Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Africa. Show all posts

Friday, June 4, 2021

Opening the Gates of Hell

Before opening that which will not be named, I would ask the reader to set side an hours worth of time and watch this more than thought-provoking video regarding our past and ancestors, but also what the psychopaths of today are trying to achieve.


I would be remiss to not give credit where credit is due, and profusely thank her for digging it up. I really don't want to say anything more about it because you need to make your own judgements about what is presented there amidst the suspiciousness of the recent UFO psyop in the pre$$.

And now.....

"While this phase in COVID-19 vaccine distribution feels like the final push toward the ever elusive herd immunity goal, it’s actually only the beginning. It is likely that Americans will need booster shots in the fall, and with the rest of the world still lagging in vaccinations, the pandemic is nowhere near its end. That’s ultimately why the state should take the most holistic approach to finishing this cycle of COVID-19 vaccines by not only handing out prizes, but also ensuring that the vaccine is, in fact, cost-free to everyone and easy to access in all corners of the state. In the end, it’s not just a matter of making residents want to get the vaccine now; it’s about getting residents ready and enthusiastic to line up again for the next round of vaccines....."

Straight from the horse's you know what, and totally evil. The "ever elusive herd immunity!"

The Globe is entirely on board with the genocidal agenda as they promote that unhealthful sugary $hit and hide the fact it is the spike proteins that are killing people and no talk of therapeutics they are using across the world, either. It's enough to make your heart burst!

It's reached the point of criminality as the pre$$ continues to push the jabs and further agenda with all the $elf-$erving gu$to it can, and I am somehow supposed to feel sorry for the propagandists shoveling their BS because they are so noble, so valiant, so $elf-$erving.

Sorry, but the mask is off regardless of where we go from here. I know it seems like a losing battle, but it is my body, my choice, right?

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With that, I turn back to the front page and today's top story:


I invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege, i.e. no comment.

"Disease trackers are hopeful for a return to normal as COVID restrictions fade, but ‘things can change on a dime’; Most vaccinated people are safe to go mask-free, they say, for now" by Kay Lazar Globe Staff, June 3, 2021

A few weeks ago, some feared that Governor Charlie Baker was lifting COVID-19 restrictions too soon, but now disease trackers say that Massachusetts appears to be in a good position to hold the deadly coronavirus at bay — and for most fully vaccinated people to return to their normal lives.

In the first week since most state restrictions were lifted, Massachusetts is reporting near-record low numbers of new infections, and more than half of residents are fully vaccinated. Those promising trends are emerging as the state heads into a season where people are more likely to be outside, where fresh, circulating air makes it less likely to breathe in aerosols from someone who is infected.

“At this point we are in nice weather and there is no evidence to suggest we have problematic” new strains of the virus in Massachusetts, said Dr. Joshua Barocas, an infectious diseases specialist at Boston Medical Center. “We also have one of the highest vaccination rates in the whole country, so it’s probably fine for now” for vaccinated people to go about their lives mask-free, but Barocas and others caution that people shouldn’t get complacent: the virus roared back last fall after a deep summertime drop in cases, and huge swaths of the world remain unvaccinated. Today’s vaccines have provided remarkable protection so far, but it’s unclear if they will continue to be effective against future variants, he said.

At the same time, public health leaders warn that significantly lower vaccination rates in communities of color, along with higher numbers of infections, have left people in some pockets of the state far more vulnerable than others.

Barocas, who is vaccinated, said he would feel comfortable eating in a restaurant, as well as walking around without a mask, but he and other physicians noted that millions of Americans with a compromised immune system may still be at risk for serious complications from COVID, despite being vaccinated, and will need to continue taking precautions.

WTF?

So much for the "remarkable protection."

“For everybody else, it’s a matter of calculation,” Barocas said. “If you are vaccinated, it’s unlikely you will get sick, and even if you do, it’s very unlikely you will get very sick and die.”

Was anyway, what with the 99.97% survival rate!

As of May 24, there have been just 3,343 reported “breakthrough” instances of people in Massachusetts testing positive for the virus out of more than 2.9 million fully vaccinated individuals, according to state data. That translates to a breakthrough infection rate of 0.11% of all fully vaccinated people. Very few of those breakthrough infections make people seriously ill, and emerging science suggests the amount of virus they’re carrying is likely not enough to infect others.

All up on the #s now, huh?

Yeah, it is "just" more than 3,000 cases where the vaccines have failed. 

Massachusetts closed out May with a seven-day average of 158 new confirmed COVID cases on Monday, state data show — about a third of the number from the same day a year ago. And the percentage of all tests coming back positive has also plunged during that time, from over 8 percent to now below 1 percent.

Baker was bullish about the state’s progress at a briefing on Wednesday. Even though the overall number of vaccinated people continues to rise, infectious disease experts say there may still be a rise in COVID-19 cases in the fall, similar to other respiratory viruses as more people move indoors, but that increase is likely to be far less dramatic than last autumn’s surge.

“The coronavirus may come back to some extent, but not in the levels we had seen,” said Brooke Nichols, assistant professor of global health at Boston University School of Public Health.

Uh-huh. 

Someone pass the salt as they lump all respiratory viruses into the CVD bucket.

Despite the encouraging trends, infectious disease experts say now is not the time to be less vigilant.

“If nothing else, this pandemic has shown us how quickly [a virus] can envelop the world if you are not paying attention,” said Dr. Daniel McQuillen, a senior physician of infectious diseases at Beth Israel Lahey Health and president-elect of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Barocas, the infectious disease specialist at Boston Medical Center, said he’s concerned that the public focus has been so trained on getting back to normal that discussions about backup plans if the virus surges again have gotten short shrift.

“It looks really good right now in Massachusetts but things can change on a dime,” Barocas said, “and we need to have a contingency plan, a return to abnormalcy plan.”

What is abnormal is continuing to read this slop and the gossip is California has just locked down again!

What a windfall for the embattled governor, huh?


Keep an eye on the polls, and they have one hell of a choice, 'eh?

