The emotional appeal from the Ethiopian war criminal who presided over three cholera crises falls on deaf ears here, and it's almost as if they are making things up as they go along. Doubling down on the illusion they and the pre$$ have created.
Feds Notify UN of Formal Withdrawal From WHO
The notification triggered 12-month exit process, and from what I read Trump just transferred the money into another account controlled by the same people.
"After hundreds of specialists urged the World Health Organization to review mounting scientific research, the agency acknowledged Tuesday that airborne transmission of the coronavirus may be a threat in indoor spaces. WHO expert committees are going over evidence on transmission of the virus and plan to release updated recommendations in a few days, agency scientists said in a news briefing. The possibility of airborne transmission, especially in “crowded, closed, poorly ventilated settings, cannot be ruled out,” said Dr. Benedetta Allegranzi, who leads the WHO’s committee on infection prevention and control. She said the agency recommends “appropriate and optimal ventilation” of indoor environments, as well as physical distancing. Agency staff fielded several questions from reporters about transmission of the virus by air, prompted by an open letter from 239 specialists calling on the agency to review its guidance. Many of the letter’s signatories have collaborated with the WHO and served on its committees. The specialists who signed the letter welcomed the WHO’s announcement. “We are very glad that WHO has finally acknowledged the accumulating evidence, and will add aerosol transmission indoors to the likely modes of transmission” for the coronavirus, said Jose-Luis Jimenez, a professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “This will allow the world to better protect themselves and fight the pandemic.”
"Top US allies on Wednesday denounced the planned pullout of the United States from the World Health Organization, with the Italian health minister calling it “wrong” and a political ally of Germany’s chancellor warning that the withdrawal could make more room on the world stage for China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, meanwhile, ratcheted up the Trump administration’s months of criticism of the United Nations health agency. The United States, which is facing criticism for its own handling of the coronavirus, leads the world in confirmed cases and deaths, a situation that President Trump has sought to blame on China. The new broadsides appeared aimed at refocusing attention during a presidential election year on the shortcomings of WHO and China early in the pandemic that has since reached nearly 11.9 million confirmed cases and a death toll approaching 545,800. Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza said, “The health crisis has shown that we need a reformed and stronger WHO, not a weaker one.” Italy was the onetime epicenter of the pandemic in the West and relied heavily on WHO’s guidance as it struggled to contain the virus and treat COVID-19 patients. His German counterpart, Jens Spahn, decried a “setback for international cooperation,” writing on Twitter that more global cooperation, not less, is needed to fight pandemics. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya said that the WHO needs “more autonomy” and that the world needs more cooperation to prepare for future pandemics. China also criticized the US withdrawal....."
They followed that up with this self-congratulatory, self-aggrandizing, self-adulating, self-promoting garbage:
"The 193 members of the United Nations reached agreement on a declaration to commemorate this year’s 75th anniversary of the world organization, recalling the UN’s successes and failures and vowing to build a post-pandemic world that is more equal, works together, and protects the planet. General Assembly President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande announced the agreement in a letter to UN members. He said the declaration will be adopted by world leaders at the official anniversary commemoration on Sept. 21, which will be virtual because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Born out of the horrors of World War II with a mission to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, the United Nations is praised in the declaration as the only global organization that “gives hope to so many people for a better world and can deliver the future we want.” It also says no other world body has the legitimacy or the power to convene leaders and people from all walks of life. Touting the UN’s accomplishments, its member nations said “even in times of great global challenges and tension, our organization has catalyzed decolonization, promoted freedom, shaped norms for international development, and worked to eradicate disease.” As for disappointments, nations said, the world “is plagued by growing inequality, poverty, hunger, armed conflicts, terrorism, insecurity, climate change, and pandemics.”
If a goal was saving the world from scourge of war, they are a MISERABLE FAILURE!
