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Moscow's former chief doctor tells RT coronavirus to 'go into hibernation' in summer just like most flu viruses


RT
Thu, 28 May 2020 16:01 UTC
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© Sputnik / Evgeny Biyatov
The novel coronavirus will lose its power in summer and, as it passes through more people, it will no longer be 'new' for immune systems and will behave like flu or even just a cold, Moscow's former head doctor has told RT.

The novel coronavirus will become less dangerous once the summer hits, Deputy Director of the Mechnikov Research Institute of Vaccines and Sera Nikolay Filatov told RT.
Microorganisms, like viruses and bacteria, go through different biological cycles, during which their virulence and contagiousness levels change. Respiratory viruses always 'go into hibernation' during summer. Nobody really knows why that happens.
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Iran's head rabbi berates Israelis, Netanyahu: 'You don't represent Judaism'


Times of Israel
Tue, 26 May 2020 17:50 UTC
Iranian head rabbi Yehuda Gerami
© Screenshot/TwitterIranian head rabbi Yehuda Gerami in an interview with Iranian TV broadcast on Quds Day, May 22, 2020.
Tehran's chief rabbi on Friday lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Israelis as Iran marked its annual anti-Israel Quds Day.

Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, the head rabbi of the Iranian Jewish community, said in a Hebrew message aimed at Israelis: "You don't represent Judaism."

Prominent figures in the Jewish community of Iran, where the Islamist regime avowedly seeks Israel's destruction, intermittently issue anti-Israel statements that match the regime's agenda. There has been a spate of such statements disseminated in Iranian media in recent days, including by Iran's sole Jewish MP and by an extreme anti-Zionist rabbi, while Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his calls for Israel to be eliminated.


Comment: Some readers might be surprised to learn that there is a significant contingent of Orthodox Jews who vehemently oppose the state of Israel and the noxious political ideology of Zionism - and they're not just Iranian Jews.


Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, there were some 100,000 Jews in Iran; by 2016, according to an Iranian census, that number had fallen to below 10,000.

"We Iranian Jews want to sent this message to the Zionists, and first and foremost to Netanyahu," Gerami said. "Know that you Zionists do not represent Judaism and do not represent the Jewish people," Gerami said in a statement broadcast on Iranian television. "You only represent the idea of a political movement whose ideas and values oppose the ideas and values of our holy Torah and the Jewish religion."

"We strongly condemn your aggressive actions and emphasize to the whole world: There is a big difference between Judaism and Zionism," Gerami said.

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Arrow Up

Yankee, go home! Syrian children pelt US convoy with stones


Sputnik
Thu, 28 May 2020 17:47 UTC
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The eastern Syrian provinces of al-Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor remain a major source of tensions between Damascus and Washington amid the ongoing tense standoff between Syrian forces, local civilians and US troops and their allies.

Children and teens in the villages of al-Qahira and al-Dushaisha in the al-Hasakah countryside have intercepted a convoy of US military vehicles, pelting it with stones.

Video of the incident provided by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows more than a dozen children, some as young as 5-6 years old, picking up stones and throwing them at the tan trucks, one of them flying an American flag, and running after them as they drive down the road honking their horns.


A SANA correspondent said the children forced the vehicles to head back in the direction they came from, although it is not clear from the video if this is the case. The Pentagon has not commented on the incident.
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Family

Even Fox News is triggered by the lack of social distancing at Ozarks bash


RT
Tue, 26 May 2020 22:48 UTC
Ozarks
© Twitter/Lawler50/via REUTERSRevelers celebrate Memorial Day weekend at Osage Beach of the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri
Brian Kilmeade, who has been arguing to lift Covid-19 lockdown measures, and other Fox talking heads did not have much support for people in the Ozarks partying in viral videos and ignoring social distancing measures.

"It destroys my argument that we are reacting responsibly as a country," Kilmeade said on Fox News' 'Outnumbered' on Tuesday when talking about the footage out of Missouri over the Memorial Day weekend.

The 'Fox & Friends' co-host has been one of the network's sharpest critics of lockdown orders across the US, but the Ozarks video took him by surprise and he admits that irresponsible social gathering "ruins it for everyone."


Comment: It just goes to show how many people are desperate for social contact after months of house arrest, and they're behaving rather appropriately having seen the proof in their everyday lives that this virus is less harmful than the seasonal flu.

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Best of the Web: New Zealand secretly allowed Hollywood team working on 'Avatar II' exemption from lockdown as 'essential workers'


The Australian
Tue, 26 May 2020 09:34 UTC
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Sam Worthington as Jake Sully in Avatar, left, and New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern.
Key individuals behind the sequel to Hollywood blockbuster Avatar are among hundreds of foreigners quietly let into New Zealand under little-known exemptions to its closed border regime.

New Zealand closed its borders in March to deal with COVID-19, allowing only Kiwis and returning residents to return.

