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I heard President Trump call truck drivers hero's. ..I am NOT a hero...just an average guy doing his job...along with millions of other people who still have to (required to) earn a living. 😉👍

I reckon the average people like yourself that are keeping the countries of the world running are the hero's of this pandemic Bruce.

Me, I'm holed up inside our home riding this out (and it looks like its going to be a long time) I'm not doing anything positive for the country (except hopefully not getting the virus and keeping a hospital bed freed up).

The figures below are just from the last 24 hours (yesterday) its hero's like yourself on the front line that are keeping people holed up at home in food, medicine etc etc

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Quote from: Dr.Rev.DelmarMacReady on April 16, 2020, 08:00:09 am

I wish there was a bit more common sense involved in this protest. It is awful being out of work, but it ain't so great taking a life-robbing easily transmittable virus to my mother or grandmother. Having a tantrum won't make this go away any quicker, only safe practices.

I like the old Thomas Paine version of Common Sense and The Rights of Man.
Perhaps you are aware that some of the news stories, like the one Jim referenced , are heavily biased and do not contain the complete reasons for those peaceful and orderly protest?  Imagine if you took your mom and grandmother on Easter Sunday to attend a religious service in the parking lot of a church. Stayed in the car . Then you and your family was arrested and jailed as criminals ?  Or maybe mom and grandma buy seeds for their garden and get thrown in jail for disobeying an order of the governor. . Or maybe your mom wants to have her hair done but the mayor forbids it (the same mayor thenhypocritically goes out to her own hair stylist). What if some authoritarian politician was seeking media attention, grandstanding, and even pursues higher political office and forbade your mom and grandmother from getting a valid medical prescription from their family doctor ? Or forbade you to go visit them at their house under penalty of arrest?  Would it be a “tantrum” to stand peacefully in protest and remind the media and government that you are willing to work together but you do not want be deemed criminals by an overly zealous authoritarian regime. Ok, so maybe your mom and grandma wouldn’t do serious jail time. Maybe some “re-education” camp for the old folks. Common Sense Camp in iron letters over the entry gate. Re-education work camps are quite popular in some parts of the world.
I live near Ferguson,  Missouri. I have seen how outright media lies and a radical government agenda can set an American city on fire. I have seen rioters (aka protesters) loot , burn, and threaten the innocent.
 I truly wish this horrid plague does not drive us further into anarchy .
I don't mean to bust your b#lls on this thread. Just trying to show what’s missing in biased news propaganda. God Bless you for taking care of your mom and grandmother, I wish mine were still around.

To my knowledge, no arrests are being made in my area for doing any of those things, and in fact quite The opposite. Churches were encouraged to have drive thru services. I have already been to purchase my spring plantings and seeds(no police involved), and at least one barber shop is opening in defiance of the DoH order to close.
These clowns were just rubbing around in each other scream spittle. Hard pass, thanks.

A friend of ours sells hay to a fellow in Michigan. When he came down to pick up a load with his truck and trailer he was stopped and fined $750.00 for trying to cross the border - unbelievable! I'm not a farmer like these guys but I'm sure he needed it to keep things going - Michigan seems to be taking this a little too far.

Dr. Rev —- all the hypothetical scenarios I used were based on actual events that folks were ‘protesting’ . From Michigan, Kentucky, Nevada , Chicago etc, people are very disturbed that some politicians and leaders are “never letting a crisis go to waste”. ( I can cite them by reference) I remember a while back when some innocent kid was falsely labeled and berated by the media as a smirking clown because some guy banged and chanted with a drum around him. I have seen first hand all hell break loose in a once peaceful community, it is almost unbelievable to wake up one day and wonder if the press or some activist has labeled you an ‘enemy’ to solely advance their agenda. I truly hope you and yours stay safe and free. I hope that we can get along despite our perspectives .

I choose to read both virus  ‘crisis’ perspectives of the reactive media spectrum by perusing MSNBC and Huffington Post then the opposite perspective of Breitbart News (or the Gateway Pundit) .  The middle ground is becoming a no-mans-land. Our local TV press is a mixture of virus case tallies (thousands infected and growing still) and sad daily death reports (slowing a bit) Not extreme, but very sad. My good friend a local physician has just come down with the virus and is in quarantine. He was working so hard for his patients that he got over stressed and exhausted. I pray for his recovery. My daughter works in law enforcement, they are being over-stressed severely. I worry so much for her because she is so accident prone. She survived many risky military missions years back , only to get badly injured on a disaster recovery mission as she exited a Blackhawk helicopter. Hit by unknown object is what her teammates kidded her her with. She gets her clumsyness  from me.

I admit I am getting itchy about getting hit with unknown objects now too .... just anxious I think . I think i will go in the basement  bunker and see if I can get my wooden steam engine working. I will try to post pics if i do.

I was just thinking, after I left the Honda plant in Greensburg In. just now...they have been running a skeleton crew for the last 3 weeks , now they have laid all those people off & there is just one bone in the skeleton left working, this plant "had" over 2,300 people employed 😨

Wow boss That's bad and getting worse . We ant been out in the world in over 35 days now but from watching the news it don't look good . But we have one good glimmer of hope if anybody can pull the economy back together I think god and trump are the best to for the job