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Yuck: ‘Cryptic’ COVID Variant Found in NYC Sewers May Be From Rodents

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The next variant of the coronavirus may come courtesy of NYC’s rat population.

A new study published this month in the journal Nature Communications has attempted to trace the origins of mystifying virus fragments found over the last year in New York’s sewage. The “cryptic lineages” surfacing from the city’s dank underbelly are different than all known COVID variants, leading scientists to believe a curious new version of the virus may be percolating in the boroughs’ sewage.

While some researchers believe the latest take on COVID-19 can be attributed to yet unsequenced human strains of the virus, others believe it is a new, rat-born variant.

“One of the amino-acid changes that we’re seeing in the virus has not been seen in patients. Ever. But this amino-acid change has been seen in rodent-adapted virus, which really says something to me,” Marc C. Johnson, a University of Missouri virologist and co-author of the new study, told Curbed of the reasoning behind the variant being born of rats. Rodents, he added, were not susceptible to the original strain of COVID, but can be infected by its Alpha, Beta and Gamma editions. (Read more from “Yuck: ‘Cryptic’ COVID Variant Found in NYC Sewers May Be From Rodents” HERE)

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Unvaccinated 5-Year-Olds Being Bullied by Police to Leave Restaurants Is New York City’s New Normal (VIDEO)

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In a video that’s been seen by hundreds of thousands online, a 5-year-old boy is reduced to tears at a New York City restaurant as police officers tell his mother they have to leave because they do not have their vaccination papers.

“You don’t have the card? If you don’t have it, then you’ll have to leave,” an NYPD officer tells the family, who had been seated at a table.

Police told the boy’s mother that anyone without proof of vaccination could be charged with trespassing.

“If you leave voluntarily, there will not be charges pressed against you; otherwise you will be arrested for trespass. This is your only warning,” the officer said.

Several angry bystanders could be seen recording the incident and yelling at police officers about their rights being infringed.

(Read more from “Unvaccinated 5-Year-Olds Being Bullied by Police to Leave Restaurants Is New York City’s New Normal” HERE)

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Major City to Spend $500 Million Teaching Kids to Obsess About Sex and Race

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Last week, fifth-grade teacher Amy Parker took the pages of the education site Chalkbeat to celebrate New York City’s initiative to promote “culturally responsive education” in its public schools. Parker introduces her essay by lamenting that “School taught me to hide who I was and what I valued” because it didn’t assign books with characters who had gay parents. But, at the same time, Parker also complains that she “was overly represented in the books [she] read and the classes [she] took.”

To make up for this injustice, Parker has now committed herself to providing a “culturally responsive and sustaining education” or “CRSE.” This means that she will pick texts on the basis of “representation” and “diversity” and emphasize racial and sexual identity in all her lessons. Instead of learning about the world and how to contribute to it, her students will now learn about themselves and how to become “agents of change.”

For these courageous efforts, New York City will support Parker and other teachers like her with a gargantuan sum of money: “Over the course of three years, almost $500 million will be allocated to CRSE so that our students are reflected in what and how they learn.”

While everyone is certainly entitled to her opinions, even bad ones, this becomes a problem when it comes with such a high price tag and threatens to become the dominant position of an entire profession. I may not teach in New York, but even here in Texas, this kind of thinking and the policies it inspires are increasingly common in our public schools. (Read more from “Major City to Spend $500 Million Teaching Kids to Obsess About Sex and Race” HERE)

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Omicron Hits New York City

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Five cases of the COVID-19 omicron variant have been detected in the New York City area, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday evening.

Hochul said they account for the only five known cases in teh state thus far and include one in Brooklyn, two in Queens and one in Long Island’s Suffolk County. A fifth was pegged to “New York City” by the officials but without a more precise location.

The Long Island patient, a 67-year-old woman, had recently returned from South Africa, Hochul said. She tested positive on Nov. 30, according to the governor.

Federal officials restricted travel to the US from eight nations in southern Africa after cases of the variant were reported in South Africa and Botswana. (Read more from “Omicron Hits New York” HERE)

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NYC School to Begin Sorting Out Students by Race

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A Manhattan junior high school plans to racially separate students while discussing identity and social justice topics next week, The Post has learned.

