Swedish city of Lund to spread chicken manure in its central park in effort to deter crowds gathering for a festival https://t.co/a99W7FOIup
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 29, 2020
… Tens of thousands of people usually descend on southern city to celebrate Walpurgis Night, which is marked across Scandinavia.
But officials want to keep people away because of the coronavirus outbreak.
There is no lockdown in Sweden, where data show most people have taken to voluntary social distancing.
“Lund could very well become an epicentre for the spread of the coronavirus on the last night in April,” the chairman of the local council’s environment committee, Gustav Lundblad, told the Sydsvenskan newspaper.
Defending the decision to spread a ton of chicken manure in the park, he said: “We get the opportunity to fertilise the lawns, and at the same time it will stink and so it may not be so nice to sit and drink beer.”…
Speaking of chicken manure…
have never seen someone just go out there and cut campaign ads against himself every day but here he goes again https://t.co/9DjvfuChQA
— kilgore trout, multiyear slanderer (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 29, 2020
this didn't happen in february and it's not gonna happen now https://t.co/FHNVi3gxTT
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) April 30, 2020
Everyone is focused on Trump’s answer but the other problem is the question. The fact that reporters, after all this time, still insist on acting as though Trump has “reasons” for saying anything or “beliefs” grounded in discernible reality is why he keeps getting away with it. https://t.co/v7hQaJZW88
— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) April 29, 2020
Donald Trump does not want to be in charge of any of this. He wants to play president on TV. He doesn't want responsibility for governance in a time of crisis, and in every way he can, he's refusing to do that job, and lashing out at those who ask him to do it.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) April 29, 2020
What's interesting here is that it seems the #GOP leadership & #Republican politicians, following #Trump lead , are bucking the tide of public opinion on #COVID19 control. Will they pay a political price? Will businesses/schools reopen to only sparse customer/student attendance? https://t.co/N35K04kjJd
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 29, 2020
Trump is going to sue America when he loses, isn't he ?
— gswaggroom (@groombz09) April 29, 2020
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