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You little people can stay at home....

Barack Obama Goes Golfing at Country Club the Day After Michelle Urged African Americans to Stay Home

On Friday, two PSAs featuring former first lady Michelle Obama urging African Americans to stay home in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were released. Prominent African American radio hosts who have nationally syndicated shows shared the PSAs.

“Hi everybody, it’s Michelle Obama. Our communities are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus, and we’ve got to do everything we can to keep each other safe,” says the former first lady in the 30-second PSA. “And that means staying home because even if we are not showing any symptoms, we can still spread the virus to others. Let’s keep each other safe by just staying home. Thank you so much and God bless.”

Apparently, her husband didn’t get the memo. The day after the PSAs were released, Barack Obama was seen playing golf at Robert Trent Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia. Politico reported on Sunday:

SPOTTED: Former President Barack Obama playing golf at Robert Trent Golf Club in Gainesville, Va., Saturday afternoon



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M.K. Pritzker, the billionaire wife of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), is reportedly skipping out on her husband’s stringent lockdown orders, jetting off to their $12.1 million equestrian estate in South Florida — a state that has refused to implement what Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) described as “draconian” measures as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.

While Pritzker finds himself in the middle of a legal battle over his extension of the his lockdown order, extending it until May 30 and promoting his All-in Illinois initiative, his wife is nowhere to be seen, at least in the Prairie State.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...tes-lockdown-orders/



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^^^^well, she said African-AMERICANS......


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[QUOTE]Originally posted by chellim1:
You little people can stay at home....

Barack Obama Goes Golfing at Country Club the Day After Michelle Urged African Americans to Stay Home


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Apparently that little commie governor in California is going to throw a little temper tantrum and order all the beaches closed. All those people going to the beach recently should all go by the tens of thousands in defiance. No way in hell he could do anything about it!
 
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Can anyone tell me the last time Doc H. Posted in this thread? I don’t want to search 435 pages to find it, but I do know it hasn’t been recently.

He probably feels like he’s not needed anymore with all the doctors in here.

I suspect if you went to an AMA forum and found a bunch of doctors that were telling people why they weren’t, just as a random example, following recommendations and guidelines for how to maintain large ship engines and how everyone should ignore actual experts in that field and listen to them because they were doctors you would....well.....you know what, never mind

I have a BJs and a Costco membership, but generally go to BJs because it’s closer to my house and they have the treats my dogs like. No longer. Costco it is.

I will now be taking yet another self imposed break from this thread, so if anyone feels the need to yell, it’ll have to be through email, especially since we won’t see each other at Costco.


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Um...ok. Thanks for the info. Roll Eyes
You sound like one of those members that throws a tantrum and demands his account be deleted. Just go away without the drama.
 
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Um...ok. Thanks for the info. Roll Eyes
You sound like one of those members that throws a tantrum and demands his account be deleted. Just go away without the drama.


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He gets a by because of muslim status. In this country, no restrictions apply to muslims.




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Maybe the Experts Were Right About Covid-19 the First Time
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Maybe the Experts Were Right About Covid-19 the First Time
They originally wanted herd immunity, realizing lockdowns would incur the disasters we’re seeing.

By Joseph C. Sternberg
April 23, 2020 12:36 pm EST

It’s time to confront an awful possibility about the lockdowns in which many of the world’s economies now find themselves: The experts might have been right the first time.

"The first time” was not so long ago—February to mid-March—when official opinion on how best to grapple with the new coronavirus pandemic was very different. The distinguishing characteristic was modesty.

The stated goal was not to vanquish the virus but merely to try to control its spread so as not to overwhelm health-care systems. Officials also understood public patience with draconian measures would wear thin quickly and demanded politicians exercise caution when asking the public to take on burdens.

Those opinions now are widely derided, often in insulting terms. Yet subsequent events suggest they’re mainly correct. Let’s take each in turn.

