"Wall Street pumped the brakes on its recent rally Tuesday, as a late slide in big technology companies left stocks broadly lower. The reversal left the S&P 500 with a 0.8 percent loss. The decline in big-name technology stocks like Apple and Microsoft, plus losses in health care and communications stocks, outweighed gains in financial, industrial, and energy companies. Tech stocks have far outpaced the rest of the market this year as investors bet they could still thrive in a stay-at-home economy. The pullback ended the S&P 500’s seven-day winning streak. Despite the sell-off, the benchmark index remains within 2 percent of the all-time high it reached in February, reflecting a stunning turnaround from a nearly 34 percent tumble in March when the coronavirus pandemic sent stocks into a nose dive. The stock market is on pace for its fifth month of gains in a row, even as the broader US economy continues to struggle. Traders also have been grappling with uncertainty over widening antagonisms between the United States and China.....
That last part came straight out of nowhere, and our neighbors to the north are goose-stepping to the call of the Chinese:
"Canada Goose Holdings Inc. stores in North America and Europe used to be a magnet for Chinese travelers before the pandemic brought global tourism to a halt. The company is now banking its recovery on bringing stores to them. The Toronto-based parka maker said Tuesday it is doubling its footprint in mainland China this fiscal year by adding four stores, out of seven planned openings globally. After suffering the world’s first COVID-19 outbreak, China’s economy is now rebounding faster than North America."
Related:
"The United States will order imports from Hong Kong to be labeled as “Made in China” according to a government document, in the latest escalation of trade tensions between the two nations. The notice, published in the US Federal Register, says that goods produced in Hong Kong and imported into the United States must be marked to indicate their origin is China. This will begin after Sept. 25, the document said. The actual impact of the new rules on Hong Kong’s trade or economy will likely be limited as there are few direct exports from the city to the United States."
What the web added:
"Investors have grown more confident in recent weeks amid some positive economic data and better-than-expected second-quarter results from companies, suggesting corporate profits could be headed higher in the second half of this year and in 2021. Traders are also increasingly optimistic that the many pharmaceutical companies working on ways to treat COVID-19 will deliver a working vaccine in the coming months. “What is a risk worth taking is the assumption that a vaccine will be made available around year-end, and that this vaccine will help eliminate the virus in the coming year,’’ said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.
An absolute crock of shit.
Va¢¢ines don't cure or eliminate anything!
They are ostensibly for limited protection from the disease or whatever, and you are lucky if it is 50% effective without awful, life-threatening side effects.
While there have been some positive signs, including a jobs report on Friday that showed a larger-than-expected increase in hiring in July, the economy remains hobbled by high unemployment and an uneven reopening by businesses as the number of new confirmed coronavirus cases has increased in recent weeks. The outlook for an full economic recovery is clouded by worries that the resurgence in infections could force the economy to backtrack. Unprecedented actions by the Federal Reserve to stabilize markets this spring, including lowering interest rates and ramping up bond purchases, have made stocks attractive relative to other assets and given traders enough confidence to keep snapping up stocks. Meanwhile, investors continue to keep an eye on Washington for a fresh lifeline for the US economy. While talks between Democrats and Republicans on a new economic relief package appear stalled, investors are still optimistic....."
Why wouldn't they be?
$howered free money on all the time is the Great Re$et cla$$, despite their di$ingenuous and duplicitou$ delu$ions.
This next article was above and to the right of the $tock report:
"Small firms die quietly, leaving thousands of failures uncounted" by Madeleine Ngo Bloomberg News, August 11, 2020
Big companies are going bankrupt at a record pace, but that’s only part of the carnage. By some accounts, small businesses are disappearing by the thousands amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the drag on the economy from these failures could be huge.
This wave of silent failures goes uncounted in part because real-time data on small business is notoriously scarce, and because owners of small firms often have no debt, and thus no need for bankruptcy court.
“Probably all you need to do is call the utilities and tell them to turn them off and close your door,” said William Dunkelberg, who runs a monthly survey as chief economist for the National Federation of Independent Business. Nevertheless, closures “are going to be well above normal because we’re in a disastrous economic situation,” Dunkelberg said.
Unless you are the cap$tone of the $tock markets and can buy back your own $tock using taxpayer loot and inflate its price to keep yourself rich as we convert to the "stay-at-home" economy.
Sure carries the whiff of COMMUNI$M to me.
While the businesses are small individually, the collective impact of their failures could be substantial. Firms with fewer than 500 employees account for about 44 percent of US economic activity, according to a Small Business Administration report, and they employ almost half of all American workers.
Justine Bacon permanently shut her Yoga Brain studio in Philadelphia after deciding it was too dangerous to hold indoor classes because of the pandemic. Bacon didn’t file for bankruptcy, she just simply closed up shop and went out of business on June 30. “I felt it better to close with some money in the account and not have to worry about bankrupting the business,” said Bacon, 35.
The crushed dream means nothing to her?
Chapter 11 bankruptcy gives a business protection from its creditors while the owners work out a turnaround plan. For smaller companies, though, the extra time might not make any difference. “Bankruptcy cannot create more revenue,” said Robert Keach, a restructuring partner at New England-based Bernstein Shur and former president at the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Some owners fear bankruptcy could scar their credit reports and hurt their future chances to rebuild.
We will all soon have $ocial credit behavior $cores so we can acce$$ our UBI!
That’s one of Rebecca Schner’s concerns. Things were looking up for Schner, 51, and her jewelry and fair trade shop New Lotus Moon in The Woodlands, Texas. She opened in 2018 and finally started to break even at the start of this year. Then the virus hit. After the store closed to walk-in customers, she said sales dropped and she couldn’t cover rent. She emptied the shop around mid-May, moved her jewelry cases into storage, and dismissed her part-time employee. She’s making minimum payments on nearly $50,000 in loans. “What if I want to have a mobile boutique and go buy a vehicle for that? Would I be able to get a loan?” Schner said.
I'm not even going to say it anymore. It's just joo much.
