Michigan Gov. Whitmer Faces Backlash Over Stay-At-Home Order | MSNBC

“A lot of people feeling like their liberty has been infringed upon,” reporter Rod Meloni says as protesters in Lansing, Michigan are out in full force after Gov. Whitmer extended and expanded strict social distancing rules. Aired on 4/15/2020.
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Michigan Gov. Whitmer Faces Backlash Over Stay-At-Home Order | MSNBC

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    1. @Griffin well you are wrong trump get the uneducated ones the ones that are supporting 8 kids live in a trailer park that’s trump perfect supporters

    2. Matthew Hoover The ones who sit around and collect welfare checks generally support a liberal candidate because the liberals support a welfare state. But the people in these protests are the people wanting to work. The wants who wanted jobs to come back to America….trump supporters.

    3. Like some of you Hillary Clinton loving supporters who only hate Trump voters because she lost the 2016 Presidential election? Yeah, we hated you when your Obama won 2 terms, yet we had to stomach him.

    4. @Matthew Hoover LMAO! Of course. Hillary Clinton’s word is gospel while no one found her emails she deleted.

    1. @margaret webb You sound just like D.C. let’s start a committee and will investigate. Investigate what? Miss or Mrs. Do you always drink the koolaid that those elites provide? Study about 66AD. Then you’ll really learn something.

    2. It’s a free right to work state now so why can’t you nazi union bought out minions just quit posting. Oh I forgot your precious WOMAN GOVANOR has spoken. BAAAHHHH.

    3. @Michtex Are you okay? You have such anger. If you’re scared I understand. I am scared too, but I am alive, and no amount of work can give me life

    1. @Maria Lelekis Yes, I can believe that (unfortunately–lol). Lots of people r acting like they have no common sense whatsoever. They r almost completely dependent on fed and state govs to tell them how to live. Only silver lining I’ve seen n this regard, is thank God they weren’t around n 1918, during Yellow Fever epidemic n early 1800s, and Depression Era; if they had, we may not b here today cause they woulda REALLY panicked..lol

    2. @Whicker Boy thats a very good point. You are quite right. I didnt even think of that!!
      I think of Africa. Some of the countries there like Rwanda are just exploding economically after the genocide. Now with strict measures to keep people are home I fear for their health. Africa doesnt have ANY social programs so if you people dont work they have NO way to buy food etc.. I have a friend who travels there yearly to build wells and involved in other charities. She is very concerned. This crazy reaction if continues past May i fear will result in more dead but not of this stupid virus but instead of neglect of our fellow man in the name of FEAR AND PANIC. AND you can hear their fear because all they do insult everyone( i see on these comments) with a different opinion. They feel they are morally superior and it makes them feel good. They dont have any facts except what TV tells them-all CNN amd MSN talking points not from CDC website and other medical opinions. I guarantee not one of them has taken the time to read it. Its too hard for them and maybe too complicated? Who know but one thing for sure is they are too lazy-they want to be spoonfed stories and love the manufactured realty that they believe without question. So here we are because of them following along blindly willing to report their friend, family or neighbor in the name of fear. And they will COMPLY if the governemnt chooses to lock us down like Italy did. Hopefully things are moving in a different direction and seem so but the Democrats dont want that and so the masses will follow suit. They will COMPLY and will be happy with their charity check as they sit at home staring at the boob tube. Its like a dream come true for these people. But how long will they be able to continue wirh the charity and not everyone can live off it. Everyone has different mortgages, rent and bills.

    3. @Maria Lelekis yep. Radical leftist dems and their press mouth pieces want their followers to b just like sheep—just do what they’re told and don’t think-reason for themselves. AND for those sheep to b soley dependent on their radical leftist socialist “leaders.”

    4. @Whicker Boy exactly! So easy when you can sit at home and collect a check for doing nothing. They obviously havr no dreams of anything more. So they will comply just to ger free money

  1. who said that you can’t mow your lawn? Stay at home doesn’t mean Stay indoors at all hours. You can go out on your lawn.

    1. Well why don’t you go ask the Police in Britain about that. I’m sure they’ll be happy to tell you, once you’ve gone home from an abandoned park you’re at by yourself and they come marching over to scream at you for 10 minutes.

    2. @baine1985 they came to your home to yell at you for being in the park earlier in the day…. hmmmm🤔

    1. @Joy Lee
      There you go again…
      I am so disgusted by Trump and his constant lies that I do not lie. Can’t. It’s become a sort of compulsion. I have lied in my life, but it’s been at least a year.

    2. @Joy Lee
      You, on the other hand, have lied about me now twice. You don’t even know me. Why would you do that?

    3. @Raven Stark~ Well, I’m disgusted with with the left extremist Democratic Party trying to destroy the nation with their communist ideals, and I haven’t lied longer than you.

    1. @Raven Stark Like they say, the victors get to write the history books, if the south had won, the north would have been cast in a negative light today

    2. @citizen-x
      Lol. No, slavery would still be immoral in all ways and those practicing it would still be traitors. They just would be immoral traitors that won.

