Florida has ordered the state Medical Examiners Commission to stop releasing the numbers of coronavirus deaths because their numbers are higher than the state’s official count.
Serious question here, spurred by the information in Rick Kitchen’s post. Is the medical examiner considered an officer of the court? If so, that order sure looks like interference with a court officer in the performance of their duties.
It is not the duty, per se, of a medical examiner to publish their findings. In some cases, autopsy records are held back or redacted for one reason or another. The report goes to whomever needs it and is not required to be made immediately available to anyone and everyone.
And in any case, this is about a sort of medical examiners’ guild – the ManyMEs, if you will – not about the actions of any individual ME.
It finally struck me what all those people screaming for the businesses to be re-opened remind me of.
In November of 1963, a few weeks before Kennedy was assassinated, the Twilight Zone ran an episode entitled “The Old Man in the Cave”, which made a deep impression on me:
Major French is played with Trumpian arrogance by James Coburn. The last scene, of Goldsmith walking through a street littered with fallen bodies, is pretty devastating.
That comparison had occurred to me as well. Along with the mayor from JAWS. And a slightly older one, the city fathers of Las Vegas in the TV movie “Night Stalker” who wouldn’t shut down the town despite the vampire running loose.
Former Individual 1 Florida campaign team leader says that the Olympics opening ceremonies in 2012 were designed to brainwash into accepting the coronavius. 2012.
Normally I would object to assigning to a group the attributes of its most extreme members (which the left gets rightly upset about when it happens to them), but Ms Ruiz is probably not that far off the baseline for a modern conservative.
Did she unpack this at all? IIRC, the 2012 Olympic opening ceremonies were mostly about James Bond* giving the Queen a zip-line ride, and Mr. Bean cheating in the Chariots of Fire marathon.
This segment (a tribute to the NHS followed by/blended with a one for British children’s literature) is what got her conspiracy brain running.
It really is a bizarre sequence, so I can see how someone who’s detached enough from reality to think that Trump was a good choice for president would come up with a spooky narrative to attach to it.
I’m assuming that “former 2016 Trump campaign Florida team leader” is a made-up, self-aggrandizing title intended to try to legitimize one idiot QAnon conspiracy loon talking to another.
A trump cat litter box. Trump dog poop bags?