Friday, December 10, 2021
Hoax...
Actor Jussie Smollett, known for his role on the TV show Empire, will return to court in Chicago in late January for a post-trial hearing and will learn at a later date whether he is going to prison after being found guilty late faking a hate crime against himself to raise his celebrity profile.
The Chicago jury, which deliberated for more than nine hours, convicted Smollett on five charges of disorderly conduct. He was acquitted on a sixth count, of lying to a detective in mid-February 2019, weeks after Smollett said he was attacked.
The charges against Smollett, who is Black and gay and said he was drawn to the role of a Black gay man in Empire because it was still relatively rare to see such a character onscreen, had become a touchstone in America’s culture wars at the intersection of culture, racism, politics and celebrity. Just a thought.
Split...
Facing a winter surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement.
Hochul said the decision to reinstitute a mask mandate was based on state’s weekly seven-day case rate, as well as increasing hospitalizations. New York enacted a mask mandate at the beginning of the pandemic in April 2020 that lasted more than a year.
The state recorded more than 68,000 positive tests for the virus in the seven-day period that ended Wednesday. That’s the most in any seven-day stretch since the start of February. The surge is especially pronounced in some areas of upstate New York, which has accounted for nearly three-fourths of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in hospitals since August.
Yet the State and the City of New York keep rezoning different areas to build skyscrapers adding more crowded street, Buses, Schools, hospitals, businesses, trucks, digging, etc.
It is sort of split character or something similar. Setting up the city for the current and next deadly attack of a new variant or a new virus. Just a thought
Crowded...
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois have accounted for the majority of the country’s increase in hospital beds filled, according to an NBC News analysis of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data.
While these states make up 35 percent of the population among states with increasing Covid hospitalizations, they make up 60 percent of the added beds, the analysis showed.
Unvaccinated people make up 87 percent of Covid patients who are in an intensive care unit in the state and 88 percent of Covid patients who are on a ventilator are unvaccinated.
Another factor that is not referred to deliberately is the crowded buses and subway trains in NYC that the workers encounter on a daily basis which no one is doing anything about it other than talking.
Just a thought
Thursday, December 9, 2021
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