INSANITY FILES!
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So much insanity, so little time to document it!
France banned cycling and said people can only jog within 1 mile of their homes, further tightening its coronavirus lockdown
- France has been under a nationwide lockdown since Tuesday, and the government has been ramping up its restrictions.
- On Thursday, the country banned recreational cycling and ruled that people could only exercise within a 1.2-mile radius of their homes.
- "There is no question of getting away from home. The rule is containment for everyone," the Ministry of Sport tweeted Thursday.
- Under the French government's restrictions, people also need a form to leave the house, and face a 135 euro ($145) fine if they are found without one. Restaurants and bars have been shut.
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France, which is currently on lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak, on Thursday banned recreational cycling and imposed a 2 km (1.2 mile) limit on how far people can leave home for exercise.
"1km, 2km max... There is no question of getting away from your home. The rule is containment for everyone. Remember, you should only go out for emergencies like shopping or for your health. A little jogging is possible for your wellbeing, but not a 10km!" the Ministry of Sport tweeted.
Yannick Rebre@yarebreEn campagne pas de quartiers où pâté de maison ...5 ou 10 kms ?
Ministère des Sports✔@Sports_gouv
1km, 2km max... Il n'est pas question de s'éloigner de chez soi. La règle est au confinement pour tout le monde. Rappelez-vous que vous ne devez sortir que pour des urgences comme les courses ou votre santé. Un petit footing est possible pour votre équilibre mais pas un 10km !
The ministry made the clarification following a governmental decree on Tuesday that said exercise should be conducted near the home to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
On Wednesday, The Ministry of Sport said that exercise must be limited to one hour a day for children and 30 minutes for adults.
On Thursday, the French Federation of Cycling told cyclists to stop all activities, following the decree.
"The practice of sports cycling, which is commonly accepted, does not fall under the conditions provided for in the decree and therefore constitutes an offense," a statement from the federation said. "Any practice of cycling sport, even individual, must therefore be temporarily prohibited."
The country has been under a strict coronavirus lockdown since Tuesday, with President Emmanuel Macron mentioning six times that the country was "at war" with the coronavirus at a televised address the night before.
Restaurants and bars have been shut since last Sunday.
People across France need permission from police to travel, and those leaving their homes have been required to produce a form declaring their reasons for leaving the house. Those found without their permission forms are fined 135 euros ($145).
France has recorded nearly 10,900 infections and 371 deaths from the coronavirus so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Amid the lockdown, undertakers at morgues across France have been livestreaming funerals and cremations for grieving families, Agence France-Presse reported.
Nope! No Malarkey here. Check out no mullarkey Joe. The true insanity is that people are voting for him. This election year has been amazing, and seems to keep getting crazier and crazier.
After delivering Tuesday victory speech via live stream, Biden freezes in place
His latest moment of confusion came after Tuesday’s primary in which Biden racked up three more victories, including the delegate-rich state of Florida. He delivered his victory speech via live stream. The content was as predictable as it is unimportant to this story, which began the instant the live feed ended.
As the video below shows, after Biden finished his prepared speech, he stood staring blankly into the camera like a deer caught in the headlights. Maybe he forgot for a moment where he was and thought he was waiting for a bus.
After a pregnant pause, his wife can be seen striding into the frame, seeming to rouse him from a reverie. After a brief embrace, she departs stage right, but Biden remains, seeming to peer longingly into the camera, as though he expects something more to happen — maybe a round of applause from a live audience.
I’m no shrink, but if you ask me, this guy isn’t all there.
Plain Ol' Johnny Graz@jvgrazJill Biden is emerging as a real villain in this campaign. How can she keep doing this to her husband?
The real question is:
Will there be bamboozlery, hogwash, poppycock, or dementia, because that's worth tuning in to, as long as there's no malarkey.
Authorities Are Charging A Woman Who Coughed On $35,000 Worth Of Food At A Grocery Store That Had To Be Thrown Away
"While it is always a shame when food is wasted, in these times when so many people are worried about the security of our food supply, it is even more disturbing," Joe Fasula, the co-owner of the store, said.
