Parts and a model of a mask is displayed in the Israeli jewelry company Yvel in Motza near Jerusalem on Aug. 9, 2020 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner).
"An Israeli jewelry company is working on what it says will be the world’s most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face covering with a price tag of $1.5 million. The 18-karat white gold mask will be decorated with 3,600 white and black diamonds and fitted with top-rated N99 filters at the request of the buyer, said designer Isaac Levy. Levy, owner of the Yvel company, said the buyer had two other demands: that it be completed by the end of the year, and that it would be the priciest in the world. That last condition, he said, “was the easiest to fulfill.” He declined to identify the buyer, but said he was a Chinese businessman living in the United States. The glitzed-up face mask may lend some pizzazz to the protective gear now mandatory in public spaces in many countries, but at 270 grams (over half a pound) — nearly 100 times that of a typical surgical mask — it is not likely to be a practical accessory to wear. In an interview at his factory near Jerusalem, Levy showed off several pieces of the mask, covered in diamonds. One gold plate had a hole for the filter. “Money maybe doesn’t buy everything, but if it can buy a very expensive COVID-19 mask and the guy wants to wear it and walk around and get the attention, he should be happy with that,” Levy said. Such an ostentatious mask might also rub some the wrong way at a time when millions of people around the world are out of work or suffering economically. Levy said that while he would not wear it himself, he was thankful for the opportunity. “I am happy that this mask gave us enough work for our employees to be able to provide their jobs in very challenging times like these times right now,” he said."
The mask has become something of a fashion statement -- further evidence of the plannedemic fraud.
I wonder what the Talmud says about what they are doing (they made how much last year?).
The above item was scrubbed from the Globe, but it did make their print.
It was replaced by this:
"Mexico is battling one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world, with more than 52,000 confirmed deaths, the third-highest toll of the pandemic, and its struggle has been made even harder by a pervasive phenomenon: a deeply rooted fear of hospitals. The problem has long plagued nations overwhelmed by unfamiliar diseases. During the Ebola epidemic in 2014, many in Sierra Leone believed that hospitals had become hopeless death traps. The consequences, doctors, nurses, and health ministers say, are severe. Mexicans are waiting to seek medical care until their cases are so bad that doctors can do little to help them. Thousands are dying before ever seeing the inside of a hospital, government data show, succumbing to the virus in taxis on the way there or in sickbeds at home. Fighting infections at home may not only spread the disease more widely, epidemiologists say, but it also hides the true toll of the epidemic because an untold number of people die without ever being tested — and officially counted — as coronavirus victims. Many Mexicans say they have good reason to be wary of hospitals: Nearly 40 percent of people hospitalized with confirmed cases of the virus in Mexico City, the epicenter of the nation’s outbreak, end up dying, government data show, a high mortality rate even when compared with some of the worst coronavirus hot spots worldwide. Doctors say more patients would survive if they sought help earlier. Delaying treatment, they argue, simply leads to more deaths in hospitals — which then generates even more fear of hospitals."
Mexico looks a lot like the United States these days in regard to the health $y$tem, and who knows how many of us are going to develop treatable diseases during the era of the fraudulent telemedicine era.
Beyond that, I'm sick of responding to the lying, agenda-pushing pre$$ narrative put forth above. The Mexican president is a skeptic of this whole thing.
Time to get out your map:
"Abdenabi Nouidi sold his favorite horse for $150 to help feed the others on the team that pulls tourists in carriages through the buzzing streets of Marrakech, and he is still scared about the future for the others. The prospect of starvation looms for carriage horses and other animals normally used in Morocco’s tourist mecca, since visitors have vanished during the coronavirus pandemic. The Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad, or SPANA, says hundreds of Morocco’s carriage horses and donkeys are threatened amid the collapsing tourism industry. They are among the estimated 200 million horses, donkeys, camels, and elephants worldwide providing various livelihoods for more than a half-billion people. The North African kingdom closed its doors to outsiders after the first virus case was confirmed March 2. It also recently issued a ban on domestic travel to eight cities, including Marrakech. Thousands of people in the city depend on the carriage horses for their livelihood. A single horse carriage in Marrakech supports four to five families, including owners, drivers, and stable boys, driver Abdeljalil Belghaoute said."
The genocidal globalists behind this plot hate all life.
