Posted on 09/03/2023 9:37:35 AM PDT by george76
everyone is running from the lockdowns they once supported, and that includes former presidents and governors, and probably mayors too. Apologies would be better so we can at least have an honest accounting rather than an attempt to rewrite the history that everyone knows.
Jack Phillips of Epoch Times alerts readers in his article of August 31, 2023, of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ recent statement on the subject of lockdowns. The Iowa State Government’s website says the following:
“Since news broke of COVID-19 restrictions being reinstated at some colleges and businesses across the U.S., concerned Iowans have been calling my office asking whether the same could happen here. My answer—not on my watch. In Iowa, government respects the people it serves and fights to protect their rights. I rejected the mandates and lockdowns of 2020, and my position has not changed.”
Governor Reynolds “rejected” the mandates and lockdowns of 2020? She did? Her position has remained the same? It has?
Could it be the Governor has forgotten her “orders?” On March 17, 2020, Governor Reynolds issued her first “Public Health Disaster Emergency.” Following her long list of “whereas’s,” she ordered the following:
Restaurants and bars: Closed to the “general public”.
Fitness centers/health clubs, spas, aquatic centers: Closed.
Theaters/performance centers: Closed.
Casinos/gaming facilities: Closed.
Churches: Closed.
Social, community, spiritual, religious, recreational, leisure, and sporting gatherings and events of more than 10 people, including but not limited to parades, festivals, conventions, and fundraisers: Prohibited.
Senior citizen and adult daycare centers: Closed.
Salons/barber shops: Closed.
A few weeks later on April 6, 2020, she doubled down. In this second proclamation, the Governor extended the timeline and expanded what she now says she “rejected.” To add insult, she also formally called on law enforcement to “assist in the enforcement of these ‘mitigation efforts’.” To wit:
“To encourage further social distancing and mitigation efforts, the proclamation orders additional closures effective at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7th until Thursday, April 30th”: (Highlight and underline added)
Malls .
Tobacco or vaping stores.
Toy, gaming, music, instrument, movie, or adult entertainment stores.
Social and fraternal clubs, including those at golf courses.
Bingo halls, bowling alleys, pool halls, arcades, and amusement parks.
Museums, libraries, aquariums, and zoos.
Race tracks and speedway.
Roller or ice skating rinks and skate parks.
Outdoor or indoor playgrounds or children’s play centers Campgrounds.
Should we afford the Governor the benefit of the doubt? That she “rejected” “mandates and lockdowns” all the way through Mar 16, 2020? Then changed her mind? Hence, rejecting them before implementing them?
Should we resist the impulse to accrue to the Governor a little bit of gaslighting in her August 30, 2023 statement? Will she insist that businesses she ordered closed and the behaviors she prohibited* – to be enforced by law enforcement – weren’t “mandated” “lockdowns?” That they were instead “mitigation efforts” as spelled out in her “orders?” That all this merely carried the weight of suggestion? This…so that she can now say that she “rejected” mandates and lockdowns?
At best – at best – this PR stunt strains credulity. Especially when simple searches can recall those pesky things called facts. On the record.
At worst? At worst, why, some might suggest it describes a woman whose actual status rhymes with “fire.”
Maybe the Governor needs a chance to explain herself, including her definition of “rejected.” I can just hear her now: “I did reject the lockdowns before I didn’t.” I daresay that would make for some really great reading.
In the meantime, some of us who rejected all the unlawful nonsense, who were never fooled by any of these fools, who never cooperated and gave up all – remain unfooled – even when the likes of a Kim Reynolds attempts to rewrite history.
I think the prize goes to that scumbag Governor of Illinois. If 4 people rode in the same car to a boat only 2 were allowed to get into the boat. The runner up would be Whitmer she banned the purchase of seeds and paint . You could go into a Home Depot but the aisles that had seeds and house paint weee roped off.
