Jackson Jambalaya

Yes! Get 'em Tate!

Gunn and Delbert didn't bother to show up to work until there was money to get their hands on!

Tate schooling Delbert on the rules of the Senate!

Hell yeah!

You can even eat with your mask on if you cut a hole in it!

Tate is a bumbling mess. Gunn BITCHED SLAPPED him today. How quick did Tate forget the power that the office he just left had?

He is in way over his head and it is showing.

The deep cleaning is useless. The dining areas have been closed for weeks and the virus simply can't survive that long on any surface. Regardless, the current estimate is one out of every 200 people in the state is infected right now with many not showing symptoms even though they are shedding the virus. It is inevitable the dining area will be unknowingly contaminated within a couple of days. Unless there will be deep cleaning each and every day then doing nothing more than what the restaurants will be required to do nightly will be just as effective.

This is ridiculous. Restaurants can open but not barbershops, hair salons and I assume gyms, even though not mentioned. Again doing what the Admin expert Birx wants. I know she suggests, but it is taken as an order.

Shouldn't Gunn be more worried about putting the wrong party in charge of House committees?

I just hope gov tater tot doesn’t panic and shut everything down again once we see an increase. Which we will. We didn’t shut the country down over any other previous flu or pandemic. Just have to tough it out. Unfortunately we as Americans are pretty spoiled and don’t really know what tough means anymore.

Friday: 400 new cases. We're not ready to open.
Monday: We did it! We beat this thing!

I get that we've got to begin a slow reopening, but arguing on Friday that it needs to be delayed, and then changing tactics on Monday doesn't make much sense.

Homemade cloth masks with gaps between fibers of 30-90 microns will not stop a virus that is 0.13 microns.

Gatherings outside not more than 20 people? What if it’s in a stadium that can seat 10,000 people?

Morons!

tate called out the leg for doing exactly what they're doing- POWER GRAB. good for the guv

Following up with 2:58: what about the GYMS?!? Some of us have beach bodies to maintain, and the home gym and home workout stuff is getting old.

How is a salon different from a restaurant where the server touches the utensils and cups that have been in contact with the diner's mouth?

Deep cleaning..... they can’t even be bothered to clean the ice cream machine.

It says gatherings are limited to a maximum of 10 people for indoor activities.

If I choose to invite 15 people to the house that I f***ing own, then I will freely do so. Those 15 people (as free people) will have the opportunity to decline or accept said invitation. If more than 10 show up (of their own free will), I will have my indoor activity. And no two-bit mayor, governor, or police will stop me. If you didn't hear what I just said, I will be happy to repeat it for you. NO piss-ass government bureaucrat will stop me!

These morons are crazy. This communism has to end. And by-damn it will end if one of these guys shows up at my house. Bring it on brother.

@3:54 PM Yup, I bet you believe in them QAnon adrenachrome trafficking tunnels too.

Dang commuh-nists. Well, if you ever have 15 friends that aren't all inflatable or imaginary, please party on, hero.

3:10, wrong. "We didn’t shut the country down over any other previous flu or pandemic."

St. Louis (a successful effort): When a flu outbreak at a nearby military barracks first spread into the St. Louis civilian population, Starkloff wasted no time closing the schools, shuttering movie theaters and pool halls, and banning all public gatherings. There was pushback from business owners, but Starkloff and the mayor held their ground. When infections swelled as expected, thousands of sick residents were treated at home by a network of volunteer nurses.

Dehner says that because of these precautions, St. Louis public health officials were able to “flatten the curve” and keep the flu epidemic from exploding overnight as it did in Philadelphia.

“It’s that crush of new cases in such a short period of time that completely overwhelms a city’s capacity,” says Dehner. “That magnifies whatever problems you’re already having.”

According to a 2007 analysis of Spanish flu death records, the peak mortality rate in St. Louis was only one-eighth of Philadelphia’s death rate at its worst. That’s not to say that St. Louis survived the epidemic unharmed. Dehner says the midwestern city was hit particularly hard by the third wave of the Spanish flu which returned in the late winter and spring of 1919."

3000 extra deaths a day predicted for us for May. That's a rate of MILLION a year, or about 10 Times the rate of US deaths in World War II.

The Tea Tards are some damn ignorant, anti science and dangerous fools. But, yeah, run out and party. Don't let the "GubMint" "make" you wear a mask.

Don't be FreeDumb.

" Bars and bar areas that do no offer food services are to remain closed" .

