What I posted yesterday has been confirmed. The Trump cult IS on a death march. God help us.

[shockey80]

The Trump cult will go back to work and not protect themselves. The Trump cult will go to church, infect themselves and spread the virus.

It has been reported the cult following Florida governor has opened up the churches. I believe it was the Kansas state government, they voted to override the governors closing of the churches. The governor has sued trying to stop them. The cult has been told not to fear the virus and it will lead to unimaginable consequences.

The Trump cult is one of the greatest dangers we have ever faced and the news media should start saying it.

How many times over the past three years did I post this, Trump voters will become infamous, for all time. It was an easy prediction. It was easy to predict they would destroy themselves and our country, that's what cults do. We just didn't know in what manner they would do it. Now we do.

[liberalmuse]

1. Typhoid MAGAs.

They don’t care if they kill people as long as libs are owned and tears have some liberal tears mixed in with millions of their own.

[Freethinker65]

46. Perfect term and description. Mind if I steal it?

[lunasun]

51. ++ Yep + You know I'm stealing that

[Squinch]

2. NYC schools have just been closed for the rest of the school year.

[superpatriotman]

3. Branch Covidians

Nt

[SleeplessinSoCal]

11. good play on words.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

21. Nice!

[keithbvadu2]

26. +1 Branch Covidians

[Newest Reality]

27. Arpropos!

Nice one.

[shockey80]

28. Love it, I will use that, thanks.

[Duppers]

29. Yes! 👍

Perfect.

[tazkcmo]

33. You win the internet! nt

[Leith]

34. Branch Covidiots

[Ilsa]

44. Even better!

[KentuckyWoman]

38. perfect

[malaise]

39. I see what you did there

Nicely done

[cilla4progress]

4. I mean it would be a SHAME if his cult followers

went the way of Jim Jonses'!

[2naSalit]

5. D****d Jonestown T***p.

Though the cultists are determined to do damage to their foe, they harm themselves. Many more than the public can accept will die and we can't seem to save them from themselves. Many will be lost and I may be one, I have been contemplating my mortality a little more lately.

A revelation I had this morning...

We have now reached a time that I have anticipated my entire adult life, the turning point of our species. This is very much a place in humanity which I would consider akin to an evolutionary transition described by the noted anthropologist Stephen J. Gould, as punctuated equilibrium. Though his theory is descriptive of biological evolution, I would argue that we are in the midst of a psychological/philosophical evolutionary transition. It's sudden, changes everything, things ain't going to be the same when the danger has subsided.

And simultaneously a social change brought on by a biological threat to existence.

The gravity of our new situation will force us to rethink and retool our existence in every way right away in order to survive. We have social guidance and we need to make use of what we have to go forward but the direction we choose will determine our fate, socially, psychologically, philosophically and biologically.

This is the crossroads, we're there. Now we choose which direction in which to travel. I just hope we choose well.

[shockey80]

8. I agree completely.

[gab13by13]

16. Yes, I also agree,

Bruce Lipton wrote "The Biology of Belief" where he basically refuted Darwin's theory of evolution and he was horribly attacked for doing so. Lipton proved that a cell's intelligence didn't come from the nucleus but from its outer membrane thus the environment had a bigger effect on organisms than genes did. Lipton theorized that species survived not from a dog eat dog survival of the fittest but because organisms grouped together to keep protected. It's beyond my imagination that the United States will ever come together for a very long time.

The book is a good read, it gets a bit technical and I am not a stem cell biologist but I got his point.

[gristy]

6. maybe, maybe not

We'll need to see photos of the congregations during the services in Florida. Will the photos show them packed together with no masks, or seated 6' apart and all wearing masks? Even the latter is risky, but it's a lot different from the former.

[Chainfire]

7. I live in Florida

I have not seen a single person, under the age 50, wearing a mask anywhere.

[DENVERPOPS]

30. The scientists

are watching Floriduh very closely, especially southern floriduh.......They fear something much worse than NY City........

My father had a favorite saying: You better give your heart to god, because I am gonna have your ass........

the same holds true with Covid..........

[Chainfire]

45. Oh No, no, no,no

Our governor told us only today that we were way better off then we think we are, and he never lies. He's a Republican.

[shockey80]

9. I hear you, No matter what they do it will be very risky.

If they held mass outside that would be better.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. They're creating their own Rapture

Don't know why anyone would want to stop them, even if they could be stopped

[BlancheSplanchnik]

22. The only reason is that they interact with the rest of us.

If their mass covid madness were contained so it only affected themselves, I’d yell Hallelujah.

