Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Virginia's order was in direct response to photos circulating of packed beaches and parks over the weekend. Northam referenced as much during his presser yesterday. When I drove back from the Eastern Shore Saturday and saw how packed the beach was on the Virginia Beach side, I knew that the SiP was coming on Monday. People can't help themselves. And I'm getting the feeling that this order will allow local law enforcement to get a lot more frisky in actually enforcing the mandate.

I've stayed home other than trips to the grocery store, trips to local restaurants for takeout and trips outside to bike and walk. I definitely can tell that the guidelines are taking hold. Biking through downtown Richmond at 5 p.m. on a Monday, the place was an absolute ghost town. Weird.

 

One of America's greatest strengths as part of our national psyche is the idea of rejecting authority. Unfortunately, it's also proving to be one of our greatest weaknesses when that same authority keeps sending out confusing or misleading messages. "You're going to die or kill someone else" is apparently not enough to stop people from doing whatever they want to do. It's maddening for those of us who really would like to make it through this without losing our parents, spouses or ourselves.

 

You first, jackass.

 

You also have nine sets of facts floating around according to some of these dopes.

 

And you have the far right jackasses like Bill Mitchell and Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk .... WE know they are all conspiracy theory spouting fuckheads, but they have huge followings on social media, and people are eating up their bullshit. There are people out there who continue to spout the crap that they say like it's fact. Mitchell's big one yesterday was that he didn't believe any hospitals were overrun and that it was a total media overreaction meant to ruin Trump. It's dangerous.

 

But then you have Lizzo, who bought lunch for the Henry Ford ER

 

Our ability to defend the nation is being compromised.

Exclusive: Captain of aircraft carrier with growing coronavirus outbreak pleads for help from Navy

 

Another example of the fleet state trying to take Trump down.

 

The pandemic is revealing just how threadbare our nation's systems really are. One branch of our vaunted military lacks resources and imagination to deal with a wholly predictable problem. I know it's hard to build a hospital on Guam, but it never occurred to anyone at the Pentagon that a warship is like a cruise ship for young people?

 

How long until the whackadoos say Chris Cuomo is faking having Covid-19 to make his brother look good and Trump look worse?

 

Great. Every pregnant woman can now say that when she goes to have an abortion.

Do these fuckwads even have a clue what the hell they are saying?