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Italy’s daily COVID cases climb over 1,000 first time since May

ROME (REUTERS) – Italy’s health ministry on Saturday (Aug 22) reported 1,071 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, exceeding 1,000 cases in a day for the first time since May when the government eased rigid lockdown measures. Italy, one of Europe’s worst-hit countries with more than 35,000 deaths, has managed to contain the outbreak after a peak in deaths and cases between March and April. However, it has seen a steady increase in infections over the last month, with experts blaming holidays and night life for causing people to gather in numbers.

The country last recorded a higher figure on May 12, when 1,402 cases were reported, six days before restaurants,rs and shops were allowed to reopen after a 10-week lockdo bawn.

Despite the rise in infections, daily death tallies remain low and are often in single figures. Saturday saw just three fatalities, compared to nine on Friday and six on Thursday, health ministry data showed. The number of new infections remains considerably lower than those registered in Spain and France. On Saturday, Lazio, around Rome, was the Italian region to see the largest number of new cases, with 215. Of these, around 60 per cent were people returning from holidays in other parts of Italy and abroad, the region’s health chief said. The northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto, where Italy’s epidemic first came to light on Feb 21, saw 185 and 160 new cases respectively. Italy has taken countermeasures to try to stem the recent uptrend, shutting down clubs and discos and making it compulsory to wear a mask at night in outdoor public spaces. Travellers from several non-EU countries have been banned from entering Italy, with restrictions and testing obligations imposed on people returning from hard-hit European countries. Nick Note: As you are seeing the toilet paper masks are not working. The New mutated aerosol spread virus is showing back up again. Remember in Italy masks are mandatory,

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Trump: FDA making vaccine testing difficult

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President Trump called out the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday, claiming the agency was making it difficult for drug companies to test possible coronavirus vaccines and therapeutics on people. In a tweet, the president also accused members of the federal agency of slow-walking efforts to test possible vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 until after the November election. “The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives!” Trump tweeted. The president tagged FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn in the tweet.

It was not immediately clear what FDA policies Trump was referring to in his tweet. The agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.  The tweet came after the administration announced this week it will allow coronavirus tests developed by individual laboratories to be used without FDA review, a move that reportedly came after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) determined the FDA does not have the authority to regulate lab-developed tests for any condition, including COVID-19. FDA officials reportedly opposed the decision on the grounds that some tests have proven to be faulty, while HHS officials said the FDA’s approval process hampered their ability to develop and promptly release tests.  Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, this week threatened to resign if the agency were to approve a COVID-19 vaccine that’s not proven to be safe and effective. He said, “I could not stand by and see something that was unsafe or ineffective that was being put through.” “You have to decide where your red line is, and that’s my red line,” he told Reuters. “I would feel obligated [to resign] because in doing so, I would indicate to the American public that there’s something wrong.” Hahn himself pledged earlier this month that the agency “will not cut corners” as it races to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Democrats seized on Trump’s tweet Saturday, with lawmakers suggesting it was the latest in a trend of the president ignoring advice from his scientific advisers.

“The president’s dangerous and unhinged conspiracy theories continue to undermine our doctors and scientists and make it more difficult to respond to the pandemic,” tweeted Sen. Michael Bennet (D- Colo.). 

Nick Note: As far as Trump is concerned their will be a vaccine whether their is one or not before the elections. Trump  has already started tightening the thumb screw on FDA director. This will end badly!

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Antibodies, immunity low after COVID-19 recovery