It's enough to make one sick:
"An analysis of more than 17 million people in England — the largest study of its kind, according to its authors — has pinpointed a bevy of factors that can raise a person’s chances of dying from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The paper, published Wednesday in Nature, echoes reports from other countries that identify older people, men, racial and ethnic minorities, and those with underlying health conditions among the more vulnerable populations. “This highlights a lot of what we already know about COVID-19,” said Uchechi Mitchell, a public health expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago who was not involved in the study, “but a lot of science is about repetition. The size of the study alone is a strength, and there is a need to continue documenting disparities.” The researchers mined a trove of data that included health records from about 40 percent of England’s population, collected by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. Of 17,278,392 adults tracked over three months, 10,926 reportedly died of COVID-19 or COVID-19-related complications. “A lot of previous work has focused on patients that present at hospital,” said Dr. Ben Goldacre of the University of Oxford, one of the authors on the study. “That’s useful and important, but we wanted to get a clear sense of the risks as an everyday person. Our starting pool is literally everybody.” Goldacre’s team found that patients older than 80 were at least 20 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those in their 50s and hundreds of times more likely to die than those below the age of 40. The scale of this relationship was “jaw-dropping,” Goldacre said. Additionally, men stricken with the virus had a higher likelihood of dying than women of the same age. Medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, severe asthma and compromised immunity were also linked to poor outcomes, in keeping with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, and the researchers noted that a person’s chances of dying also tended to track with socioeconomic factors such as poverty. The data roughly mirror what has been observed around the world and are not necessarily surprising, said Avonne Connor, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the study, but seeing these patterns emerge in a staggeringly large data set “is astounding” and “adds another layer to depicting who is at risk” during this pandemic, Connor said. Particularly compelling were the study’s findings on race and ethnicity, said Sharrelle Barber, an epidemiologist at Drexel University who was not involved in the study. Roughly 11 percent of the patients tracked by the analysis identified as nonwhite. The researchers found that these individuals — particularly Black and South Asian people — were at higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than white patients. An increasing number of reports have pointed to the pervasive social and structural inequities that are disproportionately burdening racial and ethnic minority groups around the world with the coronavirus’s worst effects."
They turn the mass murder of elderly around to a race thing by the end of the piece, and the report proves that the lockdowns were complete failures and about some other agenda.
You don't quarantine healthy people while stuffing sick people in care homes!
"British authorities are locking down 200 workers at a farm in central England after a fresh coronavirus outbreak. Officials said Sunday that 73 of the workers tested positive for the virus at the AS Green and Co. vegetable farm in the village of Mathon, south of Birmingham. The workers, who live on mobile homes at the farm, were hired to pick and pack produce. They’re being required to remain on the farm and self-isolate with their household groups, with the local council arranging deliveries of food and essential supplies. The farm had put in place a number of infection control measures, including promoting social distancing in communal spaces and the indoor packaging area and providing personal protective equipment, officials said. “Despite these measures, a small number of workers became symptomatic earlier this week and they and a few close contacts among the workforce were tested initially and found to be positive,” Katie Spence, health protection director at Public Health England Midlands, said in a statement. The entire workforce was then tested and a “significant percentage” came back positive, despite the individuals not showing symptoms, she said."
Prepare for famine, England.
"India’s coronavirus caseload is nearing 850,000 with a record surge of 28,637 in the past 24 hours, prompting authorities to announce a weeklong lockdown in the key southern technology hub of Bangalore. The new confirmed cases took the national total to 849,553. The Health Ministry on Sunday also reported another 551 deaths for a total of 22,674. India has overtaken Russia in the number of cases and is currently behind the United States and Brazil, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University."
It's like the Olympics!
How long before they are coming to your door?
"US weighs early access to vaccines for minorities and others at risk" by Megan Twohey New York Times, July 9, 2020
NEW YORK — Federal health officials are already trying to decide who will get the first doses of any effective coronavirus vaccines, which could be on the market this winter but could require many additional months to become widely available to Americans.
That means another what, year of lockdown over this $cam?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an advisory committee of outside health experts in April began working on a ranking system for what may be an extended rollout in the United States. According to a preliminary plan, any approved vaccines would be offered to vital medical and national security officials first, and then to other essential workers and those considered at high risk — the elderly instead of children, people with underlying conditions instead of the relatively healthy.
I'm glad I'm a non-essential, but the plan is to basically cull those three groups first and add to the trauma of the public.
Agency officials and the advisers are also considering what has become a contentious option: putting Black and Latino people, who have disproportionately fallen victim to COVID-19, ahead of others in the population.
Fine with me!
In private meetings and a recent public session, the issue has provoked calls for racial justice, but some medical experts are not convinced there is a scientific basis for such an option, foresee court challenges, or worry that prioritizing minority groups would erode public trust in vaccines at a time when immunization is seen as crucial to ending the pandemic.
Yeah, we know who and what is behind this agenda they are promoting even if it has been omitted from the pre$$ report.
“Giving it to one race initially and not another race, I’m not sure how that would be perceived by the public, how that would affect how vaccines are viewed as a trusted public health measure,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers, a group represented on the committee.
They are not viewed as trusted. That's why they spent months working on a PR campaign.
The White House recently created Operation Warp Speed, a multiagency effort to accelerate vaccine development that has invested billions of federal dollars in a growing number of companies. At the public advisory committee hearing, held in mid-June, a Defense Department representative said the operation would address the distribution plans in coming weeks.
The name is frightening.
To speed distribution, the most promising vaccines will go into production even before they have cleared the final stages of clinical trials and been authorized for public use by the Food and Drug Administration, but there will be a gap between the first doses coming off the manufacturing lines and a stockpile large enough to vaccinate the US population. “I would say months,” Dr. José Romero, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, predicted.
