"For some, COVID-19 symptoms linger for months; Known as “long-haulers,” these patients call for more research, especially in the Boston area" by Felice J. Freyer Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
At least four days a week, Kate Porter feels the heat rising within her, the inevitable return of the fevers that have plagued her for months. Merely walking from one room to another in her Beverly home can set her heart pattering at 140 beats per minute. Mounting a flight of stairs leaves her breathless.
Porter, 35, was healthy and active until mid-March, when she came down with COVID-19.
“So many people think it’s just life or death,” she said, but Porter, and others like her, are stuck in between — alive but unable to return to their previous lives.
No one knows how many people there are like Porter, but many thousands have gathered in social media groups, often conducting their own research.
They call themselves “long-haulers”: COVID-19 patients who continue to endure symptoms weeks and months after the initial infection, despite no sign of the virus remaining in their bodies. Most were never hospitalized, so their lingering symptoms cannot be attributed to the effects of prolonged hospital stays.
The list of symptoms they report in patient-run surveys is long — longer than the government’s official list. Among the most common are fatigue, body aches, shortness of breath, and difficulty concentrating, but some people have chest pain and palpitations, or numbness and tremors in a limb, or intermittent fevers, dizziness, even hallucinations. It’s common to start to get better and then suddenly get hit with new symptoms.
Now anything is COVID (comes with a government check), and you will want to avoid the hospitals this fall.
Lauren Nichols, a 32-year-old long-hauler who has been suffering with nausea, vertigo, painful breathing, and other symptoms for more than five months, put it this way: “You trust your body. You think your body is going to bounce back because it always had. You trust the medical system, because it always had answers. Now you can’t trust either.”
Nor the pre$$ or official authority for which they front.
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Related:
Hyperventilating Over the Sunday Globe
New York Times Still Lying About COVID Deaths
New York Times Admits COVID Cases Amplified and Inflated
Despite that, they report today that "if Italy was the harbinger of the first wave of Europe's coronavirus pandemic in February, Spain is the portent of its second. France is also surging, as are parts of Eastern Europe, and cases are ticking up in Germany, Greece, Italy and Belgium, too, but in the past week, Spain has recorded the most new cases on the continent by far. Now, as other Europeans mull how to restart their economies while still protecting human life, the Spanish have become an early bellwether for how a second wave might happen, how hard it might hit, and how it could be contained."
Yeah, here we go again says the insulting headline!
"Reports of new cases have fallen significantly around the country since July; they are now flat in 26 states and falling in 15 others, but in nine states, cases are still growing, and in some setting new records — especially in the Midwest....."
They just look like flat-out f**king liars now.
"Despite being at high risk for developing COVID-19, a large number of doctors, nurses, and other health care workers may be going undiagnosed after they become infected, according to a new report released on Monday by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings raise concern that these health care workers could unknowingly spread the infection within the hospital. About 6 percent of the workers had antibody evidence of a previous coronavirus infection, the report said, and more than two-thirds of these individuals had not been previously diagnosed. Almost 30 percent were asymptomatic. The findings suggest that some infections “are undetected and unrecognized,” possibly because some workers are asymptomatic or those with symptoms are not reporting them or being tested, the researchers said."
Maybe some of you health heroes will finally start blowing the whistle on this scam seeing as they are coming after you, too.
Also see:
"After President Trump retweeted a claim that discounted the coronavirus death toll in the United States over the weekend, Twitter took down the post that spread false information. The tweet was originally posted by “Mel Q,” a follower of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon, which posits that the president is battling a cabal of Satan-worshiping child sex traffickers. It was copied from a Facebook post and claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had “quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6%” of reported deaths — or about 9,000 — “actually died from Covid.” The rest were people who “had 2-3 other serious illnesses,” said the tweet, which has since been replaced with a message saying it “is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” A Twitter spokesperson said the tweet violated the company’s coronavirus misinformation policy. The claim appears to be a reference to the CDC’s Wednesday update to its death data and resources page, which noted that in 6 percent of reported deaths, covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, “was the only cause mentioned,” however, that does not mean only 6 percent of reported deaths are attributed to the virus — it means 94 percent of people had at least one additional factor contributing to their deaths."
