Governors run amok on COVID don't care about science

October 3, 2020 By Joel Krogen 

 

The so-called leaders who occupy governors' mansions in most states can't possibly believe their own edicts regarding the dying-out COVID-19 virus. The restrictions they delight in handing down are so arbitrary as to invite ridicule. 

 

 The number of cases — whatever that means, and nobody has defined it — is a useless metric; it's an absurd benchmark for "allowing" people to live their own lives. 

 

Question for governors and "health" directors: what is the science behind your edicts? 

 

In Arkansas, the latest directive (Sept. 9), supposedly based on Arkansas law (which, unfortunately for the ruling class, does not trump the Constitution), grants to the peons who run restaurants that they can open to 66 percent of capacity. If 66 percent is okay, why not 68 percent? Would 64 percent be a waste of space? Why not 72 percent? 

 

What is the science that determines this? The now-gospel six feet of distance between persons must be observed. Six feet? Why not 15 feet, if the oh, so dangerous COVID virus might getcha? Or why not three feet, since it clearly is not dangerous to be in a restaurant with other people?..........   To Read More