A Carnival Cruise Line ship that arrived in Belize on Wednesday after departing from Texas recorded 27 positive COVID-19 tests, all among people who are fully vaccinated. The Belize Tourism Board said in a press release that the Carnival Vista ship, which left from Galveston, Texas, arrived in Belize City with a total of 2,895 guests and 1,441 crew members.
“As per the normal protocol, upon submission of the Maritime Declaration by the ship in anticipation of its call to Belize the ship reported that it had on board 27 positive cases, 26 of which were crew members and 1 passenger,” the statement said.
The tourism board added that it, along with Belize’s minister of tourism and diaspora relations, had met virtually with Carnival Vista officials the day before to “discuss the notification that persons aboard the vessel tested positive for COVID-19.” After the meeting, Carnival informed others on the ship that all who tested positive had been isolated and “contact tracing has ended with no additional positive cases found.”
The Wednesday press release noted that Carnival said 99.8 percent of the ship’s crew members and 96.5 percent of passengers were fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Each of the individuals who tested positive are either “asymptomatic or have very mild symptoms,” according to the tourism board. Carnival said in a statement to The Hill that the company has “managed the situation utilizing stringent health protocols which included placing those who tested positive in isolation and close contacts in quarantine.” “The health, safety and well-being of our guests, crew and the destinations we visit is our priority,” Carnival added. “All activities on the ship are taking place and our guests have been terrific at adapting to our new protocols. Carnival is in daily contact with the CDC about the status of all our ships.” The company announced new mask and testing requirements last week, including that “all guests will be asked to wear masks in certain indoor areas of Carnival’s ships” from Aug. 7 through Oct. 31. Carnival also said that effective this Saturday, all fully vaccinated guests will be required to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test conducted within three days of boarding the ship. “Vaccinated guests are required to come with their negative test results and proof of vaccination for boarding,” the cruise line said, adding that unvaccinated guests will continue to be required to submit to “pre-cruise PCR testing, testing prior to boarding, and testing within 24 hours of debarkation on cruises of five days or longer.” Other cruise lines have reported COVID-19 outbreaks among passengers and crews as ships attempt to safely return to the seas with coronavirus safety protocols. Late last month, Royal Caribbean said that six of its passengers had tested positive after departing from the Bahamas. Nick Note: I was involved in bringing cruise ships to the islands.. What a bunch of whores. I leaned to hate the cruise ship companies. They had their hand in the pockets of everyone who did business when the passangers that landed. The passengers were newly married, over fed or nearly dead. The crew were very desperate mostly island boys and a few girls….. Miserable. To think they could stop infections is a joke. Through the years they could not stop simple stomach infections not nearly as infections as the Delta variant. Reality their is no way to make a cruise ship safe.
There is new evidence to show that China locked down all domestic traffic internally by end January 2020 but pushed to open foreign travel till end March. Data from Tom Tom traffic index, a traffic location site that covers 416 cities across 57 countries show that as a result of this strategy, China, intentionally or otherwise, was able to lockdown its cities unknown to the world. While this reduced the spread of the Corona virus within China, China’s aggressive foreign travel policy lead to a virus explosion worldwide. Here is the chronological events of what happened with the requisite traffic data from 10 major cities globally and the statements from Chinese leaders that will help readers reach their own conclusions. The COVID- 19 virus first surfaced in Wuhan in the last week of December. On 31 December 2019 Chinese health officials first reported to WHO that 41 patients in Wuhan had contracted a mysterious pneumonia that was not responding to conventional treatment. As most patients were from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market it was closed on the 1st of January. On the 7th of January Chinese scientists identified the virus as a novel Coronavirus later termed as the COVID-19 virus. On the 11th of January the virus claimed its first life in Wuhan city. On 13th January Thailand reported the first case of Coronavirus outside China. On 20th of January Zong Nanshan the scientist named by China to lead the battle against the virus stated ” Now we can say that it is certain that it is a human to human transmission phenomenon”.
