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Man Dies After Paramedics Afraid Of Covid Refuse To Enter Care Facility

A 56-year-old man who went into cardiac arrest at the care facility he was staying at is dead after paramedics sent to save his life refused to enter the premises out of fear of Covid-19.
When Joseph Angulo began having a heart attack on November 11, staff at Rialto Post Acute Facility Care in Riverside, California called 911 to report the medical emergency.
After the medics told staff at the facility they wouldn’t enter the building, an officer on the scene worked with nurses to push the man’s wheelless bed down a hall and out the door as staff frantically performed CPR.
Inside Edition breaks down the tragic scene in the report below:
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“Please! It’s cardiac arrest,” an employee of the care facility told the officer as he made his way toward the patient’s room.
“They won’t come in,” officer Ralph Ballew said of the medics. “They’re saying it’s state law that they cannot come in,” he added. 
When staff voiced their discontent with the paramedics declining to enter the facility, one of the paramedics claimed state law prohibited it, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10329359/Patient-care-home-dies-paramedics-life-saving-equipment-REFUSED-enter-facility.html" target="_blank">allegedly telling them</a> “if they didn’t like the rule, they should call [their] congressman.”
After being transported two miles away to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Angulo was soon pronounced dead.
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The paramedics involved were placed on leave after the city opened an investigation. 
In a police report, officer Ballew explained, “Despite being in their line of sight, fire personnel still insisted on [the patient] being brought to them outside before they began life-saving efforts and made no effort to assist me in getting [the patient] outside.”
Rialto Mayor Pro Tem Ed Scott told Inside Edition, “I, frankly, was appalled… Our officer, frankly, deserves a medal for going in and getting the patient out.”
Could this man’s death be attributed to Covid-19 fearmongering?
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The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited

Anytime that a hard-nosed analysis is put forth of who our rulers are, of how their political and economic interests interlock, it is invariably denounced by Establishment liberals and conservatives (and even by many libertarians) as a “conspiracy theory of history,” “paranoid,” “economic determinist,” and even “Marxist.”
These smear labels are applied across the board, even though such realistic analyses can be, and have been, made from any and all parts of the economic spectrum, from the John Birch Society to the Communist Party.
The most common label is “conspiracy theorist,” almost always leveled as a hostile epithet rather than adopted by the “conspiracy theorist” himself.
It is no wonder that usually these realistic analyses are spelled out by various “extremists” who are outside the Establishment consensus. For it is vital to the continued rule of the State apparatus that it have legitimacy and even sanctity in the eyes of the public, and it is vital to that sanctity that our politicians and bureaucrats be deemed to be disembodied spirits solely devoted to the “public good.”
Once let the cat out of the bag that these spirits are all too often grounded in the solid earth of advancing a set of economic interests through use of the State, and the basic mystique of government begins to collapse.
Let us take an easy example. Suppose we find that Congress has passed a law raising the steel tariff or imposing import quotas on steel? Surely only a moron will fail to realize that the tariff or quota was passed at the behest of lobbyists from the domestic steel industry, anxious to keep out efficient foreign competitors.
No one would level a charge of “conspiracy theorist” against such a conclusion. But what the conspiracy theorist is doing is simply to extend his analysis to more complex measures of government: say, to public works projects, the establishment of the ICC, the creation of the Federal Reserve System, or the entry of the United States into a war. In each of these cases, the conspiracy theorist asks himself the question cui bono? Who benefits from this measure? If he finds that Measure A benefits X and Y, his next step is to investigate the hypothesis: did X and Y in fact lobby or exert pressure for the passage of Measure A? In short, did X and Y realize that they would benefit and act accordingly?
Far from being a paranoid or a determinist, the conspiracy analyst is a praxeologist; that is, he believes that people act purposively, that they make conscious choices to employ means in order to arrive at goals. Hence, if a steel tariff is passed, he assumes that the steel industry lobbied for it; if a public works project is created, he hypothesizes that it was promoted by an alliance of construction firms and unions who enjoyed public works contracts, and bureaucrats who expanded their jobs and incomes. It is the opponents of “conspiracy” analysis who profess to believe that all events—at least in government—are random and unplanned, and that therefore people do not engage in purposive choice and planning.
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There are, of course, good conspiracy analysts and bad conspiracy analysts, just as there are good and bad historians or practitioners of any discipline. The bad conspiracy analyst tends to make two kinds of mistakes, which indeed leave him open to the Establishment charge of “paranoia.” First, he stops with the cui bono; if measure A benefits X and Y, he simply concludes that therefore X and Y were responsible. He fails to realize that this is just a hypothesis, and must be verified by finding out whether or not X and Y really did so. (Perhaps the wackiest example of this was the British journalist Douglas Reed who, seeing that the result of Hitler’s policies was the destruction of Germany, concluded, without further evidence, that therefore Hitler was a conscious agent of external forces who deliberately set out to ruin Germany.) Secondly, the bad conspiracy analyst seems to have a compulsion to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs, into one giant conspiracy. Instead of seeing that there are several power blocs trying to gain control of government, sometimes in conflict and sometimes in alliance, he has to assume—again without evidence—that a small group of men controls them all, and only seems to send them into conflict.
These reflections are prompted by the almost blatant fact—so blatant as to be remarked on by the major newsweeklies—that virtually the entire top leadership of the new Carter administration, from Carter and Mondale on down, are members of the small, semisecret Trilateral Commission, founded by David Rockefeller in 1973 to propose policies for the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, and/or members of the board of the Rockefeller Foundation. The rest are tied in with Atlanta corporate interests, and especially the Coca-Cola Company, Georgia’s major corporation.
Well, how do we look at all this? Do we say that David Rockefeller’s prodigious efforts on behalf of certain statist public policies are merely a reflection of unfocused altruism? Or is there pursuit of economic interest involved? Was Jimmy Carter named a member of the Trilateral Commission as soon as it was founded because Rockefeller and the others wanted to hear the wisdom of an obscure Georgia governor? Or was he plucked out of obscurity and made President by their support? Was J. Paul Austin, head of Coca-Cola, an early supporter of Jimmy Carter merely out of concern for the common good? Were all the Trilateralists and Rockefeller Foundation and Coca-Cola people chosen by Carter simply because he felt that they were the ablest possible people for the job? If so, it’s a coincidence that boggles the mind. Or are there more sinister political-economic interests involved? I submit that the naïfs who stubbornly refuse to examine the interplay of political and economic interest in government are tossing away an essential tool for analyzing the world in which we live.
This article originally appeared in <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://reason.com/1977/04/01/viewpoint-the-conspiracy-theor/" target="_blank">Reason</a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://reason.com/1977/04/01/viewpoint-the-conspiracy-theor/" target="_blank">, April 1977, pp. 39–40.</a>
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14 Dead, 71,000 Displaced As Malaysia Battles Its Worst Flooding In Years

