Yes, this has been coming for some time, but still, fucking assholes!
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Wisconsin Police Shut Down Hobby Lobby Stores That Defied Coronavirus Lockdown
Several Milwaukee-area Hobby Lobby stores were shut down by police Tuesday after the craft store reopened earlier this week in defiance of state shelter-in-place orders.
…Hobby Lobby’s corporate leadership provided managers with talking points for dealing with the authorities should employees face questions about why the store is still running, according to Business Insider.
Wisconsin Police Shut Down Hobby Lobby Stores That Defied Coronavirus Lockdown
Charged should be filed against the management for inciting this blatantly disrruptive and dangerous behavior. Period.
The Coronavirus’s Unique Threat to the South
Kaiser’s at-risk group includes all people over 60 years old and all adults younger than 60 who also have heart disease, cancer, lung disease, or diabetes. In each state, older people are the majority of the people considered to be at risk of complications. But the Deep South and mid-South form a solid bloc of states where younger adults are much more at risk. In Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Mississippi, relatively young people make up more than a quarter of the vulnerable population. Compare that with the coronavirus’s beachhead in Washington State, where younger adults make up only about 19 percent of the risk group.
…Southerners are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases than other Americans—even as Americans are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases than citizens of other countries with comparable wealth. According to Neuman, these estimates don’t include people with cancer or who are immunocompromised—groups that are also at high risk for serious illness from COVID-19. And cancer mortality rates are highest in southern states.
…These differences are not innate to southerners; they are the result of policy. Health disparities tend to track both race and poverty, and the states in the old domain of Jim Crow have pursued policies that ensure those disparities endure. The South is the poorest region in the country. The poor, black, Latino, or rural residents who make up large shares of southern populations tend to lack access to high-quality doctors and care. According to the State Health Access Data Assistance Center, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana all spend less than $25 per person on public health a year, compared with $84 per person in New York. Nine of the 14 states that have refused to expand Medicaid to poor residents under the Affordable Care Act are in the South.
…Advocates have drawn attention to the extreme vulnerability of people in prison to the coronavirus—and the South incarcerates a larger proportion of its population than anywhere else in the United States. …Southern states have some of the lowest ratios of active physicians to patients in the country.
The Coronavirus’s Unique Threat to the South – The Atlantic
Sigh…
Dr. Anthony Fauci: ‘I don’t understand why’ every state hasn’t issued stay-at-home orders
“You know, the tension between federally mandated versus states’ rights to do what they want is something I don’t want to get into,” he said. “But if you look at what’s going on in this country, I just don’t understand why we’re not doing that.”
really, Doctor? don’t you though?
In the Midst of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Construction Is Set to Resume on the Keystone Pipeline
So here’s the situation: in the middle of a pandemic, construction workers will move into isolated rural communities with already strained hospital resources. The “man camps” where many such workers in the industry live are associated with violence against women and other crimes, even in the best of times. Now, with the pandemic, many of the Native communities that live along the pipeline route fear for the worst. “This causes eerie memories for us with the infected smallpox blankets that were distributed to tribes intentionally,” Faith Spotted Eagle, a leader of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, said. (The coronavirus is already wreaking havoc on isolated reservations in other parts of the country, and the chronically underfunded Indian Health Service is struggling to meet the crisis.)
…I don’t know if corporations can be evil—I don’t think so, even if the Supreme Court insists on describing them as people. But this is capitalism at its most naked, willing to endanger people in the covid-19 crisis and to heat the earth in the climate crisis, all in search of a bit more profit. In a world running right now on bravery and love, it’s hard to imagine anything much darker.
hmmmmm
A second pastor has been charged with violating public orders against large gatherings
“Instead of showing the strength and resilience of our community during this difficult time, Mr. Spell has chosen to embarrass us for his own self-promotion,” said Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran Tuesday in a statement.
“Mr. Spell will have his day in court where he will be held responsible for his reckless and irresponsible decisions that endangered the health of his congregation and our community,” Corcoran added.
A second pastor has been charged with violating public orders against large gatherings – CNN
In a rare turn of events, the Peanut Gallery is decidedly with the Police Chief on this one.
Pence urges Americans to avoid church services of more than 10 people
Pence urges Americans to avoid church services of more than 10 people | TheHill
Pardon the irony of this wording, but, uh, a little to the party on that one, eh, Mike?
Trump rejects Obamacare special enrollment period amid pandemic
Trump rejects Obamacare special enrollment period amid pandemic – POLITICO
…Because eh’s a maniacal, satanic, asshat.
Actually Satanists are better people than that. They tend to support science and are pro separation of church and state. Sorry Satanists! Shouldn’t have insulted you, so!
