Coronavirus Cases Are Spiking In Places Where Trump Supporters Protested Stay-At-Home Orders

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

While there is some light at the end of the tunnel in states where strict stay-at-home measures have been implemented, there has been an apparent rise in coronavirus cases in places where Donald Trump supporters took to the streets to protest.
According to MSNBC’s Joy Reid, cases appear to be back on the rise again in Wisconsin, where Republicans forced an in-person election, and in Florida, where the GOP governor reopened some beaches.
Perhaps most startling, though, is what is happening in Michigan, where Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has taken tough measures to curb the spread of the virus.
As Reid pointed out on Saturday, cases in the state have been on the rise for four straight days, not along after protesters took to the streets to protest stay-at-home orders with Confederate flags and Trump signs.

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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/04/25/coronavirus-cases-are-spiking-in-places-where-trump-supporters-protested-stay-at-home-orders.html

File this under "What else could have been expected to happen?"

[Newest Reality]

1. Oh MY GOD!

I had to pick myself up from the floor after reading that. That's just totally shocking and completely unexpected, like out of the blue. I am sure nobody even imagined that possibility.

It couldn't be the virus, could it? I mean, it's invisible and that's like ghosts, right? Is this just a product of their superstitions?

Well, at least we can just consider that a fluke and this is almost over and it just can't happen here and...

I can't get over how completely flabbergasted I am. WTF?

[guillaumeb]

3. The virus will soon fade away, as if by magic.

Trump said so, and we all know he never lies.

[Hortensis]

33. WHO: No evidence yet of immunity in recovered patients.

This could turn out to be like HIV and dozens of other viruses that live on in the body and flare.

Is it too early to start daydreaming about awful retribution on the senate Republicans, and vicious, disordered Trump of course, who effectively unleashed it on the nation -- refusing to contain it?

As we, including many in the senate today, whose actions contained SARS-1 back in 2002-3? The U.S. had 8 confirmed cases, no deaths, and worldwide we contained the virus so well that it disappeared.

[guillaumeb]

44. But this actual science is ignored by the fake news crowd.

Ignored at their peril, but if the worst happens, the far right media will convince them that COVID was Obama's fault.

[RussBLib]

14. no shit. who woulda thought!

Next thing you know, there will be a lot more people dying, or something.

[live love laugh]

28. 💯

[Mike 03]

2. Unfortunately for the protesters, experts agree that the coronavirus remains viable

for years on the surfaces of Confederate and Nazi flags.

[guillaumeb]

4. Nicely done. eom

[NotHardly]

31. Clever you! If there were such a thing as UP Votes here for remarks, I'd give you a bunch!

[Scarsdale]

32. Also,

on assault rifles. Especially ones handled by asses.

[sarge43]

35. Of course, the coronavirus knows its own and found a home. n/t

[sheshe2]

5. I am shocked! Shocked I tell ya!

[guillaumeb]

6. I was even more shocked.

Who could have imagined, other than every sane person in the US?

[sheshe2]

9. They can always take dumps newest cure.

What have they got to lose. ….. oops~

[guillaumeb]

10. And sing this song while they do?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181352299

[sheshe2]

15. Thanks for the link!

[Amaryllis]

7. Read somewhere that stay at home in some states and not others is like saying you can only pee in

one end of the swimming pool.

[guillaumeb]

8. Exactly.

Ina local message board in my area, some are suggesting a county by county order. My response to them was to ask if they think that no one ever crosses county boarders. Trump voters are everywhere.

[lindysalsagal]

13. Except that pee never killed anybody. It's more like you can only pour acid...

I already know one dead, and another right behind.

[dickthegrouch]

59. Except pee laced with a virus like hepatitis B

Can most certainly kill someone. The chlorine in the pool might get the virus, but I wouldn’t want to risk it.

[nakocal]

11. No testing keeps the actual cases

Being reported artificially low.

[guillaumeb]

12. Of course, which is why Trump was against testing very early in this crisis.

Trump is only concerned with appearances.

[Eyeball_Kid]

39. ... and, by extension, it keeps the death count artificially low, because

those deaths aren't attributed to CV-19. Without the testing, there isn't a link.

Except that some researchers are looking at the normal mortality rate per capita (minus the CV-19 deaths), are seeing the spike in the death count, and attributing the spike to CV-19 unreported positives for lack of any other explanation. So there is still a way to account for the virus-related deaths even though Trump is trying to lie his way out of it.

[CJustice]

16. Let them learn

I've become convinced that we need to just let states do their thing. Let these idiots open their states, let them do as they please. People are going to lose patience soon and defy the stay at home orders and social distancing. The only way people will learn is to suffer the consequences. It's sad but true.

[guillaumeb]

17. But CAN some people learn?

I would argue that a good case can be made that a significant percentage of the population cannot learn from experience.

[Eyeball_Kid]

40. That's always a risk. Statistically, there will ALWAYS be people who deviate from the norm. n/t

[totodeinhere]

42. I understand your sentiment but unfortunately they will take other people with them.

That virus doesn't care if you are a Democrat or a Republican or a Trump supporter or a Trump hater.

[Takket]

18. its pretty unlikely the protests alone caused the rise... but the people for sure.......

the protest was only 11 days ago and only drew 3000 people, and not all of them even got out of their vehicles. Taking into account incubation time and how many of these yahoos probably even got tests, there can't be that many confirmed cases derived directly from the protest.

more likely is the culture of the MAGAts that attended this protest....... people who have been going to church and socializing in rural areas that see this as a hoax for weeks now, and the numbers are driving up now as the virus spreads through the rural areas finally.........

