Is This Civil Disobedience?

Tens of thousands swarm California beaches despite governor's stay-at-home orders

Large crowds packed beaches despite California experiencing its deadliest day of the COVID-19 outbreak this week.

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PAUL SACCA

  

This week, tens of thousands of people flocked to beaches in California despite the state's stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Warm weather enticed Californians to swarm beaches in Orange County that were still open during the COVID-19 outbreak. Surfers, joggers, and sunbathers were seen gathering at the California coastline over the past few days, many not following social distancing guidelines.
Thousands went to Huntington Beach, where one group played a football game on the sand.

Approximately 40,000 people went to the shoreline of Newport Beach, a California town that has a total population of 85,000.

California has over 41,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,618 deaths. As of Friday, California reported 11,877 new confirmed COVID-19 cases this week compared to 8,012 new cases the prior week. There were 562 deaths this week compared to 456 deaths last week. California also suffered its deadliest day of the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday, with 118 deaths in 24 hours.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) instructed people to continue to stay at home, despite the warmer weather.
"It's going to be nice outside this weekend," Newsom tweeted on Friday. "You might be feeling cooped up. Ready for life to go back to 'normal.' But can't stress this enough: CA can only keep flattening the curve if we stay home and practice physical distancing. You have the power to literally save lives."

San Diego County beaches will open on Monday, but initially, it will only allow access to the ocean for swimming, surfing, kayaking, and paddle-boarding.
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's most advanced biocontainment lab touted research that the coronavirus was susceptible to sunlight, warmer temperatures, and humid weather.
South Carolina and Georgia opened their beaches this week.
Crowds at Florida beaches during the coronavirus pandemic have been well-documented. It all started in mid-March when crowds assembled on the shores of Clearwater Beach, most of which were spring breakers, and many of them were from outside of Florida. One Miami Herald columnist said that reopened beaches should help "thin the ranks" of President Donald Trump's supporters in Florida.
A few days after the lack of social distancing on the beaches, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) closed all of the beaches in the Sunshine State. On April 17, DeSantis gave municipalities in his state the authority to reopen beaches, but only if it can be done safely while observing social distancing guidelines.
Duval and St. Johns counties immediately reopened their beaches, and thousands of Floridians converged to the shore near Jacksonville.
Photos of the crowds on the beach went viral, and the hashtag #FloridaMorons trended on Twitter. As of yet, the hashtag #CaliforniaMorons has yet to trend.

If You Are A Democrat, Don't Go Off The Plantation

Detroit Dems plan censure of lawmaker for praising Trump, criticizing Gov. Whitmer

One fellow Democrat accused the representative of 'undermining the party's ability to win Michigan'

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BRECK DUMAS

  

A Democratic Michigan state lawmaker who credited President Donald Trump with saving her life because he promoted a treatment for COVID-19 is now facing censure from her own party for praising the president and criticizing the state's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer.

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What are the details?

When State Rep. Karen Whitsett (D) began suffering from scary symptoms like shortness of breath after falling ill with the coronavirus, she asked her doctor to prescribe hydroxychloroquine because she saw President Trump tout the drug as a possible treatment. Whitsett says it saved her life.
The Detroit Democrat even went to the White House to meet with the president and to personally thank him. She told President Trump that were it not for him talking about the drug to the American people, "I wouldn't be here today."
Now Democrats aren't just angry that Whitsett praised President Trump. She also dared to criticize Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, saying the governor's widely criticized stay-at-home orders hurt the poor who cannot afford to stock up on groceries on a weekly basis in accordance with Whitmer's dictates.

Now, the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party Organization, of which Rep. Whitsett is a member, plans to censure her for her actions, as first announced on the site Gongwer.

The Detroit News reported that the local Democrats have planned a vote for Saturday via Zoom to punish Whitsett for stepping out of line with the party. The 13th Congressional District Democrats announced they would vote on a resolution that "admonishes, rebukes and reprimands Ms. Whitsett for her actions."
One Democratic consultant told the outlet that Whitsett's actions could be "undermining the party's ability to win Michigan" in the fall.
"At the end of the day, we have political systems," the Democratic group's chairman, Jonathan Kinloch, explained. "We have political parties, and political parties exist for a reason."
Speaking of Democratic lawmakers, Kinloch added, "They do not belong to themselves. They belong to the members and precinct delegates of the Democratic Party."

