"Do-it-yourself coronavirus testing sparks kudos, and caution" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, August 22, 2020
Leading public health experts, frustrated with chronic delays in coronavirus testing, are on a mission to persuade federal regulators to authorize cheap, at-home tests that would deliver results in minutes and could help the country turn the corner on the pandemic.
Wasn't that what Liz Holmes came up with years ago?
Don't tell me BGaits ruined her like he did the software guys as he pushes his fraud COVID-19, with the likely possibility it is augmented this September with the deliberate release of a biological weapon far more lethal per WHO simulation and protocol. This is what we are up against with a slowly awakening but still somnambulant (out of terror and horror?) public.
I'm going to be tested to let the article run without splashing paint and commentary, but I will try.
The campaign comes as the US Food and Drug Administration recently adopted guidelines aimed at ensuring accurate results for do-it-yourself COVID-19 tests. While several companies have developed home test kits and are pushing to get them on the market, these scientists say the new thresholds are so strict that few home test kits will be able to meet them.
Which $cientit$?
The ones who want to protect the virus with shutdowns -- to advance other long-sought-after goals -- and keep this thing rolling as long as possible, despite the increasing survival rate that is nearing 99.99 percent if the alleged case totals being reported are accurate. We know they are not, that the tests only detect your own genetic material activated into any cold and that nearly 80% are fiddled with to result in false positives, but if you actually do math that's where the rates begin to fall. Maybe that's part of the endless dumbing-does of education and the garbage curriculums put forth.
In pressing the FDA, these scientists argue that fast, frequent coronavirus tests, taken daily or several times a week, can be crucial to reopening schools and businesses — and keeping them open. The tests, they say, would catch silent carriers who do not show symptoms but can potentially spread the virus widely.
Here I go again.
Do you see the evil there?
All of a sudden, ALL OF US are IN on the DRAGNET -- for something that is so fatal, so terrible, so awful, you don't even know you are sick!
Well, WE are ALL HEALTHY, and the SICKNESS is in the MINDS of those PROMOTING this!
The concept behind a home kit is simple and is similar to how doctors quickly detect strep throat and the flu: A paper strip could test a saliva or a nasal sample taken by swab and return a positive or negative result inside of 15 minutes. Parents could swab their children and find out if they are infectious before deciding whether to send them off to school. College students, workers, and anyone heading to a restaurant or gathering could benefit from such tests, as well.
F**king talking about MEDICAL MARTIAL LAW and PURE EVIL, folks!
Btw, WHAT COMPANIES are going to MAKE $$$ of the TESTS, and to which wealthy set of individuals are they connected?
“These have so much promise because they can help squelch the infections altogether,” said Dr. Michael Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. “If we can all get the number of our cases very low, everyone is safer,” but without these new options, Mina and other scientists said, the country will remain hamstrung by the current system that relies on tests sent to a lab for processing.
Incompetence inefficiency covers evil, test everyone, vcxx everyone with crap!
On Friday, a frustrated Mina disclosed that he’s been talking with companies about the possibility of not waiting any longer for FDA approval and “just producing hundreds of thousands or millions” of these tests, with the caveat that they only be used for large-scale studies.
“I am talking to governors and senators and congressmen, and they’re writing letters to the FDA, so this is moving,” Mina said. “There is a lot of pressure from all walks of life right now, trying to get these things approved and to get the FDA to budge on this,” but the FDA has so far steered clear of the debate.
The genocidal eugenicist Billy G says they are the gold standard of regulators, so I suspect the pressure from the political traitors and collaborators will be effective.
The system in wide use now, known as molecular tests, requires a multistep laboratory process to extract genetic material from a nasal or saliva sample, amplify it, and search for signs of the coronavirus. By contrast, rapid antigen tests simply detect specific proteins on the surface of the virus, a process that doesn’t require time-consuming laboratory equipment, but they can miss infections and produce more false negative findings, especially among people who do not have heavy loads of the virus; moreover, scientists are finding that people with COVID-19 are generally most infectious the first week or so after being exposed to coronavirus and often before they show symptoms, but patients often face waiting times to get tested, and while molecular tests can still detect traces of virus and return a positive finding, the result may come well past the time many people are infectious.