That is Washington Compost disassembling there, making it seem like COVID was the primary cause and not something picked up by one of their damn tests!
As for the above, the reaction to those once outlandish "conspiracy theories" that are being exposed everywhere tells you a lot. First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you.
Related:
"If there’s any encouraging news in the pandemic, it’s this: Fewer than 1 in 1,000 college tests have come back positive at the Broad so far. That’s a 0.1 percent positive rate. The statewide average positive rate has recently hovered around 1 percent — closer to one in a hundred people tested. “Overall, the average rate of 1 in 1,000 is good news,” said Stacey Gabriel, senior director of the Broad’s Genomics Platform. “The goal is to detect these cases quickly before they spread.”
You don't even know you have it and are not infectious because COVID-19 is scam, and why are we not open and back to normal with the low rate of infections?
They want to detect before spread when the alleged evidence shows it is not, and even if it is the survival rate is approaching 99.99% with consequential herd immunity.
Also see:
Globe Downplays COVID-19 Overcounts
Globe Goes Over the Top on COVID-19 Undercounts
The Times, as well as the Globe are all in on this evil plot, and there is that man looking at me again.
Wake Up America, You’ve Been Conned. Only An Estimated 9,683 Covid-19 Only Deaths So Far In 2020, Not 180,000
May the power of almighty God come down on their heads:
"‘I want the people of God to enjoy liberty’: Pastor at Maine super-spreader wedding gives a defiant indoor sermon" by Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
The officiant of a now-infamous wedding in Millinocket gave a defiant sermon during an indoor church service on Sunday, just a day after Maine’s CDC announced it was investigating a coronavirus outbreak among those affiliated with the Sanford church.
I like fire and brimstone sermons -- because it is needed at this time!
Todd Bell, the pastor, portrayed Calvary Baptist Church, which he leads, as being on the front lines of a culture war, battling against a “socialistic platform” that mandates mask-wearing and distance learning in schools.
Not just that, for the very foundations of freedom and liberty that we have had for so long and that are now being stripped from us for a cabal of sick, genocidal globalists and their political minions.
“I’ll tell you what the world wants all the churches to do,” Bell said during one of two Sunday services, which the church posted on YouTube. “They want us to shut down, go home, and let people get used to that just long enough until we can finally stop the advancing of the Gospel.”
Bell’s comments echoed some of the political talking points that President Trump and others on the right have used to decry coronavirus restrictions. At a rally in New Hampshire on Friday night, for example, Trump lamented that Democrats “don’t believe law-abiding citizens can go to a church together. You can’t go to church anymore.”
You can, however, attend a wedding if you are a Supreme Court justice or member of the Communist Party in Portugal:
"A tweet Monday from a new bride brought the first sighting of ailing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in months — officiating at an outdoor wedding Sunday. The photo of the 87-year-old Ginsburg, who announced in July she is being treated for cancer, shows her during the wedding ceremony Sunday of Barb Solish and Danny Kazin, according to Solish’s Twitter feed. In the photo, Ginsburg is wearing her judicial robe with a decorative black-and-white embroidered collar. The justice is a close friend of one of the families and the festivities took place outdoors at a private residence, court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said....."
"Health authorities in Portugal are allowing the country’s Communist Party to let 16,500 people into its annual open-air festival next weekend -- an unusually high number for a gathering in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic. The permit has caused an outcry because officials have for months slashed the number of people allowed into other public events, forcing many of them to cancel. The event is a major source of income for the Communist Party, which has 10 seats in Portugal’s 230-seat parliament....."
They need money?
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
The time for laughing is over:
"The government in China's far northwest Xinjiang region is resorting to draconian measures to combat the coronavirus, including spraying detainees with acidic disinfectant, physically locking residents in homes, imposing strict quarantines of more than 40 days and arresting those who do not comply. Furthermore, in what experts call a breach of medical ethics, some residents are being coerced into swallowing traditional Chinese medicine despite a lack of rigorous clinical data proving it works, according to government notices, social media posts, and interviews with three people in quarantine in Xinjiang. The latest grueling lockdown, now in its 45th day, comes in response to 826 cases reported in Xinjiang since mid-July, China’s largest caseload since the initial outbreak. The lockdown is especially striking because of its severity, and because there hasn’t been a single new case of local transmission in over a week....."
