When US District Court Judge William G. Young sentenced John Houlihan and two others to life in prison in 1995 for their roles in a violent million dollar cocaine ring linked to multiple murders in Charlestown, he made no effort to conceal his contempt for the men.
Scoffing at the “code of silence” moniker for the trial that had taken hold in the media, Young told Houlihan and his associates, “There is nothing special about you, nothing unique, nothing extraordinary. ... This is the evil that flows from drug profits.”
The lecturing judge syndrome is a pandemic, and he didn't mean these guys:
That's the face of evil looking back at you there, and they had a $pray for the pain at one point.
On Wednesday, Houlihan, now a 69-year-old inmate who says he’s in poor health and uses a wheelchair, acknowledged that evil as he expressed remorse for his crimes and asked Young to grant him compassionate release from the New Jersey prison where he’s incarcerated, citing the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors.
If released, Houlihan would live with his wife and daughter in Charlestown and be “essentially housebound,” owing to his health problems, his attorney, George Gormley, wrote in a motion filed Wednesday in federal court in Boston.
The health problems listed include cardio and respiratory illnesses, kidney disease and other ailments that make “inmates who are over 65 years of age, such as Mr. Houlihan, ... at increased risk for severe illness or death if they contract COVID-19.”
Gosh, they have released murderers and rapists, why would they not release this guy?
Houlihan, who’s also in remission from prostate cancer, submitted a five-page, handwritten letter attached to the motion, in which he offered an apology to everyone he’s harmed.
“I’ve been saying the rosary for the last 27 years, every day, for these people,” Houlihan wrote, adding that he’s dedicated himself to his faith, inmate programs, and helping other prisoners learn trades so they can avoid recidivism.
He also credited Young with helping him improve as a person.
“I want you to know that the time you sentenced me to gave me the opportunity to change my life and thinking for the better,” Houlihan wrote. “Through all of this I have learned a hard, harsh lesson. I ask myself this question in any situation I face. ‘If I do this, can I get in trouble or go to prison?’ If the answer is yes, I just don’t do it! Thank you for opening my eyes.”
At trial in 1995, jurors’ eyes were opened to a cocaine ring that prosecutors said Houlihan ran with associate Michael Fitzgerald from 1990 to 1993.
The men and two others, prosecutor Paul V. Kelly told jurors during closing arguments in 1995, ”had the arrogance to conduct themselves as if they were judge, jury, and executioners of Charlestown, enforcing and promoting a distorted code of silence in which other residents of this community were made to live in fear.”
Look at what we are living under now!
Houlihan and Fitzgerald formed a partnership in the late ’80s, Kelly said, after Fitzgerald was released from state prison, where he had served time for a double murder. They soon had a ring selling $1 million worth of cocaine annually, he said.
Kelly also reminded jurors that some testimony about the drug organization came as a “voice from the grave” from murder victim George Sargent, who was killed after telling police Houlihan had traveled to Florida to pick up drugs.
In a tape played in court, Sargent told police that Houlihan said “there’s two more that’s going to go” after another man, James Boyden IV, was murdered in March 1992.
Kelly described the defendants as “remorseless killers motivated by greed, power, and money, and who preyed on . . . and polluted the streets of Charlestown with high-quality and highly addictive cocaine.”
Shortly before the trial, two potential witnesses’ cars were firebombed, and the word “snitch” was spray-painted on the wall near the home of another. Some witnesses were moved to temporary shelters in motels.
“We expected it and we’ve done what we could to prepare for it,” one police source told the Globe at the time.
In his letter to Young submitted Wednesday, Houlihan insisted he’s completely separated himself from his former criminal reign in Charlestown.
“I’ve had no ties to any of my old friends and life, only family,” Houlihan wrote.
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"In the latest sign that major life science developers are looking beyond crowded Kendall Square in Cambridge, Kendall heavyweight Alexandria Real Estate Equities this week closed on a deal to buy a Waltham office park, along with room to expand. Alexandria paid $330 million for the Reservoir Woods East campus from Davis Co. and Marcus Partners, according to real estate firm Newmark Knight Frank, which helped broker the deal....."
They dress up their criminal enterprise with the self-flattering term "life sciences," and that is exactly what it is in their warped minds: the science of controlling our lives.