To be sure, small business attrition is high even in normal times. Only about half of all establishments survive for at least five years, according to the SBA, but the swiftness of the pandemic and the huge drop in economic activity is hitting hard among typically upbeat entrepreneurs. About 58 percent of small business owners say they’re worried about permanently closing, according to a July Chamber of Commerce survey.....
Ah, to be sure -- used to concede the truth of something that conflicts with another point that one wishes to make -- while totally di$torting the $ituation with a mi$placed compari$on whose only concession is another pre$$ lie!!
That is 21$t-century American journali$m, all right, and is it any wonder we have stopped reading them?
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Sometimes the “lesson is it’s okay to let your [hard-earned dream] go,” and how appropriate is it that the Globe's bu$ine$$ $ection is buried in the $port$?
See:
Big Ten, Pac-12 won’t play football this fall as college season begins to crumble
Ah, the face of $y$temic raci$m.
UMass cancels football season due to coronavirus
I am going to miss watching them give up over 50 points a game while not scoring more than 20 on Saturday afternoons, and so all we get to watch is pro $port$ with limited audience participation.
F**k that, ha-ha.
Related:
"US small-business optimism fell in July by more than forecast as spikes in virus cases around the country tempered hopes for a swift economic recovery, the National Federation of Independent Business said Tuesday. The group’s index of sentiment decreased by 1.8 points to 98.8, reversing course after two months of gains, but the measure remains well below the pre-pandemic 2020 high of 104.5. Some states paused or rolled back their reopenings during the month as the virus continued to rage around the United States. While the unemployment rate fell in July, small businesses continued to be disproportionately hit by the virus. Yelp Inc. reported in July that more than half of the business closures that were temporary at the beginning of the pandemic are now permanent."
I'm sick of reading this $hit.
Also see:
Zipcar will still exist long after COVID-19 is in the rearview mirror
But there will be no driver so what's the use of a Lyft?
As I flip back into the $ection:
"Retailers fleeing an emptied NYC" by Matthew Haag and Patrick McGeehan New York Times, August 11, 2020
NEW YORK — For years, Bryant Park Grill & Cafe in midtown Manhattan has been one of the country’s top-grossing restaurants, the star property in Ark Restaurants’ portfolio of 20 restaurants across the United States, but what propelled it to the top has vanished.
The tourists are gone, the office towers surrounding it are largely empty, and the restaurant’s 1,000-seat dining room is closed. Instead, dinner is cooked and served on its patio, and the scaled-down restaurant brings in about $12,000 a day — an 85 percent plunge in revenue, its chief executive said.
Five months into the pandemic, the drastic turn of events at businesses like Bryant Park Grill & Cafe that are part of national chains shows how the economic damage in New York has in many cases been far worse than elsewhere in the country.
Well, Cuomo and de Blasio brought this on themselves, so too f**king bad!
In the heart of Manhattan, national chains including J.C. Penney, Kate Spade, Subway, and Le Pain Quotidien have shuttered branches for good. Many other large brands, like Victoria’s Secret and the Gap, have their kept high-profile locations closed in Manhattan, while reopening in other states.
Antifa's job is done.
Michael Weinstein, chief executive of Ark Restaurants, who owns Bryant Park Grill & Cafe and 19 other restaurants, said he will never open another restaurant in New York.
Of Ark Restaurants’ five Manhattan restaurants, only two have reopened, while its properties in Florida — where the virus is far worse — have expanded outdoor seating with tents and tables into their parking lots, serving almost as many guests as they had indoors.
“There’s no reason to do business in New York,” Weinstein said.
The governor will cook you dinner and buy you a drink as he threatens and closes down bars.
Isn't that enough of a reason?
Even as the city has contained the virus and slowly reopens, there are ominous signs that some national brands are starting to abandon New York. The city is home to many flagship stores, chains, and high-profile restaurants that tolerated astronomical rents and other costs because of New York’s global cachet and the reliable onslaught of tourists and commuters, but New York today looks nothing like it did just a few months ago.
Ever see Escape From New York?
Better get out while you still can.
In Manhattan’s major retail corridors, from SoHo to Fifth Avenue to Madison Avenue, once-packed sidewalks are now nearly empty. A fraction of the usual army of office workers goes into work every day, and many wealthy residents have left the city for second homes.
Here is the photo they chose to illustrate the phenomena:
Victoria’s Secret’s flagship store in midtown Manhattan has remained closed for months, and its owners have stopped paying rent (Hiroko Masuike/New York Times)
Is that where Epstein got all the lingerie for the girls (literally!)?
That is so metaphorically in-your-face, with masked female and all.
The pre$$ is now protecting the pedophiliac ruling cla$$, and was he also a pervert?
Many stores are still closed, some permanently, while those that are open have very little foot traffic. For four months, the Victoria’s Secret flagship store at Herald Square in Manhattan has been closed and not paying its $937,000 monthly rent. “It will be years before retail has even a chance of returning to New York City in its pre-COVID form,” the retailer’s parent company recently told its landlord in a legal document.
“In the prime real estate areas, all the stores rely on having half international tourists and half local tourists or those from the local neighborhoods,” said Thiago Hueb, a founder of a jewelry company who had decided to close his flagship store on Madison Avenue before the pandemic struck because of high rents. Now brokers are calling him trying to lure him back to the block, but Hueb, whose jewelry is sold in 80 department stores nationwide, is not interested.
J.C. Penney and Neiman Marcus, the anchor tenants at two of the largest malls in Manhattan, recently filed for bankruptcy and announced that they would shutter those locations.
The Neiman Marcus at Hudson Yards, the first in New York City, had only opened last year, with its name adorning the outside of the luxury mall — the centerpiece of the country’s largest private development.
Some popular chains, like Shake Shack and Chipotle, report that their stores in New York were performing worse than others elsewhere, investment analysts said. A few dozen Subway locations have closed in New York City in recent months. Le Pain Quotidien has permanently closed several of its 27 stores in the city and plans to leave others closed until more people return to the streets, said Andrew Stern, co-chief executive of the chain’s parent, Aurify Brands.
What if they never do in the "stay-at-home" economy?
