COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)

[goatmane]

So that promising vaccine wasn't promising after all

 

[Dr. Acula]

Woman who designed Florida's COVID-19 dashboard has been removed from her position

This is the south for you.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[chineebai]

Wuhan government website about epidemic data
武汉市卫生和计划生育委员会

May 14 - 72,791
May 15 - 113,609
May 16 - 222,675
May 17 - 335,887
May 18 - 467,847

Wuhan increased their testing capacity from under 100,000 to almost 500,000 per day

that's a lot of tests.

 

[loyola llothta]

After Exporting COVID-19 to Haiti, the U.S. Now is Returning Death-Squad Leader “Toto” Constant


[Editor’s Note: The day after publication, the Miami Herald reported that Emmanuel Constant had been removed from the deportation flight. An updated version of the article, in Haitian Kreyòl, was published by Ayibopost.]

May 5, 2020


Emmanuel “Toto” Constant (shown here in 1994) was the former head of the death-squad known as FRAPH, responsible for killing of an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 Haitians in the aftermath of the 1991 military coup.

• As the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down borders and airports across the world, planes chartered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continue to fly.
• Every two or three weeks, a deportation flight operated by Swift Air, LLC has landed at the Port-au-Prince airport.
• After one such flight in early April, at least three of those deported tested positive for COVID-19.
• The pandemic is now sweeping through ICE detention facilities, putting the lives of tens of thousands at risk and highlighting the public health ramifications of continued deportations.
• Next week, another ICE Air deportation flight is scheduled to arrive in Haiti.
• But the controversy will extend far beyond the health and well-being of those on board.
• According to a flight manifest obtained by Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch, ICE is planning to deport Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, a former death squad leader who has been in a New York state prison for the past 12 years on grand larceny and mortgage fraud charges.
• Constant is listed in the manifest as a “High Profile Removal.”Sources: http://nysdoccslookup.doccs.ny.gov/ and https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/index.
• In late April, a government-backed scientific commission supporting the country’s COVID-19 response asked President Jovenel Moïse to halt further deportations during the pandemic.
• Representatives of the Haitian government did not respond to a request for comment.
• On Mon., May 11, the next ICE Air deportation flight is scheduled to arrive in Port-au-Prince, according to the flight manifest. ICE identifies 51 of the flight’s 101 passengers as having criminal backgrounds.
  One of those is Constant, the 63-year old former death squad leader.
• Constant was facing up to 37 years in jail, but New York State prison records show that Constant was released to ICE custody on Apr. 7 — 12 years after his conviction — in order to face deportation.
• Constant’s next parole hearing had been scheduled for August 2020.
• ICE records show he is currently being held at the ICE federal detention facility in Buffalo, NY — where at least 45 of those detained have confirmed COVID-19 cases.
• “TOTO“ CONSTANT IS THE MOST NOTORIOUS AMONG THE 101 HAITIANS THAT THE U.S. INTENDS TO DEPORT NEXT WEEK.
• • Constant was the former head of the Revolutionary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH)
  • a paramilitary organization that was responsible for the extrajudicial killing of an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 Haitians in the aftermath of the 1991 military coup — as well as thousands of incidents of rape, torture, and arbitrary detention.
  • Constant, it was later revealed, was on the CIA payroll during this period.
  • Upon the return of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in late 1994, Constant left Haiti and settled in the New York City area.
  • In 2000, a Haitian court convicted Constant and 14 others in absentia for their involvement in a 1994 massacre in the small town of Raboteau.
  • A civil action resulted in a $140 million award to victims’ families.
  • In 2005, following the second ouster of Aristide, the high court in Haiti overturned the sentences for those who had been tried in person.
  • The judgment against Constant remains valid, however, according to human rights organizations.
  • U.S. courts have also recognized Constant’s responsibility for crimes against humanity,however.
  • On behalf of three Haitian women who had been terrorized by Constant, the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) brought a civil case against Constant in 2004 and eventually won a $19 million civil judgment.
  • Constant appealed the ruling, but the judgment was upheld by a federal court in 2009.
  • Separately, in 2008, Constant was convicted on charges of grand larceny and mortgage fraud in New York State Court and sentenced to 12 to 37 years.
  • He remained in state prison until last month, when he was quietly released to ICE custody.
  • In 2016, when Constant was up for parole, lawyers with CCR and CJA wrote to the New York State Parole Board cautioning against such a release: “If Constant were released from incarceration in New York, he would pose a serious flight risk, and might return to Haiti to exploit the tense situation to his political advantage.”
  • Now, the Trump administration is putting Constant on an ICE Air deportation flight direct to Haiti.
  • But it remains unclear what will await the former CIA-backed death squad leader upon his arrival
  • “If Constant is, indeed, deported to Haiti next week, the obligations of the Haitian criminal justice system are clear,” said Mario Joseph.
  • The state must “arrest Constant as soon as he arrives and ensure that he is held accountable to the people of Haiti.”
  • Joseph, a prominent Haitian human rights lawyer with the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI), was the lawyer who secured the guilty verdict in the Raboteau Massacre case on behalf of victims’ families.
  • Twenty years later, however, the struggle for justice and accountability remains as distant as ever.
  • Constant, Joseph said, could either accept the existing judgment against him or demand a new trial as he had been tried in absentia.
    Joseph noted, however, that Haiti’s justice system has allowed others convicted in the Raboteau Massacre to go free, including Jean Robert Gabriel, who the Haitian government appointed to the high command of the reconstituted Haitian armed forces in 2018.
  • Joseph added that Constant had fled Haiti in 1994 precisely to avoid accountability for his heinous crimes and that the U.S. had failed to execute a judicial order requiring his return to Haiti at the time of the Raboteau trial.
  • “As with the Raboteau trials, which no one thought could be successfully prosecuted at the time, BAI will continue to advocate for justice for Constant’s victims,” Joseph said.
  • “The law of Haiti is clear on what must happen next. It is my hope that the Haitian government lives up to its responsibilities.”
  • Constant is the most notorious among the 101 Haitians that the U.S. intends to deport next week, and the case most fraught with political implications.
  • But there will be 100 others, including 50 who may be facing further jail time back in their native Haiti.
  • The Haitian government has thus far been using hotels in the capital to quarantine those who arrive via Swift Air flights every few weeks.
  • It has provided meals and pledged medical support to deportees, but it is unclear what it will do with those facing criminal charges
  • In 2019, Haiti’s prison occupancy rate was 358% — the jails are notoriously and chronically overcrowded, holding three-and-a-half times as many as they should be.
  • The pandemic has shone fresh light at the prisons’ horrid conditions — including in the U.S., where COVID-19 is spreading far faster among the prison population than among the general public. From Mar. 19, when Haiti declared a national emergency, to Apr. 15, at least 459 prisoners were released in Haiti, according to the National Human Rights Defense Network.
  • “Given the inhumane conditions and overcrowding in Haiti’s prisons, it is important the government release those detained — especially the large number of individuals who have never faced a judge and have been held indefinitely while facing only minor charges,” said Rosy Auguste of the National Network for Human Rights Organizations (RNDDH).
  • Even with Haiti’s prisons overflowing, the country is facing a crisis of impunity — with those politically connected seemingly protected from justice. “Further deportations will only place additional strain on Haiti’s institutions,” Auguste added.
  • The deportation of Constant “complicates things on so many levels,” said Guerline Jozef, the executive director of the Haiti Bridge Alliance. “We don’t know why they are deporting him now, especially understanding the current situation with Haiti’s politics“
  • Jozef said she is worried that Constant’s return will create even more instability, especially considering his past conviction by a Haitian court.
  • But for Jozef, whose organization spearheaded a letter last month from 164 organizations calling for an end to deportations during the pandemic, the bigger picture remains halting all such flights. “No matter how you look at it, continuing with deportations means continued exportation of COVID-19 throughout the region.”