The modern day SOMA?
"Cannabis commission expands pot delivery, medical marijuana; Meanwhile, Commissioner Britte McBride steps down one year before term ends" by Dan Adams Globe Staff, August 28, 2020
Massachusetts regulators took several significant steps Friday to liberalize the state’s cannabis rules, voting to expand forthcoming pot delivery operations, permit small nonprofit medical marijuana cultivation operations in private homes, and allow severely ill patients from other states to obtain medical marijuana while undergoing treatment here.
The Cannabis Control Commission approved the changes as dozens of recently licensed marijuana facilities prepare to open in the state’s fast-growing recreational market.
The new regulations also reflected a barrage of criticism from advocates and local entrepreneurs, who argued during a recent public comment period that the Massachusetts marijuana business has been at once over-regulated — leading to high prices and poor availability — and inequitable, with people of color whose communities were hit hardest by the war on drugs struggling to win licenses as envisioned by state law.
“The changes made today [represent] progress for the disenfranchised, particularly people of color, medical cannabis patients, and people with disabilities,” Commissioner Shaleen Title said after the meeting.
Advocates also cheered a commission vote to establish an exclusivity period of at least three years during which the agency will issue delivery licenses only to participants in its social equity and economic empowerment programs — meant to benefit those affected by the war on drugs — and so-called microbusinesses, small-scale growers and manufacturers owned by Massachusetts residents. With the addition of the more robust retail-like business model that could offer far larger margins and opportunities for growth, they said Friday’s policy moves represent the best chance yet at achieving equity in the market.....
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The delivery vehicle drives itself, and it will also drop off some booze if requested.
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"President Trump employed his power of clemency on Friday for the second time this week in connection with his nominating convention, issuing a full pardon for Alice Marie Johnson, a onetime drug convict, a day after she appeared in a campaign video praising his leadership. Trump had already commuted Johnson’s sentence in 2018, but he said he decided to elevate the action to a full pardon after seeing her in the audience at the White House on Thursday night when he delivered his speech at the Republican National Convention accepting nomination for a second term. The pardon came only three days after he pardoned Jon Ponder, a convicted bank robber who now runs a nonprofit organization for prisoners, in an act captured on videotape and then shown that evening at the convention. Critics complained that Trump was brazenly using the power of his office to stage an event for a partisan political gathering, while the White House said it was legal because it was an official event shown on a government website and the campaign then used video that was available to the public. Johnson, who had served 22 years of a life sentence on charges related to cocaine distribution and money laundering, has become a national symbol of the move to reduce what many in both parties view as excessive sentences for nonviolent drug crimes. Her case was originally brought to Trump’s attention by Kim Kardashian West, and she has become a vocal supporter of the president....."
The one-time drug convict description undersells her operation of a multi-million dollar cocaine ring, but be that as it may. The Wa$hington Compo$t is saying they have a secret audio recording of someone telling Trump's sister he did a Ted Kennedy and got someone else to take his college boards, and now some pointy-headed professor and six other faculty members have asked for an investigation.
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It's Chairman Engel as he is on the way out.
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"Just about everybody who arrives in New Zealand is required to spend 14 days isolated in a government-run hotel that is guarded by the military as the country spends billions of dollars on its efforts to eliminate the coronavirus, but the Browns said Friday they’re isolating themselves at home. New Zealand has stamped out most community transmission of the virus and is focusing much of its efforts on keeping the border safe. Because New Zealand has signed the Vienna Convention, which gives diplomats special rights, “we are unable to require diplomatic personnel to enter quarantine or managed isolation,” the ministry said in an email. United States Ambassador Scott Brown and his wife arrived back in New Zealand on Thursday after a trip on which Brown met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other dignitaries. Brown said he and his wife tested negative for the virus before leaving the U.S. and had been very careful about wearing masks and observing social distancing guidelines during transit. “Just like everyone else, we will be medically monitored while in isolation and tested again around Day 3 and Day 12,” Brown said in a statement. “We will not leave isolation until those tests come back negative.” The U.S. Embassy said the ambassador’s self-isolation would save New Zealand money and allow him to do his job remotely, which he couldn’t have done otherwise. The embassy said the household staff at the ambassador’s residence near Wellington will remain on leave until the couple complete their isolation. “Even before I left New Zealand, our two governments started exploring how best to manage my return,” Brown said in his statement. The Ministry of Health described that interaction a bit differently, saying New Zealand officials “were informed that Ambassador Brown would self-isolate.” Brown, a former Republican senator from Massachusetts, has close ties with President Donald Trump and was once considered a possible running mate. He plans to return to the U.S. permanently in January. Trump this month criticized New Zealand after the country had a small outbreak of the virus in Auckland, marking its first cases of community transmission in more than three months. “New Zealand, it’s over. It’s over for New Zealand, everything’s gone, they’re beautiful. They had a massive breakout yesterday,” Trump told one crowd in Pennsylvania. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern responded by saying Trump was wrong, and that anyone following “will quite easily see that New Zealand’s nine cases in a day does not compare to the United States’ tens of thousands.”
