Coronavirus Epidemic

[oldag]

If you haven't emailed Gov. Abbott lately to urge reopening Texas, probably a good time to put more heat on him.

 

[Moonpie]

So, what was the post?

yeah. this.

 

[toddnjoyce]

So, what was the post?

This is yet another example of a state or local elected official (County Sheriff) is over-reacting. The school district saw a student post an accurate update of her condition on Instagram, then called the Sheriff complaining that the student was inciting a panic.

The Sheriff believes the student (or her parents) should be in jail for exercising her First Amendment right, while a civil liberties group is sueing both the school district and the Sheriff.

ETA: the girl was tested for Coronavirus a couple of times and came back negative each time; she had some other respiratory infection that resulted in pneumonia.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

So, she posted that she was "negative", and this upset the school district?

 

[toddnjoyce]

So, she posted that she was "negative", and this upset the school district?

She posted a pic of herself in the hospital saying she was getting better. That set the school district off like a bunch of day-drinking PTA soccer moms.

 

[Vaquero]

What?!!!!

 

[toddnjoyce]

What?!!!!

You didn’t know the PTA was filled with day-drinking soccer moms?

 

[Vaquero]

You didn’t know the PTA was filled with day-drinking soccer moms?

I didn't know the Gestapo could come in your house and make you delete social media posts.
Big ol "get off my property" right there.

 

[toddnjoyce]

Here’s links to a public ABA Journal article and a public local news site article on the case. It has some differing details.

https://www.abajournal.com/news/art...rrest-teen-if-she-didnt-delete-covid-19-posts

https://wkow.com/2020/04/16/marquet...iff-who-ordered-her-to-delete-instagram-post/

Either way it’s kind of too fucked up to be acceptable.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

She posted a pic of herself in the hospital saying she was getting better. That set the school district off like a bunch of day-drinking PTA soccer moms.

Evidently I'm slow.
Someone might possibly infer that she had the virus, and be worried about their kids, or what?

ETA: Reading your last post now.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Ok, got it.
Damn.

 

[Vaquero]

That's as wrong as Biden's memory.

 

[Davetex]

That's as wrong as Biden's memory.

Stealing that

 

[Vaquero]

Stealing that

Ok. But you read it here first.

 

[Texasgordo]

Ok, got it.
Damn.

Are you sure this time?

 

[toddnjoyce]

I didn't know the Gestapo could come in your house and make you delete social media posts.
Big ol "get off my property" right there.

That’s what 458S is for. Taking AG Barr our of context, “But even in times of emergency, when reasonable and temporary restrictions are placed on rights, the First Amendment and federal statutory law prohibit discrimination...”

Had Barr started and finished there, I’d be okay with it. Instead, a whole lot of swamp got dumped on the Constitution in this statement.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/atto...nt-religious-practice-and-social-distancing-0

 

[Moonpie]

Then its time to say, Well then Deputy, you can take me to jail.

 

[Hoji]

Then its time to say, Well then Deputy, you can take me to jail.

If they keep playing tyrant games, eventually they will win tyrant prizes.

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[majormadmax]

A decade plus too late. This is where AFRICOM needed to be when it stood up; instead the strategic decision was to avoid being seen as yet another western colonizer for most of the continent.

Agreed. I was there during AFRICOM's "pregnancy," the EUCOM/J5 Maj Gen "Dutch" Remkes did his best to get the fledgling command up and on track; but it was doomed from the onset...