Source: A Massachusetts golf course owner said she plans to reopen within the “next few days” despite the state’s coronavirus stay-at-home order, Fox News reported Monday. Cara Cullen, the owner and manager of the Wachusett Country Club and the Kettle Brook Golf Club in central Massachusetts, told the news outlet that the five weeks her family-run golf course has been shut down have been financially devastating for the business and its employees. She has since had to “pretty much let all of them go.”
With the reopening, Cullen said her top priority is ensuring customer and employee safety. The business will aggressively clean golf carts, implement single-use golf carts, enforce no congregating in the parking lot, ensure no entry in buildings, have people check-in outside, require employees to wear masks and gloves and install new flagpoles to prevent hand contact, Fox News reported. The business owner said she understands the severity of the virus, as her mother-in-law was “one of the first people to pass away from the virus in Massachusetts.”
“I do know how serious this is,” Cullen said. “I don’t think this is a hoax. I think it’s serious. And my four children never saw their grandmother again and haven’t been able to properly grieve.”
Cullen cooperated with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s (R) initial order to shut down nonessential businesses in March. Originally, Baker set a target reopening date for Monday but has since delayed it until May 18. The governor had announced last week the formulation of an advisory board to help the state economy reopen, but Cullen called it a “delay tactic” and expressed frustration that it wasn’t created five weeks ago.
“Basically for five weeks, I’ve sat by watching my family business get destroyed while thousands of golfers have crossed the borders to go to Connecticut and New York, which is causing huge safety concerns,” she said.
Golf courses are open in 45 states but also closed in Vermont, Maryland, Washington and New Hampshire. Washington is set to reopen them on Tuesday, and New Hampshire is scheduled to reopen them on May 11. Vermont and Maryland, like Massachusetts, do not have a set end date for the ban, according to Golf Adviser.
God bless this woman. We need more business owners and people like her in general. There’s absolutely no reason for golf course not to be opened. If anything they will help, since we know now that sunlight kills the virus. Just look at Florida, California, and other sunshine states. They have a fraction of the casualties that shitty weather states like Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts have. This really isn’t hard to figure out. Get outside, enjoy the weather, and live life. If you sit at home waiting for your husband to bring back the commie cold from the Worcester Walmart then you’re a lot more likely to get the bug. Duh.
“bUt GoLf iSnT eSsEnTiAl”
Was it essential when I bought shit for Easter baskets at Walmart? Is it essential when I went to the dollar store to buy balloons for my crotch fruits birthday party? Of course not.
But ya know what is essential? Freedom. And it’s pretty Goddamn essential for Cara Cullen and her family to have Wachusett Country Club up ad running for golf season since they’re losing business to Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and soon New Hampshire.
This is what real bravery looks like. Not hiding your in home, but standing up for yourself and telling the government that you’re not going to allow them to force you to become a ward of the state.
She shouldn’t be the only one doing this either. If you own a store, just open it. I know people who have done this. Don’t go on Fox News and broadcast it. Don’t put out a sign that you’re reopened. Just go in and unlock the door and wait for customers to walk in, because they will. There’s no reason for tobacco shops to be shut down when you can buy cigars at the liquor store. Eventually free people need to stand up to tyranny and act like free people. Business owners gave the government a chance and took them at their word that this was temporary. But as usual they were betrayed because the government lies and the whole thing was a blank check to close down indefinitely.
Anyway, I’ve never met Cara Cullen, but we are Facebook friends so she’s probably a turtle rider. I’d love to have her on the live show tonight to talk about this. I sent her a DM this morning but if you know her personally tell her to hit me up and subscribe to our YouTube channel. We discussed her story and much more on the Gerry Callahan podcast today too, so make sure you give that page a like and never miss an episode.
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Almost half of Covid deaths are people 75 and over. In New York it is illegal to discharge nursing home patients to hospitals even though there are hundreds of beds available pretty much condemning them to death by Cuomo who curiously claimed to be unaware of this. Unlike New York Florida , which has the same population and HALF New York’s budget sent emergency teams to nursing homes to manage the infections.
I hope, as Bill Gross said, we have to remember the incompetence and cluelessness of government officials when we vote, if that will still be a thing.