Nor does the level of totalitarianism, what with her government quarantine centers which will soon be coming here, and now New Zealand is requiring face coverings in public transportation with fines for violations.
Just proves tyrants come in all genders.
The Globe couldn't ignore Trump yesterday as he was nearby, and thus it was the front-page lead:
"‘They’re agitators, they’re rioters, they’re looters’: Trump decries recent protests during N.H. campaign rally" by Zoe Greenberg, Dugan Arnett, Diti Kohli and James Pindell Globe Staff, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, August 28, 2020
LONDONDERRY, N.H. — President Trump painted a dark picture of America’s future under a Joe Biden presidency during his first rally of the general election here Friday evening, promising a raucous and largely unmasked crowd that he would restore law and order in “Democrat-run cities” he described as spiraling out of control.
The blatant bias made me laugh because even though it's all a show, the RNC was much more upbeat than the dour party held last week.
He returned to some of his favorite themes, accusing the media of stoking racial hatred, blaming China for supposedly planting the coronavirus, and describing himself as an outsider intent on taking down establishment politicians.
“We are all that stand between the American people and the left-wing mob,” Trump said to cheers.
He's right, but it isn't much of a choice. Neither one is going to be able to alter decline of the country into full-blown communism complete with controlling oligarchs or transformation into the Great Re$et or whatever you want to call it.
The president’s appearance in an airport hangar at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport came a day after his official acceptance of the Republican nomination, at a moment when he is trying to keep attention on his message in a reelection campaign that lags in polls.
The Globe says that as his approval rating has never been higher!
From the start, the crowd’s energy was palpable. Multiple times, they broke into shouts of “Four more years!” and “USA!”
Crowds vote, people, and the Democrats never get them! It's always a small setting or half-filled hall.
Trump — who slipped slightly as he made his way to the stage — wasted little time before attacking Biden, whom the crowd vigorously booed. He insulted the Democratic nominee as old and slow, a career politician whose “masters” control him.
What are they trying to imply?
Was the surface wet?
Or are they just trying to achieve parity and lower Trump to decrepit stays like Joe despite his boundless energy?
Of vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, he said: “I want to see the first woman president also, but I don’t want to see a woman president get into that position the way she’s doing it. She’s not competent.” The crowd shouted its approval. “They’re saying, ‘We want Ivanka,’” Trump said.
I've seen Harris speak the last few days, and she sounds condescendingly evil.
The president scorned the recent protests over police brutality and white supremacy that have swept the country, trying to write them off as the work of “agitators” and saying he’d directed Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, to study how he might call troops into the nation’s capital.
“We’re not supposed to go in unless we call it an insurrection,” Trump said. “We’re going to have to look at it because we’re not going to let that happen to people that go to the White House to celebrate our country.”
Not too fast because Don Lemon is whining about what they set loose, saying it's showing up in the polls. That's why Biden just came out against the riots. Only those who believe in unicorns see them winning now.
Afterward, those in attendance praised the president for what they described as a high-energy speech in which he didn’t hold back.
“I love the enthusiasm,” said Peggy MacPherson of Auburn, who had arrived at 3 p.m. Friday but wasn’t able to get a seat inside and instead watched from a large outdoor screen. “I love the way he comes out no-hold-barred.”
