.
The Globe spoke with several of the people who shared their testimonials, some of whom did so anonymously for fear of reprisal.
That's why I retain anonymity to blog.
In those experiences, several themes emerged. Michael Geldart, who is white and worked at Tatte from 2013 to 2016, where he held the role of head of bakery operations, said the management of the shops was unprofessional compared with other places he’d worked, and he said there were numerous occasions when Or said things about employees that made him cringe: In one instance, he recalled, she asked if a particular worker was Arab or Muslim, and then asked that the person be laid off a few days later. She would become uncomfortable around workers who were transitioning genders, he recalled. In another instance, he said, she grew suspicious knowing that an overnight shift of workers were all Black and wanted to install cameras in the shop. “She said, ‘They’re from the projects, who knows what they’re going to steal,‘” Geldart recalled.
Or said she does not recall making such a comment about Arab or Muslim workers, and she added that her own heritage — Or was born in Israel and lived on a kibbutz for most of her childhood, moving to the US at age 32 — means that she wasn’t brought up with an understanding of the racial dynamics that exist in the US that would result in such stereotyping.
OMFG!
They are the WORST SUPREMACISTS around!
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This is what the U.S. will soon look like:
"China tells US to shut consulate in Chengdu, in retaliation for Houston closure" by Anna Fifield Washington Post, July 24, 2020
BEIJING — China on Friday ordered the United States to shut its consulate in Chengdu in response to the American closure of China’s equivalent branch in Houston, another escalation in the increasingly all-encompassing dispute between the world’s two largest economies.
Analysts said there was no end in sight to a conflict that spans trade and technology, freedom of the press and religion, students and scientists, human rights, and the race for a coronavirus vaccine.
“Even though the relationship is worsening, we have not yet reached the worst point,” said Cheng Xiaohe, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing.
The bottom, he said, would be measured by two things: The closure of embassies in each country, or military confrontation, whether intentional or accidental.
“It’s better for both sides to stop and make a change — we all know we are moving in the wrong direction,” Cheng said, “but President Trump is trying to create an external crisis to distract Americans’ attention and unite them behind him before the election.”
Looks like China just endorsed Biden, I recognize the wag-the-dog tail of what they are doing, and it is all phony. All world governments are in lockstep on lockdown.
Analysts on both sides say bilateral relations are at their worst since 1972, when President Nixon began overtures to the People’s Republic of China, leading to the start of formal diplomatic relations in 1979.
As if to signal an end to that era, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., on Thursday, in which he declared American engagement with China a dismal failure.
“The old paradigm of blind engagement with China simply won’t get it done. We must not continue it. We must not return to it,’’ Pompeo said. ‘‘Today, China is increasingly authoritarian at home, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom everywhere else. . . . If the free world doesn’t change Communist China, Communist China will change us.”
UNREAL!
Someone tell "live exercise" Mike we are becoming them!
Take a f**king look around you!
Churches are being shut down while abortion clinics are considered essential!
China had vowed to retaliate after the United States on Tuesday ordered it to close its Houston consulate by Friday. US officials described the facility, which oversaw diplomatic and consular affairs for eight Southern states, as an espionage hub, without elaborating.
Some analysts thought that China would respond by closing the US Consulate in Wuhan, which has been empty since the coronavirus outbreak spread across the city in January and appears unlikely to reopen soon.
So that's why the Trump administration chose Houston. It's a subtle blame job.
Instead, Beijing took aim at the post in Chengdu, a southwestern city staffed by about 15 American diplomats that hosts political, economic, and agricultural departments, the Chengdu American Center, and issues visas.
In announcing the closure, China’s Foreign Ministry in a statement blamed the Trump administration for bringing diplomacy into the countries’ wider rivalry and described Beijing’s response as legitimate and necessary.
“The current situation between China and the United States is something China does not want to see, and the responsibility rests entirely with the United States,” the ministry said. “We once again urge the US to immediately revoke the erroneous decision, to create necessary conditions for the return of bilateral relations to normal.”
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At least the Chinese give you the day off to vote.