On January 22 at a meeting to decide the measures to be taken, WHO was not able warn the world of the severity of COVID-19 apparently because of resistance from Beijing. (WHO referred to it as “divergent views”)
On January 23 Wuhan city was placed under quarantine and two days later the entire Hubei province was locked down. The Chinese state machinery was harnessed to enforce an unprecedented quarantine on 50 million people across 15 cities. In the last week of January domestic flights from Hubei to other parts of China was stopped and restrictions on traffic movement in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai were initiated. This was the time of the Chinese New Year when offices and schools are normally closed and it is also the prime tourism season for the Chinese.
On the 31st January Italy fearing a major outbreak of Coronavirus from hundreds of tourists arriving from China closed all flights to and from China.
China’s vice-minister of foreign affairs Qin Gang met Italy’s ambassador to China Luca Ferrari in Beijing following the flight ban. “Italy’s decision to stop flights without contacting China in advance caused great inconvenience to citizens of both countries. Many Chinese are still stranded in Italy,” the foreign ministry said on its website the following day. The U.S. issued a travel advisory against China travel on the 2nd of February but did not ban all services.
While Chinese authorities limited domestic flights from Wuhan to other Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai in an effort to contain the outbreak in January, it urged international carriers to maintain their flying schedules. The Civil Aviation Administration of China stated “In order to meet the needs of passengers in and out of the country and the international transport of supplies during this special period … airlines [are required to] … continue transport to nations that have not imposed travel restrictions.”
China’s assertion that all was well for international travel was supported by the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the opening of the agency’s Executive Board meet on the 3rd February. He said ” There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade. We call on all countries to implement decisions that are evidence-based and consistent. WHO stands ready to provide advice to any country that is considering which measures to take,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying criticised the US advisories saying “The U.S. government hasn’t provided any substantial assistance to us, but it was the first to evacuate personnel from its consulate in Wuhan, the first to suggest partial withdrawal of its embassy staff, and the first to impose a comprehensive travel ban on Chinese travellers”
While China continued to protest against international travel bans it successfully quarantined Wuhan and other affected cities. The total domestic lockdown of Hubei province and the flight ban imposed inside China had immediate effect. As per data from Tom Tom traffic index Wuhan had a traffic density of 60% in January while Shanghai and Beijing had nearly 80% density. After the total lockdown the average traffic density fell to below 10% in Wuhan and Shanghai during February and below 5% in Beijing. While implementing a total domestic lockdown in February, China kept assuring the world that the situation was not serious and fully under control.
China kept on the facade of hiding the severity of the virus attack. It was not till mid March. On the 11th of March WHO belatedly declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. By that time the number of cases globally had grown thirteen fold.
As per WHO website more than 118,000 cases had been reported in 114 countries, and 4,291 people had lost their lives when the global pandemic was declared. That is when the rest of the world started preparing for a suitable response to the pandemic, nearly two months after China. It was only after a telephonic conversation with US President Donald Trump on March 27th that Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to curb international flights from China. China’s Civil Aviation Administration stated after the discussion “that 90% of international flights would be temporarily suspended. The number of incoming passengers would be cut to 5,000 a day, from 25,000. China has also ordered local airlines to maintain only one route per country, once a week, as of 29th March”. By the end of March COVID-19 had become a full blown global crisis with nearly 10,000 deaths in Italy, Spain and the US and over 5000 in Iran and the UK which was much more than those dead in China. As per data from Tom Tom traffic index the traffic density in Wuhan remained low at around 10% of the normal traffic in March while the major business centres like Beijing and Shanghai which had less than a few thousand cases of COVID-19 and half a dozen deaths showed partial recovery of traffic to around 40%. The rest of the world oblivious of the need for total lockdown took time to react. The traffic remained high at over 60% in major cities like Rome, Milan, Madrid, Paris, London, New York, New Delhi and Mumbai during March. The Tom Tom traffic data index shows that in all other global cities like Rome, Milan, Madrid, Paris, London, New York, New Delhi and Mumbai the traffic density dropped to 10% only in the month of April when most nations went under lockdown.