Kimberly Cantrell, a paralegal from Londonderry who estimated that Friday was the fourth Trump rally she’d attended, likened the event to a family get-together.
“It’s refreshing not to feel that you have to shelter your beliefs,” Cantrell said following Trump’s speech. “It’s fun, everybody has a good time, we have good laughs.”
Pointing to the Trump sign she was holding, she said she’s too afraid to display it in her car — she worries someone would break her window.
“Here, I feel like I can breathe,” she said.
That sure is a charged shot at the intolerant leftist anarchists.
Biden, who consistently leads New Hampshire polls in the high single digits over Trump, hasn’t set foot in the state since he placed fifth in the presidential primary in February and he has announced no plans to return. Both candidates’ campaign schedules are expected to pick up in the coming weeks, with Biden announcing Thursday that he will soon resume limited travel.
Then New Hampshire goes red. They don't like being ignored up there, and it looks like Democrats still haven't learned the Wisconsin lesson.
Before Trump arrived, hundreds of supporters lined up to see him speak, and the venue reached capacity in the late afternoon. When an announcement came across the loudspeaker reminding those in the audience to wear masks in accordance with state law, many booed.
:)
For much of the day, organizers were taking attendees’ temperatures and offering free mini bottles of hand sanitizer to everyone, but most people milling about the paved lot were not wearing masks or had positioned them under their chin.
If you are outside you should not be wearing one, period!
At the convention this week, Trump and his allies painted a frightening portrait of a country under siege from the left, but the convention was also sometimes overshadowed by breaking news elsewhere, including growing protests over the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wis., and a major hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast.
Everything he does gets overshadowed now, and his support only increases.
New Hampshire has long held his interest. It is both the place that gave him his first-ever election victory in the 2016 primary and his narrowest loss in the general election, by just 2,700 votes. His campaign had planned a rally in Portsmouth in July, but abruptly canceled it the day before, citing a tropical storm that was not forecast to affect the area during his speaking time. That rally had garnered unfavorable attention, with public health and elected officials urging Governor Chris Sununu to require masks, fearing that a large gathering could spread COVID-19. The coronavirus has largely prevented the president from holding his rallies this campaign season.
The COVID crap story has conveniently sabotaged him and his greatest campaign weapon, and who benefits from the narrative again -- or at least was benefiting until the people started waking up and the Democrats reached too far?
The Globe's insinuation that he chickened out in the face of a storm is offensive, btw.
Biden has steered clear of large events, speaking with supporters virtually or at small, in-person gatherings instead. In a statement ahead of the New Hampshire event, Biden said, “Today, Donald Trump is bringing his message of division, lies, and chaos to New Hampshire, while Granite Staters suffer because of the president’s failure to lead when our nation needed it most.”
For two decades, New Hampshire has been a hotly contested presidential swing state. Candidates and surrogates held events nearly every week in the home stretch of the campaign. This year, larger states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania have drawn more attention as the places most likely to determine who wins the Electoral College and the White House.....
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Biden's tweeted response to Trump's renomination speech:
“Mr. President, Americans are canceling weddings and holding funerals without family. They’re sacrificing so more Americans don’t have to die, but instead of leading by example, you hosted a super spreader event on the South Lawn. When will you take the presidency seriously?”
In the wake of the RNC, four people tested positive after event, and the seriousness of his flagging campaign is evident in that he now says he will emerge from his basement after Labor Day -- which is still 10 days away!
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"In the competition for attention at their makeshift conventions, Democrat Joe Biden can claim bragging rights over President Donald Trump, but it was close. The Nielsen company says that 23.8 million viewers watched the final hour of Thursday’s Republican convention on television, when Trump gave his acceptance speech before an audience gathered outdoors on the White House grounds. A week earlier, Nielsen said 24.6 million people were watching Biden accept the Democratic nomination for president. Democrats had more viewers on three of the four nights, Nielsen said. More people likely watched via video streams, but there was no reliable third-party measurement of those users. If anything, the ratings this year illustrated the tendency of viewers to stay with their tribes....."
I find the Nielsen ratings highly dubious.
The tribe will speak on November 3rd, and we will know soon after whose torch has been snuffed.