• We can’t stop the virus, we can only slow it. This is the biggest fact about the pandemic that remains politically impossible to say. The trouble started in mid-March when “herd immunity,” previously the tacit or acknowledged endgame for most of the world, became a toxic phrase. Critics pointed out that allowing the virus to spread in a controlled manner would cost lives. They presented a stark alternative of total lockdown or the disaster of Italian hospitals, with no middle ground.

But if those experts have a more plausible plan than taking a controlled path to herd immunity, the world is waiting to hear it. Experts propose instead either that we await the arrival of a vaccine or that we ramp up testing and contact tracing of the infected. Good luck. A vaccine is a year or more in the future, if one ever emerges. An effective mass test-and-trace regime would require a level of competence and focus that typically eludes modern governments—not to mention an invasion of privacy that, at least in the U.S., might be unconstitutional.

Events will provide two tests of whether the experts were right the first time. Sweden is conspicuous not only for its lack of a formal lockdown but also for its leaders’ laser focus on the question of health-system capacity.

Sweden’s fans are perhaps too quick to overlook the human tragedy of the resulting higher death toll. But its critics should be more curious about whether, if permanent suppression of the virus is impossible, this approach might stave off subsequent disaster by moderating future peaks of the virus—with fewer of the human costs associated with a lockdown.

We’d better hope Sweden’s approach works, because the alternative gives little cause for optimism. We can’t lock down our economies waiting for a vaccine that may never arrive. And as Germany, Denmark, Austria and other European countries emerge from their lockdowns, officials all but admit the virus will start spreading again. That’s why they are reopening in stages. The virus’s second surges in China, Singapore and Hong Kong serve as a warning. The original conventional wisdom acknowledged the reality that draconian lockdowns merely delayed the inevitable spread and that sheltering populations rather than slowly cultivating herd immunity would lead to quickly rising infection rates once countries reopened.

We can’t ask the public to lock down indefinitely.
This was articulated most forcefully in the U.K., where Prime Minister Boris Johnson took merciless flak for trying to delay the sternest pandemic-mitigation efforts on the grounds that the public would find it hard to comply for long.

Mr. Johnson’s critics promptly fell down the rabbit-hole of investigating the scientific basis for that insight within the field of behavioral studies (turns out there isn’t a lot) while overlooking its obvious truth in observed human nature. Sustained, severe curtailment of daily liberties has only ever been enforceable at the point of a spear or a gun.

Sure enough, nearly five weeks into Britain’s lockdown, its police forces worry the public won’t tolerate much more enforcement. Rule-loving Germans comply less and less with social distancing, to judge by a University of Mannheim tracker poll that found that more than 50% of respondents had violated rules against visiting friends at least once in the week ending April 21, up from around 30% in the last week of March. Protests have erupted in the U.S., and near-riots in some of Paris’s volatile suburbs.

Leaders are asking us to do the impossible—cut off almost all social contact indefinitely—at often incalculable individual cost, and then belittling those who object as antiscience rubes. At the start of this pandemic some leaders seemingly understood how destructive the resulting loss of trust between rulers and citizenry would be. They abandoned that insight at their, and our, peril.

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We’ve all placed our bets now and can only hope for the best. But it will be well worth it for voters and students of public policy alike to ask in coming years whether policy makers’ first instincts were their best—and, if so, why we made it so difficult for them to follow those intuitions.
 
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He probably feels like he’s not needed anymore with all the doctors in here.


You know, you have worn on just about everyone in this thread so thanks for stepping back, however, before you go, remember this: Just because you have an opinion on something doesn't mean we have to agree with it or that you are right. Keep us all in the loop on how well you and your wife are doing financially because of all of the COVIDIOTS bringing their kids to her and getting tested Roll Eyes Maybe once you realize that the financial loss has a greater impact than losing a few people to disease.


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News is touting the new anti viral Remdesivir as the possible savior for the Rona made by Gilead Pharm.
Guess who’s names came up in almost every article about Gilead?
Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation.

No wonder why they wanted a new and expensive solution over the Hydroxychloroquine.
 