A Gap Store near Rockefeller Center has stayed closed and has not paid its $264,000 monthly rent. Two T.G.I. Friday’s in prime locations, one near Rockefeller Center and another in Times Square, have remained closed while its restaurants elsewhere in the country have reopened.....
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Everyone in the “food and dining business is really suffering right now,” but at least the$e guys are picking up the tab:
New York City, among the biggest borrowers in the $3.9 trillion US municipal bond market, cut Goldman Sachs Group Inc. from the ranks of those who underwrite a big chunk of its debt.
The firm will no longer be part of the pool of underwriters who sell its senior general-obligation bonds and debt issues for the Transitional Finance Authority as part of its periodic reshuffling of bankers, New York City said on Aug. 7.
While Goldman Sachs isn’t a major banker to states and local governments when it comes to more mundane bond deals, the decision means that the firm will miss out on billions of dollars of bond sales over the next few years.
Is de Blasio really that dumb?
New York City, which had to close a $8.3 billion budget deficit in the fiscal year that began July 1 as revenue plummeted and coronavirus related spending increased, plans to issue about $39 billion of general obligation bonds and Transitional Finance Authority debt in the next four fiscal years, according the city’s financial plan. The Transitional Finance Authority was created in 1997 to circumvent limits on New York City general-obligation bond sales and the authority’s debt is backed by the city’s income tax, and if needed, its sales tax.
I had to laugh at that paragraph.
Who in the world would want to buy New York City bonds?
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
JOKE!
Such deals aren’t a major focus of Goldman Sach’s municipal bond business. Instead, the bank focuses more on specialized deals like a $1.1 billion issue of unrated bonds to finance American Dream, the long-stalled shopping and entertainment center in New Jersey’s Meadowlands, as well as public utilities offerings by issuers like the Long Island Power Authority.
Well, we now know that's a LO$ER!
Those are now going to be repurposed as Amazon depots or COVID extermination camps.
Goldman ranks eighth among muni bond underwriters this year, just below Piper Sandler & Co., a regional investment bank based in Minneapolis.
The underwriters were selected in a “competitive process” by the city’s Office of Management and Budget and the Comptroller’s Office, said Hazel Crampton-Hays, a spokesperson for comptroller Scott Stringer.
“OMB and the Comptroller’s Office determined that the interests of the City and its related issuers are best served by the announced underwriting assignments,” Hays said. Nicole Sharp, a spokesperson for Goldman Sachs, declined to comment. Laura Feyer, a spokesperson for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The city’s senior GO and TFA bond managers include Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jefferies Financial Group Inc., Loop Capital Markets LLC, Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., Royal Bank of Canada, Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC and Wells Fargo & Co.
New York also selected Barclays Plc, Loop, Raymond James Financial Inc. and Siebert to serve as senior managers for bonds issued by the city’s Municipal Water Finance Authority. Goldman can compete for a senior manager role on New York Water bond issues following deals managed by the four other firms, the city said in a statement.
One-third of GO and TFA senior bankers and 40 percent of New York Water’s senior managers are minority and women-owned businesses, the city said.
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That's the kind of thing that got Blagovich in trouble, remember?
You don't flip off the bankers, not anymore.
Obama was spying on people way back then, and you know where Blago ended up.
{@@##$$%%^^&&}
Heads up, Trump (he did it again as the WHO criminals are criticizing Russia for the speed of their vaccine development)!
Trump seeks to block subpoena for his tax returns
That's the New York Times carrying the ball as the greedy Globe misfires.
"One of the country’s largest egg producers illegally inflated prices when the pandemic hit New York, taking in $4 million as it charged up to four times more per carton, state Attorney General Letitia James charged in a lawsuit Tuesday. James claims that in March and April, Hillandale Farms price gouged more than 4 million cartons of eggs sold to grocery store chains, US military facilities, and wholesale food distributors. The lawsuit seeks restitution for consumers. The suit filed in state court in New York City alleges that Hillandale raised prices on eggs sold to Stop & Shop, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Associated Supermarkets, and the commissary stores at the US Military Academy at West Point, Fort Hamilton, and Fort Drum. In one case, per-dozen prices for large, white eggs charged to Western Beef supermarkets went from 59 cents to $1.10 in January to $2.93 by the end of March."
Now why would she want to further strain the food supply at this moment?
"Hundreds of thousands across the Midwest remained without power on Tuesday after a powerful storm packing 100-miles-per-hour winds battered the region a day earlier, causing widespread damage to millions of acres of crops and killing a 73-year-old woman found clutching a young boy in her storm-battered mobile home. The storm known as a derecho tore from eastern Nebraska across Iowa and parts of Wisconsin and Illinois, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, and causing widespread damage to property and millions of acres of crops. The storm left downed trees and power lines that blocked roadways in Chicago and its suburbs. After leaving Chicago, the most potent part of the storm system moved over north central Indiana. In Iowa, three of the state’s eight mobile coronavirus testing sites — in Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport — were temporarily closed Tuesday after suffering storm damage. Farmers reported that some grain bins were destroyed and corn fields were flattened by the storm. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds said early estimates indicate 10 million acres have been damaged in the nation’s top corn producing state. That would be nearly a third of the nearly 31 million acres of land used for crops in the state. The most significant damage is to the corn crop, which is in the advanced stages of development nearly a month away from the beginning of harvest. A derecho is not quite a hurricane. It has no eye, and its winds come across in a line, but the damage it is likely to do spread over such a large area is more like an inland hurricane than a quick more powerful tornado, according to Patrick Marsh, science support chief at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. Iowa officials reported roofs torn off homes and buildings, vehicles blown off roads and hit by trees, and people hurt by flying debris. So far, dozens of injuries but no fatalities in Iowa have been reported....."
My first thought reading of that unusual and rare event was weather weapon manipulation, while grain bins were also destroyed in Beirut.
Meanwhile, the climate activists were asked if they wanted fries with their burger:
A tractor-trailer carrying frozen french fries caught fire in Andover Monday (Andover Fire Rescue).
A mattress did that?