USNS Comfort arrives in NYC to help city’s coronavirus fight
USNS Comfort arrives in NYC to help city’s coronavirus fight
Have we arrived at the stage in our government’s existence where our only hope to counter a fascist leader is the military?
Rest in Peace, Republic of the United States, Rest in Peace.
Trump berates Yamiche Alcindor of ‘PBS NewsHour’ at coronavirus briefing
“Mr. President, I have two questions,” she said. “The first is you’ve said repeatedly that you think that some of the equipment that governors are requesting they don’t actually need. You said New York might not need 30,000 …”
Trump didn’t let her finish.
“I didn’t say that,” he said.
“You said it on Sean Hannity’s Fox News,” Alcindor responded, accurately.
…Alcindor, who is a black woman, tried to finish her question, but Trump interrupted again: “Look, let me tell you something. Be nice. Don’t be threatening. Be nice.”
Trump’s reaction to Alcindor’s question recalled past incidents in which the president has cast black female reporters as “stupid,” “a loser” and “racist.”
On March 13, when Alcindor asked whether the suspension of the White House pandemic office slowed the country’s response to the coronavirus, Trump called it a “nasty question.”
…He got personal again Sunday with Alcindor, making what he seemed to consider disparaging comments about her career.
“Excuse me,” said the president at one point, “you didn’t hear me, that’s why you used to work for The Times and now you work for somebody else,” a reference to the New York Times and “PBS NewsHour.”
The president didn’t call on Alcindor to ask a second question, even though she had told him she had a follow-up.
But a few minutes later, in a display of professional support, CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond handed the microphone back to the “NewsHour” journalist so she could ask Trump which public health experts supported his claims that more people would die from the economic impact of social distancing than from coronavirus infections. Trump didn’t give any names.
Trump berates Yamiche Alcindor of ‘PBS NewsHour’ at coronavirus briefing – The Washington Post
An this is the racist, incompetent, narcissist who a significant minority in this country supports no matter what.
We wouldn’t be in this mess if he wasn’t in the White House.
Your friends and family who support this monster will be culpable in THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of deaths before this is over. Blood is already on their hands from so many things but if this doesn’t bring it into focus for them, nothing ever will.
VA Pastor, Musician Dies From Coronavirus He Had Questioned
A 66-year-old Virginia resident who fell ill with the new coronavirus, or COVID-19, on a trip to New Orleans died Wednesday morning at a hospital in Concord, North Carolina. The death of Landon Spradlin, an accomplished musician and a pastor, has drawn viral attention online, in part because earlier this month Spradlin questioned whether media coverage of the disease was overblown.
…Some media outlets have noted that Spradlin shared a meme on his Facebook page that compared coronavirus deaths to swine flu deaths. The meme described the reaction to the coronavirus as “mass hysteria” and suggested the media was using the pandemic to hurt President Donald Trump.
VA Pastor, Musician Dies From Coronavirus He Had Questioned | Fredericksburg, VA Patch
hmmm
States Order Abortions to Be Delayed Due to Coronavirus
States Order Abortions to Be Delayed Due to Coronavirus | Time
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Forcing women to bear children that might endanger their lives…. SNAFU? Sigh….
Coronavirus leads to class warfare in Hamptons
Every aspect of life, most crucially medical care, is under strain from the sudden influx of rich Manhattanites panic-fleeing, bringing along their disdain and disregard for the little people — and in some cases, knowingly bringing coronavirus.
…“We’re at the end of Long Island, the tip, and waves of people are bringing this s–t,” says lifelong Montauker James Katsipis. “We should blow up the bridges. Don’t let them in.”
Coronavirus leads to class warfare in Hamptons
hmmmmm
TX Lt. Gov: Older people would rather die than let Covid-19 harm US economy
The lieutenant governor of Texas went on Fox News to argue that he would rather die than see public health measures damage the US economy, and that he believed “lots of grandparents” across the country would agree with him.
…Patrick said he feared that public health restrictions to prevent coronavirus could end American life as he knows it, and that he is willing to risk death to protect the economy for his grandchildren.
“You know, Tucker, no one reached out to me and said, ‘As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?’” Patrick said. “And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in.”
So stupid it is positively evil.
TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Rejects Social Distancing, Seniors Need to Risk Death
[Trump’s] comments are getting perilously close to urging Americans to ignore doctors and scientists, all of whom seem to be saying we need these drastic measures until the virus subsides. The irony, of course, is if Trump gets his way, we’ll clearly have way more deaths than if we were isolated from each other … and what does he think will happen to the economy then?
…The Lt. Gov. of Texas says to hell with social distancing, because old folks should risk death by COVID-19, so the economy can start recovering.
…That would seem to be an odd time to stop doing what every scientist says will prevent the virus from spreading and killing more people.
TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Rejects Social Distancing, Seniors Need to Risk Death
oy….
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