Anything else?

When asked by the Detroit News to respond to her party's condemnation, Rep. Whitsett said she will continue to fight for her constituents, saying the people of Detroit are "the voiceless, and I don't care who I got to go up against to do that.'
She added, "I'm a Democrat, and I plan on continuing to be a Democrat, but they will change their ways. I have my First Amendment right, and no one will take that away from me."
As far as Whitsett's thoughts on Gov. Whitmer, the lawmaker told Gongwer, "Get us a better governor, that cares about black people."

Stop The Panic

Stanford doctor explains why coronavirus lockdown policies need to end: 'Ignore the panic and rely on facts'

He says it's hurting more than it's helping

Hoover Tower looms during a quiet morning at Stanford University on March 9 in Stanford, California. (Philip Pacheco/Getty Images)

 AARON COLEN

The former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University said the United States needs to end widespread coronavirus lockdowns and adopt a more targeted approach that both protects the most vulnerable people and builds immunity in the population.

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In an op-ed published in The Hill, Dr. Scott Atlas laid out some key facts he believes policymakers are ignoring about the pandemic, and called for leaders to "ignore the panic" when making decisions.
"Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts," Atlas wrote. "Leaders must examine accumulated data to see what has actually happened, rather than keep emphasizing hypothetical projections; combine that empirical evidence with fundamental principles of biology established for decades; and then thoughtfully restore the country to function."
Atlas wrote that because the overall mortality rate is increasingly looking to be 0.1%-0.5% based on antibody studies, and because that mortality rate is even lower among healthy adults under the age of 50, it makes no sense to continue requiring all of the population to isolate when such a small percentage of people are in real danger from COVID-19.

Instead, Atlas wrote, states should craft policies that focus on protecting the elderly and those with chronic underlying conditions. Targeting that segment of the population, although it's smaller, will have the greatest impact on minimizing hospitalizations (preventing the health care system from becoming overwhelmed) and reducing deaths.
Mass lockdowns are not only unnecessary, but they are actively delaying the process that must occur in order for things to return to normal, Atlas believes. Without a vaccine or proven treatment, the only way to get past the COVID-19 outbreak is to develop herd immunity.
"In fact, infected people without severe illness are the immediately available vehicle for establishing widespread immunity," Atlas wrote. "By transmitting the virus to others in the low-risk group who then generate antibodies, they block the network of pathways toward the most vulnerable people, ultimately ending the threat. Extending whole-population isolation would directly prevent that widespread immunity from developing."
Atlas also pointed out that people are suffering and dying because hospitals have stopped procedures deemed nonessential, which can prevent the diagnoses of life-threatening illnesses and delay treatment for other conditions.
"The appropriate policy, based on fundamental biology and the evidence already in hand, is to institute a more focused strategy like some outlined in the first place: Strictly protect the known vulnerable, self-isolate the mildly sick and open most workplaces and small businesses with some prudent large-group precautions," Atlas concluded.
Atlas discussed his opposition to the lockdowns and explained why the models used to justify them have been consistently wrong during an interview with BlazeTV's Steve Deace on Thursday.

As More Information Comes Out, Apparently COVID-19 Has Infected More Than Suspected While At Lower Death Rate

Antibody study finds 21% of New York City residents has had COVID-19

Nearly 2 million NYCers could've gotten the virus

People wait in line for meals to be distributed at the Bronx Draft House on Thursday in the Bronx in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

 AARON COLEN

New York City may have had nearly 2 million cases of COVID-19, according to an antibody study that revealed that 21% of tested NYC residents has had the virus, according to the New York Times.

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The information comes from testing done on 1,300 supermarket shoppers in New York City this week, and the results were announced Thursday by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
"What does it mean? I don't know," Cuomo said during his daily press briefing. "These are people who were out and about shopping. They were not people who were in their homes, they were not people who were isolated, they were not people who were quarantined."
The numbers: The study had a sample size of 1,300 people in New York City. Of those, 21% tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies. If that percentage held true through the entire population, that would amount to approximately 1.7 million cases — far more than the current count.