Also see:
Anchors Away!
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FAA orders emergency engine checks of parked Boeing 737s
I wouldn't worry; they won't be taking off anytime soon anyway.
"Trump officials concluded Friday that a proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska — which would be the largest in North America — would not pose serious environmental risks, a sharp reversal from a finding by the Obama administration that it would permanently harm the region’s prized sockeye salmon. The official about-face regarding the bitterly contested project epitomizes the whiplash that has come to define environmental policy under President Trump, who has methodically dismantled many of his predecessor’s actions on climate change, conservation and pollution. A final environmental analysis issued Friday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found that Pebble Mine — which targets a deposit of gold, copper and other minerals worth up to $500 billion....."
At least they are protecting the Acadia.
"The UN weather agency warned Friday that average temperatures in Siberia were 18 degrees Fahrenheit above average last month, a spate of exceptional heat that has fanned devastating fires in the Arctic Circle and contributed to a rapid depletion in sea ice off Russia’s Arctic coast. “The Arctic is heating more than twice as fast as the global average, impacting local populations and ecosystems and with global repercussions,” said World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General Petteri Taalas in a statement Friday. He noted that Earth’s poles influence weather conditions far away, where hundreds of millions of people live. WMO previously cited a reading of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk on June 20, which the agency has been seeking to verify as a possible record-high temperature in the Arctic Circle. It comes as fires have swept through the region, with satellite imagery showing the breadth of the area surface. The WMO pointed to a recent study by top climate scientists who found that such a rise in heat would have been nearly impossible without human-caused climate change."
Never mind the massive four-month reduction in gases that we told had a massive effect and made the air fresher!
The climate is also part of the COVID agenda and Great Reset, folks, and the gaseous ma$$ media lies spew forth still.
That's part of the reason for the mask. You breathe in your own CO2.
"New rules on wearing masks in England came into effect Friday, with people entering shops, banks, and supermarkets now required to wear face coverings, while Romania reported a record for daily infections and France announced mandatory testing for arrivals from 16 countries, including the United States. People in England can be fined as much as 100 pounds ($127) by police if they refuse. Places such as restaurants, pubs, gyms, and hair salons are exempt. John Apter, the national chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers would be available as a last resort but added that he hopes the public “will continue to do the right thing’’ to protect other citizens. French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Friday that as of August 1, travelers entering France from 16 countries where viral circulation is strong — including the United States — must undergo compulsory tests on arrival at French airports or ports — unless they can present a negative test less than 72 hours old from their countries of departure.
YOUR PAPERZ, PLEEZ!
Those testing positive on arrival must isolate for 14 days. Health authorities say cases on the French mainland have surged 66 percent in the past three weeks and 26 percent in the last week alone. Concerns had already prompted the government to make mask wearing mandatory in all indoor public spaces this week. In Belgium, health authorities said a 3-year-old girl has died after testing positive for COVID-19 as new infections surged 89 percent from the previous week. Belgian authorities have bolstered restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus, including making masks mandatory in crowded outdoor public spaces.
This is FUCKING INSANE and EVIL!
C'mon, Europeans, you gonna take this from these MONSTERS?!!!!!
Overall, Europe has seen more than 201,000 deaths in the pandemic, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Experts say the true toll from the coronavirus worldwide is much higher, due to limited testing and other issues. Romania set an all-time high for daily new infections Friday and authorities blamed the surge on a failure to wear masks, including in indoor public places or on mass transit. In Italy, most new cases have occurred in northern Italy, where the outbreak in Europe began, but southern regions have lately been seeing clusters of infections. Many recent cases have been traced to people returning from abroad, most of them foreign workers. Other clusters were among migrants rescued at sea and vacationers. Last week, the mayor of the tourist-mecca island of Capri ordered people to wear masks in the streets. Capri’s main square, with its trendy cafes and narrow streets, had been jammed with holiday-goers, many not wearing masks. Three young Romans who returned home after a holiday tested positive, Italian media said Friday. Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza on Friday ordered everyone entering Italy who had been in either Romania or Bulgaria during the last 14 days to self-quarantine. A few weeks ago, a cluster of cases was traced to an apartment complex in a town near Naples housing Bulgarian farm workers. In Italy, masks must be worn in shops, banks, on public transport, and outdoors where it’s impossible to keep a safe distance apart.
