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Gretchen Whitmer continues to take cues directly from her union bosses who shut schools down, kept our kids locked down at home longer than necessary, and created an education crisis in our state. She stood on the debate stage and blatantly lied that Michigan schools were only closed down for 3 months, her running-mate Garlin Gilchrist even had the audacity to say we must first take care of the adults in our education system - total disregard for kids and parents. – Tudor Dixon	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
When the pandemic hit, we had no supplies in New York City, there were no masks, there was nothing And I went to work every day to do my job like thousands of others – firemen, EMS workers, teachers, nurses. We were out there during the pandemic when everybody locked down. – John Macari	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
During the pandemic, when everybody was locked down, it was an opportunity to finally fine-tune it and upgrade the technology. – John Pappas	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
His defense … that he did n’t realize he was at a party is so ridiculous that it’s actually offensive to the British public, he’s finally been forced to admit what everyone knew, that when the whole country was locked down he was hosting boozing parties in Downing Street. Is he now going to do the decent thing and resign ? – Labour Party leader Keir Starmer	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Before the shooter was able to walk a short distance to enter the main hallway, students and staff had already entered classrooms, locked doors, erected makeshift barricades and locked down or fled according to their training, the suspect was not able to gain access to a single classroom. – Superintendent Tim Throne	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Melbourne tragically and sadly has gone from being the most livable city in the world to the most locked-down city in the world. – Josh Frydenberg	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Joe Biden suggests that if you don't do locked down policies, then you should, quote,' Get out of the way.' Well, let me tell you this : If you're coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I'm standing in your way. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you have any flicker of independent thought, if you have any desire to use your faculties to live in a way that is right for you and not to be under complete draconian, authoritarian rule by this administration and the Democrats, who are coming for every single one of our freedoms, they want you to wear masks forever, they want to be locked down forever, they want to control what you say and where you say it and who you say it to -- well, you're running out of time. And you're basically a frog in a slowly boiling pot. It's time to stand up and fight. – Dave Rubin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
In a dramatic reversal of their previous guidance, President Biden's CDC has seemingly decided that our businesses, churches, and schools should remain masked up and potentially locked down forever, this new guidance is confusing and Americans are frustrated. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’d love to fall madly in love with someone, which certainly won’t happen whilst I’m locked down with blood relatives. – Elizabeth Hurley	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
At 5:30 p.m., detectives discovered that David Dahlen had escaped the secure holding cell David Dahlen was in. The building was immediately locked down and additional resources were called in, it was later confirmed that David Dahlen had gotten out of the building and was last seen running north. – Portland Police Bureau	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It would be a complete waste of time if we locked down without developing a test and trace system. – Jonathan Portes	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Lockdowns can be very harmful, and we have too many states that are locked down right now. Nobody knows what the governors are doing, actually. – The President	Found on CNN 3 years ago
In the United States, even in the most strict lockdowns, only about 50 % of the country locked down -- that allowed for the perpetuation of the outbreak, which we never did get under very good control. – Anthony Fauci	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Imagine all the women that have been locked down with a man that is causing them harm... many of these women have reported this to the police before, they could have been reached out to and taken away before the confinement started. – Elena Marbán Castro	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We know statistically, based on our experience with the China trade shock in the 2000s, that unemployment creates more suicides, depression and drug abuse, but we also know this in this crisis, as we've basically locked down our hospitals for everything but Covid, women haven't been getting mammograms or cervical examinations for cancer. We haven't been able to do other procedures for the heart or the kidneys. And that's going to kill people as well. – Peter Navarro	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If New York City had locked down two days before New York City did, half the people who died would not have died. Because New York City was doubling every two days, speed is incredibly important. – Tom Frieden	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The agency was very unprepared when it hit, they could have locked down the institution or put it on a modified scheduling, had a lot more control of movement and everything to keep it more contained if it did kick off, and it wouldn't have gotten all over our institution. – Ronald Morris	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have some elderly friends who are in assisted living facilities that are locked down and I'll say,' I'm thinking about you and hoping things are going okay.' I'll hear back sometimes that they appreciate that, people are scared. It helps that a lot of us are kind of in the same boat. – Paul Rosenblatt	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you completely locked down absolutely everything probably for a period of four months or more then you would suppress this virus, all of the evidence from pervious epidemics suggests that when you do that and then you release it, it all comes back again. – Patrick Vallance	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Healthcare is a particularly tricky area for ransomware, many healthcare systems are locked down by vendors, so healthcare systems often can't be patched in the same way other sectors can patch. This means that healthcare organizations have to take other measures to protect themselves. – Recorded Future	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Lighting is down. No light in the cells. All locked down since Thursday night. That's going on for at least 36 hours. When the sun goes down it's pitch dark. Inmates who have medical conditions can't read the instructions on the medications. – David Patton	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It looks like the whole street, the whole location is still locked down. Nobody's moving to the scene, a lot of police, rescue cars are parked there. But nobody's moving, so it seems as if it's still going on. – Christian Hubel	Found on CNN 8 years ago
As the Islamic State is getting locked down, they are squeezing the local population. – Scott Stewart	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

Gretchen Whitmer continues to take cues directly from her union bosses who shut schools down, kept our kids locked down at home longer than necessary, and created an education crisis in our state. She stood on the debate stage and blatantly lied that Michigan schools were only closed down for 3 months, her running-mate Garlin Gilchrist even had the audacity to say we must first take care of the adults in our education system - total disregard for kids and parents.

