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UK government now threatening schools with fines if they don't reopen June 1st

Alan McGuinness
Sky News
Mon, 18 May 2020 13:54 UTC
UK schools
The government wants there to be a staged reopening of primary schools from 1 June
A government minister has not ruled out penalising regions in England if they refuse to reopen schools as the coronavirus lockdown is eased.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told Sky News ministers wanted to work in a "constructive way" with teachers and unions to address their "legitimate concerns" about pupils returning to the classroom.

Under plans to ease the COVID-19 lockdown outlined by Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this month, there will be a staged reopening of primary schools from 1 June.

Children 'less likely to have serious symptoms'

But opposition has been expressed to the plans, particularly from unions and some councils, amid a continuing row over whether or not it is safe for pupils to return.


Comment: The government is itself to blame for knowingly stoking the hysteria even when it had sufficient data proving the virus was less deadly than the flu and that the measures were not only destroying the economy but were actually causing unnecessary deaths.


Comment: Is the government expecting schools to reopen and function like this?



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Yellow Vest

70 percent of Spain emerges from lockdown amid large protests calling for govt to resign


RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 12:05 UTC
protest lockdown spain
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As the majority of Spain cautiously re-emerges from lockdown, disgruntled sections of the citizenry have taken to the streets to protest the government's perceived bid to leverage the coronavirus crisis to stay in power.

On Sunday the country's daily death toll dropped below 100 for the first time since it imposed lockdown restrictions on March 15. Adopting a staggered approach since last week, Spain then began its four-phase system for reopening its economy.

As of Monday, some 70 percent of the country is now in phase one, which allows for gatherings of up to 10 people with adequate social distancing, bars and restaurants reopening their outdoor sections at half capacity, and cinemas, museums and other cultural businesses also reopened, though at reduced capacity.

Comment: France's Yellow Vests are also getting back to business:



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Light Saber

Best of the Web: Debunking the Covid-19 Narrative: Interview with molecular biologist Prof. Dolores Cahill

Dave Cullen
ComputingForever.com
Mon, 11 May 2020 19:26 UTC
dolores cahill
Prof. Dolores Cahill is a world-wide renowned immunologist, molecular biologist, and expert in high-throughput proteomics technology development and automation, and high-content protein arrays and their biomedical applications, including in biomarker discovery and diagnostics.

Prof. Cahill is speaking out against the Covid-19 lockdown by challenging the core claims made by govts and media about the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In the following interview she explains why lockdowns are the worst possible 'treatment' for dealing with this virus, why masks and social distancing will only sicken healthy people, and presents evidence that the virus was in fact tweaked in a laboratory setting...

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Pills

All mixed up: It's more than just an opioid crisis, polydrug use is poisoning Americans

Frank Owen
RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 18:53 UTC
pills
© Getty Images / Frank Bienewald
Now that deaths because of opioids are plateauing in America, another reborn epidemic is poisoning the country's drug users. It's polydrug use - the mixing of substances that catalyze each other in a spectrum of deadly cocktails.

According to USA Today, a new super-potent form of methamphetamine, dubbed Meth 2.0, is sweeping across America. The newspaper claims Meth 2.0 is behind a steep rise in methamphetamine use that has led to a sharp increase in fatalities. The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that overdose deaths involving methamphetamine have recently spiked by twenty-two percent.

Yet, the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the gold standard of American drug surveys, reveals that the total number of people using methamphetamine is almost exactly the same as 2015 and 2017, and only slightly higher than 2016. The latest Monitoring the Future survey, which surveys only adolescents, records a small drop in methamphetamine use among young people, part of a continual decline since its peak in 2000.
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Chess

Huawei calls U.S. move to curb chips supply 'arbitrary', expects business impact

David Kirton
Reuters
Mon, 18 May 2020 18:42 UTC
Huawei chariman Guo Ping
© Reuters/David KirtonHuawei chariman Guo Ping
"We expect that our business will inevitably be affected. We will try all we can to seek a solution," Chairman Guo Ping said in his keynote speech at Huawei's annual global analyst summit on Monday.

"Survival is the key word for us at present," Guo said in a Q&A.

Guo said Huawei was committed to complying with U.S. rules and it had significantly increased R&D and inventory to meet U.S. pressures.

Friday's move by the U.S. Commerce Department expands U.S. authority to require licences for sales to Huawei of semiconductors made abroad with U.S. technology, vastly extending its reach to halt sales to the world's No. 2 smartphone maker.
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Normal life in Moscow to resume only after 60% of population has Covid-19 immunity, says medical official

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 11:15 UTC
2 women
© Sputnik/Vladimir Pesnya
With infection numbers starting to decrease and citizens getting itchy feet, Muscovites are wondering when life will get back to normal. According to one official, it'll be after 60 percent of the city has gained immunity.

