Further Discussion About Covid-19 and the Covid-19 Crisis 2020

Wisconsin Supreme Court justice: Meatpackers aren't 'regular folks'
Source: American Independent



By Emily Singer -May 7, 2020 3:09 PM

Wisconsin judge Patience Roggensack is being slammed as an 'elitist' for her remark that meatpackers contracting coronavirus aren't like other people in the state.

The conservative chief justice of Wisconsin's state Supreme Court is under fire after she said this week that meatpackers in Wisconsin who have contracted the coronavirus aren't "regular folks" like other residents of the state.

Chief Justice Patience Roggensack made the comment during oral arguments conducted via teleconferencing on Tuesday in a suit brought by Republican lawmakers against Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home orders.

Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Colin Roth, arguing on behalf of Evers, cited a surge in cases in Brown County as an example of why the orders were necessary. Roth said cases in Brown County "surged from just 60 to almost 800" over the course of two weeks. The outbreak was traced to the JBS Packerland meatpacking plant in the county, at which 300 workers were sickened by the coronavirus, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette.

Roggensack interjected.

"These were due to the meatpacking, though," she said. "That's where Brown County got the flare. It wasn't just the regular folks in Brown County."

"It is shocking and deeply offensive that Justice Patience Roggensack would suggest that workers in meatpacking plants aren’t 'regular folks' who deserve protection," United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1473, which represents meatpacking workers in the state, said in a statement to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Democratic lawmakers also slammed Roggensack's comment, calling it elitist and out of touch.

Democratic state Sen. Dave Hansen, who represents Brown County, told the Journal Sentinel that Roggensack's comment was laced with "elitism and ignorance."

Meatpacking plants across the country, workers at which are largely immigrants who say they fear they have no choice but to go to work, have been hit hard by coronavirus outbreaks.

Donald Trump has ordered meatpacking plants to stay open, despite the fact that the plants have become hot spots of virus transmission.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/wisconsin-supreme-court-meatpackers-regular-folks-coronavirus-patience-roggensack-covid-19/

There you go Bob. There's your reference.

Bing Liu was a professor who was on the verge of discovering a "significant breakthrough" in the biology makeup of Covid-19 and was killed in a murder-suicide.

I saw a few articles about this on Yahoo! News. There are other various news sources online talking about this.

Then my answer stands. They're basically the same answer. I don't get your question.

He was killed by a colleague over a woman who was trying to get out of a relationship with the murderer. The researcher leaves a widow.

This a very sad situation.

His wife was cheating on him?

NO.

If you're not being sacrilegious and/or blasphemous why refer to God as "G*d"?

Many devout Christians find it blasphemous to utter the Lord's name. Many don't even refer to h%ll, they call it 'the bad place'. Do you have a problem with people being respectful to the creator? I hope not, that would be troubling, and un-christian.

No. I get it- Bob wants to be cautious. Not to nitpick - "Creator" in reference to God should be capitalized.

So if you get it, why did you ask?

Its a sign of respect. It shows I take it very seriously. It's something the Spirit moves me to do. 'Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain.'

...and repeatedly. It almost makes me feel he's trying to trip me.

Hi. I was not trying to "trip" you.

ALMOST

You are one of the most prolific liars on this site posing as a Christian. One has only to read your posts to realize you are a hypocrites of the first order.

Questioning why you choose to censor the word "God" makes as much sense as arguing over what greeting to use during the winter holiday season. Some people say "Merry Christmas", others say "Happy Holidays".
It's trivial.

I usually say "Merry Christmas". Instead of saying "Happy Holidays" I got creative and said "Happy Kwanhannamas" to a few people as a joke. Lol.

I don’t think you’re in any position to question the sense of anyone else’s religion.

Calling people uncircumcised philistines doesn’t make a lot of sense.

I think comparing what we call any holiday to how I chose to respect the Father is a wholly trivial hair-pull on its own that I refuse to engage in.

Funny how your crawling through of the Kabulah without a stick of knowledge of Hebrew or anything past a trivial grasp of Judaism for the significance of numbers Jewish scholars have been arguing about for centuries strikes you as important. These same Jewish authorities all do agree with my "trivial" protocol regarding the use of the Divinity's name.

I do not think what I chose to call the divinity is trivial or even any of your business past your asking and my answering.

Spend more time ordering your life. Have you reported your missing SS card yet?

He can't report it or request a new one because he doesn't have printer ink.