"Britain has recorded more than 1,000 new coronavirus infections in a day for the first time since late June. Government statistics say 1,062 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the 24 hours until 9 a,m. Sunday. The last time the number was over 1,000 was on June 26. Britain has seen a gradual rise in coronavirus infections since it began lifting lockdown restrictions in mid-June. The government has put the next stage of reopening, which had been due to take effect Aug. 1, on hold for at least two weeks. The number of patients hospitalized with the virus continues to decline, as does the daily number of deaths. Eight new COVID-19 fatalities were reported Sunday. Britain’s official coronavirus death toll stands at 46,574, the highest in Europe."
The death toll was revised down, and why would the pre$$ not want you to know that?
"Masks during class, masks only in the halls, no masks at all. Distance when possible, no distance within same-grade groups, no distance at all. As Germany’s 16 states start sending millions of children back to school in the middle of the global pandemic, the country’s famous sense of “Ordnung,” or order, has given way to uncertainty, with a hodgepodge of regional regulations that officials acknowledge may or may not work. “There can’t, and never will, be 100 percent certainty,” said Torsten Kuehne, the official in charge of schools in Pankow, Berlin’s most populous district where 45,000 students go back to school Monday. “We are trying to minimize the risk as much as possible.” Germany has won plaudits for managing to slow the spread of the coronavirus quickly, efficiently, and early, but the opening of schools is proving a new challenge as the country struggles to balance the concerns of anxious parents and children, skeptical scientists, worried teachers, and overtaxed administrators. Many around the world will be closely observing the real-life experiment offered in Germany to see what works and what doesn’t. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stressed the government’s moral duty to ensure children return to class next month — despite having the highest official death toll in Europe. Germany has seen some 217,000 confirmed cases and 9,200 deaths, and brought down a peak of some 6,000 new daily infections in March to the low hundreds. Numbers have been creeping back up, however, and topped the 1,000 per day mark in recent days for the first time in about three months."
We are all guinea pigs to them.
"The Indian Medical Association says 196 doctors have died of COVID-19 so far and, in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requested adequate care for physicians and their families. India has been posting an average of around 50,000 new cases a day since mid-June and has the third-highest caseload in the world after the United States and Brazil. It has the fifth-most deaths, but its fatality rate of about 2 percent is far lower than the top two hardest-hit countries. Even as India has maintained low mortality rates, the disease has spread widely across the country....."
Forget the lies about fatality rates, did you $ee the criminal $hakedown by the doctors!
If they don't get the hu$h money, will they blow the whistle on this massive fraud or not?
"With confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States hitting 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe. Perhaps nowhere outside the country is America’s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe’s epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outbreak exploded in February, and the country still has one of the world’s highest official death tolls at more than 35,000, but after a strict nationwide, 10-week lockdown, vigilant tracing of new clusters, and general acceptance of mask mandates and social distancing, Italy has become a model of virus containment. “Don’t they care about their health?” a mask-clad Patrizia Antonini asked about people in the United States as she walked with friends along the banks of Lake Bracciano, north of Rome. “They need to take our precautions. . . . They need a real lockdown.’’ Much of the incredulity in Europe stems from the fact that America had the benefit of time, European experience, and medical know-how to treat the virus that the continent itself didn’t have when the first COVID-19 patients started filling intensive care units. More than four months into a sustained outbreak, the United States reached the 5 million mark, according to the running count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Health officials believe the actual number is perhaps 10 times higher, or closer to 50 million, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40 percent of all those who are infected have no symptoms."
You can't have it both ways! If the cases are 10x higher, then we have herd immunity and the death rates collapse like a WTC tower.
As for Italy being the model for containment, well, that is the birthplace of fa$ci$m so she can shove her "real lockdown."
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"World donors demand change before money to rebuild Beirut" by Sarah El Deeb and Sylvie Corbet Associated Press, August 9, 2020
BEIRUT — World leaders and international organizations pledged nearly $300 million in humanitarian aid to Beirut in the wake of the devastating explosion, but warned on Sunday that no money for rebuilding the capital will be made available until Lebanese authorities commit themselves to the political and economic reforms demanded by the people.
Oh.
So the Beirut blast was all about regime change, huh?
What is described above used to be called extortion, but I gue$$ bastard globalists are above that.
More than 30 participants to the international conference offered help for a “credible and independent” investigation into the Aug. 4 Beirut explosion, another key demand of the Lebanese crowds who took to the streets Saturday and Sunday.
PFFFFT!
They will be looking to scapegoat Lebanese while covering up for Israel as the West foments another color revolution!
In Beirut, two Lebanese Cabinet ministers, including a top aide to the premier, resigned amid signals that the embattled government may be unraveling in the aftermath of the devastating blast that ripped through the capital, raising public anger to new levels.