Why ?

If they follow the same safety protocol as food service areas, what's the difference between drinking a cold beer six feet away from another customer than eating a hamburger within the same distance ?

What about the millions in "Administrative Fees" that Tater put in his RFP and is trying to funnel to a politically connected law firm???

Some dining establishments are in deep doo doo if they have to sanitize and clean up the place. Is the health department inspector going to monitor this? They won't even fail repetitive violators of the current standards.

Ha. If you think Tater schooled Delbert and Gunner, you're delusional. All he did was whine to the public through the camera. He knows he's not got a snowball's chance of getting his fat little fingers of a dime of that money, unless the legislature gives some of it to him for discretionary spending.

I wasn't a Tate supporter during the election, but if my choices are the Leg or Tate for help for the people of MS, give me Reeves any day.

Getting your people back to work , before the peak, before the two week decline. Putting our health and well being and our families health and well being at a 70% risk of transmission. Thanks Tater! "just doesn't work in states like ours". First quarter and you're lookin like a chump .

Noted absence of any requirements on healthcare providers. When do patients count? Where are the requirements to protect patients from doctors?

What happened to “ my body; my choice”? Guess it is like “ believe all women””.
If you are old, fat, diabetic or suffer from any other co morbidities, please stay home.

4:42, where did you get the 70% transmission figure and what does it mean?

" What happened to “ my body; my choice” ?

Very simple 4:59.

No body cares what you do to your body. But this time that's an asinine argument.
What you do to your body has the potential to affect my body and thousands of other bodies.

My company developed a germicidal spray that both the CDC and EPA declared is effective in eliminating SARS-CoVid19 from surfaces. Many local restaurants are now using this product on a daily basis. I would know since I am the one who delivers the product and shows them how to use it most effectively. Regardless, I think restaurants should open back up (at full capacity). Call me crazy, but I’m sick of living in fear. I get that there are elderly folks and people who are at-risk. By all means, they should feel free to stay at home. Nevertheless, the chance of healthier folks, such as myself (a 23 y/o male), becoming severely ill from this virus are next to none. I have a higher likelihood of being shot or stabbed than I do of dying from CoVid19. There is a greater chance of people like me dying from the flu than this virus. It’s time to get real, folks. The economy needs to be opened back up as of 2 weeks ago. Cheers.

P.S. I welcome the hate coming my way. It’s fresh air for these young lungs

I'm all for wearing a mask, but can someone tell where I can buy one ?

And please don't send some goofy video about how I can make one.

I'm a old man in relatively good health.

I can break down any weapon and give instructions about how one can clean it.
But I don't know the first thing about a damn sewing machine.

Just because the governor has a hair style that needs cutting twice a year doesn't mean he should prevent people who need a haircut every 3-4 weeks from making their own decision. If I can survive Dollar Tree I'm ok at my barber.

@4:59pm - “If you are old, fat, diabetic or suffer from any other co morbidities, please stay home.”

So 90% of Mississippi should stay at home. Gotcha. Glad we agree.

So why are people wearing corona maxks while they are driving? And while they are walking without anyone near?

KF
You need to post Gunn’s letter ASAP

Not only a mask...where can one buy disposable surgical gloves in boxes of, say, 100? I see rubber gloves for sale that I'd call 'oven cleaning' type gloves. But you sure as hell would not intend to dispose of them after every use.

Tate schooling Delbert on the rules of the Senate!

How so? Tate didn't 'school' anybody. He simply set aside half the presser to state his wishes, pandering to the public for whatever good he thought that would do...none.

It's not the governor's prerogative to distribute state money. Nope, not even if Haley DID do it. It's neither in the law nor the state constitution. Oh, but it's been declared an emergency by the man who wants the money. Nope. Not in the law nor the constitution.

Lincoln had legislators jailed. Maybe Tate will do that.

Tate's just doing his best with the hand that was dealt him. There was a complete failure by this administration to prepare or respond to the pandemic, Congress took care of the hand$ that feed it and left most of us out in the cold - on purpose - so we'd fight to "reopen the economy" and keep making money for the billionaires, and he's got a state full of idiots to deal with who didn't have two nickels to rub together on a good day clamoring for a Revolution because they can't reliably source all you can eat catfish buffets. It's no wonder he's finally thrown his hands up and said "F- it."

