Posted on 05/15/2020 10:45:25 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Writing at PJMedia.com, Megan Fox has an excellent piece today about Michigan’s authoritarian Governor, Generalissimo Gretchen Whitmer, getting slapped with a lawsuit by a group of doctors and a single patient on Thursday. The suit smartly alleges that, through her increasingly irrational and anti-science edicts, the Herr Gretchen is creating a looming public health crisis of her own as a growing number of Michiganders continue to be denied the right to have what the state has declared “non-essential surgeries.”
Here’s an excerpt from a Washington Times piece:
VDO.AI The plaintiffs allege in federal court that Ms. Whitmer’s “drastic, unprecedented [and] unilateral executive actions” to cease economic activity that her office deemed nonessential were based on “grossly inaccurate” models that no longer apply and therefore should be lifted.
“Medical providers are on the brink of financial ruin, facing extreme revenue shortages caused by the Governor’s order forcing the postponement or cancellation of so-called ‘non-essential’ procedures,” said the suit filed by the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation and a private law firm, Miller Johnson. “Thousands of healthcare workers across Michigan have been furloughed or laid off.”
In addition to the economic devastation, Ms. Whitmer’s order has left hospitals and patients facing a dangerous backlog on procedures that will create a public health catastrophe of its own, said Dr. Randal Baker, a general surgeon and president of Grand Health Partners, a plaintiff based in Grand Rapids.
“This whole ‘elective-procedure’ thing is now a time bomb,” Dr. Baker told The Washington Times. “There is no good reason to have a ban on elective surgery any more. This is now a significant health problem for the people of Michigan and our patients, and I’ve had one patient attempt suicide — a very serious attempt.”
As Ms. Fox points out in her piece, Herr Gretchen had already had a no-good, terrible, very bad week, as her efforts to put 77 year-old barber Karl Manke out of business ran aground. First, the local Sheriff refused her directive to forcibly shut Manke’s business down. Next, a state district judge refused to allow the Generalissimo to enforce a restraining order on Manke after Whitmer had ordered her bureaucrats to revoke his barber’s license, instead ruling that he should get his day in court.
What, an American citizen getting his day in court? What a concept, one with which Herr Gretchen and her fellow Democrats have grown distressingly unfamiliar.
Back to the lawsuit against Whitmer, Ms. Fox focuses in on one amazing factoid that is going to kill the Generalissimo’s ability to defend herself:
The lockdown has literally sentenced medically fragile people, who would have been fine if they had been able to seek medical care, to life-threatening or even deadly conditions. And there was no good reason not to allow them in the nearly empty hospitals in Michigan. “Graphics depicted that while Governor Whitmer’s administration anticipated 220,000 patients being hospitalized without social distancing efforts, there had only been 3,000 hospitalizations as of April 27,” the lawsuit states. “That is less than 1.4% of the projected COVID-19 hospitalizations underlying the governor’s declared states of emergency and disaster.”
So, don’t come on here and try to tell anyone that Herr Gretchen is basing her orders on anything resembling “science.” She – like Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx – has based her policies on projections made by buffoonish statistical models that have literally no relationship whatsoever to anything happening in the real world.
Hey! Come to think of it, that makes Herr Gretchen the gubernatorial version of a Climate “scientist,” doesn’t it? Go figure.
That is all.
When was she elected?
When can she be recalled?
Generalissimo Gretchen Whitmer’s No-Good, Terrible, Very Bad Week”
Where is the evidence for that? Not one of her mandates have been lifted, not one. One barber in a small town is not exactly a smack down. The GOP should have taken this directly to the Mi SC the moment she ignored the expiration of the emergency order. Instead they dither while thousands of businesses are disappearing forever.
One problem with the bad week theory - Witless doesn’t care. Witless and AG Dana Nessel have signaled they will not follow any court orders. The lockdown stands.
On the talk shows yesterday, word is that the Michigan State Police have been put on alert to arrest anyone who does not follow Witless’ orders regardless of the lawsuit outcomes.
Michigan has become Cuba.
She is ruling like Mussolini. The media is cheering her on. Because somebody takes a case to kangaroo court, she is is having a bad week? This is drivel.
She is the best campaign manager Trump could ever hope for in Michigan.
The American news media cheered for Mussolini in the 1930’s. Nothing new.
We continue to underestimate just how evil Democrats have become.
If Hitler were a tranny
If I’m not mistaken, their enthusiasm was mainly based on getting the trains to run on schedule.
Now Gestapo Gretchen is pulling together (rainbow) religious leaders for statewide “prayer for unity” to fight “hatred and violence”. On WJR AM 760 now, with her minister bff’s.
The abortion-loving, pot-legalizing, rights-restricting feminazi is pushing prayer to God now?
Gestapo Gretchen Whitmer’s got ministers praying at her presser now on WJR AM 760.
have no doubt that the democrat party is behind the extended lockdown.
I am reminded of the democrat governor of Louisiana when prior to the Katrina hurricane struck that George Bush offered help. He was turned down and after thousands died from flooding they blamed George Bush.
You have the NY gov Coumo who activity ordered virus infected people into nursing homes, when told of the increase in deaths he doubled down while also blocking the use of known medicine hydroxychloroquine that would have saved these people. Only recently lifted. That medicine was also banned in Michigan and other places.
Who bans medicine?
The democrats are blaming Donald Trump even though there is clear evidence he was way ahead of everyone else. He talked about it during the state of the union address, you know the one where Nancy Pelosi tore up the speech behind him.....
I do not believe the numbers of people who die from the virus. The majority are in nursing homes and they all have underlining health issues and the average age is near 80.
Any person who dies, the gov’t lists the cause as the chinese virus......
CO man dies from astounding 0.55 blood alcohol level, coronavirus listed as cause of death
https://disrn.com/news/co-man-dies-from-astounding-055-blood-alcohol-level-coronavirus-listed-as-cause-of-death
Her presser today had an IMAM bringing up confederate flags & nazi symbols at the MI protests (like 1% of those attending, and the nazi symbols were calling Whitmer a nazi) and calling MI liberty-loving patriots “haters”.
She just pissed off MI patriots even more. She wants blood on the streets.
And Stalin was a farmer with great ideas for growing crops. They loved Hitler until he invaded the USSR.
Have you seen her evil smile? She is pure evil.
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