Seriously?
Those fries need a grain of salt after you burned them.
The Globe decided to take them out to a Somerville restaurant run by immigrant entrepreneurs from Bangladesh and Brazil after they made bail.
Reading material for your meal:
"Facebook Inc. removed 22.5 million posts for violating the company’s policies around hate speech in the second quarter, more than double the number taken down during the first three months of the year and up from just 2.5 million posts two years ago. The company said it now finds and eliminates about 95 percent of the hate speech violations using automated software systems before a user ever reports them, according to a report released Tuesday. The data show Facebook also removed 1.5 billion fake accounts in the period, and millions of posts that violated its policies around organized hate groups and terrorism. Civil rights groups claim that Facebook fails to enforce its policies on hate speech and misinformation, and organized an advertising boycott last month in which hundreds of companies pulled back on social media spending. A recent civil rights audit of Facebook’s practices also found the company didn’t take action on its voter suppression policies against President Trump."
Hey, watch your language!
"Bayer struck an $875 million deal to acquire the British women’s health biotech Kandy Therapeutics Ltd., bolstering its pharmaceuticals division before patents expire on some key products. The German drug and chemical company agreed to pay $425 million upfront and potential milestone payments of $450 million until the launch of Kandy’s experimental treatment for menopause symptoms. Kandy’s drug NT-814 is expected to start a final-stage clinical trial next year and could generate peak sales of 1 billion euros ($1.17 billion) globally. With blockbuster blood thinner Xarelto and eye-care medicine Eylea losing patent protection in the next few years, Bayer’s pharmaceutical division has been looking for small-scale deals to boost earnings."
Excuse me, where is your restroom?
"Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox team said its biggest video game for the November launch of its new console, “Halo Infinite,” is delayed until next year, citing multiple factors including the COVID-19 outbreak. The change was made “to ensure the team has adequate time to deliver a Halo game experience that meets our vision,” according to a statement posted on the Halo Twitter account. The delay may hurt initial sales of the new Xbox Series X console, which is due out in time for the key holiday shopping season. Microsoft’s first demonstration of Halo Infinite last month was met with mixed reviews from viewers and complaints about lackluster graphics."
How odd that a product from a demonic company with a demonic founder is called Halo.
We are truly in dark times.
Beyond that, it is something to behold when the corporate pre$$ acts as if it is bu$ine$$ as usual during this $camdemic they have foisted on us.
$TINKS!
"Occidental Petroleum reported a $6.6 billion writedown in the second quarter, equivalent to more than 40 percent of its market value, as the collapse in energy prices took its toll on the debt-laden US shale oil producer. More than two-thirds of the impairment was to account for the lower value of its domestic onshore acreage, with the remainder in the Gulf of Mexico and overseas, the Houston-based company said Monday in a statement. Occidental is not alone is taking large impairments after the COVID-19 pandemic crushed demand for petroleum around the world, but its writedown is one of the biggest relative to its size."
Your write-down is not only dreams that have been de$troyed, Americans, but your very existence, and why haven't gas prices dropped?
All that printing pre$$ money from the Fed?
Oddly enough, the COVID-19 PLANNEDEMIC is an afterthought when it comes to Bo$ton real e$tate market. Hmmmm.
As for the f****** doctors, well, let's just leave it at that.
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The $tay-at-home economy on the state level:
Fisherman’s Feast, a North End tradition, to take flight virtually
Are you comforted by that, Bo$ton?
You will $oon look like New York, too.
Maybe that will solve your collective envy problem regarding the Big Apple despite the World Series wins.
"Some beaches on Cape Cod may be harder to get to this summer, as officials in some towns are limiting access for nonresidents and reducing parking in an effort to prevent overcrowding during the coronavirus pandemic....."
They are not just limiting it, they are ELIMINATING IT in $uch "communitie$" as Mashpee, Wellfleet, Yarmouth, and Truro, as officials are keeping a close eye on beach attendance and making adjustments as necessary in Barnstable and town of Dennis, which is “continuing to follow the state’s guidelines for beaches” -- in an effort to save the piping plover of Rhode Island (may he rot in hell).
Now elite residents can sit close to the shore:
"These 33 Massachusetts communities have the highest risk of COVID-19" by Martin Finucane, Jeremy C. Fox and Jaclyn Reiss Globe Staff, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, August 11, 2020
A total of 33 Massachusetts cities and towns are at moderate or high risk for the coronavirus, including four north of Boston that are beset by heavy caseloads after months of closures and restrictions, Governor Charlie Baker said Tuesday.
The list of communities — less than one in 10 in the state — includes some of the most populous cities, often communities of color and lower-income areas.
Over the past two weeks, 29 communities, including Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, have averaged between four and eight cases per 100,000 people, a standard measure of the virus’s prevalence. Four other cities — Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, and Revere, densely settled communities with high proportions of essential workers — are at an even higher level of risk with more than eight cases per 100,000 people, according to the latest state figures.
“There is an extremely high level of COVID in your community,” said Secretary of Health and Human Services Marylou Sudders, addressing people in those cities. She urged them to “respect the virus.”
Would you trust this woman with your kids?
She looks like a clone.
Massachusetts could work with local officials to bolster testing, tracing, and isolation resources, he said at a news conference.
“We’re also implementing stepped-up enforcement measures, and we’ll also work with these communities on messaging and other communication strategies as we and they see fit,” Baker said.
He just declared war on his own citizens, the tyrant Charles!
Statewide, the death toll from confirmed cases of the virus rose by 10 to 8,529, public health officials reported. The number of confirmed cases climbed by 296, bringing the total to 112,969.
There were 96 new probable cases, bringing that total to 8,738. No new probable deaths were reported, so that total remained at 222.
PROBABLE?
F**K YOU, LIARS!
Baker warned the public to remain vigilant, asking residents “to recognize that this virus continues to affect, injure, and kill people every single day.”
“Regardless of where your community sits, COVID is not going away,” he said. “Your actions, no matter where you live or where you work, will determine in many respects how this virus spreads,” yet Baker noted that the vast majority of Massachusetts communities have held the virus below national benchmarks, a level of progress that suggested children in those towns could return to school.
