Month: September 2021

  • The Spanish Flu is so 2000 and late: Covid death toll about to surpass

    The Spanish Flu is so 2000 and late: Covid death toll about to surpass

    The United States’ ‘known death toll’ from COVID-19 will surpass the number of dead from the Spanish Flu within the next day or two, according to the side-by-side numbers ..

    While both viruses (and times that took place in) are different, the fact we are Close to Surpassing the Spanish flu death toll in modern society is alarming..

    COVID-related U.S. deaths as of Sunday night are at 673,763, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

    That’s just over 1,200 fewer than died in the 1918 Spanish Flu, which took an estimated 675,000 lives in the U.S. Before this, that flu pandemic was the most lethal since the United States was formed. With an 1,800-per-day death average, the number who’ve died of COVID-19 could surpass the previous scourge by Monday.

    Hard to believe that it felt like just yesterday that news publications like Time magazine were featuring a 200,000 death toll on their cover.

    Now it seems like it’s a toll that the old media has forgotten to keep counting?

  • Pfizer set to submit to FDA: Covid vaccine ‘safe’ in kids

    Pfizer set to submit to FDA: Covid vaccine ‘safe’ in kids

    Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and generates a “robust” immune response in a clinical trial of kids ages 5 to 11, the drugmakers announced Monday.

    The companies tested a two-dose regimen of 10 micrograms — about a third the dosage used for teens and adults — administered three weeks apart. They said the shots were well tolerated and produced an immune response and side effects comparable to those seen in a study of people ages 16 to 25

  • Police reveal details of Pennsylvania Baby shower shooting: 3 people wounded after an argument over gifts

    Police reveal details of Pennsylvania Baby shower shooting: 3 people wounded after an argument over gifts

    Three people were shot and wounded at a baby shower in Pennsylvania Saturday evening after an argument over gifts, Lower Burrell Police Chief John Marhefka said in a press briefing.

    Police officers were dispatched to the Kinloch Volunteer Fire Department in Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania, shortly after 6 p.m. for a shooting inside the fire hall.
    “This was not an active shooter event, but rather an isolated family incident during a baby shower,” he said.

    A preliminary investigation showed the incident began as a family argument about gifts at the baby shower. It escalated into a physical fight and then gunfire when the “suspect introduced a nine-millimeter semiautomatic handgun” and fired three shots into the crowd of about 25 friends and family, the chief said.

    — Read on www.cnn.com/2021/09/19/us/baby-shower-shooting/index.html

  • Earth change drama on La Palma

    Earth change drama on La Palma

    Scientists say a volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands has started to erupt after a week of building seismic activity. Spanish state broadcaster TVE shows a plume of black smoke shooting up over the Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma..

    There are further indications from on the ground reporting and social media that the strong lava flow is actually making its way into residential areas …

    There are no tsunami warnings of any kind at this point..

    This is a developing story..

  • Volcano Erupts in Canary Islands

    Volcano Erupts in Canary Islands

    A new volcanic eruption is underway right now in the Canary Islands , prompting unfounded fears that a mega tsunami will be hurled to the U.S. East Coast. For the first time since 1971, lava has reached the surface on the island of La Palma at the volcano, prompting evacuations of the area.

    Over the last week, seismic activity has been increasing on La Palma, located within the Canary Islands archipelago west of the west coast of Africa.  In addition to the increased frequency and intensification of earthquakes, more and more  were occurring near the surface, a clear sign that magma was on the move and ready to erupt.

    — Read on weatherboy.com/volcano-erupts-in-canary-islands-prompting-mega-tsunami-fears/

    Developing..

  • 4 bodies found in SUV abandoned in Wisconsin cornfield

    4 bodies found in SUV abandoned in Wisconsin cornfield

    A cornfield in western Wisconsin has become the setting of a grisly homicide investigation that bears more than a slight resemblance to a horror movie.

    Four bodies were found in a “black SUV that was driven into a standing cornfield off of a rural road” and then abandoned, according to the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office.

    The discovery was made Sunday afternoon in the Sheridan Township, about 80 miles west of Green Bay, officials said in a Facebook post.

    — Read on www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/national/article254229133.html

    Two men and two women were found at the scene, reports indicate that they were not dead for more than 24 hours. There’s a mystery as to how they died but it’s clear it was a gunshot wound

    Developing ..

  • NORM MACDONALD DEAD AT 61

    NORM MACDONALD DEAD AT 61

    Norm Macdonald’s death was announced to Deadline by his management firm Brillstein Entertainment.

    The comedian’s longtime producing partner and friend Lori Jo Hoekstra, who was with him when died, said Macdonald had been battling cancer for nearly a decade but was determined to keep his health struggles private, away from family, friends and fans.

    “He was most proud of his comedy,” Hoekstra said. “He never wanted the diagnosis to affect the way the audience or any of his loved ones saw him. Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.”

    Macdonald is especially known for his dry comedy, along with hosting Saturday Night Live‘s weekend update.

    His very private battle with cancer has been lost, Hollywood is reacting.. 

  • ‘Michael Myers’ roams Texas beech during hurricane Nicholas landfall

    ‘Michael Myers’ roams Texas beech during hurricane Nicholas landfall

    On Monday, ahead of Hurricane Nicholas’ landfall in Texas, ABC13 reporter Mycah Hatfield captured a man walking down Galveston beach dressed as someone’s worst nightmare, Michael Myers.

    On Monday, Galveston police said officers received a call of a masked man with a knife with blood on it. When police arrived at the scene, they detained Mark Metzger and learned the knife and blood were fake. Police said Metzger was cited for disorderly conduct and released.

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  • Gamer reportedly dead of Covid

    Gamer reportedly dead of Covid

    Former Minecraft YouTuber Bashur (also known as Toasty) has reportedly died of COVID..

    Real name Brandon Dylan Asher.

    This is a developing situation with a lot of online commentary praising him for past videos, speaking about past controversies, but lamenting the passing of the gamer…

  • EPIC GAME FINALE

    EPIC GAME FINALE

    JUST AS ANOTHER FORTNITE SEASON ENDS WITH A WHIMPER (TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW APPARENTLY), ANOTHER BATTLE ROYALE IS BEING SETTLED!

    On Friday, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers made a ruling on the heated court case between Apple and Fortnite developers Epic Games.

    Judge Gonzalez Rogers ruled that Apple was breaking the law by forcing customers to pay for apps and in-app items through the Apple App Store.

    Apple gains 30% of the profits of all purchases in its app store.

    Gonzalez Rogers gave the company 90 days to allow more payment options… MORE..  judge did not side with Epic’s claims that Apple had a monopoly on how payments are processed in mobile games.

    Furthermore, the judge ruled in favor of Apple’s counter-sue of Epic Games’ breach of contract….