Íosa Críost, it’s that feckin’ Prog smile again, crazy eyed and telling the world they are in the club. they ALL have it. not too many working class heroes own a golf course and i can’t get past that grimace….
So, after reading both stories, I still can’t figure out if it’s fucking opening or not, can you make it a bit more clear? YES or NO just fucking say it. Or do we have to go on some asswipe’s podcast to get a clue?
When will one of these clown media people ask baker a simple question like , “what’s the difference between 50 people in a church vs 50 people in Walmart”? why were masks not mandatory during the alleged surge of this thing but they are now? Baker and his buddies continue to lie to people. Then the other day he says we need a vaccine before things get back to normal, hey fuck boy the corona virus has been around for years and there hasn’t been a vaccine found. What a scumbag this guy is.
I hope the ER gives you the middle finger when you show up gasping for air because you were too fucking stupid to use common sense.
Hey dipshit the virus has been here since December and the hospitals were not overrun and there were not massive deaths . I’m sure you love the CDC according their website there were more deaths in the country at this time last year than this year, what does that tell you. I work in the healthcare field, the hospitals are empty and have been for months. 2/3 of deaths are from nursing homes. You’re a slave.
No, 37k more have died in 2020 than would’ve been expected based on the same timeframe in recent years.
Pure numbers on a page, no interpretation. Facts don’t care about your feelings, snowflakes.
I hope my electrician wires my house to burn down, my mechanic cuts my brake lines and my barber or stylist cuts my throat for supporting the arbitrary lock down.
Will you be my hospital roommate? However I do sleepwalk and have a bad habit of unplugging electronics including your ventilator
Nothing say freedom of the common man than…a golf course with $5,000 premium membership.
MUH RIGHTS!
When our heroes in blue eventually paint her brains all over the walls of her restaurant, we’ll know she died a true warrior.
A nurse claims she is the proud owner of a ‘transgender cat’ as the Tom she rescued became a Queen – thanks to a sex change operation to relieve urinary problems. When Krista Lee, 51, fell in love with a grey and white moggy called Lewis in June last year at her local shelter, she was delighted to be allowed to take him home that day, as he had already been neutered and inoculated. But it soon became clear to Krista and her grocery store worker husband Sean, 56, of The Triangle, North Carolina, that one-year-old Lewis was struggling to pass water and, when he did, it contained traces of blood. The vet suggested to either to make a bigger opening, or to remove Lewis’ ‘cathood’ entirely, inverting the remaining skin to create a permanent passage for urine to run from the perineum, which is closer to the anus
Liquor stores… essential? Da Fuq? That’s when I said this is all stupid shit.
If this virus was carried by mosquitos, I’d say let the fucking golf course stay open anyway.
I’m so sick of the “I’m not wearing a mask” or “Let businesses open” movement. Charlie Faker should just say “Open if you want. If you die, so what. If one of your customers can prove your establishment gave him the Wuhan-Flu, that patron can sue the shit outta you. You fuckers are on your own. Good luck.”
I’m not going to get this fucking disease as long as my mother’s basement has wifi and PornHub is free. I ain’t leaving until this fucking mess is over. When my groceries get delivered I hose them down with bleach. Then a wipe down with Lysol. Then I take a shower. Twice.
Fuck this world. We are all going to hell anyway. The sooner everyone who is weak dies, the better we’ll all be.
PornHub pick of the day. ‘Triple Fisting and Extreme Insertion, EXTREME INSERTIONS.’
You probably all already seen it but it’s a great butt video 3 lesbians 3 fists in one woman’s ass. Next time a woman says it’s too big you know she isn’t dedicated to the cause or turned on enough. More lube and pre anal stretching. This is what all the out of work Americans should be doing and broadcasting live to overcome fear of viruses.
Call it the individuals right to choose, and add to that the responsibility inherent with making your own choices and ta da, no more petty arguments over wearing a mask (both sides of the argument appear self-righteous at times). i don’t feel ill, but have witnessed uncovered coughing and sneezing in stores, because many people are dumb animals. i wear a mask in stores and the Doc’s office.
i often saw Japanese wearing pre-covid masks and wondered if it was due to pollution or illness, turns out the person wearing the mask was concerned about passing something on to others, and not afraid of catching something…
meanwhile, the disease of old age waits to fuck us all.
