Unfortunately, with President Trump effectively communicating the latest information on the federal efforts to mitigate COVID-19, more corporate U.S. resistance media have decided not to carry the live broadcasts from the White House task force briefings.
Today at 5:00pm ET the White House will hold a beating for the media and share the latest mitigation efforts against the coronavirus. [Livestream Links Below]
Earlier today New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released initial data from 3,000 people tested for COVID-19 antibodies throughout the state. Interestingly, though not surprisingly, the field tests were conducted on the general public who were visiting retail supermarkets and box stores (WalMart, Target, Costco, etc.). The resulting data falls directly in line with previous CTH analysis of human interface.
The preliminary New York results show a state-wide infection rate of 13.9 percent within the sample. Which would extend to 2.7 million people state-wide. With that infection rate, the mortality rate from the infection would drop to 0.5 percent.
The samples show an infection rate in New York City is 21.2 percent. [WATCH]
(VIA CBS) – New York’s first survey of coronavirus antibodies shows that 13.9% of those tested in the state had coronavirus antibodies in their system, meaning they have contracted and recovered from the virus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday. That suggests that 2.7 million people have been infected statewide.
The survey was taken from a sample size of about 3,000 people found outside their homes, shopping at essential businesses, such as grocery stores, which remain open. Results show antibodies in 12% of women and 15.9% of men, but a disproportionate rate of antibodies in black and Latino New Yorkers.(more)
(Reuters) “If the infection rate is 13.9 percent, then it changes the theories of what the death rate is if you get infected,” Cuomo told a daily briefing.
The survey targeted people who were out shopping, but not working, meaning they were not essential workers like grocery clerks or bus drivers but were more likely to test positive for antibodies than someone isolated at home, Cuomo said. (read more)
The direct result of this survey is that 14 percent of people in New York who interacted with retail supermarket cashiers were previously infected with the Coronavirus; or carried the coronavirus antibodies…
REPEATING – There are few high-traffic businesses more densely populated than grocery stores. In fact, within the U.S. economy retail supermarkets have the highest foot traffic of any business sector in the entire economy; that’s just an empirical fact…. and the coronavirus impact increased that foot traffic by an average of 40 percent. Now, stop and think about this logically & apply a large dose of common sense. Think about human-to-human interface.
♦First, with approximately 90 percent of the total U.S. population penetrating through grocery outlets; and with 100% of that massive number of consumers going through checkout lanes; if the COVID-19 viral strain was as significant as claimed by the worst-case data, then supermarket cashiers would have been the highest exposed profession of U.S. workers in the entire nation. There wouldn’t even be a close second place.
Considering that metric; and considering the overall population penetration & density within the business operation; there has not been an employee-based business disruption due to the coronavirus. Put another way: the coronavirus has not stopped the function of the highest human interface occupation in the entire U.S. economy.
♦Secondly, think about the businesses that are closed; perhaps think about your job that may have been shut down…. now frame your risk based on the supermarket example as highest human interface and highest population penetration in any business field.
If the #1 at risk industry has operated, essentially without disruption and with almost zero substantive mitigation, while carrying the largest population exposure rate, then all other less-exposed business operations would have significantly less operational risk.
Why would anyone be concerned about opening their business?
If you take the factual outcome of the retail food industry as a measure, it would follow that other than a few proximity businesses which may need prudent modifications or remain temporarily closed (ex. modified airplane seating, concerts, stadiums or capacity seating venues etc), then all other businesses should immediately resume operations.
No other business segment within the economy is as exposed to the population as the retail food business; and yet supermarkets operated without issue.
So why shouldn’t all businesses immediately get back to work?
Perhaps a few initial modifications might be needed; but not much, and not for long.
Another painful week as the Dept. of Laborprovides the latest data on jobs and the economy. For the week ending April 18, an additional 4.427 million Americans filed unemployment claims.
Over the past five weeks, more than 26 million Americans have filed unemployment insurance claims.
“Today’s unemployment report shows continued, elevated unemployment claims caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Department of Labor is continuing to provide guidance and support to the States as they implement the enhanced unemployment benefits under the CARES Act, with 44 States now paying the $600 additional weekly benefit provided by the Act.”
“The Department also continues to implement the paid leave requirements of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, and has now initiated hundreds of cases to ensure workers receive what they’re entitled to under the law. As American businesses look to open up again under the guidelines presented by the White House last week, the Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration will continue to provide guidance and support to protect workers and ensure safe workplaces, backed up as necessary by appropriate use of OSHA’s enforcement authorities.” (LINK)
Does the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth also confer the same legal protection upon the coronavirus because it is part of “Mother Earth?”
