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Coronavirus' two-meter social distancing rule is based on 'outdated science,' medical experts say

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© EPAResearchers suggest "one-size-fits-all" replaced by "graded recommendations".
Some of the research used to justify 2m distancing based on findings from 1800s. Two-metre social distancing deployed across the world to limit the spread of coronavirus is based on "outdated science", experts have said.

A group of British scientists said distance should not be the focal point of measures designed to limit the spread of the virus and that the one-size-fits-all system should be replaced by "graded recommendations" for different settings.


Comment: Shucks. It was almost hopeful...and then they ruined it. Read on, it gets worse.


The UK government, as in many other nations, recommends people should remain two metres or one metre if mitigating factors such as face masks and screens are in use. But researchers writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said more flexible guidance would enable "a return towards normality in some aspects of social and economic life".

"Current rules on safe physical distancing are based on outdated science," Nicholas Jones, from Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Primary Care, and his colleagues wrote. They added: "Distribution of viral particles is affected by numerous factors, including air flow. Evidence suggests Sars-CoV-2 may travel more than two metres through activities such as coughing and shouting.

Comment: Two words of advice: Diss Stancing! The 'complications' are not a 'medical' issue.

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If Biden is elected, residents fleeing chaotic cities like Seattle and Portland are in for a rude awakening

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© AP/Marcio Jose SanchezRiot at Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, Portland Oregon
If you listen to the mayors of cities in chaos like Seattle and Portland, the Mostly Peaceful Protestors™ were singing kumbayah until federal officers arrived. Anyone paying attention knows this is a ridiculous narrative. Apparently, local residents have been paying attention because they are fleeing in large numbers.

If you recall, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan allowed a group of insurrectionists to take over a portion of downtown Seattle, which included unwilling participants who lived, worked, or owned businesses in the area. Huddled in their homes, they listened to chaos and gunfire every evening. During the day, a motley selection of partygoers descended on the six-block radius to engage in some kind of riot tourism.

The autonomous zone, also known as CHAZ/CHOP, was eventually broken up. But the Mostly Peaceful Protests™ didn't end. Just this weekend, a construction site was set ablaze along with a Starbucks adjacent to an apartment complex. Residents have taken note and are leaving. One way you can tell is that it costs a lot more to rent a U-Haul to leave a city than to travel to the same town — basic supply and demand [...] It costs almost eight times as much to leave Seattle as it does to leave Boise.

Comment: After instigated riots, after planned attacks, after horrific '9/11s' there comes change...and it will not be in our favor, nor will it honor our rights. We simply won't have them and there will be nowhere to run.

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Family

South Dakota governor wants schools open without mask mandates: 'The risks of COVID are too minimal'

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© AP/James NordSouth Dakota Governor Kristi Noem
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Tuesday said she will push for schools to stay open this fall, but disparaged any requirements for children to wear masks in classrooms.

As parents and school boards cautiously weigh the risks and benefits of schools reopening, the Republican governor emphasized the educational and social upside of a return to in-person learning, citing research that COVID-19 poses less of a threat to children. But Noem appears selective in the research she is using for her decisions: She has pointed to studies and recommendations that indicate the health risks from the virus are less than feared, while also downplaying scientific findings that show masks could help prevent the spread of the disease.

"We cannot sacrifice the educational, physical, emotional and social well-being of our kids. The risks of COVID are too minimal for us to make sure that they're all going to stay home," Noem said at a press conference held in a classroom at John Harris Elementary in Sioux Falls.

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Man in protest walk, from Milwaukee to DC, injured in Pennsylvania shooting

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Two people were being questioned by investigators after a man participating in a cross-country protest from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C., was injured in a shooting in Pennsylvania, state police said Tuesday morning.

The incident was captured on live streamed by the protest group's leader Frank Nitty. The video shows what appears to be two people standing in a driveway on a street which was not easily identifiable in the video. One of the people appears to have a long gun.

In a news release, Pennsylvania State Police identified the street as Lincoln Highway in Bedford County, which has just under 50,000 residents, according to the most recent Census Bureau data.

"This dude is shooting at us," Nitty can be heard saying before a vehicle pulls slightly forward blocking the camera's view of the person with the gun. At least two shots can then be heard.


Comment: Police provide an update as investigation continued:

Update 25/8/2020: Warning shots fired:
One of the BLM militants was shot and seen bleeding in a video.



The wounded man admits shooting at the homeowner:



Stop

Poll: Russians overwhelmingly oppose microchipping of humans, fear becoming cyborgs without even knowing it

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© Getty Images/KTSDESIGN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYImplantable chip
The majority of Russians are opposed to implanting microchips into the human body - a popular idea in sci-fi movies, yet rare in reality - a recent survey has discovered.

