Posted on 03/27/2020 8:19:21 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
The government has closed the wilderness in the name of safety. I talked with a Ranger yesterday, and this is what I was told. All access to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is closed.
Why do this and cite public safety? It is not the fault of anyone who works for the Park Service. I am not at all faulting them, just another by product of mass hysteria.
Is this nationwide?
I do not know if it is nation wide. I am speaking only of the Great Smoky National Park because it is accessible to me.
Poway,California, Yup!
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Hiking trails Closed,
PoPo runs you Off!
The reason for this is to protect the rescue people who have to retrieve injured, lost and dead people from these areas.
Rescue people are being used in communities now and don’t need to be chasing around searching for people in the wilds.
They don’t want people escaping to there and playing Lord of the Flies.
Another great example of why relying on the government to do the most intelligent thing is a bad idea. Plenty of things being done today are exactly the right idea in the face of a potentially severe epidemic. Closing wilderness areas is not in that category.
I was lamenting that my back packing skills have diminished.
If I can be trusted to stay 6 feet away at Costco.........without a need to be tasered......
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Can’t I be trusted outdoors?
Are they afraid we gona eat weird bats?
Public land my arse. This is government land
Yes, stay out of the wilderness. Go to New York City where it is entirely safe under the capable leadership of mayor De Blasio.
Rescue people are being used in communities now and don’t need to be chasing around searching for people in the wilds.
Groucho Marx “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
I hope while the good sheep and chickens are cooped up in their pens and houses, the farmers and their dogs are on the hunt for wolves and weasels.
Its like the video I saw yesterday of two cops harassing a surfer in the ocean (in Italy). The beach was empty, as was the ocean, and the guy was hundreds of feet out, surfing. Talk about “social distancing.”
All the Nat’l parks closed a week ago.
I’ve read that they aren’t servicing any of the restrooms, as part of the decision.Right before they closed they went “free of charge” - then said that was making the parks too crowded and they stopped it.
Some parks have tourist type buses that normally take people thru the park to help save the park from tourist environmental destruction and they had to stop those buses.
I don’t really understand it all.
A few more weeks of this quasi martial law and people will start to play out Lord of the Flies.
My understanding is the Park Service had information that certain wildlife was adamant that Humans and their stinking China Virus disease be kept out of the forests.
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