Jacinda Ardern's government has since tweaked its regulations to allow humanitarian arrivals and essential workers in, including in the health sectors. But only today, under questioning, was it revealed Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford has also been admitting high-value foreigners.

Comment: No Ms Ahern, the problem is you don't think at all. Which means you don't really care either.

This is what all these examples of government and cultural elites breaking the rules is telling us; they don't actually believe a 'killer virus' is going around.

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San Francisco embraces 3rd world tent cities as a new way of life

M. Dowling
Independent Sentinel
Thu, 28 May 2020 08:32 UTC
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San Francisco sanctions third world tent cities as a new way of life, both accepted and promoted. Mayor London Breed and her allies say they're the best option available. It's time to "embrace the inevitable," the officials say.

The encampments will have a lot of taxpayer support.

Inside San Francisco's "safe sleeping sites," where tents sit inside squares marked on the asphalt eight feet apart to promote social distancing, there are hand-washing stations, portable toilets, showers, meals, and security guards.

Comment: See also:

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Deadly shooting near George Floyd protest as looting, arson grip Minneapolis

Edmund DeMarche
Fox News
Thu, 28 May 2020 07:22 UTC
George Floyd
The protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd took a dramatic turn for the worse Wednesday night as city police responded to stores in the city being looted and burned as well as a deadly shooting at a protest location.

Multiple reports indicated that Mayor Jacob Frey reached out to Gov. Tim Walz to deploy the National Guard to the city. The mayor's office did not immediately respond to Fox News seeking comment.

Social media users posted videos on Twitter that showed burning businesses and looters entering a local Target and making their way out with bags full of items.

At least one group of armed men have been seen standing outside a strip mall in Minneapolis on Wednesday night amid the looting.

Protests in the city erupted Tuesday after video emerged of a police officer with his knee pressed against Floyd's neck while the man was in custody. Protesters have called for the officers involved to be charged in his death.

Comment: See also: 'I can't breathe' 2.0: Minneapolis police in hot water as suspect dies during BRUTAL chokehold arrest - HUGE crowds clash with cops during protest

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Your "immunity passport" future begins to materialize as airlines call for digital id tracking systems

Derrick Broze
The Last American Vagabond
Tue, 26 May 2020 06:53 UTC
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The world's largest airline trade group has called for immunity passports, thermal screening, masks, and physical distancing to be a part of the industry's strategy for returning to "normal" operations.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 299 airlines, recently issued their publication, Biosecurity for Air Transport A Roadmap for Restarting Aviation, which outlines their strategy to open up air travel as governments begin to lift travel restrictions.

Under a section titled, "The passenger experience" and "Temporary biosecurity measures," the IATA describes their vision of post-COVID-19 flights. The organization calls for contact tracing, a controversial method of tracking the civilian population to track the spread of COVID-19.
"We foresee the need to collect more detailed passenger contact information which can be used for tracing purposes," the report states. "Where possible, the data should be collected in electronic form, and in advance of the passenger arriving at the airport including through eVisa and electronic travel authorization platforms."

Comment: See also:

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Network

Facebook reportedly had evidence that its algorithms were dividing people, but top executives killed or weakened proposed solutions

Tyler Sonnemaker
Business Insider
Wed, 27 May 2020 20:02 UTC
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Facebook knew its algorithms divided users, execs killed fixes.
Despite internal research finding that Facebook's platform encouraged polarization, Mark Zuckerberg and other execs nixed proposals to fix things.

Facebook had evidence that its algorithms encourage polarization and "exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness," but top executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg killed or weakened proposed solutions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The effort to better understand Facebook's effect on users' behavior was a response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and its internal researchers determined that, contrary to the company's mission of connecting the world, its products were having the opposite effect, according to the newspaper.

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Attention

Mandatory masks aren't about safety, they're about social control

Molly McCann
The Federalist
Wed, 27 May 2020 06:36 UTC
making masks
© U.S. Air Force photo/Trevor Cokley
On May 26, Virginia's Gov. Ralph Northam announced that wearing masks outside one's home will be mandatory effective May 29. He first hinted he might issue a masking order a week ago, likely to test the water.

A new refrain in public discourse is growing in volume by the day: "Things will never be the same." The certainty with which we are assured of this pre-determined future is perplexing. Whether or not "things" will ever be the same is not at all clear, but that some people hope things will never be the same is certain.

To those looking to benefit politically from emergencies, COVID presents an opportunity to advance plans targeted to transform American freedom and the American way of life. Mandatory-masking policies provide a valuable foundation to weaponize the virus against American liberty — now and in the future.

Demanding Freedoms Helps Ensure Them

Much of our freedom is maintained by the collective resistance of the American mood. When the Minnesota governor excluded churches from his Phase I reopening plan, Catholic and Lutheran leadership announced, through counsel, that their churches would reopen with or without the state's blessing.
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