‘Message of Truth’: Chinese Virologist Accuses Beijing of Coronavirus Cover-Up, Flees Hong Kong (VIDEO)

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Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li-Meng Yan was stepping into uncharted territory.

Hours before she boarded an April 28 Cathay Pacific flight to the United States, the respected doctor who specialized in virology and immunology at the Hong Kong School of Public Health had plotted her escape, packing her bag and sneaking past the censors and video cameras on campus. . .

Yan told Fox News in an exclusive interview that she believes the Chinese government knew about the novel coronavirus well before it claimed it did. She says her supervisors, renowned as some of the top experts in the field, also ignored research she was doing at the onset of the pandemic that she believes could have saved lives. . .

Yan’s story weaves an extraordinary claim about cover-ups at the highest levels of government and seemingly exposes the obsessive compulsion of President Xi Jinping and his Communist Party to control the coronavirus narrative: what China knew, when it knew it and what edited information it peddled to the rest of the world. . .

“The reason I came to the U.S. is because I deliver the message of the truth of COVID,” she told Fox News from an undisclosed location. (Read more from “‘Message of Truth’: Chinese Virologist Accuses Beijing of Coronavirus Cover-Up, Flees Hong Kong” HERE)

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The Black Lives Matter Agenda Is Racist and Anti-Semitic. Why Are Politicians Embracing It?

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When was the last time we saw governments embrace the violent, racialist political agenda of a specific racist organization and make the citizenry obey it by force of law while exempting its adherents from the actual laws on the books? If you are conjuring up images of the KKK during the Jim Crow days in the South, you are not missing anything. So why is this suddenly OK when it comes to an organization that names itself Black Lives Matter?

We have never seen an individual political movement accorded this much accommodation and coerced adherence by society and government. It’s to the point where it has become a national religion that one would think might run afoul the Establishment Clause of the Constitution. BLM protesters are not arrested for violence, vandalism, arson, or blocking roadways. But if you defend yourself against them, you are the one who is treated like a criminal. If you don’t support this political organization – its anti-Semitism, violence, disruption, and all – you will lose your job and any position of prominence … and might even wind up in jail.

On Tuesday, the Contra Costa, California, district attorney charged a married couple for civil rights violations and vandalism after they filmed themselves painting over a large “Black Lives Matter” display on a main city street in Martinez.

“We must address the root and byproduct of systemic racism in our country. The Black Lives Matter movement is an important civil rights cause that deserves all of our attention,” stated Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton. “The mural completed last weekend was a peaceful and powerful way to communicate the importance of Black lives in Contra Costa County and the country. We must continue to elevate discussions and actually listen to one another in an effort to heal our community and country.”

Here we have a prosecutor elevating a violent, anti-Semitic group to the level of legal juggernaut, where anyone who opposes them gets charged with civil rights violations. Is this the equal treatment under the law that Dr. King dreamed of?

Obviously, defenders of the prosecution will suggest that the protesters got a permit from the city to paint this “mural,” thereby making this act of defacement a criminal violation of vandalism. But therein lies the problem. This is not some mural of a city image on the side of a wall. This is the name of a particular racial and political organization painted right on a city street. When has that ever been sanctioned by a city to a private organization, much less a political one, much less a violent racist one to boot?

Do you really think any city would allow such a painting of “All Lives Matter” or “Blue Lives Matter,” much less “White Lives Matter” on a city street? And if that were to happen, would citizens who paint over it be charged with vandalism, not to mention civil rights violations? How is this equal treatment?

What about Jewish Lives Matter?

The only response you will hear is that black people were oppressed many years ago and somehow everyone today is retroactively responsible to publicly endorse today’s movement in order to atone for the sin. But if that history justifies a need for obsessive coddling of an organization that names itself “black lives,” then by a factor of 1,000, state and local governments have an obligation to “address the root and byproduct of systemic racism” against Jews in this country. Hate crimes against Jews are much more widespread and are happening now and are on the rise, not simply a part of history. So, is Martinez, California, going to paint a mural of “Jewish Lives Matter”? Or is it only those who riot, threaten, and intimidate who get their grievances validated and indulged by government and law?

