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"Operation Gridlock" protest underway at State Capitol

Bodhisattva said:
I think in the 4th person... sorry.



Not sure if she did great or we just got lucky... but I guess that it takes a little of both anyway. The district I live in has not had one case at all in the past 17 days, I think. I just went to the store for the first time (big supermarket, not the little corner market in the village) and it was chill. We also have national buying quotas. Only two of certain items (toilet paper, pasta, etc) allowed.
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I'd ****ing love to visit New Zealand. One day, after all of this bull**** is over.
 
RAMOSS said:
The virus doesn't care about 'if , then and maybe', and about 15 percent of people who recover seem to be able to be reinfected. , although that couple be false positives, or they didn't fully recover and became asymptomatic anyway
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The question out there now is do those who get over the SARS aspect of the disease fully recover, or are there underlying issues which linger and do further damage.

Coronavirus destroys lungs. But doctors are finding its damage in kidneys, hearts and elsewhere.

...clinicians around the world are seeing evidence that suggests the virus also may be causing heart inflammation, acute kidney disease, neurological malfunction, blood clots, intestinal damage and liver problems. That development has complicated the treatment of the most severe cases of covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, and makes the course of recovery less certain, they said.

The prevalence of these effects is too great to attribute them solely to the “cytokine storm,” a powerful immune-system response that attacks the body, causing severe damage, doctors and researchers said.

Almost half the people hospitalized because of covid-19 have blood or protein in their urine, indicating early damage to their kidneys, said Alan Kliger, a nephrologist at the Yale School of Medicine who co-chairs a task force assisting dialysis patients who have covid-19.

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“That’s a huge number of people who have this problem. That’s new to me,” Kliger said. “I think it’s very possible that the virus attaches to the kidney cells and attacks them.”
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trixare4kids said:
Again, if the above is true, I agree that many are not being responsible if they are ignoring social distancing. I'm not sold on the idea that masks help all that much. Staying away from one another, yes.
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The masks help when someone is infected, and cough, so they don't spread it to others.
 
SheWolf said:
Funny how they are mostly Trump supporters, and they make it obvious. They are most likely energized, because Trump is convinced opening the economy will help him. It’s all about Trump. These protestors are mostly interested in getting Trump re-elected, and that’s what this is about
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BINGO! You hit the nail on the head! Those jerks are drunk on KoolAid and bloated with red meat......they want their King Daddy to keep them supplied for another four years. :lol:
 
Phys251 said:
Forgotten implies that literally nobody will remember it. But feel free to continue making my point for me. :)
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forgotten means it wasn't the big calamity you wanted
 
Pot is legal in Michigan.

Are the pot stores still open?
 
TheGoverness said:
I'd ****ing love to visit New Zealand. One day, after all of this bull**** is over.
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Let me know... I can tell you the best places to visit and if you come I'll buy you lunch.

Here is the view from my house...

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Here is the view from down on that beach up back past my house...


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trixare4kids said:
This protest made the national news. This is a fluid situation.
In a video I viewed, it didn't look like the protesters were social distancing. One protester wearing a MAGA hat said that the governor has made people totally dependent on the government. She said, 'They can't even buy dirt and seeds to grow food and that shouldn't be what America is about.'

"Operation Gridlock" protest underway at State Capitol
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The Michigan governor has no common sense.
In Michigan if you own two residents you can’t travel to your other place. If you only have your family in your boat, why is that a problem?
You have bored children at home, you can’t buy toys to keep them busy.
You can’t buy gardening tools to keep busy in your yard.
Instead of thinning the crowd in a Target or Walmart by allowing them into other departments, you will herd all the people into the grocery department. Smart.
 
Phys251 said:
You're right, the snowflakes described in the OP should have stayed home.
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That's great. Real men don't want snowflakes out in public. Thanks for hiding under your covers and clutching your pearls and hugging teddy bear
 
Julianna123 said:
Sacrifice is such a burden. Its amazing how many don't have the recommended 6 months of savings for hard times.
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Which is why the lefties are lining up for Trump's check
 
Drive to Walmart, Home Depot, Tractor Supply. Get out of your cars, take off your masks, (if you happen to be wearing one). Go into the store and interact with as many people as you can. Touch lots of stuff you don't even buy. Make sure you touch your face every once and a while. Your children too.
Please, I really don't want you to do any of this, but if you support the opposition to the stay at home, exactly, where do YOU fall?
 
haymarket said:
I am a life long resident of Michigan and have worked recently in the State Capitol in Lansing for the legislature. This is simply an astroturf right wing effort to take the governors office away from Gov Whitmer. It is run by the usual suspects on the right.
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Naturally. Whenever there is a left-wing protest, it is astroturfed with the protesters being paid by George Soros. Whenever there is a right-wing protest, it is funded by the Koch Brothers. There is never such a thing as a heart-felt protest. After all, what do the people of Michigan have to protest over? I'm sure all the hundreds of thousands of "real" citizens of Michigan are happy to stay at home, on unpaid furlough or unemployment, with their children out of school going stir-crazy, watching their meager savings drain to nothing, and their back-rent collecting arrears. Who in their right mind would be upset and wish to protest that state of affairs?
 
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JMR said:
I invite you to go back to the beginning of the thread where several posters discussed exactly that.

I assume you have no evidence that you cannot.
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I read the thread. No such posts exist. Maybe you can post some quotes to prove me wrong.
 
SCrider said:
Yeah they are so tough they Brought their guns
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If it gets any worse with civil rights being trampled by nanny type grannies playing governor, that's why the constitution says we can bear arms....for this very purpose.
 
Outlook said:
The Michigan governor has no common sense.
In Michigan if you own two residents you can’t travel to your other place. If you only have your family in your boat, why is that a problem?
You have bored children at home, you can’t buy toys to keep them busy.
You can’t buy gardening tools to keep busy in your yard.
Instead of thinning the crowd in a Target or Walmart by allowing them into other departments, you will herd all the people into the grocery department. Smart.
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OK, I was going to respond to this, but kids with no toys, a garden with no tools, that's your argument? Ok, so I did respond.
 
Parrish said:
But you can't say for sure.
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Well, :doh why didn't I think of that?

It's almost as though some are wishing the protesters are that stupid. To go out in 37 degree weather knowing they are contagious and seriously ill to protest the governor's foolish, irresponsibly written stay at home order.
 
JMR said:
Buying into the BS are you? Taste good?
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What next? Is Hitlers wife gonna tell us we can only buy one can of soup and one roll or TP per customer? Do you like that sort of thing where she just makes **** up?
 
Middle_Ground said:
So the governor of Michigan has stopped all deliveries in the state?
The post office has been outlawed along with all other delivery services?
If that's the case then all the people in Michigan should be protesting....right?
Like I said a bunch of complainers with nothing to do.
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Democrats on the forum demonstrate to the rest of us how much they enjoy a dictator over a state.
 
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