To guard against false negative results with rapid antigen tests, and to catch people when they are most infectious, consumers would be expected to test themselves frequently, perhaps several times a week, Mina and other scientists say. The cost of each test is expected to be a few dollars, versus the $100-plus out-of-pocket fee often charged for molecular tests not covered by insurance.
“I am pushing the instant coffee model vs. the espresso machine model,” Mina said.
(That jolted blog author to comment. I actually had kept quiet due to the never ending double-talk and lies from my pre$$, and if you can't see how diabolically evil this whole planned $camdemic and fraud is by now, well, wait a paragraph or two)
An FDA spokeswoman declined to comment on the debate over at-home COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.
The Rockefeller Foundation, a nonprofit focused on health, energy, and social justice issues, recently joined the call for the federal government to work more closely with companies and scientists to develop affordable rapid coronavirus antigen tests. It has committed $100 million to a COVID-19 testing and contact tracing initiative.
“We need a paradigm shift from exquisitely accurate but slow tests, to fast and good enough to quarantine,” said Mara G. Aspinall, an Arizona State University professor, and coauthor of the foundation’s coronavirus plan, in a statement. “Slow and accurate works for clinical management, but this virus is a sprinter not a marathoner. We need fast and frequent tests just to keep up,” but other health specialists say too many details have yet to be worked out to open the gates on do-it-yourself COVID-19 testing. Dr. Kimberle Chapin, a pathology and laboratory medicine professor at Brown University’s Warren Alpert School of Medicine, said she is concerned the home tests will not be affordable for everyone, and, she said, it’s not clear how test results from home screening would be reported to physicians and local and state health officials.
And there it is. The goddamn Bo$ton Globe quoting the very authors of the predictive Lockstep and exposing their hand in it. It's test, test, test, trace, trace, trace, New World Order to follow, and if the sprinter is a marathoner it is OUT of GAS by now!
The shameless, agenda-pushing lying has become sickening, as has their tyrannical impulses for total control!
She said physicians need to be in the loop to explain to consumers about quarantining, while health officials need to know when and where people are testing positive to catch clusters and outbreaks before they spread.
“Increasing the availability of COVID tests and options for testing needs to be done within a larger public health strategy that includes follow-up care, contact tracing, and data reporting,” said Chapin, who also is microbiology director at Lifespan Academic Medical Center in Rhode Island.
Yeah, mon$ters like here and the criminal cla$$ of altrui$tic "philanthropi$ts" want to bring you a benevolent medical tyranny that is completely totalitarian in nature.
Karla Satchell, professor of microbiology-immunology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said antigen tests will play a pivotal role but must be more accurate than most currently in development.
“Even at 90 percent [sensitivity] that means 10 percent of the positives are walking through your front door to work and that could be a high number of people,” Satchell said. “We need to keep high standards for what we bring to market.”
One company that says it has a rapid antigen test ready to go is E25Bio, a Cambridge startup spun from a lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Company cofounder Irene Bosch said E25Bio developed the test in March but couldn’t persuade any local hospitals to validate it by testing several hundred patients and comparing the results to those from molecular tests. The company finally got the go-ahead from a hospital in Florida this summer, she said.
Oh, now I $ee who came up with the te$t!
MIT adds up to 666, you know, and that is where he resides as well.
The test, Bosch said, can detect about 70 percent of cases among patients with high amounts of coronavirus, and becomes less sensitive with decreasing viral levels. E25Bio has submitted an application to the FDA, but isn’t optimistic, given the agency’s guidelines for a 90 percent threshold.
“What would make the FDA change its mind,” Bosch asked in frustration.
Pre$$ure from certain intere$ts.
Other countries, including Belgium, have approved rapid antigen tests for COVID-19, with sensitivity rates lower than 60 percent, Bosch said.
“It is better to see with one eye,” she said, “than to be blind.”
Finally, something I agree with!
