"With no new COVID-19 restrictions from the state, public health experts and some Boston-area mayors urge more action" by Shirley Leung, Tim Logan and John Hilliard Boston Globe, December 6, 2020
Governor Charlie Baker is facing growing pressure from public health experts and local mayors for a stronger response to Massachusetts’ quickly rising wave of COVID-19 cases, with some municipal officials considering regional rollbacks of their own if the state doesn’t act.
The dragnet slips a bit tighter, goddamn them.
All of this based on a flawed and faulty test that doesn't detect infection and should be thrown out according to a court in Portugal and no longer used according to medical experts worldwide, but all that has been scrubbed from the Big Tech search engines.
All to stick an experimental vaccine in you that will alter your DNA and lead to terrible side effects for a "disease" that hasn't been isolated and which 99.97% of people survive. The only people dying are those being murdered by the state in care homes.
Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, aired his frustration with the governor on Twitter Saturday night, writing that he used to think Baker was doing a good job controlling the virus but over the past six weeks has become “aghast at lack of action.” In an interview, Jha said he wants to see the state close more activities such as casinos and indoor dining. “The longer you wait to act,” he added, “the more your hand is forced into lockdowns.”
I saw the guy on TV and he had to admit he hasn't examined on case of COVID.
He's a paid shill with univer$ity credentials is all who is not sure what he's doing.
Municipal leaders from about 30 cities and towns in Greater Boston have been engaged in an ongoing discussion on a collective local response to the swiftly worsening second wave of the virus, perhaps rolling back indoor dining, shutting gyms, and ordering closures of other businesses.
While similar discussions have taken place before, there is a new sense of urgency with COVID-19 cases hitting record levels. Other states, including California, Rhode Island, and New Mexico, have rolled out partial shutdowns in recent weeks, as have many countries in Europe. Municipal leaders in Massachusetts remain split on the best course of action, with some mayors open to broader rollbacks while others are reluctant to close any more businesses.
If so, all the lockdowns, masks, and distancing have FAILED and WE HAVE ACHIEVED HERD IMMUNITY, so FUCK OFF!
You can't have it both ways, but that's what happens with liars who lie out of both sides of their mouths.
The debate highlights the challenge local officials face with cases surging and money to support shuttered businesses and their employees languishing. Mayors could act on their own but they also know, in a patchwork place like Greater Boston, it’s quite easy to go out to eat in the next town over if restaurants in yours are closed, and that would do little to contain the virus.
A "virus" that has never been isolated, according to the CDC and NHS, and therefore doesn't exist.
“I feel very strongly that we need to at least consider a local rollback,” said Arlington town manager Adam Chapdelaine, “but I also know, from a practical point of view, it would only inflict pain on Arlington businesses and may not be that effective.”
Baker in press briefings has been consistent in his message: He is not currently planning any more restrictions. On Sunday, Tim Buckley, a senior aide to Baker, said that the governor took significant action last month, such as ordering restaurants and other businesses to close by 9:30 p.m. and urging people to stay home at night.
“There are no imminent new measures,” Buckley said, “but the administration has long said every option is on the table.”
There is the out for further tyranny.
Mark these words, it won't be long.
On Sunday, the state reported that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Massachusetts rose by 4,747. The death toll from confirmed cases increased by 48 to 10,763, the Department of Public Health reported.
Them and their distorted if not outright lies regarding #s of active cases of the potentially deadly virus.
Pressure continues to mount for the governor to do more. The White House Coronavirus Task Force, according to a briefing document obtained by ABC News, recently suggested that Massachusetts impose restrictions statewide, not just in high-risk areas.
Municipal leaders are not advocating for a full shutdown like the spring but more targeted restrictions, as well as more virus testing and aid to small businesses. They plan to draw up a menu of options for further discussion this week.
The flawed and faulty tests support the false narrative and undergird the construction of the medical state tyranny.
So whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
I know it will be the day of my death, and soon now.
Hallelujah!
I want the fuck out of here before this planet is literally turned into a living hell.
For Framingham Mayor Yvonne Spicer, whose city has seen case numbers spike to record levels last week, it’s ever more clear something has to be done to bend the curve. “If we keep doing the same things, you clearly aren’t going to get different results,” she said.
OMFG, what a COLOSSAL INSULT!
Yes, indeed, folks, reading the Globe is LITERALLY INSANE!
Related:
"The coronavirus surge continued to rock Massachusetts Sunday as Framingham and Cambridge school officials planned to switch students to remote learning this week, and a COVID-19 field hospital in Worcester accepted its first patients. Governor Charlie Baker warned months ago that the state would face a surge of cases in the fall but continued with reopening plans. On Sunday, public health experts called on the state to take aggressive action now to save lives this winter. Dr. Philip J. Landrigan, who directs Boston College’s Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good, said he worries about the continuing scope of the pandemic. “The fact that it’s expected, and it’s an anticipated increase, does not make it any less worrisome,” Landrigan said, “and I’m afraid that with the upcoming December holidays and more travel likely during this time, that case counts will go even higher.” Landrigan and other experts warned Sunday that additional cases due to Thanksgiving travel and gatherings could emerge this week....."
It's not only the same criminal experts the Globe talk to, it's the same BS script we have been getting since the spring and that pos comes up again down below.
Also see:
"More than 800 Lawrence residents get tested each day for COVID-19, some waiting up to four hours. The public school system has conducted classes remotely all year. The city was a leader in issuing high fines to people who refused to wear a mask, but despite the aggressive measures, the pandemic made itself known quickly in Lawrence and has refused to relinquish its grip on the city, which has a positivity rate of nearly 15 percent and the full slate of inequities that fuel virus transmission. Statewide, the seven-day average positivity rate is 5.3 percent. “For Lawrence, it’s been the perfect storm,” said Mayor Dan Rivera, who still was guiding the city through its recovery from the 2018 gas explosions when the pandemic took hold....."
The turn-in headline said, and I quote, "TOLL WORSENS DESPITE MEASURES."
What was that about doing the same thing with different results again?
You know what?
You DON'T EVEN NEED a LIGHT when the STENCH of a Globe STINKS so much!
Framingham already has more restrictions than what the state mandates. Restaurants are not allowed to have bar seating. Basketball nets taken down in the spring were never put back up, but business closings, Spicer said, are best undertaken on a regional basis.
“I don’t think we could do it on our own,” she said. “I’m the mayor of Framingham. I am surrounded by seven other communities, mostly smaller towns,” and every one of those towns has its own calculus, its own small business community to think of and its own vulnerable populations to protect.