I read that, you can be sure, the Democrats and billionaire liberals out there will fund all the lawsuits necessary to make this happen.
Besides himself, Trump needs to close Vince the original Sham-Wow guy and resurrect Billy Mays and hire Mike Lindell to sell tee shirts non-stop for the next few weeks.
300 million is a lot of money to scam out of donors.
Well said. Some people have criticized Trump for not firing Dr. Fauci. In retrospect we can all say that Dr. Fauci was awful at his job as the public face of the national pandemic response.
If Trump had fired him sometime during 2020 he would have been impeached for such an act.
I like cops, but I have problems with those that follow these kinds of orders. They could have easily just kept on walking and not done the dictators bidding.
Gretchen Whitmere got re elected too. She was the worst.
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“If Trump had fired him sometime during 2020 he would have been impeached for such an act.”
I agree. If Trump had a MS in Epidemiology, then I would have expected more of him - but that was not his expertise.
Dying alone.. Strict hospital no-visitors policies halting families’ goodbyes..
Colorado mom : Elizabeth Reiter was hospitalized for 21 days died without seeing her husband or two children, despite the family’s repeated requests for an exception to a UC Health - University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora policy barring visitors …
No matter how many times Reiter asked to visit his wife: Elizabeth, even when they both tested negative for the virus and when he told them he had never seen his wife of 19 years so depressed, and even on Mother’s Day, he was denied. Hospital officials would not make an exception.
Elizabeth went into cardiac arrest and died.
The day after his wife died, Reiter was overwhelmed. His words were interrupted by heavy sighs. His sons, he said, are in “absolute shock… They are really hurt that they couldn’t see their mother at any point during the last three weeks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3849833/posts
Unfortunately for the half of us that do remember.
She’s Gov. Her future is Trump’s VP. or the Grassley successor. Whatever she does now won’t affect anything. Getting mad especially.
Totally insane. Cowards to rather do that than go after dangerous criminals.
The law forbidding any town or public agency from having any lockdowns or mask/vaccine mandates just went into effect here in Texas. Doesn’t apply to private companies though.
Sad.
Absolutely. It helped that her opponent was the wholly unelectable Tudor Dixon who ran on an anti-abortion platform in the wake of Dobbs.
We'll never learn.
Their California boss was likely watching the arrest / sent the California cops into the ocean / the cops would likely have been fired if the cops did not follow their orders.
Port of Seattle Police Officer and Special Forces Veteran Greg Anderson was fired after his video about police officers abusing their power went viral.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3844217/posts
That’s a “Red, Conservative, Patriot” state the elected Republicans play the social issues then let the courts tie the laws passed up for the gaslit electorate in the mire.
President Trump wanted to take credit for the quick development of the COVID vaccine if that means Mitch McConnell being rendered speechless Trump may yet be able to justify that.
The great sin of Trump spending trillions of dollars on COVID that generated inflation but of course the noise machine says it was all Biden’s fault.
That law is being challenged in court so stay tuned.
Dade Phelan what a fake (Republican Texas House Speaker) though he ain’t alone.
I think it was hard to see that the Republicans the Governor and legislature in Montana seemed to get a backbone by the time Biden was in the White House.
Laws about all kinds of stuff including a ban on giving people financial bonuses to get jabbed with COVID vaccine, a ban on mask orders even for medical facilities etc. etc.
RINO Delight dade phelan, the Teas Houso speaker - keep in mind he was elected by republicnas in the texas house.
https://texasscorecard.com/state/school-choice-hits-another-roadblock-in-texas-house/
https://texasscorecard.com/state/as-major-deadline-hits-legislation-dies-in-texas-house/
https://texasscorecard.com/state/house-speaker-phelan-sides-with-democrats-kills-major-border-security-legislation/
https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-republican-attempts-to-block-school-choice-funding/
AND the piece de Resistance
https://texasscorecard.com/state/speaker-dade-phelan-appoints-democrats-to-leadership-in-texas-house/
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