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3 McDonald's workers hurt after customers attack over coronvirus limits

Dennis Romero
NBC News
Wed, 06 May 2020 21:24 UTC
McDonald's
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Three workers at an Oklahoma City McDonald's were injured Wednesday by gunfire and a scuffle that appeared to have started because the restaurant's dining area was closed for social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, police said.

Two of three were injured by gunfire and the third was hurt in a scuffle, said Lt. Michelle Henderson of the Oklahoma City Police Department.

The victims, two females and a male — two of them 17 — were hospitalized and in non-life-threatening condition, she said. Two customers, a man and a woman, were in custody.

"They were asked to leave, and they refused and produced a gun," Henderson said. The dining area "was closed because of the virus."

Police were called to the South Oklahoma City location at 6:22 p.m., Henderson said.

Last week in Michigan, a security guard was fatally shot because he insisted a woman at a Flint Family Dollar store wear a face covering, police said.
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Herd immunity: Sweden is the model

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Sweden Covid-19
At present, there is no vaccine for the coronavirus. That means that one of the two paths to immunity is blocked. The other path is "herd immunity," in which a critical mass of infection occurs in lower-risk populations that ultimately thwarts transmission.

Herd immunity is the only path that is currently available. Let that sink in for a minute. The only way our species can effectively resist the infection is through the development of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells. In other words, the only way we can lick this thing is by the majority of the population getting the infection and thereby developing immunity to future outbreaks.

That being the case, one would assume that the government's policy would try to achieve herd immunity in the least painful way possible. (Young, low-risk people should go back to work if they so choose.) But that is not the government's policy, in fact, the government's policy is the exact opposite. US policy encourages people to remain at home and self quarantine until the government decides to lift the lockdown and allow some people to return to work. This policy assumes that the infection will have vanished by then, which of course, is extremely unlikely. The more probable outcome is that- when people return to work- there will be another surge in cases and another spike in deaths. We will have shifted the curve to a future date without having flattened it. We will have inflicted catastrophic damage on the economy and gained nothing. This is an idiotic policy that goes nowhere.

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Two boys drop dead in China while wearing masks during gym class

Jackie Salo
New York Post
Wed, 06 May 2020 17:54 UTC
China children masks
© Wang Zhao/Getty ImagesA group of children wearing face masks, amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus, running along a street in Beijing.
Two Chinese boys dropped dead within a week of one another while wearing face masks during gym class, according to a report.

The students, who were both 14, were each running laps for a physical examination test when they suddenly collapsed on the track, Australian outlet 7News reported.

One of the teens was only minutes into his gym class when he fell backward April 24 at Dancheng Caiyuan Middle School in Henan province, according to the outlet.

"He was wearing a mask while lapping the running track, then he suddenly fell backwards and hit his head on the ground," his father, who was only identified as Li, told the outlet.
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Ventura County, California officials announce program to remove people with COVID-19 from their homes to quarantine centers

Victoria Taft
PJ Media
Wed, 06 May 2020 17:38 UTC
Dr Robert Levin
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As I reported at PJMedia, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he was raising up an "army" of contact tracers - as many as 20,000 people - to track down everyone with COVID-19 and quarantine them.
The number of deaths has begun going down in the state, but Newsom has only doubled down, announcing Monday he was training as many as 20,000 people - "an army and a workforce" - to begin tracking down COVID-19 cases.

Newsom announced that the "army" - his word - will start with a deployment of 3,000 and grow to the 20,000 mark to chase down who, what, where, and with whom COVID positive people have had connections. To what end? Newsom said, "the tracing component requires workforce and to identify individuals who tested positive...to ID their contacts (with privacy) and maybe quarantine individuals to stop the spread of the disease."

He means forcible quarantine.
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UK could start lifting coronavirus lockdown measures - Germany, Russia easing restrictions

Ryan Browne
CNBC
Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00 UTC
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson
© Hollie Adams | Getty ImagesU.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend Prime Minister’s Questions at the House of Commons on May 6, 2020 in London, England.
The U.K. could start easing its coronavirus lockdown restrictions as early as Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday.

"We will want, if we possibly can, to get going with some of these measures on Monday," Johnson told Parliament in his first Prime Minister's Questions session since falling ill with Covid-19.

He added that a statement will be made on Sunday after the government reviews the latest data, adding it would be a "good thing" if people knew what to expect the following day.

Britain now has the highest Covid-19 death toll in Europe, according to the latest official figures, climbing past Italy which, alongside Spain, has been among the worst-affected countries globally.

Comment: From Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced an easing of restrictions with an ""emergency brake" mechanism allowing for renewed restrictions in case infections pick up again."
"We are at a point where our goal of slowing the spread of the virus has been achieved and we have been able to protect our health system..., so it has been possible to discuss and agree on further easing measures," Merkel told reporters.