This was two months after China went in for a domestic lock down and allowed the virus to proliferate to international destinations through human contact.
The traffic density in Beijing and Shanghai rose to over 60% in April showing that the Chinese cities and its economy was back to normal functioning. While China limited its losses to below 5000 by end April 2020, the US had lost 60,000 lives, Italy, Spain, France and UK above 20,000 each and the world saw over 200,000 deaths that was nearly doubling every fortnight.
So though the virus had originated from China which initially infected citizens from 27 nations, because of China’s diabolic international travel policy it spread rapidly to a totally unprepared Europe, mainly Italy and Spain and thereafter to the rest of the world becoming a global pandemic.
So weather the virus was produced in the Wuhan Virology Institute as an exercise of bio-terrorism Nick Bit: I have been told by people who know these kind of things the bat virus was weaponized at the Wuhan bio terror lab and was accidentally released prematurely by careless scientists who are no longer with us.) or simply arrived unintentionally due to bat and pangolin infected blood from its exotic animal markets in Wuhan, China is answerable for the way it allowed the virus to spread. Australia has called for an international investigation into the spread of COVID-19 and all nations of the world including India must back the move. Also it has been suggested that the leadership and the action of WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus needs to be probed. All nations including India need to support such an investigation for it is better to be safe than sorry. Nick Note: China is to powerful. the investigations will get nowhere… Bit it makes a good soundbite!
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized a third dose of COVID-19 for certain people with compromised immune systems, a narrow move into the realm of booster doses amid a growing debate over their use. The move will allow a third dose of both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, and applies to certain immunocompromised people, including those with organ transplants and those “diagnosed with conditions that are considered to have an equivalent level of immunocompromise,” the FDA said. The agency emphasized that the general public does not need a third dose at the moment.Federal health officials officials emphasized the group is small. (Nick Bit: Break it to the masses slowly. The longer they wait to roll out the third booster shot to the masses the more people they kill. Its ok they are use to it already. I want to be on the record here… They will EVENTUALLY recommend a third vaccine booster shot for everyonw) “The country has entered yet another wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the FDA is especially cognizant that immunocompromised people are particularly at risk for severe disease,” said Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock. “After a thorough review of the available data, the FDA determined that this small, vulnerable group may benefit from a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna Vaccines.” But health officials have left the door open to third doses, stating that they may be needed eventually. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, earlier Thursday said “inevitably” there will be a time when the wider public needs a booster, though now is not the time. “Inevitably, there will be a time when we’ll have to give boosts,” Fauci said on NBC. “What we’re doing, literally, on a weekly and monthly basis is following cohorts of patients to determine if, when and whom should get it.”A broader issuance of booster doses would be controversial given that many people around the world, including health care workers in some countries, are still waiting for their first dose. “Today’s action allows doctors to boost immunity in certain immunocompromised individuals who need extra protection from COVID-19,” Woodcock said. United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said late Thursday night that the number of newly confirmed COVID-19 infections stood at around 113,000 per day over the past week. According to Johns Hopkins University’s tally, the US registered 135,177new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours. The number of daily deaths from the disease stood at 342 during the same period. “As we’ve previously stated, other individuals who are fully vaccinated are adequately protected and do not need an additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine at this time. The FDA is actively engaged in a science-based, rigorous process with our federal partners to consider whether an additional dose may be needed in the future.” Nick Note: Bullfuckingshit!! I want to be clear here. If your second booster shot is more then 6 months old you need a 3rd booster shot. I got mine you need to get your… At least Maskup, Vitamin up, Isolate the best you can AND test everyone Who comes into your airspace….