While a whopping 77 percent of those surveyed by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center VCIOM (a state-linked outfit) said they are against the idea in principle, 45 percent elaborated that they were afraid of being implanted without even knowing it.

Other hyper-anxious citizens stressed that their fears were based on the presumption that microchips could be hazardous for their health or be used for 24-hour surveillance.

Only 11 percent of respondents said that they either were not as concerned or had other things to worry about. Nevertheless, they didn't expect technology that could render people cyborgs to appear any time soon - at least not during their lifetime. Twenty-three percent had never heard about such technology before the sociologists enlightened them.

Some people, also a tiny minority, believe chipping would benefit them, making it easier to replace paper IDs and bank cards or help in the search for missing persons.

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Russia launches preliminary inquiry into Navalny's hospitalization

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© UnknownCharité Hospital in Germany • Omsk hospital facility
The Russian Interior Ministry has launched a preliminary inquiry into the hospitalization of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, the press service of the Russian Interior Ministry's Transport Directorate for the Siberian Federal District informed TASS.
"Currently, investigators of the Investigative Department of the Russian Interior Ministry's Transport Directorate for the Siberian Federal District are carrying out a preliminary inquiry initiated by the Western Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office in accordance with the established procedure over the hospitalization of Alexei Navalny on August 20 in Omsk."
Russia's transport police have not found any potent substances or drugs during the search of Alexei Navalny's hotel room as well as along the route of his trip, the press service informed TASS.
"A search of the hotel room where A. Navalny stayed was conducted, along with the search of his travel route. Over 100 objects that could be used as evidence were seized. Surveillance videos were analyzed. Over 20 forensic (medical and legal, biological, and physical and chemical) tests are currently being carried out. So far, no potent substances or drugs have been found."

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Berlin bans anti-lockdown protest, condemning 'corona deniers and right-wing extremists'

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© Reuters/Fabrizio BenschAnti-lockdown march near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, August 1, 2020.
Berlin authorities have banned the upcoming protest against Covid-19 lockdown measures, saying the marches were being misused as a stage for right-wing extremists and "deniers" of the pandemic.

Organizers of the August 29 "Assembly for Freedom" in central Berlin had registered 17,000 demonstrators. The local government says police will be out in force to prevent the gathering, because participants in the previous march "deliberately broke the rules" for wearing masks and social distancing.

"We are still in the middle of a pandemic with rising infection figures," Berlin's interior minister Andreas Geisel told reporters on Wednesday.

"This is not a decision against freedom of assembly, but a decision in favour of infection protection," the minister said, adding that Berlin should not be "misused as a stage for corona deniers... and right-wing extremists."

About 20,000 people marched against the lockdown measures on August 1, including civil libertarians, constitutionalists, anti-vaccination activists and supporters of the Reichsburger movement, which some German state governments consider far-right. Some of the marchers, Geisel said, refused to wear face coverings or keep a distance of 1.5 meters, as required by police.

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Sick craze: Gen Z pretending they're Holocaust victims in heaven is sure proof Tiktok users have lost the plot

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Exploiting as 'trauma porn' the horrors of the Holocaust, which saw 6 million Jews and others deemed inferior and undesirable killed by the Nazis, is wildly inappropriate Tiktok fodder, showing the gross ignorance of Gen Z.

The latest craze that sees 15-second spoof videos about the Holocaust posted by Generation Z'ers on Tiktok actually considered entertainment is enough to make you roll your eyes right out of your skull.

Forget these clueless fools and their claims to be educating other people. I can honestly say that there is nothing a teenage kid with braces, wearing a baseball cap and standing by his skanky bathroom shower before lip syncing, "This shit is gas!" will ever tell me about the horrors that the evil Nazi animals perpetrated upon the Jewish people during the Second World War.

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Kenosha rioters defy curfew for 2nd night burning cars, stores, target Portland's police HQ - National Guard brought in - UPDATES

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FILE PHOTOS: Scenes from two nights of protesting and violent unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin after the police killing of Jacob Blake. Reuters / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA Today / Mike De Sisti; Reuters / Stephen Maturen
Protesters repeatedly set fire late Monday night to a police union headquarters building and were repelled by officers spraying tear gas, officials said. Twenty-five people were arrested amid clashes that stretched into Tuesday morning.

Portland has been gripped by nightly protests for nearly three months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Demonstrations, often violent, have targeted police buildings and federal buildings. Some protesters have called for reductions in police budgets while the city's mayor and some people in the Black community have decried the violence, saying it is counterproductive.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump renewed calls to have Gov. Kate Brown and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler call in the state's National Guard.

