Evil Doc

Herd immunity from vax?

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. —

Hospitals are ramping up safety protocols and urging vaccinations as measles cases continue to rise, according to Dr. John Goldman, an infectious disease specialist at UPMC. 

Infectious disease expert surprised by measles’ return

“I would have never thought that this was coming back,” Goldman said. Before the recent outbreak, he had only encountered two cases of measles in his career, attributing one to “our lack of knowledge at the time” and the other to “just somebody with bad luck.” 

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Goldman emphasized the highly contagious nature of measles, explaining, “You can get it just by being in the same room as someone with measles two hours after they’ve left.” 

Hospitals screen and isolate symptomatic patients

Hospitals are now screening patients for symptoms such as fever, cough, and rash. “We are screening people if they have symptoms consistent with measles. If they’re not vaccinated, we very quickly will put them in measles precautions,” Goldman said. 

Patients showing symptoms are immediately isolated to prevent further exposure. “We very quickly get a mask on, get you in what’s called a negative pressure room, a room where the air is being sucked out so it doesn’t go out into the hallway, for example,” he said. 

Health department recommends additional vaccine

Goldman noted that 100% of the people diagnosed with measles have been unvaccinated. In response, the Department of Health is recommending an additional measles vaccine for children starting at six months, in addition to the standard vaccine at 12 months. 

Contact tracing helps limit measles spread

Hospitals are also conducting contact tracing to limit the spread of the disease. “If someone is unvaccinated and exposed, if we can get them a vaccine within 72 hours, it becomes much less likely that they’ll get measles. So, we generally call people, try to find out how old they are, see if they likely had measles as a child, and try to find out if they’re vaccinated,” Goldman said. 

Vaccination key to achieving herd immunity

Goldman strongly recommends vaccination, highlighting its importance in preventing the spread of measles. “One person with measles will infect approximately 16 others, whereas a person with the flu will only infect three or four,” he said. 

While Goldman said cases will eventually decline, he explained, “We are going to achieve herd immunity to measles one way or the other. We’re either going to achieve it because enough people go out and get vaccinated, or we’re going to achieve it because the virus will go through the population.” 

Goldman assured that hospitals have protocols in place to protect patients and families and urged people not to let fear prevent them from seeking medical care.-wgal

Bad Jurors

These juror interviews are extraordinary. They are admitting openly that they disregarded the law entirely for the sake of letting Clancy off the hook. There’s no other way to read it.

One juror says she originally wanted to vote guilty but changed her mind so that “Lindsay could get the help she needs.” That is a clear violation of the law. They were supposed to make a determination solely about guilt or innocence. They were not there to make sure anyone “gets help.”

Another juror says she voted not guilty because the prosecution never produced “character witnesses” proving Clancy was a “bad mother.” The problem is that A) killing your children IS definitive evidence that you’re a bad mother, and B) the prosecution would not have been allowed to call those kinds of witnesses. A witness solely testifying that Clancy was a bad mother would have been purely prejudicial. So this juror acquitted because the prosecution failed to provide evidence that they weren’t allowed to provide and which would have been irrelevant anyway. Extraordinary. This same juror even admitted that it was a “fact” that Clancy “viciously killed her children.” The word vicious literally means “done maliciously and with intent.” So if that’s a fact then they were obligated to vote guilty. But they didn’t.

Meanwhile another juror swooned over the defense attorney’s “entertaining” demeanor. And another one said that all of the facts of the case — “everything,” her words — “proved” that Clancy “loved her children.” Apparently strangling your children to death, in this juror’s mind, does not at all call your love for them into question.

Just a collection of the most morally obtuse idiots ever assembled. Amazing.-Walsh

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Fingers

Justice DP

Put him down.

WILMINGTON, Del. (WPVI) — Chelsea Cooke is mourning the loss of her fiancé, who police say was fatally shot Sunday morning in Wilmington, Delaware.

“It feels like a dream that I’m not waking up from,” said Cooke following the death of 32-year-old Donald “Donnie” Nave.

Cooke said adjusting to life without Nave has been difficult. She described him as her partner of 12 years and the father of their two children, with a third child on the way.

“You never think it’s going…I never thought this would be me. It was so stupid – over nothing,” Cooke said.

According to New Castle County police, Nave was shot and killed by 31-year-old Hector Sanchez on Sunday morning.

IMAGE: Donald “Donnie” Nave (left) / Hector Sanchez (right)

Cooke said she and Nave had just returned to their home on South Cleveland Avenue in Wilmington when Sanchez ran up behind him.

“With me and my son near the car, he did not care. He came at 8:30 in the morning, no tints, no mask, no nothing,” Cooke said. “I can’t wait to see him under the jail.”

Police said detectives quickly identified Sanchez’s vehicle using license plate reader technology and took him into custody Sunday evening.

“It was an overwhelming feeling that they caught him. It was,” Cooke said.

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Cooke said Nave and Sanchez had been involved in a road rage incident in August and that Sanchez had been harassing Nave in the days before the killing.

“You’re a weirdo out here taking somebody’s son and loved one because you can’t control yourself. It’s insane,” Cooke said.

Remembering Nave, Cooke described him as a hard worker, a family man and the center of her life.

“He was everything to me. Everything. I couldn’t ask for a better partner. He was imperfectly perfect,” she said.

As she continues to grieve, Cooke said she is holding on to those memories while coping with another loss that occurred the same day.

“I lost my grand pop the same day. So, I lost two of the most important men in my whole entire life in the same day, but I gained two angels,” Cooke said.

Nave is scheduled to be laid to rest Tuesday.

Sanchez remains in custody and is facing first-degree murder charges.-6ABC

Conformity and Obedience

CONFORMITY IS DOING WHAT EVERYONE

ELSE IS DOING.

