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Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson said he likes what he has heard about Premier David Eby’s Safer Communities Action Plan, while veteran city councillor Dale Bass told KTW she wants to see implementation before forming an opinion.
Over the weekend, Eby announced a list of actions he intends to implement as premier to address community safety.
Among the highlights are new funding for teams of police officers and nurses (like the Car 40 program operating locally), the creation of prolific offender response teams, a new directive to Crown for bail hearings and expanding virtual bail sessions.
The safety plan includes a $3-million fund for integrated mobile community crisis response by police and health-care workers in communities throughout B.C., known as Car Teams.
Bass said there are multiple communities that need mental-health services.
“The provincial government knows we [city council] have been lobbying for a second Car 40 for years,” Bass said, noting she is not sure what else council can do to secure the provincial funds other than to continue lobbying.
Hamer-Jackson said he is does not know how effective the Car 40 program is, but he has spoken with Interior Health CEO Susan Brown about a possible Kamloops expansion, noting council will need to speak further with the health authority about it.
Car 40 is a program that pairs a mental-health practitioner with an RCMP officer as they respond to calls involving mental-health situations.
Kamloops Mounties and local politicians want to see the Car 40 program expanded, but Interior Health has thus far been non-committal about adding a mental-health nurse to the program. While the city supports two police officers for the program, only one nurse is funded by Interior Health.
The service operates four days a week and only during daytime hours. However, as Bass noted, mental-health calls don’t conform to the average work week, noting a second car team is needed to get the service up to 24/7 coverage.
Bass said part of Car 40’s work is following up with people after calls to ensure they are attending treatment.
“There’s an awful lot more than just showing up at an action where police are called,” Bass said.
Eby’s plan will also create repeat violent offender co-ordinated response teams, consisting of police and 21 dedicated prosecutors, 21 probation officers, 21 support personnel and nine correction supervisors.
Hamer-Jackson believe it is a good idea and hopes the plan will include the use of outreach workers, noting they can be effective in getting people into recovery programs.
Another $3 million a year from Eby’s plan will expand virtual bail hearings so those charged with crimes need not be transported to regional hubs such as Kamloops, Prince George and Nanaimo and get stuck there, homeless. Eby, a former attorney general, has also implemented a new policy on bail that intends to keep repeat offenders behind bars by directing prosecutors to more often oppose release.
Hamer-Jackson described expanding the virtual bail system as “a great idea,” noting he recently visited two shelters in Kamloops, where he heard from people there trying to get back to their home communities.
“I’m glad he’s focusing on all these issues that we’ve been raising and were key issues in municipal elections all through the province,” Bass said.
“It’s great to talk and to promise, but let’s just see it actually happen.”
Reached for comment, Kamloops RCMP Supt. Jeff Pelley told KTW via email he plans to learn more about the action plans and its implications for police, declining a request from this newspaper for an interview until more details of the plan are released.
"In the meantime, the Kamloops RCMP detachment looks forward to learning the details of the action plan, how it will contribute to our shared goal of community safety and how it will build on some of the initiatives the detachment currently has in place, such as our detachment’s offender management team – the Crime Reduction Unit -- and other strategic priorities," Kamloops RCMP spokesperson Crystal Evelyn said.
—This story was updated at 4:15 p.m. to add comment from the Kamloops RCMP


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Following the fire that occurred inside the tunnel on the 24th of March 1999, it took three years for the repairs and security improvements to be complete. The Mont Blanc tunnel reopened on the 9th of March 2002. Security cameras and radars were installed along the entire length of the structure and the safety features were enhanced. The same goes for the speed limits (a minimum of 50 km/h – or 31 mph – and a maximum of 70 km/h – or 43.5 mph) and for the safe distance between vehicles, which is now 150 metres (492 feet).
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Education is supposed to encourage critical thinking. However, if critical thinking ever were a part of the education curriculum, it usually goes out the window around Remembrance Day.
Take, for instance, Canada Remembers Times the Veterans’ Week Special Edition (5-11 November 2020). It is published by Veterans Affairs Canada and made available in BC provincial elementary schools. On page one an article caught my eye: “Going to War in Korea.”
The article relates:
The Korean War erupted 70 years ago when the North Korean troops poured across the border into South Korea on 25 June 1950…. More than 26,000 Canadians traveled halfway around the world to fight with the United Nations forces…
There is no background to the article, and there is no supporting evidence for the information given. For example, readers are not apprised that the UN Security Council was able to vote for sending troops to Korea because the USSR did not partake in order to show solidarity with the bid of the People’s Republic of China to hold the UNSC China seat (instead of the Republic of China, aka Taiwan). It seems that an essential piece of information was omitted, and that poses a question mark to the validity and morality of Canada joining UN forces in a military venture that is strikingly at odds with the UN’s expressed raison d’être of preventing the scourge of war.
In western state/corporate media the question of who started the war on the Korean peninsula is given as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. If one is curious enough to seek out what the DRPK side or independent media says, then a different answer might be forthcoming. Pyongyang states that there were several Republic of Korea troop incursions into the North preceding the DPRK invasion that began on 25 June 1950. ,
Regardless of whether the North or the South had initiated militarism on the peninsula, what is not discussed is the question of what gave the US and the UN the moral right to become involved in what was initially a civil war?
Who started the war on the Korean peninsula is relevant. But the far more important question is what caused the war? The what in this case would seem to answer the question of who.
At the end of WWII, Japan was defeated, and it would have had to end its colonization of Korea which began in 1910. Left out of many accounts is the Taft-Katsura Agreement, essentially a quid pro quo imperialism where the US left Korea to Japan and Japan left the Philippines to the US.
This would all change shortly after the end of WWII.
Yo Un Hyung was a politician, well regarded in both the ROK and the DPRK, who had vigorously opposed the Japanese occupation of Korea. At the end of WWII, Yo was handed the reins of self-government in Korea by the Japanese governor general of Korea, general Abe Endo. Yo helped form People’s Committees in all Korean provinces and the Korean People’s Republic arose. On 14 September 1945, the first cabinet was formed.
The US, however, feared a socialist state in Korea. The US dismantled and abolished the fledgling democratic Korean People’s Republic. Vice president Yo was forced to step down, as the United States Army Military Government in Korea consolidated its occupation of the South.
As a consequence, the division imposed by the US created a situation in which the Korean people would seek to unite the two sides of the peninsula. The unpopular US-installed government in the south rapidly fell to the northern forces who were supported by socialist sympathizers in the south and aided by desertions from the ROK forces. The peninsula, aside from a pocket in Busan, was militarily captured by northern fighters. Thus the US intervened.
