Governor DeWine (R-OH), ready to lock down this red state.

You are exactly right. BTW, my daughter works as a nurse at the largest hospital in the Clearwater Fl area, the largest retirement community in the country. She says they are nowhere near capacity.

There's an uptick, but we can't let stats scare us. Our local Hospital has seen a SPIKE, sounds scary, up 100% WOW, from 7 hospitalized to 14. So ye there is an expected spike as we go inside, it's not the end of the world as mortality drops. Also, vulnerable people will have access to the vaccine in coming weeks.

“Lockdowns” are hugely popular with the general public.
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I’m afraid he’s right.

In WI, the State Supreme Court cancelled Evers’ mandates 2x. In every instance, the red counties, which had already been refusing to comply, still increased visible mask-wearing and gathering-place avoidance and the blue cities/counties totally locked down voluntarily.

The fear in some places is palpable. It is business owners, but also, for example,health care workers. A positive test means 14 days at home AND also prevents the children in the family from going to school and the spouse or older children are also confined and unable to work. These are tremendous burdens, so people comply to *get it over with* and never seem to understand that it is never *over with*.

So, *popular* may be a misnomer. People are coerced into going along, reluctantly, out of fear of sanctions that are enforced through peer pressure. Not friends and family, necessarily, but by neighborhood nannies. And, of course, if the businesses close down to comply, by default, there is nowhere to go. This is why they are now upping the ante to limit home-based gatherings. If your friends and family won’t attend, there is no gathering.

People can communicate, but since the divisions are so pronounced, who has time for a phone or email or social media argument? Most of us are exhausted, which is one of the goals.

In my red county, I am aware of 3 restaurants I can visit if I want to and most employees in the stores are not masked. (this goes up and down...each time a new edict is proclaimed, there is an uptick in visible compliance, followed by disregard) Evers’ current edict is an *urging* and he is threatening to go to the legislature for actual laws. The hospital occupancy in my region is about 83 beds, total, for COVID.

The R legislature has the usual strong individualists in the Assembly and squishes in the Senate.

Here’s some info for you; shame you can’t do the research yourself.

Corporations outearn but don’t outnumber small businesses. From coffee shops to corner bakeries, there are roughly 30.2 million small businesses in America, says the Small Business Administration. That amounts to 99.9 percent of all U.S. businesses!

Furthermore, small businesses collectively represent one of the largest employers in the country, employing around 58.9 million people. That amounts to 47.5 percent of the private workforce, or nearly one in two people you know, according to Statistics of U.S. Business.

So again, I really don’t think the “general public” agrees with lockdowns. You show me one business owner or their employees that’s just jumping up and down with glee, enthusiastically willing to just throw away their income and livelihood!

And you call my thoughts skewed?

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