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At least for MI, these are the places where you can’t legally bring a gun. A depository financial institution or a subsidiary or affiliate of a depository financial institution, including a bank, out-of-state bank, national bank, foreign bank branch, association, savings bank, or credit union Property owned by a church or other house of religious worship, without permission Courts and court offices Theaters with 2,500 or more seats Sports arenas Day care centers, child care agencies, and child placing agencies Hospitals Bars, taverns, or other establishments where the primary source of income is selling alcohol by the glass for consumption on premises. These locations should have a sign indicating that concealed weapons are prohibited Casinos Correctional facilities College or university dormitories or classrooms https://baronedefensefirm.com/michigan-gun-lawyer/prohibited-places-for-firearms/

This is the problem with the Michigan Militia...and the intimidation factor in OK causing officials there to quickly cave on masks. The guy who brandished a gun, the people who used threats and intimidation are today’s right wing heroes and martyrs. They certainly weren’t arrested. Let’s not forget what happened a quarter century ago with Ruby Ridge, Waco and McVeigh’s bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in OKC...which later tied into Columbine as well. Joyce (Stillwater mayor) further explained, according to the News Press, the order to wear masks did not violate constitutional law -- one of the primary arguments of those objecting to wearing them. "No law or court supports this view," Joyce said. "In fact, a Federal lawsuit against Guthrie's face covering order was fully dismissed by the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma." In a long Twitter thread Friday evening, Joyce expanded on what happened. "I knew there would be some objections, but I did not expect physical confrontations with employees and threatening phone calls to city hall. I hate that our businesses and their employees had to deal with abuse today, and I apologize for putting them in that position." https://oklahoman.com/article/5661461/stillwater-business-employees-threatened-over-mask-requirement It’s not too much of a leap to think you might see the same tactics if they get away with it now...threatening those who are not voting for Trump in November (especially if we’re still going through a fall/winter lockdown period with seasonal flu and Covid hitting simultaneously.) I mean, let’s not pretend that the most influential person in Stillwater isn’t OSU FB coach Mike Gundy, after all. https://www.si.com/college/2020/04/08/mike-gundy-coronavirus-economy-comments-dangerous

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/auschwitz-condemns-nazi-coronavirus-protest-sign https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/auschwitz-museum-denounces-woman-holding-nazi-sign-illinois-protest-n1198961 https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-arbeit-macht-frei-nazi-slogans-at-illinois-rally-against-coronovirus-lockdown-1.8815257 https://www.yahoo.com/gma/nazi-slogan-sign-displayed-open-illinois-rally-ripped-201723587--abc-news-topstories.html

Then it all comes down to suppressing or discrediting the Democratic mail-in vote. You can probably add some type of fake emergency with the US Postal Service... Ensure low turnout: With the majority of the country still in lockdown, many states are trying to ramp up voting by mail to promote voter turnout during the pandemic and help keep voters safe. The President, however, has resisted these efforts. Despite studies that show voter fraud is extremely rare, Trump called voting by mail "corrupt" and said it is "very dangerous for this country because of cheaters." Republicans understand that low turnout has historically benefited their party. There is a long-documented history of Republicans pursuing measures that discourage voter participation. These tactics often affect low-income and marginalized people — groups that tend to vote Democratic. Given the way this virus has hit Democratic electorates particularly hard, the lack of mail-in voting could tip the election in Trump's favor. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/02/opinions/president-trumps-reelection-strategy-is-taking-shape-zelizer/index.html

Saw KU on a list of public universities that could have their debt/bond ratings downgraded if this continues into next academic year.

Well, they’re no different than university presidents. Open too soon, you risk hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits if it spreads across an entire campus. Wait too long, at least you can argue you were doing everything possible to protect students’ health. In which situation are administrators more likely to be fired?

