Mornin all, morening bakers.
Hope it was a great nightshift and here’s to the day ahead.
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>>55392 Devin Nunes hasn't been suspended. It was a joke by Alex Salvi (sorry)
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>>55392, >>55413, >>55418 Devin Nunes gov twitter acct back up
Afaik it was suspended briefly last night. Posobiec, Salvi and many others reported it.
Wooooooop. Awesome.
Tripdubs chekt. Good morning m’friend.
Thx. Interdasting to see it again. Would be nice to think that Q ops are active.
New study from CDC - breathing even less oxygen, more CO2 is good for you
Double masking can block over 92% of potentially infectious particles from escaping, CDC study says
New data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that double masking using a cloth mask over a medical procedure mask, like a disposable blue surgical mask can significantly improve protection from Covid-19.
Researchers found that the combination of the two masks can block 92.5% of potentially infectious particles from escaping by creating a tighter fit around the face.
They also found that overall performance of medical procedure masks alone can be improved by folding mask edges inward and knotting ear loop strings where they meet mask fabric to reduce gaps.
A knotted medical mask can block 63% of aerosols that may contain coronavirus, a significant improvement from blocking only 42% of particles when unknotted. The findings were published Wednesday in the CDC’S Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Beginning in January 2021, the CDC tested the double masking and knotting methods to evaluate mask performance protection. Researchers found the effectiveness of cloth and medical procedure masks can be improved by ensuring they are well fitted to the contours of the face to prevent air and particles from escaping from gaps around the mask’s edges.
The study found that when both a source of infection and uninfected source were both fitted with double masks, the uninfected person’s exposure to potentially infectious particles was reduced by 96.4%.
When both people wore knotted and tucked masks alone, the uninfected person’s cumulative exposure to potentially infectious particles was reduced by 95.9%.
Both findings highlight the importance of a good fit to maximize mask performance to reduce exposure.
“This observation suggests that amendments to improve fit might result in equivalent improvements, regardless of the masks baseline filtration efficiency,” the researchers wrote.
It is unclear how or if the CDC will incorporate these new findings into its mask recommendations.
The CDC team used a medical procedure mask, like blue surgical masks, and a three-layered cloth mask for a total of twelve different mask combinations. They performed tests using various combinations of no mask, double masks, and unknotted or knotted and tucked medical procedure masks.
When studying ‘double masking’ these experiments utilized one cloth over one medical mask. The researchers did not include any other combinations of masks, such as cloth over cloth, medical procedure mask over medical procedure mask, or medical procedure mask over cloth.
The study also did not provide any guidance on mask fitting.
“The data in this report underscore the finding that good fit can increase filtration efficiency. Multiple simple ways to achieve better fit have been demonstrated to be effective,” the analysis reads.
“Until vaccine-induced population immunity is achieved, universal masking is a highly effective means to slow the spread," it added.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-02-10-21
>New study from CDC - breathing even less oxygen, more CO2 is good for you
CNN do not link to the ‘new study’
In another blow against small businesses during a pandemic…
House Dems pass gradual $15 minimum wage hike in late night committee vote
The $15 minimum wage hike was part of the House Education and Labor Committee's budget reconciliation legislation for Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan
House Democrats later Tuesday evening passed a gradual $15 minimum wage hike in a committee vote.
The increase from $7.25 an hour was part of the House Education and Labor Committee's budget reconciliation legislation for President Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. In the legislation, the minimum wage would reach $15 in 2025.
The language of the Raise the Wage Act was incorporated into the $170 billion COVID-19 stimulus funding legislation for public schools during the virtual committee markup that began late in the afternoon on Tuesday. The vote on the legislation was 27-21 along party lines.
"This legislation invests in safely reopening schools, raises wages and increases safety protections for workers, expands access to affordable care, and provides support for the surge of families facing hunger and hardship during this pandemic," House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott wrote in a statement.
Ranking member Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican, criticized the majority's actions.
"Once again, Democrats are ignoring vulnerable, hardworking Americans, choosing instead to favor left wing special interests and those who support their radical agenda," she said.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently projected that a gradual $15 minimum wage in Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package would result in 1.4 million workers losing their jobs.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-democrats-pass-gradual-15-minimum-wage-hike-late-night-committee-vote
Soros-Funded Group to Provide “Mandatory Implicit Bias Training” for City Workers in L.A.
Billionaire George Soros’s radical leftism is spreading through America’s most populous county. Days after a Soros-backed prosecutor who vows to lock up fewer criminals became Los Angeles District Attorney, the city’s mayor is forcing all employees to undergo “implicit bias” training to be conducted by a group that receives funding from Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF). That makes L.A. County and its biggest city, the nation’s second-most populous, a stronghold of the powerful Soros machine that aims to promote the left’s agenda.