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Authorities in Pennsylvania are planning on filing criminal charges against a woman who coughed on more than $35,000 worth of food that all then had to be thrown away in what the grocery store owners are calling a coronavirus prank.
“The Hanover Township Police Department is investigating an incident at 2280 Sans Souci Parkway, Gerrity's Supermarket, for a female customer who intentionally contaminated produce/meat/merchandise for sale,” the police department wrote in a statement on Facebook.
“The suspect has been identified and is being evaluated at a local hospital for a mental health evaluation. Criminal charges will be filed.”
Joe Fasula, the co-owner of Gerrity’s, wrote about the incident in a Facebook post, saying, “while there is little doubt this woman was doing it as a very twisted prank, we will not take any chances with the health and well-being of our customers.”
Fasula said the woman had coughed on items in the bakery, meat case, and grocery sections of the market.
He said 15 staff members had to clean up the mess and dispose of the food.
“I’m absolutely sick to my stomach about the loss of food,” Fasula wrote. “While it is always a shame when food is wasted, in these times when so many people are worried about the security of our food supply, it is even more disturbing.”
The Pennsylvania incident appears to be the latest in a series of recent hoaxes where people are pretending to have the coronavirus to cause panic.
Justin M. Rhodes, a 31-year-old man from North Carolina, was arrested for allegedly pretending to have COVID-19 and going to Walmart, which he proudly talked about in a Facebook video.
"If I got it, y'all gonna get it too," he said in the three-minute video. “Fuck all y'all, that's how I feel about it.”
The Albemarle Police Department investigated the incident and confirmed that “no one in Stanly County has tested positive for the Coronavirus” and then charged Rhodes with felony perpetrating a hoax in a public building and disorderly conduct.
Another man, from New Jersey, 50-year-old George Falcone, was charged with making terrorist threats after allegedly coughing on an employee at a Wegmans Food Markets and telling them he had the coronavirus.
"We must do everything we can to deter this type of conduct and any similar conduct that harms others during this emergency," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said in a statement.
"Just as we are cracking down on bias offenses and those who use the pandemic to fuel hatred and prejudice, we vow to respond swiftly and strongly whenever someone commits a criminal offense that uses the coronavirus to generate panic or discord."
source : buzzfeednews.com
It makes me sad. I studied psychology in high school and college. Human behavior always fascinated me. Especially my own. I dropped out of college and started working at a bar. Psychology OMG. Try just watching people drinking let alone have to deal with them. I could tell you stories for hours but what I need to say is I am a psychiatric patient. No I'm not crazy per say. I want to express that there's no magic pill but medicine can help. There's no way around pain. You feel it deal with it and move on. A good counselor can help you. The bottom line is It's you. All you. You decide what needs fixed and how. You decide when you need help. You are the master of reality. Own it
An old friend who's actually a nurse now used to say, 'You're feeling crazy, then be crazy.'
It's actually good advice because his idea was to explore your insanity to typically expose that much of it isn't that bad and often rooted in legitimate concerns.
I agree with him also with the caveat - behavior matters. You're allowed to have crazy thoughts, that's normal. Crazy behavior can be a problem and I think much of the medicated population could mitigate their own issues by being more self aware. Yes, psych needs are appropriate for some, but not the current number of people. Also there are nutritional, hallucinogenic, and exercise/ activity based 'treatments' which are more like lifestyle choices than taking a pill.
Self awareness is really key, and from my perspective - the most insane folks of all nearly completely lack self awareness.
YouTube Says It Will Remove 5G Misinformation After People Burn Cell Towers
YouTube has announced it will remove videos on its platform that baselessly link 5G to coronavirus after arsonists in the UK set multiple towers on fire last week. Theories linking the two have been circulating on social media in various forms, obviously to some effect.
The funniest thing about the idea that 5G could cause coronavirus is the idea that 5G is capable of causing anything. 5G can’t even cause good cell phone reception, which is its ostensible purpose for existing. If 5G were the Kool-Aid man, pop culture would be full of references to a large glass pitcher smashing itself to bits on an unperturbed brick wall, possibly with a faint pitiful squeak of “Oh no!”