The resignation of Information Minister Manal Abdel-Samad, in which she cited failure to meet the people’s aspirations and last week’s blast, was followed by reports that other ministers were resigning.
Late Sunday, Environment Minister Demanios Kattar resigned, calling the ruling system “flaccid and sterile.”
He stepped down despite closed-door meetings into the evening and a flurry of phone calls between Prime Minister Hassan Diab and several ministers following Abdel-Samad’s announcement. The political haggling had appeared to put off more resignations, and a Cabinet meeting is planned Monday.
If seven of the 20 ministers resign, the Cabinet would effectively have to step down and remain in place as a caretaker government.
You see what is going on, right?
Maha Yahya, the director of the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center, said the discussions clearly point to backroom deals that seek to put together a new government that’s acceptable to domestic and international powers, as well as the angered public.
The current government “really has been a lame duck,” she said, unable to undertake any reform or show independence in a highly divisive political atmosphere. “Even the ministers are deserting the sinking ship.”
Meanwhile, four more lawmakers announced Sunday they were resigning from the 128-seat parliament, joining four others who declared it earlier. Parliament is also due to convene later this week.
As the political negotiations took place, protesters converged again on the parliament area Sunday afternoon, setting off another night of violent demonstrations. Hundreds of protesters clashed with security forces, attempting to breach the heavily guarded parliament. Security forces responded with tear gas and chased the protesters in the streets of downtown, in a smaller repeat of scenes from the night before.
The protesters blame the ruling elite for the chronic mismanagement and corruption that is believed to be behind the explosion in a Beirut port warehouse. Hundreds of tons of highly explosive material were stored in the waterfront hangar, and the blast sent a shock wave that defaced the coastline of Beirut — destroying hundreds of buildings.
No one is buying that piece of shit cover story, and some protests contain no worries of COVID.
The final statement from participants at Sunday’s donor conference coorganized by France and the United Nations read: “In these horrendous times, Lebanon is not alone.’’
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The teleconference participants promised emergency aid — focusing on medicine and hospitals, schools, food, and housing.
The altrui$m comes with $trings!
Maybe if they hadn't been under sanction.....
The donors pledged the aid will be coordinated by the United Nations and delivered directly to the Lebanese people — in a clear indication that no money is going to the government and its coffers.
French President Emmanuel Macron, whose country once governed Lebanon as a protectorate, said, “We have to do everything we can so that violence and chaos do not win the day.’’
As his goons beat down Yellow Vest protesters, the disingenuous hypocrite.
“The explosion of August 4 was like a thunderbolt. It’s time to wake up and take action. The Lebanese authorities now have to put in place . . . political and economic reforms.”
Among the conference participants were President Trump, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, and other top officials from China, the European Union, and the Gulf Arab countries.....
Oh, he was in on this! That's how he knew it was a bombing!
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Related:
"Shock waves from a massive explosion that ripped through Beirut last week continued to reverberate through the state’s Lebanese community over the weekend, as mourning turned to anger. “We go from sadness to shock to anger,” said Nicole Samaha, 35, a pharmacist from Chestnut Hill. “Of course we go to anger.” Across Boston’s close-knit Lebanese community, many have begun to call for a rebuilding of the Lebanese government after thousands of tons of state-seized ammonium nitrate officials had for years kept stored in the city’s port ignited Tuesday, killing 160 people, wounding more than 6,000, and destroying part of the historic capital....."
The shock wave reached all the way to Bo$ton, huh?
Mary Nauffal embraced her fiance, Malek Salib, during a vigil held in Boston's Copley Square to commemorate those who lost their lives in the Beirut blast (Nathan Klima for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe)
Here is another attempt at regime change:
"Police, protesters clash after Belarus presidential vote" by Yuras Karmanau Associated Press, August 9, 2020
MINSK — Belarus police and protesters clashed in the capital and the city of Brest on Sunday night after a presidential election in which the country’s longtime leader sought a sixth term despite rising discontent with his authoritarian rule and his cavalier dismissal of the coronavirus pandemic.
Tensions have been rising for weeks ahead of Sunday’s vote in the former Soviet nation, which pitted President Alexander Lukashenko, who has held an iron grip on Belarus since 1994, against four others. The campaign has generated the country’s biggest opposition protests in years. Opposition supporters say they suspect election officials will manipulate the results of Sunday’s vote to give the 65-year-old Lukashenko a sixth term.
They will claim he stole it because Lukashenko retained his job with a landslide win.