That is your reality check, Americans.
WAKE UP!
The committee, which reports to the CDC director, has long played a key role in determining how to implement new vaccines. The group includes 15 voting members selected by the health secretary who come from immunology, infectious disease, and other medical specialties, 30 nonvoting representatives from across the health field, and eight federal officials focused on vaccines. Still, it operates largely out of sight.
“It’s a backroom kind of thing,” said Dr. Nancy Bennett, a health professor at the University of Rochester who led the advisory committee from 2015 to 2018.
Romero is among four committee members who have been deliberating on the plans since this spring alongside doctors at the CDC, representatives from the health field, ethicists, and other outside consultants. In June, they briefed the full committee on their work, offering a glimpse of the questions being considered.
So much for our TRANSPARENT DEMOCRACY when it comes to VACCINES or my PRE$$!
As they come up with a multitiered schedule for the first 1.2 million vaccine doses and then the next 110 million, they have focused on who should be considered essential workers, what underlying conditions should be taken into account and what kinds of living environments — nursing homes, homeless shelters — put people at high risk.
It turns out the kook bloggers warning about this nefariously even program were correct, with the pre$$ being an evil collaborator in the process.
May God damn them all to hell.
Among the questions: What should be done about pregnant women? Should teachers go toward the front of the line? Should prisoners be in a top tier?
The odd thing is pregnant women are at low risk, so why would they want to get the needle into them? Can't even wait for kid to get out of the womb?
But for the broader committee, questions of whether to prioritize race and ethnicity sparked the most debate.
Yeah, that will divert everyone from whether this toxic poison cooked up in the pharmaceutical labs should be accepted by anyone.
Black and Latino people have become infected with the virus at three times the rate of whites, and have died nearly twice as frequently. Many of them have jobs that keep them from working at home, rely on public transportation, or live in cramped homes that increase their risk of exposure. They are more likely to suffer from underlying health problems, including diabetes and obesity, that raise the risk of hospitalization and death. Not only do the groups have less access to health services, they also have a documented history of receiving unequal care.
The stuff after the red highlight may well be true; however, if what is highlighted above is true why the hysteria surrounding Trump rallies and bars with the race riot protests infection rates minimal?
Oh, right, never mind about the inherent contradictions in my pre$$, just accept the agenda-pu$hing narrative.
The questions come amid a national uproar over the United States’ racist past, which stretches into its response to infectious disease — including the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, when the government deliberately let hundreds of Black men go untreated even when there was a known cure for the disease.
Dr. Sharon Frey, a professor of infectious diseases at St. Louis University, pointed to health disparities among Black and Latino people at the recent meeting. “I think it’s very important that the groups get into a high tier,” she said. “Maybe not an entire group but certainly to address people who are living in the urban areas in these crowded conditions.”
Like segregating them, and why would the pre$$ cut that important Tuskegee experiment?
They would never do that now, of course!
Dr. Peter Szilagyi, a professor of pediatrics at the University of California Los Angeles, said he was “really struggling with what to do about race and ethnicity.” He wondered if a lot could be accomplished for minority groups by prioritizing people in general with underlying conditions and by trying to improve their access to health care.
He must be white, and why no BLM protest?
Romero, the chairman, was doubtful. “This will not address the problem that exists now,” he said. “I think we need to deal with this issue at this time with the information that we have, and it is: They are groups that need to be moved to the forefront, in my opinion.”
For once, being last will be good!
Harald Schmidt, an assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, is not a member of the committee but has been suggesting other ways vaccine prioritization could work. He predicts that courts would strike down any guidelines explicitly based on race and ethnicity. Instead, he has proposed using an index that takes into account education, income, employment, and housing quality to rank neighborhoods by socioeconomic disadvantage that he says could serve as a good proxy. “It’s imperative that we pay attention to how COVID has impacted the health of minorities differently; otherwise it compounds the inequalities we’ve seen,” Schmidt said.
Soon each neighborhood and citizen will have a $ocial $core like in China!
Whoever is prioritized for the first doses, it will not matter if the vaccines don’t work for those demographics, and that will not be determined unless the vaccine trials themselves include those groups. So far, several vaccine candidates have entered final Phase 3 trials.
What did they just say?
It won't matter if it works?
WTF is going to be in that tube, anyway?
At a Senate hearing last week, Dr. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, and Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes for Health, emphasized the need for racial and other diversity within the trials.
“The last thing we want to be is trying to recommend who gets the vaccine and we don’t have any data on how the vaccine works in the population that we think really needs this vaccine,” Redfield said.
According to them, everybody needs it.
