The husband’s teacher wife wasn’t the creator of Airborne, was she?
OK, just stopped in, and Natural News is nuts. Took a minute to confirm I wasn’t on the website of a competitor to the Onion.
Dan
This is from the executive order that this comes from:
Discretion to utilize National Guard and State Guard members in connection with certain health care and emergency services operations. …. to serve in certain health care and emergency services roles to reduce system capacity strain resulting from COVID-19. Namely, Personnel may: (1) perform authorized diagnostic testing for COVID-19 in health care settings, including but not to limited to hospitals, emergency departments, and alternate care sites … perform authorized nursing and other functions in Facilities; and (3) operate public or privately owned, permitted ambulance service vehicles with a licensed service.
Temporary quarantine and isolation facilities may be constructed. The provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated… are hereby suspended to allow for the construction of temporary structures…
We’re talking about parts of three different sections of the governor’s executive order.
It allows appropriately trained National Guard and State Guard members to perform testing, nursing and ambulance driving if needed, to alleviate shortages of medical staff.
There is a separate section to permit construction of quarantine/isolation facilities without the need for the usual pre-construction permitting process for such facilities. The idea is to relieve strain on existing facilities that accomplish the same thing.
The third provision has to do with procedures for involuntarily committing people with serious mental disorders who may be a danger to themselves or others. Telephone assessments would be permitted as part of the process. Again, this logically addresses a shortage of staff to do in-person assessments.
Natural News, in typically deceptive and lying fashion, stitched together these elements to create the following phony scenario:
"On Friday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed Executive Order 83, which authorizes National Guard and State Guard troops to break into peoples’ homes, kidnap them at gunpoint, and take them to covid internment camps, all without any due process or respect for civil rights. Individuals can be targeted for this medical kidnapping by armed troops via “telephone assessments,” and the medical kidnapping of American citizens is being labeled “involuntary commitment” to “temporary quarantine and isolation facilities.”
“In other words, FEMA-style concentration camps are here, and covid is the excuse for mass arrests and executions of Americans.”
Natural News provided a link to the executive order itself, apparently figuring that most of its readers would be too lazy or stupid to actually read the thing and figure out that NN is lying to them about it.
I’m gonna have to go with “covid vaccination will turn you into a chimpanzee”, because I heard that yesterday and it’s early enough today I haven’t seen anybody else yet.
Yet another occasion when no snide comment seems adequate.
So…how come we haven’t seen 170,000,000 new chimps in America yet (or 1 billion worldwide)? Do they claim, “Aw, just a matter of time?”
At work (a law firm, which is full of lawyers), I was recently told in a meeting that San Francisco had decriminalized shoplifting. Apparently, you can walk into a store and take what you want and nobody will stop you, and that’s why stores are closing em masse in the city.
(And that was why the Democrat running to be the local county prosecutor - here in Florida -would be such a disaster, and why it would be a good idea to donate to her opponent’s campaign, since she was going to be getting so much George Soros money)
I mean, that’s not exactly wrong. There have been some brazenly open shopliftings in San Francisco of late because of city refusal to prosecute thefts below a certain threshold.
Except:
- theft wasn’t decriminalized. The law made thefts up to $950 a misdemeanor, but a misdemeanor could still result in up to a year in jail. Most DUIs are misdemeanors, and nobody would say that the government refuses to prosecute them.
- As your cite notes, crime rates are actually down in the area, and it’s not clear what effect this change in law may have had on theft rates.
- Although a large shoplifting ring was recently broken up, and apparently accounted for some brazen thefts, it did result in arrests, and the city didn’t ignore it.
- The best you have is, per your article, a cop complaining that the reclassification of some thefts from felony to misdemeanor may have contributed to the thefts. That’s nothing more than an opinion, one he can’t substantiate with any evidence.
And, so, I reiterate my assertion: the claim that there are liberal cities like San Francisco that are now allowing shoplifting is crazy.
“As videos of brazen retail thefts in San Francisco draw national attention, The Examiner has obtained new data showing that District Attorney Chesa Boudin is prosecuting far fewer shoplifting cases than his predecessor.”
“Prosecutors filed charges in 116 of 266 cases presented by police involving petty theft in 2020, compared to 450 of 647 cases in 2019, according to the data provided by the District Attorney’s Office.”
“On the other hand, the prosecution rate for certain organized retail theft cases remained between 81 and 84 percent under both Gascon and Boudin between 2019 and 2021.”
So if you’re an “amateur” caught shoplifting in S.F., you’re statistically likely to avoid prosecution more than half the time now.
I have a (grown adult) friend who thought sharks were fictional.
I guess there are lots of big scary animals who really are fictional, including some who show up looking pretty “realistic” in CGI form in TV and movies. And when you’re a kid, there’s always some kid who is afraid of sharks in pools and of course that’s not a real thing to worry about. And we live in Missouri, so she had never actually seen a shark in person. So I suppose it makes sense.
Well, Missouri is the ‘Show Me State’
Outside of any COVID-related nonsense, the craziest thing I’ve heard lately came from a volunteer at a dog rescue who objected to the rescue’s interest in participating in international rescues because “the dogs don’t speak English.”
Now, I know that training security and police dogs to respond to commands in a foreign language is a thing, but I hardly think a rescued dog should be considered a lost cause because it doesn’t respond to English. I don’t see how this is any different than any of the countless adult dogs that have been taken in with no apparent knowledge of even basic commands. (In any case, it’s a non-issue at this point due to the ban on importing dogs from certain countries.)
I guess the craziest thing I’ve heard lately is people think that vaccines are a lot less safe than treating covid with animal dewormer.
I had a former coworker, Liz, return from a fabulous Italian vacation about 15 years ago. About halfway through telling us all about it, Liz asked “Did you guys know that storks are real??” We all gave her puzzled looks and said yes, we knew they were real. Liz didn’t. Apparently she’d been told as a child that storks don’t really deliver babies and got the impression that was because storks are fictional…and continued to believe it into her 50s, until she saw one on vacation.
Of course storks deliver babies.
Years ago I was outside with a co-worker while it was snowing. I was catching snowflakes on my sleeve to have a look at them because, you know, snowflakes are very cool. She looked at some and exclaimed “that’s what they really look like?!”. Uh, yeah. She thought someone had just made up a symbol to represent them. 
You should have said, “Only that one.”
Strap in folks. This is happening at the Lincoln Memorial as we speak:
They are about to blow the lid off this entire UFO/ET thing that the government has kept a secret from us.
It’s happening LIVE folks!:
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