Officials had already denied two prominent opposition challengers places on the ballot, jailing one on charges he called political and prompting the other to flee to Russia with his children. The main opposition candidate, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, came under heavy pressure over the weekend as eight members of her staff were arrested, and one of her top aides fled the country on Sunday.
Belarusians weary of the country’s deteriorating economy and Lukashenko’s repression of the opposition coalesced around Tsikhanouskaya, a former teacher and the wife of a jailed opposition blogger, in large shows of support unusual for a country where crackdowns on dissent are routine.
Meaning the US activated its assets to destabilize this brave world leader.
Preliminary results are not expected until Monday, but even before the last polls closed the head of the Central Elections Commission announced fragmentary results, saying voters in hospitals and sanatoria in five of the country’s six regions had given Lukashenko 82 percent of their support. Long lines of voters meant that some polling stations remained open after their planned closing time.
Police presence in the capital of Minsk was heavy throughout the day and in the evening police set up checkpoints on the city’s perimeter to check residence permits, apparently worried that protesters would come from other cities. Lukashenko had vowed to crush any protests.
Where do you think they came from?
About 1,000 protesters gathered near the obelisk honoring Minsk as a World War II “hero city,” where police harshly clashed with them, beating some with trucheons and later using flash-bang grenades to try to disperse them. News reports said police fired tear gas at protesters in the city of Brest.
That''s all?
Three journalists from the independent Russian TV station Dozhd were detained earlier after interviewing an opposition figure and were expected to be deported. “What has happened is awful,” Tsikhanouskaya told reporters Sunday. She also rejected exit polls that indicated an overwhelming win for Lukashenko, saying “I will believe my own eyes — the majority was for us.’’
Lukashenko himself was defiant as he voted earlier in the day. “If you provoke, you will get the same answer,” he said. “Do you want to try to overthrow the government, break something, wound, offend, and expect me or someone to kneel in front of you and kiss them and the sand onto which you wandered? This will not happen.”
Belarus isn't Lebanon.
Mindful of Belarus’s long history of violent crackdowns on dissent — protesters were beaten after the 2010 election and six rival candidates arrested, three of whom were imprisoned for years — Tsikhanouskaya called for calm earlier Sunday. “I hope that everything will be peaceful and that the police will not use force,” she said after voting.
Tsikhanouskaya emerged as Lukashenko’s main opponent after two other prominent opposition aspirants were denied places on the ballot. One was jailed for charges that he calls political and the other, an entrepreneur and former ambassador to the United States Valery Tsepkalo, fled to Russia after warnings that he would be arrested and his children taken away. Tsepkalo’s wife Veronika became a top member of Tsikhanouskaya’s campaign, but she, too, has now left the country, campaign spokeswoman Anna Krasulina said Sunday.
Some voters were defiant in the face of Lukashenko’s vow not to tolerate any protests.
“There is no more fear. Belarusians will not be silent and will protest loudly,’’ 24-year-old Tatiana Protasevich said at a Minsk polling place Sunday.
As polls opened, the country’s central elections commission said more than 40 percent of the electorate had cast ballots in early voting, a figure likely to heighten concerns about the potential for manipulation. “For five nights nobody has guarded the ballot boxes, which gives the authorities a wide field for maneuverings,” Veronika Tsepkalo said on Sunday, a few hours before leaving Belarus.
They didn't mail theirs in like we will, did they?
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, whose assessments of elections are widely regarded as authoritative, was not invited to send observers
Tsikhanouskaya had crisscrossed the country, tapping into public frustration with Lukashenko’s swaggering response to the pandemic and the country’s stagnating Soviet-style economy.
Americans have a Soviet-style economy NOW!
Belarus, a country of 9.5 million people, has reported more than 68,500 confirmed coronavirus cases and 580 deaths but critics have accused authorities of manipulating the figures to downplay the death toll.
Let's see, that is a fatality rate of 0.0006 percent.
No wonder Lukashenko never locked them down.
Lukashenko has dismissed the virus as “psychosis” and declined to order restrictions to block its spread. He announced last month that he had been infected but had no symptoms and recovered quickly, allegedly thanks to doing sports. He has defended his handling of the outbreak, saying that a lockdown would have doomed the nation’s already weak economy.
Lukashenko knows!
Belarus has sustained a severe economic blow after its leading exports customer, Russia, went into a pandemic-induced recession and other foreign markets shrank. Before the coronavirus, the country’s state-controlled economy already had been stalled for years, stoking public frustration, yet for some voters, Lukashenko’s long, hardline rule was a plus.