According to the Anti-Defamation League, in 2019, there were 2,107 anti-Semitic incidents throughout the country, a 12% increase from the 1,879 incidents recorded in 2018. Just how prominent are those numbers per capita? Jews are just 2% of the population, but were the victims in 56.9 percent of the anti-religious hate crimes in 2018, according to the FBI. The hate crime rate per 100,000 against Jews was 14.8, nearly three times that of anti-black hate crimes.

And guess what: Unfortunately, most of those attacks, especially in New York City, come from black assailants precisely because of the resurgence of pro-Lois Farrakhan sentiment that is promoted by groups like BLM. According to NYPD’s statistics on hate crimes, 58% of all hate crimes (not just anti-religious ones) in NYC were committed against Jews, even though they are just 12% of the city’s population. The number of anti-Semitic incidents increased by 30% over the previous year.

Earlier this year and last year, we were witnessing knockout attacks by black youth against Jews in New York almost on a daily basis. Even the New York Times admitted over a year ago that these attacks were not committed by white criminals. “During the past 22 months, not one person caught or identified as the aggressor in an anti-Semitic hate crime has been associated with a far right-wing group,” acknowledged the Times in an article titled, “Is it Safe to be Jewish in New York?”

In a shocking admission, the paper of record observed that the growing “anti-Semitism bypasses consideration as a serious problem in New York” because “it refuses to conform to an easy narrative with a single ideological enemy,” given “the varied backgrounds of people who commit hate crimes in the city that make combating and talking about anti-Semitism in New York much harder.”

Well, that is one way to explain it! Those “varied backgrounds” pose a big challenge to intellectual honesty.

Yet here we have Mayor Bill de Blasio painting a Black Lives Matter “mural” in Manhattan right in front of Trump tower. He did so together with noted Jew-hater, Al Sharpton. But under this standard, shouldn’t he paint a mural of Jewish Lives Matter in front of City Hall? And given that the statistics show that Jews are attacked much more often, and increasingly so, than black people, shouldn’t he be condemning the rabid anti-Semitism and racism of the very group he sanctifies as the paragon of civil rights?

Most of the anti-Semitism is coming from BLM-type organizations

Just who are these people now being celebrated with public property and by the most high-profile politicians? The head of the Black Lives Mater chapter in Toronto once wrote on Facebook that white people are “subhuman” and have “genetic defects.” How is that different from David Duke?

On May 30, during a Jewish holiday, BLM activists carried out an attack on Los Angeles’ oldest Jewish neighborhood in Fairfax, even though it was out of the way of the protests. They vandalized five synagogues and three Jewish schools and looted Jewish-owned businesses. Daniel Greenfield reported at Frontpage that Allyson Rowen Taylor, a co-founder of StandWithUs, shared an account of the riots in which they chanted, “F**k the police and kill the Jews.”

“It’s no coincidence that the riots here escalated in Fairfax, the icon of the Jewish community. I saw the Watts and the Rodney King riots. They never touched a synagogue or house of prayer. The graffiti showed blatant antisemitism. It’s Kristallnacht all over again,” said Rabbi Shimon Raichik, a Chabad Rabbi in Los Angeles, as reported by Greenfield.

There are numerous other accounts of how the BLM rioters directed their hatred towards Jews over and beyond the general violence they were committing. Isn’t it quite revealing how support for Palestinians seems to be the only foreign policy position BLM indulges?

How can we ever strive for true equality in this country if the political elites are going to elevate a racist organization as the beacon of racial justice and equality? What message does this send to the already growing Farrakhan movement attacking Jews?

White supremacists and neo-Nazis have been banished from society. True equality would require us to do the same to all racial supremacist and hateful organizations. And that begins with government treating every crime or interaction with a political movement on an equal footing. If opposing BLM is tantamount to anti-black racism, then supporting them is tantamount to anti-Semitism. If erasing BLM graffiti on our streets is racist, then politicians painting it on the streets is anti-Semitic.

