Becoming the first U.S. governor to test positive for COVID-19 apparently wasn’t enough to convince the perennially mask-resistant Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) to do some reevaluation.
When Karma-19 slaps you upside the head and you still have no clue…
“you can’t pick and choose what freedoms you’re going to give people.”
Except when it comes to women’s healthcare.
Oklahoma, where the Covid comes sweeping down the drain.
Stitt told reporters on Wednesday that he didn’t believe there was “any way” he could have gotten infected at Trump’s event. Oklahoma State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Lance Frye, who was also on the press call, confirmed that the rally was too long ago for the governor to have contracted the virus directly from it.
So OK State Dept, Health Commissioner Dr. Lance Frye, have you readied your crack contact tracing team?
My bet is that it can be traced back to Trump’s poorly attended Tulsa rally, just not by direct contact.
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The incubation period is 5-14 days, but at least one person exhibited an incubation period of 27 days. The rally was on June 20th IIRC. So the correct answer is “unlikely, but possible.”
"So, if some company wants to dump toxic waste into the water table, who am I to tell them not to? I mean, it’s their freedoms that are at stake, and folks have the choice of buying the new Trumpmark bottled water from Goya, if they choose to do so. Isn’t America Great Again!?!
He’s a danger to himself and his entire state, but evidently this is what Oklahomans like to see in their leaders. Even Doug Ducey, my guv, isn’t this much of a blockhead.
CV-19: “what we got here, is a failure to communicate.”
The infection could have hopped from rally to one of his direct reports, then to him.
And that’s a wrap.
Well, nice to know those pesky anti-nudity laws are unconstitutional.
I’m gonna save a fortune on clothing.
I’ll never be without a parking spot.
I don’t want to see a mask on his stupid face, I want to see a ventilator. Then we can discuss the freedom of DNR.
And my commute at 130 mph can’t be challenged by the cops.
I’m seeing all sorts of upsides to this debate about personal freedoms.
Where have you been? Thats the GOP mantra since at least Nixon.
Sadly, yup. Had this exact argument with my brother on the family Zoom call just last week. I argued that corporations had a responsibility to society, and he categorically said “Nope”. I tried framing it as a “fiduciary duty”, I tried to argue that if you benefit from roads, security and other government services you have a responsibility to protect them, I even tried the old “corporations are people, too” but all “Nope”. You do have to obey the law, but nothing beyond what’s written down.
He lives in Ohio, works for a large corporation and Jack Welch is one of his heroes, so he quoted what Welch once reportedly told a GE staff meeting - “At the end of the month, you cash the check and the company doesn’t owe you anything else, it’s a blank slate.” A bleak view of the world, can’t wrap my brain around it, but there it is.
That was my point. Sorry @ralph_vonholst if I didn’t make that clearer.
So has anyone turned in their version of Six Degrees a Separation from COVID-19, instead of Kevin Bacon?
I was referring to Dr. Frye’s rather unnecessarily definitive statement. Given the guv’s circle of advisors and appointees, it’s highly likely that there’s a connection to the rally, even if indirect.