Writes author Nhial Esso,
If the issue of [governance] had been left to the Korean people themselves to decide, all of Korea would have been united under the leadership of the North, long recognized by the Socialist Bloc (and at that time, much of the Korean and world populations) as the sole legitimate government on the peninsula.
Korea expert Bruce Cumings argued: “it is the Americans who bear the lion’s share of the responsibility for the thirty-eighth parallel.”
Countries of ethnically similar people that are split up by outside actors tend to want to rejoin. In recent history there are the examples of North and South Viet Nam as well as East and West Germany reuniting. The US had a hand in the partitioning of Viet Nam, Germany, and Korea. It is only matter of time before some form of reunification happens between the DPRK and ROK.
Thus it is prima facie evident that the US bears responsibility for instigating the war on the Korean peninsula. If the US had not forced a division of the Korean peninsula, there would not have been a burning desire to reunite what was not separated.
So why is Veterans Affairs Canada pushing this hawkish narrative? Is it ignorance? Is it subservience to the US?
When it comes to wars and warring, what is the narrative a government (in this case the Canadian government) should be presenting in schools? Should not governments promote a narrative that peace is the path to be followed?
I do recognize that many of the people who fought in the wars, fought out of bravery and the conviction that they were fighting for a noble cause. That Remembrance Day recognizes the past sacrifice of men and women who fought for, what they believed to be, a good cause is respectful. But a more important and respectful use of such a holiday is to lay bare the fact that warring is a dirty, violent business that has no place in a moral universe. Governments that believe in the sanctity of human life must strive to prevent the scourge of war. But governments misuse Remembrance Day. Thus Remembrance Day comes packaged with patriotism, propaganda, and disinformation.
The research of professor Jacques Pauwels reveals that World War One and World War Two were fought for ignoble reasons.  Pauwels writes that WWI was antagonistic to the working class, hindering workers from organizing, receiving higher wages, and demanding greater democracy. The Establishment hoped that WWI would destroy revolutionary zeal, democratic aspirations, and the desire for socialism. As for WWII, Pauwels argues that the United States’ participation was again based mainly on the economic and business interests of US corporations.
If Pauwels’ etiology of WWI and WWII is correct, and I believe it is, then shouldn’t the extirpation of the elaborate propaganda and disinformation architecture that helps to foment wars be priority number one? Is the celebration of the individual acts of certain soldiers to be accorded greater attention than the millions upon millions of people killed, the cities leveled, and the resulting immiseration? Would people sacrifice their lives and take the lives of others knowing beforehand that wars are fought for corporate profiteering?
Governments must be truthful and forthright about the scourge of war, and the men and women have an ethical obligation to become deeply familiar with what war is and what the moral implications are before they take up arms. Some soldiers may well be heroes, but many are killers and war criminals. Right now a man is incarcerated in the ill-reputed Belmarsh Prison in London because he helped to expose the war crimes of Americans. Julian Assange is a genuine hero, but the governments of today, and the state/corporate media prefer that he be dropped down the Memory Hole. One day, however, it is the heroes of peace, people like Julian Assange, who will be remembered and celebrated on this day.
The physicist Albert Einstein identified how simple it is to bring an end to warring: “I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”  In other words, to some extent, the people who continue to enlist and put their bodies on the line for what their government deems to be a good cause are guilty of perpetuating war. Remembrance Day and its annual propaganda trumpets battlefield heroism and desensitizes people to the bloody carnage.
To target such propaganda at young children is condemnatory.
Yet, such propaganda is presented within the school system to impressionable young minds, minds that haven’t fully developed the intellectual tools to evaluate the verisimilitude of information.
Is it any wonder that Mark Twain said, “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”
- See Won Myong Uk and Kim Hak Chol, Distortion of US Provocation of Korean War (Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 2003).
- See Ho Jong Ho, Kang Sok Hui, and Pak Thae Ho, The US Imperialists Started the Korean War (Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1993).
- See Carole Cameron Shaw, The Foreign Destruction of Korean Independence (Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2007).
- Lee Wha Rang, “Who was Yo Un-hyung? (Part 2),” Association for Asian Research, 1 March 2004.
- Nhial Esso, What You Don’t Know about North Korea Could Fill a Book (Intransitive Publishers International, 2013): 21%.
- Bruce Cumings, Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005): 186.
- See Jacques R. Pauwels, The Great Class War 1914-1918 (Lorimer, 2016) and The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War, Lorimer, second edition, 2015).
- Einstein from an interview with George Sylvester Viereck, January 1931.
- The child development psychologist Jean Piaget considered higher level reasoning occurs during the formal operational stage of development, at approximately age twelve, although not everyone achieves this stage of cognitive development. The psychologist Lev Vygotsky promoted guided discovery in the classroom for problems beyond a child’s level of understanding.

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Below I offer you almost 3 years of my life. When I moved into my house in 2005 I designated one room in my house as a "craft room". I painted one of the walls with chalkboard paint with the idea of jotting down ideas and sketching out patterns. Instead it became a place where my friends left their mark with chalk.
Every couple of years I erase it and start over but before I do I take pictures of each message and picture so that I don't lose the love and laughter that was left in my home just for me. Here I will share with you 2 years worth of visitors. Some of them will never step foot in my house again but, in retrospect, each one left a bigger mark on my life than they did on my wall.
These messages are from my awesome sisters in law. They came to visit me before we were married, before I even had an engagement ring. This is a testament to how wonderful his family is though. They embraced and accepted me as part of their family from the first time we met.
This is from one of my sister's ex-boyfriends. He came to my house one Christmas for dinner with the family and got wrangled into installing my wireless router. I guess it took a while.
I had a party once. I can't even remember for what. But this is from a room mate of my other sister at the time. Moe is awesome.
I think this is from the same party. A friend brought his friend Dirk and at some point in the night we ordered a pizza. The first number we dialed was incorrect and the person called back. This is how Dirk answered the phone.
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I'm not sure which child drew this awesome Christmas picture but it's a treasure.
Before my Hubby was even my boyfriend and before I ever met his friend Mike I started keeping score of things we knew. I got this point for knowing that "nabs" is a southern term that refers to snack sandwich crackers. More specifically, cheddar crackers with peanut butter filling. This is still the score.
I think this is from my other sister, Tabitha. If it's not and you lay claim to loving me, let me know so I can give you credit.
This is from one of my cousins. Either Ian or Ryan. I'm not sure which one. I'm not sure if it's grammatically correct or if it's even all in the same language. But what do I know?
Either Heather or Tabitha. It's a heart full of siblings. It makes my heart smile.
A bad series of dates. However, that bad series of dates is partially what led me to realize that I was head over heels in love with the man that is now my husband. So I appreciate that bad series of dates.
Tabitha went to Canada for an internship shortly after she wrote this on my wall. She was gone a couple of months and then came home but there was never any chance of forgetting where she was while she was gone.