“Your body, your choice”..oh of course!!! Unless you’re a woman. Then it’s back to “Every life is precious”

These steps are reasonable even if they are a little premature. Trump himself says we need 2 weeks of declining infections and the ability to test and contact trace before proceeding to phase 1, but our infections are steady or even increasing based on hospitalizations and ICU/vent usage. We are still in the middle of community transmission.

I pray Tater gives it a rest after this until we get the data as to how it is affecting the infection rate, which will take the better part of May. The young and healthy who care not one bit for anyone but themselves will likely transmit it widely in the first couple of weeks, but then we will start to see the secondary transmissions as older at-risk victims start turning up at the hospital after little Johnny infects his parents or grandparents.

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm generally in agreement with the models showing the infection rate will start doubling by June and we'll see deaths at least on the scale we did at the peak of the crisis in New York.

@6:06 PM since you are a weapons enthusiast try searching gun.deals for masks.

Most of the tactical gear, firearms, and survivalist websites are selling PPE. However, the markup is quadruple what you could buy them for back in February when I stocked up.

So masks can be found, just not cheap.

Now if the restaurants can buy food, we'll all be set.

I have a better idea, instead of using summer time to fight the virus, let's wait until it's cold and the virus travels further. Also, let's destroy our immunity system by making sure it's not getting it's exercise.

We are the smartest people in the history of mankind!

659, maybe so. But this isn't state money, its federal money. The feds 'give' it to the state, but for uses dictated and under rules dictated by the feds.

If it was state money - the term you used claiming that the Gov has no authority - then the feds couldn't put restrictions on it.

If this was the constitutional issue that Phillip and Delbert want to claim, why didn't they change the law that they claim is unconstitutional? They didn't touch it, left it in place for any other federal dollars that come our way. But this check was too big for them to pass up.

The legislature has appropriation power, no doubt. But this money was appropriated by the federal congress - now its just a spending process. You can buy into the legal jargon that Phillip is trying to sell that this is a constitutional issue, not a power grab. But - that sell job goes along with the other snake oil the legislature tries to sell - that they are 'looking out for you'.

Reeves didn't school anybody. THIS IS HOW YOU SCHOOL SOMEBODY Bet you it is a very long time before they get close to anybody, after they get out of jail, of course.

@3:54, Lighten up Francis

To 6:47 - we all know the answer to your questions - basically people are stupid. And it goes without saying that 99.9% of the people wearing masks and gloves have no idea how to properly remove them, therefore they have defeated the purpose of wearing them - assuming they have real masks.

Hurry up and reopen the damn Cracker Barrel already you terrified milenial wussies.

-Team Chaos

I voted for Bill Waller earlier. I always thought Tate Reeves seemed a bit "arrogant " so to speak. But I
really didn't know at the time or why I felt that way. . I had only viewed him in the news media and campaign ads. .
I've watched several of the daily news conferences from the Governor. Not every day. Just occasionally.
His daily "speech" of events are OK- and like any other politician, he is reading from his script.
But what I have been extremely impressed with, is his interaction with the news press conference
afterward. The media does not broadcast this part. Tate Reeves responds so positively - and with a depth of knowledge of any Mississippi politician I have ever seen . He knows what he is doing. He is under federal guidelines on expenditures for this. The legislature , is trying to power grab. Obviously some legislators are jealous of the Governor. Do we want the legislature to appropriate this money? Think about whom all of these people are - seriously. And what good has the legislature really done for Mississippi in the last 20 - 30 years. Some say, well "Tate was in charge of the legislature the past eight years" etc., but look at the people you are dealing with statewide. Really , do you trust each of them? The Mississippi State Legislature is a disaster of incompetence . That is the biggest problem our state has. One good aspect, we have a state auditor that is on a mission to end inappropriate spending.Good for us. Please connect and watch online to Tate Reeves response to the news media after the daily news press. You may change your attitude about him as I have. I never had respect for him until this awakening, and now I am thankful he is our Governor. I completely trust him . No- I am not associated with politics at all. I am self employed and started a business over 35 years ago.

The do-it-yourself hair color kits aren’t working. Just look around on you daily trip to Costco. It’s damn scary. Pleeze open up the hair salons!!!

10:44 - What are these mystery federal guidelines you speak of for expenditure of 'the money'? Assuming you're right, and the guidelines are there, is that why Tate has dispatched a question to Trump asking that he clarify just who the money is sent to (the legislature or the governor)?