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Related:
"More than 1,000 employees at the Transportation Security Administration have tested positive for coronavirus, according to figures the agency released Thursday. Nearly all of them are security officers who have continued to work screening passengers at airports throughout the pandemic. Hydrick Thomas, president of the union that represents the officers, said the figure is a reflection of the agency’s ongoing struggle to do enough to protect its employees. Air travel numbers, that collapsed in the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, are steadily climbing even as the virus is surging again. The virus spread rapidly among the TSA’s workforce in the spring, forcing officers to stay home to try to limit its spread. The difference then was that air travel had come to an almost complete standstill, with fewer than 100,000 people passing through the agency’s checkpoints on some days, compared to a normal volume of 2 million or more....."
Good thing no one is flying and staying home:
"68% Have Antibodies in This Clinic. Can Neighborhood Beat a Next Wave?" by Joseph Goldstein, New York Times | July 10, 2020
At a clinic in Corona, a working-class neighborhood in Queens, more than 68 percent of people tested positive for antibodies to the new coronavirus. At another clinic in Jackson Heights, Queens, that number was 56 percent, but at a clinic in Cobble Hill, a mostly white and wealthy neighborhood in Brooklyn, only 13 percent of people tested positive for antibodies.
A clinic in Corona, huh?
Talk about in-your-face evil and insult.
As it has swept through New York, the coronavirus has exposed stark inequalities in nearly every aspect of city life, from who has been most affected to how the health care system cared for those patients. Many lower-income neighborhoods, where Black and Latino residents make up a large part of the population, were hard hit, while many wealthy neighborhoods suffered much less, but now, as the city braces for a possible second wave of the virus, some of those vulnerabilities may flip, with the affluent neighborhoods becoming most at risk of a surge.
OMFG, I will believe it when I actually see it, not when it is reported in the pre$$.
That is, of course, not excluding the possibility of a white genocide under cover of a second wave as we wait in the back of the line for the shot.
According to antibody test results from CityMD that were shared with The New York Times, some neighborhoods were so exposed to the virus during the peak of the epidemic in March and April that they might have some protection during a second wave.
“Some communities might have herd immunity,” said Dr. Daniel Frogel, a senior vice president for operations at CityMD, which plays a key role in the city’s testing program.
The CityMD statistics — which Frogel provided during an interview and which reflect tests done between late April and late June — appear to present the starkest picture yet of how infection rates have diverged across neighborhoods in the city.
Yeah, keeping us all inside for no reason has left us vulnerable!
Frogel said the testing results in Jackson Heights and Corona seemed to “jump off the map.” While stopping short of predicting that those neighborhoods would be protected against a major new outbreak of the virus — a phenomenon known as herd immunity — several epidemiologists said that the different levels of antibody prevalence across the city are likely to play a role in what happens next, assuming that antibodies do in fact offer significant protection against future infection.
They always have! They are proof that your immunity system fought it off and recovered.
NO SHOT NEEDED!
“In the future, the infection rate should really be lower in minority communities,” said Kitaw Demissie, an epidemiologist and the dean of the School of Public Health at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.
So go protest!
Maybe that's where the herd immunity came in, huh?
So they want whitey to get sick!
Dr. Ted Long, the executive director of the city’s contact-tracing program, said that while much remained unknown about the strength and duration of the protection that antibodies offer, he was hopeful that hard-hit communities like Corona would have some degree of protection because of their high rate of positive tests. “We hope that that will confer greater herd immunity,” he said.
Then WHY are we LISTENING to YOU, and WHY is the PRE$$ giving him space?
Neighborhoods that had relatively low infection rates — and where few residents have antibodies — are especially vulnerable going forward. There could be some degree of “catch up” among neighborhoods, said Prof. Denis Nash, an epidemiology professor at the CUNY School of Public Health, but he added that even if infection rate were to climb in wealthier neighborhoods, “there are advantages to being in the neighborhoods that are hit later.” For one, doctors have become somewhat more adept at treating severe cases.
That means I'm dead before the end of the year is out.
Some epidemiologists and virologists cautioned that not enough data exists to conclude that any areas have herd immunity. For starters, the fact that 68.4 percent of tests taken at an urgent care center in Corona came back positive does not mean that 68.4 percent of residents had been infected.
“For sure, the persons who are seeking antibody testing probably have a higher likelihood of being positive than the general population,” said Professor Nash. “If you went out in Corona and tested a representative sample, it wouldn’t be 68 percent.”
Yeah, just keeping the $elf-$erving, fearful fraud going!
For residents of Corona, the main sources of employment are jobs in hospitality, including restaurants, as well as construction and manufacturing, according to a 2019 report by the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York. Many construction workers and restaurant employees showed up to work throughout the pandemic, elevating their risk of infection.
I wouldn't worry. You won't be going back to work.
So far, the federal government has released relatively little data from antibody testing — making the CityMD data all the more striking. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for instance, has published limited data that suggested that 6.93 percent of residents in New York City and part of Long Island had antibodies, but that survey was based on samples collected mainly in March, before many infected New Yorkers might have developed antibodies.