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There was once a time when on-campus food was big business and included “grab and go” outlets, cafes, and campus food trucks, along with dining halls as a way to generate revenue, but now you kids can simply tap your order into an app on your phone and, voila, your meal is delivered to the dorm room like room service in a four-star hotel:
"Crummy college quarantine food goes viral: A lemon as a side dish?" by Amanda Rosa New York Times, August 22, 2020
I'm already sour before even talking a bite.
As students arrive on campuses in New York and elsewhere for another academic year upended by the coronavirus pandemic, administrators are grappling with an array of challenges and, in some cases, hastily rewriting their carefully drawn plans for the fall.
It took just a week for the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, for example, to move most fall classes online. Columbia University shifted all of its undergraduate classes online shortly before the semester began.
Colleges and universities in New York must also figure out how to quarantine students coming from more than 30 states for 14 days in an effort to keep the virus from spreading.
These sick f**kers want to kidnap the youth for either pharmaceutical or pedophile purposes.
None of this is warranted, none of it, and I am beginning to wonder if parents understand what is going on. They are really caught in a trap. Send the kids off and maybe never see them again, or keep them at home and await the medical gestapo (with all due apologies to the Gestapo for they never went this far even with the Mengele stuff).
Feeding those students, it turns out, is a big task.
How could that be?
Aren't the kids their prime concern?
I mean, that's what they say all the time!
New York University and Cornell, among others, have dealt with it by providing meals at no charge to out-of-state students who have been allowed to move into dormitories before classes start.
The prospect of free food may sound good, but what showed up in brown paper bags three times a day at NYU got poor reviews from students who were quick to share TikTok videos and memes of their unripe oranges, watermelon chicken salads and other unhappy meals.
“We have to do a smell test,” Madison Veldman, a first-year student studying film and television, said as she held a bagel to her nose in one TikTok video.
That's the first TikTok video the JYT watched?
Putting that aside, I frowned when I read that the universities are providing the kids GARBAGE for MEALS!
They are getting what homeless shelters get from supermarkets, and I see not much has changed. The kids were being fed past-sell date food as part of the school lunch program.
School lunches have always been joked about, but this is no joke. This is the care and services the sick educators who care so much about them are providing.
Other students, including some who complained about not getting the meals they had been promised, were not so lighthearted in their comments.
The pre$$ censored those like they censor so many things.
Annette Yang said that she had not received some meals, and that some of the food she did get smelled as if it had gone bad.
On Thursday, NYU issued a statement apologizing to the 2,600 students who are living in isolation for what it said were “valid” complaints about a “particularly regrettable error.”
Ooooh.
Giving the kids garbage to eat like some French king is a regrettable error.
Are you, parents and kids, tired of the f**king incompetent excuses by the thieves of higher education as they promise they will efficiently test, test, test, and trace, trace, trace, your kid?
You are still paying full tuition, right?
Maybe it is time for the kids to learn about cannibalism instead of communi$m, and roast a few $cum for food.
The university and its food vendor, Chartwells, were taking several steps to fix the problem “promptly,” including doubling the number of chefs and delivery workers, a university spokesman, John Beckman, said in the statement.
“We recognize that when people are required to quarantine in their rooms by themselves, few things in the day are more important than looking forward to something nice to eat,” Beckman said.
(Blog author tilts and shakes his head at the $cum. Why were they not prepared after months and months?)
Yang said she had tided herself over with snacks she brought with her when she moved into the dorm and with some food shared by Cate Christiansen, the hall mate who made the TikTok video about the sign on Yang’s door pleading for meals.
“We’ve all just been helping each other out the best we can within our dorm,” Yang said.
Get used to it, kids, if you want to survive and escape.
Maxim Estevez-Curtis, an NYU sophomore studying music performance who is not living in a dorm, decided to help quarantined students by starting an Instagram page with a friend to collect and deliver donated food.
She also posted several TikTok videos of the meals being provided by the university. In one, she included a photo of a friend’s apple. It was rotting from the inside.
“Ultimately,” Estevez-Curtis said, “I think this leads back to the bigger issue that they ended up bringing students back when they probably shouldn’t have.”
Sorry about the bad career choice, and another Big Apple is also rotting from the in$ide.
NYU students were not the only ones complaining on social media about their meal plans as a new semester began amid the pandemic, although not all of the criticism was from students under self-quarantine.
