😟 Rural Virginia county officials pass resolution rejecting 'tyranny' of governor's coronavirus rest

[underpants]

Rural Virginia county officials pass resolution rejecting ‘tyranny’ of governor’s coronavirus restrictions


RUSTBURG, Va. — Nearly 100 people gathered in the Campbell County Board of Supervisors chamber outside Lynchburg this week, took off their face coverings and applauded an official resolution rejecting Gov. Ralph Northam's coronavirus restrictions.

“Free people have a duty to push back against these restrictions,” County Supervisor Charlie A. Watts II said during the Tuesday night hearing. Northam’s executive orders mandating the wearing of masks during the deadly pandemic, ordering restaurants to stop serving alcohol at 10 p.m. and limiting public gatherings to 25 people or fewer are “simply not the role of government in a free society,” Watts said.

The board in this deeply red county then voted unanimously in favor of a resolution declaring Campbell a “First Amendment sanctuary” — referring to the Bill of Rights guarantee of the freedom of assembly — and ordering local authorities not to enforce the Democratic governor’s mandates.

Campbell became the first Virginia locality to pass what some call a “nullify Northam” measure, but the idea is sweeping rural governments the way the “Second Amendment sanctuary” movement against gun control spread a year ago. Nearby Bedford considered a resolution last week that would have punished officials who tried to enforce the restrictions, including withholding funding from the sheriff and ordering the arrest of state agents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-county-rejects-coronavirus-restrictions/2020/12/02/fd1ded56-33e9-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html

[secondwind]

1. What an apt name for a town so unbelievably STUPID. Maybe this is God's design... let them all get

sick or worse..... just cannot understand any of this... maybe it's something in the water, in Rustburg??

[Butterflylady]

2. Stupid people die and it's their on fault.

No pity here.

[magicarpet]

3. Drink bleach,... feel better,... then snort ammonia.

[NurseJackie]

4. Welcome to Rustburg, Virginia / EST: 1784 / POPULATION: 1̶,̶2̶7̶1̶ ZERO

[underpants]

13. 50 acres donated by Jeremiah Rust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustburg,_Virginia

See below. Very surprisingly the city of Lynchburg flipped to Biden. First time in 72 years.

[Dem2]

5. I can see these people in a few years

Asking the government for assistance to help deal with "Conona syndrome".

I wonder if these people realize that avoidance and the vaccine are much preferable to death or possibly a lifetime of side effects?

[Squinch]

6. I'm guessing they don't have their own hospital. So the closest hospital should reject

them when they come in, just as they have rejected the measures to keep them healthy.

[Botany]

7. Their brians have been eaten away

Right wing hate radio prepped them for years — it isn’t all Trump.

GREAT READ: The COVID-19 tsunami is coming, and it will be worse than most people can imagine
This story is not hyperbole. It has already happened, this spring and summer, in a number of places in the United States of America. It will happen again in the coming days. Some places won't be as bad as what’s described here; others will be worse. Regardless, we had a chance to avoid it. We could have done so with a modicum of national effort and competency.

But that chance is gone, and the price will be paid in blood.

The only question now is how much.


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/1/1999273/-The-coming-tsunami

[TEB]

8. I hope

They all wore seatbelt to and from it’s only common sense and the law.

[greenjar_01]

9. The people we're supposed to "listen to" and "understand"

You know, morons.

[underpants]

11. More Campbell County - story last month on their militias

https://dcist.com/story/20/12/03/dc-md-va-morning-news-roundup-12-04-2020/

[Tanuki]

10. This town is right outside Lynchburg, home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.

[underpants]

12. Lynchburg actually voted for Biden. Campbell County was 71% Trump

https://wset.com/news/beyond-the-podium/lynchburg-voted-blue-how-biden-won-virginia

Throughout our area, though, there are little spots of blue-- like Montgomery County, the city of Roanoke, Martinsville, Danville, Lexington and Lynchburg.

Biden picked up anywhere from about 48 to 64% of the vote in those areas.

But, the surrounding counties are a different story; President Donald J. Trump picked up 73% of the vote in Bedford County; 71% in Campbell County; and almost 70% in Pittsylvania County.



This is all pretty similar to how things went in 2016-- with one exception: Lynchburg. Lynchburg is the only district in our immediate area that flipped blue-- with Biden taking 49.3% of the vote.

[Tanuki]

15. Good for Lynchburg! 👍

[Solly Mack]

14. You know the saying "It takes all kinds"? It doesn't. Some "kinds" the world would do well without.

The saying means to not judge those different from you. I agree with that - however...

Huge difference between simply being different and being destructive.

[panader0]

16. It doesn't take all kinds---there just are all kinds.

[Solly Mack]

17. True that.

[Claire Oh Nette]

19. We'd lose WWII today...

With the onset of World War II, the Federal government found it necessary to ration food, gas, even clothing. Americans were asked to conserve on everything. Not a single person unaffected by the war, rationing meant sacrifices for all.

1942-food rationing program
1943-sugar rationing

"Red Stamp" rationing meats, fats, oils, and cheese. Ration stamps expired, too.
"Blue Stamp" rationing covered canned, bottled, frozen fruits and vegetables, dry beans, and processed soups, baby food and ketchup. Ration stamps became a kind of currency with each family being issued a "War Ration Book."

American clothing, shoes, coffee, gasoline, tires, and fuel oil was rationed, too. Also rubber. My mother was 7. She had to choose ONE doll to keep, back when dolls were made of real rubber.

We can't wear face masks. We (present company excluded) suck.

[Happy Hoosier]

20. You know what. I think requiring clothing in public is TYRANNY!!!

Whose with me!!??

[dv421]

21. +1

So are speed limits and red lights.

[underpants]

22. I'd ask this crowd about blaze orange

If they made the connection that would shut them right up at least in terms of wearing a mask.

I guess I’d missed the Right to Assemble part of their argument until now. All I heard was FREEDOM RIGHTS (generic) and TYRANNY but hadn’t heard the assemble part. Oh, okay.