Glenn Beck SNAPS Over Democrat Corruption

When will people start going to jail? Glenn has had enough of exposing scandal after scandal, just for everyone to look the other way: Benghazi, Hillary Clinton's emails, Joe and Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine and China...the list goes on, but no consequences are ever paid. So while the mainstream media has called the election for Joe Biden, and insists no one can question it, Glenn gives a rallying cry to conservatives. Many of the over 71 million people who voted for President Trump are split between frustration and an urge to do something. The multiple allegations of election fraud are largely out of our hands, and Donald Trump's legal team must be allowed to go through the process to ensure our voting systems are fair. But that doesn't mean we have to sit on our hands.

I'VE HAD ENOUGH. pic.twitter.com/Kli2p1KY2j

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) November 12, 2020

Pennsylvania Senate Election Fraud Hearing Video

682,770 mail-in ballots entered into the voting system without observation in Allegany County and Philadelphia. 22,686 mail-in ballots were returned on the day they were mailed.  PA sent out 1,823,848 absentee mail-in ballots.  PA received back 1,400,000 ballots yet counted 2,589,842 mail-in ballots.  How does this happen? 8,000+ votes were submitted by dead people.  Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to speak on election fraud before Pennsylvania state Senate Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, will present the campaign's case on election fraud during a Pennsylvania state Senate hearing.  The state legislature controls the election and must certify the results.  Watch Greg Stenstrom's testimony at 30 minutes in where he claims 50,000 Biden votes were uploaded on USB cards.

Wisconsin Had a 143,379 Vote Dump at 3:42 AM

Look at this in Wisconsin! A day AFTER the election, Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM, when they learned he was losing badly. This is unbelievable! pic.twitter.com/nhiLMmyHBn

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2020

Look at this in Wisconsin! A day AFTER the election, Biden receives a dump of 143,379 votes at 3:42AM, when they learned he was losing badly. This is unbelievable!

Now let’s look at Fulton County GA in the last 4 elections:

2008
Obama 272,000
McCain 130,136

2012
Obama 248,479
Romney 133,837

2016
Clinton 281,875
Trump 110,372

2020
Biden 381,144
Trump 137,240

Biden received 100K more votes than any other candidate before him. IMPOSSIBLE

— President Elect Laura 🇺🇸 (@beyouonlybetter) November 19, 2020

Why Trump Will Not Concede The Election

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"Casedemic" Why COVID-19 Testing Is A Massive Waste of Resources

The mantra has been to test, test, and test some more since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, major concerns emerged right from the beginning about the tests being used to diagnose this infection, and questions have only multiplied since then. 

As a rationale for keeping vast parts of the planet locked down for the better part of 2020, positive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) experiments have been used. 

This, despite the fact that PCR tests with high false result rates have proven surprisingly inaccurate and are not intended to be used as a diagnostic tool in the first place because they do not differentiate between inactive and "live" or reproductive viruses. 

Dr. Mike Yeadon, Pfizer's former vice president, and scientific director, also went on record saying that false-positive results from faulty PCR tests are used to "produce a 'second wave' based on new cases,'" when a second wave is quite unlikely in fact.

A positive test does not actually mean that an active infection is present. As noted in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention publication on coronavirus and PCR testing dated July 13, 2020:

• Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of an infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.
• The performance of this test has not been established for monitoring the treatment of 2019-nCoV infection.
• This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.

So, what does the PCR test tell us, actually?

From your nasal cavity, the PCR swab extracts RNA. The reverse transcription of this RNA into DNA is then completed. The genetic snippets, however, are so tiny that they must be amplified to become discernible. Each round of amplification is called a loop. 

Amplification over 35 cycles is known to be inaccurate and technically unjustified, but 45 cycles are set for Drosten tests and tests recommended by the World Health Organization. 

"What this does is enhance some even negligible sequences of viral DNA that might be present to the extent that even if the viral load is extremely low or the virus is inactive, the test reads "positive. You end up with a much higher number of positive tests as a result of these excessive cycle thresholds than you would otherwise have.

We've had concerns with defective and tainted samples as well. German researchers rapidly developed a PCR test for the virus as soon as the genetic sequence for SARS-CoV-2 became available in January 2020. 

The New York Times announced in March 2020 that the initial test kits produced by the CDC had been found to be faulty. The Verge also stated that in turn, this defective CDC test became the basis for the WHO test, which the CDC eventually declined to use.

PCR Tests Cannot Detect Infection

Maybe most notably, inactive viruses and "live" or reproductive viruses can not be separated by PCR tests. 

What that means is that infection can not be identified by PCR tests.   It can't tell you whether you're sick at the moment, whether you're going to show symptoms in the near future, or whether you're infectious. 

The tests may accumulate dead debris or inactive viral particles that do not pose any danger to the patient and others at all. What’s more, the test can pick up the presence of other coronaviruses, so a positive result may simply indicate that you’ve recuperated from a common cold in the past. 

An "infection" is when a virus penetrates and replicates in a cell. Symptoms set in as the virus multiplies. A person is only contagious if the virus actually replicates. As long as the virus is inactive and not replicating, both the host and others are totally harmless.

Chances are, if you do not have symptoms, a positive test simply indicates that your body has detected inactive viral DNA. This will also suggest that you are not infectious and pose no threat to anyone. 

A number of highly respected scientists around the world now believe, for all these reasons, that what we have is not a COVID-19 pandemic, but a PCR test pandemic. In his article 5, "Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics, The Deadly Danger of False Positives," on September 20, 2020, Yeadon explains why it is so troublesome to base our pandemic response on positive PCR tests. 

In short, it seems like millions of individuals are actually found to be carrying inactive viral DNA that poses no danger to anyone and the global technocracy is using these test results to introduce a brand new economic and social structure focused on draconian surveillance and totalitarian controls.

“The test’s threshold is so high that it detects people with the live virus as well as those with a few genetic fragments left over from a past infection that no longer poses a risk. It’s like finding a hair in a room after a person left it, says Michael Mina, MD, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

In three sets of testing data that include cycle thresholds compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York, and Nevada, up to 90% of people testing positive carried barely any virus, a review by The New York Times found...

'We’ve been using one type of data for everything, and that is just plus or minus — that’s all,’ Dr. Mina said. ‘We’re using that for clinical diagnostics, for public health, for policy decision-making.’

But ‘yes’ or ‘no’ isn’t good enough, he added. It’s the amount of virus that should dictate the infected patient’s next steps. ‘It’s really irresponsible, I think, to forgo the recognition that this is a quantitative issue,’ Dr. Mina said.”

