Prickly City by Scott Stantis for April 27, 2020

Day nab it! This time, the virus is right!

Okay, GoComics……..where is the real Scott and what have you done with him?

Yep between Moscow Mitch and the tangerine traitor, the havoc and disastrous mayhem done to this country is incalculable!

Covid-19, covid-45, and Moscow Mitch make a great team.

The surprising part is the recognition by Scott Stantis.

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Although, what Trump does, I wouldn’t call havoc.

I’d call it Treason, massive corruption, massive lying, and inflicting pain on as many as possible.

Ahh, the actual crisis actors making their appearance.

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Major Republican donors are paying staffers to organize anti-lockdown protests, with plans to bus demonstrators to big cities to demand governors to let their businesses re-open and send their employees back to work.

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But many of the protests across the country are far from grassroots movements, especially since a majority of Americans say they are more worried that coronavirus restrictions will be eased too soon than about reopening the economy.

A number of Trump-allied groups, including Tea Party Patriots and FreedomWorks, law firms with ties to Trump and state-based conservative groups are paying to organize the protests and even bring in individuals from outside of the cities where demonstrations take place, according to The New York Times.

“As was the case with the Tea Party movement, established national groups that generally align with the Republican Party have sought to fuel the protests, harnessing their energy in a manner that can increase their profiles and build their membership base and donor rolls,” the outlet reported.

FreedomWorks, for example, is paying most of its 40 employees to organize the protests, and it is considering investments in digital ads to boost turnout, according to the report.

https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/gop-donors-pay-to-bus-protesters-to-cities-to-demand-governors-ease-coronavirus-restrictions-report

The mettle of a man or woman is determined by how they face and overcome a crisis. The truth of who they are will always be unveiled in such circumstances.

No, it is the lying “media” acting as the propaganda arm of the democrat party that causes the havoc. It is the power hungry leftists who push russian and other hoaxes in a mad quest to seize control that is causing havoc.

Trump is bringing effective solutions that will get America back on its feet.

(Stealing the shtick of another poster…)

Brave Governor Kemp ran away.

When danger reared its ugly head

He bravely turned his tail and fled

Yes, brave Governor Kemp turned about

And gallantly he chickened out

(And if you don’t know already know who wrote this, my explaining it won’t help you at all.)

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Georgia Governor Kemp is courageously sending employees at “gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios,” as well as “barbers, cosmetologists, hair designers, nail care artists, estheticians, their respective schools & massage therapists” back to work…

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But the Governor himself?

Glad you asked!

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PUBLIC TOURS (of the Governor’s Mansion) CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Out of an abundance of caution, we are temporarily canceling public tours until further notice to ensure the health and safety of *Georgia families.

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*Georgia families. (Read his family….)

https://gov.georgia.gov/governors-mansion/tour-mansion

I gotta admit that ’Pudding up above has a point…

Injecting disinfectants would be an effective solution to coronavirus.

Might be some minor side affects, though….

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Fox News’ Bret Baier on Friday doubted President Trump’s claim that he was being sarcastic when he said disinfectants and UV light may be used to treat patients infected with the coronavirus.

That’s not how it looked in the briefing, and not how it came across," Baier said.

“What’s problematic for this president is he goes on these riffs, and when you’re dealing with medical statements, when you’re riffing from a podium, sometimes that works great on other topics when politics comes into play, but when riffing about possible cures or treatments …

It didn’t seem like it was coming off as sarcastic when he was talking and turning to Dr. [Deborah Birx] on the side."

https://www.axios.com/fox-news-bret-baier-trump-sarcasm-disinfectants-coronavirus-bc65c1ff-fbfa-4914-a01c-3a05e97fce08.html

(Another one of ’Puddings “Liberal Media”)

Fox Business host Neil Cavuto called out President Donald Trump’s claim that he was being sarcastic when he suggested injecting disinfectant as a means to treat the coronavirus, pointing out that there was nothing to support “the dismissal he was giving today.”

“Wow. That is a little unsettling, folks,” Cavuto said on Friday. “Got to clarify this. The president was not joking in his remarks yesterday when he talked about injecting people with disinfectant, nor were we imagining the incredulous looks he got from his medical team when he made the suggestion.”

