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mia

(8,360 posts)
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:24 PM Apr 2020

Magats stoop to a new low.

Arizona GOP chair encourages anti-stay-at-home protesters to dress like health care workers

The chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party is encouraging people planning to protest stay-at-home orders imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic to dress like health care workers.

Recently, several health care workers around the country have worn their scrubs and medical gear to counterprotest against people calling for states to reopen against the urgings of medical experts.
Dr. Kelli Ward, a former state senator and primary care physician, tweeted on Friday that people participating in protests to end the government-imposed closures of regular business should wear scrubs and masks.

"Planning protest to #ReOpenAmerica? EVERYONE wear scrubs & masks - the media doesn't care if you are really in healthcare or not - it's the 'message' that matters," she wrote.

Ward's comments come a few days after she questioned the authenticity of a small group of health care workers in Colorado who counterprotested against people calling for the state to reopen....


https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/arizona-kelli-ward-coronavirus-protests/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1-U18gUtSTdcLAZTUo00cDjwYsupBweXd89-opvBhfDUirDm9gqWkju1A

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kairos12

(12,851 posts)
1. Yep. Dump has placed such fear in government they are paralyzed.
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:29 PM
Apr 2020

I read about this and they have no low. Pretty soon they will say caskets are filled with crisis actors.

klook

(12,153 posts)
3. Cosplay, what fun!
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 12:32 PM
Apr 2020

Why not dress as an undertaker, or the Grim Reaper? (Not Mitch McConnell, the other one.)

pwb

(11,258 posts)
8. This use to be fringe shit.
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 05:52 PM
Apr 2020

Cable news will report anything to fill the time. Networks ignore it more.

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