Again, medical experts agree that any cycle threshold over 35 cycles makes the test too responsive, as it begins to pick up harmless inactive fragments of DNA at that point. Mina suggests 30 or less will be a more fair cutoff. 

The CDC's own estimates indicate that it is highly impossible to detect live viruses in samples that have gone through more than 33 cycles, according to The New York Times, and studies reported in April 2020 concluded that patients with positive PCR tests with a cycle threshold above 33 were not infectious and could be released from the hospital or home isolation safely. 

Importantly, when officials at the New York State Laboratory, the Wadsworth Center, reanalyzed research data at the request of The Times, they found that about 43 percent of the positive outcomes were removed by changing the threshold from 40 cycles to 35 cycles. A whopping 63% was removed by restricting it to 30 cycles. The Response to Vaccine adds:

“In Massachusetts, from 85 to 90% of people who tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would have been deemed negative if the threshold were 30 cycles, Dr. Mina said. ‘I would say that none of those people should be contact-traced, not one,’ he said.

‘I’m really shocked that it could be that high — the proportion of people with high CT value results,’ said Ashish Jha, MD, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. ‘Boy, does it really change the way we need to be thinking about testing’...

In late August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first rapid coronavirus test that doesn’t need any special computer equipment. Made by Abbot Laboratories, the 15-minute test [BinaxNOW] will sell for U.S. $5 but still requires a nasal swab to be taken by a health worker.

The Abbot test is the fourth rapid point-of-care test that looks for the presence of antigens rather than the virus’s genetic code as the PCR molecular tests do.“

Massive Waste of Resources

As Dr. Tom Jefferson and Professor Carl Henegan noted in an article in the Daily Mail on October 31, 2020, 16 mass PCR research was a huge waste of resource, as it does not provide us with the data we really need to know-who is contagious, how far is the virus spreading and how quickly does it spread? 

Instead for weeks and months on end, it has contributed to economic damage from company shutdowns and isolating non-infectious individuals in their homes. Jefferson and Henegan say that about a month ago, they discussed their pandemic response plan with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and just introduced it again to him. They write, "We encourage him to pay attention and accept it," adding:

“There are only two things about which we can be certain: first, that lockdowns do not work in the long term... The idea that a month of economic hardship will permit some sort of ‘reset’, allowing us a brighter future, is a myth. What, when it ends, do we think will happen? Meanwhile, ever-increasing restrictions will destroy lives and livelihoods.

The second certainty is this: that we need to find a way out of the mess that does no more damage than the virus itself... Our strategy would be to tackle the four key failings.”

Four areas where we are failing as a society area are:

1. Addressing the concerns in the mass testing program of the government 
2. Addressing' the calamity of confused and unreliable figures' 
3. Secure and isolate the weak, especially the elderly, but also general and staff hospitalized patients, while allowing the rest to retain "some semblance of normal life" 
4. Inform the public of the real and quantifiable lockdown costs that "destroy individuals just as surely as COVID-19"

There is real hope if we do these things that we will learn to live with the virus. That, after all, was supposed to be the plan,” Jefferson and Henegan note. "As far as testing is concerned, the pair calls for a national quality management testing program to ensure that reports are reliable, precise, and consistent. 

Importantly, on positive/negative readings alone, we must not rely on. To assess who potentially presents an infectious risk, the findings must be analyzed in relation to other variables, such as the subject's age and whether they are symptomatic. At the end of their Daily Mail post, you can check the full details of their proposed proposal.

Lockdown hazards have been kept out of the public debate 

Jefferson and Henegan are not the only ones who illustrate the fact that more damage and devastation than the virus itself is caused by the global lockdown strategy. In an article in The Federalist on June 16, 2020, James Lucas, a New York City attorney, wrote:

“If we’re going to allow models and modelers to dictate the entire nature of our society, one would hope that the models are as complete as possible. Yet the epidemiological models that have so transformed our world are seriously incomplete, and therefore fundamentally inadequate.

Any medical therapy is supposed to be tested for both efficacy and safety. There have been several studies examining the effectiveness of the lockdowns in combating the spread of the COVID-19 virus, with mixed conclusions.

So far, however, none of these studies or models have analyzed the safety side of the lockdown therapy. In response to questions from physician Sens. Rand Paul and Bill Cassidy, Dr. Anthony Fauci admits this side of the equation has not been accounted for in the models now driving our world.

As noted in an open letter recently signed by more than 600 health-care professionals, the public health costs from the lockdowns — described as a ‘mass casualty incident’ are real and growing.

These models are estimations based on existing research. The constantly changing projections of coronavirus deaths are extrapolations from research on previous epidemics. Yet modelers have no excuse for leaving evaluations of the lockdowns’ massive costs to public health out of their models.”

The Hidden Costs of Lockdowns

How does public safety impact "lockdown therapy"? Lucas highlights the following in his article: 

Research23 by the Veterans Department has shown that delaying cancer treatment by only one month has contributed to a 20 percent rise in mortality due to elevated chronic disease rates due to unemployment, poverty, and placing non-COVID medical care on hold. Research23 Another study showed that each one-month delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer increased mortality by 10%. 

Rising rates of problems with mental health due to unemployment and isolation 

Increased suicide death rates were correlated with a two-fold to three-fold greater relative suicide risk in one study. "A more recent report reports that "deaths of misery" are related to maybe around 75,000 lockdowns in the U.S.

Reduced collective life span is often associated with shorter, unhealthier lives with extended unemployment. A prolonged economic shutdown could shorten the lifetime of 6.4 million Americans entering the labor market by an average of around two years, Hannes Schwandt, a health economics researcher at Northwestern University, reports. Lucas notes:

“If epidemiologists don’t care to take account of this toll, another profession must. A study28 just released by a group of South African actuaries estimates that the net reduction in lifespan from increased unemployment and poverty due to a national lockdown will exceed the increased lifespan due to lives saved from COVID-19 by the lockdown by a factor of 30 to 1.

In other words, each year of additional life attributable to isolating potential coronavirus victims in the lockdown comes at a cost of 30 years lost due to the negative public health effects of a lockdown...”

Education shortages are also linked to significantly shorter life spans and poorer health. High school drop-outs die on average nine years earlier than college graduates, and poorer students are disproportionately impacted by school closings.

Who Pays the Most?

