Where are all the gas price threads?

Pelosi infamously got her hair done during shutdown in 2020. Who was president in 2020?

 

FAKE NEWS GRAPH. The whole world shutdown for far more time when crappy pants took office. States had to defy federal agencies to reopen. Agencies that Biden let run the covid-19 economy. Look up his plan for civid-19... it's all there how he let his agencies run the whole covid-19 clown show. Whatever crazy dictate they came up with Biden let them implement it.

Trump never ordered any federal mandates... shutdowns. Your graph is a pathetic lie...

 

Back to gas prices for a moment: Pubs can't help it - and I say pubs, not maga, because they did the same thing in 2012. They pulled up the low price of gas in GWB's last year and put it next to the then-current price under Obama and tried to make it reflect poorly on Obama.

Of course, they didn't mention that the previous election year's low price was due to the Great Recession when the Dow lost half it's value. It's not that the propagandists didn't know or had forgotten, they just didn't have any integrity nor did they expect their target audience to have any thinking skills, critical or otherwise.

They were right and you can read through this thread and see not much has changed in the last 12 years (if anything, it's gotten worse).

 

Spring of 2020. I remember it well. Biden was a private citizen. How does a private citizen shut the country down?
Biden was a private citizen until January 20, 2021. Almost a year after the lockdowns started. More maga alternative facts?

 

Sometimes I try to convince myself that the far right and their detachment from reality is just trolling. But I've talked to many of them in person, and they seem to genuinely believe the false things they say.

When we can't agree on reality, how can we possibly make progress on fixing the problems America faces?

 

Go back and read the articles to find out... You obviously missed it when it happened.

 

Biden gave his agencies the authority to do whatever they suggested and they shut the nation down... Remember how many shipping containers were in the Pacific coastal waters becasue California was closed for business? Remember Georgia defied these agencies and opened on their own and then DeSantis opened up the Florida beaches.

 

Yes, I remember how DeSantis opened up the Florida beaches in 2020. Who was president then?

 

LMFAO! Our economy never looked like that during Biden's time in the WH. I'll bet real money we've actually gone into a negative and the "FRED" is lying. Look at all the economic revisions DOWNWARD... That graph is an insult to reality.

 

Is Biden still not letting European tennis players come into the U.S.A., becasue they haven't been vaccinated?

Yeah, Biden mandated clot shots...

 

Fish in a barrel:
Anyone with access to a search engine can verify when the lockdowns started.


Statewide COVID‐19 Stay‐at‐Home Orders and Population Mobility in the United States
Grant D. Jacobsen* and Kathryn H. Jacobsen*
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Abstract
Many jurisdictions enacted stay‐at‐home orders (also called shelter‐in‐place orders, safer‐at‐home orders, or lockdowns) when SARS‐CoV‐2 began spreading in the United States. Based on Google mobility data, every state had substantially fewer visits to transit stations, retail and recreation facilities, workplaces, grocery stores, and pharmacies by the end of March 2020 than in the previous two months. The mean decrease in visitation rates across destination categories was about 30 percent in states without stay‐at‐home orders and 40 percent in states with stay‐at‐home orders. Similarly, there were fewer routing requests received by Apple in large cities for public transportation, walking, and driving, with a 10 percentage point greater mean reduction in metropolitan areas under statewide stay‐at‐home orders. The pandemic led to large decreases in mobility even in states without legal restrictions on travel, but statewide orders were effective public health policy tools for reducing human movement below the level achieved through voluntary behavior change.

Keywords: coronavirus, transportation, health behavior
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Introduction
The public health measures used to prevent and control the transmission of infectious diseases include a variety of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). For contagious infections, one of the most valuable NPIs is limiting the number of contacts between potentially infected individuals and those who might be susceptible to the pathogen. During an epidemic or a pandemic of an infectious disease, public health prevention and control interventions may include restrictions on local and international travel and trade (Jacobsen, 2018). Some forms of “social distancing” or “physical distancing” may be voluntary, but others may be mandated by governments and enforceable by law.

One way to reduce contacts is to separate infectious individuals from the general population. Measures used to prevent individuals who have a confirmed diagnosis of an infectious disease from infecting caregivers, other health‐care staff, and other patients have typically been described as isolation (Wilder‐Smith & Freedman, 2020). Isolation protocols in hospitals may require patients to be treated in negative pressure rooms, and personnel who enter the treatment room may need to wear full protective gear, including gloves, gowns, eye protection, and face masks or shields.

A second option is to restrict the movements of apparently healthy contacts of infected individuals so that those individuals will not be at risk of infecting others if there is a period of contagiousness before the onset of symptoms. This approach is generally referred to as quarantine, and it typically involves healthy contacts of infected individuals being required to stay away from others until they become ill (at which time they may be considered to be under isolation rather than being quarantined) or enough time has passed that there is no risk that they are contagious even in the absence of symptoms (Parmet & Sinha, 2020). Quarantine is usually applied to primary contacts, defined as individuals who are known to have had contact with a case. Quarantine may also be applied to secondary contacts, who are individuals known to have had contact with a primary contact of a case. Quarantine often occurs at home, but it is also legal to confine quarantined individuals at another location. Quarantine measures imposed inequitably, without transparency, or for longer than strictly necessary may raise ethical concerns about human rights violations (Passaro, 2018; Wynia, 2007).