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Kuala Lumpur:
The Malaysian military used boats Tuesday to distribute food to desperate people trapped in their homes after massive floods, as the death toll rose to 14 with over 70,000 displaced.
Days of torrential rain triggered some of the worst flooding in years across the country at the weekend, swamping cities and villages and cutting off major roads.
Selangor -- the country's wealthiest and most densely populated state, encircling the capital Kuala Lumpur -- is one of the worst-hit areas.
In the city of Shah Alam, some areas were still under water Tuesday and military personnel in boats distributed food to people stuck in their homes and government shelters.
Kartik Subramany fled his house as floodwaters rose, and took refuge in a school for 48 hours before being evacuated with his family to a shelter.
"My house is totally damaged, my two cars are wrecked," the 29-year-old told AFP.
"These are the worst floods of my entire life. The federal government has failed the people miserably -- it has failed in its primary function to protect and safeguard lives."
He is among a growing number criticising what they say is a slow and inadequate official response.
Thousands of emergency service and military personnel have been mobilised, but critics say it is not enough and volunteers have stepped in to provide food and boats for the rescue effort.
There have also been reports of supermarkets being looted in one hard-hit Shah Alam neighbourhood.
'Hopeless' official response
Opposition MP Fuziah Salleh described the official response as "hopeless" and "incompetent".
"No early warning of the torrential rain was given," she told AFP. "It is so sad lives have been lost."
On Tuesday, the death toll from the floods rose to 14, including eight in Selangor and six in the eastern state of Pahang, official news agency Bernama reported.
But with reports of people still missing, it is expected to increase.
More than 71,000 people have been forced from their homes due to the floods, including 41,000 in Pahang and 26,000 in Selangor, according to official data.
Evacuees are being housed in government relief centres but officials have warned to expect a rise in coronavirus cases linked to the crowded shelters.
The rain has stopped and in many areas floodwaters have receded, leaving residents to count the cost.
"I've been doing business for more than 24 years... this has never happened before," said Mohammad Awal, whose cosmetic shop outside Kuala Lumpur was flooded.
The Southeast Asian nation is hit by floods annually during the monsoon season, but those at the weekend were the worst since 2014 when over 100,000 people were forced from their homes.
Global warming has been linked to worsening floods. Because a warmer atmosphere holds more water, climate change increases the risk and intensity of flooding from extreme rainfall.
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Global Spread Of Omicron Prompts Renewed Lockdowns, Delayed Reopenings