As Lucas pointed out, modelers must therefore decide "on whom those costs fall," in addition to estimating the total cost to society, since the costs are not met equally by everyone. Those who are also the most disadvantaged, both financially and health-wise, such as those living near the poverty line, the chronically poor, individuals with mental illness, and minorities in general, are disproportionately affected by the effects of the lockdowns.

“Contrary to the PR slogan, we are NOT all in this together,” Lucas writes. “We need less insipid pro-lockdown propaganda extolling the virtues of the ‘essential’ workers, and more serious analysis of the enormous public health toll the lockdowns are imposing on them. Otherwise, we may come to see the era of coronavirus as simply the time where pro-lockdown elites sacrificed the working class31 to protect themselves.”

A Pandemic of Fearmongering

An October 28, 2020, article featured by the Ron Paul Institute points out that:

“Ever since the alleged pandemic erupted this past March the mainstream media has spewed a non-stop stream of misinformation that appears to be laser focused on generating maximum fear among the citizenry.

But the facts and the science simply don’t support the grave picture painted of a deadly virus sweeping the land. Yes, we do have a pandemic, but it’ a pandemic of ginned up pseudo-science masquerading as unbiased fact.”

The article notes that nine facts that can be backed up with evidence paint a very different image of the fear and dread being continuously drummed into the minds of naive people. In addition to the fact that PCR testing is practically useless, for all the reasons already mentioned, these data-backed facts include: 

1. "As Dr. Lee Merritt explained in her August 2020 Disaster Preparedness Doctors 33 lecture, featured in How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Inevitable," media and public health authorities tend to have deliberately combined "cases" or positive tests with the actual disease. A positive test is NOT a "case.

Medically speaking, a' case' refers to a person who is ill. It never referred to anybody who had no signs of illness. This well-established medical phrase, "case," has now been totally and arbitrarily redefined, all of a sudden, to mean anyone who tested positive for viral RNA involvement. That is not epidemiology, as Merritt noted. It is a scam. 

2. According to the CDC34 and other research data,35 the COVID-19 survival rate is over 99%, and the vast majority of deaths occur in those over 70, which is close to normal life expectancy. 

3. Analysis by the CDC indicates that 85 percent of patients testing positive for COVID-19 "sometimes or "still" wore face masks in the two weeks preceding their positive test. As noted in the Ron Paul article,36 "The only reasonable conclusion from this research is that cloth face masks provide little to no defense against infection with Covid-19."

4. Examples involve numerous regimens involving hydroxychloroquine with zinc and antibiotics, quercetin-based protocols, the MATH+ protocol, and nebulized hydrogen peroxide, and there are affordable, proven effective therapies for COVID-19. 

5. The death rate has not risen despite pandemic deaths — Data37,38 show the overall all-cause mortality has remained steady during 2020 and doesn’t veer from the norm. In other words, COVID-19 has not killed off more of the population than would have died in any given year anyway.

As noted in the Ron Paul article, “According to the CDC as of early May 2020 the total number of deaths in the US was 944,251 from January 1 — April 30th. This is actually slightly lower than the number of deaths during the same period in 2017 when 946,067 total deaths were reported.”

15,000 Doctors and Scientists Call for End to Lockdowns

All in all, there are many reasons to believe that continuing lockdowns, social distancing, and mask mandates are entirely needless and that the trajectory of this pandemic epidemic, or the final death count, will not change drastically. 

And with regard to universal PCR testing where people, whether they have symptoms or not, are checked every two weeks or even more often, this is simply a futile endeavor that generates useless results. It’s just a tool to spread fear, which in turn allows for the rapid implementation of the totalitarian control mechanisms required to pull off The Great Reset. Fortunately, more and more individuals are beginning to see through this plot now.

The Great Barrington Declaration, which calls for the end of all lockdowns and the introduction of a herd immunity approach to the pandemic, has now been signed by around 45,000 scientists and doctors worldwide, meaning that governments should encourage individuals who are not at substantial risk of severe COVID-19 disease to return to normal life, as the lockdown strategy has a devastating impact on the population. The declaration states:

“Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health...

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to coronavirus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this focused protection.”

The declaration points out that current lockdown policies will result in excess mortality in the future, primarily among younger people and the working class. As of November 5, 2020, The Great Barrington Declaration had been signed by 11,791 medical and public health scientists, 33,903 medical practitioners, and 617,685 “concerned citizens.” 

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Elon Musk is a Great Example of Why Everyone Should Stop Testing

Elon Musk is a Great Example of Why Everyone Should Stop Testing

 

Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020

What is the general population (no knowledge of symptoms) accuracy of a sars-cov2 PCR test & is it possible to generate a false positive if you simply run enough cycles?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020

Tesla creator Elon Musk says that while also testing negative, he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, giving a skeptical view of the validity of the procedures. 

In a series of tweets early Friday, after getting "mild sniffles & cough & moderate fever" in recent days, Musk said he had contradictory results from rapid "antigen" tests for Covid-19. 

There is something incredibly bogus going on. He wrote, "Was screened four times today for covid." "Two tests returned negative, two returned positive. The same computer, the same test, the same nurse." 

Musk, who dismissed fears about the pandemic and fought lockdown orders in California earlier this year, said he intended to take the more precise PCR test that had to be submitted for review to a laboratory. 

In recent weeks, rapid antigen tests have gained ground due to laboratory backlogs, but they are less prone to small quantities of viruses and are more likely to produce a false negative.

Musk seemed to reject fears about the pandemic in March, saying that "my assumption is that the hysteria would do more damage than the virus." 

Two months later, in California, he defied lockdown orders to reopen the assembly plant at Tesla, tempting authorities to arrest him. 

For the first time after a successful crew test flight in May, Musk's space company SpaceX was scheduled to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday. 

For that mission, Musk was in the control room, but NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said Friday that procedure ruled out the involvement at the Kennedy Space Center of anyone who tested positive. 

It is our policy for that person to quarantine and self-isolate when someone tests positive for Covid here at the Kennedy Space Center, and across NASA," he said in a press conference." 

"So we expect that to happen. And, you know, we're looking at SpaceX to do some appropriate touch tracing."

Since October 31, the astronauts have been in quarantine, and Bridenstine did not want to predict whether if potential contact cases were found, there was a chance of postponing the mission.