“Please help us to make this stop,” says the joint statement, evincing a remarkably poor grasp of what are commonly referred to as “fighting words.” “If you witness abuse of our key workers please report it. If you see misinformation, please call it out.”
Joint letter by UK telcos. Try pulling this on Verizon and they’ll write the letter in your favorite pet’s blood — but only after showing up six months late for your appointment, at the wrong house.
In some cases, arsonists are burning LTE towers instead of 5G, because somehow the same people who think burning cell phone towers will stop a viral pandemic aren’t all that good at distinguishing one type of network equipment from another.
This Is, In Fact, an Improvement
Two of the things I like to do for fun are read about disasters on Wikipedia and really liven up parties. The default, knee-jerk response on a story like this is to laugh at all the morons who think 5G causes coronavirus. The unsettling truth is: This is not only positively normal, burning cell phone towers is an enormous step forward for us as a species.
Historically, people had absolutely no idea where pandemics came from or what caused them. Pandemics have been blamed on a lot of things you’re probably aware of, like angry gods, bad air, and, say, the coincidental appearance of a comet in the sky. They’ve also been historically been blamed on Jews, other minorities, beggars, lepers, the Romani, and those with disorders like acne and psoriasis. When I visited The Cloisters in New York City back in December, I visited an exhibit on what is known as the Colmar Treasure. The Colmar Treasure consists of the possessions of a medieval Jewish family living in Alsace who did not survive the outbreak of plague in that city, courtesy of their scapegoat-seeking neighbors.
It should also be noted that even the earliest chroniclers of pandemics for which we have a record, like Thucydides, doubted supernatural explanations for these events and believed they must have a natural explanation. Hoaxes, scams, scapegoating, and lies are not a modern invention or unique to a political outlook. Humans, as a group, are bad at pandemics. It isn’t unsurprising to see people defying Covid-19 lockdowns or licking toilet seats. It’d be more surprising if people didn’t do these things, based on our collective historic behavior.
That said? 5G causes neither Covid-19 nor cancer. It may be almost worthless, but it isn’t killing you.
Business Insider story referenced above:
YouTube will delete videos that falsely link 5G to the novel coronavirus after reports of people setting phone masts on fire
- YouTube will delete videos that groundlessly link 5G technology to the spread of COVID-19.
- A YouTube spokeswoman said the video-sharing site will actively remove videos that breach its policies, and reaffirmed the company's "commitment to reducing the spread of harmful misinformation."
- She added that YouTube could let "borderline" content on 5G-related conspiracy theories stay on the site provided it doesn't mention coronavirus, though it could still be suppressed and removed from search results.
- Conspiracy theorists have connected the emerging mobile technology to the pandemic, with people in the UK reportedly setting mobile phone masts alight.
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YouTube will reduce the number of videos on its platform that groundlessly link 5G technology to the spread of COVID-19.
A YouTube spokeswoman told Business Insider that the video-sharing site will actively remove videos that breach its policies.
"We have clear policies that prohibit videos promoting medically unsubstantiated methods to prevent the coronavirus in place of seeking medical treatment, and we quickly remove videos violating these policies when flagged to us," she said.
"We're committed to providing timely and helpful information at this critical time, including raising authoritative content, reducing the spread of harmful misinformation and showing information panels, using NHS and WHO data, to help combat misinformation."
The spokeswoman added that YouTube could let "borderline" content on 5G-related conspiracy theories stay on the site provided it doesn't mention coronavirus, though it could still be suppressed and removed from search results.
A theory that 5G, which should bring faster mobile connectivity, is somehow connected to the coronavirus has proliferated across social media.
The UK has witnessed several unsavory incidents related to the theories, including attacks on 5G communications masts, including setting them alight.
At least seven masts have been attacked, and telecoms engineers have reportedly been abused in the street. One of the cell towers attacked wasn't even a 5G mast.
British celebrities like the boxer Amir Khan and TV presenter Amanda Holden – as well as Hollywood star Woody Harrelson – have shared content linking 5G to coronavirus on social media, prompting the UK's Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove to lambast the theories as "just nonsense – dangerous nonsense, as well."
