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.
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.