New York State conducted a more comprehensive survey on antibody rates, which involved testing some 28,419 people across the state. That survey suggested that roughly 21.6 percent of New York City residents had antibodies, but it also revealed a much higher rate in some neighborhoods. While the state has released little data from Queens, its numbers showed that in Flatbush, Brooklyn, for example, about 45 percent of those tested had antibodies.
I suggest..... never mind.
Epidemiologists have estimated that at least 60 percent of a population — and perhaps as much as 80 percent — would need immunity before “herd immunity” is reached, and the virus can no longer spread widely in that community, but scientists say it would be a mistake to base public health decisions off antibody rates across a population. One reason is that the accuracy of the antibody tests is not fully known, nor is the extent of immunity conferred by antibodies or how long that immunity lasts.
“It is premature to discuss herd immunity, since we are still learning what the presence of Covid-19 antibodies means to an individual and whether, or for how long, that conveys immunity; and we don’t know how the level of immunity in a single community translates into herd immunity,” said Jonah Bruno, a spokesman for the state Department of Health.
He said he was unsurprised by the high rate in Corona, and senior officials with the city’s contact-tracing program and public hospital system agree. “We know this area was disproportionately affected,” said Dr. Andrew Wallach, a senior official in the city’s public hospital system, “so this just confirms what we’ve seen clinically.”
Are they going door-to-door yet?
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At least they had the courtesy to knock at the front:
11 coronavirus vaccines to keep an eye on
The one I would watch is the Novovax vaccine. It has what’s known as a recombinant nanoparticle vaccine used in combination with a proprietary adjuvant.
That means you don't know what has been added to get you to accept the DNA-altering recombinant nanoparticle.
Of course, health officials are more worried if you smoke pot or vape.
Melissa Leaston of Whittier Street Health Center used a nasal swab to collect a specimen from George Leary in Roxbury on July 8 (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff)
Related:
"The state reported no new probable-case deaths, with that total remaining at 215, and an additional 118 probable cases for a total of 5,759. On Thursday, the state also reported that 9,648 new individuals had been given the coronavirus test, bringing the total of individuals tested to 920,002. The total number of tests administered climbed to 1,171,180, and the state reported that new antibody tests had been completed for 1,267 people, bringing that total to 78,417....."
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Time to get out of the states:
"While the European Union recovers, the United States splinters" by Dasia Moore Globe Staff, July 12, 2020
In early March, doctors in Italy’s Lombardy region broadcast dire warnings to the rest of the world. Their hospitals were nearing capacity. They faced heart-rending decisions about which patients to save and which to let suffer. A few weeks later, similar nightmarish scenes began to play out in New York City. The pandemic had arrived in the States.
So much so CBS used a clip from an Italian hospital and passed it off as one from a hpospital in New York City.
Europe and the United States have fought remarkably comparable battles against COVID-19, but now, three months after the death tolls reached their devastating peaks, the two unions are charting increasingly divergent paths. Europe is recovering, swiftly and definitively, while the United States stalls and splinters.
More sheeple in the U.S. and it is command central for this operation. Gotta vaxx!
Disease experts said the United States’ departure from Europe includes an even deeper, more concerning divide: The individual states themselves are on different paths, with some, such as Massachusetts, achieving remarkable recoveries that mirror their European counterparts and others facing rapidly-rising death tolls.
Massachusetts won't be remarkable for much longer. I give it about another two weeks.
By some metrics, and despite popular narratives that praise European leadership in contrast to perceived American failure, the United States does not seem to have fared much worse overall than Europe. Five EU countries — Belgium, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and France — and the United Kingdom have seen more deaths per capita from COVID-19 than the United States. A look at the rolling average of daily deaths shows the European Union, with its 446 million people, peaking slightly higher than the United States, which has a population of 328 million. Like Europe, the United States has continued to see deaths decline since late April, albeit at a much slower rate, but experts told the Globe that aggregated data can be misleading and, in the case of the US’ fight against COVID-19, overly optimistic.....
I'm sick of their endless statistics and fear-peddling porn, sorry.
