[Local 10.com] FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Three airline employees were injured during an attack by three women that was captured on video Tuesday night at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
According to Spirit Airlines, the three employees suffered minor injuries when three guests "became combative following a delayed flight."
According to Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest reports, the three women hit the airplane employees "with miscellaneous items, such as phones, shoes, full water bottles, metal boarding signs and fast food."
It happened outside the gate of a flight to Philadelphia in Terminal 4, and you can see women on the video throwing things at Spirit employees and then, eventually, going back to the counter and physically attacking at least one of the employees.
"The victims were also punched and kicked in different sections of their bodies numerous times," the arrest documents say.
The three women arrested are all from Philadelphia:
Tymaya Wright, 20, was arrested on charges of touch or strike battery and petit theft for allegedly taking a Spirit employee’s phone.
Danaysha Dixon, 22, was arrested on charges of or strike battery.
Keira Ferguson, 21, was arrested on charges of touch or strike battery.
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The new aristocracy is just flexing its muscles. Anything they don’t like is systemic racism and white people are all meant to cower for their inherent sin of being successful only through the exploitation and suppression of minorities. These petty princesses were just being properly offended by disrespectful treatment by the dhimmi staff. (Sarc off)
This is where many POC’s they think we are people, and disabusing many them of this will not be easy if you keep kneeling.
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Tasers might cause heart attacks or spasms when they have a weapon in hand and endanger others. Use a New York Transit Police Shot . "You shot down and into the pelvis. You break the pelvis and the muscles pull it apart and cause a whole lot of pain.
[SEATTLETIMES] A 35-year-old man who was shot Sunday night in Seattle’s University District has died, police said Wednesday.
The shooting was reported about 8:20 p.m. in the 4700 block of 17th Avenue Northeast. Arriving officers found a man who said he "had just shot a man who attempted to attack him in a parking lot," according to Seattle police.
The victim was unresponsive and was taken to Harborview Medical Center. The suspect, 43, was arrested for investigation of assault.
The suspect has been rebooked into the King County Jail for investigation of murder, police said in a tweet.
Justified self defense, quarrel between the unequally armed, something else? I can’t figure it out from the report.
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So the attacker is the victim because he died?
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It's Seattle we have autonomous zones you know. People get shot - we call 911 and an ambulance comes and takes the body away. We're new at this it's going take us awhile.
[WSBTV] ALLENHURST, Ga. — Call it a case of mistaken identity. But an eastern Georgia sheriff’s detective said he had never seen anything like it before. A body found by the side of railroad tracks on Tuesday was actually a sex doll, WSAV reported, and authorities believe they might have been set up by a prankster. But it seems she had been raped.
Liberty County Sheriff Detective Mike Albritton said officers found the body in Allenhurst at about 2 p.m., the television station reported. "What's that, over there, Clancy?"
"Looks like a body, Muldoon!"
Adhering to a policy that prevents law enforcement officers from touching a deceased person until a coroner arrives, the officers placed a sheet over the body and waited, WSAV reported. "Don't look, O'Reilly!"
"Why can't I if you did, O'Connor?"
When the coroner arrived, detectives began checking for injuries and realized the body was a female sex doll, the television station reported. The doll was fully dressed and appeared to be anatomically correct officials said. "But... but she'd been raped, Flannigan!"
"Oh, shuddup!"
The investigation was quickly called off, authorities said. "But Chief! I think there's more to this..."
"Shuddup. Where're the donuts?"
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Dead Sex Doll in East GA County!
According to Dudley's account,
He, drunk, misplaced Nell
In the kudzu, and, well...
"It wuz Snidely! My word!" cried the Mountie.
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After working for the railroad for more than a year I found incidents of trains hitting pedestrians to happen more than I realized. This is just in the Pikeville, Kentucky to Spartanburg, South Carolina corridor. There have been 3 that crews have told me about. It's hard on the crews.
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Ditto in my safety training for Roadway Worker permit access to RR ROW - most are suicides and they don't publish unless it's already public (usually passenger inconvenience) for fear of encouraging copycats
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If you do nothing else today, click on the article and scroll down to the first photos, Dad and uh, Man-Man. I don't think a verbal defense necessary.
We seem to have a fair share these perverts on the county missing persons lists.
Don't know about now, but when I was a kid (late 50's early 60's)the male family members usually took these perverts out to the Savannah River Swamp just off Lover Lane Levee rd. Stripped them butt naked and made them wade out into the waist deep or better swamp where they either met the water moccasins, snapping turtles, a gator or got lucky, and quickly disappeared from the community.