– Tudor Dixon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When the pandemic hit, we had no supplies in New York City, there were no masks, there was nothing And I went to work every day to do my job like thousands of others – firemen, EMS workers, teachers, nurses. We were out there during the pandemic when everybody locked down.

– John Macari

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

During the pandemic, when everybody was locked down, it was an opportunity to finally fine-tune it and upgrade the technology.

– John Pappas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

His defense … that he did n’t realize he was at a party is so ridiculous that it’s actually offensive to the British public, he’s finally been forced to admit what everyone knew, that when the whole country was locked down he was hosting boozing parties in Downing Street. Is he now going to do the decent thing and resign ?

– Labour Party leader Keir Starmer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Before the shooter was able to walk a short distance to enter the main hallway, students and staff had already entered classrooms, locked doors, erected makeshift barricades and locked down or fled according to their training, the suspect was not able to gain access to a single classroom.

– Superintendent Tim Throne

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Melbourne tragically and sadly has gone from being the most livable city in the world to the most locked-down city in the world.

– Josh Frydenberg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Joe Biden suggests that if you don't do locked down policies, then you should, quote,' Get out of the way.' Well, let me tell you this : If you're coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I'm standing in your way.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you have any flicker of independent thought, if you have any desire to use your faculties to live in a way that is right for you and not to be under complete draconian, authoritarian rule by this administration and the Democrats, who are coming for every single one of our freedoms, they want you to wear masks forever, they want to be locked down forever, they want to control what you say and where you say it and who you say it to -- well, you're running out of time. And you're basically a frog in a slowly boiling pot. It's time to stand up and fight.

– Dave Rubin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In a dramatic reversal of their previous guidance, President Biden's CDC has seemingly decided that our businesses, churches, and schools should remain masked up and potentially locked down forever, this new guidance is confusing and Americans are frustrated.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’d love to fall madly in love with someone, which certainly won’t happen whilst I’m locked down with blood relatives.

– Elizabeth Hurley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

At 5:30 p.m., detectives discovered that David Dahlen had escaped the secure holding cell David Dahlen was in. The building was immediately locked down and additional resources were called in, it was later confirmed that David Dahlen had gotten out of the building and was last seen running north.

– Portland Police Bureau

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It would be a complete waste of time if we locked down without developing a test and trace system.

– Jonathan Portes

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Lockdowns can be very harmful, and we have too many states that are locked down right now. Nobody knows what the governors are doing, actually.

– The President

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In the United States, even in the most strict lockdowns, only about 50 % of the country locked down -- that allowed for the perpetuation of the outbreak, which we never did get under very good control.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Imagine all the women that have been locked down with a man that is causing them harm... many of these women have reported this to the police before, they could have been reached out to and taken away before the confinement started.

– Elena Marbán Castro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We know statistically, based on our experience with the China trade shock in the 2000s, that unemployment creates more suicides, depression and drug abuse, but we also know this in this crisis, as we've basically locked down our hospitals for everything but Covid, women haven't been getting mammograms or cervical examinations for cancer. We haven't been able to do other procedures for the heart or the kidneys. And that's going to kill people as well.

– Peter Navarro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If New York City had locked down two days before New York City did, half the people who died would not have died. Because New York City was doubling every two days, speed is incredibly important.

– Tom Frieden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The agency was very unprepared when it hit, they could have locked down the institution or put it on a modified scheduling, had a lot more control of movement and everything to keep it more contained if it did kick off, and it wouldn't have gotten all over our institution.

– Ronald Morris

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have some elderly friends who are in assisted living facilities that are locked down and I'll say,' I'm thinking about you and hoping things are going okay.' I'll hear back sometimes that they appreciate that, people are scared. It helps that a lot of us are kind of in the same boat.

– Paul Rosenblatt

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you completely locked down absolutely everything probably for a period of four months or more then you would suppress this virus, all of the evidence from pervious epidemics suggests that when you do that and then you release it, it all comes back again.

– Patrick Vallance

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Healthcare is a particularly tricky area for ransomware, many healthcare systems are locked down by vendors, so healthcare systems often can't be patched in the same way other sectors can patch. This means that healthcare organizations have to take other measures to protect themselves.

– Recorded Future

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Lighting is down. No light in the cells. All locked down since Thursday night. That's going on for at least 36 hours. When the sun goes down it's pitch dark. Inmates who have medical conditions can't read the instructions on the medications.

– David Patton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It looks like the whole street, the whole location is still locked down. Nobody's moving to the scene, a lot of police, rescue cars are parked there. But nobody's moving, so it seems as if it's still going on.

– Christian Hubel

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As the Islamic State is getting locked down, they are squeezing the local population.

– Scott Stewart

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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