Prickly City by Scott Stantis for June 11, 2020

Check out the video of Staten Islanders yelling at a maskless shopper in the grocery. Now, THAT is the way to do it.

C’mon, Stantis. They are only following the directives of Their Messiah, as is fitting for The Disciples.

Point, Winslow…..

Reminder: Anthony Stephen Fauci is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. (Ronald Reagan was President)

Why is it now that he is considered political?

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His attempts to divert attention and reconnect with a broader base of support have failed miserably.

Defaming MSNBC host and Post contributor Joe Scarborough and torturing a dead woman’s family with conspiracy talk have been widely condemned, even on the right.

Now, his defiance on wearing a mask seems to be failing as well. (Disclaimer: I’m an MSNBC contributor.)

Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, made clear in a CNN interview how important it is to wear a mask: “I think we should be recommending it.

As you know, I wear it whenever I’m outside,” he said. “We can try and keep the usual distance, but sometimes it is out of your control.”

He stressed that if we want to move ahead with reopening (as Trump so desperately wants), “there are certain things that you can do and still do as you reopen.

One is wearing a mask.” He added: “The other is avoiding crowds of more than 10 people, depending upon where you are and where the dynamics of the outbreak are.”

So much for the idea of a fully packed Republican National Convention.

(While Trump insists on holding a convention in person, I find it hard to believe any governor or mayor would willingly create a new hot spot for the pandemic.)

Moreover, mask defiance is losing its hold on the right-wing media, a vital part of Trump’s political life-support system.

None other than Fox News and Trump sycophant Sean Hannity scolded partyers in Missouri who crowded in and around a pool with no masks:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/27/trump-is-losing-even-mask-war/

Time to end the public masks. If you are not ill there is no need to wear one. If you are not caring for the ill there is also no need. The mass fear and laothing they create are unneccessary and actually demoralizing to a nation that needs to return to normal. The number of asymptomatic people in society who had coronavirus likely is in the 20-40% range. Based on that it is clear asymptimatic soread is very rare as the WHO accidentally acknowledged this week. Further dat from Georgia continues to show very low severe illness rates even when people are testing positive (also at lower rates).

Be not afraid, the old abnormal of pandemic panic needs to yield to reality of health and productivity.

Day 49 of the Georgia Economic Recovery, after America’s biggest Emily Latella moment ever.

Day 1238 of the Right Wing control of the Presidency, Supreme Court, and both Houses of Congress.

With a somewhat Left tilt for the House only, 527 Days ago.

Are you better off than you were on Jan 19, 2017?

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Emily Litella will most likely make her appearance…

Among the R/W…

After the Trump “Presidency” has ended….

The good news about the Seattle siege is that only the poor and working class are losing the chance to earn a living or otherwise better themselves. Seattle elites work from home.

Georgia Secretary of State Jim Raffensperger took aim at officials in Fulton County, while Deputy Secretary Jordan Fuchs blamed…

Gee, I wonder whose fault it was that the lower level officials didn’t know what they were doing?

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Georgia’s primary election Tuesday was marred by long lines at polling places and broken voting machines, drawing deflection from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office and widespread condemnation from both in and out of state.

Voters have had to wait hours in line due to an insufficient number of mail-in ballots distributed and broken voting machines at polling places.

Georgia Secretary of State Jim Raffensperger took aim at officials in Fulton County, while Deputy Secretary Jordan Fuchs blamed the lines on “equipment being delivered to the wrong locations and delivered late” and “poll workers not understanding setup or how to operate voting equipment.”

Raffensperger launched an investigation into the chaotic situation, but it hasn’t halted harsh condemnation and claims of voter suppression from Georgia and across the country.

DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond called the issues an “attack on the democratic process” and slammed Raffensperger for a “failure of leadership,” while former State Representative Stacey Abrams said he “owns this disaster,” and that he “must stop finger-pointing and fix it.”

“I stayed in line despite a three-hour-and-10-minute wait because my ancestors sacrificed too much for me to be stopped from exercising my right to vote,” Raney Branch told the Washington Post.

“The volunteers told us they were not allowed to test the ballot machines before 7 a.m. How are people supposed to know the machines work if they can’t test them first? Makes no sense.”

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/06/09/georgias-botched-election-draws-condemnations-claims-of-voter-suppression/#301a7c9b45ec

For the third day in a row, Texas has reported a record number of patients hospitalized with the new coronavirus, a metric Gov. Greg Abbott has said he’s watching as businesses continue reopening and limits on their operations are loosened.

Data released Wednesday by the Texas Department of State Health Services shows 2,153 people were hospitalized with COVID-19, up from 2,056 the day before, and 1,935 Monday.

Before the last few days, the previous high was May 5, when 1,888 people were hospitalized.

The figures come a little more than a month since Abbott’s statewide stay-at-home order ended and he began a phased reopening of businesses.

It also comes about two weeks after Memorial Day. The hospitalizations have increased some 42% since then.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/09/texas-coronavirus-reopening-surge-infections-hospitalizations/

As hot spots spread across the red states, it should become a non-issue. Just silly to risk lives over vanity.

People not wearing masks has nothing to do with their political views. It’s people with agendas that try to pin it only on their opponents. As usual lies and slanting of facts by people.

Not the Bee:

Black Lives Matter targets “Paw Patrol” for “good cops” message

by Jordyn Pair · Jun 11th, 2020 11:05 am 27

The Black Lives Matter movement has targeted children’s show “Paw Patrol” over the positive view of police activists say the show promotes.

New York Times’ Amanda Hess pushed back on the show — and other cop shows — in a piece published on Wednesday.

“As the protests against racist police violence enter their third week, the charges are mounting against fictional cops, too. Even big-hearted cartoon police dogs — or maybe especially big-hearted cartoon police dogs — are on notice,” Hess wrote. “The effort to publicize police brutality also means banishing the good-cop archetype, which reigns on both television and in viral videos of the protests themselves. ‘Paw Patrol’ seems harmless enough, and that’s the point: The movement rests on understanding that cops do plenty of harm.”

The show also received blowback on Twitter after it participated in Nickelodeon’s “Blackout Tuesday,” with users calling for the show to be canceled and to donate to bail funds.