[erronis]

26. Don't forget that the "protestors" had to gather w their RW donors to plot strategy

Plotting probably took a few days. Had to order more costumes, weaponry, etc.

One could hope that some of these maggots will spread the virus up that particular food chain. All the way to the devoses, mercers, kochs, murdochs.

[JudyM]

53. 🙏

[guillaumeb]

45. Well observed.

We also see social media in the Chicago area that echoes this disconnect between reality and Trump's lies.

[Jimbo S]

19. Sorry, I'm calling BS

The rise in Wisconsin is due to the meat packing plant in Green Bay. Any spike in cases due to voting has been minimal. We can be more honest than this.

[luv2fly]

24. Agreed

Wis DHS is saying they believe the GB meat plants are the caus of the spike in Brown County, and even though there was a rise post election, they can't say the people were impacted due to voting ...they just don't know.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. I feel sympathy for the children of these stupid assholes.

They are the innocent victims of this disease who become infected because they have stupid parents.

[duforsure]

21. I see lawsuits coming soon

Against trump and governors for their recklessness knowing their testing is so low, and have suggested and been behind these protesters. It'll be interesting when Governors have to turn over everything they have regarding allowing this to happen. Trump also.

[raccoon]

34. Well, at least the lawyers will have plenty of work. Nt

[AllaN01Bear]

22. told you so.

[mountain grammy]

23. Meantime in my little red county of 12,000 souls

our commissioners.. all republican, are extending the nightly stay ban until May 21st.. We've had 5 sick people confirmed positive. All came from outside the county. We have 5 clinic beds.

While I get upset with the local yahoos who won't wear masks, and we have many, I'm ok with these commissioners.

[guillaumeb]

46. A small outbreak of reality. eom

[spanone]

25. K&R

[ananda]

27. Color me not surprised.

What else was going to happen?

[IronLionZion]

29. No one could have seen this coming

[Igel]

30. Everybody saw it coming.

In fact, it was showing up in the stats before the incubation period was even over.

Protest Wednesday. But even before you were sick, people snuck into your house and took nasal swabs the Friday right after the protest, so that they could be processed by Sunday in time to show up on the Saturday statistics. Then the following week you showed the same symptoms.

That sounds really stupid. But that's what is claimed.

Then again, who am I to argue with Joy Reid, MD and her PhD in epidemiology, going around telling fundamental truthies.

I've noticed that more and more--not just the last month--reporters turn to reporters as the experts. And a reporter, having written an article based on a couple of interviews and a web search calls himself an "expert". I know people who've gone to grad school for 2-3 years after getting a BS in the same field and still don't think of themselves as "experts."

[Scarsdale]

37. Yes, but Jared has

read books and HE is an expert on anything you can name. His father had to buy him his seat at Harvard, since he flunked the admission. He is SO very smart, he is in charge of everything in government.

[IronLionZion]

58. The only expert we can trust these days

is the one telling us to inject disinfectants and shine UV light on the inside

[guillaumeb]

47. Trump is a liar, and an idiot.

Either could apply to his statement.

[bluestarone]

36. Exactly the reason we need

The NOV. 2020 election! THEN we can put them all in court!

[liberalla]

38. We could never have predicted this, right? . . . . . . . oh wait...

We need to have the "Duh!" awards!

I'd like to sit on the selection committee pleeeeze!

[Tweedy]

41. Every journalist everywhere needs to ask

The so-called conservatives pushing this death cult from the safety of their homes, when they are joining the front lines?

Put up or shut up.

To add to the misery, Moscow Mitch, majority death cult leader, has come up with another brilliant notion!

We shall appease the great and powerful "economy" ( and the Koch brothers and Devos's ) by stealing the pensions of teachers, police and firefighters in the middle of a global pandemic.

A real brain trust of genius these GOP death culters

[guillaumeb]

48. Agreed.

Whoever calls this a hoax, Trump, Limbaugh, Kemp, should all lead by example.

[SledDriver]

43. They should've been made to fill out one of these

[guillaumeb]

49. I saw this one, and I love it. eom

[cwydro]

50. Sadly, Georgia is going to be bad.

I dread the next few weeks.

Why don’t people stay the fuck home?

[guillaumeb]

51. Many want this to be over.

And that wish will lead many to act as if it were over.

[cwydro]

52. I think you're absolutely right on that.

We seem to be a nation of toddlers.

We want what we want, and we want it NOW.

[guillaumeb]

54. My parents lived through the depression of the 1930s.

My father fought in WWII, as did my father in law.

Many Trump voters are indeed as infantile and oblivious as their misleader.

[cwydro]

56. Absolutely.

My parents were too young to fight, but dad grew up in London during the Blitz.

Mom told me stories of the bombs falling in Wales.

Both grew up in poverty.

[Jamastiene]

55. Who'da thunk it?

[guillaumeb]

57. This will be a shock to GOP voters.

But that will not prevent them from believing Trump's next lies.

[demtenjeep]

60. Duh

what did they expect?

[librechik]

61. well, they were warned.

But never believe a civil servant, liberal or a scientist --They are bound to be wrong!

[guillaumeb]

62. Trump voters are fighting a war on facts and reality.

But reality will win.

[Aristus]

63. You mean all those guns they have didn't protect them from getting infected.

I'm shocked.

This is my shocked face:

[guillaumeb]

64. Or they have bad aim.

If only freedom loving Americans could carry flamethrowers as a virus defense.