My adorable friend Kayla. She's the daughter of a friend and co-worker of my parents. My mom says that she's just like me when I was younger. I hope Kayla takes that as a compliment. I do.
My godson's mother marked his height at the time of their visit. He's 4 now. Amazing.
I think I drew this. This is the extent of my artistic ability.
This is my most cherished message. My Aunt Sherri left this one at my Mom's 51st birthday party. She passed away the next April after fighting breast cancer like a champ. I won't erase this one. I can't. I'm thinking of cutting out the piece of wall that it's on and framing it to take with me when I move.
So that's me. Or, 3 years of me. In those 3 years I went from being alone in my home and without a relationship to being married and a housewife. It's been a heck of a ride.

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SARS-COV2 is not a neuroinvasive virus?
Mounting evidence may refute the prevailing notion that SARS-COV2 infections lead to direct neuronal damage.
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The following article does not refute the idea that SARS-COV2 does not directly invade the nervous system. Instead, it argues that this event likely is not occurring at the frequency many may assume, and in fact many signs of SARS-COV2 may be associated with other cellular mechanism rather than direct neuronal damage. Remember that several possibilities are possible, and many are likely to overlap.
Edit: A citation was missing for the microglial excerpt. It has been added along with a link to the article.
Does SARS-COV2 target the nervous system?
Surprisingly, it appears that one of the longest held-beliefs in regards to SARS-COV2 may not actually be substantiated.
That is to say, it doesn’t appear that SARS-COV2 actually directly targets the nervous system in many cases.
Most of this evidence comes from various pieces of literature from autopsy reports that don’t actually note direct damage to neurons, and instead notes damage nearby regions.
For instance, the study from Nuovo, et al. in which the brains of 5 dementia patients (4 Alzheimer’s and 1 with Lewy body dementia) as well as the brains of undemented COVID-19 patients were assessed for CNS damage.
Instead of finding evidence of SARS-COV2 or other viral proteins, the researchers found that most histology samples noted spike proteins but either no or very rare instances other proteins such as nucleocapsid proteins or viral RNA in the brains of those with COVID (in those with and without dementia).
More importantly, the spike proteins were found around the endothelium (blood vessels) within the brain rather than the brain itself, with the uptake of spike by endothelial cells leading to endothelial dysfunction and neuroinflammation from microglia.
Again, strikingly, the movement of exogenous immune cells did not appear to occur, but rather the response to spike was dictated predominately by microglia in the brain as proposed by the following schematic:
What about spike in the brain?
This study from Nuovo, et al. alone cannot refute the idea that SARS-COV2 does not target the brain directly, or that spike protein may find its way into the brain and cause direct cytotoxic damage.
There’s the neuropathology reportprovided by Dr. Oliver which looked at brains of those who died of COVID and noted spike and nucleocapsid protein the brains of some individuals, as well as some of the nerves, as can be seen in the following slide:
It’s important to remember that nearly all of the patients had pneumonia recorded as a cause of death, and nearly all patients had comorbidities such as heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, hypertension, and diabetes.
Essentially, these aren’t the healthiest of patients, and so it’s possible that their comorbidities may have contributed to endothelial dysfunction and blood-brain barrier permeability.
In that case, the detection of viral proteins serve as a red herring in some sense, only being found after severe infection and systemic damage has occurred that allowed movement of these proteins and viral RNA.
Put another way, the presence of spike or nucleocapsid protein may not be indicative of neuropathological changes in the brain- the body may have suffered enough damage that allowed the passage of these proteins.
This is part of a larger issue of science in which a bystander protein or molecule is used as an indication of cell damage and death. As was covered previously, the presence of tau proteins, amyloid plaques, and Lewy bodies does not indicate that these proteins are toxic themselves, and in fact may be produced in response to some pathogen and done in an attempt to protect the brain.
More recently, a widely spread article on a sugar-substitute erythritol made comments that elevated erythritol levels may be associated with increased risk of heart attacks and strokes when this compound may, in fact, be produced by cells in higher numbers as a consequence of cardiometabolic disease.
But what about anosmia and the olfactory bulb?
Anosmia, or the loss of smell, has been used to great extent to suggest that neurons within the olfactory bulb may be targeted by SARS-COV2.
This would be in line with the Braak hypothesis and a nasal route of entry into the nervous system.
Why else would we lose smell?
Here, again the evidence from post-mortem studies have provided refutation direct neuronal damage as a cause of anosmia, and instead peripheral cells such as substancellular cells within the nose are instead targeted.
A study published in late 2021 from Khan, et al.took bedside endoscopic tissue samples immediately after the death of an individual who either died with or from COVID in an attempt to see what SARS-COV2 actually dose in the nose and olfactory bulb of infected individuals.
This study is rather detailed, and is one of the only studies that appears to have taken samples immediately after a patient had died.
So did this study show damage to the olfactory bulb and neurons within the nose?
No- instead, cells associated with olfactory mucosa, sustentacular cells, appear to have been the target of the virus, and it was infection and dysfunction of these cells that appear to have influenced the loss of smell.
Sustentacular cells are considered to be supportive cells, providing help to neighboring cells including olfactory neurons via metabolic aid and other cellular processes.
It appears that destruction of these cells are the main drivers of loss of smell:
We have here taken a virocentric view of COVID-19, from the viewpoint of SARS-CoV-2 acutely attacking the human olfactory system. We identified sustentacular cells as the main target cell type in the OM, failed to find evidence for infection of OSNs and of the OB parenchyma, and discovered viral RNA in the leptomeningeal layers surrounding the OB.
This evidence was supported even during the early months of the pandemic, and was noted in a July 2020 review when researchers noted that olfactory neurons don’t contain the proper receptors for SARS-COV2 binding.
Again, non-neuronal cells, more importantly sustentacular cells, are the target of the virus. The article cited by Harvard Medical School appears to be an in vitro study (the link for the study does not work), so one can argue that the Khan, et al. piece acts as confirmation for the in vitro results.
Sustentacular cells are constantly replaced, and so it’s possible that the return of smell is contingent upon the ability to replace destroyed cells.
But again, the evidence points to a refutation of previously held ideas that SARS-COV2 directly targets the neurons, and that the brain of those infected are being directly harmed from the virus.
Why the inconsistency and continuously-held belief?
So why exactly is it still argued that COVID may directly target the brain and other aspects of the nervous system, or why is it that results from studies are inconsistent?
Tissue sampling runs into a serious issue of cross-contamination, and so collection of samples may result in the spread of viral proteins during collection that would otherwise not be there. There’s also the fact that many staining techniques, as outlined in the previous post, run into an issue of cross-reacting and binding to other proteins and may create false positives.