At the University of Georgia, which is not subject to such strict rules but where many students are taking meals to their rooms because reservations are required to eat in the dining halls, William O’Bannon posted a TikTok video of himself waiting to pick up food in a line that extended well beyond the building. Another Georgia student posted a video shot in her dorm of what appeared to be a salad: greens and a slice of tomato in a plastic bag.
O’Bannon, a sophomore studying finance, said he posted the video because his meal plan cost around $2,000 and had fewer options and smaller portions than last year.
“I was frustrated,” he said. (On Thursday, the university responded to students’ complaints, saying service hours would be extended and students would get credit to use on future food purchases.)
Wait until you see the wealth they are hiding from you and who is fea$ting at the main table, and get used to the less for more as we convert to the $ociali$t paradi$e you kids seem to want.
At NYU, Danielle Gould, a sophomore, tried to make the best of the situation, posting a video of a breakfast she received as an “incoherent sounds” meme on TikTok.
What did it show? A cookie, chips, salad dressing, salt and pepper.
Even if students are not well fed, Gould said, “at least people can be entertained.”
Yeah, hunger is funny, ha-ha-ha-ha!
That rumbling in your stomach is laughter, now go eat some cake!
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Better empty your plate, too:
"State criticized over calls for teachers to work from empty classrooms this fall" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, August 22, 2020
New state guidelines calling for K-12 educators to work from empty classrooms while students learn remotely from home was blasted Saturday by teacher unions who said the plan needlessly risked public health as schools move to reopen amid the pandemic.
I'm with the teachers now, and don't want the kids falling into the clutches of those who wish them harm.
That guidance, rolled out by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Friday, was aimed at districts that had responded to pandemic public health concerns by keeping staff and students at home, but the guidelines, coming after months of planning by educators and local school officials, would unnecessarily risk school educators’ exposure to coronavirus, said Erin Nerlino, an English teacher at King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham, which is scheduled to open remotely next month.
“If my students were there, then absolutely it’s worth the risk, as long as my school is following all the guidelines to make it a safe building,” Nerlino said in a phone interview Saturday. “For me to go in, and expose myself to 100 more staff ... for not a lot of payoff doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.”
Jeffrey Riley, the department’s commissioner, said in Friday’s published guidance it is the department’s expectation that in districts opening remotely teachers and critical support staff will report to schools daily and work from classrooms and educational spaces.
“Having teachers and critical support staff in the school will be beneficial to students, teachers, staff, and administrators for several reasons,” he said in the guidance.
What would those be because the Globe never says.
In a strongly worded statement, Massachusetts Teachers Association president Merrie Najimy said the new state guidance is “clearly designed” to force local educators’ unions to agree to in-person learning regardless of the condition of school buildings, indoor air quality, testing capabilities, or area COVID-19 transmission rates.
Najimy said the new guidelines demonstrate Riley’s “fundamental lack of trust of educators,” most of whom are women.
“It is paternalistic and punitive and has no bearing on the quality of education that the real experts — the educators — provide so masterfully,” she said in the statement.
I wish she hadn't turned it into a gender issue, but you go, girl!
The MTA and the American Federation of Teachers Massachusettshave both called on districts to reopen with remote learning in the fall.
Najimy said as the guidance is not a requirement, it must be negotiated with local teachers unions.....
The Globe then went and talked to Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union; Adam Freudberg, the chairman of the Framingham’s School Committee; Stephanie Sweet, an Andover mother of a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a 1-year-old; Kimberly Barry, the president of the Lawrence Teachers Union; and Gina Garro, the Revere Teachers Association’s president, who noted al the wonderful things happening in Revere.
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The state has your test results back:
"New COVID-19 data Saturday reporting 20 deaths could be low due to IT upgrade, state says" by John Hilliard Globe Staff, August 22, 2020
Massachusetts had 20 new deaths due to COVID-19, along with 109 new cases of the disease, the state reported Saturday, though officials cautioned the latest figures could be lower during the implementation of an upgrade to the state’s laboratory reporting system.
