Lawrence C. Mackin Jr., city councilor for Braintree's District 6, says it's time to bring back the old days of crowded stores, large family get togethers and just freedom. In a long rant, he says that because the governor of California is a hypocrite and because the media never tell you that most people survive Covid-19, restrictions don't work except to make things worse.
One of his Facebook followers suggested he take a trip to a local hospital and talk to some of the doctors and nurses there about his ideas on the pandemic.
According to the latest state statistics, Braintree had 266 new Covid-19 cases over a two-week period. Since the start of the pandemic, 120 Braintree residents have died from the virus, according to town statistics.
Mackin won election last fall.
In 2015, his father, Leonard C. Mackin, Sr., wrote a novel about true-blue American police officers taking the country back from the Obama-led private armies and Islamists who were enslaving the country and killing cops to create a Chinese-controlled Islamic dictatorship.
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It’s maggots.
By Carmella
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 5:44pm
It’s maggots.
At least
By fungwah
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 8:10pm
you're honest about your self-identity, I guess?
No, it"s magats
By merlinmurph
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 8:41pm
As in MAGAt
When one has to research
By Carmella
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:42am
When one has to research another’s attempt at humor, it means the joke isn’t funny.
When one has to pretend they haven't heard the phrase "MAGAt"...
By lbb
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 4:46pm
...they're a pathetic disingenuous pretender, or perhaps mentally ill.
At least maggots perform important sanitary services
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:13am
Can't say so much for you, plague spreading rat.
Another one to ban
By lbb
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 5:20pm
People spreading vaccine disinformation can go to Parler and find their ugly-minded soul mates. They do not deserve a platform among civilized human beings.
If you don’t agree, it’s
By Carmella
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 6:55pm
If you don’t agree, it’s disinformation? Ok.
Certain topics are not
By brianjdamico
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 8:29pm
Certain topics are not debatable, in good faith at least. It's like the Holocaust. If you say it didn't happen, it's not a simple disagreement or difference in opinion.
So the flu is up there with
By Carmella
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:37am
So the flu is up there with the Holocaust?
Reality
By tblade
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:46am
Saying that Covid is “just the flu, bro†is as dishonest, imbecilic, and uncivilized as debating the existence of the holocaust.
Where did I mention the flu?
By brianjdamico
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 10:15am
Where did I mention the flu?
You know why I don't agree with what you beeeeliieeeeeve?
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:15am
Because I'm a public health scientist, and I know what the science is.
Because I did research on how corona and rhinoviruses spread through office buildings, and you didn't.
Because I helped build a prototype of a testing rig that verified that MASKS WORK.
Because I'm not ignorant like you and also too insane to learn anything but how to parrot talking points chanted by other ignorant and insane people.
Another one who confuses facts and opinions
By lbb
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:17am
You get to have your own opinion, plague rat. You don't get to have your own facts.
I have never seen more people
By Carmella
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:40am
I have never seen more people wearing masks in my life and yet we have more cases now than ever. If masks works so well, why the big increase in cases?
Good point.
By tblade
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 10:06am
“I have never seen more people wearing seatbelts in my life...if seatbelts and airbags work, why are there so many deaths in motor vehicle accidents?â€
If something isn’t 100% effective, it therefore doesn’t work. Brilliant analysis.
This argument also relies on
By brianjdamico
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 10:14am
This argument also relies on facts not in evidence. If one was to take up that argument on seat belts and airbags, their data set of motor vehicle deaths would most definitely include those who were not wearing a seat belt when the accident occurred. Which of course, leads to nonsensical statements such as, "if seat belts work, why do people who don't wear them still die in accidents"
People don't understand science
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 11:34pm
We're seeing the effects of a long-term and widespread education failure: People literally don't understand what science is or how it works. People point out that scientists have changed their minds on various topics as though that were somehow a criticism of science.
News flash: Changing their minds is pretty much exactly what scientists do for a living.
Observe something.
Develop an explanation.
Gather additional data to find holes in the explanation: places where the explanation is wrong or incomplete. Plan, design, and run experiments that will yield additional useful data.
Change the theory to fit the new data. Or throw it out and find a new theory.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Science isn't magical; it's merely an organized way to keep track of the best available information and the best available explanations for what's been observed.
Science has been wrong about a lot of things. At one point the best available science said that the Sun orbited around the Earth. That's not because astronomers were stupid or ill-willed, it's because the explanation fit the available data. It was good enough to predict when the sun would rise and set, where the planets would appear in the sky on any given night, when winter would turn to spring, etc. Once astronomers discovered the holes in that theory, they replaced it with one that fit the data better (although the Church kinda got in the way for a while there).
