Rep. Nunes gave advice about families going to a drinking Pub which can get people killed. He needs to be legally investigated .
I have known that Nunes is an idiot. But in this particular situation he hit it out of the ball park. Unless one has financial stock in a funeral home company, the advice Nunes gave below will not benefit them. And those who do have funeral home holdings would be morally bankrupt if they endorsed what Nunes said below.
We have seen Nunes endorse every bat**** crazy meme from the Trump White house, in particular in quoting verbatim Kremlin propaganda. But until recently, this was political idiotsy which would not get people killed.
What Nunes has graduated to recently doing is of a different genre. It is not a free speech issue when people yell fire in a crowded theater in order to create mayhem.
I call upon Schiff and others in the House, and Nadler and Speaker Pelosi to open a hearing on what Nunes was talking about. I.e. this is "advice" which can get people killed, and is not acceptable.
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Nunes tells Americans to ‘go to your local pub’ during COVID-19 pandemic—advice that will kill
By Hunter / Daily Kos (03/15/2020) -
March 15, 2020
Rep. Devin Nunes appeared on Fox News to, as has been his habit, again do the worst possible thing. Speaking to Fox host Maria Bartiromo, Nunes told the network’s viewers that if you’re sick, stay away from people, but “there’s a lot of concerns with the economy here, because people are scared to go out.” His advice?
“One of the things you can do, if you’re healthy you and your family, it’s a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant. Likely you can get in easily. There’s, you know, let’s not hurt the working people in this country that are relying on wages and tips to keep their small business going. […] Go to your local pub.”
This advice, if taken, is sure to kill great numbers of people.
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Maria Bartiromo agrees with Devin Nunes that now is a great time for people to go out
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We now know that the virus responsible for COVID-19 can be transmitted by people not showing symptoms of infection. We also have been seeing, in the United States, “community spread”: Infections of those with no known contact with known-infected individuals, meaning they received the virus third-hand or from touching a public surface touched by an infected individual.
This is the catastrophic case being faced now in Italy: large numbers of patients, infected by public interactions with individuals who may not have even been aware of their illness, overwhelming hospitals in such numbers that doctors cannot provide care.
Even if you are not infected, do not know anyone who is infected, believe you are in an area without infection and are young, healthy, and have no vulnerable friends or family, you are in danger of being infected and passing that infection on to countless other people you meet. That is how this virus, like the flu and other potential pandemic-causing illnesses, spread. This behavior, from the healthy, is what will cause hospitals ten days from now to be overwhelmed with patients, not insufficient precautions by the vulnerable.
Government experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci are all but pleading with Americans to stay home, regardless of health, to reduce the rate of transmission of the virus in these critical weeks. “Flattening the curve,” to spread out infections over a longer period of time, is the difference between all patients getting care and some patients being left to die due to lack of doctors, space, and supplies.
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ONCE AGAIN:
We have seen Nunes endorse every bat**** crazy meme from the Trump White house, in particular in quoting verbatim Kremlin propaganda. But until recently, this was political idiotsy which would not get people killed.
What Nunes has graduated to recently doing is of a different genre. It is not a free speech issue when people yell fire in a crowded theater in order to create mayhem.
I call upon Schiff and others in the House, and Nadler and Speaker Pelosi to open a hearing on what Nunes was talking about. I.e. this is "advice" which can get people killed, and is not acceptable.
Andrew Beckwith, PhD
tip of the iceberg of Nunes irresponsibility