Posted on 04/17/2020 8:28:49 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
As our health care system and economy teeter under the strain from COVID-19, elected officials are making some of the most important decisions of our lifetimes. Especially at the state level, many are emerging as competent leaders. Others, though, are undermining their authority and the public trust by hiding behind a wall of secrecy.
Americans have never put up with “don’t ask questions, just trust me” for long — especially in a crisis.
In Pennsylvania, for example, Gov. Tom Wolf initially was an open book in dealing with the coronavirus threat, holding daily news conferences and providing updates. But then he dropped a hammer on the state’s workers and businesses with no warning.
On March 19, Wolf issued a statewide ban on business operations not deemed “life-sustaining.” The drastic measure was unprecedented, and so was its announcement. The shutdown order was announced on a Thursday afternoon and went into effect just three hours later.
The business community wasn’t consulted. Lawmakers were blindsided. The criteria for what qualified as “life-sustaining” was ill-defined, and bans on certain industries appeared to be arbitrary. The details eventually released were a hodgepodge, seemingly assembled with little forethought, that evolved constantly over the next weeks.
Truckers could work, but interstate rest stops and Turnpike restaurants and restrooms were closed. State-run liquor stores were open, but payroll companies — which ensure life-sustaining workers can be paid — were shuttered. Then rest stops and payroll companies were reopened and liquor stores were closed. Unprecedented times may call for unprecedented measures, but the haphazard rollout of Wolf’s business shutdown was entirely avoidable.
Then it got worse.
Wolf imposed a waiver process for “non-life-sustaining” businesses to get clearance to reopen — a red-tape measure that no other state has replicated.
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What if 'the experts' are wrong?
What if 'the experts' have a bias or political agenda?
Can an 'expert' be objective?
Can 'experts' be trusted to separate their alleged objectivity from their personal and professional ideology?
Kayaks at a boat launch OK, boats with motors are not.
Given this, I don’t trust a single thing from the Leftists.
This article seems to have no basis in reality.
They are totalitarian criminals.
‘This article seems to have no basis in reality.’
other than the fact that this article lays out precisely what the Wolf administration actually did, what about it is not real, exactly...?
There are no real experts on this one.
We apes do not like it when mother nature shows us how stupid we are.
At that moment we yell and scream and jump up and down and point fingers and call names.
Those who claim to know what is going on are either liars or fools.
None of that is true. Not even in NYC where the Javits center and navy hospital ship are both empty.
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