At least they get you get drunk before mandating the vaccines around here, and it's time people learned that in the leftist's paradise, it is do as I say not as I do and if you dare notice the hypocrisy, away you go!
The Aug. 7 wedding at which Bell officiated in East Millinocket has been linked to 123 coronavirus cases in Maine, the largest outbreak in the state, as well as to the death of Theresa Dentremont, an 83-year-old woman who did not attend the event. Many of the participants in the wedding, including the bride and groom, went silent as the fallout grew, switching their social media accounts to private, but Bell’s sermon on Sunday, at his church 225 miles south of the scene of the wedding, was fiery and unrepentant, indicating just how politicized the coronavirus has become, even in communities that have been affected by it. At times, he seemed to delight in provocation, saying that he hoped media outlets would watch the service. He did not respond to a request from the Globe for comment.
They obviously did, and the Globe lamenting the virus (as well as other things) they have politicized makes one sick.
Churches have been political battlegrounds during the coronavirus, as well as occasional hot spots, with more than 650 cases linked to houses of worship and religious events since the pandemic began, according to a New York Times database in early July.
Churches should never be political battlegrounds in this country, and The New York Times has forfeited any credibility regarding their database.
Related: "A private party at a Vermont ski lodge in mid-August led to a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected at least 14 people in Rutland County — including attendees and people they later came into contact with, the Vermont Department of Health announced Monday. More than 40 people attended the Aug. 19 party at the Summit Lodge in Killington, and the health department’s contact tracing team has been working to reach them all, the health department said in a statement. The health department is working aggressively to contain the outbreak, it said, and it urged residents to wear face coverings, maintain social distance, and stay home if they are sick. Anyone who attended the party who has not been in touch with the health department is asked to call. Attendees are also asked to limit exposure to others because asymptomatic carriers can help spread the virus to others. There will be a pop-up testing clinic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Rutland Office of Local Health in the Asa Bloomer Building, the health department said....."
If you had all spilled out into the streets to cause mayhem and chaos that would have been okay.
Have you finally seen the light, America?
The pastor also warned his congregants that a vaccine against the coronavirus would include “aborted baby tissue,” an issue that some religious and antiabortion groups have seized upon in recent months. A number of vaccines, including those against rubella, chickenpox, and shingles, were manufactured using fetal cells from elective abortions decades ago, but the cell lines that continue to grow the vaccines are now generations removed from fetal cells.
Okay, so the Globe, in a round about way, admitted aborted fetal tissue is in the tube while trying to debunk it, and it must be connected to the RNA signaling that will alter your DNA like a GMO.
In April, a group including committee chairmen from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged the Food and Drug Administration not to develop a coronavirus vaccine using cell lines that originated from fetal cells.
Bell said that instead of trusting a vaccine, he would put his faith in God.
It's a better bet than that evil mark-of-the-beast concoction BG has financed.
The CDC said on Saturday there were at least five confirmed cases involving people who attended the church, and that anyone who had attended services or vacation Bible school at Calvary was potentially exposed. Bell said on Sunday that all five people who had tested positive were out of quarantine and doing “fairly well.”
How many times did they multiply and amplify the genetic material everyone contains if they had a cold?
“I officiated the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding,” Bell told his congregation. “Six families from our church went there. We never expected to get COVID. Nobody expected to experience the things that happened because you went to a beautiful wedding like that.”
He situated his and the church’s response firmly on political ground, saying that he had told Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC, during a Zoom call on Friday that he was a “liberty lover.”
“I want the people of God to enjoy liberty,” Bell told the congregation. “If they want to wear a mask, wear a mask . . . If you want to have the liberty to have done your own research — that masks are kind of like trying to keep a mosquito out of a chain-link fence . . . if that’s what they choose, I’m a liberty lover.”
