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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5778)	6/15/2020 12:00:57 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13801

Hong Kong citizens’ requests to reside in Portugal with a “notable” increase News · 14-06-2020 14:00:00 · The Consulate General of Portugal in Macau and Hong Kong has registered a “notable” increase in the number of requests from citizens who live in the former British colony and want to reside in Portugal. The Consul said that around 1,100 applications had been initiated since the beginning of the year. Real estate agencies have also said there had been a surge in property purchases via the Golden Visa scheme, both among British expats living in Hong Kong and local residents there

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5778)	6/18/2020 4:22:10 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13801

This is sad. 20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies By Suicide After Seeing A $730,000 Negative Balance The note found on his computer by his parents on June 12, 2020, asked a simple question. “How was a 20 year old with no income able to get assigned almost a million dollars worth of leverage?” The tragic message was written by Alexander E. Kearns, a 20-year-old student at the University of Nebraska, home from college and living with his parents in Naperville, Illinois. Earlier that day, Kearns took his own life. forbes.com TJ is teaching his kids to trade. I would teach finance to my kid, but not tell him he can make easy money trading on line.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5778)	6/20/2020 7:38:11 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13801

Here is a vaccine guy. We can with certainty tell what a expert is driving at. This is a vaccine guy, and here is the telltale. So the bottom-line message here is that this virus is going to keep transmitting to others until it hits that 60 or 70% level... So, we’re really confronted with having this virus in our population for months to years ahead if we don’t get a successful vaccine. So to answer your question of how we are going to get to that 60 or 70%, that’s what we don’t know. We’ve never had a coronavirus pandemic infection like this. It may have happened centuries ago, but we didn’t see it. ELMAT: That raised an eye brown Dan Buettner: So there’s a lot of hope around a vaccination. But we haven’t been able to find a vaccination for herpes or for the common cold. Is there any reason to have any greater hope for COVID-19 than we’ve had for these common diseases that have been around for decades or centuries? Dr. Osterholm: The one thing we’ve done here is we’ve put probably the hundred best hockey players we can on the vaccine ice. And so, we’re getting lots of shots on goal and they’re as good as they’re going to get. So that part is very positive. The world has responded. There are over 120 vaccine candidates being evaluated right now. But to go to the heart of your question, will any of them make it in the goal? We don’t know. There are challenges with coronaviruses. We know that from two other coronavirus infections called SARS and MERS; in both instances, we were not able to get easily and effectively applied vaccines. We also know that it’s possible we could get some short-term immunity with these vaccines. That means you may not be able to develop what we call durable immunity that lasts a long time. That would be a real challenge, because then you’d have to keep re-vaccinating people if that would even work. EMAT: The vaccine that needs shots every year is a good one because there is continuous revenue. While a vaccine that you sell a single shot and the subject is immune forever is not interesting, as you sell only once. The final piece is safety as we do have challenges with this virus. We know that there’s a condition called antibody dependent enhancement, which is a condition where you make just a little bit of antibody, but not enough to protect yourself. There’s also an immune enhancement phenomena where your body goes out of whack in terms of immune response. And so, one of the things that we are having to look at very carefully is the safety of these vaccines. I would say at this point we can all be hopefully optimistic. But we know hope is not a strategy. I think the key message is that, first of all, is that if it does happen, it’s not going to happen soon. The idea that we’re going to have a readily available vaccine by the end of this year is just not realistic. And while we all want to be aspirational, we also have to be highly practical in how we plan. I think the second piece of it is that if we do get a vaccine, it’s not going to happen overnight in terms of making it or distributing it. There are 8 billion people in the world that want this vaccine right now. What happens if China has an effective vaccine before we do, are we going to get any of it? And so, there are still many challenges yet that are before us in terms of what happens even if we do get an effective vaccine. bluezones.com

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5778)	6/21/2020 7:20:51 AM
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Feds charge Pa. woman with torching police cars amid violence after protest over George Floyd’s death Updated Jun 17, 2020; Posted Jun 17, 2020 Federal investigators say this photo depicts Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal setting fire to police cars amid violence after a May 30 protest in Philadelphia over the police-involved death of George Floyd. 2k shares By Matt Miller \| mmiller@pennlive.com Federal authorities said Wednesday they have charged a Philadelphia woman with setting two police vehicles on fire after a peaceful protest on May 30 in the City of Brotherly Love over the police-related death of George Floyd. William M. McSwain, U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Eastern District Court, said Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal, 33, was filmed setting the vehicles on fire outside City Hall. Blumenthal’s alleged act of arson occurred when the peaceful demonstration gave way to looting and vandalism, McSwain said. He said she was filmed torching the vehicles using a burning piece of a wooden police barricade. “We at the U.S. Attorney’s Office fully support the First Amendment right of the people to assemble peaceably and to petition their government. But torching a police car has nothing to do with peaceful protest or any legitimate message. It is a violent and despicable act that will be prosecuted in this District to the fullest extent of the law,” said McSwain said. “Anybody who engaged in such acts can stand by to put your hands behind your back and head to federal prison. We are coming for you.” Police cars that were set ablaze during rioting in Philadelphia on May 30. In an arrest affidavit, FBI Special Agent Joseph Carpenter said Blumenthal was identified as the arsonist from video secured by the FBI and clips found on the Vimeo website and on Instagram. He said her actions also were filmed live by a news station’s helicopter. A photo that Carpenter says shows Blumenthal at the arson scene is included with the charges, as are photos of the torched police cars. The photo shows her wearing a T-shirt with the wording, “Keep the immigrants. Deport the racists.” The shirt is sold by a store on Etsy and Carpenter said he used that as a starting point to track down Blumenthal. He said he traced her to her job at a massage therapy company which listed her and included a photo of a masseuse who, like Blumenthal, has a distinctive peace sign tattoo on her right forearm. That tattoo was visible in the videos of the arson, the agent said. Carpenter said Blumenthal was wearing goggles, a bandanna over her face and what appear to be fire-retardant gloves. Blumental, who is charged with two counts of knowingly causing malicious destruction, is in federal custody. The federal charges were lodged because the Philly police receive funding from the U.S. government. McSwain said the charges carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.