China partly shut the world’s third-busiest container port after a ONE worker became infected with COVID-19, threatening more damage to already fragile supply chains and global trade as a key shopping season nears. All inbound and outbound container services at Meishan terminal (worlds third largest) in Ningbo-Zhoushan port were halted Wednesday until further notice due to a “system disruption,” according to a statement from the port. An employee tested positive for coronavirus, the eastern Chinese city’s government said. The closed terminal accounts for about 25% of container cargo through the port, calculates security consultant GardaWorld, which said “the suspension could severely impact cargo handling and shipping.” Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd AG said there will be a delay in sailings. This is the second recent shutdown of a Chinese port due to the coronavirus, after the closure of Yantian port in Shenzhen from late May for about a month. The action led goods to back up in factories and storage yards and also likely lifted soaring freight rates, which are at record levels and a source of inflation.
The fear is that this new disruption will further strain shipping and supplies of goods, dampening growth and driving up prices. An extended shuttering at Ningbo could be especially painful for the world economy because seaborne trade usually rises toward the end of the year as companies ship Christmas and holiday products.
“There may be far-reaching downstream consequences going into Black Friday and holiday shopping seasons” and the next 24 hours will determine whether there is a large outbreak or not, said Josh Brazil, vice president of marketing at project44, a supply-chain intelligence firm. “One of the few givens in 2021 is endemic delays, and the fact that conditions can change almost overnight.” In addition to the closed terminal, containers for shipment through the other terminals in the port will likely slow. The port will now only accept containers within two days of a ship’s estimated arrival time, according to a statement from shipping and logistics firm CMA CGM SA. The biggest exports through Ningbo in the first half of this year were electronic goods, textiles and low and high-end manufactured goods, according to the city’s Customs Bureau. Top imports included crude oil, electronics, raw chemicals and agricultural products. Nick Note: This is the critical time of goods shipped to the US for the holidays. I assume you must have brains since you are seeing my widely censored work. 1 as one One is a Lonely Number infection they shut the port….. Really!!!! we are at war with China. They are killing far more people then a war. Its a stealth war using bio-weapons. And our global leaders HA HA HA HA HA are sleeping at the switch…. Sad so sad!!!!!!
China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization’s calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported “scientific” over “political” efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is once more mounting on Beijing to consider a fresh probe into the origins of a pandemic which has killed more than four million people and paralysed economies worldwide since it first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. A delayed and heavily politicised visit by a WHO team of international experts went to Wuhan in January 2021 to produce a first phase report, which was written in conjunction with their Chinese counterparts. It failed to conclude how the virus began. On Thursday the WHO urged China to share raw data from the earliest Covid-19 cases to revive its probe into the origins of the disease. China hit back, Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu saying it has never rejected cooperation on tracing the origins of Covid-19, but rejects the politicisation of such a search, state media reported. “We oppose political tracing … and abandoning the joint report” issued after the WHO team’s Wuhan visit, Ma told reporters. “We support scientific tracing.” The joint report said the virus jumping from bats to humans via an intermediate animal was the most probable scenario, while a leak from Wuhan’s virology labs was “extremely unlikely”. Ma rejected suggestions of new lines of investigation. “The conclusions and recommendations of WHO and China joint report were recognised by the international community and the scientific community,” he said. “Future global traceability work should and can only be further carried out on the basis of this report, rather than starting a new one.” China is continuing to conduct “follow-up and supplementary” research into the origins of the novel coronavirus as specified in the joint report, Ma said. The WHO on Thursday called for all governments to cooperate to accelerate studies into the origins of the pandemic and “to depoliticise the situation”. In the face of China’s reluctance to open up to outside investigators, experts are increasingly open to considering the theory that the virus might have leaked from a lab, once dismissed as a conspiracy propagated by the US far right. Even WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the initial probe into Wuhan’s virology labs had not gone far enough, while US President Joe Biden in May ordered a separate investigation into the virus origins from the US intelligence community. A WHO call last month for the investigation’s second stage to include audits of the Wuhan labs infuriated Beijing, with Vice Health Minister Zeng Yixin saying the plan showed “disrespect for common sense and arrogance towards science”. Meanwhile, Danish scientist Peter Ben Embarek, who led the international mission to Wuhan, said a lab employee infected while taking samples in the field falls under one of the likely hypotheses as to how the virus passed from bats to humans.