We need to also note: It seems this 14 year female gave this pervert her address, open doors and windows and invited him in to their home.
[FoxNews] The coronavirus has claimed the life of an Ohio Army veteran who said before his death on Facebook that he refused to wear a face mask.
Richard Rose III, 37, of Port Clinton, died on July 4 of complications related to the novel coronavirus, according to an online obituary.
His death comes after his April 28 post where Rose said he refused to purchase a face mask amid the pandemic despite expert recommendations to do so.
“Let [me] make this clear,” Rose wrote. “I’m not buying a f—ing mask. I’ve made it this far by not buying into that damn hype.”
You pays your money and you takes your chances. No way of knowing whether the exposure occurred while not wearing a mask.
It’s not clear if Rose suffered from any underlying health issues.
That, too.We know some factors that increase susceptibility, but no doubt not all of them.
According to his obituary, Rose served in the Army for nine years, serving two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“He enjoyed social media, online streaming, paranormal and his two cats Dale and Tucker. He was a fan of NASCAR, Dirt Track Racing, and Georgia Bulldogs Football,” it reads.
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It’s not clear if Rose suffered from any underlying health issues.
but we will dig through his social media, find a statement he made and then insinuate that is the reason he died.
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In Ohio mask wearing is about 50-50. Chances are pretty good someone who wore a mask gave him the virus.
The CDC doesn't recommend masks or 6' social distancing anyway. The cloth many people us to cover their face is ineffective anyway. Paper masks are useless.
(r), it's sad you wish death on others who don't see things the way you do. You post it nearly daily.
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It's all about the odds. Wearing a mask slants the odds in your favor, but there are no guarantees, other than sooner or later, something will kill you.
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Yes, Skid. The mask protects the patient from the surgeon. When doctors are worried about contamination from the patient, they wear higher levels of PPE like a face shield and goggles. And they don’t touch their masks ever. Everyone walking around with their masks on are constantly touching, pulling, adjusting their masks. Ripe for increasing contamination from hands to mask and from mask to other surfaces. I’d argue that millions of untrained and undisciplined people wearing marginally effective at best masks actually increases the spread.
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I wish they gave half as much attention to Grandma Killer Cuomo as they do to people who flaunt their opposition to guidance or boast about how brave and "immune" they are.
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No, Grom. The lockdown is not the only answer. It wasn’t an answer at all. It did nothing except for it’s one intended effect. Kill the economy. Leave Trump dead in the water on the one thing absolutely everyone agreed on or at least could not dispute about him. The economy was great.
The answer is to do what we’ve always done for these types of infections. Sanitize things, wash hands regularly, don’t pick your nose-rub eyes-suck thumbs, cough/sneeze into your shirt or elbow. If you are sick, stay home. If you absolutely have to go out while sick, wear a mask. They do help a little in hindering the droplets expelled when coughing/sneezing. Otherwise go about your life. And let others go about theirs.
We can’t be asked to never catch a cold or the flu ever again. We can’t be asked to never ever contract Corona. If it was really that bad then there would be no exceptions to the mandates. Protesting to go back to work and reopen businesses? Evil. Pure Evil. blm/antifa rioters and insurrectionists? Noble and just. Corona isn’t Ebola. It’s a disease that 99.9% have to be tested to find out if they’ve even had it.
Yes there are deaths from it. But we can’t trust that every one was because of it. We can’t trust any of the “Experts.” I doubt we will ever again. Too many agendas to push. If you wish to wear a mask at all times, that’s perfectly fine with me. But don’t drop your groceries and point at me like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers because I’m not wearing one.
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Aseptic techniques work for you foreigners too. Frankly, I don’t really give a shit what other countries do. Go hide under your bed for the rest of your life for all I care. Just don’t expect me to.
[JustJared.com] The 39-year-old star, who was fired from ViacomCBS for anti-Semitic commentary, took to Facebook on Wednesday (July 15) to defend himself against the allegation that he "promoted hateful speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories." His anti-Gentile white remarks were apparently not a problem, though.
Those count as generally hateful speech.
He demanded "full ownership of my billion dollar Wild ’N Out brand that I created," asking for an end to "the hate and back door bullying" — and an apology.