Link:

The US Has Been Exporting COVID-19 to Haiti; Now, It Is Returning a Death Squad Leader - Center for Economic and Policy Research

 

[LeVraiPapi]

Today we had the most deaths in Tampa Bay. More deaths since the outbreak. We still believe it is way more but this is done in response to the lady saying she got fired cuz she refused to cook the books.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

Today we had the most deaths in Tampa Bay. More deaths since the outbreak. We still believe it is way more but this is done in response to the lady saying she got fired cuz she refused to cook the books.

Keep in mind the deaths start slow, folk don't die quick form this, its a slow drowning in your own fluids type of death...

It took NYC about 2 weeks for the body avalanche to start pilling up...

 

[null]

Keep in mind the deaths start slow, folk don't die quick form this, its a slow drowning in your own fluids type of death...

It took NYC about 2 weeks for the body avalanche to start pilling up...

Covid19 kills people in many different ways. Pneumonia is just one.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Well the way I see it people by and large don’t give a fukk anymore. Whether it’s conservative cacs or nikkas in the hood they gonna defy common sense and do what they want. Can’t believe wearing a mask and social distancing is now politicized. Great quote I read in an article today:

“Communication is the main tool governments have to fight the pandemic, and with so many different messages, it reduces the power of social isolation and creates a fertile landscape for fake news and conspiracy theories.”

 

[CrimsonTider]

Well the way I see it people by and large don’t give a fukk anymore. Whether it’s conservative cacs or nikkas in the hood they gonna defy common sense and do what they want. Can’t believe wearing a mask and social distancing is now politicized. Great quote I read in an article today:

“Communication is the main tool governments have to fight the pandemic, and with so many different messages, it reduces the power of social isolation and creates a fertile landscape for fake news and conspiracy theories.”

Those people never cared

 

[Miggs]

Florida removes data scientist who refused to manipulate COVID-19 numbers to support reopening

Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media

 

[Spliff]

Trump admin not even trying to be slick about it.

Moderna director becomes a part of the white house task force and then the following day, THEIR vaccine shows "promising" early results.

If you're just now noticing the revolving door between pharma and federal government then you just haven't been paying attention breh breh.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[Eclipser]

Today we had the most deaths in Tampa Bay. More deaths since the outbreak. We still believe it is way more but this is done in response to the lady saying she got fired cuz she refused to cook the books.

Do you work in healthcare? If so, in what capacity?

 

[Red Shield]

Well the way I see it people by and large don’t give a fukk anymore. Whether it’s conservative cacs or nikkas in the hood they gonna defy common sense and do what they want. Can’t believe wearing a mask and social distancing is now politicized. Great quote I read in an article today:

“Communication is the main tool governments have to fight the pandemic, and with so many different messages, it reduces the power of social isolation and creates a fertile landscape for fake news and conspiracy theories.”

yeah... pretty much.

still see plenty of black folk out wearing masks..

but whites have pretty much chucked deuces to all of that