The virus is going to spread whether the universities, and businesses, reopen or not. It will continue to spread until herd immunity is reached, which means about 60% of the population has been infected and recovered. If it were not for the lockdowns, this point would have been reached around April 20, and the pandemic would have been over already. At the current lockdown rate, the pandemic will not be over until about February 2022. 99.6% of the people who get infected will recover, and about 70% of those that won't are over the age of 65. It is inevitable that a majority of the people will contract the virus. Therefore it is futile, and counterproductive economically, to try to stop it. Let the younger people, such as college students, get sick and be that majority that obtain immunity in order to protect the minority older people for which the disease is much more serious. Have seen this particular argument popping up all over the internet recently, on various message boards. The problem is that it relies on a 0.4% mortality rate, instead of 2.0% (all populations) or the much more alarming 4.5% (adults worldwide). We can couch it in ways that make it seem almost appropriate if not patriotic for older Americans to sacrifice themselves. But this particular approach means killing 3-5 million Americans and possibly even more...because we simply don’t have a clue what will happen when hospitals are actually overrun, grocery stores run out of meat, and everyone starts turning on each other with life or death consequences. Right now, we’re at the level of shaming and political disagreement...but that 1/3rd minority pushing to open up nearly everything is going to become increasingly confrontational in their methods when even reopened businesses don’t guarantee profitability with the other 2/3rds still remaining at home. Not to mention the tremendous pressure on mostly GOP governors in those states not to reverse course and go into a second prolonged shutdown. Mississippi is one thing. But Texas and Florida would have impacts that ripple across every aspect of the national economy.

I’m willing to wager a significant amount of money she has never been to Auschwitz. It’s just another version of the “your fears, our freedom” argument. If you’re a genuine patriotic American, you will go back to work, no matter what the ultimate costs to families in terms of lives lost. Everyone who disagrees is basically a soft, socialist lefty who wants to take everyone’s guns away, shutter churches...trampling the 1st Amendment. Meanwhile, this entire entire time, no governor has even argued against the right to protest, if you do it safely, wear a mask, social distance, and don’t block off streets preventing emergency vehicles from getting through. It would almost be understandable...if any of their bosses, managers or CEO suits were out there with them. It’s not shared sacrifice, it’s about sacrificing those who are considered “expendable” by corporate elites to keep the profits flowing, the coffers filled. Feel sorry so many who aren’t even aware they’re being manipulated behind the scenes by all these fronts for what is essentially Wall Street and the most ideologically-extreme right wing political action committees. And no amount of jackbooted thugs will ever succeed in forcing consumers back out onto the streets to spend...in fact, for that 75% of Americans who think signs like these are reprehensible...it just makes it more likely they’ll stay inside longer to protect themselves from idiots like these.

It’s pretty clear the play is going to be to obscure or confuse the death numbers without doing anything to ramp up testing in Florida, Georgia and Texas. Of course, muddling through it means you’re just reinvigorating the spread to places like Gallup, NM, that lack the public health infrastructure to contain an outbreak...the weakest chains in the system; prisons, nursing homes, Native American populations, repetitively getting exploited. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/05/02/tarrant-county-reports-115-positive-coronavirus-cases-2-deaths/ Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins noted that the higher case counts came without a significant increase in testing capacity. Jenkins said the daily average of new cases jumped from 84 last week to 141 this week. There was also a 38% increase in deaths from this week compared to last, he said.

No. They’re businessmen first and foremost. They will trust scientific analysis over political pronouncements. Heck, they will trust insurance brokers that issue their organization-wide policies over politicians as well.

Other elements of the data raised eyebrows. One nursing home in the Panhandle, the 210-bed Southern Oaks Care Center, was reported to have had three resident deaths — though recent data from health administrators showed 94 residents of the Pensacola home had been infected. That would mean that 3 percent of the home’s residents who contracted the disease succumbed to it. Based on previous data, 40 percent to 50 percent of long-term care residents infected with the virus die. ..... One nursing home, the Coquina Center in Ormond Beach, has nine resident deaths listed. The home did not appear on the most recent list, released by the state, of facilities with positive tests. But a prior list of coronavirus cases in long-term care facilities said 15 residents had COVID-19, 11 others with positive tests had been transferred out, and that nine staffers were infected. Those numbers were supposed to be current as of this past Monday. Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article242446331.html#storylink=cpy

Well, that was due to the Flight Attendants’ union, which was also pushing for an end to leisure/touristic travel...how that would have been enforceable or practicable, no idea. Without customers, many more would be out of a job. But it’s also easy to understand the increasing fear of closed space, recirculating air flows (cruise ships and US Navy)...my wife calls them “virus resources.”