Lynn Mayor Thomas McGee has also seen cases skyrocket to record levels last week and is wrestling with how best to respond.
“It isn’t easy,” he said. “I wouldn’t call it political paralysis. This is a Hobson’s choice.”
Still, McGee is in favor of what calls a “reasonable rollback,” one that is based on data and one that is done on a collective basis. He believes the state needs to lead on this effort.
“I don’t want to speak for the administration,” said McGee, a former state senator, but “we can’t make those kinds of decisions individually. ... It can’t be one community here, one community there.”
PFFFFFFFFFT!
Spoken like a true totalitarian!
Indeed, some public health experts are criticizing even the way the state presents COVID-19 data with its color-coded system to indicate different levels of risk in cities and towns. Several weeks ago, the Baker administration changed the thresholds for the highest-risk category, in a way that put fewer communities in the red.
“It is nothing more than a changing of the goal posts,” said Philip J. Landrigan, who directs Boston College’s Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good. “I know they talked about greater scientific accuracy, but I think it’s all about messaging, not about science.”
The absolute gall and chutzpah of the detestable cretin!
Nothing about the goalpost being changed after we were told flatten the curve for two weeks to save a $y$tem that was never overrun, that then morphed into a casedemic followed by potential exposure to asymptomatic infection and shedding (against science, btw).
It's truly EVIL TIMES and they MUST END SOON!
Buckley, though, said the new system is in line with federal and global standards, and some cities seem satisfied with the state guidelines in helping them determine whether to keep businesses open.
There you go. There are in on and willful participants in carrying out the evil Great Reset.
Chris Walker, a spokesman for Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch, said city officials there are watching case counts closely but also taking Baker’s lead, and using his map.
“I just don’t see [rollbacks] in the immediate term right now,” Walker said. “Yes, we’re on the upswing, but we’re still yellow. We wouldn’t entertain anything until we’re deep in the red.
Coming soon as testing is ramped up (the more tests, the more non-infectious false positives they can declare).
Other cities say they’re reluctant, too. In Boston, where the city as a whole is still in the yellow but some neighborhoods have much higher infection rates, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh described a broad shutdown last week as being “the last resort.”
For many, a big factor is the lack of additional financial support — from Washington or Beacon Hill — for the businesses they’d be ordering to close. Washington has yet to deliver a second stimulus, but some states including Rhode Island and New Mexico are offering extra aid to workers and businesses as governors implement temporary shutdowns there.
That’s something Massachusetts should consider as well, said Marc Draisen, executive director of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, which provides staff support for the coalition of 30 mayors and municipal leaders.
“Of course, Congress must pass a relief bill immediately,” Draisen said, “but the state could provide stopgap funding to small businesses and employees until federal money becomes available.”
Would be a game-changer!
Added Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone, who co-chairs the coalition: “Massachusetts cannot wait for outside intervention. We need to act now with purpose.”
In the early days of the pandemic, some municipal leaders acted more swiftly than the state, closing schools and construction sites and issuing mask mandates. Now, mayors are once again trying to stay one step ahead.
“For us, it’s trying to understand how we can act strategically,” said Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll, who co-chairs the coalition with Curtatone.
With vaccines on their way, “there’s a light we can see now at the end of the tunnel,” she added. “We’ve just got to get everyone to spring.”
She is a real witch, and the next article in my series will explain why they have to get us through the spring!
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But wait!
"Nursing home residents could get vaccine by year’s end, official says" by Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, December 6, 2020
Don't be alarmed if they die within a day or two of their vaccination.
Trump administration officials Sunday laid out an ambitious timetable for the rollout of the first coronavirus vaccine in the United States, rebuking President-elect Joe Biden’s criticism that there was “no detailed plan that we’ve seen” for getting people immunized.
Dr. Monclef Slaoui, chief science adviser of Operation Warp Speed, the administration’s program to develop and deploy vaccines, said that residents of long-term care facilities will receive the first round of vaccinations by mid-January, perhaps even by the end of December. In some states, this group accounts for about 40 percent of deaths from the coronavirus.
The timing assumes that the Food and Drug Administration authorizes the vaccine, made by Pfizer, this week or shortly thereafter. An advisory committee to the agency will meet Thursday to review the data on safety and efficacy.
Then the mission will be building public trust in the vaccine and making transparency and public communication a priority.
In other words, propagandizing us.
If the agency authorizes the vaccine, distribution could begin as soon as the end of this week, Slaoui added. “By end of the month of January, we should already see quite a significant decrease in mortality in the elderly population,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Barring unexpected problems with manufacturing the vaccine, most Americans at high risk from coronavirus infection should be vaccinated by mid-March, and the rest of the population by May or June, he added.
Does the "rest of the population" have a CHOICE?
As the WOMEN SAY, it is MY BODY, MY CHOICE!
It looks to me like we are all to be "done" by spring, whether we like it or not!
Slaoui said his team expected to meet Biden’s advisers this week and brief them on details of the distribution plan.
As Trump fight the election results, yeah.
What a f**king con job!
Britain has already approved the Pfizer vaccine and expects to begin immunizing its population this week. Like the FDA, European regulators are still examining data on the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness.
It's their crowning achievement(!), and they are awash in liquid gold!
A second vaccine, made by Moderna, also has been submitted to the FDA for emergency authorization.
Slaoui was optimistic about long-term protection from the vaccine. The elderly or people with compromised immune systems might need a booster in three to five years, he said, but for most people the vaccine should remain effective for “many, many years.”
Should?
Shouldn't it provide protection forever?
No, it's going to be endless boosters, testing, tracing, tracking.
F**king evil f**ks!
Still, it’s unclear whether those who have been immunized may still spread the virus to others. “The answer to that very important question” should be known by mid-February, he said.
You can GET the SHOT and STILL SPREAD IT?
That's because they are INJECTING YOU WITH THE COVID SPIKE PROTEIN, folks!
The VACCINE IS the VIRU$!!
Up to 15 percent of those receiving the shots experience “significant, not overwhelming” pain at the injection site, which usually disappears in a day or two, Slaoui told CBS’ “Face the Nation,” also on Sunday.
Vaccines have not yet been tested in children younger than 12, but Slaoui said that clinical trials in adolescents and toddlers might produce results by next fall.
Why drag them into it?
They are not vectors of disease, nor do they sicken.
There have been more than 280,000 virus-related deaths in the United States over the course of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Only 6% are COVID specific, and the criminal pre$$ continues to ignore the CDC's own #s.
