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  1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-sends-more-agents-to-crowded-texas-border-crossing-11631988140

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    The Biden administration said it is sending additional border agents to a South Texas town where thousands of Haitian migrants are being held under a bridge, as officials prepared to begin flying them back to their home country under a public-health policy allowing for rapid expulsions.

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to send 400 agents and officers to Del Rio, Texas, and is moving migrants to other processing locations along the border, including about 2,000 on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday. DHS, which plans to start flying people back to Haiti on Sunday, according to officials, also said it is moving to increase the pace of flights to their home countries or counties where they last lived.

    Haitians have been coming at a steady clip all year to Del Rio, a remote region of the border west of San Antonio, creating a fresh humanitarian crisis in a year when illegal border crossings have hit a two-decade highand the Biden administration has been struggling to handle a crush of asylum seekers.

     
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    Haitian migrants crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico to get food and supplies to bring back to the encampment of people sheltering under the bridge in Texas.

    PHOTO: PAUL RATJE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
     

    “Today has been a significant change in strategy. We have much more resources that are being delivered to the Del Rio area,” said Mayor Bruno Lozano at a news conference on Saturday. He put the number of migrants waiting to be processed at over 14,000.

     

    The Border Patrol, whose facilities aren’t large enough to accommodate the recent crush, has been holding the migrants under the bridge—often for days—as they work to process immigration paperwork.

    “Border patrol agents are doing everything they can but it’s clear they need more support and they need it now,” said Rep. Tony Gonzales (R., Texas.) in a statement, noting that the number of migrants had grown sharply since he visited the migrant camp on Thursday.

    The Biden administration is sending the Haitians in Del Rio on flights back to Haiti under a Trump-era pandemic health measure known as Title 42, which gives the government the authority to turn back any migrant caught crossing the border illegally, regardless of their country of origin.

     

    On Thursday, a federal judge in Washington ruled that the Biden administration is violating immigration law by rapidly expelling migrant families using the title 42 policy, but that judge stayed the effect of his decision for two weeks. 

    On Friday, the administration appealed the decision to a higher court.

    Haitians being held under the bridge huddled closely together, sleeping on the dirt and walking back to the river to relieve themselves, according to officials who visited and videos of the scene. A pile of trash stood 4 feet high. Migrants had built makeshift shelters out of cardboard and materials they were finding along the river to shield themselves from the desert sun. The temperature in Del Rio on Friday afternoonreached 100 degrees.

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    Haitians have been migrating to the U.S. in increasing numbers in the past few years. Many of them, migration experts say, left the island nation years ago for jobs in South American countries like Chile and Brazil. They have headed to the U.S. border during the Covid-19 pandemic—which caused economies in those countries to contract—and because of a perception that the Biden administration would be likelier to let them stay once they cross.

    Mr. Biden and other administration officials have repeatedly urged would-be migrants not to come to the U.S.

     

    Border officials also closed the port of entry in Del Rio as a precaution, telling the public to use the nearest port of entry in Eagle Pass, Texas, about an hour to the south.

    Haitians are one of multiple groups reshaping the demographics of migration at the southern border. Whereas most illegal border crossers have historically been Mexican, and have more recently come from Central America seeking asylum, more than one in four in recent months has come from countries in South America or the Caribbean.

    Migrants from different countries also tend to take different routes to the border, typically dictated by smuggling routes. That has made historically quiet parts of the border like Del Rio, with limited Border Patrol facilities or shelter space, sudden hot spots of activity.

    The stretch of border near Del Rio became the second-busiest Border Patrol sector this year, with nearly 215,000 arrests out of 1.47 million across the entire border since October, the beginning of the government’s budget year, according to CBP data. That is a record high for the region; during the previous border surge in 2019, it saw just over 57,000 migrants.

    “This is definitely at a whole different level, no doubt,” said David Martinez, the Val Verde County attorney.

     

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  2. 24 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    My 8YO has it now. My wife has been quarantined in the master suite. Is it okay for two positives to quarantine together or it best to keep them separate?

    My 14YO and I are still negative and may have to head to a hotel.