In reality, the only lives that should be singled out in a color-coded message by the governments of this country are the lives represented by the red, white, and blue – which is all of us. E pluribus unum. (For more from the author of “The Black Lives Matter Agenda Is Racist and Anti-Semitic. Why Are Politicians Embracing It?” please click HERE)

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Texas Border Counties Hospitalization Rate Is 5 Times the National Average

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America is unique in its experience of coronavirus in that it appears it will have to undergo both its own epidemiological curve and Mexico’s, because the two countries are evidently more closely tied together than even individual U.S. states are to each other.

I have written a three-part series showing how the most serious cases that began to surface in the country in late May/early June – after we had already experienced our peak – came from Mexico. You can read the series here, here, and here. Now there is more shocking evidence of this phenomenon.

The data from border counties is astounding

The three Rio Grande Valley counties – Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron – have 1,139 hospitalizations currently listed as COVID-19 patients. In total, as of yesterday, they had 4,070 active cases when combining the county dashboard data of the three counties. That is a 29% hospitalization-to-case ratio. As of June 27, that rate for the country was 5.8% (14.7K hospitalizations out of roughly 253,000 active cases).

Hidalgo County recorded just 23 virus deaths from the beginning of March through June 23, but 80 deaths in the two weeks since then. The three border counties are 4.4 percent of Texas’ population but account for 12 percent of the hospitalizations. We don’t know at this point how many more from the border were transferred to the larger cities up north, as we saw with the border-crossers in California who were sent to the larger city hospitals.

That is simply an astounding number and reveals once again that the Mexican side of the border is likely the biggest culprit driving the growth of the most serious cases, which we are not really seeing in most other parts of the country. It’s not natural that counties sitting at the border would mysteriously get hit with a strain of the virus causing so much more hospitalization than anywhere else. What this clearly demonstrates is a case drain flowing from across the border, where the most seriously ill patients are crossing over for care.

We are finding this dynamic across the border. Imperial County is one of California’s least densely populated counties, yet at 40.1 hospitalizations per 100,000 residents, it had the highest rate of coronavirus hospitalizations in the state. That is more than twice the rate of Los Angeles County, which is the largest county in the country and is 57 times more populous and 69 times more densely populated than Imperial County.

The rate of increase in positive tests has also grown five times quicker in Hidalgo County, the main border county in southeast Texas, than in Harris County (Houston). The same dynamic is playing out on California’s border with Mexico, where the border areas of San Diego County have the most cases per capita[.]

The Tijuana-California border as well as the Hidalgo County, Texas-Mexico border have the most cross-border travel from citizens on both sides. It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out why these parts of America, which never had much of a problem in March and April, got hit around the same time Mexico began to surge:

The same story across the border … except for New Mexico

Arizona border towns also have a cross-travel culture with Mexico. Thus, we see zip codes in Yuma that had more cases than in Phoenix. The 85350 zip code of Yuma has 2,461 reported cases, more than 30 percent higher than the largest tally in Phoenix’s top zip code (85033), even though the latter is nearly three times more populous.

Also, it’s very likely that Yuma border cases were transferred to the hospitals in Phoenix and might have added to their numbers as well because the small border towns didn’t have capacity to deal with them, just as we saw in California. It would be interesting to find out how many of the border patients got transferred to Texas’s larger cities as well.

The shocking contrast to these three border states is the fourth one – New Mexico. New Mexico has barely experienced any deaths outside the Indian reservation areas and never experienced the hospitalization surge in June. New Mexico is the perfect control group when studying the effects of the border. The demographics are similar to the other three states, as are the weather and latitude. However, the difference is that although three counties in New Mexico touch the Mexican border, there is absolutely no civilization in the Mexican desert across the border. You have to travel much farther east to Juarez before you get to a city. Juarez is a sister city of El Paso, Texas, which is why anyone coming for care would go there, not to New Mexico. Moreover, there are no sister cities across the border for Americans living in New Mexico to work in or shop at and, in doing so, bring in Mexico’s later coronavirus hit.

The contrasting data are jarring. Doña Ana County, New Mexico’s main border county, experienced just 11 deaths. That is 1/10 the number of El Paso deaths (111), even though El Paso County is only three times larger, and 1/7 the number of deaths (71) in Cameron County (Brownsville), which is only two times larger.

