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03-23-2020, 2:52pm | #1 | ||||||
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Michigan under house arrest.....
I'm glad this authority ****er is telling me how often I can go to the grocery store.... The governor issued the "shelter in place" order this morning. I knew it was a matter of time once Ohio issued it. |
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I could never live there.
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Houston is holding out, but our mayor is a worthless pile of shit so I'm sure it's coming.
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Don't forget your 20-something county commissioner. She couldn't even quell a Greenpeace protest without shutting down major industrial arteries around town, but she's gonna tell people they can't leave their homes. Alrighty then.
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The MI governor reminds me of Glen Close from Fatal Attraction
Both crazier than shithouse rats, and the governor especially seems like she's into BDSM, particularly the S part. That would perfectly explain ****ing up the whole economy of the state. |
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Michigan...well Detroit specifically, is a failed Socialism experiment and in over 50 years they haven't been able to recover from that debacle. Michigan is LUCKY to have the corona virus. It's still better than their leaders.
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Michigan has been a day behind Ohio on everything related to this. I’m essential and in medicine so guess who is still going to work every day
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The bullshit is getting unbelievably thick. My wife works at a bank, and is being told she needs to carry her work photo ID with her, AND a letter from the bank confirming that she is an employee, so that if she gets pulled over on her way to work, she can "prove" she is an "essential employee", and won't get a ticket for violating the lock-down.
I said "really?" What kind of bullshit is that? If some cop pulls me over, and asks me where I'm going, I'm just going to say something brilliant like "I'm going food shopping." Then what is he going to do? Is he going to try to prove I went food shopping last Tuesday so it hasn't been a whole week yet? What if I say I need cash, and am on my way to the bank? What if I say I am on my way to the drug store? I can be on my way to ANY "essential business", and be A-OK to be on the road, so how are they going to enforce this bullshit? This is just more random bullshit meant to put "fear" into the general citizenry that has zero chance of any effective enforcement at all. |
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Coming home from the Post Office today I got on the (mostly empty) freeway. Some douche in a powder blue Porsche delt compelled to demonstrate how his Porsche is faster than an IS-F, so he blew past my on the on-ramp and immediately cut across 6 lanes going at least 100MPH... literally right in front of a motorcycle cop. The cop paced this guy for a while, letting him shit all over his nice leather seat covers, and then sped off. Bottom line: none of us want to be exposed to the Corona virus. |
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Milwaukee got it today, Wisconsin is coming tomorrow. I'm on a rotating work-from-home. I was told that our business is essential because our products support refineries, power plants, municipalities, etc. so I won't be getting any time off even though my position has been redundant for the last six months.
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Indiana has it. Our business is essential so it is work as usual down here. Now just to worry we will have enough people coming into work to keep the Smelter running.
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California first imposed a shelter in place with general directions to stay home. After that, they started directing more and more places to close. At this point, all our malls are closed, our restaurants, our golf courses, our beaches,our parks, etc. So yeah, you could go out and take a drive, but good luck finding anything open. The state is losing BILLIONS of dollars doing this in tax revenue, in unemployment, and consumer spending.. they don’t want to do it any more than you want to follow their rules.. the sooner this pandemic passes, the better off we will all be. |
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This has been my point all along: this shit is totally not thought through. Your post is just another example of what I have been saying. Quote:
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At the end of the day, history has shown time and time again that endlessly ramping up "control" to try to ensure "compliance" by the citizenry as a whole is a loser's game. But you know what they say: those who fail to learn from the past are destined to repeat it. |
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2) Grocery stores are open even in the draconian city of Los Angeles, and no one is being stopped from going there. 3) For people who can’t afford to buy food, there are free food distributions points where you can just drive up and grab a sack of groceries. So all I’m saying is they are closing everything that is truly “non-essential.” Not hospitals, not stores. And buses are free if you don’t have gas to drive. |
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Local police (best bud is a LEO) say the jails aren't even accepting misdemeanor inmates... cite and release is the order of the day currently.
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I'm in the trucking industry, (KW of Jax FL.) Business as usual here.
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The part that makes me shake my head about this whole mess is we still have people who think this was all some sort of scam... If there is anything I’ve learned, Trump is not afraid to go his own way, and he of ALL people would not want to jeopardize his chances of being re-elected to another term. His economy is in the toilet. Everything he gained in the last four years went poof... Why would Trump for one second go along with this if he thought it was just some sort of scam? He wouldn’t... Actually I don’t know a single politician who would. All of their careers are on the line and the economy is basically in ruins...
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Also, I'm pretty sure your post is backward. I would guess (although I admit that I have not yet gotten my "internet expert in infectious diseases card") that you meant that an LEO would be much more likely to be exposed/infected to/with Covid19 from a person involved in a traffic stop/arrest than the other way around. But this is just another example of this whole thing not really being thought through. YMMV. |
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