A study of COVID-19 patients has found that they lost protective immunity within two to three months of recovery. Experts say that raises questions about social distancing, immunity passports and vaccines. By the time people recover from a viral infection, they have usually had an immune response and developed protection against the disease. That is, the immune system has produced antibodies that will recognize the virus if it attacks a second time, and those antibodies will know how to fight it off. But a recent investigation at Schwabing Hospital in Munich, Germany, suggests this might not be the case for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19.  Clemens Wendtner, a chief physician at the hospital, tested COVID-19 patients for immunity after they had been treated for the disease at the end of January 2020.  The tests showed a significant decrease in the number of antibodies. Wendtner says “neutralizing” antibodies, which stop a viral attack, fell in four out of nine of the patients who were tested, within two to three months. Those findings coincide with a similar investigation done in China. That study also found that antibodies in COVID-19 patients do not persist in the blood.  Further research is still required. But these initial findings suggest that a second infection is possible, where normally patients would have developed an immunity. And that may change the way experts handle things like the easing of social distancing measures. Antibody testing is crucial to determining the “immunity status” of a community Our bodies develop immunity to the virus by producing antibodies. marrow, where they produce antibodies against infections we have had. Those plasma cells can persist for years — keeping us immune for years. If, however, SARS-CoV-2 antibodies do not last in blood, as those recent studies suggest, recovered patients have little protection and can be re-infected. Which would bring us back to square one, where everyone is at risk of infection. One way to stop a virus spreading in a population is by developing “herd immunity.” That’s when enough people have been infected, recovered and developed a lasting immunity. But now that secondary infections with SARS-CoV-2 seem possible, experts are questioning the easing of social distancing measures, or whether it’s a good idea to issue recovered patients with so-called “immunity passports,” allowing them to roam freely. Scientists still don’t know why those antibody levels decrease over time. To compare: Antibodies against other types of coronavirus last in the blood for at least one year. That’s true for SARS-CoV, the virus that caused a 2003 outbreak in Southeast Asia, and MERS-CoV, the virus that caused a 2012 outbreak in the Middle East. All this has implications for the development of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. There are at least 130 candidate vaccines in clinical or pre-clinical trials worldwide. Conventional vaccines use weak or inactive versions of a virus to produce an immune response and protective antibodies. Newer types, known as DNA or RNA vaccines, hope to use genetic information from the virus to achieve the same result.  But if natural antibodies decrease so quickly, how long will antibodies that are produced as a response to a vaccine last? As vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 have yet to be approved, we have a way to go before we find out. Nick Note: Talk about getting the cart before the horse. What the hell good does it to spend ten of billions on vaccines when it has been shown that infected people… think of it as a super vaccine lose immunity within two or three months. Talk about a disaster in the making. The great white hope the vaccine that will bring life back to “normal” is looking more and more like another Trump wet dream….. Already in Phase II studies it has been show it takes two shots a month a part and a booster shot before ANY immunities are developed. A little birdie told me that some people in the studies are losing their immunity within 2 months… Quiet take the vaccine money and run….. After all whats a problem with lost immunity it big pharam books the profits

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Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks

Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before. At a mail processing facility in Santa Clarita in July, workers discovered that their automated sorting machines had been disabled and padlocked. And inside a massive mail-sorting facility in South Los Angeles, workers fell so far behind processing packages that by early August, gnats and rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, and baby chicks were dead inside their boxes. Accounts of conditions from employees at California mail facilities provide a glimpse of what some say are the consequences of widespread cutbacks in staffing and equipment recently imposed by the postal service. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, responding to a national outcry over service disruptions and fears of voter disenfranchisement, said this week he would suspend many planned changes until after the election. But postal workers say significant damage has already been done, including the removal of mail-sorting machines, which may not be replaced. While the long-term effect of the cuts on U.S. mail service is unclear, the evidence of serious disruptions appears to be mounting, according to postal employees interviewed by The Times as well as customers, lawmakers and union leaders. Until this week, the postal service was implementing a sweeping plan to remove 671 mail-sorting machines, or about 10% of its total, from facilities across the U.S. — including 76 in California. Officials also slashed overtime pay and imposed a new policy that could delay outgoing mail. The cuts have had a ripple effect in California, snarling the operation of one of the biggest mail-processing facilities in the country and delaying the delivery of prescriptions, rent payments and unemployment checks. Some people have complained of going days without receiving any mail at all. At least five high-speed mail-sorting machines have been removed from a processing plant in Sacramento, said Omar Gonzalez, the Western regional coordinator for the American Postal Workers Union. Additionally, two of the machines have been removed in Santa Ana and six in San Diego, Gonzalez said. Processing plants serve more than 1,000 California post offices, some of which deliver to far-flung, rural addresses that could be faced with high delivery costs if serviced by private mail carriers. Inside one sprawling facility at Florence and Central avenues in Los Angeles, which serves 92 L.A.-area post offices, seven delivery bar code sorters were removed in June, leaving three, Gonzalez said. Each of those machines, which would handle mail-in ballots, can process up to 35,000 pieces of mail per hour. “A lot of the machinery has already been gutted. Some of it has been dismantled and relocated or trashed,” Gonzalez said. “Although we welcome the news of the suspension of these changes, it’s just that — a suspension. The attacks and undermining of our operations will resume, maybe at the worst possible time, in December, our peak season.” Before the recent cuts, workers at the facility were working six days per week, and were still struggling to keep up with the volume of packages driven by an influx of online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, said mail handler Aukushan Scantlebury, 47. When DeJoy restricted overtime two months ago, Scantlebury and other workers saw their schedules cut back to five days per week. Within days, he said, the facility was in chaos. Packages piled up, blocking the aisles and the heavy sorting machinery. Boxes of steaks, fruit and other perishables rotted. Rats dashed across the floor. At one point, Scantlebury said, the “whole building was filled with gnats.”