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25 Conservative "Fact News" Sites You Should Read Daily

1. Zero Hedge
2. One America News Network
3. New York Post
4. The Mark Levin Show
5. The Rush Limbaugh Show
6. Newsmax
7. The Daily Wire - Ben Shapiro Podcast
8. The Federalist
9. Breitbart
10. The Epoch Times
11. Washington Times
12. National Review
13. Townhall
14. The National Interest
15. The Gateway Pundit
16. RedState
17. PJ Media
18. Washington Examiner
19. The Daily Caller
20. TheBlaze
21. The Last Refuge
22. Orange County Register
23. Christian Today
24. Fox News
25. Drudge Report

Only Half Of Americans Likely To Comply With New COVID Lockdown

Here's the data, according to Gallup, based on the poll taken between Oct.19 and Nov.1:

• 49% say they're "very likely" to stay home for a month if mandated, down from 67% who said they would in the spring.
• 18% said they were "somewhat likely" to comply.
• One-third said they would be "unlikely" to comply with new lockdown orders.
• This despite 61% saying they believe the situation is getting worse.
• The number of respondents who said they'd be unlikely to comply is double the rate seen from polls in the spring.

About half of Americans in Gallup's latest polling on the COVID-19 pandemic, 49%, say they would be very likely to stay home for a month if public health officials recommended it due to a serious outbreak of the virus in their community. This contrasts with solid majorities in the spring who said they were likely to comply with such shelter-in-place advice, including a high of 67% in late March/early April.

Another 18% of Americans say they would be somewhat likely to follow public health officials' advice to stay home for a month, bringing the total inclined to comply to the majority level. But a full third say they would be very or somewhat unlikely to comply, about double the rate seen in the spring.

Most of the decline in Americans' willingness to follow shelter-in-place advice is due to a sharp drop among Republicans -- falling to 40% in Gallup's latest polling, from 74% in the spring. Democrats' willingness to stay at home has remained high, at 87% today versus 91% in March and April.

The latest data are from Gallup's Oct. 19-Nov. 1 probability-based panel survey tracking Americans' attitudes and behaviors related to the pandemic. The online Gallup Panel survey encompassed a period of rising COVID-19 cases across the country, with 31 states experiencing their highest one-day new infection rates thus far.

Relatively few Americans (29%) during this period thought their own area was "very likely" to experience a surge of coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, while another 40% considered it somewhat likely.

One significant change since April that may explain why Americans are now less likely to say they would go into home lockdown is that they have greater confidence in their ability to protect themselves from being infected by the coronavirus when out in public.

The percentage of feeling very or somewhat confident in their ability to avoid infection rose from 68% in mid-April to 82% in June and has since remained at that level.

Trump News Network (TNN) To Take on Fox News?

President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.

The state of play: Some Trump advisers think Fox News made a mistake with an early call (seconded by AP) of President-elect Biden's win in Arizona. That enraged Trump, and gave him something tangible to use in his attacks on the network.

"He plans to wreck Fox. No doubt about it," said a source with detailed knowledge of Trump's intentions.

With loyal viewers and longtime dominance, Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said on a Nov. 3 earnings call:

"We love competition. We have always thrived in competition. ... Fox News has been the number one network, including broadcast networks, ... from Labor Day through to Election Day."

Here's Trump's plan, according to the source:

There's been lots of speculation about Trump starting a cable channel. But getting carried on cable systems would be expensive and time-consuming.

Instead, Trump is considering a digital media channel that would stream online, which would be cheaper and quicker to start.

Trump's digital offering would likely charge a monthly fee to MAGA fans. Many are Fox News viewers, and he'd aim to replace the network — and the $5.99-a-month Fox Nation streaming service, which has an 85% conversion rate from free trials to paid subscribers — as their top destination.

Trump's database of email and cellphone contacts would be a huge head start.

Trump's lists are among the most valuable in politics — especially his extensive database of cellphone numbers for text messages.

Axios is told Trump may use vote-count rallies to undercut Fox.

"He's going to spend a lot of time slamming Fox," the source said.

Trump has increasingly complained that Fox News interviews more Democrats than it used to. He has needled the network by promoting other conservative outlets, including One America News and Newsmax.

"Fox has changed a lot," Trump said during the most recent interview he has given anywhere, with "Fox & Friends" on Election Day. "Somebody said: What's the biggest difference between this and four years ago? And I say Fox."

"I'm not complaining — I'm just telling people," Trump added. "It's one of the biggest differences this season compared to last."

Black Market for Negative COVID-19 tests

As more countries need travelers to prove their negative status before joining, a black market for negative COVID-19 tests has emerged across the globe, a study said Wednesday. 

In France, seven people were arrested at Charles de Gaulle International Airport last week for allegedly hawking doctor-detected coronavirus tests, 

The Associated Press announced. For the fake checks, the perpetrators, who were not named, were fined up to $360. After discovering a man bound for Ethiopia with a fake examination, authorities tracked the ring down, according to the article. 

If convicted, the suspected scammers face up to five years imprisonment. In South America, four tourists who gave fake tests were detained by Brazilian officials after they flew into an island chain off the country's coast that allows travelers to demonstrate negative test results.

In England, a man told a local newspaper that he was able to travel to Pakistan by using a friend’s negative COVID-19 test and changing his name.

“You can simply get their negative test and change the name and birthdate to your own. You also put a test date on which is within the time limit required,” the man, who didn’t want to be named, told the Lancashire Telegraph.

“You download the email, change it and then print it,” said.

He added that he went to the lengths because he couldn’t get a test that he needed to travel because he’s not an essential worker.

“People are doing this as you can’t get a Covid test if you have to travel to Pakistan in case of an emergency. It is difficult to get one unless you are a key worker,” he said.

Electoral College Projections Amid Pending Recounts & Legal Challenges

Projections Based on Pending Recounts & Legal Challenges

Wisconsin  

• Top Election Official Says ‘No Evidence’ of ‘Systemic or Widespread’ Issues 
• Elections Panel Guidance Led Clerks to Fill Out Witness Addresses, Contrary to State Law

Michigan: 

• Trump Campaign Announces 2nd Lawsuit in Michigan
• Trump Lawsuit Alleges Rampant Violations at Detroit Vote Counting Center

Pennsylvania

• Kayleigh McEnany: Trump in ‘Great Spirits,’ Lawsuits Likely Will Make It to the Supreme Court
• Trump Campaign: Pennsylvania Lawsuit Will ‘Prevail’

Georgia

• Trump Campaign: Georgia Recount Step in ‘Methodical’ Path to Reelection
• Trump Campaign Says There Is Evidence That Dead People Voted in Georgia

Nevada

• Trump Campaign Dismisses Its Appeal to Nevada Supreme Court
• Nevada Secretary of State Issues Statement on Voter Fraud Allegations

Arizona

• Arizona Congresswoman Says Trump Should Not Concede
• Trump Gains on Biden in Arizona in Latest Ballot Count

It Was Never About The Virus

 The Coronavirus enabled massive voter fraud in the election through mail-in ballots. 

