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<p>You can't fix stupid....</p>
<p>Debi R-S<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/17/2020 4:32 PM, Moscow Cares
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stay-at-home order at Capitol protest</span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More
than 1,000 protesters gathered at the Idaho Statehouse
Friday afternoon in defiance of Gov. Brad Little’s extension
of the statewide stay-at-home order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Little announced Wednesday
that the order would extend to the end of April in the
effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, although he
lightened some restrictions so nonessential businesses could
begin providing curbside service. Still, the news was met
with derision by some members of the far-right in Idaho, and
some libertarian, gun-rights and anti-vaccine organizations
began directing members to defy the order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Idaho Freedom
Foundation, a libertarian think tank and lobbying group,
emblazoned its social media feeds with “Disobey Idaho”
graphics and announced that it would host Friday’s rally
along with Health Freedom Idaho and the Idaho Second
Amendment Alliance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I can’t get a haircut, but
by golly I was able to walk into Pet Smart this morning and
get my dog a grooming appointment. It defies logic,” said
Wayne Hoffman, president of the Idaho Freedom Foundation.
“The damage that’s being done to the individuals, to
businesses and the economy is horrific.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hoffman said the governor
should allow all businesses to open to give owners a chance
to demonstrate that they can take appropriate steps to
mitigate the risk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I worry that if we don’t
adapt our approach that we will continue to battle COVID-19
in incremental ways for weeks, months and years to come,”
Hoffman said. “It’s like a lot of other variables that you
have to deal with in the world -- people with all kinds of
ailments come to your doors.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
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font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Most at the protest were
standing shoulder-to-shoulder and not wearing masks. Some
carried signs claiming the coronavirus is a hoax, while
others held signs with slogans like, “All workers are
essential” and “Freedom not fear.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The effect of the
coronavirus on the economy has been dire. In Idaho, nearly
96,000 people have filed for unemployment since Little first
declared a state of emergency on March 13. That's far more
than the number of claims filed in Idaho during all of 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Similar protests have been
held across the country, with groups pushing back against
stay-at-home orders in places like Michigan, Texas and
Virginia. Dozens circled Oregon’s state Capitol in their
vehicles Friday to protest that state’s stay-at-home order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In the southern Utah city
of St. George, several dozen people protested Wednesday to
show their displeasure with the closure of businesses.
Organizer Larry Meyers said the event was to assert
“God-given, constitutionally-protected rights,” the Spectrum
newspaper reported.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Protests were also planned
for the weekend in Salt Lake City and Helena, Montana.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The debate is not likely to
end soon, with some health experts warning that returning to
normal activity too early could lead to a resurgence of the
virus. Meanwhile, tempers -- and rhetoric -- is escalating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In northern Idaho,
Republican state Rep. Heather Scott referred to the governor
as “Little Hitler” and compared the stay-at-home orders to
Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I mean, that’s no
different than Nazi Germany, where you had government
telling people, ‘You are an essential worker or a
nonessential worker,’ and the nonessential workers got put
on a train,” Scott told Houston-based podcast host Jess
Fields in the interview posted online Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Local human rights
advocates called Scott’s remarks offensive, The
Spokesman-Review reported.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Mass murder and genocide
is not the same thing as deciding which businesses should
essentially stay open and which should stay closed,” Rabbi
Tamar Malino of Spokane’s Temple Beth Shalom said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">More than 1,600 Idaho
residents have COVID-19, according to a tally by Johns
Hopkins University. At least 41 Idahoans have died.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">For most people, the
coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever
and cough, that clear up in two to three weeks. But it can
cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death
for some people, especially older adults and people with
existing health problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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