Autopsy and post-mortem samples are done after the disease has run its course. Thus, the finding of viral proteins or RNA does not provide an explanation for the pathological nature of these proteins (the bystander effect).
Animal models, which have been used extensively as representations for what may happen in humans, are not actually good comparisons, even when monkeys are primates are used. Most studies in animals may not translate over well for humans, as is the case for many therapeutic trials that attempt to deliver drugs into the CNS of humans. Animal studies may show resounding success but then find no delivery in humans. Given that most evidence of neuroinvasion has relied on in vitro, in silico, and animal models, it’s possible that false assumptions were made about how dangerous the virus is when relying on models that don’t corroborate to evidence in humans, as reported in post-mortem and autopsy reports.
But probably more importantly is the fact that brain damage from SARS-COV2 just makes for good fear porn.
Recently Bret and Heather discussed an article from El gato malo in which questions were raised towards the role that over-prescription of aspirin may have had in the worse outcome of patients during the Spanish Flu (timestamped below).
It raises questions as to whether intentional malfeasance and practice of medicine may have worsened the perception of the Spanish Flu.
One can remember the early days of the pandemic and the images of people keeling over, the overfilled ER rooms and remember the fear that plagued much of the world. Even still, comments on long COVID are used as a evidence of some sort of brain damage.
Thus, what better way to instill that fear than to continuously remind people that their brain fog and loss of smell may be a consequence of permanent damage to their nerves?
What about the possibility of neurodegenerative diseases?
Here, the question still remains about the possibility that SARS-COV2 may exacerbate symptoms of Alzheimer’s Parkinson’s, and possibly prion disease. These same ideas and the constant search for amyloid are also reflected in fears over the vaccine.
One consideration is the prolonged neuroinflammation that may come from microglia activation and endothelial dysfunction brought on by the spike protein, rather than the spike protein directly leading to the misfolded proteins.
Microglia are essentially the innate immune arm of the central nervous system, and the actual role of microglia in neurodegeneration has been highly conflicted.
However, similar to all manners of chronic disease continuous, prolonged inflammation have been associated with neurodegeneration(Streit, et al.):
Neurodegenerative diseases – particularly Alzheimer's disease, but also amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease – lack the prominent infiltrates of blood-derived mononuclear cells that characterize autoimmune diseases. On the other hand, there is abundant evidence that many substances involved in the promotion of inflammatory processes are present in the CNS of patients with such neurodegenerative diseases. By far the bulk of this body of evidence is related to studies in Alzheimer's disease . What distinguishes Alzheimer's disease from other neurodegenerative diseases is the conspicuous presence of extracellular deposits of amyloid in senile plaques. Senile plaques in Alzheimer brain are present in different stages of maturity, ranging from diffuse to neuritic to dense core, but they all contain the amyloid beta protein (Aβ). Aβ is a peptide that forms insoluble and pathological extracellular aggregates that seem to attract microglial cells, as suggested by the clustering of microglia at sites of Aβ deposition (see  for a review). There is evidence from experimental studies in animals to support the idea that microglia can phagocytose and degrade amyloid [20, 21], but such phagocytosis is apparently either ineffective or inadequate in Alzheimer's disease. A key question within the current context is: "Does the amyloid in Alzheimer brain by itself represent a persistent injurious stimulus that causes neuronal injury, or are additional factors involved in eliciting this outcome?"
In prior discussion about immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s I’ve continuously raised the notion that researchers are unsure if the plaques from Alzheimer’s are directly involved with the pathology of the disease, or if they are a consequence of cellular dysfunction and the inability to maintain clearance of misfolded proteins— again, an issue of contextualizing the bystander effect. If therapeutics target the removal of plaques they may not be doing much to help with the actual progression of the disease if the plaques themselves are not directly involved. This may explain the highly contentious findings of breakthrough treatments in the field of Alzheimer’s.
What’s likely happening with SARS-COV2 and neurodegeneration is one idea raised by Nuovo, et al., in which it’s possible that microglia already stressed may not be able to handle the additional stress brought on by the endothelial dysfunction.
This may explain the worsening of symptoms in those with neurodegeneration already, but it also may lead to an unmasking of neurodegenerative disease in those predisposed to these diseases later in life.
That is to say, new-onset neurodegenerative diseases may be occurring in those who may be more at risk of these diseases in the future, whether due to environmental circumstances or genetic predisposition.
Thus, one can wonder if the reports of prion diseases related to the vaccines may be occurring in those who are more likely to experience these diseases in the future. Genetic testing and other examinations may provide some insights, but like with everything related to the vaccines it doesn’t appear much research is being done to consider these possibilities.
In that regard, I suppose Dr. Tanzi should be more worried about a family history of neurodegeneration putting him more at risk of Alzheimer’s post-infection than the virus alone.
Spike presentation is not the same between vaccine and infection
The last words I’ll discuss is one idea worth considering, and one that many have already raised since the rollout of the vaccines.
It appears that in the progression of SARS-COV2 the main damage done to peripheral organs such as the brain and heart are due to circulation of spike from the lungs rather than the virus itself. Whether this is brought on after substantial damage has already occurred, or if transport of spike may be mediated by exosomes, one can argue that circulation of spike from the lungs are likely to be heavily attenuated until the disease progresses substantially, in which case the barrier between the lungs and the bloodstream are compromised allowing free exchange.
This may explain why regions such as toes, fingers, the brain, and even genitals may be influenced by spike due to the microvasculature within these regions who may be more susceptible to even small doses of spike.
So in that regard the lungs may serve as a buffer for spike within the blood.
But can the same be said for the vaccines?
Irrespective of concerns over intramuscular vs intravenous injection, injection of the vaccines is providing an immediate, substantial payload of spike, and likely one that generally occurs over the course of days in those who are naturally infected.
This should raise concerns about the greater risk of spike circulating, and it’s likely that the inability to quickly sponge up spike due to a lack of adaptive immunity may explain many of the adverse reactions. This may also explain why, as reported anecdotally, that those who were naturally infected may have lower reported cases of adverse reactions, and in those who do other mechanisms may be at play.
More on this last point will be explained in a series sometime in the future.
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I’m still in the middle of reading this but it’s really taken my interest. My grandmother (memere) and dad both died of neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimer’s and and in my dads case- Alzheimer’s but suspected Lewy Body. I have had brain fog and intermittent short term memory loss since COVID as well as loss of smell. I’ve wondered and wondered what, if any the link could be with these disorders and covid. This is immensely interesting! Thanks
Shocker! It’s a respiratory virus not at all unlike all the others which came before it and its “novel” features appear to be a result of observation / confirmation bias.
We learn nothing do we? The past few decades have seen several viruses causing “absolutely characteristic” clinical syndromes - until it transpired they actually hadn’t.