How Many Votes Were Stolen on Election Night?

The 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host says he doesn't know how many votes were stolen on election night but does know the system is not fair. 

The polls leading up to the 2020 election were "demonstrably" wrong and "nearly all their mistakes helped Joe Biden," Tucker Carlson argued Monday night.

The Real Clear Politics polling average had the former vice president ahead in national polls by 7.2% in the popular vote and the final Quinnipiac poll had him up 11% over President Trump, however, his current lead is just over 3%.

"None of these errors were limited to one polling outfit. Most of the polls were way off. It's not just annoying, it's significant," the "Tucker Carlson Tonight" host said.

"Bad polling has an effect, a big effect at many levels. ... It's significant. Research shows that polls influence voting behavior," Carlson said.

"We don't know how many votes were stolen on Tuesday night. We don't know anything about the software that many say was rigged. We don't know. We ought to find out, but here's what we do know. On a larger level, at the highest levels, actually, our system isn't what we thought it was. It's not as fair as it should be. Not even close. Sorry. Hate to say that," he concluded.

How much voter fraud was committed? 

CNN Was Actually Honest For Once on Election Results

“The most likely scenario” I said, three weeks ago was that on election night, Trump would be ahead in a majority of states--but that over the next few days, the numbers could shift in Biden’s favor. That is exactly where we are. pic.twitter.com/3jjYAt9Woj

— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) November 4, 2020

Why Mail-In Election Voter Fraud Is Mathematically Obvious?

Rudy Giuliani and Trump's lawyers hold press conference in Philadelphia

Rudy Giuliani's Greatest Corruption Speech Ever!

"MASSIVE FRAUD" Rudy Giuliani Says Major LAWSUITS Will Be Happening

We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won’t allow legal observers) the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, each one of which has a BIG Trump lead. Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact,.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020

Our lawyers have asked for “meaningful access”, but what good does that do? The damage has already been done to the integrity of our system, and to the Presidential Election itself. This is what should be discussed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020

Trump's Lead of 8% in Michigan Vanishes Overnight?

Mail-in voter fraud in Michigan seems to be happening.   

Ballot dumps behind the lead change?

How much of this was voter fraud?

Nothing to see here! Friends we are all over this... https://t.co/5dopTSjZfx

— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) November 4, 2020

How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2020

WI: Trump is +100k, but there are 700k votes still to count
PA: Trump is +700k, but 1.8m to count
MI: Trump is +300k, but 1.8m to count
NC: Trump is +77k, but 300k to count
GA: Trump is +100k, but 450k to count

Keep in mind, those are mostly early/mail votes that favor Biden.

— SovernNation (@SovernNation) November 4, 2020

Compilation of Biden Videos Making a Fool of Himself on Campaign

Sleepy Joe Biden MEME's (LOL Biden Gaffes Compilation)

 

Biden makes more gaffes and we have more laughs. Here's a compilation of Joe Biden making a fool of himself on the campaign trail. He also brought special guests with him like Obama. Watch this Funny and hilarious nonsense and make sure to subscribe!

Twitter Hides Trump Tweet on Supreme Court’s PA Ballot Decision

President Trump challenged the boundaries of Twitter's election-specific policies Monday night in an election-eve preview of what to expect in the coming days. 

In a tweet, Trump railed against the decision of the Supreme Court to allow Pennsylvania officials to count Election Day postmarked ballots. In recent weeks, the Republican Party has waged a blatant legal onslaught against voting rights across key states, a cynical effort aimed at boosting the reelection prospects of the sitting president. 

Twitter pushed back on the President's false argument about mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, hiding it behind a notice of disinformation that calls the tweet "disputed." Twitter also disabled non-quote retweets, likes, and responses to the secret tweet, which remains visible but restricted.

Trump tweeted, "The Supreme Court ruling on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one." It will allow for widespread and unregulated cheating and will destroy all of our legal systems. In the streets, it will also cause violence. There must be something done! The reposted message was not deleted by Facebook, but a mark highlighting the reliability of voting systems was added. 

63,000 likes and 13,000 comments were obtained from Trump's Facebook post three hours after it was released.

The Supreme Court decision on voting in Pennsylvania is a VERY dangerous one. It will allow rampant and unchecked cheating and will undermine our entire systems of laws. It will also induce violence in the streets. Something must be done!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2020

Twitter is literally a worldwide platform for Free Speech but because the person in control of this platform doesn't like your speech, he blocks or censors that even if there's no slurs or profanity used.. the CEO should be paying the price for this... There should be serious penalties for denying people free speech because they don't believe in the same things as they do politically. Deparment of Homeland Security should raid Twitter.

Court Declares Gov. Newsom’s Abuse of Power Unconstitutional

Judge issues injunction restraining the Gov. from any more unconstitutional orders

As the California Globe has reported for several months, California Assemblymen Kevin Kiley and James Gallagher sued to stop the "one-man rule" of California Governor Gavin Newsom. On October 21st, they were in Sutter County Superior Court, alleging that Gov. Gavin Newsom abused his emergency powers in issuing Executive Orders that had nothing to do with the pandemic coronavirus crisis. 

On Monday, in their abuse of power case against Governor Newsom, State Supreme Court Judge Sarah Heckman tentatively ruled in favor of Gallagher (R-Yuba City) and Kiley (R-Rocklin). 

Judge Heckman ruled unconstitutional the Governor's latest Executive Order N-67-20 in the preliminary decision. More significantly, the preliminary decision of Judge Heckman puts a permanent injunction on the Governor that prohibits him from making or modifying state law unilaterally.

Assemblyman Kiley wrote:

The Judge ruled Newsom violated the Constitution. She also issued an injunction restraining the Governor from issuing any more unconstitutional orders. You can read the ruling here.

This marks an end to Gavin Newsom’s one-man rule. It makes clear that the laws of the State of California do not countenance an autocracy under any circumstances – not for a single day, and certainly not for eight months with no end in sight.

The ruling is “tentative,” meaning Newsom has a few days to try to persuade the Judge to change her mind, but it’s rare for a tentative ruling to change. While Newsom can appeal, we are confident the decision is on solid legal ground and will stand.

