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3232Moment Trump’s ‘indestructible’ border wall collapses as Tropical Storm Hanna lashes south Texas
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https://virusreports.net/moment-trumps-indestructible-border-wall-collapses-as-tropical-storm-hanna-lashes-south-texas/#respondMon, 27 Jul 2020 05:21:24 +0000https://virusreports.net/moment-trumps-indestructible-border-wall-collapses-as-tropical-storm-hanna-lashes-south-texas/Section of Donald Trump's 'indestructible' border wall COLLAPSES as Tropical Storm Hanna lashes south TexasA video that went viral on Twitter on Sunday shows a section of the border wall toppling to the ground amid fierce wind and rainThe clip became the target of widespread ridicule as critics likened the collapse to President Donald Trump's…
A viral video purportedly shows section of the border wall separating the US and Mexico collapsing under strong winds and heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hanna.
The video posted to Twitter by journalist Yadith Valdez on Sunday shows construction workers standing by and watching as fierce gusts knock the steel structure to the ground.
The clip became the target of widespread ridicule on social media as critics likened the section’s collapse to the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump, who has already spent more than $11billion building the wall that is expected to cost an estimated $21.6billion to complete.
Some users pointed out that just a few weeks ago Trump boasted that his wall is ‘the most powerful and comprehensive border wall structure’ in the world.
But others users called the validity of the footage into question, noting that its unclear when and where it was recorded.
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A viral video appears to show a section of the border wall between the US and Mexico collapsing under strong winds and heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hanna on Sunday
The video posted to Twitter on Sunday shows construction workers standing by and watching as fierce gusts knock the steel structure to the ground. The clip became the target of ridicule on social media as critics likened the collapse to President Trump’s re-election campaign
Mexican news outlet Debate claimed in an article that the video was filmed at a section of wall dividing Texas from Ciudad Camargo in the state of Tamaulipas.
However, Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff refuted that report in a tweet, saying that Customs and Border Patrol officials told him the video was not recorded in the Rio Grande Valley.
‘Unclear where it was filmed, but based on desert terrain, daytime recording and style of bollards, I’m guessing these are images of a monsoon out west, prob Arizona,’ Miroff wrote.
Regardless of questions over the origin of the video, Trump critics had a field day with jokes about the collapse.
Best-selling author Rick Wilson tweeted: ‘I have a Trump wall joke but it blows.’
Another man tweeted in response to Wilson: ‘I have a trump wall joke but I know it will fall flat.’
‘I have a Trump wall joke but it will fall apart before it’s finished,’ a third man wrote.
Yet another critic added: ‘I hope the Trump Wall is still under warranty. I’d hate to see Mexico have to pay for it a second time.’
Washington Post reporter Nick Miroff discredited claims about the video being recorded in the Rio Grande Valley, citing information from Customs and Border Patrol officials
Regardless of questions over the origin of the video, Trump critics had a field day with jokes about the collapse
Trump has already spent more than $11billion building the wall that is expected to cost an estimated $21.6billion to complete. He is pictured at a promotional event for the wall in June
DailyMail.com has reached out to CBP for clarification about the video.
Hanna was downgraded to a tropical depression after it made landfall in south Texas along the Gulf Coast as a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday morning.
The storm dumped more than 12 inches of rain along the US-Mexico border as it tore through the area with winds of up to 50 miles per hour.
Hurricane Hanna dumped more than 12 inches of rain along the US-Mexico border on Sunday as it tore through the area with winds of up to 50 miles per hour
]]>https://virusreports.net/moment-trumps-indestructible-border-wall-collapses-as-tropical-storm-hanna-lashes-south-texas/feed/0July 4 a do-or-die moment as coronavirus rages in California
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https://virusreports.net/july-4-a-do-or-die-moment-as-coronavirus-rages-in-california/#respondTue, 30 Jun 2020 21:22:01 +0000https://virusreports.net/july-4-a-do-or-die-moment-as-coronavirus-rages-in-california/With coronavirus cases surging in California, the upcoming July 4 weekend is shaping up to be a crucial test for whether residents can reduce risky behavior and slow the outbreak.Data show the current jump in cases appears to have begun around the Memorial Day weekend, just as the state was allowing businesses to reopen. Authorities…
With coronavirus cases surging in California, the upcoming July 4 weekend is shaping up to be a crucial test for whether residents can reduce risky behavior and slow the outbreak.
Data show the current jump in cases appears to have begun around the Memorial Day weekend, just as the state was allowing businesses to reopen. Authorities believe many people resumed social gatherings after months of staying home, and that helped spread the virus. Memorial Day holiday events were followed by graduation and Father’s Day celebrations.
