Florida Man Protests Re-opening of Florida Beaches

Brilliant, actually. There should be at least one grim reaper at every protest. Just to put things into perspective.

Fear porn for the sheeple

Not inappropriate, but truly hilarious.

time for people to get off their fat asses and get outside

Very clever. That’s the right way to make a point.

[quote]Fear porn for the sheeple

Which ones does your brain tell you are the sheeple?

That's brilliant. For once, Florida Man did something sane.

I think public outdoor spaces like big parks and beaches should be open. They can take some of the billions handed to business who did not need it, and hire unemployed people to be FRIENDLY health outreach workers. Walk around to people who are NOT social distancing and hand out pamphlets or masks and say "keep safe, have a nice day." There is only so much you can do.

Many many people including the media forget that the point of a lockdown is to slow the initial spread. So hospitals could deal, for example. Nobody ever said lockdowns would prevent the spread to more than 3/4 of the population, over time.

Trump Sheeple are the only ones who would think it's inappropriate.

It’s perfect!

And I love his umbrella.

Hey, r12, that’s mine!!

Yes, R9, there's nothing an aggressive leaflet campaign can't cure.

R10 Just because one is woke about this "pandemic" and doesn't buy it, does not mean they're a Trump supporter. Many mainstreamers are waking up about this nonsense. You're a victim of weaponized cognitive dissonance. Mainstream Media distancing is the cure, hon.

Well you attract more bees with honey than vinegar. Antagonizing MAGAs in parks, on beaches, isn't productive. Hand them a leaflet and remind them not to hurt anyone. You're not going to change these people.

UC San Diego's study on how sea spray enables COVID's spread into the air and onto the shore.

R17---The part about sewage in the water is the point where the chain of communication/infection could and should be nipped. Seweage in the ocean/sea has only been a problem forever, though.

I know this doesn't belong here but...If one is in a high risk group, like a really high risk group, can one get out of work with a doctor's note? And collect? (If the workplace re-opens?) And so shouldn't black people not have to work right now because they are in a really ultra high risk group? I'm not going to sign my name to this but yes, I am in a VERY high risk group, no, I am not black.

[QUOTE] time for people to get off their fat asses and get outside

Yes, because most Americans were out enjoying an active lifestyle before the Corona lockdowns.

Went to the beach on Friday. The deplorables are already ignoring the rules.

Miami and points north are already a mess from the spring vacations earlier this year. Now we start again??

Now that man is most definitely a stable genius ......

👍👍 Way 2 Go !

Would scare the shit out of me.

I would immediately be thinking Zodiac Killer

They never caught him, did they, r24?

He started posting on DL where he could take out all his hatred for the world without killing anyone.

He probably got the idea from this guy across the pond:

Yes, it's so much safer to be cramped up with a dozens of people in an infested apartment than to be outside on the beach where everyone is spread out in the open air.

Who’s in an “infested” apartment with dozens of people? Dozens? Really? Hyperbole much?

Even taking your situation into account: yes, it would be safer because those “dozens of people” have been together in the apartment for over a month. The chances of one of them having it is slim at best.

Introduce strangers into the equation, and....

Impressed he found a way to have a nice day out at the beach while simultaneously telling others they'll croak if they go to the beach.

Very Victorian!

[quote] Yes, it's so much safer to be cramped up with a dozens of people in an infested apartment than to be outside on the beach where everyone is spread out in the open air.

Russian trolls are always surprised to discover that the majority of Americans don’t live in the squalor and poverty that Russians do.

Baptists at the liquor store: Florida beach edition.

R9 Wouldn't the leafletters be the main people spreading corona, in that scenario?

Please enlighten us poor unwoke ignoramuses, R15. From which "Mainstream Media" sources should we distance ourselves to reach the magical cure? And which information sources should we consult instead?

Beat me to it, R34 And "hon", R15? Really? Gotta love trolls who don't quite get shade vernacular.

Robert Kennedy Jr. Destroys Big Pharma, Fauci & Pro-Vaccine Movement

Isn’t he an anti-vaxxer in general though?

Yes, RFK Jr. is an opponent to vaccines. Everybody should listen to what this great American has to say. Then form your opinion.

RFKJr has a solid career fighting for environment and facing big companies polluting the environment. He ultimately provides plenty of facts every time he makes a point, it does not seem to me he is doing it for his own ego. If I have to choose between a guy that is onboard the vaccine industry for financial gains and a guy that is pleading for the freedom to choose... well I don’t have to think a lot to know who I will support.

Who gives a fuck about RFK jr.? Is that him in the beach chair?

entirely appropriate, Troll. armed terrorists storm a state capitol and you stir this shit up?

