How Philly’s mayor is helping Republicans win the midterms

Washington Times ^ | 14 Apr 2022 | Gene Marks

[Rummyfan]

Did ya hear? Philly’s masking up … again. Seriously.

When I tell this to others who live elsewhere they think I’m joking. But it’s no joke. On Monday, April 11, the Philadelphia Department of Health, with Mayor Jim Kenney’s approval, said it would require masks to be worn inside public places starting April 18. That includes thousands of small retailers and restaurants still reeling from the pandemic recession, high inflation and lack of labor.

It’s no matter that the city averaged 8.7 new cases per day per 100,000 residents over the past seven days, representing 139 total new cases in a city with a population of 1.6 million people. Or that, according to the latest numbers, the daily average hospitalizations are 127, below our city’s health care capacity. And how many actual average deaths were most recently recorded? Two!

So now the city is saying, mask up! Are masks that effective? Even the CDC questions the most commonly used cloth ones. And despite the “crisis,” we can wait a week until the new policy goes into effect. Why?

“We want to give people the time to prepare,” the city’s health commissioner said. As if everyone can’t buy new masks.

[blackdog]

I kept my horse at the stable on Cathedral Avenue. When I wasn’t in school I was riding Fairmount Park with my friends or alone. I got to be good friends with all the mounted police, which was a big priority in Rizzo’s policing strategies. Rizzo loved the horses. Nothing takes the hostility out of a crowd like a line of cops on horseback. I really don’t know why? But it works.

[kvanbrunt2]

There were only two cases, yes cases, when wolf shut the whole state down.

[kvanbrunt2]

Philly is more black than white now. There will never be a Republican politician in Philly ever again.
Demographics is destiny. >>>>> more than i thot but not quite the majority. and they don’t vote in as high percentages as whites. WHite communists add to the 80% democrat vote.

Non-Hispanic Black people make up 32% of Philadelphia’s population, and 44% when including Hispanic Black people. The native Black population represents the vast majority of Black Americans in the city and about 39% of the citywide population.