Other factors in the surge include people returning to restaurants and bars, where inspections have found that many businesses were not following social-distancing and health and safety rules.
What are officials doing to prepare for July 4?
Los Angeles County will close its beaches Friday and ban fireworks displays in anticipation of the Fourth of July holiday.
Although it was a “difficult decision to make,” the closures are crucial because so many people gather to celebrate — which could be “a recipe for increased transmission of COVID-19,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement Monday.
All public beaches, piers, public beach parking lots, beach bike paths “that traverse that sanded portion of the beach” and beach access points will be closed from 12:01 a.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. The ban on fireworks displays applies only to the Fourth of July weekend.
“I know how much we look forward to this time of year,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a Monday evening news briefing. “But not this year. This year, we have to think about saving lives to protect what we have in this country … and to make sure our economy doesn’t take more steps backward.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered seven counties, including Los Angeles, to immediately close bars and nightspots that were open.
San Diego County bars, breweries and wineries learned Monday that they will not be allowed to operate, at least not in the traditional sense, starting Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. While restaurants will still be allowed to serve drinks with meals, no one will be allowed to stand around with drinks in their hands after the stroke of midnight.
“If they are unsuccessful in building consensus around going back into a stay-at-home order frame, the state of California will assert itself and make sure that happens,” Newsom said Monday.
He also warned that the state is considering additional restrictions in other areas.
“Let me be forthright with you: We are considering a number of other things to advance, and we will be making those public as conditions change,” he said.
What do experts say?
Public health officials expected the reopenings to push up the number of coronavirus cases — but not this much.
Robert Kim-Farley, a medical epidemiologist and infectious-diseases expert at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, said the only way to figure out how to open is to do it gradually and dial things back if the disease spreads so fast it might overwhelm hospitals later. And that’s what’s happening now.
“Now, we’re recognizing things are going up. So we’re dialing it back down again,” Kim-Farley said.
Dr. Otto Yang, a professor of medicine and the associate chief of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, said he thought L.A. County reopened too quickly.
“A lot of the things that really work to reduce transmission — like contact tracing and even masks — depend on your starting at a low [disease] control level,” Yang said. “It’s back to the fire analogy: If the fire isn’t down to just smoldering embers — if there’s still active pockets of fire — then backing off will let stuff flare up very quickly.”
Physicians are increasingly seeing more younger adult patients. “We’re still getting some very sick patients, but we’re also seeing more young people that have milder cases,” Yang said.
Based on what patients are telling medical staff, the younger people say they suspect the virus was acquired by “going out and socializing more.” He added, “It does seem like it’s either family gatherings or social activities.”
Yang said the protests against the death of George Floyd in police custody do not seem be a particularly big factor in the spread of disease. He cited current epidemiological studies that suggest the outdoor nature of the protests, and that many protesters wore masks, limited the spread of the virus.
Where do we stand now?
The state broke its record Monday for the greatest number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day, tallying more than 8,000. It is the third time in eight days the state has broken a record of new daily cases, according to the Los Angeles Times’ California coronavirus tracker.
A Times analysis found that California is on track to roughly double the number of coronavirus cases in June over those it recorded in May. Last month, there were 61,666 cases reported statewide; by Monday night, there were 114,196 cases reported for the first 28 days of June.
By Monday evening, there were a cumulative 223,000 confirmed cases and more than 5,900 coronavirus-related deaths in California.
Ferrer said the surge is proof — “definitively” — that community transmission has increased, with the cumulative rate of those testing positive for infection increasing from 8% to 9%. Officials are now warning that 1 in 140 residents are probably unknowingly infected with the virus and contagious to others, a threefold increase over last week’s projection of 1 in 400.
That means a typical large, busy store would probably have multiple infectious persons enter and shop every day, officials said.
In addition, health officials revealed that on the weekend after June 19 — the day Los Angeles County gave the green light for bars, breweries, wineries and similar businesses to reopen — more than 500,000 people visited the county’s newly reopened nightlife spots.
Inspectors, however, found over the weekend that employees at about half of the bars and restaurants visited were not wearing face masks or shields. Half of the bars and one-third of the restaurants inspected were not adhering to social-distancing protocols.
]]>https://virusreports.net/july-4-a-do-or-die-moment-as-coronavirus-rages-in-california/feed/0‘Watershed moment’: Will removal of Confederate monuments lead to lasting change in Alabama?
