In my March 20 commentary, I laid out a four-point plan to fight this coronavirus. Here is what I included as the third point:
Tell state and local officials to let the American people get back to work and resume their normal lives. (Not least because I can already smell the smoldering of a French-style revolution in the air during my daily walks. After all, expecting Americans today to stay home and watch nothing on TV except politicians and pundits droning on about a virus is rather like expecting Frenchmen back then to sleep on the streets and eat cake … if they could steal it.)
(“Medics Complain about Lack of Supplies To Fight Coronavirus. Trump Passes the Buck … Again,” The iPINIONS Journal, March 20, 2020)
Given that, I’m not surprised that extended lockdowns have incited this:
Hundreds of protesters entered the Michigan State Capitol building Thursday and crowded its halls and staircases demanding that the state legislature not extend Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus stay-at-home order. …
Michigan Senator Dayna Polehanki tweeted a photo showing several men, at least one of them armed, on the balcony inside the building, and said that several of her colleagues had donned bulletproof vests. ‘I have never appreciated our Sergeants-at-Arms more than today,’ she tweeted.
(ABC News, April 30, 2020)
Yup. But she can’t say I didn’t warn them.
Except that nobody in his right mind wants to point to a bunch of gun-toting, pro-Trump idiots for vindication. Therefore, I hasten to add TIME’s very timely report, “How South Korea is beating the virus without a lockdown” April 30, 2020.
It features an interview with Health Minister Park Neung-hoo – who explains how extensive testing, contact tracing, and technology are playing key roles. These just happen to be among the measures that compose the plan I published six weeks ago.
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