The statewide study tested 3,000 people total in the state, and the percentage of people in that sample that tested positive was 14%, which would amount to 2.6 million cases if applied to the entire population. The current number of total cases in New York is about 250,000.
If those numbers are accurate, the infection mortality rate in New York would be about 0.5% Cuomo said.
Are the numbers reliable? Some experts have reservations about the accuracy of antibody tests right now, including Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis, one of NYC's top disease control officials. From NYT:

Hours before Mr. Cuomo's presentation, a top New York City health official cautioned against making too much of the usefulness of the test results in making critical decisions about social distancing and reopening the economy, particularly in identifying immunity.

The city's top disease control officials, Dr. Demetre C. Daskalakis, wrote in an email alert on Wednesday that the tests "may produce false negative or false positive results," pointing to "significant voids" in using the science to pinpoint immunity.

This Is How They Get Rid Of Joe!

"Democrats cannot have an accused sex assaulter be their candidate for President" will be the mantra for the leaders who will eventually eliminate Joe Biden as their candidate for President.

The Democratic leaders are embarrassed by the multiple (sometimes daily) gaffes, inability to keep a consistent, coherent thought and now this investigation.  They may love Joe, but they cannot see him being a candidate that can win. So changes must occur--for the benefit of the party.

 Who will replace him is anyone's guess. Our's is Cuomo.

Conservative Tom

It’s official: Joe Biden under investigation for sexual assault

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Presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden wants nothing more than to move back to Washington, D.C. — but my want to be careful what he wishes for.

That’s the same police jurisdiction that’s investigating Biden over sexual assault allegations.

The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia has announced that it is officially investigating Biden –– who has been accused of sexually assaulting former staff assistant Tara Reade in 1993, when he was accused of pinning her against the wall and putting his fingers in her genitals.

“This is an active, ongoing investigation, and there are no further details to provide at this time,” Metropolitan Police Department public affairs officer Christine Metzger told The Daily Caller.

Metzger told the outlet she was unclear on how authorities would proceed if evidence proves the allegations are true.

Either way, the investigation will certainly impact his fledgling Democratic presidential campaign.

The official police statement has been delivered in a time when the corporate media has all but ignored the accusation, which was made public Mar. 25 by Reade on a podcast.

Critics, including those who supporters Sen. Bernie Sanders presidential bid, have suggested there was a Biden cover-up to protect him during the Democratic presidential primary, as well as heading towards his November 2020 match-up with President Donald Trump.

The silence from some of America’s fiercest #MeToo advocates has been deafening — especially compared to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s ordeal when he was accused of sexual assault.

Hollywood liberal and activist Alyssa Milano, who led the attack against Kavanaugh on social media, kept silent on the Biden accusation.

And Time’s Up, an organization who’s literal mission statement is “believe all women” flat out rejected Reade when she came forward with her accusation on Biden, citing his presidential run.

The Washington Free Beacon reported that between Mar. 24 and Apr. 15, Biden had conducted 10 interviews with “major news outlets” — and wasn’t once asked about the sexual assault accusation.

“What is clear about this claim: it is untrue. This absolutely did not happen,” according to his spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield.

So much for “believe all women.”

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Are You Chafing? Would You Participate In Civil Unrest?

EXPERT SAYS U.S. IS ON THE BRINK OF “MASS CIVIL UNREST”

Has friends on Capitol Hill concerned about violence.

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An expert with the United States Studies Centre says that America is on the brink of “mass civil unrest” that threatens to emerge out of anti-lockdown protests now taking place nationwide.

Demonstrations against coronavirus stay-at-home measures have exploded across the country over the last week after President Trump encouraged them on social media. The National Guard has been called out in some areas to deal with potential disorder.

Speaking to Sky News Australia, James Brown, a former Australian Army officer who commanded a cavalry troop in southern Iraq, said that the very specific mentality of Americans made them much more likely to rebel against lockdown measures compared to citizens of other countries.

“There is that part of the US political psyche that takes rights to a complete extreme,” said Brown, adding that “mass civil unrest” is an ever present possibility due to Americans sharing a “deep independent streak that believes the government is a nice-to-have not a must-have.”

The host of the show opined that if “anarchy” were to break out across the United States, “the government can’t bring the people to heel” due to the Second Amendment.

Brown said he had friends on Capitol Hill who were very worried about mass social disorder and a “gun battle on the streets.”

Brown said that so long as most people believed that states were making progress on battling coronavirus, they would accept and adhere to lockdown laws for the time being.

“But people will chafe, that idea of individual freedom and liberty is much stronger in the U.S. than it is Australia,” he added.