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https://virusreports.net/watershed-moment-will-removal-of-confederate-monuments-lead-to-lasting-change-in-alabama/#respondFri, 12 Jun 2020 14:21:15 +0000https://virusreports.net/watershed-moment-will-removal-of-confederate-monuments-lead-to-lasting-change-in-alabama/Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, during the 2018 campaign, drew criticism from civil rights organizations for running a TV ad embracing a relatively new law protecting Confederate monuments and chastising “out-of-state-liberals” for instructing Alabamians on what it should do with the historical structures.Two years later, its in-state Democratic and Republican mayors, county commissioners and city officials…
Two years later, its in-state Democratic and Republican mayors, county commissioners and city officials who are overseeing the removal of monuments that are a national flashpoint since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. He was killed after a white police officer – now charged with murder – held his knee to Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes, as three other officers stood nearby.
Historians and scholars say the timing could be ripe for the 3-year-old Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017, to also come tumbling down. But they also acknowledge that in states controlled by conservative legislatures – where Republicans dominate the halls of state power — laws aimed to protect the Confederate monuments will likely remain in place. In Alabama, there has been a call to strengthen the law – adding stiffer fines for cities or counties that remove the statues.
The tradition of state legislatures dominating local governments in states like Alabama, will also come into play, they say.
“The issue aligns with Republican priorities and values: opposition to pluralism, defense of ‘traditional values’ threated by ‘political correctness,’ etc.,” said Fitzhugh Brundage, the William B. Umstead professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. “So I think the laws will remain on the books in Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, etc., for the foreseeable future.”
‘Un-democratic’
The laws have been criticized as giving too much authority to state legislatures and leaders to govern monuments in cities where local leaders are combatting vandalism and property destruction from protest movements following Floyd’s brutal killing. According to scholars, the state laws are also “un-democratic” in that they remove decision-making away from local governments.
“The laws have thwarted healthy conversations for communities to deal with their built landscape as a community,” said Hilary Green, associate professor of history in the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama. “They have posed as obstacles and given rise to the frustration seen in the present.”
Said Brundage, “These laws are a rear-guard action to slow and stifle the popular will. Were it not for the 2015 law in North Carolina, I doubt there would be a major Confederate memorial standing in any of the major cities in the state. Although Republicans cannot win control over any of the major cities in this state, they can prevent any change to the commemorative landscapes of those cities through the 2015 law.”
Jess Brown, a retired political science professor at Athens State University, points out that Alabama is a “Dillon’s Rule” state, which means local governments are limited to the powers granted to them by the Legislature.
“This is why the Legislature, from the get-go, was flawed,” said Brown. “Heritage is always going to be different. The subsets of history you want to cheerlead – your heritage – will differentiate from one pocket of the state to the next.”
Mississippi has a 1972 law in place to protect war memorials, but South Carolina’s Heritage law became the first of the modern wave of Confederate monument protection laws in 2000. Lawmakers approved the law at the same time the Confederate flag was relocated from the Statehouse dome in Columbia to a nearby Confederate memorial.
Alabama is one of a few states that issues a fine per violation. In Alabama, fines of up to $25,000 can be charged per violation for the removal of any monument that is older than 40 years.
“My reading on this situation is that Alabamians have realized that for $25,000, we can get rid of this (monument) and that it’s worth the costs especially when dealing with security and the fact that it attracts controversy and protests which means you have to pay for police to be there,” said Adam Domby, an assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston and author of the recently-released book, “The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory.”
He added, “Part of this may be an economic decision in that it’s cheaper to just pay the fine. It’s interesting in that we’re seeing a lot of locations finding ways to get around heritage laws.”
In the aftermath of Floyd’s brutal killing and the rise of the “Black Lives Matter” protests, local government officials are reacting by removing the statues and placing them in safe storage before getting approval from state leaders. The fine seems to be of little concern.
Notable examples in Alabama include:
-In Birmingham, protesters toppled a statue of Confederate officer Charles Linn during a May 31 demonstration and vandalized the 52-foot Confederate Sailors and Soldiers memorial in Linn Park. But before further damage occurred, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin arrived on the scene and promised to the protesters that the city would remove the monument and pay the $25,000 fine. The next day – on June 1, a state-sanctioned holiday recognizing the birthday of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis – the massive statue was removed. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a civil lawsuit on June 2, saying that Birmingham was on the hook to pay for the fine that would go into the state Historic Preservation Fund.
-In Montgomery, once referred to as the “Cradle of the Confederacy,” protesters on June 1 toppled a statue of Robert E. Lee in front of the high school that is his namesake. Four were arrested and charged with first-degree criminal mischief, a felony, but later the charges were dismissed due to legal errors. Talks also are underway by Montgomery County school officials over the renaming of three schools – Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Sidney Lanier.