“He is an experienced politician, not a housewife who appeared out of nowhere and muddied the waters,” retiree Igor Rozhov said Sunday. “We need a strong hand that will not allow riots.’’
Belarusian authorities last week arrested 33 Russian military contractors and charged them with plans to stage “mass riots’’ during the campaign, move independent observers saw as an attempt to shore up Lukashenko’s sagging public support.
82% is sagging support?
What was his approval before?
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A woman played the violin while waiting in line to vote at the Belarusian embassy in Moscow on Sunday (DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)
NOT A MASK IN SIGHT!
BRAVO!
Related:
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (center) and first lady Rula Ghani wore face masks as a preventive measure against the coronavirus during an assembly in Kabul on Friday (Press Office of President of Afghanistan/AFP via Getty Images)
"Azar leads highest-level US delegation to Taiwan in decades" by Johnson Lai Associated Press, August 9, 2020
TAIPEI — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Taipei in 1979.
Beijing has already protested Azar’s visit as a betrayal of US commitments not to have official contact with the island. China claims Taiwan as its own territory, to be brought under its control by military force if necessary.
Azar is due to meet with the island’s independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen along with health officials during a three-day visit aimed at highlighting cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus.
Taiwan’s government-run health care system has been credited with keeping the number of coronavirus cases to under 500 with just seven deaths, despite its close proximity to China where the virus originated.
Did it?
China sees Taiwan as a key irritant in its troubled relationship with Washington. Azar is the first health secretary to visit Taiwan and the first Cabinet member to visit in six years. In 2014, then-Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy visited Taiwan, sparking protests from Beijing.
Azar’s office said he will hold discussions on COVID-19, global health, and Taiwan’s role as a supplier of medical equipment and technology.
Azar’s visit was facilitated by the 2018 passage of the Taiwan Travel Act, which encouraged Washington to send higher-level officials to Taiwan after decades during which such contacts were rare and freighted with safeguards to avoid roiling ties with Beijing.
China has cut contacts with Tsai over her refusal to recognize China’s claim to the island and has brought increasing diplomatic, economic, and military pressure against her, including by poaching away several of its remaining diplomatic allies and excluding it from international gatherings including the World Health Assembly. That, in turn, has increased already considerable bipartisan sympathy for Taipei in Washington and prompted new measures to strengthen governmental and military ties.
We are slowly becoming like China, and they are slowly becoming like us!
Also Sunday, the Taiwanese foreign minister, Joseph Wu, met with the first representative of Somaliland to the island ahead of the territory’s opening of a representative office in Taipei.
Wu earlier tweeted that Mohamed Omar Hagi Mohamoud had “braved Chinese pressure” — a reference to reports that China had sought to block relations between Taiwan and the region on the Horn of Africa that broke from the rest of Somalia but is not recognized by the United Nations as an independent country.
They seceded from Somalia?
Must have been the record number of US airstrikes that are murdering civilians.
“The fact ‘sovereignty & friendship aren’t for sale’ deserves international recognition,” Wu tweeted.
On his arrival, Mahamoud tweeted that “We are ready to establish good relations with all countries — those we share values of democracy are special.’’
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"After months of protests and COVID-19 restrictions, Hong Kong’s biggest property tycoons are feeling the pinch. At Wharf Real Estate Investment Co., retail rental income plunged by nearly 33 percent in the first half of the year, leading to a loss and a $955 million hit to its portfolio. Revenue from Hong Kong property sales at CK Asset Holdings slumped more than 60 percent. Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. slashed rents for some tenants. The city’s financial secretary has urged landlords to offer concessions on rents — some of the world’s highest — to ride out the crisis. While seven of Hong Kong’s real estate tycoons still sit atop $107 billion combined, the impact of recent events is clear: They’ve lost $7.7 billion this year. Overall, the city’s vacancy rate for office buildings is at the highest in more than a decade and mall traffic is down by more than a third from a year ago."
Also see:
"Saudi Aramco Oil Co., the world’s largest oil company, said Sunday that its quarterly earnings plunged more than 73 percent, compared to a year ago, as lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus drastically cut the demand for oil. Despite the steep fall in earnings, to $6.6 billion from $24.7 billion, the company will continue paying a quarterly dividend costing $18.75 billion, almost three times its cash flow. Saudi Aramco is locked into paying such a large amount because of commitments made in the run-up to its initial public offering on the Saudi Tadawul stock exchange. Nearly all of the dividend money will go to the Saudi government, which owns more than 98 percent of the company. Other oil giants, like BP and Royal Dutch Shell, have cut their payouts to preserve capital. Neil Beveridge, an analyst at Bernstein, estimated Saudi Aramco is borrowing around $12 billion to pay the dividend. Recently, Apple dethroned Saudi Aramco as the world’s most valuable company. Apple now has a market capitalization of about $1.9 trillion, compared to about $1.76 trillion for the Saudi company."