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The article directly above that one in my paper:
"Countries in Eastern Europe are facing rising waves of coronavirus infections, leading to riots in Serbia, mandatory face masks in Croatia, and travel bans or quarantines imposed by Hungary. The new restrictions come as the World Health Organization reports that daily global infections hit more than 228,000 last week, according to Johns Hopkins University. Hungarian authorities said Sunday they have sorted countries into three categories — red, yellow, and green — based on their rates of new coronavirus infections — and will impose restrictions, including entry bans and mandatory quarantines, depending on which country people are arriving from. Foreigners from countries in the red category — including Albania, Ukraine, Belarus, and practically all of Asia, Africa, and South and Central America — are banned from entering, while Hungarian citizens arriving from those locations will have to quarantine for two weeks or until they test negative twice, 48 hours apart. Both Hungarians and foreigners arriving from countries in the yellow category — which includes, Britain, Russia, Serbia, Japan, China, the United States, Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, and Sweden — will have to quarantine for two weeks, but will be allowed out if they test negative for the virus. Gulyas said the new rules take effect Wednesday and will be reviewed at least once a week. Serbia reported 287 new infections on Sunday, although there have been increasing doubts about the accuracy of the figures. Serbian police clashed with antigovernment protesters for four nights last week, demonstrations that forced the Serbian president to withdraw plans to reintroduce a coronavirus lockdown. Many of the increasing infections have been blamed on crowded soccer matches, tennis events, and nightclubs. Croatia, whose island-dotted Adriatic Sea coast is a major tourist destination, is making wearing masks mandatory in stores beginning Monday. Restaurant staff, but not patrons, will also have to wear face coverings."
If the genocidal, control-freak globalists have their way there will NO LONGER BE ANY FUN of ANY KIND!
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"Serbian authorities on Thursday banned gatherings of more than 10 people in the capital, Belgrade, after two nights of violent clashes between police and thousands of demonstrators protesting coronavirus lockdown measures. Serbia’s government crisis team said the restriction was intended to prevent the virus’ further spread following the clashes, where social distancing was barely observed and few people wore face masks. In addition to limiting gatherings, businesses in closed spaces, such as cafes, shopping malls or shops, have been ordered to operate shorter hours. “The health system in Belgrade is close to breaking up,” Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said. “That is why I can’t understand what we saw last night and the night before.” More protests were expected Thursday as police beefed up their presence in the capital and around the downtown parliament building where the demonstrations usually start. The clashes followed an announcement earlier this week from President Aleksandar Vucic that further lockdown measures were likely as the outbreak in the country was spiraling out of control, especially in Belgrade, where 80 percent of the new cases were recorded."
What's worse, they are nominally a right-populist government.
"Thousands of people protested the Serbian president’s announcement that a lockdown will be reintroduced after the Balkan country reported its highest single-day death toll from the coronavirus Tuesday. Police fired tear gas at thousands of people, some chanting “Resignation! Resignation!’’ in front of the downtown parliament building in Belgrade. Some managed to enter the building by force, but were pushed back by riot police. Earlier, President Aleksandar Vucic called the virus situation in the Serbian capital “alarming” and “critical” as the city’s hospitals neared their capacity limits. The country’s Health Ministry said Tuesday that 13 people had died in 24 hours in Serbia and 299 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed. That brought the total to 16,719 confirmed cases and 330 virus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic in Serbia, which went from having one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns to a near-complete reopening at the start of May."
Where is BLM when you really need them?
Oh, right, Serbs are white. Never mind.
"Police fired tear gas at protesters in Serbia’s capital on Wednesday during the second day of demonstrations against the president’s handling of the country’s coronavirus outbreak. President Aleksandar Vucic backtracked on his plans to reinstate a coronavirus lockdown in Belgrade this week, but it didn’t stop people from firing flares and throwing stones while trying to storm the downtown parliament building. Several people were injured during the chaotic clashes in front of the parliament on Wednesday, including some of the opposition leaders. Police on horses and in armored vehicles intervened in the city center to push back the demonstrators, setting up cordons and blocking the crowd from returning to the square outside the parliament building. Loads of tear gas were fired in several spots. Some protesters overturned garbage containers and set them on fire while trying to stop the police officers pushing them away. The scene was reminiscent of the era of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s, when clashes often erupted at antigovernment protests."
It is so encouraging to see that at least some population isn't taking any shit from their criminal leaders!
"Serbian police detained 71 people after clashes during the fourth night of antigovernment protests that were initially sparked by the Serbian president’s plans to reintroduce a coronavirus lockdown. Fourteen policemen were injured in the rioting Friday evening when hundreds of right-wing demonstrators tried to storm the parliament building in downtown Belgrade, police director Vladimir Rebic said Saturday. Many demonstrators and several reporters were also injured in the protests. More protests were expected Saturday night. The protesters, defying an antivirus ban on gatherings, threw bottles, rocks, and flares at police who were guarding the parliament building, and police responded with tear gas to disperse the angry crowds. The protests started when populist President Aleksandar Vucic announced a strict curfew for this weekend to curb a surge in new coronavirus cases in the Balkan country Vucic later scrapped the plan to impose the lockdown. Authorities instead banned gatherings of more than 10 people in Belgrade, the capital, and shortened the working hours of indoor businesses. Many in Serbia accuse the increasingly authoritarian Vucic and his government of letting the virus crisis spin out of control in order to hold a parliamentary election on June 21 that tightened the ruling party’s grip on power."