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Flipping below the fold one finds:

"Massachusetts lawmakers are considering several bills this session aimed at promoting racially integrated schools, taking on the issue for the first time in several years amid the racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd. Recommendations include increasing the budget for the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, or METCO, one of the country’s largest and longest-running voluntary school-desegregation programs, which buses 3,200 students of color in Boston and Springfield to predominantly white suburban schools, and a bill that proposes labeling each district and school among one of three categories: diverse, segregated, or intensely segregated. “School segregation is definitely among the top issues that are affecting our students,” said Representative Chynah Tyler, a Boston Democrat and one of the lawmakers who filed bills on the topic. “It’s an obstacle in place as to why our students aren’t excelling to the level we know they’re able to.” In the past decade, the number of “intensely segregated” Massachusetts schools serving children of color — meaning 90 percent of their students were Black, Latino, or Asian-American — increased by one-third to 192, according to a report last year by researchers at the Beyond Test Scores Project and the Center for Education and Civil Rights. Lawmakers described the legislative proposals as baby steps in tackling the highly complicated issue. Citing research showing both white students and students of color do better in diverse schools, many experts believe the increasing segregation of Black and Latino students harms their prospects for academic and career opportunity....."

Back to the busing of the 1970s (how does that help the carbon footprint), and it is time for me to separate myself from the Globe and $peaking of divide$, a fierce debate has been roiling this normally placid enclave.

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Opening the paper finds this as the National lead:

"President Biden signaled at a private meeting on Wednesday that he would be open to significant revisions on the size of his infrastructure package and how it would be paid for in order to win Republican backing, while the moves mark a potential new concession in stalled talks over funding to improve the country’s roads, bridges, pipes, and ports....."

Beneath that is someone being railroaded:


So that's why the price of a stamp is going up to 58 cents, and the political persecution is real under the communi$t regime of Biden.

Also see:


She is teaching kids that the American Revolution was fought to protect slavery.


You can surf the web at work while the tech companies collect the data for the government.


Sound, where's the sound?


They don't understand satire -- and neither does the New York Times!

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Flipping forward finds this as the World lead:

"White House outlines plan to distribute 25 million doses around the world; Three-quarters will be given to the COVAX effort and the rest reserved for ‘immediate needs and to help with surges around the world’" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg New York Times, June 3, 2021

The White House, besieged with requests from other nations to share excess doses of coronavirus vaccine, on Thursday announced it will distribute an initial 25 million doses this month across a “wide range of countries” within Latin America and the Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa, as well as the Palestinian territories, the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, and the West Bank.

The doses represent an initial tranche of a total of 80 million that President Biden has pledged to send overseas by the end of this month. Three-quarters of that first batch will be given to the international vaccine effort known as COVAX, officials said at a White House news conference on the pandemic. The rest will be reserved for “immediate needs and to help with surges around the world,” said Jake Sullivan, the president’s national security adviser, including in India and Iraq as well as the West Bank and Gaza. 

I only highlight it because I so often find the terminology of "reporters" offensive in addition the endless barrage of agenda-pushing lies and distortion, and how quickly Gaza and Israel has been forgotten.

Thursday’s announcement comes a week before Biden leaves for Cornwall, England, to meet with the heads of state of the Group of 7 industrialized nations, where the global vaccine supply is certain to be a topic of discussion. Officials said the Biden administration would continue to donate additional doses throughout the summer as they become available.

As is the global minimum tax(!).

“This is just the beginning,” said Jeffrey Zients, Biden’s coronavirus response coordinator. “Expect a regular cadence of shipments around the world, across the next several weeks.”

While China and Russia have used vaccine donations as an instrument of diplomacy in an effort to extract favors from other nations, Biden has insisted the United States will not do that — a point that Sullivan emphasized Thursday.

It's the new currency of the realm, and the Chinese shot comes later.

Nearly two-thirds of US adults have had at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine, and the rate of new cases and deaths has plummeted, contributing to an overall picture across the country that is “encouraging and uplifting,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but the picture around the world, especially in poorer nations in Africa and Central and South America, where vaccination rates are much lower, is bleak. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, and Paraguay are all awash in new cases; in Colombia, nearly 500 people a day have died of the coronavirus over the last several weeks. A sudden, sharp rise in coronavirus cases in many parts of Africa could amount to a continental third wave, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday.

I need to point out one thing here: it is now the BEGINNING of WINTER DOWN THERE!

This WHOLE THING is a MASSIVE FRAUD while it gives you a clue as to what will befall us in the Northern Hemisphere this fall, and the W.H.O. is a criminal organization!

REPENT NOW, you bastards!

Some African nations have less than 1 percent of their populations partially vaccinated, according to data from the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford, and the percentages of vaccinated people in Honduras and Guatemala are around 3 percent of the population.

Then what I read in the comments over at Makow is correct, other nations and their leaders for not allowing these insane vaccination numbers in their countries, and one almost feels like Africans are being looked after by a martyred saint.

Sullivan said the administration has decided to give priority to countries he described as neighbors of the United States, including Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, while also working with existing regional networks like the African Union to allow local authorities to allocate the vaccines as they see fit.

Biden came into office vowing to restore the United States’ position as a leader in global health, and he has been under increasing pressure from activists, as well as some business leaders, to do more to address the global vaccine shortage. Biden’s pledge to donate 80 million doses involves vaccines made by four manufacturers. Besides AstraZeneca, they are Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, the last three of which have received US emergency authorization for their vaccines.

Biden has described the vaccine donations as part of an “entirely new effort” to increase vaccine supplies and vastly expand manufacturing capacity, most of it in the United States. To broaden supply further, Biden recently announced he would support waiving intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines. He also put Zients in charge of developing a global vaccine strategy, and Zients said the United States is lifting the Defense Production Act’s “priority rating” for three vaccine-makers — AstraZeneca, Novovax, and Sanofi. None of those vaccines are authorized for US use, and the shift means that US-based companies that supply the vaccine-makers will be able to “make their own decisions on which orders to fulfill first,” Zients said.....


Directly below that article was this:

"Alarm in Africa as virus surges, vaccine shipments grind to ‘near halt’" by Gerald Imray The Associated Press, June 3, 2021

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — COVID-19 vaccine shipments have ground to “a near halt” in Africa while virus cases have spiked 20 percent over the last two weeks, the World Health Organization said Thursday, a bleak scenario for the continent on both those critical fronts.

South Africa alone saw a more than 60 percent rise in new cases last week as the country with the highest coronavirus caseload in Africa continued to face delays in its effort to roll out the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

More than 1 million J&J doses that should have already been put to use remain on hold at a pharmaceuticals plant in South Africa because of contamination concerns at a US factory. The head of the Africa CDC said he expects an update in the coming days from US federal regulators on those and other doses of J&J, which he called an essential vaccine for Africa because it’s a one-dose shot and doesn’t need the ultra-cold storage facilities required by others.