[quote] ... well I don’t have to think a lot to know who I will support.

Clearly that’s your standard way of making most decisions.

I recall back in a time of some pretty shameful behavior on the part of the Rhode Island Legislature we did a mock funeral with wooden coffin in black with flowers all around it and marched it around and laid it inside of the RI State House. It was so cool.

So he's apparently raising money for Democratic candidates and going on a Grim Reaper tour of the state. His twitter is full of fun grim reaper souvenirs you can buy that presumably no one's handled in an unsafe way.

This is such fucking terrible optics in a swing state, someone should tell him to shut up but they won't.

✌Vote for death! ✌

"Vote for the party that isn't trying to kill you," R43, works pretty well.

[quote]Yes, RFK Jr. is an opponent to vaccines. Everybody should listen to what this great American has to say.

No, we really shouldn't, not unless he has the scientific credentials to back up what he is saying, which he does not.

God, I sweat enough as it is. I can't imagine how bad it would be wearing that getup in the Florida heat.

Love the idea, though!

[quote]Just because one is woke about this "pandemic" and doesn't buy it

Ah ... that's all we need to know about you.

R44 That's not the message being sent, even if that's what he's going for.

I think it's brilliant. People don't understand that they're putting themselves - and more importantly - others in danger when they flaunt self isolation and social distancing.

That may not be the message you're getting, R48, but that is indeed the message he is sending. The issue is on your end, not his.

Not cool and frankly an act of psychological intimidation that could in reality make someone sicker physically. It's perverse that some of you find this amusing or rational. Fuel for conservatives to fly with the "lunatic left" narrative. This guy isn't doing anyone ANY favors except to delight the terror-addicts coronuts of this board.

R51, did you just drop off the coconut truck or did your mother actually name you MARY?

A man dressing up as Death is just what the morons need to remind them of the very real threat facing them. Idiots.

[quote]frankly an act of psychological intimidation that could in reality make someone sicker physically

I'm sorry but did you really intend this comment to be taken seriously or did you intend it for us to laugh at?

He represents truth. Say what you will.

R50 Ah-- so this performance has an OBJECTIVE meaning that you've tapped into while anyone else's interpretation or response is subjective. Your ego knows no bounds.

R52 Those aware of their mortality will not be intimidated by this stunt. Those unaware will not have the response you seem to wish for. It's an act of intimidation and coercion. Period.

[quote]Your ego knows no bounds.

ROFL... Oh, the irony....

[quote]It's an act of intimidation and coercion. Period.

Got it; you're doing a comedy routine here.

R53 Fear and panic lowers the immunity and may exacerbate underlying physical and mental health conditions. I don't expect anything rational or scientifically accurate to be taken seriously by you hysterical terror-thriving whackjobs.

ROFL... Thank you for confirming that you have no idea what you're talking about and we should, accordingly, just laugh at your ridiculous nonsense.

[quote]I don't expect anything rational or scientifically accurate

Do let us know when you intend to post "anything rational or scientifically accurate," won't you? I can't wait.

Don't know why it bothers some people.

Death is around us all the time, in our homes, the supermarket, our place of work, etc. This gentleman is simply acknowledging that death is present at the beach, all the while death has been there the entire time. We just don't see, or expect it.

Again, Mary, you need to get an existential grip. This isn't actual 'death' but an anthropomorphic representation of it. Nothing to fear here but the salmon mousse.

[quote]Don't know why it bothers some people.

It doesn't. It's being pushed by people with an agenda, not because anyone is "bothered" by it.

You're the left's equivalent of "open carry" protestors at Walmart thinking their public acts of intimidation are wonderfully complex political and philosophical statements. They're not. They're just cowardly acts meant to scare people into submission.

R58 Do you need peer reviewed articles to show you the effects of stress, fear and panic on the human body? You haven't offered a serious rebuttal; which shows you have none.

I love that he went all-out with the tattered umbrella.

Crybaby who can't take a protest says what?

R60 Signs and symbols rule the world. Thank goodness you're not intelligent enough to actually use this knowledge for any meaningful purpose.

If his agenda is to get overheated on the beach, he wins!

Stress, fear and panic isn't coming out of some guy with a costume when the real threat should be enough to keep them off the beach. That it isn't means his efforts, whatever the agenda, are meaningless reminders of the inevitable.

R62, since nobody here has said anything about any "complex political and philosophical statements," I'm afraid that, like your other posts here, you're simply randomly making shit up. Just as you are randomly making shit up about the so-called "stress, fear, and panic" that people are experiencing from this stunt.