-In Mobile, the Confederate Navy Adm. Raphael Semmes statue was removed on June 5 ahead of a protest that was being planned for last weekend in downtown Mobile. The statue’s removal was authorized by Mayor Sandy Stimpson. The statue stood for 120 years at Royal and Government streets, but it’s future at that site is in doubt. Marshall has since requested Stimpson provide a clarification as to why the monument was removed, and whether the removal was temporary. The state law does allow provision for the temporary removal of monuments for preservation purposes and repairs. A Go Fund Me account has been set up to pay for the fine, if one occurs. It has raised over $4,000 as of Thursday morning.
-The University of Alabama System’s board of trustees, with the support of President Stuart Bell, authorized the removal of three plaques honoring students who served in the Confederate Army. The plaques are on and in front of Gorgas Library and they honor members of the student cadet corps who defended the campus during the Civil War. The plaques have been in place since before 1920.
-The Madison County Commission voted Wednesday for the removal of a Confederate statue outside the county courthouse in downtown Huntsville. But unlike Birmingham and Mobile, the Madison County officials voted to pursue the legal channels in getting the monument removed. The unanimous vote of the commissioners moves the issue along to an 11-member committee established by the state law that reviews requests to remove historic structures. The group will have 90 days to render a decision. Outside the courthouse on Wednesday, a representative with the Tennessee Valley Progressives held up a handmade check for $25,000, suggesting they could raise enough money for its removal.
David Odom, president of the Tennessee Valley Progressive Alliance, holds a handmade poster that was drawn to look like a $25,000 check to the county.
‘Legislative process’
State leaders who have defended the law in the past have been quiet in recent days. Ivey is declining comment, deferring statements to Marshall’s office. State Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, who sponsored the state law in 2017, did not respond to requests for comment.
Marshall’s office plans to enforce the state law consistently against all violators, even though he’s received criticism for being more aggressive against Birmingham in pursuing legal recourse than against Mobile. Woodfin, a black mayor of Birmingham, is a Democrat while Stimpson, a white mayor of Mobile, is Republican.
Marshall’s office has since said it will evaluate each case as it arises and take action “in accordance with the law.”
In his letter to Stimpson in the Mobile case, Marshall said “it has been suggested” that the city may be relying on working within the state law that allows a city to take “appropriate measures” to protect and preserve, care, repair or restore the monument. The committee, set up through the 2017 law, adopted administrative rules that will be implemented next week that allow “permissible modifications” to monuments that include “any work” intended for protection, preservation, care, repair or restoration of a monument.
Marshall, during an interview on FM Talk 1065 in Mobile Wednesday, said the law includes a provision that “talks about emergency repairs.” Asked about protecting a monument from potential defacement, he said, “It’s hard to fault a city of protecting something they intend to restore back to its prior place.”
Marshall also acknowledged that movement was afoot in the Legislature this session to strengthen the 2017 law. Under SB127, sponsored by Allen, the fine for violating the state law would be assessed at $10,000 for each day that a violation occurred.
State Sen. Cam Ward, R-Alabaster, said there are multiple sides to the dispute over what to do with the law. Republicans, in Alabama, hold a supermajority status in the Legislature.
“Legislators, particularly Senator Allen, are looking to strengthen the act,” said Ward. “Some on the other side want to reverse it and go in the opposite direction. Either way, the legislative process is how it should be dealt with.”
‘Watershed moment’
EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY – An image of George Floyd is projected on the base of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue, Monday, June 8, 2020, in Richmond, Va. The statue has been the focal point of protester over the death of George Floyd. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has ordered the removal of the statue. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)AP
Steve Flowers, a commentator on state politics who once served as a Republican in the Alabama House, predicted very little will change regarding the 2017 law. “Our Constitution in Alabama gives an inordinate amount of power in the Legislature more so than in other states. It’s archaic that a Legislature can tell cities what to do. But I don’t think they will back off,” he said.
But some scholars are hopeful it will lead to their downfall. The laws have been criticized by historians for protecting monuments that were erected decades after the Civil War as testimonies to white supremacy ahead of the Jim Crow era in an effort to thwart advancements by blacks during Reconstruction in the late 1800s.
“When (defenders of the monuments) say it has nothing to do with racism, they are ignoring what people who were putting them up were saying at the time,” said Domby. “The monuments going up at the turn of the 20th century were a way to celebrate the overturning of Reconstruction and African-American (advances). The cementing, if you will, of Jim Crow.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, in a February 2019 report, noted that 1,747 Confederate symbols still stand in the U.S. That figure is down by 114, which was the number of Confederate symbols removed since the 2015 massacre of nine African Americans inside a church in Charleston, South Carolina. That killing by a deranged white supremacist, sparked the first major nationwide movement to remove Confederate monuments.