Operation Warp Speed was expected to have 100 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine by December, a number that has since been slashed by more than half.
Although the clinical trials were completed faster than expected because of the high level of virus transmission in the United States, manufacturing problems scaled down the expected number of available doses to 40 million.
Slaoui warned of possible further delays.
“This is not an engineering problem. These are biological problems; they’re extremely complex,” he said. “There will be small glitches.”
Like adverse side effects, and the delay talk is simply to raise hopes, right?
On Friday, Governor Charlie Baker’s office submitted the state’s initial COVID-19 vaccine order to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Baker said last week that residents of the state’s nursing homes and other senior care facilities will be among the first to get vaccinated, along with doctors, nurses, and others on the medical front lines. He promised more details on Monday.
The medical professionals will get the treatable needles filled with saline to show you how safe it is.
The Washington Post reported that lower-than-anticipated allocations have caused confusion and concern in states over the level of vaccine scarcity in the early going of the massive distribution.
You can HAVE MINE!
For example, the Post reported, Maine saw its allotment fall from a previous estimate of 36,000 to just 12,675 doses, officials in the state said. “This is far less than what is needed for Maine and proportionally for other states as well,” Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, said at a news conference this past week.
The gap reflects the disconnect between Trump’s campaign promises, as well as the optimistic estimates from some drug companies, and scientific and manufacturing realities in ramping up production.
In November, Pfizer cut its manufacturing projection for 2020 from 100 million doses to 50 million doses. It said it remains on track to produce 1.3 billion doses in 2021.
The company’s lower estimate got little notice at the time, tucked at the bottom of a Nov. 9 news release announcing the stunning news that its vaccine was more than 90 percent effective. The news buoyed stock markets and triggered optimism that a solution to the pandemic was in sight.
That was so the hopes of humanity could all ca$h out!
As Pfizer began large-scale production, the company said, it encountered difficulties procuring sufficient amounts of raw ingredients. A number of specialized materials are required to create the vaccine.
“Bringing it all together in a first-time, very large-scale operation, is no simple feat,” said company spokeswoman Amy Rose. “It’s as complicated as the research-and-development piece.”
Moderna, a Massachusetts biotech company that has never before had a product on the market, did not make early public predictions of how much of its mRNA vaccine it would produce by the end of 2020. The company said it is now on track to have 20 million doses available in December and between 500 million to 1 billion available by the end of 2021. As with Pfizer, Moderna’s vaccine is a two-shot regimen.
“The swing factor between 500 million and 1 billion [doses] is raw materials,” Moderna chief executive Stephane Bancel said in an interview, adding that as the company massively ramped up its production by a factor of 1,000 this year, the demand strained its supply chain. “Some of our suppliers were not ready for that, of course.’'
Moderna’s vaccine supply chain depends critically on the availability and high quality of each component of the vaccine.
“If one ingredient is missing, we have to wait,” Bancel said.....
Awwwwwwww.
Maybe your loved one will live a while longer.
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Related:
"In the wake of results suggesting that two prospective coronavirus vaccines are remarkably effective, the official in charge of the federal coronavirus vaccine program explained on Sunday news shows how the vaccines might be distributed to Americans as early as next month. Dr. Moncef Slaoui, head of the administration’s Operation Warp Speed, said that within 24 hours after the Food and Drug Administration approves a vaccine, doses will be shipped to states to be distributed. “Within 48 hours from approval,” the first people would likely receive injections, Dr. Slaoui said on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Even if the first vaccine is authorized in mid-December, officials and company representatives have estimated that there will only be enough doses available to treat about 22.5 million Americans by January. Each vaccine requires two doses, separated by several weeks. Dr. Slaoui said vaccines would be shipped to states, proportioned according to their population, and that states would decide how and where to distribute the doses. High-priority groups are likely to include frontline medical workers and residents of nursing homes. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former F.D.A. commissioner, said on the CBS show “Face the Nation” that those groups would likely be followed by other older adults and then expanded to younger adults in the spring. Both he and Dr. Slaoui estimated that tens of millions of adults could be vaccinated by sometime in May. Immunizations for children would follow......"
The kids don't even need it, so WTF?
Avoiding the f**king drug store may not be enough.
{@@##$$%%^^&&}
Now about the kids:
"State instructs Boston, Worcester, and Springfield to open classrooms for special education students" by James Vaznis Globe Staff, December 4, 2020
Massachusetts education officials are intervening in an increasingly tense debate between parents of students with disabilities and school leaders in Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, ordering officials in those cities to reopen classrooms as quickly as possible.
As they scream record f**king cases!!!!!!!!!
State officials instructed local leaders to provide comprehensive information on whether students with disabilities are accessing education in their homes on a daily basis. If the responses are unsatisfactory, the state will audit the district’s learning plans to determine whether officials are doing enough to meet their legal obligations to serve those students.
“For these particularly vulnerable groups of students, it is vital to have a plan for providing in-person instruction as soon as possible,” Jeffrey Riley, the commissioner of elementary and secondary education, wrote last Monday in letters to the districts, giving them 10 days to respond. The state publicly released the letters on Friday.
How do you like tyranny and tyrants?
Students with disabilities have been among the hardest hit by the school closures that began nearly nine months ago at the start of the pandemic. Parents have shared heart-wrenching stories of children suffering devastating regressions that could take a year or longer to recover from because school officials have refused to provide required services. Growing research is identifying similar losses, but it’s doubtful that all those students would return. Some students with special needs are finding success with remote learning, while others are worried about potential exposure to the coronavirus.
Try NEVER, and that's the price to be paid for the Great Reset that the Globe supports.
This is all crocodile tear reporting because they don't care.
If they did, I wouldn't be reading this shit day after day!!!!
Some parents expressed relief that Riley intervened.
“I’m grateful someone is fighting for these kids and not putting them on the back burner, which is what local officials appear to be doing,” said Alicia Piedalue of Boston, who has seen her 11-year-old son experience significant regression. In some instances, she said, he now requires the supports, such as flash cards and charts, he used two years ago.
It's hopeless, and as someone once said, you can't fix stupid!
Other parents faulted Riley’s efforts as lackluster and questioned the need for an audit when it’s clear that many students are not getting the services outlined in their individual education plans.
“Children are in crisis,” said Roxann Harvey, chair of the Boston Special Education Parent Advisory Council. “We need help right now.”
Riley did not specify in his letters when he would like classrooms to reopen, but with the holiday break less than three weeks away, it appears increasingly unlikely that students will return before January.
