The Liberal Gun Club Forum

Wino wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 11:37 am Our dumb assed Guv. has said he will allow no shut downs or bans. Methane must be affecting his thinking with his head so far up his ass along with well flaring in Texas. Shrub, Ricky Good Hair, now this sleb ! Zeus, what have Texans done to deserve this trash - other than voting for republicans.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/18 ... -lockdown/

lurker wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:50 pm they'll be singing a different tune when it gets out into the sticks.

sig230 wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:52 pm

lurker wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:50 pm they'll be singing a different tune when it gets out into the sticks.

Only if it causes them pain, and they are well insulated from reality.

AbE: Remember the Abbott will not face the voters until 2022 and by then there will likely be several vaccines available and since his voters memory span is about that of a gnat all this will be ancient history.

lurker wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:50 pm they'll be singing a different tune when it gets out into the sticks.

Tennessee county mayor won’t mandate masks until the ‘Holy Spirit’ moves him

As coronavirus cases increase in Tennessee’s Lincoln County, the county mayor says he won’t issue a mask mandate until the “Holy Spirit” moves him, AL.com reports.

Mayor Bill Newman insists he’s not anti-science, but he just doesn’t feel he should mandate people wearing masks “at this time.”

Newman said he looks to God for guidance when it comes to big decisions, and that guidance comes from the Holy Spirit.

“The Holy Spirit dwells within us,” Newman said. “It’s a heart thing. It’s not a mind thing. But you’re using all your God-given (talents), your physical or mental or spiritual, all those things. When I pray for guidance, I may not know the answer immediately.”

But according to the administrator of the 286-member MaskUpLincolnCounty Facebook group, Newman’s stance is frustrating county residents.

“There’s a lot of anger,” Kay Campbell said. “People feel like there’s a chance for leadership and he’s not taking it and he’s ducking behind the Holy Spirit. We have all talked to the Holy Spirit and gotten different ideas.”

“It’s such an easy thing for people to do and it’s effective,” Campbell said of masks. “It bugs me that with such a sneaky disease that people are not willing to do this.”

California has issued a "limited" curfew starting Saturday for counties in the purple tier with widespread COVID-19 cases.

"In light of an unprecedented, rapid rise in COVID-19 cases across California, Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today announced a limited Stay at Home Order requiring generally that non-essential work, movement and gatherings stop between 10 PM and 5 AM in counties in the purple tier," according to a statement from Gov. Gavin Newsom's office released Thursday afternoon.

The order takes effect at 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21 and will remain in place until 5 a.m. Dec. 21. It is similar to the stay-at-home order issued in March but is applied only between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. and only in purple tier counties that are seeing the highest rates of positive cases and hospitalizations in the state.

“The virus is spreading at a pace we haven’t seen since the start of this pandemic and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge. We are sounding the alarm,” Newsom said in a prepared statement. “It is crucial that we act to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations before the death count surges. We’ve done it before and we must do it again.” Newsom's office said that the curfew is meant to reduce opportunities for disease transmission.

"Activities conducted during 10 PM to 5 AM are often non-essential and more likely related to social activities and gatherings that have a higher likelihood of leading to reduced inhibition and reduced likelihood for adherence to safety measures like wearing a face covering and maintaining physical distance," the statement from Newsom's office goes on to say.

On Monday, Newsom announced that 39 counties were sliding back into more restrictive coronavirus tiers as the state pulled what Newsom called an “emergency brake” to try to stop a surge of COVID-19 cases. With the changes, 41 counties comprising over 94% of the state's population are in the state’s purple COVID-19 tier.

Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones released a statement Thursday saying that his department will not be enforcing COVID health orders.

TrueTexan wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 7:07 pm Just saw on our local news, Texas only has 110 ICU beds available statewide. Even Loving county has a COVID case.they must have caught it from a jack rabbit.

sig230 wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:08 am Yet it seems impossible to mandate minimal safety standards when it comes to Covid-19.

cooper wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:41 am

sig230 wrote: Fri Nov 20, 2020 8:08 am Yet it seems impossible to mandate minimal safety standards when it comes to Covid-19.

Sig, I agree with your basic premise. I want to add, though, that it's not just a failure of mandates. People don't even follow the mandates that are attempted.

NY Times had a graphic yesterday that pointed out that the states with the highest per capita new cases (SD, ND, IA) all had the most relaxed restrictions. Fair enough, but in their effort to make a political point, they failed to highlight a depressing statistic that was glaringly obvious in that same graphic. My state (WI) was in the second tier of new cases, and our governor has tried to make restrictions here. No one follows them.