“The threat of a third wave in Africa is real and rising," WHO Africa director Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said. "Our priority is clear. It’s crucial that we swiftly get vaccines into the arms of Africans at high risk of falling seriously ill and dying of COVID-19.

Shove it, "doc."

“While many countries outside Africa have now vaccinated their high-priority groups and are able to even consider vaccinating their children, African countries are unable to even follow up with second doses for high-risk groups."

Moeti repeated Africa’s ongoing plea that richer countries that have reached “significant vaccination coverage” now release their remaining doses.  Moeti’s plea came hours before President Biden announced that the US would share some of its vaccines.

Sub-Saharan Africa has on average administered only one vaccine dose per 100 people, Moeti said, compared to a global average of 23 doses per 100 people. Some higher income countries have even reached 62 doses per 100 people, she added.

The issue with contamination of Johnson & Johnson doses at a US facility is a tiny part of the problem, but it’s a crucial one right now for South Africa, which has more than 1.6 million virus cases and more than 56,000 deaths, the most in Africa by far.

South Africa has seen a positivity rate of around 11-12 percent among people tested for the virus in recent days, well above the 5 percent threshold that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said marks “a cause for concern.”

Meanwhile, the country's vaccine rollout has faced a number of hurdles. The country ultimately rejected the first vaccine available over concerns about whether AstraZeneca showed enough efficacy against the variant first detected in South Africa — now referred to by WHO as the beta variant.

If the variant even exists, it is scientifically weaker because that is how a virus survives. It doesn't kill its host because then it also dies.

Now the contamination problems at the Emergent BioSolutions plant in Baltimore earlier this year have directly impacted South Africa's already lagging rollout. South Africa's health department was due to receive 1.1 million J&J doses in May. Another 900,000 were then meant to be delivered at the start of June, according to the government's schedule.

Both batches are in South Africa but remain frustratingly on hold after the US Food and Drug Administration shut down the Emergent plant in mid-April and put a lockdown on any doses that might be linked to it across the world. South Africa has vaccinated only 1.1 million of its 60 million people, and more than half of them have only received one dose of a two-dose vaccine.

Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director John Nkengasong said he was in contact earlier Thursday with J&J officials and they told him an announcement by the FDA was expected Friday or early next week.

On Tuesday, the FDA declined to comment on when it might resolve the concerns over Emergent’s factory, which included poorly trained workers and dirty walls and floors, and led to the immediate discarding of 15 million J&J doses connected to the factory.....

Time to $ell the $tock before the bottom drops out after the show hearing.


Also see:


That was in Libya, and it looks like the Terminator was a pre-programmed warning.  


It's $upport for terrorists engaged in regime change against an overwhelmingly legitimate government that is beloved by its people (the U.S. government must be jealous since it is reviled by its own).


They spelled colored wrong.


Who knew that Danes were racist, and I didn't see this in print.

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I flagged that because it made me think. Pride is a quality exhibited by Lucifer, whereas those who worship the Lord are taught to be humble. 

Just an observation.

Now back to the Evil:


That will be on his way to the G-7 meeting, according to the leaks:

"The Trump Justice Department secretly seized the phone records of four New York Times reporters spanning nearly four months in 2017 as part of a leak investigation, the Biden administration disclosed on Wednesday. It was the latest in a series of revelations about the Trump administration secretly obtaining reporters’ communications records in an effort to uncover their sources. Last month, the Biden Justice Department disclosed Trump-era seizures of the phone logs of reporters who work for The Washington Post and the phone and e-mail logs for a CNN reporter. Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, condemned the action by the Trump administration. “Seizing the phone records of journalists profoundly undermines press freedom,” he said in a statement. “It threatens to silence the sources we depend on to provide the public with essential information about what the government is doing.” The department informed the Times that law enforcement officials had seized phone records from Jan. 14 to April 30, 2017, for four Times reporters: Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eric Lichtblau, and Michael S. Schmidt. The government also secured a court order to seize logs — but not contents — of their e-mails, it said, but “no records were obtained.” The Justice Department did not say which article was being investigated, but the lineup of reporters and the timing suggested that the leak investigation related to classified information reported in an April 22, 2017, article the four reporters wrote about how James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director, handled politically charged investigations during the 2016 presidential election." 

Cry me a river! 

I mean, really!

The Obama/Biden administration SPIED ON and JAILED REPORTERS under Holder. (something Trump did not do). 

I guess they forgot that because it is rare for the Justice Department to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, so the New York Times just wished Biden a happy birthday before moving on!

Also see:

"U.S. prosecutors this week put a price tag on damage to the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6 breach — $1.5 million so far — and for the first time are asking defendants to cover some of the bill in plea offers, prosecutors and defense lawyers said. The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington cited the damage estimate Wednesday in court and in plea papers filed in the case of Paul Hodgkins, 38. The Tampa crane operator pleaded guilty to one felony count of obstructing an official proceeding of Congress and faces sentencing July 19 in Washington....."

What, no charge of insurrection?

Here is something that would surely open the gates of hell in this country:

"Trump increasingly obsessed with ballot audits in bid to overturn election" by Josh Dawsey and Rosalind S. Helderman Washington Post, June 3, 2021

WASHINGTON — Former president Donald Trump remains relentlessly focused on the false claim that the November election was stolen from him and is increasingly consumed with the notion that ballot reviews pushed by his supporters around the country could prove that he won, according to people familiar with his comments.

They already have, and the entire world knows he won in a landslide and had it stolen from him in the dark of the morning.

Not that it really matters. He brought Warp Speed and were he still in office he would be dealing with exactly the same problems.

Trump has rebuffed calls from some advisers to drop the matter, instead fixating on an ongoing Republican-commissioned audit in Arizona and plotting how to secure election reviews in other states, such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Georgia, according to advisers. He is most animated by the efforts in Fulton County, Ga., and Maricopa County, Ariz., according to two advisers who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations.

Trump’s interest has been fueled by conversations he has had with an array of figures who have publicly touted false claims of election fraud. Among them, according to advisers, is Christina Bobb, a host at the One America News network who has privately discussed the Arizona audit with the former president and his team; Mike Lindell, the chief executive of the company MyPillow; and Pennsylvania state Senator Doug Mastriano, a Republican, who urged the state’s congressional delegation to reject Biden’s victory there last fall. 

If the pre$$ says it's not true it likely is, and Lindell did a powerhouse video that the pre$$ has ignored.