    3. @Raven Stark In a nutshell? Just being a farm raised country boy. Fishing,hunting, raising animals and farming the homestead. Of course you have the radicals. If you want to talk history, let’s talk about Wounded Knee…

    4. @citizen-x
      I seriously doubt that cleared anything up for Andrew Sep or anyone else, but it was still nice to read an educated response.

    1. jose Duran its a america…. most are too fat and lazy. They have drive through everything over there…. and now… drive through demonstrations

    2. I’m not going to get out of my car to support your right to catch a deadly disease… but more power to you!

      Ps… where did you hide the keys to your front door?

    1. It has been for awhile now this protest just puts us in our houses longer now imo. Sad that they don’t realize that we were flattening the curve but this just puts more people in higher risk and then the hospitals over flowing again. SMH

    2. Michigan’s cases just went up by a 1000 for the second day in a row. On Monday, Michigan had 26,000 Covid-19 cases. Today, Michigan has 28,050+ cases. If Michigan averages 1000 new cases a day, it will have more than 65,000 Covid-19 cases by Memorial Day.

    3. David Hale Michigan is a hot spot! What do you mean? We are third in the USA and we don’t have NO WHERE near the population of New Jersey and New York!

    4. Hey…has nothing to do with pollution …NYC has so many..mass transit, international hub, sooo many people stuck in one tiny area, and been there enough to realize…none drive, everyone goes out to eat, etc. Doctors are reporting that allot of the patients are dieing from the ventilators….the pounds of pressure is crushing their lung tissue and killing them…not even from the virus. Docs are also reporting that people are dieing from other reasons…heart failure who have the disease , but report it as coronavirus…that’s the facts.

  2. Frontal lobes. Can’t live with them. Can’t live without them. Looked like a white supremacy rally

    1. Ryan Turner he didn’t lie it does look like that I mean this is America and you don’t see any other race protesting with them that’s odd usually normal protests you will find a races gather under one cause not this one it’s all the same type of people white and trump. They are bringing at police state either way

    2. @Mike G
      Me. Fine all the selfish badtards who think their service is more important than the lives of my family.

    3. Promise You It’s probably a heavily white populated area. Why can’t white people do anything without being called racist? If a lot of black people protest are they racist to?

    4. Let’s quit putting a GOP label on the protest. Seen many of the far left protests during Trump’s campaign acting like violent Nazi supremacists barricading Trump supporters access into his campaign rallies. They should talk.

  3. I live in Michigan. Just look at the selfish people. They act like this until they get that text or that phone call telling them a friend or a love has passed away. Then they wake up

    1. @ken ho That won’t be necessary. Best strategy is identify people who have it as quickly as possible. Treat them with hydroxychloroquinolone, azithromycin, and zinc supplements. Almost 100 percent of patients who receive that treatment recover fully and quickly. Quarantines are medieval science. We live in an amazing modern world. Try harder to keep up!

    2. ​@Don Francisco America can’t do that in 100 years as you know unless they have testing site at every mcdonalds drive through. Plus if it’s that easy to treat patients, all doctors and nurses in America are morons according to your statement since they let that many people die so far. They should’ve listened to your advice LOL

  4. So, I would say to all of them, “You do you, Boo.”. Just don’t come anywhere near MY house or MY family and if you or someone in YOUR family gets good and sick, don’t come crying. As wise men have said, there is no cure for stupid.

    1. James – exactly. If you live there (and not near Detroit) you’d understand … all the haters commenting are likely unaware of the true conditions.

    2. Nobody is talking about the $1000 fines they are handing out. Cops are pulling you over just for being on the road.

    3. @Nick Rumsey That’s kind of not the whole picture. People were in night clubs and basketball courts.and big gatherings even after the mandated lock down. Of course, people are stupid and fines/punishment speaks volumes. So people finally stayed home, but these Trumpers can’t even wait 1 month of strict social distancing and wait for the curve to flatten.

    1. @Alan Malcheski They say it’s a set up by Democrat. Yeah understandable. But can you explain why rest of the worlds are freaking out about this? You can’t with your brain right?

    2. @Alan Malcheski Okay so your comment really got me thinking so I’ve done some research to be sure and what do I see..? Up to 62 000 have died because of flu SINCE October 1 2019 up until April 4 2020, on the other hand 145 705 people have died because of coronavirus since it’s started so that would be about the end of december and we all know that’s just the confirmed number of deaths. Of course I could be wrong, I was just going of the numbers on official sites and worldwide counting on coronavirus straight from hospitals. If you show me the data you used or something I forgot I’ll gladly admit I was wrong and correct my mistake.

    3. Imagine when you were little you are told Santa Claus was real and when you got old know it was Fake!!!

  5. i mean i live in michigan and i personally hate staying indoors when its nice out. All i want to do is go to the skatepark with my friends but i do understand y she is doing this. She is just trying to keep us healthy

    1. @Tj Bektashi I think you misunderstood. These carriers will transmit the virus to even more ,who will cause the deaths of those leading to a need too sell the properties in question to pay the medical bills.

  6. The spread of coronavirus depends on two things:

    1)How dense the population is
    2)How dense the population is

    1. But 1 person with it coming into contact with any number of people can infect. A sacrafice now for a better tomorrow is worth it.

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