    Why couldn’t they be together? Of course they should. 
     

    Have you considered just staying home and getting it over with? I’m assuming you and and the kid are vaccinated. Get a mild case, acquire super immunity. We’re all going to get it at least once. Might as well have it all be the same 10-15 day period. 

  3. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

    The FDA essentially just got the nod from the advisory committee to authorize boosters in what, some 200+ MM Americans.  They just did so in the most convoluted non-sensical fashion possible injecting confusion all around.  Which is pretty on brand.  

    It would appear that the Sep 20th deadline contributed to the haphazard fashion that it went down 

  4. 2 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    so Pfizer no booster can't get on a plane but Moderna no booster can get on a plane?

    Well they haven’t done anything about air travel yet, but if governments are discounting natural immunity I don’t see why they wouldn’t discount two shot people.
     

    The refrain here will be something like, “Sure you have some protection from two shots, but you could do better with a third shot why don’t you just do it”. 

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  5. 10 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    so if you are over 65 but don't take the booster are you "fully vaccinated"?

    Not if you’ve had Pfizer, I believe. It certainly expands the window for mandates. Including those with “high risk for occupational exposure” also opens up people of all ages to further mandates. 
     

    We need to protect the vaccinated from the not fully vaccinated. 

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  6. 2 hours ago, bernorange said:

    I was surveying headlines about El Salvador and Bitcoin this morning.  Without digging into details (ie. just reading headlines) I see that:

    - El Salvador's Court of Accounts will be investigating how the government makes its Bitcoin purchases, following complaints.

    - El Salvador's adoption of bitcoin as legal tender has immediate negative implications for it credit rating S&P Global said on Thursday.

    - El Salvador bond spreads to U.S. Treasuries hit a record high on Thursday on growing investor fears the Central American nation will not reach a potential $1 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund and faces negative credit implications linked to its use of bitcoin.

    Seems like the big boys in the markets are still applying pressure on El Salvador.  But then I see this nugget:

    https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/el-salvador-bitcoin-chivo-atms-cryptocurrency-remittances-money-bukele-2021-9

    I don't think El Salvador is going to back down.

    Agreed. The elimination of fees from these remittances is essentially a direct economic stimulus to these people. Once they learn how to use it, why go back?

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  7. 45 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Second image is previously unpublished US data.

     

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    The second slide tells me there’s no indication for widespread boosters in the population under 75. Over could be a debate but still pretty strong coverage. 

  8. 1 hour ago, cactusflinthead said:

     

    More from r/nursing

    Hey, @Satoshi. Is that you GR?

    continue to fuck off.

     

    COVID is killing young people in their 20’s. This is the worst ABG I’ve ever seen and the patient is only mid 20’s

     

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    Great. You posted an ABG of someone that is pretty much dead. Mid 20s, dying of covid is almost certainly very obese or has other major health problems. What are you trying to prove exactly?

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  9. 1 hour ago, Captainant said:

    Another success story for @Satoshi - he wants more people to die like this

    Is this some kind of gotcha? I never said you couldn’t die after you’ve had covid. I said that natural immunity is roughly equivalent to vaccine immunity. In the same way that a breakthrough infection can kill someone, so too can a re-infection. But these are quite rare. 
     

    8 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    Odds are that dude had not had covid already. One super nutter who is the older brother of guys I grew up with rants constantly about chin diapers and kids getting CO2 poisoning and “the jab” being worthless. He posted the other day that he’s had covid twice and did just fine. I wanted so bad to post bitch you don’t even believe the virus is real and you want us to believe you went and got a covid test not once but twice?

    You may be on to something here. 

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  10. Spoiler

    Through its recent legal threat against Coinbase’s new interest-bearing cryptocurrency account program, the Securities and Exchange Commission has created a stir in both finance and tech — two worlds that have always been intertwined, but because of the implications of digital technology itself, now face each other in a deepening rivalry. Industry watchers now expect the Biden administration to go on regulatory offense against cryptocurrency.

