No, but I'm going house shopping tomorrow.
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Devildoc
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Since the all started I've been in the eastern part of the state at the coast and in the western part of the state near the mountains. Both areas are fairly rural, and it's the same way, no one really cares. Sure, businesses have signs up about wearing masks, but a lot of the business workers aren't even wearing them. It's just not as big a deal as it is in the cities.
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Your governor is a major asshole for a variety of reasons. This will kill your economy.
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Dude, I am just amazed at how easily this populace submits. He did this with the swipe of a pen quoting “emergency powers“.
No debate, no checks and balances, his whim. The CEO of Lifetime Fitness which is based in Minnesota is losing his mind and has launched a campaign to keep workout facilities open. As he said, “we just got our gyms open again, and now you want me to lay off 4000 people weeks before Christmas?”
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More fuel for the masking fire:
Landmark Danish study shows face masks have no significant effect | The Spectator
Landmark Danish study shows face masks have no significant effect | The Spectator
It's really a conversation that needs to be had with local business owners to defy closing. It's one thing if most people submit, but you can't fight everyone if they all refuse.
On one hand people need to see the consequences of their voting decisions, but a lot of people will also pay the price for it. With Trump essentially out, I feel like a lot of Blue governors might feel empowered to enact ludicrous changes with the potential of, we'll call it, presidential protection. I believe that's when you'll see the biggest changes in left leaning individuals to defy local governmental orders. It's one thing to fall in line because Trump is bad, but I don't think they can keep up the charade once he's out. Newsome and Cuomo will likely be the first to experience it. Even MSNBC hit Cuomo on his outburst yesterday.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/andrew-cuomo-shouts-reporters-denies-nyc-schools-closing
The governor's hostile exchange with reporters sparked heavy backlash on social media.
"For someone who presided over so many deaths, especially so many avoidable deaths in nursing homes!, Governor Cuomo should perhaps be a little less overconfident, little less mocking, and a little less aggressive in Covid (!) briefings with the media," MSNBC analyst Mehdi Hasan reacted.
"That’s some Trumpian treatment of a reporter asking a legitimate and fair question, @NYGovCuomo," Politico reporter Andrew Disiderio said.
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The amount of freedom that we as a people gave up during this thing scares me. The continuum of Freedom for Security exists. But we received no security in return for the Freedom we gave up. I can tell you that 30 more days of shutdown will kill bar accounts. Sure there will be the ones with significant backing that hold on, but so many people will succumb to the mental health pressures that this shit is creating.
I would state quite clearly if you had a nationwide lockdown like some of Biden's quacks are suggesting we'd be fucked sideways, and maybe that would wake everyone up to vote a different way, but I doubt that.
I would state quite clearly if you had a nationwide lockdown like some of Biden's quacks are suggesting we'd be fucked sideways, and maybe that would wake everyone up to vote a different way, but I doubt that.
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We have restaurants going out of business here. In one case where I live, a restaurant just closed and the city announced a liquor store will take its place. What does that tell you?
The owner of Lifetime brings up an excellent point regarding lay offs and Christmas. Talk about adding to mental health issues, suicide, drug abuse, etc. No one pushing for lockdowns wants to address that though. I guess it’s ok if you lose everything as long as you don’t die from the virus.
The owner of Lifetime brings up an excellent point regarding lay offs and Christmas. Talk about adding to mental health issues, suicide, drug abuse, etc. No one pushing for lockdowns wants to address that though. I guess it’s ok if you lose everything as long as you don’t die from the virus.
This has been talked about since the beginning
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Could be worse...could live in Australia.
I bet there's a 'vote for us' to follow.
Sounds a lot like prison.
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So Whitmer continues to defy the Michigan Supreme court. Every time they overturn her emergency order she issues a new one.
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Home detention. Next they’ll put GPS monitors on violators.
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I'd put it on my Jack Russell. It would entertaining. How fucking draconian.
This is so true. If I leave the city, the rest of the county doesn't give two shits.
Oh, and our county has banned all indoor gatherings unless everyone lives in same household. But, get this, restaurants can still be open at 25% capacity; church services are good to go; gyms can be open at 50% capacity.
Really they just don't want you to gather with family over the holidays. Good luck getting the police to enforce that one. Drunk people and hunting season. That will end well
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We're all gonna be sent to a work camp err a shaft mine.
Really they just don't want you to gather with family over the holidays. Good luck getting the police to enforce that one. Drunk people and hunting season. That will end well
All of these stupid extensions of power only put Law Enforcement lives at risk. Law Enforcement enforcing these asinine and draconian measures lost them support amongst the populace...I bet you have folks who support defunding the police because people have been assaulted by police and had their businesses shut down by agencies that lacked balls.
