© AP Photo/Alex Brandon, fileThis Aug. 28, 2006 file photo shows FEMA trailers used for housing for University of New Orleans students and faculty in New Orleans.
As our long national nightmare of "15 days to flatten the curve" drags into its sixth (sixth!) month, many of our nation's governors and bureaucrats are inventing new ways to wield their power.
On August 31, without much fanfare and with almost no news coverage, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Lost His Way) ordered Interim Director of Health Lance M. Himes to amend the insidious (
and unconstitutional) health order the state's citizens have been suffering under since March
to create what amounts to FEMA camps. The order purports to "avoid an imminent threat with a high probability of widespread exposure to COVID-19 with a significant risk of substantial harm to a large number of people in the general population, including the elderly and people with weakened immune systems and chronic medical conditions."
Never mind that deaths and hospitalizations have been on the decline in Ohio since July 1.
DeWine has been using an archaic sentence in the Ohio Revised Code, which gives the health director "ultimate authority" during a pandemic, to order everything from shutdowns to a statewide mask order to school closings. Several of these orders have
been overturned by judges who have
ruled them unconstitutional, but that hasn't stopped DeWine from continuing to pile more orders onto the original abomination.
Comment: We're only just beginning to see the true cost of the lockdown: