Everyday brings another Republicans Governor following Donald Trump request to ‘reopen the country’ despite warnings from scientists and heavy media pushes of renewed virus infections…
We’ll have to wait and see what the virus does in these area’s…Sorta rolling the dice with people lives, maybe?
Increases in infections will put the governor’s citizens in trouble and themselves…
And in typical fashion?
Trump will deny any responsibility for anything…
Little to no increases in infections will have Trump boosting in public that he knows more than the ‘experts’ and will increase pressure on other state and local officials to relax their restrictions also…
Trump is in this for his own political future …
Nothing more…He has give governor’s little help with their efforts to control the virus crisis …
South Carolina allowed retail shops ranging from department stores to flea markets to reopen Monday afternoon, shortly after its governor, Henry McMaster, signed an executive order reversing some of the closings he ordered earlier this month.
On Friday, residents of Georgia will be allowed to return to the gym and get haircuts, pedicures, massages and tattoos, Gov. Brian Kemp said. Next Monday, they can dine in restaurants and go to the movies. Tennessee’s stay-at-home order will expire April 30, allowing most businesses there to reopen on May 1, Gov. Bill Lee said.
The moves by three Republican governors of Southern states to let some businesses reopen came as the outbreak continued to spread in parts of the nation, and as some other governors and public health experts have warned in recent days that testing remained inadequate to quickly identify and contain new outbreaks.
Massachusetts has been particularly hard hit recently, and at the White House briefing on Monday evening, Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator, noted that “we still have a significant number of cases, both in the Boston area and across Massachusetts and Chicago.”
Even in areas where the number of new cases is beginning to flatten, it is doing so at a very high level: New York, which reported its fewest new cases in a month and its lowest one-day death toll in more than two weeks, still reported 4,726 new cases and had 478 new deaths on Sunday….
Detroit’s automakers and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union are in talks about safely restarting U.S. production halted by the coronavirus pandemic, but local union leaders said on Monday any workers who feel sick must be allowed to self quarantine without losing pay….
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These Republican Governors will own their actions.
Who are they going to blame ,Trump?
Their cultish base won’t allow that.
We have already seen the rabble demonstrating against Trumps own regulations while holding signs calling for his reelection,so you can’t expect logic from that quarter.
On a purely political level this seems to be fractioning the Republican base in states that are competitive (FL) or potential to be (GA)
Particularly Gs. Where Brian Kemp has essentially reopened the entire state including gyms and bowling alleys where large groups congregate.
Kemp won narrowly last time and Georgia is getting much more competitive.
If virus cases skyrocket and hospitals start filling up?
What’s he going to do?
Trump?As we know consistency isn’t big with him.He will likely blame Kemp for not following his “guidelines” which via his tweets he himself has implicitly repudiated.
Las Vegas Mayor Wants to Open Casinos During Pandemic
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman had a train wreck of an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur.
That led reporter Jon Ralston to tweet: “I want to relieve everyone’s concerns by telling you two things: 1. The mayor of Las Vegas has almost no political power. The city is a very small political subdivision. 2. If Goodman were to step down, her successor would be a woman who thinks cancer is caused by a fungus.”…
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