Posted on 11/15/2022 7:00:33 PM PST by SoConPubbie
With you being so cordial and reasonable, that shouldn’t be a problem…
You don’t even know who I’m for. You’re just an asshole.
Politics is a blood sport. It has ALWAYS been this. It will ALWAYS be this. It has been this way since the first two political groups formed among men. If that is too much for your 'can't we all just get along' sensibilities maybe you should find yourself a quilting thread to occupy your time for the next two years. As always when I encounter people like you, you can have the last word. Make it something spectacular! Otherwise you grow tiresome. Hey, maybe you can call me boy a few more times.
. . .and at every turn, they will.
Out here in flyover country, the lockdown was 2-3 weeks, just enough time for stores to put up plexiglas, signs and tape on the floor. Wasn't enforced anyway. By June when DeSantis was threatening bars, we had tossed the masks, everything was open except for chain restaurants but that was corporate decision making. Kids went back to school a few months later, no masks, no distancing.
Our governor made recommendations but it was pretty much up to the people to follow them or not so we used observation.(because nobody understood what was happening) BS. We observed no mass die off so we went back to normal.
Unlike FL/DeSantis, it wasn't turned into a TV mini-series. I realize now why DeSantis was on TV "fighting the good fight" so much. He's being pushed on us.
Was DeSantis the first, or Kemp in Georgia? I really don’t know. I do know Kemp caught hell publicly from Trump very early on in Covid for reversing many early Covid policies based on CDC/NIH “wisdom”.
Missouri had been wide open for months by then and kids went back to school in Sept, no masks, no distancing. This was true of most flyover states. Kinda nice that the media ignores us while turning Cuomo and DeSantis into TV stars.
I’ve listened to a couple of podcasts with a lawyer who won the first case defeating mask mandates in Florida. He got a call from DeSantis shortly there after and that is when DeSantis changed his tune on mandates. The lawyer speculated DeSantis was being overly cautious because he narrowly defeated Gillum..
Have a nice day.
The cognitive dissonance we've seen among leftists on this subject over the last two and a half years was bad enough. To see it played out right here on FR is beyond disturbing.
When I left the state and came back I had to go through a checkpoint on the interstate with police officers asking where I'd been and if you answered wrong you were told to quarantine for two weeks.
When this kind of draconian measure was imposed in New York, New Jersey or Michigan, we called it out for what it was: NAZI SH!T. When a Republican political figure does the exact same thing, I see Freepers falling all over themselves making excuses for him.
I spent the first 6+ months of the COVID fiasco in 2020 running my business almost the exact same way I did before COVID (with the notable exception that my clients had all migrated to virtual meetings). I traveled across state lines regularly -- almost always between states whose governors had imposed the same types of travel restrictions described above for Florida. At no time did I ever see a checkpoint at a state line or encounter any kind of law enforcement presence in my travels.
When all those stupid travel restrictions were implemented I was certain that they were never intended to be enforced at all ... and that the governors who imposed them were simply hoping for 90%+ of the population to simply abide by them without any enforcement measures. I was stunned to learn that these measures actually WERE enforced in a state governed by some @sshole who is being peddled as a GOP front-runner in 2024.
Right. Even Reagan would probably lose the BALLOT race in these states.
I am guessing the health "experts" told politicians to close everything down to make room for Covid patients in hospitals. Less driving likely means less accidents and ER visits, etc. The Covid mitigation strategies farce came to my attention when police arrested a single suffer in a remote area of California very early on.
Blocking interstate travel and forcing people to quarantine is a whole different story.
During a federal shutdown some years ago a fishing buddy and I went to a federal boat ramp on a lake. It was closed, so we went to a private marina to launch the boat. If the surfer guy parked his car on government property, there is clearly a potential for trespassing if he ignored closing signs and barricades.
Not just destroy, their secret wish is to murder their opposition.
I live in Florida - DeSantis was wonderful and saved us and kept us free before the pandemic, during it and after if. Best. Governor. Ever.
I’m still backing Trump for President in ‘24 - AND backing DeSantis for ‘28...
Trump pushed Fauci and attacked states like Georgia that were reopening
TDS? who? Youre surly not lumping me in. I voted for the guy twice and would vote for him again. i just dont think he can do it. I also think its poor form going after the best performing Governor in the country. So, I imagine youd expect Gov D to get behind Trump if he was the nominee? But Trump wouldnt commit to getting behind anyone else? F that! Last I checked he needs Florida to get across any finish line.
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