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Parisians flee capital amid threat of another lockdown


International Business Times
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 07:56 UTC
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© AFP / Ludovic MARIN
Parisians are getting away while they can
Parisians packed inter-city trains leaving the capital on Friday hours ahead of a new lockdown in the French capital imposed to combat a surge in coronavirus infections.

The new restrictions, announced by Prime Minister Jean Castex late on Thursday, apply to around a third of the country's population affecting Paris and several other regions in the north and south.

The government has insisted that the new month-long lockdown will be more limited than the two others imposed last year, with schools open and outdoor exercise allowed for an unlimited amount of time.


Comment: What with the nonsensical, ever changing rules it's becoming increasingly difficult to deny that these lockdowns are more of a warped psychological game than a scientifically backed strategy.


Comment: For anyone paying attention, it was clear that once Germany and Italy began to talk about yet another lockdown that, as has happened repeatedly, other European nations under sway of the increasingly apparent, nefarious agenda, would soon fall into lockstep.

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UK woman finds unauthorized 'do not resuscitate' note HIDDEN in partner's medical records

Sue Reid
The Daily Mail
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:33 UTC
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© Murray Sanders/Daily Mail
Sue Reid has revealed how she was left shocked and upset when doctors secretly, and without consent, applied a do not resuscitate order for her partner Nigel Griffiths, who died at home last May
The day my partner Nigel came home from hospital last May, the doctors promised he was going to live.

Not years, perhaps, but enough precious time to enjoy our summer garden while getting to know his new granddaughter, Cosima. Instead, politely and with grace, he died on our sofa 36 hours later.

He was desperately weak when he was discharged in a wheelchair from the hospital by two nurses. When I tried to put a seatbelt round him in the back seat of the taxi, he said: 'No, too much pain'.

Sue Reid has revealed how she was left shocked and upset when doctors secretly, and without consent, applied a do not resuscitate order for her partner Nigel Griffiths, who died at home last May

Comment: Could the PTB make their intentions any clearer?

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New York Governor's office conducting own review of aide's groping accusation against Cuomo

Kenneth Garger
New York Post
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:55 UTC
Cuomo
© AP/Seth Wenig
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office is conducting its own review of a female aide's allegations that she was groped by the governor inside the Executive Mansion last year, a new report said.

The internal inquiry into the allegations lodged by the staffer, who is still employed by the governor's office, is being handled by Cuomo's senior aides, the Albany Times Union reported. A senior Cuomo aide told the newspaper:
"We have our own inquiries ongoing. We have an obligation to investigate any claim of sexual harassment. And we ... were directed to continue our own inquiry."
The woman's accusations against Cuomo are already being investigated separately by state Attorney General Letitia James.

A lawyer for the accuser, who has not been identified and has not filed a formal complaint against Cuomo, blasted what he called the governor's office "shadow investigation." He told the Times Union:
"It's absurd. Why would you be doing that? It's not appropriate, and obviously we're concerned with the ramifications and the effect on witnesses and the quest for the truth."

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Arizona border town mayor: Dropping off migrants with unchecked health & criminal history 'like opening Pandora's box'


RT
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:57 UTC
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© Reuters / Adrees Latif
A US Border Patrol agent instructs asylum-seeking migrants as they line up along the border wall after crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico on a raft, in Penitas, Texas, US, March 17, 2021
The mayor of a small border town in Arizona has told RT that federal agents did not provide crucial information about the migrants that are being released in the US after the White House relaxed border policies.

"The number of migrants that come across on foot has ramped up substantially in just the last few weeks," Chris Riggs, the mayor of Gila Bend, an Arizona border town of 2,000, told RT.

Mayor Riggs said he began worrying after the town was notified that border control officials will be releasing migrants in the local community after processing them quickly. At the same time, federal agencies did not provide enough information about the expected arrivals, he said.

Comment: The number of minors arriving at the southern border of the U.S. is threatening to overwhelm resources:
More than 14,000 migrant children are currently held in US custody, a senior administration official said, insisting there's no "crisis" at the border soon after Biden's press secretary invoked the very same term.

The official said the number of youths detained after attempting to cross the border had soared to 14,000 during a Thursday press briefing, noting that they are divided between facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Border Patrol.

While the official argued that "Children presenting themselves at the border is not a national crisis," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared to contradict that statement during a presser earlier on Thursday, referring to a "crisis on the border." Pressed by reporters, she amended the phrase to "challenges on the border."


Psaki's self-correction is in line with the administration's public stance on the situation at the southern border. In an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos that aired on Tuesday night, Biden sought to downplay the current surge of migration, though reluctantly agreed that it "could be" larger than other spikes seen in recent years. While telling asylum-seekers "don't come over," the president also insisted federal agencies are working as fast as possible to transfer young migrants from border police facilities to "safe" HHS-run holding areas.

However, though Axios reported in late February that some 700 underage migrants were being detained by the Border Patrol, that figure has since soared to around 4,500, the official said. The majority of them, nearly 3,000, have been held beyond the three-day limit set out under federal guidelines, according to CBS News. Another 9,500 are now in HHS custody.

The updated figure comes amid reports that the Biden administration handed down an informal "gag order" for Border Patrol agents, barring them from speaking publicly about the ongoing immigration surge or taking reporters on 'ride-alongs' to witness it for themselves.

Biden also told ABC that adult migrants have not been allowed to enter the country, but the senior official said on Thursday that there are "certain limits" on Mexico's ability to absorb families that are turned away. In some cases, they are accepted into the US so their asylum requests can be heard by a judge, added the official.

