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Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer blames travelers for COVID-19 spike
One America News ^ | April 18, 2021 | OAN Newsroom

Posted on 04/18/2021 9:23:50 PM PDT by McGruff

The Governor of Michigan has blamed travelers for a growing number of coronavirus cases. On Sunday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) placed the blame on “snow birds” from Florida for the increasing number of coronavirus variant cases in the Great Lakes State.

In an attempt to stop the spread, Whitmer urged schools to go remote and businesses to have employees work from home for a week.

“This variant, the B117 variant, is what is growing so quickly in Michigan,” Whitmer claimed. “We have the second most — I think — after Florida. Michigan and Florida are not next to each other, but this is the time of the year that snow birds come home from Florida where people are going on spring break and all of these things can contribute to spread.”

Her statement came after she asked for grace when a top staffer took heat for a recent vacation in Florida. Additionally, the state’s health director, Elizabeth Hertel, traveled to Alabama recently despite Whitmer’s calls to avoid out-of-state travel.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: covid19; florida; gestapogretchen; gretchenwhitmer; michigan; whitmer
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Snow birds? What about those Canadian Geese that fly away home this time of year?
1 posted on 04/18/2021 9:23:50 PM PDT by McGruff
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2 posted on 04/18/2021 9:25:11 PM PDT by McGruff
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Irish travelers abd gypsies?


3 posted on 04/18/2021 9:28:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda. That lipstick is still on a RAT PIG. You cannot improve on anything with a demon.


4 posted on 04/18/2021 9:31:54 PM PDT by Fungi
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Crimes against humanity.


5 posted on 04/18/2021 9:33:59 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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So this is what “follow the science” has come to. Just making crap up.


6 posted on 04/18/2021 9:38:47 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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If that were the case everyone in Florida would be dead from covid


7 posted on 04/18/2021 9:39:33 PM PDT by pangaea6
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It couldn’t be the invaders at the southern border who are being shipped into Michigan carrying their Covid variants and mutations!


8 posted on 04/18/2021 9:42:01 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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Yes. Making crap up.

And acknowledging it really, e.g. “We have the second most — I think...”

She thinks.


9 posted on 04/18/2021 9:54:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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There is far less covid in Florida than in Michigan. If anything, people from Michigan should be pushing the level of infection up in Florida.

The answer is vitamin D . People in Florida are far less likely to be D deficient than Michigan. After a long, cold winter people in Michigan are probably very deficient in vitamin D unless they tan or take supplements.

CC


10 posted on 04/18/2021 10:00:29 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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Nah, it’s because she didn’t mask up the 2 year old toddlers soon enough.


11 posted on 04/18/2021 10:01:07 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Five years before Columbus landed, the Aztecs sacrificed 84,000 people at Tenochtitlan IN FOUR DAYS)
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What a beyotch.


12 posted on 04/18/2021 10:02:46 PM PDT by Mark17 (US Air Force, retired. It was a long 20 years. )
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Good point, thanks (Vitamin D).


13 posted on 04/18/2021 10:10:38 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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She certainly doesn't seem to grasp virus's spread inside borders much faster. Frankly it sounds like she wants to close her state down again.
14 posted on 04/18/2021 10:15:36 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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".... Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) placed the blame on “snow birds” from Florida for the increasing number of coronavirus variant cases in the Great Lakes State...."

Trust me, Ms. Commie, no one travels from Sunny Florida to visit Miserable Michigan. That's scraping the bottom of the barrel for excuses.


15 posted on 04/18/2021 10:50:23 PM PDT by HotHunt
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Gestapo Gretchen placed the blame on “snow birds” from Florida for the increasing number of coronavirus variant cases... Her statement came after she asked for grace when a top staffer took heat for a recent vacation in Florida. Additionally, the state’s health director, Elizabeth Hertel, traveled to Alabama recently despite Whitmer’s calls to avoid out-of-state travel.
She also blames Republicans and the Constitution.

16 posted on 04/18/2021 10:55:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Snow birds?

How about illegal border jumpers who are being bused by the thousands every day to every corner of the USA?

They are not even tested for COVID, let alone vaccinated.

17 posted on 04/18/2021 11:00:05 PM PDT by zeestephen
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Actually tons of Michiganders winter in Florida.


18 posted on 04/18/2021 11:23:15 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: caww

She is not closing anything.


19 posted on 04/18/2021 11:25:07 PM PDT by MarMema
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Well I’ve hear that before....we’ll see.


20 posted on 04/18/2021 11:28:30 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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