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The whole point of these protests that Trump is encouraging in blue leaning states is to purposely spread the virus to wipe out the weak as a city official in California argued that the coronavirus should be allowed to kill the weak and old. To them, evidence that the virus has a dispropotionate impact on the poor, minorities and the old is a reason to encourage its spread. Afterall, this is the reason why Trump is cheer leading such protests.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-supremacists-encouraging-members-spread-coronavirus-cops-jews/story?id=69737522
In an alert obtained by ABC News, the FBIs New York office reports that "members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through bodily fluids and personal interactions."
The FBI alert, which went out on Thursday, told local police agencies that extremists want their followers to try to use spray bottles to spread bodily fluids to cops on the street. The extremists are also directing followers to spread the disease to Jews by going "any place they may be congregated, to include markets, political offices, businesses and places of worship."
The FBI declined to comment on the alert, but issued a statement saying: "FBI field offices routinely share information with their local law enforcement partners to assist in protecting the communities they serve. These products are intended to be informative in nature, and as such, they contain appropriate caveats to describe the confidence in the sourcing of information and the likelihood of the assessment. Additionally, when written at a local level, these products will note that the perspective offered may be limited to the field offices area of responsibility."
58Sunliner
(4,398 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)people they don't like, not spread it to people who are on their "team", and not be sickened or killed by it? Am I missing something here?
Turbineguy
(37,367 posts)you would really have to know a lot about how the virus works. Like know a lot more than the experts know.
Somehow I would think if you are smart enough to be an expert, you would not want to hang around with this ignorant knuckle- draggers.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Between Rush Limbaugh describing COVID-19 as no worse than a cold, and reports that the elderly and minorities are heavily hit it is no wonder that you have some right wing extremist groups wanting to promote the spread of COVID-19.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/30/antioch-city-council-calls-meeting-to-remove-outspoken-commissioner/
The Antioch City Council will have a special meeting Friday to consider booting Ken Turnage II off the Planning Commission after his controversial post on Facebook that the coronavirus should be allowed to weed out the weak, elderly, homeless and others who cant resist it.
Mayor Sean Wright called for the special session after Turnage refused his request Thursday morning to resign. The mayor cited the need for swift action in seeking the meeting, according to a city statement.
Turnage has been under fire since calling for an end to shelter-in-place orders and comparing the spread of coronavirus to a forest fire that burns off all the old trees, fallen brush and scrub-shrub sucklings that drain its resources.
In a long post on his personal Facebook page on April 23, the commission chairman drew ire and some praise for his suggestion that society should let nature take its course, allowing the weak, elderly, homeless and others to perish so the nation and planet would strengthen when this is all settled.
tulipsandroses
(5,127 posts)Hope the bomb detonates before it gets to the intended target.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Idiots. Evil, evil idiots.
dware
(12,429 posts)If they're caught doing that, they should be charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and any other charge they can stick them with.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)It will get worse without greater government intervention and punishment.
I suspect this will happen:
1. It will morph into general anti-liberal hate.
2. Liberals will be associated with wearing masks and social distancing in public.
3. The bullies will try to remove those masks and cough/spit in faces.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Right.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,907 posts)Cops!?!?!? - Is Trump disavowing/condemning this?
Or are they 'very good/fine people'?
Behind the Aegis
(53,987 posts)Sadly, until something big happens, few ever seem to notice; except us. I read a number of Jewish papers and sites. Our people are being warned with reopenings to be cautious as there are those who blame us for the virus, those who claim we are controlling it, Israel is behind it, therefore anti-Semitic actions against any Jew is acceptable as it is not "real" anti-Semitism (not just a right-wing thought, either), and those who plan to target us en masse.
FreeState
(10,580 posts)The haters are out in force and empowered by Trump.
https://mobile.twitter.com/tgilliesADL/status/1257003111371075584?s=20
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Dont know which angers me more - the person wearing this or the fact that no one in management
@Vons
Santee did anything about it.
@ADL_SD
would be happy to educate your team. San Diego is #NoPlaceForHate