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Madrid calls in the ARMY as Spain imposes regional lockdowns, mostly poorer areas


RT
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:56 UTC
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© Reuters / Sergio PerezPeople hold placards during a protest against government as Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez meets Madrid regional leader Isabel Diaz Ayuso, at Puerta del Sol square in Madrid, Spain, September 21, 2020. Placards read "Government resignation".
The regional chief of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has requested help from the army to fight the coronavirus surge in and around the city after local authorities ordered a partial lockdown of some poorer areas starting on Monday.


Comment: Curiously, the UK has taken similar measures, with the poorest regions in the North of the country being those that were also slapped with the second, total, albeit regional, lockdown.


Fears of another lockdown prompted protests in the city over the weekend.

"We need help from the army for disinfection," Diaz Ayuso told reporters after her emergency meeting with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez about the coronavirus crisis. The army could also strengthen local police and law enforcement, Diaz Ayuso added, while authorities are trying to bring the spread of the virus under control in Spain's worst-hit region.

She also requested the government set up makeshift hospitals in the capital again, as the previous facilities were decommissioned three months ago after the number of infections fell in Spain and a strict lockdown was lifted.


Comment: They were decommissioned because through the 'pandemic' they, mostly, lay empty:: Empty Hospitals? Where Are All The Coronavirus Patients?


Comment: It's notable that the countries with the most tyrannical and nonsensical lockdown measures have also rather hastily - and without good (obvious) reason - called in the army against its own citizens: UK's NHS to enlist ARMY to vaccinate ENTIRE population with coronavirus vaccine, will do a 'dry run' with flu vaccine

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Padlock

Closing churches is the cruellest Covid cut: Ireland only country in Europe to do so

David Quinn
The Sunday Times
Sat, 19 Sep 2020 23:01 UTC
Hairdressers, pubs and restaurants stay open while our religious leaders fail to put a strong case for places of worship

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The myth of the wealth of the Catholic Church is about to be well and truly exposed. It might own plenty of buildings, but the church has little cash. Its parishes and dioceses are massively dependent on their weekly collections.

According to the Dublin archdiocese, revenue from the two collections staged each Sunday was down 80% in the three months ending in June, compared with the same period last year. The archdiocese is in the process of shedding dozens of staff, because the money is running out. Some priests have told me it will soon be difficult for their parishes to cover their insurance costs.

Since public masses were allowed to begin again at the end of June, collections have recovered only a little, because of strict limits on the numbers allowed to attend. This is true around the country, and must be affecting other churches as well.

Those who don't care for the Catholic Church, or religion in general, may welcome what is happening as a positive side-effect of the pandemic. But hundreds of thousands of Irish people are still actively engaged in their churches. Religious organisations continue to offer moral, spiritual and material support to individuals up and down the country, including to those who have no religion at all but receive help from the likes of the Society of St Vincent de Paul.

Comment: It's clear by now that it's not covid devastating whole sectors of society, but the government's response. If a virus was so deadly as to shut down society, you wouldn't need to forcibly shutdown and tell people to 'isolate'. That will happen naturally. The author does pose a good question however: where is the pushback? Have these religious leaders forsaken their beliefs and fed their 'flock' to the wolves?

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Beaker

"Novichok" - so poisonous that it's like using an atomic bomb to kill one person


Stalker Zone
Sun, 13 Sep 2020 08:49 UTC
Imagine an amount of poison the size of an ordinary pea:

Poison
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Now imagine that such a crumb eliminates a person within a few minutes. To be precise, a lethal dose is about 0.1 grams, i.e., a glass of such a substance can send 2000 people to their forefathers!

If you think that I am talking about "Novichok" now, you are mistaken. In fact, we are talking about the famous "spy" poison - potassium cyanide.

This is what we will take as a reference point, so that it will be approximately clear what doses we will be talking about.

So, we all remember these detective films in which an enemy agent, in order not to be captured, bites the collar of his own raincoat with an ampoule of potassium cyanide sewn into it.

Death occurs very quickly and such scenes are not devoid of realism, because the maximum dose of cyanide for a person (0.1 grams) looks like this:

Comment: See also:

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Info

Best of the Web: Andrew Neil interviews Anders Tegnell: A second wave and what Sweden got right

The Spectator
YouTube
Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00 UTC
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Andrew Neil interviews Anders Tegnell, Sweden's state epidemiologist. He asks what the country has got right in its response to coronavirus, whether a second wave is coming, and if the UK can learn from his approach.

Nils Anders Tegnell is a Swedish physician specialising in Infectious disease and civil servant, and the current state epidemiologist of Sweden. He was employed by the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease between 2004 and 2005, and the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare between 2005 and 2012. He returned to the Institute for Communicable Disease in 2012 as a head of department. He has served as state epidemiologist since 2013, first at the institute, and later at the Public Health Agency of Sweden.

In his positions, he had key roles in the Swedish response to the 2009 swine flu pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Syringe

Flashback So much for liberty: Massachusetts mandates flu vaccinations for students of all ages

Tommy Beer
Forbes
Wed, 19 Aug 2020 03:58 UTC
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© Getty
Influenza immunization will be required for all children 6 months of age or older who are attending child care, pre-school, K-12, and colleges and universities in Massachusetts, state public health officials announced Wednesday, in an effort to reduce respiratory illness and flu-related sickness during the coronavirus pandemic.