Whenever they do that, the antiquated system is ruined. Happened with unemployment a while back, and yet we are still told those systems are antiquated today.
State government looks to be one long looting operation!
The Department of Public Health reported that the state’s confirmed death toll due to the disease rose to 8,690 as of Friday afternoon. The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus was 115,850.
On Saturday, the state moved its reporting system to the Amazon Web Services platform, which is intended to greatly increase the state’s public health data collection capacity. The change may have lowered reported numbers of new deaths, cases, and tests related to the coronavirus, the agency said Friday.
The changeover, which has been planned for many months, accommodates recent and expected growth in COVID-19 test volumes, according to Kevin Cranston, DPH’s assistant commissioner and director of the bureau of infectious disease and laboratory sciences.
Planned for months, huh?
“It is particularly critical that we make the move now to manage the testing of thousands of college and university students starting soon,” Cranston said in the statement.
It also includes enhanced stability and security of the DPH’s systems, he said.
So they say before implementation and the inevitable unforeseen glitches!
The change will allow the state to increase the daily volume of test results processed from 25,000 to 100,000; incorporate an electronic quality assurance dashboard to monitor data flows and errors; and make “data report enhancements” possible, the statement said.
Looks like CRAP NUMBERS to ME!
Due to the transition, data reported by the state Saturday could reflect lower numbers of tests, cases, and deaths, the statement said. No dashboard report will be published Sunday, the statement said. The dashboard will resume its normal flow by Monday.
According to data released Saturday by the state, as of Wednesday, the three-day average of confirmed COVID-19 deaths was 14, up from an average of 13 reported Tuesday.
The state reported more than 1.5 million people have been given molecular tests for the virus, including 8,301 new people tested as of Friday afternoon.
The seven-day average positive rate for the molecular tests was 1.1 percent as of Friday, the state said, down from 1.2 percent a day earlier.
Four hospitals were using surge capacity to treat COVID-19 patients as of Friday, according to the state, which was the same number reported Thursday, and the three-day average number of hospitalized coronavirus patients was 336 as of Friday, down from 353 on Thursday.....
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!
All this data and numbers flying from everywhere, but ask them to get specific and you get the "we don't know!"
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Time to check some classrooms and see if the kids are there:
"State Police put out a renewed call for the public’s help in solving the disappearance of a Lawrence boy who was last seen 44 years ago Friday, whose loss became the subject of an Emmy Award-winning documentary. On Aug. 21, 1976, 10-year-old Angelo “Andy” Puglisi was playing with his siblings and friends at the Higgins Memorial Pool across the street from the Stadium Housing Project in south Lawrence, where he lived with his family, State Police said in a statement. When his siblings came home that afternoon, Andy wasn’t with them, and his family and neighbors began searching the pool area, the municipal dump and the woods leading to Interstate 495, State Police said. Lawrence police and State Police joined the search in the coming days, then military service members and additional volunteers, State Police said. Andy’s disappearance was widely covered by the news media as police received tips and ruled out leads, and investigators later even consulted with a Texas psychic, State Police said. Andy wasn’t found, but his disappearance was never forgotten. Authorities and news outlets continued to remind the public as decades of grim anniversaries passed. “Andy’s case remains open,” State Police said. “He will not be forgotten by the Massachusetts State Police and Lawrence Police.” State Trooper Matt Murphy, a detective in the Essex County investigation unit, is assigned to the case. Authorities ask that anyone with information that could be relevant contact Murphy by e-mail. In 1999, the Globe published an eight-part series on Andy and efforts by a childhood playmate, Melanie Perkins, to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Perkins, who was with Andy at the pool that day in 1976, grew up to become a filmmaker and to direct the Emmy Award-winning documentary “Have You Seen Andy?” Perkins’s documentary showed that there had been as many as five sex offenders in the vicinity of the pool on the day Andy disappeared, State Police said. Investigators in the case looked closely at two men, one who had killed a teenage girl in Boxford and claimed to have killed other children, and another who was charged after Andy’s disappearance with raping two boys he had lured away from Higgins Memorial Pool in 1975, State Police said. Shortly before his death, the imprisoned killer of the Boxford teen claimed he had killed a boy in Lawrence, but some details he gave didn’t match the facts of Andy’s disappearance, State Police said. State Police did not name either suspect in Friday’s statement, but the man convicted of raping the Lawrence boys was Wayne Chapman, who was convicted of raping and sexually assaulting a total of six boys in the 1970s. Authorities believe that Chapman — who also confessed to molesting dozens of other children — may have abducted and killed Andy, but they have not been able to gather enough evidence to charge him in the case, State Police said."
