#COVIDIOTS!
#COVIDIOTS, the word of the year.
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Tom Sucksthedickofa Wolf, is the biggest #covidiot in Pennsylvania.
Dear Governor Wolf:
Please resign. You have demonstrated through your wholehearted covidiocy that you are not suitable for office in any state much less Pennsylvania. You, sir, are like a Satanic ritual where humans perform fellatio on wolves. Why? We don't know why, but wolf fellatio and wearing masks are highly ineffective attempts at 'health theatre'. These are pathetic excuses for 'measures' to 'flatten the curve' or whatever other nonsense this endless news cycle has you parroting. Few respect your 'authority', and due to your abandonment of basic constitutional principles & we assume most law enforcement doesn't either. Extending the stay at home orders will be laughed at in a week (today is 04/17/2020, 0409edt), and this and a 'wear masks' order is as effective at assisting with human health as the TSA is at airport security.
Enjoy your reelection campaign, Governor.
We forgive, we don't forget, and we are legion...
Pa. stay-at-home order expires in 2 weeks. What happens then? Wolf can’t say yet.
Gov. Tom Wolf speaking to reporters March 14, 2020, about the worsening coronavirus pandemic.Commonwealth Media Services
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday he hasn’t decided on extending the stay-at-home order that expires April 30, or on relaxing any restrictions aimed at stemming the spread of COVID-19 as the date draws closer.
On one hand, he’s not at the point where fellow Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is, in announcing an extension until at least May 15 of New York’s social distancing measures. That’s a decision that’s been made in the best interests of New Yorkers, Wolf said.
"I'm actually the governor of Pennsylvania," he said during an afternoon conference call with reporters.
Nor is Wolf ready to ease up on restrictions now. He said he’d veto two bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature geared toward restarting some aspects of daily life. Senate Bill 327 would give counties the authority to permit the reopening of industries deemed non-essential under a current executive order, while Bill 613 would allow some businesses to reopen under new guidelines that would have to be developed.
"There's no reason to take our feet off the brakes at this point," Wolf said. "We need to get through this phase as quickly as possible and keep Pennsylvanians safe."
Easing up and letting the virus overwhelm the health care system and the ability of Pennsylvanians to resist it would only harm the economy further, the governor said:
"My plan is to keep doing what we're doing."
The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday reported a 4.5% increase from the previous day in new cases of the coronavirus illness. Percentage-wise, that is among the lowest day-to-day rises since the state’s first cases were reported on March 6. Pennsylvania’s total number of confirmed cases is 27,735, with 707 deaths representing a 9.3% increase in the toll since Wednesday’s report.
The president and CEO of Lehigh Valley Health Network on Wednesday said this region appears to have reached a peak in terms of those with COVID-19 seeking hospital care. But reaching that peak is only due to efforts to prevent the spread of infection, such as self-isolation and preventative measures like wearing a mask while out in public, said Dr. Brian Nester.
Dr. Rachel Levine✔@SecretaryLevine
We are looking at trends in data to base our decisions and to see if social distancing is working.
Our trends are showing that the sacrifice that Pennsylvanians are making to stay home is working. https://twitter.com/PAHealthDept/status/1250856343076036608 …
PA Department of Health✔@PAHealthDept
We’ve expanded our #COVID19 reporting + added new data on our website:
negative results at county-level
Wolf and state Health Secretary Rachel Levine on Wednesday announced new mask requirements will take effect at 8 p.m. Sunday for both customers and employees in essential businesses. The governor on Thursday said those requirements will largely be self-enforced, and it’s in the best interests of business owners to comply.
“Those are guidelines,” Wolf said, “and again, what we’re trying to do is make sure that the workers and customers have confidence to be in the places they’re in, safely.”
Wolf offered up as a cautionary tale. The Cargill meat packaging plant outside Hazleton closed down for two weeks because, he said, employees were too afraid of contracting COVID-19 to come to work.
"People who want to snap their fingers and get businesses up and running need to know there are customers who may not feel comfortable coming in and workers who may not feel safe coming to work," Wolf said.
House Republicans argue lawmakers, in passing SB 613, are trying to improve transparency and consistency in how the governor determines which businesses can operate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Citizens of the Commonwealth have a great resilience and strength and will go to great lengths to do what is necessary to win this fight against an invisible enemy – the COVID-19 virus," stated House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster. "However, managing the moment cannot be our only focus."
At the federal level, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., announced Thursday he's been named to a bipartisan task force charged with helping President Donald Trump to develop a plan to reopen the economy while still following the advice of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“This week, I have spoken with local officials – Republicans and Democrats – from across Pennsylvania and one thing is clear: there are regions and sectors of our economy that can begin to reopen safely right now and not jeopardize hospital capacity," Toomey stated. “There are businesses, located in areas with very few COVID-19 cases, that both rely on a low-risk workforce and can comply with CDC social distancing guidelines. I look forward to working with my colleagues on plans to gradually and safely enable these businesses to reopen their doors.”