Liquor stores are still open because delirium tremens, known as DTs or “withdrawal” becomes a medical problem, taking up hospital beds. Hardcore alcoholics don’t tend to maintain a 7 week emergency supply at home. Hence, the dispensaries are open to medical patients but not recreational users.
Plus the break-ins and rioting when said alcoholics are prevented from obtaining their substance.
The democrats said they would get rid of trump “by any means necessary”, I believe Adam shit or Pelosi said that.
A round up:
-Russia hoax failed
-mueller probe failed
-impeachment failed
Now they are hell bent on destroying the economy and shutting shit down as evidenced by the leftist governors that you never heard of hell bent on keeping their states shut down at all costs, despite 30 million people unemployed- and those were stats from LAST WEEK.
The leftists are trying to completely destroy small business and the economy which it drives in order to say trump tanked the economy. This is evidenced by the fact most dems at every level is not only make sure shit stays closed, but is blaming Trump NOT CHINA and in many cases giving China lip service.
Trump will win 2020 and people are starting to wake up because their livelihoods are being destroy by democrats, rinos, and never trumpers.
The governors that are going full authoritarian know this is their last chance. This whole situation proves how dangerous and radicalized the left have become.
The Dems next play? Planned food shortages and mass civil unrest. Buy storable food, extra ammo, and lock and load. It’s time to go out. Let’s get going….
As I said before, all this bullshit to get their shitty candidate, Quid Pro Joe elected. Nice job democrats
Hi Rick in Ruttleland,
If Trump did his job we wouldn’t have the virus. When he was elected the first thing I said is there’ll be no food in supermarkets. Now there’s no food in the supermarkets. This guy does everything to hurt working people and if you’re a working person, you’ll feel it when he’s gone. There will be no country left if Trump wins again, you can take that to the bank.
Witness the talk you’re hearing now about the fragility of the food supply lines…meat that’s going to go unprocessed…potatoes being dumped because it’s too expensive to take them to market…
This is only the tip of the iceberg. Stay vigilant, patriots.
Well, the world needs ditch diggers too.
Are silverbacks allowed?
I’m all for some businesses reopening, but there are some I think we could do without. There are stories online today about some Wendy’s locations in the US no longer serving burgers due to a meat shortage. You can still get chicken, just no burgers. So if there is that kind of shortage on the horizon, should we be opening restaurants back up? Even if it’s only outdoor dining. Also, I saw pictures of what tables 6 feet apart looks like and it’s closer than you think. It’s the *tables* that are 6 feet apart, not the chairs around them. I guess the one thing we can all agree on is hoarding toilet paper, leading to Charmin Ultra replacing the American dollar as the new national currency. #CharminUltra2020
Nice tits. How old is she?
Has anyone seen the video of the Marine in CA standing down the police with logic? This will be a small business owner’s future should they chose to reopen. There is a thin blue line separating tyranny from Freedom. Which way will the collective line shift when squeezed between the two?
Everybody will be exposed and eventually infected with the Wuhan Corona virus and fairly soon. Good chance you’ve already been exposed. 70,000 confirmed in Mass and the true number is much higher. Every day the numbers increase not decrease, you can’t hide from this virus.
Most people won’t even know they were infected and spreading it. You will never know where or when you were exposed. There is no medical cure or vaccine yet, there may never be a vaccine or medical cure, only increasingly effective therapies.
To keep people from working, socializing and worshipping is a formula for breaking the spirit of a nation. If you wanted to invade a nation and dominate that nation. Placing everyone in poverty, removing their family and friends and preventing their religious worship and travel would be effective. The US didn’t even impose such restrictions in Iraq and Afghanistan or against ISIS. Religious worship among the Taliban, enemy combatants, ISIS was shielded from American air and ground power as was freedom to associate with family and travel was some times checked but rarely stopped all together.
What do you do when people can’t pay rent/mortgage or even utilities or groceries. What do the banks and land lords do when they can’t pay. What do suppliers do when all the shops and restaurants can’t pay for their inventory. What do the suppliers investors do when the suppliers can’t pay their bills.
If the only people working are Nurses, Walmart, Micky D’s, liquor stores, cops, firemen and government employees paid to stay home. Nothing is being produced all you have is service employees and retail middle men making a pay check. The economy will continue to implode until even the service and municipal jobs are gone. The full economy must be reopened it is already too late for many.