He told the Danish public channel TV2 that the suspect bats were not from the Wuhan region and the only people likely to have approached them were workers from the Wuhan labs.
Ben Embarek previously acknowledged in an interview with Science magazine that “politics was always in the room with us” during the Wuhan trip, which was mired in delays after China initially stalled approval for the international researchers’ entry. Nick Note: We all new who got here first in the west. We tracked this down from my “dream”. All the people siting at the table in my dream are either dead or not sen or heard from in over a year. China spliced the bat virus DNA in the Wuhan lab to infect humans. Wuhan will go down in history as the modern day Auschwitz. In this case instead of using syniad gas to exterminate millions the Chinese chose a virus to in the end kill billions. they designed a viral bio-weapon…. And when it accidentally escaped by infected workers shopping at the Wuhan market on their way home from work started this deadly plague spread. All thiose workers ended up in the emergenct room and dies and their bodies disappeared. A hero sused Dr. LiWenliang realized that their was a new infections disease and spoke out. Here is what he got for his trouble,.
Dr Li After he was silenced and infected by Chinese authorities and placed in isolation.
Here is the story (pretty accurate) from the authoritative scientific publication The Journal of Nuclear Medicine” Dr Li Covid story This is a man who deserves a Nobel prize….. In the greatest tradition of the medical profession he stood up for truth. The story is a spin job. When China realized the cat (after they tortured to death Dr Li) was out of the bag. They brought Dr Zhang to show they were doing something. This was to cover the fact that China not only genetically spliced the bat virus to infect humans but sent tour groups (paid for by the communist party) of infected people to every major city in the world. Why? Because they new the plauge would shut down the world economy and they did not want to be the only weakened country. It makes perfect sense if you understand China’s diabolical leadership. First economic leadership them military world demonetization. And this plague is a terrible thing to waste is their key to weakening western economies and political systems. And yes i believe they are isolating, and genetically splicing and releasing mutant strains. And i believe mankind’s only hope, only defense is to vaccinate its populations every 6 months from the ongoing attackes. Its a war we are in like it or not realize it or not. And to be clear here China allows SMALL outbreaks to pretend they are infected too. I want to be clear here the Chinese economy is back. The US will soon be in another even more devastating shutdown. The Chinnese are using internal quarantines to manipulate the global supply chains… See story about the China Ningbo shipping terminal shut down over one (1) Covid-19 infection. The third largest container terminal in the world.
United States major equity markets closed higher on Thursday with Dow Jones and S&P 500 hitting new all-time-high benchmarks. Investors traded optimistically amid a strong earnings season, while employment data and producer prices report suggested that Federal Reserve won’t remove its supportive measure just yet. Meanwhile, traders are looking forward to consumer sentiment data released on Friday. White House advisor Brian Deese noted that the US government will aim to keep inflation under control by addressing supply chain and bottleneck issues. Moderna traded in the green following yesterday’s plunge as its stocks continue a volatile rally on CDC’s intention to approve booster shots. The Dow remained flat at the closing bell, while the S&P 500 rose by 0.29%. The Nasdaq 100 grew by 0.41% led by Align Technology gaining 2.40%. The euro was down 0.04% against the dollar, exchanging hands for $1.17348 at 3:57 pm ET. Nick Note: Its the stupid money buying the dips… you can trade the fantasy or the fundamentals… Right now its the fantasy…….
