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As coronavirus cases rise, red-state governors resist measures to slow the spread, preach ‘personal responsibility’
The Washington Post ^ | Oct. 18, 2020 | Griff Witte and Griff Witte Roaming America after years overseas in Europe, the Middle East and So

Posted on 10/18/2020 12:25:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

With cases surging to new highs and hospital capacity running low, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum teared up describing a state “caught in the middle of a covid storm.”

To weather it, he said at a news conference last week, people would need to keep their distance, wear masks and avoid gatherings. But the one thing North Dakota did not need were legal limits on reckless behavior.

“It’s not a job for government,” Burgum (R) declared.

The novel coronavirus is hammering America’s heartland this fall, with records shattered daily in states that had escaped the worst of the disease this spring and summer. Case numbers also are rising again in other states where the virus was thought to be under control after months of widespread illness.

Yet even as health authorities in small cities and rural towns plead for help in tamping down deadly outbreaks, many Republican governors are resisting new measures to stop the spread. Some are even loosening rules already on the books.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: covid19
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To: SaxxonWoods

I firmly believe the testing is BOGUS, this is being proven in the NFL players are tested damn near everyday they are positive one day and negative the next hospitalizations and deaths are not going up at all! It is time to get back to life!!


21 posted on 10/18/2020 12:53:23 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: ifinnegan
Washington Post, owned by Anazon, has a conflict of interest in this issue and every article they publish on it should have the disclaimer that shut down benefits the Washington Post financially.

Amazon should be taxed 90% of their profits during the "pandemic".

22 posted on 10/18/2020 12:53:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ve kept a log of daily deaths reported by Johns Hopkins. The lowest weekly average I’ve recorded was about 3 weeks ago of 667. This week is 712. There has been a rise but nothing like the scare mongers in the media want to you believe. Tests which are false positives, which are alarmingly high, are never subtracted from the positive cases recorded by Johns Hopkins.


23 posted on 10/18/2020 12:54:36 PM PDT by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I need your input....!!

It remains a mystery to me… Why are we allowing this to happen! I ask all of you to help me understand this… Here is the simple number…

The United States of America has approximately 330 million people.

As of this date, there have been approximately 230,000 deaths having to do with anything COVID-19 related.

The CDC says that only approximately 7% of these people who unfortunately died… Actually died “FROM” COVID-19. The remainder of the people who have died have died “WITH” COVID-19.
Be that what it may… Let’s just do the numbers.

Let’s divide 230,000 by 330,000,000… Let’s do it together.

Unless I have a calculator that does not work properly… The answer to that division problem is

00.00069

I wish I had a meme of Elmer Fudd coming out sayin “that’s all folks”

And so my question is this… Why in the hell are we sitting by and allowing this con job to continue!

If you are bending the knee and wearing a mask and putting up with this nonsense explain to me why?

You are more at risk of dying in a car accident… Have you stopped driving?

Wake the hell up… Refuse to comply. Be willing to suffer the consequences. BE Americans… And not surrender to edicts and mandates!!!

I LIVE IN CALIFORNIA AND I REFUSE TO PLAY THE GAME.


24 posted on 10/18/2020 12:55:53 PM PDT by RevelationDavid (Don't just 'know about God'...... KNOW GOD....!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

( clutching pearls ).


25 posted on 10/18/2020 12:56:45 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: sourcery

NYS has screwed with definitions and numbers so much that the stats are crap.

But then this has NEVER been about public health.


26 posted on 10/18/2020 12:58:04 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: dp0622

I do the same thing with anybody who wants to listen to me and everybody always comes up with the exact same thing

Or where they say “ hey I think I had it but beat it”.

I think me and my other son both had it in February before anybody heard this thing and we just beat it with the colloidal silver that I make every day


27 posted on 10/18/2020 12:58:30 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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To: LilFarmer
Vastly more people die from hart disease every year. We all have to die sometime.
However, feel free to hide under your bed all day and assume the fetal position if you are so scared of dying from coronavirus.
President Trump who is 73 recovered in just 3 days, Try recovering in 3 days if you get a heart attack.
28 posted on 10/18/2020 12:59:10 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: dp0622

Sorry, not old or infirm. No Comorbitird. It’s not as as harmless as some would like to believe, bit I am not going to argue that with anyone anymore. Just praying for everyone’s safety. Godspeed.


29 posted on 10/18/2020 1:00:56 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: SmokingJoe

Why do you have to be a cunt to everyone you respond to?


30 posted on 10/18/2020 1:03:32 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: LilFarmer

LilFarmer wrote:

Sorry, not old or infirm. No Comorbitird. It’s not as as harmless as some would like to believe, bit I am not going to argue that with anyone anymore. Just praying for everyone’s safety. Godspeed.

*****************************************

Do the numbers mean anything to you?

you have a 99.99 % Vance of not dying from this so-called “death virus”!!!!!

Are you going to keep wearing a mask for the flu season… How about for summer colds? How about the next virus? Because there’s always gonna be a NEXT virus… There has always been a “next” virus…

Just how long do you plan on being afraid?

Wake the hell up!!


31 posted on 10/18/2020 1:04:43 PM PDT by RevelationDavid (Don't just 'know about God'...... KNOW GOD....!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Wow, nice argument. Attack me personally for sharing my personal experience. Did that make you feel better somehow?

I don’t hide under my bed, I run a farm and take care of my elderly father in law and my husband runs a business which has never shut down and employs over 100 people. My son does contract work at one of the biggest hospitals in Atlanta.

I’m not sure what your point is? You can have a healthy respect for this virus and not be cowering under the bed. Everything is not black and white.


32 posted on 10/18/2020 1:04:55 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: dp0622

You probably know quite a few people who had it with very mild or no symptoms. Maybe even YOU!!


33 posted on 10/18/2020 1:05:48 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Vermont Lt
Why do you have to spew out mindless garbage in every post you make?
34 posted on 10/18/2020 1:07:09 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: RevelationDavid

God bless you as well.


35 posted on 10/18/2020 1:09:37 PM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good grief. Such “journalism”


36 posted on 10/18/2020 1:12:50 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (See George Fetanyl's mile-long Rap Sheet . . . TAG PedoJoe with "DEFUND the POLICE")
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To: SmokingJoe

I’ll stop posting if you do.

You add nothing and just shit on people. What would your momma say?


37 posted on 10/18/2020 1:15:23 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: LilFarmer
Except you totally failed to address any of the points I made.
And 2), thee was no attck.
There was a suggestion that if you are so scared of he coronavirus, you always have the option of hiding under your bed at home and never coming out.
Life is all about pros and cons. We could make totally eliminate the chance of dying from a car accident by refusing to travel by car out entire lives for example. Most of us just don't do that.
38 posted on 10/18/2020 1:15:29 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Again. Smells like lady parts every time you post an answer.

Just try doing one that doesn’t attack someone.


39 posted on 10/18/2020 1:16:45 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt
I’ll stop posting if you do.

Thank God for that!

40 posted on 10/18/2020 1:16:48 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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