Then why did the price of gas stay the same?
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Why would you wear a mask and hide your new mug?
"The pandemic triggers a boom in plastic surgery" by Mark Ellwood Bloomberg, August 9, 2020
NEW YORK — Jocelyn is a 25-year actress. A self-described ‘‘petite woman’’ who’s happy with her body overall, she’d always noticed a few areas that neither diet nor exercise could fix. Then the pandemic struck, and New York went into lockdown. ‘‘I got a little chunky from eating so much, sitting on the couch, and watching Netflix,’’ says Jocelyn, who asked that her real name not be used, for professional reasons.
One wonders if Bloomberg made her up out of whole cloth.
Like most in the city, she spent almost three months with life on hold, and afterward found herself not only heavier but flush with cash as the restrictions eased. ‘‘I wasn’t able to spend as much money as I would have normally, on eating out or shopping excessively,’’ she says.
As a result of her unhealthy weight and healthier bank balance, Jocelyn splurged on cosmetic surgery; in her case, it was an AirSculpt treatment, a body-contouring alternative to liposuction. ‘‘I got it done on a Wednesday, filmed a commercial that same Friday, and right after, went on a date, because I looked freaking amazing and I darn sure wasn’t going to be the only person to see it,’’ she says.
Wait a minute.
As we are all denied doctor's visit due the the "viru$," the plastic surgeon's offices are open?
As lockdowns took hold over much of America earlier this year, non-essential services were among the first to shutter, among them, cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists. By mid-March, in such hubs as New York and Los Angeles, procedures from Botox to butt lifts were on hiatus. Three months later, though, those clinics were slowly receiving authorization to reopen, as well as a deluge of inquiries from pent-up patients keen to go under the scalpel.
But the BARS have to be closed?
Dr. Aaron Rollins runs a network of clinics for Jocelyn’s procedure across the United States. The first to reopen were in Atlanta and Texas, at the end of April, with the final location, in New York, operating again from June 8. Rollins says overall demand was 20 percent higher in July versus the same month last year. Rollins has even hired extra administrative staffers to help handle the volume of applications for consultations.
Dr. Tracy Pfeifer, a surgeon who splits her time between Manhattan and Long Island, has seen a particular uptick in breast reductions, especially among younger women. She estimates that her bookings for the operation are 25 percent higher than a year ago.
Such a surge might seem startling, given the country’s overall economic health as the pandemic continues, with the sharpest contraction in gross domestic product in modern history and a jobless rate above 10 percent. For many high-end surgeons, though, the rest of 2020 looks set to be a blockbuster period for nips and tucks.
The RICH get RICHER as WE ALL SUFFER!
Surgeons say several factors drive the surge. Jocelyn wasn’t alone in gaining what’s been dubbed the ‘‘quarantine 15’’ during lockdown, with gyms closed and Americans eating to comfort themselves. ‘‘Everybody is fat, and no one wants to be,’’ Rollins shrugs, ‘‘and it’s the perfect time not to be fat.’’
Is there ever a good time to be fat?
He also tells the story of a US newlywed whose bride was stuck in the United Kingdom when borders closed. The couple has relied on video calls. ‘‘The guy told me, ‘Oh my God, I thought I had a little bit of a double chin, but it’s all I think about.’ So he came to us,’’ Rollins explains. ‘‘The double-chin business has skyrocketed, because any chins you have look 10 times worse on an iPhone.’’
The $ELF-AB$ORBED VANITY is $ICKENING!
Dr. Lara Devgan, a plastic surgeon on New York’s Upper East Side, has seen a similar uptick in bookings, much of her boom Zoom-related.
‘‘There’s something inherently unflattering about a 30-degree, angled-upward, forward-facing camera on a laptop,’’ Devgan explains. ‘‘I had one patient, who was previously just happy with Botox and fillers, proceed with a face and neck lift as a result of being on endless streams of Zoom calls. She saw jowls and neck folds she’d never appreciated before quarantine.’’
Devgan has increased her surgical dates by a third and is booking procedures for the holiday season. Patient, she says, are focused on quality rather than price and are keen to avoid surgical complications and risk admission to a hospital, where they might be exposed to COVID-19.