Cochise County, Arizona, which is next door to New Mexico, had 20 deaths, but is half the size of Doña Ana County. According to Cochise County’s dashboard, most of that is being driven by the city of Douglas, which is right at the border and is a sister city of Agua Prieta in Mexico. Yuma County, Arizona, has roughly the same population as Doña Ana and has 124 deaths, 11 times greater. That’s because there is a sister city in Mexico and numerous green card holders and dual citizens came for treatment. The New York Times reported in early June, “Border towns in Arizona are experiencing an increase in infections that health officials believe is tied to people coming in from Sonora state.”

It’s the border, not the reopening from the lockdown

More circumstantial evidence that this is related to the border comes from demographic information on the county dashboards. In Cochise County, 72 percent of all cases where the ethnicity of the infected individual is known are Hispanic, even though Hispanics compose just 35.7 percent of the county’s population.

Thus, the enormous dichotomy between New Mexico and the other border states cannot be ignored and clearly demonstrates that border crossings from Mexico – both Mexican residents coming for treatment and Americans traveling back and forth – were responsible for the surge in the three larger border counties.

The notion that the reopening and not the border is the culprit for the spike in the three other border states is absurd. As Axios showed, Arizona experienced one of the most severe slowdowns in social mobility, and its shutdown appears to be much deeper than New Mexico’s. Moreover, California had the strictest and longest lockdown. L.A. still has severe restrictions to this day, yet it reported 65 deaths on Wednesday.

. . .New Mexico actually consistently had the most mobility and was the only state that had a score consistently above the national average.

Hence, it’s all about the border, not the reopening.

Finally, coming back to the Texas border, it’s important to remember that right during the target weeks when we would have expected deaths to rise from the reopening, there was not a single death recorded in Hidalgo County from May 15 to June 15. On the other hand, there were 80 deaths since June 23, coinciding perfectly with the timing of the Mexican coronavirus surge.

The real story is that while these politicians are busy infringing upon liberties of Americans, they forgot to do the one thing that actually helps: stop cross-border travel. In March, Governor Greg Abbott had no problem issuing a mandatory quarantine for those traveling back from California; Connecticut; New York; New Jersey; Washington; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; or Miami, Florida. He even set up checkpoints on the roads leading into Texas from Louisiana to screen people and enforce the mandatory quarantine, as if Louisiana were an international border.

Yet, to this day, when it comes to the international border itself, while the hospitals in Mexico are failing to cope with the peak that began in late May, states refuse to issue a mandatory quarantine. Now, Americans are getting blamed.

Second-class citizens, indeed. (For more from the author of “Texas Border Counties Hospitalization Rate Is 5 Times the National Average” please click HERE)

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Roger Stone Praying Trump Will Keep Him Out of Prison — and Reports are He Will (VIDEO)

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By Fox News. Roger Stone says he is “praying” for President Trump to intervene and offer him clemency, just days before the convicted longtime GOP political operative is slated to report to prison.

In an interview with Fox News, Stone said he has not received any formal contact from the White House on a potential presidential pardon or commutation of his sentence, which is set to begin July 14 and last for 40 months.

“I think I’ll be the last person to know,” Stone told Fox News. “He hates leaks, and he hates to be told what to do. I have instructed my lawyers not to contact the lawyers at the White House.”

He added: “The president, who I’ve known for 40 years, has an incredible sense of fairness. He is aware that the people trying to destroy Michael Flynn, now trying to destroy me, are the people trying to destroy him.”

Stone is set to report to prison on July 14. He was sentenced in February to more than three years in prison after being convicted in November 2019 on seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress on charges that stemmed from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Stone, however, has appealed his conviction and continues to deny any wrongdoing. (Read more from “Roger Stone Praying Trump Will Keep Him Out of Prison” HERE)

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Trump Hints He’ll Pardon or Grant Clemency to Stone

By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins. President Donald Trump implied in a pair of interviews Thursday that he was ready to grant clemency to Roger Stone, his friend and ally who was convicted of, among other things, lying to Congress and is set to go to prison this month.