It started with Soros’s financial support for a controversial Black Lives Matter-endorsed District Attorney candidate, George Gascon, who has alienated career prosecutors throughout California with his renegade criminal justice reform initiatives. A former San Francisco District Attorney, Gascon announced upon being sworn in as L.A. County’s top prosecutor that his office will no longer pursue the death penalty, try juveniles as adults, add gangs and other enhancements to criminal complaints or seek cash bail for non-violent felonies or misdemeanors. It is worth noting that the L.A. County D.A. is the largest local prosecutorial office in the United States. The District Attorney in Sacramento recently blasted Gascon in a letter published by various media outlets in the state. “Your Special Directives are not just extreme but will undoubtedly wreak havoc on crime victims and their Constitutional rights,” the letter states. “Your lack of concern for their rights and safety concerns me greatly. Additionally, because crime has no boundaries, these Special Directives will have far greater impact than on Los Angeles County alone. Rather, victims across California will be negatively impacted and the safety of all Californians will be jeopardized.”
Now all the city’s 50,000 employees must participate in racial bias training conducted by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University (OSU). Judicial Watch dug up information on the group and uncovered deep ties to Soros and other notorious leftists. The center is named after a former OSU president appointed by California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to a prestigious Department of Education post. In addition to its “implicit bias” trainings, the institute’s research areas include racial wealth inequality, opportunity mapping, and health equity and disparities. As you would expect, its agenda is radically progressive. Policy proposals from Kirwan Institute products include, “significantly raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy,” a Congressional committee on reparations, guaranteed employment, and “Medicare for All.”
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/soros-funded-group-to-provide-mandatory-implicit-bias-training-for-city-workers-in-l-a
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Until this month, the institute’s executive director was Darrick Hamilton, who left to head the Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy at the New School in New York. He is best known for being one of the developers of the “baby bonds” proposal in which the government provides a trust fund for every newborn based on parents’ wealth. Hamilton was an advisor to the Bernie Sanders campaign and a member of the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force. OSU paid him $259,334.40 annually to run the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Other individuals associated with the institute include Kyle Strickland, who serves as senior legal analyst and Hasan Jeffries, an OSU professor who achieved notoriety for posting on social media that the Fraternal Order of Police has killed more black people than the white supremacist hate group Ku Klux Klan. Strickland is a Black Lives Matter supporter who is also deputy director of race and democracy at the Roosevelt Institute, which received more than $1 million from OSF in 2019 and lists Jonathan Soros as a senior fellow.
The Kirwan Institute has received an undisclosed amount of funding from OSF and the Soros conglomerate is listed as a financial supporter in its 2015-2016 Biennial Report. OSF is not specifically mentioned in the 2020 annual report however, it notes that the institute partners with Demos, the Roosevelt Institute, the Center for Community Change, and the Economic Security Project, all of which receive extensive funding from OSF. One of the institute’s partners, PolicyLink, is a liberal research and advocacy nonprofit in Oakland that received $500,000 from OSF in 2019.
The mayor of L.A., Eric Garcetti, claims the goal of enlisting this group is to “advance racial equity across city government.” Garcetti recently issued a directive that creates a racial equity task force and appoints racial equity officers throughout city government. “Our city is in pain, and we are hungry for change,” the mayor writes in the order “The demonstrations for racial justice in recent weeks have not exposed something new — they’ve laid bare the urgent and overdue demand to end structural racism. America’s tragic history of violent and persistent discrimination casts a long shadow over the challenges Blacks and other people of color confront today in housing, employment, and the criminal justice system.” The social, economic, and political inequities have created a “shamefully disparate and stratified society,” Garcetti asserts.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/soros-funded-group-to-provide-mandatory-implicit-bias-training-for-city-workers-in-l-a
Mollie Hemingway gets in on the loaf love
Mollie
@MZHemingway
Sometimes I just feel like I love everybody. I know things are rough in many places but the world and it’s inhabitants are such a gift from God.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1359556119358820358
Cool cool. Ty
Big tech’s sponsored newsletters this morning
Emily Jashinsky
@emilyjashinsky
A telling snapshot of tech’s political influence campaign. Look who sponsored each of these three newsletters just this morning. Insular Beltway outlets are happy to cash their checks.
https://mobile.twitter.com/emilyjashinsky/status/1359560158364504069
@amuse
This is a video of the BLM leader who the Democrats relied on for video of the protests at the Capitol. The majority of their videos were recorded by him and his comrades.
https://mobile.twitter.com/amuse/status/1359293313958952967