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		<title>Faking the Numbers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Tomczyk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2020 18:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Photo-Island-Happenings-Faking-the-Numbers.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Photo-Island-Happenings-Faking-the-Numbers.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Photo-Island-Happenings-Faking-the-Numbers-300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Photo-Island-Happenings-Faking-the-Numbers-768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Photo-Island-Happenings-Faking-the-Numbers-128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Photo-Island-Happenings-Faking-the-Numbers-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>According to Honduras’s National Risk Management System [Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos - SINAGER] the number of COVID-19 cases on Roatan has risen to 127. ]]></description>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>After 105 Days of Lockdown Honduran Government’s SINAGER ‘Creates’ Roatan’s First COVID-19 Death</strong></h3>



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	A</span>ccording to Honduras’s National Risk Management System <strong>[Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos &#8211; SINAGER] </strong>the number of COVID-19 cases on Roatan has risen to 127. But, if anyone died of COVID-19 on Roatan depends on who you ask.</p>



<p>On June 30 Honduran Secretary of Health report stated that Gisell Leal, a 19-year-old Roatan woman died from COVID-19.  The truth is far from what the Honduran government and the mainland media reported about Roatan.</p>



<p>Pedro Duarte, Leal’s father, said that his daughter had contracted an acute infection of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicobacter_pylori" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Helicobacter Pylori</a> bacteria and was brought to the Roatan hospital to seek help. According to Duarte the Roatan hospital staff refused to treat Leal unless she submitted to a COVID-19 test.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>If anyone died of COVID-19 on Roatan depends on who you ask.</p></blockquote>



<p><em>“The results were negative,”</em> said Duarte. <em>“She died of a heart attack because the sugar has shot-up and her pressure went down at the same time. (….) What SINAGER says is purely false.”</em></p>



<p>Keeping track of who is sick and who dies of what on Roatan where many people know each other is relatively simple. The numbers of mainland Honduras “deaths-by-COVID” reported by SINAGER, now at 542, are much harder to challenge.</p>



<p>While the controlled media in US and Europe has shifted focus to demonstrations and lootings, Honduras is a few steps behind in this agenda. <em>“There are powers interested in creating panic among the world’s population with the sole aim of permanently imposing unacceptable forms of restriction on freedoms. (…) A disturbing prelude to the realization of a world government beyond all control,”</em> wrote Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in his May 7 appeal.</p>



<p>Since the island has been locked down on March 16 Honduran government’s SINAGER has cast Roatan into a spiral of fear, economic misery, and soaring crime.The Honduran government has done nothing to protect the most vulnerable of dying from COVID-19: the old and those with compromised immune system.</p>
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		<title>Roatan Residents Push-Back at Government’s Useless ‘Safety’ Measures</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Tomczyk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Photo-Island-Happenings-sanitizing-tunnels-b.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Photo-Island-Happenings-sanitizing-tunnels-b.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Photo-Island-Happenings-sanitizing-tunnels-b-300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Photo-Island-Happenings-sanitizing-tunnels-b-768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Photo-Island-Happenings-sanitizing-tunnels-b-128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Photo-Island-Happenings-sanitizing-tunnels-b-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>On June 3, Honduras’s National Risk Management System [Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos - SINAGER] introduced beginning of “intelligent opening.”]]></description>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">90 Days into&nbsp;LOKIN-20&nbsp;the Island faces first&nbsp;50 Cases of COVID-19</h3>



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	O</span>n June 3, Honduras’s National Risk Management System<strong> [Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos &#8211; <a href="https://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/policies/v.php?id=21590">SINAGER</a>]</strong> introduced beginning of “intelligent opening.” Despite the name, the reopening of the economy and allowing some constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in Honduran departments has been nothing but intelligent.</p>



<p>By June 16 President Juan Orlando Hernández has joined the ranks of politicians like British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and is now officially infected with <a href="https://in.news.yahoo.com/honduras-president-hernandez-needed-oxygen-065900061.html">COVID-19</a>. Fortunately, the 50-year old Honduran president has a great chance at recovery. The little publicized fact is that the with COVID-19 deaths happen mostly to the elderly and those with compromised immune system. In Canada 81% of all with COVID deaths happened to old-people care facilities. In France 89% with COVID-19 deaths were amongst people 64 and older.</p>