5:14, no hate here! Necessity is the mother of invention. I agree the economy should have opened up already. People who have smiling and vaping habits are at risk as well as very young and very old. I caught the stuff earlier this year and had I not been healthy it could have been worse. The Chinese got us! They can’t invade us like they WISH they could or some of the foreign countries who are pissed off at us wish China would, but, this ain’t over yet. Now we have to worry about other types of attacks. This was a test to see how much damage they could do. Human wise they did some damage. Economic wise, we still don’t know what the fall out will be and I really don’t won’t to be pessimistic but I for one can’t see this getting any better. We had to change our whole lifestyle to adapt to a bat, rat, cat, snake, dog eating culture who hate us with every fiber in their bodies and basically attacked us. This is what we get for being the purse of the world and dolling our funds to everyone AND allowing those countries to come to get an education in our country and take the knowledge that we worked hard to obtain back with them. I don’t want to hear that they contribute....look what your contribution got you into. Look at 9/11 and teaching the terrorists how to take off but not land. Oh, and what about and administration that gave billions of dollars to a known terrorist nation, Iran. We will be set back 200 years and many many people will die when the Chinese take out our electrical grid and our satellites. And some of you laughed at the Space Force. You really do think we don’t need to protect our assets above us? Think about it.

When you drive down 49 to the coast, take notice of the grain trucks heading to the port. Yep....still feeding the world too! And we have massive hunger and homelessness here. Take care of this nation FIRST. Don’t like it. Get out!

What! He going to open da Restaurants, maybe Dilbert and Phil should be in charge of more than the moola.

Phil was not the whistle blower. It was one of the deputy directors.

@5:10 There's the quid pro quo right there. On Friday Tate said we were going to wait to relax the restrictions because the cases weren't declining. Sunday he's on Fox News saying he's decided to reopen. He could have waited until the normal press conference on Monday to do that, but he did it on Fox on Sunday for a reason. Now that reason is obvious. By pandering to Trump's desire to "liberate" the states even though none have met his own specific guidelines Tate is expecting Trump to slap Delbert around for him.

Tate has used Mississippi citizens as bargaining chips in his pissing contest with Delbert and is exchanging lives for political power. That's about what I would have expected.

6:09 the very young are at very little to almost zero risk from this virus. It’s important people understand that. The way we’ve treated our youth is shameful.

@5:10 am,

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Coronavirus-Relief-Fund-Guidance-for-State-Territorial-Local-and-Tribal-Governments.pdf

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Coronavirus-Relief-Fund-Frequently-Asked-Questions.pdf

Note that there were updates to the guidance YESTERDAY. Federal money, federal rules apply. What happens when the legislature decides to use the money for something the federal government then says is not allowable? And they're not in session. There's a reason you don't appropriate federal dollars and then reappropriate it by the state. Tate is right on this.

Aside from being asymptomatic carriers, younger people are also in danger from COVID-19, but in different ways. Just a couple of ways are immune systems running rampant (a "cytokine storm") and killing them, a sudden crash from extremely low oxygen levels ("2nd week crash") whereupon the low oxygen level suddenly catches up to them, and wham, they go from what seems to be a relatively mild case to crashed and dead within a very short time-frame. While it is true that they do not _currently_ appear to die at the same rate as older people with numerous co-morbidities (expected of any such illness), we still aren't sure about long-term damage or re-infection. On top of all of that, there are questions about simmering cases, especially in younger people who appear to have mild *symptoms* - keep in mind that mind symptoms are not a proof of viral load, and if someone with mild symptoms thought they had recovered, and then got re-exposed to a large amount, it could be a perfect setup for an immune system overload and/or much more potential damage to the lungs, etc. Older patients tend to "fade out" while young people tend to "hit the wall" very hard. Yes, it's true that younger people aren't as likely to die, but that doesn't mean they are immune from COVID illness, dying from it, or its aftereffects.

One way to think about it is the common mild injuries most folks have throughout their lives, like mild sprains, strains, etc. When you're 20-25, it isn't as debilitating and you recover/heal much faster (plus, the perception of full recovery sometimes leads to further injury because while the injury seemed "healed," it wasn't completely *healed*) than when you're older, and often - not always, often - youthful injuries come back to haunt folks in later years.

The bottom line is that young people need to treat this seriously both for their own sake as well as the sake of society.

Way to go Tate. New numbers just came out. Highest number of deaths by far at 32 with no mention of any being from prior periods. 330 new confirmed cases. Hospitalizations are up, ICU patients are up. We are so far behind where we need to be it's pathetic.