Comment: RT reports on the riots:
Neither the deployment of the National Guard, nor the curfew that took effect at 8 pm on Monday evening deterred protesters, some of them toting guns, from taking to the streets of Kenosha for the second night in a row.



The unrest was sparked by the shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a black man, by police on Sunday. Blake was shot seven times from behind and is now being treated in the hospital for his injuries. The showdown between Blake and the officers, said to be over a domestic violence incident, was caught on a cellphone camera, with the footage triggering mass protests in the city which have quickly spiraled into riots, looting and vandalism.

On Monday evening, protesters set out marching toward the courthouse, protected by lines of officers clad in full riot gear.



Just like the previous night, the unrest was accompanied by vandalism, with protesters filmed setting fire to garbage trucks parked near the courthouse.


A fire has also broken out at a Department of Corrections facility in the city.


After damaging public city property, protesters turned their anger to private businesses, with another video showing them trashing vehicles at a car dealership.


The vandals have torched several other businesses, including a furniture store, and have torn down street lights.



The first night of mayhem on Monday has left scores of cars scorched and businesses ransacked, prompting Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers to call in National Guard troops to quell the violence.


'We'll burn your store down too': Kenosha rioters show no remorse

Rioters have brandished guns in the open for the second night in a row, but it wasn't only the rioters and police that took to the streets heavily armed: several citizens decided to make a stand and defend local businesses from looters, footage shared on social purports to show.


Demonstrators ignored a citywide curfew and at one point faced down police armored personnel carriers and tear gas, while enacting an apparent scorched Earth policy of torching local businesses indiscriminately, much to the dismay of legitimate protesters and local residents.



One resident, having apparently had enough, patrolled the streets in his pick up truck, engaging with the rioters and pleading for them to take their issues out on the police but spare local businesses.

"Just because you people are too scared to go deal with the cops... take your issues up with them..." the man can be heard pleading.


His efforts were seemingly in vain, however, as one of the alleged "protesters" called out the name of the do-gooder's business, written on the side of his truck, and gleefully proclaimed, "We'll burn your store down too!"

Kenosha is the latest flashpoint of racially charged, anti-police violence to sweep the US, with tensions having already erupted in many cities, including Seattle and Portland, following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in May.

CBS News whitewashes Kenosha destruction as mostly 'peaceful protests'

To some in the mainstream media, the wave of arson and destruction that swept over Kenosha, Wisconsin was nothing more than "peaceful protest" that "gave way to clashes." Don't believe your lying eyes, they may as well have said.

That's not quite how CBS News saw it though. According to anchor Gayle King on Tuesday, the riots began as "peaceful protests, which is what the Black Lives Matter is really about."

"It's not clear if those setting fires were involved in the initial demonstrations," King said. Yet as she described Black Lives Matter's supposedly peaceful methods, CBS played scenes of vehicles engulfed by fire, crowds jumping on cars, and businesses still smoldering from the night's anarchy.


According to King, the protests spontaneously "gave way to clashes" as night fell. Reporter Mola Lenghi further appeared to excuse the destruction, telling viewers that "setting this truck on fire right here behind me is how some protesters have responded to the authorities' use of stun grenades, [and] of tear gas."

By Tuesday morning, hours of video footage from Kenosha circulated online, showing that the protests were anything but peaceful.

CBS instead focused on the event that triggered the riots - the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake on Sunday. Blake was shot in the back seven times by officers as he attempted to get into his car, collapsing in front of his children. His father told the Chicago Sun-Times that Blake is now paralyzed from the waist down.

The network wasn't alone in whitewashing the riots. The New York Times also described Monday's events as "peaceful marches" that "gave way to fires and destruction." On CNN, a banner described the protests as "fiery but mostly peaceful."



The latest conflagration in Kenosha isn't the first riot to be given the "peaceful protests" treatment by the media. As the first wave of Black Lives Matter protests hit Minneapolis in May after the police killing of George Floyd, MSNBC's Ali Veshi reassured viewers that the scene was "not generally speaking, unruly." As Veshi spoke, a building burned immediately behind him.

When anarchists occupied Seattle's Capitol Hill district two weeks later, the Seattle Times described the short-lived 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' as a "loose, egalitarian" paradise of "free snacks," "free of uniformed police." In reality, the zone was a lawless place, where vigilante justice reigned, thieves profited, and by the end of June, four people were shot, two fatally.

The disconnect between narrative and reality was noticed on Twitter, where conservatives mocked CBS' friendly coverage of the Kenosha riots. "You could describe D Day as a peaceful boat trip across the English Channel that gave way to clashes on the beach," one commenter joked.