Considering how and when to relax social distancing has been on Wolf’s mind since he ordered non-life-sustaining businesses to close March 19 and issued the stay-at-home order effective statewide April 1. Schools have been closed since March 16 and will remain so for the rest of the 2019-20 school year.
Testing for antibodies to identify workers with immunity to the virus has been hampered by shortages, Wolf said: “We simply have not had the capacity we need and we’re still not there.” In efforts to boost general testing for who has COVID-19, Pennsylvania is looking to open a test site in the parking lot of Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania.
He hasn’t seen specific metrics for when the next phase of social distancing and reopening the economy can start.
“That’s what we need to keep trying to work for,” Wolf said. “I think Pennsylvanians need some certainty in terms of when we’re going to be able to start to get back to life as we once knew it.”
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We're not going political with this by ANY STRETCH!
Tom Sucksthedickofa Wolf's Health Secretary, Dr. Rachel Levine- PURE #COVIDIOT!
https://www.wfmz.com/users/profile/Sara%20Madonna
Starting Sunday night, shopping without a mask will no longer be an option for most customers
video retraction re: Tom Wolf's middle name is not Sucksthedickofa.
Cape Town Cops Fire Rubber Bullets, Teargas As South African Food Shortages Spark Riots, Looting
COVID-19 has now claimed over 1,000 lives across Africa, and is accelerating fast, with a total of 52 of Africa's 54 countries having reported cases and the number of infection approaching 20,000.
In an effort to control the spread of the deadly virus, which a report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa warned could lead to a death toll across Africa of 3.3 million people, authorities are instituting some of the world's strictest lockdown rules.
During the restrictions sales of non-essential items - including alcohol and cigarettes - have been banned, and four weeks into a 35-day shut down food supplies have virtually run out.
One community leader in Cape Town has pleaded with South Africa's leaders to combat food shortages now. Joanie Fredericks, of the Mitchells Plain township, said:
"Mr President we are in the middle of a food crisis. It's war out here.
“People have broken into tuck shops. They have attacked people. The simple reason is because they are hungry."
And food shortages in South Africa, have created panic and, as The Sun reports, prompting rioting and looting across some of the most deprived sections of the city.
Those waiting for much-needed aid built barricades of burning tyres and fought running battles with similar scenes witnessed in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.
Police fired rubber bullets and teargas to disperse the mobs but local community leaders fear more outbreaks of violence are imminent. Fredericks continued:
"When we started out feeding people we started out with the very vulnerable, ...the children, the disabled people and the pensioners.
"But we are way past that Mr President, we are past the stage of sending people away."
Pictures from Johannesburg also showed long queues of people formed at food distribution points (which makes sense since before the coronavirus struck, at least 20 million people were estimated to be in danger of acute food insecurity)...
Previously, The Sun reported how nurses in South Africa were shot with rubber bullets after they protested abut working conditions amid the pandemic.
https://youtu.be/aCc2JsAUkwU?t=634
^ COVIDIOT IDENTIFIED! ^ -Thanks, Paul Joseph Watson. These videos are always both hilarious and socially poignant.
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Scientist Whose Doomsday Models Sparked Global Lockdown Resigns After Breaking Quarantine To Bang Married Lover
Professor Neil Ferguson - whose dire coronavirus predictions prompted worldwide lockdown measures still in place - broke his own advice on the need for strict social distancing to hook up with his married lover, according to the Telegraph.
On at least two occasions, Antonia Staats, 38, travelled across London from her home in the south of the capital to spend time with the Government scientist, nicknamed Professor Lockdown.
The 51-year-old had only just finished a two-week spell self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus.
Prof Ferguson told the Telegraph: "I accept I made an error of judgment and took the wrong course of action. I have therefore stepped back from my involvement in Sage [the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies]. -Telegraph
"I acted in the belief that I was immune, having tested positive for coronavirus, and completely isolated myself for almost two weeks after developing symptoms," he said, adding "I deeply regret any undermining of the clear messages around the continued need for social distancing to control this devastating epidemic. The Government guidance is unequivocal, and is there to protect all of us."
Ferguson, who resigned from his Government advisory position on Tuesday, predicted that up to 500,000 Britons and 2.2 million in the US would die without measures. Somehow, Sweden - which enacted virtually no measures to mitigate the virus. has a lower per-capita mortality rate than the UK, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium and the Netherlands - all of which enacted lockdown measures.
And while his computer models were flat-wrong, Ferguson - who leads the team at Imperial College London, has frequently appeared on media to support the lockdown and "very intensive social distancing" measures.
Of note, Ferguson and Staats hooked up on March 30 - the same day he gave a public warning that the one-week-old lockdown measures would need to remain in place until June.
Staats - a left-wing campaigner, visited again on April 8, despite telling friends that she thought her husband might have come down with coronavirus.