(There’s a growing body of evidence that masks are effective at preventing the spread of the coronavirus.)
The evidence is the exact opposite, masks harm us in so many ways, but at this point the reversal of reality and flat-out lies from the pre$$ is unsurprising and expected.
It’s not surprising that political affiliations have become connected to coronavirus behaviors, said Martha Lincoln, a medical anthropologist at San Francisco State University.
“Epidemics are particularly political, because unlike other kinds of health experiences in society, everyone is aware of them. By nature, they’re public events. They’re often happening very quickly and creating a lot of anxieties that bring a lot of other social, political, and economic anxieties to the surface,” Lincoln said.
They are the ones making it political. I stand on firm Constitutional ground -- if that even means anything anymore -- and neither freedom nor liberty is political, it is our God-given and human right.
Bell, in the videotaped sermon posted on YouTube, said he had received negative pushback for officiating at the wedding and used a story of hostile comments on social media to riff on Matthew 5:11-12: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven.”
(Blog author nods head at the undeniable truth)
“Men have reviled me,” the pastor told his congregation. Bell described someone on social media who had seen that he was flying to Oxford, Maine — he is a pilot — and commented that he was probably going to spread COVID at the casino there.
“Be a good place to spread it,” Bell said. A congregant cheered in the background.
“Gambling has killed more people and ruined more homes and destroyed more things in our society almost than liquor or pot or pornography,” Bell went on. “Gambling is wicked.”
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I'm ready for an Encore:
"Encore lays off 385 furloughed workers amid gradual reopening" by Andy Rosen Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
Encore Boston Harbor said Monday it would lay off 385 people who have been on furlough for months. The company concluded it is unlikely their jobs will return this year because of safety measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the casino.
Woe to ye who have taken chips from the Devil's table!
Ye shall find yourself alone and outside the Kingdom of Heaven.
The affected workers will lose their company benefits starting Sept. 1, though Encore said they could regain their seniority on the job if they are rehired within 90 days.
“With continued efforts from the state to minimize the spread of COVID-19, Encore Boston Harbor continues to operate with a significantly reduced capacity in all parts of our resort,” Encore leadership said in a statement. “As we take a look at our business during these extraordinary conditions, we do not believe that all Encore Boston Harbor jobs will return in 2020.”
The move is the latest evidence of the damage that the pandemic has done to the workforce of the casino industry, which spent millions of dollars hiring and training thousands of people in Massachusetts in recent years. Casinos were closed from March into July, and now are operating with significant restrictions on how many people they can host and which services they can offer.
Encore’s decision follows a Friday announcement by MGM Resorts, owner of the MGM Springfield casino, that 1,000 people who had been laid off or furloughed for months will be officially separated from the company this week. Those workers will retain their benefits through September. About 800 people now work at the Springfield casino.
It was the death of a dream for some, but the Globe just went shopping!
Encore spokesman Eric Kraus said Monday that the people affected by the layoffs in Everett work in jobs across the resort, but they are concentrated in areas that are unlikely to return in the foreseeable future, such as the casino’s oyster bar and its high-end buffet.
Encore, owned by Wynn Resorts, paid all of its employees their full wages and tips for more than two months of its closure. It began to furlough people in June. When it reopened a month later, Encore quickly brought back thousands of people, but the remaining jobs are proving harder to restore, the resort said.....
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Where is the bar?
Was this guy heaven sent?
"President Donald Trump’s new pandemic adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas, says coronavirus infections and deaths are declining in the hardest-hit states. Appearing with Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for a panel discussion on Monday, Atlas said hospitalizations, length of hospital stays and mortality are also declining. “The American public should feel cautiously optimistic here about what’s going on," Atlas said. "There is no need for fear at this point.” He also downplayed the risk of infections in young people and agreed with DeSantis that college football needs to be played this year. He described fit athletes as low-risk and said football “can be done safely” using social distancing in big stadiums. “College sports is a big part of America and it’s a big part of the economic engine,” he said. Atlas also downplayed the need to test people for the coronavirus when they don’t have symptoms. “When you start a program of testing simply to detect positive cases among asymptomatic low-risk groups, the outcome from that is to close the schools," he said, "and the goal of testing is not to close things. The goal of testing is to protect the vulnerable while we open the schools and open the economy.”