Having you HAD ENOUGH of the BULLSHIT because I KNOW I HAVE!!!!!
It's an INCREASED LOCKDOWN after you NEVER REOPENED!
Amid fears in Spain that poor living conditions for seasonal agricultural workers are creating coronavirus hot spots, the Spanish farm minister said Friday said authorities are pressing employers to provide decent accommodations and transport for the workers. The Health Ministry reported 971 new daily infections, the biggest daily increase since Spain’s lockdown ended. German authorities plan to set up testing stations at airports to encourage people arriving from high-risk countries to get tested for the coronavirus. They also will allow people arriving from other places to get tested for free within three days — though not at airports. Friday’s decision by the health ministers of Germany’s 16 states came amid mounting concern that those on holiday could bring the virus back with them. There also is worry that not everyone returning from a long list of countries designated as high-risk is going into self-quarantine for 14 days, as they are supposed to unless they test negative."
Looks like the NAZIS WON after all, huh?
"The blame game can go only so far. For weeks, as Japan faced a troubling rise in coronavirus cases, officials pointed fingers at Tokyo’s night-life districts, especially the so-called host and hostess bars on the periphery of the country’s sex industry. The message was clear: The rest of Japan was still doing fine, so its economic reopening should continue uninterrupted, but that facade is quickly melting away. On Friday, Japan reported close to 1,000 new infections — the most in a single day since the pandemic began — with cases surfacing across the country. This month, clusters have been found in nursing homes, schools, and a Tokyo theater, and, in a worrisome sign, an increasing number have no traceable links. Despite the growing outbreaks, the Japanese government has so far resisted a return to the kinds of restrictions being imposed in places such as Hong Kong and Australia as their caseloads, which had previously subsided, spiral up again. Tokyo officials — who announced a record total of 366 cases Thursday — have not asked karaoke bars or nightclubs to close as they did under a state of emergency in April. The central government has pressed ahead with a domestic tourism campaign, although it bowed to pressure to exclude travelers to and from Tokyo."
With each passing brief, the BULLSHIT RISES!
"The chief scientist at the World Health Organization estimates that about 50 percent to 60 percent of the population will need to be immune to the coronavirus for there to be any protective “herd immunity” effect. Herd immunity is usually achieved through vaccination and occurs when most of a population is immune to a disease, blocking its continued spread. During a social media event on Friday, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said that studies done from some countries hit hard by COVID-19 show about 5 percent to 10 percent of people now have antibodies, though in some countries, it has been as high as 20 percent. In New York City, an early epicenter of the virus, almost 24 percent of the population had antibodies as of early May, but the percentages of people with antibodies in other areas were in the single digits in late May and early June. That included Missouri, at 2.8 percent; Philadelphia, at 3.6 percent; and Connecticut, at 5.2 percent."
The "doctor" is a LIAR, for VACCINES do NOT CONFER IMMUNITY!
He's nothing but a VACCINE SALESMAN, and you CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS!
Either the cases have been UNDERCOUNTED and we HAVE WIDER HERD IMMUNITY than they wish to acknowledge, or we don't, which would fly in the face of their panicked narraive.
This is SHIT, readers!
"The Taliban say they are ready for talks with Afghanistan’s political leadership after the Muslim holiday of Eid ul Adha at the end of July, offering to hand over the last of the government prisoners in a week’s time, providing that the government frees the last of its Taliban prisoners. The offer made by Taliban’s political spokesman Suhail Shaheen in a tweet late Thursday follows one of the most significant shakeups in the Taliban in years. The group appointed the son of the movement’s founder to head its military wing and powerful leadership council members to its negotiation team....."
I've quit taking peace talk seriously when it comes from a war-promoting paper that is full of lies, sorry.
