Matt Gaetz's solution to Florida's virus surge: 'Lock up the boomers'

[turbinetree]

By Oliver Willis -July 15, 2020 1:31 PM

But younger people have increasingly contributed to COVID-19 surges, in Florida and elsewhere.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) proposed to "lock up the boomers" in response to the recent surge of COVID-19 infections in his home state of Florida.

"I think younger people are not going to stomach another lockdown," Gaetz said in a radio interview on Tuesday. "I think younger people are going to move about the country, so we've got to prepare for it."

Gaetz also leaned on discredited claims about the virus, suggesting that skyrocketing cases in the state are due to Florida having "the most robust testing system in the nation," and that travelers "coming in and out from Latin America" were impacting surges "substantially," though there is no evidence to support that.

However, there is abundant data showing that people in their 20s to 40s are increasingly testing positive for COVID-19 and transmitting it around the country, though Gaetz said there should be no expectations for this group to take virus precautions.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/matt-gaetz-florida-coronavirus-lock-up-the-boomers-house-gop-pandemic-covid-19/

I wish I could copy and paste and put this idiot in clown outfit, you know big pink nose, blue hair, orange lipstick...............

[FM123]

1. How about we lock up Matt Gaetz instead?!?

[Nevilledog]

2. I support this. But who will parent Nestor?

[FM123]

5. Who ever was really parenting him while Gaetz was pretending to do so?

[Nevilledog]

7. *snicker*

[not_the_one]

20. Gaetz was doing something, but I don't think it was "parenting".

Or...

Is THAT what they are calling it now a days?

OK, I'll go back to my corner now.

[raccoon]

3. I hate this guy. Could Dotard be his biological father? Nt

[Zambero]

14. Now that you mention it

Gaetz is beginning to resemble Junior, what with all that stubble popping up!

[Grins]

4. Not exactly a Disraeli is he?

What a diseased toad this guy is.

Why does the media even cover him with anything except derision and laughter?

[DBoon]

6. I'm sure voters in FL retirement communities must love this

[malaise]

8. Doesn't his family own senior citizen facilities?

These fuckers are evil

[FM123]

10. Yep, they were in the hospice business that took care of senior citizens

While Matt rants against boogeymen like "socialism" and "leftist" healthcare hijackers, the Gaetz family money came from a hospice company called "Vitas" that profited from Medicare and Medicaid payments. The company made the Gaetz family rich when they sold it. And later, it was sued by the Justice Department for allegedly defrauding Medicare
https://www.pnj.com/story/opinion/2019/07/20/marlette-mother-jones-kicks-open-gaetz/1761716001/

[malaise]

11. Thanks

They love looting government money - fucking thieves.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Punish boomers for youngers irresponsibility? Isn't R party the party of Personal Responsibility? nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. Go home, Matt. You're drunk. nt

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Yeah, lock up the GOP base. That'll work out well for them.

[OilemFirchen]

15. "... the most robust testing system in the nation"

Florida is twenty-first in tests per million. They are fourth below the national average.

Lying creep.

[DFW]

16. I used to have an old friend who built the most beautiful guitars imaginable

He was from Serbia, and his name was Božo.

I think the proper name for a clown these days should be Gaetz.

[keithbvadu2]

17. Certainly wouldn't want to inconvenience his 'secret son'.

Certainly wouldn't want to inconvenience his 'secret son'.

[Midnight Writer]

18. We don't need a "lockdown". We need masks, distancing, and common sense.

[mcar]

19. Does he even know where he lives?

Florida is majority boomers, including the Trump cult haven of The Villages.

Go ahead, Matty boy, try to lock those boomers up.

[Aristus]

21. So......people don't have rights after all, is that it?