The Lower Manhattan Community School will conduct the controversial exercises as part of its mission to “undo the legacy of racism and oppression in this country that impacts our school community,” according to an email sent to parents.

Kids in grades seven and eight will opt into one of five categories, Principal Shanna Douglas wrote in the message.

Whites, Asians, and multi-racial students have their own categories, while African-American and Hispanic students are combined into one group, according to her email.

“On November 23rd and 24th, 7th and 8th graders will explore the question ‘How do our racial identities influence our experiences?’ in affinity groups,” Douglas announced. “An affinity group is a group formed around a shared interest.” (Read more from “NYC School to Begin Sorting Out Students by Race” HERE)

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Black Lives Matter Activists Threaten ‘Bloodshed’ in Major U.S. City

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Prominent leaders of a Black Lives Matter group in New York City promised violence if Mayor-elect Eric Adams brought back the city’s anti-crime units.

“If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again,” Hawk Newsome, who co-founded Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, told the New York Daily News.

“There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people,” Newsome promised.

The anti-crime unit was a division of the New York Police Department (NYPD) that used plainclothes officers to investigate and respond to violent crime. The unit was shut down in June 2020 following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Adams, a former NYPD officer, said he planned to bring the unit back in an interview with The City. (Read more from “Black Lives Matter Activists Threaten ‘Bloodshed’ in Major U.S. City” HERE)

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Newly Elected New York Mayor Says He Will Receive First Three Paychecks in Bitcoin

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The newly elected mayor of New York City said he will receive his first three paychecks as mayor in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin.

Eric Adams tweeted in response to Miami Mayor Francis Suarez telling investor and entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano that he would take his next paycheck in Bitcoin. Adams, a Democrat, went a step further by announcing he would do the same but for his first three pay periods. . .

Adams also challenged Suarez to a friendly competition Wednesday, saying he would make New York City the cryptocurrency capital of the country. (Read more from “Newly Elected New York Mayor Says He Will Receive First Three Paychecks in Bitcoin” HERE)

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NYC Man Tries to Strangle Little Girl Arraigned, Out on Bail

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A 29-year-old man accused of trying to strangle an 11-year-old girl in a Manhattan park was arraigned and released on $7,500 bail on Saturday night.

Nathaniel Direnzo, of Saint Marks Place, was arrested on Saturday morning for a bizarre, broad-daylight attack on the young girl and another minor on Wednesday afternoon. . .

According to police, just around noon on Oct. 20, Direnzo approached the girl and her classmates at Stuyvesant Square with her classmates and began to yell at them, before spraying water on the group and trying to attack them, cops said.

When the young girl tried to fight back, cops say Direnzo grabbed her by the hair and punched her in the face. He then allegedly “wrapped his hands around the girl’s neck,” trying to strangle her, police said. (Read more from “NYC Man Tries to Strangle Little Girl Arraigned, Out on Bail” HERE)

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Every Commuter’s Worst Nightmare: Video Shows Attacker Shoving Woman Into Train in NYC

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Shocking new video captures the moment an attacker randomly shoved a woman into the side of an arriving train at Times Square this week.

The video, released by the NYPD, shows the bandanna-wearing female suspect sitting on a bench on the platform just after 8 a.m. Monday — and getting up to push the 42-year-old victim from behind just as a No. 3 train pulls into the station.

The victim slammed into the side of the oncoming train, but did not fall onto the tracks, cops said. She instead toppled backwards onto the platform, suffering severe injuries to her face and legs. . .

The two women did not know each other, and the incident was unprovoked, cops said. (Read more from “Every Commuter’s Worst Nightmare: Video Shows Attacker Shoving Woman Into Train in NYC” HERE)

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Federal Judge Blocks NYC’s School COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

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New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for teachers and other Department of Education staffers is on pause after a federal judge late on Sept. 24 granted a request to temporarily block it.

Plaintiffs, a group of teachers, asked for a temporary injunction, pending review by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

U.S. Appeals Court Judge Joseph Bianco, a George W. Bush nominee, granted the request in a one-page order.

The panel will now decide whether to impose an injunction pending appeal or allow the mandate to take effect.

Rachel Maniscalco and three other New York City Department of Education workers sued over the mandate, which was supposed to start on Sept. 27. (Read more from “Federal Judge Blocks NYC’s School COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate” HERE)

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