“On this International Mother Earth Day,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres proclaimed, “all eyes are on the COVID-19 pandemic – the biggest test the world has faced since the Second World War.” He issued this proclamation under the banner “Climate Action” in an attempt to link the devastating health and economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic to the UN’s radical climate change agenda. “We must act decisively to protect our planet from both the coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption. The current crisis is an unprecedented wake-up call.”
The Secretary General is following Rahm Emanuel’s advice to “never allow a crisis go to waste.” He is in sync with Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), a leading champion of the Green New Deal. She tweeted recently that “it’s the right time for a worker-led, mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet.” In an even more reckless remark, AOC said that when faced with the decision whether to go back to work after conditions are safe enough to reopen the country Americans should “just say no.”
The International Monetary Fund has predicted that the global lockdown will create an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression. Job losses are already catastrophic, with far more job losses to come. With a combination of fiscal and monetary policies, governments are trying to rescue businesses that are willing to save the jobs of their workers. But as far as Secretary General Guterres is concerned, only “green jobs” are worth the expenditure of taxpayers’ money. He said that “as we spend huge amounts of money to recover from the coronavirus, we must deliver new jobs and businesses through a clean, green transition.” He is pressing for an end to fossil fuel subsidies.
Mr. Guterres can afford to make such sweeping statements because, unlike President Trump and other government leaders, he is not accountable for the welfare of the millions of people in their countries at risk of losing their jobs today that are tied to fossil fuel energy. Fortunately, President Trump is not listening to the Secretary General. “We will never let the great U.S. Oil & Gas Industry down,” President Trump said on Twitter. “I have instructed the Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Treasury to formulate a plan which will make funds available so that these very important companies and jobs will be secured long into the future!”
The UN’s embrace of “Mother Earth” is yet another step in the direction of global governance of the environment that Canadian oil businessman-cum-radical environmentalist Maurice Strong initiated back in the 1990’s. Strong leveraged his contacts at the United Nations to organize the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development—the so-called “Earth Summit”—which took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. He went on from there to push for the adoption and implementation world-wide of a document that became known as Agenda 21 — an 800-page blueprint for ‘sustainable development’ in the 21st century.
Who knew that a bat has the same legal rights as a human being?
This in turn was followed by Strong’s work on the “Earth Charter,” which was approved at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris in March 2000. One can think of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement as the direct descendant of the Earth Charter. But globalists are looking far beyond the Paris agreement. They are busy concocting the idea that Mother Earth has its own inherent legal rights worthy of protections from the acts of human beings.
The website of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) declares: “Laws recognizing the Rights of Nature change the status of ecosystems and natural communities to being recognized as rights-bearing entities. As such, they have rights that can be enforced by people, governments, and communities on behalf of nature.” CELDF assisted in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth, which was modeled on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. “Mother Earth is a living being,” it says. “Mother Earth and all beings are entitled to all the inherent rights recognized in this Declaration without distinction of any kind, such as may be made between organic and inorganic beings, species, origin, use to human beings, or any other status.”
Who knew that a bat has the same legal rights as a human being? Does the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth also confer the same legal protection upon the coronavirus because it is part of “Mother Earth?” As preposterous as this sounds, the United Nations General Assembly listened to a presentation about the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth and passed resolutions calling for interactive dialogues on the role of “Earth jurisprudence” in conjunction with International Mother Earth Day. The UN Secretary General’s 2018 report on Harmony with Nature defined Earth jurisprudence as “a philosophy of law and human governance in which humans are only one part of a wider community of beings.”
The 2020 “Interactive dialogue on Harmony with Nature” was cancelled by the General Assembly because of the coronavirus pandemic. Earth jurisprudence was on the agenda. Maybe next year, the participants can discuss a lawsuit against the coronavirus itself since the UN’s World Health Organization believes that China, where the virus originated, did nothing wrong.
Calling Americans “non-essential,” is derogatory and uncalled for, akin to Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment and Obama’s disdain for those who “bitterly cling to their religion and guns.”
By labeling many private sector workers as “non-essential” during the COVID-19 crisis, government again needlessly insults regular Americans.
Affixing the word “non-essential” to a human being is anti-life elitism. The message: “We’re from the government and know better than you. We enlightened ones understand, but you the great unwashed do not.”