"I am deeply saddened in a moment so close to reconciliation that the powers that be, misused an important moment for us to all grow closer together and learn more about one another. Instead the moment was stolen and highjacked to make an example of an outspoken black man," he said.
study confused me but anyone who wants to read it - at the link
More on the study g(r)omgoru posted as a comment in this thread yesterday.
[FranceSoir] Long discussions ignited the web and social networks on the role of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment against Covid-19. These exchanges often boil down to throwing in the face the results of various and varied studies. There followed an expert debate on the validity of the study and the various protocols, allowing each to be given the opportunity to advance, with a certain bad faith, their oriented arguments. Indeed, it is always possible to find an argument in favor of the result of a study if it tends to demonstrate the ineffectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, and vice versa.
When its effectiveness is not in question, we talk about its side effects. The reality is that this drug has been prescribed for 65 years (1955). Its side effects and precautions for uses are well documented.
An almost incomprehensible debate for the French
It is becoming more and more difficult for viewers or readers to know where to turn, the debates of experts relating to points of detail so limited that we forget the essentials: there have been deaths, many too many dead and sick. While experts from a certain medical world disconnected from reality debated on television sets, other doctors were fighting with the disease without having the right to prescribe in their souls and conscience (according to the reasonably established state of science medical). The Lancet study will have caused great harm to patients since it was followed by immediate effects such as the suspension of prescription and dispensing authorizations for hydroxychloroquine. The World Health Organization (WHO) decided to suspend the trials or to simply ban the drug from being dispensed. Switzerland did the same around the 27th of May, 2020.
The fraudulent study was withdrawn from the 4th of June, but Swiss patients remained deprived of this treatment until the 11th of June, "The OFSP decided to lift the measures put in place for its prescription and dispensing. The Plaquenil® and Zentiva® Hydroxychloroquine can be re-ordered directly from the wholesaler. ” According to the critics of hydroxychloroquine, these 15 days of prohibition should have had no impact on patient survival, but this is not the case: it is enough to look at the evolution over time of the proportion of deaths among newly resolved cases, only to find that hydroxychloroquine, the only molecule banned within this time, works.
Hydroxychloroquine saves lives.
It was enough the collaboration of three internet users to solve this enigma (see the article “story of a discovery”): the discovery of a strict temporary suspension of the HCQ in Switzerland, the nrCFR * efficiency index of treatments, the observation of a “bump” of ~ 2 weeks in this index for Switzerland, the link with the suspension, and finally the analysis concluding with the statistical significance of this correlation with a very high degree of certainty ( > 99%). All analyzes were made from international data “global time series” “Deaths” and “Recovered” from Johns Hopkins University updated every night.
Peter Izmirly, M.D., from the New York University School of Medicine in New York City, and colleagues recruited anti-SSA/Ro-positive mothers with a previous pregnancy complicated by CHB for a two-stage clinical trial (19 first stage and 35 second stage). Patients received 400 mg daily of hydroxychloroquine from before completion of gestational week 10 through pregnancy.
The researchers found that four of 54 pregnancies (7.4 percent) resulted in a primary outcome of second-degree or third-degree CHB any time during pregnancy in the intention-to-treat analysis. This was lower than the historical rate of recurrence of CHB of 18 percent. Nine mothers took potentially confounding medications after enrollment but before the primary outcome and were therefore replaced with nine additional mothers who were recruited and followed an identical protocol. In the per-protocol analysis, four of 54 fetuses (7.4 percent) developed a primary outcome. Secondary outcomes included one case of mild endocardial fibroelastosis and four cases of cutaneous neonatal lupus.
"Testing for anti-SSA/Ro antibodies is not part of the normal screening of pregnant women, but it should now be considered," a coauthor said in a statement. "One implication of our findings is that hydroxychloroquine could be effective in preventing CHB in newborns of first-time, pregnant women with anti-SSA/Ro antibodies, which could change the way we evaluate all pregnancies regardless of a mother's health."
[Al Ahram] More than 70 rich countries have signed up to a global coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... vaccine initiative intended to ensure that any effective shots are fairly distributed around the world - but which may also allow them to buy more vaccines to stockpile for their own citizens.
In a statement on Wednesday, the vaccines alliance Gavi reported that 75 countries have said they would join its new ``Covax facility'' along with another 90 low-income countries that hope to receive donated vaccines.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported this week that the Gavi initiative may allow rich countries to reinforce their own coronavirus vaccine supplies while leaving fewer doses available for more vulnerable populations.