Gave that to you out of KLOVE.
Oh, I almost forgot, today is primary day and that dominated the front page of the Globe, and I'm sure it will be a clean election (got Venezuela wrong, but you know) even though the Globe is already complaining about the electoral college and laying the groundwork for further destruction.
Globe finally made a peace offer in the form of flowers, but that man is still there.
Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius listens as Mayor Marty Walsh speaks at the Salvation Army and TD Garden's Back to School Celebration on Aug. 18 (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff).
What's next for you ladies, a full-on burqa with handmaid's outfit?
That could be part of the Great Re$et when you get down to thinking about it. A Great Cull could lead to species propagation problems later!
If only they taught true history in the schools:
"Andover teachers went to work Monday but stayed outside to highlight coronavirus concerns" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
Andover teachers refused to enter school buildings on their first day of work Monday, officials said, spending a professional development day outdoors to highlight safety concerns as the district prepares to bring students back Sept. 16 for a mix of in-person and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The move drew a swift rebuke from the Andover Public Schools, whose spokeswoman called it an “illegal work stoppage” that could lead to litigation.
In a statement posted on Facebook over the weekend, the Andover Education Association, the union for teachers and other school personnel, said the decision to stay outside was a “workplace safety action.” The move came in response to the school district’s “lack of good-faith bargaining” over how to keep students and staff safe when schools reopen, the union said.
“It is simply not safe at this time for students and staff to be working together in crowded settings inside these buildings,” union president Matthew Bach said in the statement. “Members have decided they will not risk the health and safety of students, staff, or the community by walking into buildings that for decades have been underfunded, understaffed, and poorly maintained.”
Bach could not be reached for comment Monday.
District spokeswoman Nicole L. Kieser criticized the union’s action.
Kieser said the teachers’ decision was an affront to students and parents.....
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Should transfer to a school in Rhode Island:
"Raimondo says nearly all Rhode Island public schools have ’green light’ for full in-person learning; Central Falls and Providence are the only exceptions due to higher positivity rates" by Amanda Milkovits Globe Staff, August 31, 2020
PROVIDENCE — Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced Monday that all but two public school districts have the “green light” to open Sept. 14 for full in-person learning.
“It is our expectation and hope that is what you will do,” she added.
Though Sept. 14 is the first day of school, Raimondo said schools can “ease into” the full reopening during the first four weeks. Students will be required to wear masks and will not be allowed to attend if they are sick.
Might as well stay home anyway then.
Providence, the state’s largest school district, and Central Falls are the two districts that cannot fully reopen because both cities have new weekly coronavirus positive test rates of at least 100 per 100,000 residents.
In other words, 1 in 1,000 -- and those are questionable positives at best.
Providence school officials announced Monday that about 8,500 of its 24,000 students will attend school in-person on Sept. 14, with the rest participating in an all-distance-learning model or a hybrid of in-person and distance learning until at least Oct. 13.
They will face new procedures for most of the basics in school life — from how they get to school to how they travel through the halls.
“By Oct. 13, we want children in school for in-person learning,” Raimondo said, adding “if that’s what parents want.”
Not if they are going to be tortured and kept in some sort of fearful, infection-free, mind-f**k prison.
Raimondo and education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green had asked school districts for plans for three different scenarios: in-person learning, remote learning, or a hybrid of both.
Then, Raimondo, Infante-Green, and health director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott made the decision on reopening plans based on five key metrics: statewide virus data, municipal trends, testing capability, a district’s ability to acquire necessary cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment, and the operational readiness of each school.
Raimondo said the five metrics had been met for nearly all of the districts.
Rhode Island has been “comfortably” in its Phase 3 reopening plan since June 30. Fewer than 10 percent of the COVID-19 hospital beds are filled, new hospitalizations are stable, and the rate of spread is about 1, Raimondo said.
