As American as apple pie, and as deadly as coronavirus laced apple pie.
Courtesy of KXAN:
Is it safe to fire up the grill this summer with the family in the backyard?
According to national trends, unless you’re gathering with family from your own household, the answer is no.
Just days ago, a Dallas man who threw a party under the belief that COVID-19 was a Democratic hoax said he regretted the decision after one family member died and 13 others tested positive.
“I cannot help but feel responsible for convincing our families it was safe to have a get-together,” Green told NBC News in a phone interview. “There’s a lot of things that I would have done differently.”
In June, another Dallas family saw 18 members fall ill with COVID-19 after a surprise birthday party.
Those infected — and hospitalized — include Ron Barbosa’s 88-year-old father, his 86-year-old mother and his sister, who is undergoing chemotherapy.
“Everybody says, ‘Oh, it’s my family. I’m going to go see my brother. I’m going to see my cousin,’ and they think that’s a safe word,” Barbosa told BuzzFeed News.
Earlier last month, in Charlotte, North Carolina, health officials say that a single family gathering was responsible for at least 40 cases of COVID-19, likely due to family members and guests who didn’t know they were already infected.
The County Public Health Director Jennifer McCracken said that family members then returned to their daily activities — before showing symptoms — and likely helped the disease spread locally.
Look everybody loves a good barbecue, myself included.
However, there is no rack of ribs, grilled burgers, or barbecued chicken breasts that are worth my life.
People need to recognize that just because they are hanging out with people that they love and trust, does not mean that any one of them, who has not been living with them since March, might not be shedding Coronavirus all over everybody.
This virus is a patient opportunist and it is just waiting for us to drop our guard so that it can claim a whole slew of new victims.
And I don’t know about everybody else but I care too much about my family members to invite them over and risk all of our lives for some burgers and hot dogs.
I would like to do follow up questioning of people who like the man in Dallas believed this is a hoax. It seems that there are some who know the virus is real yet believe it is a mild flu or less. Fox News and Limbaugh spread that misinformation routinely.
I and immediate family do not want to risk getting this virus for it is unpredictable how sick and what short or low no term complications anyone may have. We are committed to not spread it infecting anyone. Our goal is to do what we can that will hasten the country returning to some normalcy sooner than later. That includes economic recovery.
We aren’t going to hasten the country to normalcy as long as the idiot is in the WH and his supporters think it is a hoax or refuse to wear masks.
Because of trump’s ego, we are going to be fighting this for a long time, longer than if things were done properly in the beginning.
time to take our country back from this moronic minority of thugs.
True, those of us with a grasp on factual reality doing our part are effectively pushing a boulder uphill, swimming against the tide of misinformation and reckless behaviors.
I have been sick over a month with this damned virus. Dodged a bullet. Wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. It renders you helpless as you are put on oxygen. Made me realize, I control nothing.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/bank-vp-gets-booted-from-family-business-after-responding-to-obamas-eulogy-with-racist-facebook-screed/
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/cops-handcuff-4-black-children-at-gunpoint-after-pulling-over-wrong-vehicle/
ABC affiliate The Denver Channel reports the cops made an error, wrongly “matching” the license plate number of the SUV to an out-of-state license plate of a motorcycle.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8591821/Aurora-police-arrest-black-family-gunpoint-mistakenly-thinking-car-stolen.html
The incident was a case of mistaken identity after cops believed the car had been stolen because it matched the license plate number and description they were given.
They later determined they had stopped the wrong car and were actually looking for a motorcycle with the same license plate number from Montana.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/04/aurora-police-apologize-after-handcuffing-black-girls-viral-video/3288534001/
“But we must allow our officers to have discretion and to deviate from this process when different scenarios present themselves,” she said. “I have already directed my team to look at new practices and training.”
Wilson added that she has called the family to apologize and said the city will cover the cost of therapy. However, she told KMGH-TV that the stop “wasn’t a profiling incident.”
The department was already facing scrutiny following renewed interest in the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in August after he was stopped by Aurora police officers.
Police put him in a carotid hold and paramedics injected him with ketamine, a sedative. He had a heart attack and was later declared brain dead and taken off life support at a hospital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNTBi7B98OY&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR296Tp7gnZH7izIKCcVjIouTn-ySXO8qNX8V7tIZ5rECC7KXq5meFYrDp8
NEW Trump 2020 Campaign Ad!
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Tip of the hat to the great people over at The Juice Media!
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This one is pretty good too.
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-cards-ad-makeover-092503307.html
Republicans Voters against Trump took Trump’s ad and turned it against him. So much for his new Campaign manager.
My family did a family barbecue differently this year. I cooked the food, then contactlessly delivered it. We ate it together on Zoom and talked and hung out. I miss my nieces, but this was a fun way to hang out. It’s not forever, it’s just for right now.
I get flack from my family for believing science and enforcing masks around my daughter, who has asthma. But science is better than “common sense and opinion” for me.