When Gavi approached donor countries last month, it advertised the plan as an ``insurance policy'' for rich countries that have already struck deals with drugmakers for experimental COVID-19 vaccines.
Gavi told donor governments that when an effective inoculation is found within its pool of COVID-19 candidates, all countries will receive enough to cover 20% of their populations, including rich countries that may have their own stockpiles. It said countries would be encouraged, but not required, to give up any doses they might not need.
``For the vast majority of countries, whether they can afford to pay for their own doses or require assistance, it means receiving a guaranteed share of doses and avoiding being pushed to the back of the queue,`` Gavi CEO Seth Berkley said in a statement.
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Last I heard, those parties are urban legends. Have they found anyone who has attended one? The claim a guy in Texas died after one tell apart after a little bit of scrutiny.
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^Now Rob, based on your experience of human nature, what do you think?
[FoxNews] Some homeless people in Fort Lauderdale who have been living in motels for three months as a part of citywide efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus are reportedly refusing to leave if the state cannot come up with the funding to extend the program that’s kept them off the streets.
Fort Lauderdale began distributing motel vouchers in late April to house the homeless during the pandemic.
Mayor Dean Trantalis said Sunday that funding to keep the voucher program in place has run out, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. A city memo said the more than 60 people at the Rodeway Inn and Suites on State Road 84 in Dania Beach must vacate their rooms by 11 a.m. Monday.
By Sunday evening, Trantalis told the newspaper that City Manager Chris Lagerbloom was able to contact Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office, which reportedly agreed to give Rodeway Inn and Suites the funding sometime this week to keep the homeless guests in motel rooms as cases in the state spike at record highs.
Alexis Butler, an organizer with Fort Lauderdale’s Food Not Bombs, which hands out meals every week at Stranahan Park, said she’s skeptical the state funding will come in time to prevent evictions.
“A good chunk of the homeless may refuse to leave, and we’re going to assist in any way they want to proceed,” Butler said Sunday night. “They keep saying they have funding, but nothing is happening.”
“We’ve got four pregnant women, a blind person, and someone with stage 2 cancer,” she continued. “One man got so stressed out today about having to leave that he had a stroke and was taken to the hospital. We don’t know his current condition.”
Fort Lauderdale initially planned to use $500,000 in federal grants to pay for the first set of rooms for 60 days.
In May, Fort Lauderdale asked Broward County if other cities would help foot the bill for rooms, meals, and case management workers overseeing the hotel voucher program. In addition to the motel in Dania Beach, Trantalis also moved to house more than 100 homeless at an Extended Stay America motel within Fort Lauderdale city limits, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
[AlphaNewsMN] For one day only, the George Floyd body camera footage was made available to view by appointment only at the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis. No recording allowed and no electronics allowed. The court gave individuals one hour to watch the videos from Office Lane and Officer Kueng— each video was each about 30 minutes.
The following has been complied together from extensive, detailed notes I took while viewing these quite revealing videos. In brief, there is over a 10-minute period of struggle before Floyd was placed onto the ground. From the onset, George Floyd presented himself distraught, panicked, and erratic, making it difficult for officers to apprehend him; from the moment he is approached by officers, Floyd is non-compliant — from refusing to show his hands, stepping out of his vehicle, to refusing to get into the squad car. Consistently throughout the footage, a panicked Floyd struggles to comply with basic commands such as standing up.
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For the opposion view check out this from Minneapolis' Fox (actually Faux) News:
FOX 9’s Paul Blume, who viewed the body camera video, reports it is obvious from the start that Floyd was alarmed by having Lane’s gun in his face when the officers approached his driver’s side window. The video shows he is agitated and upset. The gun and its positioning sets the events in motion.
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Mercutio, you did not give us the Alpha News articles’s URL. Please paste in the URL first — before headline or text — until you rebuild good habits. Thank you.
The UK is deeply saddened by the Ukrainian military casualties suffered this week in eastern #Ukraine, including the 13 July tragic killing of a military medic. #Russia must stop fuelling the conflict it instigated
[Jpost] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... will shift part of its Hong Kong office to Seoul, in an ominous move as worries grow that the new national security law China imposed on the financial hub two weeks ago would curb media and other freedoms in the city.
The Times said its employees have faced challenges securing work permits and it would move its digital team of journalists, roughly a third of its Hong Kong staff, to the South Korean capital over the next year.
