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| Silverfiddle Rant! |
We’ve now witnessed local and state governments issue decrees about what people can and cannot buy in stores, arrest parents playing with their children in public parks, yank people off public buses at random, remove basketball rims along with private property, ticket churchgoers, and in one case try—and fail—to chase down a lone runner on an empty beach. All of this, we’re told, is for our own good. (John Davidson, The Federalist)
The Infotainment Media Complex fans the flames of hysteria with headlines like this:
South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home!!!
Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots!!!
After ordering all of us to cower in our homes, they add insult to injury by subjecting us to cheap morality tales:
Backward rightwing governor of a state full of backward rightwing Trump voters ignored Science and refused to order everyone under house arrest, and look what happened! South Dakota is a Hot Spot!
The outbreak happened at a meat packing plant, not a rogue roadside tavern in an unincorporated part of the state, and the outbreak is attributed to insufficient Personal Protective Equipment at a job site where people work cheek by jowl. No Stay at Home order would have prevented that. New York put in place a very stringent Stay at Home order, but NYC is a glowing red hot spot.
Related to this is the disturbing trend of people snitching on neighbors taking a walk outdoors, and screaming about how people not quarantining in place in rural Nebraska are going kill us all. People in the hinterlands of Trump Country taking walks outside are not endangering the nation. Businesses like packing plants that don't check workers' temperatures and provide PPE and other precautions will cause a hot spot, and that needs to be addressed, harshly.
The same people accusing Donald Trump of being a dictator are enraged that he has not dictated a uniform nationwide house arrest. They see different rules enforced in different ways around the nation and they scream like toddlers in a daycare center because another group of kids got cookies and they didn’t.
Check out where South Dakota is on the Coronavirus - US dashboard.
South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home!!!
Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots!!!
Backward rightwing governor of a state full of backward rightwing Trump voters ignored Science and refused to order everyone under house arrest, and look what happened! South Dakota is a Hot Spot!
The outbreak happened at a meat packing plant, not a rogue roadside tavern in an unincorporated part of the state, and the outbreak is attributed to insufficient Personal Protective Equipment at a job site where people work cheek by jowl. No Stay at Home order would have prevented that. New York put in place a very stringent Stay at Home order, but NYC is a glowing red hot spot.
Related to this is the disturbing trend of people snitching on neighbors taking a walk outdoors, and screaming about how people not quarantining in place in rural Nebraska are going kill us all. People in the hinterlands of Trump Country taking walks outside are not endangering the nation. Businesses like packing plants that don't check workers' temperatures and provide PPE and other precautions will cause a hot spot, and that needs to be addressed, harshly.
The same people accusing Donald Trump of being a dictator are enraged that he has not dictated a uniform nationwide house arrest. They see different rules enforced in different ways around the nation and they scream like toddlers in a daycare center because another group of kids got cookies and they didn’t.
Check out where South Dakota is on the Coronavirus - US dashboard.
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