He isn't a populist, he is just a guy the pre$$ doesn't like even though he is doing their bidding.
Get the graves ready:
"Virtually joined by world leaders, the survivors of Bosnia’s 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Saturday remembered the victims of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II and warned of the perpetrators’ persistent refusal to fully acknowledge their responsibility. Speaking at a commemoration ceremony for the thousands of massacre victims, held in the memorial center and cemetery just outside Srebrenica, a top Bosnian official warned that the extent of the 1995 slaughter is still being systematically denied despite irrefutable evidence of what happened....."
Some Holoco$ts™ are more important than others, much to international dismay and the New York Times.
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"South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Sunday the country will return to a ban of the sale of alcohol immediately to reduce the volume of trauma patients so that hospitals have more beds to treat COVID-19 patients. Confronted by surging hospitalizations due to the coronavirus, South Africa is also reinstating a night curfew to reduce traffic accidents and has made it mandatory for all residents to wear face masks in public. Ramaphosa said that top health officials warn of impending shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen as South Africa reaches a peak of COVID-19 cases, expected between the end of July and September. South Africa’s rapid increase in reported cases has made it one of the world’s centers for COVID-19, now the ninth-most affected country by the disease, according to Johns Hopkins University. The country has reported increases of more than 10,000 confirmed cases for several days, and the latest daily increase was nearly 13,500. It accounts for 40 percent of all the confirmed cases in Africa, with 264,184, including 3,971 deaths, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
Is that why they South Africans were burning masks last week as they proclaimed they will not be guinea pigs for Bill Gates' vaccine? They were drunk?
"Africa now has more than a half-million confirmed coronavirus cases, while South Africa’s health minister declared Wednesday that “we have now reached the surge.” The continentwide total is more than 508,000, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after South Africa recorded another day of more than 10,000 confirmed cases as a new global hot spot. The country makes up 43 percent of Africa’s cases. The true number of cases among Africa’s 1.3 billion people is unknown as its 54 countries face a serious shortage of testing materials for the virus. So far most testing has been concentrated in capital cities, but infections in many cases have spread beyond them. Already COVID-19 has killed more people in Africa — 11,955 — than Ebola did in its deadliest outbreak from 2014 to 2016 in West Africa, the WHO said Wednesday."
I can't imagine anyone who is treated worse than Africans, can you?
"By the end of May, the Palestinian Authority appeared to have quashed a coronavirus outbreak in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with only around 400 confirmed cases and just two fatalities in the territory, following a nearly three-month lockdown. Then the wedding invitations went out. Over the last few weeks, infections have skyrocketed across the West Bank, with more than 4,000 new cases and an additional 15 deaths. Authorities blame the surge on widespread neglect of social distancing and mask-wearing — and on the summer wedding season. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh told a Cabinet meeting on Monday that 82 percent of cases in the West Bank were linked to weddings and funerals, saying that such large public gatherings must stop “immediately” or security forces would start breaking them up. The Palestinian Authority imposed a strict five-day lockdown on Friday, forcing nearly all businesses to close and heavily restricting travel between towns and cities. The stay-at-home orders were renewed for another five days on Tuesday. The epicenter of the renewed outbreak is in Hebron, the largest Palestinian city and a commercial hub of the territory. It accounts for around 75 percent of all active cases and more than two-thirds of all deaths, according to Ali Abed Rabu, a Palestinian Health Ministry official."
Travel is already restricted by these guys:
"The Israeli parliament has passed an emergency bill allowing the government to bypass it in making immediate decisions on combating a renewed outbreak of the coronavirus. Parliament voted early Tuesday to sidestep its own committees so that government decisions could go into immediate effect. The argument was quick implementation was essential given the fast-spreading nature of the virus, but some opposition lawmakers decried the sidelining of the legislature, saying it marked another step in undermining the foundations of Israeli democracy. It comes a day after the government reimposed new restrictions on the public to quell spread of the virus. Just weeks ago, Israel appeared to have contained its initial outbreak after imposing strict measures early on during a first wave of infections, but after reporting just a handful of new cases a day in early May, it has experienced a steady uptick in cases following an easing of restrictions. Currently, Israel is reporting upward of 1,000 new cases a day, higher than its peak during the previous wave."
Funny how case loads increase just as the vote to make them irrelevant and deign Netanyahu a dictator, huh?
If only they could migrate to Europe:
"Poland’s momentous presidential runoff too close to call" by Vanessa Geraand Monika Scislowska Associated Press, July 12, 2020
WARSAW — An exit poll for Poland’s presidential runoff on Sunday showed a race that was too close to call between the conservative, populist incumbent and the pro-Europe, liberal mayor of Warsaw — a battle that reflected the deep divisions in this European Union nation.