Testing readiness with results within 48 to 72 hours: The average turnaround last week was 1.8 days, with more than 45,000 tests completed in the last seven days, and the percent-positive rate was below 1 percent on several days, Raimondo said.
I'm sick of the nonsensical babble and lies.
Schools will have a separate testing system, with more than a dozen swab test sites throughout the state and 10 rapid-testing sites for students or staff who become ill at school, she said.
You don't want them doing that to your kid.
Home school is the only answer at this point.
Supplies: Raimondo said the schools have adequate supplies, and the state has provided backup: 3,000 thermometers, 600,000 masks, 5,000 gowns, and 15,000 containers of disinfectant. Last week, the state opened an education operations center to aid districts in case of any shortages.
Operational readiness: The state Department of Health and Department of Education vetted all the school plans, which include having a point person for testing and contact tracing at every school, and protocol for responding when someone tests positive.
Lower COVID-19 rates in municipalities: Cities and towns cannot have more than 100 new cases per 100,000 residents in a week.
State officials will continue watching Providence and Central Falls and determine in a month whether the rates of percent-positive cases have dropped enough to allow full in-person learning, Raimondo said.
She said the state will have teams doing “walkthroughs” to check all 306 school buildings for safety and ventilation before the start of school, and will audit the facilities during the year.
“If our team goes in there and does the walkthrough and it’s not up to snuff . . . then we will not allow that school building to reopen,” Raimondo said. “The facility will remain closed, and children can learn in another building or distance [learn] until we bring it up to code.”
That means they have fixed all the crumbling buildings that city leaders have failed to address before the panic (what, what)?
Any private school that wishes to reopen for full in-person learning is also clear to do so, Raimondo said. These schools will also receive the same testing and contact tracing.
Rhode Island is up to 21,949 positive tests so far this year, with 266 new cases since Friday and 46 overnight, according to data from the state Department of Health published Monday. Two more people have died from COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 1,048. There are 77 people hospitalized, with nine in intensive care units, and five on ventilators.
Both Raimondo and Infante-Green have long said that they prefer in-person learning, but not everyone is convinced. Eight superintendents sent a letter last week saying they will also choose distance learning if their concerns about building safety aren’t addressed.
“We’re testing more than any state in the country. We’ve dealt successfully with outbreaks. So we’re going to give this a try, and like everything we’ve done together over the past six months, if it doesn’t work, we’ll adjust,” Raimondo said. “If we have problems, we’ll deal with it, but we owe it to our children to get them back into school.”
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I'll bet they are voting Biden down there, because then they will finally be rid of her.
Meanwhile, just outside the playground a fentanyl ring was broken up, officials say.
Related:
Baker says National Guard can stand down
He says they were activated for the protests and the Globe says he did the right thing.
Of course, the right thing to do would be to ship him out, postage due, to a penal colony for continuing to perpetrate this fraud against the people of this state.
Also see:
"Some residents in Kenosha fear a planned visit by President Donald Trump after unrest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake may stir more emotions and cause more violence and destruction in the southeastern Wisconsin city after several days of peace. The city’s mayor, and the state’s governor, also said they believed Trump’s visit comes at a bad time, but others welcomed the president’s trip, scheduled for Tuesday, when he will tour damage and meet with law enforcement. Trump’s visit comes as demonstrators are calling for the officer who shot Blake to be fired and face attempted murder charges, and more than a week after authorities say a 17-year-old from northern Illinois shot and killed two protesters. Asked Monday whether he feared Trump’s visit could stir more violence, Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser said: “We’ll find out tomorrow, won’t we?” The tension began Aug. 23 after a video showed a Kenosha police officer shooting Blake, a Black man, in the back while responding to a call about a domestic dispute. All last week, Black Lives Matter protesters held events to call for changes to policing. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called a special session of the Legislature for Monday to take up a host of police reform measures, but Republicans took no immediate action. Authorities said they had resources in place to protect the bedroom community between Chicago and Milwaukee, including more than 1,500 National Guard members....."