In Boston, the debate over reopening schools shifted into higher gear this past week. Boston is already facing pressure from Greater Boston Legal Services to reopen classrooms. The organization sent a letter to school officials last month on behalf of a dozen clients detailing enormous learning losses and deteriorating mental health affecting students over the past nine months.
The people that caused that are the same ones fighting for them!
Elizabeth McIntyre, a senior attorney with the organization, said she appreciated Riley’s desire to help students, but said his efforts fell short, particularly in providing districts with the support and resources they need to open schools. Ultimately, both the state and districts are failing to meet their legal obligations to students with disabilities and are needlessly creating long-lasting harm. Her group is now contemplating next steps.
Lawsuits won't stop Warp Speed or the tyranny, will they?
They don't seem to move fast enough.
“There is a group of kids with complex disabilities who just can’t access school through a computer, and they are not getting” a free and appropriate public education, she said. “It’s disgraceful.”
Kelsey Brendel of Boston, whose 6-year-old son is a first-grader with severe developmental delays and profound medical complications, said she is tired of hearing public officials speak for months with apparent good intentions about bringing students back and then repeatedly delaying the plans.
Those pave the road to hell!
“Our children are literally deteriorating in front of our eyes,” she said, noting her son needs to learn how to walk again. “It’s heartbreaking,” and she predicts families will eventually initiate legal action.
“The law is being broken,” she said. “People are in such survival mode right now. It’s like getting hit on the turnpike by an 18-wheeler and in a year you will go after the trucking company.”
That's that Ukrainian kid, right?
Of course, the state is above the law so none is being broken.
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Time to check the report cards and GPAs:
"Schools confront ‘off the rails’ numbers of failing grades; English language learners and disabled and disadvantaged students are suffering the most" by Carolyn Thompson The Associated Press, December 6, 2020
The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more F’s than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning.
School districts from coast to coast have reported the number of students failing classes has risen by as many as two or three times — with English language learners and disabled and disadvantaged students suffering the most.
So that is why state officials are ordering them back.
The F's look bad on THEIR report cards!
“It was completely off the rails from what is normal for us, and that was obviously very alarming,” said Erik Jespersen, principal of Oregon’s McNary High School, where 38 percent of grades in late October were failing, compared with 8 percent in normal times.
Welcome to the "new goddamn normal," 'eh?
Educators see a number of factors at play: Students learning from home skip assignments — or school altogether. Internet access is limited or inconsistent, making it difficult to complete and upload assignments, and teachers who don't see their students in person have fewer ways to pick up on who is falling behind, especially with many keeping their cameras off during Zoom sessions.
The increase in failing grades has been seen in districts of all sizes around the country.
At Jespersen’s school in the Salem-Keizer Public School district, hundreds of students initially had not just F’s, but grade scores of 0.0 percent, indicating they simply were not participating in school at all. In New Mexico, more than 40 percent of middle and high school students were failing at least one class as of late October. In Houston, 42 percent of students received at least one F in the first grading period of the year. Nearly 40 percent of grades for high school students in St. Paul were F’s, double the amount in a typical year.
Maybe they can grade on curve or something?
In response schools have been ramping up outreach efforts, prioritizing the return of struggling students for in-person learning and in some cases changing grading policies and giving students more time to complete assignments.
Uh-oh.
More dumbing down on the way!
Jespersen said his school began to see grades improve after bringing groups of 300 students into the building in small cohorts to receive support from teachers, although that recently stopped because of the region’s rising coronavirus cases. Advisory teams increased contact with students, and teachers were asked to temporarily stop assigning graded homework. Parents of Hispanic students were invited for a session to learn how to access their children’s grades online.
In Charleston, S.C., administrators and teachers are raising the possibility of adjusting grading the way they did in spring, where instructors were told to give 50s instead of 0s to make it less punitive for disengaged students, eighth-grade English teacher Jody Stallings said. “I’m an English teacher, not a math teacher, but I’ve learned zeros are very, very devastating to an average,” he said.
(Blog author is speechless as reality is tethered to nothing in this false construct of a world they are designing)
Most of the failing grades he gives out come from missing assignments, not assignments that were turned in with a lot of wrong answers.
“You talk to them later and they say, `You know I just didn’t do it. I didn’t know the answer so I just didn’t do it,’ ” said Stallings, who teaches most of his students in person and the rest online simultaneously at Moultrie Middle School. “When you have a kid in person, he’s going to take the test. . . . Even if he doesn’t know anything, he has a chance.”
Meaning any degree is basically dog$hit.
Jillian Baxter’s son, a high school sophomore in Fairfax County, Va., normally gets good grades but was failing all his classes at one point, including physical education. Her daughter, a senior, was getting all A’s. Both students are learning remotely full time.
Maybe PlayStation could be considered PE.
She attributes the difference to how her kids learn. Her daughter is thrilled to work independently in her room. Her son is a “tactile learner,” she said.
The failing grades during the pandemic have also revealed how equity gaps in the education system are growing.
An analysis by the Fairfax County school system found that English language learners and students with disabilities were among those with the largest increases in failing grades. In contrast, students who performed well previously were performing slightly better than expected.....
That is when my printed pos left class.
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Related:
Boston to reopen 28 schools for 1,700 more students
"Some colleges plan to bring back more students in the spring; University officials say lessons from the fall will allow them to do what many specialists considered unthinkable a few months ago" by Anemona Hartocollis and Shawn Hubler New York Times, December 6, 2020
It was a tough fall semester for many US colleges and universities, with declining enrollment, canceled classes and sporting events, widespread Zoom fatigue, and enough coronavirus-infected students nationwide to fill 3½ Rose Bowls, but many university officials say that lessons from the fall will allow them to do something many specialists considered unthinkable a few months ago: bring even more students back onto campus in January and February, when classes resume for the spring.
The determination to bring back more students, even as the pandemic is surging in many states, partly reflects the financial imperative to have more students paying room and board, as well as the desire to provide something resembling a college experience, but there is also an emerging confidence among at least some college administrators that they have learned much about managing the pandemic on their campuses. Test aggressively. Contact-trace assiduously. Maintain mask rules and social distancing, and don’t underestimate students’ willingness to obey restrictions.
“What makes me optimistic is, we had the virus in our community, and each time we did, we were able to stop transmissions dead,” said David Greene, president of Colby College in Maine, which brought its whole student body back in the fall using aggressive health measures and plans to do the same again next semester.
