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Roughly half the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers found
Business Insider ^ | 5/22/2020 | Aaron Holmes

Posted on 05/23/2020 11:25:51 AM PDT by semimojo

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To: semimojo

Did they happen to do a study to see how many Twit accounts pushing to keep America in lockdown to destroy the economy and Trump are bots?


41 posted on 05/23/2020 12:14:40 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: sickoflibs
Did Cuomo really claim that?

I don't believe the CDC ordered any such thing. Could be wrong, but I'd have to see proof.

I "think" that the truth is that a lot of the existing emergency medical overflow plans, did call for moving overflow patients out of hospitals into nursing homes. And those plans may not have specifically addressed that patients with contagious disease should not be placed into the nursing homes.

But I think the evidence also shows that nursing homes tried to object. Someone at the state should have questioned the orders and intervened.

42 posted on 05/23/2020 12:18:49 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: sickoflibs

Governor Cuomo is looking ahead and doing everything he can to keep himself out of prison for thousands of counts of manslaughter. I look forward to his sentencing hearing.


43 posted on 05/23/2020 12:22:36 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: Future Snake Eater
It’s almost like deciding policy or even public sentiment by Twitter activity is a fool’s errand, but what do I know?

Until this coronavirus crisis, I thought FR was a great place to discuss policy pros and cons with logical discussions.

Now I'm just kind of aghast at the emotionally driven arguments and the embracing of every conspiracy theory that comes along, and the lack of civil discourse.

You can see the emotions in the amount of name calling.

Still I'm hoping we get back to normal when this crisis goes away.

44 posted on 05/23/2020 12:22:45 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
Until this coronavirus crisis, I thought FR was a great place to discuss policy pros and cons with logical discussions.

How do I put this diplomatically...?

It is definitely not that and hasn't been in a while.

45 posted on 05/23/2020 12:27:55 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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To: semimojo

Total BS


46 posted on 05/23/2020 12:31:13 PM PDT by caver
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To: semimojo
Researchers find that they are paid to find and that only.No more. No less. I would not believe a researcher today if they told me water would wet me.
47 posted on 05/23/2020 12:32:27 PM PDT by sport
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To: dgbrown

Especially those they have censored. If you write actual tweets, you get shadow banned. If you just collect followers, they leave you alone.


48 posted on 05/23/2020 12:34:34 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Wuli
who pays attention to Twitter for their information?

80 million Trump supporters.

49 posted on 05/23/2020 12:38:24 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (We need to reach across the aisle, extend a hand...And slap the crap out of them)
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To: semimojo

The headline is vastly overstated when it says “pushing to reopen America” when the actual article on says posters posting in threads about reopening American. I can assume that some who are posting in those threads are opposed to reopening.


50 posted on 05/23/2020 12:52:04 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: DannyTN

You sir, madam, or yet to decide, are a moron.

Now, get off my grass Karen!


51 posted on 05/23/2020 12:55:01 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: semimojo

They are all a bunch of synths.


52 posted on 05/23/2020 1:01:51 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I’m one. . And not a bot.


53 posted on 05/23/2020 1:06:08 PM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: semimojo
Remember the story in the Washington Post about three weeks ago - just as many states were planning to open-up a bit - that a "government study" predicted that by June 1st we would be seeing 200,000 new CV cases every day and 3,000 or more deaths every day. This massive upward trend was supposed to begin about May 14th. (I double-checked this story earlier today to see if I was remembering it correctly.)

Since that story came out, new cases have been trending slightly downward, and new deaths have been trending downward even more. June 1st is only nine days away.

It seems that there are forces who strongly do not want us to open up, probably to inflict as much political damage on Trump as possible. But it may backfire and harm the governors who are enforcing these extended lockdowns.
54 posted on 05/23/2020 1:14:37 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: DannyTN
Wear masks.

Why? What ever FauXi says is a lie.

There are a number of positions that I think are just out there.

Anti-maskers
Check

The masks do nothing but exacerbate the mass hysteria. There are people in professions that need and can't get the masks.

People who think the whole thing is a hoax.
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The viris is real, very contagious, but not very lethal to the general public. The Dempanic is a hoax. A Fake crisis.

People still saying it's now worse than the flu despite the death toll that occurred WITH a lock down.
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That would be the CDC, according to their very own statistics. On a positive note, the Bat-flu apparently cured "the flu" and pneumonia, as those causes of death fell to almost zero this year.

People encouraging a herd immunity approach
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All the Nazi "lockdown" did was delay it.

People refusing to acknowledge that the shut down's did do some good and gave us time to prepare.
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The hospitals were never overwhelmed, and in many places, healthcare workers found themselves unemployed.

People refusing to acknowledge court precedents and history that communities and states have the right to take actions to protect against communicable diseases.
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They probably do, but the government doesn't have the right to shut down the private sector, ESPECIALLY when it comes to interfering with interstate commerce. It's never been done before and should never happen again.

What they should have done, is pull out all the stops to protect the most vulnerable....but they didn't. Instead, they destroyed small businesses and healthy people's lives. Many in lockdown have committed suicide.

..Heads should roll.

People claiming the goverons are tyrannical...
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Tyrannical? How about war criminals.....Leaving the subways running?......Condemning the most vulnerable "assisted living" residents to a probable expedited death, by forcing the nursing homes to accept CV patients?

...when their state legislatures gave the governors the powers to do this
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I'm sure they didn't intend to give them the power to become Nazi control freaks, shutting down everything, including non-essential churches, but allowing the essential pot shops to remain open. Violating everyone's Constitutional Rights on several levels.

With a lethality rate at a fraction of a percent, we cost the private sector trillions of dollars and spent trillions more on a deliberate attack, and a major hoax, which turned out to be a minor health issue.

55 posted on 05/23/2020 1:34:26 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (We need to reach across the aisle, extend a hand...And slap the crap out of them)
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To: Bob434
Why not 99.5% are bots?

No, 99.5% is the survival rate for the Bat-flu.

56 posted on 05/23/2020 1:37:14 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (We need to reach across the aisle, extend a hand...And slap the crap out of them)
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To: sickoflibs
the CDC ordered him to move sick COVID 19 patients to his nursing homes, he didn't want to do it but Trump gave him no choice.

Well, other than the hospital ship and the Army mobil hospital in Central Park....both mostly unused.

57 posted on 05/23/2020 1:42:52 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (We need to reach across the aisle, extend a hand...And slap the crap out of them)
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To: semimojo

I’m helping to organize a rally tomorrow to reopen our county and state. Not a bot.

I live in Maryland which is deep deep blue but I live in a reddish area.

Our group wanted to invite people to grab a meal and set up their own tables in a parking lot to share the meal together.

I called the Mayor and said “So hypothetically, if a whole crowd of people bought lunch and set up tables in the parking lot, what would the city’s response be?”

His instant answer was “Nothing”

A few hours later, we were given unfettered access to the city park, pavilion, stage etc. That was their idea, not ours.

The epitome of Government of, by and for the people.

Our event is tomorrow at noon in Aberdeen Maryland if anyone wants to come along


58 posted on 05/23/2020 2:13:05 PM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Bingo!


59 posted on 05/23/2020 2:39:25 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: DannyTN
But I get that people are emotional and people are afraid for their jobs and businesses.

You sounded just like President Camacho right there.

60 posted on 05/23/2020 2:43:47 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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