Kiley and Gallagher claim that the Constitution of California has an explicit clause of separation-of-powers that Gov. Newsom has violated. "The Governor of California is legally barred from doing the very thing that Gov. Newsom did here: exercising legislative authority," they said. 

The Executive Order of Gov. Newsom to create an all-vote-by-mail-poll suspends and significantly alters the Election Code of California. Gov. Newsom claims that the order "fits well within the limited grant of authority by the Governor under the Emergency Services Act." 

"The lawyers of Gov. Newsom claimed that the governor has the" plenary "authority during a declared State of Emergency and under the California Emergency Services Act (CESA), along with" strong police powers.

In her ruling, Judge Heckman explains: 

The Governor takes the position the California Emergency Services Act’s grant of authority to exercise “all police power vested in the state,” allowing him to “promulgate, issue, and enforce such orders and regulations as he deems necessary” authorizes him to legislate by unilaterally amending existing statutory law. Not only is this an active and ongoing controversy between the parties, but it is a critically important one for the Judicial Branch to resolve.

The Governor has issued three executive orders during the current state of emergency specifically regarding the November 3,2020 general election (Def. Exs. 4 and 5; Pl. Ex. D) and has issued more than 50 different executive orders changing numerous Califomia statutes since the state of emergency was declared. (Pl. Ex. F) Further, despite representations by the Governor’s legal counsel that Executive Order N-67- 20 dated June 3,2020 is “withdrawn,” there is no evidence it has been formally rescinded, and the Executive Order includes provisions controlling the election process for the November 3, 2020 General Election which were not superseded by the subsequently enacted legislation.

Specifically, despite the subsequent legislation, the Executive Order remained in effect requiring all county election officials to use the Secretary of State’s barcode tracking system for all mail ballots and altered the statutorily required outreach in Voter’s Choice Act counties to provide noticed, public meetings allowing for public comment on voting access for California voters with disabilities or limited English proficiency.

Judge Heckman also found “The plain meaning of the CESA does not delegate to the Governor the power to legislate, and therefore does not violate the separation of powers under California Constitution.”

Importantly, Judge Heckman did rule “On the issue of whether Executive Order N.67-20 was authorized by the California Emergency Services Act, the court finds the executive order was NOT authorized by the CESA because it improperly amended existing statutory law, exceeding the governor’s authority and violating the separation of powers.” 

The judge explains:

The CESA allows the Governor, during a state of emergency, to issue orders and regulations and to suspend certain statutes, but the plain and unambiguous language of CESA does not permit the Governor to amend statutes or make new statutes. The Governor does not have the power or authority to assume the Legislature’s role of creating legislative policy and enactments. Because Executive Order N-67-20 amended sections of the Elections Code it exceeds the Governor’s authority under CESA and renders Executive Order N-67-2O invalid.

Kiley and Gallagher claimed that, unless allowed by the Constitution, the governor could not exercise legislative authority, while the governor's lawyers argued, "Making orders is what it says," and that the legislature was responsible for overriding the orders of the governor. 

In court, Gallagher and Kiley argued that there is a very clear difference in the emergency powers of the California Governor when it relates to legislation: he does not enact regulations or new laws, but the emergency powers allow the Governor to override legislation that is a roadblock to decision-making during the emergency. If it is getting in the way of promoting emergency operations, he may suspend any regulatory law.

It appears Judge Heckman agreed with them: 

The Court finds good cause to issue a permanent injunction consistent with the request set forth in paragraph 2l of plaintiffs’ complaint (Def. Ex. l), as follows: 8 Gavin Newsom, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of California is enjoined and prohibited from exercising any power under the California Emergency Services Act (Government Code $ 8550 et seq.) which amends, alters, or changes existing statutory law or makes new statutory law or legislative policy.

“Nobody disputes that there are actions that should be taken to keep people safe during an emergency. But that doesn’t mean that we put our Constitution and free society on hold by centralizing all power in the hands of one man,” Gallagher and Kiley said in a press statement.

The Court’s decision does not impact any of the election protocols for the 2020 election.

California Globe was the only Capitol media present at the trial. 

Fake Election Polls are Not Counting Silent Trump Voters

2016 Trump Consistently Outperformed Polls in the Key States

WE THINK THESE POLLING ERRORS ARE EVEN STRONGER IN 2020

Despite national and statewide polls showing President Donald Trump trailing against Joe Biden, the president is reassuring his supporters not to fear, he has a secret weapon: A huge “silent majority” who will turn out on November 3 to bring Trump landslide re-election and prove the “fake” polls wrong, he has said.

So, who are these silent Trump supporters he’s promising will come out in droves on November 3, and do they really exist?

Republican party leaders and strategists have said there are plenty of Trump voters out there, they just aren’t speaking up publicly about their support for the president at a time when the political discourse in America is so divisive.

“I think it’s as true as saying the sky is blue,” said George Seay, a political strategist who has worked on several high-profile Texas GOP campaigns, including Sen. Mark Rubio and Gov. Greg Abbott. 

“I wouldn’t call it the silent majority per se, but there are a significant number of people who either don’t respond to polls or they won’t reveal that they will vote for Trump because they fear what other people are going to think,” Seay said.

In an atmosphere of the so-called “cancel culture” and political correctness, many Trump supporters may even lie about their support when responding to pollsters, Seay said.

It may be too early to tell, given that in 2016, many voters in swing states such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida decided on their vote just days before the election, partly contributing to the pre-election poll discrepancies in 2016, according to post-election analysis by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, or AAPOR.

Republican statements that Trump supporters are too afraid to go public, “sounds like adventures in strategic storytelling,” said Kevin Banda, an assistant professor of political science at Texas Tech Univesity.

The term “silent majority” was originally used by Richard Nixon, who was elected in 1969 on a platform that emphasized “law and order” during a time of civil unrest in the U.S. over the Vietnam War and civil rights. By calling on the “silent majority” to support him, Nixon tried to appeal to those voters who had not participated in anti-war demonstrations across the country. 

The Trump Campaign has more ENTHUSIASM, according to many, than any campaign in the history of our great Country - Even more than 2016. Biden has NONE! The Silent Majority will speak on NOVEMBER THIRD!!! Fake Suppression Polls & Fake News will not save the Radical Left.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2020

How Many Years Will It Take Businesses To Fully Recover?

