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Anonymous ID: f1f84b Aug. 9, 2020, 7:15 a.m. No.10232108   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2127 >>2162 >>2185 >>2209 >>2319

A woman claiming to be from the 'Freedom To Breathe Agency' filmed telling a grocery employee that she could face legal action for making people wear face masks

 

A woman claiming to be from the "Freedom to Breathe Agency" was filmed telling a grocery store supervisor in Orange County, California, that she could face legal action for telling people to wear face coverings.

 

In a viral TikTok video, the mask-less woman — identified as Lenka Koloma — said they were "making sure that people's constitutional rights, civil and federal laws are not broken."

 

The incident happened on Friday afternoon after Liz Chavez, 31, a supervisor at a supermarket, was informed by one of her colleagues that two women in the store were not wearing a mask and therefore violating store rules.

 

"I went up to them like, 'Hey, in order to be inside the store you're required to wear a mask,'" Chavez told Buzzfeed News. "They told me, 'No, we're not required to wear a mask.'"

 

The two women, wearing badges that said "FTBA" and claimed to be from the "Freedom to Breathe Agency," gave Chavez a piece of paper that stated she could face legal action for telling people to wear masks.

 

"You personally need to take this to your manager because you personally can be sued for this, OK?" Koloma can be heard saying in the video.

 

"You are putting yourself into major legal liability — you personally," Koloma added, before leaving the shop.

 

According to Buzzfeed News, the paper also said that Chavez could go to prison for up to three to five years and could be fined up to $10,000 for telling customers to wear a mask.

 

"They weren't there to shop," Chavez told Buzzfeed News. "They honestly were probably just waiting for somebody to come up to them and ask them to wear a mask so they could do this."

 

The "Freedom To Breathe Agency" is not a real governmental agency. It has no official website and only uses a private Facebook group.

 

Koloma, who describes herself as the founder of the group, regularly posts anti-masks messages on her social media pages.

 

She told BuzzFeed News that she and the woman she was with "both have medical, health conditions and also religious beliefs that do not allow us to wear a mask," but did not say what those medical conditions are.

 

This is not the first time the "Freedom To Breathe Agency" has drawn attention.

 

In June, the group was given a warning by The Department of Justice. It had distributed "face mask exempt" cards that claimed to wear a mask put people at risk of mental or physical impairment and that the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) bars officials from questioning their decision not to wear face coverings.

 

"Do not be fooled by the chicanery and misappropriation of the DOJ eagle," US Attorney Martin said in a statement. "These cards do not carry the force of law. The 'Freedom to Breathe Agency,' or 'FTBA,' is not a government agency."

 

The current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines state that face masks are recommended in many public settings in the US to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

 

In California, wearing a mask outside your home is required statewide, according to its coronavirus information website.

 

At the time of writing, the country has almost 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases and more than 162,000 deaths, according to a tracker by Johns Hopkins University.

 

Koloma did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

Anonymous ID: f1f84b Aug. 9, 2020, 7:25 a.m. No.10232165   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2348 >>2535 >>2743

Nagasaki urges nuke ban on 75th anniversary of US A-bombing

 

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban.

 

At 11:02 a.m., the moment the B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped a 4.5-ton (10,000-pound) plutonium bomb dubbed “Fat Man,” Nagasaki survivors and other participants stood in a minute of silence to honor more than 70,000 dead.

 

The Aug. 9, 1945, bombing came three days after the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the world’s first ever nuclear attack that killed 140,000. On Aug. 15, Japan surrendered, ending World War II.

 

At the event at Nagasaki Peace Park, scaled down because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Tomihisa Taue read a peace declaration in which he raised concern that nuclear states had in recent years retreated from disarmament efforts.

 

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban.

 

At 11:02 a.m., the moment the B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped a 4.5-ton (10,000-pound) plutonium bomb dubbed “Fat Man,” Nagasaki survivors and other participants stood in a minute of silence to honor more than 70,000 dead.

 

The Aug. 9, 1945, bombing came three days after the United States dropped its first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the world’s first ever nuclear attack that killed 140,000. On Aug. 15, Japan surrendered, ending World War II.

 

At the event at Nagasaki Peace Park, scaled down because of the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Tomihisa Taue read a peace declaration in which he raised concern that nuclear states had in recent years retreated from disarmament efforts.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/nagasaki-urges-nuke-ban-75th-020346546.html

Anonymous ID: f1f84b Aug. 9, 2020, 7:45 a.m. No.10232267   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2276 >>2299 >>2331 >>2348 >>2535 >>2743

Multiple Errors By Newsom’s Team Caused Massive Blockage In California Coronavirus Reporting System; 250,000-300,000 Records Still Delayed

 

On Friday, California’s top health official was sent out by his boss to face the music.

 

Dr. Mark Ghaly, director of the state’s Health and Human Services Department, held a news conference and admitted that multiple errors on the state’s part had caused a backlog of 250,000-300,000 records in its case data reporting system. That system is used primarily to parse and distribute coronavirus data.

 

He apologized not just to the public but, obliquely, to his boss, Governor Gavin Newsom.

 

“We apologize,” Ghaly said on behalf of his staff. “You deserve better. The governor demands better.”

 

Newsom has not given one of his regular coronavirus new conferences since Monday. Nor has the governor, who is fond of saying “data is foundational” to his coronavirus decisions, commented on the reporting miscues.

 

But the state HHS director made it clear his boss was not pleased. “It’s a problem the governor demanded my team and I resolve,” he said.

 

Ghaly said a July 25 server outage prevented lab records from reaching the state system, which has the appropriately ironic name of CalREDIE. At that time, a workaround was created to allow records to flow in more quickly.

 

That workaround was supposed to be temporary. But someone somewhere forgot to switch the system back. That mistake caused further data delays and created a backlog. Ghaly said the workaround had since been reversed.

 

On top of that, the state failed to renew a certification with an intermediary that feeds results from labs like Quest directly into CalREDIE. Because of that bureaucratic error, some test results from Quest were held back between July 31-August 4. Ghaly said the certificate has now been renewed.

 

“I became aware of the magnitude of the data backlog in the late afternoon on Monday,” said Ghaly, “and alerted the Governor and his staff shortly thereafter.”

 

The state’s backlog of 250,000-300,000 records will be resolved in next 24-48 hours, he said. The test results will be added to the case totals for the days on which they would have originally reported.

 

The backlogged results are not all “unique records.” Some may be duplicates or re-tests. CalREDIE also carries reports for other diseases in the state.

 

“The CalReady system was not built this volume of data,” Ghaly said, before promising that extra servers redundancies had been added to bolster it. He also said the state was “accelerating development of a new system.”

 

The director said that the errors only impacted daily case numbers, not the reporting on deaths, hospitalizations or ICU patients.

 

Furthermore, no changes to the state’s policies were based on the erroneous data, maintained Ghaly. “We did not over the period of the last many days use the data monitoring list to create any closures or any policy decisions.”

 

That’s an odd assertion given that Governor Newsom announced he would be, on Friday, releasing his guidelines for reopening California colleges.

 

If true, that would mean Newsom and his team generated those guidelines based on weeks-old data used to create the monitoring list. At last count, that list encompasses counties that make up over 70 percent of the state’s population.

 

Asked who knew what when, Ghaly recounted the above timeline relating to himself and Newsom and then added, “We are aware that individuals…were knowledgeable of some of these challenges.”

 

“The governor has directed a full investigation of what happened,” he said. “And we will hold people accountable.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/multiple-errors-newsom-team-caused-211641125.html