But that movement also faced backlash by defenders of the Confederate flag who viewed it as an emblem of heritage and regional pride, resulting in the creation of the 2017 law in Alabama.
Lecia Brooks, outreach coordinator at the SPLC, said she believes protesters at rallies in recent weeks following Floyd’s death are recognizing the Confederate symbols for their underlying purpose: A support of white supremacy.
She said that Alabama lawmakers can take action to rescind the law, “and shift the narrative,” or allow protesters to take action.
“It’s evidence where (protesters) are not going to wait for governments to recognize that these monuments/memorials are a painful part of how the systematic issues (of racism) continue to play out,” said Brooks. “We see this as a real watershed moment in a movement to remove the Confederate iconography from public spaces.”
One question that could surface in the weeks ahead is what will happen to the monuments removed. Domby said that some of the statues are not worth preserving, while others could have value at a park or some sort of venue dedicated to historical artifacts.
“I don’t think it’s a fair argument to say that we’ll put them in a museum,” he said. “Some of these monuments are just artistically unimportant. They are stock monuments and were sold for $500.”
He said museums also don’t have space for the monuments. The Birmingham monument, for instance, is a five-story structure.
“Do museums have the space and how do they interpret them?” said Domby, who suggests some of the statues should be put in storage for the next 20 or so years.
He added, “And in 20 years from now, we can talk about what happened in 2020. But ultimately, it’s up to the people to decide.”
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]]>https://virusreports.net/watershed-moment-will-removal-of-confederate-monuments-lead-to-lasting-change-in-alabama/feed/0They didn’t all have to die –
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https://virusreports.net/they-didnt-all-have-to-die/#respondThu, 28 May 2020 00:21:22 +0000https://virusreports.net/they-didnt-all-have-to-die/The first tragedy of America's bleak coronavirus milestone is that 100,000 people didn't have to die. The second is that no one knows how many more will perish before the pandemic fades.
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]]>https://virusreports.net/they-didnt-all-have-to-die/feed/0Shocking moment NYPD officer beats bystander to ground during social distancing arrest
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https://virusreports.net/shocking-moment-nypd-officer-beats-bystander-to-ground-during-social-distancing-arrest/#respondMon, 04 May 2020 04:31:57 +0000https://virusreports.net/shocking-moment-nypd-officer-beats-bystander-to-ground-during-social-distancing-arrest/A New York police officer has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty after shocking video emerged showing him beating up a man over an alleged social distancing violation. On Saturday, several plainclothes NYPD cops broke up a group of people ignoring social distancing orders and dragged a man to the…
A New York police officer has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty after shocking video emerged showing him beating up a man over an alleged social distancing violation.
On Saturday, several plainclothes NYPD cops broke up a group of people ignoring social distancing orders and dragged a man to the ground and arrested him in the East Village on Avenue D and 9th Street around 5pm.
Two minutes after the arrest bystanders began to shout and decry the force used by police , prompting Officer Francisco Garcia to threaten the crowd with a stun gun and shout ‘Get back. Get the f**k back’, according to the New York Post.
Donni Wright, 33, was a part of that crowd and shouted ‘He didn’t even do nothing’ in shock over the cops’ earlier arrest.
‘What you flexing for? Don’t flex,’ Garcia, wearing a black T-shirt, jeans, Yankees cap and a belt showing his officer’s badge, replied before punching Wright in the head.
On Saturday around 5pm NYPD plainclothes officers broke up a group of people violating social distancing orders in Manhattan’s East Village. The outrage and protest of bystanders led to the arrest of 33-year-old Donni Wright
In that social distancing arrest officers were seen bringing a man to the ground and arresting him
Two minutes after that arrest bystanders began to shout and decry the police’s use of force, prompting Officer Francisco Garcia (above) to threaten the crowd with a stun gun and shout ‘Get back. Get the f**k back’
Donni Wright, 33, was a part of that crowd and shouted ‘He didn’t even do nothing’ in shock over the cops’ earlier arrest, leading Garcia to punch him and knock him to the ground
The cop punched Wright repeatedly and forced him to the ground. He dragged him onto the sidewalk where he was placed in handcuffs by another officer.
The sudden beatdown led distressed people in the area to scream and shout even more, but Garcia yelled back ‘That’s right!’