Under measures agreed with Germany's 16 federal state leaders, people from two households will be allowed to meet, and more shops will open, provided hygiene measures are in place.

But guidelines on people keeping a distance of 1.5 metres (5 feet) from each other and wearing mouth and nose masks on public transport will remain in place.

Germany's Bundesliga soccer league can resume in the second half of May, Merkel said.

Schools would gradually start reintroducing all pupils and emergency care for kindergarten-aged children would be expanded, with details to be regulated by the states.

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Their plan includes an "emergency brake", a fail-safe under which restrictions would be reintroduced if an area registers more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.

"If something happens locally, we won't wait until it has spread through the whole republic, but rather we will act locally," Merkel said.
Some regional states in Germany have had enough of the lockdown however, and have to decided to ignore Merkel's slower rollout on the easing of lockdown:
On the eve of a key meeting between Merkel and premiers of Germany's 16 states to debate a new round of easing of stay-at-home measures, the country's biggest state pre-empted talks by saying it would reopen its restaurants and hotels this month.

Under the plan to progressively restart the gastronomy and hospitality sectors, Bavaria said restaurants would first be allowed to offer outdoor dining from May 18, before extending the opening to indoor dining a week later.

Hotels would also be allowed to welcome guests again from May 30, in time for the Pentecost holiday long weekend.

"The time has come for a cautious reopening," said Bavarian state premier Markus Soeder, pointing to the "success" in containing the spread of the virus.

Pressure has been growing on Merkel to ease curbs on public life that have plunged the economy into a deep recession.
Russia is now seeing fit to open things up in stages:
Russia will begin to partially lift its Covid-19 lockdown from Monday when restrictions on industrial and construction businesses are removed, Sergey Sobyanin announced during a government meeting chaired by Vladimir Putin.

The Moscow mayor, who also heads the national effort to fight coronavirus, told the video conference that the self-isolation regime in the capital will not be relaxed until the spread of infection there is under control. Moscow, together with its surrounding region, is home to just under two-thirds of Russia's Covid-19 cases.

However, as the rest of the country has fared better, Putin instructed regional leaders to develop timetables to implement the process, warning them to be careful to avoid risking a second wave of infection.
"In some places tough, [but] justified preventive measures will need to be maintained or even supplemented. And in others, perhaps, there will be different levels of severity," he observed. "You can't steam ahead with undue haste, because any negligence can bring a rollback and the price of the slightest mistake is the safety, lives, and health of our people."
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Anna Popova of Rospotrebnadzor, the state health watchdog, presented a three point plan for removing the wider lockdown, in stages. The time scale for the easing will depend on local circumstances and be up to regional governors and their health officials, she explained.

1. Outdoor sports will be allowed; small shops and services can open.

2. Walking on the street with family members will be permitted, large-scale trade operations and some educational organizations will be opened.

3. Parks and squares will be made available again subject to social distancing rules; all educational institutions, hotels, and catering establishments will open.
And back here in "the land of freedom and democracy", the heavily criticized Governor of California made this recent announcement:
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday announced he has reached an agreement with Orange County leaders to reopen beaches in the cities of Huntington Beach, Dana Point, and Seal Beach in a modified way.

The governor said the agreement was done in "the spirit of collaboration and partnership."

Beaches reopened Tuesday in the cities of San Clemente and Laguna Beach for recreational purposes, which allows for social distancing. Newsom said the agreement with the additional three beach cities has a similar commitment to protocols and procedures.

The agreement marks significant progress after Newsom and O.C. officials were in constant conflict just last week.


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Contact tracing: Universities quietly develop Covid-19 'risk score' app to mainstream Black Mirror-style social credit for students

Helen Buyniski
RT
Wed, 06 May 2020 22:14 UTC
Woman Covid mask
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Three American universities have received government coronavirus funding to create a mobile app combining contact-tracing with an individual "risk score" - mimicking the Chinese apps the US denounced as dystopian nightmares.

The University of Southern California, Emory University, and the University of Texas Health Science Center began work last week on a mobile app that will track the user's location and Covid-19 symptoms in real time, in the name of "quarantine and decontamination." The idea is to bestow individual "risk scores" upon not only individuals, but the public locations they visit. Will it stop there, or will it dovetail with the privatized de-facto social credit score already being cobbled together by Big Tech in conjunction with Big Brother?

Media coverage of the project neglects to specify whether installing the app will be mandatory for incoming students, but there's plenty of precedent for forcing students to submit to tracking in order to attend class. A tracking app called Spotter had already been forced on students, pre-coronavirus, at the University of Missouri, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University, among other campuses.

