On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 15:26:18 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/29/2020 2:22 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/29/20 2:12 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/29/2020 2:05 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 3/29/20 12:43 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 3/29/2020 11:56 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:


On 3/29/20 9:41 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


Hillary is being soundly criticized for her tasteless tweet
yesterday saying that Trump has always said "America First".

She was referring of course to the USA having the most
confirmed cases of covid-19.

Why can't she just shut the f up and go away?


Trump is an incompetent hack. Why can't he just shut the **** up
and go away?


Because he is President of the United States and, if you haven't been
paying attention, is doing a good job dealing with the covid-19 thing
according to a majority of Americans.

Go back to your guns and useless, free ammunition.Â* Adults are
talking here.



Trump is incompetent, and he just won't keep his mouth shut and his
ignorance from spewing out. What was his purpose yesterday in
threatening to quarantine three states? Panic? He's doing a ****ty
job. He's on TV every day extolling his virtues, and that his all he
does.

Adults? Trumpsters aren't adults.


If things don't improve fairly soon and this pandemic appears to be
extending it's grip for months to come I think there's a possibility
of the unthinkable .... meaning the federal government declaring
Marshall Law and enforcing restrictions on travel anywhere.

They'll be court challenges for sure but they would be academic,
constitutional debates.




Oh, there is no question Trump would love to declare martial (not
marshall) law, name himself president for life, and call off the fall
elections indefinitely,


Sorry about the spelling. I'll give myself three demerits.

Just heard the good Doc Fauci reluctantly give an estimate of just how
far he thinks this virus will affect the USA. He said it's likely
we'll have 100,000 to 200,000 cases .... but then corrected himself.
He said we'll have 100,000 to 200,000 *deaths* with millions of
confirmed cases.

Then I heard Gov. Cuomo complaining that they got hundreds of
panicked calls from NY residents asking about Trump's consideration
of having a ban on travel out of NY.

If there are that many people who don't understand
the seriousness of this and what they have to do to contain it,
the messages by the CDC and others are simply not being taken
seriously and their efforts are in vain.

There's a big difference between asking people to "refrain"
from traveling and telling people they *cannot* travel.

This is not intended as a affront only to New Yorkers.
Unfortunately it's an attitude shared by too many people
everywhere.

If people everywhere took it seriously, we would already see
the curve flattening. It has not and Dr. Fauci predicts the
worst is yet to come.

I am not an expert by any means but I rest my case.

I have been saying all along, we are not real good about following
orders.
They have that roadblock thing going here but only on the interstates
and it appears we are just asking out of state drivers to quarantine
themselves. I imagine that is what the lawyers said was about all we
can do.
It sounds to me like these roadblocks are just theater that could
easily replaced with a message on the overhead signs...
... Or they are just getting us used to roadblocks. They should be
looking at your ID (that fixes the bogus tag thing) then ask if you
are staying with friends and family.
No?
Can I see something with the address of the empty home you are going
to?
If they are not going to a place where they can quarantine then offer
they can stay in the hotel we contracted for 2 weeks or turn around.

Otherwise, why bother?

Of course that is going to get tossed as soon as we get sued.

It also begs the question, don't you have a map?
Just drive around the roadblock on a 2 lane blacktop.