Thread by @KentuckyFreedom

Live tweeting. @GovAndyBeshear ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Having some internet issue....

Sounds like he’s going through campaign motivated type stuff.

@GovAndyBeshear now showing a video from a student who did a video about masks.

@GovAndyBeshear making announcement about volounteer website though Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

Today’s report is high again, 785 cases.

37,686 to date. Positivity rate is 5.67%. Says it needs to be much lower. Still no decline in cases despite masks and mandates.

730,362 tests. 658 hospitalized. 140 in ICU

Jefferson, Fayette, Warren...

@GovAndyBeshear alluding to Warren Co. Considering in person school, says 6 school age students tested positive in Warren. He’s putting pressure on.

Beshear has previously said masks are working.

We don’t see that in the data at all.

..Kenton, Clay, Barron, Hardin (he’s putting pressure on them too giving ages of positive cases).

@GovAndyBeshear says not to experiment with health of children.

Beshear swipes at Green County too, that decided on in-person.

@GovAndyBeshear says we can make decisions based on anxiety.

Note: Exactly the thing he does every day.

Long term care. Another death attributed to them.

Child care facilities

Social media #MaskUpKY highlights. Says people are masking up.

We have higher cases than ever 5 weeks removed from his mandate. Should have declined cases weeks ago.

Here comes @KermitTheFrog to the podium

@StevenStackMD comparing KY cases to GA

GA has over 10 million people. We have 4.4 million.

@StevenStackMD pouring the heat on schools. Really doesn’t want kids in safe havens for some reason.

Meet @StevenStackMD he really loves seeing the increases in homocode, suicide, drug overdoses, and child and domestic abuse. Wants them to continue.

After learning in a committee meeting today that the flu kills more kids than #COVID19, @StevenStackMD says get a vaccine.

@GovAndyBeshear back at the podium. Reporters phone not on silent going off.

Jesus Christ, @GovAndyBeshear says his kids asked him and his wife if they were going to die when they were sick the other day. Asked if they were going to die.

@ruralj asks what state law he could use to allow businesses to refuse to accept money from people who don’t #MaskUp.

@GovAndyBeshear says businesses should say they won’t serve if they don’t have a masks. Says they can blame him.

Oh, we will.

Question on if @GovAndyBeshear if he’s worrying about kids in Appalachia getting left behind in virtual learning.

Says he is, but believes risk of #COVID19 is worse.

Question on if @GovAndyBeshear believes it’s insensitive to #BreonnaTaylor to have the Derby take place.

@GovAndyBeshear punts that one into @kyoag’s court by saying surely there will be a resolution by then.

@GovAndyBeshear asked about @realDonaldTrump’s #USPS funding and mail on election.

Says we can’t defund USPS.

Note: #YesWeCan. It bleeds money and primarily sends junk mail out. Inefficient, bloated, waste of tax money.

@StevenStackMD doesn’t know if smoking makes #COVID19 outcomes worse. Assumes it does.

@d_yetter asking about today’s program review committee. She sat in the back and took notes on how to ask @GovAndyBeshear the worst question she could think of. Asked about legislators not collaborating about Covid numbers.

Beshear uses the question to swip at legislators.

Beshear says questioning the facts is dangerous and said it’s not leadership to ignore the data.

They are not ignoring it, @GovAndyBeshear. You are overstating it’s using it to fear monger.

Some sort of question about vaping. Again, @StevenStackMD doesn’t know.

6 new deaths: 82, 74, 80, 92, 56, missed one.

@LASmithReports asking about cases in school age children.

@GovAndyBeshear uses it to go after Warren, Hardin, and Green county public schools again.

@BESHEAR keeps mentioning that we’re at the height of the pandemic as reason not to go to school, he shut the state down when we were really low, but he let bars reopen & announced derby will take place now? No consistency. Doesn’t take himself seriously so we won’t.

Question about private schools being asked by @GovAndyBeshear to have testing, but reporter notes public universities are not either.

Beshear says they all should do testing.

@GovAndyBeshear says he has no timeline on #BreonnaTaylor case. Reporter asked if a unfavorable result comes, would derby be insensitive.

Beshear says he hopes activists and derby could work together to convey the right message.

Question about how many people who come to get test has symptoms, how many positives has symptoms.

Beshear doesn’t know.

Says will see if can get data.

Another question from @d_yetter about risk of Covid 19 in kids and the fact it poses statistically no threat to kids.

@GovAndyBeshear says more cases allows for a potentially bad outcome (same is true with more people in the roadways too but we are not paralyzed in fear.)

Says kids can take virus home to elderly family.

Note: districts are offering virtual options for families, so grandparents raising kids could opt out of in-person.

@GovAndyBeshear will be going to his sons baseball game. He’s going to a Pikeville medical center event tomorrow.

Wrapping up. That’s it for us.