The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic required a rethinking of the options for controlling the spread of a pathogen within borders and across borders (Cohen & Kupferschmidt, 2020). China banned travel out of heavily affected cities and implemented lockdowns on millions of residents (Fang, Wang, & Yang, 2020; Kraemer et al., 2020), Italy implemented quarantines in a few towns in the north before expanding those restrictions nationwide (Paterlini, 2020), and other countries also moved quickly to identify the options for slowing the rate of new infections, whether through national edicts or locally imposed rules.

Isolation and quarantine measures typically are applied to just a few patients and the few individuals who may have had contact with those patients, and it is unusual to quarantine an entire neighborhood or town. Because implementation of widespread restrictions on movement in response to a pandemic has historically been rare (Barbisch, Koenig, & Shih, 2015), there were few examples of large‐scale mobility limitations to draw on when the novel coronavirus emerged. There was also limited evidence of whether such measures would be acceptable to the public and whether the proportion of the population in areas under movement restriction orders who strictly adhered to the required behavior changes would be sufficient to significantly reduce the transmission rate.

In the United States, the first coronavirus‐related activity restrictions were issued on March 12, 2020, when a community within New Rochelle, New York, was declared to be a “containment area.” A traditional quarantine order would require individuals presumed to be exposed to stay at home. This containment order was not intended to limit individual movement. Instead, it mandated the closure of schools and large gathering places within the zone, including religious buildings (Chappell, 2020). Residents were allowed to enter and leave the containment zone, but they were not allowed to gather in large groups within the designated geographic area.

On March 16, 2020, a “shelter‐in‐place” order was issued for six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area (Allday, 2020). Shelter in place was a term many Californians were familiar with due to its use during wildfires and other natural disasters, active shooter drills, and other short‐term emergency situations. In those contexts, “shelter in place” means “stay where you are,” but that was not what the COVID‐19 orders were asking residents to do. The order did not require individuals to stay where they happened to be located when the order was released. Residents were allowed to leave home for essential purposes, including food, medical care, and outdoor exercise, and people working at businesses deemed to be “essential”—such as grocery stores, hospitals, pharmacies, veterinary clinics, utilities, hardware stores, auto repair shops, funeral homes, and warehouses and distribution facilities—were allowed to continue onsite work.

Within a few weeks after the first shelter‐in‐place orders were issued in the United States there was a shift toward this type of decree generally being referred to as a stay‐at‐home order (Opam, 2020). The new language was required because stay‐at‐home orders that apply to whole nations or entire states or provinces are not traditional quarantine measures due to most individuals under the orders not being confirmed contacts of individuals with confirmed infections. Later on, some governors and mayors began using the term safer‐at‐home to describe their orders. Colloquially, the term lockdown was also used. However, as of the end of April 2020 the terminology remained unsettled and somewhat confusing.

The first statewide order in the United States that restricted mobility to reduce the transmission of coronavirus was issued by California's governor on March 19, 2020, and it required all residents to remain at home except when engaging in essential activities (Friedson, McNichols, Sabia, & Dave, 2020). This was quickly followed by statewide orders restricting nonessential travel outside the home in Illinois and New Jersey on March 21, New York on March 22, and six additional states on March 23 (Connecticut, Louisiana, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, and West Virginia).

As testing showed that local transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 was occurring in jurisdictions across the United States, local‐ and state‐issued stay‐at‐home orders became increasingly common. Although there was no national directive mandating that states implement particular coronavirus control actions, the number of states with statewide stay‐at‐home orders increased from 9 on March 23, 2020 to 21 on March 26, 30 on March 30, and 41 on April 3 (Mervosh, Lu, & Swales, 2020).

 

How many military men and woman did Trump kick out of the military because of clot-shot mandates? That's right, not one...

Biden kicked out tens of thousands of good military personnel becasue of his FEDERAL MANDATES to force federal workers/military to take the clot shot.

 

Apologies for my lack of clarity, I'll put the question on its own line so you can't miss it this time.


Who was president when DeSantis opened up the Florida beaches in 2020?

 

What a collection of cuckoo cons we have on this board - one thinks Biden shut the country down in 2020, another thinks viruses aren’t real, one pretends to be dead and posts as his mother,…

 

And Biden still mandated the clot shot, not Trump. Biden killed millions of Americans by forcing (thoughts his agency heads) Americans to take that deadly jab... NOT TRUMP. That was on Biden.

 

LOL Rick. Facts are always your undoing. "tens of thousands". Not even close. Try less than 9000 total. If you don't follow legal orders in the military... guess what happens. Try again. LOL