The move delivers a blow to the city's status as a hub for journalism in Asia, and comes as China and the United States have clashed over journalists working in each other's countries. Earlier this year, Beijing said journalists no longer allowed to work in mainland China could not work in Hong Kong either.
"Given the uncertainty of the moment, we are making plans to geographically diversify our editing staff," a spokeswoman for The Times told Rooters.
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South Korea would be better served by denying anyone from mainland China the opportunity to induce unknown 'pathogens' into their environment. We'd all be better served by moving the offices and personnel from their Hudson river location to Hong Kong.
[IsraelTimes] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will ban visas to some employees of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which Washington is seeking to isolate.
"The State Department will impose visa restrictions on certain employees of the Chinese technology companies like Huawei that provide material support to regimes engaging in human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations and abuses," Pompeo tells a news conference.
[Jpost] China will sanction Lockheed Martin for involvement in the latest US arms sale to Chinese-claimed Taiwan, Beijing said on Tuesday, adding tension to its troubled relationship with the United States.
The US weapons maker is the main contractor for a $620 million upgrade package for Taiwan's Patriot surface-to-air missiles, which the US government approved last week.
Chinese foreign ministry front man Zhao Lijian called on the United States to stop selling weapons to Taiwan to "avoid further harming Sino-U.S. ties and peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait."
"To safeguard the country's interests, China has decided to take necessary steps, and put sanctions on the main contractor for this sale, Lockheed Martin," Zhao told news hounds, without giving details.
[US-CERT.CISA] In response to malicious activity targeting COVID-19 research and vaccine development in the United States, United Kingdom (UK), and Canada, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and the National Security Agency (NSA) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory to expose the threat. A malicious cyber actor is using a variety of tools and techniques to target organizations involved in COVID-19 research and vaccine development. Tools include SOREFANG, WELLMESS, and WELLMAIL malware.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Joint Cybersecurity Advisory and the following Malware Analysis Reports for more information and to apply the mitigations provided.
Here's hoping this the beginning of the end of this trash heap.
[DigitalTrends] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said it had been a “tough day” for the team after numerous high-profile Twitter accounts were hacked in a Bitcoin scam on Wednesday, July 15.
“Tough day for us at Twitter,” Dorsey said in a tweet posted at 6.20 p.m. PT, just a few hours after the security breach took place, adding, “We all feel terrible this happened.”
The Twitter boss said his team is now trying to establish precisely how it occurred, and promised to “share everything we can” once the investigating team has more information.
Dozens of high-profile accounts were hit in the scam, with each one posting a message that offered to pay a sender double any payment they made to a Bitcoin wallet address included in the tweet. According to Blockchain.com data, more than $100,000 had been sent to the Bitcoin wallet via more than 370 transactions as of early Wednesday evening.
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...I have read in other accounts where the hack was in what they call a 'God Mode' account - that is; a fairly high level Twitter admin.
To be a fly on the wall for that debrief...
Mike
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if true, that it was another account with access to these accounts, it exposes a major security & ethics problem at twitter.
an admin account should absolutely not have access to any other account to post things. but twitter with its streak of totalitarianism, i am not surprised.
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Administrative accounts shouldn't be accessible from just anywhere.
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Bridger Walker, from Wyoming, was bitten several times on the head and face
He was injured after getting between his younger sister and a charging dog
Ordeal was revealed in an Instagram post from his aunt Nicole Walker
She said he needed around 90 stitches from a 'skilled plastic surgeon'
'I'd also like to mention here that the dog's owners are really great people who have been nothing but kind to Bridger and his family,' Ms Walker posted
The aunt said some people asked if there was a GoFundMe page for Bridger
She instead asked that people donate to military veteran groups and send photos of rocks to Bridger because he loves geology
[FoxNews] One of the nation's largest churches located in Georgia announced it will not resume in-person services through the remainder of the year after a surge in coronavirus cases.
Senior Pastor Andy Stanley of the multi-site North Point Community Church in Atlanta, which has a weekly attendance of 30,000-plus, made the announcement Tuesday in a Facebook video message.
"Now as you would imagine, that was not a casual decision," Stanley said. "In fact, back in May when we announced a possible Aug. 9 reopening, the COVID numbers were actually moving in the right direction. That has changed. Consequently, we cannot guarantee your safety, and that is a big part of this decision."
Stanley says the "contact tracing" would be "next to impossible" given the seven locations and how the church operates, and he explained they are looking at what other congregations of similar size are doing.