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Over 400 schools in France have been closed for the next few days due to the scorching temperatures.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that this sort of temperature will become more common due to global warming.
Forest fires in Catalonia have been burning out of control in recent days. Over 350 fighters, supported by 230 soldiers and 15 tankers have been battling the blaze.
'The situation is critical,' fire service chief Antonio Ramos said. 'We haven't seen a fire like this (in Catalonia) for 20 years.'
Temperatures are set to reach 42 degrees in parts of Spain, the government has issued a red-level warning to the population.
In Italy, a 72-year-old homeless man was found dead in the main train station in Milan, while at least four Germans are believed to have died due to the scorching temperatures.
Parts of Germany have seen water shortages which have resulted in local Authorities telling residents to only drink water if absolutely necessary or face up to a €1000 fine.
Animals also struggle in this sort of heat and so zookeepers have thought of ingenious ways to keep them cool.
In Ireland, we're set to see temperatures in the region of 27 degrees, but there are also risks of thunderstorms for part of the country.


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Amidst all the hype we’re hearing from the media and technology providers about “intelligent systems”, CIOs are still unsure of how they can apply artificial intelligence (AI) for long-term success. It’s important for CIOs to understand the steps they need to take to ensure their organisation gets the most out of the technology while minimising their exposure to risk.
Sentient systems capable of true cognition remain a dream for the future. But many AI techniques and building blocks are available today, and you can leverage them as part of your process optimisation programmes and customer facing applications. Surveying business and technology professionals we’ve found that, while only a comparatively small number of organisations have already implemented AI and are expanding their use, over half of companies expressed their intention to invest in AI in the next 12 months.
According to Forrester Data, more than half (57%) of business and technology professionals expect that AI will help improve customer experience and support, with 37% implementing or planning to implement intelligent assistants and 35% doing the same with cognitive products for customers. However, it’s clear that AI investments are still in the early stages and over half of survey respondents stated that they had not seen any results of their AI initiatives. That said, of those who did see some results, only 6% felt that results hadn’t met expectations.
Getting down to brass tacks, we need to take a close look at what is possible with AI today. AI isn’t a single technology but rather an entire discipline encompassing a variety of different categories – some of which are ready for deployment, while others still have some way to go before they are ready for practical deployment. Be cautious of marketing puffery as vendors talk up ‘pure AI’ or true intelligence that is indistinguishable from (or even superior to) human intelligence. Some companies are bandying about “cognitive” functionality when, in reality, true cognitive computing remains in the realm of research.
Various AI technologies that are ready for deployment can be categorised in what we call ‘pragmatic AI’. These include: speech recognition and natural language processing and generation; predictions using machine learning and knowledge engineering (for example, how Netflix optimises its recommendations through a variety of machine learning techniques); image recognition in combination with machine learning and deep learning; advanced discovery techniques; and robotics and self-driving cars.
Despite all it has to offer, AI implementations should proceed with caution. It’s easy to overlook just how much work goes into getting a computer system to the point required to deliver the promised results.
While it may vary from company to company, how much effort and time is required will depend on use cases and other variables including the availability of skills and usable data. CIOs should temper their expectations and be realistic about what is available out the box and to be realistic about tradeoffs.
There are also risks associated with AI which, ultimately, still depends on human input, training, and fine-tuning of the systems. Human intervention can include nefarious agendas of individuals and CIOs need to be on their guard. Moreover, AI systems can still behave unpredictably, and unsupervised decision making should be avoided. CIOs should be warned that they need to fully understand the risk and ethical conundrums that come with any AI implementation.
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- Finally, CIO should place themselves at the helm of the AI strategy, taking responsibility and proactively driving the process.
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Sara had a ready answer, and it was obvious she was serious about her efforts here. She dubbed her piece Subjugation. To me it was obvious that she was going for a discussion on the objectifying of the female form. A feminist viewpoint that made me wonder is it subjugation when a woman wants to be an object? There are many that love the attention and deification of their form. A source for an interesting debate I am sure. That is what art should do, inspire thought, debate, conversation.
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Lebanon’s Maronites celebrated the 1600th anniversary of St. Maroun’s death on Tuesday in two separate masses held in Beirut’s Saint George church and in Brad in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir held the mass at Saint George in downtown Beirut at 11:00 am. The mass was attended by President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and several cabinet ministers, MPs and politicians.
The mass at St. Maroun church in Brad, Syria was attended by Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun, former President Emile Lahoud, Marada movement leader Suleiman Franjieh and Energy Minister Gebran Bassil, who traveled to Aleppo on Monday. Aoun thanked after the prayers President Bashar al Assad and the Syrian people for their warm welcome
Aoun slammed those criticizing his visit to Syria, stressing the occasion was celebrated worldwide rather than only in one church.
Franjieh said he was proud of being part of the Syrian-Iranian axis.
Ad-Diyar daily said Bkirki circles have expressed frustration at attempts to show a divide among Christians.
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LASTRAS DE CUÉLLAR, Spain—Less than two hours from Madrid, 76-year-old Francisca Benitez has to brush her teeth every night with bottled water because her village has no supply of drinking water.
In Lastras de Cuellar in the central Castilla y Leon region, nitrates and arsenic have made the water undrinkable for the village’s residents, who number 350 in winter and nearly 1,000 in summer.
And across the country, dozens of villages are suffering the same fate because groundwater resources are at risk from agricultural pollution, a lack of water quality controls and drought.
Every Monday, the villagers walk to the main square in Lastras to buy multipacks of mineral water in 1.5 liter bottles, sold at a discounted price, which some take away in wheelbarrows.
Alejandro Martin, 17, is there to help his 95-year-old grandfather bring home the precious resource which is then poured into a pan so they can prepare coffee.
Outside, clusters of empty plastic bottles dangle from the balconies alongside banners demanding access to drinking water.
“This is not normal in the 21st century!” protests Mercedes Rodriguez, 41, who belongs to a local residents association.
Mayor Andres Garcia also points to the “lack of (public) funding” which has slowed down a project to ensure drinking water supplies by the end of the year.
In Castilla y Leon alone, 63 municipalities were without running water in March, according to the region’s main television station.
National figures are not available.
According to the health ministry, a 2019 study of national water resources found that 67,050 samples—some taken from the same place on different dates—were undrinkable.
Nitrates and manure
Nitrate levels are a cause for concern, with nearly three out of 10—28 percent—of Spain’s groundwater monitoring stations registering a concentration close to or above the potability threshold.
Fully 22 percent of Spain’s overall surface area—which covers 506,000 square kilometers (195,000 square miles)—is exposed to nitrate pollution due to the nature of the soil or through agricultural activities, the environment ministry says.