Shut Her Down! We need to arrest her and seize that property!
STFU, you flamer.
This is stupid. Nobody should be doing anything until everyone has been vaccinated. It should be a requirement once a vaccine is available. There should be no choice.
No offense intended but there is no way in hell that I’m putting a vaccine in my body that was -in theory*- rushed to market.
* It would be insane to develop a virus without a cure concurrently
**if a vaccine emerges quickly, that should pretty much tell you what you need to know
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
In addition, if it only has the 25-30% efficacy of the current influenza virus, they probably ARE using it to control/monitor us.
Careful, this fell on the floor. *Picks up tinfoil hat*
Apologies in advance to The Simpsons Mr. X.
Sodomy? Too late for you dude!
Marriage proposals should flood in …she’s got more fucking stones than all you beta cucks combined
Charlie Baker and his son can fuck off no mask here Charlie I’ve got a medical condition and I printed out the statue to carry on me again fuck off
***Trigger Warning*** Seeing as Red is the new Blue for being triggered by words.
Despite the fact that I’m for the lockdown it’s fucking stupid to shut down golf courses and shooting ranges. Yes please have fun being triggered by my supporting the lockdown in your replies and meaningless down votes.
There is no fucking reason golf courses and gun ranges can’t be open. There’s plenty of room to social distance. You’re outside the sun disinfects every surface. Fucking golf carts can be disinfected easily. If you think they’re unsafe you can walk the course.
No one is ever within 6 feet of another person at the range. This is for a different kind of safety but it works for corona. It’d be easy to stay away from each other while shooting skeet. Even indoor ranges are safer than grocery stores.
I hope Baker doesn’t shut her down she’s opening safely and should be an example to everyone on how to reopen correctly.
You’re entitled to that. It just feels like you got triggered for everyone else while telling people about it being triggereing.
triggereing
pronounced: Trig gere ing
Defined as the specific act of Richard Gere doing Trigonometry.
Right. Fucking. On.
I always enjoy playing a few holes.
You gotta fight.. for your right.. To wooorrrkkkk!
Fucking ridiculous.. Been saying from day 1 when the virus was still on china this is all a ploy by the government to control the people and line the greedy politicians pockets. Big corporations essential small business run by families non essential.. Makes sense right bahaha…
What is a “single-use gold cart”?
Golf cart.
Only one person in a golf cart, normally there are two. So every player would have their own cart.
envisioning convoys of golf carts lol, all those rentals might help with cash flow but you know the they’re going to run out of carts before they run out of t times, time to hoof it
My dumb ass is over here thinking they’re tossing these shits after someone using them.
Serious face palm.
Charlie Parker says she is playing with fire.
You are too jizz stain.
Guv Chucky Baker already burned Massachusetts businesses to the ground who is Baker to point fingers and talk about playing with fire?
Isn’t Guv Chuck Baker the same man who enabled his son AJ Baker to circumvent legal charges in the sexual assault on a sleeping woman? If your son is so innocent let it go to a jury. tisk tisk chucky boy.
Thanks for the mulligan, Daddy-O!
I was waiting for a business owner to have giant balls and open up, this women is a hero
My nutsack has turned blue again.
Pretty sure this broad did a line off my shaft in ‘89
I was gonna say the same thing!
All the Leftist pet programs that depend on people who work and produce will die causing Lib outrage to explode when they finally realize there isn’t any revenue (tax money) to fund:
– Head Start
– Snap
– EBT
– Section 8
– Free school lunch
– Art and Music in schools
– Soccer and rusty trombone lessons
– School buses
– Needle Exchanges for junkies
– Homeless shelters
– Gay parades
– HIV/STD community outreach
– Funding for La Raza
– Funding for the Black Panthers
– Pay raises for government hacks
– Race based scholarships for the unqual… underprivileged
– Race based hiring for the unqual… underprivileged
– Add a dick to me and penis removal surgeries for the mentally ill
The liberals will borrow more money from the Chinese communists. When the bill comes due, the liberals will give the country to the Chinese communists.
We will keep all those programs! We will just print more money you right-wing simpleton!
I would speculate there is no shortage of volunteers to instruct the Rusty Trombone class.