No wonder Mexicans and Americans are afraid of hospitals.
That's where is the COVID!
The ability to recover in private has been the most common explanation for patients turning to procedures at AVA MD, a California clinic with locations in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. One of the nurse practitioners there is KarriAnn Khalil, who focuses on such nonsurgical procedures as Fraxel laser resurfacing and the Plasma Pen. Khalil says the Plasma Pen is particularly popular. The procedure, often used to erase smoker’s lines around the mouth, results in scabbing that last 10 days or so. Amid widespread mask-wearing, the scabs need never be seen.
They will need to make a trip to the dentist, though.
Khalil’s recent patients have included a female chief executive whose lip-plumping can be camouflaged much the same way, and what she calls an ‘‘A-list, onscreen celebrity’’ who had laser treatments, including laser resurfacing, across her face, neck, chest, shoulders, arms, and back. ‘‘Studios had to shut down and filming was halted, so we finally had the time to do that without fear of the paparazzi or seeing it on camera.’’
I hope they don't butcher you.
Not every pandemic-era plastic surgery patient is a putative Oscar winner. Kelly (again, not her real name) is a 42-year-old receptionist from Rockland County, N.Y., who following her divorce underwent multiple procedures as soon as clinics opened, including a tummy tuck, skin removal, liposuction, and breast augmentation.
‘‘I did save during the pandemic, because there was no place to go — but mostly, collecting unemployment and the stimulus check is what helped me afford the procedures,’’ she said. ‘‘I had lost 150 pounds, and no amount of exercise would get rid of all my extra skin.’’
What a wa$te!
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If they botch the job, you will have to hide in the house:
"Neighbor sues to block Pine Street Inn project in Jamaica Plain" by Tim Logan Globe Staff, August 9, 2020
The Pine Street Inn’s biggest-ever development would provide long-term housing in Jamaica Plain for the formerly homeless, but one of the neighbors of the Washington Street site is suing to stop it, saying the project is too big, and wouldn’t have enough parking.
The landlord of a brewery across the street from Pine Street’s project recently filed suit in Suffolk County, saying the zoning decision allowing the five-story project — which would include services and 140 studio apartments for formerly homeless people, along with 62 units of more traditional affordable housing — was flawed.
The suit focuses particularly on parking, saying the project’s 60 spaces are simply too few for its 202 units. It contends that the overflow will hurt business at Turtle Swamp Brewing, a brewery with a tiny parking lot across the street.
You won't be needing that parking because you will soon be out of business as Bo$ton turns into a communi$t hellhole.
“Our client’s tenants ... also rely on street parking,” wrote Stephen Greenbaum, a lawyer for Monty Gold, who owns Turtle Swamp’s building, in March a letter to the Zoning Board of Appeal. “This project will, without question, significantly impact their ability to find parking, and therefore their ability to conduct their affairs in the manner they currently do.”
Greenbaum did not return messages seeking comment. Turtle Swamp co-owner John Lincecum noted the brewery itself was not a party to the lawsuit.
“We remain supportive of Pine Street Inn’s mission,” he said Friday.
Lawsuits like this one — challenging variances to Boston’s decades-old zoning code — are fairly common and often get settled out of court. The suit also highlights the tensions around development in this fast-changing part of Jamaica Plain.
The fast change is the redesigning of society for the Great Reset so WakeTF up, Bo$tonians!
The $96 million project has received strong support from the Walsh administration, which steered $1.5 million in city affordable housing money to help fund construction and later authorized $10 million in so-called linkage payments from an office tower being built downtown. Pine Street has also raised $10 million through Walsh’s Way Home Fund to pay for ongoing services once the building opens.
This kind of “permanent supportive housing,” as it’s called, is designed to give formerly homeless people a long-term place to live, with support services nearby. Pine Street operates several hundred units in smaller buildings around the city. This would be by far the largest, said Pine Street Inn executive director Lyndia Downie, and comes amid a pandemic that’s highlighting the city’s need for high quality, and uncrowded, affordable housing.
Don't they have enough condos?
“We thought this is an enormously important project even before COVID,” she said. “Given where things are now, and how this virus has hit homeless people, the need is even greater.”
Hmmmmmm.
So once again, COVID has given the agenda a MASSIVE SHOVE!
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Who wants mentally ill drug addicts for neighbors?