KEY FACTS

Officials say that all students will be expected to have received their flu shot by December 31, 2020, unless "either a medical or religious exemption is provided."

Homeschooled students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, are also exempted, as are college students engaged in remote learning only (students who "attend any classes or activities on campus, even once," will need to be vaccinated).


Comment: Time to pull your kids out of public school and homeschool them yourself. The state has decided that your body is no longer your choice.

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Snakes in Suits

In stunning reversal, CDC says it published new guidance on risks of 'airborne' COVID-19 'in error'


Zero Hedge
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 03:53 UTC
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After publishing guidance warning about the serious risks of "airborne" infection associated with SARS-CoV-2, the CDC just seriously harmed its own credibility by acknowledging Monday that it had posted the new guidance "in error", following a pressure campaign from the WHO.

Scientists have been gathering evidence that the novel coronavirus plaguing the world spreads via aerosol particles practically since it first emerged, and back in July, a group of 200 scientists sent a letter to the WHO urging the international public health agency to change its guidance on the spread of the disease. The problem scientists argued is that the WHO hasn't updated its views to incorporate new research showing that aerosol spread is a much greater threat than touching contaminated surfaces, or via large droplets spread by close contact between individuals.

Yet, the WHO has refused these overtures, and this week it successfully convinced the CDC to do the same.
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Covid death rates dropped as doctors rejected ventilators

Henry Bodkin
The Telegraph
Thu, 03 Sep 2020 03:48 UTC
Ventilators
© REUTERSVentilators being delivered to the NHS Nightingale Hospital in March
Death rates among seriously ill Covid-19 patients dropped sharply as doctors rejected the use of mechanical ventilators, analysis has found.

The chances of dying in an intensive care unit (ICU) went from 43 per cent before the pandemic peaked to 34 per cent in the period after.

In a report yesterday, the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre said that no new drugs nor changes to clinical guidelines were introduced in that period that could account for the improvement. However, the use of mechanical ventilators fell dramatically.

Before the peak in admissions on April 1, 75.9 per cent of Covid-19 patients were intubated within 24 hours of getting to an ICU, a proportion which fell to 44.1 per cent after the peak.

Comment: One has to wonder then, just why were doctors putting COVID-19 patients on ventilators if they were so detrimental to their health?

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Chart Pie

Fickle Americans strongly favored filling any Supreme Court opening in 2020 - until there was a vacant SCOTUS seat, polls show


RT
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:19 UTC
Ruth Bader Ginsburg cutboard
© Reuters / Joshua RobertsA cardboard cutout of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is held up after her death, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC
Two-thirds of US voters said as recently as September 15 that any Supreme Court vacancies should be filled without delay before November's election, but some of that support vanished when hypothetical became reality.

A Marquette Law School poll conducted from September 8 to September 15 - ending just three days before Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death - found that 67 percent of Americans said hearings on a new nominee to the Supreme Court should be held in 2020. Support for filling a court vacancy without delay was strong across the political spectrum, with 68 percent of Republicans, 63 percent of Democrats, and 71 percent of independents saying hearings should be held.

Comment: Ruth Bader Ginsburg death opens complex partisan chessboard affected by timeline, COVID-19, election

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People

Thousands join students-led protest in Thailand demanding new government & monarchy reform


RT
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 12:35 UTC
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© Reuters / Soe Zeya TunProtesters attend a mass rally to call for the ouster of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's government and reforms in the monarchy, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Bangkok has seen its biggest rally in years, as almost 20,000 gathered outside the Grand Palace to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and the limiting of King Maha Vajiralongkorn's powers.

Saturday's action is the largest since the day Prayuth came to power during a military coup six years ago, which also saw thousands on the streets.

People in Thailand have been taking to the streets since mid-July, calling for the sacking of the government, a new election and constitutional changes.
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Chess

UK government stokes fear over coronavirus readying for 2nd total lockdown as some MPs and the public pushback

David Wilcock
Daily Mail
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 09:49 UTC
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With his ministers locked in debate this weekend over whether to introduce a second lockdown that would devastate the economy, the Prime Minister (pictured today at Westminster Abbey) announced that he was creating a new legal duty for people to self-isolate if they test positive for the virus or are told to do so by Test and Trace staff.
Matt Hancock warned today that Britain was at a 'tipping point' in its battle against a second devastating wave of coronavirus - and refused to rule out Londoners being told to work from home again.


Comment: The effect on the economy and people's lives in the short and long term is a lot more disastrous than just 'working from home'.


The Health Secretary also warned that a second total UK lockdown was a possibility as ministers brought in fines of up to £10,000 under strict new laws on self-isolation, amid fears rules were simply being flouted.

Mr Hancock said there was a danger the numbers could 'shoot through the roof' unless effective action was taken to halt the spread of the virus.

The UK recorded 3,899 new Covid-19 cases and another 18 deaths today, slightly down on yesterday's 4,422 but still part of a large spike.

Despite dire warnings about the economic impact of another complete shutdown, the Health Secretary said it was still an option if the measures already taken were not effective.

Gesticulating enthusiastically, Mr Hancock told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show: 'This country faces a tipping point.
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