I am still waiting for Greg to morph into Ranchoddas 'Rancho' Shyamaldas Chanchad from 3 Idiots, one of my all-time favorite movies. Having lived a decade in Kansas City, it’s easier to “get” him. We all have a little Devil’s Advocate side lurking within us...the frustrating part is I’m not sure if he is unwilling to do the research on a subject sometimes, or he simply delights in playing the board jester just to get a rise out of everyone. He called the Democratic governor of his own state conservative the other day, yet she’s not one of those governors quick to insert herself into the news cycle, and is moving to reopen restaurants soon...you can’t be too far to the left to win in a state like Kansas with almost as many religious conservatives outside Johnson County and Lawrence as you’d find in Iowa. And for some reason I don’t see Greg as a big drinker (his South Side of Chicago Catholic side)...and, it’s going to beer if he does, not hard alcohol. He’s too attuned to inflated major league concession prices and aligning himself with the plight of the common man, which means my guess is Coors. He always posts late at night in the US, so he could be a 2nd shift worker...but every once in a while pride in the higher education of his family members breaks through that blue collar persona.

Didn’t they take out an SBA loan? Glad to see it’s being reinvested in such brilliant guerrilla marketing. What next, Texas ten gallon hats filled with Corona?

How is it that your hair grows like a Chia pet while you manage to simultaneously talk in 3rd person like Bob Dole...Kansas’ most famous senator. You might want to forward that information on to follicle-challenged Trump. And reassure him there have been zero incidences of contracting the virus due to having Beatles’ or Beatnik hair, at least not yet.

Now Trump is claiming he’s seen evidence the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Of course, he won’t dare provide it. President Trump on Thursday claimed he’d seen evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan — but didn’t offer up any details. “Yes, I have,” Trump told White House reporters when asked whether he’s seen proof that would suggest the virus originated in the lab. When pressed on what gave him that confidence, he said: “I can’t tell you that. I am not allowed to tell you that.” Earlier Thursday, the US intelligence community said it agreed with the scientific consensus that the novel coronavirus was not “manmade or genetically modified.” The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of VirologyAFP via Getty Images But it confirmed that it was looking into “whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.” https://nypost.com/2020/04/30/trump-claims-he-has-seen-evidence-linking-coronavirus-to-chinese-lab/

Yes, I am married to Sinead O’Connor. Shirley Manson, Dolores O’Riordan, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears and Amanda Bynes were all unavailable. Flights to KCI, Topeka and Wichita unavailable.

Really went out for the first time today. Had wife shave off all hair with the electric trimmer we bought for our son when he was just one or two. Had a robot serve our food inside the restaurant...while playing Canon in D of all songs. That was kind of cool. They use/used them in hospitals to deliver food or medicine, protecting staff. Also in quarantine centers...to deliver food to hotel rooms. Temperature checks going into shopping areas, but not most individual stores. Everyone wearing a mask...just slip it down around the neck to eat or drink. Didn’t like feeling at first because it’s already getting really hot here...but got used to it. Just a regular surgical mask, not N95. Saw one goofball dressed in a hazmat suit with improvised gas mask in mall...more fashion statement or way of being anonymous than genuine fear IMO. Are supposed to sit just three on 5-6 person subway seat, but many are ignoring that and just sitting down. Subway was the emptiest I have ever seen it except 1030-1100 pm at night. Was stopped in subway for not having work permit...but wife quickly explained situation and I was able to go everywhere with green QR pass code on my cell phone. Didn’t see a single foreigner besides myself all day long. Our neighborhood is completely blocked in by massive metal gates...it will take me an extra 5-10 minutes to get to work now, meaning 40-50 minutes each way...especially with all the phone and document checks, temp checks, etc. Everything overall was about 30-40% back to normal...for the first day of May holidays (kind of like Memorial Day feeling), normally there would be tens of thousands outside instead of hundreds. Restaurants at about 10-20% capacity. Keep in mind, this is three full weeks after the city started opening, and one week after pretty much everyone came back this past Sunday.

It’s only that big if no vaccine is ever discovered...the country is hit repetitively by a series of pandemics combined with some epic climate change-related disaster that makes it impossible for the country to return to its previous position in the world (the opposite of 1929-1945, in that we would be decaying ala Rome, instead of ascending). That would require essentially defaulting on the Federal debt obligations to international Treasury/bond holders and going off the US dollar as the world reserve currency, with states splintering into regional groups like we are already seeing now...and eventually separate blocs within the country or even new countries (see The Man in the High Castle imagining of US split up had we lost WW II), especially California with LA and Silicon Valley/SF. Would have to kick Peter Thiel out, lol. But yeah, the Civil War/slavery, Revolutionary War and World War II would all have to rank higher on any reasonable scale. Even if the “real” death count today is 130,000 versus roughly half that, as many epidemiologists are asserting.

