I’m working on a paying job deadline right now but y’all have sent me a ton and half of links about the Astroturfing going on among these former tea partiers storming state capitols.

It ain’t real. It’s probably not the Russians this time.  It’s the insane greed thirsty capitalists.  They need to get people bak to work for minimum wage.

The players look like a Trump New Year’s Eve party.

Here’s a few links to get you started.

Mother Jones

BuzzFeed News

Copied from Reddit.

As an example, right now, this is happening in Orange County, CA.

Now, here’s a screenshot of the description of the “Operation Gridlock Los Angeles” group when it was first spotted by Buzzfeed News.

Concurrently, here’s a screenshot of the description of the “Operation Gridlock Tennessee” group.

But, hey… it’s Buzzfeed News right? Cool-cool-cool-cool-cool…

Here’s a link to the group “Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine” – sitting 55,281 members deep at the time of this post.

Okay…

Now here’s a link to the group “Minnesotans Against Excessive Quarantine” – presently with 18,938 members.

Why do these groups have the exact same description? Some of these domains are registered with the same registrar and were registered on the exact same day at the same time.

Please feel free to make of this what you will.  Hopefully I’ll finish my job this evening and come see what you’ve found on your own.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantos opened all Florida beaches last night.

And then he displayed his instructional video on how to properly wear a Facemask.

Republican Governors:  proof that Trumpism is contagious.

I suspect he thought the bottom elastic was to put your feet through.

Thousands of hotels are offering lodging for weary medical personnel at deep discounts or even free.  They are doing their part in the pandemic, giving doctors and nurses a safe and clean space to rest and rejuvenate.  The White House has praised these hotels.  There’s only one notable absence though…Trump hotels.  Not ONE Trump owned or operated hotel is offering any rooms anywhere in the US.

Most of Trump’s hotels are closed or on minimal staff, and Trump is losing millions of dollars.  Could it be just a coincidence that he’s pushing to relax pandemic restrictions so he can reopen his hotels?  Of course it is.  Trump never does anything in his own interests, does he?

Sarah Gilbert, professor of virology at Oxford University gave an update in the medical journal The Lancet today.  They have started human trials and expect to have vaccinated 500 volunteers by mid-May, will then vaccinate volunteers 55 to 70 years old, then over 70.  They expect to have 5,000 volunteers vaccinated in the program, and are cooperating with researchers in other countries to begin parallel programs.  They are sharing their data to other virologists.

Gilbert says they can still have manufactured vaccines available by September, but say that is a best case scenario.  Grants have already be made to scale up manufacturing capacity.  I understand that there are 20 vaccine programs around the globe under way.

Fingers and toes crossed.

Trump is siding with the nuts who are shutting down roads and entrances to hospitals because they “want to go to work” and the Democratic Governors won’t let them.

Get this —

Oh hell, these are the people who would let Typhoid Mary work at an elementary school cafeteria.  Or let anybody who wants to say they are a doctor because, you know, buyer beware and those shining crystal market forces.