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Cavuto — who spent much of his Friday show on Fox News fact checking the president — then questioned why Trump would pretend to be joking instead of just admitting his mistake, especially considering that the makers of Lysol released a public statement clarifying that the product should not, “under no circumstance,” be injected into the body.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-anchor-neil-cavuto-tears-apart-trumps-unsettling-sarcasm-claim-he-was-not-joking

I’m convinced the postmortem will find that Trump’s incompetence prevented containing the outbreak in China, if not preventing it altogether.

At first I thought BP was being sarcastic. I wish that I, too, could have a pliant reality. Like, ome where Clorox and a syringe will cure what ails ya.

Causing Havoc? Stock market over 28000, unemployment at record lows. Democrats and their media darlings scared shitless of another 4 years. I guess I misunderstood the meaning of havoc. Oh and I forgot about how Pelosi and Schumer called him racist for banning travel to and from China but now say didn’t act fast enough and how Pelosi held up the relief bill so she could add in 35 mil for Kennedy Center and try to shove more climate bs in the bill.

Day Four of the Georgia economic recovery.

“Still doing great!”

He said – as he fell past the 29th floor….

There are people who seem to be rooting for more deaths in the states that are opening up. It seem like barbaric behavior just so they can play the " I told you so" card. The newscasts report the infections and deaths like it’s the leaderboard at The Masters, its all just a downer. I’m praying for recovery and healing myself, not just from the pandemic we have older problems.

Some people still don’t understand what ‘flattening the curve’ is….

~ 16 March 2020

Efforts to completely contain the new coronavirus — the pandemic responsible for infecting hundreds of thousands of people in 130 countries with the disease, called COVID-19 — have failed.

In less than a month, the global number of confirmed COVID-19 cases doubled from about 75,000 cases on Feb. 20 to more than 153,000 on March 15.

That infection rate, scary as it sounds, hides just how much the out-of control virus has spread, especially in the hardest-hit communities.

In Italy, for example — the country with the worst COVID-19 outbreak outside of China — confirmed cases doubled from 10,000 to 20,000 in just four days (March 11 to March 15).

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A flatter curve, on the other hand, assumes the same number of people ultimately get infected, but over a longer period of time.

A slower infection rate means a less stressed health care system, fewer hospital visits on any given day and fewer sick people being turned away.

For a simple metaphor, consider an office bathroom.

“Your workplace bathroom has only so many stalls,” Charles Bergquist, director of the public radio science show “Science Friday” tweeted. "If everyone decides to go at the same time, there are problems.

If the same number of people need go to the restroom but spread over several hours, it’s all ok."

As there is currently no vaccine or specific medication to treat COVID-19, and because testing is so limited in the U.S., the only way to flatten the curve is through collective action.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-flatten-the-curve.html

LoLz!

I love that so many even “die hard” righties and Trump pigeons are turning away from him. Only the complete and total psychos are still supporting him, outside of the Turtles turd pile in the Senate.

Good news reported in WSJ:

Trend Macrolytics reports that New Jersey and Pennsylvania have joined “the ‘declining trajectory’ club and qualify for phase one re-opening. The US as a whole could be days away.” The research firm is referring to the 14-day downward trajectory in new coronavirus cases set out in federal guidelines as a sign that lockdowns can begin to be removed.

Soon all of America will be as free as Georgia, except for those leftist-controlled states where individual freedom is subject to abolition by the overlords.

Also in WSJ:Meanwhile in New York, the amazing governmental feat of both crushing the economy and enabling the spread of infection is even worse than feared. A week ago this column noted research suggesting that the decision to reduce New York City subway traffic forced workers deemed essential by government into closer contact. Also now getting more attention is New York State’s decision to force the most vulnerable population to become even more vulnerable.

“When will all of the ‘reporters’ who have received Noble Prizes for their work on Russia, Russia, Russia, only to have been proven totally wrong (and, in fact, it was the other side who committed the crimes) be turning back their cherished ‘Nobles’ so that they can be given to the REAL REPORTERS & JOURNALISTS who got it right.”

From a Clay Jones editorial:

But it’s no surprise Donald Trump doesn’t understand sarcasm as he doesn’t get humor or irony. For Donald Trump, his idea of a joke would be something like, “Two Mexicans walk into a bar and they were both rapists and murderers.” If you’re a Trump supporter, you’re probably laughing right now.

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Jones does editorials to go with his cartoons. Worth reading, except for Trump Disciples.

“There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly, and in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure—not just here at home, but globally—that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.”

— president who put pandemic response structure in place

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“I don’t take responsibility for any of it!” — president who destroyed pandemic response structure