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Jumping onto the coattails of pro-individual freedom leaders like governors Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) and Kristi Noem (R-SD), the governors of Mississippi and Texas decided Tuesday to announce an end to business restrictions and statewide mask mandates.
Both Tate Reeves (R-MS) and Greg Abbott (R-TX), who had long taken a nanny state approach to the COVID-19 crisis, acted almost simultaneously to announce the end of statewide restrictions.
The centrally planned solutions to COVID-19 have failed spectacularly, and the American people have taken notice of this reality. Hundreds of millions have now been through a full year of government-imposed tyranny on both a federal and state level. Whether it was a travel ban, an endless series of lockdowns, mask mandates, countless emergency orders, business closures, and the like, not a single top-down order from the federal or state level did anything productive for the well-being of Americans.
None of it worked. All of it served as a net negative. The people have noticed.
Now that their constituents have had enough, politicians on the Right are fast departing from the COVID tyranny, and attempting to secure what is left of their political aspirations.
Abbott and Reeves are not the only GOP governors moving fast in ending the restrictions. Several other governors have recently acted to roll them back.
On February 12, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte lifted his statewide mask mandate.
On February 8, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds lifted Iowa's statewide mask mandate along with several other restrictions.
On February 22, North Dakota took it a step further. Its legislative body took the bold step in voting to make mask mandates illegal.
As of March 2, there are now 16 states that no longer have statewide mask orders.
However, across the political divide, there remains no end in sight to the corona madness. Much of the Left continues to embrace and root on endless COVID-19 restrictions, and the hijacking of individual rights in the name of a virus.
Governor Gavin Newsom of California took to Twitter in describing the end of restrictions as "absolutely reckless."
It took long enough, but it's now official: Governors who continue to impose lockdowns and mask mandates are fast becoming as popular as Red Sox fans in the Yankee Stadium bleachers, at least in half of the country. The internal polling is out, and the draconian restrictions are being abandoned in droves. History will not be kind to the remaining high-handed holdouts.
Comment: What remains to be seen are the steps the Biden administration will take to coerce, threaten or blackmail the above mentioned states into stepping back in line. And, in turn, how these states will choose to respond.
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Yes as Rowan Cocoan very well put it " Let us pray " and hope because after a year of hell, that's what we have, of course along with a bit of civil disobedience sprinkled here and there, like I am planning to do a no mask day randomly to celebrate our surviving this past year.
After peaking about 6 weeks ago, interest in and devotion to, mask wearing seems to be lessening a bit here in my part of Minnesota.
Admittedly, I do not mingle much, but it does appear that way, when I do sally forth to town or to a place of business.
The local radio waves remain filled with mask and vaccine exhortations, however.
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CHILDREN OF A LESSER STUPIDITY? , and, more importantly, .Glad to hear the maskholes are hopefully losing some grip up there. They've always been here but I never suffered for my refusal to don the holy vestment, as EPAutos calls it. Check out his latest 3/4/21 weekly face diaper report: [Link]
Did you see what, for the first time, just happened to me at Target? Until about 24 hours ago, I'd not suffered any adverse consequences for face diaper refusal. However, that BS at Target made up for it. It did really bother me - indeed, more than it should have. Check here
Divide & conquer: PM Ardern tells Kiwis to rebuke lockdown rule-breakers
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged New Zealanders to "call out" Covid-19 rule-breakers Monday, as public anger built over a series of infringements that forced the country's largest city back...RC
I think straw man Biden will take the heat when the Fed thumps all the states and the governors will have someone to blame but they will go along with it.
She still doesn't get it, but it is useful because now she does all the shopping and all I have to go out for is booze. Thank God for the WSJ wine club because they deliver to my doorstep and it helps stretch the hard liquor.
Meanwhile, in the "See Also:" stories above, I read: Police boss calls for 500 more officers to Devon to enforce restrictions during expected surge of UK summer staycationers.
If we ever get out of this shit, y'all need to really, REALLY get out there and create a true constitutional republic. Our side? We need to simply ensure our system follows its original design. (Frankly, I sadly doubt either will happen.)
R.C.