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Congress left town and let jobless benefits lapse
Unemployed Americans say they won’t forget it.
Joe Kennedy makes a final push for votes
He's down in the polls and just can't seem to get his message out for some reason, although I think you can see why.
This guy should have left on his:
"Lexington priest apologizes after O’Malley says church doesn’t allow clergy to endorse political candidates" by Jeremy C. Fox Globe Correspondent, August 27, 2020
After Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley issued a statement reiterating a church ban on political endorsements and its opposition to abortion, a Catholic priest apologized Thursday night for his controversial endorsement of Democrat Joe Biden.
The Rev. Paul Garrity, pastor of the Lexington Catholic Community, acknowledged the “confusion and upset” caused by his Facebook post Sunday titled, “I am pro-life and support Joe Biden.”
“I am totally against legalized abortion,” Garrity wrote in an apology posted to Facebook. “I am committed to upholding Church teaching regarding the sanctity of life from the moment of conception until natural death.”
Reached for comment, Garrity referred to his Facebook post.
The apology came shortly after the Boston Pilot, the archdiocese’s newspaper, published a statement from O’Malley saying that Catholics have the right to expect priests “to be clear and unequivocal on the Church’s teaching concerning respect and protection for life from the first moment of conception to natural death.”
Priests and other representatives of the archdiocese, “following the guidance of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops … may not endorse or oppose candidates for election or political parties,” O’Malley said.
Garrity’s endorsement sparked controversy because Biden, who is Catholic, supports women’s access to legal abortions, and Garrity said he also supports “a woman’s right to choose.”
“I am pro-life and I believe in a woman’s right to choose,” Garrity wrote in the post, which was no longer visible on his Facebook page Thursday evening but was published by The Boston Pilot. “I will vote for Joe Biden for president because I believe that Joe Biden is pro-life like me. I believe that any woman who becomes pregnant should have the right to choose to give birth to her baby.”
Garrity went on to emphasize the support and opportunities women need to have healthy pregnancies and to take care of new babies.
In his apology, Garrity suggested he did not expect the backlash his endorsement unleashed.
“I was not prepared for the uncharitable responses that I am receiving from this post,” Garrity said. “The last thing that I would ever want to do is to hurt anyone with my words.”
O’Malley encouraged Catholics to play an active role in their communities and to vote in elections, and stressed that the church’s role is to provide instruction on moral principles.
“Our advocacy addresses protection of human life at all stages and in all circumstances, including issues of social and economic equality, the pervasive influence of systemic racism and welcoming immigrants and refugees,” O’Malley said.
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Trump shared the top of the front page with some shameless self-serving swill that advances the agenda further, while below the fold they rewrite history saying King’s Dream was a call for America to get its knee off their necks as the New York Times tries to rekindle the spirit of 1963 and as the late Breonna Taylor is laid to rest.
Rittenhouse, teen charged in Kenosha killings, stalls return to Wisconsin
A judge agreed to delay for a month a decision on whether to extradite, and both victims turned out to be Jewish?
As the blood runs on the ground from the slaughter, the Globe is arguing that if police reform is ever going to come, it has to be right here, right now. Activist groups are demanding action, and by missing the moment and not taking a knee, the Red Sox have lost a fan.
Game was rained out anyway:
"Laura victims may go weeks without power; US deaths reach 14" by Melinda Deslatte and Stacey Plaisance, Aug. 28, 2020
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The Louisiana coastline devastated by Hurricane Laura began a long and gloomy recovery Friday as hundreds of thousands of people still without water and power confronted the possibility that basic services may not return for weeks or even longer. The number of dead climbed to at least 14.
A day after the Category 4 storm hit, more bodies emerged in the aftermath in Louisiana and neighboring Texas. The lack of essential resources was grim for the many evacuated residents eager to return. Thousands of people who heeded dire warnings and fled the Gulf Coast returned to homes without roofs, roads littered with debris and the likelihood of a harsh recovery that could take months.
The White House said President Donald Trump would visit the region Saturday and survey the damage.
Simply driving in Lake Charles, a city of 80,000 residents that sustained some of the worst damage, was a feat. Power lines and trees blocked paths or created one-lane roads that drivers had to navigate with oncoming traffic. Street signs were snapped off their perches or dangled, and no stoplights worked, making it a trust exercise with those sharing the roads.