[DENVERPOPS]

31. My dream

is that the Covid mutates and becomes a virus that only attacks Republicons......

[mercuryblues]

42. I'm staying put

for at least 2-3 weeks.
I don't think all those peak projections calculations included the have to go to church on Easter Sunday crowd.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

43. Expect peaks in a few weeks around mega-church areas.

Yep, I’m glad my work could go remote. They’re staying remote through summer. I’ll be fine staying in. I’m a hermit anyway.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. I wish they'd all just do themselves in and be done with it.

problem is they'd end up taking lots of us with them

[SleeplessinSoCal]

13. He's got "pro-life" in a death grip.

Let us forever rest in peace.

[Peregrine Took]

14. Maybe I'm paranoid but it seems that every day fewer people are following the rules

regarding distancing and mask wearing.

I wear gloves and mask on my daily jog on the streets/sidewalks (wherever I can avoid people but when I'm unable to distance myself due to navigational limits) I notice that people don't move one inch to do "their bit" in terms of creating even a 3' distance between us.

In fact they have been going right down the center of the sidewalk, almost defiantly, forcing me to cling to the furthest square inch I can fit myself into .

Although I live in a progressive area, lots of hipsters, young people, etc I'm wondering if they are really trumper's after all??

2 weeks or so ago everyone was being so good but now everyday more and more are ignoring the instructions we were all given.

(I jog daily for my health and have done so for years - doctor's orders from 2 different MD's)

[Windy City Charlie]

19. That's what I'm afraid of

I really hope they don't mention that the cases have peaked. So many people are going to take that the wrong way and think they longer have to practice social distancing.

[wnylib]

40. Cuomo is bringing that up every day

in his briefings. He warns against getting impatient and careless, or thinking it's over with once the numbers start falling. There will probably be waves of infections. The numbers will rise again if people think it's over and relax their precautions.

[DENVERPOPS]

35. I was in a grocery store yesterday

A Safeway grocery store here in Denver, and not a single employee was wearing a mask, not the people stocking the shelves, not the butchers, not the guy stocking the vegetables, not the cashiers, not the asst. manager. NOT A SINGLE EMPLOYEE.

Ever since Albertsons bought out Safeway, they have been cutting all kinds of corners for more profit.....I wonder if the Albertson's executives decided not to provide the employees with PPE???? There also were no disinfectant wipes to use on the grocery carts, or customers hands.......

[proud patriot]

48. Compare that to Hawaii Island (the big island)

we have had zero new cases for 2 days and a total of 28 with it , either recovered or at home in quarantine and zero deaths .. Every store Everyone wearing protection from customers to employees .. Everyone.

I pray for my fellow Mainland citizens .

[lunasun]

56. Wow every box checked off on how not to keep a grocery store open during the virus

[KY_EnviroGuy]

41. Some excellent points made in this article, PT.....

regarding the differences in cultures between eastern nations and those in the west. Without being overtly blunt about it, they're suggesting we don't have the community discipline to control our individualism and thirst for total freedom enough to control virus spread effectively.

I invite you to read.....

By all means, wear a face mask. Just don't think it will make you invincible
Renee C Wurth
Sat 11 Apr 2020 10.00 BST

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/11/face-mask-coronavirus-cdc-social-distancing

(snip)

Those eastern countries have much in common other than wearing masks and keeping the virus at bay. Their community-oriented cultures reveal that unified social behaviors and personal sacrifices are effective in defeating a virus that thrives in chaos. Such air-tight behavior is what therefore enables loosening of social distancing measures, as once the virus becomes a threat (again) those individual behaviors will collectively adjust (again). Meanwhile, the pandemic responses in the US and Europe have had little cohesion, with rules varying wildly by state and region – resulting in lax individual behaviors and an increase in deaths. It would be difficult to isolate the effect of masks in these cultures, as their ubiquity is part of what makes them protective. Masks work because they are worn on top of layers of well perfected behaviors.

Masks are not the cure........

Worth repeating: Masks work because they are worn on top of layers of well perfected behaviors.


KY............

[lunasun]

53. Nothing wrong with a solo run but it is hard to avoid idiots & I do fear too many are devoid of

the tolerance needed to adhere to recommendations that need to be followed right now to see this through and will just delay lessening the number of cases due to their lax ass attitude

[thenelm1]

15. Wasn't the Kansas SC supposed to rule on the guv's appeal of the override at 9 am this morning? n/t

[gab13by13]

20. The court, last I checked, is still hearing arguments

A decision could come today.

[vapor2]

17. trump crime family also looting

the $500 Billion with no oversight while people are dying.

[IronLionZion]

18. The Trump cult is intentionally spreading the virus

they don't care if they kill people along the way.

