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All that bar-hopping and spring-breaking: Press ignores protests as source of new wave of COVID-19
American Thinker ^ | 06/28/2020 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 06/28/2020 6:47:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

With a new wave, or peak, of Chinese coronavirus cases shutting much of the country down again, and news getting out about how it's younger people being infected, the press is blaming bar-hopping and spring break travel. And in the case of the Washington Post, President Trump's rally in Arizona, too. Here's one account from the Washington Post:

Health officials are imploring young people to wear masks and practice social distancing as coronavirus transmission among younger Americans continues to drive record outbreaks in several states.

The pleas come as governors in Texas and Florida instituted new limits on bars and alcohol consumption to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, citing the skyrocketing number of young people who are contracting it. 

Anything to ignore the elephant in the room: raw, undistanced, unprotected, mass protests over the police-brutality death of George Floyd. The Washington Post actually excuses the protests.

Curiously, the new wave of cases among young people now coincides with the waves of unprotected protests and lootings - five-, ten-day incubation periods, meaning the cases were contracted right about when the protests and lootings were going on. Apparently, everyone was out bar-hopping, according to the press reports seen now. Yet the anecdotal evidence is everywhere:

 

Just a reminder that Nashville Mayor Chicken Cooper @JohnCooper4Nash encouraged people to join him in protests a month ago, now we have an uptick in COVID cases, a 34% prop tax increase and now mandatory mask infringements. — Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) June 26, 2020


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; infections; protests; secondwave
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1 posted on 06/28/2020 6:47:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s well worth the effort to wear a mask.


2 posted on 06/28/2020 6:49:59 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (eeWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: SeekAndFind

We need to stop calling it mainstream media and mainstream press. When they openly take the side of Antifa...they’re not mainstream. WE are the new mainstream. They are fringe.


3 posted on 06/28/2020 6:50:26 AM PDT by ksm1
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To: SeekAndFind

Good! If one can protest, one should be able to do whatever else he/she/it wants to. Just don't go to church!

4 posted on 06/28/2020 6:50:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Can I trust that you and I will take the red pill and vote for Trump, this November!)
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To: SeekAndFind

All the news that fits — the liberal agenda.


6 posted on 06/28/2020 6:51:23 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

The spike in cases is because of the screaming and shouting and spitting on everyone by lying protesters.


7 posted on 06/28/2020 6:55:23 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

The “spike” is actually not because they are testing more people - although they are - but because they are testing people with no symptoms, particularly in groups - that is, coworkers, etc. So all it indicates is that these people had the disease, it was so mild they didn’t even know they had it, and now that they are being tested, they are turning up positive.


8 posted on 06/28/2020 7:10:34 AM PDT by livius
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To: SeekAndFind

So the riots and masks in general aren’t the issue? No one is washing their hands and burning their clothes after being in contact with other humans? When these a##holes sink the economy for good what is the plan for utopia?

Earth people and that sly angel of light have very little time left.


9 posted on 06/28/2020 7:16:06 AM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: EnglishOnly

Nancy wants to mandate wearing masks , she says Real Men Wear Masks ,LOL


10 posted on 06/28/2020 7:25:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EnglishOnly

Are you going to repeat that come Flu season?


11 posted on 06/28/2020 7:25:39 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SeekAndFind

What does alcohol do to viruses, ethanol in particular?


12 posted on 06/28/2020 7:44:05 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: Karliner

Cover something in alcohol then burning off the alcohol works wonders in terms of killing off germs. Too bad a flaming moe is from the Simpsons and not real life.


13 posted on 06/28/2020 7:46:01 AM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!)
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To: ksm1

I refer to them as the Ministry of Truth.


14 posted on 06/28/2020 8:05:42 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The spike in cases is because of the screaming and shouting and spitting on everyone by lying protesters.

Gov.Cuomo and his punky kid brother, and DeBlasio all spread the Chinese Virus by unabashed kissing of leftists' rear ends. Chapped lips from kissing the BLM ones alone.

15 posted on 06/28/2020 8:20:07 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I noticed that the media deliberately and intentionally refused to make any connection between the rioting and the increased infection.


16 posted on 06/28/2020 8:20:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (THERE ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO BE A DEBATE TRUMP VS BIDEN! It will be the best show ever!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The press follows the Carville/Begala playbook.


17 posted on 06/28/2020 8:23:46 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: EnglishOnly

For short periods of time, yes. I have been wearing one at work since March. I have daily symptoms of fatigue and fuzziness and lack of focus. Each sympto. Resolves within an hour or two of getting home. I usually work 12 to 15 hour days.
It is ridiculous to breathe in mask particulates. The lungs do not take kindly to it, esp as it accumulates. Evidence: see mini g history, firefighters and 9/11 first responders.


18 posted on 06/28/2020 8:34:49 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: SeekAndFind

The press ignores the real source, the southern border.


19 posted on 06/28/2020 8:34:55 AM PDT by poinq
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Austin, TX police are having an “alarming” number of new cases that are being blamed on the rioters yelling and spitting in cops’ faces.

HEB grocery chain is limiting purchases again and mandatory masks.

Hundreds of high school kids near Austin last weekend had their annual alcohol Pong Fest. Virus cases are starting to pop up from that.

Austin and Houston coliseums are prepping for CV hospital over flow.

Austin mayor says you’re 3X more likely to catch virus today than two weeks ago. Yes, there is a HUGE spike in TX. Here in my county, new cases have risen 4-5 times more in the past two weeks.


20 posted on 06/28/2020 8:50:34 AM PDT by bgill
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