This tells me one of 2 things is true, but not both:
1. Broly is lying.
2. All those news articles are just being sensationalists and misleading the public.
One of those 2 things is correct and they are mutually exclusive. I have a massive list of coworkers living in Texas. I can ask them. Or I can look up the Governor's executive orders.
I'll be back, later, to confirm the news articles or confirm Broly.
Co-founder of ReOpen Maryland Has COVID-19
A co-founder of the ReOpen Maryland movement has said on social media that he tested positive for coronavirus this week but won’t work with public health officials trying to track the spread of the pandemic.
Tim Walters, a two-time Republican candidate for the General Assembly from Linthicum, said in a series of Facebook videos starting Tuesday that he has come down with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
"I was diagnosed yesterday at the ER with COVID-19 and here I am months after not wearing a mask at rallies, churches, and so on, and so it's funny how capricious this thing is," he said.
Walters helped organize ReOpen Maryland protests in Annapolis, on the Eastern Shore and elsewhere in Maryland to challenge state and local measures put in place by Governor Larry Hogan to slow the spread of the virus.
In the first of what Walters described as a series of planned daily videos about his illness, he described himself as a 53-year-old man with diabetes who hasn't maintained good health habits since he left the Navy.
He said he has had a dry cough since March, that in recent days has worsened and expanded to include a headache, fever, and loss of focus in one eye.
Walters urged people who have come in contact with him in the past two weeks to pay attention to the symptoms he described, but he said he would not provide any information to public health officials trying to trace the spread of the disease.
Anne Arundel County Health Office Nilesh Kalyanaraman has described contact tracing as the most effective tool public health officials have in slowing the spread of the virus.
By retracing the steps of people who are confirmed positive, contact tracing becomes key for containing the deadly coronavirus' spread and lowering hospitalization rates. It's a routine procedure that epidemiologists and infectious disease detectives have done for decades, but tracking coronavirus requires an unprecedented intensity compared with other infectious diseases.
Walters is having none of it.
"I will not share anybody's information with the government. I will not do it," he said.
In a second video posted Wednesday, Walters said he had been contacted by the state contact tracing team, and decided to have his wife and members of his family tested. In the third video Friday, Walters said he was feeling better and considered his illness a spiritual challenge as he starts his own church that provided non-believers a chance to criticize Christians.
"No one ever got sick at any of our rallies, to include me! Start a church, and I get sick," he said. "I got it because Satan deemed to get it. Because he wanted to quiet my work. To slow down the building of a church. That's what this is about. But the world won't see that. Why? Because they live behind a veil. They choose to live behind a veil. They choose to hate God."
Numbers released Thursday morning show the county now has 4,985 confirmed cases and 193 deaths. An additional nine people may have died from the disease, but a lab test was never performed.
Across Maryland, at least 603,597 tests have been conducted, an increase of more than 11,000 in the past 24 hours, bringing the statewide rate of positive cases to 5.05%. Anne Arundel's rate of positive cases is 3.88%.
Statewide, 511 people are currently hospitalized, with 209 patients in the ICU and 302 patients in acute care.
Originally posted by dadudemon
This tells me one of 2 things is true, but not both:1. Broly is lying.
2. All those news articles are just being sensationalists and misleading the public.One of those 2 things is correct and they are mutually exclusive. I have a massive list of coworkers living in Texas. I can ask them. Or I can look up the Governor's executive orders.
I'll be back, later, to confirm the news articles or confirm Broly.
Broly was telling the truth.
This is actually what happened in Texas (got it in an e-mail today, at work, because a significant portion of our company is in Texas):
"Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas bars to close again and restaurants to reduce to 50% occupancy as coronavirus spreads"
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/texas-bars-restaurants-coronavirus-greg-abbott/
I lol'd at this guy but I get his point:
Originally posted by dadudemon
I lol'd at this guy but I get his point:
I laughed, but he shouldn't have stormed off. Would have been nice to see them answer. Especially about the doctor who for months was against mask wearing.