North Point plans to update its online experience and create a strategy for limited physical gatherings, Patch.com reports.
[Jpost] - The new coronavirus has directly caused the death of 9 out of 10 of Italian COVID-19 victims, a study released on Thursday said, shedding new light on the epidemic which mainly struck the country's northern regions.
Since discovering its first infections in February, Italy has reported some 35,000 COVID-19 fatalities.
However, health authorities said many of those who died were also affected by other ailments and this provoked a fierce debate on whether the virus was the actual cause of death.
The study published by the Superior Health Institute and National Statistics Institute ISTAT showed the coronavirus was the direct cause of death for 89% of the 4,942 victims in the sample. Think before you comment, BP
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this is a strange result, since covid has been said to cause the victim's immune system to behave destructively, which leads to fatal cases of pneumonia or sometimes to heart attacks. what exactly is a direct covid death?
does death from heart failure or pneumonia count ?
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Is that what the documents say? Well then, rock solid proof then. /sarc
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Bezos owns the WaPoo. Dive in that connection to the ChiComs and you'll find a myriad of financial interests with the Middle Kingdom by the owner of Amaz0n.
Kind of like the entertainment industry's ownership of a lot of the major media, gotta to protect that cash flow.
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Or, "google" the title.
(how did that become a verb?)
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You like the China Response of boot to the face?
In June, as months of lockdown fatigue crept in, my husband wanted to celebrate his father’s 70th birthday in Marco Island, Florida. Although the thought of traveling on an airplane was stressful, I let down my guard after seeing the curve flatten and multiple states reopen.
In Marco Island, my in-laws, my husband and I were a paranoid foursome who stuck out in every crowd. When we ventured out to a popular ice cream shop, we were horrified that none of the customers waiting in line or the staff serving the scoops were wearing masks. Shortly after we flew back to D.C., my husband and I came down with the virus.
When I told my family in Wuhan, they were in disbelief. In six months, it feels like China and the United States have swapped places: Wuhan, where it all started, has reported zero cases and found just 300 asymptomatic carriers since late May, while some U.S. states are seeing thousands of new cases daily. On Sunday, Florida set a single-day record in the United States, with more than 15,000 cases.
My mother is baffled by the U.S. pandemic response: “Americans just won’t listen,” she would tell me with frustration. She is used to seeing Chinese authorities aggressively stomp out every flare-up of the virus. In mid-May, Wuhan swabbed 9 million residents in a “10-day battle” in response to a handful of new cases. Recently, a video that went viral on Chinese social media showed a woman crying hysterically after receiving her positive test result in a Beijing shopping mall. In six days, contact tracers in Beijing identified and quarantined all 292 people who had close contact with her for further testing.
Even as the number of U.S. coronavirus cases passes 3 million, President Trump has repeatedly played down covid-19’s toll on the country.
As with the woman in Beijing, my first reaction to my positive test result was to feel distraught and embarrassed. China’s coronavirus response has fueled social stigma and made some covid-19 patients feel like outcasts who have endangered themselves and society. In some cities, authorities have offered rewards for self-reporting or reporting others who might be infected. Those who test positive must undergo multiple rounds of testing and remain in strict quarantine under medical monitoring for weeks.
But soon I realized that I didn’t have to worry about that. No one enforced any quarantine, though I kept myself indoors for the period that doctors said I could be contagious. Contact tracers in Washington checked on how I felt every week but did not probe into where I went or whom I met. I alerted everyone I had contact with but had the choice to keep it private. My doctor reassured me that I would not be contagious eight days after my first symptoms and that additional tests were not necessary.
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So wearing a mask is "boot in the face", FG?
As with the woman in Beijing, my first reaction to my positive test result was to feel distraught and embarrassed. China’s coronavirus response has fueled social stigma and made some covid-19 patients feel like outcasts who have endangered themselves and society. ... But soon I realized that I didn’t have to worry about that. No one enforced any quarantine, though I kept myself indoors for the period that doctors said I could be contagious. Contact tracers in Washington checked on how I felt every week but did not probe into where I went or whom I met. I alerted everyone I had contact with but had the choice to keep it private. My doctor reassured me that I would not be contagious eight days after my first symptoms and that additional tests were not necessary.
I repeat. She was trying to be nice. To tell you, how much she appreciates the difference. And what did she get from people here at 'burg: WaPo is the enemy!