Trump is widely expected to pardon or commute Stone’s sentence, according to at least half a dozen sources close to the President.

Asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity whether he’s considered a pardon or commutation for Stone, Trump said during a phone interview, “I am always thinking. You’ll be watching like everyone else in this case,” he said.

In another interview, with radio host Howie Carr, Trump decried Stone’s treatment at the hands of law enforcement and said he may grant his clemency plea. (Read more from “Roger Stone Praying for Clemency” HERE)

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Michael Cohen Sent Back to Federal Prison

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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, was taken back into federal custody Thursday in what his attorney said was a surprise decision that felt like “the rug had been pulled out from underneath” his client.

Cohen was released in May from federal custody to his Manhattan home on “furlough,” according to the Bureau of Prisons, after the Department of Justice released him and other prisoners from federal detention facilities due to coronavirus concerns.

Cohen, 53, was in Manhattan federal court Thursday to arrange the conditions of his home confinement but the hearing ended with him being placed in handcuffs.

“On May 21, 2020, Mr. Cohen was placed on furlough pending placement on home confinement,” a Bureau of Prisons official said in a statement. “Today, Michael Cohen refused the conditions of his home confinement and as a result, has been returned to a BOP facility.”

“This is not what we came here to do today,” Cohen’s attorney, Jeffrey Levine, said after Cohen had been taken back into custody. “We came here to work out the terms and conditions of his home confinement.” (Read more from “Michael Cohen Sent Back to Federal Prison” HERE)

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Here’s What This Liberal University Did When an Incoming Student Dared to Say She Supported Trump

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Marquette University has threatened to reconsider their admission acceptance of a recent high school graduate, citing a pro-Trump video the teen posted to social media.

Samantha Pfefferle, an 18-year-old girl, said in an interview with The College Fix that her admission to the university was no longer a guarantee and she was forced to undergo a series of morality questions in order to prove she still belonged in the school’s Class of 2024.

(Here’s the video that caused the liberal university to reconsider Samantha’s admission)

Pfefferle said she was asked how she would respond if a “Dreamer who lived down the hall” came up to her and said “she didn’t feel safe or comfortable” with the conservative views or her presence on campus.

“[He] had the heart to tell me I wasn’t a student,” Pfefferle said. “This means that my classification is still in limbo and is currently being decided by the administration.”

The video that Pfefferle posted to TikTok features the incoming freshman calling out the Trump haters and showing the world she does not care about what others think of her political beliefs.

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Over 25M to Take Hit If $600 Unemployment Bonus Isn’t Extended

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Over 25 million jobless workers will take a financial hit at the end of this month if Congress refuses to extend the $600 enhanced unemployment benefit, according to a report from The Century Foundation, a liberal think tank.

The payment was part of the March CARES Act and is scheduled to expire on July 26. The Democratic House passed legislation in May that would extend the program into next year. The Republican Senate has not yet acted on that or other legislation.

The weekly $600 payment has become a political football on Capitol Hill, as Democrats would like to extend it, while Republicans oppose the idea. Many conservative lawmakers perceive it as a disincentive to return to the workforce since many of the recipients out-earn what they made at their prior jobs. . .

On average, unemployment benefits across the country were $385 per week in February 2020, according to the House Ways and Means Committee. When combined with the added benefit, jobless workers receive nearly $1,000 a week. The median salary for a grocery store cashier, an essential worker, is roughly $600 a week, according to Salary.com.

Still, the Century Foundation points out that without the supplemental payment being extended through the rest of the year, the poverty rate would jump from 12.3% to 16.3% and negatively affect a large portion of nonwhite unemployed workers. (Read more from “Over 25M to Take Hit If $600 Unemployment Bonus Isn’t Extended” HERE)

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Supreme Court Rules to Release Trump Tax Returns

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President Trump’s accountants will have to hand over years of financial records and tax returns after the Supreme Court ruled that he did not have immunity from a grand jury investigation in New York.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., a Democrat, will be permitted to see the returns.