1) 77,000 votes, and those 3 states being taken for granted as they (Mook) foolishly tried to add to the scoreboard in purple and red states, especially ceding WI without a single appearance 2) Hillary Clinton being hated more than any recent history...and sidelining her husband (see Gore, Al, 2000)...they spent a billion dollars and still lost because the majority of Dems didn’t really even like her THAT much 3) He either partners with OANN or starts his own network, having the opportunity/platform to eclipse Rush and throw rocks and grenades from the sidelines, only increasing the value of his brand to that roughly 15% of the country who are fanatical followers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-allies-eye-buyout-of-one-america-news-network-wsj This was the direction that Bannon and Trump were going in the fall of 2016 when defeated appeared inevitable (Billy Bush week in particular.) He’s more like the PT Barnum of branding. Bill Clinton runs rings around him as a pure instinctive political animal.

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification. It’s frustrating when you are trapped for months on end in a foreign country...but can’t go home either. Or at least going home doesn’t even guarantee being able to see family members (in assisted living). Or, if you go home, you have to leave your wife and five year old, not knowing if you can ever return. Then, having to guess if Iowa’s political strategy will wipe out July, and if Trump will insult China to the point that the current flight ban on any foreigner into China might actually last into the fall semester (meaning you lose your job, in all likelihood)...then, on top of that, paying thousands of dollars for intl. flights that used to be $800-1200 typically.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/29/florida-medical-examiners-were-releasing-coronavirus-death-data-the-state-made-them-stop/

I have to re-convince myself every day that those who are unwilling to listen will one day, eventually, realize the truth of what is happening to their country. Yes, I realize the odds of Greg reading Noam Chomsky are probably 1 in 10,000. Perhaps less. And there’s not going to be any hardcore Trump supporters changing their minds, that much is certain. But it’s worth it to me if just a FEW become more open-minded. I have zero illusions about Joe Biden even being able to reset the world back to November of 2016. I was a high school senior in 1988 back when he first ran and I participated in the Iowa caucus. I didn’t like him then, not do I particularly like him now. But something has to change, eventually. The country can’t keep going on this way and continue to be a shining beacon for the rest of the world, the greatest remaining hope for the future. Maybe it doesn’t matter. That’s fine, too. Next Thursday I have to do the nose swab and nucleic acid test here in Wuhan despite not going outside once since January 20th. Every teacher and student needs to do that before we can all go back to school on May 11th. Then my life will finally return to the new normal and I won’t have nearly as much free time. I will spend an hour each way going back and forth to work. So you can relax and turn your focus to bigger problems in the world than me. Good luck.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/opinions/trump-treats-meatpacking-workers-as-disposable-reyes/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/executive-order-meat-processing-plants-latinos/index.html Last August, in a record-setting sting operation, immigration officials swept through seven chicken-processing sites in Mississippi, rounding up 680 mostly Latino workers. It followed a similarly high-profile raid, in April 2018, on a meatpacking plant in Tennessee, where, according to a class-action lawsuit, "(ICE officers) forcefully seized and arrested approximately 100 Latino workers." Fast-forward to 2020, and meat-processing plants function differently in the national narrative. Suddenly, they're portrayed not as supposed vectors of criminality but as vital tools for keeping Americans hale and hearty in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. And yet, in the absence of greater workplace protections, it seems all but guaranteed that President Donald Trump's new executive order to keep meat-processing plants open will put employees at even greater risk (including protecting corporations from liability and invoking the Defense Production Act for the first time to actually force or compel workers to report, my add.)

If you divide deaths (and Florida is already deliberately trying to cover up their numbers already) in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark (2462/206/443/207) and divide by country’s total population, then multiply by that rate to apply to it the US (where we don’t have universal health care/hospitals with built out capacity/a massive amount of preexisting condition or obese population) you’d get the equivalent so far in American deaths: Sweden 78,216 (27% worse than the US) Finland 12,133 Denmark 24,798 Norway 12,533 US actual number as of now (according to worldometers) is 61,618 deaths. Sweden is fighting to get to 20-30% herd immunity, but with a total population smaller than the entire city of Wuhan and not close in terms of population density (which is primarily why major cities are getting smashed.) The US is instead choosing no coordinated national or Federal strategy...just a patchwork quilt of differing approaches, which means we are essentially forcing ourselves into herd immunity, one way or the other. The UK calculated these herd immunity scenarios early on and determined the same philosophy was going to lead to disaster there and (relatively) quickly reversed course.