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Struggling retailers rush to file for bankruptcy

  • Industry executives saw what happened to other retailers who filed for bankruptcy in the first few months of the coronavirus outbreak.
  • They worry that could happen to them should a second wave of infections hit during the winter months as some medical experts have warned.
  • Sporting goods chain Modell’s filed for bankruptcy on March 11 — before the coronavirus put its liquidation plans on hold.

Over a two-week span in early July, seven retailers, including The Paper Store, Brooks Brothers and Lucky Brand, filed for bankruptcy protection.  J.Crew, Neiman Marcus and J.C. Penney and four other retailers had already filed in May. Lord & Taylor and the off-price shop Stein Mart led another wave that hit earlier this month. Some would say it has been a flood, but what’s coming could be a tsunami.  For apparel companies and department store chains, which have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, the turmoil doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. Instead, industry executives and analysts predict another round of retail bankruptcies and liquidations could be coming if the predicted second wave of Covid-19 infections happens. Competitive pressures ahead of the holiday season could trigger a rush to bankruptcy court, they say. “The pipeline is as full as it has been all year,” said Bradley Snyder, an executive managing director at the liquidation firm Tiger Capital Group, referring to the potential for more retail bankruptcies. Some 44 retailers have already landed in bankruptcy court in 2020, according to a tracking by S&P Global Market Intelligence.  “The challenge is making sure we can actually close stores in a window that is open,” he said.  Meal-kit company Blue Apron and online furniture retailer Wayfair are high on S&P Global’s list of companies at risk of defaulting on their debt and seeking bankruptcy protection. Apparel makers J.Jill, Christopher & Banks and Destination XL Group are also at risk, S&P Global said in an analysis this month. Firms including Tiger, Hilco, Gordon Brothers and Great American Group appear to be racing around the clock to work through what has been the busiest year for retail bankruptcies since the Great Recession. When it comes to the hundreds of going-out-of-business sales taking place simultaneously, resources are limited. Shoppers’ wallets are also somewhat strained, with millions of Americans out of a job.  Thousands of bricks-and-mortar stores are shutting permanently this year, with closures already topping 6,000, according to Coresight Research. Retailers currently holding going-out-of-business sales include J.C. Penney, Stein Mart, Ann Taylor owner Ascena and Pier 1.  While that means the deals might be crazy good for consumers on the hunt for bargains, it also means the competition is only heating up among retailers trying to recoup some of their losses by offloading the last of their merchandise. Deep discounts abound, and this is expected to make the holiday season even more competitive.  Kohl’s Chief Financial Officer Jill Timm told analysts this week that she expects a lot of sales promotions during the last half of the year. “We expect the margin pressure to persist, given both liquidation pressures as well as people trying to go after that market share and the earlier holiday period,” she said.  Some expect there could be a lull before another wave of filings hit, as the industry works through those liquidations already taking place.  “We may just be a little bit on pause right now, because there has been so much [activity],” said Andy Graiser, co-CEO at the restructuring firm A&G Real Estate Partners. “But I think you are going to start seeing mid- and small-size companies filing in the fall. In some cases, they have gotten government money and have been able to buy time. But if their sales aren’t there, you are going to see more bankruptcies.”  “And you may see more Chapter 7s because they can’t reorganize and don’t have the money to go through a Chapter 11,” he said, referring to liquidations versus reorganizations under federal bankruptcy law.  Big mall owners are looking to do deals to salvage bankrupt retailers. Nick Note: if you have commercial real estate Dump it now. If you are a retailer close brick and mortar and TRY the internet. Reality is this is just the start of The Greatest Depression ever. If your betting on a come back you are years to early. the wipe out has just begun. ALL ALL ALL real estate will crumble. The spurt you are seeing are people that still can afford to fleeing the disease ravished cities like i have been begging you to do for years. After Christmass whic will be a disaster you cwn buy whatever you want for pennies on the dollar as the mass liquidations come…….