Welcome to the new college experience.
Specialists said a major test of whether colleges learned the right lessons would come in January and February, when students travel back to school from home.
“The disease is a lot more widespread now than it was” in the fall, said Dr. Tom Frieden, who ran the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Obama administration and is now president of a global health initiative to prevent heart disease and epidemics. “When people travel, the virus travels.”
It's more widespread after 8 months of lockdowns?
Then POLICY FAILED!
Time to OPEN UP IMMEDIATELY and SHED this FUCKING LIE called COVID!
Since the start of the pandemic, campuses have weighed the financial and social benefits of business as usual against the terrifying risk of COVID-19. Young people are statistically less likely than older adults to become severely ill or die from the infection, but they have turned college towns into COVID-19 hot spots. Schools and the communities around them have also enforced public health rules inconsistently.
This is all manipulation of the kids to prepare them for the future dystopia. It's a terrifying risk, but the kids don't die or even get sick. They have to be tested with a faulty and flawed test too even know they are "sick."
Many institutions are choosing not to bring back more students, planning instead to hunker down over the winter as infections mount and the nation awaits a vaccine, but other schools, and some experts, are asking: Safe compared to what?
“Having students return to campus to live under the imperfect supervision of college administrators is risky,” said A. David Paltiel, a professor of health policy and management at the Yale School of Public Health, “but having students stay home to live under the imperfect supervision of their parents and families is also risky.”
Spoken like true statist and mind-control kidnapper!
Many university officials say they are also increasingly confident that the virus is not being transmitted in classrooms, where professors are enforcing mask-wearing and social-distancing rules.
“We have not had a single case that we can trace to a classroom,” said Mike Haynie, vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation at Syracuse University. “It happened in communal living situations and in gatherings that took place off campus.”
That's where the print ended, and can you kids tell when they are lying to you?
“The spread is in teacher break rooms, in fraternities and sororities,” Frieden said. “It’s not even in organized sports, but in locker rooms before and pizza parties after.”
It has reached the point of UN-F**KING-BELIEVABLE, sorry!
Instructors at other schools have been a harder sell. At the University of Florida, faculty have filed grievances over the school’s decision to offer 5,394 sections of face-to-face classes, 72 more than were offered last January, before the pandemic hit the United States. Concerns have persisted even though the school, which offered only optional testing this fall when it invited its 50,000 students back to campus, will expand its testing regimen, requiring that all students living on campus or taking classes in person be tested every two weeks in the spring.
That will be used to undergrad the second wave narrative.
It's a vicious circle-f**k, folks!
Some faculty are also revolting at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The university sent most students home a week after classes began in August because of an outbreak but is now proposing to bring 2,000 students back to campus residence halls on top of 1,500 who were allowed to stay during the fall for hardship reasons. It will also offer about 1 out of 5 classes in person in the spring semester.
This month, about 70 faculty members signed an open letter, published in the student newspaper, that predicted a repeat of the fall debacle. “We have every reason to expect that the university will — once again — be overwhelmed by infections when classes resume,” the letter said, but the university’s president, Kevin Guskiewicz, said he was confident the university could pull it off. “We’re working from a different starting place than we were in the fall,” he said.
At least the basketball teams are playing!
The value of aggressive coronavirus testing has been one of the major lessons of the fall. “We changed our testing protocols substantially over the semester,” said Michael Fitts, Tulane’s president. “At one point, we moved it up to three times a week, and we found that was very effective, and we will continue that in the spring.”
Most college officials do not expect a vaccine to be available for students in the spring term, but many universities, like the University of Kentucky, are planning to be integrally involved in the distribution of vaccines through their health systems, which will position them for providing it on campus when the time comes.
Then they haven't been paying attention because Trump's guy says we will all be vexed up by then.
Although a vaccine might seem like the light at the end of the COVID tunnel, it will also pose a new challenge for university administrators, said Crystal Watson, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
There it is again, woo-woo!
“Will they make it mandatory for students, staff and faculty?” she asked. “If not, will vaccination be required for some type of the population but not others? That’s a big open question.”
Watson said that however far colleges have come, there is still a large gap between the wish for normalcy and the reality. “Right now it looks so different from what a traditional campus would look like,” she said. “The students are getting such a bad deal this year. It really stinks.”
All based on a damnable lie they have all thrown in with.
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"Are young people to blame for recent COVID-19 surges? Experts say the numbers are not conclusive; An increasing share of the state’s COVID cases are in people under 30, but other age groups have been infected at similar rates" by Dasia Moore Globe Staff, November 16, 2020
As COVID-19 once again grips the Northeast and the country, the message to twenty-somethings in particular has been consistent and clear: Get serious. Stop partying. You are endangering your communities.
Across the country and the world, young adults are making up an ever-increasing share of known COVID-19 cases, and public officials are not letting the trend go unnoticed.
In a recent overhaul of its daily dashboard, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health began highlighting the age breakdown of new cases, increasingly skewed toward young adults. Governor Charlie Baker — along with leaders across the region — has repeatedly admonished young people for flouting pandemic rules, pointing to house parties and other risky gatherings as drivers of the current surge, but epidemiologists worry that officials' reprimands might be misdirected — and counterproductive.
“It may very well be true that small social gatherings or large social gatherings among young people are driving the pandemic, but I haven’t yet seen data to support that,” said Julia Marcus, an epidemiologist and associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Though infection rates have risen rapidly among young adults, Marcus and other experts warn that data explaining that trend are limited.
Don't let that get in the way of the numbers and betrayal!
Regardless of why certain age groups are contracting COVID-19 — at work or parties, due to their recklessness or responsibilities — scientists said public officials should use compassion, not shame, to inform policy and curb infections.
The pre$$ isn't taking that advice at all.
“We know from other areas of public health, with HIV and substance use, that blaming people for their risky health behavior is not just ineffective, it can also be counterproductive,” Marcus said. “It perpetuates stigma, which drives people away from public health rather than engaging them, which is what we really want to do.”
Well, going along with this fractured the trust forever.
I'd rather die than access the health system now.
The 7-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts has been over 1,000 since Oct. 24, marking the longest stretch since May with such high levels.
While all age groups have seen numbers rise throughout most of the late summer and fall, people in their 20s saw the highest rates of new probable and confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people, data from the Public Health Department’s weekly reports show. In the past two weeks, 4,600 people aged 20-29 have tested positive for the disease.
Probable?
PROBABLE?
That's how you GOOSE the CASE NUMBERS, folks, and MOVE GOAL POSTS!
