CV19 not serious in Kansas cause.....

[kadee79]

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Wednesday, Republican County Commissioner Marvin Rodriguez suggested that the new coronavirus isn't serious in Kansas because the state does not have a lot of Chinese people.

"I know that other people are having a great problem. And someone reminded me that in Italy, they have a lot of garment-people there, fashionists [sic], and they have a tremendous amount of Chinese there, and that's where a lot of it started," Rodriguez said at a special county meeting on Wednesday, according the Kansas news agency The Mercury. "So we don't necessarily have any [Chinese people], but I think the board would like to make sure we're on top of it, and the board will decide on that part."

Following those comments, Usha Reddi, mayor of Manhattan, Kansas, took to Twitter criticizing Rodriguez, calling his remarks, "false information."

"Yesterday, a Riley County Commissioner said this (paraphrasing): 'We have zero cases. I don't think it's a problem here. In Italy they have a lot of Chinese and that's why they have the virus. We don't have that problem here' This needs to stop! This is false information!" Reddi wrote on Twitter.

www.newsweek.com/gop-county-chair-says-coronavirus-kansas-isnt-serious-because-there-arent-many-chinese-people-1493510

[Tiny]

Sounds like a hick way to say Kansas is a hick state with no international businesses and little if any tourism - local or international.  

So, maybe since Kansas is mostly cornfields?  and since few people live there? and since no one willingly goes there?  the poor people who do live there have little worry about.    It's not like they actually USE toilet paper in their outhouses, right? 
 

[andi9899]

Mar 25, 2020 16:22:05 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Sounds like a hick way to say Kansas is a hick state with no international businesses and little if any tourism - local or international.  

So, maybe since Kansas is mostly cornfields?  and since few people live there? and since no one willingly goes there?  the poor people who do live there have little worry about.    It's not like they actually USE toilet paper in their outhouses, right? 
 

I was reading it (I live in KS) thinking WTF. Then I saw that he's in Riley county and it made sense. There really isn't much of anything there other than one of the universities.

[kadee79]

Mar 25, 2020 16:29:43 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

Mar 25, 2020 16:22:05 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Sounds like a hick way to say Kansas is a hick state with no international businesses and little if any tourism - local or international.  

So, maybe since Kansas is mostly cornfields?  and since few people live there? and since no one willingly goes there?  the poor people who do live there have little worry about.    It's not like they actually USE toilet paper in their outhouses, right? 
 

I was reading it (I live in KS) thinking WTF. Then I saw that he's in Riley county and it made sense. There really isn't much of anything there other than one of the universities.

It really doesn't matter what is there in that county or not there....it's the mentality that it takes to come up with something like what this guy said....OMG!  Not sure I'd want anyone I know to attend any school in that area...or university! 

[andi9899]

Mar 25, 2020 16:40:06 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

Mar 25, 2020 16:29:43 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

I was reading it (I live in KS) thinking WTF. Then I saw that he's in Riley county and it made sense. There really isn't much of anything there other than one of the universities.

It really doesn't matter what is there in that county or not there....it's the mentality that it takes to come up with something like what this guy said....OMG!  Not sure I'd want anyone I know to attend any school in that area...or university! 

I'm guessing you've never been to Riley County KS. You'd get it if you had.

[kadee79]

Mar 25, 2020 16:41:19 GMT -5 andi9899 said:

Mar 25, 2020 16:40:06 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

It really doesn't matter what is there in that county or not there....it's the mentality that it takes to come up with something like what this guy said....OMG!  Not sure I'd want anyone I know to attend any school in that area...or university! 

I'm guessing you've never been to Riley County KS. You'd get it if you had.

No, I've never been there...but then I live in "Bubba" country Ga...so yes, I get it.  I don't want anyone I know to go to school around here either!   There are many around here that are of about the same mind set/mentality!

[countrygirl2]

Well, I live in bubbaville, Indiana, too, so we have a lot of weird sentiment here too. Indiana's educational system is sinking under the tutelage of repub people. It's just so sad, we have RTW now and wages have sunk too. We are almost to the bottom of educational systems in the US something like 48th now right up there with Louisiana and some of those.  So sad.