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Global COVID-19 deaths climb over 800,000

More than 23 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and over 800,000 have died, according to global trackers on Friday. Global recoveries stand at over 15.6 million. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019. The United States has suffered the most deaths, followed by Brazil, Mexico and India. Here is a weekly roundup of developments in the coronavirus cases and deaths.

India, the United States and Brazil are the three countries which have registered the biggest number of new infections over the past seven days, with an average of 62,900, 46,700 and 39,600 per day respectively, according to an AFP tally at 1100 GMT on Friday.

Things are improving in the United States and Brazil where cases have decreased by 11 percent compared to the last seven-day period, while there is a slight deterioration of two percent in India.

Next in order come four Latin American states: Colombia (11,400 more cases per day on average), Peru (8,400), Argentina (6,400) and Mexico (5,400), along with Spain on 5,800.

The number of confirmed cases only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections, with different countries having differing counting practices and levels of testing.

Ethiopia is the country where infections are picking up most, with an increase of 82 percent, or 1,400 new cases a day, among those which have registered more than 1,000 daily cases over the past week.

France follows with an increase of 50 percent (2,900), Spain (48 percent, 5,800), Ukraine (33 percent, 1,800), Bangladesh (28 percent, 3,100), Germany (26 percent, 1,200) and Iraq (20 percent, 4,100).

At the other end of the spectrum, the biggest decreases are in Japan (-25 percent, 900 new cases per day), Panama (-23 percent, 800), South Africa (-22 percent, 3,900), Mexico -12 percent, 5,400) and Chile (-12 percent, 1,700).

By region, the rate of infections is picking up in Europe, with an increase of 15 percent over the previous week, in the Middle East (seven percent), and Asia (two percent). It is dropping in Oceania (-20 percent), the United States and Canada (-11 percent), Latin America and the Caribbean (-six percent), and Africa (-five percent).

At the world level, the pandemic is slowing down slightly, with a drop of two percent, with 255,000 new cases per day.

The United States is the country mourning the most deaths over the past week (1,020 on average per day), before Brazil and India (980 each), Mexico (545), Colombia (290), Peru (200), South Africa (190), Argentina (165) and Iran (160).

The pandemic has killed at least 793,847 people since late December out of more than 22.7 million confirmed cases.

The United States is the hardest-hit country with at least 174,290 deaths. Brazil follows with 112,304, Mexico 59,106, India 54,849, and Britain 41,403. Nick Note: US testing rates have decreased and reporting is a sick joke under two things. The Trump administration is withholding funds for testing. And the new reporting system to HHS at the white house is “missing” a lot of the data… What a surprise.

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Battered by Democrats, Trump fires back against ‘total anarchy, madness and chaos’

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WASHINGTON/ARLINGTON, Va., Aug 21 (Reuters) – After being accused by Democrats of being a chaotic and dishonest leader, President Donald Trump countered on Friday that Democrats, not he, would bring chaos to the United States if Joe Biden wins the White House in November.

“If our opponents prevail no one will be safe in our country,” Trump told conservative activists in his first speech since the Democratic National Convention ended late on Thursday.

“I’m the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos,” Trump said.

In a preview of what Republicans will argue at their own convention next week, Trump hammered at the law-and-order theme he has embraced in response to anti-racism and police brutality protests in U.S. cities including Portland, Oregon. He said police had been weakened in “Democrat-run” cities and cited a spike in murders in Chicago, Minneapolis, New York and Philadelphia. He urged Americans to turn back “radical left socialists and Marxists.” He called protesters in Portland “crazy.” “So the future of our country and indeed our civilization is at stake on Nov. 3,” he said in the speech in Arlington, Virginia, to the 2020 Council for National Policy. Biden and his running mate, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, accepted their party’s nomination at the four-day Democratic convention, where speaker after speaker characterized Trump’s four years in office as chaotic. The convention, held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic, showcased scathing criticism of Trump’s character and his handling of the health crisis, in which more than 170,000 people in the United States have died. Democrats sought to present a diverse, united front with the integrity and faith they said Trump lacks. Biden opened his acceptance speech on Thursday night by saying, “The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger. Too much fear. Too much division.” In his speech on Friday, Trump called it “the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention in American history.”

He also suggested, without providing an explanation or evidence, that the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives could become president if the results of the Nov. 3 election were not clear by the end of the year.

