Potential shutdowns have been shut down again by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who extended an executive order he first issued in September aimed at barring local governments from enacting business shutdowns in response to the coronavirus.

A two-page extension, issued Tuesday, said the state “continues to suffer economic harm as a result of COVID-19 related closures, exacerbating the impacts of the State of Emergency, and Floridians should not be prohibited by local governments from working or operating a business.”

The extension will remain in effect until the pandemic-induced state of emergency is lifted.

The initial order issued on Sept. 25 banned local laws that could “prevent an individual from working or from operating a business.”

The initial order forestalled any local efforts to force restaurants to operate below 50 percent indoor capacity and put the burden of proof on any local government that wanted to impose rules limiting indoor capacity of a business.

Although the September order did not ban laws requiring masks, it blocked collecting fines for violating such laws.’

DeSantis has taken a strong position against shutdowns.

“I hear people say they’ll shut down the country, and, honestly, I cringe,” DeSantis said in September, according to USA Today.

DeSantis opposed lockdowns in an October speech, according to Florida Politics.

“Biden has said if some scientist tells him to shut down he’s going to shut down the country. That would ruin millions of lives. It will cost many lives, I think we’re seeing with some of that. And it’s totally unacceptable from what we know now,” DeSantis said. “We cannot let that happen.”

“We’re not going to let them shut our schools. We’re not going to let them close our businesses. We are not going to let them shut down this country,” He added.

https://www.westernjournal.com/gov-desantis-protects-businesses-communities-extends-order-blocking-shutdowns/?ff_source=site&ff_medium=protrumpnews&ff_campaign=can

GOP flips CA 21 yesterday

✅GOP flips 13 House seats to date

✅GOP flips House seats in blue NY & CA.

✅GOP wins ALL 27 “toss-up” House races.

= A RED WAVE swept the country.

Except in KEY swing states where tens of thousands ONLY voted for Biden❓ No one is buying it.

12:52 AM · Nov 29, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/elisa1121/status/1332925318269550592

Hollywood’s “Time’s Up” organization, set up to fight sexual harassment — with Reese Witherspoon, Amy Schumer, Brie Larson and other luminaries on its board — spent the bulk of its donations on executive salaries and only a fraction on legal costs to help victims, public records show.

The organization, which is comprised of the Time’s Up Foundation and Time’s Up Now Inc., raised $3,670,219 in 2018, its founding year, but spent $1,407,032 on salaries and only $312,001 on the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund for people who have experienced sexual harassment.

Charity watchdog groups such as Charity Navigator recommend that non-profits spend 75 percent of their revenues on their mission and 25 percent on administration. Time’s Up spent 38 percent on salaries alone.

Time’s Up Now, the lobbying arm of the organization, also spent $157,155 on conferences “designed to build community and spark critical conversations about gender equity,” tax filings show. In June 2018, the group co-sponsored a retreat at the Ojai Valley Inn, a luxury resort and spa north of Los Angeles. The retreat was dominated by agents from the Creative Artists Agency, who apparently had difficulty deciding on what the core mission should be.

https://nypost.com/2020/11/28/star-studded-times-up-charities-spent-big-on-salaries-not-victims/

While Gov. Inslee has made it clear before that he does not govern what happens on tribal lands, casinos are open with reduced capacity and other restrictions. According to the Washington Indian Gaming Association website, there have been no major outbreaks linked to tribal casinos in the state. So if they’re open with gaming and dining, Ross asks, why can’t other businesses be trusted to do the same?

“Well, it’s not a matter of trust,” Inslee said. “The vast number of restauranteurs are trying to do the right thing. They’ve worked really hard at bringing hygiene, they’re cleaning their tables, they’re spreading out to the extent humanly possible. So it’s not a matter of trust.”

“It’s just that transmissions are taking place in every dining facility. We know this. This is a scientific fact,” he added.

The governor said it’s not possible to trace every outbreak or case, not only because it’s too many cases but there’s also no way of knowing who was in which restaurant at all times.

“We only do contact tracing for the employees because that’s the only people we really know who are there at that moment,” he said.

When contact tracing has been done, the number one place for outbreaks that are in non health care facilities are restaurants, Inslee explained.

“Now, that’s not a surprise because this is the place that the virus does its dirty work, which is any time we’re close to each other, unmasked, breathing on each other for an hour, hour and a half, and that’s a restaurant,” he said. “It’s also our own dining room tables, and the same thing happens when we have friends over for dinner in our own homes.”

“So this is nothing to knock restaurants,” he added. “It’s just the nature of the environment.”

https://mynorthwest.com/2332923/covid-transmission-risk-restaurants-inslee/

>>11827769

well, if biden is inaugurated and nominates hillary as secretary of defense (to satisfy her blood lust), i'd have to say that we have lost

that said, i don't believe any of this will happen, thankfully

>>11827826

yes, lying and cheating and having mockingbird media mislead the public is the norm for them

>>11827966

might be surprised to learn true identity of some of the so-called "shills"