So how many of the youngsters ended up in hospital, died, or even had symptoms?
As usual, it's just a blizzard of numbers from the state with no context, nothing, all testing positive with a bogus test!
Other working-age adults also have infection rates that exceed the state average. In recent weeks, rates among thirty-somethings have nearly kept pace with those among twenty-somethings, with people in their 40s not far behind. The distribution of cases has shifted dramatically since spring, with most reported cases showing up in people under 50 today, versus elders earlier in the pandemic.
“Our young people need to be serious about dealing with COVID,” Baker said in an October press conference. “COVID is a very contagious virus, and it will rear its ugly head wherever it gets the chance.”
Uh-huh.
That's why he is sending the kids back to school.
Experts said there is good reason to be concerned about rising cases in young adults, as COVID-19 can be fatal for people of any age and the long-term effects of milder infections remain unknown.
Young people can also seed infection in their communities, said Anne Rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. “We’re seeing the same pattern here [in the United States] that we’ve seen in Europe and other places, which is you see cases expand in the younger age groups, but then it’s followed by cases in older age groups and vulnerable populations,” she said.
The question of why young adults are getting infected is more complicated, experts said.
“I think there’s a tendency to envision that there are all these young people out at bars and parties, and that somehow it is irresponsible behavior [driving cases],” said Dr. Sarah Fortune, chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “I do not think the data per se can be interpreted to mean that.”
The same “overlapping social-political factors” that contribute to COVID-19 risk among the general population also apply to young people, she said.
For Maggie Timboe, 22, and Curt Mai, 21, what they see as the riskiest part of their routines is also the most necessary: Going to work.
We have been told recently that work is not a vector!
They think you kids are STUPIDO!
“There’s this kind of ever-looming fear on our campus of if someone gets caught [breaking a pandemic rule], they don’t know what’s going to happen," said Soraya Pierre-Louis, 22, a fifth-year biology student at Northeastern University.
Timboe, a food service worker, restricts her social circle to her boyfriend, with whom she lives in Allston, and four or five friends she only meets outdoors. She said she feels safe in her workplace but worries about contracting COVID-19 during her hourlong commute on the T.
“Mostly the experience [of the pandemic] has been the anxiety about traveling to work,” she said, “and really, in the last two weeks, the anxiety has gotten worse.”
I sure as hell hope there is no sex going on!
“I’m a restaurant manager. Probably I interact with 1,000 customers a week,” said Mai, who lives with two roommates in Lowell. “I have no choice. That’s what I have to do to pay my bills, you know?”
Mai said he believed that in addition to service industry work, people his age are also put at risk by a “you only live once” mindset that leads some to throw caution — and their communities' health — to the wind, even though he said he and his friends take COVID-19 seriously.
Several young people voiced similar concerns about their peers more broadly, while insisting that they and the people they know are being careful. All balked at the idea that partying is driving infections.
There is NO DATA to SUPPORT IT!
Several of the activities they think other young people are irresponsible for doing — dining in groups, going to the gym, traveling between states, taking public transit for leisure outings — are, in fact, allowed and deemed safe by officials.
“That people take their lead from the government is natural,” said one 32-year-old in Cambridge who has struggled to find common ground on pandemic safety with his roommate, who spends time in settings he thinks are unsafe, including gyms. He asked to stay anonymous out of concern that his roommate, the one person he sees regularly, would be upset. Reopening “puts more undue burden on the individual” to determine what is safe, he said.
Actually, taking lead from the government is NOT natural.
FREEDOM is man's NATURAL STATE!
Soraya Pierre-Louis, a 22-year-old Northeastern University student, said that burden has been a defining feature of her senior year in college. Pierre-Louis plans to pursue a career in public health, in part because of the pandemic, but even for rule-followers like herself, she said, “There’s this kind of ever-looming fear on our campus of if someone gets caught [breaking a pandemic rule], they don’t know what’s going to happen."
Pervasive fear will not keep young people, or anyone, from taking risks, said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist, but she said empathy might.
“We’re telling people to stay home as much as possible, but we have to recognize that that’s easier for some people than others,” Nuzzo said. “For someone in their early 20s who potentially doesn’t have a built-in social unit at home, their one source of social support is their friends.
“I say that not to absolve people but just to be realistic about what it’s going to take to control this virus,” she said.
SIGH!
“If we take a minute before yelling at people to actually ask why are people gathering right now, the answer is probably going to be that they need social connection,” said Marcus, the Harvard epidemiologist who studies stigma. “Once we can see what that unmet need is, we can help people find safer ways to do that.”
Yeah, city-sacking protest is fine, because love is at the foundation of most of them and in the rush to roll out vaccines, commitment to social and racial justice must not fall by the wayside.
Alexandria Whitted, 22, has resorted to making new friends at the grocery store, one of the few places she ventures since moving to Brookline from North Carolina in August. Whitted, who is pursuing a masters in public health at Boston University, said social distancing is a no-brainer for her, no matter how difficult. Still, she said, she scrolls through Instagram, wistful and frustrated as less cautious acquaintances vacation and socialize.
Proving she doesn't have one.
She said an effective public health response would meet young people where they are.
“Being in your 20s is a very unique place in life. Some of us have families. Some of us have children. Some of us have responsibility for parents who are getting older. Some of us have been in school for 20 years. Some of us think because we’re younger, we’re immune to the virus," she said. “It’s more work to tailor the messages to fit those different groups, but regardless, everyone in the state — everyone in the country — deserves support.”
They may very well be, and what will she do for friends when the supermarkets are closed?
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Time to clear the streets:
"In the year of COVID-19, Boston homicides and shootings spiked. Why?" by Danny McDonald Globe Staff, December 6, 2020
A year of unrelenting death.
This year, street violence has increased in Boston. Homicides in the city so far are up 54 percent from last year.
For city authorities, advocates who work in violence prevention, and those who live and work in neighborhoods ravaged by street violence, the explanations for the spike are myriad. For one, 2019 appears to be an outlier for Boston. Additionally, some observers suggest that the economy, decimated by the ongoing public health emergency, has more people feeling desperate, yet others point to the pandemic’s gutting of youth programs and months without in-person learning at the city’s public schools, traditional bulwarks against violence that can keep youths busy and off the streets.
“There is no one reason why the violence is up in the city of Boston this year, but we continue to work at it every single day,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh said at a recent news conference.
Notice how emptying the jails doesn't factor in to the equation?