Have been there.Must admit it is a lovely Country Club.
Off topic but I would like to be the first to wish
Spic Tormentor and all Turtle Riders a Happy Cinco De Mayo!!
This is exactly how Charlie Baker has failed MA residents. They are driving to others states for golf, haircuts, ammo etc. So MA businesses suffer and the revenue goes to other states. It’s almost impossible to get tee times at Raceway, Thompson CT. they are so busy with MA golfers.
The two golf courses her family owns are fantastic and professionally run and cared for. Class act. I play both courses.
You ever get Ho in one, Lee?
Ho in one = yes
Hole in one = no
Following in the footsteps of the world’s most famous Asian golfer: Tiger Woods!
Seventeen years after the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak and seven years since the first Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) case, there is still no coronavirus vaccine despite dozens of attempts to develop them.
keep using a dust mask or homemade mask with no seal to stop a virus, you’ll end up taking extra risks you wouldn’t take without a mask in the belief you are safer and increasing the odds of infection. By the way where is the decontamination room for the rest of your body and clothing and how is that room sanitized? Does your entire family and your co workers follow the same procedures. The emperor has no clothes and your mask doesn’t stop viruses.
How is your mask handled and sanitized, the mask you stuff in your pocket with your dirty hands.
Her business as well as others will be shuttered in a week or two. She will comply. So will you.
i DoN’t KnOw HoW tO aRgUe EiTheR
Yeah, country club owner are “badass”.
Gimmee money money money money
She look OK to me. She looks like Chelsea Handler ate an entire Burger King.
Think about it you wannabe Soviets: Liquor stores, lottery, marijuana dispensaries, etc are deemed ‘essential’.
Meanwhile camping & golfing, which in essence are ‘social distancing’, are banned.
Are you that stupid not to see the total hypocrisy?
Want to piss off a lib?
You tube “planet of the humans”, which shreds the lies and hypocrisy behind the Green New Deal crowd. 140 minutes devoted to shredding solar, wind farms and electric cars. Has the lib elite in a fucking tizzy!
they are that stupid and they love power over other people
In MA, weed stores are medical only right now.
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I have know Cara for many years. She is an amazing employer, friend and badass!!! I expect no less from her!
Is she a go’er? Doses she go? Know what I mean?
Nudge,nudge.Wink,wink.
All Americans deserve reparations from the Chinese.
Free Chinese food and Mai Tai’s for life at the establishment
of your choice.
How Dare You
I want my reparations in the form of Chinese hooker slaves and hoverboards and cell phones with exploding batteries that burn your house down.
The Dems will soon be announcing what we all knew.
Murder Hornets are carriers of Covid 19.
Traditionally, golf courses have had ball washers. I like the idea that there will be pole washers now as well.
“If you sit at home waiting for your husband to bring back the commie cold from the Worcester Walmart then you’re a lot more likely to get the bug.”
The fact that you keep writing shit like this without recognizing the utter illogic of it is astounding. I say open the golf course. But you’re a fucking moron.
That was my favorite line in the entire article, actually. Once again, Unc is not wrong.
“Unc” is probably measurably retarded.
Think about it. If one household member being out and about exposed the household, what do two household members being out and about do?
Good for her. Enough of this overactive nonsense. The flu killed many more people than COVID-19.
Lol no
Turtleboy fans voting down objective stats. Shocking!
Seen any swarms of Murder Hornets in your travels yet?
More will die this year of the following, than will of Covid:
-slips, trips & falls
-car accidents
-drownings
-choking
-cancer
-etc, too numerous times list
Not too mention the inflated stats for Medicare $$ & pre-existing conditions fueling this ‘not really out of the ordinary’, stats wise, pandemic.
You’re welcome to curl up in the fetal position in your favorite Star Wars t-shirt & be a coward. Don’t ask the rest of us to emulate your pathetic, pussy behavior, however.
He made an empirical claim about flu vs covid and was way off. So are you. Heart disease and cancer will be the only causes of death more common than covid in 2020. Covid will pass the rest by the end of May. This is simple fact, no matter how mad that makes you.
Not in 6 weeks!!!
Shut up, queer. You know that isn’t true.
Plumper, I would
What’s better than an Irish teabagger?