NIAID director Anthony Fauci told “CBS This Morning” on Thursday that it is “likely” everyone will need a vaccine booster shot in the future, but apart from the immune compromised, “we don’t feel a need to give boosters right now.” The FDA is expected to update its emergency use authorization for the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines as early as Thursday to allow immunocompromised people to get a third dose, Scientists don’t agree who should receive booster shots and when, especially as much of the world’s population is still waiting for their initial round of shots, Axios’ Caitlin Owens report Research shows that the vaccines are losing some potency against milder infections, causing concern as data also suggest that people with breakthrough cases can effectively transmit the virus.“We’re already starting to see indications in some sectors about a diminution over time, that’s durability,” Fauci said. “We don’t feel at this particular point, that apart from the immune compromised, we don’t feel we need to give boosters right now,” he added. Fauci said that data is being followed “literally on a weekly and monthly basis” to determine how the level of protection is diminishing. Nick Note: Stop the torture. We have know from the start that the vaccines last for about 6 months. So stop fucking around and tell the people the truth.
As per the latest updates from Energy Intel, “Russia is shipping increasing volumes of crude oil and refined products to the US to meet that nation’s rising demand.” The news also states that Russia is now, “the second-largest foreign supplier of fuel to the US after Canada, despite being subject to a range of sanctions imposed by Washington.” The article also mentions the record oil imports from Russia, by the US, as 844,000 barrels per day in May. Russian fuel exports to the US are more than double the volumes sailed over by Saudi Arabia, which is focussing on the more lucrative Asian market. Russia kept the volumes steady to China. US imports of Russian crude were 185,000 b/d in the first half of the year, but 277,000 b/d in May, even more than the 255,000 b/d the Saudis landed. The shift to the US might not be structural when Europe picks up refinery runs once the pandemic is under control. Russian exports through the Druzhba pipeline have been 200,000 b/d lower but not all volumes might return as countries like Poland try to diversify away from Russia. Russian oil firms mostly cut output from less-efficient brownfields that feed the Druzhba pipeline. Also, Moscow has asked domestic refiners to provide sufficient volumes of products to the home market. Crude throughput in Russia was 5.7 million b/d in the first half of 2021, versus 5.4 million b/d in the second half of 2020. Some of the additional products ended up in the US. The news signals increasing oil demand from the US and should have favored the energy prices. However, WTI remains mostly unchanged above $69.00 after the news release. Nick Note: Some crazy commie lefty shit. the Biden administration cuts off the Canadian pipelines to supply Midwest refineries cheap oil….. They do everything possible to shut promising oil fiends in the US. They put the kebab to fracking. So we now buy records amounts of oil from Russia… And our dear president asks our arch enemy to produce more oil for us. Exactly what country is he president of?
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is bringing back hundreds of doctors working abroad and converting hotels into isolation centers and hospitals in order to battle a COVID-19 crisis that is overwhelming healthcare and mortuary services in parts of the Caribbean island. The country, which managed to contain infections for most of last year, is now facing one of the worst outbreaks worldwide, fueled by the spread of the more-infectious Delta variant, even as it races to vaccinate its population. Cuba’s rolling seven-day average of confirmed COVID-19 cases has surged eightfold within two months to 5,639 per million inhabitants, ten times the world average. One in five tests are positive, four times the benchmark 5% positivity rate cited by the World Health Organization. The seven-day average for confirmed COVID-19 deaths is around 52 per million inhabitants, six times the world average, although the real number could be much higher accounting for potentially undiagnosed cases. The COVID-19 surge has come amid Cuba’s worst economic crisis in decades that had already resulted in medicine shortages and long queues for scarce goods that made implementing lockdowns tricky. The predicament has come as a shock to some in the Communist-run country where the right to public healthcare is considered sacrosanct. “I witnessed queues of more than 20 hours, people dying in the corridors (of the polyclinic),” wrote Ana Iris Diaz, a professor at the university of the central Cuban city of Santa Clara and self-professed “revolutionary”, in a Facebook post that went viral this week. “I saw an elderly woman die after several hours of waiting and four days without an antigen test or PCR. Simply put, I saw what I would have hoped to never see: the collapse of our health system.” Cuba’s Communist government did not reply to a request for comment. It has denounced the United States for tightening sanctions, saying this has also slowed down its vaccine rollout due to the difficulty of acquiring inputs. Critics blame more Cuba’s inefficient state-run economy. Deaths in Cuba since the start of the pandemic are still only a half of the global average, according to official data. The death toll is rising fast though. In the eastern province of Guantanamo, artist Daniel Ross said a 30-year-old friend of his who caught COVID-19 had recently died due to a lack of medicines and oxygen. “Here, we fight COVID-19 with Azitromicina, which costs 16 pesos usually in the pharmacy, but they haven’t had any for months now,” he said, adding that the cost had surged to 3600 pesos, equivalent to $150 on the black market. Also infected and struggling to breathe, he said he was doing inhalations with yagruma leaves but sometimes could not even heat water because of the power outages that have become more frequent lately. Ihosvany Fernandez, director of communal services in the province of Guantanamo, said on local television that total deaths there, from any cause, had surged at the start of the month to more than 60 per day from around 12 on average usually. Official data show no more than 10 COVID-19 death daily in Guantanamo for those days suggesting underreporting in deaths from the respiratory disease. One of the province’s incinerators had broken down due to overuse, said Fernandez, so they were installing another and using a variety of state vehicles to transport the corpses given insufficient hearses. So far, a quarter of Cuba’s 11.2 million inhabitants have been innoculated with its two most advanced vaccines that officials say have proven more than 90 % effective in phase three trials. In one bright spot, the case-fatality rate in Havana, where nearly two thirds of the population has now been fully innocculated, was just 0.69 % compared to 0.93% for the rest of the country in the first week of August, according to official data, suggesting the shots are working. Nick Note: Cuba and i have a long history. If you want to know where socialism and the we are here to serve and protect military steroid monsters end up talk to any Cuban and they will give you a ear full. Rahaull taught me about the Cuban cigars. The Cohiba is GODS gift to mankind….. Along with Cuban women who roll these cigars… My favorites are the Behike 56 that cost silly money, followed by the Genois Maduro and the Maduro Magicos. My humidor is down to a 60 day supply.. (smoking one a day like the vitamin) So its time to stock up. Their is one little problem…. All is in all Cohibas are out of stock in London. I sent Anna to my favorite tobacconist and his shelves are bare. What the hell is going on??????? It turns out production has been cut in half because so many workers are sick…. My Cohiba Indicator is flashing its warning….
The key final demand index moved up 7.8 percent for the 12 months ended in July. Highest EVER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Producer prices accelerated at the fastest annual pace on record in July as supply chain disruptions and materials shortages continued to put upward pressure on costs.
The producer price index for final demand (THE REAL NUMBER) increased at a 7.8% pace for the 12 months ended July, according to the Labor Department. The July print was faster than the 7.3% pace recorded in June. The reading was the strongest since record keeping began in November 2010.
The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 1.0 percent in July, as prices for final demand services advanced 1.1 percent and the index for final demand goods rose 0.6 percent. Producer prices rose 1% in July, matching the increase from June. Analysts were anticipating prices would grow at a 0.6% pace. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the jump last month in its producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — followed a 0.2% drop in June and a 0.4% uptick in May. The increase last month was about twice what economists had expected. Wholesale energy prices shot up 5.3% in July, including a 10.1% surge in gasoline prices. Food prices slid 0.5%. Excluding the volatile food and energy prices, so-called core producer prices rose 0.5% last month. Nick Note: This insanity.. This is the garden embedded inflation grows in. A disaster is on the near horizon… And we will make a killing….. I tried to warn them. their is nothing they can do the fuse has been lit on the ticking time bomb…. The really sad part is the numbers PROVE WHAT I HAVE BEEN WARING AND THEY ARE STILL IN DENIAL…..