    What is at stake is far more serious than the mainstreaming of cryptocurrency. Facilitated by technology, financial companies’ expansion into our private lives threatens to herd Americans into a de facto social credit system that punishes them for making choices — and even voicing opinions — that the people at the controls don’t like.

    At a breakneck pace, consumer finance is becoming irreversibly embedded in digital technology. A new McKinsey survey showsover three-fourths of Americans use some type of digital payment platform. By next year, according to Statista, around two-thirdsof Americans are expected to use digital banking. Increasingly, one participates in the economy at the pleasure of those running its infrastructure, giving those in charge of that infrastructure tremendous power to shape and punish behavior. They are taking advantage.

    In recent months, we’ve seen payment processors, web hosts and other corporations brazenly take coordinated action in lock-step with government priorities to financially freeze out disfavored businesses online. The elimination of a sitting president from social media, whatever its perceived merit or rationale, opened the door to a regime where those who can cancel and suspend accounts do so at whim and in unison. This logic has led directly from one payment platform, Stripe, zapping away Donald Trump to a much bigger one, PayPal, blacklistingcustomers to purify its user base.

     

    Feeding the beast makes it stronger: The more power these organizations wield, the more arbitrary and punitive their ethical or ideological standards become. As PayPal’s founding COO David Sacks has warned, the orchestration of interlocking federal, financial and technological power to punish its critics and perceived opponents circumvents our core constitutional protections: A person who finds his financial and social media accounts shuttered after being identified as a subversive by the government will have no legal recourse.

    Thanks to its huge resources, spanning Silicon Valley and federal government, the regime has deep knowledge of your activity online. Think, say and do what it wants, and you are allowed to function. Deviate, and you are shut down. This is the un-American logic of the social credit system being imposed on us.

    Without a fundamentally new and better way to generate, circulate, save and exchange wealth, Americans will be increasingly powerless to prevent their financial system from being used to transform their country into a technological cage.

    Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies can free ordinary Americans from the financial and psychological discipline and punishment at the core of this system of control. But this gift will disappear if policymakers and legislators, beginning at the state level, don’t firmly establish regulatory and statutory impediments to the combined efforts of Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley to make cryptocurrency just another cog in the system they control.

    States need to become broad legal sanctuaries for cryptocurrency. The use of digital technology to refound America as a soft social credit system can be stopped only by placing digital power in the hands of the people. For generations, our military and intelligence agencies have progressively organized America’s technological advancement around unaccountable and extralegal social control. Our dependence on this system for future innovation exacts an unbearable price on our freedom and our flourishing.

     

    Antitrust action against behemoth firms like Google and Amazon is wise and just, but doesn’t return digital agency to regular citizens and enshrine it into law. The fast-emerging social credit system erases the line between private and public; Americans need Bitcoin and the like in order to take back their destinies in the digital world instead of entrusting it to more private or public sector overlords.

    The critics have had a field day with cryptocurrency, and, at its worst, it earns the caricatures. But this is because, like all tools, it can be turned against its best use. For the architects of the social credit system, it’s essential that the amount of new crypto mined is sharply limited, that crypto transactions are heavily monitored and capped, and all forms of crypto are incorporated into the single regulatory and investment environment controlled by Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley.

    Americans need just the opposite: the right to produce and buy computers powerful enough to mine Bitcoin and build data centers; the right to use and move cryptocurrency free from invasive monitoring, reporting requirements and arbitrary restrictions; and the right to freely choose to use cryptocurrency as true digital currencies among themselves. Federal laws to this effect would be ideal, but in the current hostile environment, the urgent place to begin is at the state level.

    Without these laws, Americans will lack the digital power necessary to escape the coming social credit system. There’s no Plan B if lawmakers can’t protect Americans’ digital rights. 

     

    James Poulos (@jamespoulos) is executive editor of The American Mind and a fellow at the Center for the Study of Digital Life. He is the author of “The Art of Being Free” and the forthcoming “Human, Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War.”

     

  11. 6 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Whole lotta scientists dropping some knowledge on this thread. 
     

    What hasn’t dropped yet though is Lamar Jackson’s vaccine research paper so I’m just gonna have to get on Facebook to figure out whose right up in here. 

    ***who’s

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