Wisconsin governor says National Guard will protect STATE property

Governor Tony Evers is sending more Wisconsin National Guard troops to Kenosha to protect state property, but residents seem to be largely left on their own as riots over the police shooting of Jacob Blake show no sign of ending.

"We are assessing the damage to state property and will be increasing the presence of the Wisconsin National Guard to ensure individuals can exercise their right safely, protect state buildings and critical infrastructure, and support first responders and fire fighters [sic]," Evers tweeted on Tuesday.

The governor also declared a state of emergency over the ongoing "protests" in Kenosha, near the border with Illinois.

The 125 National Guard troops deployed on Monday did little to deter rioters from attacking a courthouse and setting several businesses on fire for the second night in a row. The governor condemned "this path of damage and destruction" but immediately qualified it by denouncing "systemic racism and injustice."

Evers, who is white and a Democrat, also called the two days of rioting a reflection of "the pain, anguish, and exhaustion of being Black in our state and country."


The initial Black Lives Matter protest over the shooting quickly escalated, with a car dealership looted and set on fire, followed by a nearby church. The car lot was destroyed again on Monday, along with a furniture store and other nearby buildings and businesses.


Evers also sought to downplay the riots and arson, calling them "the actions of a few" that should not "distract us from the work we must do together to demand justice, equity, and accountability."


The rioters, some of whom were armed and pointed weapons at police and reporters, were entirely unrepentant about the destruction and told journalists they saw it as necessary in order to make change happen.
Meanwhile the Polk county sheriff in Florida is cautioning rioters that if they enter homes in their neighbourhood they will be confronted by armed civilians:


Just The News reports:
In one video posted to Twitter, several armed men are seen standing outside a local business. When asked if they are protecting the building, one of them answers, "We're out here trying to protect residents, we're trying to protect the innocent people, and we're trying to protect the businesses of the citizens out here."

Later in the video, one of the men yells at passing protestors, "I'm on your side, as long as you're against the cops, but you can't burn down your local businesses."

During a Sunday night demonstration, a Wisconsin police officer was knocked out by a brick that was thrown at him by a member of a a nearby mob. People in the crowd around the collapsed officer shouted, "F--k the police."
Update 26/08/2020: More of Jacob Blake's background has emerged:
Meanwhile, details have emerged about Blake's criminal past, including a recent arrest for sexual assault.

According to online records, Kenosha County prosecutors charged Blake with third-degree sexual assault, trespassing, and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse. It was unclear whether that case had anything to do with the shooting.

In 2015, Blake was also charged with resisting arrest and carrying a concealed weapon after he pulled a gun at a local bar in Racine.

Police in the former auto manufacturing center of 100,000 people midway between Milwaukee and Chicago said they were responding to a call about a domestic dispute when they encountered Blake on Sunday.

They did not say whether Blake was armed or why police opened fire, they released no details on the dispute, and they did not immediately disclose the race of the three officers at the scene.

The man who said he made the cellphone video, 22-year-old Raysean White, said he saw Blake scuffling with three officers and heard them yell, 'Drop the knife! Drop the knife!' before the gunfire erupted. He said he didn't see a knife in Blake's hands.
Photos posted to Twitter appear to corroborate the story:


Jacob Blake's family has issued a statement:
"I don't have confidence in anybody that is white that is doing an investigation about a black young man that was shot seven times in his back," Blake's father, Jacob Blake Senior, said on Tuesday afternoon.

His remarks came moments after Benjamin Crump - an attorney representing the family, who has been involved in other Black Lives Matter cases - argued that "we can't have two justice systems in America," one for white and another for black Americans.

At the same time, Blake's family condemned the riots and apologized to President Trump for missing his call:


Progressive crazy Shaun King has threatened to dox the officers involved in the shooting:
Twitter users expressed disgust and reported King for harassment after the prominent Black Lives Matter advocate said he would begin targeting members of the Kenosha police force, regardless of whether they were involved in Sunday's shooting.




Horse

French horse owner surprises animal attackers in the night

Horse owners are increasingly worried about how to protect their animals from the attacks.
Horse owners are increasingly worried about how to protect their animals from the attacks.
The horse owner scared away two individuals armed with knives on his property, after they had already stabbed a horse. This comes following at least 15 other macabre horse attacks in France this year.

The horse owner was alerted to the unexpected visitors on the night of August 24, after his dog's barking woke him.

He managed to scare away the armed attackers on his property in Montholon (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), but only after they had already stabbed a horse multiple times.

The wounds suffered by the horse were skin deep, and it will survive the attack.

Comment: French police urge vigilance as horse mutilations mount