“I don’t think you’ll know two weeks later. I don’t think you’ll know four weeks later,” he said. “There’s a theory that if you don’t have it by the end of the year, crazy Nancy Pelosi would become president,” he said. Trump has sought to cast early doubt on the integrity of the election, and bringing up Pelosi, who is deeply unpopular with many Republicans, appeared aimed at motivating his base to vote. Nick Note: America USE to have a great system. Its called democracy where its citizens are in a constant state of compromise. With power in the balance and in a constant state of flux. With endless debate and various factions striving for their agenda. It s beautiful system.  Order thought chaos and PEACEFUL conformation. With all its warts and pimples American style democracy WAS the envy of the world. The melting pot, which at the end of day as imperfect a sit is has worked. Merging different races, religions, customs and values. The most prosperous people on earth were a direct result of a system that respects individual  rights and a free people are a industrious and creative people. Hard to invent the internet when you hiding in a cave from your enemies. It was  beautiful sight to behold.  Unfortunately Trump and the coronavirus has shown to me that the system is more fragile then any of us realized. Trump is a buffoon a very ignorant person woefully unqualified to be a leader (except of a reality TV show) But by abusing executive orders and his great skills to create a separate reality he may just end the democracy. The Coronavirus as plagues often do has strained the system and brought its flaws to the surface. Having studied the great plagues from a economic perspective  i have learned first and foremost the sickness and death cripples all economic activity. And as you have seen the modern coronavirus plague has created a global depression which the world HAS NOT recovered from despite the low and go. The poverty created disrupts social systems and causes regime change. The public at large are scared and broke and  in fear their responses are not rational. In the history of Plagues, famine and wars it gets down to the leaders and how they rise to the occasion. DO we have a Churchill or a Hitler. I think deep down inside we all know the answer. They killed the cats trying to stop the plague. Now they are having the masses wear N95  masks That all agree will not stop  aerosol virus vapors. Solution deny the coronavirus spreads as a virus. KILL THE CAT to show the masses you have a solution. You know better, I know better and millions of medical personnel also know better… Here is the money ball. The spin is the cases are going down and the coronavirus is waning. That’s the spin.. As i post this article John Hopkins reports another day of global infections now 22,438,578 now the death toll has risen to 788,326. Obviously what ever they are doing it is not working. And that is why i am betting on another even bigger stock market crash!

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QAnon…..

QAnon has ricocheted around the darker corners of the internet since late 2017, but it has been creeping into mainstream politics more and more. This centers on an alleged anonymous, high-ranking government official known as “Q,” who shares information about an anti-Trump “deep state” often tied to satanism and child sex trafficking. Trump, speaking during a White House press conference on Wednesday, courted the support of those who put stock in the convoluted conspiracy theory, saying, “I heard that these are people that love our country.” It was Trump’s first public comment on the subject and continued a pattern of the Republican president appearing unwilling to resoundingly condemn extremists who support his candidacy. Trump insisted he hadn’t heard much about the QAnon movement, “other than I understand they like me very much” and “it is gaining in popularity.” Days earlier, he had ignored a question about QAnon at another White House briefing. Trump has retweeted QAnon-promoting accounts, and shirts and hats with QAnon symbols and slogans are not uncommon at his rallies. An FBI bulletin last May warned that conspiracy theory-driven extremists have become a domestic terrorism threat. The bulletin specifically mentioned QAnon. Earlier last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center warned that the movement is becoming increasingly popular with anti-government extremists. Nick Note: Just when you thought it could not get any crazier… It does….. Tin Foil hats will protect you from the Qwaves from 5 G cell phone towers…….

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Oil falls on OPEC+ oversupply