And many are increasingly blaming agricultural pollution for the water crisis.
Lierta, a tiny village in the northeastern Aragon region, has been deprived of drinking water since 2018 because of nitrate pollution and residents are currently fighting plans to set up a new farm for 3,000 pigs.
Under a scorching sun, a lone dog can be seen drinking from a fountain in a landscape dominated by vast golden wheatfields that are dotted with pig farms.
In this area, there are already “close to 20,000 pigs and just 50 villagers,” says 68-year-old Bernard Mas, a member of the residents’ association that has just managed to get the farm project suspended for a year.
In a country where pork products reign supreme, “intensive livestock farming and huge macro farms are a real problem” for local water quality due to the pollution from manure, says Luis Babiano, head of the Spanish Association of Public Water Supply and Sanitation Operators (AEOPAS).
But excess nitrates in water sources are mainly the result of “fertilizer use in agricultural activity” which is “the main problem” in the countryside, an environment ministry report found late last year.
‘Without water, we’ll disappear’
“In rural areas, water resource management is lacking and residents of some small settlements may be drinking non-potable water without knowing it,” the report said.
And such concerns have even reached Brussels with the European Commission last year issuing an ultimatum, warning Spain to improve its water quality control or face heavy fines.
In the long term, drought could also jeopardize the quality of Spain’s water resources, especially as the impact of climate change gathers pace.
If the quantity of water decreases but the level of harmful substances does not, proportionally it means the level of such pollutants in Spain’s water resources increases, explains Babiano.
In Lastras, Rodriguez fears that the water shortage could spell the end of their little community.
“A village that doesn’t have water is destined to disappear. Who is going to come and live in a village where they don’t have tap water?” she wonders.
“Who is ever going to set up a business here?”


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As fall comes to the Rogue Valley, cooler temperatures and wet weather bring renewed growth to the pastures. This is when cow’s milk is at its best – and it’s only during these months that this limited edition, seasonal Rogue River Blue is made – a cheese named World Champion at the 2019/20 World Cheese Awards.
After 9 to 11 months of careful tending in aging caves, each wheel is hand-wrapped in organic, biodynamic Syrah grape leaves that have soaked in pear spirits. On the Autumnal Equinox each year, the release of the year’s new Rogue River Blue Cheese is celebrated.
Rogue River Blue shines spectacularly when on its own or with a simple fruit compote.
Appearance: Grape leaves encase an antique linen-hued paste with toile-style bluing
Texture:Fudgy and rich, with calcium lactate crystals that develop with age
Taste: Pear brandy, vanilla, toffee, truffle, and fig, with pronounced “blue” flavor


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Petrol prices are back on the rise across Brisbane after temporary relief following the fuel excise cut at the end of March.
There is now almost a 40 cent difference between the cheapest and most expensive Unleaded 91 currently available in Brisbane with some stations climbing back up to nearly $2 a litre as of last night.
It marks the first sign that a new petrol cycle is starting after the government’s fuel excise cut was implemented at the end of March to deal with rising costs.
As of Wednesday morning, Brisbane’s average price at the bowser for petrol sat at $1.61, with the BPs in Newstead, Milton and Wellington Point all hitting above $1.90 while others were above $1.80.
Bargain hunters are urged to find the stations around town that are still offering just over $1.50 a litre in order to save up to $20 for those filling a 50-litre tank.
Chris Ford, General Manager at Compare the Market, said the national average wholesale price had jumped 3c overnight making it the biggest daily price rise since the first week of March.
“We’re seeing the signs of the first price increase since the fuel excise was introduced at the end of March and it likely indicates the start of a new price cycle,” he said.
Flow on effects will see Australian prices rise even more in the coming weeks, according to Mr Ford, with Brisbane and Sydney being the first to see the direct impact.
“The best advice is to use the fuel comparison Apps, like the Simples App, to find the best deal near you and alleviate the pressure on the hip pocket,” Mr Ford said.
Most expensive U91 as of Wednesday 10am
BP Wellington Point 191.9c
BP Commercial Rd Newstead 191.9c
BP Milton 191.9c
BP Manly 183.9c
BP Tingalpa 183.9
Cheapest U91 as of Wednesday 10am
Metco Coopers Plains 150.3c
Metro Capalaba 151.9c
United Coopers Plains 152.9c
United Sherwood 153.9c
Puma Grange 155.7c
Puma Clayfield 156.9c
Extracted in full from: Brisbane petrol prices spike again to nearly $2 a litre after temporary relief | Herald Sun

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Liz Truss’s margin of victory was not quite decisive enough to give her the kind of authority she needs as she enters office facing the most daunting situation that has greeted any recent prime minister.
Rishi Sunak did better than the opinion polls of Conservative members predicted, although not quite well enough to launch immediate speculation about how he would be readying his next leadership bid while he waited for his opponent to fail.
He won 43 per cent of the vote, four points higher than the best figure predicted for him by the pollsters – Opinium Research, which was closest to the result last time, put Sunak on 39 per cent in its final poll, carried out between 8 and 13 August.
So Truss’s victory speech lacked the excitement of an emphatic result, and was as halting as some of her worst performances in the early stages of the leadership campaign. It was so underpowered that the audience of MPs and activists, as keen as a Soviet audience to applaud anything the leader said, missed its cue to clap for Boris Johnson who is, Truss told them, “admired from Kyiv to Carlisle”.
She will make another speech in Downing Street tomorrow afternoon, when she returns from an audience with the Queen at Balmoral, and then she will face the House of Commons for Prime Minister’s Questions at noon on Wednesday.
Keir Starmer offered a preview of his welcome for her in a TV clip responding to her election result, saying that she appeared to be copying Labour’s policy of freezing energy prices but without any way of paying for it.
This is not how a “Thatcherite” prime minister might expect to be greeted by a socialist opposition. Starmer’s first words were a criticism of Truss for her failure to raise corporation tax, because she has promised to cancel Sunak’s planned rise next year. That means Labour is going to accuse the new Tory government of fiscal irresponsibility, increasing borrowing rather than increasing the windfall tax and corporation tax to pay for help with energy bills.
Truss’s second dilemma, now that she has presumably decided on a plan, is when to announce it. Can she go into the Commons on Wednesday without having at least announced the main points? Starmer will then ask where her plan is, having promised during the leadership campaign that there would be help for people from “day one”. She can hardly say: “Wait and see.”
But if she does set out the outline of her plan on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, Starmer can either accuse her of copying Labour’s plan but paying for it in a way that will spook the markets, or of failing to offer the universal help that Labour has called for.