<p>Still neither Honduras nor Roatan has done nothing to protect the most vulnerable to the virus: the elderly and the poor.&nbsp;For 90 days now <strong>SINAGER</strong> has forced vast majority Bay Islanders to stop working, stay home and wash their hands every chance they get. On June 4, wanting to look like they are doing something, the local Municipal governments went further and installed “disinfection tunnels” around the island.</p>



<p>&nbsp;<em>“Stuck at the border. They won&#8217;t let me into Roatan without going through the tunnel,”</em> wrote about Roatan Municipal Police Mitch Cummins, a Roatan based American resident attempting to return from Jose Santos Guardiola on June 4.</p>



<p>Roatan Municipality has announced that the tunnel’s liquid is made up of mixture of water with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peroxide">Peroxol</a> and that “until now there are now reports that its use has caused damage to the skin or health to the persons.” While most native Roatanians have submitted to the useless and dangerous procedure, at least one Roatan resident has had enough and pushed back.</p>



<p><em>“I am asking to have the issue of these ineffective and dangerous spray tunnels put on the agenda at the next meeting of the Roatan Corporation,”</em> wrote&nbsp;Amy Eader Beasley, a US resident living on Roatan.&nbsp;<em>“Contact your embassy if you are not a Honduran citizen.”</em> Her letter with hundreds of signatures including medical staff was presented to the Roatan Municipality that then made the tunnels “optional.”</p>



<p>A month after the first case of COVID-19 was detected on Roatan on May 16 there are now 50 cases of COVID-19, and because of the five-day-delay in shipping and analyzing the test samples, likely that number is much higher.</p>



<p>Meantime the&nbsp;costs of Roatan’s LOKIN-20<strong>&nbsp;</strong>are mounting: thousands postponing preventive medical care, crime skyrocketing, depression, impoverishment and to come bankruptcies.<strong>&nbsp;</strong>Other than the now daily armed robberies, June 17 brought two brutal homicides to Roatan.<strong></strong></p>



<p>The manufactured collapse of American society and destruction of small business economy has entered phase two, Honduras is at least two weeks behind. The coordinated anarchist protests sparked by a Minnesota police killing of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd">African American criminal</a> suspect on May 25 have erupted within days in places as disconnected with Minnesota as Colombo -Sri Lanka, Accra-Ghana and Osaka -Japan. The controlled media’s COVID-19 fear mongering has given way to coverage of violent protest, looting, and destruction of public statues.</p>



<p>At least artificiality of the LOKIN-20 operation and its deep state actors are being exposed by some brave vocal voices of authority.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;The riots in these days were provoked by those who, seeing that the virus is inevitably fading and that the social alarm of the pandemic is waning, necessarily have had to provoke civil disturbances, because they would be followed by repression,”</em> wrote Catholic&nbsp;Archbishop Viganò in a letter to in a letter to president Trump. Trump tweeted: <em>“So honored by Archbishop Viganò’s incredible letter to me. I hope everyone, religious or not, read it!”</em>&nbsp;As crime in US and on the island steadily rises the exhausted, confused public is faced with giving in to any solution the government will offer.</p>



<p>After declaring the perpetual war on drugs in 1982, the unwinnable war on Terror in 2001, in 2020 we entered the never-ending war on viruses.&nbsp;With roadblocks, paid snitches, controlled news, online censorship, spray tunnels, the never-ending war on virus the shadow of oppressive albeit inefficient police state has unofficially arrived.</p>



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<p>More info about Archbishop Viganò’s powerful letter: </p>



<p><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-viganos-powerful-letter-to-president-trump-eternal-struggle-between-good-and-evil-playing-out-right-now" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/archbishop-viganos-powerful-letter-to-president-trump-eternal-struggle-between-good-and-evil-playing-out-right-now</a></p>
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		<title>Exhausted Before the Fight</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Tomczyk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2020 18:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-Exhausted-Before-the-Fight-.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-Exhausted-Before-the-Fight-.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-Exhausted-Before-the-Fight--300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-Exhausted-Before-the-Fight--768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-Exhausted-Before-the-Fight--128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-Exhausted-Before-the-Fight--600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>One of the around 30 islanders who returned to the Roatan on May 16 has tested positive for COVID-19. ]]></description>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Impoverished after 60 days of House Arrest Roatanians see a First Diagnosis of COVID-19</strong></h3>