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Sydney:
New Zealand delayed the planned reopening of its international border because of the sweeping spread of Omicron around the world on Tuesday, as several other countries reimposed social distancing measures.
Many nations are on high alert just days ahead of Christmas and New Year celebrations, as the latest health crisis also takes a toll on financial markets, which fear the impact on the global economic recovery.
Omicron infections are multiplying rapidly across Europe, the United States and Asia, including in Japan where a single cluster at a military base has grown to at least 180 cases.
New Zealand COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said his country, which imposed some of the world's toughest COVID-19 measures, was delaying the start of a planned staggered reopening of its border until the end of February.
The government had previously said quarantine-free travel would reopen by mid-January for New Zealand citizens and residents in Australia - a timetable that would have allowed travel during the peak summer vacation period - and by April for foreign tourists.
"There's no doubt this is disappointing and will upset many holiday plans, but it's important to set these changes out clearly today so they can have time to consider those plans," Hipkins said at a press conference.
In India, New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged citizens to wear masks and appealed to the federal government to allow booster vaccine doses as the country reported 200 cases of the variant across 12 states.
In Singapore, the health ministry was carrying out testing to determine whether Omicron was behind a suspected cluster of cases at a gym and warned more cases were likely.
In the United States, officials said the variant claimed the life on Monday of an unvaccinated man in Texas after becoming the dominant strain in the country. Lines for COVID-19 tests wrapped around the block in New York, Washington and other U.S. cities as people clamoured to find out if they were infected before celebrating the holidays with family.
South Korea, the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland were among countries to reimpose partial or full lockdowns, or other social distancing measures, in recent days.
Israel added the United States to its "no-fly" list, citing concerns over the variant, while Kuwait said it would require incoming travellers to have received a booster shot if more than nine months had passed since their second vaccine dose.
DIFFERING APPROACHES
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said the situation was "extremely difficult" as hospitalisations rose steeply in London. His government was not ruling out any steps, including potentially limiting tourism.
In Australia, where Omicron cases have surged but hospitalisations remain relatively low, Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged state and territory leaders to avoid further lockdowns.
"We're not going back to lockdowns. We're going forward to live with this virus with common sense and responsibility," he said.
The Omicron variant was first detected last month in southern Africa and Hong Kong and so far has been reported in at least 89 countries.
The severity of illness it causes remains unclear, but the World Health Organization (WHO) warned it is spreading faster than the Delta variant and is causing infections in people already vaccinated or who have recovered from the COVID-19 disease.
MARKET IMPACT
The rapid spread of the variant has ignited fears that more countries may impose economically disruptive restrictions, impacting markets.
U.S. stocks ended trading on Monday down by more than 1%, while oil investors feared that new restrictions in Europe would weigh on fuel demand, sending crude prices lower.
The negative mood brightened somewhat in Asian hours with European and U.S. stock futures up and some assets battered in Monday's selling finding buyers, although volumes were thin heading into year-end holidays.
China's yuan inched up against a softer dollar, as investors cautiously returned to riskier assets.
The World Economic Forum on Monday postponed its annual meeting in Davos due to Omicron, putting off the event scheduled for January until mid-2022.
More than 274 million people have been reported to be infected by the coronavirus globally since the pandemic began and more than 5.65 million people have died.
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Likely Order Of Covid Symptoms Depends On Coronavirus Variant: Study