Trump has become so fixated on the audits that he suggested recently to allies that their success could result in his return to the White House this year, according to people familiar with comments he has made. Some advisers said that such comments appear to be just offhand musings.

A Trump spokesman declined to comment on the record.

We are really fucked, because righting the wrong would unleash hell. 

The commies really have us in a vise grip on this one.

Trump’s deepening preoccupation with post-election audits has created a singular situation, one in which a former president is regularly attacking the electoral legitimacy of his successor, and it comes as a coterie of his most devoted supporters have intensified their own rhetoric, making allusions to undemocratic actions that could result in Trump’s return.

That's why New York State Attorney General Letitia James has joined a criminal inquiry into the Trump Organization and convened a grand jury -- to block his return that would be called for by 75% of the American people.

This weekend, at a conference in Dallas of adherents of the QAnon extremist ideology, former national security adviser Michael Flynn was asked by an audience member whether a military coup like the one in Myanmar could happen in the United States.

’'No reason, I mean, it should happen here,’' he responded.

Flynn later posted a statement on Parler saying that his comments had been misinterpreted and that he does not support a military coup, but at the same event, lawyer Sidney Powell — who has represented Flynn in the past and also filed multiple unsuccessful legal challenges to last year’s election result — said she believed Trump should be ’'reinstated’' to office this year.

Powell did not respond to requests for comment. She told CNN on Monday that Flynn had in no way encouraged ’'any act of violence or any military insurrection’' and said that the media had ’'grossly distorted’' his remarks.

The escalating rhetoric by the former president and his backers shows that he is intent on keeping alive the falsehood that the 2020 race was rigged, a claim that critics say has perilous implications for the country and the public’s faith in how they select their leaders.

We don't have any "faith" in government leaders anymore anyway, and the lying pre$$ whining about falsehoods is really the limit.

Trump’s campaign against the election continues nearly five months after a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol, seeking to prevent the formalization of Biden’s win, and public surveys show that the lie about the election has taken root inside the Republican Party: A CNN poll in April found that 70 percent of Republicans said they did not believe Biden had won the election legitimately.

Hey, at one time the American people thought Iraq had WMD.

Trump has seized on such polls as evidence that investigations are warranted, advisers said.

Local officials in states where Trump supporters are pushing for ballot reviews have decried the attacks on the election results as dangerous.

Truth never fears an audit!

In Arizona, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who defeated an incumbent Democrat in November, said he believed state GOP leaders knew that the claims of electoral fraud in the state are ’'facially laughable.’'

Still, he said in an interview, ’'ordinary people, the ones who are showing up on a Wednesday night at a political meeting, I believe they really believe it, and that’s super sad.’'

These guys are insulting, and he objects to it because then HIS ELECTION would be CALLED INTO QUESTION!

’'We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer,’' Richer tweeted last month. ’'As a party. As a state. As a country,’' but Trump has ramped up his public statements about the election in recent weeks and is expected to continue his crusade this weekend in a speech in North Carolina and at various summer rallies that are slated to begin this month.

I know how he feels every morning for about two hours.

’'Great work is being done in Georgia revealing the Election Fraud of the 2020 Presidential Election,’' he said in a statement Monday, adding: ’'The Left talks about election security but they do not practice what they preach because they are afraid of what might be found.’'

Advisers say he voraciously watches any television coverage he can find of the Arizona recount and reads ’'everything he can get his hands on’' about the audits, according to one person who speaks to Trump frequently, and he has made supporting his claims of a stolen election — or at least remaining silent about them — a litmus test of sorts as he decides whom to endorse for state and

We were told he doesn't read(!) when he was in office, and that's where the print ended so.....


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After the gunfire in front of cameras during the anniversary last week.

The devil then went down to Georgia:

"Georgia’s education board on Thursday approved a resolution that says the United States and Georgia are not racist and students should not be taught that racism or slavery are anything but deviations from the country’s “authentic founding principles.” The measure — approved by an 11-2 vote — was introduced amid a national reckoning with race that has prompted legislatures in Republican-controlled states across the country to try to define what race-related ideas can be taught in public schools and colleges....." 

The opposite is the truth, for it has been the Marxi$t teachers that have defined what are relations, and woe to those who object.

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The mo-fos at the New York Times say it is because of vaccines.


Yeah, the Deep South and Mountain West, including Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Wyoming.


It's the THIRD WAVE if you can believe it (no one does but they keep shoveling).


They shouldn't be vaccinated at all since “children are at (a) very, very low risk of actually getting COVID disease.” 

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"In the span of just five days last month, China gave out 100 million shots of its COVID-19 vaccines. After a slow start, China is now doing what virtually no other country in the world can: leveraging the power and all-encompassing reach of its one-party system and a maturing domestic vaccine industry to administer shots at a staggering pace. The rollout is far from perfect, including uneven distribution, but Chinese public health leaders now say they’re hoping to inoculate 80% of the population of 1.4 billion by the end of the year. China is now averaging about 19 million shots per day, according to Our World in Data’s rolling seven-day average....."

Yeah, “the Communist Party has people all the way down to every village, every neighborhood. That’s the draconian part of the system, but it also gives very powerful mobilization,” according to Ray Yip, former country director for the Gates Foundation in China and a public health expert.

Sound familiar, Americans?

Related:

"Bahrain has begun offering a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for some people, six months after they received two shots of China’s Sinopharm vaccine. The mixing of vaccines comes as the Mideast island nation struggles through its worst wave of the virus despite being one of the top countries in the world in per-capita inoculations. The government’s BeAware mobile phone app allows those living in Bahrain to register for booster shots of either the Pfizer or the Sinopharm jabs; however, The Wall Street Journal in its Thursday edition quoted Waleed Khalifa al-Manea, Bahrain’s undersecretary of health, as describing Sinopharm as providing a high degree of protection, but he acknowledged offering Pfizer to those with special needs, without explaining why the kingdom made that decision. Officials at Sinopharm did not immediately respond to a request for comment....."

Yup, sure LOOKS LIKE the "VIRUS" is IN the VACCINE, and yet all governments push on!

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Now for the migrant crisis that isn't:

"Fivefold surge in migrants en route to US overwhelms Panama" by Michael McDonald Bloomberg, June 3, 2021

Panama is struggling to cope with a five-fold increase in migrants who trek for days through its dense southern jungle in the hope of reaching the United States, according to the country’s top diplomat.