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	O</span>ne of the around 30 islanders who returned to the Roatan on May 16 has tested positive for COVID-19.</p>



<p>He is one of the 16 passengers who are now under quarantine while other 14 passengers, some possibly infected, are missing fearing criminal persecution. The cases of COVID-19 are now spreading amongst the island population that is tired, confused an impoverished by 70 days of house arrest and economic shut down.</p>



<p>The arrival of COVID-19 to Roatan is a result of inflexible, one-size-fits-all health management strategies by Honduras National Risk Management System [Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos &#8211; SINAGER] and Roatan municipal governments inaction and incompetence. <em>“<a href="http://www.copeco.gob.hn/?q=ley-sinager">SINAGER</a> from the mainland, they are running Honduras,”</em> said Dr. Raymond Cherington heads the committee helping of bringing some 600 Roatanians stranded on the mainland that have been trying to come back.</p>



<p>While Utila Municipality has repatriated 19 of their own, Municipal Roatan government were unable to repatriate desperate islanders stuck on the mainland. <em>“Once they go to quarantine, they have a hope for a way home,”</em> said Junior Williams, from Utila’s Search and Rescue. <em>“My advice to Roatan authorities is to move swiftly. It’s better than to have them sneak back in.”</em></p>



<p>Even foreign cruise ship companies managed to navigate SINAGERS bureaucracy and in four different ship arrivals, repatriated 72 island workers dropping them off at the Roatan’s cruise ship docks between May 15 and May 26.</p>



<p>While many wish otherwise, on Roatan where municipal authorities are continually unable to manage garbage dumps, desalination plant, it is hardly surprising that managing a health emergency has proven exceedingly difficult. During the COVID-19 crisis voices of “supporting government officials” and “government is doing a great job” created a false sense of fallowing the only right path. The voices of dissent were silenced, punished or ridiculed. <br>This downward spiral will likely continue.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>The exaggeratedly fear of death based on bad science, and bad health policy decisions by Honduran government has brought Roatan economic misery, depression and soaring crime.</p></blockquote>



<p>As forced house arrests of healthy citizens near three months, crime is escalating; after the robbery of two women leaving a restaurant at the entrance near <a href="https://www.google.hn/maps/place/Palmetto+Bay+Roatan/@16.3639196,-86.4870432,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x33bb049a105d8c31?sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjBoPTdhL7qAhUCUt8KHRq5CTkQ_BIwFHoECBIQCA">Palmetto.</a><em> “I (…) stopped at the police shack to ask it there were any updates regarding the recent robbery that occurred this afternoon (…)  The municipality policeman I talked to had no idea what I was talking about.  The second policeman was too busy texting on his phone to engage in any discussion”</em> said Gary Chamer, a Roatan businessman, at his attempt to inquire about an armed robbery that took place just a few hundred meters from the police shack.</p>



<p>The island wide surveillance system has been placed with watchtowers and security cameras near major road intersections. Sadly, it is becoming painfully obvious that the police are there not to stop any crime on the citizen, but make sure citizens obey what they are told, regardless of the logic, or consequences.</p>



<p>There is increasing number of intellectuals and scientists seeing the pre-planned agenda which is forced upon the population with virus only serves as pretext and distraction. </p>



<pre class="wp-block-preformatted"><code>“We have a reason to believe, on the basis of official data on the incidence of the epidemic as related to the number of deaths, that there are powers interested in creating panic among the world’s population with the sole aim of permanently imposing unacceptable forms of restriction on freedoms, of controlling people and of tracking their movements. (…) A disturbing prelude to the realization of a&nbsp;world government beyond all control.”</code> </pre>



<p>Wrote Archbishop <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Maria_Vigan%C3%B2">Carlo Maria Viganò</a> in a May 7appeal, signed by several Catholic cardinals, bishops and thousands of professionals.</p>