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Los Angeles:
The most likely order of symptoms that patients with COVID-19 experience is different for different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a study.
The researchers from the University of Southern California in the US wanted to know whether the order of COVID-19 symptoms varied in patients from different geographical regions or with various patient characteristics.
Identifying order of symptom onset of infectious diseases might aid in differentiating symptomatic infections earlier in a population thereby enabling non-pharmaceutical interventions and reducing disease spread, they said.
The study, published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology, used modelling approach to predict symptom order in a set of 373,883 cases in the US between January and May 2020.
The most likely symptom order differed between the initial outbreak in China -- where fever most often preceded cough, and nausea or vomiting was a common third symptom - and the subsequent spread to the US.
In the US, cough was most likely to be the first symptom, and diarrhoea was a more common third symptom.
By analysing additional data from Brazil, Hong Kong and Japan, the team showed that the different order of symptoms was associated not with geographic region, weather, or patient characteristics, but with SARS-CoV-2 variants.
The presence of the D614G variant in an area - which was predominant in the US in early 2020 - was associated with a higher likelihood of cough being the first COVID-19 symptom experienced by patients.
As Japan shifted from the original Wuhan reference strain to the D614G variant, symptom order shifted as well, the researchers said.
The study authors hypothesise that the increased transmission of D614G could be linked to the symptom order.
"These findings indicate that symptom order can change with mutation in viral disease and raise the possibility that D614G variant is more transmissible because infected people are more likely to cough in public before being incapacitated with fever," they added. 
 
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As Omicron Rises, UK PM Holds Off On Tougher Rules Before Christmas

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Boris Johnson said his top team agreed to keep the data on the outbreak "under constant review."
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London:
Boris Johnson held off introducing stricter UK coronavirus rules to clamp down on a surging new wave of the virus, but left open the prospect they'll be needed soon.
Speaking after a meeting of his cabinet that stretched for more than 2 hours amid what he described himself as "finely-balanced arguments" either way, Johnson said his top team agreed to keep the data on the outbreak "under constant review."
"We will not exclude going further if we have to do things to protect the public," Johnson said in a pooled television interview. For now, "there are still some things that we need to be clearer about before we decide to go further."
With the government's scientific advisers urging for new rules sooner rather than later to stave off a surge in hospitalizations, Johnson's comments leave the UK in limbo just 5 days before Christmas as daily Covid cases remain near record levels due to the fast-spreading Omicron variant. Earlier on Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab refused to rule out a Christmas lockdown.
The Prime Minister's reluctance to bringing in further measures comes against a backdrop of widespread opposition within his ruling Conservative Party to further curbs on people's freedoms. They rebelled in record numbers last week against lighter-touch measures, which were only approved with the backing of the opposition Labour Party.
Uncertainty
Johnson said there is still uncertainty about the severity of Omicron and its expected impact on hospitalizations and deaths. He said he would stick with the so-called Plan B measures for now, which include guidance to work from home, mandatory face-mask wearing in many settings and Covid certification to enter certain venues.
Earlier, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported that the government may introduce new restrictions from Dec. 27. The restrictions being considered are "Step Two" of the country's earlier coronavirus response, the paper reported, which included pubs and restaurants only being able to serve customers outdoors, a ban on indoor mixing between households and a maximum of six people or two households being allowed to interact outdoors.
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Hearing that Boris Johnson is considering going back to step 2 restrictions from Dec 27 - so POST Christmas - for a month to help curb infections.
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"We're looking at all kinds of things to keep Omicron under control and we will rule nothing out," Johnson said. "Please exercise caution as you go about your lives."
Johnson also left open the prospect of extra financial support for companies as many people voluntarily stop going out and spending money to reduce the chance of catching the virus.
Asked whether economic help is coming, Johnson said: "of course it's also important that we look after the hospitality sector, theaters and other parts of our incredible entertainment industry which will suffer and are suffering."
He pointed to measures already in place including grants, lower sales tax and business rates relief, and said "we will keep the economic side of this under constant review as well."
That will do little to allay growing concerns among businesses that are already suffering from a drop-off in demand. On Monday, the industry lobby group UKHospitality said December is set to be a "disaster" for the industry, with more than half of venues reporting sales down more than 40% last weekend.
"Trading levels are now so low that without government support, many businesses will not survive into the new year and jobs will be lost," UKHospitality Chief Executive Officer Kate Nicholls said in a statement. "Cancellations have annihilated cash reserves."
Businesses are calling for increased grant funding, and extensions beyond March for the business rates holiday and reduced sales tax rate that are already in place.
Johnson said he understood "how tough" the situation is for businesses. "Omicron has simply exploded so fast that we have seen people naturally deciding to make sure that they protect themselves and they avoid spreading the disease."
Until this month, UK daily cases had never exceeded 70,000. For three of the past four days, they've exceeded 90,000, and at the weekend, the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies released documents saying that England alone is "almost certain" to be suffering hundreds of thousands of Omicron variant infections a day -- when those who haven't been tested are included.
Without further restrictions from the government, new hospitalizations could reach a peak of at least 3,000 a day, SAGE said, adding that to avoid that pressure, "more stringent measures would need to be implemented very soon."
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