The migrants, from as far away as Senegal and Nigeria, are starting to overwhelm Panama's shelters as numbers surge, Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes said.

“The migrant situation has gotten a lot worse,” Mouynes said Wednesday, in an interview in New York. “We give them food, we put them in camps where you do biometric testing and COVID testing. That is fine if you have numbers you can manage, but if all of a sudden you have five times that amount it becomes difficult.”

Just getting us all ready for such eventualities, no doubt, and WHY would they want to come to a racist country built on white supremacism?

Just asking, and why isn't the Left up in arms about it?

The flow of people picked up as travel restrictions eased across the world, after the pandemic increased unemployment and poverty in developing nations. Migrants enter South America in places where visa rules are favorable, then make their way north to Colombia, before crossing into Panama across the dangerous no-man's land known as the Darien Gap.

Mouynes said she is seeking talks with governments in South America to help control the flow, or at least to vaccinate migrants as they travel.

It's a SINGLE-MINDED OBSESSION with the ruling cla$$, and a VERY UNHEALTHY MENTAL ATTITUDE!

The problem is easier to fix than the more visible migration flow toward the United States from the so-called northern triangle nations of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, Mouynes said.

Latin America has been among the regions worst-hit by the pandemic, both in terms of deaths and in economic damage. Panama has lagged regional peers in its vaccination drive, but Mouynes said the government is targeting a “massive” inoculation program in the third quarter to achieve herd immunity by September.

The government of President Laurentino Cortizo, which took office in 2019, is inoculating elderly and at-risk populations and will begin mass vaccination in July, she said.

Unlike most countries in Latin America, which raced to acquire shots wherever they could, Panama put nearly all its eggs in the basket of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine.

Mouynes met with Pfizer during her trip to New York, and said she received assurances that Panama would get the shots it ordered.

"We want Pfizer to recognize that Panama's huge bet on Pfizer in terms of not having this hedge with other pharmaceuticals also leaves us at a bit of a risk if they don't deliver the supply," Mouynes said. "We are targeting mass vaccination in July. If that doesn't happen for us we will be in big trouble."

What is disturbing is Panama is right along the equator and the heat should render viruses nil.

Vaccines could also play a role in regional foreign policy, Mouynes said. Offering shots to Venezuela could be one way to get President Nicolas Maduro to sit down with the opposition. So far, nothing else that's been tried has worked, she added. “The extent of the humanitarian crisis that is going on there is similar to Syria,” she said. “The quicker we recognize that the path we have taken has not been successful, the better, because doing more of what we were doing is not going to make a difference.”

This has reached the level of vomiting offensiveness.


Time to invade again like war-criminal H.W?

"Two senators defy changes in how military treats sex assault cases" by Jennifer Steinhauer New York Times, June 3, 2021

WASHINGTON — Over nearly a decade, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has painstakingly cobbled together a bipartisan Senate majority for legislation that would overhaul the way the military handles sexual assault and other serious crimes, a shift that many experts say is long overdue.

Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, has won backing from President Biden — something President Obama never openly gave — and numerous colleagues who voted against the bill the last time it came to the floor, a rare turn of events in a deeply divided body, but now she is running up against a final hurdle: opposition from the leaders of her chamber’s Armed Services Committee, Senators Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, and James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma. Hardly a political sweater set, the two men, both Army veterans who arrived in the Senate in the mid-1990s, nonetheless often coordinate like one on military matters.

Reed, 71, and Inhofe, 86, have combined to push back against Gillibrand’s legislation and delay any move toward a swift vote, a stance that many of the bill’s backers say shows far more deference to military commanders and committee protocols than justified given the decades of failure in protecting victims in the armed forces.....

Going to have to get rid of those old white men.

Now go make war and commit mass-murder over lies as they they cite complaints from the lying Da Nang Dick!!! 


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It was at this point that the editorial I led this post with appeared, and I stopped reading the Globe after that.

For what it is worth, the Metro lead got tangled up in the nets as they dug up some Bish.


Then at the bottom of the page:

"Thousands of Massachusetts day-care providers will be able to regularly screen children and employees for COVID-19 this summer, thanks to a new partnership between the state and a local nonprofit. Neighborhood Villages, a child-care advocacy group, is teaming up with the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care to offer free weekly pooled COVID-19 testing for child-care programs throughout the state. The initiative, which relies on testing kits from the genetic-sequencing company Veritas, will test roughly 6,000 children, teachers, and staff per week throughout the summer, with the potential for expansion in the fall if there is enough demand. In pooled testing, samples from multiple people are tested together to obtain quicker results. If the pool tests negative, all samples are recorded as negative. If the pool tests positive, samples in that pool are tested individually to identify positive cases. The state has offered pooled testing for children and teachers in K-12 schools since February....." 

The photo reminds me to tell you to hug your kids and keep them close -- and out of the public school system -- because they tests are manipulated  depending on the cycle threshold they are run at, with anything over 35 resulting in a false positive and noninfectious "case."


At least there is still one good sheriff in Massachusetts as we hit the slippery slope of history this summer.

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Yup, the Great Reset wears $elf-$erving Red Sox!

Now back to work as state officials and business leaders launch a new ‘hub’ to promote financial-tech startups, something that has been in the works for more than a year, as civic leaders home in on another big sector to foster in Massachusetts, following life sciences and digital health.

I then heard a roar overhead -- or was it just the din of theater?

Was so loud I couldn't hear them talking as they run rings around us:


Amazon is spying on you, and the piece was below the turn-in for an article regarding private equity giant Blackstone acquiring the tech research firm IDG for $1.3 billion.

What's interesting about that is back on May 25th, the Globe went marching with Amazon employees to shareholders’ offices targeting five corporationsState Street, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, Vanguard Group, and BlackRock — that collectively hold 21 percent of Amazon’s shares after Amazon raked in more than $21 billion in profit in 2020, nearly 84 percent more than the year before, as consumers flocked to online shopping sites to avoid going out during the coronavirus pandemic (those record profits “came at the expense of the exploitation of Black and brown folks,” so I guess no white people work there) -- at the SAME TIME that the Globe's front page was extolling what a wonderful landlord is BlackRock!


Now go watch a movie on Prime!

What I did see last night was the Bruin's overtime win thanks to the goaltending of Rask, and what a difference a (mostly unmasked) crowd make!

I then checked the score of the Laker game before turning the TV off and going to bed.