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discovered and fixed a previously unknown program vulnerability
Sounds like either a design flaw or a built-in backdoor.
"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids Juices!"
The media has tried to position Zoom Video as an American company because it is located in San Jose, but the founder, Eric Yuan, was born and educated in Communist China and came to the US in 1997. According to le Wik:
"A large part of Zoom's workforce is based in China, which has given rise to surveillance and censorship concerns",
and
"Zoom's product development team is largely based in China, where an average entry-level tech salary is one-third of American salaries, which is a key driver of its profitability"
Maybe I'm paranoid, but anything associated with mainland China nowadays is suspicious from the get-go.
“The science is settled... until it’s unsettled again.”
[USATODAY] The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, according to new research recently published by an international team of astrophysicists.While this estimate of the age of the universe had been known before, in recent years, other scientific measurements had suggested instead that the universe may be hundreds of millions of years younger than this.
The scientists studied an image of the oldest light in the universe to confirm its age of 13.8 billion years.
This light, the "afterglow" of the Big Bang, is known as the cosmic microwave background and marks a time 380,000 years after the universe’s birth when protons and electrons joined to form the first atoms.
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This light, the "afterglow" of the Big Bang, is known as the cosmic microwave background and marks a time 380,000 years after the universe’s birth when protons and electrons joined to form the first atoms.
...Took 'em long enough.
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The scientists studied an image of the oldest light in the universe to confirm its age of 13.8 billion years.
Can someone explain the geometry to me? That 'light' left the point of origin 13.8 billion years ago at the speed of light. All the matter that makes up the universe, that has includes us, hasn't been traveling at the speed of light from the same location. Now we look 'back' and see this afterglow. Somehow the speed, angles, and present location don't add up. Asking for a friend.
[PJMedia] We have been told repeatedly by health experts to demonstrate the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine and the other meds prescribed with it we need strict clinical trials. These are studies where some patients receive medication, and some do not. For many healthcare providers, this is a noxious thought if there is evidence to believe a treatment may work.
How do you ethically deny a potential treatment to an eligible patient to conduct a study? So-called double-blind studies described above are the preferred method advocated by Dr. Fauci. These double-blind studies allow people to die in the name of “science” if a drug is effective. They are in the “control group.”
There are ethical issues with this approach that researches at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center addressed with a new concurrent trial based on machine learning developed following the H1N1 pandemic. This method has been ignored by the NIH and FDA approval processes.
Such was the fate of the hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and zinc combination. Scientifically there was every reason to believe it would work. Clinically, doctors saw results when directly treating patients. Several recommended that the drug be produced in sufficient amounts and given early and outpatient.
President Trump expressed optimism based on studies in France and China, and the media freaked out. The president’s political opposition would go on to cling to any proof the drug would not work and suppress any information that it would. This politicization culminated in the horrific study published by Lancet that the publication quietly retracted.
However, the damage was already done. The World Health Organization suspended trials immediately after the study published in Lancet. Switzerland, which had been using the treatment, prohibited the use of the drug in COVID-19 shortly after that on May 27th. The retraction was so stealth that the ban was not lifted in Switzerland until June 11th.
This window allowed French researchers to analyze what happened in the entire population of COVID-19 patients during the ban. They used the case fatality rate (CFR) as the measure observed. The graph is stunning.
It also the only period where the Swiss CFR approached or exceeded that in France where there has been no use of hydroxychloroquine outside a few isolated trials.
The CFR returned to the highest level it had been since early in the pandemic at over 15%. Upon resumption of treatment with hydroxychloroquine, it returned to below 5%. A statistical analysis of the data:
A statistically significant difference
For those who are not convinced of the observational result, we conducted a statistical difference test by comparing the three periods: May 28th – June 8th, June 9th – 22nd, June 23rd – July 6th . The period from June 9th till the 22nd is that in which the index increased some 13 days after the suspension of hydroxychloroquine. There is of course an effect of delay between stopping the prescription of the drug and possible deaths, which explains the delay of 13 days.
We therefore observe that for the period from the 28th of May till the 8th of June, the index is 2.39% and then drops to 11.52% or 4.8 times more and then drops to 3%.
When testing for statistical significance between the various observations, the difference is significant at 99% with a p <0.0001. 13 days after the HCQ prescription was resumed, the index dropped to 3% and this was again a significant effect.
For those who have forgotten statistics, a p-value of 0.05 or less indicates statistical significance. If the graph is not convincing, a confidence interval of 99% in a statistical analysis based on full population data should be.
