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Voltaire2
Voltaire2's Journal
Voltaire2's Journal
August 20, 2020
Children infected with coronavirus can carry high levels of the virus even when they have few or no symptoms, according to a Massachusetts General Hospital study published Thursday that bolsters growing evidence that kids catch the virus even though they rarely get very sick from it.
Coming as parents and school officials wrestle with whether its safe to reopen schools, the study adds fuel to worries that children may spread the virus but it does not show that they do.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/20/nation/infected-children-can-carry-high-levels-coronavirus-mass-general-study-says/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter
Infected children can carry high levels of coronavirus, Mass. General study says
Nobody could have anticipated this. Certainly no parent could imagine that their children could bring diseases home with them from school.
Children infected with coronavirus can carry high levels of the virus even when they have few or no symptoms, according to a Massachusetts General Hospital study published Thursday that bolsters growing evidence that kids catch the virus even though they rarely get very sick from it.
Coming as parents and school officials wrestle with whether its safe to reopen schools, the study adds fuel to worries that children may spread the virus but it does not show that they do.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/20/nation/infected-children-can-carry-high-levels-coronavirus-mass-general-study-says/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter
July 22, 2020
Oh by the way Eliot Engel got to the House
by primarying Mario Biaggi.
Now in fairness Biaggi was a crook, but if you are against primary incumbents...
July 7, 2020
CostCo Karen: 'I feel threatened' id'd and fired.
https://twitter.com/BillyCorben/status/1280557145461862400?s=20
June 24, 2020
NY 14 AOC edges out rightwing false flag opponent.
In a close race Ocasio-Cortez only managed to get 76% of the vote.
On edit: it seems to be settling out at around 70%, so obviously a recount should be conducted.
June 22, 2020
Jones reviewed protests in more than 140 cities and spoke with U.S. officials within the joint terrorism task force. Most of the violence, Jones said, was committed by local hooligans, sometimes gangs, sometimes just individuals that are trying to take advantage of an opportunity.
There were reports of some antifa at different protests, he concluded. But they stood back, did not engage, certainly not in a violent way.
Officials have arrested more than 14,000 people across 49 cities nationwide since May 27, according to a Washington Post tally of data provided by police departments and included in media reports. Thousands were arrested for low-level offenses, including curfew violations and failure to disperse.
Roughly 80 federal charges, including murder and throwing molotov cocktails at police vehicles, reveal no evidence of an antifa plot. Four people who identify with the far-right extremist boogaloo movement are among those facing the most serious federal charges. Asked whether anyone who identifies as antifa had been charged, Department of Justice spokesman Matt Lloyd said via email, We do not collect statistics based on potential inspiration but on unlawful acts according to statute.
An intelligence bulletin issued by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center that was obtained by ABC News warned that anarchist extremists continue to pose the most significant threat of targeted assaults against police. The bulletin, which was distributed to police departments nationwide, mentions antifa only in a footnote differentiating those who self-identify with the group from anarchists.
Rather, the bulletin said that the greatest threat of lethal violence continues to emanate from lone offenders with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideologies and [domestic violent extremists] with personalized ideologies, specifically pointing to boogaloo-related groups as likely to be instigating violence at the protests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/who-caused-violence-protests-its-not-antifa/?wpisrc=nl_most
Oh, about that whole 'antifa terrorist' bullshit:
Jones reviewed protests in more than 140 cities and spoke with U.S. officials within the joint terrorism task force. Most of the violence, Jones said, was committed by local hooligans, sometimes gangs, sometimes just individuals that are trying to take advantage of an opportunity.
There were reports of some antifa at different protests, he concluded. But they stood back, did not engage, certainly not in a violent way.
Officials have arrested more than 14,000 people across 49 cities nationwide since May 27, according to a Washington Post tally of data provided by police departments and included in media reports. Thousands were arrested for low-level offenses, including curfew violations and failure to disperse.