Comment: Episode 375 of the Corbett Report: Corona World Order
..this crisis is the globalists' dream, and what we are witnessing is the birth of a totalitarian control grid the likes of which could scarcely have been imagined before this pandemic panic kicked off. Welcome to the Corona World Order.
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Nobel prize winning scientist Prof Michael Levitt: lockdown is a "huge mistake"


UnHerd
Sat, 02 May 2020 17:22 UTC
Michael Levitt
As he is careful to point out, Professor Michael Levitt is not an epidemiologist. He's Professor of Structural Biology at the Stanford School of Medicine, and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems."

With a purely statistical perspective, he has been playing close attention to the Covid-19 pandemic since January, when most of us were not even aware of it. He first spoke out in early February, when through analysing the numbers of cases and deaths in Hubei province he predicted with remarkable accuracy that the epidemic in that province would top out at around 3,250 deaths.

In this interview with Freddie Sayers, Executive Editor of UnHerd, Professor Levitt explains why he thinks indiscriminate lockdown measures as "a huge mistake," and advocates a "smart lockdown" policy, focused on more effective measures, focused on protecting elderly people.

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No shock there: Police said to keep huge secret database on movement of Israelis' cars


Times of Israel
Thu, 07 May 2020 17:10 UTC
The police force has been compiling information on the movements of Israelis not suspected of any crime in a secret database that does not appear to have any oversight, a report said Wednesday.

According to the Walla news website, the database includes footage of cars driving across the country that was filmed using smart LPR cameras, which can identify license plates and determine whether the vehicle was stolen or if its owner's driver's license is expired.

The purpose of the so-called Hawk-Eye program is to retroactively track where a car came from if its driver is suspected of involvement in a crime or a terror attack. However, a police source with knowledge of the system told the news site that the video footage is saved for at least six months and possibly years.

That means there is a massive database on the movement of innocent Israelis, just in case their vehicle is involved in a crime in the future.


Comment: Don't worry, it's all for the 'greater good'.


The system began operating as a pilot project in 2014, the report said. The smart cameras are now located on many central roads in Israel and thoroughfares leading into or out of many cities, while others are mounted on police vehicles.

The issue of government tracking of movement has emerged into the public eye in recent weeks as law enforcement authorities have sought and received permission to use phone data to track the movement of people for epidemiological purposes as part of the effort to keep the novel coronavirus from spreading.

Comment: "Only democracy in the Middle East!" Luckily, we have the Covid-19 craziness to thank for causing some people to ponder their own political freedom - or lack of it - for the first time. As usual, comedians put it best. Here's J.P. Sears:



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A red-baiter, an anti-Trumper & a libertarian walk into a bar: Facebook angers conservatives & liberals alike with oversight picks


RT
Wed, 06 May 2020 16:58 UTC
Facebook
© Reuters / Johanna Geron
Facebook has unveiled its 20-person Oversight Board, a supposedly independent body able to reverse the platform's own content moderation decisions. The names have raised eyebrows all over the political spectrum.

The social media behemoth revealed its 'supreme court' roster on Wednesday, showing off a pedigreed list of legal scholars, human rights advocates, and journalists from around the globe. While the Oversight Board idea was initially presented to the Facebook community back in 2018, as a way for aggrieved users to appeal content take-downs to an independent panel, bylaws unveiled in January suggested its vaunted independence would be nominal at best.
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'The pandemic is a scam': Aussie rugby wife behind anti-vaxx workshops blasts 'dehumanizing & degrading' compulsory jabs


RT
Thu, 07 May 2020 16:28 UTC
Taylor Winterstein, Frank Winterstein
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The angry anti-vaccination activist wife of a rugby ace has lashed out at the compulsory flu shots being given to players in Australia, citing "corruption" and claiming that many players feel their human rights are being violated.

Star second-row Bryce Cartwright has sparked a furious row over the regulations set out by the National Rugby League (NRL), which has announced strict vaccination measures for all players in order for the competition to resume on May 28.

The Gold Coast former World All Star is on a collision course with NRL chief medic Paul Bloomfield and Prime Minister Scott Morrison for refusing to take a mandatory flu shot, with the Australian leader insisting a "no jab, no play" policy should be enforced.

After Cartwright's wife defended his position on social media, outspoken anti-vaccination figurehead Taylor Winterstein - whose husband is former NRL regular Frank Winterstein - issued a fierce attack on the "corruption and coercion" of the league's decision.

"The truth is, there are more than just a handful of us," said Winterstein, who has joined the likes of footballer Dejan Lovren in sharing an image of Bill Gates holding a syringe as part of allegations that the Microsoft boss wants to use a vaccine to create population control.

"There is a strong core group...who proudly stand for medical freedom and informed consent.

Comment: For more information on vaccines see:

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