Semantics Texas bars are s
Originally posted by dadudemonA bit more to it than just bars and restaurants they've pretty much gone back from phase 2 to phase 1 reopening as the Guardian said.
Broly was telling the truth.This is actually what happened in Texas (got it in an e-mail today, at work, because a significant portion of our company is in Texas):
"Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas bars to close again and restaurants to reduce to 50% occupancy as coronavirus spreads"
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/texas-bars-restaurants-coronavirus-greg-abbott/
Broly wasn't lying I suspect, probably didn't understand. Don't know if you are gaslighting or didn't get it either.
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Semantics Texas bars are s A bit more to it than just bars and restaurants they've pretty much gone back from phase 2 to phase 1 reopening as the Guardian said.Broly wasn't lying I suspect, probably didn't understand. Don't know if you are gaslighting or didn't get it either.
Pausing the reopening efforts is not locking down. Almost every aspect of Texas was re-opened which is why Broly was confused by your news story.
Here's the actual truth and here is Governor Abbott's executive order:
Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the State of Texas will pause any further phases to open Texas as the state responds to the recent increase in positive COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Businesses that are permitted to open under the previous phases can continue to operate at the designated occupancy levels and under the minimum standard health protocols provided by the Texas Department of State Health Services.“As we experience an increase in both positive COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, we are focused on strategies that slow the spread of this virus while also allowing Texans to continue earning a paycheck to support their families,” said Governor Abbott. “The last thing we want to do as a state is go backwards and close down businesses. This temporary pause will help our state corral the spread until we can safely enter the next phase of opening our state for business. I ask all Texans to do their part to slow the spread of COVID-19 by wearing a mask, washing their hands regularly, and socially distancing from others. The more that we all follow these guidelines, the safer our state will be and the more we can open up Texas for business.”
Including the Formal Executive Order Sheet:
https://twitter.com/GovAbbott/status/1276519120914337793?s=20
This is also why my coworkers in Texas were confused by reports of Texas "locking down" again. It's not true and that's not the story. It is a halting of the phased re-opening with a closure of bars and water rafting/tubing places. Also, re-limiting restaurants. And gatherings of 100 or more people must be approved. Everything is still the same. All those other re-opened places are still opened.
Amazing how going straight to the source of truth changes things from scary to "oh, well...this doesn't seem like much." Right?
Originally posted by dadudemonDisagree, pausing reopening And returning to previous protocols is a reversal. You can play semantics all you want.
Pausing the reopening efforts is not locking down. Almost every aspect of Texas was re-opened which is why Broly was confused by your news story.Here's the actual truth and here is Governor Abbott's executive order:
Including the Formal Executive Order Sheet:
https://twitter.com/GovAbbott/status/1276519120914337793?s=20
This is also why my coworkers in Texas were confused by reports of Texas "locking down" again. It's not true and that's not the story. It is a halting of the phased re-opening with a closure of bars and water rafting/tubing places. Also, re-limiting restaurants. And gatherings of 100 or more people must be approved. Everything is still the same. All those other re-opened places are still opened.
Amazing how going straight to the source of truth changes things from scary to "oh, well...this doesn't seem like much." Right?
Originally posted by dadudemon
Broly was telling the truth.This is actually what happened in Texas (got it in an e-mail today, at work, because a significant portion of our company is in Texas):
"Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas bars to close again and restaurants to reduce to 50% occupancy as coronavirus spreads"
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/texas-bars-restaurants-coronavirus-greg-abbott/
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Originally posted by dadudemon
Broly was telling the truth.This is actually what happened in Texas (got it in an e-mail today, at work, because a significant portion of our company is in Texas):
"Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas bars to close again and restaurants to reduce to 50% occupancy as coronavirus spreads"
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/texas-bars-restaurants-coronavirus-greg-abbott/
Whirly did his best to hide the dates of his "source" knowing that Abbots order came a day after I made that post. He likes to lie and misrepresent whenever he can