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police said Tuesday they believe there are at least 22 victims after a gunman wearing a police uniform shot people in their homes and set fires in a rampage across rural communities in Nova Scotia over the weekend.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they have recovered remains from some of the destroyed homes. Earlier, authorities had said at least 18 people were killed in the 12-hour attack.
Officials said the suspect, identified as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was shot and later died on Sunday. Authorities did not provide further details or give a motive for the killings.
The dead include a 17-year-old as well as a police officer, a police news release said. All the other victims were adults and included both men and women. There were 16 crime scenes in five different communities in northern and central Nova Scotia, it said.
“Some of the victims were known to Gabriel Wortman and were targeted while others were not known to him,” the police statement said.
Authorities also confirmed Wortman was wearing an authentic police uniform and one of the cars he used “was a very real look-alike RCMP vehicle.”
“This is an unprecedented incident that has resulted in incredible loss and heartbreak for countless families and loved ones. So many lives will be forever touched,” the police statement said.
In an earlier news release authorities had said they believed there were 23 victims, but Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman Daniel Brien later clarified the death toll included 22 victims and the gunman.
As fears mounted that more dead would be found in burned out homes, a young man said Tuesday that his grandparents were missing and believed dead after their log cabin was set ablaze during the attack.
Justin Zahl told The Associated Press he finally heard from police after frantic calls for information and seeing images of his grandparents’ home in the rural town of Portapique burned to the ground, with their cars in the driveway.
It was not immediately clear, however, if they were among the remains police said were found.
Police teams were spread out across the 16 crime scenes including the neighborhood where the rampage began late Saturday on Portapique Beach Road, where the suspect lived.
Police have warned the death toll will almost certainly rise as investigators comb through homes destroyed by fire.
Zahl said he last heard from his grandmother early Saturday evening via iMessage on her iPad.
“They were angels,” he said, adding that the couple were like parents to him and his 19-year-old brother, Riley. “He was the smartest man I knew, and could hold a conversation with anyone,” he said of the grandfather.
He said John Zahl, in his late 60s, and Elizabeth Joanne Thomas, in her late 50s, lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before retiring to their dream home in Nova Scotia in 2017 after falling in love with the place on a visit. Justin and his brother lived with them for a while but both young men no longer do and neither was at the home during the attack, he said.
Authorities said Wortman made his car look like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police cruiser allowing him to travel easily within a 30-mile (50-kilometer) area.
As the attack ensued, police warned residents in Portapique to lock their doors and stay in their basements. The town, like all of Canada, had been adhering to government advice to remain at home because of the coronavirus pandemic, and most of the victims were inside homes when the attack began.
But no wider warning was issued, and questions emerged about why a public emergency alert was not sent province-wide through a system recently used to advise people to maintain social distancing. Police provided Twitter updates, but no alert that would have automatically popped up on cellphones.
“There should have been some provincial alert,” said David Matthews, who said he heard a gunshot while walking with his wife Sunday. Shortly after they returned home, their phone started ringing with warnings from friends that there was an active shooter in the neighborhood.
Several bodies were later found inside and outside one house on Portapique Beach Road, police said. Bodies were also found at other locations in Nova Scotia and authorities believe the shooter may have targeted his first victims but then began attacking randomly as he drove around.
Authorities said Wortman did not have a police record, but information later emerged of at least one run-in with the law.
Nova Scotia court records confirm he was ordered to receive counselling for anger management after pleading guilty to assaulting a man in the Halifax area on Oct. 29, 2001. The guilty plea came on Oct. 7, 2002, as his trial was about to begin.
He was placed on probation for nine months, fined $50 and told to stay away from the man, and also prohibited from owning or possessing a weapon, ammunition or explosive substances.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Brenda Lucki said police were still determining what weapons were used in the attacks.
Cheryl Maloney, who lives near where one victim, 54-year-old Gina Goulet, was killed, believes she was likely saved by a warning message Sunday morning from her son that read, “Don’t leave your house. This guy is at the end of your road and he’s dressed like a cop.”
“I really could have used that provincial warning, as I walk here all the time and I’ve been in the yard all week,” she said.
source: apnews.com