Yet, but, still, to be sure, nevertheless, however.... whatever!
Under the state’s color-coded system on a map released by Baker, green communities reported fewer than four cases per 100,000 people in the past two weeks, and white communities reported fewer than five cases in total. There are 318 communities coded green or white, with more than two-thirds in the white zone. “We would certainly hope that, based on this data, if you’re in a green or white community, I can’t imagine a good reason not to go back, whether it’s full time or in some sort of a hybrid,” Baker said.
This guy f**king talks out of both sides of his mouth, and lies out of nothing sides.
No wonder they chose him for the job.
The 29 communities determined to be at moderate risk are: Northampton, Holyoke, Chicopee, Springfield, Longmeadow, Granby, Belchertown, Charlton, Auburn, Worcester, Marlborough, Framingham, Maynard, Wrentham, Taunton, Fall River, Brockton, Randolph, Quincy, Hull, Boston, Winthrop, Malden, Saugus, Peabody, Salem, Middleton, Lawrence, and Georgetown.
Stay out the cities, folks, and you city folk better stay outta here.
Baker noted that he had recently announced a new enforcement and intervention team and said its mission “would make the most sense” in the moderate- and high-risk communities.
“The virus doesn’t care about boundaries. It certainly takes every opening any of us give it,” he said. “We’re making progress and have made progress in our fight, but we have seen the effects of too many people letting your guard down.”
Actually it does, if the crap numbers the state and pre$$ troll out are to be believed.
We are told the viru$ kills 3x as many minorities as whiteys, yet the race riot protesters are not super spreader events (probably because most of them are $oro$-bought white people if the photos in the pre$$ are to be believed in this nation of $y$temic $exi$m and raci$m).
In communities that have struggled to tamp down the virus, some officials said contact tracing showed that people had failed to abide by social distancing guidelines.
Well, you need not worry because I don't want to get anywhere near you!
“What we see in terms of the recent increases in positive cases is really linked to large, personal, social gatherings — parties, house parties, barbecues, birthday parties, baby showers,” said Lynn Mayor Thomas M. McGee. “We’re not seeing connections to either the businesses or restaurants, or our nursing homes, or other things. . . . People are letting their guard down is what’s happening.”
McGee said city and state officials are discussing how to address the increase and are working to get the message out about social distancing and avoiding parties.
McGee said he spoke Tuesday with Revere Mayor Brian Arrigo and is in touch regularly with leaders in Chelsea and Revere about the outbreaks.
“We’re all four, the four communities, seeing the spikes, and I think we’re probably all seeing similar kinds of reasons for the uptick,” he said.
The a$$hole completely ignores the $cienti$t-sanctioned city destroyers, and the message is clear: the PARTY is OVER!
You kids are going to find out that the COMMUNI$M you wanted is NO FUN!
Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria acknowledged his city has seen rising number of cases in recent weeks and pointed to an executive order he issued Monday requiring masks in public places.
“I’m hopeful this will decrease our numbers,” he said in a statement.
DeMaria said Everett is among the most densely populated communities in the country and may have a larger population than US Census data show, because many undocumented immigrants live there.
“We have a working class community and abundance of multigenerational living arrangements,” DeMaria said — situations that can make the virus harder to control.
Wasn't that fat fuck accused of sexual harassment a while ago?
He must be a Democrat!
(Blog editor is incredulous at the double standard duplicity and disingenuousness exhibited by the Globe and its workers)
Chelsea’s city manager, Thomas G. Ambrosino, said in an e-mail that the community had seen a modest increase in recent weeks “but nothing like April/May.”
On Tuesday the city had nine new cases, he said. “but, if we have nine per night, at a population of 40,000, that still puts us in the red at well over more than eight per 100,000,” he said.
Ambrosino said Chelsea had increased testing and messaging about wearing face masks, maintaining social distance, and avoiding large gatherings.
“Trying our best to keep people in the community diligent,” he said.....
TOTALITARIAN!
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Baker should be jailed with no bail:
"Prisons chief said order halting guards’ discipline was news to her. E-mails say otherwise; Commissioner abandoned and disowned the policy amid backlash" by Matt Rocheleau Globe Staff August 12, 2020
It was a trial balloon that crashed almost immediately. Department of Correction officials had announced internally on March 17 that they would lift the suspensions of all prison guards and halt employee discipline due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Within hours, word spread publicly, and prisoner advocates complained that the directive could embolden abusive guards who knew they wouldn’t be punished.
Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins called the policy “an invitation to harm, punish, and violate prisoners.”
So the correction commissioner, Carol A. Mici, hastily rescinded the policy, blaming it on a subordinate who had issued an “unauthorized memo” that “was drafted and distributed without my knowledge.” She suspended the subordinate, Deputy Commissioner of Career & Professional Development Michael G. Grant Sr., for an unknown length of time.
That is what is known as a SCAPEGOAT!
Now, e-mails obtained by the Globe show Mici was in the loop as the policy was hatched. She not only received multiple messages about suspending employee discipline, but, in one e-mail, Grant said she selected him to handle the issue from the outset.
Oooooh, she STABBED HIM in the BACK!
Welcome to $TATE GOVERNMENT in the $LIME PIT that is Ma$$achu$etts!
Mici, who makes $162,000 a year to oversee the state’s 16 correctional facilities and 8,000 inmates, declined to speak to the Globe. Instead, a spokesman issued a statement: “Commissioner Mici led urgent, Department-wide COVID-19 preparations and quickly rescinded this unauthorized memo that did not reflect DOC policy.”
She is WAY OVERPAID!
The spokesman noted that Grant had sent an e-mail fully outlining the new policy to Mici and other leaders just one minute before sending the formal memo announcing the action. The spokesman also noted that the policy was rescinded before it ever took effect.
It was the INTENT!
The e-mails, obtained by the Globe through a public records request, portray a hastily designed policy that began as a request from the union representing prison guards, and top Department of Correction officials were preparing to defend it publicly until the backlash grew too intense.