So, I believe the science not because I think it's infallible. I know for sure that it's not. But it provides the best available knowledge we've got at the moment.
What are the alternatives? Sit at home and don't plant your crops because you know the astronomers haven't got it right yet? Believe what you wish were true to be true?
Then you have the people who
By Carmella
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:44am
Then you have the people who push a personal agenda under the guise of science.
Then you have the mentally ill...
By lbb
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 4:48pm
...who promote insane conspiracy theories and a specious right to spray their spit everywhere.
Government needs to do their
By BannedFromTheRoxy
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 1:44pm
Government needs to do their job and provide relief to small business and unemployed. They couldn’t pass a stimulus bill in 6 months. Imagine not doing your job for 5 months , getting fuck all done , then getting rehired again in November .
I think people would be more likely to abide by cdc recommendations if their livelihoods weren’t crumbling before their eyes .
It’s very easy to say keep it all shut/hibernating when you’ve got a salary and just work from home now
"the government"
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 2:06pm
You mean this son of a bitch and his "get them all infected" asshole enabling friends:
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The House of Representatives and individual Senators have been working on stimulus bills for the last six or more months! Fuckhead Turtleface has been blocking action in the Senate AND Pence has no intention of ever reclaiming his powers under Article 1 Section 3 to run the senate.
No, the govt needs to do its first job.
By nancyg
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 2:10pm
Providing relief is secondary (but very necessary). The first job of any government is to protect the lives of its constituents. The federal government failed miserably at that by not providing even the most basic infrastructure of a pandemic response even before this virus struck, by being dishonest about the severity of the virus, by not providing nationwide mandates, protections, and resources, and possibly most damaging, by undermining those governors, CDC officials, scientists, health care providers who were doing the work the federal government would/could not. If the proper things had been done months ago, if we had locked down completely and early, we'd have this under control by now and the need for relief would be far less. The simple fact is the sooner we attend to these restrictions, the sooner we'll be over them and can get on with rebuilding.
pressure from the “how will we pay for it†crowd
By berkleealum
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 3:59pm
is a large reason why relief isn’t happening
That and the overlapping "it
By brianjdamico
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 5:24pm
That and the overlapping "it's not the government's job to keep you safe" crowd. You know, that government that was formed to do things like provide for the common defense, and promote general welfare.
Then there's the "you can't rely on the government forever, what if they aren't here next time you need them?" crowd. To which, let me just say, if the government of the United State of America, or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are suddenly non-existent, I'd say we have some real big problems at hand. Like really really big problems.
By the time he got to Braintree ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 5:15pm
They were out of brains.
Lawrence C Mackin Jr.
By Mary B
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 4:30pm
For an elected idiot to say that, he should be kicked out of office. Then vote someone in who gives a damn about the people.
But he was elected in a free
By Carmella
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:46am
But he was elected in a free election. You have to wait until the next election and find someone you think is better and vote for that guy. You don’t get to break the rules because you don’t like what he said.
Recall petition
By lbb
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 4:49pm
True sometimes, not true everywhere. I don't know what the bylaws are in Quincy, but recall petitions are a thing, as is removal for cause.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.â€
By Daan
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 11:12pm
It's always a peculiar thing when a person who wants to be from the government states that his desire is bad.
When the messenger admits that his motivation is to be false, then his statements need to be taken with a hefty grain of salt. In this case Mackin is playing the game that McCarthy played. Find a reason to create controversy to create the illusion that he is a leader. In McCarthy's case it was alcoholism running his lust for fame and power. Of course what he got was infamy shame and early death.
No idea of what Mackin's true motivation is. But the welfare of his constituents is clearly not part of that motivation.
Alternatively...
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 12/17/2020 - 11:38pm
Alternatively, pretty much everyone aside from the most cynical con-men (your McCarthy example is good), deep down inside, thinks they're the good guys. Some pretty twisted positions come from people who actually believe what they're saying to be true. It's entirely possible that this guy genuinely thinks he's acting in the best interests of his constituents.
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By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:18am
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It could be that he simply,
By Carmella
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 9:48am
It could be that he simply, for whatever the reason, feels that masks don’t work. If you don’t agree with him, that’s your right.
Nobody's questioning his right
By Bob Leponge
Fri, 12/18/2020 - 1:32pm
Nobody's questioning his right to express pretty much whatever opinion he wants, so long as it falls short of a very few well-defined lines (the "shouting 'fire!' in a crowded theater" doctrine.) This opinion piece is obviously well within the realm of protected speech.
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