Oh, my prayers will be with you, Mr. President, and please take the utmost care if you go.
I'm glad he isn't going to Portland:
"Oregon state police will patrol Portland's nightly protests with help from officers from neighboring communities, seeking to tamp down on vandalism and violence following the fatal shooting of a right-wing Trump supporter as the city approaches 100 consecutive nights of Black Lives Matter demonstrations. The plan, announced late Sunday by Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, also creates a group including Mayor Ted Wheeler and local Black leaders to help chart the path forward for Portland, a liberal city struggling to regain its footing under a national spotlight. President Donald Trump has made Portland and its Democratic leadership a frequent target and the centerpiece of his “law and order” re-election campaign theme. He demanded that local and state leaders call in the National Guard after Saturday's fatal shooting. A supporter of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer was killed amid skirmishes between Trump supporters who led a car caravan through the city and Black Lives Matter protesters who had gathered for another night of demonstrations. Police have not made an arrest in the case....."
Can't even defend yourself anymore:
"The attorney for a white St. Louis couple charged for waving guns during a racial injustice protest outside their home said Monday that they’re anxious to prove “with absolute certainty” that they did not commit a crime. One week after Mark and Patricia McCloskey spoke on video to the Republican National Convention, they were in court briefly Monday morning and did not enter a plea. The judge continued their case until Oct. 6. The couple emerged from their Renaissance palazzo-style mansion with guns on the night of June 28 after protesters veered onto their private street. The couple said the demonstrators knocked down an iron gate and ignored a “No Trespassing” sign, and they felt threatened. Mark McCloskey, 63, came out with AR-15 rifle, according to court records, which said Patricia McCloskey, 61, displayed a semiautomatic handgun. No shots were fired. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner said their actions created the risk of bloodshed during what she called an otherwise peaceful protest. She charged both with felony unlawful use of a weapon....."
"A Florida man who called himself “the Antifa hunter” as he waged an online campaign to terrorize and harass those who opposed his white supremacist ideology was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in prison. Daniel McMahon, 32, of Brandon, Florida, pleaded guilty in April to using social media to threaten a Black activist to deter the man from running for office in Charlottesville, Virginia. McMahon also admitted that he threatened to sexually assault the young autistic daughter of a North Carolina woman who protested against white nationalists. A federal judge in Virginia sentenced McMahon to three years and five months in prison. McMahon declined an opportunity to make a public statement beforehand, but he heard from his victims during the hearing, which was conducted remotely by video conference. In a written statement read aloud by a court employee, the North Carolina woman said McMahon methodically “cultivated a culture of fear and chaos” in her community of anti-racist activists....."
The country is in rebellion:
"A Confederate flag that was displayed on a Brookhaven Fire Department truck during a parade should be investigated, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said. Patchogue Mayor Paul Pontieri said that the truck brandishing the Confederate flag was one of nearly 50 local fire departments participated in a drive-by parade for a veteran Patchogue firefighter with cancer, Newsday reported....."
"A Republican congressional nominee in Alabama is facing criticism for a weekend social media post, which he later deleted, of a meme that appeared to support a teenager charged with killing two people, and wounding a third, during protests in Wisconsin. Barry Moore, the Republican nominee for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, posted a meme Saturday that depicted Kyle Rittenhouse carrying a rifle with the caption “fought back” and what appeared to be two other people slumped on the ground during protests with the caption, “didn’t fight back.” Moore later deleted the post and apologized for its graphic nature, saying he should have expressed his feelings “in words, not just with a meme.”
Maybe he could be made to wear some sort of monitoring device.
If only we had $port$ to bring us together like it always has, and it can only be heavenly karma that the once top-seed Bruins were quickly brushed out of the bubble while the Red Sox stink in the shortened season with empty seats in the park.
Don't even have a place to cry in your beer anymore, and according to the morning sports team over at WEEI, when it comes to the Globe, "we know nobody buys it, nobody reads it," but they ripped the resident fan troller for writing about missing his free booze with everything else going on. They meant the Bruins and their goalie abandoning them or something. I wouldn't know because I no longer pay attention to sports.