I must admit it is amusing to see you digging that hole deeper and deeper but you really have embarrassed yourself enough by now and should seriously consider deleting your account and trying again with an audience that is considerably less discerning.

[quote]Thank goodness you're not intelligent enough

Oh, the irony....

I'd like to point out that the Grim Reaper is out campaigning for Democratic candidates in Florida and none of you thinks this is a bad idea.

Plus he's campy and gleeful about it on Twitter. Oh, and he's doing a state-wide tour of the very same beaches he's warning his fellow citizens to stay off of... and he has merch!

R60, when you think you know something, you prove you don't.

Signs and sympbols are merely that. Actions rule the world, baby....and I like this man's actions just fine. In fact, I'd be asking for an autograph if I had the stupidity to ignore social distance.

Maybe he's a very stealthy Russian troll, pretending to be a sactimonious dickhead.

r15 = raging Deplorable

Um, R69, why should we "think this is a bad idea?" I don't think it's either good or bad. It's a mildly amusing stunt, one that got him some attention and almost certainly isn't going to have any impact on the 2020 election.

You can be both, R70, and without the pretense.

R71, I mean, sorry.

I think the real clue here is the phrase "Florida man"....

The only thing that would make it better is if he were holding a Trump/Pence 2020 sign in his other boney hand.

I don't have the pic but there's and eerie shot of Chinese workers making Trump/Pence 2020 signs. Just sayin'.

I hope he sees your suggestion, R76, because that would be perfectly, deliciously harmful to the poor, precious snowflakes stupid enough to share the beach with him and be traumatized.

He looks like the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water on holiday.

Troll Right wing sandwich with antivax filling, so many FF's so little time.

Checked in on him to see how the Grim Reaper tour is going-

shock (not) he's forgotten all about impending death and is handing out water at mass protests.

The second wave is just beginning in FL so he was right

He's not wearing his wonderful Grim Reaper get up, how will the protestors know they're spreading a plague? Shame on them! Shame on him!

Why the fuck didn't I think of that?

De Santis has blood on his hands. 'Ol Reaper boy, who is personally funding multiple mass gatherings of people, does not.

Oh my fucking God, he's going to show up at the RNC convention in his little outfit.

He posted this 8hrs ago, in between footage of the shoulder-to-shoulder mass gathering he's currently attending (sans ensemble.)

"shock (not) he's forgotten all about impending death and is handing out water at mass protests. "

He should be wearing his Grim Reaper costume and handing out masks.

Gawd, people act like this plague has gone away, just because something they care about more has come along! Which is utter bullshit, the plague has killed 100,000 Americans so far, the police only killed one.

R82 LMAO he's pathetic.

there’s a florida beach with cliffs and a mountain in the background?

[quote]Yes, RFK Jr. is an opponent to vaccines. . . He ultimately provides plenty of facts every time he makes a point, it does not seem to me he is doing it for his own ego.

RFK Jr. does not provide facts when it comes to vaccines. He believes in the link between vaccination and autism, based on ONE fraudulent study by ONE person (Andrew Wakefield), who was harshly discredited and subsequently barred by the medical community for falsifying data. If there was any truth to Wakefield's findings, then the other researchers who duplicated his methods would have reproduced those findings. That they did not is evidence of his fraud. Conspiracy loons and idiot celebs like Jenny McCarthy latched onto his ideas and perpetuated the anti-vaxxer movement. Before all this, Wakefield published a paper proposing a link between the measles vaccine and Crohn's disease, another false hypothesis debunked by scientists. He is a joke – a quack interested in making a name for himself by whatever means. He is responsible for serious damage because the decrease of vaccinations brought the re-emergence of previously controlled diseases like measles, mumps, and whooping cough, causing needless suffering in children. THAT is Wakefield's legacy.

[quote]Everybody should listen to what this great American has to say. Then form your opinion.

I roll my eyes at RFK Jr. There is nothing great about a man who's cheated on all 3 wives, who practices deception for his own selfish ego. After filing for divorce from his 2nd wife, an addict who became suicidal, he brushed off her cries for help. He's not even a political candidate, yet he hides behind a fake public image. If he wants to sleep with many women, then he should stay single and stop pretending to be a family man. He admitted to his cheating only after parts of his diary (which detailed his affairs) was leaked to the media. Add to that his belief in the quackery of a lone ex-physician and you have a man of poor judgment, R38.

*[bold]were[/bold] leaked to the media.

I should add that RFK Jr's soon to be ex-wife #2 hung herself.

Chip in to support the most obvious, embarrassing hypocrite in America!

That is truly an accomplishment here!