That translates into a landslide for the conservative incumbent giving the rampant vote fixing and narrative fraud in my pre$$.
The Ipsos institute’s exit poll showed President Andrzej Duda with 50.4 percent of the vote and rival Rafal Trzaskowski with 49.6 percent, but the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, meaning it was not possible to say with certainty which 48-year-old candidate had won.
Long lines were visible at some polling stations Sunday night, forcing them to stay open past their official closing time of 9 p.m. for what many considered to be one of the most crucial elections in Poland’s three decades of democracy.
We get that every four years, and it never seems to matter.
Another exit poll based on more data was to be published later Sunday with a tighter margin of error. Official results were not expected until Monday or Tuesday.
The result is expected to lead to starkly different political paths for Poland, at least until 2023, when the next parliamentary election is scheduled.
Duda, who is backed by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice party and the government, campaigned on traditional values and social spending in this mostly Catholic nation as he sought a second five-year term.
Trzaskowski, a former European Parliament lawmaker, jumped into the race relatively late to oppose Duda’s denigration of urban liberals, the LGBT community, and other minorities and to counter an erosion of democratic rights under the ruling party. He represented the centrist opposition Civic Platform party, which was in power in from 2007 to 2015.
Poland's version of identity politics, so how could he come so close?
If Duda is reelected, the populist Law and Justice party will keep a close ally in the president and maintain its hold on almost all key instruments of power in the nation of 38 million people.
A win for Trzaskowski would give him the power to veto laws passed by the ruling conservatives and give Poland a less contentious relationship with European Union officials.
Duda said the turnout was nearly 70 percent, which would be a record high for a presidential election in the 30 years since Poland threw off communism, embraced democracy, and later gained membership in NATO and the EU. If confirmed by election officials, the high turnout is a sign of the great importance that many Poles placed on Sunday’s vote.....
I would have said dumb polacks (don't worry, I'm one), but they are actually smart. To win election now, the people need to have a supermajority to overcome blatant vote fixing.
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Was just about to vote when the power went out:
"The coronavirus has ripped through Poland’s coal mines, where men descend deep underground in tightly packed elevators and work shoulder-to-shoulder to extract the source of 75 percent of the nation’s electrical power. Of Poland’s more than 36,000 reported COVID-19 cases, 6,500 are miners — making them nearly a fifth of all confirmed infections in the country, even though they make up only 80,000 of the country’s population of 38 million. The virus hot spots, centered in the southern Silesia region, have paralyzed an already-troubled industry, forcing many to stay home from work and triggering a three-week closure of many state-run mines that are only now reopening. It is one more blow that the pandemic has dealt to the global coal sector, already in steep decline in much of the world as renewable and other energy sources get cheaper and societies increasingly reject its damaging environmental impact."
Power outages and food shortages coming this fall!
Must be Germany's fault:
"The coronavirus pandemic is showing the limits of “fact-denying populism,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday, as she urged European Union countries to quickly agree on a major economic recovery package and deprive nationalists of any opportunity to take advantage of the crisis. The virus has killed more than 100,000 people in the 27 EU nations. It sparked what is likely to be the worst economic crisis in Europe in almost a century, according to the European Commission, after the disease ravaged health care systems and forced the closure of businesses, transport systems, and schools. Merkel’s remarks to the European Parliament came as the leaders of Italy and Spain — the first EU countries to impose far-reaching lockdowns and two of the worst-hit countries in the world — urged fellow EU members to agree at a summit next week on “ambitious terms” for the recovery fund to help get economies back on track. Germany took over the task of chairing EU meetings on July 1 and faces the daunting challenge of seeking a compromise on the coronavirus recovery fund worth as much as 750 billion euros ($850 billion)."
Oh, THEY are taking advantage of the crisis, huh?
People gathered at the Rhine promenade on a field with painted circles for social distances in Dusseldorf, Germany (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)
Time to cross over into France:
"After images of thousands of people dancing provoked renewed debate in France over social distancing, the mayor of the Mediterranean resort of Nice announced Sunday that face masks will be obligatory at all of the city’s events from now on. Video of dense crowds dancing at a DJ’s outdoor set on Saturday night drew hundreds of thousands of views and criticism that many partygoers didn’t wear masks or stay apart. The crowd’s behavior fueled concerns of growing indifference among the French for social distancing, even as the country’s COVID-related death toll has surpassed 30,000. Health workers have expressed fears of a second wave of infections as the French revel in post-lockdown freedoms and embark on summer vacations. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi on Sunday defended the decision to allow the concert, saying efforts were made to limit the crowd-size to 5,000 people and messages were broadcast to urge them to distance."
Notice how it is all about infections and not deaths now, as the masked fraud is fraying at the seams?