Estimates Are Based on a muted and contained virus scenarios

1. Arts, entertainment, and recreation
2. Hotels and food services
3. Educational services
4. Transportation and warehousing
5. Manufacturing 
6. Mining, quarrying, oil & gas extraction
7. Wholesale trade
8. Administrative and support services
9. Utilities 
10. Finance and Insurance
11. Construction 
12. Retail Trade
13. Management of companies and enterprises
14. Real estate, rental, and leasing
15. Professional, scientific and technical services. 
16. Information services
17. Healthcare and social assistance 

12 Ways COVID is Changing Business Both Positive & Negative

Covid is going to change business in many ways that are positive and negative.  Here are the top 10

1. Meeting structures and changes
2. How leaders lead day-to-day
3. Use of technology and systems 
4. Core processes and how the company is run
5. Approach to talent and skills training
6. New cultural aspiration and behaviors/mindsets
7. Approach to innovation 
8. Decision making and how business is organized
9. Interactions with external stakeholders
10. Product and service portfolio
11. Partnerships and the broader ecosystem 
12. Corporate purpose

Here is the full report from McKinsey & Company. 

Why Are So Many People Agreeing to Get COVID Tests?

If people stopped getting tested for the virus, the positive case numbers would go down and the media would have less ammunition to fear-monger. 

My genuine question to those of you that are getting tested: Why are you getting tested given that the tests are: 1) Incredibly inaccurate. 2) The government is keeping a database of 'positive' people.

There are some workplaces that require it, and schools/universities, of course! Lots of people, particularly students, don't have a choice. There are also hypochondriacs getting tested over and over, and anyone who blows off contact tracers is assumed to be positive.

What is scary to me is the number of states (New York being the largest and most recent) to mandate being tested for traveling. This horrific practice may be more of a freedom threat than masks. Not even lord Newsom and daddy Inslee or even Whitmer have mandated such garbage. First, it will be a few states, then all flights, then all travel. I think more resistance to this needs to happen. 

I will not get tested unless they test me by force. 

Covid testing is also becoming a big business and makes me even more skeptical. 

Elon Musk is a Great Example of Why Everyone Should Stop Testing

Why I Have a Right Not To Wear A Mask

Majority of Spanish Flu Deaths Were From Secondary Bacteria! 

I don’t believe in masks outdoors and I wear one indoors reluctantly or on an airplane.  If you want to wear it fine, but at least - I beg you - take proper hygiene when it comes to wearing them. Many people wear one mask for days, even weeks! They don’t wash them. 

This virus is definitely real though the deadliness is very much overblown, masks should be an individual choice and not a mandate, and our elected officials are relishing this opportunity to become very oppressive.

The deadliness is overblown, but the long term effects are not. Make no mistake, this disease is nothing to laugh at. It's more serious than the 2009 swine flu, which was equally nothing to laugh at- it killed a lot of people, but we didn't shut down society for it, and we shouldn't shut down society for COVID. 

The shutdowns cause far more damage than the virus will. It's tyranny and oppression, plain and simple. People can take care of themselves. Trying to impose centralized control over millions of people goes about as well as historically you'd expect it to.

In the long run, those who wear them for an extended period of time will have even more issues with their health, breathing, and bacteria. Many get acne because of all those toxins created by the limitation of breathing coming outside. 

They look dumb, make breathing hard and your glasses fog up.  I’d be a hypocrite to say “ban masks” when I agree with “everyone has a right to do whatever they want” but my general opinion is - yes I’m against them and if anything id rather have a world with no sight of them.

Wearing a mask outdoors isn't necessary! 

Did The News Stage "Fake Patients” In Coronavirus Testing Line in Grand Rapids, MI

Michigan Health Center Workers Stage “Fake Patients” In COVID19 Testing Line For News

CBS News Accused of Using Fake Footage in Coronavirus Testing Report

CBS denies faking scene of crowded Michigan testing clinic alleged in Project Veritas sting

TV network CBS News has been accused by right-wing activist group Project Veritas of using a staged shot to exaggerate how bad the coronavirus pandemic has hit Michigan. Footage of a long line of cars, apparently waiting to get coronavirus tests at Cherry Medical Center in Grand Rapids, was used in a CBS This Morning series on testing in Michigan, which accused the state’s health system of “fail[ing] some of its people.” However, Project Veritas said the CBS News crew got hospital staff to line up in their cars so it looked busier. The claim is based on an interview with an anonymous hospital “insider” who approached Project Veritas with information on the CBS shoot, and other hospital staff who are named in the clip but appear to have been filmed covertly by the “insider” discussing the staged shot.

In a statement to Project Veritas, CBS News accused Cherry Health of adding staff to the queue without their knowledge, and said the Cherry Health portion of the report would be removed. CBS This Morning admitted last month that they mistakenly used footage of an overflowing Italian hospital ward in a report on New York hospitals.

Here is the fake staging line below.

Comparing Flu, COVID, Allergies & Cold Symptoms

Differences between allergies, cold, flu, and coronavirus

Body aches, cough, diarrhea, fatigue, fever, headache, taste or smell, breathing, sore throat. 

 As the U.S. continues grappling with significant spikes in coronavirus cases, the country is now also facing flu season (from roughly November through February). To make matters worse, it’s next to impossible to distinguish the two illnesses, according to one expert.

The symptoms for coronavirus and the flu virus are largely similar. Both involve a fever, body aches, and chills, and both can cause pneumonia, a serious lung infection. Both are infectious and potentially lethal, though COVID-19 — the disease caused by coronavirus — seems to be much more infectious and deadly.

Some of the key differences include how many COVID-positive patients lose their sense of taste and smell and that many are often asymptomatic but still pass the virus on to others. There is no known cure for the coronavirus, although numerous pharmaceutical companies are in the process of developing a vaccine. The flu, on the other hand, has a vaccine that is offered each year to lower your risk of contracting it.

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Polluted Areas and Coronavirus Deaths

Disproportionate Rate Of Coronavirus Deaths In Polluted Areas

New Research Shows Disproportionate Rate of Coronavirus Deaths in Polluted Areas.  The analysis examined air pollution and coronavirus deaths in the roughly 3,100 U.S. counties and found a close correlation between levels of hazardous pollutants and the per-capita death rate from COVID-19.

Because the virus affects the respiratory system, researchers have rushed to study the potential association between mortality rates and air pollution. Early studies, including one looking at the particulate matter — distinct from HAPs, but often found with them — have suggested a link.

Cancer Alley is the industrial corridor that runs from Baton Rouge to New Orleans across the Mississippi River and is dubbed "Cancer Alley" because of potential health threats associated with local chemical pollution. The case rate is very significant in this area. 