Either way, the Commons is going to be a hostile environment. Opposite her, Starmer, who has been working on his speaking style rather more successfully than she has, has seized the initiative with his plan to fix energy bills at current levels, with the Labour benches in high spirits behind him, buoyed by national opinion polls.
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Behind her, there will be not just Sunak, itching to say, “I told you so”, but also Johnson, whose ambition to return as prime minister one day is the worst-kept secret at Westminster. I assume that neither of them will actually be in the chamber on Wednesday, or indeed on most days, but their presence will be felt.
Not only did her margin of victory among party members fall short of expectations, but both sides of the Commons know that she is the first prime minister in modern parliamentary politics who (probably) did not have the positive support of a majority of her own MPs.
She may say to herself that Margaret Thatcher was underestimated by her opponents, inside and outside her own party. Now we are going to start to find out if she is indeed made of the same metal.

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Sales were down 4 percent in the first week of March, and down 15 percent for the month of February, showing improvement from a 28 percent decline for the year ending Jan. 31.
Excluding the five major markets where lockdown measures are in place — Germany, Brazil, Greece, Portugal and the U.K. — sales were up 2 percent in the first week of March, offering a snapshot of consumer demand.
“Inditex as a company is stronger today than it was two years ago, with a unique business model and a global, flexible, digitally integrated and efficient sales platform,” Inditex executive chairman Pablo Isla said in a statement. Isla added that the digital efforts place the company “in an excellent position for the future.”
Analysts, who have been forecasting a modest pace of recovery for the fast-fashion industry, were disappointed by the retailer’s annual results but were more optimistic about the more recent figures.
The last quarter “looks soft,” said Richard Chamberlain of RBC Europe.
Analysts at Berenberg ticked off a series of “misses,” noting that a fourth-quarter sales decline of 25.4 percent missed the consensus estimates by 8 percent, while earnings before interest and tax, at 561 million euros, missed expectations of 939 million euros.
But the more recent performance offered a brighter picture, analysts said. Bernstein, which highlighted the “stellar” online growth at Inditex, noted an improved outlook for the first quarter with only 15 percent of stores closed and possible reopening by mid-April.
Inditex “should see strong pent-up demand coming through when stores increasingly open and operate without restriction through the course of the year,” Chamberlain said.
The Spanish fast-fashion retailer, which also owns labels Massimo Dutti, Bershka and Stradivarius, has been drawing on its digital prowess to navigate the pandemic. It reported 1.1 billion euros in annual net profit, a 70 percent decline compared to the previous year.
Inditex turned the corner in the second quarter, bouncing back from a loss at the start of last year.
Annual sales came to 20.4 billion euros, a 25 percent decline excluding currency impact. The performance was spurred by online sales, which rose 77 percent in local currencies to 6.6 billion euros. The company, which has sped past rivals on the digital front, has been expanding internationally, and launched online sales platforms in 25 new markets, while opening stores in 29 new markets.
Inditex has rapidly rolled out an integrated stock management system in thousands of stores around the world, a move the company flagged as playing a key role in helping it continue to generate business during the pandemic.
Rival H&M, reported expectation-beating end-of-year results at the end of January, but company projections were weaker than expected as store closures continue to weigh.
In a conference call with analysts, Inditex executives stressed the recent improvement.
“Remember what was happening in the months of September and October, as soon as our stores reopened, the level of sales was moving to the same level of the previous year, even with the restrictions,” said Isla, stressing the company’s integrated system of online and in-store stocks.
“It is clear that as soon as we are able to reopen the stores, this combination is very strong between the store sales and online, in a very integrated way,” he said.
Last year’s widespread pandemic lockdowns showed the company can function even when physical traffic has been restricted, he added.
“We can say that as a company of course we can do everything online, online sales can increase, we controlled cost evolution and we ran the company in an efficient way. We have seen that the only thing that we cannot do is to sell in the stores when the stores are closed because of the pandemic, but as soon as the stores reopen the level of sales becomes very healthy,” Isla said.
The company is advancing as planned on its store-culling efforts, particularly in Spain where it expanded widely in the 1980s and ’90s, executives also said. Inditex has been closing smaller stores — more than 1,000 over two years — in order to focus on larger flagships, which are outfitted with RFID tracking technology.
Rental expenses are expected to decrease as a percentage of sales, executives noted, adding they still want to keep good relations with landlords.


As an American ex-pat who left the country around the time that Fox News really hit it big, I've never really understood the beef people have with them. As near as I can tell, all news outlets wear their politics on their shirtsleeves... some are just more subversive and hypocritical about it.
That said, I'm with the anti-Fox people now. This Fox News obituary of Kurt Vonnegut is absolutely loathsome. It takes a special kind of evil to do a gloating obituary like this days after millions of science-fiction fans have lost one of their most treasured literary icons.
Here's some quotes:
By the late 70's, Vonnegut was rich and irrelevant, a sacred cow of the New York Literary scene...
After a quote by Vonnegut on how most writers have done their best work by fifty-five...
But Vonnegut kept at it and persisted in his unique brand of despondent leftism.
And this eyeball-seething closure:
Vonnegut, who failed at suicide twenty-three years ago, said thirty-four years ago that he hoped his children wouldn't say of him, "He made wonderful jokes, but he was such an unhappy man." So I'll say it for them.
Unbelievable. Fox News can go to hell.


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Swindon Half Marathon 2016
On Sunday 16th October 2016, it's the SEQOL Community Foundation Swindon Half Marathon.
Swindon Half Marathon is back for 2016 and Heart is raising money for Global’s Make Some Noise!
Global’s Make Some Noise aims to change young lives across the UK and in Wiltshire by helping disadvantaged children and young people who may be affected by illness, disability, bereavement or lack of opportunity.
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At the Huawei 2020 Developers Conference on September 10, the Hongmeng OS 2.0 system was officially unveiled. The beta version of the mobile phone will be released in December 2020. Next year, Huawei smartphones will be fully upgraded to support Hongmeng 2.0.
Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei’s consumer BG software department, recently stated that Huawei plans to provide developers with a beta version of a mobile phone with Hongmeng 2.0 in December this year. Some mobile phone users will be open to upgrading the Hongmeng system in January and February next year. However, the initial upgrade will take a couple of months to get official verification. After that, the large scale release will commence.
According to a Weibo blogger, the Hongmeng OS adaptation process has been leaked. Here is the schedule for the Hongmeng 2.0 update for Huawei phones
Gizchina News of the week
- First batch – Kirin 9000 SoC
- Second batch – Kirin 990 5G
- Third batch – Kirin 990 4G (partial)/985/820 (partial)
- Fourth Batch – Kirin 820 (partial), 980, 990 4G (partial)
- Fourth and last batch – Kirin 810, 710 (partial)
From the above schedule, it is clear that Huawei will release this update with respect to the chip that the phone use. The flagship chips will be the first to get the update
EMUI 11 CONNECTS SEAMLESSLY WITH HONGMENG OS 2.0
Talking about Hongmeng’s operability with EMUI 11, Wang Chenglu, believes that Huawei’s disconnection from Android will definitely do more good than harm. According to him, Huawei still has a contract with Google, but after both sides fulfill the contract, Hongmeng OS will have more room to play.