Roughly 80 federal charges, including murder and throwing molotov cocktails at police vehicles, reveal no evidence of an antifa plot. Four people who identify with the far-right extremist boogaloo movement are among those facing the most serious federal charges. Asked whether anyone who identifies as antifa had been charged, Department of Justice spokesman Matt Lloyd said via email, We do not collect statistics based on potential inspiration but on unlawful acts according to statute.
An intelligence bulletin issued by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center that was obtained by ABC News warned that anarchist extremists continue to pose the most significant threat of targeted assaults against police. The bulletin, which was distributed to police departments nationwide, mentions antifa only in a footnote differentiating those who self-identify with the group from anarchists.
Rather, the bulletin said that the greatest threat of lethal violence continues to emanate from lone offenders with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist ideologies and [domestic violent extremists] with personalized ideologies, specifically pointing to boogaloo-related groups as likely to be instigating violence at the protests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/who-caused-violence-protests-its-not-antifa/?wpisrc=nl_most
June 1, 2020
Almost every city in the country is having mass protests.
This is just about unprecedented.
May 4, 2020
HOLLY, Mich. A man wiped his nose on the shirt of a woman who told him he was supposed to be wearing a mask inside a dollar store in Oakland County, police said. The incident was caught on video.
The incident happened around 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Dollar Tree on North Sagniaw Street in Holly, according to authorities.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/04/here-ill-use-this-as-a-mask-man-wipes-nose-on-oakland-county-worker-who-asked-him-to-wear-mask/
Another Freedumb Warrior.
'Here, I'll use this as a mask': Man wipes nose on Oakland County worker who asked him to wear mask
HOLLY, Mich. A man wiped his nose on the shirt of a woman who told him he was supposed to be wearing a mask inside a dollar store in Oakland County, police said. The incident was caught on video.
The incident happened around 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Dollar Tree on North Sagniaw Street in Holly, according to authorities.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/05/04/here-ill-use-this-as-a-mask-man-wipes-nose-on-oakland-county-worker-who-asked-him-to-wear-mask/
Another Freedumb Warrior.
April 21, 2020
Georgia to re-open movie theaters
Just curious, would anyone here go to a movie theater before there is a vaccine for this crap?
As a follow up question: do these idiots really think that everything is going back to before covid?
February 28, 2020
Finally we know what word he misspelled.
#covidfefe
Turns out the stable-genius is clairvoyant.
February 17, 2020
Scientists have dismissed suggestions that the Chinese government was behind the outbreak, but its the kind of tale that gains traction among those who see China as a threat.
The rumor appeared shortly after the new coronavirus struck China and spread almost as quickly: that the outbreak now afflicting people around the world had been manufactured by the Chinese government.
The conspiracy theory lacks evidence and has been dismissed by scientists. But it has gained an audience with the help of well-connected critics of the Chinese government such as Stephen K. Bannon, President Trumps former chief strategist. And on Sunday, it got its biggest public boost yet.
Speaking on Fox News, Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, raised the possibility that the virus had originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak.
We dont have evidence that this disease originated there, the senator said, but because of Chinas duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says, and China right now is not giving evidence on that question at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronavirus-tom-cotton-china.html
Apologies for the paywall.
Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins
Scientists have dismissed suggestions that the Chinese government was behind the outbreak, but its the kind of tale that gains traction among those who see China as a threat.
The rumor appeared shortly after the new coronavirus struck China and spread almost as quickly: that the outbreak now afflicting people around the world had been manufactured by the Chinese government.
The conspiracy theory lacks evidence and has been dismissed by scientists. But it has gained an audience with the help of well-connected critics of the Chinese government such as Stephen K. Bannon, President Trumps former chief strategist. And on Sunday, it got its biggest public boost yet.
Speaking on Fox News, Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, raised the possibility that the virus had originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak.
We dont have evidence that this disease originated there, the senator said, but because of Chinas duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says, and China right now is not giving evidence on that question at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronavirus-tom-cotton-china.html
Apologies for the paywall.
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