Coronavirus patients are three times more likely to die from the disease in places with dirty air than those with clean air, according to a new study.  The authors conclude that air pollution, which disproportionately affects Americans of color, will drive COVID higher (19% of all deaths). Researchers suggest that people in areas with the worst air pollution will have higher COVID rates than people with clean air. African Americans and other low-income populations living in heavily polluted areas are exposed to higher levels of PM 2.5 particles compared to less polluted areas, followed by stays in homes. 

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finding is particularly relevant because air pollution can exacerbate fundamental health problems that increase the likelihood of dying from COVID-19. This is in line with a recent Harvard study showing that there is a significant association between the number of people with Covid19 infection and the death rate from the infection. People living in areas of high air pollution are also at a higher risk of dying from COIDV-19 than those who do not, and that this is also the case for people living in low-income areas in the United States.    

Gavin Newsom's Children Are Back to Private School Classrooms

At a news conference, Newsom said that his four children, aged 4 to 11, had returned in some capacity to classrooms. 

Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday his children returned under a "phased-in approach" to in-person learning while many schools across the state remain closed due to Covid-19, including virtually all public schools where the governor lives in Sacramento County. 

According to a source, Newsom's children attend a private school in Sacramento County that has a hybrid curriculum that alternates remote and in-person education before returning full-time next month. POLITICO, for privacy purposes, does not name the school. 

"They are gradually returning to school and we are gradually leaving the very difficult distance learning that we've been doing, so many parents are doing up and down the state," Newsom said Friday when asked about the education of his own children.

Under Newsom's reopening scheme, Sacramento County schools are authorized to open classrooms. But major public school districts in the city, including San Juan Unified, which serves the neighborhood of Newsom, have yet to do so. Next month, several Sacramento County districts expect to reopen elementary schools, while San Juan has a target date for January. A reopening date has yet to be proposed by Sacramento City United. 

Reopening debate: This week, members of the California assembly sought more concrete action on school reopening from Newsom and state officials, stressing testing ability. For teachers across the state who believe it's not yet safe to reopen classes, the opportunity to consistently test students and staff has been a sticking point. 

According to an EdSource report released Friday, in 21 of the state's 58 counties, all school districts are either providing some form of in-person instruction or preparing to do so soon. 

Newsom referred to $5.3 billion in state and federal school funding to respond to Covid-19 and two months' worth of PPE offered by the state to districts. 

He expressed his conviction that schools need to be opened as soon as possible, citing academic and social-emotional issues, but stressed that local districts remain responsible for the decisions. The California Teachers Association has been adamant that it is not safe to return to schools yet. 

"We absolutely believe that the social-emotional learning that takes place in the classroom is the best place for our children, certainly also the best place for their parents. And so it is absolutely incumbent on doing everything in our power to support our districts so that they can reopen safely, with emphasis on reopening safely," said Newsom.

Newsom spoke at the unveiling of a $25 million laboratory on Friday that will dramatically increase the Covid-19 testing capacity of the state, which he said could help districts reopen schools. The laboratory, designed in collaboration with PerkinElmer, a diagnostics firm, will begin processing tests next month with a goal of 150,000 tests by March. 

Political implications: The return to school of the Newsom children confirms lawmakers' fears that families who can afford private schools have a jumpstart, further increasing the disparity in achievement. This summer, the CTA criticized the governor for allowing private schools to reopen exemptions, which almost all private schools have done.

The admission that his own kids are back in classrooms could raise Newsom's pressure to do more to reopen schools. When the day goes by with low-income public school children dealing with distance learning, expect the personal case of Newsom to become a high-profile example of coronavirus educational inequities. 

What's next: The pressure is on the state to issue more prescriptive guidance for schools to reopen, as security issues are kept up by school reopening talks with teacher unions and the state's local control strategy has produced uneven plans for the six million K-12 students in California.

State-by-State Map of School-Building Closures

 

Why Wearing A Face Mask Outdoors Isn't Necessary

Each orange dot represents a dose of respiratory particles capable

of infecting someone if inhaled by breathing, speaking, and shouting

In the worst-case scenario (lower right corner) – shouting or singing in a closed space for an hour – a person with Covid-19 releases. 

Risk of coronavirus infection changes depending on the number of contagious particles you breathe in. El Pais illustrated the differences when you take certain measures, namely wearing masks, ventilation, and decreased exposure time.  The suggestions are based on statistical models, so there is more uncertainty than I think the explanations provide, but the sequence of illustrations provides a clear picture of what we can do — if you must do things indoors.

In the spring, health authorities failed to focus on aerosol transmission, but recent scientific publications have forced the World Health Organization (WHO) and the CDC to acknowledge it. An article in the prestigious Science magazine found that there is “overwhelming evidence” that airborne transmission is a “major transmission route” for the coronavirus, and the CDC now notes that, “under certain conditions, they seem to have infected others who were more than six feet [two meters] away. These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation. Sometimes the infected person was breathing heavily, for example, while singing or exercising.”

At present, health authorities recognize three vehicles of coronavirus transmission: the small droplets from speaking or coughing, which can end up in the eyes, mouth, or nose of people standing nearby; contaminated surfaces (fomites), although the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that this is the least likely way to catch the virus, a conclusion backed by the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (ECDC) observation that not a single case of fomite-caused Covid-19 has been observed; then finally, there is transmission by aerosols – the inhalation of invisible infectious particles exhaled by an infected person that, once leaving the mouth, behave in a similar way to smoke. Without ventilation, aerosols remain suspended in the air and become increasingly dense as time passes.

At the beginning of the pandemic, it was believed that the large droplets we expel when we cough or sneeze was the main vehicle of transmission. But we now know that shouting and singing in indoor, poorly ventilated spaces over a prolonged period of time also increases the risk of contagion. This is because speaking in a loud voice releases 50 times more virus-laden particles than when we don’t speak at all. These aerosols, if not diffused through ventilation, become increasingly concentrated, which increases the risk of infection. Scientists have shown that these particles – which we also release into the atmosphere when simply breathing and which can escape from improperly worn face masks – can infect people who spend more than a few minutes within a five-meter radius of an infected person, depending on the length of time and the nature of the interaction. In the following example, we outlined what conditions increase the risk of contagion in this situation.

If the buildings are properly ventilated, with good air conditioning,  there is less risk.  University of Colorado Boulder atmospheric chemist Jose-Luis Jimenez has released an airborne transmission pilot tool that may help us answer some of these questions, or at least provide some informed guidance.