Trump himself set the NATIONWIDE guidelines, quote “for every American” to follow, which outlined shutting every school, every restaurant, everywhere more than 10 people gathered for ANY reason, including churches violating their first amendment right to gather, as well as he directed an end to ALL discretionary travel.
Yet, you want to excuse all that, and solely blame people who only followed Trump’s requests for lockdown? Ridiculous! Dishonest, actually.
As I've said before, I have been dealing with COVID-related idiocy since March of 2020 for business reasons. So I've paid close, meticulous attention to every single mandate, restriction and lockdown order that could potentially affect my company.
1. On the one hand you claim that governors ceded their authority to the CDC when they imposed lockdowns and mandates in 2020.
2. These same governors have been clamoring for the last year and a half to get business owners to force employees who had been working from home since March 2020 back into their offices.
3. And yet the CDC still has a COVID "state of emergency" in place to this day.
In other words, you are willing to allow governors to selectively cede their authority to the CDC when it suits them, and to ignore the CDC when they now realize what a disaster they've made of their states.
That's baloney ... and over the last three years I've repeatedly called out clients, vendors, fellow business owners, and representatives of various government agencies (and other FReepers, too) to expose this blatant hypocrisy and irrationality.
In fact, they complained about the lack of Federal guidance when they issued these stupid lockdown orders themselves.