The sickening thing there was a Biden-Harris ad, as the Globe has fallen quite far from the days of Spotlighting sexual abuse in Bo$ton.
I only say that because I have noticed not only the Globe's blind spot when it comes to Epstein and Wayfair, it's the racy advertisements on its website. I went through a few of them and wondered exactly what I was looking at with the sultry poses in underwear with sweatshirts promoting alcohol consumption, all products that seem to have been tremendously overpriced.
Could it be possible that the Bo$ton Globe itself is a sex-trafficking conduit as they look after the children and promote children's books because bookstores are proving they’re an essential business, too, as Michael Bloomberg donates $3 million toward building a new Medford library?
Instead of lockdowns, maybe they should be teaching kids how to socialize safely in the time of coronavirus and maybe get zolucky.
Lacy Crawford was 15 when she was sexually assaulted at St. Paul’s School
The school has finally apologized, and I guess the standard wait for acknowledgement in cases of sexual predators is 30 years.
Missing Brockton Fort Hood soldier a victim of ‘abusive sexual contact,’ Army says
I'm told "Sergeant Elder N. Fernandes, 23, is a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist, and on Saturday, Fort Hood released a statement saying foul play is not suspected in Fernades’s disappearance, and it is not believed to be linked to other high-profile cases of missing personnel from the base after two soldiers from the base have been found dead this summer."
The Pentagon is saying “there is no connection between the disappearance of Sgt. Fernandes and any other ongoing cases at Fort Hood,” but how could they know that when the investigation just started?
No cause for wedding bells in any event:
"A western New York couple’s big wedding is off — at least for now — after an 11th-hour court order in a fight between couples and the state over a 50-person limit on social gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic. A federal appellate judge in Manhattan on Friday granted a state request that effectively blocks Pamella Giglia and Joe Durolek from having the 175-person celebration they planned Saturday at a Buffalo-area golf club. The order from Judge Denny Chin, of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, leaves New York’s 50-person rule in place at least until a panel of appeals judges can hear arguments, which couldn’t happen before the planned celebration. “We’re very unhappy about this decision,” the couple’s lawyer Anthony Rupp told the Times Union of Albany. He said Durolek and Giglia would postpone their wedding. Giglia, Durolek and another couple sued this summer, saying it was unfair to restrict attendance to 50 at weddings — as religious ceremonies — when some restaurants could have more people. A federal judge in Syracuse ruled in the couples’ favor Aug. 7. One of the couples, Jenna DiMartile and Justin Crawford, married shortly after at the Arrowhead Golf Club in Akron. New York officials challenged that ruling. State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said in a court filing that allowing 175 guests at the Durolek-Giglia wedding could compromise the state’s efforts to avoid a resurgence of the virus that has killed over 25,000 New Yorkers, the highest death toll of any U.S. state......"
And yet Cuomo is considered one of the greatest governors in history, according to the Globe.