Speaking to government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Alexey Mazus, chief freelance specialist for HIV diagnosis and treatment at Moscow's Health Department, explained how the city's coronavirus strategy was being dictated solely by science:
"We are dealing with an infection, which, according to various estimates, is three or more times more infectious than the flu. Therefore, it is important to know how many people have already been ill and have got immunity."
According to Mazus, to get out of the epidemic, around 60 percent of the population must be immune to Covid-19. He believes that once this mark has been met, those who have immunity can start working again. "This is the only way the city can return to a more-or-less normal rhythm," he concluded.
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'Propaganda machine says it's OK for there to be Bezos & Zuckerberg': Roger Waters tells RT how media shields Covid-19 villains


RT
Sat, 16 May 2020 18:10 UTC
roger waters
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Mankind is headed for annihilation unless societies reject unjust economic systems and media war propaganda, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters told RT, noting that the Covid-19 crisis could serve as a much-needed wake-up call.

"Clearly what Covid-19 has told us all is that in order to face a common enemy, like a virulent virus, we're going to need to cooperate, to act together... as a global community," Waters told RT's Rick Sanchez on Friday.
If we don't cooperate, we're all dead. The planet's over. We're heading for the cliff of omnicidal destruction of everything. So will this be a wake-up call? I hope so.
Calling "neoliberal economics" the "elephant in the room," Waters said such cooperation is made near-impossible when public policy is driven by a "motive to maximize the bottom line of profit for the corporations that run our countries." As many struggle to afford rent or put food on the table, some nations have responded to the pandemic by printing "billions, trillions of dollars" to dole out to the politically well-connected.
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Streaming platform Twitch loses all credibility after giving TRANS-SPECIES 'female' spot on its 'Safety Advisory Council'

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Mon, 18 May 2020 16:47 UTC
woman identifies male deer
© Youtube / Logitech GCan't make this up: FerociouslySteph is a male-to-female trans woman who self-identifies as a deer.
2020 isn't done with us yet. In an act of progressive seppuku, one of the world's largest streaming platforms gave a position of power to a girl who thinks she's a woodland creature, and the internet is having none of it.

Twitch streamer FerociouslySteph is a male-to-female trans woman who self-identifies as a deer. In multiple videos making the rounds, she discusses prancing outside, eating grass, and she can be seen practically orgasming as her partner gives her 'scritches.' Adding a fun twist to this juicy cocktail of internet absurdity is that, if her makeshift antlers are any indication, she identifies as a male deer.

Comment: Ms. Narwitz's assessment of FerociouslySteph's mental state is probably not that far off. Unfortunately, such a degree of disconnect from basic reality is becoming more pervasive in society, because to call it out is to be 'hateful'.The connection to the ADL is even more disturbing.

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Best of the Web: The US is dramatically overcounting Coronavirus deaths

John R. Lott, Jr.
Town Hall
Sat, 16 May 2020 12:01 UTC
Dr. Fauci
© AP Photo/Alex Brandon
Editor's Note: Timothy Craig Allen, MD, JD, contributed to this column.

Over 86,500 people have reportedly died in the United States from the Coronavirus, and the fear generated by those deaths is driving the public policy debate. But that number is a dramatic overcount. Our metrics include deaths that have nothing to do with the virus. The problem is even worse as the Centers for Disease Control over counts even some of these cases and the government has created financial incentives for this misreporting. Relying on these flawed numbers is destroying businesses and jobs and costing lives.

"The case definition is very simplistic," Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, explains. "It means, at the time of death, it was a COVID positive diagnosis. That means, that if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means, technically even if you died of clear alternative cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it's still listed as a COVID death."

Comment: Nothing that hasn't been stated dozens of times here previously, and for the last several weeks, but it certainly is interesting to note how much more these truths are being realized by an ever-growing number of doctors and pundits - and how many will react and respond to this information - given how the lies have already wreaked so much havoc on the lives of so many.

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People

Lessons from Kronavirus: Is Sweden's anti-lockdown approach more strategic?

Scott Young
Maclean's
Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Restaurant in Stockholm during Covid-19
© JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty ImagesPeople sit in a restaurant in Stockholm on May 8, 2020
Every afternoon, I look up from my home office to watch a group of shrieking kids descend on our local playground. It is a daily reminder my pandemic is not like your pandemic. As a Canadian who relocated recently to Malmö, Sweden, I arrived just in time to witness Sweden's COVID-19 response firsthand. I live in one of the few places in the world where playgrounds, parks, restaurants and bars never closed.

It is a striking dissonance from Toronto, where I lived until recently, and B.C.'s Lower Mainland, where I grew up. The photographs of deserted streets I am intimately familiar with — Little Italy in Toronto, Gastown in Vancouver — feel as though they are pulled from a nightmare, one my friends and family are all trapped in. While they endure lockdowns, snitch lines and overzealous bylaw enforcement — remember the Ottawa teenager or the new mom in Aurora, Ont., fined hundreds of dollars for shooting hoops or lingering a few seconds too long in a park — my daily life has carried on unimpeded. In the past week, I got a bad haircut, went to the gym, and met friends for lunch, all without fear of censure.

Comment: See also:

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