Some of these officers at the scene, including Garcia, were notably not wearing protective masks, which is required to be worn by law enforcement.
Wright was arrested on charges of assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. The charges have been deferred pending further investigation, a Manhattan District Attorney’s Office spokesperson said.
Video footage of the confrontation was shared on NYC Scanner’s Twitter page where it racked up more than 72,000 views and sparked outrage over excessive police force.
‘The behavior I saw in that video is simply not acceptable,’ Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted Sunday.
‘Saw the video from the Lower East Side and was really disturbed by it. The officer involved has been placed on modified duty and an investigation has begun,’ he said.
Garcia hit Wright several times and dragged him onto the sidewalk and distressed onlookers screamed for him to stop
Garcia was seen putting his knees on Wright’s head and neck during the brutal arrest. Wright was arrested for assault on a police officer and resisting arrest but the charges have been deferred pending further investigation
The incident is being investigated by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau and Garcia has been placed on modified duty
‘It started out as a social distancing enforcement,’ Commissioner Dermot Shea on Sunday. ‘I am aware of the video that’s out there.’
Police spokeswoman Sgt. Mary Frances O’Donnell said Wright ‘took a fighting stance against the officer’ when ordered to disperse.
The incident is being investigated by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau and Garcia has been placed on desk duty.
The manner of Wright’s arrest appeared to echo that of 20-year-old Fitzroy Gayle, who was seen on bystander video pleading for help as several officers wrestled him into submission on a Brooklyn sidewalk in early March.
Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the incident saying: ‘Saw the video from the Lower East Side and was really disturbed by it. The officer involved has been placed on modified duty and an investigation has begun’
De Blasio assigned 1,000 officers to social distancing patrols over the weekend as temperatures reached the high 70s
Under the instructions of Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYPD officers set out on foot, bicycles and in cars to break up crowds and remind those enjoying the weather of public health restrictions requiring they keep 6 feet away from others
Jennvine Wong, a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project, said footage of the arrests Saturday stood in sharp contrast to photos and video — including some tweeted out by the police department — showing officers in crowded city parks handing out face masks and gently reminding people to stay 6 feet apart.
‘This certainly isn’t the first time and this isn’t even the first time in this pandemic that we’ve seen evidence of discriminatory policing by the NYPD,’ Wong said.
The police department assigned 1,000 officers to social distancing patrols over the weekend as temperatures reached the high 70s.
On Saturday, they issued 51 summonses, including 43 in city parks. At a news conference Sunday, Shea said he was aware of just three arrests.
]]>https://virusreports.net/shocking-moment-nypd-officer-beats-bystander-to-ground-during-social-distancing-arrest/feed/0Coronavirus: Is this the moment of maximum risk?
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https://virusreports.net/coronavirus-is-this-the-moment-of-maximum-risk/#respondTue, 28 Apr 2020 19:22:38 +0000https://virusreports.net/coronavirus-is-this-the-moment-of-maximum-risk/It seems that the UK is over the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in terms of both cases and numbers. Many other countries are in the same situation. This is undoubtedly good news, but it’s perhaps not as good as many might hope. Indeed, in his first speech after recovering from COVID-19 on Monday, the…
It seems that the UK is over the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in terms of both cases and numbers. Many other countries are in the same situation. This is undoubtedly good news, but it’s perhaps not as good as many might hope. Indeed, in his first speech after recovering from COVID-19 on Monday, the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson called it “the moment of maximum risk”.
Number deaths reported in hopsitals in England aggregated by date of death shows that we are clearly over the peak. https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/
Part of the reason he defined it as such is because the peak that the UK has passed is, in many senses, artificial – a result of the stringent lockdown measures citizens have been forced to endure for the last month. This is not the same peak from the “flatten the curve” rhetoric of early government briefings.
The aim of flattening the curve seemed to be to allow the disease to spread through the population slowly enough that, eventually, a large proportion of people in the country would have had the disease, while the peak demand on the health service was kept at a manageable level.
If herd immunity – having a sufficiently large proportion of the population that has recovered from the disease with immunity to deny the virus the fresh susceptible people it needs to propagate – was not explicitly the stated aim, certainly none of the flatten-the-curve schematics acknowledged the possibility of a second peak. It seemed to be suggested that, at the end of this flatter peak, most restrictions might be lifted and life might go back to normal.
An early infographic purporting to display a flattened epidemic curve. In reality the scale of ‘Healthcare’ capacity is massively overestimated.