"One person has died as a result of a COVID-19 outbreak that began at a wedding in Maine on Aug. 7, authorities said. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said 32 positive cases of coronavirus have been linked to the wedding ceremony that was held at a church in East Millinocket and the reception that followed at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket. One of those who tested positive, an adult female patient at Millinocket Regional Hospital, died on Friday. “We are sorry to share that this patient passed away early this afternoon,” Robert Peterson, the hospital’s chief executive officer, said in a statement Friday. “Our thoughts and sympathies are with her family as they cope with this difficult loss.” Approximately 65 guests attended the Aug. 7 wedding ceremony at the Tri Town Baptist Church in East Millinocket and the reception at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket, officials said. Maine CDC officials said they delivered an imminent health hazard citation to the Big Moose Inn for exceeding the state’s indoor gathering limit of 50 individuals when it hosted the wedding reception. (Maine currently limits indoor gatherings to 50 people, and outdoor gatherings are limited to 100, with no more than five people per 1,000 square feet.) The median age of confirmed positive cases linked to the wedding is 42 years old; those who have tested positive thus far range in age from 4 to 78 years old, Maine CDC officials said. As of Friday, Millinocket Regional Hospital had tested 366 individuals for COVID-19; test results had been received on 263 and the remaining 103 tests were pending, hospital officials said. “All positive patients have been contacted directly, given care instructions, and further instructed to quarantine,” Peterson said in the statement. “The CDC has initiated contact tracing on all positive patients to ascertain the full extent of the outbreak. As COVID positive individuals are still being identified in the community and the numbers continue to rise, the hospital has extended its no visitation policy and is limiting its services to essential medical care only through August 30th.”
Still don't believe they will be removing your loved ones from your presence?
Let's face it, if there was contagious spread it would be in the homes and yet isn't, and if COVID exists at all, there is already herd immunity.
"More cases of COVID-19 have been linked to a Maine wedding reception that violated attendance limits. Maine state health officials said Saturday that so far, 53 cases of the virus have been traced back to the Aug. 7 reception in Millinocket. One person has died, according to a local hospital. The reception at the Big Moose Inn exceeded the state’s indoor gathering limit, among other violations of state rules. The outbreak affected individuals from 4 to 78 years old, officials said. About 65 people — more than the limit of 50 — attended the reception. A representative for the Big Moose Inn has declined to comment....."
Should have held the marriage in the middle of a city-destroying race riot, seeing as those are the safest places in AmeriKa, and the tyrannical government and health mon$ters are killing love!
Can't even drive over to the bar and celebrate:
"Motorcycle Week is underway in Laconia, but some bars and pubs won’t be serving customers. The annual event typical attracts thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts to the Lakes Region. Due to concerns about the coronavirus, Gov. Chris Sununu recently mandated that masks be worn at gatherings of more than 100 people, and has said that liquor enforcement officials will be out in force throughout the nine-day gathering. While indoor dining is allowed, standing at bars is not; customers must be served while seated. Some bar owners brought in new chairs to comply, but others, fearing crowds and the potential for fines or the loss of their liquor licenses, decided to shut down for the week. The state reported 22 new positive COVID-19 cases on Saturday and one death - a woman from Hillsborough County who officials said was older than 60. In all, Vermont has recorded nearly 7,100 cases and 429 deaths."
The restaurants may be open, but the governor signed an executive order which forces anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 to comply with the orders of the Department of Public Health and said “failure to comply with DPH instructions after notification of a positive COVID-19 test result, the fine shall be $1,000 per day,” meaning if health officials demand your family separate when one member tests positive for Covid, for every day you resist, you will be fined $1,000, and the order also says DPH can enter and search private property without a warrant, in the name of public health– though it appears this only applies to businesses for now."
I suggest you keep the motorcycles out of your town.
See:
Covid cases are linked to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
The full impact may never be known, and for a handful of cases they must test the entire town!
Now that you have the entire road in front of you, I need to correct my blind spot.
I couldn't see the agenda until now, but now it is as clear as the rearview mirror.
The Globe's 11-month investigation wasn't obsolete, it is part and parcel to the plan. They want to seize as many driver's licenses as possible, further restricting mobility and movement with the end goal being driverless, 5G-controlled cars!
You will be entirely shut down and don't even bother checking under the hood:
The lack of Black leaders in New England college sports is ‘what institutional and systemic racism look like’
Maybe all the raci$t whites could be banished to an island like lepers.
At least they will be well-cared for:
"Miami ICU nurse: I have never in my life seen so many deaths" by Kelli Kennedy Associated Press, August 22, 2020
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Their final breaths are tormented. Rublas Ruiz has seen too many of them — the last gasps of 17 men and women who died of the coronavirus.
A 41-year-old intensive care unit nurse in Miami’s Kendall Regional Medical Center, Ruiz has witnessed the desperate, pleading, wide-eyed, barely there gasps.