The e-mails show that, after the plan became public, the department’s public relations office wrote up talking points to defend it. They called the suspension of disciplinary actions “a decision that was not taken lightly” and “one that will help the agency and its staff as we ensure core functions are able to continue and key services are able to be provided during the COVID‐19 outbreak,” but the talking points were never used as the backlash quickly mounted.
So that makes everything okay, right?
The controversy began with an e-mail from the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union on the morning of March 17. Union vice president Ted Slattery asked Mici, Grant, and other department leaders that certain disciplinary hearings be “suspended until further notice” because of the pandemic.
Grant has had controversial dealings with the prison guards union in the past. In 2004, Grant was removed from his job running MCI-Concord after it was revealed he had moved the pedophile priest John Geoghan to another facility, where he was beaten and strangled to death by an inmate. The union had urged the transfer despite the recommendation of a prison classification board that wanted the frail 68-year-old kept in Concord.
He got what was coming to him.
You won't find any sympathy here for pedophile priests.
Grant, through a department spokesman, declined to speak with the Globe.
Governor Charlie Baker was scheduled to hold a press conference on the pandemic at 3 p.m. About 15 minutes prior, a department spokesman sent an e-mail headlined “For the Govs press conference” and featuring a bulleted list of taking points, to a spokesman at Baker’s public safety Cabinet.
That e-mail defended the change.
At the press conference, Baker fielded a question about the directive. “On that one in particular, I’ll have to get back to you,” the governor said.....
It's called passing the buck, and it is now time to depose him and call out this fraud before the entire state is destroyed and under the contact tracing of the Clintons!
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It's not a game, readers:
"‘High-risk’ youth sports skirt Mass. coronavirus rules to compete" by Kay Lazar and Jenna Ciccotelli Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent, August 11, 2020
Earlier this summer, the popular MT Elite Ducks youth basketball club on the South Shore faced the prospect of great disappointment: Massachusetts banned games and tournaments for youth sports deemed high-risk for spreading coronavirus — including basketball.
So the club’s director, Dan Norton, got creative. He moved the games and tournaments to New Hampshire, where the events are allowed.
Competing out of state has become a common workaround for many youth sports teams, despite growing concerns that the virus may be spreading more rapidly in Massachusetts. Governor Charlie Baker instituted a crackdown last Friday on large gatherings, amid reports of packed parties, weddings, and backyard gatherings, and an increasing number of Massachusetts school districts are opting not to reopen in a few weeks, citing concerns about safety.
TYRANT!
Under Massachusetts rules, a spokeswoman for the state health department noted in an e-mail that the youth sports rules were drafted after consultations with public health experts, athletic organizations, and others. The e-mail also noted that youth sports leaders are “responsible for following all guidelines and creating a safe environment for participants.” The rules don’t say whether the teams must follow the guidelines if they travel out of state, but all Massachusetts residents must quarantine or produce a negative COVID-19 test if returning from a state with higher infection rates. According to the state’s COVID-19 travel advisory, all New England states except Rhode Island are currently exempt from the quarantine and testing requirement.
It's the only place you can now go to the beach!
They got you going and coming!
In this gray zone, parents are navigating a complicated set of considerations, sorting out anxieties about children’s safety versus their opportunity for socialization and physical activity.
Then there is no choice.
Roughly 90 percent of MT Elite Ducks parents have signed their kids up for out-of-state play, Norton said. The teams are “taking all the precautions,” sanitizing the ball at every break, and referees, parents, coaches, and players on the bench are wearing masks. (Players on the court are not.)
Nooooo, wrong choice!
“It’s unconventional, I understand that,” Norton said, “but we are not doing anything sneaky. We are not trying to hide it.”
That's what an East German would have said.
Some parents see moving games out of state as a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the state rules.
The main complainer is Raymond Fisman, a Brookline parent who pulled his 10-year-old son out of summer basketball after learning about out-of-state games.
Infectious disease experts say the risk of infections rises in high-contact sports competitions played indoors with less fresh air, such as basketball and hockey, compared to those played outdoors and with less contact, but there are trade-offs, they said.
“Running up and down a basketball court indoors or on the sidelines, that would not be a good situation in terms of transmission,” said Dr. Michael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, “but we don’t want to [stop] a whole generation, millions of kids . . . from doing everything that’s active, because the consequences of that could be devastating,” Mina said.
Then COME CLEAN and CALL OUT THIS FRAUD you threw in with, you sick, psychopathic MONSTER!!!!!!
Dr. Shira Doron, an infectious disease specialist at Tufts Medical Center, said a lack of scientific studies comparing COVID-19 transmission among various sports means leaders have to use the best evidence they have and common sense.
They have done the EXACT OPPOSITE!
“There are no right and wrong answers for this disease. It’s about how much risk you think is acceptable and that’s different for every individual,” Doron said, but, she said, parents and team leaders should consider the larger consequences of their decisions, and the potential risks for society as a whole.
“Is it about the safety of the individual players and their parents, or the potential of those games for contributing to rising [infection] rates in the state?” Doron said.
I'm beside myself at the garbage flowing out of her mouth after being screamed at for 7 months how lockdowns were necessary!
She is describing what is called FREEDOM and we no longer have that thanks to people like her!
David Geaslen, owner of 3Step Sports in Wilmington, a company that organizes youth sporting events in 34 states, said Massachusetts’ rules for competition during the pandemic are among the strictest in the country. He called them “misguided,” given that most families can drive a short distance out of state to circumvent them. He also said his organization is strictly enforcing safety at events, with masks for everyone except during play, and frequent sanitizing.
A$$hole Ma$$achu$etts!
At least somethings are still normal.
“Borders aren’t going to stop things,” Geaslen said.....
Wait until you see the whites of his eyes.
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Did you see the events they had lined up?