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"Lebanon’s government resigns amid widespread anger over blast" by Ben Hubbard New York Times, August 10
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Cabinet resigned Monday, opening up a new political void as the country struggles with a crippling economic crisis and reels from an enormous explosion last week that ravaged swaths of the capital.
The resignation of Prime Minister Hassan Diab’s government reflected how deeply last week’s explosion — which killed more than 150 people, wounded 6,000, and left hundreds of thousands homeless — has rattled the small Mediterranean nation. Lebanon was already struggling with deep economic and political crises before the blast caused billions of dollars in damage to Beirut.
In recent days, Beirut has been rocked by protests that have turned swaths of downtown into battle zones between demonstrators and security forces. Even before Diab’s announcement, new clashes had erupted as protesters sought to storm Parliament.
It's a global pandemic!
Demonstrators wearing masks and goggles climbed up barricades near Parliament and hurled stones at riot police, who fired volleys of tear gas that wafted through downtown for the third time in three days.
We are all Palestinians now.
The protesters said Diab’s resignation fell far short of their demands for the ouster of the country’s political elite.
Beirut has been shaken by other violent protests over the worsening economic crisis and what many consider decades of corruption and mismanagement. The local currency has lost much of its value, and unemployment and inflation rates have soared. Those problems will hamper Lebanon’s ability to recover from the blast, and now it is unclear who will take charge of that process.....
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A protester confronts forces securing the area during an anti-government protest at Parliament on Tuesday in Beirut (Getty Images).
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China sanctions 11 US politicians, heads of organizations
One of them is the prick senator Rubio.
New Belarus protests after authoritarian leader reelected
Was a handful of people as the ma$$ media blows it out of proportion.
"The emergencies chief for the World Health Organization said that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to follow the seasonal patterns that some viruses exhibit, making it harder to control. Unlike other respiratory viruses like influenza that spread mainly in the winter, the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in the summer. That’s despite earlier predictions from some scientists and politicians it would fade in the heat. “This virus has demonstrated no seasonal pattern as such,” said Dr. Michael Ryan at a press briefing on Monday. “What it has clearly demonstrated is that if you take the pressure off the virus, the virus bounces back,” he said. Ryan said the United Nations health agency, which predicted Monday that the number of people infected by the coronavirus will hit 20 million this week, including about 750,000 deaths, continues to advise countries even where COVID-19 appears to be under control, such as those in Europe, to maintain measures to slow virus spread. He called for countries where transmission remains intense, such as Brazil, to adopt measures so that communities have the necessary support they need to implement strategies like social distancing, wearing masks, and self-isolating if they have symptoms."
The lies coming from the WHO continue regarding the coronavirus, with Ryan on record as saying he wants authorities to kidnap your kids for nefarious purposes.
"From the most romantic spots along the Seine to popular shopping streets, residents and visitors in Paris were required to wear face masks starting Monday in some outdoor areas of the French capital amid an uptick in reported coronavirus cases. Police are authorized to issue a 135-euro ($159) fine to people who do not follow the new public health requirement. Wearing a face mask outdoors also is required at the city’s open-air markets, at popular tourist sites like Notre Dame Cathedral and Montmartre district neighborhoods, on several typically crowded streets, and in parts of the Paris suburbs, authorities said. A similar requirement is being applied in Marseille, France’s second-largest city, and dozens of other tourist destinations in France, including the Riviera resort of Saint-Tropez. A nationwide decree already requires people to wear masks in all stores and other indoor public places."
When will the French live up to their example?
"Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it published remarks by a specialist who said the official figures on coronavirus cases and deaths in the country account for only 5 percent of the real toll, allegations rejected by the Health Ministry. Mohammad Reza Sadi, the editor-in-chief of Jahane Sanat, told the official IRNA news agency that authorities closed his newspaper, which began publishing in 2004 and was mainly focused on business news. On Sunday, the daily quoted Mohammad Reza Mahboobfar, an epidemiologist the paper said had worked on the government’s anticoronavirus campaign, as saying the true number of cases and deaths in Iran could be 20 times the number reported by the Health Ministry. He also said the virus was detected in Iran a month earlier than Feb. 19, when authorities announced the first confirmed case. He said they held up the announcement until after the commemorations of the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and parliamentary elections earlier that month. Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari rejected the allegations and said Mahboobfar had no role in the government’s anticoronavirus campaign. IRNA quoted her as saying the ministry has provided figures in a “transparent” way."
See what happens when you tell the truth!
The fact that all governments have gone along with this massive fraud tells you something.
German official urges any vaccine be globally available
They are the Nazis of the 21st-century (with all due apologies to the Nazis).