<p>In a global operation of escalating government control of individuals, top down business takeover and eliminating freedoms Roatan is a side story to a side story. The flooding of fear reporting and suppression of dissenting voices has frighten people who are now desperate enough to accept any solution giving them a feeling that they recaptured some sense of normality. Unfortunately those sacrificing freedom for security will be left with neither.</p>
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		<title>Collective Punishment Déjà Vu</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Tomczyk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 18:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-c.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-c.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-c-300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-c-768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-c-128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-c-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>While central and local governments have not come up with a way to efficiently and safely transport the stranded Roatanians back home...]]></description>
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<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="576" height="396" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-b.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-7670" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-b.jpg 576w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Photo-Island-Happenings-lockdown-Santos-Guardiola-b-300x206.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px" /><figcaption>National Police prevents free movement of people between Santos Guardiola and Roatan municipalities.</figcaption></figure>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Thirty Forgotten Roatanians Sneak Back Home</strong></h3>



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	W</span>hile central and local governments have not come up with a way to efficiently and safely transport the stranded Roatanians back home a group of islanders fed up with waiting indefinitely in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ceiba">La Ceiba</a> and decided to find a boat to bring them home.</p>



<p>A boat with around 30 people arrived in <a href="https://www.google.hn/maps/place/Jonesville/@16.3898963,-86.3747906,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8f69fb99a32094cb:0x7209813277972e4e!8m2!3d16.3902603!4d-86.3693536?hl=en">Jonesville</a> at 3AM on May 16. Their desperate trip was preempted by two months of pleadings, petitions and protests addressed to central and municipal governments of Roatan. All their pleas were answered with empty promises and tear gas.</p>



<p>According to Bay Islands Governor Dino Silvestri nine people presented themselves to authorities upon arrival, another seven were arrested ad put under quarantine and fourteen others have not been yet located some of them in <a href="https://roatan.online/st-helene-island">Santa Helena</a>. According to Governor Silvestri, the radar system installed on the west of the island didn’t pick the boat’s signal.</p>



<p>&nbsp;<em>“It’s been over two months and not even the plan</em> [for returning of stranded on the mainland islanders] <em>has been created, people can only have much patience, and now they are out of it, angry, desperate and broke,”</em> wrote Haydee Muñoz, a Roatan resident.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow"><p>Tegucigalpa technocrats locked out 20,000 Santos Guardiolans without giving them access to medicine, to supermarkets, banks or gas.&nbsp;</p></blockquote>



<p>Since March 16, Roatan alongside other 17 Honduran Departments have been pressed into fit-all heavy handed policy of shutting down people in their homes and hoping for the best. <em>“All constitutional rights have been suspended,”</em> said Governor Dino Silvestri.</p>



<p>On May 16, officials at the Central Government’s &#8211; National Risk Management System [Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos &#8211; SINAGER] have decided to cut of municipality of Santos Guardiola for 14 days from the rest of the world. <em>“If the results come out positive, the department will go into absolute curfew,”</em> the unsigned SINAGER document threatened Utilians, Guanajans and Roatanians.</p>



<p>Tegucigalpa<a href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/22615/honduras-covid-us-neocolonialism-hunger-crisis-national-party"> technocrats</a> locked out 20,000 Santos Guardiolans without giving them access to medicine, to supermarkets, banks or gas stations. The immune from legal action technocrats were deciding about people’s lives from their offices in Tegucigalpa.</p>



<p>The next day protesters gathered at the border between the two Roatan Municipalities. After several hours they forced down the blockade of the National Police that attempted to keep residents of Santos Guardiola from crossing into Roatan Municipality.</p>



<p>The past 63 days of “Red Alert” shutting down did not allow the islanders or the Central Government to create COVID-19 treatment infrastructure. The island has no COVID-19 testing labs, no ventilators and trained staff to manage the ventilators.</p>



<p>Governor Silvestri announced that $25,000 from the COVID-19 emergency fund will be given to a committee that is coordinating the return of Roatanians home from the mainland. While Utila managed to bring back 19 of its people, around 250 people are still waiting to come back to Roatan in La Ceiba.</p>
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