Whatever you do, stay the f**k out of that $tinking city.
In addition to food, housing, and employment insecurities, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said health care disparities and higher rates of infection and death in communities of color combine for a “recipe for disaster.” Rollins said she is deeply troubled by increases in street violence.
She is the one who refuses to charge criminals and now she is complaining.
“Notably, many of the communities where violence is erupting within Suffolk County are home to the very people who have been keeping us all fed, clean, and safe through the height of the pandemic and continue to do so as we still battle against COVID-19: supermarket employees, sanitation workers, food service and food processing staff, hospital employees, and caregivers,” Rollins said last week.
Such workers, said Rollins, don’t have the luxury of tele-commuting and many don’t have paid sick leave or hazard pay.
“These essential, and often invisible, workers are barely provided a living wage,” Rollins said. “These epic societal failures make the violence in these communities even more explicable, traumatic, and devastating.”
Every worker is f**king essential, you $oros-funded beeach.
Boston police Commissioner William Gross, meanwhile, said his department “is working day and night to prevent and solve crime in our city, and our police officers are in our communities every day to provide pathways away from violence for those who are most at risk.”
“Behind every act of violence is a broken family and a community filled with hurt,” Gross said.
You gotta SOAR above it as they are defunded, and it doesn't apply to foreign wars of aggression and criminal mass murder!
The Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III, a Dorchester-based founder of the Boston TenPoint Coalition, a faith-based anti-violence organization, pointed to a recent incident during which police arrested three and confiscated six guns at a large gathering of about 30 people at a Wainwright Street park in mid-November as emblematic of the problems in the city’s streets.
Isn't that a violation off the rules?
The novel coronavirus, said Rivers, has “created some new economies in the drug game.”
No in-person learning in the city’s public schools, he said, has also played a factor.
“How many thousands of kids are on the street now?”' Rivers said. “You didn’t have that before.”'
“Being in school reduced violence objectively, now there’s no school to reduce violence,” Rivers said. “You have a few thousand idle, extremely poor kids, and the hopelessness is a factor.”
So that is why they are failing en masse, huh?
Rivers also thought Boston police’s ability to combat the street violence was hamstrung by what he called the politics of the moment, as both local and national conversations about police reform and structural racism continue. He thought the reform rhetoric has had a chilling effect on aggressive policing.
“The politics of the policing thing have hampered the city’s ability to in some cases do what they got to do with these knuckleheads,” said Rivers. “The Black clergy has to stand up and demand and say, ‘Look, sometimes it’s hammer time.’”
OMG, that is so NON-PC!
In a different Dorchester neighborhood last week, Lemuel “Snookie” Mills opened a convenience store front door that the owner says was recently cracked by a homeless person who had lashed out after repeatedly being caught trying to steal food. Mills, an 82-year-old retired probation officer who has lived on Bowdoin Avenue for more than 50 years, was there to buy lottery tickets, but ended up talking about desperation and how he feels it contributes to crime.
“In a pandemic, people not working, people not feeding their family,” Mills said. “Guys who are selling drugs, they’re doing that to make money.”
Yeah, never mind the billionaires making money hand over fist as Boston restrooms that have become a haven for the homeless and drug addicts.
Three blocks from that cracked glass door on Washington Street, Sarbryon Loving, a 39-year-old man, was fatally shot on Erie Street during the wee hours of a Sunday in late July.
“Everybody’s got a gun,” said Mills. “Even the kids got a gun. They don’t feel safe without a gun.”
Inside the same store, David Jones, 53, who has lived in the neighborhood since the 1970s, mentions hearing gunshots nearby when he went to pick up a steak-and-cheese sub the previous week at a shop on Blue Hill Avenue, across from Franklin Park, but he also talks about the pressures underpinning the bloodshed. Employment problems, he said, can lead to other problems. He said he feels unsafe in the neighborhood and rarely goes out.
“I don’t know, it’s just gotten bad the last six months,” said Jones. “No one is happy.”
By the end of the piece you realize it is a GUN GRAB under the gown of MEDICAL TYRANNY!
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Time to start making arrests like in Hong Kong, right?
{@@##$$%%^^&&}
"With a COVID-19 vaccine perhaps just days away in the U.S., most of California headed into another lockdown Sunday because of the surging outbreak and top health officials warned Americans that this is no time to let their guard down. “The vaccine’s critical,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “but it’s not going to save us from this current surge. Only we can save us from this current surge.”
She is without a doubt one of the worst women in this world.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel is scheduled to take up a request Thursday to authorize emergency use of Pfizer’s vaccine. Vaccinations could begin just days later, though initial supplies will be rationed, and shots are not expected to become widely available until the spring. With the U.S. facing what could be a catastrophic winter, top government officials warned Americans anew to wear masks, practice social distancing and follow other basic measures — precautions that President Donald Trump and other members of the administration have often disdained. “I hear community members parroting back those situations — parroting back that masks don’t work, parroting back that we should work towards herd immunity, parroting back that gatherings don’t result in super-spreading events,” Birx said, “and I think our job is to constantly say those are myths, they are wrong and you can see the evidence base.”
And that is EXACTLY what they do!
The virus is blamed for over 280,000 deaths and more than 14.6 million confirmed infections in the U.S. New cases per day have rocketed to an all-time high of more than 190,000 on average. Deaths per day have surged to an average of more than 2,160, a level last seen during the dark days in April, when the outbreak was centered around New York. The number of Americans in the hospital with the coronavirus topped 100,000 for the first time over the past few days. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA commissioner, warned on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the U.S. death toll could be approaching 400,000 by the end of January. “As bad as things are right now,” he said, “they’re going to get a lot worse.”
It's a $elf-fulfilling prophecy that they drive themselves, and it is ALL LIES, folks!
"As the coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden’s administration will put in place something Donald Trump’s has not — a comprehensive national testing strategy. Such a strategy, they say, could systematically check more people for infections and spot surges before they take off. The health experts say it would be an improvement from the current practice, which has professional athletes and students at elite universities getting routine tests while many other Americans stand in line for hours — if they get tested at all. “We have had no strategy for this virus. Our strategy has been no strategy,” said Dr. Michael Mina, a Harvard University researcher focused on use of testing to track disease. Some experts say the lack of such a system is one reason for the current national explosion in cases, hospitalizations and deaths. There are differing opinions on what such a strategy should look like, but many experts say rapid and at-home tests should be used so Americans can check themselves and stay away from others if they test positive."
