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Best of the Web: Anti-Lockdown Resistance: North Carolina Beach reopens after Navy serviceman's ocean protest
After a photo of a Navy Master Chief in full uniform entering the closed ocean in Emerald Isle, North Carolina went viral, the town announced that it will reopen its beaches.
Photos made the rounds of the serviceman standing in the ocean facing the shore with a sign in front of him reading "Land of the Free."
The broad-scale testing took place at the shelter in Boston's South End a week and a half ago because of a small cluster of cases there.
Of the 397 people tested, 146 people tested positive. Not a single one had any symptoms.
"It was like a double knockout punch. The number of positives was shocking, but the fact that 100 percent of the positives had no symptoms was equally shocking," said Dr. Jim O'Connell, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, which provides medical care at the city's shelters.
O'Connell said that the findings have changed the future of COVID-19 screenings at Boston's homeless shelters.
Comment: These results aren't so 'stunning' as China, Germany, South Korea and Iceland noted similar results in their own populations:
- Half of Icelanders that tested positive for coronavirus had no symptoms - one-tenth of population tested
- China launches study into asymptomatic coronavirus cases and shared immunity
THE NUMBERS BEHIND THROWING 1.25 BILLION PEOPLE
I REPEAT, 1.25 BILLION PEOPLE
ACROSS THE PLANET INTO UNEMPLOYMENT
WHO "official" Covid-19 death rate: 3.4%
BUT
based ONLY on patients treated in hospitals.
And not considering that from 50% to 80% of infected people NEVER EXPERIENCE ANY SYMPTOMS.
Best and broadest studies testing random population with NO symptoms; Germany, South Korea, Iceland.
Death rates:
Germany: 0.37%
South Korea: 0.6%
Iceland: 0.4%
Dr John Ioannidis, Stanford University: real death rate is between 0.025% and 0.65%.
Japanese study: death rate between 0.04% and 0.12%.
A death rate around 0.1% means Sars-Cov-2 kills THE EQUIVALENT OF A REGULAR SEASON FLU.
Essential reference HERE: https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/
Ramon Thomas Villagomez
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) police were called to the scene of a hijacking on Sunday morning, after an armed man boarded a bus in the Dallas suburb of Richardson and forced the driver to chauffeur him along the George Bush Turnpike toward Rowlett, another suburb of the city.
Comment: The man has been identified as 31-year-old Ramon Thomas Villagomez, who was wanted by police for the murder of his girlfriend in San Antonio and for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon of a relative in Brazoria County. The man hijacked the bus, firing shots at officers during the chase until the bus was stopped in Rowlett with a spike strip. He continued firing as he exited the bus after it stopped, and officers returned fire, killing him.
© Pixabay / succo
The COVID-19 "crisis," produced either deliberately or by an act of nature, provides the state with a nearly airtight pretext for the imposition of further surveillance of the public, in particular political adversaries.
The largely manufactured "war on terror" following the attacks of 9/11 produced the needed climate of suspicion and fear to make possible the implementation of the Patriot Act, "a domestic-surveillance wish list full of investigatory powers long sought by the FBI," an agency that has for many decades served as a political police force, a fact made public during the Church Committee hearings in the mid-1970s.
Much of what we know about technological surveillance in the wake of 9/11 was gleaned from the revelations of Edward Snowden, a former NSA, and CIA employee. Snowden exposed a number of global surveillance programs, including PRISM and XKeyscore, the former in partnership with Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
This prediction provides yet more evidence of what we already knew; this crisis will fundamentally transform the UK's corporate environment. When it finally ends, there will be fewer firms left, and those that remain will be much more significant, in terms of both size and political power.
Part of the problem facing small businesses is that they are finding it much harder to gain access to state-provided emergency loans than their larger peers. The Chancellor has made available £5m worth of Coronavirus Business Interruption Loans for small businesses through the UK's pre-existing network of retail and commercial banks.
But small business owners are struggling to get through to their banks amid heightened demand for banking services. Many of those that do get through have their loan requests denied, despite their businesses having been in good health before the crisis hit. Others are being approved, but at extortionately high interest rates - some as high as 30%.
Over the last decade, extremely loose monetary policy has made borrowing - whether for government, or households and businesses - cheaper than ever. In the context of stagnant productivity and low growth, many businesses have taken advantage of this cheap debt just to get by - total credit to UK businesses reached 81.5% GDP in the third quarter of 2019, far before the crisis hit.
© Gary RamageAustralian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw.
In one of the largest joint operations in the country — led by the Australian Federal Police and spread across five states — 16 people have been charged with 728 child exploitation and sexual abuse offences following a two-year investigation into the online exchange of child pornography.
The arrests come as AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw warned of a spike in traffic across the so-called dark web — including live-streaming and incidents of child sexual abuse and child grooming — since the outbreak of the coronavirus, prompting a call for parents to strictly monitor their children's online activity during the lockdown.
The Australian understands that the four children were aged between two months and eight years and are believed to be related to those who had sexually abused them and then exchanged the graphic images through highly encrypted web forums.
© ITV News AngliaA deserted Cambridge city centre
According to the research, which was carried out by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the university, that equates to around a quarter of the UK's total jobs, with more than half the positions in certain sectors to be cut.
The report predicts that accommodation and food services will be the worst hit, with more than 75% of jobs, or just over a million positions, under threat.
"Wholesale, retail and repair of motor vehicles" jobs are also expected to be severely affected, as is the transport and storage industry.
The report also warns there could be knock-on effects of certain industries on other sectors, such as agriculture which could lose one job in 10 due to reduced demand from the accommodation and food sector.
During the Friday night "Tucker Carlson Tonight" monologue, Carlson called attention to people in need of medical and dental procedures that have been outlawed, people "suffering in silence" because of the pain such procedures often alleviate.
"We've all been told we must sacrifice for the sake of the country, but is there a good reason these people are suffering?" the Fox News host said before questioning the logic of banning surgeries like joint replacements that can keep people from being immobilized.
Comment: See also:
- Michigan governor's 'overly restrictive' coronavirus lockdown doing 'serious harm': state chamber head
- Lockdown lunacy: You can buy lotto tickets in Michigan, but you can't plant a garden
- Anti-Lockdown Resistance: Protesters gather at Michigan's state capital in 'Operation Gridlock'
- 8 MORE Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic
In attendance at Saturday's 'You Can't Close America' Rally were InfoWars founder Alex Jones and host Owen Shroyer, who led the crowd of some 200 people in chants against the mainstream media and officials like Fauci.
Shroyer, who referred to the doctor as "fascist Fauci," asked the crowd: "Do you think Anthony Fauci should be fired?", before leading them in chants of "Fire Fauci."
Comment: Berlin residents are getting restless as well - hundreds of activists gathered on the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz square in defiance of the Covid-19 lockdown measures, arguing the state is heading for authoritarian rule. The strong police response to the rally underscored their point! Also notable is that the gathering brought people together with very different political views, as banners at the rally ranged from moderate pro-democracy calls to hard-line ones. Earlier this week, the country's Constitutional Court ruled that Germans have the right to hold political protests if they stick to social distancing rules. The Constitutional Court deemed the blanket ban on protests to be unconstitutional, ordering the authorities to review such policies.
The police response:
As people begin asking questions about the extreme response to this 'flu virus' there will likely be many more such rallies in the coming weeks:
- As protests mount across the US, multiple sheriffs openly stand against lockdown
- Germans decry 'out of proportion' Covid-19 lockdown measures with multiple protests with 'social distancing'
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