“It’s only a matter of time before EMUI 11’s endpoints fully upgrade with Hongmeng OS 2.0. Huawei has already replaced almost everything inside Android. From the bottom layer to the abstraction layer, which even Google didn’t expect. After both parties have fulfilled their contract, I believe that Hongmeng OS 2.0 will bring a different experience to consumers”. According to Mr. Wang, there’s a small goal for Hongmeng OS. The company plans to have hundreds of millions of devices with Hongmeng OS.
Ever since the ban on Huawei by the American government, the Chinese manufacturer sped up the development of its own system. Presently, Huawei’s Hongmeng OS is nowhere near Android or iOS. It will take many years for this system to compete effectively. However, Huawei is optimistic and it continues to develop Hongmeng. Obviously, by next year, we will have a couple of Huawei smartphones running on this system.


After a brutal meltdown, some investors have been wading back into U.S. stocks. But others are wary of another leg down as the coronavirus spreads and its economic impact is difficult to predict, reports Reuters
High-profile investors from BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) to billionaire William Ackman have turned more bullish on equities in recent days, as unprecedented stimulus from the Federal Reserve, a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill signed Friday, and a call by President Donald Trump to get the United States back to work in weeks rather than months sparked the biggest weekly rally in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 1938.
But other investors, economists, and strategists are fearful of advising a jump back in, with no certainty about when the coronavirus outbreak will be under control.
“People are trying to time the bottom and that’s indicative of an early bear market, when people have hope,” said Richard Bernstein, chief executive officer of Richard Bernstein Advisors. “The beginning of a bull market starts with complete despair, when you’ve killed hope.”
Bernstein said he was a “data hawk” and was looking for a combination of “improving fundamentals” – eyeing the basic health of the asset, rather than trading patterns – and “total disbelief,” adding that in 2009 investors did not believe the bull market was real.
Market Hit Maximum Bearish
After a slump into bear market territory, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI surged over 20% from its recent low last week, which by one definition suggested a new bull market. That definition, however, should be treated with significant caution.
BofA said on Friday that its Bull & Bear Indicator – a key market measure used to track positioning – had hit “maximum bearish,” which could imply a rebound. However, that could have been borne out by the rally seen in the past week.
Ackman, whose Pershing Square LP fund gained a net 6.8% this month according to one investor, wrote to investors last week to say he had taken off credit market hedges and invested the money in new and existing stock holdings after turning “increasingly positive” on stock and credit markets.
Credit Suisse said there was merit in being an early mover rather than waiting until a market bottom “has become apparent,” while the BlackRock Investment Institute said the sell-off created value for long-term investors.
Economic Cost of an Epidemic
While some investors believe an earlier return to work would boost the U.S. economy, health experts say a haphazard patchwork of restrictions across states and a slow-to-mobilize White House could make the coronavirus impact worse. Cases in the United States soared past 135,000 on Sunday, the highest number in the world. [nL1N2BM046]
“Those advocating for less strict policy options have no real idea of the full social and economic costs of a large epidemic,” said Steven Riley, professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, in an email to Reuters.
The possibility that the coronavirus outbreak fades, only to return once restrictions holding back economic activity are lifted, could cause “a severe financial crisis,” said business consultancy Fathom Consulting.
Edward Moya, senior market analyst at currency trading firm OANDA in New York, said the “longer we don’t have people going to work, the greater the shock on the economy” – which could mean “U.S. markets open limit down at the start of next week.” Limit down refers to the restrictions placed on how fast markets can fall.
U.S. stocks are expected to open down around 0.5%, according to financial spread betting company IG.
“We can expect more drama this week given that Friday’s bounce was so rapidly sold after the official close, and with more U.S. jobs data to come, plus a further rise in infection rates and death tolls, it looks to be another choppy week,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG, in a statement on Sunday.
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Mar 23, 2012, 2:07 AM EDT
Eight games in a row on the road — it was supposed to do Boston in, knock them out of the playoffs. It was the biggest test of the season and the Celtics old legs were not going to be able to live up to it.
Friday night the road trip ends in Philadelphia and at the end of the night the Celtics could move into first place in the Atlantic Division.
The stage was set for that by Boston’s 100-91 win over the Bucks Thursday night. That win moved the Celtics half a game behind the Sixers for the division lead — and the automatic four seed that comes with it. Which means avoiding the Heat or Bulls in the first round of the playoffs.
Even if the Celtics don’t grab the division lead Friday, the win over the Bucks — breaking Milwaukee’s six-game winning streak — put them on solid footing to make the postseason.
The Bucks are the 9 seed in the East but are now four games back of the 7 seed Celtics — that’s a lot of ground to have to make up in just 20 games. (Which is how many games the Celtics have left this season.)
(The team that might be more nervous about the charging Bucks is the Knicks — except the Knicks have won five in a row themselves. New York is 1.5 games ahead of the Bucks. Milwaukee might have better chance to catch the 76ers who are 4.5 games ahead of them but slumping.)
The Sixers got their key win over the Bucks the old fashioned way — good defense. Well, a half of good defense. After a tight first half the Celtics held Milwaukee to 29.3 percent shooting in the second half. For the game the Bucks backcourt of Monta Ellis and Brandon Jennings combined to shoot 12-of-32. Which is still better than Drew Gooden’s 2-of-12.
Meanwhile Paul Pierce had 10 points in the third quarter on his way to a game high 25.
If Boston can get a performance like this on Friday night — if the old legs can do it one more time on this road trip — they will go home with after a 5-3 road trip with a half-game lead in the Atlantic. Something nobody saw coming.
- PBT Extra: Houston, Dallas simply do not like each other 0
- Sounds like Pacers president Larry Bird, head coach Frank Vogel don’t want Roy Hibbert back next year 16
- PBT staff playoff predictions: Lots of Golden State love from us 1
- PBT Extra: Injuries make Grizzlies, Trail Blazers series hard to predict 3
- PBT Extra: Will Spurs depth, versatility prove too much for Clippers? 13
- PBT Extra: Anthony Davis, Pelicans made playoffs. Will they get a fifth game vs. Warriors? 6
- Rumor: LaMarcus Aldridge more likely to leave Trail Blazers in free agency than people realize 24
- PBT First-Round Playoff Previews: Chicago Bulls vs. Milwaukee Bucks 8

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