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Sunday Globe Noise

The truth is that is all it is no matter what day:


I know I have been brooding a lot lately; however, wildlife is one area where God shows his hand on a daily basis and how else can one see a pestilence sent to parasites?

They should -- and probably will -- make a movie:

"Nature at its craziest: Trillions of cicadas about to emerge" by Seth Borenstein Associated Press, May 5, 2021

COLUMBIA, Md. — Within days, a couple weeks at most, the cicadas of Brood X (the X is the Roman numeral for 10) will emerge after 17 years underground.

When the entire brood emerges, backyards can look like undulating waves, and the bug chorus is lawnmower loud.

The cicadas will mostly come out at dusk to try to avoid everything that wants to eat them, squiggling out of holes in the ground. They’ll try to climb up trees or anything vertical, including Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury. Once off the ground, they shed their skins and try to survive that vulnerable stage before they become dinner to a host of critters including ants, birds, dogs, cats.

It’s one of nature’s weirdest events, featuring sex, a race against death, evolution, and what can sound like a bad science fiction movie soundtrack.

Like, you know, CVD!

Some people may be repulsed. Psychiatrists are calling entomologists worrying about their patients, Shrewsbury said, but scientists say the arrival of Brood X is a sign that despite pollution, climate change, and dramatic biodiversity loss, something is still right with nature, and it’s quite a show.

Raupp presents the narrative of cicada’s lifespan with all the verve of a Hollywood blockbuster: “You’ve got a creature that spends 17 years in a COVID-like existence, isolated underground sucking on plant sap, right? In the 17th year these teenagers are going to come out of the earth by the billions if not trillions. They’re going to try to best everything on the planet that wants to eat them during this critical period of the nighttime when they’re just trying to grow up, they’re just trying to be adults, shed that skin, get their wings, go up into the treetops, escape their predators,” he says. 

That's how everything in my paper reads every day, truth be told.

“Once in the treetops, hey, it’s all going to be about romance. It’s only the males that sing. It’s going to be a big boy band up there as the males try to woo those females, try to convince that special someone that she should be the mother of his nymphs. He’s going to perform, sing songs. If she likes it, she’s going to click her wings. They’re going to have some wild sex in the treetop.

“Then she’s going to move out to the small branches, lay their eggs. Then it’s all going to be over in a matter of weeks. They’re going to tumble down. They’re going to basically fertilize the very plants from which they were spawned. Six weeks later the tiny nymphs are going to tumble 80 feet from the treetops, bounce twice, burrow down into the soil, go back underground for another 17 years.”

“This,” Raupp says, “is one of the craziest life cycles of any creature on the planet.”

They really are perverts, getting all horned up about insects and pestilence while trying to create a germ-free world. 

What is wrong with these people?

America is the only place in the world that has periodic cicadas that stay underground for either 13 or 17 years, says entomologist John Cooley of the University of Connecticut. The bugs only emerge in large numbers when the ground temperature reaches 64 degrees. That’s happening earlier in the calendar in recent years because of climate change, says entomologist Gene Kritsky. Before 1950 they used to emerge at the end of May; now they’re coming out weeks earlier.

Though there have been some early bugs, in Maryland and Ohio, soil temperatures have been in the low 60s. So Raupp and other scientists believe the big emergence is days away — a week or two, max.

Cicadas who come out early don’t survive. They’re quickly eaten by predators. Cicadas evolved a key survival technique: overwhelming numbers. There’s just too many of them to all get eaten when they all emerge at once, so some will survive and reproduce, Raupp says.

This is not an invasion. The cicadas have been here the entire time, quietly feeding off tree roots underground, not asleep, just moving slowly waiting for their body clocks tell them it is time to come out and breed. They’ve been in America for millions of years, far longer than people.

When they emerge, it gets noisy — 105 decibels noisy, like “a singles bar gone horribly, horribly wrong,” Cooley says. There are three distinct cicada species and each has its own mating song.

They aren’t locusts and the only plants they damage are young trees, which can be netted. The year after a big batch of cicadas, trees actually do better because dead bugs serve as fertilizer, Kritsky says.....

That's when my hearing went on the shit that bugs me.


Let's get one thing clear: people are not insects and should not be experimented upon, period.

The Globe then took the time to hawk a book for a certain politician who $aw her net worth triple in 2020. I'm not saying she should be burnt at the stake, but someone filed a complaint based on coverage thereafter.

Let us all say a prayer as boulders fall from heaven and the world is capsized in a bid to censure the light and run us into darkness. The wrestling match is all too real, folks, as they try to derail one of the handful of heroes who are standing against this madness (may he be consumed in the fires of hell).


"As the U.S. faces a reckoning over its history of racism, some Native American tribal nations that once owned slaves also are grappling with their own mistreatment of Black people. When Native American tribes were forced from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to what is now Oklahoma in the 1800s — known as the Trail of Tears — thousands of Black slaves owned by tribal members also were removed and forced to provide manual labor along the way. Once in Oklahoma, slaves often toiled on plantation-style farms or were servants in tribal members’ homes. Nearly 200 years later, many of the thousands of descendants of those Black slaves, known as Freedmen, are still fighting to be recognized by the tribes that once owned their ancestors. The fight has continued since the killing of George Floyd last year by a Minneapolis police officer spurred a reexamination of the vestiges of slavery in the U.S. The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations were referred to historically as the Five Civilized Tribes, or Five Tribes, by European settlers because they often assimilated into the settlers’ culture, adopting their style of dress and religion, and even owning slaves. Each tribe also has a unique history with Freedmen, whose rights were ultimately spelled out in separate treaties with the U.S. Today, the Cherokee Nation is the only tribe that fully recognizes the Freedmen as full citizens, a decision that came in 2017 following years of legal wrangling......"

They kill two birds with one stone there as the jew$paper needs to minimize the far greater Holocaust™ than the, you know, while flogging Black slavery again as they remake the history of the country and its enemies, both foreign and domestic, in an attempt to impact future generations to come and bury the past.


The Boston Children’s Museum reopened Saturday after being closed since December due to COVID-19, or you can go fishing off Cape Cod during the burial at sea for a 50-year-old Secret Service agent who died while training during his shift at the Bush family compound at Walker’s Point(?).

If I had one wish for you kids, it would be say no to drugs and don't gamble.


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"Scotland election results complicate hopes for independence referendum" by Mark Landler New York Times, May 9, 2021

LONDON — Hopes for a swift path to independence in Scotland were dampened on Saturday, as early election results showed the dominant Scottish nationalist party falling just short of a majority in the country’s parliament.