The liberal snowflakes around us are trying to avoid spreading the virus, and we don't care if we lose income, socializing, and quality of life temporarily.

They think of their individual wants. We think of societal needs.

[Initech]

23. They are a death cult, and hydroxychloroquine is their Kool Aid.

I'm really worried what will happen if they reopen everything too soon.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. tRump & Republicon Party are welded together. Always remind voters. . . . nt

[yaesu]

25. Some churches in MI are remaining open as reported by Mlive saying they have a constitutional

right to. I guess they have a constitutional right to pay the $1000 fine too.

[Hortensis]

32. People react in interesting ways to anxiety and uncertainty.

End-times believers are real, all right, but Trump isn't one of them. He is extremely vulnerable to people like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who both advocate for destruction of our society. And then there are the so-called libertarian conservatives whose ideology already carried to predatory, cannibalistic extremes has been running our nation into the ground.

To put it mildly, it's not overstating a problem at all to suggest people take a very serious look at the doings of those -- the extremist "libertarian" Republicans currently controlling the senate and many state offices. We have an extremely interesting correlation between arrival of a disease expected to kill mainly people receiving government benefits and their efforts to block its containment.

Also the connection between loosing this pandemic on our nation's retired people and sick people of all ages and the domination of the Republican leadership by "libertarian" economic philosophy. Libertarians, real and phony, claim great virtue in societies that require people to take care of themselves -- instead of developing vice-filled, unhealthy societies by allowing those who won't to sponge off those who do. Unhealthy societies of course also include all those/us retired people who "don't contribute" and who were too feckless to save for retirement (even if we did), but now expect to sponge off society for another 30 years or so. Taxes are a disease on society.

Wouldn't America, and its new anti-tax kleptocracy, be better off if a bunch of us died? And wouldn't it even only be right that we do?

[shockey80]

37. Brutal truth, thank you.

[Snarkoleptic]

36. These authoritarian followers with their anti-science behavior, will be the death of us all!

[EndlessWire]

47. Somewhere I read

that they were considering using ice rinks as morgues. What a terrible thing to think about. They must be preparing for worse numbers.

Because we have no leadership, we must do smart things on our own. Still wear masks, wash our hands.

But when Trump declares the emergency over, and people won't come back to work. then we will have unemployed people kicked off unemployment. We will be in a world of hurt, caused by Trump and the GOP.

[peacebuzzard]

49. so that explains my weird red neighbors

The ones down the hill never stay at home, everything is quiet for the most part except their constant travel up and down the hill all day. Their annoying screaming and yelling echo up from the valley constantly on nice days; they chase the poor new dog which also barks and yelps. The dog has run up the hill on an escape plan twice now, with the twenty-somethings dumb kids chasing it, making the pup run faster. The big mouth mother just had a kid's party with over 15 cars that drove down to their house (their only access is through my property on an easement road). A kid's party! What the hell are they thinking?

Then on unrelated instances, the neighbor to the left of me uses his place as a gathering spot for when he gets looped on drinking and other recreational cocktails. He is a racist, we have never spoken in the ten years he has lived there. Otherwise, he spends his time elsewhere. His parties are always on the quiet nights, in the middle of the night and he arrives by ATV as loud as possible. His drunken slurs pierce the quiet nights with his self-aggrandizing, bragging guffaws.

Thank God I have pleasant, helpful normal Democrat neighbors to my right.

[lunasun]

55. An old friend sent me something from a backward area where they are exiled for work right now

One of the town hall suggestions : only have sleep overs for your kids with families you know
They were just venting how stupid the town they are stuck working in is, but that one suggestion stuck in my head
Your kids party down the road made me think of it and I bet they’d tell you well it’s ok we know all the families

[peacebuzzard]

58. I know tomorrow (Easter) there will be more activity.

no respect at all....

[ooky]

50. If there's a rapture this would be a good time for it

and they all fly away right before infecting everybody else.

[tblue37]

52. The Kansas Supreme Court just voted to uphold Gov. Kelly's limitations on gatherings.

No more than 10 allowed in a group--no exemption for religious gatherings.

[NBachers]

54. I'd be glad to let the Death Cult have their way, but it won't just be only them. They'll take

innocent kids; they'll infect non-Death Cult people; they'll infect health care staff; they'll occupy bed space that could be used for more-deserving people. And you know they'll holler for help when they're deep in the shit of it.

[lunasun]

57. Why can they not read from their good book for spiritual inspiration in these times? Oh wait - $

Matthew 6:5-15 King James Version (KJV)

5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Stay home and pray!