This is not what the UK has achieved. It would have needed extremely finely calibrated interventions to slow down the infection rate to just the right degree to keep the disease in check while still allowing some transmission. Most cartoon schematics (like the one above) that illustrate flattening the curve are misleading. The peak would need to be way lower. And to imbue the population with herd immunity at such a slow rate of spread, it would also have taken far longer. A realistic comparison of the expected peak demand on UK critical care beds and the potential capacity is given in the figure below.
Critical bed capacity falls dramatically below the peak demand without intervention. Author created
Far from the inert firebreak promised by herd immunity, the vast majority of the UK population are probably still susceptible to the disease – a tinder box just waiting for a spark to reignite it.
The way out
The reproduction number of the disease tells us how many people a single infectious person will infect on average at a given point in time. If the reproduction number is above one, the disease will take off. If it’s below one, the disease will die out as each new infectious person passes the disease to fewer than one other person on average.
The reproduction number depends on three factors: the transmissibility (how easily the disease passes between people); the infectious period (the longer it is, the more chances there are for an infectious person to pass on the disease); and the number of susceptible people in the population.
The aim in eradicating the pandemic is to alter one or more of these factors in order to bring the reproduction number permanently below one. The infectious period is largely beyond our control (certainly without effective antivirals). Transmission can be significantly reduced by the strict social distancing, quarantine and isolation rules many of us are currently subject to. We have succeeded in temporarily reducing transmission and bringing the reproduction number below one, which in turn has led to a decline in cases of COVID-19.
But for things to return to normal, the only real strategy is to bring down the number of susceptible people. This is the reason why vaccination can wipe a disease out. It effectively reduces the susceptible population. Without a vaccine, though, the only other way to derive immunity is to have the disease. For COVID-19, rough estimates suggest that we need up to 60% of the population to have had the disease to achieve herd immunity.
So although we are slowly descending from the peak of the first small ridge of the epidemic, without the large number of people gaining immunity through having the disease, the mountain metaphor is unhelpful. The laws of epidemic gravity won’t help to pull us down on this descent. If the UK relaxes social distancing now, while most of the population is still susceptible, it runs the very real risk of a second wave.
A better analogy would be to the decelerating influence of a parachute. Social distancing and other measures have slowed the spread to a point at which the impact of the disease is currently manageable. But cut the parachute too early, before the danger is averted, and the outbreak will accelerate again.
The end of the beginning?
Thankfully, the peak the UK has experienced has had nowhere near the magnitude of the peak that would have hit had the virus been allowed to pass through the population unhindered. Instead, it has been brought under control and the health service has been protected. The consequence, however, is that the vast majority of the population remain susceptible.
A second wave isn’t inevitable, but unless the UK can scale up its ability to test, isolate and trace contacts of infected people, putting out each new fire at source, then a significant loosening of restrictions will inevitably have to be re-tightened as cases begin to grow again.
Famously, after a significant victory against Rommel’s forces at El Alamein in 1942, Churchill said, in the context of the tide turning in the Allies’ favor during the second world war: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Although the UK is over the peak of the first wave, in the context of the battle against COVID-19 we still have a long way to go before we draw close the end of the beginning, let alone the beginning of the end.
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https://virusreports.net/marijuanas-big-moment-pot-stores-are-now-essential-businesses-will-legal-weed-go-mainstream/#respondMon, 20 Apr 2020 13:26:36 +0000https://virusreports.net/marijuanas-big-moment-pot-stores-are-now-essential-businesses-will-legal-weed-go-mainstream/CLOSE For legal marijuana businesses, April 20 was their once-a-year Black Friday, when sales soared to lofty heights. Instead, companies are reporting a decline in purchasing while they ponder an uncertain future during the coronavirus pandemic. (April 20) AP DomesticDENVER — The marijuana industry is embracing change.Edible products and pre-rolled joints are out. Vape concentrates and…
For legal marijuana businesses, April 20 was their once-a-year Black Friday, when sales soared to lofty heights. Instead, companies are reporting a decline in purchasing while they ponder an uncertain future during the coronavirus pandemic. (April 20)
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DENVER — The marijuana industry is embracing change.
Edible products and pre-rolled joints are out. Vape concentrates and loose “flower,” which can be packed into bongs or pipes or rolled into joints and provide more bang for the buck, are in.
Stores are effectively closed. Instead, customers order online and pick up curbside, a major shift from when each buyer had to be personally verified by a licensed store worker. In California, stores have largely switched to an all-delivery model.
The country’s burgeoning marijuana industry is working swiftly to adapt to its customers’ needs as the coronavirus outbreak wreaks havoc on the U.S. economy. With business owners unable to access federal bailouts because the drug remains illegally nationally and popular 4/20 events cancelled because of stay-at-home orders, sellers are pushing for new ways to reach customers and persuade lawmakers that legal weed has become a crucial industry for many Americans.