The results, if confirmed after the votes are fully counted by Saturday evening, would deprive the Scottish National Party of a symbolic victory in a closely-fought election. That, in turn, is likely to stiffen the determination of Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain to deny Scottish voters the chance to hold a second referendum on independence, yet pro-independence parties were on track to stay in overall control, which will keep the flame of Scottish nationalism alive and ensure that the threat of Scotland’s breaking away will continue to bedevil the United Kingdom.

While disappointing to the Scottish nationalists, the apparent absence of a clear majority might ultimately work to their advantage, by giving them time to build support for a referendum rather than being stampeded into an immediate campaign by the pressure of an overwhelming mandate.

Still, the result would be a relief to Johnson, for whom the dissolution of the United Kingdom looms as a potentially defining event for his premiership. He remains deeply unpopular in Scotland, and it is not clear how well prepared his government is to counter a reinvigorated push for Scottish independence.

For his part, Johnson was basking in Conservative Party’s victories in regional elections across England, which left the opposition Labour Party in disarray and reinforced his reputation as an inveterate vote-getter, yet some of the same post-Brexit populism that won the Conservatives votes in working-class parts of the Midlands and northern England worked against him in a more liberal and Brexit-averse Scotland.....

Unfortunately, and partly because of Brexit, I feel all elections are now rigged. Cameron was kicked out for allowing the vote, and no amount of apartment refurbishing is going to quell the anger before he is ridden out on a rail

Either that or he starts a war with France.


As for the Scots, the independence movement gained momentum in the wake of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit and the pandemic has further encouraged the idea that Scotland might be better off going its own way, and the Scottish National Party is led by the popular First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, 50, who remains the most popular politician in Scotland by far on issues of “competence, intelligence, being genuine and understanding ordinary people -- she comes up tops on everything,” and unlike Johnson, Sturgeon's popularity has remained strong through the pandemic because "she is perceived to understand ordinary people and then she is perceived to be genuine," but support for the SNP and for independence aren’t as high as they were in the second half of 2020 after she  faced an investigation into whether she had violated a code of conduct in her handling of sexual harassment complaints against her predecessor, Alex Salmond.

Related:


"In a show of force, armed militiamen briefly took over a hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli that serves as headquarters for the interim government, officials said Saturday. Friday’s development came after the three-member presidential council earlier this week appointed a new chief of the intelligence agency. The militias, which control Tripoli, were apparently unhappy with the choice....."

The agency is Libya’s version of the CIA, the new spy chief was Hussein Khalifa, and on Monday, Najla al-Manqoush, the foreign minister of Libya’s interim government called for the departure of all foreign forces and mercenaries, including Turkish troops, from the oil-rich North African country. That was seen as a rebuke to Turkey and angered pro-Turkey factions in western Libya. U.N. Security Council diplomats say there are more than 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries in Libya, including Syrians, Sudanese, Chadians and Russians. Libya was plunged into chaos when a NATO-backed uprising in 2011 toppled longtime ruler Moammar Gadhafi, who was later killed. The oil-rich country was in recent years split between rival east- and west-based administrations, each backed by different armed groups and foreign governments.

Obama turned the jewel of Africa into a hellhole with his lies, damn him!

He should be punished for it, and not just with a fine.

"States asked the federal government this week to withhold staggering amounts of COVID-19 vaccine amid plummeting demand for the shots, contributing to a growing U.S. stockpile of doses. From South Carolina to Washington, states are requesting the Biden administration send them only a fraction of what’s been allocated to them. The turned-down vaccines amount to hundreds of thousands of doses this week alone, providing a stark illustration of the problem of vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. More than 150 million Americans — about 57% of the adult population — have received at least one dose of vaccine, but government leaders from the Biden administration down to the city and county level are doing everything they can to persuade the rest of the country to get inoculated....."

At this point, they are treading into the criminal realm with their insistence that you take the jab, regardless of health condition.

Time to keep on moving:

"The organizer of a Grand Canyon adventure described it as a chance to trek along the South Rim, “one of the greatest hikes in the planet.” By September, at least 100 people from 12 different states had signed up on Facebook for the one-day hike. The organizer, Joseph Don Mount, said on Facebook he hoped more people would sign up for the hike. “If you want to keep inviting friends, I am determined to make this work for as many who want to go,” Mount said, according to federal court documents. A tipster sent the Facebook post to officials at the Grand Canyon National Park, where hikes had been limited to no more than 11 people per group in response to the pandemic. When a park official contacted Mount, he denied that he was planning a large-scale trip, yet, he continued to advertise the hike and to organize cabin stays and shuttle rides for dozens of people, according to court documents. By Oct. 24, the day of the hike, more than 150 people had paid $95 to register for the trip. That morning, at least 150 people showed up at the North Kaibab Trail, astounding rangers and overwhelming other visitors who struggled to steer clear of the hikers, many of whom were not wearing masks or social distancing, according to the documents. On Tuesday, Mount was charged in the U.S. District Court in Arizona with five separate counts, including giving a false report, interfering with a government employee or agent acting in an official duty, soliciting business in a federal park without a permit, and violating restrictions for group sizes for park visits and restrictions related to Covid-19. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Mount said he had arranged the trip because “with Covid and everything, people were just itching to get out. I didn’t do it for profit,” he said. Timothy Hopp, a U.S. park ranger, said in an affidavit that Mount collected $15,185 from participants for the hiking event......"

This comes as even the New York Times admits the CDC lied about outdoor transmission of the nonexistent virus that was used for unconstitutional lockdowns that were needed to protect our environment

You know, the music was so loud I couldn't hear a thing she said, and watch where you step!

So how long until the rockets start flying, Hallelujah, Hallelujah?

We will all be transplanted into the ground after the fall?

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The War on Terror has come home, just as "conspiracy theorists" said it would:

"From supporting US forces in Afghanistan to running Rhode Island’s COVID-19 response; How Thomas McCarthy, the executive director of the state’s COVID-19 Response Team, took the lessons he learned through multiple tours of duty and applied them to the pandemic" by Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff, May 7, 2021

PROVIDENCE — Early in his career as a cavalry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, Thomas McCarthy was partnering with local authorities to help restore governance and security in the region. He would work on projects that would ensure access to clean drinking water and help deliver essentials such as food and medical supplies to civilians.

