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To: Joseph Silent who wrote (5311)	4/15/2020 12:15:08 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13834

Without treating a single patient field hospital to be dismantled. It is actions like these that scare the population into believe there is pandemic. This is spiking the cases of heart attacks. The news came out 5 days ago. That means it was already known this was just a drill. Washington’s field hospital to be dismantled before ever treating a patient By Stephen Sorace, Fox News April 10, 2020 \| 2:26pm By Stephen Sorace, Fox News April 10, 2020 \| 2:26pm Rows of patient beds are shown at a military field hospital at the CenturyLink Field Event Center in Seattle.AP The massive army field hospital that hundreds of troops built inside a Seattle convention center last week will be dismantled before treating a single patient. Instead, it will be redeployed to a state facing a more difficult battle against the coronavirus outbreak, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday. Nearly 300 soldiers from Fort Carson, Colo. and Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) near Tacoma, Wash., built the makeshift facility inside CenturyLink Field Event Center, normally home to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and the Seattle Sounders of the MLS, for patients who do not have COVID-19. “We requested this resource before our physical distancing strategies were fully implemented and we had considerable concerns that our hospitals would be overloaded with Covid-19 cases,” Inslee said in a press release. The facility housed 250 beds, a lab, X-ray machines, surgery facilities and an intensive care unit. But Washington’s early action to limit the spread of COVID-19 has helped the state to slow the disease’s infection rate and allowed hospitals to maintain the capacity to support a surge in patients, Inslee said. “These soldiers uprooted their lives to help Washingtonians when we needed them most,” Inslee said. “Since then, it’s become apparent that other states need them more than we do. It’s only right that we release this capability, so those states have the tools necessary to help end this nation-wide fight that we are all battling together.” He stressed this decision doesn’t mean “we are out of the woods” and pushed citizens to continue following quarantine and social distancing measures. “We have to keep our guard up and continue to stay home unless conducting essential activities to keep everyone healthy,” Inslee said. “We requested this resource before our physical distancing strategies were fully implemented and we had considerable concerns that our hospitals would be overloaded with COVID-19 cases.” “But we haven’t beat this virus yet and until we do, it has the potential to spread rapidly if we don’t continue the measures we’ve put in place,” he added. The decision comes just days after Washington returned 400 ventilators it received from the federal government so they can be used in New York and other hard-hit states. Despite these returns, Inslee assured Washingtonians the state was continuing to take steps to bolster its medical resources in the event of a surge in cases, purchasing 1,000 hospital beds and more than 900 ventilators. The state said it also finalized a lease to use the former Astria Regional Medical Center in Yakima, central Washington, to increase surge capacity with an additional 250 beds for non-COVID-19 patients. The virus has sickened more than 9,000 people in the state, killing 432 as of Thursday.

To: Joseph Silent who wrote (5311)	4/15/2020 12:18:27 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13834

Cardiac arrests spiking. I believe the people seeing and reading the scary news are prone to heart attacks.

To: Joseph Silent who wrote (5311)	4/16/2020 3:42:31 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 13834

Lockdown Backlash Builds: Protests Organized In Multiple States It’s not just happening in Michigan, it’s also building in North Carolina and Ohio. Backlash to the “lockdown” orders is coming in multiple forms in multiple states, including a “gridlock” protest against Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s overzealous “closing and banning,” the “Reopen NC” movement against North Carolina’s Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) “not warranted, nor sustainable” stay-at-home orders, and a demands by Guy Fawkes-masked protesters calling on Gov. Mike DeWine (R) to “Open Ohio.” As The Daily Wire reported Monday, Michigan’s Whitmer is under increased fire over what more than 200,000 petition signees say is her “failure,” “lies” and overreach. “Recall Governor Whitmer,” a change.org petition with over 200,000 signatures reads. “Her failure’s during the Covid-19 Corona Virus is causing more Michiganders to get sick. Closing and banning various non essential business’s and activities while leaving others open. Further promoting the pandemic. She has lied since day one with her #Fixthedamnroads which she has failed to do anything in this regards. The response to #PFAS was negligence and completely removing funding for #PureMichigan clearly shows her lack of anything positive for the State of Michigan.” Along with the recall petition, the Michigan Conservative Coalition has announced “a vehicle rally to surround the Capitol Building” scheduled for Wednesday at noon. The goal, as Fox News explains, is to “bring traffic to a gridlock in Lansing and protest the ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe’ executive order by Whitmer, a Democrat, mandating what businesses could stay home, what some businesses could sell and ordering people in her state against any gatherings – no matter the size or family ties.” “Michigan’s typical small business owners obey laws, but they may not notice the progressive agenda being pushed by our radical leftist Governor Whitmer,” said Rosanne Ponkowski, president of the organization behind the demonstration. Similar pushback has begun in North Carolina, as noted by former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson: “Now this is viral growth: a North Carolina Facebook group called #ReopenNC began last Thursday and has 21,000 members already; it is calling for a protest tomorrow. North Carolina, population 10.4 million, has 81 #COVID deaths and 331 people hospitalized.” “We are residents of North Carolina that stand for The Constitution and demand our officials Reopen NC no later than April 29, 2020,” the ReopenNC Facebook page reads. “We are losing our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy. The shutdown is not warranted, nor sustainable for our area. The vulnerable can be isolated or protected in other ways, without sacrificing our entire state economy. It’s important to note, several other states have not enacted stay at home orders.” And last week in Ohio, as noted by Fox News, “dozens of protestors carrying placards and wearing Guy Fawkes masks ignored Ohio’s social-distancing guidelines to demonstrate on steps of the state’s capital building in Columbus against Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, and his administration’s handling of the outbreak. Demonstrators held signs reading ‘Open Ohio,’ ‘Quarantine worse than virus,’ and ‘Social distancing or social conditioning. We do not consent.'” While the governors of the “locked down” states are continuing to try to keep residents from breaking social distancing mandates, Americans have lost jobs as a devastating rate. Over the course of just three weeks after much of the country went on lockdown, 17 million Americans filed for unemployment, while a recent report found that almost a third of apartment renters failed to pay rent in the first week of April.