Despite the repeated denials of any border crisis, Biden's Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged this week that the US is currently "on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border than we have in the last 20 years," adding that the conditions there continue to deteriorate. While the president recently said he has no plans to visit the border anytime soon, Mayorkas is expected to make a stop there on Friday, according to ABC News.


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Nursing home whistleblower: Cuomo administration ignored warnings over COVID-19 policy

Greg Norman
Fox News
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:23 UTC
andrew cuomo
© Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
More than 15,000 people are confirmed to have died in NY nursing homes

A New York City nursing home director tells Fox News that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's order last year requiring such facilities to take in COVID-positive patients released from hospitals was "ridiculous" and that he warned state officials "we can't be doing this."

Michael Kraus, the administrator of the Silver Lakes Specialized Care Center in Staten Island, said he immediately raised the alarm after first hearing about the March 25, 2020, order in a conference call with other directors, hospital leaders and state officials.

"I said that's ridiculous. We can't be doing this. It's just not right to the residents," Kraus told Fox News in an exclusive interview with correspondent Aishah Hasnie that aired Thursday on America Reports.

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Land of sanity: Florida governor won't require COVID-19 'vaccine passports'

Adrienne Cutway
clickorlando.com
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:08 UTC
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Soaking up the sun on a Florida beach
Floridians who plan to attend concerts and major sporting events in the Sunshine State won't have to show proof that they've received the COVID-19 vaccine, if Gov. Ron DeSantis gets his way.

As the European Union announced its "Digital Green Certificate" that would allow those who are fully vaccinated to travel freely across the bloc, DeSantis cautioned against so-called "vaccine passports."

"I just want to make very clear in Florida, we are not doing any vaccine passports. All those experts said that it was a bad idea. I think it's a bad idea and so that will not happen. And so folks should get vaccinated, if they want to, we'll obviously provide that, but under no circumstances will the state be asking you to show proof of vaccination, and I don't think private companies should be doing that either," the governor said Thursday.

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Lockdowns killed 228,000 children in South Asia, says UN report

Will Jone
Lockdown Skeptics
Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:59 UTC
South Asia children
A new United Nations report has laid bare the appalling cost of lockdowns in some of the world's poorest countries.

The report, Direct and Indirect Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic and Response in South Asia, examines the effect of the unprecedented Government shutdown policies on healthcare, social services, education and the economy.

It estimates that the disruption in healthcare services caused by Government responses to COVID-19 in Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka (home to some 1.8 billion people) may have led to 239,000 maternal and child deaths.

This compares to around 186,000 deaths "with COVID-19", meaning the lockdowns are estimated to have killed considerably more than the virus. Furthermore, 228,000 is the estimated lockdown death toll just of children under five, almost none of whom would have been at any risk from the virus. With the majority of Covid deaths worldwide being among the over 80s, the difference in terms of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) must be staggering.

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'It's good to be WHITE when doing crimes,' writes Esquire pundit about BLACK suspect caught & released during Capitol riot


RT
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:28 UTC
Capitol rioter Mark Ponder
© FBI
A photo included in an FBI criminal complaint alleges to show Capitol rioter Mark Ponder as he clashed with police during unrest in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021.
A journalist with Esquire magazine was lambasted online after penning a blog post arguing that police treat white suspects with kid gloves, apparently missing the fact that the story he cited as evidence centered on a black man.

Esquire's Charles Pierce took to the outlet's online blog on Wednesday with a piece entitled 'It's Good to Be White When You're Doing Crimes,' citing a recent Politico report about how an overwhelmed DC police force released a rioter from custody during the January 6 unrest at the Capitol, only for the man to rejoin the mob.
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Unsurprising: Former president of drag queen story hour foundation and children's court judge arrested on seven counts of child porn

Cassandra Fairbanks
Gateway Pundit
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:20 UTC
Brett Blomme
A Milwaukee County Children's Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city's drag queen story hour program, has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.

Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik.

Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.

Comment: Anyone who thinks it's appropriate to expose children to a sexualized subculture is sick, so it's rather unsurprising to have that confirmed. It's just tragic that it takes someone being caught red-handed to make people aware of this fact.

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis: 'Don't trust the elites. They got Covid completely wrong'

Ron DeSantis
Wall Street Journal
Thu, 18 Mar 2021 12:51 UTC
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© MediaPunch/Associated Press
Spring-break crowds on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale last Sunday.
Influential people in public health, government and the media got Covid-19 completely wrong

The Covid-19 pandemic represented a test of elites in the U.S., from public-health experts to the corporate media. The results have been disappointing. Policy makers who bucked the elites and challenged the narrative have been proven right to do so.

To begin with, highly publicized epidemiological models were as consequential as they were wrong. The model produced by Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London — which erroneously forecast millions of non-nursing home Covid deaths in the U.S. — sparked panic among public-health elites and served as the pretext for lockdowns throughout the U.S. and Great Britain. The lockdowns failed to stop the virus but did a great deal of societal damage along the way — damage that a more targeted approach, seeking to reduce total harms, would have been able to avoid (and did, in places like Sweden and Florida).

Similarly, models predicting massive shortages of hospital beds helped to precipitate the disastrous policy — enacted by states like New York, New Jersey and Michigan — to send contagious, Covid-positive hospital patients back to nursing homes. States like Florida that rejected the models and adopted policies to protect nursing-home residents had comparatively lower nursing-home mortality rates as a result.
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