He was a soldier in the U.S. Army Aviation Branch, and gaining the trust of local residents was a hurdle that took time to overcome. In Afghanistan, where he spent the majority of his deployments, most of the population could not access the Internet, and communication was oftentimes by word-of-mouth. In some areas, there was a tremendous amount of distrust for the local government, and because of some people’s experiences, there was little trust for outsiders as well. Engaging with the civilians on a day-to-day basis was critical.

“If you weren’t providing information and if you weren’t a trusted agent yet, that vacuum of information would very quickly be filled with someone else’s narrative,” McCarthy recently told the Globe. “While most of my time was in direct combat units, the emphasis was always on building enduring, sustainable capacity among our local counterparts to best serve the people.”

And now?

The lessons he learned in Afghanistan serve him well now, as the executive director of Rhode Island’s COVID-19 Response Team. In this role, McCarthy and his team oversee the surveillance COVID-19 testing program, data analytics and modeling teams, public health interventions including treatment and vaccines, and all operations for delivering the state’s COVID response to the public.

Why is a "health" crisis under a MILITARY command?

Because they are really WAGING WAR ON US?

McCarthy, who retired from active duty as a major in 2017, was appointed by then-governor Gina M. Raimondo in mid-February.

A native Rhode Islander, McCarthy stands shoulder-to-shoulder with state health director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott at the governor’s weekly coronavirus press conferences, presenting clear information to residents about how to get vaccinated and what they can do to help protect their households against COVID-19. He’s listened to the issues that residents have had throughout the vaccine rollout, and has been part of the operational team that has looked for ways to make the vaccine more accessible, to help eliminate hesitancy and, ultimately, build trust.


While the obstacles he faced in Afghanistan were vastly different, he says the issues of distrust, building rapport, and cutting through misinformation during the pandemic in Rhode Island are familiar.

“Knowing that the health and safety of all Rhode Islanders is reliant on this operation to be successful has made this so unique and special from any position I held previously,” said McCarthy, who grew up in North Kingstown in a full house with three brothers and a sister. He and his wife, Jessica McCarthy, a spokeswoman for Care New England Health System, and their two school-age daughters moved back to Rhode Island about three years ago when he took a job at CVS Health.

He went from being an Aviation Task Force Commander, where he was mentoring and developing more than 60 soldiers, two intelligence analysts, and employing a cavalry troop of seven Apache and a medical team of three Blackhawks in Afghanistan to becoming the director of Pharmacy Benefits Management Innovation at the health care giant.

It was a great position, he said, but when COVID-19 hit, he was “in agony.”

As are we all.



At least she has the energy to take them on, as opposed to the local ce$$pool of political corruption.

What a literal piece of shit who should be charged with manslaughter.

They should sic the dogs on her and stick to the plan while awaiting Trump's return.

You may be homeless by then, but the suffering is worth it.

It's stupid to keep wearing a mask, unless it is a fashion statement.

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"For decades, the austere hospital has stood as a monument to poor urban planning, critics say, a brick-covered eyesore looming over the city’s largest park and an enduring affront to Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace, yet the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and surrounding buildings on a 13-acre campus carved out of a tree-shaded meadow in Franklin Park in the 1950s have long provided essential medical care and social services for the homeless and substance dependent that would be difficult to place elsewhere. Now, with the aging hospital slated to close in three years and city officials considering sweeping changes to the park, tensions are mounting over the fate of the state-owned property. It’s an emotional dispute that underscores Franklin Park’s importance to the city and an abiding hope that its original promise can be realized in full....."

At least you can still go to the zoo:

"Last Wednesday night, during a Boston community meeting to address the age-old problem of youngsters raising a ruckus, John Linehan, the president and CEO of Zoo New England, made a curious assertion. The noisy parties and dirt-bike traffic that have become increasingly common near the zoo as pandemic restrictions have loosened had left the facility’s animals distressed, he said. Since early on in the pandemic, scientists have been attempting to discern the various effects of the pandemic on wildlife across the world, but the effects on zoo animals, many of whom reside in urban areas that have undergone significant change during the past year of isolation, appears to remain a largely unexplored frontier. Did you know, for instance, that the reduced traffic noise in the San Francisco Bay Area has led to a shift in song frequency in white-crowned sparrows, according to a study published in Science magazine, or that Northern Italy’s improved pandemic-era air quality resulted in a boost in egg-laying by the common swift? The particulars of how this is playing out at the Franklin Park Zoo, alas, remain largely shrouded in mystery. Citing ongoing COVID concerns, a spokeswoman for the facility recently declined a Globe reporter’s request to tour the zoo and speak with zookeepers about how, for instance, the Sardinian dwarf donkeys and Madagascar hissing cockroaches have been faring amid the recent commotion....."

Maybe you should try the Aquarium instead, and it must have been a wild ride into captivity, and not so long ago, in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston-area renters had a rare advantage in their long-running struggle with landlords to find a good apartment they can afford. That time is ending. As the region quickly opens back up this spring, with sidewalks coming to life and restaurants repopulating, apartment hunters are coming back, too. Young professionals are contemplating at least occasional trips to the office. Students are plotting their return to college, and Boston’s typically tight rental market is rapidly returning to form. Rents in recent weeks have surged toward prepandemic levels (good luck finding a job, kids) as many in Massachusetts mark the easing of pandemic restrictions with parties, vacations, and other social gatherings, one enormous group is feeling left behind: families with children under the age of 12. Young people ages 12 to 15 became eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations this week, but hundreds of thousands of younger children are not — and likely won’t be for months. That’s leaving countless families uncertain about when and where it’s safe to play, eat, and just go about their lives — even after most adults are vaccinated. Young children are much less likely to become severely ill from COVID, but it does happen, and guidance about what’s safe seems to be constantly changing, forcing vaccinated parents with unvaccinated children to make countless calculations of everyday risks when venturing out. Take Tim Langan and his family in Somerville (which is a Sh!thole from what I see).

There should be some sort of penalty for the putting kids at risk, and while outdoor mask wearing has become noticeably more mixed, putting on a face covering while going inside still seems ingrained, according to businesses and shoppers and  “it would be weird not wearing it.”

What a guilt trip, but it is time to move on and put the past behind us! The fire is out and the feast is set to begin after the fall of the king in record time (possible drunk driving?)

Liberals may despair, but there may be another way to tyranny as we sail off into the sunset and blow you one final kiss before turning off the radio.