“This is cannabis’s moment to find its purpose and its voice,” said Julie Armstrong, CEO of Montana-based cannabis analytics firm Aurelius Data. “It was the opportunity we never saw coming.”
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The outbreak has brought new challenges for legal weed sellers. Social distancing has required retailers to essentially abandon their carefully designed stores and switch to curbside and delivery services. Statewide shutdowns have also forced the cancellation of 4/20 celebrations, which are usually the highest-sales periods of the year, and the date around which much of the industry’s planting, harvesting and production is scheduled.
And it also appears to have at least temporarily halted New York state’s marijuana reform efforts, which was widely seen as a major step in the road toward national legalization. Officials there appear to have set aside legalization efforts while they deal with outbreak, which has hit New York harder than any other.
But it’s also spurred many consumers to go on buying sprees to cope with the long dull days at home and anxiety over the nation’s mass layoffs and growing death toll, and prompted regulators in many states to declare cannabis shops essential business on par with groceries, gas and liquor.
It’s the “critical service” portion that has many cannabis advocates optimistic that the outbreak has become a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move further into the mainstream.
“It’s a really important point that we were deemed essential: In a sea of chaos, this was one of the biggest moments in our industry’s history,” said Morgan Paxhia, managing partner at California-based Poseidon Asset management, which invests in cannabis businesses.
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Store operators say it’s about time regulators began treating marijuana stores on par with comparable retailers. In Colorado, regulators are even letting cannabis store workers get their mandatory state licenses remotely, instead of having to show up in person at the licensing office.
“It would have normally taken two to five years for lobbyists and legislation to catch up to where California is today,” said Christian Schenk, CEO of delivery company Driven Deliveries Inc.
Industry experts say this could also be the necessary push to persuade Congress to permit marijuana businesses to use banks like any other business, because cash could potentially be a vector for spreading coronavirus. Banks are generally reluctant to let marijuana businesses get accounts for fear they’ll be targeted by prosecutors chasing drug traffickers.
The Trump administration has so far remained silent on the role of marijuana during the national emergency, leaving states to decide how to proceed, so most have either maintained or even broadened access, via delivery and curbside service. Eleven states have legalized recreational marijuana, along with the District of Columbia, and 33 states permit some form of medical use.
Massachusetts stands alone as the only state now limiting legalized pot shops to only medical users, shutting out recreational buyers. Gov. Charlie Baker argued — and a judge agreed — that keeping the shops closed to recreational buyers would help protect public health, a decision applauded by the anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana. Some health experts say consuming marijuana and smoking it in particular could put the user at a greater risk from an coronavirus infection, since it attacks the lungs.
“While other industries are accepting closures as a part of what must be done to protect vulnerable populations, the marijuana industry has chosen to kick and scream at the prospect of even a momentary loss of profit,” said Kevin Sabet, the executive director of SAM, and who worked for several presidents in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. “The actions taken by the industry should serve as a warning to other states considering marijuana commercialization: This industry will do everything in its power to try and bend leaders to do its wishes.”
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An estimated 243,000 full-time-equivalent employees worked in the legal marijuana industry across the U.S. as of January 2020, according to Leafly, an online directory of cannabis retailers. That’s up 15% in a single year.
In comparison, the politically popular coal mining industry employs just about 50,000, according to federal statistics.
Consumers, of course, are driving that growth.
Paul Hartje, the consumer experience director for Denver dispensary Seed & Smith, said business rocketed 15-20% as the stay-at-home orders rolled out, but has settled down to be about 5% above normal.
“People are still stockpiling,” he said.
Part of that may be in preparation for 4/20 celebrations. Denver has historically been the site of the biggest 4/20 each year, but city officials are asking celebrants to stay home. In response, dispensaries are organizing Zoom video conferences complete with live music to help mark the occasion.
That doesn’t mean cannabis sellers entirely have a lock on the market.
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One industry expert said he’s closely watching sales over time because price-conscious consumers may shift away from legal stores and start buying cheaper cannabis from black-market dealers who don’t have to pay taxes or get their products tested as a state lab. They might also, he said, start growing their own.
“People are going to continue to be bored but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be purchasing from the legal market if the price is lower elsewhere,” said Matt Karnes with GreenWave Advisors, a cannabis analysis firm. “It really comes down to price and how competitive it all is. As unemployment rises and times become tougher for everybody, if people aren’t working, they may think it’s time to grow my own stuff, and maybe I’ll sell it on the side.”
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