Here is what is coming because they always test the methods in Africa first:
"At least 81 people were killed and dozens injured in South Sudan over the weekend as an operation to seize weapons from civilians got underway, authorities and a network of civil society organizations said Tuesday. The clashes showed how the world’s youngest nation has continued to grapple with deadly violence as it tries to emerge from a punishing civil war. The efforts to disarm communities in South Sudan is an attempt by authorities to tackle insecurity and stem retaliatory attacks in a country fractured along ethnic lines, but aid groups had cautioned that the “top down” approach, instigated by a government viewed with suspicion by many in the country, was likely to fuel clashes. Around 55 members of the security forces and 26 civilians were killed in separate attacks that took place in the county of Tonj East in the north-central state of Warrap, said Major General Lul Ruai Koang, a spokesman for the South Sudanese army. Koang said that the clashes had been prompted by a civilian “resisting disciplinary measures” taken against him by security forces in the area, but Geoffrey L. Duke, director of the South Sudan Action Network on Small Arms, an advocacy group based in the capital, Juba, said that a dispute had arisen between soldiers and a number of civilians after a young man was detained. When the young man tried to escape, he was shot in the back, Duke said, and that fueled an attack on the soldiers’ post Saturday night. That attack was repulsed by security forces but an even bigger assault was mounted Sunday, he added. Koang said that 27 soldiers had been wounded and airlifted to Juba for treatment. Duke put the total number of civilians and soldiers wounded at 60. The violence comes weeks after President Salva Kiir announced the start of the extensive disarmament effort. The process was criticized as “hasty” by advocacy groups, which said that the government’s approach risked provoking confrontations with security forces. On Tuesday, Koang said calm had been restored in Tonj East, with local chiefs and lawmakers helping stabilize the situation. Two soldiers involved in the initial clashes were detained for further investigations, he said. The military has also appealed to local leaders to identify and help apprehend those who started the attacks. Despite “this temporary setback,” Koang added, “disarmament will continue.”
They will be no protests allowed when they send in the army:
"Israel, desperate to rein in a resurgent coronavirus outbreak, has called in the army to take over testing and contact-tracing operations, part of a restructuring of its pandemic campaign that includes naming a ‘‘corona czar’’ intended to be insulated from political pressures. The expanded role for the military will include the deployment of about 3,000 additional soldiers and civilian staff members to aid in testing and contact-tracing programs, including the call-up of about 2,000 reservists, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. As of Tuesday, Israel had recorded more than 85,300 coronavirus cases and 619 deaths. The decision to transfer the testing and tracing operation from the Health Ministry to the military was the first major action by Ronni Gamzu, a physician and former hospital administrator who last month was named the country’s first coronavirus coordinator."
There are rumors around here that if Biden wins, Hillary Clinton (or Obama) will be named coronavirus czar so she can be in charge of contract tracing and kidnapping kids.
"New Zealand’s world-beating run of being COVID-free has come to an end, with the detection of new cases prompting the government to put largest city Auckland into lockdown. Authorities have detected four cases in one Auckland household from an unknown source, and contact tracing is underway to prevent further spread, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said late on Tuesday. New Zealand had recorded 102 days of no community transmission, with its only cases quarantined at the border. Today’s news means ‘‘there are almost certainly other active cases of COVID-19 present in Auckland at the moment,’’ said Shaun Hendy, a professor at University of Auckland. ‘‘There is also a chance the disease will have spread to other parts of the country.’’
The virus had allegedly been vanquished in New Zealand, or so I was told, and she is acting like a real tyrant!
I wonder if there is anything knew from next door.
"The request for proposals is marked ‘‘extremely urgent,’’ and it lays out the details of what the Italian government is looking to buy: single-seat children’s desks to replace the traditional two-person desks to allow the country to start the new school year with social distancing, but the request is a titanic one. The government wants a rush order, everything built and shipped within the next month, and it wants 3 million new desks, as many as all the Italian school-furniture companies put together would normally build in five years. With its smooth economic reopening and now one of the lowest infection rates in Europe, Italy would seem to have as good a chance as any nation in the West of pulling off a safe school year, but the run-up to its Sept. 14 school start date is providing a reminder that in the coronavirus era, even such mundane considerations as furniture can complicate plans."
They need a real lockdown, and fear the fall semester:
"Some Republican lawmakers in Idaho want to strip public health districts of the authority to close schools, with the vice chairman of the state Senate Education Committee claiming that listening to experts while setting policy is “elitist.” During a Monday meeting of the House-Senate education working group, IdahoEdNews.org reported, vice chairman Steven Thayn cited fear of “totalitarianism.” “What’s happening is we’re having a standardized approach by people saying we need to listen to the experts,” Thayn said, according to the news site. “Listening to the experts to set policy is an elitist approach. I’m fearful of an elitist approach. I am also fearful it leads to totalitarianism, especially when you say, ‘We are doing it for the public good.’” He also said he was concerned about “letting a few fearful people control the lives of those of us that are not fearful.” The working group is now asking that the state Legislature consider the question of who is allowed to shutter schools when lawmakers meet later this month. Under current regulations, according to IdahoEdNews.org, health districts have that ability and can hand down quarantine orders. Saying that school officials want to be allowed to make decisions without someone “looking over their shoulder,” House Education Committee vice chairman Ryan Kerby proposed that public health districts serve only an advisory role. The authority to close schools would rest with school boards, the governor, and the state Board of Education."
Looks like Idaho or Georgia is the place to be (along with part of Colorado).
You know there is no smoking on school grounds, right?
"Teens and young adults who use tobacco products appear more likely to contract the novel coronavirus, according to a new paper, a finding that adds to conflicting data on the links between smoking, vaping, and COVID-19, according to the study in the Journal of Adolescent Health, said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, the senior author of the paper and a professor of pediatric medicine at Stanford University focused on teen e-cigarette use. The susceptibility of teens and young people to COVID-19 is a question of increasing urgency as schools begin to reopen. Infections among US children have jumped 40 percent in late July, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association....."
Upon exhaling, there is anecdotal evidence that smoking does in fact prevent COVID.
