Just so he can freely sit down and eat at Wendys etc
Yes, this is appalling and horrifying.
On the other hand, your “Just so he can freely sit down and eat at Wendys” is awfully dismissive of the serious effects that the shutdowns are having on some people.
Do they have these protests when the governor is GOP? I’ve not heard of any but it’s possible I missed them.
Ohio, but then Mike DeWine is being responsible unlike most Republican governors.
Larry Hogan of Maryland as well.
We had some in Indianapolis, but they were small-scale and the media largely ignored them.
Which, I think, might be an issue - the more the media covers these protects in Democratic-governor states the more they encourage them and the more wound up the protesters get. The more they ignore the protests in Republican-governor states the more they diminish.
We had at least one here in MA (Governor Charlie Baker is a Republican). It received local coverage in The Boston Globe, but I don’t think it made much of a splash nationally.
Here’s a link to the Globe article, although it may be behind a paywall:
Hundreds gather at State House to protest measures to slow spread of coronavirus
They’re a bunch of idiots, of course, but props to the guy in the photo for quoting “The Prisoner.” I’ll take that over a Confederate flag any day.
I don’t think that’s true. These militia assholes have wandered in and out of straight-up terrorism ever since Oklahoma City. One of them is going to murder a Subway sandwich artist who tries to kick him out for not masking up.
Looks like he had a little trouble spelling “indexed,” though. He should have thrown it out and started over.
Questions are a burden to others.
Answers are a prison for oneself.
It’s incredibly difficult to have a serious discussion about weighing the relative costs of continued shutdowns versus opening up. The two arguments that drown a serious discussion out are “shut down until there is a vaccine, even if it takes forever” and “Shutdowns are a Communist plot run by Hillary, Obama and Bill Gates.” It’s just another part of continued polarization.
A nice illustration of what “polarization” looks like in this country these days. On the one side, you have a rationally defensible position based on scientific facts and concern for public safety, even if it can be reasonably challenged as being too extreme and economically unrealistic. On the other side, you have a straight-up fantasy of a deranged conspiracy theory that is impervious to all rational and logical argument.
Sadly, this sort of face-off between the arguably wrong and the incorrigibly delusional is how far too many American political controversies shake out nowadays. The lazy bothsidesism of tut-tutting about “polarization” in the abstract isn’t doing the cause of truth and realism any favors.