She and her husband live together with their two children in a £1.9 million home, but are understood to be in an open marriage. She has told friends about her relationship with Prof Ferguson, but does not believe their actions to be hypocritical because she considers the households to be one.
But one week before the first tryst, Dr Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer, and Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, clarified during the daily Downing Street press conference that couples not living together must stay apart during lockdown. -Telegraph
"He has peculiarly breached his own guidelines, and for an intelligent man I find that very hard to believe. It risks undermining the Government's lockdown message," said Sir. Iain Duncan Smith.
Meanwhile, over 9,000 fines have been issued to quarantine violators in England and Wales during the lockdown - while Scotland's chief medical officer, Dr. Catherine Calderwood, made two trips to her second home during the lockdown, resulting in her resignation.
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The Bare Necessities: Federal Court Rules That Strip Clubs Are Entitled To Pandemic Loans
We recently discussed the controversy when a Nevada brothel filed for pandemic stimulus money as a small business forced to suspend operation. Now, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman has ruled (correctly) that the owners of four Silk Exotic Gentleman’s Clubs in Milwaukee and Middleton are entitled to emergency loans. During this litigation however there was a surprising twist in arguments over whether strip joints appeal to prurient interests.
The case is based on the enactment in the United States of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), Pub. L. No. 116-136, 134 Stat. 281 (2020). The Act includes the Paycheck Protection Program authorizing the U.S. Small Business Administration to guarantee loans to small businesses to help them pay employees. However, banks turned down each strip club on the basis of a regulation enacted by the SBA in 1996, under which small businesses that “[p]resent live performances of a prurient sexual nature” are not eligible to participate in any SBA business loan program. See 13 C.F.R. § 120.110(p).
Notably, the application of the regulation turns on whether the strip clubs appeal to the “prurient” interests of customers. The Plaintiffs denied that erotic dance is prurient. That is predictable but the response of the government was not. The court notes
“[o]ddly . . . the government states in its brief that it “takes no position at this time regarding whether the performances offered by Plaintiffs is [sic] obscene, prurient—or, as Plaintiffs put it, ‘erotic but not obscene[.]’” Br. in Opp. at 14. But if the government takes no position on whether the plaintiffs’ entertainment is “prurient,” then it cannot take the position that the regulation disqualifies them from participation in the PPP. Unless their entertainment is prurient, the regulation does not apply . . .
Because the government has not developed an argument showing that the plaintiffs present live performances of a prurient sexual nature (or otherwise fit within the language of 15 C.F.R. § 120.110(p)), I conclude that, for this reason alone, the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims.”
Prurient is defined as “marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire.”
Adelman wrote a careful and compelling analysis of the constitutionality of the discrimination against the strip clubs. In turning to the constitutional analysis, the court began with the threshold position that “nude dancing is a form of expression protected by the First Amendment.” The court then concluded:
“By using the plaintiffs’ expression as a reason to exclude them from the program, the SBA has introduced content discrimination into programs that were designed to be indifferent to speech. If the SBA could identify some legitimate governmental purpose for doing this, then perhaps the regulation could withstand an equal-protection challenge. But the only apparent purpose for this regulation is to exclude small businesses that express a disfavored message from programs that were created to assist all small businesses. Because that is not a legitimate governmental purpose, the SBA’s distinction violates equal-protection principles.”
Most would say that erotic dancing does, at a minimum, arouse some immoderate interests, but this has been a long controversy over the use of such ill-defined terms.
Here is the opinion: Camelot Banquet decision
source: zerohedge.com
Green New Deal is a step toward preventing future pandemics | Letter
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks as Sen. Ed Markey and other congressional Democrats listen during a news conference about the Green New Deal at the U.S. Capitol February 7, 2019.Getty Images
The coronavirus pandemic is highlighting problems that our government has failed to adequately address for decades.
Access to healthcare services is dependent on having the “correct” insurance plan. People of color are disproportionately dying from COVID-19. Oil industry workers are now watching the industry crumble, wondering where their future paychecks will come from. Aggressive deforestation and mining increase the risk of pandemic-causing viruses to transfer from animals to humans in the near future.
All of these problems can be addressed with proper legislation. It is time for Congress to act.
The Green New Deal Resolution, proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, addresses the economic crisis at our doorstep by creating sustainable jobs and protecting workers’ rights. It addresses the healthcare crisis by providing all Americans with equal access to healthcare. It addresses unsustainable environmental policies that increase risk of new pandemics. It promotes racial and economic justice to confront the systemic inequalities that plague our nation today.
Recovery from the coronavirus pandemic cannot simply be a “return to normal” as we knew it in 2019. We deserve a better “normal!"
The Green New Deal Resolution fights for a better future, a future that we can be proud to see as “normal” in the years to come.
Jadyn Sharber (museum grade covidiot)
Allentown