I say that because I am aware of someone who smokes and works in the nursing home industry, and because I did read somewhere that the tar and gunk that comes from smoking makes it harder for the coronavirus to gain a foothold in the lung.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
"The 8-year-old boy slumps so far into his seat that the police officer’s body-camera footage only captures the top of his head. “You know where you’re going? You’re going to jail,” the Key West police officer says in the video. The officer then instructs him to stand up and place his hands on a metal cabinet in the hallway of his elementary school for a pat down. Quivering with tears, the boy puts his hands behind his back, but his wrists are so slight that the handcuffs keep slipping off. Abandoning the cuffs, the officer tells the boy to put his hands in front of him as they escort him to a police car parked outside. The boy’s 2018 arrest for allegedly hitting a teacher in his Key West, Fla., school, received renewed attention this week, when body-camera footage of the incident attorney Ben Crump posted online went viral on Twitter. The two-minute clip had gotten more than 2 million views as of early Tuesday. The Key West Police Department defended the conduct of its officers in a brief statement. “Based on the report, standard operating procedures were followed,” Key West Police Chief Sean T. Brandenburg told the Miami Herald. Amid mass protests this year, interactions between police and minors have drawn increased scrutiny. Last week, police in Aurora, Colo. apologized after officers ordered four Black children at gunpoint to lie facedown, handcuffing two of them, after mistakenly pulling over their car. In February, footage of an Orlando police officer arresting a 6-year-old girl using a zip tie ignited national outrage. The officer was fired for violating policy."
What's the big deal?
The cop is just preparing him for the future.
"Throughout the pandemic, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has stressed that the state’s coronavirus crisis is largely limited to the very old. He has repeatedly noted that Florida has seen more coronavirus deaths in people over the age of 90 than in all people under 65, but data reviewed by The New York Times show that is changing....."
Looks like Idaho or Georgia is the place to be (along with part of Colorado).
You know there is no smoking on school grounds, right?
"Teens and young adults who use tobacco products appear more likely to contract the novel coronavirus, according to a new paper, a finding that adds to conflicting data on the links between smoking, vaping, and COVID-19, according to the study in the Journal of Adolescent Health, said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, the senior author of the paper and a professor of pediatric medicine at Stanford University focused on teen e-cigarette use. The susceptibility of teens and young people to COVID-19 is a question of increasing urgency as schools begin to reopen. Infections among US children have jumped 40 percent in late July, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association....."
Upon exhaling, there is anecdotal evidence that smoking does in fact prevent COVID.
I say that because I am aware of someone who smokes and works in the nursing home industry, and because I did read somewhere that the tar and gunk that comes from smoking makes it harder for the coronavirus to gain a foothold in the lung.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
What happens if you get caught:
"The 8-year-old boy slumps so far into his seat that the police officer’s body-camera footage only captures the top of his head. “You know where you’re going? You’re going to jail,” the Key West police officer says in the video. The officer then instructs him to stand up and place his hands on a metal cabinet in the hallway of his elementary school for a pat down. Quivering with tears, the boy puts his hands behind his back, but his wrists are so slight that the handcuffs keep slipping off. Abandoning the cuffs, the officer tells the boy to put his hands in front of him as they escort him to a police car parked outside. The boy’s 2018 arrest for allegedly hitting a teacher in his Key West, Fla., school, received renewed attention this week, when body-camera footage of the incident attorney Ben Crump posted online went viral on Twitter. The two-minute clip had gotten more than 2 million views as of early Tuesday. The Key West Police Department defended the conduct of its officers in a brief statement. “Based on the report, standard operating procedures were followed,” Key West Police Chief Sean T. Brandenburg told the Miami Herald. Amid mass protests this year, interactions between police and minors have drawn increased scrutiny. Last week, police in Aurora, Colo. apologized after officers ordered four Black children at gunpoint to lie facedown, handcuffing two of them, after mistakenly pulling over their car. In February, footage of an Orlando police officer arresting a 6-year-old girl using a zip tie ignited national outrage. The officer was fired for violating policy."
What's the big deal?
The cop is just preparing him for the future.
"Throughout the pandemic, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has stressed that the state’s coronavirus crisis is largely limited to the very old. He has repeatedly noted that Florida has seen more coronavirus deaths in people over the age of 90 than in all people under 65, but data reviewed by The New York Times show that is changing....."
PFFFFFFFFT!
That's when I stopped reading.
Time to take the masks off:
"As the number of novel coronavirus cases continues to rise nationwide, the recurring message from many public health experts and doctors has been simple: Wearing masks saves lives. “We are not defenseless against COVID-19,” Robert R. Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in July. “Cloth face coverings are one of the most powerful weapons we have to slow and stop the spread of the virus — particularly when used universally within a community setting,” but as face coverings have become increasingly commonplace, so have questions about efficacy — and now a group of researchers from Duke University is aiming to provide some answers. In a recently published study, the researchers unveiled a simple method to evaluate the effectiveness of various types of masks, analyzing more than a dozen coverings ranging from hospital-grade N95 respirators to bandanas. Of the 14 masks and other coverings tested, the study found that some easily accessible cotton cloth masks are about as effective as standard surgical masks, while popular alternatives such as neck gaiters made of thin, stretchy material may be worse than not wearing a mask at all."
Time to take the masks off:
"As the number of novel coronavirus cases continues to rise nationwide, the recurring message from many public health experts and doctors has been simple: Wearing masks saves lives. “We are not defenseless against COVID-19,” Robert R. Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in July. “Cloth face coverings are one of the most powerful weapons we have to slow and stop the spread of the virus — particularly when used universally within a community setting,” but as face coverings have become increasingly commonplace, so have questions about efficacy — and now a group of researchers from Duke University is aiming to provide some answers. In a recently published study, the researchers unveiled a simple method to evaluate the effectiveness of various types of masks, analyzing more than a dozen coverings ranging from hospital-grade N95 respirators to bandanas. Of the 14 masks and other coverings tested, the study found that some easily accessible cotton cloth masks are about as effective as standard surgical masks, while popular alternatives such as neck gaiters made of thin, stretchy material may be worse than not wearing a mask at all."
HUH?
It is so well known by now that the masks do not work and are useless.
The onerous requirements are about obedience, nothing more.