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil fell 1% on Thursday after Reuters reported OPEC+ needed to address daily oversupply of more than 2 million barrels, and the number of U.S. unemployment benefit claims rose unexpectedly, signalling a slow economic recovery.The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known an OPEC+, said on Wednesday the pace of the oil market recovery appeared to be slower than anticipated with growing risks of a prolonged second wave of the pandemic. Prices came under renewed pressure after Reuters reported that some OPEC+ members would need to cut output by an extra 2.31 million barrels per day (bpd) to make up for recent oversupply. Global markets also turned sour as the number of new U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose back above 1 million last week. Oil prices have been largely rangebound since mid-June, with Brent trading from $40 to $46 per barrel and WTI between $37 and $43. “The rebound in global economic activity which explained to some extent the firm oil price during May-June period has stalled … the macro environment for crude oil continues to show weakness,” said Georgi Slavov, head of global fundamental research at Marex Spectron. However, crude exports from Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, extended a decline in June to the lowest on record, official data showed. Wall Street also came under pressure after minutes on Wednesday from the Fed’s latest policy meeting showed the labor market’s swift rebound in May and June had likely slowed and that policymakers would stick with aggressive stimulus measures for a much longer period. Despite signs that parts of the economy were still far away from pre-pandemic levels, the benchmark S&P 500 index <.SPX> completed its fastest recovery from a bear market this week, joining the Nasdaq in scaling new peaks. “With attainment of a record S&P earlier this week, trends still favor higher prices across an array of asset classes and we continue to anticipate fresh multi-month oil price highs with the product markets advancing above such a threshold by next week,” Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates, said. Nick Note: The recovery wet dream will soon turn into a back to school nightmare. And then Trump will nullify the elections with the army and all banana republic style… Won’ that be fun! QAnon….  What a terrible waste of virgins both male and female and transgender!

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Trump Signs Death Certificate For the Teachers of America: And likes it!

OH my GOD as Jimmie use to say as i revealed to him one of their schemes: we have entered the theater of the absurd.

President Trump has issued new guidance to label teachers as “critical infrastructure workers,” which could pave the way for them to return to the classroom this school year. His announcement comes as the latest step in the Trump administration’s push to reopen schools, which they hope will enable students to receive a quality education and allow parents to return to work.

“We believe that we can safely reopen our schools. We know that it’s best for our kids. We don’t want them to fall behind academically, but also we don’t want our kids to miss out on the counseling that they receive. Special needs services, as well as all the nutrition programs that are available just at our schools. Finally, Mr. President, I know that you’ve recognized from early on that getting our kids back to school is first a priority for them, but also it’s important for working families.” – Mike Pence, Vice President of the United States

Keeping exposed teachers in schools raises the risks that they could spread the infection to students and coworkers while showing no symptoms. Studies so far have suggested that infected people may be most infectious around the time they first develop symptoms. Researches have repeatedly found that levels of viral material in the upper respiratory tract are at their highest right around the time when people first notice symptoms. Additionally, some infected people do not develop symptoms but can still harbor similar levels of the virus as symptomatic people, according to several studies. The possibility of exposed teachers staying in classrooms is already alarming teachers’ associations and school administrators. Their concern is likely heightened by a rash of recent reports of schools and colleges that reopened amid the pandemic, only to abruptly close after quickly finding clusters of cases and widespread exposures.

The guidance document at the center of the issue is one published by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, and titled “Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response.” According to the CISA, the guidance aims to “help officials and organizations identify essential work functions in order to allow them access to their workplaces during times of community restrictions.” The guidance was originally issued March 19 and in past versions has identified essential workers in sectors including healthcare, law enforcement, food and agriculture, energy, transportation, water and wastewater, public works, and communication and information technology.

But the fourth and latest version of the guidance, issued August 18, now includes workers in the education sector, including teachers and professors, school administrators and staff, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, and school safety personnel.

Under separate guidance issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, such “critical infrastructure workers may be permitted to continue work following potential exposure to COVID-19, provided they remain asymptomatic and additional precautions are implemented to protect them and the community.” This, according to the guidance, is to “ensure continuity of operations of essential function.” In a statement to the AP, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten rebuked the federal guidances, saying, “If the president really saw us as essential, he’d act like it.” “Teachers are and always have been essential workers—but not essential enough, it seems, for the Trump administration to commit the resources necessary to keep them safe in the classroom.” Nick Note:  This is a death warrant. Whic means that schol workers from the teachers to pricciplas to secutiy personell even the janitor can be forced to work after they test positive. Notice how even NFL and Beeball and other sporting folks are immendiately quaranteened. Run the numbers a infected teacher is in contact with a 100 or even a thousandth people while testing positive. Data show that up to 50% of people who test positive but show no symptoms are still infectious. OMG please do not let him  do this. Call the school district and tell them take this job and stick. I don’t want to kill people anymore! Schools should all be closed. As a foot note some of the most prominent universities  in America have shut down their campuses.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced Monday it is canceling in-person undergraduate classes after a coronavirus outbreak quickly spread across campus.

Mamas don’t let your children go to school….. Home school them instead. You will protect them and your family and it is your real JOB!