The governors of Texas and Mississippi seem intent on turning their respective states into coronavirus hot spots by eliminating almost all restrictions on businesses and eliminating the mask mandates in the name of freedom or whatever.
Unfortunately, not to be outdone by their neighbors to the east and west, dozens of idiot republican legislators in Louisiana are trying to do the same thing in their state. Yesterday 30 or so of these “pro life” fools sent a letter to the Dem governor John Bel Edwards begging him to end all restrictions and end the mask mandate in the name of freedom.
The news showed one of these fools trying to explain why he supports this and he babbled on about how people should be able to make this decision for themselves and if they want to go around spewing out coronavirus unchecked this is their constitutional right or something. They know that this will lead to deaths and infections among their constituents and they want to do it anyway. So incredibly stupid and evil.
Now at this time the cases in the state have been decreasing, but there are still many hundreds of new cases per day and the vast majority of people in the state have not yet been fully vaccinated. So this is certainly not yet the time to be eliminating mask mandates. But these fools think it is. Fortunately, La. is lucky enough to have a Democratic governor and I don’t think he will be giving in to their pressure any time soon. Elections have consequences.
But it just doesn’t make sense to me. Why do they hate mask mandates so much? Why do they want to end mask mandates in the middle of a pandemic that has killed over a half million people in the USA? Is it that much of an inconvenience to ask people to wear a mask to prevent the spread of a deadly virus?
Yea I know they can be uncomfortable and a bit of a nuisance sometimes, but it still seems like a small sacrifice to ask people in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has killed millions worldwide.
It is now crystal clear to me why the USA leads the world in cases of the virus and deaths. We have a country filled with fools like these. If you look at other countries like South Korea and Japan they have had much more success controlling the spread than we have. Because they are smart and they wear masks and social distance properly, and they must have better contact tracing and do a better job of quarantining and isolating infected people.
This begs me to ask the question why? Why are they so afraid of mask mandates? Do they realize that this is just asking for a new surge of cases in the state? Maybe they are just too stupid to realize that eliminating the mandate will lead to more cases. Or maybe they are just plain evil and want more people to get sick and die. Or maybe they just do this to make liberals mad?