[Alberta's Child]

A foolish line of thought. In April of 2020 imperfect decisions were made in in an extremely unknown environment.

That's your explanation/excuse.

What I find most disturbing of all is that we are now seeing a concerted effort among political forces and in the media to whitewash history and pretend it never happened.

This is like something out of East Germany during the Cold War.

One of the lessons I've learned over the years is that it's absolutely critical to see how a leader (in government or business) reacts at the very start of a crisis -- when all the facts are not known, and when panic is understandable.

People in leadership positions show their primary instincts in these situations.

And I have nothing but contempt for anyone who acts like a dictator and throws all principles of freedom and liberty out the window at a critical time. This goes for DeSantis in Florida and that other nitwit in Pennsylvania (Mastriano) who was publicly calling in March 2020 for the suspension of HIPAA privacy laws and registering people with positive COVID test results in a public database.

There's a reason why the primary instinct of @ssholes like this is for a totalitarian government solution to a crisis: It's because they've worked in government all their lives (and in the case of both Mastriano and DeSantis, spent long stretches of their government careers in the U.S. military) and they simply have no respect for the fundamental principle that freedom and liberty exists outside of government and is not subject to negotiation.

[bagster]

Very nicely written and 100% accurate, Alberta.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ to whitewash history and pretend it never happened.”

I have seen no effort by Desantis to do this.
If you want to judge a politician actions on Covid, look at when they made adjustments to the March and April 2020 decisions.
Our governor here in Iowa made similar decisions in that timeframe.
However she was a leader in rolling back restrictions and getting kids back in schools.
In March of 2020 everything was collapsing, immense uncertainty .
One of Trumps biggest legacies is a depression was avoided.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Even Trump locked things down in April 2020:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/30/morning-brief-trump-extends-coronavirus-lockdown-april-30/