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Old 06-19-2020, 07:07 AM
 
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It is disgusting. We can have large protests in the streets but a gym gets closed down. Nice.
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:20 AM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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It is disgusting. We can have large protests in the streets but a gym gets closed down. Nice.
Yes, and logical if you think about it: Indoors (confined space, recirculated air, lots of sweat and heavy breathing, contaminated surfaces) vs. Outdoors (lots of air circulation, protesters mostly with masks). Not that I was crazy about the prospect of the latter, either.
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:26 AM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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It is disgusting. We can have large protests in the streets but a gym gets closed down. Nice.
HMMMN

What might be different. Let's see. A Constitutionionally protected right vs a regulated commercial enterprise.

Yup, having trouble figuring out a difference here.

Libertarians really need to take some classes on the Constitution.
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:27 AM
 
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Yes, and logical if you think about it: Indoors (confined space, recirculated air, lots of sweat and heavy breathing, contaminated surfaces) vs. Outdoors (lots of air circulation, protesters mostly with masks). Not that I was crazy about the prospect of the latter, either.
40 minutes tops.. vrs. 10 hours at a protest?

10 people at a time vis 2000+

Yeh logical.
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:37 AM
 
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I think it is about time you take a long and deep thought to consider whether you really want to live in Massachusetts any longer. All of your previous posts show your continued disdain for how this state is run while the vast majority of the rest of us think it is quite efficiently run compared to others. We may not agree with every policy or initiative but we are not Libertarians either. We support our government for the most part. And seriously, totalitarian? Have you ever lived in Maoist China before? Just a little sneeze and you accuse someone of giving you the flu?
OK let's get real for a moment. The state of Massachusetts is a train wreck that has been horribly mismanaged for decades now. Baker has been an underwhelming governor (which imo is pretty generous to say), but we aren't in the position to judge his response to this pandemic while we are in the midst of it. Every measure he has taken has been within the law. This knucklehead's predicament is a lost cause.
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Boston
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40 minutes tops.. vrs. 10 hours at a protest?

10 people at a time vis 2000+

Yeh logical.
40 mins tops? I was often lucky if my personal trainer let me go after 45 minutes, but usually closer to 60.

I'm honestly this close to just saying letting the people who really want to open open. The people who are the most childish about this whole lockdown (refusing to wear masks, storming state houses, etc) are many of the same at-risk morons the lockdowns were designed to protect. If they can't be bothered to protect themselves, they can sign some waivers so that they don't take up ventilators or morgues and let 'em go out and roll the dice.
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:46 AM
 
Location: Westwood, MA
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HMMMN

What might be different. Let's see. A Constitutionionally protected right vs a regulated commercial enterprise.

Yup, having trouble figuring out a difference here.

Libertarians really need to take some classes on the Constitution.
If the government can shut down your power and water, how libertarian are you to begin with?
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:46 AM
 
Location: Boston
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OK let's get real for a moment. The state of Massachusetts is a train wreck that has been horribly mismanaged for decades now. Baker has been an underwhelming governor (which imo is pretty generous to say), but we aren't in the position to judge his response to this pandemic while we are in the midst of it. Every measure he has taken has been within the law. This knucklehead's predicament is a lost cause.
I'd take a Baker over a Sam Brownback, Rick Scott, or Scott Walker or every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

I also can't think of any overwhelming governors, D or R. Underwhelming is about as good as it gets when this nation's voter base is largely made up of the apathetic, uninformed, unmotivated, and/or unintelligent.
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:53 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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The town of Oxford shut him down, not the state.
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Old 06-19-2020, 07:54 AM
 
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I'd take a Baker over a Sam Brownback, Rick Scott, or Scott Walker or every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

I also can't think of any overwhelming governors, D or R. Underwhelming is about as good as it gets when this nation's voter base is largely made up of the apathetic, uninformed, unmotivated, and/or unintelligent.
Right off the bat, Ohio's Mike DeWine. But there have been plenty of other solid governors throughout the country, past and present. Mass. has a pretty poor track record though, at least in my lifetime.
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