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No wonder why they wanted a new and expensive solution over the Hydroxychloroquine.
This, and why let something cheaper that Trump mentioned possibly gain any traction. Roll Eyes


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I suspect if you went to an AMA forum and found a bunch of doctors that were telling people why they weren’t, just as a random example, following recommendations and guidelines for how to maintain large ship engines ...


Hey, what a coincidence. That's what I do!

Well, since you brought up this random example, I would say that if I were to commence major maintenance on the ship's engines without coordinating with or giving any consideration at all to the deck depart, the results could be catastrophic, especially if the ship were steaming along at full steam ahead at the time in heavy traffic.

Kind of like public health experts making huge public health decisions without any consideration at all to the economy.


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Lots of folks casting shade on Costco here.
Wife and I went yesterday for the first time since the lockdown.
We were handed a 5-pack of Clorox wipes by an employee handing them out (one per card!) from a pallet, since they know that’s what we’re looking for.
Limits on paper towels, meat, some other things.
All wore masks; all did their best to maintain socialist distance, but there was a scrum at the meat counter.
All in all, I think Costco is doing a terrific job at performing their essential service and keeping customers happy.

Now if Governor Gruesome would just realize that private businesses and individuals can get along just fine without the “help” he’s giving by shutting everything down, we would do just fine.


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I don't blame the businesses for the ridiculous policies. They're just trying to keep running within the government decrees.
 
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I don't blame the businesses for the ridiculous policies. They're just trying to keep running within the government decrees.

Negative. No such mask requirements in Georgia and many other states.


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More like, can I come into your store to cancel my membership? Because that’s what I’m doing. This shit is beyond ridiculous.

Yeah. I get the idea of a private business requiring whatever they want of people who want to do business with them on their private property. I also get the idea of potential customers telling them where to go if the potential customers find the requirements unreasonable. However, Costco is a membership deal and customers there have paid for membership. I wonder if the membership agreement allows Costco to unilaterally change the conditions. If not, one would think they would be forced to refund the membership of anyone who asked.

What a cluster!

I asked the customer service rep if this was a temporary solution, and she said that it was permanent. I told her to cancel my membership. Unless they are giving out the masks, and gloves, they are not absolving themselves of litigation risk, and having an asthma condition, I can't wear a mask unless it is a N95.
 
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I don't blame the businesses for the ridiculous policies. They're just trying to keep running within the government decrees.

Negative. No such mask requirements in Georgia and many other states.


You might want to rethink that one. They are requiring masks here now.





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News is touting the new anti viral Remdesivir as the possible savior for the Rona made by Gilead Pharm.
Guess who’s names came up in almost every article about Gilead?
Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation.

No wonder why they wanted a new and expensive solution over the Hydroxychloroquine.

Just FYI, Gates Foundation is a major benefactor/investor to nearly all major and lots of minor pharma research companies, not to mention, they're the largest private donor to the WHO. In short, they got an island worth of money and they pour the majority of it into med research so, stands to reason that their name will be associated with them.

Contrast with Bloomy and Soros who pour their wealth into reworking laws and warping civil rights into their favor.
 
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Lots of folks casting shade on Costco here.
Wife and I went yesterday for the first time since the lockdown.
We were handed a 5-pack of Clorox wipes by an employee handing them out (one per card!) from a pallet, since they know that’s what we’re looking for.
Limits on paper towels, meat, some other things.
All wore masks; all did their best to maintain socialist distance, but there was a scrum at the meat counter.
All in all, I think Costco is doing a terrific job at performing their essential service and keeping customers happy.

Now if Governor Gruesome would just realize that private businesses and individuals can get along just fine without the “help” he’s giving by shutting everything down, we would do just fine.


If covid were a purely aerosol virus, I would agree. Unfortunately with it living on surfaces for up to 6 days, and via aerosol form only 3-4 hours, gloves, not a mask, would make more sense. Also, if they are not handing out the masks, what is to say they are any good. Hell, even the CDC policy states that the efficacy of nonpharmaceutical grade PPE is questionable, at best.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/current
 
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