REGARDLESS OF WHAT IS RIGHT.

BIBLICAL OBEDIENCE IS DOING WHAT IS RIGHT

REGARDLESS OF WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING.

Non Citizen PoPo

What could go wrong?

Danbury, Connecticut, will soon let some immigrants who are not citizens pin on a police badge.

The city council voted 18-2 to open law enforcement jobs to permanent legal residents and recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), according to the Hartford Courant. The change applies only to those two lawful categories rather than to all non-citizens, and it brings city hiring in line with the state’s Police Officer Standards and Training Council, which dropped its citizenship rule in 2020 and added DACA recipients in 2025.

The vote landed after a week of federal immigration sweeps across the region. Officials estimated that only six or seven of the roughly 100 people arrested carried criminal records, the Courant reported. School attendance dropped by about 700 students as families grew wary of leaving home.-msn

Black Chaos

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia police say several people were arrested and several citations were issued after a teen takeover in Center City.

On Monday, Action News spoke with Jimmy Freeman, of Logan, who said he witnessed the entire situation and taped it with his Meta glasses. Freeman said he was there as hundreds of teenagers descended on the area around Dilworth Park on Sunday while the Made in Philadelphia Summer Market was coming to a close.

“All the vendors were out. Tents were everywhere. They were just breaking up. And as they were breaking up the tents and the stuff, all this chaos started happening,” he explained. “It was just wild. You would have to be here to experience it.”

In a video Freeman shared with Action News, you can see police responding to the crowds as fights broke out. One video clip also shows officers attending to one person who fell to the ground.

Philadelphia police say they will be using videos that are circulating on social media in their investigation.

Police say one person was arrested for having a firearm, another was arrested for robbery, and a third was arrested for disorderly conduct. Seven citations were also issued on Sunday for disorderly conduct.

Jonathan Dunleavy, of Queen Village, said he was heading to his girlfriend’s home when he saw what was happening.

“We had flash mobs when I was this age. Never like this. Never in Center City,” Dunleavy said.

In the midst of the chaos, Dunleavy said he heard a gunshot.

“I heard, ‘Yo, he’s got a gun!’ So I stopped and turned and heard pop pop,” he explained.

Philadelphia police say after the gunshot went off, they saw a young man putting something in a backpack. A foot chase ensued, and when officers caught him, they found a handgun with 37 rounds in his bag.

After Sunday’s situation, Philadelphia police increased patrols around City Hall and other parts of Center City on Monday. Still, groups of teenagers filled the area. Action News witnessed several arrests, and our crew saw an officer walking away from one scuffle with a bloodied face.

We have reached out to Philadelphia police for more information about Monday’s arrests.

Action News has also reached out to Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker’s office for comment on the situation, but we are waiting to hear back.-6ABC

Judges Wrong

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Bonneville International Corp. lawfully fired longtime Sacramento Kings announcer Grant Napear over a 2020 “All Lives Matter” tweet, upholding a lower court’s dismissal of his wrongful-termination lawsuit.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with the broadcaster’s former employer. The decision ends, for now, a fight that began after Napear lost both his jobs in a single 48-hour stretch during the protests that followed George Floyd’s death.

Former Kings star DeMarcus Cousins put the question to Napear on Twitter, now known as X. “What’s your take on BLM?” Napear, off work in May 2020 and watching the protest coverage, replied that he was glad to hear from Cousins. Then he wrote, “ALL LIVES MATTER … EVERY SINGLE ONE!!!”

Bonneville employed Napear as a KTHK radio host and the Kings’ play-by-play announcer. The company suspended him the next day. It fired him the day after that.

Napear was a public figure, the panel noted, and his contract spelled out what that meant online. He had agreed to maintain “a high standard of care and level of responsibility” on social media. The reason, the contract states, was that his conduct could affect Bonneville’s “public image and reputation.” The judges concluded that his tweet “involved his celebrity persona such that his statement fell within the scope of his professional capacity.”

Napear’s attorney, Matthew Ruggles, disputed that conclusion.

“Grant Napear actually owned that Twitter account, had published approximately 38,500 tweets before he tweeted ‘All Lives Matter…Every Single One,’ and that tweet was not made on-air, during work, or as part of any radio show,” Ruggles said. “It was Grant’s personal expression, and that issue should be decided by a jury, not the court.”

Ruggles said he will seek a rehearing before the full appeals court. If that fails, he plans to ask the Supreme Court to review the case.

Napear lost at both levels. U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd, an Obama appointee, threw out the suit without a trial. On appeal, Judges Bridget Bade, Danielle Forrest, and Lawrence VanDyke, all Trump appointees, let that ruling stand.

Napear spent the next five years podcasting. He returned to the airwaves last August as a daily host on Fox Sports Radio in Sacramento, going head-to-head with KHTK.

Napear is not the first sports broadcaster fired over social media. A Dallas radio station cut former major league pitcher Mike Bacsik in 2010 after a disparaging post about “Mexicans in San Antonio.”

Napear’s case drew renewed reaction online after the ruling, with users weighing in on the firing and the court’s decision.-Breitbart

Expell

Mr Farage said that he understands the motivation for people protesting the migrants, saying that people are rightfully concerned over the threat posed by the mostly military-age people entering the country with little to no vetting.

“Communities are fearful up and down this country. Fearful for the safety of women and girls. I’m fearful for that, but I’m even more fearful for the threats to our national security,” he said, referencing reports of the Islamist Iranian regime attempting to smuggle Revolutionary Guards Corps agents into Britain.-Breitbart

Remove Surveillance

Flock cameras or any surveillance cameras for that matter should all be removed from around the Capitol Building.  The danger to the privacy of citizens visiting their representatives is too probable.  Which members will make that proposal and demand their removal?  The same for all state capitol buildings as well.-Levin