Mayor Nic Hunter cautioned that there was no timetable for restoring electricity and that water-treatment plants “took a beating,” resulting in barely a trickle of water coming out of most faucets. “If you come back to Lake Charles to stay, make sure you understand the above reality and are prepared to live in it for many days, probably weeks,” Hunter wrote on Facebook.
Caravans of utility trucks were met Friday by thunderstorms in the sizzling heat, complicating recovery efforts.
Forty nursing homes were also relying on generators, and assessments were underway to determine if more than 860 residents in 11 facilities that had been evacuated could return. Water outages remained a major problem in evacuated facilities, the Louisiana Department of Health said.
In the storm’s wake, more than 600,000 homes and businesses were without power in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utility reports.
Laura, which packed a top wind speed of 150 mph, was the most powerful hurricane to strike Louisiana, meaning it surpassed even Katrina, which was a Category 3 storm when it hit in 2005.
Meanwhile, the hurricane’s remnants threatened to bring flooding and tornadoes to Tennessee as the storm, now a tropical depression, drifted north. Forecasters warned that the system could strengthen into a tropical storm again upon returning to the Atlantic Ocean this weekend.....
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The advance stalled but is now going forward again:
"Police in Berlin on Friday requested thousands of reinforcements from other parts of Germany to cope with planned protests over the weekend by people opposed to the country’s coronavirus restrictions. Authorities in the German capital had banned the protests earlier this week, citing demonstrations a few weeks ago during which participants flouted rules on social distancing and mask-wearing. Germany has seen a rise in the number of virus infections in recent weeks and officials had expressed concern that protesters might contribute to the spread of coronavirus during their rallies and while traveling to and from Berlin. Germany has been widely praised for its handling of the pandemic through robust testing and contact tracing and has seen far less drastic pandemic-related restrictions than other European countries....."
What does that mean, more cases?
Does it mean new infections? Newly tested positive, but no symptoms? Sick people? Hospitalized people? People who died? – In fact, the death rate has not gone up whatsoever. Nobody has died from these “new cases” or “new infections,” but nobody reports on this important fact. It sounds dramatic: a case, an infection — but nobody dares ask the so-called pathetic and corrupted authorities such crucial questions. Nobody asks for an explanation what these “increased figures” really mean? – Are they increased as a function of increased testing? How is testing performed? Does anybody ever ask how the infamous and controversial polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests are performed and analyzed, and the results reported into the annals of statistics, so as to produce ever more “virus-cases”?
You can see where it is all going:
"Groups representing nearly every public health department in the country called on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday to reverse recent changes to its coronavirus testing guidelines stating that covid-19 patients’ close contacts need not be tested if they are asymptomatic. “Changing testing guidelines to suggest that close contacts to confirmed positives without symptoms do not need to be tested is inconsistent with the science and the data,” the National Association of County and City Health Officials and Big Cities Health Coalition wrote in a letter to the CDC and Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration’s testing czar....."
The “Second Covid Lockdown” is on its way:
"Coronavirus cases are surging again in Europe after months of relative calm, but the second wave looks different from the first: Fewer people are dying, and the newest and mostly younger victims of the pandemic need less medical treatment. Unlike the initial hit of the pandemic this spring, which overwhelmed hospitals and turned nursing homes into grim mortuaries, the European resurgence of recent weeks has not forced as many people into medical wards, but the increase is widespread, and it is unsettling societies that had hoped the worst was behind them. Paris on Friday joined some other French jurisdictions in imposing a citywide mask requirement, with cases spiking. France, Germany, Spain and others posted caseloads in recent days that had not been seen since April and early May....."
The COVID-19 coronavirus, whatever it is or was, has now MUTATED into a WEAKER VERSION -- exactly as true science would have it -- and populations have achieved HERD IMMUNITY!
The entire crisis has been a big lie and con, although I'm sure they have an engineered bioweapon (funded by the usual suspects so keep your distance) ready for release per WHO simulation protocol, perhaps on the 19th anniversary of 9/11 as the winter weather will herald a dark future if the past is any indication.