“The fear in their eyes when they can’t get enough air. They are so scared,” he says, quietly. “Their eyes are big, desperate to get the oxygen and that makes me so sad.”
The fear is from thinking get me off this damn ventilator so I can breathe!
He sits on their beds, grasps their hands, strokes their cheeks, and prays. Anything to soothe them.
“I know you cannot talk, but I’m going to talk to you,” he tell them. “You have to be positive, you have to have faith that God is going to get you out of this.”
Often, he ducks away to sob in the bathroom. It is a rare moment alone, when he can cast off the brave countenance.
Then he splashes water on his face and returns to the floor that has been his work home since March. While other nurses rotate in and out of the COVID-19 ICU unit to limit their exposure to the deadly virus, he’s asked to stay permanently.
It’s his calling.
“I’m here for them. This is what I was meant to do,” says Ruiz.
I've read a lot of sickening things in the Globe, but this just may be the worst.
This stranger who is nothing more than a mass-murdering mercy killer, is being lionized by the pre$$, as family members are kept from their beloved elderly.
PURE EVIL, and I'm wondering if $hit like this isn't more of the BIG LIE.
Remember Jason Blair?
“Many nurses have left. They don’t want to deal with it, they’re afraid, they’re scared, they see other people getting infected.”
Miami-Dade County has been the epicenter of the state’s outbreak with about 2,000 deaths since March — more than 20 percent of the state’s total. As Florida cases skyrocketed this summer, Miami hospitals were especially overloaded in the second half of July.
Ruiz tries hard to separate from his grim work when he’s home, but it seeps in. He relies heavily on the positive energy of his wife of six years, Yaneth.
“He has been quite depressed,” she says. “I know he’s stressed.”
His wife lost her job as a hairdresser so Rublas takes extra shifts to make up for lost income. The family has taken up fishing as a hobby, casting their reels off a bridge, catching snapper and enjoying the peace of being outside together.
Maybe Tucker can take him fishing and cheer him up.
Back in April, Yaneth prepared a special birthday dinner for him at home, but when he sat at the table, the thought of losing so many patients overwhelmed him, and he broke down in tears.
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That comes as Florida records 4,300 new virus cases, with the world hitting a grim coronavirus milestone Saturday with 800,000 confirmed deaths and close to 23 million confirmed cases, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, and for some reason a Washington Compost article that said the"elderly and at-risk groups will be vaccinated first" per the Trump's task force has been scrubbed from the web.
Meanwhile, right next door in Gump's Alabama:
"The University of Alabama has issued a temporary prohibition on student events, including off-campus parties and fraternity and sorority gatherings, as the school tries to clamp down on the spread of COVID-19. The university said it was issuing a 14-day moratorium on all in-person student events outside of classroom instruction. Social gatherings are prohibited both on and off campus and the common areas of dormitories and fraternity and sorority houses are closed, according to the new guidelines.The announcement came less than a week after city and school officials raised the alarm about large crowds waiting outside bars."
What if the 14 days becomes another 14 days, and another, and another, and another, because that is what we have seen after the public was suckered with the flatten the curve scam before the narrative turned to cases, cases, cases?
Maybe they should hold a concert as an experiment:
"Germany held a pop concert Saturday to see how those attending could spread coronavirus if they had it. German researchers studying COVID-19 packed part of a Leipzig arena with volunteers, collecting data in a “real life” simulation of a pop concert but one with strict health and safety controls. About 1,500 people took part in the experiment run by the University Hospital in Halle, each taking a coronavirus test ahead of time, testing negative, and having to wear protective masks throughout the day’s testing. Researchers equipped each volunteer with contact tracers to record their routes in the arena and track the path of the aerosols — the small particles that could carry the virus — they emitted as they mingled and talked. Fluorescent disinfectants were used to highlight which surfaces at the mock concert were touched most frequently. Stefan Moritz, who led the study, said results of the study are expected in four to six weeks....."
Like you are waiting for test results, this whole goddamn COVID thing has been a simulation and experiment from the very beginning, and who thought the Germans would ever be guinea pigs?
It's not like they are India.
I hope you kids learned something from this post.