The justices voted 7-2 in the first of two opinions released on Thursday, examining the limits of presidential power and the contours of congressional oversight.

Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s two appointees to the court, joined the majority.

However, Trump prevailed in the second case as the justices said it would not allow Congress to obtain tax and financial records, kicking the issue back to the lower courts.

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Model That Has Predicted the Last 25 of 27 Presidential Elections Correctly Has Trump Winning…by a Lot

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We’re still months out from the election, but if all you did was look at the polls, you might be discouraged about the chances of reelection for President Donald Trump. . .

If you blame the party in power, that might adversely affect Trump and that’s what the polls may be showing. But if you see that he’s far better to bring the economy back and is already doing that, if you see that voting for Joe Biden and Democrats would open the door for even greater destruction and chaos from the radical left, then it would seem that that should push those in the middle toward Trump. I personally know folks in the middle or who were liberals who couldn’t stand Trump but now not only will be voting for him but pushing for him. Because they’re so outraged at what has been happening on both those fronts and the Democratic reaction to it all. Will that “silent majority” be speaking in November for Trump?

From Fox News:

Mediaite reported on Wednesday that Stony Brook professor Helmut Norpoth is doubling down on his “Primary Model,” which has correctly predicted five out of the past six elections since 1996 and every single election but two in the past 108 years.

“The Primary Model gives Trump a 91 percent chance of winning in November,” Norpoth said. “This model gets it right for 25 of the 27 elections since 1912, when primaries were introduced.”

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San Francisco’s Plan to Put Homeless People in Hotels and Motels Is Not Going Well

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. . . If neighborhood residents were more aware of the influx of these new guests who frequently suffer from drug addiction and severe mental illness as well as having criminal backgrounds, they might object. Consequently, the city has evoked emergency-disaster law to keep the information private. Officials refuse to notify the public about what is happening in their community and are blocking the press by withholding the list of hotels and preventing reporters from entering the properties. The Department of Emergency Management has attempted to spin the secrecy by claiming, “Disclosure of the names of hotels where people are being sheltered could jeopardize the privacy and safety of the vulnerable people whom the City has placed there if the public and the press become aware of the circumstances of their placement and could increase the risk that they will be subject to discrimination or harassment on the basis of their health status or status as an unsheltered person.”

The public does have a right to know, however, and obfuscation is ultimately futile. Security guards standing outside hotel entrances, where they had never been before, are clear indicators that something is amiss. An uptick in crime, drug activity, and vagrancy around the hotels is another clue. Properties that have become de facto homeless shelters range from low-end haunts such as the Motel 6 to mid-range and boutique hotels like the Inn on Broadway. High-end hotels that house the homeless-turned-frontline-workers include the InterContinental San Francisco —and the Mark Hopkins.

The Department of Public Health manages the controversial free alcohol, cigarette, and cannabis program for homeless people placed in the hotels. It originally claimed that money for the service came from private donations, which are not allowed by law. After multiple requests to provide the names of the donors, the DPH conceded that “No such record currently exists.” A public-records investigation into the matter has revealed that, as of June 16, DPH approved $3,795.98 to buy the homeless guests vodka and beer (cigarettes have been scrapped). The funding came from the public treasury, after all.

Meanwhile chaos is erupting inside and around the hotels. City and hotel workers are required to sign nondisclosure agreements and are forbidden from discussing what they’re seeing. Per the Mayor’s Declaration of Emergency, speaking out can result in a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment with a maximum sentence of one year, or both.

Nevertheless, concerned inside sources report destroyed rooms and rampant illegal drug use. In one hotel, guests are given needle kits and are advised to call the front desk before shooting up; there have been four deaths in the last few days. Sharp containers have been placed on every floor; used syringes are discarded haphazardly. Badly needed mental-health help is not being administered. The entire operation is disorganized, with staff members constantly moved around, never knowing what they’ll do from one day to the next. One source asked to make it clear that as public servants they love the city and all its inhabitants, but the plan has left them deeply demoralized. (Read more from “San Francisco’s Plan to Put Homeless People in Hotels and Motels Is Not Going Well” HERE)

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