Between this information and a study published by researchers in India, it is time for the media to do a mea culpa. Their hysteria convinced politicians in the United States to ban or restrict the drug.
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Till you put teeth in accountability for fake, fabricated, and phony 'news', they'll never really care about the sub-standard quality of their product. They're corporations. They should be treated like any corporation for shoddy products.
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@Grom,
Your shares in medical "research" being hit by the fact the second lockdown won't happen and there's little need for COVID products for the general population?
[Daily Caller via Whatfinger Dumpster] Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity in America has "created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal," according to an article published by the National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC). BUT...
The National Museum of African American History & Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more.
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You forgot to paste the URL in the Source box, Mercutio dear. I replaced the NULL result with what popped up in a search of the text — thank you for naming the site in brackets.
Check out the article. Lots of pics following the text, though the whole episode is very disturbing.
[gCaptain]The fire on board the U.S. Navy’s USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) continued to burn for a third straight day on Tuesday as firefighters battled to get the blaze under control.
According to a Tuesday afternoon update from Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck, Commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3, the ship is currently stable and the structure itself remains safe. However, fire is still active and continues to be fought from both within and outside the ship from multiple access points.
“First, we have investigated the four main engineering spaces and found no major damage. There is no threat to the fuel tanks, which is well-below any active fires or heat sources,” said Rear Adm. Sobeck.
“HSC 3 helicopters have conducted more than 1,000 helicopter water bucket drops, which is cooling the super structure and flight deck enabling fire crews to get onboard internally to fight the fire. Tugs are also provide firefighting support from the waterline. I’m proud of the toughness of the Sailors and Federal Firefighters for making this significant progress possible,” Sobeck added.
As it stands currently, 61 personnel, including 38 U.S. Navy Sailors and 23 civilians, have been treated for minor injuries including heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation. None of the personnel are hospitalized at this time.
“Going forward, the Navy will do a thorough investigation of the incident to include assessing the cause of the fire and damage to the ship, but right now our focus remains on putting out the fire and keeping people safe,” said Sobeck. “I’d like to also thank our partners from state and county as well as the Coast Guard for monitoring the potential impacts to the environment. As we continue to fight the fire, we remain cognizant of environmental concerns regarding the water and air quality.
Sailors first reported a fire aboard the wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) while it was moored pier side at Naval Base San Diego on Saturday, July 12, at approximately 11:30 a.m. eastern daylight time. At approximately 4:00 p.m. the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) and USS Russell (DDG 59) shifted berths to a pier further away from the fire.
Firefighting has been led by the Federal Fire Department San Diego and mor e400 Sailors from 12 San Diego-based ships. The U.S.Coast Guard is assessing environmental damage and pollution prevention.
Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron THREE (HSC 3) has conducted more than 1,200 helicopter water bucket drops, which is cooling the super structure and flight deck to allow fire crews to get onboard to fight the fire. Tugs are also providing firefighting support from the waterline.
Update July 15:
As of 9:00 a.m. EDT July 15, firefighting teams continue operations on board USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), 63 personnel, 40 Sailors and 23 civilians, have been treated for minor injuries including heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation. Currently, there are no personnel hospitalized. Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 3 has conducted more than 1,500 helicopter water bucket drops, which are cooling the super-structure and flight deck, enabling fire crews to get onboard to fight the fire internally.
Photos published by the Navy show the extent of the damage observed so far: [click link for entire article with pics]
Officials believe the fire was started by drywall supplies in a storage area in the lower half of the ship accelerated by maintenance supplies such as cardboard boxes and rags.
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Drywall supplies just don’t seem to have that spontaneous combustion problem, so what was the actual cause? This just cost the taxpayers over a billion dollars so someone should be responsible for what happened? Something stinks here.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[SEATTLETIMES] A 35-year-old man who was shot Sunday night in Seattle’s University District has died, police said Wednesday.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[FoxNews] One of the nation's largest churches located in Georgia announced it will not resume in-person services through the remainder of the year after a surge in coronavirus cases.
[USATODAY] The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, according to new research recently published by an international team of astrophysicists.While this estimate of the age of the universe had been known before, in recent years, other scientific measurements had suggested instead that the universe may be hundreds of millions of years younger than this.
[Daily Caller via Whatfinger Dumpster] Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity in America has "created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal," according to an article published by the National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC).