These mostly Democrat governors in their executive orders are stealing people’s dignity and the right to assemble and engage in commerce. In truth, nearly every business and government agency in the United States was designated “essential,” and allowed to operate. However, businesses involved in amusements and certain retail operations were declared “non-essential” and forced to close. That the overwhelming number of businesses were allowed to open despite the COVID-19 contagion risk creates a double-standard for those engaged in leisure activities. Classifying someone trying to make a living as “non-essential” represents a sick ideology and hurts people’s spiritual and mental well-being. Every worker is “essential” to somebody, particularly when it comes to supporting their families. There are now more than 20 million Americans who have lost their jobs in the last four weeks.
It’s totalitarian for the government to decide what is essential and who is not. The government belongs to We The People, and not the other way around. Ground Zero for “non-essential” workers, ironically, is the government itself. By definition, there ought to be no “non-essential” workers in government because taxpayers pay those salaries.
In our consumer culture, leisure activities and amusements are essential to those who find them essential. For example, as a former Pittsburgher, remove football and the Steelers from Pittsburgh and it’s not the same place. The Steelers are the singular unifying feature of life there. If you don’t think the Steelers are “essential” to Pittsburgh, you haven’t lived there.
Besides waging war, government rarely competes with the private sector in terms of quality. Private schools and hospitals uniformly function better than public ones. One trip to any state department of motor vehicles ought to disavow any sane person of wanting the federal government to take over health care in United States.
The massive shutdown of the economy to combat COVID-19 is now being used by the Left to “re-envision” the United States, particularly taking the opportunity to destroy capitalism and replace it with socialism. One person on Twitter posted that re-opening the country and free enterprise is a “death cult.”
It’s a small leap from being “non-essential” to becoming “obsolete.” How pernicious this thinking is can be found in random internet searches.
From a Wiki User in 2013, “Non-essential workers are those employees that require little or no training and are in positions that almost any able bodied person could fulfill.”
Also from Wiki User in 2014, “The U.S. government makes a distinction between essential and non-essential workers. The U.S. government cannot operate without essential workers like Congressmen and key- (office) holders. Non-essentialworkers are those that do nothing directly affecting the government’s operations.”
These are anti-American ideas and they cannot be allowed to triumph during the hysterical government response to COVID-19.
It has been a month since Governor Andrew Cuomo ruled who is non-essential in New York and ordered workers to work from home and to remain indoors as much as possible to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Here is who Cuomo declared essential employees, those working in:
Health care operations, including research and laboratory services.
Infrastructure, including utilities.
Telecommunications.
Airports and transportation.
Manufacturing of food and pharmaceuticals.
Grocery stores and pharmacies.
Trash collection.
Mail and shipping services.
News media.
Banks and related financial institutions.
Providers of basic necessities to economically disadvantaged populations.
Construction.
Vendors to services necessary to maintain safety.
Sanitation and essential operations in residences and most businesses.
Vendors that provide essential services or products in logistics and technology.
Child care and services needed to ensure the continuing operation of government.
Additional guidance posted by the state added services such as laundromats and animal-care clinics.
That’s nearly everybody, so why differentiate between essential and non-essential?
Which businesses did Cuomo declare non-essential? Those that people frequent for pleasure, like gyms, bars, restaurants, movie theaters, museums, sporting events and concert halls. The All-Powerful Cuomo said his rationale to close these businesses was that they are hubs of social interaction, making them a higher risk for spreading COVID-19 among the population.
In reality, these amusement businesses could have established their own safety guidelines in conjunction with reasonable government standards, which are in short supply. Amusements are essential to the American Way of Life, but we all like different things. Some like Broadway, some Hip Hop. Some baseball; some rodeo. Some read the Bible and want to go to church; others like drinking in a bar and having a good time.
Calling Americans “non-essential,” is derogatory and uncalled for, akin to Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment and Obama’s disdain for those who “bitterly cling to their religion and guns.” All hard-working Americans are essential; there is a word for the Left’s labeling people non-essential: heinous.
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“On this International Mother Earth Day,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres proclaimed, “all eyes are on the COVID-19 pandemic – the biggest test the world has faced since the Second World War.” He issued this proclamation under the banner “Climate Action” in an attempt to link the devastating health and economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic to the UN’s radical climate change agenda. “We must act decisively to protect our planet from both the coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption. The current crisis is an unprecedented wake-up call.”
By labeling many private sector workers as “non-essential” during the COVID-19 crisis, government again needlessly insults regular Americans.
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