There are no excess deaths year over year according to the CDC, and watch this:
Uhhh....Houston...We've Got a Serious Problem Here!
He describes the testing regime and what standards they will be using.
Is that INSANITY or WHAT?
It's MEDICAL TRYANNY and EVIL TOTALITARIANISM!
COVID is SO FULL of HOLES they have to LAYER the STINK:
"Lately, in the ongoing conversation about how to defeat the coronavirus, experts have made reference to the “Swiss cheese model” of pandemic defense. The metaphor is easy enough to grasp: Multiple layers of protection, imagined as cheese slices, block the spread of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. No one layer is perfect; each has holes, and when the holes align, the risk of infection increases, but several layers combined — social distancing, plus masks, plus hand-washing, plus testing and tracing, plus ventilation, plus government messaging — significantly reduce the overall risk. Vaccination will add one more protective layer. “Pretty soon you’ve created an impenetrable barrier, and you really can quench the transmission of the virus,” said Dr. Julie Gerberding, executive vice president and chief patient officer at Merck, who recently referenced the Swiss cheese model when speaking at a virtual gala fund-raiser for MoMath, the National Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan, “but it requires all of those things, not just one of those things,” she added. “I think that’s what our population is having trouble getting their head around. We want to believe that there is going to come this magic day when suddenly 300 million doses of vaccine will be available and we can go back to work and things will return to normal. That is absolutely not going to happen fast.” Rather, Dr. Gerberding said in a follow-up email, expect to see “a gradual improvement in protection, first among the highest need groups, and then more gradually among the rest of us.” Until vaccines are widely available and taken, she said, “we will need to continue masks and other common-sense measures to protect ourselves and others.”
Then WHY take the VACCINE?
This stuff REEKS of DESPERATION by these EVIL A$$HOLES!
Don't you dare take down that mask, either:
"The Oregon Medical Board has indefinitely suspended the medical license of a doctor who said at a pro-Trump rally that he doesn’t wear a mask at his Dallas, Oregon, clinic and doesn’t require his staff to wear face-coverings either. Dr. Steven LaTulippe also said at the Nov. 7 rally in Salem that he encourages others not to wear masks, according to KGW-TV. A state order requires health care workers to wear a mask in health care settings....."
They used to call that blackmail and extortion.
Also see:
Latest COVID-19 spike in SC is worse than summer increase
Virginia reports record virus cases for second straight day
Russian virus infections hit record
Austria postpones some virus testing after huge snowstorm
China Prepares Large-Scale Rollout of Coronavirus Vaccines
1.2M doses have already arrived in Indonesia.
Related:
"Six followers of the divisive Indonesian cleric Rizieq Shihab were shot and killed by the police on the outskirts of Jakarta early Monday after what the authorities described as an attack on officers who were tailing the men as part of an investigation. According to the police account, cars carrying Rizieq’s followers stopped the unmarked police car and began attacking six uniformed officers with revolvers, sickles and a sword. The officers, fearing for their lives, fired in self-defense, the police said. Six men were killed. Four other men fled. No police officers were reported to be harmed. Rizieq, a fiery Muslim cleric who heads the Islamic Defenders Front, a prominent Islamic group known for its extremism, has been at the center of controversy in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, ever since he returned from self-imposed exile in Saudi Arabia. Since his arrival four weeks ago, he has flouted coronavirus restrictions by holding events with thousands of people, refused to undergo government-mandated coronavirus testing and called for a “moral revolution,” in which Indonesia would impose his vision of Islamic law, known as Shariah....."
The jackboots are the same in every country, aren't they?
"The co-owner of a New York City bar that authorities said has been defying coronavirus restrictions was taken into custody early Sunday after running over a deputy with a car, authorities said. Danny Presti tried to drive away from his bar, Mac’s Public House, as deputies were arresting him for serving patrons in violation of city and state closure orders, Sheriff Joseph Fucito said. Deputies attempted to arrest Presti as he left the bar early Sunday, but Presti got into his car, struck a deputy and kept driving for about 100 yards as the deputy was left hanging onto the hood, Fucito said. Presti, 34, was eventually stopped and apprehended, the sheriff said.
Look, Nazis in New York!
Presti was arraigned Sunday afternoon in Staten Island’s 122nd Precinct on 10 charges including third-degree assault, reckless driving, menacing and resisting arrest. A phone message was left for Mark Fonte, an attorney for Presti. The injured deputy was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries. The deputy’s condition wasn’t immediately available.
He was probably grazed and they turned it into a federal case.
The Staten Island bar was the site of protests last week after the sheriff’s office arrested Presti on charges of violating restrictions aimed at halting the spread of the coronavirus and obstructing governmental administration. The tavern is in an area designated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo as an orange zone because of spiking COVID-19 rates and was not supposed to be serving customers indoors, but the owners had declared the bar an “autonomous zone,” a nod to protesters who claimed control over a Seattle neighborhood in June. A spokesperson for Mayor Bill de Blasio said Presti’s actions showed a disregard for human life. “In both of these instances, whether it’s flouting public health laws or ramming a car into a uniformed deputy, this individual has endangered the lives of others,” said the spokesperson, Bill Neidhardt.
He has the nerve to say that after destroying that city?
He should be swinging from a lamppost for what he has done to what was once the greatest city in the world. Not anymore.
Authorities said the bar was still serving patrons Saturday night even though it was ordered closed entirely after Presti’s earlier arrest. Deputies surveilling the pub saw that the front door to the bar was locked but customers were being directed to a building next door, Fucito said. From there, they were able to enter Mac’s Public House through a back door and order food and beverages, he said. Staten Island is much more conservative than the rest of New York City and is the only one of the city’s five boroughs that voted for Republican President Donald Trump in November. The borough is home to many police officers and firefighters and is usually seen as supportive of law enforcement."
That's why they had to call in sheriffs and not the NYPD.
Related:
A MilliporeSigma employee worked in the company's Danvers facility (courtesy of MilliporeSigma/Custom credit)
"A drug manufacturing company plans to hire nearly 700 workers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire to ramp up production of key supplies to drug makers racing to develop vaccines for COVID-19. Burlington-based MilliporeSigma said it will spend $47 million to increase capacity at its facilities in Danvers and in Jaffrey, N.H., underscoring the prominent role that another local company is playing in the global effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic. A subsidiary of the German firm Merck KGaA, MilliporeSigma won’t say which individual vaccine makers will be served by the expansion, but noted it counts more than 50 drug makers developing COVID-19 treatments as customers....."
How odd that we end where we began?
